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Page Two GOLDSBORO HI NEWS Goldsboro Hi News Published eight times a year by the journalism class of Goldsboro High School, Goldsboro, N. C. Members of the International Quill and Scroll Society and Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Voluvie XVIII INTERNATIONAL Number 4 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Jean Pyatt, ’45 News Editor Anne Stowe, ’45 Editorial Editor Gatsey Butler, ’45 Sports Editor Gloria Gurganus, ’45 Jr. Sports Editor F. W. Stanley, ’47 Picture Editors___Zeno Spence, Bill Shrago, ’45 Alumni Editor Helen Winslow, ’45 Literary Editor Jean* Powell, ’45 Exchange Editor Nell Cook, ’45 Feature Editor Harriette Thompson, ’45 Reporters Charles Frick, Harry Lane, ’45 Barbara Denise, Pat Denise, ’45 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Bill Shrago, ’45 Ad Manager Frances Tew, ’45 Asst. Ad Manager Barbara Denise, ’45 Circulation Manager. __Mary Gardner Pate, ’45 Adviser Mr. Eugene Roberts Subscription, 50 cents a year. Advertising rates 50 cents per column inch for a single-issue ad, special rates on ad contracts. Entered as second-class matter October 26, 1931, at the postofflce at Goldsboro, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Jim Webb We Honor Letter From Overseas Hello Students and Faculty of GHS: Suddenly, I decided to write to some of the best friends a G.I. could ever want. Yes, I’ve certainly missed being ' back in the old home town and rooting for the best school in the entire world, GHS. Fellows and girls, you don’t realize just how wonderful each and every one of you are until a situation like this arises and ypu wish wars were extinct. My sudden desire to write to you all came from a buddy of mine who re ceived a copy of his school paper and it kinda made me feel blue for the moment. I realize I’ve been out of school some time but I’ve always had a personal interest in the Hi News since I was at one time a member of the staff. The good old days. Gee, it certain ly would make me happy to have one of you send me a copy and I assure you, I’ll read it over and over, remem bering each and every one of you and thanking you with all my heart. I’m getting along just fine and hope that you on the home front are like wise, We think of you all, quite fre quently, and know that we can depend on you, our backbone, to do your part in bringing a quick and victorious finis to this war of wars. Since being in Europe, Fve fought with the First Canadian Army in Hol land and am now somewhere in Ger many. It’s quite different from the rest of Europe, so modern and prosperous but not for long. We, the Yanks are bearing that out with the rest of our Allied Friends. May we see an early and solid victory soon and put an end to all the horrors of war. Good luck to each and every one of you and may the new year bring vic tory and happiness to everyone soon. My thoughts will be with you from time to time and hope that day will soon come when we, the fellows can all come back to you, wiser, more cour ageous and determined that our govern ment will never fall, the Jerry way. It’s 'not possible but we want to be doubly sure now that we’ve seen this. Good luck, God speed you and we’ll be there when it’s over, over here. A Son of Goldsboro Hi Jimmie (James B. Kannan) If you know of any Goldsboro High School Alumni in the service, who does not receive a Hi News, please give his name and address to Mary Gardner Pate, Circulation Manager. , Georgia accounts for James Howard Webb’s (”Jim”) slow Southern drawl. He made his de but into the world in Gainsville, Georgia, on July 11, 1927. Coming from Franklin, Va., he entered GHS last Sep tember. Since he came here last fall, Jim has shown splendid leadership in many classes and or ganizations. He has held several homeroom and classroom offices, and it seems that he was always willing to • participate in most any activity, He served on the Senior commencement sermon commit tee. He has made a name for himself among GHS students and faculty in only a .short while by the excellent sportsmanship and hard work display ed on the football field and basketball court. For this fine work, as a member of the football team, he received a monogram, and was accepted into the Varsity Club. When asked what food he likes best, he admitted that he is a vegetarian (Ugh!). Along the musical line he thinks Charlie Spivak is “tops.” Jim has left school and returned to Virginia. We as GHS students have enjoyed knowing you, Jim, and we hope that you were as proud to be a member of our Student Association as were to have you. Jim, we wish you loads of luck in any field which you might pursue. We know you’ll be a leader! WE HONOR When you open your Hi News to page two and see who the “We Honors” are and stop to read the brief sketches on each honoree, does it ever occur to you just how he or she has been select ed? The purpose of “We Honor” is to bring recognition to deserving students whose work is not well-known. They may or may not be well-known. A committee , from the staff selects two candidate^, a boy and a girl, for the honor. At a staff meeting two others are chosen by a simple majority vote. In a secret ballot vote the honoree is selected. This column is not written about the person who gains recognition else where. It is for the proverbial “little guy” who goes about his business doing one swell job after another, and who is not known for it. It is our sincere hope that you will take note of the purpose of “We Honor” and when you see. a person’s name at the head of the column, you will know he is worthy of your respect and re cognition. February 23/ 1945 That tall ed gal, who seen hurrying a id-hair- often George Washington Yesterday, we observed the birthday of George Washington ... the “Father of our country.” We observed the birth day of one of the greatest men ever known to the American people or to the world. Today we are engaged in, another desperate battle to preserve our free dom ... to preserve that which this outstanding American gave us. We should, as GHS students, want to strive to hold this great freedom. We should be willing to buy War Bonds and Stamps . . . accept any responsibility which would help, bring victory sooner . . . do nothing which would hinder the war effort in any way. rying down the to class, is none o than Frances Tew- our honoree. Frances was born May 1, 1928 in Rose Hill, N. C. and moved to Goldsboro at the age of four. Frances has been a very active worker dur ing her high school career. She served as a member of the SA No minating Committee for two years, was co-chairman of the Decoration Commit tee for the Junior-Senior and was also an active member of the Junior Play ticket committee. In her Junior year she was selected as a marshal because of her outstanding scholastic record. This year Frances is chairman of the SA Devotional Committee, and a mem ber of the Calendar Committee. She has done an excellent piece of work as advertising manager of the HI News this year. Our honoree says she has three fav orite band leaders but finally decided that Tommy Dorsey headed the list and “Night and Day” is the song! Her fav orite food is apple pie a la mode— Rather “Frenchy”—don’t you think^ Van Johnson and Greer Garson rate first as Frances’ choice for movie stars. Frances plans to enter WCUNC next year but is yet a little uncertain about her ambition—though we are certain that she will be successful in anything which she undertakes. Here’s hoping for a bright future—Frances. Recreation Room Bang! Splash! A shade just fell and an orange was squshed on the back wall. In the midst of all this, GHS students meet during lunch period to dance . . . and talk . . . and listen to records in our recreation room. Can we really be proud of its ap pearance? Ripped shades . apple cores and orange peelings in chalk trays . . . un desirable writing on the boards . . . broken chairs . . . and many other de lapidated objects do not become our school and they keep our school from being the usual tidy place in -which we can educate ourselves. Apparently, some people have taken for granted that the recreation room can be used for outdoor sports as well as for indoor one’s . . . for the walls and ceiling show the use of footballs and basketballs. In reality there is only one door for entrance, but the four windows were created as doors by those few who were too lazy to walk around ... or who just didn’t care. An effort is now being made to re decorate the room in which we can all have good tirhes together. Are we willing to cooperate in help ing to make this one of the most attrac tive and useful rooms in school? ‘ Borrowed Bits 1943-Wliat a man! 1944-What, a man? 1945-What’s a man? The Yellow Jacket Boyden High School Salisbury, N. C. - LITERARY LIGHTS - By Jean Powell Brave Men A collection of hundreds of small in cidents of war in the Mediterranean area, starting in Sicily in June, 1943, and ending in France right after the Invasion in September, 1944, fills Ernie >yle’s new book, Brave Men. ^'lis first book is Here Is Your War, ^ \oth books are based on dispatches rora.-j^e war front. Brave Men, the humble American, is dedi cated salute to those thous ands of ou comrades—great, brave men that the>^^g^g—^^^om there will be jno ever.” Ernie Pyle is --Qown as the foot soldiers friend, anQ throughout the book l|is partiality towai^ the Infantry is shown. He thinks , . . ^nd many persons’ minds are in accord with his . . . that the Infantry doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves. The incidents are divided into chap ters and each chapter takes up a dif ferent phase of work that is done by our armed forces. A few. of the groups with whom he lived while overseas are the medics, artillerymen, pilots of dive bombers, and men aboard hospital ships, as well as the plain Infantrymen on the front line. Even though he used technical terms, they were simple enough for girls and boys to understand. The unpresuming Ernie Pyle took the effort to list eight pages of type, writing names of persons with whom he talked and lived while overseas. Many are from North Carolina, and the Southern states, and one incident is devoted to a Goldsboro man, Major Walter Stansbury. Being no respector of the rank of a man, he writes about enlisted men ... not so much what the hero does, but what plain Private John Doe do^s. Boys in particular will enjoy the vi vid scenes of the invasion and the street- fighting in France, the beachhead fight ing in Italy. As Mr. Pyle ended the book the Invasion of France had begun, and’his opinion as to when the Eur opean War would end was optimistic. Pyle did a brilliant job of writing the story of a cross section of World War II. He wrote as interestingly of each homesick boy as if he were the only one who mattered. Brave Men is a best seller, and to read it is a privilege and opportunity of which you should, take, advantage. Biography Ernie Pyle is now in the Pacific Theatre of War after a rest in the United States. For some time now, dis patches which Pyle wrote while waiting in San Francisco for passage to the South Pacific, have b'een appearing in' newspapers. Published in newspapers six days a week, his column reputedly has a circulation of 12,225,000. In recent years Pyle has had numerous honors bestowed upon him . . . ^nd rightfully so. The War Department thinks of him as “a top morale-builder.” Thin and bald, Ernie Pyle is a little man nearing forty-five years of age His home is in New Mexico, but he is a native of Indiana. John Steinbeck expressed his opinion of Pyle in this manner: “There are really two wkrs and they haven’t much to do with each other. There is the war of maps and logistics^ of campaigns, of ballistics, armies, di visions, and regiments—and that is , General Marshall’s war. f
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