Stunt Night celebrates 50th anniversary
Published 6:26 pm Friday, March 14, 2014
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Stunt Night celebrates 50th anniversary
By MIKE VOSS
Washington Daily News
A Washington High School tradition celebrates its 50th anniversary tonight.
Stunt Night begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Washington High School Performing Arts Center.
Stunt Night features plays, usually humorous, written — if there is a script — and rehearsed for about a week before they hit the stage. Students are the stars, the production staff and the like.
Stunt night has the different classes — senior, junior, sophomore and freshman — battling for thespian supremacy, applause and laughs.
Of course, nothing pleases the freshman class than beating the upper classes. Of course, the experience of the senior and junior classes serves them well, usually paying off in victories. But every now and then, the sophomore class or freshman class pull off an upset.
A panel of judges determines the winner.
But the real winner is the audience, which gets entertained and educated.
Who knows, the next Sandra Bullock, Clay Aiken or Murray Hamilton may be on that stage tonight.
About Mike Voss
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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