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Ringin’ In By BETTY JO ALL GLORY, LAUD, AND HONOR! Our Social Standards Confer ence of this year ran eo smoothly that few of us seemed conscious of the machinery which made it do so. Yet this perfection came only after long and laborious work and planning on the part of both com mittee and advisers. Every min ute detail as to expenses, sched ules, selection of speakers, and program had to be arranged in ad vance of the event. Ralston Welch, chairman, Jane Roach, Doris Allen, Wilma Sum- mey, Heywood Washburn, Dolly Albright, Don Huber, Joanne Se- chrest, Rida Ingram and Rodney Borum made up that committee which did such superb work. If some of us who just naturally ex pect these things to function so perfectly would sometimes whis per a sincere and well-deserved little “Thank you,” to the diligent workers on the conference com mittee, I know that it would be deeply appreciated. When I think of trash, naturally the first thing that comes into my mind is the Key Club. To those industrious members of that or ganization who “tote” the waste baskets and clean our campus, we owe much, and we can say sincere ly, “It’s been a great help —- thanks.” V A cheer for “Miss Behind the Scenes of ’47,” Joanne Sechrest— our head cheer-leader and vice- president, who has done so much uncredited service for H. P. H. S.! ONE LAST REQUEST! Please, can’t we have an activ ity period next year? Some of us may never know the thrill of clutching a diploma if we don’t have at least a chance to keep up an acquaintance with our subjects. t Mascots Named At Class Meet During the recent tryouts for senior class mascots. Hazel Zim merman and Henry Overcash pi loted their youthful candidates from the preliminaries through the finals in a merry race for this much sought-for office. The entire group of eighteen “young-uns” and their overworked eighteen sponsors presented a varied program of pleading and songs, dances and games of hide- and-seek, in an entertaining and mirth-provokiing manner. Eleanor “Mike” Garst, a viv acious red-head of six, and Carey (Continued on Page Five) THE POINTER VOL. 25 HIGH POINT, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 19, 1947 No. 10 Ring and Snyder Head Pemican Staff BETTY JO RING ROGER SNYDER Dr. Humphreys To Give Commencement Address REGISTRATION IS COMPLETED Registration of students for the coming year, the office announces, has been completed so far as is possible at this time. There has been a definite increase in all classes, but the sophomores top the list with 420 pupilar; When feigning up for courses, both boys and girls seem to have given considerable thought to preparation for college and also to personal interests. Three hun dred and fifty-six musically- minded pupils have registered for choir, while ninety-five desire en trance into the band. Registration for advanced (Continued on Page Six) BOB AOAMS RECEIVES KEY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP At an assembly program spon sored last Friday morning by the Key Club, Bob Adams was award ed the annual scholarship to the school of his choice, next year’s president took office, and nine boys were inducted into the mem bership of the club. Bob Hester, retiring president, administered the oath of office to the newly elected president, Rob ert Boyles; the vice-president, “Seemore” Simmons, and the sec retary, Ralph Tilden. These last (Continued on Page Five) FAMILY SQUABBLES END AS DOOR OPENS FOR RICHARD A daeh out the door and into the car . . . speeding through town ... a quick stop at the curb ... in the door and down the aisle to a seat . . . expectancy. 'Then, the curtain arose upon the senior class play, “The Youngest”, by Philip Bapry, under the direc tion of Miss Ruth Goodman. Revealed: a family gathering . . . young comedy ... an involved plot when Bob Renfrew as the downtrodden Richard, who wants to be a writer, is kicked out of his room because Nancy, the busybody guest (Caroline Arden), is coming to visit . . . problems . . . finances . . . the struggles of the young writer . . . attempted domination by Rodney Borum, the oldest brother ... a fight , for individual rights . . . Eunice Vaughn as the weak mother of the household . . . Claude McKinnay as the brother of vanity . . . indifference to the problems of her youngest brother by Betsy Hardin, who doesn’t want to leave the luxuries of her old home . . . Frank Von Drehle, her husband, a lawyer . . . Dorothy Clodfelter as the maid . . . Cor nelia Ann Hodgin, Richard’s sym pathetic sister . . . family squab bles . . . then Richard’s falling heir to the family fortune, and the whole family owing him money . . . the solution: a trust fund and a marriage . . . youth . . . The cur tain closes . . . the house lights come on ... ^ gay mood for all, especially for the seniors, who will rember it always. THE REV. W. O. WELDON TO deliver" SERMON SUNDAY NIGHT Senior activities, which will take place after the closing of school on Saturday, May 31, will begin on Sunday night with the com mencement sermon to be delivered by the Rev. Wilson 0. Weldon, pastor of the First Methodist Church of this city, and will be climaxed on the following evening by the graduation exercises, at which time the annual address will be delivered by Dr. G. I. Humphreys, president of High Point College. COMMENCEMENT SERMON* On both nights the seniors, robed in caps and gowns, will enter and leave the auditorium in sjngle file, led by the chief marshal and the class president. Music for the Sunday night service will be fur nished by the a cappella choir directed by Mr. Emile Serposs. This program will be in charge of Mr. D. P. Whitley, principal of senior high school, and the sermon will be delivered by Mr. Weldon. ADDRESS TO GRADUATING CLASS For the first time since 1935, Dr. Humphreys will deliver the (Continued on Page Four) OFFICE FORGE IS CHOSEN FOR NEXT SCHOOL SESSION “For the first time in many a year I’ve chosen my office staff for the following year before school is out for the summer,” stated Mrs. Johnsie Oakes Jackson recently, smiling with that “believe - it or not” expression so familiar to her associates. “I doubt if this staff is complete now, however, because there may be need for more help and if so, others will be chosen. All of the girls now listed applied to me, saying that they would like to work in my office next year.” Some of the duties for which Mrs. Jackson’s assistants will be responsible are answering the telephone, filing records, meeting people who come to the office for business, mimeographing, issuing textbooks, giving out supplies to teachers, keeping the various forms accurately arranged, and going on errands about the building. So far the following girls have (Continued on Page Five) MISS DOROTHY HOLLER Staff Is To Be Named In Fall In accordance with a recent announcement, the Pointer staff for next year will not be chosen before the close of school. Instead, the editor-in-chief and all other staff members will be selected next fall from the list of candidates who have both the willingness and the ability to serve the school in this capacity. Students from any of the classes in senior high, as well as present staff membfrs who will return next year, should sign up with the adviser. Miss Bulwinkle, before the close of school. The records of these candidates will be checked and recommend ations as to writing ability and dependability will be required from this year’s English teachers. Pre vious experience is desirable but not necessary. A schedule for the staff will be arranged next fall. SUMMER SCHORL PLANS NOT FULLY COMPLETED Summer school work will again be offered in the high ^Ifhool, al though plans concerning the facul ty and the various courses to be of fered have not yet been completed. The curriculum, necessarily, will depend both upon the need or de mand and also upon the facilities available in the school. In order to earn one unit of credit, a student undertaking a new course must devote five hours a day for 30 days, or 150 clock hours, to the study of this subject. (Continued on Page Five) DAVENPORT NAMED AS ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YEARBOOK After completing a successful year as editor-in-chief of the Pointer, high school paper, Betty Jo Ring, rising senior, has been chosen to edit the other publica tion of H. P. H. S., the 1947-48 annual, the Pemican. Roger Snyder will be the new business manager, and Dick Davenport will take over the duties of associate editor. On the other side of the Jones street campus, Betty Jo served as editor of the Junior Pointer during her freshman year. Then, while leading the sophomore class as president, she became sub merged under copy as associate editor of the high school news paper. In this her junior year, she has headed the Pointer staff and, in addition, has been elected vice-president ■ of the student body for the coming year. Roger Snyder has served as vice- president of the junior class this year, and has shown his ability for this work when he served as business manager of the junior play. Dick Davenport, who came to H. P. H. S. from Winiston-Salem this year, has been an associate editor of the ‘46 to ‘47 Pointer. Other members of the Pemican staff, not including the art editor who will be chosen next fall by the new staff, are as follows: en- (Continued on Page Six) R.P.H.S. TO BE REPRESENTED AT GIRLS’ STATE AT W. C. Jean Walton, Betty Jo Hedrick, Barbara Tobias, and Nancy Greer will represent H. P. H. S. this year at the annual Girls’ State to be held at Woman’s College in Greensboro, June 8-13. This educational program in practical Americanism is intended to give North Carolina girls an ac tual knowledge of the fundamen tal principles of American govern ment. This purpose wil be achieved through participation in a non partisan project. The applicants are chosen from members of the present junior classes in the high schools through out the state, who rank in the high est third of their respective groups. The 225 girls attending this citi zenship program will hold their meetings in the Students’ Building, the center of activity in Mann City, the mythical capital of the ficti tious Girls’ State. BOOTH AND DARKROOM BOYS ARE TO COMPETE FOR HONORS When Ring assigned me to write an article on the booth boys and the dark-room boys, I didn’t quite realize the complications. When I went into the booth to get infor mation during the showing of “As You Like It”, I casually mentioned the dark-room. They looked at me as if they thought I was complete ly batty. Even now when this ar ticle appears, I may be massacred by the dark-room boys because I mentioned the booth boys first, but because the booth boys are more numerous, I decided it would be wiser to give them first place. That doesn’t mean that they are any more important, however, for both the dark-room boys and the booth boys (note the switch) are very vital to the school. However vital they may be though, they are still good-natured rivals. In fact, would probably be safer to have separate column for each of the OUR BOOTH BOYS: We, the students, send thanks Jimmy McGee, chief projectionii who has done such a swell job tl year, as well as in previous yea: Without the booth boys, you kno we wouldn’t have the numero movies, shown either in the au torium or room 203, which we s in connection with our courses, a it would be awful if we didn’t g away from the grind of schc books once in a while. They ran average of one film a day duri: the previous school year. They al keep the strange electrical equi ment in operation. This is larg the work of Clements Mullen a (Continued on Page Five)
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