Central High School - Cotton Boll Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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' SPEEEH lTEPllHTlVlENT A part of the English Department, the speech classes play a very important part in the school activities. Instructors strive to help students develop pleasing, happy personalities, skill in conversation, and to give to them the tool of intelligent speech for assuming the duties of citizenship. EMMY LOU PATTON A.B. Columbia University M.A. Mississippi State College for Women SPEEIAL EVENTS The One-Act Play tournament, in which the speech classes take part, at- fords top-quality assembly entertainment every spring. The Youth Congress is of interest to everyone, especially those stu- dents who are elected as delegates and compete on a statewide basis. This year the Congress for Human Relations, spon- sored by the Southern Speech Association, was held in Jackson. Speeches judged and rated during the Congress were oratory, extemporaneous speaking, and after- dinner speaking.

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PllElEllIlllIllNS Publications at Central include the student news- paper, the yearbook, and a literary magazine. About eighty percent of all work on the news- paper, Tiger Talks, is done by the journalism classes during school hours. No credit is received for Cotton Boll work, but this year-book staff, comprised entirely of seniors, furnishes 36 distinct positions for capable and tal- ented students nominated by the faculty and voted on by the student body. Pegasus, a literary publication, is handled by a staff nominated by English teachers and voted on by the English classes. Work on this publication is extra-curricula, but it is ably supported by the English departments here and in the two junior high schools of the city. MRS. SUSIE P. CREWS B.S. Delta State Teachers' College SPECIAL EVENTS Each year top-ranking journalism stu- dents are nominated for Quill and Scroll, an international honorary society. The Mississippi Press Institute at the Univer- sity of Mississippi is an annual event at- tended by staff delegates.

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llHT llEPllllTIllENT ln the Art Department, a pupil learns by doing. Through expressing their ideas and feelings, they gain not only skill in the manipulation of art materials but also an appreciation of art. Art students are very generous in giving of their time and talent tor any art work needed in the school such as menus, posters, and dec- orations tor dances. MARY K. LOYACONO B.S. Belhaven College SPECIAL EVENTS Illustrations for Pegasus and the Cot- ton Boll are work of advanced students working in close Contact with these res- pective stafts. Each year exhibits are sent off to be shown regionally, nationally, and even internationally. Twelve students had representative work this year in the Scho- lastic Art Awards Competition held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.