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

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Welcomed routine breakers Assemblies feature fun, serious times Donkey form. Riding donkeys and playing basketball is no easy task Leonia Coleman and Bee Edmunds discover. The donkey basketball assembly is one of the year’s most popular. Soul, baby, soul. First place winner in the talent show was singer Alice Jones with her backup duo Drucilla Sydnor and Emma Jones. 28 Assemblies

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A ‘did not’ year Assembly traditions bow to weather What do snakes, Negro history, a folk singer and a rc :k concert all have in common? These are subjects oTsome of the year’s assem 1 ies. Characteristics of assemblies? Most are alike in certain aspects — leaving class, piling into the gym, looking for friends, sitting in cramped bleachers, clock watching and hoping the program will last until the end of the period. It was the year of “did nots” for assemblies. Seniors did not march into all assemblies. Sophomores did not attend one assembly because they were being disciplined. The SCA did not have a Christmas assembly due to snow and school closings. Powder-puff football and May Day were cancelled due to rain. Assemblies were generally divided into two groups — those for entertainment and those with more serious subjects. The most interesting and entertaining program was probably that which featured snakes and reptiles. Student volunteers and even Dr. Venable participated in the show as they held the reptiles and allowed the snakes to coil around them. Among the other more popular assemblies were concerts. During the year, four music-oriented programs were presented and each featured a different type of music — rock, soul, folk or classical. The student talent show also dealt mainly with music. Music makers. The saxophone of John Sibley and Wilford Stanfield fill the gym at the band concert assembly in the spring. Black History Week. Students wait to make speeches of black heritage while Marvin Ballou introduces them. Assemblies 27

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For sports enthusiasts, several ballgames were played in front of the student body. The most amusing of these was a donkey basketball game. In others, inter-class girls met in the Powder-puff basketball game and boys who were not members of the school’s basketball teams played an intramural game. In contrast, there were some assemblies with more serious purposes. On the first day of school, all stu¬ dents met and heard welcoming speeches from the principal and the SCA president. Candidates for SCA offices gave their speeches during separate class assemblies as did those run¬ ning for class offices. The presentation of awards served as the purpose for three assemblies. Spring sports ath¬ letes were honored in one assembly while senior awards were pre¬ sented on Class Day. Juniors and seniors attended the Honor Society assembly in which deserving juniors were inducted. So assemblies helped to break the routine of the day and in a small way puL a little spice in what was a quiet sort of year. Religion, music, fun! Gospel folk-singer Erv Lewis combined these to produce an assembly which had spiritual impact on the students. Assemblies 29