Leesville held an Awards Day on May 10, 2012, to celebrate the achievements of students both this and past years.  Most of the awards were given out during the school day on May 10, but some were awarded at a special ceremony that night.  These included special awards for excellence in certain subjects, as well [...]

Graduation is June 7, a month away, but Leesville has already begun to prepare for this important event. This week, April 30 through May 4, for example, Senior bulletins were released that detailed information about appropriate dress, times, places, and tickets.  There have recently been many meetings involving supervision committees, as well as meetings at [...]

  Heifer International is a non-profit organization independent from schools that has goals to stop world hunger. “You can give the gift of an animal to an impoverished family,” said Madame West, French teacher, via e-mail.  The gift of an animal to an impoverished family can also serve as a gift to a philanthropic family [...]

Over the course of thirteen years, from kindergarten through senior year, students are expected to learn a monstrous amount of information.  This information is divided into curriculums, which are further divided into different classes. Common Core is a list of standards compiled by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of [...]

With technology evolving all around us, it is only a matter of time before Leesville High upgrades to eTextbooks.  As stated in my earlier article, the pros outweigh the cons.  However, there are several factors on either side both holding back eTextbooks and embracing them. To begin, some of the things holding us back are [...]

The executive council held a meeting on March 6 for students interested in officer positions in the student council next year.  Many topics were covered at this meeting, including information on campaigning and the positions/responsibilities of council members. In order to campaign next year, a student must first turn in an Intent-to-Run form to Mrs. [...]

In the search for information, a student will use just about any source that they can call “reliable” and that contains what they need.  More often than not, however, students use sources that have false or outdated information. To combat this slew of wrong information, eHow is used.  eHow is a website that has over [...]

On average, I receive around 10 e-mails per day, so I was surprised when my Gmail had 25 e-mails. Most of these e-mails were junk mail sent by colleges in order to entice me to attend their school.  After taking the SAT or PSAT, schools buy the names of students within certain score ranges and [...]

Recently, Apple updated their application iBooks to include textbooks and announced a new application called iBooks Author, allowing students and teachers alike to build their own books.  This new app, iBooks 2, includes many features not present in older versions of the application.  iBooks is available on the iTouch, iPhone, and iPad. However, all of [...]

The Aerospace Club had a meeting this past Thursday, January 26.  However, only three members showed up to the meeting, causing the planned activity, a rocket launch, to be postponed to a future meeting. William Dunne, freshman and prospective member, was one of the three to show up.  Dunne used the flight simulator throughout most [...]

Leesville Road High School has one of the largest Latin clubs in North Carolina. This club meets monthly on Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. An average meeting for the Latin club begins with announcements by their leaders, Jeremy Weiss and Andrew Wood.   These announcements cover everything from future projects and plans to food and getting pumped [...]

When I learned of the plans to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday by going on a cruise I was ecstatic.  It wasn’t simply the fact that it was a cruise, but that it was on the Eurodam, one of the newest ships on the Holland America Line, which is very prestigious. Parts of the cruise that [...]

The LRHS Dance Department had their Winter Concert this past Thursday and Friday, December 15 and 16, in the LRHS Auditorium.  This concert featured all of the dance classes from first semester. There is no doubt that the concert was a triumph, as almost everyone there seemed to love it.  Karen, mother of a prospective [...]

The Leesville Dance classes performed a showcase on November 21 at 7 p.m. in the Black Box.  This was a free event; people who attended donated to the Leesville Food Drive being run by the Executive Council. A showcase is a performance where all of the dancers either dance solo or as a duo to [...]

Leesville had a Club Fair November 4 in the Multi-Purpose Room–East Building.  The Fair is an annual event that enables students to choose a club that they are willing to join. The fair was not very successful at attracting new students. “There was not much of a turnout, and I thought more people would be [...]