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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1972
Page
9
The Ai ken Jaycees will sponsor the Junior Miss Pageant with judging based on talent poise appearance scholastic achievement physical fitness and a judges interview. Early February announcement and a month of rehearsals precede the event with entrants urged to prepare now.
London profile of Jill St. John describes a jet set lifestyle with dignified detachment from fame. The actress details her film roles from Diamonds Are Forever to Sitting Target, past marriages to Lance Reventlow and Jack Jones, and her preference for privacy and simple pleasures amid a high profile life. She criticizes Nixon era politics and recalls early radio work and unusual pets, including dogs and a baby elephant moment.
A biographical sketch of James Madison, a frail yet gifted teen from a southern plantation family. He studies under his grandmother, then attends Princeton College in 1769 as a loner among sophisticated peers, enduring early hardship and early mornings.
The Aiken High Hornets secured their first win of the North Augusta Christmas Tournament, beating Graniteville 68 to 66. Charles Mundy led with 23 points in a late clinching finish, while Jack Curry added 13 and Steve Berendson 12 as Graniteville’s Freddie Robinson top-scored with 22.
The Aiken High Hornettes defeated SBC Lions 41 32 to win the North Augusta Christmas Invitational for the second straight year. Lindy Scott scored 17 in the final, Jeanette Raiford 17, Jackie Johnson 15, Pam George 8. Edith Corley led Graniteville with 18. Johnson named MVP and both Johnson and Raiford made the all tournament team.
Aleta Womack and Guy Woodward were named Ai ken High Students of the Week. Womack is in the National Honor Society French Club and Hall Marshal and earned honors including Augusta College and NEDT certificates. Woodward serves as a bus driver and Student Council member and is president of the Youth Association for Retarded Children this year.
Aiken High seniors reflect on 1972 as a pivotal year marking graduation adulthood and new responsibilities. They pledge to contribute through the senior class play and the senior class project including sidewalk work and signing their names in wet cement on the gym island.
The Aiken Youth Association for Retarded Children hosted a Christmas party on December 17 1971 with guitar puppet show games dancing and Santa Claus. Under Rev David Myers leadership the group sponsors a boy scout troop and many events at Happy Days camp inviting new members ages 13 to 20.
A long list of student nicknames, rumors, parties, crushes, and incidents appears from a Richmond school. Mentions include Amelia, Susie M, Tina Delgado, Lonella Markovitch, and others. Notes reference a Christmas formal, a bonny blue shores vacation, and upcoming events like a senior play and a 72 Hour Football Marathon.
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