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Volume XIV, Number 7
THE NEWSPAPER OF THBTUDENT ASSOCIATION
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Goldsboro, N.  May 9, 1941
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YOUR CHOICE
Edgertn, Holt, Blalock nominated Presidents;
First Sfring Class Elections to be Held May 21
Bob Kemp Gets Decided Majority
In Association s Presidential Race
Helpful Scholarships
Offered By Colleg es
on thf> bvllptirt, in
the office ai’e several pamphlets
concerning scholarship awards.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, offers to senior boys
ten $1600 scholarships covering four
full years’ tuition in the colleges of
art, science, business administra
tion, and engineering.
The Universities of North Caro
lina and of Southern California of
fer recommendary scholarships of
$500 annually and of $280 to $300,
respectively. To be recommended,
the two boys have to rank in top
tenth of their classes, and UNC re
quires that the nominee be native
born.
Competitive scholarships for girls
are being offered by Brenau College,
Gainesville, Georgia; Mary Baldwin
College, Staunton, Virginia; and
Bryn-Mawr College, Bryn-M a w r,
Pennsylvania. Brenau scholarship
awards $250 yearly for any course
desired, Mary Baldwin $100 or $250
yearly, and Bryn-Mawr $500 yearly.
Greensboro College, and Brenau
offer honor scholarships of $70 and
$150, respectively, to honor grad
uates recommended by the princi
pal.
Details of these scholarships can
be found in the office.
5 Senior Girls Taste
Teachers’ Life Early
With the prospect of a hard, tiring
day with noisy kids, five senior
girls, Hope Pate, Letha Carter, Eve
lyn Ginn, Ida Belle Benton, and
Susan Mooring, began their first
teaching experiences. To the con
trary they found that the first and
third grade students at Walnut
Street School were not so bad after
all. At least, not bad on April 17.
The five young teachers became
quite popular during their teaching,
as several students fought to see
who would sit by them in the read-
(Continued on page 4)
Following a week of quiet but ef
fective campaigning. Bob Kemp was
elected president of the Student As
sociation for the year 1941-42 by a
large majority on April 30.
— uiner olucers elected to serve
with him are: Martha Blue Purser,
vice president; Hilda Liles, record
ing secretary; Jean Branch, corre
sponding secretary (automatically
elected as no one ran against her);
and Tom Shaver, treasurer.
As Tom lacked one vote of
having a simple majority, a second
balloting was necessary May 5 for
treasurer.
Election results were; for presi
dent; Bob Kemp, 351; Effie Ruth
Maxwell, 90; vice president: Martha
Blue Purser, 284; James Crow, 150;
recording secretary: Hilda Liles,
250; Hilda Bell, 185; treasurer: Tom
Shaver, 218; J. D. Pike, 173; and
Dick Borden, 45. A revote was taken
May 5 for treasurer between Tom
Shaver, who received 185 votes and
J. D., who received 114 votes.
On April 29 unusual campaign
speeches were given, being down to
earth with no high and mighty plat-
(Continued on page 6)
Art Day To Featu re
Assembly and Exhibit
Today is Art Day.
The Beehive Art Club, in coopera
tion with the art department, will
present two short plays and a quiz
in assembly today, following which
an exhibit representative of the
year’s work will be open to visitors
in the art room.
Students taking part in the first
play, “The Unknown Artist,” a short
true story, are: Russell Nickens, El
ton Mitchell, James West, Claud
Rutledge, Frank Kannan, and Ed
ward Joyner.
Those in the second play, “Magic
Gold,” an original play, are: Hilda
Liles, Catherine Page, Frank Kan
nan, Vann Lancaster, Pat Stanley,
and Elizabeth Pinckney.
Carl Wilson will be Professor
(Continued on page 6)
Junior-Snior
To Be Aay 13
The Junior Cla will entertain
the Seniors with t,' annual Junior-
Senior Reception it the William
Street GymnasiumFriday, May 16,
from 8:00 ’til 12:0(p. m.
Junior Preside', Fanny Lou
Parker, has appoired various com
mittees that are bi;y making plans
for the occasion. T^nny stated that
those students noion the commit
tees would have>,he privilege to
work with them if:hey desired.
Committee memers and their ad
visers are: Progi'm: Lois Smith,
Bob Kemp, Hannh Shrago, Dick
Borden, Agnes Hamv, Jane Parks,
Betsy Cade, Betty*Vard, with Miss
Sara Falkener and liss Janie Ipock,
advisers.
Refreshments: urraine Baddour,
Elaine Brown, Geialdine Edmund-
son. Hazel Brady, Juanita Jones,
Thelma Nichols, Lona Keen, Jewel
Keen, with Miss Mabel Hamer and
Miss Blandina Ezzdl, advisers.
Cloak Room: Qiarles O’Steen,
Mary Louise Wells, Bob Powell, and
Miss Ipock, adviser
Invitation: Hildi. Bell, Carolyn
Hollingsworth, Eff:‘e Ruth Maxwell,
Helen Denning, Doris Goodson,
Mary Emma Roui'e, Ruth Minton,
Margaret Handle^’ Helen Bissette,
The Decorating committee, ad
vised by Miss Martha Glazener is
divided into five separate commit
tees. Overhead: Margaret Scott and
Charles Nash; tables: Edwina Jin-
nette; walls: Eleanor Jones; con
struction: David Simmons, Lyndon
Hart; and utility: Arthur Culbert
son, George Denmark.
Band Wins 35 Dollars
In Festival Contest
A first place with its award of
$35, was brought back from the
Rockfish Festival in Weldon by the
GHS band on April 28.
Five other bands, one of which
has taken many first places and is
well known throughout the state,
competed.
Second place was taken by the
GHS band at Washington during
the Tulip Festival on April 18,
where it was in competition with
twelve other bands for the cash
awards of forty dollars, first prize.
The band has given a concert at
New Hope for the students and the
faculty.
CALENDAR
May 9—Last SA Social
May 16—^Junior-Senior
May 27—Class Day Exercises
May 27—Senior Picnic
May 30—Last Issue of Hi News
June 1—Baccalaureate Sermon
June 4—Commencement.
Class Day Farce
Under Rehearsal
A Class Day skit, a senior picnic,
being the guests of the Paramount
Theatre in the evening, where four
seniors will be the “experts” on the
Quiz Court will all be packed into
one day, May 27, for 173 light-heart-
ed seniors.
“One Last Fling,” a humorous
skit written by Lillian Jenkins, his
torian; Earl Layton, prophet; and
Bertha Shaver, testator will be pre
sented by the graduating class for
the Class Day program, which will
take place on the morning of May 27.
The skit will be enacted in one
scene which takes place aboard a
pirate ship, where the seniors have
gathered for one more get-to-gether
before they graduate. In the midst
of their frolic they are surprised by
the F,”‘eshmen, who rort them com
pletely.
Immediately following the pro
gram the Seniors will be given a
half holiday, in order that they may
have their picnic. On the same night
the seniors will be guests of the
Paramount Theatre for a free movie.
Kirb}^ Hart, Edwin Lee, Walter
Hicks, and David Andrews have
been selected to represent the sen
iors on the Quiz Court, which is
broadcast every Tuesday night
from the theatre, and which will
take place that night.
The Seniors that will take part
in the skit are: Sally Sanborn, Hilda
Longest, Mary Louise Thomson,
Betsy ModJin, Peggy Ballard, Vir
ginia Weatherly, Marie Belk, Eliza
beth Royall, Ann Edgerton, Shirley
Lancaster, Tommy Bland, Charlie
Weathers, Andrew Smith, Buddy
Crone, Buddy Boykin, Helen Woot
en, Kirby Hart, David Hinson, Hope
Pate, Bobbie Helms, Jean Denmark,
Jean Startt, Lessie Mallard, Doris
Harris, Willie Rogers, Tom Damer-
on, Virginia Stith, John Roberts,
Johij Holmes, Betty Michaux, Thom
as Thigpen, Billy Charlton, Jane
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Present Major Officers and Advisers
Served as Nominating Committee;
Students May Be Petitioned All Next
Week.
For the first time in the history
of GHS, elections for class officers
are being held in the spring, May 21
having been set as Class Election
Day by the Board of Elections.
The following nominations for
each class have been handed to Ed
win Lee, chairman of the Board, for
special release:
Rising Seniors: President, Ger
trude Edgerton; vice president, Lois
Smith; secretary, Lizzie Mae Adams;
treasurer, Frank Broadhurst; cheer
leaders, Linwood Harrell and Mar
garet Jean Thornton.
Rising Juniors: President, Mar
garet Holt; vice president, Conway
Rose; secretary, Grace Ennis; treas
urer, “Skinny” Ellis; cheerleaders,
Bill Sutton and Vann Lancaster.
Rising Sophomores: President,
Hilda Blalock; vice president, Ha
Mae West; secretary. Pearl Privette;
treasurer, A. W. Griffin; cheerlead
ers, Bruce Parrish and Theresa Kan
nan.
Petition Next Week
Next week from Monday through
Friday students may be petitioned
for class offices. The SA registration
books will be used again. However,
a special day will be set aside for
t,' T-n;Tio+
for SA elections. Campaign speeches
will be on May 20 and students will
go to the polls May 21.
Class nominations were made by
class nominating committees com
posed of the four major officers and
their advisers and asked to serve
by the Board of Elections.
New Plan
Class elections in the spring come
as a result of a plan worked out by
Council and the SA earlier in this
school year. The question first orig
inated in the Council. Elsie Savage
was appointed chairman of a com
mittee to investigate the possibili
ties. Following her report, the SA
officers, the Board of Elections, and
the committee worked together and
decided in favor of spring elections.
The third step was the approval of
the three classes concerned. The
final step is now in progress, the
Board of Elections having accepted
the responsibility of working out de
tails of the election.
The Board of Elections is com
posed of Edwin Lee, chairman; Jane
Broadhurst, Ruth Weil, Frank Rob
erts, and Paul Duckworth, with Miss
Ida Gordner, adviser.
DOWN THE HALLS
GLANCES AND
COMMENTS
A profit of $38.01 was made from
the Senior Barn Dance, sponsored
by the Senior Class April 25 to raise
money to go toward the Seniors’
gift to the school.
A total of $28.75 was collected at
the three showings of the movie,
“Mad About Music,” starring De
anna Durbin, which was sponsored
May 2 by the SA Movie Committee
in the GHS auditorium, and April
30 and May 1 in William Street
School.
The newly adopted school flag is
in its final stage of completion as
the white felt letters are now being
sewed on the royal blue wool back
ground.
Miss Mary Ann Gatch’s second
year Latin class plans to take a trip
to Duke University and Wake For
est College May 10 to see the various
Latin department displays, mu
seums, and other things of interest.
Mrs. McManus’s fourth period
home nursing girls have redecorated
Miss Helen Player’s homeroom as a
classroom project. New curtains
have been hung and the sewing
machines reconditioned by the girls.
Tuesday, Senior exa^ns begin and
continue for two weeks. A week
after Senior exams begin, under
graduates will start theirs. All fol
low the regular procedure, with
first period exams first day, second
period exams second day, et cetera.
Each period has two exams.
“Final Frolic” is the title the lyric
Social Committee has provided for
tonight’s social, the last of this year.
Twenty-one library books were
lost during March and April.
If any books are found, Miss Cora
Fuller Collier, librarian, requests
they be returned to the library or
be given to the homeroom library
representative.