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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY THE HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL
VoL. XIII, No. 2
High Point, N. C., Tuesday, September 25, 1928
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A Total of Sixty-Seven
New Students Have
Enrolled in H. P. H. S.
BOYS AND GIRLS COME
HERE FROM EIGHT
DIFFERENT STATES
Coming from eight states other
than North Carolina, 67 boys and
girls have registered for the first
time in the High Point High
School. The states represented are
South Carolina, Indiana, Illinois,
Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Iowa
and Georgia. One student comes
from Ontario, Canada. Forty-two
of the newcomers are girls, while
twenty-five are boys. Thirty-two
enrolled in the freshman class,
seventeen in the sophomore, thir
teen in the junior and three in the
senior.
The following are the new stu
dents listed according to the classes
they registered in;
Freshman
Flossie Swaney, Randolph
County.
Bessie Rayhill, Newsome, N. C.
Catherine Eve, Beaufort, S. C.
Luclle Brewer, Liberty, N. C.
Leola Allred, Starr, N. C.
Grade Baldwin, Millboro, N. C.
Daphne Swiggitt, Archdale, N. C.
Gladys Robbins, Columbia, S.C.
Gertrude Clark, Thomasvllle,
N. C.
Viola Ridge, Greensboro, N. C.
William Shillington, South
Bend, Ind.
Ha Davis, Front Drum, N. C.
—* Grace -Howardr-Salisbury, N. C.
Myrtle Alice Gunn, Leaksville,
N. _C.
Lorraine Cox, Chicago, 111.
Bobbie Weaver, Hopewell, Va.
Frances Hogan, Alabama.
Octavia Hensell, Fort Lauder
dale, Fla.
Elizabeth Perry, Clartlon, N. C.
Jacklyn McMullan, Edenton,
N. C.
Verna Cundiff, Iowa.
Hallle Smith, Durham.
Louise Clowney, Columbia, S.C.
Byron Abels, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Elwood Cox, Bonlee, N. C.
Gordon Carter, Kernersville,
N. C.
Everett Clark, Mebane, N. C.
Wesley Keifer, S. D. A. School.
John Miller, Bethel, N. C.
Chester McGhee, Spencer, N. C.
James Petty, Private, N. C.
Joseph Wedon, Archdale, N. C.
Sophomore
Mary Elizabeth Tlse, Greens
boro, N. C.
Mary Eve, Beaufort, S. C.
Ruth Gross, Burlington, N. C.
Elizabeth Gurkln, Goldsboro,
N. C.
Eugenia McMillan, Galax, Va.
Anita Phillips, Elorlda.
(Continued on Page 4)
EENEflW SHEEIZ AND
INA M'ADAMS TEELS
HE HIGH SCHOOE
lEACHERS “PEAV”
I am afraid we have not been
keeping track of these teachers of
ours as we should. Why last winter
under our very noses one of them
was married and we didn t know
it. Then this summer another of
them committed the same heinous
crime. I decided to find out _just
what the rest of them did during
their three months vacation. Upon
inquiring I find that last summer
Mr. L. R. Johnston, our princi
pal, taught at Duke University.
After this he spent a delightful
three weeks touring Western North
Carolina around Boone and Banner
Elk. He also spent four pleasant
weeks arranging schedules and
doing countless other nice little
things for eleven hundred students.
Mrs. Johnsie Oakes Jackson,
secretary, spent several weeks in
Washington and at Myrtle Beach.
Miss Anne Albright, dean, was
supervisor of the Y. W. C. A.
Camp, Maqua, at Bay City, Mich.
Mr. Lewis L. Stookey taught in
summer school at Auburn, Ala.
Wft wonder where the city got its
name and if that’s why he went
there? I also understand that Mr.
Stookey had other summer acti
vities which he prefers to keep
locked in the secret chambers of
his heart.
Miss Janet Harris visited New
York and Virginia Beach.
Miss Elizabeth Lindsay spent
her vacation at her home m
Chester, S. C.
Miss Lyda Preddy motored
through the Shenandoah Valley to
Washington and back by way of
Ocean View and Virginia Beach.
I find that Miss Mary W. Aber
nathy attended summer school at
Chapel Hill, studying English,
Math, and a little dramatics. She
also spent some time in Eredericks-
burgh, Virginia.
Miss Mabel Tucker stayed six
(Continued on Page 4)
An Element of Success
The big things just a de
cade or more in the future
will he done hy men and
women who now are boys and
girls in high school. Do you
expect to accomplish great
things in your life? You can
find the answer to this ques
tion now. Unless you are
daily developing the capacity
for hard work, the answer is
“^no.^^ By hard work is meant
the capacity to tackle a task
or a problem and to stay with
the task until it is finished or
with the problem until it is
solved. This calls for a mind
with intense concentrative
powers—not merely capable
of concentrating for a few
minutes but for hours at a
time. You are each day either
improving this power or ac
complishing just the oppo
site. If you are putting forth
your best effort to master
each assignment and all the
while endeavoring to improve
your methods of mastery,
then you are on the road to
big things. ‘^For he that hath
to him shall be given: and
he that hath not, from him
shall be taken even that
which he hath.’^
L. R. JOHNSTON
Three-Fourths of Last
Year’s Graduating
Class Attend College
HIGH POINT COLLEGE
ENROLLS MORE THAN
ANY OF THE OTHERS
IICH IKl lEACH
DKAMAIIC CEOB
BEP8ESEN1AIIVES
Friday morning at home room
period Genevieve Sheetz and Rip
Tabb were elected by the Junior
Class to act on the Student Coun
cil. The ones elected last year are
not in the Junior Class this year,
one being in the Senior Class, and
the other not in school.
Wednesday morning each home
room elected a representative to
serve on a committee to nominate
the Junior Representatives. Those
elected were: Edgar Allen, Rose
Askew, Fred Holcomb, Dot Kirk-
man, Irene McKinney and Gene
vieve Sheetz. These met after
school Wednesday and nominated
J. D. Koonce, Rip Tabb, Dot
Smith and Genevieve Sheetz.
The Senior Dramatic Club plans
to produce as its main attraction
of the year, L. B. Hurley’s play
"Blue Diamonds.’’ The play is, a
mystery-farce drama with a novel
setting, staged with great success
by N. C. C. W. two years ago.
During the year there will also
be given a program of one-act plays
to assure a wider opportunity for
acting. One-act plays under con
sideration are "The Valiant, The
Man in the Bowler Hat” and pos
sibly the fantasy "Ana D’Amor”
which was successfully given_ at
last year’s Junior-Senior reception.
Membership to the Senior Dram
atic Club this year will require a
reading and report on two long
plays or four one-act plays as a
first requisite. Students who are
not members of last year’s club will
do additional work, such as panto-
mine, illustrate make-up, etc.
The Senior Club will be under
the direction of R. K. Marshall,
Louise Hunter, and Mary Winn
Abernathy.
Because a leopard can’t change
his spots is no reason for a teacher
not changing his or her subjects.
This year a number of students
have been surprised to find mem
bers of the faculty whom they
thought well rooted in one de
partment, transplanted, and to all
appearances flourshing in other de
partments.
Miss Louise Shipman is now as
sociated with the English Depart
ment, teaching Sophomore and
Freshman classes. Mr. Owens, in
order to make a careful study of
Freshman needs in English, has
one class of first year English.
Mr. Marshall and Mr. Patrick
both are teaching two classes of
Sophomore and two of Senior Eng
lish.
Miss Meador has desertedSenlors
for Freshmen. She has a Freshman
home room, and is making a study
of civics for the first year.
Miss Alcorn this year has one
class of civics, while Miss Cllnard
has one of Senior history.
Mr. King and Mrs. Harbison this
year divide the honors of teaching
geometry with Miss Louise Hun
ter, who has four classes of math.
HI. Miss Abernethy also teaches
Math this year.
Miss Smith now has two classes
of business arithmetic.
Miss Collins is teaching French
and Spanish.
Miss Tucker devotes most of her
time to the teaching of chemistry.
Mr. Sloan is no longer in the His
tory Department, all of his work
being science.
AND ElECI OFFH
Each home room held its elec
tion of officers, and otherwise or
ganized Wednesday, September 19,
at home room period. In some
rooms the treasurers had already
been elected to take care of the
sale of football tickets. Not all
rooms were able to complete their
organization, but this was done
wherever possible.
The captains, or presidents of
the room, preside over the pro
grams in their rooms, and in other
ways represent them in their class.
The lieutenants plan the home
room programs and assign the
parts to someone on their side, the
room having previously been di
vided into two sides. Each lieute
nant has either one or two assist
ants. The treasurer manages all
the financial affairs of the room
such as the selling of athletic
tickets, operetta tickets. Pointer
subscriptions, and so forth.
Senior Home Rooms
1. Miss Harris, Room 105. Cap
tain, Lucas Abels. Lieutenants,
Lucille Dunn, Margaret Strick
land. Treasurer, Carl Jones.
2. Miss Barker, Room 208. Cap
tain, Robert Morrow, Lieutenants,
Mayna Allen, Lucile Lopp, Treas
urer, David Parsons.
3. Miss Lindsay, Room 106.
Captain, Carl Connor. Treasurer,
Ed Gurley. Lieutenants, Hybernla
Hudson, Grace Walser.
4. Mr. Patrick, Room 101. Cap
tain, Wilbur Hutchins. Lieutenants
Irene Seward, Jennie Lee Welborn.
Treasurer, Banks Poston.
Junior Home Rooms
1. Miss Collins, Rooms 210.
Chairman, Wyatt Wall. Lieuten
ants, Willie Mae West, Levi Wil-
liard. Treasurer, Edgar Allen.
2. Miss Abernathy, Room 311.
Captain, Chessie Kinsey. Lieuten
ants, Raeford Faircloth, Eloise
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N. C. SIDDENIS TO
u
DUTY 10 VOTE”
Of the 112 High Point High
School 1928 graduates, it has been
definitely ascertained that seventy-
seven are going to college, and six
are taking business courses. Na
turally, all of the graduates could
not be located, but over three-
fourths have been heard from.
The local college has almost
thirty of this number in the Fresh
man class.
The schools which last year’s
graduates are attending are listed
below:
High Point College
St. Clair Herndon, Hazel Hicks,
Ivan Hill, Mary Briles, Elizabeth
Hubbard, Vernon Idol, William
Jarrell, Fern Daniel, Leslie John
son, Fielding Kearns, Inez Kerr,
John Easter, Grace Koontz, Cath
erine Liles, Mildred Massey, Bet
sey Durland, Lucille Moore, Thelma
Moss, James Whitely, Emma Dix,
Stewart Payne, Ruth Penny, Jester
Pierce, Annie Robbins, Frank Rob
bins, Reid Shelton, Hazel Shipman,
Mary E. Adams, George Anton-
Gullford College
Bera Brown, Grace Bulla, Irene
Davis, Pauline Lightfoot.
N. C. C. W.
Annie Boswell, Iris Welborn.
State
John Clinard, E. W. Freeze, Jr.,
Clyde Loman, Eccles Scott, Ollie
Shelton.
Flora MacDonald
Margaret Compton, Helen Reich,
Catawba
James Whltener, Margaret Whit-
ener, Olivia Loving.
Duke University
Parrish Clodfelter.
U. of South Carolina
John Douglas,
Meredith College
Elizabeth Stephens.
Wake Forest
Gay Hensley.
Oak Ridge Institute
W. C. Phillips.
Lenolr-Rhyne
Emma Fritz.
Salem College
Louise Salsbury, Elizabeth Pick
ett, Julia Marsh, Eleanor Idol,
Elizabeth Reitzel.
Virginia State Teachers College
Nancy Pearl Welborn.
Business Course
Pauline Binkley, Marion Black,
Lois Burton, Lena Grissom, Hazel
Haines, Edith Millikan, Nell Mc
Ghee.
Home Room Period
Schedule for 1928-1929
Monday—Assembly singing by
the entire school under the direc
tion of Mr. Stookey except on
Mondays of the fifth and sixth
weeks of each six-weeks period.
Fifth Week—Boys’ Assembly.
Sixth Week—Girls’ Assembly.
Oct. 8 Boys Feb. 25 Boys
Oct. 15 Girls Mar. 4 Girls
(Continued on Page 3)
The following announcement ap
pears on the bulletin board: "As
one of the means of arousing the
interest of the citizens of North
Carolina in the discharge of their
duty to vote, the American Legion,
department of North Carolina, will
conduct an Orator’s Contest among
the students of the High Schools
and the Colleges in North Carolina
on the subject, 'The Citizen’s
Duty to Vote.’
The bulletin goes on to explain
the requirements and the date of
the contest. Any boy or girl in the
eighth, ninth, tenth, or eleventh
grade of a public High School is
eligible to enter. The work must
be original. This must be certified
to by both the English instructor,
and the principal of the school
from which the contestant is en
tered. There is no minimum number
of words which the essay may con
tain, but it must be delivered in a
maximum of fifteen minutes.
Each school is to select its best
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H. S.
BREAKS HIS LEG AT
F
Carlton Hooks, a sophomore, had
the misfortune to suffer a broken
leg in football practice on the
school field, .Monday, September
17th. Hooks, although weighing
only 105 pounds, had been out for
practice all the season, and had
been persistent In his efforts to
make good. He had only begun to
take part in the scrimmage Mon
day when he was hurt. Aid was
given him by the coaches, and other
players, and he was rushed to the
High Point Hospital where he re
ceived treatment.
Mr. Marlette expressed keenest
regret at the unfortunate accident.
This is the first one of a serious
nature, however, that has befallen
the local team in several years.