Weather Forecast: Spring is
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VOL. 3
ROCKETEER
Sage Advice: Girls Beware!
Twirp Week draws near.
ROXBORO HIGH SCHOOL, ROXBORO, N. C. 27573, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1969
No. 5
“OH THESE HEAVY BOOKS!” moans Sandra Carver as Eddie Gentry,
Randy Knott, Mickey Clayton, and Johnny Clayton seem to be appre
ciating her efforts. 'This will be a common complaint to be heard among
all the RHS girls as Twirp Week arrives March 24 through 29.
Twirp Week Turns Tables
Girls Slave for Boys
Drama Club Production;
A Little More Than Glamour
“There’s no business like show
business.” That’s what the song
says, but there’s a lot more to
opening night than glitter and
glamour. The Curtain Callers of
RHS are presenting the play
“Death Takes A Hol.day” March
26 and 27.
Mr. John Bell, art teacher at
RHS, is the director of the produc
tion with Connie Crowder, presi
dent of the Drama Club, as his
assistant.
Debra Clark is taking on the job
of stage manager. There are other
jobs—which require crews as well
as department heads. Head of the
make-up committee is Sarah Gar
rard. Eddie Oakley works as head
of the props committee. For the
costume committee, Joan Warren
Two to Attend Tri-Hi-Y
Convention in April
The Tri-Hi-Y’s and the Hi-Y’s of
North Carolina and South Carolina
will hold their first convention in
Montreat, North Carolina, April 19
and 20.
During those two days the mem
bers will have panel discussions
and group discussions where a
small group of members discuss
their role in the Tri-Hi-Y or Hi-Y.
They also will attend leadership
classes, where the various groups
will exchange their ideas and what
they do as projects.
Carolyn Hall, president of the
RHS Tri-Hi-Y said that two rising-
senior members and possibly an
adult will attend this convention.
Herd
in
the Halls
Randy Long being expelled foi-
improper mufflers in the halls . . .
Those free-loaders, Bob Slaughter
and Charles Bowes, hopping from
table to table taking food from
friends (and enemies) . . . Carl
Jones being locked in the bathroom
and almost having to stay until
the rest of the basketball team
returned at 12:00. Carl reported
to Mrs. Cannon, “It was such a
horrible incident I haven’t been
able to do my English for a week!”
. . . Seniors Joan Hawkins and
Celeste Montague still complaining
about the color of the cap and
’-owns, Royal Blue??? As for the
Seniors, Mrs. F. Johnston heard
saying, “If this Senior Class doesn’t
graduate, it will be the worst thing
that could happen to this school!”
Any Comment Seniors???
is in charge. The technical director
is Richard Dickerson. Each of these
department heads work with a
crew of 3-5 people.
The actors for this presentation
are Cora, Janie Carver; Fedele,
Robert Carver; Duke Lumber, Har
old Perry; Alda, Betsy Both; Duch
ess Stephanie, Vivian Scott; Prin
cess of San Luca, Edith Whitfield;
Baron Cesarea, Hayden Newell;
Eric Fenton, John Garrard: Rhoda
Fenton, Shirley Carver; Corrado,
Steve Teague; Grazia, Sarah Gar
rard; Major Whitread, John Harris.
Mr. Bell, one of the sponsors of
the Curtain Callers sums up the
job of the actors as this, “They are
on the stage for two purposes. One,
for the audience to see them. Sec
ond, for the audience to hear them.”
RHS Library Club to Attend
Annual Meeting in Imas
The Roxboro High School Library Club is making plans to
attend the twenty-second annual convention of the North
Carolina High School Library Association April 11 through
12. RHS will send at least five delegates to this convention.
This year for the 1969 Conven
tion, the largest high school asso
ciation in the state, Durham High
School Library Club will be the
official host. The theme for this
year’s convention will be “A Closer
Look At Libraries.” The convention
will be held at the Jack Tar Hotel
in Durham, North Carolina.
Roxboro High School Library
Club will be just one of the many
RHS Students Show Promise
Of Becoming Fine Teachers
Six RHS students are presently
displaying promise of being fine
future teachers of America. These
students, Helen James, Janet Gra-
vitte, Shelby Wiley, Gail Blalock,
Gary Green, and Donna Garrett
carry out the traditional project
of the FTA (Future Teachers of
America) as being student teachers.
They began their student teach
ing in January and will continue
till the end of the year.
In student teaching you pick the
room you would like to teach with
the assistance of Mr. Douglas Gray,
principal of Morgan Street School,
and continue in that room till the
end of the year. You also have a
choice of what subjects you would
like to teach.
RHS Track Season
To Open In March;
Lettermen Return
The Rocket track team will offi
cially open their 1969 track season
with a meet at Reidsville on March
21.
Coach Larry Dixon will be look
ing for a good number of boys
when practice starts. Five letter-
men head the list of returnees.
They are shot puter, discus thrower
Christ Teague; quarter-milers Rob
Fitzgerald and Rod Lattie; miler
Jimmy Wilkens; and sprinter Ed-
Heading the list of returning
non-lettermen are 880 men. John
Garrard and Tom Fitzgerald; shot
puters, Rike Hunt and Mac Blanks;
discus throwers, Gene Thomas and
Randy Broach; and pole vaulter,
Hayden Newell. New prospects are
sprinter Tony Satterfield and miler
Lee Lawson.
high schools to attend. Durham
High School is asking each club to
contribute two prizes to be given
away during the convention. There
are expected to be around eight
hundred people at the convention.
Each club in the district is asked
to be responsible for certain duties
during the convention. For Fri
day’s session RHS is responsible
for the stage decorations.
Presently these 5 girls and 1 boy
are teaching from one to three days
a week.
Qualifications for the becoming
a student teacher are that you have
to be a junior or senior, you have
to have a study hall and have to
be a member of the FTA. Any stu
dent can become a member of the
FTA.
The only problem these students
seem to have found is learning the
names of all the students in their
classes and keeping them straight.
When asked what the most im
portant trait a teacher should have
Donna Garrett responded with pa
tience above all, Gail Blalock with
a good personality and ability to
get along with others and Gary
Green with courage. ■
Twirp Week is coming to Roxboro High School the last
week in March. Etiquette book manners will be abandoned at
this time, and girls will perform the common courtesies which
are generally expected of boys.
All during this week the girls
at RHS will become the slaves of
RHS boys who may force them to
carry books, open doors, carry
lunch trays, pull out chairs, help
them off and on with their coats,
and walk them to class.
Those girls not complying with
such wishes of the boys, their
names will go into the traditional
complaint box. It is in this box
that boys can deposit any com-
Junior is High Scorer
In National Contest
Joan Ashley, a junior at Roxboro
High School, is a high scorer
among 2,500,000 participants in the
Time Magazine National 1969 Cur
rent Affairs Contest.
The Current Affairs Test is
based on significant news stories
in Time and is comprised of 100
questions on national and foreign
affairs, as well as business, sports,
entertainment, science, religion, lit
erature, and the arts.
Other RHS students scoring high
on the test are Tim Sergeant, Em
mett Wilkerson, Tom Fitzgerald,
Janet Gravitte, and Mac Wagstaff.
All top scorers will be awarded
certificates of excellence and merit
from James R. Shepley, Publisher
of Time, The Weekly Magazine.
Four IHS Students to Attend
SPA Convention in Lexington
^.j , Eleanor inn, Beilin
Whitfield, and Sharon Dickerson
will attend the 40th annual conven
tion of the Southern Interscholastic
Press Association, April 1-2 at
Washington and Lee University at
Lexington, Virginia.
The Southern Interscholastic
Press Association, founded in 1925,
is sponsored by the Lee Memorial
Journalism Foundation of Wash
ington and Lee University for the
purpose of uniting, in a common
organization, scholastic journalists
from the southern states.
Delegates to SIPA have an op
portunity to hear men nationally
known in their profession, to in
crease their practical knowledge of
“YEOOW!” yells Joanne Riley, workroom secretary, as she runs off one
of Mr. Shelley’s English tests on her arm.
plaint they have against any girl
who doesn’t meet their demands.
These girls will then be tried and
punished at Kangaroo Court on
Friday night. Kangaroo Court will
be just one of the several events
which will climax a week of change
for RHS students.
Ginger Dunkly, who is in charge
of this project, says that this year’s
Twirp TT ’ ’ ■ -
Week should be the best
ever.
Key Club to Attend
Two State Meeting
Fifteen RHS Key Clubbers will
attend a two-state convention in
March. The Key Club is planning
to charter a bus to go to the Car
olina’s District Convention which
is being held in Charleston, South
Carolina, March 14-16. The meet
ings will be held in Convention
Hall in downtown Charleston.
Boys attending are Martin Ver
non, Tommy Rogers, Tommy Hum
phries, Brooks Langston, Chris
Teague, Randy Knott, David Nor
wood, John Hall. Scott Pollock, Rick
Hunt, Jimmy Wilkins, Pat Riley,
Neal Hamlett, Dan Lawrence and
Emmett Wilkerson. Mr. and Mrs.
Earle Johnson will accompany the
group.
journalistic work, and to share
their publishing experiences with
scholastic journalists from other
parts of the South.
Any student or faculty advisor
associated with any publication in
a high school in the South is in
vited to the annual convention of
SIPA. Those especially invited are
editors; business managers, faculty
advisors, staff writers, artists, pho
tographers, and radio personnel.
The size of each delegation is de
termined by the number of publi
cations represented at the conven
tion. RHS, represented by two pub
lications, wjll be limited to five stu
dent delegates and two advisors.