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Page Two GOLDSBORO HI NEWS Friday. March 24, 1950 Senior Is Joyous That End Is Near (By Doris Page) Maybe it’s the mid-year slump, or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been going to school for eleven and one-half years that’s getting me down, but sometimes I feel if I had to go to school an other year—even another week besides what is required — I would jusit have to call it quits and not ever get that wonderful little slip of paper they call a di ploma. I think I get lazier with each year—and I have reliable wit nesses who will vouch for that —I spend in school. This is through no fault of my teachers. I will give them an “A” for ef fort. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I am mentally deteriorat ing and if I went to school for a few more years, I could soon enter the first grade without ev en having to pass an entrance ex amination. It’s funny how, when we are in the lower grades, we only think about a few gradees ahead of us. I think that if we thought seriously then of the twelve long years that are ahead of us, there would be an alarming number of suicides between the ages of six TOM R. BEST 119 E. Walnut St. Knox Haijs Timely Clothes and nine. First Grade Problems For instance, when we are in the first, second, and third grades, our one ambition in life is to reach William Street School (we sigh when we think of it) and be in the fourth grade. How we envy those people over at V/illiam Street School. They’re so big! And we’ve heard that they even use real notebooks and carry home a big orange book that’s called Geography or some thing. Gosh, it must be wonder ful being that old and worldly- wfse. Well, we get to the fourth grade and we learn all we care to know about Geography. We get pretty tired of taking a note book around and we begin to look toward brighter things. The eighth-graders, the seniors of grammar school, become our knights in shining armor. Just think, in only a few more years we, too, will be eighth-graders. This thought sustains us through the fourth, fifth, sixth, and sev enth grades. Have you ever noticed how each grade* worships the grade ahead of it and holds only con tempt for those behind it? When we get to be eighth-grad ers, we think we are really IT. We’re about ready to leave Wil liam Street School and when school starts again next year, we won’t stop there but we’ll keep on walking to high schooL We’ll walk right on past our KEEP THE DOORWAY CLEAR ///■/! Wayne Realty and Insurance Co., Inc. 210 E. Walnut Street Complete Real Estate and Insurance Service D. H. Bland. Jr. L. R. Worrell C. W. Peaoock ENB^KD- ■AT MADE-RITE BREAD MADE-RITE BAKERY GOLDSBORO, N. C. Delicious and Nutritious > Buy it at your favorite Grocery Store BRYAN OIL COMPANY Distributors AMOCO PRODUCTS Fuel Oils — Gasolines — Tires — Batteries fe N Accessories 99—Phones—1166 friends who are just in the sev enth or sixth grade now and boy, how they’ll envy us! High School's Here Now, high school! That’s real ly something! Why, gosh, any body can tell you you’re practic ally grown when you go to high school. Haven’t you seen those people passing by Willianl Street School going to high school? Well, they’re pretty old, aren’t they? Some of ’em are even sev enteen and eighteen! Boy, it sure must be nice being grown up like they are! We get to high school and our ego suffers a severe blow. Here, we, as Freshmen, find that no body looks up to us. As a mat ter of fact .nobody gives us a second glance, except maybe to comment on how little the fresh men are this year. We are look ed on as something to be tolerat ed and an object of pity and scorn. But never, never, do we let our friends back at William Street school know of our plight. As far as they know, we run high schdol. We gaze at the seniors with op en admiration and think how much larger and more sophisti cated they are. But our day will come. We, too, will be seniors. Our ego is somewhat inflated when we become sophomores and can exercise our authoHty over the • freshmen during Freshmen Week. It gives us back some of our old self-confidence that we possessed in the eighth-grade. Freshman Week is something that is all ours, we plan it and the rest of the school watches us. Everyone participates in it, but no one can deny that it is basic ally OUR week of revenge. It makes the freshmen feel a little better, too, for, though they are being persecuted, they are EXCLUSIVE DEALERS IN EXCLUSIVE CARS FOR EXCLUSIVE FOLKS LINCOLN MERCURY t . Central Service Motor Company .A ■■ 115 E; Ash St Phone 2340 Gifls Of Distinction Campbell’s Gift Shop 139 N. Center Phone 27 Pate - Dawson , MOTOR GO. Oldsmobile Cars Mack Trucks N. Center St. SEYMOUR FUNERAL HOME, INC. AMBULANCE SERVICE Goldsboro. N. C. PhoM 10S5 107 W. Chettaut at least not being ignored . Still Envy Seniors Then we become juniors and we begin to really feel our oats. We are upper-classmen and we make sure everyone knows it. We pretend not to envy the se niors but we still would prefer being a senior to being a junior— but no lower classman is sup posed to know that. Then, as a climax for eleven long years, we at la^t reach the pinnacle of our career—or so we think—and everything is just wonderful for maybe twp months. And then we begin to realize that this is not the finish, it is only the beginning. We think of what is ahead of us, college and eventually a job or marriage, or starting right off into the business world; and we realize that what has passed is nothing compared to what is to come. Like I said in the beginning, in spite of the fact that this is my last year, it still gets mighty tire some. Nearly everyone makes the comment, “I wish I were back,” after he gets out of school. I don’t think I will ever be guilty of saying that, will you? Bud Ellis Named Cardinal Batboy For 1950 Season Acting on the wishes of the townspeople who are fans of the local entry in the professional Coastal Plain League, Nick Geer, business manager for the Cardi nals, has announced that Bud Ellis will be the batboy for the coming season. Bud, a fresh man, was elect ed in a poll con ducted by the Cards through the News - Ar if gus and radio ^ station WGBR, s and won out ov- II er Billy West, i Dukes Parnell, I and Ferrell I D a w s o n, all i grammar school students. The eighth to enter the Woodley’s Grocery Produce — Vegetables PHONE 100 ■ We Deliver ■ of the Ellis boys high school, Bud has taken an active part in the sports life of the school besides serving as president of the freshman class. He was a mem ber of the Junior Varsity foot ball squad, the Jay-Vee bas ketball team and at the pres ent time, he is a manager of the Varsity baseball team. In the programs that have been conducted by the Wayne Coun ty Boys’ Club, Bud has taken an active part in every phase of Boys’ Club work and is a mem ber of the Shawnee honor tribe. Bud is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ellis of 106 South Slo- cumb Street, and has served as a batboy for the Goldsboro team in the CPL for the past two sea sons. As far as I’m concerned. I’d just as soon I had already grad uated. How about you? Trade and Save at Belk - Tyler s For SMART SCHOOL WEAR Bell-Asians Plumbing And Heating Co., Inc. Heating & Plumbing Sales & Service - Plumbing Supplies • Phone 228 415 W. Walnut St. \||.X more power to you Since the end of the war this Company has been engaged in the greatest expansion pro^am in its history. This multi-million dollar program is resulting in giant new generating plant*— thousands of miles of new lines —new and improTed substations and other improTements — all with the purpose to assure yea ample power for all needs of the home — industry — business and the farm — now and in the yean to com*. (€/ r
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