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

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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

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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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Needed service tasks gladly completed Students volunteer service Who says students don’t care about their schools these days? That’s not true here. Whenever a job needs to be done, people gladly step in to do what they can. They serve the school. The early hours of the morning found the student bus drivers trekking down their various routes bringing boisterous, locomotive loads of individuals to school, trying to stay on the road at the same time. Then, they discovered themselves with an even louder bunch of people on the way home each afternoon at 3:10 to try to keep quiet and in place. During lunch, student monitors watched the long lunch lines to make sure no one broke in front of the other people all ready standing there. When they caught one of the culprits in the act, that would-be infiltrator was sent to the end of the line. Candy salesmen turned out in in library, office record numbers to sell chocolate peanut Moppets and raise money for the school. Over $8000 was realized and this money was used to buy a 16 person capacity van to carry cheerleaders to away games. Some students worked as library assistants, helping check out books, getting the study hall lists and finding materials for students in need of help. Also, some worked in the guidance and attendance offices. Their jobs were to go to the classrooms to get students for conferences and to get students who were being checked out of school by their parents for various reasons. A few students chose to be teachers’ aides. They went, during their study halls, to the teachers whom they desired to help. Their tasks were usually checking homework and short answer test papers and putting up bulletin boards. Grin and bear it. As hungry students anxiously wait in line for their lunches, Clarence Lee, lunchroom monitor, watches carefully for breakers. 30 Service