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Homecoming Weekend Creates Excitement 1966 HOMECOMING COURT Attendants left to right: Deborah Clayton Freshman; Deborah Perkins, Sophomore; Donna Dale Carver, Junior; Chela Sona, Honorary Sen ior; Nancy Carter Clayton, Senior; Anne Rim- VOL. I. NO. 1 1 ^ er ’-, S ^ , !° r: Jan Stephens, Senior; Marilupe Davila-Davila, Honorary Senior; Gayla Wrenn Junior; Nancy Stephens, Sophomore; and Peffev Lunsford, Freshman. Today, October 7, marks the beginning of the weekend Home- coming festivities here at RHS. The festivities’ theme is “From Countdown to Kickoff” and its spirit is already beginning to mount with the cry of “Cage the Wildcats” plastered all over the walls. Tonight the RHS Rockets clash with the Chapel Hill Wild cats at 8 p.m. in one of the sea son’s toughest games. Highlighting the game’s half- time event will be the Home- coming court of nine girls with their escorts. These girls, dressed in suits and wearing corsages of white mums with blue and white streamers, will arrive on the field in convertibles. After each girl has been introduced, last year’s queen Jamie Thomas will crown this year’s queen. Who will the queen be?—one of the three Senior attendants who are Nancy Carter Clayton, head cheerleader, Jan Stephens' cheerleader, and Anne Rimmer Secretary of the SCCC. Honorary Senior attendants are Chela Sona and Marilupe Davila Davila, RHS’s two foreign stu dents. Other members of the court are Freshmen Deborah Clayton and Peggy Lunsford. Soph omores Deborah Perkins and Nancy Stephens, and Juniors Donna Dale Carver and Gayla Wrenn. Winding up the Homecoming festivities will be a dance on Saturday night at the old RHS gym. Beginning at 8 p.m., it will feature music by “The Rogues” combo and will present the Homecoming court as honorary guests. ROTO ^DISTRIBUTOR/ ROXBORO HIGH SCHOOL, ROXBORO, N. C. Chorus Members Learn Singing, Music Theory V ar , a , s RHS be S ins anew, so does its choral depart- hTn^^em^ Mrs ' i Mary Earle Ber g' er - Because chorus a 1 M le g ular one hour course carrying a full unit of the us V' t e f ger has ‘V 6 to teach he r students not only rection 1 1 ° f Smglng but als ° rhythm. notation, and di- also rhythm, notation, and di- Daring the first few weeks of school, some students of the 260 Contest Provides New Name for Paper Last spring during the last days of school, the call went out from the Rocket newspaper room, for a new name. The reason behind this was that the members of the Rocket staff thought that the new RHS would need a newspaper with a new name. Also the finances of the Rocket newspapr and the ROCKET annual were sometimes confused because of the shared name. 259 students submitted names in quest of the $2.00 offered as prize money. These names were given to a panel of judges and from that list they chose four names. Those four were: 1) The Rock hill Times; 2) The Rocket Ex plorer; 3) The Explorer; and 4) The Rocketeer. The winning en try was The Rocketeer, submitted by Calvin Long, and Georgia Wilkins. member chorus found singing rather difficult. This was the result of their having to meet in the cafeteria and to sing with out a piano. Now, however, these students find singing no problem at all because they now are able to attend class in the new choral room which has just been completed. As part of the requirements of their course, the choral mem bers present two concerts an nually, one at Christmas and one during the spring. In ad dition to the presentation of these two concerts this year, Mrs \ Berger has suggested the possibility of the members pre senting an informal program en titled “Sing Out Everybody” which will feature songs from the album by the same title. Mrs. Berger plans for the chorus to do a great deal this year. In order for her to ac complish all of these plans, Mrs Berger hopes to divide the now 189 member mixed chorus in to a mixed and a prep chorus. This prep chorus would be strictly for beginners in music and would teach them musical fundamentals and some singing. MR. DAVID BARRETT Barrett Appointed Assistant Principal Mr. David Barrett is Roxboro High School’s new assistant principal. Previously RHS has not had an assistant princpial, but the move into a new and larger school has necessitated the appointment of a man to that position. As assistant principal, Mr. Barrett has two main duties: to maintain discipline within the school and to coordinate school data and problems between the teachers and Mr. Brown, the principal. Although the job of assistant principal takes up a lot of Mr. Barretts time, he teaches four classes of different levels of math. Mr. Barrett comments that he is pleased with his job and greatly enjoys his work. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1966 Student Core Committee Coordinates Activities have ^“X TAES S S“,S P “ m The present plans of the SCCC ™ mons area. are: (1) to present a brief biog raphy of each teacher over the B A. system; and (2) to conduct the elections of officers of all the school organizations. It also hopes to sponsor a school spirit slogan contest to boost RHS school spirit. at Mars Hill College. These p C jF ga l es ’ Jackie Harris aI , u Garrett, now hope to ap ply what they learned to im- two and prove the RHS Student Council organization. News Briefs Tri-Hi-Y Adopts French Orphan Boy Th e SCCC plans to sponsor the observance of American Edu cation Week in November Plans include an Open House for RHS parents. Thus far the Core Committee has sent two delegates to the State Student Council Workshop Margaret Newton Visits Valley Forge Senior Margaret Newton, ac companied by Miss Mary Alice Elliott, RHS history teacher, made her long awaited pilgrim-’ age to Valley Forge last Wed nesday. Last year, Margaret was chosen by her U. S. History classmates to travel to Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge as part of the George Washington Honor Medal Award that the class had won. This award is a national honor Just prior to the opening of school, two SCCC members, Jackie Harris and Claudia Berryhill, undertook the tasks of providing assistants for the teachers for two days and volunteer guides on the open ing days of school. presented each year to sec- The Lion’s Club is sponsoring a Peace Essay Contest for any boy or girl who will will be 14 but less than 22 years of age by January 15, 1967. The purpose of the contest is to focus the attention of people on world peace. The goals of the contest include the discovery of a workable plan for world peace, concentration of attention on the subject of world peace, and to stress the meaning of freedom and liberty. For more information contact R.D. Cleveland of the Roxboro Lion’s Club. followed by the homeroom elec tions and then the class elec tions. The procedure for the elec tions has not been definitely decided upon. It is very probable though that the nominations will be made through the homerooms and then the student body will cast the deciding votes. The Student Council Core Committee has scheduled the first elections at RHS for the beginning of the second grading period. The Student Council elections will take place first, The Key Club is sponsoring a special radio show, “Key Club Countdown,” on WRXO each Saturday morning from 9-35 to 11 A.M. According to Richard Gentry Chairman of the Key Club Core Committee, Key Clubbers will be on hand to entertain RHS students with the latest and most popular records. School and sports news will also be featured. This year the Roxboro High School Tri-Hi-Y has adopted an eleven year old boy from France. His name is Christian Oliva from the Crest Maison D’- Accueil Protestante Pour En- fants. Christian’s parents were un able to establish themselves and were constantly haunted by a lack of daily needs. They went their separate ways. As neither the mother nor the father was capable of accepting normal responsibility for Christian or his two sisters, they were sent to Crest. Christian’s favorite subject is reading and he loves outdoor games. He has made satisfactory progress in all his studies. The Tri-Hi-Y adopted this child through the Children’s Christian Fund with headquar ters in Richmond, Virginia. The members will be allowed to write letters to him and send packages to him. ondary school U. S. History classes for freedom . . , * projects which they submit to be judged. Last year’s history class was the first in RHS’s history to win this award. One week before the opening of school the Core Committee provided volunteer guides for tours through the new school. In addition, it sponsored an Open House especially for the Freshmen and their parents on September 29, 1966. The orientation booklet given to all students at the beginning of school was written by two Core Committee members, Bon nie Hunt and Jimmy Rogers This booklet was published with the intention of helping stu dents to become acquainted with the new school and its layout Garrett > Chairman of the SCCC, commented, “I would like to thank all the Core Com mittee members and the many V™ teers wh ° are helping the SCCC in making this school what we want it to be and what it should be.” Margaret and Miss Elliott de parted from Raleigh - Durham airport at 5:30 p.m. and arrived in Washington, D. C. Wednes day night. All day Thursday and Friday morning, the two toured Washington and surround ing areas. Friday afternoon, they arrived at Valley Forge and remained there until leaving for Philadelphia Saturday morning. At Valley Forge, Margaret and Miss Elliott toured Freedoms Foundation where all winning freedom projects are kept on display. From Philadelphia, the two travelled back to Washington and from there, left for home Margaret feels that this pil grimage was quite an honor and experience and would like to thank her classmates for giving her the opportunity to make it. 'Rocket' Staff Plans For '66-'67 Annual Peeking through the vertical window, one sees the new RHS annual staff making final pre parations for the beginning of their year-long project of plan ning, writing, and publishing an annual. This year, the ROCKET has signed a contract with the Hun ter Publishing Company of Winston-Salem. On Friday Sep tember 9, Mr. Tommy May a representative of the company, came to discuss the terms of the contract. Since the terms were agreeable and since the layout kits have arrived, work has begun on the 1967 ROCKET. No dates have been set for class pictures as yet, but editor Edward Boyd has said that they’ll probably be scheduled during the first part of October.
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