Mount Vernon High School - Surveyor Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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The Southern Interscholastic Press Association conference in Lexington included the following M. V. students: First row, seated: Jay Arneson. Second row: Susie Small, Frank Estep, Doris Cool, Sylvia Brown, Dee Armstrong, and Darlene Sapp. Mount Vernon was repre- sented at the All-State Band tryout, held in Harrison- burg, by Gary Gillum, Ho- ward Armistead, Dick Wade, Bill Burch, Marion Huff- man, James Featherstone, and Margaret Deacon. HONORS Ask these students about all the fun they had at Boys ' State and Girls ' State which was held at V.P.I. at Blacksburg: Seated: Sylvia Brown, Minta Judy. Standing, left to right: Nancy Thurston, Maurice Briggs, Arthur DeStout, Dick Kinsler, and Roberta Locke. Seen snapping pictures at the State Student Government Convention at Farmville are Sylvia Brown (with camera) and left to right: Ann Conner, Shirley Weaver and Roberta Locke. Nancy I hurston, a senior, came out on top to represent M. V. in the “I Speak For Democracy contest and then went on to take second place Northern Virginia area. Selena Dovel, a sophomore, repre- sented Mount Vernon at the Seventh National Conference on Citizenship held in Washington. Representing Mount Vernon for the first time at the National Convention of the Student Governments was Roberta Locke. Roberta, a senior, flew to Chicago for the three-day convention. This is what Darlene Sapp, a senior, has to say about the Southern Scholastic Press Institute Which she at- tended in Tallahassee, Flor- ida. “This is a very excel- lent opportunity for any aspiring young journalist. I had a lot of fun yet learned about publication work. Sylvia Brown, another rep- resentative to the institute at Florida State University in Tallahassee says that she wishes it were possible for every person interested in publication work to attend such an institute.