Roanoke Rapids High School Grants Diplomas at Commencement
Sixty seven or more graduates received diplomas at Roanoke Rapids High School Friday night in the auditorium. Clyde A. Erwin addressed the crowd as T W Mullen awarded diplomas and Principal P A Reid announced year awards. Carlton Cannon won the Kiwanis Medal for all around excellence. Geraldine Mason and Daniel Cagle earned Lions Club athletic scholarship trophies. Dorothy Askew led with an average of 96 and George Turner received the Bausch Lamb Award for scientific research.
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Roanoke Rapids
Clyde A. Erwin
T. W. Mullen
W. Davis
P. A. Reid
Kiwanis
Patterson
Carlton Cannon
Young Cannon
Lions Club
Geraldine Mason
Daniel Cagle
Dorothy Askew
Forest Road
Mildred Brown
George Turner
Bausch & Lamb
Miss Edwards
Mary Cannon
Miss Eddins
Miss Carson
Kiwanis Crippled Clinic Set for June 17 in Roanoke Rapids
The Kiwanis Crippled Clinic will be held next Wednesday from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Rosemary Baptist Church basement Roanoke Rapids. The monthly event opens to all cripples in the area and is led by the Kiwanis Club. Miss Marilyn Wheeler and Mrs. Alice Bendall spent the weekend in Richmond and Roanoke Va. Mrs. Charles Miller returned home in Wilson after a visit here.
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Kiwanis
Rosemary Baptist Church
Kiwanis Club
Roanoke Rapids
Marilyn Wheeler
Alice Bendall
Richmond
Roanoke
Charles Miller
Wilson
Sunday Dinner Menu Highlights Across Two Courses
The menu presents a medium cost Sunday dinner featuring baked ham with new potatoes green beans bread and butter plus tea or coffee and milk. A second roast lamb supper offers cantaloupe stuffed onions green peas tomato salad rolls and butter with orange bavarian and coffee hot or iced.
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Eoating Island
School Honors Awarded At Year End Assembly
Winners in best girl and boy in 8-1 were Juanita Cooper and Ray Rightmeyer plus Margaret Burton and Ralph Knight. Grade 11-1 honors went to Ethel Reaves and Jim mie McGee. Miss Reaves has been neither absent nor tardy for eleven years. The Senior Class donated 25000 to buy another trophy cabinet. Senior Boy Scouts prizes went to Jack Vincent Carlton Cannon and Charles Holloway. Alger Batts won for outstanding High School orchestra. Best all round Seniors in citizenship were Elsie Pair and Henry Akers.
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Dorothy Askew
Juanita Cooper
Ray Rightmeyer
Margaret Burton
Ralph Knight
Ethel Reaves
Jimmie McGee
Miss Reaves
Jack Vincent
Carlton Cannon
Charles Holloway
Alger Batts
Elsie Pair
Henry Akers
Recreation Work Progress Marks Community WPA Program
The WPA led recreation efforts supervised by Miss Nannie Smith and Mrs. T. M. Jenkins. Playgrounds at Bunker Hill Rosemary Park and Patterson Mill Park open daily with two workers each. Upcoming story hours and arts and crafts classes will be held at the Junior High School Building for grammar and high school students.
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W.P.A
Nannie Smith
Scotland Neck
T. M. Jenkins
Roanoke Rapids
Bunker Hill
Rosemary Park
Patterson Mill Park
Mesdames W. A. Thorne, Jr
R. P
C. E. Matthews
Roanoke Rapids Sees 872 Children Visit New City Playgrounds
Figures from Mr and Mrs Jake Shearin of Jamesville report 872 Roanoke Rapids children visited the new city playgrounds last week. They were visiting relatives this weekend in town.
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Roanoke Rapids
Jake Shearin
Jamesville
N. C
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