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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 1 9k. i / MSm m 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. 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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. PAGE 5-A 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 §un&Funl M rations] g© casua *» 9 u y*' * n s ®P a ’ r y jSk rates and sportswear that / H V | express “you.” Our shirts, Lji I tops, slacks, jackets are easy going gn^ EDWARDS-HARPER DOWNTOWN PERRY PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1*72 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. 987-1823