THE POINTER
CHARLOTTE
Vol. XVII, No. 2
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938
Price—Five Cents
HOMECOMING DAY SET FOR NOVEMBER 11
CITY SCHOOLS TO PARTICIPATE
IN AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK
November 6-12 To Be Ob
served By All High Point
Students.
Daily programs will be held in
the High Point public schools in
observance of American Educa
tion Week.
The general theme for the year
1938 is “Education for Tomor
row’s America.” Daily programs
centering about this theme are:
Sunday, Achieving the Golden
Rule; Monday, Developing Strong
Bodies; Tuesday, Mastering Skills
and Knowedge; Wednesday, At
taining Values and Knowledge;
Thursday, Accepting New Civic
Responsibilities; Friday, Holding
Fast To Our Ideals of Freedom;
Saturday, Gaining Security For
All.
Two chapel prograrrts will be
presented next week in the obser
vance of American Education
Week. These programs come on
Monday and Friday. Dr. Wyatt
'A. Smart, of Emory University,
will address the student body Mon
day morning, and Rev. Tom A.
Sykes, of Thom'asville, will speak
on Friday morning.
Last year the high school ob
served a parent’s night as did all
the other city schools. Last year
a total of 3,200 prents visited and
registered in the white schools
alone.
Complete plans could not be ob
tained at the time of the writing
of this article but it is supposed
that a variety of programs will be
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Four Representatives
To Attend Conference
Four representatives from the
Senior High School will attend
the Social Conference being held
in Burlington, November 9.
Kathryn Allen and Akers Hus-
chens will represent the student
body, while Mr. Whitley and Miss
Ward will represent the faculty.
Students will visit various
homerooms and attend addresses
on subjects most interesting to
them. Miss Ward will address the
conference on the fundamentals of
citizenship.
CLASS OFFICERS
In a class meeting Tuesday
morning. Sophomore class officers
were elected for the year ’38-’39.
The election came after a week
of vigorous campaigning. The of
ficers elected and their campaign
managers are: President: Ruth
Culler; Sarah Sloane Ray, mgr.,
Vice-President: George White;
Joe Given, mgr., Sec. and Treas.:
Garnet Hinshaw; Charles McMur-
ry. Mgr.; Cheerleader: Jo Ingram;
Council Representative: Ruby
Parker; Charles Medlin.
iSenior class officers were elec
ted Thursday of last week. The
Junior Class will hold its election
of officers on Tuesday morning
of next wek.
Book Week Plans
Announced For
November 13-19
Book week will be observed
from November 13 through 19.
Book week committee this year
is composed of Mull Lutz, Mabel
McMurray, and Grace McKaugh-
an. Tljis committee is to receive
suggestions from the student body
with regards to book week and to
answer any questions that might
ensue.
The library will sponsor two
contests. There will be a contest
in the form of a questionaire. The
other contest will be an individual
display contest. Heretofore, the
prizes have been books. This year
prizes will probably be money.
A comparitive collection of
books, showing changes that have
occured in books over a period of
years will be on display in the li
brary. This exhibition is being
prepared by students working in
the library.
Miss Capel, school librarian, ex
pressed the desire for the cooper
ation of the student body in mak
ing this Book Wteek the best ever
to be observed in the High School.
TAYLOR IS PRESIDENT
Rocky Mount Likely Conven
tion City Next
Year
Election of officers will be the
primary business taken up today
in the 12th Annual Meeting of
the North Carolina State Student
Council Congress ending its con
vention in Kannapolis this morn
ing.
Roger Taylor, president of the
Congress, is its presiding officer.
Roger is a senior in the High
Point Senior High School.
The convention will be brought
to a close today at noon. Last
evening the delegates attended a
council banquet at which Dr. H'arl
R. Douglas, of the University of
North Carolina, was the principal
speaker.
This morning by 10 o’clock it
is expected that officers will be
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ROGER TAYLOR
AS 304 WEEPS!
Room 304 Must
Entertain 306
Two minutes and a dime are
responsible for the party that
room 304 will have to give room-
306. It started this way.
Room 306 challenged room 304
to a Pointer race in paid-up- sub
scriptions on last Friday. The
room that lost agreed to give a
party to the room that won.
Since 304 lacked only ten cents
when the president of 306, Fran
ces Hedrick, came in and an
nounced that her room had gone
100 per cent, students in room:
304 feel that one thin dime cost
them the party. Another thing,
they say: “We have two more
students than 306.” Room 306 has
41 members; room 304, 39.
By the lead of two minutes,
just a nose in horse racing, room
306 proclaimed itself the first
room in the school to have paid-
up subscriptions for the Pointer.
The Thirty-Sixers are patiently
waiting for the announcement of
the place and hour, and incident
ally, sandwiches and cookies, and
other things that make a party.
Room To Room
By
Your Reporters
State Student Congress Ends
Kannapolis Convention Today
Scholastic Parade
Eight of the twenty students
who made all “A’s” fOr the
past report card period also
made all “A’s” for the first
report card period.
Once again The Pointer
should like to say “Congratula
tions.” Last month fifteen per
sons attained this excellency in
grades.
Those making all “A’s” for
the second time this year are:
Marie Workman, Juanita
Thayer, Mary Jo Wilson, Rach
el Conrad, Ella Lou Taylor,
Ruth Culler, Barbara Bradley,
and Joe Given.
Those making all “A’s” for
the second report only are:
Sara Sears, Shirley Silver,
Dewanda Lee Bissett, Lille
Mae Moore, Josephine Pope,
Irene Meekins, Garrett Hin
shaw, Ruby Parker, Mary Ann
Thomas, Violet Elizabeth Car
michael, Lois Swain, and Irene
Strother.
Occupying the lime-light in
home-rooms, this week, were
“Pointer” campaigns and contests.
For the next few weeks, indica
tions are that the high school will
be in a whirl of merry-making as
winners and losers in contests en
joy parties.
Rooms 201 and 207 are engaged
in a contest, with a party at
stake. 207 is the challenger
A miss is as good as a mile.
304 missed winning a contest by
just two minutes. Their opponent,
and the victor, was 306.
Room 316 has pledged 100% for
gratulations!
1 Rooms 202-A and 316 are ri
vals.
Room 305 has promised to go
100% for the “Pointer.” 311 is
still trying.
Seen in 207: L. S. getting ex
cited over her conduct grade.
Plans for the hofe-coming day
football game parade are going
forward in rooms 310 and 301.
For the second time this year,
205 had perfect attendance Wed
nesday.
Who’s that fellow who thinks
that a pessimist is a pest?
Officers for 316 include: Ger
aldine Hedrick, Violet Carmichael,
Louie Smith, Ruby Smith, Carl
Bailey, and Frances Brown.
In the attendance contest of
201, the girls are winning; in 302,
the boys are ahead.
Superlatives in 207 include:
Ruby Canupp—Most popular girl
J. R. Newton—Most popular boy
Doris Parham ^prettiest girl
Floyd Bryant ^best-looking boy
Ruth Dever Most studious girl
William Ed King-most studious boy
Floyd Bryant ^best-dressed boy
Doris Parham-—^best-dressed girl
Winifred Boyles——^wittiest girl
Rudolph Fieth -Wittiest boy
Louise Lurrett ^best sport—
Thurman Homey—--—^best sport
Doris Parham—best all-round girl
Phillip Burton—best all-round boy
Girl Reserves
Recognized In
Chapel Today
Eighty high school girls, wear
ing white dresses with blue ties,
took part in the Girl Reserve Rec
ognition Service this morning in
the chapel program.
The program was opened by an
introduction by Frances Langley.
A trio composed of Shirley Wel-
born, Annie Louise Brown, and
Eloise Rankin, sang “Where God
Hath Walked.” Scripture by Ruth
Ellington was followed by a
prayer led by Mabs# McMurray
and the response, “Alleluhia.” The
Girl Reserve Symbol was given
by Mull Lutz, Dorothy Price, and
Donree Setzer, after which the
girl reserves repeated the Code.
A round, “Oh, Give Thanks,” was
followed by the candlelighting
ceremony and the Recessional,
“Follow the Gleam.’.
This was the first program of
the year given by Girl Reserves
from Senior High. The Girl Re
serve Club is an organization
sponsored by the Y. W. C. A.,
with Miss Dupuy as its leader.
Miss Johnson, Mrs. Gladstone,
and Miss Love have charge of the
Clubs in Senior High.
Football Game,
Pep Meeting and
Parade Featured
All Home Rooms Asked To
Prepare Floats For the Pa
rade.
Home-coming day will be a
gala day here next Friday.
Present plans call for a pep
meeting, a “grand parade,”
and a full day of activities cli
maxed by the High Point-
Gastonia football game Fri
day night at 8 o’clock at the
Albion Minis Stadium.
Miss McCain said, however, that
certain details in connection with
the celebration have not been
completed.
Junior High School students are
to join with the High school stu
dents in the observance of this
day
All Homerooms are to have
floats and posters. These floats
will be carried by students when
they start on the parade.
Students of the High School
will go to the auditorium immed
iately ofter school. A pep meeting
will be held. At 4:15 the pep
meeting will be called to a halt
and students will find their places
in line and be ready to march at
4:30 Oj’clock.
Students will line up in the fol
lowing order: the college band
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John Murray Spoke
In Chapel Yesterday
John Murray, president of the
National Association of Student
dressed the student body yester
day morning on the General Or
ganization of his school in N. Y.
He told about the highly or
ganized student committees in his
school who take care of student
activities ranging from a student’s
bank to the operation of 90 school
Clubs.
Mr. Murray was one of a com-
fittee of 40 that visited the
world’s fair graunds in the mak
ing and passed judgement on the
bringing of approximately 500
students to view the world fair
grounds.
SHAKESPEARE REPEATS
Avon Players Present Plays
Monday Afternoon and Night
English Department Brings
Theatrical Troupe
Here
The Avon Players will present
two plays in the Senior High
School Auditorium on Monday,
November 7.
“The Taming of the Shrew”
will be presented at 1:30 o’clock
in the afternoon and “Romeo and
Juliet” will be presented at 8
o’clock Monday evening. Students
who attend the afternoon per-
frmance will be excused from
classes. Students are to report to
their sixth period class from
which they will be excused. Cre
dit will be given in parallel read
ing for attendance and reports
on the plays. Miss Muriel Bul-
winkle, head of the English De
partment, stated. Juniors and Sen
iors attending receive credit in
Drama. Sophomores will receive
regular reading credit for reports
on the plays.
The Avon paylers have visited
High Point Schools on various
occasions and their presentation
of Shakespearean Dram-a has been
recognized nationally. The corn-
actors. The company is directed
pany is directed by Mr. Joseph
Selman, who has been associated
with the company for a number of
years. He is recognized both as
an able director and a Shakes
pearean scholar.
Admission for students will be
twenty-five cents for either per
formance; for adults, admission is
fifty cents.
Tickets for the play may be
purchased in your homeroom this
morning during homeroom- period
or during the same period on Mon
day morning.
It is hoped by the Engilsh De
partment that all students will
avail themselves of the opportun
ity of being able to see thse plays.