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-H. P. H. S. ALUMNI PtEVIEW-
April, 1925
H. P. H. S. ALUMNI REVIEW
Printing Done on High School Press
Advertising by Alumni of High Point
, , High School Only
Second Issue Edited by
Nady Cates, Jr., ’22
Advertising Solicited by
Holt McPherson, ’23
VOL. 2. No 1
April 10, 1925
PARAGRAPHS
Glass of ’25, welcome to the Alumni Association.
■ On hundred and twenty-three new members com
ing into the Association this year swells the total
membership to a large figure. With the numbers in
creasing by, leaps and bounds, the question is asked
whether the crowd is becoming too cumbersom for the
holding of the annual banquet.
Crowds always come whenever a good meal is
served, and they enjoy themselves. We favor the an
nual banquet as long as practicable. If the banquet
is ever dispensed with, a social, featured by an in
tensely interesting program, should be substituted.
If you are off at college, keep in touch with the
do'ngs of your town. Don’t be a back number when
you return home.
, .Noi)e are more welcome at the third annual ban-
uet than students of the High Point college. The
establishment of the High Point College is one of the
biggest things that ever happened in this city.
Every alumni can sympathize with boys and girls
in the, Iccal high school. Those of us who experienced
handicaps when were in the high school with an en
rollment of 300 or 400 can realize the inadequacy of
the building this year with an enrollment of 700.
Citizens will decide in an election in May whether
they will erect a new high school building and expand
the school system generally by voting three quarters
of a million dollars bonds.
Every alumni owes it as a moral duty to give
his moral support to carry this election.
WHY HAVE AbT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN HIGH
POINT?
ARE THERE'tho.se who do not believe that High
Point needs an alumni association? If there are, let
them ask themselves a few questions.
What would life.be without friend.ship? Would
they bs willing, to allow the friendships that they
made and maintained during 12 years of their lives,
lamely, while they werp in school to become dormant?
The province of an alumni association is social.
It does not do any particular sort of work; it does;
not adopt projects, it does not attempt to make
money. If is an organization founded on the substantial
reck of friendship and needs no project, on business
to keep it alive. It is designed to preserve the fel
lowship and mutual feelin.g, which might become re
mote memories but for its existence.
IS THE HIGH POINT Alumni association dis-
chaiging its duty in this respect? The answer can be
neither yes nor no. The association can never fill its
full province in preserving and promoting school-made
friendships until every alumni of the high school par
ticipates.
The association has adopted one of the most ef
fective means of spreading good cheer and cementing
the bonds of friendship. Once a year graduates of
the high school gather at a banquet. Nothing.makes
a per.son more affable than a good meal, augmented^
•say, by some good music or a witty .speech. With his
appetite glorified, everything about him suddenly
clothes itself in roseate colors, it seems good to be
alive.
So the association has played a good card in this
regard. However, we want to offer a suggestion.
Let’s publish an alumni journal, similar to the present
one except better and issued at more frequent
avlsrtine. A quarterly bulletin, danve/mg news of
what alumni are doing or what is happening at the
Alma Mater, would serve a good place in the plan for
ffcllowship.
In long interim between banquets it would bring
alumnis’ thoughts together. It would reach those,
living away from High Point, who never get an op
portunity to attend the annual banquet.
If a suitable organizaticn can be effected, we fav
or a quarterly alumni news bulletin.
DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED
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Robt, I. Harris, Manager,
J. R. ALLRED, ’23