Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Appealing to the student body tor support, Luther Matthews, candidate In an effort to win the support of her classmates, Betty Carlton Fore, for SCA sergeant-at-arms, encourages students to get on the bandwagon. candidate for SCA sergeant-at-arms, mimics Lady Bird Johnson. Satterfield assumes presidency, Lewis wins Fun, excitement, noise, joy and dejection made up the elections. Beginning Monday morning, October 16, candidates for class offices hurried to beat their opponents to school and to the best places from which they could hang banners. After a morning of fighting against time, tearing banners and running out of tape, the 65 candidates from all five classes al ong with their many campaign managers, friends and helpers had to confine their campaigning efforts to their spare time in the classroom, during lunch and between classes. On Friday, after four hard days of smiling to strangers and shaking hands, the candidates gave their speeches in the auditorium. Afterwards all the students had a chance to vote for the officers who would lead them in their own classes. In the spring the nominees for SCA offices began a week of hard campaigning which was to decide who would lead the school for the next year. Once again the week culminated with an assembly, speeches by the candidates and voting. Late in the year the newly-elected officers took office in a special installa¬ tion ceremony before the whole student body. 20

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In a play Teresa DeBruhl persuades Becky Glover to confess that she is a witch. Giving a piano recital before the student body, Mr. William Penny Haacker concentrates on pleasing his young audience. Clowning in the junior assembly, Dennis Ford masquerades as a girl. Assemblies entertain, instruct, honor students Inducting Teresa Wilboume into membership in the NHS is Shirley Younger. A profusion of assemblies showed perfectly the necessity for a combination of both team and individual efforts. Sponsored by the SCA, many assemblies celebrated special holidays throughout the year. An Easter assembly of music and devotions, a Christmas assembly of singing and a surprise visit from Santa Claus and a Veterans’ Day assembly with a patriotic talk by The Honorable Howard P. Anderson were the main ones. Individuals in the SCA took part in and coordinated these programs. They could not have been as good, however, without the combined efforts of all the band and choral groups. Other assemblies sought to entertain students. The junior class worked together to present its class assembly of the “Moses Fantana Show,” while seniors presented their Class Night assembly for the enjoyment of the whole student body. Eight actresses put on their one-act play entry for the district competition before the students. Cooperating with the cheer¬ leaders, faculty members and varsity basketball players put on a show in the Faculty-Varsity basketball game. Combining culture with entertainment, Mr. William Penny Haacker, director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, gave a piano recital. A group of actors from the Virginia Museum gave a performance of Moliere’s “School for Wives.” Serious assemblies also took time from classes, among them class and SCA election speeches and SCA installation of officers. Honoring individual students were honor society inductions and several end-of-the-year awards assemblies. 19

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After a long week of shaking hands meeting strangers and preparing Matthews, a candidate for SCA sergeant-at-arms, remove their banners speeches, Em C. Mills, a candidate for SCA vice-president, and Luther from the gym with the help of Ricky Michaels, SCA president. vice-presidency The student body (left) listens to speeches given by candidates for SCA office. (Above) outgoing president Ricky Michaels installs Tommy Satterfield into the presidency. 21