News For
Students
THE POINTER
News By
Students
High Point, N. C., Friday, February 24, 1939
Price—Five Cents
LIFE ADJUSTMENT CONFERENCE PLANNED
REPRESENTATIVES THIRTY-FIVE COLLEGES
PLAN TO ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGE DAY
College Day Becoming An
nual Event In High Point
Schools.
High Point high school Col
lege day will draw approximately
thirty-five representatives from
state and out of state institu
tions on Wednesday, April 12.
College day, founded last year,
proved to be very successful.
Much interest in the various in
stitutions was shown by students,
and parents gave it their highest
approval. Thirty colleges were re
presented last year.
The purpose of this program
is that of enabling the students
and parents to learn about mat
riculation details at various in
stitutions.
This year not only seniors but
juniors and sophomores will be
able to participate in the College
Day exercises. Principal D. P.
Whitely stated: “It is just as
important for sophomores and
juniors to interview representa
tives of colleges planning to at
tend College Day as it is for
seniors. Underclassmen should
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Credit Offered
Music Pupils
Music may now be elected toward
graduation in any curriculum and
will be given credit comparable to
that given other elective subjects
with equal time requirements.
Colleges have been accepting
music as entrance credit, but it
was dropped from the curriculum
in High Point in 1933. Last year it
was reinstated in the curriculum
under the direction of Carl G. N.
Cronstedt. Mr. Cronstedt has re
ported that there has been an in
crease of fifty-three per cent over
last year of students taking instru
mental music.
Journalism is another elective
subject for which credit is being
given. Students in this class study
paper makeup and also gain ex
perience in this field by working
on the school paper.
The organization of this class
makes possible the publication of
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Juniors To Be
Inducted Into
Honor Society
The Honor Society will take
into its membership Juniors for
for the first time in the year
1938-39 on April 21.
At a meeting of the society in
the Auditorium, the impressive
ceremony, conducted twice each
year, will take place. A small
group of outstanding juniors ^nd
additional seniors will be tapped
by old members. These juniors
will be expected to lead the work
of the Honor Society next year.
Officers for this year are: presi
dent, Darrell Sechrest; secretary,
Mary Holton, and treasurer, Eloise
Rankin. Faculty adviser is Mrs.
Leila Bell Rogers.
Officers and advisors of the club
wish it announced that an article,
concerning the special service
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HIGH SCHOfllBOyS
Reward Is Offered
A free year’s subscription
will be awarded to any per
son who can supply the Poin
ter with a complete file of
the 1937-1938 editions.
The Pointer announces to
day that on receipt of all
issues published in the 1937-
1938 school year, a free year’s
subscription will be given. II
was further stated that if the
doner already possesses a
paid-up subscription his money
will be refunded.
The Pointer is anxious to
obtain missing copies for its
files and co-operation of stu
dents in this matter will be
appreciated.
Debate Teams
Selected For
Annual Meets
Business Courses
Have Wide Interest
For Many Students
Enrollment Approximate Half
Student Body In
Classes
High Point, Greensboro, and
Winston-Salem high, school de
bating teams will compete in
the annual trianglar debate on
March 31.
According to custom, the nega
tive team will visit the other
schools. The High Point nega
tive team will visit Greensboro;
the Greensboro negative team,
Winston-Salem; and the Win
ston-Salem negative team will
come to High Point.
Coach John Hodges announced
that the negative team is to be
composed of Darrell Secherst
and Bill Currie and that the af
firmative is to be made up of
I Kermit Albertson and George
! Humphreys. Alternates for the
two teams are Frances Hamil
ton, negative, and Ruth Koontz,
affirmative.
The debating team will have
practice debates with nearby
schools for sometime before the
Triangular debates start.
Meet Full Day
In Early Spring
Speakers Are Not Yet Chos
en For Conferencee To Be
Held Here.
New books amounting in cost
to approximately $400 have been
ordered by the - High School li
brary. Librarians say the books
will be ready for use in three
or four weeks.
This order of books covering
almost every field, contains ad
ditional copies of popular books
and many replacements of books
that have been worn out from
long usage or that have been
tom up by careless users.
A plea goes out from the li
brarians to the students to be
more careful when using mater
ials in the library.
Miss Gertrude Capel, librarian,
said, “The inexcusable treat
ment which the books have re
ceived made it necessary to take
a large part of the money, other
wise to be used for the enlarge
ment of the library, and spend
it for the up keep of the present
supply of bdoks.”
Last year, almost as much
money was spent for up keep as
for new books, it was disclosed.
COLLEGES WILL SOON
Tentative plans for a Life Ad
justment Conference, to be held
at High Point high school in the
latter part of March or early in
April, have been announced.
The conference, which will in
clude one entire day of activities,
will be set going by a keynote
speech in the auditorium.
Speakers for the conference
have not been chosen as yet.
After the keynote speech, panel
groups will convene in various
rooms. A questionnaire will be
sent to the students before the
conference. This questionnaire
will determine to which panel dis
cussion group the individaul stu
dent will be asighed. The topics
for discussion will be related to
vacational guidance, character,
citizenship, and personality.
The speakers for these groups
are to be, for the most part, local
people of prominence.
After panel discussions the stu
dents will meet in their home-
roms. Representatives from the
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A total of 625 students are
now taking part in High Point
high school’s extensive business i
education program.
Termed a distinct success by
Miss Emily Gentry, departmen
tal - head, the business courses
have been in full swing through
out the present school year. In
troduced in 1938, due largely to
vigorous work on the part of the
Pointer, the courses have swiftly
become popular. The students im
mediately adopted them and hun
dreds registered in the spring
of 1938, eager to participate in
business training.
Last fall Business Education
was officially inaugurated as a
regular part of the high school
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MRS. T. A. TILDEN IS PRESIDENT
Parents’ Council Organization
Will Meet In Cafeteria Today
Parent Representatives From
Each Home Room
Cooperate
Mrs. T. A. Tilden, president of
the Parents’ Council of the Sen
ior High School announced that
there will be a meeting of that
organization this afternoon at 1
o’clock in the Cafeteria.
The Council is composed of one
parent representative from each
homeroom. It was organized early
in November. The council has
been working in cooperation with
the school in the interests of a
better understanding between
school and the home and in civic
matters pertaining to the school.
At Christmas the members of |
this organization filled twenty-
one boxes for families not quite j
so fortunate. Since that time |
they have canvassed by telephone
and by personal visitation for
contributions to the Free Lunch
Fund. Mrs. Tilden stated that the
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BETA CLUB TO
GIVE ONE-ACT
LIGHT COMEDY
ip.
“And the Villain Still Pursued
Her,” a one-act comedy under
the sponsorship of the Beta club,
will be presented in the auditor
ium about the middle of March.
The play, an old fashioned
melodrama, will mark the begin
ning of numerous outstanding
Beta ■club activities.
Since copies of the play have
not as yet arrived, neither the
cast nor the time of presentation
have been chosen. A small ad
mission will be charged.
In order that no time should be
lost between the different activ
ities, the Beta club has agreed
to the appointment of a commit
tee of Amy Lou Holmes, Jean
Davis, and James Wilson to for
mulate plans for a forthcoming
social to be held shortly after
the presentation of the play.
In addition to home activities,
the club plans to attend the Beta
club State Convention, and will
probably send three or four dele
gates to the Virginia State Con
vention to be held in Roanoke,
Va., on March 21 through April
1.
Scholarships to various univei>
sities and colleges are awarded
each year to Seniors who have
attained high scholastic records,
and to winners in competitive
contests and examinations.
High Point College each year
offers two scholarships, $50
each for four years, to one boy
and to one girl attaining the
highest scholastic record during
school at High Point high school.
Guilford College offers one
scholarship, $100 for one year
only, to the next highest, girl
or boy, average. Meredith Col
lege, $100 for one year only, to
the girl attaining the next
highest average among the girls.
Those receiving scholarships
during the last four years are:
To High Point: Allen Thicker
and Sophia Taplin, in 1935; Joe
Gray and Mildred Free, in 1936;
John Kinney and Eleanor Welch,
in 1937; Winifred Lamar and
Irene Parker, in 1938; to Guil-
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Organizations
Enter Contest
The band, orchestra, and glee
club will enter the State Music
Contest in Greensboro the week of
April 18.
The glee club has been divided
into two groups which will be com
bined for the music contest. A
girls’ glee club which has recent
ly been organized, will also be en
tered.
Try-outs will be held here short
ly before the contest to determine
the soloists from the glee club.
Those who will compete in this
are: Virginia Butner, Shirley
Welborn, Annie Louise Brown,
Ella Lou Taylor, Laverne Hart-
grove, and Bob Andrews.
A string quartet and a flute
quartet composed of members of
both the Jr. and Senior high school
orchestras will enter. Clarence
Leonard will be the only soloist
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LARGE FAMILY OF ATHLETES
Betty Jo Hedrick Inspires
High School Rooting Sections
First Mascot Cheer Leaders
In History of the
School
lit
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Little Miss Betty Jo Hedrick,
born April 6, 1930, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hedrick,
has shouted and jumped her way
to fame on the hardwood as
Mascot to the Cheerleaders.
This is the first time in the
history of the school, so far as
the POINTER can ascertain,
that the Cheerleaders have had
a Mascot.
She is an Honor Roll student
of the third grade at Elm Street
School and is a Representative
to the Elm Street Student Coun
cil.
Her leisure time is filled with
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