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VOL. 2
ROCKETEER
ROXBORO HIGH SCHOOL, ROXBORO, N. C., 27573, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1968
Wisdom is the principle
thing; therefore get wis
dom—and with all thy
getting, get understanding.
No. 8
Why?
National Honor Society Inducts
Three seniors and eleven jun
iors were inducted into the Jerry
L. Hester Chapter of the Nation
al Honor Society Thursday dur
ing Assembly.
New juniors who were induc
ted were Marvin Branscome,
Bobbi Brooks, Vicky Denny,
Ginger Dunkley, Beth Hester,
Kay Merritt, Eddie Oakley,
Texie Penry, Deborah Perkins,
Jimmy Wade, and Ray Woody.
Senior candidates include Ann
Clay, Brenda Moore, and Patri
cia Quinn.
Roxboro’s chapter is named
for Mr. Jerry L. Hester, a for
mer principal of Roxboro High
School. It was chartered in 1956.
Membership is based on four
cardinal principles—Character,
Scholarship, Leadership, and
Service. Only juniors and seniors
are chosen for membership by
the faculty of the school.
Scholarship requirement for
membership is a 93 average on
all high school work. A member
must maintain this average after
he has been chosen for member
ship.
The National Honor Society
strives to create an enthusiasm
for scholarship, to stimulate a
desire to render service, to pro
mote worthy leadership, and to
encourage the development of
character in students of the sec
ondary schools of the nation.
The society was formed in
1921 and the first chapter was
chartered in Fifth Avenue High
School in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania.
There are over 11,000 chapters
of the National Honor Society
throughout the U. S. with head-
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Commencement To Be Held
For Largest Graduating Class
Baccalaureate services for the largest RHS graduating class will
start at 8:00 June 2, in the RHS football stadium. Rev. Donald
Phillips will speak to approximately 220 seniors.
Choral, Band Departments
Give Annual Concerts
The RHS Concert Choir, under
the direction of Mrs. Berger and
Mr. Coleman, and the Band,
under the direction of Mr. Mike
Cannon, will present a joint con
cert on May 24, at 8:00 in the
RHS gym.
The Concert Choir and Band
will perform two numbers to
gether, “Born to be Free” and
“Patriotic Fantasy”.
Other featured songs by the
Concert Choir include: “Some
where My Love”, “Adoramus te
Christe” and “My Fair Lady”.
The Band will perform high
lights from “Exodus” and other
numbers.
Accompanists for the Concert
Choir include Barbara Bradsher,
Doris Hester, Bonnie Hunt, Car-
lene McClure, Gail Tatum, and
Gwendolyn Wood.
Prep Chorus
The RHS Prep Chorus and
Rocket Chorale, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Mary Earle Berger,
choral director, and Mr. Don
Coleman, student director from
UNC, presented its Spring Con
cert last Friday night in the
Morgan Street School audito
rium at 8 o’clock.
Some songs which were pre
sented by the Prep Chorus are:
“Greensleeves”, featuring Brid
get Long on the guitar, and Jan
ine Bradsher with the guitaro,
and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“Carousel” Medley.
Some featured songs by the
Rocket Chorale were: “Summer-
Operation:
Results from a recent Rocket
eer poll indicate that RHS’ers
are somewhat less than satisfied
with the present recreational fa
cilities provided by the city for
its teenagers.
For this reason, 28 per cent of
the students interviewed left
town on April 27, a typical Sat
urday night. Of the 312 polled,
87, excluding band members,
went out of town that Saturday
night. These 87 students alone
traveled over 5,000 miles, or a
distance equal to a cross country
trip and two thirds of the way
back again.
The two most popular places
in Roxboro are the Kirby and
the Candle. However, the theater
loses much of its teenage busi
ness when it fails to show cur
rent movies until they have al
ready made the rounds in Dur
ham. By the time they reach
Roxboro, teenagers have seen
them elsewhere. For this reason
many teenagers who have al
ready seen “Valley of the Dolls”
months ago will be out of town
tomorrow night seeing a more
recent movie while “The Valley
of the Dolls” plays here.
The Candle is some distance
out of town, and only remains
open two nights a week, Satur-
time”, “Try to Remember”,
“Oklahoma” Medley, and “Born
Free”.
Accompanists for the Prep
Chorus were Donna Elam, Fran
Powell, Ginny Rogers, Joyce
Bettini, Janine Bradsher, Cheryl
Anderson, and Genie Rogers.
Those accompanying the
Rocket Chorale were Kay Hole-
man, Eleanor Hill, Debbie Oli
ver, Julie Edens, Janice Kirby,
and Robbie Rogers.
FFA Boys To Attend
District IV Rally
Future Farmers of America
will hold the District IV Rally
May 18 at South Granville High.
Ronnie Allen will represent
Roxboro High in public speak
ing. Ronald Moore, Bobby New
ton, Ted Moore, and Tommy Fox
will compete in dairy judging.
RHS has no competitors in live
stock judging, parliamentary
procedure, and two identification
contests of 100 tools because
they were eliminated earlier in
federation contests of Durham,
Orange, and Person Counties.
Mr. W. W. McClure will pre
sent awards at a luncheon to be
given for the participants.
The first place winners of
these contests will compete in
the State Contest in Raleigh on
June 27.
Non-Entertainment
day not being one of them.
It is no great wonder that stu
dents must exodus each weekend
when Roxboro provides very
little entertainment.
Students have long wanted a
recreational center and 92 per
cent of those polled said they
would support such a center in
Roxboro.
The poll shows that 26 per
cent of the students were still in
the county—not at home, not at
the show, and not at the Candle.
Most of this 26 per cent were
just riding. Others went skating
and to the Drive-In. Others were
at Hardee’s, the 4 C’s, and Oak
ley’s. The rest were at the lake
or getting drunk.
Some of the most common
answers to the question, “What
do you do for entertainment in
Roxboro?” were: “Go to the
movies—sigh!”
“Where is there to go?”
“Ride Daddy’s gas out.”
“Sit around and watch each
other grow.”
Roxboro teenagers do want
better recreational facilities, but
who would finance it? The gen
eration ahead of them, the coun
ty voters, passed a whiskey ref
erendum before they passed a
Don Phillips
Central District Congress
To Meet at RHS Next Year
The North Carolina Student Council Congress of the Central
District will be held at RHS next year. This year’s Student Council
President, Mike Slaughter, and Mrs. Rosemary Pollock, Student
Council advisor, feel that the advantages of having the meeting
here are many.
They point out that, in addi
tion to “putting Roxboro on the
map,” the meeting will make
the citizens of Roxboro conscious
of the RHS Student Council
work and its relationship with
the other Student Councils of the
state.
Having the meeting at RHS
school bond issue which had
previously been turned down.
One student said: “The busi
nessmen are losing a lot of
money from the teenagers be
cause there is nothing in town
to keep them there to spend
money.”
NFL To Hold
During assembly on May 23,
eligible public speaking students
will step forward to receive their
certificates for meeting the nec
essary requirements for mem
bership in the National Forensic
League.
As the NFL pamphlet states,
“Membership represents recog
nition of an achievement of
which a member can be proud.”
It also says that “The greatest
value of membership is the en
couragement and incentive it
gives the student to become an
effective speaker and thus a
more successful and more influ
ential citizen.”
Some leadership opportunities
available in the NFL include the
Mr. Phillips, son of Mr. Rob
ert M. Phillips and former edu
cational director at Long Mem
orial Methodist Church, gradu
ated from RHS in 1956. He grad
uated from High Point College
in 1964 with an AB degree in
Philosophy and Religion. Now
Mr. Phillips is attending the
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Wake Forest, North
Carolina. He will graduate from
the Seminary in January of
1969 with a Masters Degree in
Divinity.
Graduation exercises will be
held on June 7 at 8:00 at the
football stadium. Mr. James
Ramsey will be the guest
speaker.
Mr. Ramsey is also a RHS
graduate. He is now the incum
bent representative from the Sth
Congressional District.
will give the Council a big
project to work on, further uni
fying the council, noted Mrs.
Pollock.
Mrs. Pollock also said that
since RHS is one of the newer,
more modern high schools in the
District, it will probably well
serve the NCSCC.
The purposes of the NCSCC
are to develop school spirit, mo
rale, and pride, and to teach
leadership and organization, to
provide an opportunity for citi
zenship, and to give students an
opportunity to express their
opinions in a large group.
At each NCSCC various work
shops are set up for discussions.
Among the topics are school
problems and projects, assembly
programs, constitutions, and Stu
dent Council committees.
Inductions
district tournament and student
congress, which are open only
to members of the NFL; and in
the National Speech Tournament
and National Student Congress,
reserved for the top NFL mem
bers who earn the right to par
ticipate in these nationally signi
ficant events.
Those receiving these certifi
cates include Donna Dale Car
ver, Gayl Talbert, Jane Collie,
Ginger Dunkley, Beth Hester,
Chris Teague, Eddie Oakley,
Jimmy Wade, and Marvin Brans
come. Two degrees of honor will
be awarded to Ginger Dunkley
and Chris Teague. Julie Wood
and Doug Riley will receive de
grees of excellence.
Awards to be given at the ser
vices are the State Teachers
Loan, Aubrey Lee Brooks Schol
arship, Woman’s Club Scholar
ship, Alpha Delta Kappa Soror
ity Scholarship, Business and
Professional Woman’s Club
Scholarship, March of Dimes
Health Scholarship, and College
Scholarships as awarded.
Boys must wear white shirts
and dark pants. The color of
shoes for girls and boys will be
dark or white.
In case of rain during bacca
laureate or graduation exercises,
activities will be moved to the
gym.
FBLA To Sponsor
Battle of Bands
The RHS Future Business
Leaders of America will sponsor
a Battle of the Bands, featuring
the Escorts, Tymes Extension,
and the Shadows of Soul at the
Moose Lodge, May 17 at 8:00
p.m. Admission will be $1.00 per
person.
Members of the Tyme’s Exten
sion are David Oakley, Timmy
Wilborn, Bradley Carver, Randy
Painter, Michael Laws, Sandy
Cates, Anthony Hodges, and
Lonnie Bowes.
Members of the Escorts are
Ken Stone, Roger Carmichael,
Randy Wrenn, Wayne Roberts,
Tommy Holt, and Everett
Hutchins.
The Shadows of Soul feature
musicians Phil Mangum, Jerry
Mangum, Wheeler Carver, Bob
Slaughter, Harold Perry, Jimmy
Weaver, and Eddy Gentry.
Herd
In
the Halls
Definition on Mrs. Pat Gilli
land’s board: “Pediatrician — a
b r a t m a n” . . . Senior Mike
Slaughter telling his typing class
about the “birthday party” he
was throwing at the Armory last
Friday night . . . Soph Doug
Shaw being dishonorably dis
charged from French class after
fighting a losing battle with a
fly . . . Junior Cal Berryhill seen
carrying the bottom half of a
nude dummy to the Armory for
Junior-Senior decorations . . .
Maxie Wrenn requesting permis
sion to leave typing class for a
reason too embarrassing to re
veal . . . Concert choir members
begging student teacher Don
Coleman not to make them sing
last Friday, to which he replied,
“What is this—a junior senior
boycott?” . . . Mrs. Pat Perkins
halting Democracy In Action
class for a “parental report”
from Jimi Slaughter, whose dog
had puppies.