TINA ROCKS ROWE?
Actually, it's Victor Williams as he pays off promise to students

VICTOR 'TINA' WILLIAMS told screaming fans, "This is not my campus, it is not the teachers' campus, it is yours - you guys are our future." The Rowe Rocks rally was a spirited fundraiser aimed at buying the school a permanent marquee for announcements. Newsboy photo/ Charles Kerr

Rowe rocked when the Spice Girls and the Blues Brothers from the JHS drama class took the stage, but it nearly exploded when Tina Turner pranced up the stairs in her silver heels and sang "What's love got to do with it?"

Principal Victor Williams was a reluctant debutante, but a promise is a promise, and Williams promised to dress as whichever rock star the kids voted for. They tossed coins in jars for Turner, Elvis Presley or James Brown, but there really was no contest.

Tina was a sure winner from the moment the Rowe Pride parents proposed the idea to raise money to buy a permanent marquee for the school. It is the only school in JISD that does not have one, and it will take at least one more mega-event on the order of Rowe Rocks to reach that goal.

"I told you at the beginning we're going to have fun sometimes," Williams told his screaming audience. "You have to take care of business in the classroom first and then we are going to have fun."

Rowe also sold chances on porch rockers; Karen Byerly of Jasper Junior High won the pair of rockers