THE POINTER
KEYS TO CAREERS’
Page Four
Monday, April 21, 1947
No. 9
Bertrand Shurtleff, Wrestler,
To Be Presented By Council
P.-T. A. MEETING TO RE
HELD AT SENIOR HIGH
Miss Ella Stephens Barrett,
vice-president of the N. C. Vo
cational Guidance Association,
will be the chief speaker at the
P.-T. A. meeting to be held at
the local high school Thursday
night, April 24. Council mem
bers and parents are urged to
attend as the topic under dis
cussion is concerned with stu
dent registration for next year.
LOVE AND
SPRINGTIME
“Ah, love is so sweet in the
springtime . . .”
I certainly agreed with Mr. Rom
berg’s lyric as I sauntered down
the school steps one afternoon last
week. As it happened, however, I
was soon to change my tune.
To all appearances the campus
was deserted; it was the sobbing
of a pitiful little earthworm that
told me I was not alone. He was
sitting on the very bottom step,
watching his tears roll off and
spash mournfully on the concrete.
“How now, friend creeper! Why
so damp?’’
He looked up. “Can’t see as it
would make any difference to you.”
“All right, if you want to be
anti-social. But I’m rather curious
to know why one so young is weep
ing so fluently. It is a wee bit
odd, you know, to see an earth
worm cry.”
“Ah, life is so sad,” he said look
ing at me as though I were an ear
ly bird. “When one is not in love,
he feels that his existence is not
complete, but as soon as he finds
a mate, cruel fate steps in and
takes her away. Then life is more
desolate than ever.”
“I’m a little dense. S’ don’t fol
low you.”
“Suppose you had seen your
mate and helpmeet carried in a
jar to the biology lab, never to
come out again!”
Then he became poetic. Sadly he
crooned:
“I just passed by the bug lab,
I saw my sweetheart there
All spread out on a wax pan.
So dead, so gaunt, so bare.
Sixteen segments were miss
ing.
Her clitellum she did lack.
My true love went to the bug
lab.
And she ain’t never coming
back.”
It was very sad . . .
HODGE-ROSCOE SUO
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the insertion of doors and windows.
The purpose of the committee in
building this set is not only to fur
nish an appropriate setting for this
year’s performance, but also to
leave to the high scholo a perman
ent indoor scene for other senior
classes in the years to come.
The committee includes the fol
lowing: Ralston Welch (chair
man), Donald Spencer, Leon
Greene, Roger Hedrick, Dick Kel-
1am, and Jimmy McGhee.
DUREAU TO ANALYZE
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individual can see definitely along
which vocational pattern his in
terests run. Next year any pupil
may make use of the interest test
in choosing his vocation.
Are wrestling titles honestly
earned ?
How much of each contest is
showmanship ?
Are the endings arranged?
These are a few of the many
questions that Mr. Bertrand Shurt
leff will answer in the last of this
year’s series of the Southeast
School Assemblies, sponsored by
our Student Council Association.
Mr. Shurtleff, far from being
the tough type that one usually
associates with athletics, is a bril
liant and witty entertainer who
has taught English for over twen
ty years after majoring in the sub
ject at Brown University.
He presents in this performance
an unusual combination of speak
ing skill, showmanship, excellent
and smooth-flowing diction, knowl
edge of wrestling, physical ability
and abounding personality in
which his unusual sense of humor
predominates.
Using members of the audience,
he demonstrates vividly just how
professional performers help each
other present their entertainment.
Picking strangers from the crowd,
he swiftly applies to them, or al
lows them to apply to him, the
most brutal holds, explaining rap
idly and clearly which are dan
gerous and which are purely for
the mystification and entertain
ment of the crowd.
Many may think the subject
would not appeal to girls and
women but some of his most ar
dent fans are ladies.
Admission for this demonstra
tion, to be given Friday, April 25,
is only twenty-five cents.
DEMOCRACY
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land Ring as garbage collector and
Lib Stone as High Point’s first
“fire-woman,” are looking forward
with pleasure to their brief terms
of office.
Dr. Dennis H. Cooke, Presi
dent of Eastern Carolina Tea
chers’ College, will be the main
speaker at the Social Standards
Conference on May 7.
FARLOW IS CHOSEN
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Doris Stone, Mary Lou Stanton,
Maxine Farlowe, Carolyn Morris,
and Amanda Gekas, representing
the two high school home ecconom-
ics clubs. Miss Mary Ella Ingram
and Mrs. Lidie P. Horton, instruct
ors, were also present.
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POINTER before our final pub
lication, May 12, which will be
the anual senior edition.
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POINTERS: It facilitated the
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College for Teachers in Nashville,
Tennessee.
VARIED PANEL DISCUSSIONS
There will be twenty-three pan
el groups, some of which are con
cerned with careers, while others
deal with such subjects as “Per
sonality and Charm,” “Youth and
Crime,” and “Peace Relations.”
Speakers who have accepted in
vitations to be present at the con
ference include the following: Mr.
Paul Robinson will speak on music:
Misses Ethel F. Burton and Mau-
rine Sykes, on nursing; Mrs. Clyde
W. Milser, co-ediquette; Mrs. Mau-
rine Peace, cosmetology.
Dr. N. M. Harrison will discuss
preparation for college; Mr. John
Kalte, salesmanship; Mr. Bruce
Thorburn, youth and crime; Dr.
George T. Wood, medicine; Mr. T.
M. Breedon, aviation; Mr. Edgar
H. Hartley, personality and charm;
Mr. Thomas W. Sprinkle, law.
Prof. W. F. Bobcock will talk on
civil engineering; Prof. E. W.
Winkler, on electrical engineering;
Mr. Gary Davis, radio; Mr. Don
Payne, religious education; the
Rev. Paul Hardin, race relations,
and Mr. Charles F. Carroll, teach
ing.
The committee for the confer
ence is composed of the following
members: Ralston Welch, chair
man: Rida Ingram, Heywood
Washburn, Jackie Meekins, Dolly
Albright, Jane Roach, Rodney
Borum, Doris Allen, Joanne Sech-
rest, Wilma Summey, Don Huber,
and Miss Bain Johnson, faculty ad
viser.
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