Robert Hoskins Finds Rotary Enjoyable and Purposeful
Robert Hoskins, new president of the High Point Rotary Club, emphasizes international understanding and community service. The club now has 208 members, supports Youth Study Exchange, and funds local causes while Hoskins, a longtime Alderman Co. marketing VP, balances business with civic life and family.
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Robert Hoskins
Rotary Club
Hoskins
High Point Rotary Club
High Point
Rotary
India
YMCA
N.C. Boys’ Home
Alderman Co
Summer School at Ragsdale Welcomes Enriched Learning
A Raleigh area column notes 300 students in this year’s summer session at Ragsdale High, up from 200 last year, with six hours daily over five weeks. Enrichment courses include typing, fewer homework expectations, and staffing by 12 teachers. The piece blends school life with nostalgic memories and regional farming data for 1977 soybeans, corn, and tobacco acreage.
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T.G. Madison Jr
Ragsdale High School
T.G
N.C. Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Tar Heel
Davidson Dateline Litter Law Echoes in Davidson County
In Lexington the Davidson county commissioners enact an ordinance banning litter with a sweeping definition including refuse and even trash from aircraft. Scribe Jim Mock frames the law forbidding desecration of receptacles and outlining enforcement hopes, but lack of funding undermines compliance as trash returns.
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Lexington
Davidson
Jim Mock
Mock
Mack
Scribe Mock
May Be Last Energy Binge For Ever Traveling Americans
A Detroit essayist recalls a rolling summer as Americans tour historic sites from Shiloh to Williamsburg and visit new museum towns. He notes cheap gas, rising ecotourism ideas, and the Ford Museum as a highlight, while warning that continued energy use hinges on foreign exchange and economic laws.
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Detroit
Mich
Shiloh
Ticonderoga
House of Burgesses
Williamsburg
New Aviation and Space Museum
Washington
Smithsonian Complex
America
Lovely
East
National Park Service
Pea Ridge
Gettysburg
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Kings Mountain
N.C
Mystic Seaport
Connecticut
Old Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Lower Manhattan
South Street
Rome
N.Y
Ford Museum
Dearborn
Greenfield Village
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
Menlo Park Laboratory
River Rouge
Baltimore
Lookout Mountain
Palisades
Minimum Competency Tests Aim to Ensure Basic Skills
A 1976 NASSP bulletin, Gallup polls, and state actions show a push for minimum competency tests before high school graduation. The goal is diagnosis and ensuring mastery of reading, math, and writing for daily life, not punishment, with several states adopting related legislation.
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National Association of Secondary School Principals
Gallup
New York State Board of Regents
Regents
State Department of Education
California Assembly
Gary Hart
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