THE NEWSPAPER OF TH E STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Volume XXI
Goldsboro, N. C., Friday, June 4, 1948.
Number 8
Commencement Plans
Include An Allegory
Senior Class Officers
Twelve Students
Quill And Scroll
Twelve students have been re
commended for membership in the
Quill and Scroll, the International
Honorary Society for high school
journalists.
Those recommended from the
HI NEWS staff were: Christine
Byrd, assistant advertising man
ager; Dana James Gulley, co
exchange editor; Ed Strickland,
co-sports editor; John Thompson,
business manager; Billy Winslow,
advertising manager; Mary Ann
Ward, co-Hi Lights editor. Mary
Ann was also recommended by the
advisors of the annual.
Those recommended from the
annual staff were Erline Griffin,
editor-in-chief; Polly Edgerton,
class editor; Eunice Bizzell, senior
assistant; Davis Byrd, business
manager; Janie Bartlette, co-ad
vertising manager; Anna Frank
Strosnider, co-advertising man
ager.
HI NEWS editor Marilyn Tq-
lochko is already a member of the
society, having been selected last
year.
Requirements for membership in
the society are: (1) candidates may
be elected from newspaper, year
book, magazine or handbook
staffs; (2) they must be a junior,
senior, or post-graduate; (3) they
must be in the upper third of their
class in general scholastic standing
at the time of their election; (4)
they must have done superior work
in writing, editing, or business
management; (5) they must be
recommended by the school prin
cipal or publication advisor; (6)
they must be approved by the
Executive Secretary of the society.
Acker Is Named
President Of DE
Charles Acker was elected pres
ident of the Distributive Education
Club of North Carolina for the
coming year at the state meeting
held at Greensboro recently.
The DE Club has had an out
standing year. Shortly after Christ
mas preparations were made to
give a skit entitled “North Caro
lina Speaks” at the natiotial con
vention in St. Louis. The skit was
also given at the state convention
and later to the students of Golds
boro High School.
Miss Frances Bayne, advisor
and originator of the DE club, has
helped the students to make it
what it is today. They will strive
through-out the coming years to
continue to make the DE Club of
GHS a club to be proud of.
La Nelle Edwards
Leads French Club
La Nelle Edwards has been
elected to head the French Club of
GHS, Le Cercle Francais, for the
year 48-49.
Those who will serve with her
The commencement program for
GHS will be held Friday night,
./line 11, in the high school audit
orium. An allegory will be fea
tured.
The processional will open the
jjrogram, and will be ft)llowed by
an invocation by Rabbi J. G. To-
lochko of Kinston. The high school
band will render three song,
after which the Goldmasquers will
present “The Summons of Sariel.”
Tlie glee club will then sing two
songs.
Mr. Arnold B. Edgerton will be
in charge of the presentation of
awards. The awards will be in[
this order; Goldmasquers' awards
of merit, Royall Essay prize. Quill
and Scroll, Policemen’s Citizenship
p7-ize, Borden Scholarship, Weil’s
scholastic prize.
Dr. D. J. Rose will present the
diplomas.
Davis Byrd, president of the
senior class, will present the senior
gift. The seniors will sing their
class song, after which Dr. William
Howard Carter of fhe Tabernacle
Church will pronounce the bene
diction.
Participating in the allegory
given by the Goldmasquers are:
Joyce Dowlin, the Clay; Polly E"d-
gerton, the Spirit; Mary Olive
Grady, the Graduate; Anna Frank
Strosnider, Sariel, the Angel of
Death; Marilyn Tolochko, the Sui
cide; Janie Bartlette, the Old, Old
Woman; Evelyn Barbee, the Young
Mother; Ruth Edgerton, the Guard
ian Angel; George Langston, the
Blind Child. It is directed by Mr,
Clifton Britton.
Paschall Wins
Home Ec. Prize
Betty Lou Paschall was awarded
first prize of $7.50 in the recent
fashion review by the home econo
mics department.
Other prize winners were: Joyce
Carter, second prize of $5.00; Nona
Gray Best, third prize of $3.50; Joy
Creech, fourth prize of $3.00; and
Bobby Jean Thompson, fifth prize
of $2.00.
Other students participating in
the review were Nan Bames, Vir
ginia Bedford, Marilyn Best, Sarah
Brown, Jane Buie, Julia May Cot
ton, Ruth Davis, Anna Bell Gran
tham, Lina Haddock, Lillian Hay
nes, Frances Hollowell, Jean
Kluttz, Coletta Lahr, Louise Odom,
Irene Stroud, Eleanor Norris, Anne
Acker, Betty Lou Adams, Gladys
Costin, Gloria Howell, Jackie Du
bois, Annie Clara Savage, Sara
Thompson, Hilda Toler, Veryl
Trueblood, Mary Lou Cogdell,
Frances Fulghum, Mildred Rad
ford, Catherine Strickland, Mary
Sykes, Margaret Weigand, Virginia
Carter, Jean Daughtry, Jean Lash-
ley, and Thelma Norris.
The girls modeled street length
dresses and blouses and skirts.
Judges were Mrs. Edward Biz
zell, former home demonstration
agent; and Miss Ann Johnson,
home demonstration agent.
are: first vice-president, Carolyn
Loftin; second vice-president, Mike
Pate; secretary, Shirley Haynes,
and treasurer, Marion Goodwin.
All of them were unanimously
elected.
Above are the senior class officers for 1948-49. Front row,
Bill Elliott, president; and Betty Hollowell, secretary; second row,
Anne Lee and Greene Hollowell, cheerleaders; top row, Kenneth Fulg-
hum, vice president; and Jimmy Purser, treasurer.
Elliot, Borden, Houser And
Norwood Elected Class Heads
Varsity Club
Dance Draws
A Large Crowd
Members of the GHS Varsity
Club held their annual dance in
the William Street Gymnasium on
Saturday night, May 2©.
At this event Anna Frank Stros-
iiider, the Varsity Sweetheart, was
crowned.
The gym was decorated with
crepe paper streamers with a large
revolving ball in the middle. At one
end of the gymnasium a picture
of a football player was projected.
Participating in the figure were:
Erline Griffin and Miller Eason,
La Verne Tew and Myron- Ennis,
Marjorie Wilson and Sam Lynch,
Yvonne Schweistris and John
Thompson, Dorothy Crawford and
Bob Kluttz, Eleanor Brown and
Ed Bass, Laura Lynch and 'Love
lace Bell, Doreen Denise and Ben
nie Bennett, Virginia Brogden and
Doster Brock, Marilyn Tolochko
and Charles Crone, Joyce Bagley
and John Culloty, Frances Mal-
pass and Jimmy Ellis, Sybil Par
rish and Bobby Frederick, Joseph
ine Jackson and Carlton Frederick,
Patsy Donnell and Dick Griswold,
Evelyn Barbee and Archie Hamil,
Elizabeth Smith and William Hee-
den, Janet Cook and David John
son, Eunice Bizzell and Bobby Mc-
Lamb, Jerry Worrell and W. D.
McRoy, Anna Lee Pennington and
Troy Pate, Jane Parker and Donald
Pike, Shirley Wiggins and Hugh
Pope, Betty Beacham and Tom
Price, Sara Hunt and K. D. Pyatt,
La Nelle Edwards and D. C. Rouse,
Mimi Weil and Billy Ruffin, Betty
Warrick and Howard Sasser, Joyce
Best and J. D. Sasser, Faye Branch
and Elbert Sills, Anne Smith and
Hugh Shine, Lillian Pate and Billy
Thompson, Arden Newbould and
Fred Tyndall, Betty Bedford and
Herman Vinson, Barbara Russell
and Bud Wallace, Ruth Forehand
Bill Elliott, senior; Jack Borden,
junior; Jack Houser, sophomore;
and Charles Norwood, freshman,
have been elected to lead the four
classes in GHS next year.
Those serving with them will be:
Senior class: vice-president, Ken
neth Fulghum; secretary, Betty
Hollowell; treasurer, Jimmy Purs
er; cheerleaders, Anne Lee and
Greene Hollowell.
Junior class: vice-president, Bar
bara Anderson; secretary, Peggy
Pittman; treasurer, Jimmy Shu
mate; cheerleaders, Barbara Har^
rell and Walter Culbreth.
Sophomore class: vice-president,
June Handley; secretary, Edith
Long; treasurer, Annie Clara Sav
age; and cheerleaders, Sara Thomp
son and David Gainey.
Freshman class: vice-president,
Jessine Hart; secretary, Barbara
Pittman; treasurer, Betty Daughe-
ty; cheerleaders, Nancy Bridgets
and Willard Carlisle.
The candidates for the various
offices on the first ballot were as
follows. The first named were nom
inated by the nominating commit
tee; the others, by petitions .
Seniors
Senior class—president: Bill El
liott, Isaac Braxton, Lewis Bryan,
and Patsy Donnell; vice-president,:
Shirley Haynes, Kenneth Fulghum,
Mike Pate, and Reginald Griffin;
secretary, Betty Hollowell, Dorothy
Crawford and Mary Rachel John
son; treasurer, Jimmy Purser (au
tomatically elected); girl cheer
leader, Jerry Worrell, Kitty Keller,
Anne Lee, and Emma Jean Will
iams; boy cheerleader, Alvin Joy
ner and Greene Hollowell.
Juniors
Junior class—president: Jack
Borden and Eddie Mitchell; vice-
pi'esident: Elton Warrick, Barbara
(See OFFICERS on Page 6)
and Elton Warrick, Barbara An
derson and Kennith Waters, Eve
lyn Brown and Billy Webb, Peggy
Jones and Jack Wilson, Anne Lee
and Billy Winslow, Anna Frank
Strosnider, Varsity Sweetheart,
and Charlie Westbrook.
Borden Family
Establishes A
Scholarship
The children of the late Frank
K. Borden have set up the Borden
Memorial Scholarship Fund in
memory of Mr. and Mrs. Borden.
The amount of the scholarship is
not stated as the sum may vary
from year to year, due to the fact
that the income for the scholarship
is derived from investments.
This year the scholarship will
come to someone at GHS. Al
though the scholarship is to be
permanent, no announcement has
been made as to the schools to be
included in the future.
This fund is to open the way for
some girl or boy who desires to*
continue his education and are un-
?ible to do so because of lack of
money.
The first winner will be selected
from this year’s senior class.
Class Day Held
In GHS All Day
Class Day is being observed in
Goldsboro High School today.
The seniors are in charge of the
activities.
An allegiance program, which
the four classes are participating
in, will be held this morning. iThis
new type of program is taking
the place of the usual Class Day
exercises in the auditorium. Every
one will wear white for these exer
cises.
After the allegiance program, a
picnic is planned at Camp Tus-
carora for all seniors. Everyone
in bringing a box lunch, and drinks
are being furnished by the class.
The class day program will be
concluded by the entire class at
tending a movie as the guests of
the Paramount Theatre.
Ruth Forehand
Is FHA Official
Ruth Forehand was named coun
ty reporter of the FHA at the
county executive board meeting at
Brogden.
Five members and the advisor
of the Future Homemakers of
America Club of Goldsboro at
tended the meeting. They were
Joyce Bagley, Peggy Ann Britt,
Ruth Forehand, Frances Fulghum,
Bobby Jean Thompson, and Mrs.
Ruth Shine.
The county rally of the FHA
was held at the Cliffs Friday,
May 21. It was a picnic supper.
A number of Goldsboro girls at
tended the meeting.
Freshman Class
Crowns Royalty
Nancy Hamil and Ed Bass were
crowned Queen and King of the
freshman class at their recent
social.
The social was held in the Wil
liam Street Gymnasium, and was
attended by about seventy-five
members of the class A floor show
in the form of a radio program was
given.
Refreshments consisted of punch,
cookies, and sandwiches.