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NEWS BRIEFS Band Receives Excellent Rating The Elbert County High' School Concert Band recently received a rating of excellent for their performance of Ameril- cans We, Chanit and Jubdlo, and Overture in B Flat at the 9 th .District Music Festival held an Gainesville. For the first time in several yeans the band re- ■etived a superior rating in sight reading. The band is un- der the direction of Mr. Tom Tapscott. FBLA Makes Plans The local Future Business Leaders of America Chapter is making preparation for the State Leadership Conference which will be held April 10-13, in Atlanta. The members will be staying at the Marriott Motor Hotel in Atlanta. The mem bers will leave around lunch time Thursday and will return Sunday morning 1 . The cate gories in which the club will be participating are: public speaking, Miss VOT, Miss FBLA, accounting, data pro cessing, scrapbook, parliamen tary profcedure, poster, state officer, exhibit, annual aotivir tiels report, FBLA Week, Chap ter membership, and delegates. Those who are entering these events will be released soon. Candy Sale Results The Junior Class candy sale ended with a gross amount of $2,496. The profit for the class equaled approximately $1000. Cash prizes were given to the Junior students who sold the largest amount of candy. The winners were: first prize $20, Norman Grimes; second prize $15, Jessie Robertson'; third prize $10, Angela Maxwell. Oth er winners were Margaret Al len fourth, Becky Bennett fifth, and Debbie Rowland sixth. These girls all received a cash prize of $5. Proceeds are to be used for the Junior-Senior Prom to be held on Maiy 10, 1975. Pitching Machine A Jugs Curveball Pitching Machine was delivered to the E.C.HJ3. gym on March 22. The machine will throw a fastball up to 110 mph. It also throws any kind of breaMng pitch, i.e. curve, slider, knuckle etc. The baseball team should be congratulated for their fine ef fort in selling greeting cards. In addition to the money made by the sale, the V.F.W. donated $200 towards the project. FFA Quartet The Elbert County High Chapter of the Future Farmers of America is busy preparing for competition at the district level in quartet singing. The quartet is composed of Sam Bowman, Mike Fortson, Willie Norman, and Horace Willis. The quartet has made appear- VOL. XXin ELBERT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, ELBERTON, GEORGIA 30635, APRIL, 1975 NUMBER 7 I. R. C. Delegates Travel ToN.A.I.M.U.N.Meeting BY JULIE MANN Miss Bell Finalist In Essay^Q^pfe Rhonda Bell, center, has been chosen as a finfdisj 1975 ability counts survey contest. This was on tin an essay written by Rhonda on the subject Full Em! Opportunity; “Does it exist for the Handicapped.” Mrs. Bryant, left, her English teacher, and Mr. Paul Abernathy have been invited to the annual awards luncheon at the gov ernors mansion on April 11, at which time winners in the con test will be announced. After several months of learning parliamentary proced ures from Myra Lunsford, nine Elbert County International Re lations Club members attended N.A.I.M.U.N. (North American Invitational Model United Na tions) in Washington, D. C., March 6-9. The members in clude Nanci Smith, Jan Parham, Celisa Snellings, Karen Hill, Janice Hyde, Greg Mann, Com- nially Veal, Olds Harris, and Sharon Sanders, also, Mrs. Sa rah Vincent, the club advisor. The ECHS students' repre sented the Middle Eastern coun try of Jordan. A Jordanian at tache gave the delegates in formation on the country and Jordan’s stand on questions «oming bejfore the assembly. Other information was obtainr ed from books at school. Be fore leaving, the group studied the culture, politics and ge ography to gather some knowl edge of how the people felt on the issues. They represented the government at the General Assembly and how Jordan stood in the Arab Block. Greg Mann pled her cause at the Security Council. The group was to ances in two talent shows and is practicing weekly under the direction of Mr. Charlie Mc Lendon. The first competition will be the week of March 31- April 4 at Wilkes County High School. sponsor the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) but Israel’s representatives refused them because of their Jordan ian interest. All nations of the U.N. were represented by students from the mainland U, S., Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rica, ap proximately 15,000 students. The ECHS students flew to Washington on an Eastern Air plane and stayed at the Shore- ham Americana Hotel. Students Gain 'Battered Boot' Approximately forty students from ECHS participated in the March of Dimes Walkathon on February 8, 1975, collecting ov er $600.00 and winning for our school the Battered Boot Tro phy Award over our arch rivals, Hart County. Students participating were as follows': Deborah Borders, Connile Bone, Dean Duncan, Bonnie Evans, Renee Franklin, Kathy Gaines, Tracey Graham, Sheila Grimes, Leslie Guest, Zannette Houston, Doris Huff, Curt Irby, Louisa Johnson. Also Russell Mills, Donna Mize, Melanie Rampey, Bryan Scoggins, Mike Wadlington, Sharon Watts, Dianne Wilder, Carol Winn, Carla Yeargln, Pamela Perrin, Stephen Bryant, Lee Fortson, Raymond Fortson, Len Hodges 1 , Linton Huff, David Hulme. Also Pam McIntosh, Angela Mlaxweill, Greg Rucker, Judy Veal, Sharon Yeargin, Laundra Bolton, Sandra Allen, Vicki Allen, David Brown, Rod Chris tian, Belinda Harper, Connally Veal and Carolyn Smith. Congratulations to all of these students for a job well done. Elbert County High School is proud of you and your tremendous effort. Spring Drama Festival And Talent Show Held BY DONNA WILLIS The Spring Drlama Festival and Talent Show was held in the old gym on March 20 during fifth and sixth periods. Most of the school attended, and re mained seated in quiet anticit- pation a® Richard Fortson open ed the show. He was slick, funny and just fine as the Masr ter of Cemeronies. The comedy “Red Riding Hood” skipped into first place', with a cast containing Susan Goolsby, Angela Maxwell, Pam McIntosh, Cindy Ruff, Debbie Rowland, and Brian Veal. Don na Eavenson narrated. Each person gave a winning perform ance. Susan Goolsby especial ly glowed as a brilliantly red Red Riding Hood. Brian Veal was the perfect Big Bad Wolf. Second place was awarded to a quartet composed of Mike Fortson, Ben Bowman, Will Norman, and Horace Willis. Their vocal cords produced such smooth, soulful vibrations that they didn’t need any back ground music. Jimmy Watkins gracefully battled his way into third place to the music of “Kung Fu Fighter.” In hie fUrst dance, he wore an unusual coat. In his. second, be appeared bare armed . and swinging sticks. The remaining talent was al so exceptional. It began with Carol Booth playing the moody Bridge Over Troubled Water on piano. Another piano talet was displayed by Donna Phillips, as she played the Entertainer. Pam Mixon accompanied her on clarinet. Patricia Banks and Linda Perrin each rendered on intenlse solo. Two guitarists*, Kent Saxon and Eddie Grimes, played and sang three melodies with polished skill. Two pairs of dancers moved freely to the ryfhm of “Party is a Groovy Thing” — Farris and Thelma Morrison and Richard Fortson and Judy Tate. A sophisticated comedy, “Congratulations, My Dear” was enacted superbly by Debbie Bone and Droucelle Wittner. Another play, “The Affair”, was a wild melodra matic spoof of soap operas. Its characters! were played by Deb bie Oouch, Many Jane Shaiw, Patricia Hall, Lucy Maxwell, Leisa Yoder, Wanda Maxwell, and Montery Blackwell, who gave an especially dramatic performance. WILSON SPEAKS TO ANCHOR On Wednesday, March 12, the Anchor Club met at the home of Janice Hyde. Plans were discussed for a “Hike Bike” for the mentally retarded. This hike will be for sixteen miles out the Calhoun Falls highway. Each rider will have a sponsor and their spon- j sor will pay them a certain amount of money for every mile they ride. Also at the meet ing Mrs. Joyce Wilson from {he Elbert County Hospital, spoke on the medical records and f iles at the hospital, "Battered Boot" Award Given Tommy Deaton (left) of Athens presented Elbert County high school student body president Samantha Abner (right) a plaque of appreciation from the Order of the Battered Boot at a student body meeting Thursday in the old gym. Hie Battered Boot Award is given by the Northeast Ga. Chapter of the March of Dimes. The honor was won when 5 per cent of the student body participated in fund collections on Feb. 8th and outdistanced arch-rival Hart County.