WELL DONE
THE
POINTER
BISON!
Vol. XVIII, No. 5
High Point, N. C., Wednesday, November 29 1939
Price—Two Cents
Addresses Students
Mayor O. Arthur Kirkman ad
dressed the student body twice
last week, giving the Thanksgiv
ing address, sponsored by the
Sophomore class, and participating
in the Andrews Memorial cere
mony as a past representative of
the school board before being
elected to mayorship.
OEBATING TEAM CHOSEN
TO DEFEND CHAMPIONSHIP
Heads Debaters
At yesterday’s trials George
Humphreys, Bill Curie, Arthur
Kaplin, Rahel Conrad, Carmell
Lembeth, and Joe Given won out
to win places on the H. P. K. S.
debate team.
A toltal of twenty students
ried out for these much sought
after positions yesterday after
noon. The subject, “Government
Ownership of Railroads’’ drew a
full schedule of highly interesting
and constructive talks by the
compeditors. The twenty names
were all put in a hat and drawn
out for the consecutive order of
the talks.
With no rebuttals the speeches
might have been on the tame side
bu srangely enough every one of
he compeditors put forth a sub
stantial argument making it a
difficult task for judges, Mr.
Sam Smith, Mr. Kennith Smith,
Mr. Edward Gibson and Miss
Lindsey to pick out the best of
the lot. Each speaker was given
five mintues to state his views.
The new coach, Mr. Sam Smith,
will have a hard job producing
a team that will compare with
last year’s company who carried
away the state championship
among othe debate honors.
All those who went out for de
bate will be organized into a
speech team. Among its many
activities will be to select a group
of persons from their midst to
represent the school in inter
scholastic oratorical, declamation,
and extemporaneouh contests
throughout the state.
Forum Group Is
Organized By Gibson
The Forum, the new organiza
tion under the supervision of Mr.
Edward Gibson, will hold its
first meeting December 4th, at
3:30 in room 206.
The Forum is a student organi
zation, the purpose of which is
to “better the student’s know
ledge of public quesions by
affording place and opportunity
for voluntary discussion. Its aim
will be to promote intelligent and
tolerant discussion of problems of
genuine interest to American
high school students. It will en-
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Mr. Sam Smith will coach the
1939-40 debating squad defending
its championship laurels this
year. Mr. Smith succeeds Mr.
John L. Hodges. This new post
will add to Mr. Smith’s numer
ous other duties which include
the assistant advisorship of the
student council.
IS
FAVORED B! COUMCIL
The new student government
plan is now in the hands of
Principal D. P. Whitley after
having successfully passed the
council who indicated yeterday
that they uefinitely favor the
new reorganization bill.
Mr. Whitley is making a close
study of all parts of the new plan
and it is thought that he will
come o a decision in the near fu
ture. In an interview Tuesday
the principal stated that he was
comparing the plan with the pre
sent set-up and other student
government plans used in various
schools throughout the state.
The new student government
plan was presented to the student
council some time ago in the form
of a new constitution. Late last
week the council unofficially
passed it with unanimous appro
val. With Mr. Whitley’s approval,
the constitution will go to the
sudent body for final consent.
The ever increasing number of
advocaes of the new plan are still
voicing hope for a quick approval,
and optimistically look forward
to an early date for its execution.
ANDREWS MEMORIAL DEDICATED BY
ROTARY CLUB AS STUDENTS ATTEND
Honor Society
Holds Ceremony
The local chapter of the Na
tional Honor Society held its re
gular fall induction with the
candlelighting ceremony on Tues
day morning.
President Arthur Utley presid
ed over the meeting, and after
an explanation of the four qual
ities for which the society stands,
the old members went out into
the senior class and tapped the
folowing into memberhip in this
society: Cecil Prince, Betsy Yow,
Violet Carmichael, Irene Meekins,
Howard Forrest, Herbert Speas,
Rachel Conrad, Ruth Koontz,
Marie Workmen, Juanita Theyer,
and Ramona Redman.
Various members explained the
four qualities of service, scholar
ship, leadership, and service, after
which, Mull Lutz, as Light, gave
the new members the burning
torch, symbolic of the society.
Horton Visits School,
Addresses Students
WE MISS HER!
We all look for ward to an
early recovery for crack ad-seller
Betty Warner who recuperates
from an operation at Guilford
General.
The Honorable Wilkens P. Hor
ton, who has served in the legis
lature for twenty-five years, was
accompanied by his wife, the sis
ter of Miss Anna Mendenhall,
Dean of the school, on a visit to
High Point High.
Before speaking to the stu-
departments in the school. In an
interview with a Pointer repre
sentative he remarked that the
students of High Point high school
are very fortunate to have a fine
building and many opportunities
which students of other schools
do not have.
To the student body, Mr. Hor
ton wished every success possible
and expressed the hope that the
fifteen hundred students who are
now in school here would be
educated in the workings of our
government.
DRAMATIC CLUB
The second try-out meeting of
the Dramatic Cl,ub was held on
Tuesday afternoon, November 21.
At this meeting, those who had
not tried-out before were given
a chance to do so.
Some 30 students in all have
tried out. If these students are
passed by Miss Ruth Goodman,
faculty advisor for the club, they
will become members of the club.
The club offers study and prac
tice in acting, scenery designing,
costuming, make-up, and assistant
directing. This gives the members
a wide variety of activities in
the club.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Of interest to students and
faculty is the official announ
cement that the coming Christ
mas holidays will begin 3:30
Tuesday afternoon December
19, and will last until Wednes
day January 3. The new ar
rangement will give the stu
dents opportunity to continue
their festivities through New
Years Eve.
10 Hi OF Fomot
Mr. Frank L. Judish, director
of diversified vocations in High
Point high school, announced last
week that immediately after the
beginning of the second semester
new pupils will be elected to have
the advantages of this newly in
stituted program.
He wished especially to impress
the members of the Sophomore
and Junior classes that is impor
tant that they begin to consider
now whether they are going to
college or whether they are go
ing into industry and what phase
they wish to enter.
It would great facilitate the
functions of the program if the
students..would decide npw whe-
dents, .Mr. Hor-on vLi-i. d liJl tfie^%aht to take advantage
of it.
Mr. Judish intends to have a
chapel assembly soon and explain
the merits of the Diversified Vo
cations. He will welcome com
ments and questions on this new
venture which has proved to be
such a success.
PEP RALLY
The giant super colossal pep
rally that the students of High
Point high staged at the City lot
last Thursday was a huge suc
cess.
About five hundi'ed students
gathered to show their spirit with
which hey have backed the Bison
all this year.
Seen about the meeting were
many members of the faculty
and also a great number of out
siders were on hand. Prominent
citizens of High Point made the
rally of great importance to all
the population when they added
their approval to the move.
The crack High School band
paraded from the city library
to the city lot and there added
the touch of school music to the
festive occasion. Radio station
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NEWS BRIEFS OF HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL BANQUET
The Chamber of Commerce has
almost completed plans to honor
the great Black Bison football
team at a banquet to be held at
the Sheraton hotel December 4.
Every person who buys a
ticket to this banquet, or in any
way contributes financially to
the success of the affair auto
matically becomes a sponsor. The
team, manager, and Coaches will
be honored, and the proceeds from
the receipts will go toward mak
ing a little stable monitary sup
plementation to the coaches’
pocketbooks.
The sponsors of this move
wish that it were possible for
every student in High Point
high school to attend this ban
quet. but space is limited and
those who wish to attend, must
purchase their tickets soon, as
they are going fast.
The price is $2.00 and it will
be money in a truly worthy cause.
It will assure good coaching and
a fine spirited team at High
Point High school always.
GROUNDS COMMITTEE
The grounds committee of the
Junior Class met Tuesday 21st.
in room 304 with Charles Varner,
chairman, presiding. Under the
supervision of Mrs. Thomas Bald
win, the committee decided to
work on the paper project during
the year.
Each member will be on duty
one day a week dui’ing his study
hall and will have three assis
tants. The folowing have been
appointed to serve on this commit
tee: Auhur Kaplan, Garland Hill,
Brooks Ridge, and Margaret
McIntyre.
MIDDLE MEN
Under the supervision of Miss
Louise Hunter, a new organiza-
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HOMAGE IS PAID
TO LATE LEADER
OF CITY SCHOOLS
Mayor O. Arthur Kirkman,
former chairman of the school
board committee, spoke briefly on
the importance of community hon
or for merit Thursday afternoon
at the memorial service for T.
Wingate Andrews.
Mr. Kirkman spoke also to
the sophomore class at the chapel
program Thursday morning,
speaking on “What The United
States Has To Be Thankful
For.”
He stated that Thanksgiving
should be a happy time. He con
cluded by saying “America
should be thankful that there
are no troops on either side of
us and no enemy neighbors on
either side, and that no bullets
would be put in our backs be
cause we are Protestant or Jew.”
OBSEBVED AS BISON MET
DEMON AT DIME DANCE
It was the night of that un-
forgetable game with R. J. Rey
nold’s High, when High Point
won 12-7 in the last five minutes
and the school gave a dance
afterwards:
Well, the dance started with a
monstrous “bang!” when one
of the spot-lights crashed to the
floor. Not letting this interfere
with a good time, the couples
continued their waltzing (and it
happened to be waltzing this
time-. The evening was quite
young yet.) Then it happened!!!
— someone sneaked up and
stuck a jitterbug record on the
nickelodeon. The floor seemed to
walk and then someone would
sling a little jitterbug at ou. But
you didn’t mind that. You were
having too much fun ourself—
talking, dancing, and making a
big fuss over the “men of the
hour.” (The Black Bison, of
course.) Amid the noise and
gaiety, you could hear the game
being played a second time. Some
thrilling moment was being re
enacted and it made your nerves
fairly tingle with excitement.
Now, to get back to the dance
—everything was running along
smoothly until someone spied
“Blimp” Bencini and Betty Jean
Culver cutting the rug for all
they were worth. Later on the
ballons must have captured some
one’s eye, because all at once,
the string’s of blue and white
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Etching- Presented To
Library By W. Harris
Welch Harriss, prominent local
citizen, presented an etching of
the Duke University Chapel to
the library. This is one of a
series of six eachings of the
“Duke University Centennial Et
chings” by Louis Orr.
Orr is recognized as one of the
outstnding painter-etchers of to
day. He has the distinction of be
ing the only American etcher
whose works are in the Louvre
Museum in the collection started
started by Louis XIV. In recogni
tion of his services, Louis Orr
was awarded the Legion of Honor
by the French Government.
The etching is hanging in the
library where it may be enjoyed
by the entire student body. Appre
ciation is expressed to Mr. Welch
Harriss for his gift.