SENIORS,
Congratulations!
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DEBATERS,
We Wish You Luck!
VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 5
GOLDSBORO, N. C., MARCH 15, 1935
50 CENTS A YEAR
G. H. S. Elects Representative
Boy and Girl in Recent Poll
WINNERS HOLD FINE RECORD
Sailye B. Privette and Powell Bland
Are Chosen; Best All-Round Are
Named As Candidates in
Former Contest
Sailye B. Privette, a senior, and
Powell Bland, a junior, were elected
the most representative girl and boy
in G, H. S. in a recent contest con
ducted by the Hi ]S[ews staff.
To have this honor bestowed upon
them signifies that the winning stu
dents take part in, and are outstand
ing in, a great number of school
activities.
The winning students’ records,
which made possible their election,
follow. The numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4
represent the freshman, sophomore,
junior, and senior years, respec
tively.
Sailye B. Privette:
Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 (Business
manager of team 4, captain of team
2, 3); cheer leader 1, 2, 3, 4; glee
club 4; Hi ]STew’s staff 3, 4; Junior
Play 3; jN'ational Honor Society 3,
4; Girls’ Athletic Club 1; Cheerio
Club 2; Dramatic Club (treasurer)
3; Monogram Club (treasurer) 4; in
superlative contests: best all-round
1, 2, 3, 4; best athlete 1, 2, 3, 4;
best dancer 3; peppiest 3.
Powell Bland:
President of class 1; interclass de
bater 1, 2, 3,; band 1, 2, 3; orches
tra 2; Home Economics Club 1;
Scribblers’ Club (president) 2; Pub
lic Speaking Club (president) 3';
president of home room 1, 2; treas
urer o£ class 3_; Hi J^'ews staff 3;
class basketball 3; in superlative
contests: best all-round 1, 2, S'; most
courteous 1; most original 2; most
studious 2; most personality 2, 3;
most understanding 2; most musical
2; most popular 1, 2, 3; most intel
ligent 3; best speaker 1, 2, 3; best
line 3; most sophisticated 3.
The ballots contained the best all
round in the Junior and Senior
classes, and also a blank for addi
tional nominations.
Voting Avas done by the entire stu
dent body, but only juniors and sen
iors were eligible for election.
Betsy Parks, a junior, and Billy
Eaney, a senior, were the defeated
candidates.
Simple majority determined the
election.
D. A. R. PAY TRIBUTE
TO ANNIE E. COWARD
INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
BECOMING ACTIVE
In accordance with Principal
Johnson’s plan, the four classes be
gan a series of regular monthly meet
ings on February 22. The juniors
and seniors transacted much impor
tant business; the freshmen and
sophomores had entertaining pro
grams.
At the Junior Class meeting Mr.
Johnson announced that it would
be impossible for Miss Kornegay
to direct a Junior play because of
her heavy schedule. He explained,
however, that he would be glad to
help an appointed committee to see
if there would be anyway possible
to have a play. It wa§ decided that
there would be a Junior-Senior ban
quet, and committees were ap
pointed to arrange for it.
The Seniors decided at their
meeting to use the same type of
oval pictures with two cuts as the
seniors did last year for the senior
issue of the Hi News.
]Sro business was transacted at the
Preshman and Sophomore Class
meetings, A program showing the
talent of each class was given.
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Selection for Honor is Made by the
Faculty and Students
xlnnie Elizabeth Coward, senior
class president, was chosen by the
faculty of G. H. S. with the unani
mous approval of the student body,
as the most representative senior girl
from Goldsboro to enter in the con
test for the Ruth Bryan Owens Good
Citizenship award, sponsored by the
D. A. E. at their state convention
held in Goldsboro, March 4-7, and
was presented, as prize for honor
able mention, a medal for good
citizenship.
The rules of the contest state that
the girl must be a senior in the high
school of a community in which
there is a D. A. R. chapter. She
must be chosen by the faculty and
the student body as the most repre
sentative senior girl of that school.
The winner will be given a trip on
the Patriotic Pilgrimage to Wash
ington, D. C., April 13-16, along
with one other outstanding senior
girl from each state in the Union.
By a series of eliminations, all
contestants of ISTorth Carolina were
eliminated except eight, of which
Miss Sue Jenkins of Brevard High
School was elected as the winner.
The remaining contestants were
awarded Citizenship Medals as to
kens of honorable mention. Annie
Elizabeth was one of this group.
During her high school career
Annie Elizabeth has achieved the
following record: President of class
1, 4; class debater 1, 2 (Giddens’
Cup winner); leading part in
Christmas Pageant 2; Panorama of
the Dance 2; vice president of class
3; j)art in Junior Play 3; in May
Day Festival 3; Chief Marshall 3;
Triangular Debater 3, 4; Quill and
Scroll 3; JSTational Honor Society 3';
Hi i^Ews staff 3; editorial board of
Hi l^Ews 4; Glee Club 4; delegate
to S. I. P. A. convention 4.
Seniors Take Cup
In Giddens' Finals
Tying Score With
Rival Sophomores
BOTH CLASSES HOLD 4 WINS
Anna L. Best and Maurice Edwards,
Seniors, Defeat the Negative,
Annie Laurie Howell and
Marshall McDowell
The seniors took the Giddens’ De
bate Trophy for the fourth time,
evening their score with the sopho
mores, in the annual inter-class de
bate held in the G. H. S. auditorium
Friday, February 15.
The class of 1935 is the second
class to win the Giddens’ Cup twice,
the class of 1930 having won in
1928 and 1930. Annie E. Coward
and Dick Helms, as sophomores,
captured the trophy; and Anna
Best and Maurice Edwards, seniors,
took it this year—a record the pres
ent Senior Class is proud of.
The seniors upheld the affirmative
and the sophomores the negative of
the query: Resolved, That the
United States Should Adopt the
Policy of Extending Federal Aid to
General Public Education. This
query will be argued by the debat
ing teams of J^orth Carolina high
schools to determine the winner of
the Aycock Memorial Debating Cup
for 1935.
Anna Best, first affirmative speak
er, gave a vivid picture of the pres
ent condition in the public schools
of the country and proved that,
since education is of national im
portance, it deserves consideration
by the federal goA^ernment.
Maurice Edwards, second affir ma-
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Triangular Team to Attempt
To Uphold Record of G. H. S.
JUNIORS ARRANGE TO
PRESENT ANNUAL PLAY
Production Thought Impossible Until
Unusual Plan Is Instituted
Lewis Bullock Relates His
Many Experiences Abroad
Mr. Lewis S. Bullock, one of the
four directors of the Eastern I^orth
Carolina Music Association, and
director of the Boys’ Glee Club, was
among the group of forty young
men of the Westminster Choir
School in Princeton, ]ST. J., which
made a two-month concert tour last
year in twelve European countries.
In a recent interview, Mr. Bul
lock told of his interesting experi
ences while on the tour. They left
in September, 1934, on the French
liner “Lafayette,” and first landed
at HavVe, France, where they took
the train for Amsterdam, Holland.
They made a quick trip to Hol
land. That morning they were at
an English port, the same day ar
rived at Havre, France, passed
through Belgium and arrived in the
Netherlands the same evening; so
they had breakfast on the ship,
lunch in Paris, France, tea on the
train going through Belgium, and
dinner in Amsterdam.
“We had a great time in Hol
land,” he said, “eating cheese and
trying not to be run over by a mil
lion bicycles.
“In Oslo, ISTorway, we had the
honor of singing before the King
and Queen and the rest of the royal
party. . . We were always drinking
tea or coffee and eating something.”
When in Denmark they visited
the famous Kronberg Castle, where
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Speaker Draws Picture
of Byrd's Little America
The students of G. H. S. had as
their speaker March 1, Mr. Ray
mond Mercola, who told about Rear
Admiral Byrd’s first expedition' of
which he was a member.
Joins Expedition
Mr. Mercola was very much in
terested in Byrd’s expedition' when
he heard about it, but due to the
fact that he was only 17 years of
age he was unable to enlist. But
Mr. Mercola Avas not to be out-done.
After finding out he would not be
accepted he worked his way to Cali
fornia and from there to JSTew Zea
land and upon arriving found that
several of the men who had signed
up to go with Byrd had quit and
gone back home. He immediately
went to the captain, told him he was
22 years old, and was accepted after
an examination.
After telling hoAv he got in the
expedition Mr. Mercola told about
the expedition itself and about little
America.
Little America
There are six months daylight and
six months, darkness there, he said.
There are no Eskimos, polar bears
or walrus, although there are pen-
quins, seals, and whales.
For entertainment in Little Amer
ica there were radios and a victrola.
When the expedition left they had
200 records but upon reaching Lit
tle America only one Avas left, the
rest having been lost in a storm.
This expedition claimed 280,000
square miles of land for the United
States and Avas the first expedition
ever to return Avith e\"eryone Avho
left alive. HoAvever, Mr. Mercola
stated, this Avould not have been
possible had it not been for Admiral
Byrd, who saved one man’s life.
A free-Avill off^’ing Avas taken to
help pay Mr. Mercola’s expenses. I
Again the thrill of an “opening
night” Avill be experienced by the
Junior Class as it presents to an
anticipating audience its OAvn Jun
ior Play late in April. This an
nouncement climaxes a tense period
for the juniors, Avhd had been told
by Principial Johnson that the possi
bility for the Junior Play was ex
tremely doubtful.
Previously, the presentation had
been thought impossible because of
the heavy teaching load on Miss
Kornegay, Junior Class sponsor and
director of former Junior plays.
However, the following plan was
perfected by Mr. Johnson:
Mrs. Middleton is to take Miss
Kornegay’s fifth period civics class,
so that this hour can be devoted to
coaching the play.
Mrs. Middleton has been holding
a study hall of 110, but special ar
rangement has been made by Mr.
Johnson to take care of it.
“Try-outs” for the production be
gan Wednesday, March 6, after
school.
FINAL SELECTIONS ARE MADE
Annie Elizabeth Coword, Dick Helms
Debate Negative; Powell Bland,
Maurice Edwards Defend
Affirmative Side
Many Students Take Part
in Young People's Meet
Powell Bland was named general
chairman of the Annual Interde
nominational Young People’s Con
ference for 1936 at the recent meet
ing at St. Paul Methodist church.
Mary Graham was selected secre
tary ; Humphrey BroAvn, registration
chairman; John Gay Britt, pub
licity chairman; and Iris Iinvin,
banquet chairman. Fifty G. H. S.
students attended the all-day con
ference.
The purpose of the conference is
to create a closer relationship among
the young people of all denomina
tions of Wayne County. It is
sponsored by the ISTorth Carolina
Sunday School Association. ReA^
Shuford Peeler of Salisbury is
general secretary.
The theme of the conference this
year Avas “Blazing JSTew Trails.”
Thomas Pearson, president, pre
sided over the morning session Avith
Whitmel Gurley in charge of the
worship. Shoft talks Avere given
by Richard Helm.s and Harry
Hundley, respectively, on “Seeing
America for Christ,” and “The
Trail Lies Ahead.” A playlet.
Blazing l^ew Trails” Avas pre
sented. FolloAving this a piano solo,
Clarence Koblman’s transcription of
“Deep River,” a Avell knoAvn negro
spiritual, was played by Whitmel
Gurley.
Discussion for morning groups
Avere led by Miss Myrtle McDaniel,
N. C. director of leadership train-
ing; Rev. Leon Russell, pastor of
Elm Street Methodist church; and
ReA^ Shuford Peeler. The themes
of discussion were “AdA^entures in
Christian Living” and “The Person
ality of Jesus.”
After discussion Rev. A. J. Smith,
pastor of First Baptist church, ad
dressed the group on “Youth and the
Changing World.” After a short
business meeting the conference
adjourned.
Sailye B. PriA^ette presided OA’er
the afternoon session. Worship Avas
led by Sara Spruill. Rev. C. L.
Gregory, pastor of Friends church,
spoke on “Forward Together.”
Charles Layton, G. H. S. student,
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A Aveek from today Avill be a crisis
in the liA^es of the four G. H. S. tri
angular debaters, since they battle in
the I^eAv Bern - Kinston - Goldsboro
triangle for the privilege of entering
the semi-finals contest at Chapel
Hill, in Avhich G. H. S, debaters
haA’e made, since 1928 an unusually
fine record.. I^caa^ Bern’s negative
Avill contend against Kinston’s af-
firmatiA^e in G. H. S. auditorium
next Friday morning.
Goldsboro’s affirmative consisting
of Maurice EdAvards and PoAvell
Bland is debating Harry Stallings
and Haiwey Tyndall negative for
Kinston in I^ew Bern. While Golds
boro’s negative, Annie E. Coward
and Dick Helms battle Mary Turner
Willis and Eugene McFarley, i^ew
Bern’s affirmative in Kinston.
The visitors in Goldsboro for the
debates Avill be Julia Bishop Small-
Avood and Tommy Hargett, N"ew
Bern negative, debating Minetta
Bartlett and Marion Parrott, af
firmative in Kinston.
In 1928 the Giddens’ Debating
Irophy Avas giA’^en to create an in
terest in class debating. In the same
year the G. H. S. triangular debat
ers entered the semi-finals at Chapel
Hill, a goal accomplished three other
times since 1928 under the coaching
of Miss Beasley.
In 1928 G. H. S. debated Kinston
and Wilson. Mary Langston and
Dan PoAA^ell had the affirmative and
Eleanor Bizzelle and Ezra Griffin
the negative of the query: Resolved,
That Congress Should Enact the
McJ^ary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill.
The teams Avon both debates and
honorable mention at Chapel Hill.
In 1929 G. H. S. debated Wilson
and Kinston. EdAvard OutlaAv and
Eleanor Bizzelle had the affirmative
and Alex McLean and Dan PoAvell
the negatiA^e of the query: Resolved,
That the United States Should Join
the World Court. The G. H. S.
affirmative _ debated in the finals at
Chapel Hill but lost to Roanoke
Rapids.
In 1930 G. H. S. debated Rocky
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CHARTER OF N. H. S.
CHAPTER REVOKED
Another dynamite has recently
blasted the ambition of the students
of G. II. S.—the charter of the
^^ational Honor Society has been
revoked, and no more members can
be selected until requirements are
met.
This action by the I^ational
(Council of the ^^ational Honor So
ciety Avas made necessary Avhen
G. II. S. was dropped from the list
of accredited secondary schools by
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools.
G. H. S. lost its membership in
the association because it is not
meeting the folloAving requirements:
a nine-month school term, library
fully equipped and receiA'ing cer
tain annual additions, standard
teaching load per teacher, minimum
annual salary of teachers $900.
The G. H. S. chapter Avas admitted
into the H. S. on May 14, 1932,
being given charter number 92s!
The active members noAV are Doro
thy Ballard, secretary-treasurer;
Anna Best; Annie Elizabeth
CoAvard; Richard Helms, president;
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