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Jackson to address students ·in assembly by Audrey Lucky February, 1926 Dr. Carter G. to be proud of in their heritage medicine. Even today many Shreve's Black Studies As Woodson the director of ASALH along with displacing the myth of people do not know that . sociation has invited Rep . Al launched the celebration of all blacks in history as being Charles Drew, a Negro, de phonse Jackson, Jr. to address Negro History Week. Woodson superstitious and unintelligent veloped a technique for separat the student body tomorrow at felt that Blacks were got given slaves. Negro History Week ing and preserving blood. His 9 a.m . in observation of Afro enough , if any, attention in gives students a chance to learn advanced research in the field of American Week. American history classes for the valuable contribution of blood plasma helped save count Jackson, who has served this their contributions to American Negroes in America . less lives during World War II. area in the state legislature for history. At one time most of the well Negro H is tory ·week was 11 years, has consistently been Since 1926, and after the Civil known· blacks were either mu begun with the idea of informing outspoken on matters which in Rights Movements of the 1950's sicians or actors. However, there the public of the contributions of volve the civi I rights of blacks. and 1960's, the idea has caught are Negroes who made valuable Negroes to science, medicine, Afro-American week had its on and spread. discoveries in both science and history and literature. beginnings with the Association The ASALH feels that ob State Representative Alphonse for the Study of Afro-American serving Negro History Week Jackson Life and History (ASALH). In gives Negro students something NASA to hold assembly Scientists from the National Captain Shreve being the first Aeronautics and Space Adminis scheduled stop. After the tration's Marshall Space Flight assembly , the officials will be Center will-conduct an assembly addressing chemistry and on Thursday, Feb. 18 during physics classes during fourth , second period for students fifth , •and sixth periods on the whose teachers signed up to subjects of planetary explora the attend_ tion and travel beyond the The program, lead by William Solar System . Also included in Anderson , will include a twenty their tour of Caddo Parish Volume XII • five foot visual display dealing schools will be workshops given Number 4 with the Space Shuttle and the to area science teachers. future of the United States space Enterp program. February 10, 1982 r1se A program open to the public The NASA scientists will be Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, Louisiana will be given Monday night, spending two weeks in Caddo Feb. 22 at the Captain Shreve Parish visiting area schools with auditorium~ Drama, Debate Teams prepare CS for-forensic tournament by Mitch Herrington dramatic and humorous inter 1, 1981 to the present. manuscri-pt and are no more than any event, he then has a chance Twenty high schools from pretation , poetry reading , duet Oratories are original per eight minutes in length. to win again at the state foren throughout the state will com acting , and debate. suasive speeches which are In duet acting , two students sics competition, "The Tourna pete in a forensic tournament Students entered in extem memorized and are no more than perform a scene from a pub I ished ment of Champions " . All first sponsored by the Shreve Drama poraneous speaking give speech eight minutes in length. Dramat play, short story, or novel. Any place winners, in qualifying and Debate teams here, on Feb . es five to seven minutes in ic and humorous interpretations verse originally written as a events, then go to " Nationals" 12and 13 . length and are given half an hour are 10 minute; memorized drama ·may also be used. De from state competition. The tournament will consist to prepare. Topics concern speeches from any published bates are composed of two Time keepers are needed for of events in extemporaneous events covered in leading maga play, short story, or novel . Poe teams , (two members on one the upcoming tournament. Any speaking, original oratory, zines and newspapers from Sept. try selections are read from a team) the affirmative, and the Shreve student interested in negative. Both teams argue log being a time keeper should sign cially over controversial current up in rooms 208 (Jack Bogan), Fall brings new English books events until time is up. 214 (Miss Carol Zaffater), or Once a participant has won T004 (Miss Maleda McKellar), by Cheryl Dubois When asked her opinion of · The ninth and tenth grade first , second , or third place in as soon as possible. New textbooks have been the new journalism textbooks, teachers preferred the book to selected by committees of Caddo Gaye Gannon , member of the be organized by genres, and the Parish teachers and parents to journalism committee and eleventh and twelfth organized be used this fall for Shreve's Shreve journalism teacher, by eras . Basic phase · teachers general and basic English said , "It suits me just fine." looked for skill approach , word classes, speech classes, and attack, ordering of ideas, and journalism classes·. The new English books will reading for inference. They According to Jack Bogan, only be used for general and wanted a book that is not only on Shreve speech teacher and chair basic classes this fall. According the student 's reading level , but man of the speech committee, to Shreve English teacher, also on his emotional and ma several speech books were re Dorothy Sibley, the enriched turity level. viewed by six Caddo teachers and two parents. Some of the It's been about four years books were then eliminated, and since grammar books have been the others were rated on a scale adopted for both general and Sima Misra of one to five. The book that will enriched classes . Literature be used this fall is the one that books were ordered for enriched received the highest rating all classes at that time also, but no among scholars together. separate literature book was ordered for general. Sima Misra, graduating senior After approximately four years In choosing new literature who holds a straight-A grade without a new speech book , the books, committee members for point average, is one of 1,000 committee looked for current the Eng I ish department looked students nationwide that is being copyright dates in the books. for "a good well-rounded repre considered to receive the Pres i "We looked for objectional sentation of good writers with dential Scholars Award_ material , overall quality, avail different styles, from different ability, and application of needs backgrounds, and from various In the spring , 141 graduating for this area," Bogan said. periods," Sibley said. seniors will be selected as Presidential Scholars chosen on the basis of their accomplish Hawkins dance set for 21th ments in many areas: academic success, artistic talent, leader Sadie Hawkins, the traditional traditional western styled clothes ship, -involvement in the school annual "girl-ask-boy " school will be worn. " In the past, Sadie and community. dance will be Feb. 27 from 8 p.m. Hawkins has been the best dance to midnight in the Captain sponsored by the student Coun If Sima is chosen as one of Shreve gymnasium. cil ," Holmes said. the 141 seniors, she will visit Tickets will be sold before the Washington, D .C . as a guest dance and at the door for $5 a The dance, which is sponsored of the Commission and honored _ couple and $3 for a single. An by Student Council each year in by their elected representatives additional $6 will be charged for February will once again feature and by others in public life. those who wish to have pictures local disc jockeys to provide the Shreve will recei ve a certificate Fiddler on the Roof taken and $1 wi II be charged for musical entertainment. The to present to Sima at an ap a fake marriage license. disc jockeys this year are A .W . propriate time. The selection of 1975 Shreve graduate Larry Carter returns to play the role Student Council president Bowie and D .J . Baily, both of the Presidential Scholars will be of Tevye, the dairyman, in 'Fiddler on the Roof', which was Kenneth Holmes says that KDKS radio station. completed Apri115, 1982. presented by the Captain Shreve Players last month. 2 opinion THE ENTERPRISE/February 10, 1982 ,, Co '-\RT " the Enterprise To hear, or not to .hear The situation in Poland may seem boring to most Shreve stu dents, but the happenings over there the past year should not fall on deaf ears. In case you ' re not familiar, Solidarity, the Polish workers ' union, had made many gains for the proletariat in Poland : Workers actually had enough self-confidence to strike in a Communist nation. Lech Walesa, Solidarity's leader, and the Catholic church began to have an indirect voice in the country's government. 'What do you like or dislike Now, though, totalitarianism seems to have choked out any life in the labor or semi-freedom movement in Poland. Martial law Backtalk has been instated, and many people are forced to live without many about The Enterprise?' everyday items. First, this crisis should not fall on deaf ears because of the ex ample of how precious freedom is. In America, too many of us take Ross Smith, sophomore: "I don't this privilege, desired by a great portion of the world , for granted . see anything wrong with The We should learn from examples like this that our freedom is neces Enterprise.

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