The Full Moon
ALBEMARLE, N. C., NOVEMBER 25, 1940
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-“BLUEBERRY HILL” IS THE
AVORITE popular song of the
;udents of Albemarle high, accord-
•ig to a survey taken by the Stu-
;snt Council recently.
“Jeanie With the Light Brown
{air” seems to be the favorite old
jng, while “Fairest Lord Jesus”
•as chosen for the hymn.
^ The classes chose the following
jngs:
i Seniors: Popular—“Blueberry
HU”; old song—“Jeanie With the
jght Brown Hair”; hymn—“Fol-
Jw the Gleam.”
Juniors: Popular —“Nobody’s
jaby”; old song—“Beaut if ul
[reamer”; hymn — “Onward,
Tiristian Soldiers.”
Sophomores: Popular — “Blue-
erry Hill,,; old song—“Jeanie
?ith the Light Brown Hair”;
Jyinn—“Fairest Lord Jesus.”
Freshman: Popular — “Call of
he Canyon”; old song—“Jeanie
Vith the Light Brown Hair”;
ymn—“Fairest Lord Jesus.”
' “GET THAT BOY! Don’t let
liim run away!”
_ ! Come here a minute.
fou’ve got just the voice I’ve been
“ooking for. Stand right here and
ead the part of IVIr. Harris.”
“Why, that’s perfect! Do you
ike it? Would you like to have
i-he part?
S “Well, I tell you, lady, I like the
Iiart, and I’d like to be in the play,
Ij'Ut there’s one drawback. You see,
I go to Harding High in Charlotte
j.nd I don’t know how I could get
' And so you see why Miss 1
»^rald was so embarrassed after
iihe found that the boy whom
, lad heard talking in the halls
Ranked in to read a part in the
“lay, “June Mad”, had just c
“iver with the Harding football
OVERHEARD:
Tommy S.: “Miss Watson, have
I fou read all those books we’re sup-
[^osed to report on?”
Miss Watson: “Yes, of cou
Tommy S.: “Well, tell me about
j,;ine so I can report on it.”
WAS IT IMPATIENCE t
play
'hat caused Laffy B.,
ijOick, Lloyd S., and Jimmy P.,
ry to play hookey from journal
ism class? They did not succeed,
lowever, because Mr. McFadyen
ocated the boys, and one by one
hey marched into the class.
NEW JACKETS AND
VATCHES are proudly being
forn by the American Legion play-
s^rs. On the back of the green jack-
li-ts, Worlds Champions 1940, in
•j-arge white letters, catches the eyes
if everyone.
Ii Sam Andrew, seeing that John
.little had on his, walked up and
aid, “John, you had better not
)iitet Miss Watson see that. If you
ijio, she will try to add an apostro-
- BAM! CRASH! SLAM! echoed
;IO‘hroughout the Home Ec. lab.
j ^ “Oh, my goodness! I’ll have to
, Dick Foreman, a member of the
i“*Joy.s Home Ec. club had just drop-
[,ri»ed all the silver that he had wash-
Miss Freeman decreed that
le would have to wash
^ Is somebody being murdered'
-^tilled?
No. It’s just some of the boys
i_nd girls yelling as they are con-
^ inuously falling at the skating
J ink. Several students, including
’ Barbara, “Knocker”, “Sister”, and
‘Laffy” think it would have been
Eleventh Grade
Leads School On
Honor Roll List
One hundred and ten students
made honor roll for the first quar
ter’s work, the office has announced,
the eleventh grade leading with
forty.
The list is as follows: Eight
one: Jeanne Palmer, Mildred
Reap; Eight three: Doris Tucker;
Eight four: Richard Morrow,
Ralph Mann; Eight five: Betty
Mae Hatley; Eight six: Louise
Austin; Patsy Ingram.
Nine one: Carolyn Biles, Ever-
ette Ford; Nine two: J. P. Early,
Madie Lee Efird, Jack Jordan, E.
W. Ridenhour; Nine three: Craig
Eury, Martin Deese; Nine four:
Leola Poplin, Blanche Still; Nine
five: Marie Hurlocker, Novella
Lambert, Hazel McDowell, Lois
Morgan; Nine six: Highest honor:
Martha Ivey; Honor: Frances
Mann, Rose Kathryn Morton, Ticka
le: Highest honor: Eula
lia Tucker; honor: Bill Hartsell,
Betsy Ivey, Mary Jackson Lefler,
Emmalee Morton, Eunice Smith,
Carolyn Stone; Ten two: Highest
honor: Betty Jo Glover; honor:
Sarah Jean Austin, Marcella Whit
ley; Ten three: Highest honor:
Allie Ray Boyce; honor: Lois Un
derwood, Opal Talbert, P. L. Bur
ris, Arwilla Jones, Rosa Parker,
Jewell Poplin, Reed Gaskin, Evelyn
Dorton, Rose Crump; Ten four;
Brownie Carpenter, Gerald Mann,
Juanita Lawrence.
Eleven one: Highest honor: Al
fred Morton, Pocahontas Meigs;
honor: Hubert Hatley, Rachel Cur
lee, Rebecca Griffin, Betty Hatley,
Ann Henning, Hilda Hunneycutt,
Margaret Moore, Anne Reap, Ma
bel Underwood, Lucienne Whit
lock; Eleven two: Highest honor:
Margaret Nisbet, Cornelia Yeager;
honor: Gaines Whitley, Rubye
Caldwell, Barbara Crowell, Nell
Efird Denning, Eileen Drye, Mary
Emily Efird, Ernestine Gaddy, Lu
cille Palmer, Helen Russell, Flor
ence Splude; Eleven three: Sam
Andrew, Mary Jane Auten, Patty
Crowell, Ruth King; Eleven four:
Elizabeth Haire, Ruth Hill, Lois
Hitchcock, Rubye Lefler, Eileen
Lowder, Ramelle Lowder, Evelyn
Merritt, Gatha Sells, Odessa Tal
bert, Owen Skidmore, Hartsell
Woosley, Alice Smith.
Twelve one: Highest honor: Bil
lie Ray Dry, Willie Frances Efird,
Ted Wallace, Sunshine Under
wood; honor: Josephine Beaver,
Clegg Furr, Deward Lefler, Bailey
Gulledge, Lloyd Skidmore, Lena
Chandler, Betty Van Lefler, Laura
Frances Peck, Dorothy Rhinehardt,
Martha Russell, Hilda Smith, Lou
ise Shoe, Catherine Whiteley, Mar
garet Deese, Dorothy Parker.
‘Taming of the Shrew’’ to Be Given
Miss Maxine Michaels, Miss Joan Dolan, and Mr. Robert Baines,
who will appear with the Avon Players, famous Shakespearian com
pany, at the high school auditorium on Tuesday, November 26, at
8:00 P. M.
Tryouts For Debate
To Be Held In Dec.
High school debaters this year
will argue the subject: “Resolved
that the United States should adopt
policy of requiring one year of
military training of all able-bodied
en before they reach the age of
The high school debating union
of North Carolina is sponsored by
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. The finals will be
held in Chapel Hill in the spring.
Local tryouts will be held in
chapel some time before Christmas
to select the debaters to represent
Albemarle high school in the de
bating contest. The regular de
bates will be held in February.
Twelve students have already
expressed their desire to try out
and are now studying and working
on the debate with the help of Miss
Hege.
Miss Hege requests that all those
interested in trying out for the de
bate see her in room 86.
Dick Foreman On
Shrine All-Star Team
Dick Foreman, AHS Bulldogs
center, has been named on
North Carolina all-star team
play in the Shrine game at Char
lotte on December 7 to mark the
first time that an Albemarle play-
has received this honor.
Dick is one of the two centers
that has been selected on the
North Carolina team. This Shrine
game is an annual aflfair and is
played in Memorial stadium in
Charlotte. AHS has had players
considered for the honor team in
previous years, but never before
has one actually been named on
the team. Dick wiU report to
Charlotte a week before the game,
along with the other honor play
ers, so that the coaches may whip
the teams in shape.
Announcement of the selection
of players was made Sunday, and
all sports fans of Albemarle as
well as AHS are proud of the rec
ord made by Dick.
Famous Actors
Will Give Play
In Auditorium
Under the direction of Mr. Jo
seph Selman, veteran of the legiti-
stage, the Avon Players, fa-
Shakespearian company, will
present “The Taming of the
Shrew,” in the auditorium Tuesday
night at 8:00 P. M. These players
will perhaps be remembered by
many for their presentation of
“The Merchant of Venice,” given
here several years ago.
Maxine Michaels, Miss
Joan Dolan and Mr. Robert Baines,
featured members of the troup, are
presenting the leading roles.
Miss Michaels has for several
years been leading lady with the
Minnetonta Stock Company play-
s from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Miss Dolan appears with the
Avon Players this season after an
engagement in New York with
George White’s “Scandals,” and
has had wide dramatic experience.
Mr. Baines returns to the com
pany after a season with several
large radio networks, on which he
has been featured as leading man
diff’erent productions.
Because of the excellent reputa-
- 3n these players have gained
through their productions, all A.
H. S. English teachers have an
nounced that some form of credit
will be given to students attending
the play.
The play will be presented under
the auspices of the Boosters club,
who will receive any profit which
goes to .the school. Admission is
25 cents for children, 50 cents for
adults, and 60 cents for reserved
seats.
To Buy Flag
Leading the school in the project
sponsored by the combined sociol
ogy classes of A. H. S. to raise
money for the purchase of a flag
for the auditorium are the horne-
rooms of Misses Laws, McKenzie,
Ellerbe and Mrs. Troxler, with 100
per cent each.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Troxler and Miss McKenzie, the
campaign has been very successful.
Almost every student has contrib
uted four cents toward the total
Swing Your Partner! Promenade to The
Right! And Treat Everybody Just AHke!
was colossal folks!!!—even in
spite of the rain. Splatter, splat
ter—drip, drip—No, the Armory
wasn’t leaking. It was just the
perspiration pouring down the side
of the walls, where the tired and
jostled dancers had propped them
selves to rest.
‘Swing yer pard-ner and treat
every lady alike”—and there he
was swinging the women (his
wife) in every direction except in
the right one. Who? Sure, I said
it was Mr. McFadyen. He’s little,
but believe me, he can pick up
those feet in a hurry.
Ker-flop—I turned to look and
there lay Ann Gilliam flat on her
stomach. Was she hurt? You
should have seen her blushing!
Little John had an uncontrollable
case of jitters, but oh, my good
ness, as time progressed, so did
Johnny . . . Time was when people
stood as wallflowers, but after hav
ing witnessed one or two sets of
the so-called, their inside “flutter
mills” p.ut their “legging muscles”
something far better than knee-
So says many of the lookers-on.
The queer thing about ‘splinter
kicking’ (square dancing) is the
fact that when you once get stop
ped, you’re hot and still heating.”
Forlorn looks disfigured many
faces, but two particular ones were
definite above all the rest: Jane
Priester, mourning because Ted
I’t there, and Dot, bubbling
with Parker temper because
Worth (Badin) had to work that
night.
Lost . . . Rembert’s pardner—
Found . . . His gal away aposs
on the other side of the circle.
(P. S. Some guy suggested a cow
bell for her to wear) . . . Ezra
Oglesby, the honky-tonk beast (au
tomobile) fiend stood wondering
who everyone was.
Huh! Huh! . . . and did you
tice the Albemarle youth—Hugh
Snuggs—standing on the stage so
he could see? (For the benefit of
the blind: he looks to be about 8
feet tall.) Shameful! yes, terble,
Mark Whiteley and Oxygen Gas
kin. Professional, eh! We’ll have
to admit that most of ’um wer
Perfect, so says we all of us who
attended, in spite of the swea
the brow; and a careful observa
tion of the Armory about midnight
‘vealed the fact that the “Peo
ples” had retired homeward
their hard-earned ease and c
fort.
And so came the end of
square dance sponsored by
PTA. The best part of all this
was that the 300 people who had
attended, had turned in enough
money to clear sixty dollars. This
is to be used in purchasing robes
for Mr. Fry’s mixed chorus class
to use in contests which they enter
and in programs which they give.
Part-Time Jobs Open
To Many Students
With the holiday season fast ap
proaching, there is going to be a
demand for part-time workers, ac
cording to Mr. Morris, the co-or
dinator for the vocational program
of the high school.
Each person who is interested in
working should secure a social se
curity number, or if the person is
under 18, a work permit will be
required.
News Briefs
The P.-T.A. square dance netted
$60, which will be used to buy
robes for the choruses.
A three-act comedy, “June Mad,”
will be presented at 8 P. M., De
cember 19, by the combined dra
matics class and senior Dramatics
Sara Jean Austin, Gene Helms,
Jane Turner, Charles Lowder and
Annette Steele have been chosen
for the leading roles.