Independence High School - Spirit Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Art Club constructs sculpture The Art Club examines recent art work. Becky Young shows her interest in ceramics to the club. Chemistry Club visits Duke labs The Art Club was led during the year by Becky Young with Mrs. Peacock as advisor. It promoted appreciation of visual arts such as paintings, sculpture, graphics, and crafts throughout the stu¬ dent body. The club displayed its work in the mall for “A Night of Music, Art, Drama, and Dance.” A wall sculpture was built by the Art Club for the school. The Chemistry club makes plans for the Wilmington field trip. Bill Tucker, president, diagrams a water molecule for the club. Mrs. Whitesell explains the mcttler to chemistry students. The Chemistry II Club served its members in the advancement of their chemical knowledge during the year. Field trips were made to National Wel¬ ders Supply Company and Celanese in Charlotte. In the spring the club visited Wilmington to see the salt-water purifi¬ cation plant as well as the Duke Uni¬ versity laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina. V

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A. V. members operate equipment The Audio Visual Club provided students and faculty with audio visual equipment throughout the year. Mr. Abernathy, audio visual specialist for the school, served as advisor. Members of the club were trained in school equipment unfami¬ liar to them. Don Helms, student advisor, operates a projec¬ tor. Brooks Helms, president, explains operation of taping equipment to members. Majorettes twirl Janie Shepherd proposes candy sales as a money making project. The majorettes in their patriot uniforms prepare for a football game. The Majorette Club promoted twirling among its members during the year. They twirled to music in routines at basketball halftimes as well as being present at the football games. Janie Shepherd served as president of the club, while Martha Logan was head and Nancy Smeltzer was co¬ head of the majorette squad. 116

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T.V. debates held Coach Smith and Pat Howe discuss club finances. The Debate Club continued the valuable service of spon¬ soring the Independence High School Debate Team. It also provided debate experience for those not on the team. This year saw the creation of a novice team to train members for the already existing varsity team. The proposition which the debate team debated during the year dealt with the timely topic of crime prevention. Three propositions under this general heading were also used. Debate team members met once a week with Coach Smith to learn debate technique. The team went to a fall workshop in Chapel Hill and parti¬ cipated in tournaments throughout the year. Both the affir¬ mative and negative teams debated over television- -Channel WTIV. The first debate took place on January 22, 1968 at the television station. The affirmative team, composed of Nancy Black and Susan Brawley, won this debate. Ken Bai- les and Wayne Brafford were the negative varsity debaters. Coach Martha Smith attended a debating class at Davidson College the previous summer to aid the team. Attractive flowers made by the club from paper were sold as a money making project. Pat Flowe was president of the club. Resolved that what? Varsity debaters Nancy Black, Wayne Brafford, and Susan Braw¬ ley research the topic. 118