Appomattox High School - Traveler Yearbook (Appomattox, VA)

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de a . x ‘4 = «4 ry mama ee ta C rs mK) | Mi ANA TS ‘ Vit o- aper Club This year as in the past the Newspaper Club and Mrs. Sweet’s journalism class, will work together to publish the Raider Reporter. The journalism class writes the majority of the news items; the Newspaper Club takes care of the business aspects, layout, and cir- culation. The paper cannot be published, however, without Mrs. Frey’s Steno II Class which types all items for layout. The primary objectives of the club include continued improvement of newswriting, editing, and layout. Later this year, the club hopes to ‘ye the Raider Reporter evaluated by the Virginia High School aque. fay gets mak' Q. “From whence cometh the future Broadway and television stars?” A. “From ACHS!” Well anything’s possible with a group under the direction of Mrs. Joyce Sweet, Drama Club spon- sor. The Drama Club is in its second year of ex- istance at Appomattox County High and eve week, a few new faces are seen at the Drama Club meetings. And why not, with such classical greats as “The Odd Couple” in its past history? This year, the Drama Club’s main production was “They'd Hang You In Nashville”, a comedy by William Gleason, which was a big success. Along with the major production, the Drama Club present- ed several skits for school members throughout the year. So folks, if you really like to “get in the act” and you really like to “play around” hop on the bandwagon with the Appomattox County High School Drama Club. It’s shore to be a hit!

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PRESENTING different areas of occupational interest, in the form of monthly assemblies, allows the Career Council to assist the student body in a special way. The council, along with their sponsors Mrs. Harriet P. James, Mrs. Joyce Jamerson and Mrs. Linda Archer, arranges assemblies which they feel correlate with the in- terests of students and their plans for the future. Composing the Career Council is a group of students from each grade level who show an active interest in leadership and future planning. Chairman, Beth Smoak; Secretary, Loretta Lettner; SCA Representative, David Eye. CO-ED HI-Y is ... a fellowship of stu- dents committed to the purpose of creating and maintaining throughout the home, school and community, high standards of Christian character. They take as their plat- form “clean speech, clean sportsmanship, clean scholarship and clean living.” Officers: President, Stephanie Ferguson; Vice-President, Karen Johnson; Secretary, Terrell Morgan; Chaplain, Norma Hancock; Reporter, Leticia Lipford; SCA Representative, Helen Coleman; Parliamentarian, Wanda Forest; Sponsor, Nancy Jones.

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The WACHS Radio Show The WACHS Radio Show came back in full swing this year with Darrell Puckett, Konnie Richardson, Marzetta Hodnett, Laurie Selz, Cathie Tanner, Donna Volture, and Merry Wright announcing the daily morning an- nouncements. As a result of the interest shown by the student body in the “Morning Announcements,” these seniors were chosen by principal Donald L. Armentrout at the ’77 school year. When school resumed operation for the °77-78 school year the “Radio Show’ was. organized. Darrell Puckett was chosen as leader of the group. A tenative schedule was drawn up for the year. The announcements were delivered each morning to the stu- dent body with great success. W ACES. With the previous year’s success of the WACHS Radio Show, the series came back to life with the ex- citing news stories and events of the Raiders. | This year, however, the program | was worked differently. The an- | nouncers were composed primarily of Mrs. Sweet’s Journalism class. | From the class, there were four groups of announcers. These an- nouncers' being: Walker Covington, Wesley Crabtree, | Willis Fleshman, Darrell Puckett, Dave Williams, Cheryl Adams, Brenda Coleman, Marie Fraley, Karen Gillispie, Molly. Handy, Sheryl Martin, Tamara Nash, Pam O’Brien, Beth Smoak, and Donna Volture. The series was brought to the public in 30 consecutive broadcasts. Each week the show was aired from | 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. at WITX. The sponsors again were WESTVACO.