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THE NEWSPAPER OF THi£ STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Volume XV, Number 4
Goldsboro, N. C., February 6, 1942
Fifty Cents Per Year
GHS Prepares
Boys Physically
For Emergency
School Board Determined
Main Procedure of Course
To prepare boys physically to
serve their country, the State De
partment of Education requests that
Health and Physical Education be
taught in all North Carolina high
schools if possible this semester.
The Goldsboro School Board at a
meeting this week will decide
whether or not to accept the ten
tative plans that Superintendent
Ray Armstrong will present to
them concerning the installation of
this course for boys 17 or over.
This year’s schedule makes it im
possible for all junior and senior
boys now to take this subject,
although there is a possibility that
it will be required next year.
Mr. Jeffrey to Be Instructor
Mr. R. N. Jeffrey, instructor,
states that this will ,be no play
period, but hopes to have the boys
in as good condition as his athletic
teams, if not better.
Each boy may drop one of the
five subjects he is taking now ex
cept United States history, or he
may report each afternoon after
school for practice with the ath
letic teams. One half-unit will be
given for this intensive training
and a half-unit will be received
for the subject he drops.
Classes will be held during sec
ond and third periods. When this
training cannot be done'' outside,
health will be studied in the class
room.
Seventy-four boys who were 17
or over reported to a called meet
ing on January 26.
COMING UP
A three-act comedy, “Spring
Fever," with a cast of thir
teen, six girls and seven boys,
has been selected by the Jun
ior Play-Reading Committee
to be presented on March 27
under the direction of Miss
Mary Ann Gatch. Tryouts be
gan February 4.
The play-reading committee
members were; Dorothy Lof-
tin, chairman; Martha Rosen
thal, Jean Branch, Ned Hart,
and Margaret Holt, with Miss
Gatch as adviser.
GHS Defense Board
SecDnd Term Brings
2 New GHS Teachers
Along with the new term have
come two new teachers to GHS.
Miss Bessie Anderson, of Middle
sex, has come to Goldsboro to re
place Mr. J. H. Donaldson, who
was called to begin service as a
naval ensign on January 22. Miss
Anderson, a senior at E. C. T. C.,
is completing her practice teaching
here.
Miss Anderson is teaching two
periods of typing and one each of
shorthand and bookkeeping. The
other period she is an observer in
Miss Suiter’s third period algebra
class.
New Teachers
Mr. James E. Britt has taken the
work of Mr. Russell L. Harris in
industrial arts department. Mr.
Harris has gone to a job in the
Washington, D. C. Navy Yard.
Mr. Britt is from Snow Hill and
graduated from State College in
1924, where he majored in Me
chanical Engineering.
Although this is his first school,
he has had experience with West
ern Union and the Westinghouse
Corporation. He is a membei* of
the Bar of the District of Columbia.:
Graduation Plans
Made By Sen iors
Carolyn Hollingsworth was elect
ed testator and Lois Smith prophet
of this year’s graduating class at
the Senior Class meeting Wednes
day morning.
Mary Lou Austin, who was elect
ed historian in 1940, will serve with
Carolyn and Lois on the Class
Day Committee.
The Seniors, starting early on
plans for graduation, voted at a
recent class meeting to have a
Senior Supplement to the Hi News
and to extend the payment of
graduation expenses over a period
of three or four months. ,A letter
will be sent to the parents of Sen
iors explaining the necessary grad
uating expenses and the deadline
for the payments to be made.
The Nominating Committee sub
mitted Carolyn Hollingsworth for
testator and Lois Smith, prophet.
Other nominations were made from
the floor. The Nominating Com
mittee was composed of Helen Bis-
sette, chairman, Effie Ruth Max
well, James Crow, Dick Borden and
Lizzie Mae Adams.
Other Committees
The other Commencement Com
mittees are: Gift: J. C. Harrell,
chairman, Marvin Cowell, Ruth
Weil, Elaine Brown, and Graves
Lewis.
Baccalaureate: Margaret Scott,
chairman, J. D. Pike, Evelyn Pate,
Helen Denning, Hilda Bell, and
Clifton Daniel,
Invitation: Gertrude Edgerton,
chairman, Lee Adams, Janie Lee
Waters, Joe Glascox, Eleanor Jones,
Nancy Paige Swift, Juanita Jones,
Jewel Keen, Frances Gaddy, and
Billy Wynn.
Music: Edwin Lee, chairman,
Mary Emma Rouse, Mary Mitcham,
Betsy Cade, Hannah Shrago, Caro
lyn Hollingsworth, Margaret Jean
Thornton, John Holmes, and Lyn
don Hart.
Supplement: Effie Ruth Maxwell
and Carolyn Hollingsworth, co-
chairmen. The members of this
committee will be the senior mem
bers of the Hi News staff.
t. ' ;
Left to right are Dickie Weatherly, Helen Denning, J. D. Pike, chairman; Gertrude
Edgerton, and Betty Weil, all members of the Defense Board.
Last Monday Named
Defense Day In GHS
“I bfelieve that every American
wants to do his part when his
country is entered in a life-and-
death struggle for freedom and the
true democratic way. And so let’s
all chip in and insure our genera
tion and those to come of the bless
ings of life, liberty, and the pur
suit of happiness; of justice, equal
ity, and demoGjracy; of America,”
declared Bob Kenij). SA president,
as he proclaimed:
“Therefore, lej^pjiy^wwn by
all students that Monday, ^February
second, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and forty-
two shall be knowa as Defense
Day in Goldsboro High School to
begin defense work, all its phases
being coordinated.”
Activities of the Day
Defense Day in GHS began at
8:45 on Monday, February 2, when
Charles Britt bouglit •' the first
defense stamp at the patriotically
decorated defense booth located
just outside the office.
The sale of defense stamps had
reached a total of $33.25 on Wednes
day.
Gertrude Edgerton, chairman of
the defense stamp committee, an
nouncing in SA meeting January
30 that even a small purchase of
stamps would help, explained that
one ten-cent stamp would supply
the army with five cartridges, a
twenty-five cent stamp, with a mess
kit, a one-dollar-fifty-cent stamp,
with a first aid kit, a two-dollar
stamp, with a blanket, and a five-
dollar stamp, with a steel helmet.
Waste Paper Drive
The sound of a bugle echoed
through the long halls of GHS at
9:30 on Monday morning, and mid
term cleahing was begun in the
twenty-six homerooms to aid the
waste paper drive.
Red, white, and blue decorated
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HELLO THERE!
Giving up their positions with
reluctance, the old Council mem
bers made their farewell appear
ance in Council Tuesday, Janu
ary 27.
The newly-elected homeroom
representatives that took their
places for the first time on Tues
day, February 3, are: Freshmen:
Anne Stowe (Miss Gatch); An
nette Toler (Mr. Holt); Charles
Ennis (Miss Barrett); Lester
Gordon (Mr. J. B. Helms); Eun
ice Jones (Mr. Hilton); Charles
Howell ('Mr, Askins); Janet Low;
limore (Mr. Moo^°
Sophomores: Jo’^‘' a t e r s
(Mrs. Freeman); Margaret Ew
ing (Mrs. Cox); Sally Lee (Miss
Suiter); Agnes Hallow (Miss
Koch); Dorothy Shumate (Miss
Taylor); James Pittman (Miss
Kalmar).
Juniors: Virginia Faison (Miss
Falkener); Clifton Daniel (Miss
Ipock); Hilda Person (Miss
Glazener); Skinny Ellis (Miss
Ward); Jackie McKenzie( Miss
Dubois); Elizabeth Hardison
(Miss Hamer); Mary Emma
Rouse (Miss Anderson).
Seniors; Lorena Edgerton
(Mrs. Bradford); Nancy Paige
Swift (Mr. R. M. Helms); Lor
raine Baddour (Mr. Davis); Al
bert Handley (Mrs. White); J.
C. Harrell (Miss Gordner).
AROUND ABOUT
To get experience in newspaper
writing, an after-school journalism
class of 19 Juniors has been formed,
which meets every Wednesday and
Friday, with Miss Gordner and
staff members teaching.
‘The High Heart" by Rowell is
the name of the one-act play which
the GHS Goldmaskers with the help
of other students will probably en
ter in the Carolina Dramatic Asso
ciation play production contest, the
finals of, winch will be held at the
Carolina' Dramatic Festival April
9, 10, and 11.
An aircraft sheet metal and rivet
ing class taught by Mr. W. D.
Waters from Rocky Mount was
started January 19, to prepare men
for work in the aircraft industry.
After finishing this course, these
men will receive jobs in this trade.
A filing system has been installed
in the lost and found bureau in
order that lost' articles may be
found more quickly.
Mr. W. A. Dees Speaks
In Special Assembly
“We must become efficient for
the part we have to play in the
new world that we are now build
ing,” said Mr. W. A. Dees, chair
man of the Goldsboro School Board,
in a special assembly January 29,
when the new regulation regarding
attendance was announced by Mr.
J. W. Gaddy, principal.
“The primary ambitions of all
parents are centered around their
children’s success. You want to be
a success and the only way you
can reach that success is by reach
ing for the opportunities that are
flying by! What ever you do, in this
world, you must do quickly,” coun
seled Mr. Dees.
“When you leave high school
and are out working you can not be
a success if you ‘cut’ your work.
No doctor can dispense with his
work fo» even a day or so without
losing some of his patients,” said
Mr. Dees. “If you call a doctor sev
eral times and he doesn’t come you
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Five-Man Board
Approved To Aid
DefenseWork
J. D. Pike Named Chairman
To Coordinate Activities
J. D. Pike, chairman of the newly-
formed five-member Student De
fense Board, announced at the
third SA meeting on January 30
that the Board has been organized
’ to keep the student defense work
in GHS from conflicting and to as
sist various defense drives.
Introducing the members of the
Board, which consists of the chair
men of the defense committees, J.
D. explained that the Board is to
be flexible, changing as new com
mittees are organized and as the
work of the old ones is completed.
Defense Members Appointed
The members of the Defense
Board are: Dickie Weatherly, chair
man of the Scrap Metal Drive; Bet
ty Weil, chairman of the Junior
Defense Recreation Committee;
Helen Denning; chairman of the
Waste Paper Drive; and Gertrude
Edgerton, chairman of the Defense
Stamp Committee. A chairman for
the Junior Red Cross has not yet
been named.
Dickie reported that the scrap
metal drive is a project of the Sen
ior Class. (See story on page 6,
column 2). >
Approximntelv 3 tomgnt at i
along with playing and other
games, have been cc^Jed by the'
Junior Defense RecT^^4on Com
mittee. The committee is now col
lecting recordings for the Recre
ation Room, which is to be located
in the Woman’s Club Building. The
committee members, who head the
sub-committees are: Alice Graham,
chairman of committee to collect
recordings; Effie Ruth Maxwell and
Harriette Thompson, co-chairmen
of the canteen committee; Margaret
Holt and Betty Weil, co-chairmen
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Mr- Helms To Teach
New Class In Radio
Mr. R. M. Helms, GHS science
teacher, to be assisted by John
Hicks, Jr., has been selected to
instruct interested high school
graduates in a radio course begin
ning February 16 to be taught
probably from 7 until 10 p. m.
The class is under the super
vision of N. C. State College. It is
a part of Engineering, Science, and
Management National Defense pro
gram of the Federal Government.
To be eligible to take this course,
a person must be a high school
graduate and must show prospects
for radio work. Twenty applica
tions had been accepted by January
18. Two women were included in
the approved list. Applications will
continue to be accepted until Feb
ruary 10 unless the class becomes
filled before that date.
The purpose of the class is to
train radio operators for civilian,
commercial, defense, and military
needs. The instruction will include
the fundamentals of radio, appli
cation of reception, transmission,
installation, maintenance, and legal
regulations. The instruction will
include the needed algebra, geom
etry and trigonometry. The only
cost of the course to the students
will be for the supplies and books
to be used and totals less than $5.00.