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THE COVINGTON NEWS — THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1976
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State board to study
recommendations
Four recommendations of the
Georgia Teacher Education
Council (GTECI concerning
teacher certification were placed
in a stud) committee by the
State Board of Education Thurs
day. The recommendations dealt
with changes in certification
patterns to establish middle
school education (grades 4-8),
procedures and standards for
certification renewal through Iwai
staff development and certification
changes in adult education and in
pupil personnel services.
Tne projiosed change to include
middle school certification was
discussed at length by the board
Wednesday at its committee of
the whole meeting. In making
recommendation, Mrs. Evelyn
Carroll, chairman of the GTEC,
said teachers need special skills to
serve students in the middle
grades because of the students
diverse maturity levels, intellectual
needs and expanding social,
physical and emotional
development.
Wednesday the board heard
appeals of two teachers whose
contracts were not renewed by
NCCHS registration
begins Tuesday
Winter quarter registration at
Newton County Comprehensive
High School will begin on Tuesday,
Nov. 9, with those seniors who
have maintained perfect attendance
for the quarter, followed by the re
mainder of the senior class in
alphabetical order. Next will come
juniors, sophomores, and then
freshmen.
All students are urged to be
present when their classes are
called to the registration site. Late
registrants have fewer choices of
classes and teachers if the specific
sections they want have been filled.
Students who have dropped out
and wish to return to NCCHS or
those who wish to enter NCCHS
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the Rome Board of Education.
The board voted Thursday to
uphold the decisions of the Rome
board.
Richard Neville, the board's vice
chairman for appeals, recom
mended that an attorney be hired
on a contract basis to serve as a
hearing officer for the board and
to provide technical assistance to
the board. The board authorized
the hiring of Lauren 0. Buckland
to serve in this capacity.
At its November meeting the
board will consider a recom
mendation by the State Textbook
Advisory Committee that 327
social studies textbooks be placed
on the state-approved list. Only
books that appear on the state
list may be purchased by school
systems with state funds.
A resolution expressing ap
preciation to Sam F. Burke for
his leadership in the Georgia
High School Association was
passed unanimously by the board.
Burke recently retired as
secretary-treasurer of the
association.
The board approved an
agreement with the Fannin
for the first time should contact the
school between Friday, Nov. 12,
and Wednesday, Nov. 24, to make
an appointment with Mr. Rochelle.
It is school policy that all students
returning to or entering school for
the first time must have an admiss
ions interview with the principal.
They must be accompanied by a
parent or legal guardian who
resides in Newton County.
On Tuesday. Nov. 30, the first
day of the winter quarter, priority
will be given to students who have
completed registration. Those
students who have had no interview
nor registration will be asked to
wait.
County Board of Education for
operation of the new Fannin
County High School as a com
prehensive high school. The
agreement also included an
equipment grant of $56,250 in
Appalachian Regional Commission
Funds for vocational education
equipment.
Grady County Board of
Education was granted $25,000
to purchase equipment for the
Grady County Comprehensive
High School.
A new Quick Start project to be
conducted by the DeKalb Area
Vocational-Technical School for
the H. J. Heinz Company was
approved, and a grant of $19,450
was authorized for use in this
project.
Banks awarded
scholarship
WINSTON-SALEM — Barbara
Wrenn Banks, Wake Forest
University senior of Covington,-
Ga., has been awarded a Guy T.
Carswell Scholarship at the
university and has been elected to
Omicron Delta Kappa, in
tercollegiate honor society.
Miss Banks is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben T. Banks Jr. of
5108 Forest Dr. She is majoring in
Latin and physical education and is
a member of the women’s in
tercollegiate basketball team and
vice president of the honorary
classics fraternity. She also is a
residence adviser.
Miss Banks is among 18 up
perclassmen who were awarded
Carswell Scholarships, valued at
SI,OOO a year, because of their
outstanding achievement in
scholarship and leadership at Wake
Forest. Omicron Delta Kappa
elects 10 seniors annually on a
basis of character and leadership in
one or more phases of campus life.
To commemorate the nation's
Bicentennial, the Boy Scouts of
America has introduced the new
American Heritage Merit Badge.
(Huutngton News
&EBBEB CCIW
Cheryl Nelson
named to
Who's Who
CARROLLTON — Forty-six
West Georgia College students have
been selected to Who's Who
Among Students in American Uni
versities and Colleges.
Who’s Who, one of the most pres
tigious awards presented to a
college student, is given in more
than 1,000 schools in all 50 states.
Administrators, faculty and stu
dents at each school make selec
tions based on curricular and
extracurricular activities. Service to
community and school is a major
consideration for selection.
Named to Who’s Who at West
Georgia from Covington was
Cheryl L. Nelson, senior.
Heard-Mixon School honors
"Pupils of The Month"
Heard-Mixon Elementary School
announces its first winners of
“Pupil of the Month.” These
students were chosen on the basis
of performance in the classroom,
courtesy to fellow-students and
teachers, behavior, personal
cleanliness, friendliness, help
fulness, overall attitude and school
attendance. The winner from the
Senior Learning Community is
Scotty Thomas and the winner
from the Junior Learning Com
munity is Isaac Bostick.
Since the Heard-Mixon School is
performance grouped and
departmentalized, they are divided
into two groups called “com
munities”. The Junior Learning
Community is the lower elementary
grades, primarily ages 5 to 8, with
some exceptions. Senior Learning
Community is the upper elemen
tary grades, primarily ages 8 to 12,
VICA members
attend work
shop at Macon
Recently the V.I.C.A. Club
(Vocational Industrial Clubs of
America) of Newton County
Comprehensive High School had
two representatives to attend the
two-day work shop in Macon. The
representatives who attended were:
Junior Hardy, president; Billy
Herring, reporter and their advisor.
J. W. Rutledge.
After everyone had assembled in
the ballroom, the club presidents
and reporters were divided into two
groups. Both groups had speakers
to come and discuss what their job
was as officers of VICA.
Those attending gained a lot from
this conference and they are
looking forward to attending the
Spring VICA Conference to be held
in early April in Atlanta.
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Isaac Bostick (L) and Scotty Thomas with awards
with some exceptions.
In the Junior Learning Com
munity the teachers select the Pupil
of the Month, in the Senior
Learning Community, the students
and teacher vote to select the Pupil
of the Month. This project is an
outgrowth of Mrs. Eva Whitaker’s
Career Awareness program, a part
of the curriculum of all Newton
County Schools. Mrs. Whitaker
saw this as away to teach good
citizenship and make all students
aware of their citizenship
responsibilities.
Isaac Bostick, Pupil of the Month
for the Junior Learning Com
munity is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tully Bostick of Route 6,
Covington. Isaac is in ' his second
year at Heard-Nixon and is 7 years
old.
In interviewing Isaac we learned
that his favorite teacher is Miss
Bonnie Gilbert who teaches
Language Arts in the JLC and that
his very favorite food is strawberry
cake. He prefers “Sesame Street 1 ’
to all TV programs and his favorite
FFA members in seed,
tree identification contest
Members of R. L. Cousins FFA
Chapter recently participated in a
district seed and tree identification
contest for middle and junior high
schools. The contest was held at
the State Fair in Macon.
Thirty-five FFA chapters from
different schools were represented
in the contest. Each chapter had a
team of three to five members.
Brooks County Junior High won
first place, while South Habersham
Junior High won second place, and
Holly Junior High won third. The
winners were determined by the
highest scores of any three
members on each team.
The area winners were also chosen
from contestants in this district
sport is football. His favorite
subject is reading, in which he is
doing very well.
Scotty Thomas, of the SLC is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Simms
of Route 1 Covington. He is in his
first year at Heard-Mixon, having
come into the school from another
school as a result of the recent
redistricting plan. He is 8 years old
and in his third year in school, all
together.
We learned that his favorite
teacher is Mrs. Christine Miller, his
homeroom teacher, who teaches
Special Education. Ironically, this
is Mrs. Miller’s first year at Heard-
Mixon also. Scotty prefers ham
burgers to all foods and his favorite
TV show is “Good Times.’* He too
likes football, and believe it or not,
his favorite subject is also reading.
Both students are great favorites
with their fellow-classmates and
have a smile for all people they
meet. They are worthy holders of
the title of Heard-Mixon's very first
"Pupils of the Month.”
contest. First place winners from
area two were R. L. Cousins FFA
Chapter. The members of Cousins
team were Thomas Witcher,
Raymond Roberts, Jay Stallings,
Karl Weaver and Jay Atkins.
News brief
Ficquett PTO will meet at 7:30
p.m. Sept. 8 at the school with the
third grade in charge of the
program. All parents are urged to
attend.
The dandelion also is known as
the blowball, cankerwort, doon
head-clock, fortune-teller.
