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Student Council Organizational
Meeting Held For First Semester
The organizational meeting
of the Newton County High
School Student Council was
held on Monday, September 9.
Bob Travis, president, and
Anne McKay, vice - president,
met with the elected represen
tatives from each home room
with Mrs. J. T. McKay, advi
»or, supervising. The follow
ing officers were elected to
serve for the first semester:
Robin Dennison, secretary; Jim
Benton, treasurer; Mason Ste
phenson, reporter; and Bobby
McGaughey, devotional chair
man.
During the school year a
The President's Message
Beginning with this issue of the
Covington News our high school
is being given an opportunity to
give its news and views in a
special section of the paper. We
•re happy to have the opportunity
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808 TRAVIS
tn share our problems, our achie
vements, our hopes, and our dis
appointments with you, our pa
rents and friends.
School has gotten off to a good
start this year. At the end of the
first two weeks we have lost and
won a ballgame. We have enrolled
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; | student will be selected each
i ■ week by the council and hon
i ored for good school citlzen
'ship.
The first School Citizen of
the Week for this schoolterm is
John Glass. John is relatively
a new student to Newton High
since he moved from Monroe
last year. He plays at ths po
sition of end on the varsity
footall team; he is the senior
class vice-president and vice
president of homeroom 12-B.
The Student Council con
gratulates John for this out
standing honor.
over 900 students and are pack
ing them into a building designed
for about 700. We have been grow
ing constantly for the past several
years until now we are literally
bursting at the seams. We are ac
utely aware of our size on Fri
day mornings when we try to pack
the student body into the auditor
ium. We even use the stage to
help seat the crowd! We put 2
classrooms in a building design
ed for D. C. T. There is one home
room in the gym (most unsatis
factory!) There is another in the
auditorium (also unsatisfactory).
Several study halls are being held
in the auditorium during the day
—the 6th period one has over 200
students. The cafeteria is too
crowded — the halls are packed
between classes. The thing that
has hurt us the most is the fact
that we have so few water coolers
in the building. Last week during
the hot weather only two were
working. It was murder!
While our building and its fa
( cilities do not prove the worth of
. our school, we believe they are
important. We know that soon
Newton County must do something
1 about properly housing its high
school students. In the meantime,
we the students make the best of
the situation and concentrate on
our work before us each day.
Come to see us — look at our
building — come when we’re all
here — if you can get in!
Bob Travis
President of the Student
Body
Livingston Bth
Grade Elects
Officers for Year
Livingston eighth grade elected
officers for the coming year as
follows: President. Karen Dilling
ham: vice-president. Ginger Bone;
secretary, Danny Adams; treasur
er. Sara Knight: class reporters,
Terry Stacey and Karen Me-
Giboney with parliamentarian be
ing David Wilbanks.
Subjects being studied this year
are: Georgia History, Science, En
glish, Mathematics, physical edu
cation and spelling. Teachers of
i the eighth grade are Mr. M. D.
| Criswell. Mrs. James A. Hord and
Mr. B M. Paden.
The Livingston boys participat
ing in the Baby Ram and Midget
Ram football teams are Lee Far
row, Tony Wilkerson, Danny Jef
fries, Gary Bradford, Mike Speer.
Kim Allen, Ronnie Daniel and
Dan Criswell.
We are looking forward to this
year to make it our best year of
all.
Karen McGiboney and Terry
Stacey, Reporters
Newton High News
Information About Student Government, Clubs, Teams, Band and Social Activities
Band Prepares a
New Halftime Show
For Friday Game
Hats off to the Newton County
High School Blue Rambler Band
for th^ir fine performance at the
Newton - Rockdale football game
in Conyers on Friday night!
This Friday when the victorious
Rams meet Chamblee at Sharp
Field the Blue Ramblers will pre
sent a new half-time show.
In this new show the band will
use all basic maneuvers, featur
ing splits and oblique marching,
halt while playing, forward march
while playing, and left, right and
rear turns, accompanied by an
unusual and intricate box forma
tion.
The music the band will play
for these new routines should
please the varied taste of all New
ton fans. This performance will
include “Die Meistersinger” by
Wagner, arranged by Director
Basil Rigney, for lovers of long
hair music; the wonderful ‘‘Wash
ington Post March” by Sousa; and
for all the jazz enthusiasts, the
“St. Louil Blues March”.
Under the direction of Basil
Rigney the 78 Blue Ramblers are
NEWTON HIGH CLUBS HOLD
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS
. P ur ‘ n £ Jhe last two weeks several of the organizations
of Newton County High School have held their first meet
ings of the school year. Below are reports from these groups:
Y-CLL'BS TO ATTEND
CARAVAN
Plans were made Monday af
ternoon at the monthly Newton Y-
Council meeting for the atten
dance of all Y-Club officers at
the Northeast District Caravan.
Approximately forty representa
tives of the four NCHS Clubs will
attend the Caravan at Madison, on
Monday night, September 23.
The Council heard reports of the
September school and community
projects from Bobby McGaughey
and Dana Kemp. The Clubs will
again sponsor joint projects for
October. The committee for the
Clean Scholarship will be headed
by Ira Jean Willard. The com
munity project committee which
will determine a project at a la
ter date is chaired by Sarah Hay
nes.
It was decided at this meeting
that a Y-Club Scrapbook would
be started this year. The Scrap
book is to be kept by the Council
reporter and is to contain news
paper clippings and pictures of
the activities of the Y-Clubs.
Jim Benton, president, closed
the business session by asking all
Club presidents to urge the mem
bers of their Club to live up to
the Y-Club motto and help make
this the best year ever for the
Clubs at Newton. The motto
reads: To create, maintain, and
extend throughout our home,
school, and community, high
standards of Christian Character.”
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ALPHA TRLHI-Y
The theme of the program for
the September meeting of the Al
pha Tri-Hi-Y was the growth of
the Y. M. C. A. organization.
Brenda Bonner told of the history
of the Y. M. C. A. Movement of
the Y M. C. A. was given by Su
san Yarbrough. Suzan Elliott re
minded us of the duties of Tri-Hi-
Y membership with a resume of
the Purposes of the Y. M. C. A.
The new officers of the Alpha
Tri-Hi-Y were introduced to the
club members and each officer
outlined her duties for the com
ing year.
Application blanks were issued
to prospective new members and
Lou Anne Tuck, president, urged
all girls, present to join the club.
Mrs. Ronald Cook is the advi
sor of the Alpha Tri-Hi-Y.
Priscilla Prosser
SENIOR TRI-HI-Y
The Senior Tri-Hi-Y witnessed
a very impressive beginning for
their fourth year in “Y work” as
vice president Kathie Hardy led
them quite forcefully in a com
prehensive review of their plat
form: “Clean Speech, Clean
Sportsmanship. Clean Scholarship,
and Clean Living.” She was as
sisted by Anne McKay. Cindy
Richardson. Rita Harris and
Dianne Hooten.
“Patience at Work” was the
subject of the devotional present- I
ed by Linda Partea and Selma,
Blue Rambler Majorettes at Ram-Rockdale Game
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CATHY CALLAWAY
Miss Cathy Callaway and Miss Betty Jean Spears, two of the majorettes for the Blue
Rambler Band, are shown above as they presented their routines with the Blue Ramblers
at the football game Friday night in Conyers when the Rams met the Rockdale Bulldogs,
working hard on these new rou
tines for this second home foot
ball game.
Spears. They emphasized that pa
tience is the virtue of all work.
Nancy Spears, president, had
charge of the business session.
Project chairmen reported that
the Welcome Freshmen and Clean
। Sportsmanship projects were suc
cessful, and that the joint “Y“
school project for October will be
Clean Scholarship.
The nine officers and chairmen
plan to attend the Program
Planning Caravan in Madison on
September 23.
Everyone is delighted that the
1964 Christian Life Conference
will be held at the F. F. A.—
F. H. A. Camp.
! The profit from the concession
stand at the football game on
.! September 20 will be used to pay
the World Service pledge made at
1 । Rock Eagle.
The new opening and closing
rituals introduced by the presi
dent helped to make the meeting
more meaningful. The meeting
was closed as the 35 girls made a
friendship circle and repeated
their benediction.
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GAMMA TRI-HI-Y
The September 11th meeting of
the Gamma Tri-Hi-Y which met
|in Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s room was
opened with creed and song. The
। main business was whether to
have a play or a speaker in the
Thanksgiving chapel program.
The President Carol Callaway
called for a debate on the matter
as she was in favor of a speaker,
i Joan Dial commented on lasting
effect on the minds of the stu
dents which a play gave. The
motion was made and seconded
that we have a play and this mo
• tion carried. A more detailed re
port will be given by Carol at our
next meeting.
Mary Jane Odum, with Frankie
Day, and Michelle Reece assist
i ing, presented a very appropriate
program for the first meeting of
■ i the year. The subject dealt with
the origin of the Gamma Tri-Hi-Y.
The officers were reminded of
the September 23rd Caravan at
I Madison. The purpose of this
conference is to better train our
| officers.
With no further business at
hand, we all stood and said the
benediction.
Katrina Stone. Rep.
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HLY CLVB
An enthusiastic audience of ap
proximately eighty boys listened
intently while Bill Wood, vice
president of the Hi-Y. gave a brief
history of the “Y” movement and
a vivid explanation of the pur
pose and platform of Hi-Y.
"Working Together as a Group”
was the topic of the devotional
given by chaplain Bill Everitt.
Bill used Psalms 133 for his Scrip
ture reading.
President Jim Benton presided
। at the business session. Bobby Me-
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BETTY JEAN SPEARS
Gaughey, school project chair
man, summarized the ‘‘Welcome
Freshman” campaign, and Char
les Lassiter, community project
chairman, reported a successful
Clean Sportsmanship Week.
All officers are planning to at
tend the Program Planning Cara
van at Madison on September 23.
Everyone was delighted to know
that the Northeast District Chris
tian Life Conference will be held
at the FFA - FHA Camp in 1964.
The Newton Y-Clubs will serve
as hosts.
The Y-Clubs will have joint pro
jects in October. The school pro
ject will be Clean Scholarship.
The Hi-Y has charge of the
reserved seats at all football
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games and will sell tickets at all
home basketball games.
The profit made from the con
cessions stand on September 20,
will be used to pay the World Ser
vice pledge made at Rock Eagle.
After a plea from the presi
dent for all the boys to become
active Hi-Y members, the meet
ing was closed with prayer by
Bob Travis.
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SPANISH CLUB
At the first meeting of the Span
ish Club, held on Wednesday,
September 3. 1963, plans were for
mulated for the setting up of per
manent committees to function
' during the course of the year.
These committees and their chair
men are:
1. Program — Regina Thomp
son
2. Art Committee — Guy Parr
3. Social Affairs — Kay Shaw
4. Publicity — Peggy Porter
field
Mr. Tucker, Club Sponsor,
spoke to the club, stressing the
importance of the study of Span
ish and acquiring a knowledge of
Spanish, citing the growing num
ber of people of Spanish-Ameri
can descent who are coming to
the U. S. to live.
After a brief discussion of plans
for the programs for future meet
ings, the Club was adjourned.
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LATIN CLUB
John Dickerson, president of the
Latin Club, got the organization
off to a good start Wednesday,
September 4th, by introducing the
other officers to the new mem
bers and appointing his commit
tees. The other new officers are:
Betty Benton, vice-president; Babs
Stubbs, secretary; Diane Kir
kus, treasurer; and Charles Las
siter, reporter.
Diane Carter led the pledge to
the Flag in Latin and Edmund
Hackney taught the group to sing
‘‘America”. An interesting pro
gram on the value of the study
of Latin was given by Lou Anne
Tuck and Sarah Haynes.
The President concluded the
meeting with a short speech on
our goals for the coming year,
mainly consisting of different pro
jects of service to the school.
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12-E Elects Officers
Monday, September 9, Mrs.
1 J. T. McKay's Homeroom elect
ed officers for the current
school year. They are as fol
lows:
President, Terry Smith;
Vice-President, Ira Jean Will
■ ard; Treasurer, Brenda Will
ingham; Secretary. Nelda
White; Reporter, Noami Smith.
We also elected Nancy
Spears and Selma Spears as our
। Student Council Representa
tives.
; Reporter—Noami Smith
HOMEROOM 9-J
On September 9, 1963 Mrs. J.
D. McKinsey's homeroom 9-J
started the new year at Newton
1 County High School by electing
, homeroom officers. The Student
: Council representative was also
• elected.
The following were elected;
President, Judy Standard: Vico
’ President, Patricia Steadam; Sec
retary, Charlyne Stubbs; Treasur
er, Sheila Smith; Reporter, Rissa
Spears: Student Council repre
> sentative. Linda Standard.
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