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Houston County Schools’ Vocational Programs Have Good Year
The Cooperative
Vocational Education
Programs have had an
outstanding year in the
Houston County Schools,
according to William E.
Perry's Capt. NeSmith
Gets Special AF Award
U.S. Air Force Captain
Harvey M. NeSmith Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M
NeSmith of Elko, has
received the Distinguished
Flying Cross for aerial
achievement in Southeast
Asia.
Captain NeSmith
distinguished himself as a
forward air controller.
Flying his lightly armed
observation aircraft over a
heavily defended enemy
area he marked targets for
sigher aircraft which
destroyed three trucks and
triggered numerous ex
plosions and a large
petroleum fire.
He was presented the
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U.S. Air Force Captain Harvey M. NeSmith Jr.
(right) is presented the Distinguished Flying
Cross at Moody AFB, Ga., by Colonel Cecil Fox,
commander of the 3550th Pilot Training Wing.
(U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO)
Perry High
Needs New
Band Room
(Editor’s note: The
following letter was signed
by a student at Perry High
School, who is also a
member of the band. The
students requested his name
be withheld and The Home
Journal is honoring his
request. Unsigned letters
will not be printed but names
v/ill be withheld at the
request of the letter writer.)
Dear Mr. Branch,
I would like to take this
time to express my feelings
on the way that the Board of
Education is treating the
Perry High School Band.
I am a member of
this organization, and I have
been a student in the band
for almost six years. I am
very proud to be in the band,
but I am very ashamed of the
facilities. Since Mr. Acosta
came here the band has
improved immensely, and he
has tried several times to go
to the board to see about
getting a decent band room,
but every time they have
turned us down.
Our band could be much
better if we had a band-room
worth practicing in, the one
we have now is a portable tin
building, it is all we can do to
fit our thirty or forty people,
our instruments and our
music in it. If more people
wanted to join the band, I
think that they would have to
sit on the steps.
The room can easily be
broken into, earlier this year
Lambert, Director of
Vocational Education for the
system.
Not only do students
receive supervised career
training that prepares them
award at Moody AFB, Ga.,
where he now serves as a T
-38 instructor pilot with a unit
of the Air Training Com
mand. ATC provides flying,
technical and basic military
training for USAF personnel.
The captain, com
missioned in 1969 through
Officer Training School,
Lackland AFB, Tex., has
also earned 11 awards of the
Air Medal and holds the
Vietnam Gallantry Cross.
Captain Ne Smith, a 1964
graduate of Perry (Ga.) High
School, received a B.S.
degree in industrial
management in 1968 from
Georgia Technological In
stitute. His wife is the for
mer Susan Skinner.
it was broken into and
several instruments were
stolen, and instruments now
days are anything but cheap.
Also the acoustics are very
bad, we do not hear what we
really sound like.
Other high school bands in
Houston County don’t seem
to have any problems in
getting a band room. I
wonder why?
I would at this time like to
invite the school board to
come to our spring concert
on May 16th to hear the band
perform. I think this will
prove to the board how hard
we try and also how well we
do with what little we have, it
will also prove how much
better we could do with a
good band-room.
It would be so easy to build
us a band-room and also it
would not cost too much. I
am sure the board can spare
it since they have enough
money to build an addition
on to the high school library,
because the books are really
pushing out the windows. I
know that the board will
cooperate, since they like the
Perry High Band so much.
Thank You,
{Please withhold my name)
Thanks To
Home Journal
Sports Editor
Dear Phil:
On behalf of the member
clubs of the Perry Club
Council, I wish to take this
opportunity to thank you for
the help and assistance that
you rendered in making the
First Annual Ochla ha tehee
Invitational Basketball
to assume full-time em
ployment upon graduation
from high school, they earn
many thousands of dollars,
adding to the economy of the
county. Through March 31,
1972, the earnings of these
students for the 1971-72
school year amounted to
$435,796.99.
A breakdown of the
various programs and the
earnings of students in each
shows the effectiveness of
the programs in the area. All
earnings shown are as of
March 31, 1972.
D.C.T.
Diversified Cooperative
Training (D.C.T.) is a
supervised career training
program designed to develop
basic occupational com
petencies in trade and
technical occupations. The
work-study arrangement of
this program combines
classroom instructions with
on the job training.
At Perry High School
Charles Culpepper is
Coordinator of the program
that has 26 employers and 32
students involved. Student
earnings were $42,904.99.
At Warner Robins High
School, Earnest T. Daves is
D.C.T. Coordinator for 35
employers and 56 students.
Student earnings were
$45,335.93.
Students at Northside High
School earned $50,268.91,
with Mike Ginn as Coor
dinator for 32 employers and
57 students under D.C.T.
Total D.C.T. earnings
were $138,509.83.
D.E.
Distributive Education is a
cooperative program bet
ween the school and the
community, offered to 11th
and 12th grade students in
the three high schools in the
county school system.
Students receive classroom
instruction in marketing and
distribution, and on the job
training in local business
firms.
September 1 through
March 31, 148 D.E. students
earned $191,303.00 in 86 local
business firms. Os this
amount, 39 Perry High
School students earned
$40,215.00 in 25 places of
Tournament such a success.
We are most grateful to
you for taking on the task of
referee for all of the games
of the tournament. I know
that this is a very
unrewarding job that takes
much skill and exertion.
Although some players did
not always agree, your of
ficiating was excellent and
the games were all com
pletely under your control at
all times. You really did an
excellent job.
Also, I would like to take
this opportunity to thank you
for the excellent publicity in
your articles in the Houston
Home Journal. Through your
articles, much interest was
gained in our tournament
and I am sure that next
year’s tournament will be a
much greater success
because of your efforts this
year. We also wish to thank
Joe Hiett for his assistance
with the photography and
scorekeeping at the tour
nament.
I sincerely hope that we
will once again next year be
able to call on you for
assistance with our tour
nament. This year’s tour
nament was a definite
financial success and I want
you to know that your ser
vices contributed to a very
worthwhile cause. The
money made at this tour
nament will go towards the
much needed improvement
of the facilities at
Ochlahatchee Park.
Thanking you once again
for your outstanding of
ficiating, I am
Very truly yours,
Robert M. Richardson
President
Perry Club Council
business.
Warner Robins High
School students earned
$67,664.00 in 30 different
places of business . There
were 51 of these students.
At Northside High School
58 students earned $83,424.00
working for 47 business
establishments.
C.V.A.E.
Coordinated Vocational
Academic Education,
C.V.A.E. is a relatively new
vocational program in
Houston County schools,
designed for students who
want to enter vocational
work programs early and to
enter the world of work
under school supervision.
The program is par
ticularly effective in
reaching students who are
bored with school. It helps to
make school interesting; the
academic classes they take
are interlocked with their
vocational classes and the
real world. These students
receive job placement
service, job supervision and
career development as well
as additional counseling.
These 277 students have
earned a total of $58,390.16
through March 31. They
During March
$805,308 In Savings
Bonds Purchased Here
Citizens of Houston County
placed $805,308 in U.S.
Savings Bonds during March
and a total of $2,186,297 for
the three month period this
year, according to 3rd
District Chairman Maynard
R. Ashworth, Columbus.
This means that 27 percent of
Houston County’s goal of
$8,000,000 for 1972 has been
reached.
Marvin L. Summers, State
Director for Georgia, an
nounced that Georgians
placed $6,928,110 in Savings
Bonds during March for a
total of $20,514,014 for the
first three months -a 16.8
percent increase over 1971.
March sales reflect an
increase of 18.8 percent
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receive supervision from
both employer and program
coordinator.
Under the C.V.A.E.
program, 40 Perry High
students earned $13,777.45
and 58 Perry Junior High
students earned $4,909.42. At
Tabor Junior High, 37
students earned $7,030.32,
and at Rumble Junior High
47 students earned $8,317.00.
At Northside High, 21
students earned $7,952.97 and
22 Northside Junior High
students earned $2,160.30. At
Warner Robins High, 30
students earned $12,500.00,
while at Warner Robins
Junior High 22 students
earned $1,742.70,
V.O.T.
Vocational Office
Training, V.O.T. is a
cooperative work-training
program for high school
juniors and seniors who are
preparing for full-time
employment in office oc
cupations. It is the “Cap
stone” of the business
education program where
the knowledges, skills and
techniques learned
separately are brought
together and applied to an
actual office job.
Under V.O.T. 61 students
compared with those of a
year ago. Nationally, sales of
E & H Bonds ( at issue price)
amounted to $582 million
during March. During the
three months (January -
March 1972) citizens have
placed $1,640 million (at
issue price) in Savings
Bonds a 19 percent increase
over the same period for
1971.
( t Citizens are reminded that
no unredeemed Series E or H
Savings Bond or Savings
Note (Freedom Share) has
stopped drawing interest
regardless of age. The
present rate is 5M> percent,
compounded semiannually,
when held to maturity or
longer.
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worked for 50 firms and
earned a total of $47,594.00.
Miss Susan Parker is
Coordinator at Perry High
School, where 10 students
earned $2,094.00 working for
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10 firms.
At Northside High School,
Mrs. Mary McFarland is
Coordinator for 25 students
who worked for 20 firms and
earned a total of $20,500.00.
Mrs. Janice Daves is
Coordinator at Warner
Robins High School for 26
students who work for 20
firms, and earned a total of
$25,000.00.
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