January, 1938
THE FULL MOON
Page 3
WHO’S WHO
EDITH HUTCHINS
As one of our best, we have
hosen Edith Hutchins, an attrac-
ive tall blonde. This senior, known
or her dependability, accurateness,
ind neatness, has been made secre-
ary of the class of ’38. Before she
vas elected to this office, she had
erved as sophomore class secre-
ary of the Nature club in ’36,
ecretary of her homerooms for
our consecutive years, and Dra-
natic club secretary this year. She
B also school pianist and accom-
lanist for the school orchestra, the
iwingsters.
Playing the piano is Edith’s fa-
'orite pastime, while collecting
loems and old music is her hobby,
ryrone Power and Anita Louise
ire her favorite movie stars. In
iterature, she likes to read modern
levels by Kathleen Norris.
After graduation, Edith plans to
;o to Lexington, where she will be
kianist in a school of dancing.
Jere’s wishing you luck, Edith.
Gehring Gives Talk
Mr. Gehring was guest speaker
if the Girls’ Athletic association at
heir regular monthly meeting on
rhursday evening, January 6, at
he high school. Mr. Gehring
^tressed the importance of good
portsmanship and the ways of
(romoting it by such an organiza-
lon as the association.
After a short business session,
he following program was pre-
^nted : reading by Ramelle Pickier;
^ongs by Keith Carpenter, Grace
Branford, Juanita Thompson, and
jouise Burleson; solos by Juanita
^ompson; campus chatter by
>arah Lowder.
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C. B. EFIRD, Jr.
A versatile senior is C. B. Efird,
Jr. An honor roll student, a de
pendable member of the Full Moon
staff and a talented musician, C.
B. is well qualified to be one of
the senior representatives chosen
' be a guest of the Rotary club for
month.
A member of the Journalistic
club for two years, C. B. served
literary editor of the paper in
and associate editor of the pa
per this year. He has also been
a member of Glee club and Hi-Y
for two years. Among offices held
are president of his home room in
'37 and vice president of the
Journalistic club this year.
C. B.’s hobbies are music
modeling airplanes. His favorite
books are the murder mysteries of
S. S. Van Dine.
His outstanding musical ability
has made him well known through
out the high school. Besides hav
ing five years’ training in Don
Richardson’s school of violin, he
has taken a course of harmony
and violin under Miss Martha
Stewart, who was a pupil of Hugh
Giles of New York City.
C. B.’s greatest ambition i
be a virtuoso and band leader, and
he is planning to continue his
musical education by attending a
conservatory of music.
Senior Impressions
Girls
1. Bakery boys, Chevrolets, talk
ing, good pal, good times, skirts
and sweaters, skating.
2. Slow speech, chewing gum,
soldier (to be), Chesterfield, S. C.,
drug store, chocolate milks.
3. Parties, week-ends at David-
n, sweet disposition, senior pride,
interest in orchestra player, high
grades.
4. Decided blonde, basketball
guard, S. Fifth Street, sport
clothes, southern accent, V-8’s.
5. Brunettes, hunting (with?),
neighbor girl friend, basketball
guard, Harward Street.
Boys
1. Basketball, talk, blonde, vil-
in in plays, teasing, wise-cracks.
2. Six feet four, blonde curls,
white sweaters, Plymouth, athletics,
geometry.
3. Black hair, woman-hater,
singing, Stanly Hardware, typing.
Timidity, green V-8’s, interest
cheer leader, freshman girls,
shorthand notes.
Slender blonde, freshman
girls, Lorch Plumbing Co., friend
liness, Journalistic club, boosters.
(Answers on Page Four)
Student Theme Songs
Jo Hornbuckle—“All You Wanna
Do Is Dance.”
Lois Milton—“You Gotta Be
Football Hero.”
Alice Blue Lowder—“Mamma’.
Little Baby Loves Short’ning
Bread.”
Paul Honeycutt — “Shoe-Shine
Boy.”
Claud Shankle—“The Big Ap-
Paul Long—“You Gotta Dance.
Bill Hornbuckle—“Where Is My
Heart?”
James Tucker—“That’s What
You Think.”
Hoyle Jolly—“I’m in Love with
a Brandnew Baby.”
Thelma Sargent—“I Love You
Truly.”
Elvene Furr—“Sally, Let Your
Bangs Hang Down.”
Rachel Burris—“Mammy.”
Buck Mabry—“Double Trouble.”
Jean Lowder—“Carolina.”
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Principal Speaks
In his speech to the student body
January 4, Mr. Gibson brought out
three points: the teachers wish to
know the students better; you can’t
make a resolution to change your
self completely; you should choose
something that you want to do and
work toward it.
He said: “The members of the
faculty wish to become better ac
quainted with students. Sometimes
it may seem that they are dealing
with you as a group, but it is up
to you to help them know you as
individuals.
“Each high school student has
already lived between 75 and 100
thousand waking hours. On all
these you have built your personal
ity. You can’t make a resolution
that can change this personality in
a few days time, but you can make
one which will enable you to im
prove gradually.
“It is necessary for you to choose
something which you want to do
be, and work toward it. You
I’t have everything!”
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Backstake Notes
By Mary K. East, Dramatic
Club Reporter
That “anything can happen” is
fact well known by anyone who
has ever been in a play for public
performance. For anything can
and does happen backstage, often
things that seem funnier than any
c play. Here are a few recent
occurrences.
Do you remember the Christmas
trees on the stage when the Dra
matic class gave a poem in panto
mime? This is what happened to
them. After going to some trouble
to secure the trees and have them
brought to the school, the director
had a boy spend quite a while put
ting blocks on the bottoms of them
so that they would stand up natu
rally on the stage. Then every
thing seemed to be set. The trees
were backstage, all fixed. Came
the minute to carry them hurriedly
on the stage. As the movers pick
ed the trees up—wham! bang!
The bottom stands fell off every
tree with a noise that could well
be heard by the audience. What
a situation! However, boys propped
the trees so that they stood up, and
we breathed once more. But later
during the silent, impressive scene
of the Virgin and the Child in the
Manger someone backstage moved
an extra Christmas tree out of the
way. Wham! There went the bot-
During the same program Doug
las Cranford was to go around
backstage and switch on the color
ed lights on the Christmas tree
when the line, “The tree became
a thing of beauty,” was read,
few minutes before time for the
line, Douglas started backstage
the narrow space between the back
of the gray cyclorama and the
wall. Unfortunately he did not
know that the Glee club had pushed
the piano back there after the con
clusion of the music program. Al
so in the way were the davenport,
a chimney and mantelpiece. So
Douglas got stuck crawling over
the furniture! When he found
couldn’t possibly move without
knocking down the mantelpiece,
there he stayed. The line was read,
but no lights shone on that Christ-
Just before that poem, a certain
junior girl was supposed to pull
the curtain. But she got “curtain
fright” evidently. Miss Scar
borough signaled, “Pull the cur
tains now.” But she replied, “Huh-
uh! You do it!” That’s something
new in the way of stagefright.
Do you remember the pantomime
in which John Sides produced
music without a piano? That was
S. E. Sprinkle playing backstage.
Once John played very impressively
down the scale, accompanied by S.
E. But later S. E. got the signal
wrong and played one loud last
note long after John had stopped.
That looked a trifle queer 1
audience, to say the least.
Here’s a tip for anyone
play. Don’t make last-minute
changes in your costume. Jeanne
Hurt and Mary K. East
play the roles of two elderly
spinsters. To top off their cos
tumes, they brought at the last
minute two funny-looking, old-
Girls’ Gym Party
On Wednesday evening, Janu
ary 12, the Girls’ Athletic associa
tion had a party in the old gym.
Various games and contests pro
vided entertainment during the
evening. Popsicles were served to
about 75 girls and several mem
bers of the faculty.
fashioned hats with wide brims
and artificial flowers. When they
appeared on the stage thus adorn
ed, the other characters got so
tickled that they couldn’t say their
But for a really amusing sight,
you should have seen a group of
about ten people standing back
stage one morning, all holding
their arms above their heads! I
stood open-mouthed, just wonder
ing if they were crazy. But it
seems that if your arms are tired
when you go out on the stage, you
will be relaxed, and thus overcome
stagefright. My goodness! I’ll
take stagrefright.
The “tops” in backstage panic
was last spring just before “The
Purple Doorknob” was presented.
Lynnie East was to wear a black
hat with a veil in her role of a
sophisticated actress. But the hat
hadn’t come. The lady who had
been kind enough to lend it hadn’t
returned. Janet was stationed at
her house to get the hat as soon as
she returned. Time passed. Finally
it was only a matter of minutes
until Lynnie was to make her en
trance. Then up came Janet, who
had been running a block with the
hat. Everybody practically died
of relief—but came back to life
with a jerk when it was discovered
that Janet had been by a bush and
ripped the veil into shreds! And
there we were.
Well, it’s lots of fun on the stage
and off, but sometimes the best
show goes on behind the scenes
doesn’t it?
^odETY
Crowells Entertain
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Crowell en
tertained members of the faculty
and other friends at their home on
Pee Dee avenue, January 13.
Dancing was enjoyed during the
evening, after which a delicious
buffet supper was served.
Hi-Y Dance Given
A feature entertainment of the
Christmas season was the Hi-Y
homecoming dance given in the
armory December 26 from nine un
til one o’clock. Music was furnished
by Wade Denning and his Swings-
ters.
Members of the college set and
other young people in town attend
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