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RMA
Wins 2005 Wachovia Cup
Class of 2005 Bids Farewell to RMA
Alston
Wins National Merit Scholarship from NC State
Two
RMA Fifth Graders Place in Arbor Day Poster Contest
RMA
Odyssey of the Mind Team Wins State and Heads to Worlds
RMA
Eighth Grader Wins State Readers Digest Word Power Challenge
RMA Places First Among Independent Schools in Eastern NC Math
Competition
RMA
Kindergartners Raise Funds for Tsunami Victims
Minges
Advances to Semifinals for Morehead Scholarship
RMA
Honors Veterans
RMA Announces
Morehead and Park Scholarship Nominees
Sixth Grade Class Takes Annual Field Trip to Don Lee
2004-05 First Day of
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Rocky Mount Academy has been awarded the 2004-2005 NCISAA 1A Wachovia Cup. The Eagles scored 222.5 points. The Wachovia Cup represents a total school effort in the all-round excellence in both girls and boys athletics. Emphasis must be placed on all sports in all seasons for a school to succeed in the Wachovia Cup race. Greenfield School in Wilson ranked third with 212.5 points, and Faith Christian School ranked eighth with 170 points.
Class of 2005 Bids Farewell to RMA
Thirty-two excited seniors turned their tassels at
The seniors processed across the stage in Proctor Auditorium to receive
their high school diplomas from Headmaster Stevens and Head of Upper School
Seven of the graduates, or 22%, received merit scholarships totalling
$302,477. In addition to a Me
rit Scholarship®, RMA graduates won several other well known awards,
including the Rocky Mount Rotary Club Scholarship, two Debuette Club
scholarships, the Junior Guild of Rocky Mount Scholarship, the Sprint/Boy
Scouts of America Scholarship, and a theatre scholarship to
Headmaster Tom Stevens, continuing an RMA tradition, recognized each
graduate and spoke about his or her accomplishments while at RMA.
He identified the group as “artisits, athletes, academics; singers,
painters, actors; participants in every sport that Rocky Mount Academy offers;
students of the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences.”
He also reminded the crowd that “this is the class that began its
freshmen year with the terrorist attacks of 9/11.”
Stevens summed up his remarks by saying that the members of the Class
of 2005 “have met the challenges, they have passed the tests, they have made
their mark.”
Alston Wins National Merit Scholarship from NC State
Less
than one percent of the
US
high school seniors qualified to be Finalists by virtue of their
performance on the 2003 Preliminary SAT/National
Alston
attended RMA from the fourth grade through the twelfth. He was SGA
President this year, a member of the National Honor Society, and heavily
involved in sports at the school.
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Two RMA Fifth Graders Place in Arbor Day Poster Contest
RMA
Fifth Graders Laura Todd and Olivia Boddie won first and second place,
respectively, in the City of Rocky Mount's Arbor Day Poster Contest this
year. Their posters were selected as the best ones depicting this year's
Arbor Day theme, "Trees Are Terrific...and Energy Wise." They
were judged against other students from Edgecombe and Nash counties. The
City of Rocky Mount sponsors the contest annually to celebrate and heighten
awareness of the importance of our urban forests.
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RMA Odyssey of the Mind Team Wins State and Heads to Worlds
At the end of May, the Rocky Mount Academy Odyssey of the Mind team will travel to the University of Colorado, Boulder, for the OM 2005 World Finals, an international problem-solving competition for students of all ages. The team earned a place at World Finals by coming in first at the NC OM Association Final recently.
The team of six students solved the long-term problem, In Your Dreams, Division I. Their solution was chosen as the most creative in their category. These first-year OM team members are Cameron Dengler, Caroline Edmondson, Elizabeth Mayo, Trey Roberson, Caroline Sprinkle, and McLean Warren. They are in the fourth grade. Their coaches are Ashley Edmondson, Pam Mayo and Jan Warren.
World Finals is a major educational event. Nearly 800 teams will come from throughout the US and about 20 other countries to compete. Of those, only 15 or so will claim the title of World Champion of Creative Problem-Solving.
Rocky Mount Academy has a rich history in
Odyssey of the Mind activities. Students from RMA have been competing
since 2000 and have won several State competition. This will be the
fifth time that an OM team from RMA has competed in the World Finals. RMA has placed second and sixth in the World Finals in previous years.
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RMA Eighth Grader Represents NC in National Readers Digest Word Power Challenge
Update to this story: Allen Rowe tied for seventh place in the qualifying round of the National Readers Digest Word Power Challenge during the April competition at Walt Disney World.
Reprinted from Rocky Mount Telegram (NC)
March 30, 2005
Author: Natalie Jordan, Rocky Mount Telegram
Rocky Mount Academy eighth-grader will be heading to Orlando, Fla., while his classmates are at school.
But this is no ordinary trip.
Allen Rowe, 14, will be traveling from April 17 to 19 to Walt Disney World to compete for college scholarship money in the third annual Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge after beating out about 100 of the state's best in the competition at Weddington High School in Monroe.
The competition is a vocabulary contest designed for fourth- through eighth-grade English-speaking students under 16 years old.
"It was a wonderful experience," Rowe said about winning the state competition. "I was nervous at first. I mean, it was a nerve-wracking thing, but I am glad that Rocky Mount was so well represented in the competition."
The competition is an educational outreach program of Reader's Digest magazine. First-place winners from each state will move on to the national competition in Florida.
"It's real exciting," said Lisa Rowe, Allen's mother. "He's looking forward to going to Disney World and competing again. We're really proud of him, and just happy for him. It's been a lifetime of preparation for this. He loves to read, and any words he doesn't know, he'll look them up."
The state championship had two components: A preliminary competition and a final competition. Ten students with the highest scores during the preliminary round advanced to the final competition, which was split into two components, also — the final round and the championship round.
According to the Reader's Digest Web site, the objective of the final round is to determine the third-place contestant, as well as two others who will compete for the state title, while the championship round establishes the runner-up and the person going to the national competition.
During the national championship, 10 students will go forward to the final competition, after participating in the preliminary competition. The final competition will be taped for later airing.
"You have your preliminary round and from there the top 10 compete in the final competition, and that's where the pressure sets in," said Lisa Rowe. "Nationals will be set up the way the state competition was, but only the 10 students that make it to the final competition will be on TV."
The three students left standing at the end of the championship round will receive monetary awards. The first-place winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship, while the second- and third-place winners will receive $15,000 and $10,000 scholarships.
"I think it will be great," Allen Rowe said. "I'm looking forward to going, and I plan to do my best."
(c) 2005 Cox Newspapers, Inc. - Rocky Mount Telegram
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RMA Places First Among Independent Schools in Eastern NC Math Competition
Again this year, Rocky Mount Academy math
students made a strong showing in the ECU Math Contest. RMA placed first
among the ten regional independent schools participating in the event.
Team members from the RMA Middle and Upper Schools were McCall Ballentine, Ben
Callaway, Erin Dengler, Lyndsey Burk, Travis Pearsall, Craig Park, Alex
Urquhart, Shaunak Varma, Kristina Bender, Chris Jensen, Blair Strandberg, Mike
Alston, Keith Ballentine, and Kyle Minges.
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RMA Kindergartners Raise Funds for Tsunami Victims
Rocky Mount Telegram (NC)
January 11, 2005
Kindergartners aid tsunami relief effort
Author: Natalie Jordan, Rocky Mount Telegram
Baked goodies went for 50 cents a pop or a small donation at an area school, but this was no ordinary bake sale.
Rocky Mount Academy's kindergarten classes — with the help of their teachers — organized a bake sale to raise money for tsunami victims. Tin cans, buckets and boxes were strategically placed in front of the treats as the students exchanged currency for a cookie, brownie or Rice Krispies treat.
"It's been wonderful," said kindergarten teacher Shelby Sewell. "This was a great way of letting them help with the tsunami relief efforts as well as a good lesson in monetary transactions — buying and selling. But the most important thing is they are learning to give back."
The students sat at two tables lined with the baked goods they made, selling the treats to other students and teachers.
"They wanted something that was going to help the kids over there," said kindergarten teacher Barbara Frohbose. "So they came ! up with the idea of a bake sale. It became a project that they could do with their moms and dads."
Ashley Spence, 6, said she had fun baking with her parents.
"We made chocolate chip cookies," she said. "It's the first time we've had a bake sale. We got a lot of money, and we sold a lot of stuff."
Frohbose said 20 students baked about 40 treats each. Though the students had a little left over from the morning break and lunch, Frohbose said they raised $856.
All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Tsunami Relief. Six-year-old Connor Daughtridge said she knows how important it is to give the money to the organization.
"What happened was bad," she said. "A lot of people died. The money we raise will help."
(c) 2005 Cox Newspapers, Inc. - Rocky Mount Telegram
Record Number: 11386146
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Minges Advances to Semifinals for Morehead Scholarship
Kyles Minges, a senior at
Rocky Mount Academy, has been named a semifinalist for the prestigious John M.
Morehead Scholarship to UNC-Chapel Hill. He is among approximately 240
other applicants for the award. Semifinalists are interviewed by region
in January after which the 60-70 finalists will be chosen. Winners are
named in early March, 2005. See associated story.
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RMA Announces Morehead and Park Scholarship Nominees
Warren
Alston
Ballentine
Minges
Rocky Mount Academy has announced its 2005 nominees to two of the state's most prestigious scholarships.
Mike Alston
and Alex Warren have been nominated for the Park Scholarship at NC State
University. They each have a chance to
be one of the 46 winners of this prestigious full tuition merit scholarship to
Alston has been a student
leader at RMA since coming to the school in the fourth grade.
During his high school years, Mike has steadily achieved Honor Roll
status. He received the
Headmaster’s Award for the highest GPA in his class in the ninth grade and,
this year, is the only National
Warren has been educated
entirely at RMA since Kindergarten. He
has been on the A Honor Roll for his entire high school career.
In 2002, he received the Woodmen of the World Upper School History
Award. He has received numerous
academic awards from RMA for outstanding performance in his classes.
He, too, is a member of the National Honor Society and a Marshal.
Keith Ballentine and Kyle
Minges are nominees from
Both young men are
outstanding youth in school and the community.
Ballentine has received the Headmaster’s Award for the highest GPA in
his class in tenth and eleventh grades. He
is Head Marshal this year and a also a member of the National Honor Society.
He was RMA’s Rotary Student of the Month in September.
Ballentine has attended RMA since Kindergarten and has played soccer
for the school since the seventh grade. He
represented RMA at Boy’s State last summer.
He attended the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Conference in the tenth
grade and was on the staff in the eleventh grade.
Ballentine is an Eagle Scout from BSA Troop 40 and has helped in the
Gatekeepers Workcamp for five years.
Minges started at RMA in
Kindergarten and has been on the A Honor Roll through his high school years.
He is a Marshal, a member of the National Honor Society, President of
the Honor Council and President of the Key Club.
Minges plays basketball and baseball for the school.
He runs cross country as well and is the captain of the team this year.
Last year, Minges earned the rank of Eagle Scout from BSA Troop 40.
He also represented RMA at Summer Ventures in Math and Science.
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Sixth Grade Takes Annual Field Trip to Camp Don Lee
For
the second year, the sixth grade class went on an exciting trip to Camp Don
Lee. The camp is located on the
----Rich Jared, Contributing Writer to "Eagle Soarce"
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Mother Nature could not dampen the spirits of the RMA community
on the first day back from summer vacation. Shown here are Mr. Stevens
at the Lower School drop off and some of the proud seniors, heading off
to class.
Rocky
Mount Academy opened its doors on August 30 for its 36th year of operation
with a record 433 students enrolled in PK through 12th grades.
Founded in 1968, the school is breaking its record for highest
enrollment set in 1973. Last
year, RMA started the school year with 412 students.
Headmaster Tom Stevens attributes this large enrollment to a
large number of new students coming to RMA and fewer students leaving RMA.
“Our
record enrollment is a tribute to the fine faculty at RMA.
The fact that so many families want an RMA education says to me that
this faculty is fulfilling our mission to prepare our students for life and
college,” Stevens commented.
“We’re
off to a great start and hope that the enthusiasm exhibited today extends
throughout the year,” Stevens concluded.
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