Shadow Day 2

Twin of Week 2

Mrs. Smith—Guest 2

FCCLA 2

Cross Country/Softball 3

FFA Week 3

Football 4

Inside this issue:

Volume 4, Issue 6 Pelham High School, Pelham, GA September 29, 2014

2014 BUZZ Staff Teacher—Mrs. Meg M. Whigham

12th— Owen Beall,Trey Harrell, Emily Hornsby, Justin Poitevint, Jordan Robison, Kambreya Wynn

11th— John Drake, Talia Hallmon, Dasia Maples, McKenzie Smith 10th— Destiny Thomas, Alysia

Threatts, Sarah Weaver, Karsyn West, Paul Woods

Happy Birthday to YOU!

PHS Yearbooks PHS Yearbooks are on sale

now for $40.00 through Tues., Oct. 14th. Just

$10.00 down will hold a yearbook for you at this

price.

FCA will be hosting a

Fields of Faith Rally on Oct. 22nd at 6:30PM at the Pelham High School

Football Stadium Come out and

be a part of this special event!

Yeti Cooler Giveaway Tickets

See an ag. student or Mr.

Young for tickets—$5 each

or 5 for $20—Yeti cooler

package includes a 65 quart

Yeti cooler, a 20 quart Yeti

cooler, and Yeti accesso-

ries—$700 retail value.

In the Spotlight—Allison Culpepper and Brett Bailey

It takes all of us to make Pelham City Schools “The School System of Choice,” where we are committed to educa-

tional excellence every day in every way. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with all the

latest news.

The Pelham City School System

does not discriminate on the

basis of race, color or national

origin, sex, or disability.

John Drake 9/22 Courtney Edwards 9/22 Justice Hayward 9/22

Kaitlyn Penny 9/22 DeAndre Byrd 9/23 Alex Edwards 9/24

KayLee Humphries 9/26

Whittle Delk 9/28

Angel Lopez 9/29 Brandon Brooks 9/30

Tyteuna Donaldson 9/30

This week’s spotlight

shines brightly on Brett

Bailey. Brett is a senior and

is a member of Sr. Beta

Club and the Youth Adviso-

ry Board. He enjoys partici-

pating in cross country,

track, andband, as well as

working at Federwild Plantation. While being in-

volved in extracurricular activities, he still maintains

all A’s while taking AP classes. His biggest influence

is his grandpa because he gives Brett good advice

and motivates him to strive for the best. After gradu-

ating from high school, he plans to attend Georgia

Tech and become a mechanical engineer. Good luck

in all your endeavors, Brett!

This week’s spotlight shines brightly on junior, Allison Culpepper. Allison is a

member of FFA, 4-H, and FFCLA where she is the President. In her

spare time she likes to play softball, partici-pate in pageants such as Teen Miss Georgia

and Southland’s Am-bassador. Her biggest influence is her mother

because she leads her in the right direction and keeps her motivated. After high school, Allison plans to attend VSU and obtain a

Masters in Early Childhood education and a Minor in Educational Leadership; her future plans are to be a teacher. Good luck, Allison!

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The Pelham Rotary Club is sponsoring a job shadowing opportuni-

ty for seniors. Let Mrs. Prince know if you are interested in sign-ing up for shadowing. Available slots are filled on a first come, first served basis. Shadowing opportunities are available at the

following local businesses: Randall Chew Attorney-2 students, Mitchell Country Chrysler- 3 students in sales and service depart-ments, Georgia Power – 1 student in office, 1 student with a lineman, Beall Tire- 2 students in sales/warehouse department.

Participants will attend the Rotary lunch meeting at Pinecrest Country Club on Friday, October 31st to share their job shadow-ing experience.

Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as

opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.

Please support FCCLA by contributing to the Second Chance Animal Rescue located in Cairo known as S.C.A.R. This is a no kill rescue

shelter and operated totally on donations. FCCLA asks that each stu-dent bring in at least one item for the fundraiser. The 4th block with the most items on October 1st will win a pizza

party. Donations must be brought into Mrs. Prothro’s room! The items needed are as follows: dog food, cat food, treats, collars, blankets, leashes, ect. FCCLA does not require you to be in the club to donate items. All donations for S.C.A.R. go

straight to the cats and dogs who need them. Please give generously!

On September 16, 2014, Mrs. Brinkley’s Young Professionals ninth grade class was fortunate to have Mrs.

Lorenda Smith, Pelham Banking Company’s Marketing Specialist, visit. The students were studying

the unlimited career options available to them when they grad-uate high school. Along with an informative Power Point, Mrs.

Smith discussed the various jobs of banking, the skills required to perform these jobs, and the certi-

fications needed to hold them. Following the presentation, Mrs. Smith was gracious in answering the many questions the students had about banking. Many thanks to Pelham Banking Company for partnering with Pelham City

Schools in educating our students.

Sponsored

by

FCCLA

Twin Friends

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. – Henry Ford

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. – Anthony Rob-bins

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

Quotes of the Week

Shadow Day Experience Guest Speaker—Mrs. Smith

The Twins of the week are Talia

and Tamia Hallmon. They are

juniors and participate in the

same sports. They both are in

Beta Club and in FCCLA. You

can basically say that they do

everything together. Tamia is the

oldest by an hour and five

minutes and sometimes it

doesn’t not seem that way, be-

cause sometimes you can’t tell

them apart. Even though, they are sisters they are also best friends

and no one can change that. They confide in each other all the time

but they also argue but who doesn’t. Finally, they hang out with the

same people all the time. Tamia and Talia are always together and

they feel it should stay that way.

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Seniors, place your orders for Pizza Hut during all three lunches through

Wednesday, Oct. 1. Senior lunch is Friday, October

3; do not be left out!

On September 24, the Pelham high cross country team traveled to Colquitt County to compete in the packers practice meet. The course was very flat

with little to no hills, and the weather was classified as “good running “weather.

As a result to these perfect running conditions, nearly the whole team beat their personal record, and Coach

Cochran could not be happi-

er. “I am very proud of my team. They put forth a

huge effort at the Colquitt county meet and with nice cool weather nearly all of them either ran

their personal best times or career best times. Also, I’m thankful that they behave so well on our out of town trips. The cross country team will

travel to Pebble Hill to compete in the Thomas-ville Invitational on Saturday September 27.

Cross Country

On Monday September 22nd the soft-ball team went up against Berrien

County and faced a hard loss. Then on Tuesday September 23rd they went up

against Early County and came up

short of a victory. When we asked softball player Jasmine Wood how the team prepares for a game

she responded, “Pray, huddle, and chant.” She mentioned the hardest challenge of this season

was “really good teams and batting.” When asked what she felt the team’s strong point is she replied “fielding the ball.” And finally, we asked how the Lady Hornets prepare before upcoming games; her

response was, “hard work and lots of practice.” The Lady Hor-

nets have been putting forth all of their effort to improve their weak spots and continue to get better each game. Whether they win or lose, they try their best and come out as a winning team.

Football Contest Winner

FFA week began on September 22nd and ended on the 26th. The activities for each day

were as follows: Monday- camo day, Tuesday- farmer/cowboy day, Wednesday- colle-giate day, Thursday-FFA t shirt day, and Friday will be blue and gold day. There was a

chapter meeting on September 22nd after school for all paid FFA members.

National FFA Week

Senior Lunch

Pelham High School’s guidance coun-selor won last week’s Football Con-

test. Be sure to play this week and see how much you know about college football, or see how lucky you might

be!

Softball

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PHS Football Spirit