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: JUNIORS HONORED FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT—Pictured are KMSHS Juniors
SENIORS HONORED FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT—Pictured are KMSHS seniors who were honored for academic achievement. Back row, from left, Lynn Grigg, Roderick
who were honored at Monday night's KMSHS Awards Night. Back row. from left. Mark Boyce, Patrick Hamrick, Jennifer Bradley, Patti McGinnis, Beth Webster, and Fulvanna
Lovelace, Timothy Setzer, Mark Deese, Thomas Barnes, Richard Gold, Jimmy Moretz, Kevin Ferebee. Front row, from left, Ela Milewski, Lisa Buchanan, Karen Biddix, Kathy Simpson.
Ingram, Karen Penner, and Dale Putnam. Middle row. from left, Brenda Green, Charlene Lisa Hambright, Becky Penley, Sybil Patterson, Sandra Lynn Batchler, Wendy Green. Tracy
Reese, Toni Goforth, Erica Woods, Lisa Edwards, Brenda Wright, Bettina Harry, Stephanic Smith, and Lynn Eskridge.
Moss, and Lisa House. Front row, from left, Victoria Sims, Robin Warlick, Angela Blackwell.
Angela Hutchins, Liza Blanton, Kelly Kubanks, Christy Huffstetler, and Anita Hoyle.
Academic Awards Fete
Honors Top KM Students
financial institutions, including Branch
Saeed
Twenty-six Kings Mountain Senior High
students were honored for academic achieve-
ment at the fifth annual Academic Awards
Banquet Monday night at KMSHS Cafeteria.
Leading the group were five students who
rank top scholastically in the senior, junior
and sophomore classes.
Seniors Liza Blanton and Kevin Ingram
tied for top honors among seniors, Lisa
Buchanan is number one in the junior class
scholastically and tied for junior scholastic
honors are Daryl Chen and Eric Faust. All 26
honored students rank 3.5 average or higher
Banking and Trust Co., First Citizens Bank
and Trust Co., First Union National Bank.
Home Federal Savings and Loan, and First
Federal Savings and Loan.
The King’s Revue presented musical enter-
tainment for the banquet and humorist Ran-
dy Kilby, Director of Admissions at Gardner
Webb College, was principal speaker. In a
program filled with humor, he also challeng-
ed the students and congratulated them for
achievement. SPO President Ritchie Gold
gave the invocation.
Joel Rountree, history teacher at KMSHS,
“received the coveted Excellence in Teaching =~ ~~~ ~~ bs i = A ;
Award at the conclusion of the banquet. SOPHOMORES HONORED FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT—Back row. from left,
always a highlight.-Mr. Rountree received a Russell Bumgardner, Stephen Mauney, Daryl Chen, Daniel Hamrick, Eric Faust, and Linda
handsome engraved plaque. ~~ Hambright. Middle row, from left, Regina Brown, Kimberly McGinnis, Kamie Wiggins, Paul
‘A menu of turkey and dressing with all the Grigg, Robert Duncan, Gregory Conner, Tracy Horton, and Ginger Whaley. Front row, from
left, Kimberly Moretz, Paris Floyd, Linda Green, Amy Stewart, Loretta Price, and Lisa
‘and received plaques and certificates and the
top five students received gifts in addition to
‘plaques and certificates. ana
Principal Ronnie Wilson and Assistant
Principals Blaine Froneberger and Jackie
Lavender presented the awards as a crowd of
parents looked on.
The Banquet was sponsored by the city’s
Mother GooseV
“Mother Goose’’ visited elementary
school children this week .at Grover,
Bethware, East and North Schools and the
kids loved her.
“Mother Goose’ in real life is Jean
Baldwin of Gastonia who visits children’s
groups, reads favorite nursery stories and
rhymes for about 30 minutes, and then hugs
the children. ; :
“I feel that I am passing on literature to
the future generation’, said Mrs. Baldwin
who came to Kings Mountain on the occa-
sion of National Library Week in special
programs sponsored by the various
libraries in the schools system.
She even dresses like Mother Goose ex-
cept for a tall hat which she said made her
look like a “witch.” She doesn’t feel a bit
trimmings was served with cheesecake
before the awards program.
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embarrassed by the costume and
White.
isits KM Schools
“A lady I met recently said she had read
about Mother Goose's grave in Boston’,
and ‘‘Jack and Jill ran up the hill to get a
pail of water,”
everywhere she goes she is delightful in the
role. Mrs. Baldwin thinks probably Mother
Goose is anyone who coordinates people's
favorite stories and rhymes. Her mother,
92, has a big Mother Goose book and Mrs.
Baldwin tapes nursery rhymes and sends
them to her own grandchildren.
There is no charge when Mother Goose
reads nursery rhymes at schools. The fee
for day care centers and institutions for pro-
fit is $20-$25 per visit.
When Mother Goose recites the familiar
rhymes, the children are spell-bound and
they remember every story and ask ques-
tions of their teacher even after they return
to the classroom. :
Special displays and activities during Na-
tional Library Wekk underway in the
schools and Wednesday was School Library
Media Day. Hes
Various librarians heading up the special
said Mrs. Baldwin. And in the graveyard
were several tombstones bearing the name
of Goose. The real name of this Mother
Goose was Elizabeth Vergoose, whose
printer son-in-law is said to have published
in 1719 the songs and rhymes she sent to her
grandchildren. Since no copy has ever been
found of this book, most scholars doubt the
story, according to Mrs. Baldwin.
Mrs. Baldwin said that while there are
“Jack and Jill’ was the favorite of
youngsters in Kings Mountain. But she also
included a bit of Dr. Seuss and Sesame
Street.
There were a number of stories about who
and what Mother Goose was.
MOTHER GOOSE
....Visits KM Schools
many stories about where and how Mother
Goose originated, her Mother Goose
originated in England centuries ago.
“Mother Goose’s Melody’ was reprinted in
1785 in the United States and among these 52
rhymes is the familiar ‘Little Tom Tucker”
celebration are Mary Plyler at Bethware;
Barbara Smith at East; Joyce Van Dyke at
Grover; Jane Talbert at North; Barbara
Byers at West; Harriet Hagan at Central,
Frances Hedden at KM Junior High; and
Sara Griffin at KM Senior High.
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TOP SCHOLARS-The five
young people above received
top academic awards at Mon-
day night's . Academic
Awards Banquet at Kings
Mountain Senior High. Front
row, from left, junior Lisa
Buchanan and senior Liza
Blanton. Back row,
sophomore Eric Faust,
sophomore Daryl Chen, and
senior Kevin Ingram.
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