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Loretta Hunt As a replica of the state and national Close-Up pro grams, the Robeson County Close-Up began in 1985 as an educational program that encourages students and teachers to learn from local officials, legislators, business leaders and officers of the justice system. WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN FITNESS COMPETITION Over 500 athletes and 13 schools competed in the an nual Robeson County fitness championships program hosted May 3 in Jones Physical Education Building on the campus of Pembroke State University. Students in fifth through ninth grades representing each of the administrative school units competed for grade level as well as individual awards in six different events. Schools receiving the highest total of points from all events were announced as 1987-88 Robeson County Physical Fitness Champions. First place winners were: Pembroke Elementary’s fifth grade, Fairgrove Mid dle's sixth grade, Pembroke Middle’s seventh grade, Lamberton Junior High School's eighth grade, and West Robeson Senior High School's ninth grade. During the competition student athletes were tested for upper body strength and endurance as measured by the flexed-arm hang or pull-up test, abdominal strength and endurance in the one minute sit-up test, speed with change of direction in the shuttle run test, explosive power as measured in the standing long jump test, phys ical speed in the 50-yard dash, and cardiovascular fitness in the 440-yard, and one-mile track run. Physical education teachers began in the fall prepar ing students for the annual competition. In addition to guiding students in physical growth and development, teachers measured individual student growth with the results of pre- and post-test scores provided by a Youth Fitness Test as compiled by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Student scores were computed based on a national norm which compared individual students according to age with other students across the nation. Individuoal ettudaent and aankaal of taen encanted ribbons and trophies. TALENT SHOW HOSTED AT LONG BRANCH SCHOOL “Stars of Tomorrow” was the theme of the 1987-88 Talent Show hosted at Long Branch Elementary School. Seventeen contestants presented unique talent while competing for first, second and third place awards in the kindergarten through third grade division and in the fourth through sixth grade division. Herb Hedgpeth, president of the Long Branch School PTA, emceed the talent show and announced the follow ing winners for the kindergarten through third grade division: first place, Lateisha Rogers; second place, Natasha Hunt; and third place, Hollie Young. Winners in the fourth through sixth grade division were: first place, Dwayne Jones, Benji Andrews and Bobby Bell; second place, Daniel Britt; and third place, Evony Shipman. Stephen Stone, principal of Long Branch Elementary School, presented trophies to winners and individual contestants. California Treat, a lip sync rendition of ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” was performed by the faculty during intermission as a teacher interpretation of the California raisin.
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Lumberton Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Sun, May 15, 1988
Page 75
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