Congratulations
Willie
boro Hi Newi
Congratulations
Mildred
THE NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
VOLUME VII, NUMBER 4
GOLDSBORO, N. C, FEBRUARY 24, 1939
50 CENTS A YEAR
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Most Representative" Are Willie Boykin and Mildred Lee
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Mr. B. P. Johnson Leaves Goldsboro
To Take Position At Port Jarvis, N.Y.
Willie Boykin
Rules for
Contest-
'Nicknames'
I. In some of the advertisements
in this issue nicknames of students
appear. By reading the advertise
ments carefully the nicknames can
be found.
(1) Take a sheet of standard size
note paper; (2) Divide the sheet
into three columns; (3) In the left
hand column of the paper write the
nicknames found in the advertise
ments; (4) In the middle column
write the names of the advertise
ments in which the nicknames ap
pear; (5) In the third column write
the given and the surname of the
students.
II. To be eligible for the contest
all papers must be turned in to
Grace Hollingsworth or Evelyn Dil
lon by 4:00 o’clock, Friday, 25.
Staff members are excluded from
participation.
III. To each boy and girl winning
the contest a drug store ticket worth
25 cents will be given.
Will Get Increase of $1,700, Paid
$4,000 at New Post; Job Secured
Through Columbia
Symphony Orchestra
Played in Goldsboro
The ?Torth Carolina Fedci’al Sym
phony presented two concerts in
Goldsboro February 21, one in the
afternoon, another at night. The
56-piece orchestra is directed by
Dr. Laird Waller. Its performance
here was sponsored by the Munici
pal Band.
The afternoon concert was espe
cially for young people; selections
from the Nutcracker Suite and
similar pieces were played and ex
plained. The night performance
was of general appeal to every one.
Members of the band and glee
club and interested students in the
Goldsboro schools assisted with the
sale of tickets and housing of the
members of the orchestra.
An interesting fact about the
North Carolina Federal Symphony
is that it is the first orchestra in
the United States to be organized
on a state-Avide basis, and is the
only professional symphony orches
tra in Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina.
After five years of service as
principal of Goldsboro High School,
Mr. Burt P. Johnson has left the
school and accepted a position as ^
head man in the Port Jervis
(N. Y.) High School.
At his new post, Mr. Johnson
will receive a reported salary of
$4,000 a year as compared with the
$2,300 which he was getting in'
Goldsboro. Mr. Johnson said, “Al
though I hate to leave Goldsboro,
I think that this opportunity is
such an advancement that I cannot
turn it down.”
In 1934 Mr. Johnson came to
Goldsboro to take the place of Mr.
J. W. Wilson, who is now county
superintendent. Since he has been
here, GHS has regained its Class A
rating and has been recognized by
the Southern Association of Sec
ondary Schools and Colleges, and
has been selected as one of 33
southern schools to participate in a
study of education for the South.
The position as principal of the
Port Jervis School, which has an
enrollment of 1,200, was offered Mr.
Johr.s^on throu^'h the U’iiivi.rslty of i
Columbia, where he has been tak
ing graduate work for the past three
summers. Last year he was assist
ant to the head of the department
of secondary education and admin
istration and he will hold this posi
tion again this summer.
Mr. Ray Armstrong, Superin
tendent of City Schools, is now fill
ing the position of principal until
a man is chosen to take his place.
Willie Boykin, cibove, a senior,
includes the following among his
activities during his high school
career: homeroom president 2;
Senior Class vice president; home
room president 5; Biology Class
president 5; football 3, 4, 5; intra
mural baseball 3; Nature Club 2;
Public Speaking Club 3; football
activity 4; Bachelors Club 4; Sen
ior Play 5; Adviser of Boys’ Ath
letic Club 5; Most Popular 5;
Best All-round 5; Manager of Hi
News Shop 5.
Five Faculty Members
Stricken By Virricss
Five members of the GHS faculty
have been ill or are now sick.
Miss Ipock received a blow on her
head when hit by an automobile re
cently. She has been able to continue
teaching and is steadily improving.
Influenza has been responsible for
the illness of Mr. Armstrong. Miss
Suitor has also been ill with influ-
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Elections Completed in
Three Ballots; 6 Names
On Final Ticket
Willie Boykin, a senior, and Mil
dred Lee, a junior, were recently
named the most representative boy
and girl in GHS in the fifth con
secutive annual election carried on
by the Hi News.
The vote completed the 1938-39
superlatives, the final results being
secured after three different bal
lots were cast. After two jvinior and
senior nominating ballots were
east, it was decided that Olivia
Ferguson and James Kanuon, sen
iors, would be placed on the final
ballot with Mildred Lee and Hor
ace Potter, juniors, and Willie Boy
kin and Maggie Wooten, seniors,
who were already on by virtue of
being named the best all-around in
their respective classes. This ballot
was then voted on by the entire
school.
Both Willie and Mildred received
a decided plurality, but not quite a
simple majority (one more than
half of, the votes cast) of the 710
votes cast in the final election.
Mildred Lee
Helen Wooten Gains A Poet Friend
Latin Students Try Out
In State-wide Contest
Kala Rosenthal, ’40, a third-year
Latin student, won first place out
of the ten GHS students who par
ticipated in the State Latin Con
test held February 17 in the lead
ing high schools throughout the
state and sponsored by the Uni
versity of North Carolina Extension
Service.
Lillian Jenkins, second-year stu
dent, came in second and Bdlwin
Lee another second-year student,
took third place.
The three best papers from the
total submitted in the local contest
will be sent to Chapel Hill for final
judging.
The faculty members of the De
partment of Latin of the Univer
sity will be the judges and an
nouncements will be made of the
school whose student won the first
place.
‘ ‘ Miss Bell, can you imagine any
one writing a poem about not liking
trees! I don’t like it a bit, and
I’d like to tell that author a thing
or two,” said Helen Wooten, a
sophomore, to Miss Bell several
months ago.
“Why don’t you write to the
author and tell him how you feel,
Helen?” suggested Miss Bell.
You see, Helen’s ire w^as aroused
because Charles J. Hackett, an au
thor from New York City, wrote a
poem about hoping he would never
see another poem about a tree. It
was rather the opposite of the
beautiful poem, “Trees.”
So, Helen proceeded to 'write
a letter to Mr. Hackett and tell
him, or at least ask him, about his
poem.
The letter was answered by a
post card almost immediately. It
was dated November 17, 1938, and
Mr. Hackett, indignant and hurt,
explained to Helen that, ‘ ‘ Seriously
though, it is not the trees that I
dislike but the poems about them. ’ ’
To prove his real feelings he said,
“Why only this morning I waited
up an extra hour to see the sun rise
over the Stork Club and very often
I take a handful of sugar when I
leave the “21” Club so I can give
it to the policeman’s horse at the
next corner.”
Christmas being just around the
next month, Helen decided to send
62 Students Make
A and B Honors
her “poet” some of the grand
things that we get from our lovely
trees. Wrapped up in a Christmasy
package, Mr. Hackett received
some pecans, mistletoe, and holly
that grew on our North Carolina
trees.
Then, in a letter marked January
10, 1939, Helen got a nice, big let
ter from Mr. Hackett. He said that
he and some of his “business asso
ciates” enjoyed the pecans im
mensely, and thanked Helen for
spreading her kind Christmas spir
it. In reality, it seems that Mr.
Hackett is a ‘ ‘ pretty good ac
countant,” as he terms it, and a
“very poor poet.”
Latin, in Mr. Hackett’s opinion,
helps “train the mind” and helps
you to think “correctly!”
Although rather “big” words
such as: “parenthetically,” “pro
crastinating, ” ‘ ‘ hyp ocrisy, ” etc.,
creep into his letter, Mr. Hackett
has quite a bit of humor too. He
refers to “sloppy thinking” and
says, after giving some advice,
‘ ‘ Such advice from one who rarely
gives it and never accepts it is
positively unwarranted.”
Last but not least, Mr. Hackett
said that he would probably have
a book of his poems published soon,
and he would see that Helen re
ceived a copy.
I think I kinda like Helen’s
friend, Mr. Hackett, even if he
doesn’t like tree poems! E. J., ’39.
Sixty-two students made honors
on the first terms of the year’s
.work, as reported officially by the
faculty two weeks ago.
bixty-eight students, many' of
them also on the term honor roll,
made honors on the second quar
ter’s work ending January 27.
The “A” honor roll is made by
a student making excellent (1) on
each of his four subjects or excel
lent on three subjects and a grade
of good (2) on one. The “B” honor
roll is made by students making not
less than 2 on each of his sub
jects. A student must have a satis
factory conduct grade from each.of
his teachers in order to make either
honor roll. Term honor rolls are
made from term grades only.
Since “A” and “B” term honor
rolls are so long, the faculty de
cided that only the “ A ” term honor
roll would be printed on the com
mencement programs.
Mabel Humphrey, post-graduate,
made the “A” honor roll on both
the term and the quarter.
“A” Term Honor Roll
SENIORS: Elvin Sholar.
JUNIORS: Sion Boney, Chase
Johnson, Catherine Beattie, Mary
Tf/MllOO T^QT*irC3
SOPHOMORES: Delores West,
Edwin Lee, Kirby Hart, Lillian
Jenkins, Bobbie Helms.
FRESHMEN: Virginia Jerni-
gan, Mary Beattie, Nancy Paige
Swift, Ruth Weil.
“B” Term Honor Roll
SENIORS: Mary L. Parker,
Amy Herring, Edna Mae West,
Frances 0 ’Steen, Charlotte Thomp
son, Nannie Mae Howell, Mary
Bryan, Marjorie Stenhouse, Dor
othy Turlington, Legh Scott, Edith
Jones, Ella Mae Pelt.
JUNIORS: Jimmie Whitaker,
Doris Davis, Ruby Lee Spencer,
Toni Lupton, Kala Rosenthal,
Grace Alexander, Ike Manly, Har
old Montague, Bill Cobb, Herman
Perkins, Martha Best.
SOPHOMORES: Marie Belk,
Mary L Thomson, Lessie Mallard,
Ernest Crone, Elizabeth Royall,
Mary Hicks, Hortense Liles, Eunice
Highsmith, Hilda Longest, Albert
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Mildred Lee, above, a junior, has
taken part in the following activi
ties : Cheer leader of Sophomore
Class; Council 3; Chairman Cheer
ing Committee 3; Vice President
of Homeroom 1; Homeroom Treas
urer 2; member Socijil Committee
1, 2; Landscape Gardening Club
1; Scribbler’s Club 2; Jowrnalism
-3; Most Popular 1, 3; Best Dressed
3; Best Dancer 3; Most Person
ality 1, 3; Best All-round 3; Best
Looking 3; Hi Nkws reporter and
ad solicitor.
City Schools Sponsor.
First Baseball Clinic
Under the sponsorship of the
Goldsboro Hi News and the Physi
cal Education Deartment of the
Goldsboro City Schools a baseball
clinic will be held in Goldsboro
some time around the first of April.
All high school coaches of East
ern North Carolina will be invited
to come and bring their players
for training under the direction of
Mr. Pat Crawford.
Definite plans have not been com
pleted as yet, but it is possible that
all amateur and semi-pro ball play
ers in this section will be invited
to participate in the day and a half
training.
Fundamentals, position play and
team play will be the three points
to be stressed, the teaching to be
done by demonstrations and mov
ing pictures.
Mr. Crawford has a large collec
tion of moving pictures which he
has taken himself and which will
be used during the clinic. One of
these is a long reel on hitting
which was taken not so many years
ago of Roger Hornsby, one of the
greatest hitters of modern baseball.
The qualifications of Mr. Craw
ford are numerous. He graduated
from Davidson with the distinction
of being one of the best all-round
sportsmen to leave that school, as he
had starred in baseball, football,
and basketball. Since leaving Da
vidson Mr. Crawford has coached
at Gastonia High School, where
he turned out championship teams
consistently. While at Gastonia he
instructed Buddy Lewis, now a star
with the Washington Senators of
the National Association. In addi
tion Mr. Crawford has played pro
fessional ball, having been with the
Columbus, Ohio, team, the New
York Giants, and the St. Louis
Cardinals, to mention only three.
In Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Crawford
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