Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Assemblies The place where all of our assemblies are held is the auditorium. We are all proud of this beautiful addition to our school. I Admiring the hard-fought-for District III championship basket ball trophy are the starting lineur and Coach Blake. This trophy i: cherished also by the entire studem body. Rev. Robert W. Dorr, Pastor of Lowes Crove Baptist Church, gave a most inspiring chalk talk :or the Thanksgiving assembly program. This was in appropriate way to begin the Thanksgiving season. In the middle of a dramatic scene rom a melodrama presented by the peech classes is Ray Johnson, Linda Iutson, and Sandra Sloan. Sue Terry is pictured presiding at the Howdy XVeek assembly. This assembly climaxed orientation week for Freshmen. Students have questions-libraries have answers was the idea behind the prize-winning library exhibit at the State Fair, later placed in a local fumiture store for observation. M ....

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l Willie Lou Lynn, a Sophomore, las the school winner of the ,merican Legion Oratorical Con- est on the Constitution. She also fon the County contest and ad- 'anced to the District. Awards and Winner of the Betty Crocker Homemaking Award, Carolyn Weisner, is shown receiving her pin from Mrs. Cleo H. Stickney, Home Economics teacher. Sue Terry, winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution Cood Citizenship Award, is pictured here at her desk. She is also President of the Student Body. The Students-of-tlieMonth for the first semester were Sarolyn Creen, Sue Terry, Rebecca Petrea, and Tommy Smith. -...S Learning from Miss Clay that she was a semi- finalist in the National Merit Scholarship compe- tition is Sue VVright. She also was a semi-finalist for the Angier B. Duke Scholarship. All conference winners in the District III football competition are Willie Mc- Duffie and Ronnie Strickland.

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CAREER DAY An outstanding event of the spring was Career newspaper work. Mr. E. T. Rollins of the Heralc Day, sponsored by the Guidance Department as- Sun Papers is shown discussing various aspects c sisted by the Human Relations classes. Characteris- journalism. tic of the various conferences held was the one on Career Day and College Night COLLEGE NIGHT On November eighteenth, College Night was Middour are shown with their parents going over held at Southern. Representatives from various col- the program offered by State College with Mr. leges and universities discussed their respective K. D. Raab, Director of Admissions. programs with students. I. Q. Shaw and Robert E .