THE NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Volume XXIII
GOLDSBORO, N. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950
Number 9
Nominations Given
For S. A. Officers
Karl Albert as Tsali, and Kenneth Allen as Trad
er Thomas are pictured above in the prize-win
ning Goldmasquer production, “Trail of Tears”.
Jimmy Shumate is shown in the background por
traying the role of Wasituna.
Will Seat 1800
Gym Plans Given To Contractors
Four Students
Compete For
N.H.S. Scholarship
Peggy Pittman, Betty Barbee,
Karl Albert, and Eddie Mitchell
are competing for a scholarship
sponsored by the National Hon
or Society.
The examination is given to
members of the N.H.S. all over
the United States. Twelve $300
scholarships will be awarded the
participants making the highest
marks on the test. This amount
is to further education in any
field and in every school for the
winners.
Members of the local N.H.S.
selected those who were eligible
to compete for the scholarship
by secret votes. 'Results from
the test will be announced some
time in May.
Sub-Freshman Week
Begins Monday
Sub-Freshman Week will toe
held at GHS April 17 to 21.
The purpose of this week is to
acquaint the sub-freshman with
high shcool.
Monday the S.A. council goes
to William Street sc'hool.
Tuesday the sub-freshmen will
come from William Street to
Goldsboro High.
Thursday a Band Concert is to
'be held at William Street school.
Friday a test will be given to
the sub-freshmen on the hand
book.
Tuesday the presidents of the
various clubs at GHS will speak.
The clubs include FHA Varsity,
Goldmasquers, SA and NHS.
Also there will be a Fashion
show presented by the Home Ec
onomics girls. SA election cam
paign speeches will be presented,
a band concert, and a chemistry
experiment by Coach Norris
Jeffrey will be shown.
Plans and specifications for
Goldsboro High’s new 8175,000
gymnasium have been issued to
contractors and bids on the gym
which will have a seating capa
city of from 1600 to 1800 and
will include four classrooms are
to be opened on May 2nd and
presented to the North Carolina
Board of Education on May 4th.
Construction on the building is
to begin immediately following
the Board’s approval.
Plans have been withheld from
contractors until the present time
so that a greater degree of con
formity might be obtained be
tween the gym and the school
building.
According to Mr. Ray Arm
strong, Goldsboro school super
intendent, there is a chance that
the dressing rooms with show
ers and ample space for forty
athletes will be completed in
time for the first home football
gsme of ’50, and that the gym it
self will toe completed in Janu
ary of 1951.
Band Rooms Included
One of the outstanding fea
tures of the building will be a
large room above the balcony to
be used as the band room, and a
balcony connected to the band
room and looking out over the
gym floor from which the band
will play during games and pep
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Seniors Invited
To E. C. T. C.
History Students
Go To Washington
Sixty-seven GHS students took
a trip to Washington on April 2
through April 6.
Juniors made up the larger
number of students taking the
trip. The trip was sponsored
chiefly for the U. S. History
classes. Juniors taking the trip
were:
Most Are Juniors
Sarah Casey, Becky James,
Hilda Westbrook, Margaret Bis-
sette, Jean Conner, Joyce Mer
ritt, 'Marilyn Best, Sara Thomp
son, Betty Best, Faye Smith, Lil
lian Haynes, Julia Cotton, Vir
ginia Bedford, Annabel Gran
tham, Arden Newbould, Margie
Rose, Martha Kornegay, Dawson
Thompson, Nan Barnes, Lydia
Alexander, Carolyn Malpass,
Gloria Howell, Betty Jean Hen
derson, Hilda Toler, Joyce Britt,
Lina Haddock, Lucy Jeffries,
Louise Odom, Frances Hollow-
ell, Pearl Happer, Ann Smith,
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Marimba Player
Visits G.Hi.
According to Bobby Watson,
senior class president, the senior
class has been invited to the an
nual senior day exercises at
East Carolina Teachers College
on April 21st.
Seniors from all of Eastern
Carolina will be present at the
event and a picnic lunch will be
furnished the students at a cost
of fifty cents.
If this year’s exercise is car
ried out on the same plan as oth
ers in the past the students will
attend a ball game, a play, and
will have the liberty of the cam
pus throughout the day.
Mr. Bert Lynn Jackson of the
Southeast School Assemblies in
Greensboro gave a musical pro
gram to GHS students Tuesday,
March 20, 1950.
Mr. Jackson played for the
students on his new marimba.
He played several classical
numbers as well as several pop
ular numbers.
He 'told the students about the
cost of his marimba and how
one could play it. It cost $995.00.
This year’s assemblies are paid
for by the S.A., so no admission
was charged.
Some numbers included in his
program were “Star Dust”,
“Claire de lune,” “Whispering”,
“Some Enchanted Evening,” “Ti-
co-Tico,” “Saber Dance”, and
“Humoresque”.
“Trail Of Tears”
Receives Top Award
At Drama Festival
The Goldmasquers production,
“Trail of Tears”, was rated
among ten high school and col
lege plays and received the high
est award at the Carolina Dra
matic Association Festival in
Chapel Hill recently.
All entries made by the Gold
masquers in the various compe
titions placed either first or sec
ond except the scraptoook.
Ratings Given
They included:
First places—Nell Scott’s cos
tume designed for “Aladdin” and
“Eastward in Eden”; model stage'
Dick Griswold. Bill Hawley,
Robert Smith, Leslie Langston,
Bud Davis and Kenneth Allen for
their model of the setting of
“The Tavern”; and poster design
Shirley Haynes.
Leslie Langston gained recog
nition for the Goldmasquers on
'his setting for ‘Trail of Tears”.
When the curtain was opened
there was a loud oheer from the
audience.
As “Mr. B.” expressed it, “I
felt as if I were at a football
game. ’
Junior Group Rated
The Junior Goldmasquers’ “In-
Laws” received second place
award. Other second places were
for Frances Potter’s costumc in
“The Willow and I”; David
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Mela Royall Is
Congress Delegate
To Colorado
Mela Royall, a GHS sopho
more and member of tihe S. A.
Council, will lead a discussion
group at the National Student
Council Congress Convention in
Denver, Colorado.
The meeting will be held June
19-22.
Mela’s topic, “How May A Stu
dent Council Finance Its Activi
ties?” was selected toy Miss Eliza
beth Grant, S. A. advisor who
will accompany Mela to Denver
as advisor to her discussion
group.
Mela Royall and K. D. Pyatt
were suggested by a member of
the faculty to the S. A. Council
from which to make the selection
as to who would serve as the on
ly North Carolinian having a part
on the program at this meeting.
Only six delegates from the
state of North Carolina may at
tend the convention.
The election of Student Asso
ciation officers began this week
with the nomination of officers
by executive board nomination
and by petition.
Those nominated by the exec
utive board were: Jimmy Fra
zier, president; Karl Kasell,
vice-president; Callie McArthiir,
corresponding secretary; Reba
Miller, recording secretary;
Steve Dail, treasurer; and Sara
Thompson head cheerleader.
Campaighing and voting will
take place April 18 through Ap
ril 21 for S.A. offices. During
this time Freshmen, Sophomore,
and Junior classes will nominate
officers and class campaigning
and voting will toe April 24
through April 27.
Election of rising freshmen at
William Street School will begin
April 24 with nominations and
campaigning and voting will be
gin May 1.
Re-votes will toe held if neces
sary in S.A. and class elections.
Junior-Senior Prom
Set For May 19th;
Committees Named
Plans are now being made for
the annual Junior-Senior dance
which is scheduled for May 19.
The theme for the Jr.-Sr. has
not been announced. Funds for
the dance will toe provided toy
profit." from thr Junior da*?'
play which will be presented
soon.
Committees have been ap
pointed as follows: Skit commit
tee: Reba Miller, chairman; Rich
ard Denise Ann Smith, David
Liles, Mary Lou Roberts, Julia
Cotton, Lillian Haynes, Veryl
Trueblood, Geraldine Price, Jan
ice Jernigan. Stage Crew: Louis
Hallow, David Liles, Barbara
Keith, L. B. Staring, Pauline Co
ley, Pat Lassiter, Ixjuise Odom,
Bobby Davis, Jimmy McDaniel,
Patsy Ray, Ronald l^ice.
Other committees are Proclam
ation: Sam Donnell and Hervey
Kornegay, co-chairmen; Carlyle
Edmundson, Betty Best, Nan
Barnes, Audrey Boykin, Louis
Hallow, Margie Rose, Anna Clara
Savage, Mary Lou Raper, Win-
ford Walker, James Lewis, Chris
tine Bartlett, Edith Long Gloria
Howell, Patsy Ray, Janice Jerni
gan, Vinnie Lee Boyette, Jack
Houser, Conrad Spencer, Steve
Jeffrey, Jimmy Knight, Faye
Smith.
Song Committee: Sarah Casoy,
Lydia Alexander, Jerry Price,
Peggy Gill. Class Participation
Committee: Elizabeth Johnson,
Betty Lou Adams co-chairmen^
Ann Johnson, Margaret Bissette,
Arnold Stanton, Betty Gainey,
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Queens’ Choir
Sings In Chapel
On Friday morning the Queen’s
College choir sang for the Golds
boro High School students.
“O Morning Star”, “Jesus, On
ly To Think of Thee”, “Ave Ma
ria”, and “Poor Wayfaring Stran
ger” were some of the selections
that morning.
There were twenty-four girls
in the choir and the senior girls
at high school were excused
from class to have lunch with
them in the school cafeteria and
to show them around the build
ing. The choir sang at the First
Presbyterian Church in Golds
boro the night of March 31.