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One of the greatest— if not the greatest — school years is
ahead in the mushrooming Clayton County School system.
Starting with Forest Park High School’s terrific enrollment of
an anticipated 1,700 students and continuing through Jonesboro
High’s anticipated 1,300 students and on through North Clayton’s
approximately 850 students, principals and teachers will have their
work cut out.
There is great enthusiasm in evidence for the new year, this
year gets off to a rousing start a week earlier than unusual, on
Monday, August 26.
Principals Kirkland (Forest Park), Burt (Jonesboro) and Eng
land (North Clayton) head a fine staff of teachers and look for
ward to a well-rounded year of activities.
Football is the top athletic activity and North Clayton, which will
dedicate a handsome football field, hopes to continue its winning
ways. The Eagles are AA South Georgia champions, runner-up
in the state.
North Clayton and Forest Park will square off in the season
opener at the Forest Park stadium and the Panthers, of course,
will shoot the works in an all-out effort to square last year’s re
sult, which was 2 to 0 in North Clayton’s favor. The Eagles went
on from there to win 12 straight and lose only to Rossville, a
team that had been in AAA for most of the time.
Coach Milton McDonald will have a team of some ability at
Forest Park, but its real strength will not be determined until
the opener with North Clayton.
Jonesboro High School has a new coach and may not set the
woods on fire. Hie Cardinals, facing a tough schedule, might
have a rugged year, following the disastrous one of last year.
Time will tell.
Through the year the athletic program will fearfre football,
basketball and baseball.
This is expected to be a year of outstanding activity among
the PTA groups of all schools.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
HUNTING THE BIZARRE
High school boys are displaying more "maturity” in the
styles of clothes they pick to-day. They are dropping the old
fads and turning more to trad-
itional styles.
The prepster is still less con
servative than the collegian but
he is eliminating the bizarre,
prefering , the rough, distinct
masculine run of clothes.
They like elbow patches on
their sweaters and jackets.
They like imitation blue jeans
which are just slacks in de
sign of jeans. They are wear
ing more ties nowand twobutton
suits instead of three-button.
850 Students Enrolled
North Clayton To Have One
Os The Finest Faculties Yet
By Clifford England, Principal
Nearing the opening of a new school year, North Clayton High School is geared for one of the
best and most successful terms to date. There will be a total of thirtv seven teachers, and ap-
priximately 850 students.
Our faculty is one of the
best we have been privileged to
have. We welcome some new
teachers, who are joining our
staff, and always we are happy
to have those return who have
served so faithfully and well.
Our new football stadium is
completed and will seet over
4000 people. It will be dedicat
ed on September 12th as we
’Biggest’ School
Not Always Best
The biggest school is not nec
essarily the best. A school can
be new, or small, and have
only a few pupils but if the te
achers are first-rate, are well
paid, and they have plenty of
books in the library and the
expenditure per pupil is high,
that is one of the better schools.
host College Park High school.
Hie fine P.T.A. is already at
work. Under the capable leader
ship of Mrs. Wade Huggins, we
can always count on splendid
cooperation among our parents
and teachers. Already our front
lawn is flourishing, showing
the hard work that many have
put into the planting and culti
vating the grass.
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1300 Students For 63-64
Jonesboro High School
To Use New Facility
By J. W. Burt, Principal
The New Jonesboro Senior High School will open August 26. The enrollment will be around 1,300
students, beginning with the 9th grade and going through the 12th grade.
The students will select their
courses, to be taken during
their four years at Jonesboro
Senior High School, from a
variety of subjects offered. In
addition to the four English
courses, six math courses,
three foreign languages
(French, Latin, and Spanish),
four years home economics,
four years agriculture, Short
hand, typing, bookkeeping, of
fice practice, speech, six
science courses, physical edu
cation, four social studies cour
ses; we will offer for the first
time this year, art, driver
training, mechanical drawing,
wood shop and metal shop.
The beautiful new school will
have facilities which can take
care Os the activities offered by
our school. Our band, which is
one of the best bands in the state,
will have separate quarters in
the gymnasium, as will the cho
rus. Our practice football field
will be completed during the
school year and will be ready
Four of our graduates, who
have now completed their Col
lege Work will be teaching with
us this fall. This speaks well
for the sense of pride and school
spirit prevalent at North Clay
ton High School.
With the wonderful spirit of
cooperation already in evi
dence, this may very well be
our best school year thus far.
for use during the 1964 season.
In the meantime the football
team will use the field at the
Jonesboro Junior High School.
We are looking forward to a
much improved football team
during the 1963 season. This
year the football team will be
directed by Head Coach Bud
Amsler and his four capable as
sistant coaches.
These and many other extra
curricular activities are set up
to hold the interest of the stu
dents in their school, commu
nity and country. If a person is
doing something he is interest
ed in, and if he is interested
in an activity, he will work to
improve it.
All the above mentioned sub
ject matter courses, extra-cur
ricular activities, and other
phases of school life I may hav
overlooked, are supervised by
52 well trained and qualified
young ladies and gentlemen
known as TEACHERS.
Parental Responsibility
In Modern Education
Modern parents in Clayton
County aren’t like the parents
in the good old days when the
pace of life was not so swift
and the pressure of economics
and rising living costs didn’t
present such a harassing pro
blem.
Modern parents, in many
cases, find that both the mother
and the father must work to
make ends meet, and, in many
cases, they neglect to spend the
time and the energy and the tho
ught in giving to their offspring
the intelletual and emotional
equipment so necessary to cope
with the world of today — and
tomorrow.
Best advice we’ve come ac
ross in a long time comes from
Clifford England, Principal
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J. W. Burt,
Principal
pertinent observations by a
great educator, Andrew Hall,
President of the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
Out of his vast experience in
teaching and administering and
coming in contact with young
people, President Hall suggests
We can and must inspire
curiosity and love of truth, and
do our best to satisfy it. We
can answer all the questions
we can cope with, and lead them
to reference books for the rest.
We must develop a sense of
responsibility in each child. <-
College boys who are incapable
of even washing their own socks
and choosing healthful meals
cannot make adult decisions.
By making your offspring res
ponsible for their own comings
and goings, their own budgets
and discipline, we prepare them
for caring about, and we must
instill in them moral and spir
itual values that cannot be mem
orized like formulas or pat slo
gans.
This is stressed as the cru
cial part, because we must do
it by example.
As Dr. Hall says, "My Mot
her never SENT me to Sunday
School — she took me.” Like
wise, your beliefs about com- ’
munity work, about the tradi
tional virtues, come across best
by example.
If we make down-to-earth de
cisions about ways of living, like
this, we won’t have any trouble
launching our children into the
space age.
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