South Rowan High School - Southerner Yearbook (China Grove, NC)

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Keepin th eat Well known for a strong fine arts department, South enhances it: curriculumwith a variety of music courses. Students are also enrichec it with the diferent aspects of music involving their personal lives. up again. . Bowman Cra ow was all night, st R I. Y The entire marching band load' ed onto four buses for a two hour ride. Their popular pre- game and half-time shows al- ways bring enthusiasm from the Raider fans. The applause the band received was well worth the long hours of practice put in by approximately one hundred and eighty members including the dazzling hand front. Music from students is also extended into the creation of sma ' ller bands and groups who wish to exhibit their music talents. The Tiajuana Brass Ensemble, was a very popular group of band members during football season who delighted its audiences with Tequila, The tuba player in the group, jeffrey Settle, said that, gilt gives us a chalice to express our musical talents on a smaller scalef, All the various types oi' music interrelate to form the musical background that is so familiar and strong at South. Senior Susan Phillips adds her opinior with 1 love all kinds of music hut Country is my favoritefi Music invades all of our live: in various circumstances. Mos' students and even teacher: listen to a stereo or car radii most ofthe time. YVaking up oi driving to school, the music if there. And at night, the inusif is turned down in order to sun up an exhausting day. By Kimberly Bette

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Beyond ese Wall South Rowan. Rowan C ountyis lairgest school, Rowan Countyps best school. A school where strength and unity combine and reach out a helping hand to the surrounding cornrnunity. By doing good deeds in the name of South Rowan, organi- zations such as AIASA. HUSA. FCA. DECA, YICA, Octagon, and IRUTC make contributions from all Raiders. HOSA sponsors a lluncl raiser for Miracle Network. a childrens hospital specializing in treatment of major diseases, as well as South Ptowanls Blood- mobile. FCA and DECA sponsor local needy families during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Members of each club collect food, toys, clothes, and money for their adopted families. FCA also sends twelve volunteer members to serve as 'iotiicial lniggersw to the Special Olympics held annually at Catawba College. Likewise, they participate in bowl-a- thons, walk-a-thons, and Rotary Club programs. As a Christian club, they often send members to speak at local churches. VICA and Masonry classes utilize the skills they learn to do brickwork in the community. Some of their projects include the entrance signs Rn' Neil Es- tates and China Grove junior High School. Octagon locused its attention on the physically and mentally impaired as well as battered children. They took the China Grove Group Home's handi- capped citizens to a steakhouse and offered rides to sports events to South Rowanis handi- capped students. They held a hot dog supper at the Nazareth Children's Home. A On Halloween, JROTC visit- ed Nazareth Children's Home also. ln November cadets held China Grove Clean-Up Day. They showed national and Rai- der pride in the Veteran's Day parade and during Christmas season marched in the China Grove and Kannapolis parades and visited the V.A. hospital and local rest homes. Cadets opened Landis Town Council meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance. Together we face the future and the world beyond the protection of these walls. We go out into that world and make it our own . . . Better. By Christy Adams and Connie Deese LAID BACK. Senior Barry Clodfelter and juniors jeff Rivenbark and joe Hurst investigate the selection of rides at the Rowan County Fair. The tau' is held annually during one week in September and tree tickets are issued to students for Thursday night. Photo by A. Price. Community Lite I 5

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'R 1 'K IAMMIN' OUT! On an NNill'lIl sunnnvr ziitt-rnoon, juniors Alain l.innhc-rt anicl john Gnllvtl, lIl1'llllN'l'S ol tht' tvnnis tcznn, t-oinivnlly il4'!l!tlllSlliilll' thvir innsic-ul ahilitit-S with rue-karts whih' at Spnrkyls Cill'VV2l'5ll in Chinn llrovv. VVut4,'li out music' worhll Horn' thvy Donna Photo hy Cfziritlwiwi. WIND ISNSIEMBLE BRASS AND PERCUSSION As Totlcl Evans he-gins to nssvnihlc his tromhonv, juniors Nznnettt- jonvs antl Kvvin Fits take in- te.-rvst in tht- invlotlic: hells. During the inurvliing hnnml svuson, thc' percus- aionists iluyt-cl Arka11s:is 'l'rzxvc-lci '. ii tlrnni solo. Photo hy R, Lfpright. STUDYINC T0 MUSIC. During ll warm Clay in Scpteinhcr, Barry Clocllbl- ter relaxes under tht- snn :ith-r choosing the scenic outdoors to cxuniinc his class work. Barry, ii senior lootlmll player. prcfkfrs the sonncl of music I'ilflN'I' than the silence ofnuture. Photo hy R. Up- right. CHORUS ENCHANTNIENTY Ilurinonious sounds are produced in unison from chorus nnisiciuns, Tonya Marlow. LeeAnn llini, Montic Stir- cwult, Maria Carlsson, Lisa llcggins, and Tannny Shepherd. Togctlwr, these girls add style' to innsic. Photo hy C. Adams. is 90 Musical Lifke I 7