SPECIAL
SENIOR
EDITION
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SPONSORED BY
JOURNALISTIC
CLUB
ALBEMARLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1937
Vocational Work
Offered Next Year
Elective Course for Seniors.
By JANE LEFLER.
Plans are being made to give a
great deal of attention to vocational
guidance in the high school during
the coming year. The state has prom
ised to give aid in the expansion of
this program.
There are at present several seniors
working in various institutions in
town an apprenticeship basis. It is
a plan of the school to give seniors
who are interested in a particular
work an opportunity to get practical
experience in that field before leav
ing the high school. During the past
two years, hospitals and industries of
Albemarle have indicated their will
ingness to co-operate in such a pro
gram. Many students have already
been benefited by the work done.
With the expansion contemplated,
it is hoped that no senior will go out
of high school in the future without
having had a definite and effective
guidance of vocational nature. The
school hopes to make clear to its
graduates that its interest in them
does not stop with graduation but
continues throughout life. Registra-
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CLAUD GRIGG, Supt.
IV
During the three years of Mr
Grigg’« leadership, the Albemarli
City Schools have made rapid prog
ress. Added equipment, increase,
building facilities, widened cur
riculum and lengthened school tern
are but outward evidences of th.
Grigg’s
Mr
Hi Y Club Organized
Under the leadership of T. W.
Bremer, secretary of the Albemarle
Chamber of Commerce, the Hi Y
Club for boys was organized here
this spring. The purpose of the Hi
Y Club is to create, maintain, and
extend through the school and com
munity high standards of Christian
character.
The membership is limited to boys
in high school above the eighth
grade. The local club has a member
ship of thirty, with the following of-
Jack Jordan, president.
Edward Whitley, vice-president.
Jimmy Crowell, secretary.
James Morgan, treasurer.
The club meets each Monday night
in the Christian Education Building
of the Lutheran church. Membership
in the local club includes the follow
ing boys: Bobbie Austin, H. M. Aus
tin, Jack Castevens, Roy Coggins,
Douglas Cranford, Jimmy Crowell,
Wade Denning, C. B. Efird, Jack
Jordan, Edgar Lefler, Sherman Low-
der. Bill Mann, James Morgan, Er
nest Safrit, Vernon Underwood, Ed
ward Whitley, Sydney Smith, Charles
Hopkins, John Snuggs, Ben Slack,
Paul Brooks, Clyde McDowell, Sid
ney Gulledge, James Fry, Robert
Moose, Franklin Niven, Bailey Gul
ledge, Bill Morrow, Grady Moyle,
Carl Parker, and Lee Copple.
ALBEMARLE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
Dr. Rondthaler To
Address Graduates
Diplomas Awarded Tuesday
Night.
Plans for Commencement Exercises
for the Albemarle High School are
almost completed. Dr. Howard E.
Rondthaler, president of Salem Col
lege and one of the outstanding edu
cational leaders and speakers of the
state, has accepted the invitation to
deliver the commencement address
Tuesday evening, June 8, at 8
o’clock in the high school auditorium.
The Baccalaureate Sermon will be
preached on Sunday evening, June 6,
8 o’clock by Dr. T. H. McDill, pas-
• of A. R. P. church, Gastonia, N.
Dr. McDill is rated among the
t.standing prea'-hers of the state.
His interest in young people makes
him a particularly desirable preacher
for the occasion. The school is for
tunate in securing two such able
as Dr. Rondthaler and Dr. Mc
Dill for the commencement program.
There are 104 members ’ of the
graduating class this year with 62
girls and 42 boys. This is one of
the largest classes yet to finish at
Albemarle High School. The class
St year was abo\it the same size.
At the Graduating Exercises,
Tuesday evening, the senior proces-
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Science Department
Is Greatly Increased
By HELEN MORGAN.
Among the many improvements
made in the Albemarle High School
recently, the new science equipment
ne of the most beneficial. Realiz-
that no science can be accurately
studied without the proper equipage,
the school has expended approxi
mately $500 for science materials
this year.
The new laboratory, equipped with
tables, stools, and a large sink, will
be put into use next year.
The biology department has been
increased by one member—“Jerry."
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School Installs
Movie Projector
By GWEN JONES.
The installation of a Bell and
Howell sound picture machine has
made it possible to devote attention
to visual education in the high school.
Arrangements were made with the
University System of Georgia for the
booking of a number of Erpi Educa
tional Films this spring. Among these
were “Animal Life,” “Choosing Your
Vocation,” “How Nature Protects
Animals,” “The Nervous System,”
“The Solar Family,” and “Heads Up
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Commencement
Exercises
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
June 6, 1937.
Processional
Hymn—Lead On, O King Eternal
Invocation—Mr. W. J. Bradley
Anthem—“Rejoice in the Lord”—
Baines
Scripture Reading—
Rev. J. S. Gibbs
Hymn—Love Divine
Introduction of Speaker—
Rev. C. D. Whiteley
Sermon—Dr. T. H. McDill
Anthem—“Send Out Thy Light”
Benedici
Postlude
(Music
—Goun
n—Rev. Arnold Slate
der direction of Ann]
n and Paul Fry)
Processional—“Follow the Gleam”
Invocation—Rev. Geo. B. Clemmer
“Dear Land of Home”—Sibelius
—Glee Clubs
Address—
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler
“A Brown Bird Singing”—Wood
-Selec
ed Gro
Presentation of Diploi
Mr. F. N. Patterson
Presentation of Class Gift
“Keep On Hopin”—Maxwell
—Glee Clubs
Recessional
Commercial Dept.
Is To Be Added
Typing, Shorthand, Bookkeep
ing Offered.
A well-equipped commercial de
partment will be opened in the high
school next fall. Provision for this
department was made in the new addi
tion to the high school building. The
plan is to develop as rapidly as pos
sible a well rounded commercial
course for high school students that
will equip them to go directly into
business offices.
Miss Doris Cockerham, rated as
among the best commercial students
at W. C. U. N. C., will have charge
of the department next year. Among
the couroti that will pr-^ >
fered are general business training in
the ninth grade, typing and book
keeping in the tenth grade, and typ
ing and shorthand in the eleventh
grade. Only a limited number of
students can be accommodated in this
course the first year. It is hoped that
approximately seventy-five students
can take typing, about forty students,
shorthand, and forty students book
keeping.
The selection of students will be
made on a basis of vocational plans,
grade of work done in the past, and
determination to do excellent work.
It is planned that no student who
does not give promise of success shall
take this course. The school expects
to be able to recommend its graduates
to the business and professional men
of the city.
A large number of students have in
dicated their desire to take the
course, and it is probable that the de-
partment will expand rapidly.
Senior Play Proves
To Be Big Success
'Big Hearted Herbert” Given.
By LYNNIE EAST.
The Senior Class presented an
hilarious three-act comedy entitled
Big Hearted Herbert” before two
record-breaking audiences in the Al
bemarle High School audito ium. The
matinee performance at 1:30 on May
20 was attended by five hundred
children from the elementary schools.
The evening performance at 8 o’clock
May 21 was attended by as appre-
tive audience as an amateur cast
could wish.
The play, written by Sophie Kerr
and Anna Steese Richardson, deals
with the open question as to whether
father or mother knows best how to
bring up the children. Herbert Kal-
ness is a self-made business man who
insists that his family must be
brought up in the plain traditions.
When his daughter becomes engaged
a Harvard man and his wife has
t only ice cream but Harvard men
dinner, Herbert nearly goes out of
his mind with rage. Herbert’s home
becomes safe for Harvard men only
after his family has embarrassed him
by embracing his plain tradition lit
erally. The sight of his wife in the
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SENIOR CLASS LEAVES
GIFT TO SCHOOL
Pictures Presented for Use In Study Hall
And Class Rooms
After having made approximately
$310, $200 of which was clear, on
the play, “Big Hearted Herbert,” the
Senior Class held a meeting in the
auditorium Monday morning. May
24, for the purpose of obtaining sug
gestions for the class gift. The floor
was thrown open to discussion, and
after several suggestions were made
by members of the class, the presi
dent appointed a committee to meet
with Mr. Grigg, Mr. Gibson, and Miss
Laws, the senior adviser, to consider
the various suggestions made and to
decide just what form the parting
gift of the class of 1937 should take.
Pelham Whitley, Jack Jordan, Dona
Gantt, Ed Whitley, Gwen Jones,
and Homer Carter composed the com
mittee headed by Ernie Safrit, presi
dent of the Senior Class.
The final decision was to continue
the project of furnishing pictures
the school, a plan begun by the
gift of W. C. Russell to the Senior
Class. It is the plan of the class
selecting copies of pictures by out
standing artists to create conscious
ness of art appreciation throughout
the school.
A brass plaque bearing the r
of the class will be inserted in each
picture. The Senior Class of 1937
wishes to be remembered as a class
which will inspire an appreciation of
beauty that a love for artistic pic
tures gives.
The following pictures were bought
with the money donated by W. C.
Russell and have been placed in the
study hall and the senior home
room: “Avenue of Trees,” Hobbema;
“Harp of the Winds,” Martin; “Age
of Innocence,” Reynolds; “Sir Gala-
had,” Watts; “The Gleaners,” Millet;
“Children of the Shell,” Murillo;
“The Boyhood of Raleigh,” Millais;
“Dance of the Nymphs,” Corot;
“Feeding Her Birds,” Millet; “The
Angelus,” Millet, and “The Boy With
the Apple.”
A. B. GIBSON, Prin.
A. B. Gibson, of Laurel Hill,
completing his first year as principal
pf Albemarle High School. A gradu-
ite of Duke University, he had sev-
I of %
e befor
ssful t
o Al-
irle. During his firs ,
Albemarle he has contributed greatly
wards creating a fine school spirit
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Albemarle Ties for
First Place In
French Contest
Two Albemarle High School stu
dents, Helen Morgan and Gwendolyn
Jones, submitted perfect papers in
the state French contest, thus aiding
Albemarle to tie with Rockingham
School for state honors. Out of 81
possible errors these students made
not one. Fifty-five schools were rep
resented in the contest with 710 stu
dents participating. Katherine Hat-
y was the third member of the local
Albemarle and Rockingham also
tied for first place in team work, each
team making a total of three errors.
Annual Recital To
Be Given Tonight
Miss Annyce Worsham will present
her high school piano pupils May 28,
at 8 o’clock in the annual music re
cital in the high school auditorium.
On June 1, Miss Worsham will prf 6
sent Helen Morgan and Mary P 8
ham Whitley in a graduating re’ g
This is the second recital of its S
to be given in this school. Q