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VOLUME X, NUMBER 3
GOLDSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 18,1936
50 CENTS A YEAR
Junior Class to Present
Christmas Pageant Today
ROSS WARD AND JAMES
HEYWARD TO PLAY LEADS
NEW YEAR EVENTS
Ridley Whitaker and Laura Helms
Also Take Important Roles in
"Why the Chimes Rang"
Why the Chimes Rang, a Christ
mas pageant, will be presented by
the Junior Class this morning in
the auditorium.
The setting is laid during the
Medieval Age and depicts the story
of two French boys, Holger and
Steen, enacted by Ross Ward and
James Heyward respectively, their
uncle Bertel played by Ridley Whit
aker and the ‘‘old lady” played by
Laura Helms,
In the town the people are very
excited because it is expected that
the chimes will ring that night as
they only ring when a perfect gift
is placed on the altar for the Christ
Child.
The Chimes Ring
The two boys plan to go to the
services, but Holger stays at home
with an ‘‘old lady” who has come
to the door. While there she tells
him that gifts of love make the
chimes ring. Holger goes to sleep
and dreams of placing two pennies
on the altar and the chimes ring.
Dramatising the cathedral scene
are: Priest, Oscar Williams; cour
tier, Evelyn O’Brien; woman in vel
vet, Scottie Dameron; scholar, Har
ry Hollingsworth; girl with lilies,
Helen Moye; king, Claiborne Pate;
lady with violin, Genevieve Hod-
gin; angel, Anne Holmes.
Miss Janie Ipock is in charge of
the speaking parts; Mrs. Rosalind
H. White, of the cathedral scene;
and Mr. T. J. Cooney, of the stage
production. Miss Nellie Farfour
and Mr. Guy Winstead will aid in
singing hymns.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Senior Cabinet Members
Reorganize Committees
Thursday, January 21—Giddens’
Cup Debate
Thursday, January 21—Human
Adventure (moving picture)
Wednesday, January 27—Coopera
tive Concert Program
Monday, February 1—Beginning
of New Term
Dr. Tippett Visits
Goldsboro School
Author-Educator Discusses New
Teaching Theories During
Two-day Stay
“To take the child’s purposes, in
terests, desires and tie the work of
the school around them is the ob
jective of the new school,” declared
Dr. J. S. Tippett to the assembled
teachers on December 7, during his
two-day visit in the Goldsboro
Graded Schools.
_Dr. Tippett is supervisor of cur
riculum construction in the Park
er District School in Greenville,
S. C. A former student and pro
fessor at Columbia University, Dr.
Tippett is a successful teacher and
author. He is particularly gifted
in writing prose and poetry that
appeal to primary children. Out
standing among his books of poems
are: I Live in a City, World to
Know, I spend the Sutnmer, I Qo
A-Traveling, and Singing Farmer.
For adults he has interpreted the
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Junior, Freshman
Teams To Debate
For Giddens’ Cup
QUERY AS YET UNDECIDED
James Crone and James Heyward
To Argue With Bill Cobb and
Martha Best January 21
Temporary Council Works
For Student Organization
STUDENT ASSOCIATION?
GHS Again Recognized
As "Class A" School
That the organization of the Sen
ior Class may function more effi
ciently several of its committees
have been shortened and revised.
The courtesy committee has been
shortened to three members, taken
from each senior homeroom, with
Yvette Turlington appointed the
new chairman. Entertainment,
publicity and social committees have
all been reduced but have retained
their former chairmen. The ath
letic committee has been renamec
and is now the booster committee,
which is composed of three mem
bers from each of the senior home
rooms.
Rings
The ring committee remains as it
was, since this committee has few
members and is showing definite
results. Rings for 48 seniors have
been ordered and other orders will
be sent off at different intervals
during the year. That the social
committee can do good work was
shown by the success of the senior
social held last night in the school
cafeteria. To insure good music at
commencement a music committee
has been formed with Everett Proud
as chairman.
These changes were made at an
executive meeting held December 2
and were accepted by the seniors at
their class meeting on December 4.
The executive committee is com
posed of the committee chairmen,
class officers and the class sponsor.
After a year’s lapse Goldsboro
High School is again on the Class
A list of accredited schools on the
condition that the present over
crowded situation now existing be
remedied and that the deficit in li
brary volumes be made up.
1 hough the school term is in
creased to nine months, the students
will not have the advantage of en
tering colleges without taking en
trance examinations iniless the
above conditions are remedied.t
These announcements were made
last week after an investigation of
GHS by representatives of the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools and the
United States government.
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, direc
tor of Institutional Service in
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On January 21, Bill Cobb and
Martha Best, freshmen, will debate
James Crone and James Heyward,
juniors, in the annual Giddens’
Cup Debate.
In the preliminaries, December
15-16, the freshman team, negative
defeated Carolyn Langston and
Ernest Glisson, sophomore team,
and affirmative, on the querj^—
Resolved: that Goldsboro High
School should initiate a student
activity fee. On the following day
the Juniors, negative, won over
Mary Elizabeth Rackley and Irene
Mitcham, seniors and affirmative,
arguing the query—Resolved: that
the present system of examinations
should be continued in GHS.
Miss Beasley coached the seniors,
Mrs. White the juniors. Miss Mew-
born the sophomores, and Miss
Chaffin the freshmen.
The query for the final debate is
to be decided after the holidays,
when the debaters will be ready to
begin vigorous work.
The Giddens Cup, the goal of
each debater, was donated by the
late Ross I. Giddens in 1927 to pro
mote debating in GHS. The sen
iors and sophomores have won the
cup four times each and last year
the juniors were triumpliaiit for
the first time.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
SECOND HONOR ROLL
OF 103 SETS RECORD
All honor roll records are broken
with 103 on the honor roll for the
second report period ending De
cember 4.
Harold Montague, freshman, had
an average of 97.5, the highest in
the whole school. Virginia Ginn,
senior, and Earl Montague, sopho
more, came next, averaging 95.
George Ham was the high scorer
for the Juniors with an average of
94.3.
Of the students making the honor
roll in the first and second report
periods 14 were seniors, 14 juniors,
8 sophomores, and 16 freshmen. Of
the number making the honor roll
this month for the first time 11
were seniors, 5 juniors, 13 sopho
mores, and 22 freshmen.
This period 13 per cent of all
the students made the honor roll
with only 30 students failing two
or more subjects. For the first re
port period 9 per cent of the stu
dents were on the honor roll with
49 failing two or more subjects.
Q. What is a student associa
tion?
A. A unifying organization for
the extra curricula life of the school.
Q. What did the students vote
on in assembly on November 13?
A. To form a temporary coun
cil made up of representatives from
each home room to investigate stu
dent participation.
Q. Are these representatives
permanent?
A. ISTo; only until the constitu
tion goes into effect.
Q. Will the students have the
privilege of voting; on the final
raft of the constitution?
A. A committee will draft a con
stitution during the holidays, which
will be presented to the homerooms
first. After discussion and criticism
in the homerooms, the Council will
mold the constitution to suit the
homeroom groups. Then the final
form will be presented to the stu
dents in assembly to be accepted or
rejected.
Q. What power has the tem
porary Council?
A. Mr. Johnson gave it the
power to take any stej)s necessary
to organize an association.
Q. What is essential for an as
sociation to be successful?
A. Active home room orgjuiiza-
tlons wiili all students coopc'ratiiig
are the foundation of a good asso
ciation.
Q. What is the cafeteria com
mittee?
A. A committee to impress
courtesy on the minds of the stu
dents and to set up standards to
follow.
Q. Is it necessary for home
rooms to adopt suggestions for
their own organization?
A. No. However, some home
rooms have found the suggestions
heli)ful.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
COMPOSED OF DELEGATES
FROM EACH HOME ROOM
Committee
Dot Parker Has Lead
In Guild's New Mystery
DOWN the HAiLS
Glances and
Comments
MORE COLOR: The bookcase in
Miss Beasley’s room made by Wood
row Barden and painted a bright
rust does its part to make Miss
Beasley’s room one of the most col
orful in school.
JUST TEN; And then there
was Pod who went to see the Dionne
Quintuplets in their latest picture.
She remarked, ^‘Aw, shucks, there
weren’t but ten.” You see they
showed the quintuplets twice.
season his thirty-first anniversary
of reading the carol before ever-
appreciative audiences is being rec
ognized.
EVER NEW: Professor Koch
of the University of North Caro
lina gave several GHS students the
Christmas spirit when he read
Dickens’ ‘‘Christmas Carol” No
ember 30. During this Christmas
MASTERPIECE: The students
of the Goldsboro city schools con
tinue to be shown educational
movies but the climax is reached
when they see ‘‘Human Adventure,”
January 21. To get the picture was
difficult and a small admission will
be charged.
Man is the leading character in
this eight reel picture, which shows
his evolution from savagery to civil
ization. The picture was three
years in the maHng and is one of
the greatest I'esearch feats.
iDot Parker plays her second con
secutive lead in The Howling Dog,
a three-act play to be presented by
the Student Guild in January.
The plot revolves around the con
ditions of a will. The scene is laid
on a modern mountain estate, snow
bound, with its only means of com
munication with the outside world
being by plane. The play was writ
ten by Claudia M. Harias and is
not to be confused with The Case
of the Howling Dog.
Cast
Cast in the play are: Dot Parker
as Dorothy Goodwin; Scottie Dam
eron, Betty J o; Mary Louise
Schweikert, Sarah, the maid; Mary
Baddour, Mrs. Daniels, the house
keeper; Yvette Turlington, Venus,
the colored cook; Billy Moye,
Steele, the attorney; Allen Andrews,
Milton Rogers, the ghost tamer;
Marshall McDowell, Tommie, the
plane mechanic; Claiborne Pate,
Mathew, the hired man; Gordon
Hollingsworth, Andy, Venus’ son.
Claiborne Pate also plays the Brute.
For Competition
Two one-act plays—Wrong Num-
hers and Lea,p Year Bride—not yet
in full rehearsal will be presented
together in January. From the one-
act plays given during the year the
best will be chosen to compete with
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to Begin Constitution
During Holidays; William Dees
Presides Over Group
A temporary Student Council
composed of a representative from
each homeroom is now hard at Avork
on plans for student participation.
Selecting William Dees, chair
man; JanuKs Heyward, vice chair
man ; Rosanna Barnes, secretary;
and Miss Beasley, faculty adviser,
the Council is advancing the steps
for a definite student organization.
They decided the first essential step
was to have home room organization,
functioning. Then if the home
rooms can function properly, the
Council feels they can handle larger
problems.
The first definite work of the
temporary Couu(ul is the organiza
tion of a student cafeteria commit
tee composed of 19 members, each
homeroom having elected a repre
sentative. This committee is to set
up and maintain standards of cour
tesy in the cafeteria.
Constitution
A constitution committee,, con
sisting of volunteer members, will
work during the Iiolidays to com
plete the first draft of a constitu
tion to present to the home rooms at
tlieir first meeting in »January.
After discussion and criticism in
the honun-ooms, tlie Council will
perfect the constitution as nearly
as possible before i)resenting it to
the student body for acceptance or
rejection as a whole.
If the constitution is accepted,
officers designated by the constitu
tion will be elected by the students.
Council Members
Those nniking uj) the temporary
Council are: Seniors: Marshall Mc
Dowell, William Dees, Rosanna
Barnes; juniors: Scottie Dameron,
Margaret Peacock, James Heyward,
Doris Peele, Cliarles Layton; soph
omores: William Mitcham, Ernest
Glisson, Ruth Hinson, (ilenn Rey
nolds, Olivia Ferguson; freshmen:
Ike Manly, Bill Nufer, Martlui
Best, llelen Cox, Antionette Lup-
ton, Virginia Lee. ^
Annie Laurie Howell, Carolyn
Smith, James Zealy, Irene Mitch
am, and Mary Elizabeth Rackley,
delegates to the North Carolina
Student Congress held at High
Point in November, meet with the
Council but do not have voting
power.
The Council meets every Monday
and Wednesday at Activity Period.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
GHS To Have New Teacher
If Attendance Continues
If the present rate of the average
diuly attendance is kept up GHS
will have one new teacher next year.
Although the average daily at
tendance has dropped from 745 to
736 since the first month of school
it will still be possible to get a
teacher next year.
I he ])er cent of attendance for
the third month of school this year
was 96.51 per cent with an enroll
ment of 793. In 1935 the per cent
of attendance was the same~96.51
per cent~the third month of
school with an (mrollment of 753.
In 19;}4 the per cent of attendance
was 96 per cent witli 690 students
in school.
Although the }>er cent of attend
ance has varied very little for the
past three years, the enrollment of
1936 exceeds that of previous years
by 103 students.