Page Four
THE POINTER
March 14, 1950
Four 1949 Graduates Initiated
Into V. iV. C. Honor Fraternity
All A’s And B’s Are
Required To Qualify
Mr. D. P. Whitley, principal of
High Point High School, has re
cently received from the TTniver-
sity of North Carolina the follow
ing letter concerning four students
who graduated from this school in
1949:
“Dear Mr. Whitley;
“It is a pleasure to annouiice to
you that Jesse Hey wood Washburn,
Jr., Thomas Charles Bulla, Don
ald Vance Thurber, and Goldston
Franklin Harris from your school
were included in the group of high
est honor freshmen initiated last
night into our Chapter of Phi Eta
Sigm.a, freshman honorary scholas
tic fraternity. In order to qualify
for this honor it was necessary for
the students to make at least half
A’s and the rest B’s for either their
first quarter or their first three
quarters of their work in the Uni
versity.
“You are to be congratulated on
this record of your students and
we hope that you will feel free to
publicize their achievement in any
way that you may see fit. This
is an honor of which I feel confi
dent that the students and their
parents have every right to be
proud.
“Sincerely yours,
“ERNEST L. MACKIE.”
School Acquires
Tape Recorder
“Listen, Ma, I’m broadcasting!’’
The addition of an important
new asset to the school’s broad
casting facilities, namely, a Mag-
necord magnetic tape recorder, has
made this statement possible for
almost any student of High Point
High School.
The advantages of having this
recorder are so numerous that it
would be difficult to account for
them all here. One outstanding
advantage, however, is that it will
make possible the presentation of
programs by large groups, such as
the band, orchestra, or choir. Also
it makes possible the recording
of programs in elementary schools
or outside-of-school activities; and,
as mentioned before, students will
be able to hear their own voices
on the air, and in this way find
means of improving or correcting
many errors.
The purchase of this expensive
piece of equipment was made pos
sible largely through the efforts
of the teachers who recently pre
sented a mock wedding for the pur
pose of raising funds for the re
corder.
H. P. C. Students Begin
Practice Teaching
Six students from High Point
College who plan to make a career
of teaching have begun practice
teaching here in several classes
These are instructing in book
keeping, shorthand, English, bio
logy, American history, and chem
istry. The temporary instructors
are: Mr. Fred Walker, Mr. Burke
Woodell, Miss Mary Lynn Smith,
Mr. George Hilliard, Mr. Herman
Coble, Jr., and Mr. Donald Bost.
They will continue to conduct
classes until May, when each one
will have taught sixty hours. Sixty
hours is the requirement for any-
o n e applying for his State
Teacher’s Class A Certificate.
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Debate Teams
To Compete
On March 31 tw'o debating teams
from High Point High School will
go to Greensboro and Winston-
Salem for the triangular debates.
Debating on the affirmative side
will be Jean Larcom and Elzene
Boyles, while Frances Mull and
David Brewer will take the nega
tive side.
The query for the debates will
be: Resolve that the president of
the United States should be elected
by the direct vote of the people.
While the High Point affirmative
team is debating in Winston-
Salem, an affirmative and nega
tive team from Greensboro and
Winston-Salem will meet here to
debate.
The winning team will advance
to the district round to be held
in Greensboro. From there the
district winner will attend the
state debates in Chapel Hill.
Senior Y-Teens
Aid Polio Victims
As a special project for the
Lenten season the twelfth grade
Y-Teens have collected material
for scrapbooks which they have
taken to some of the seventeen-
year-old girls in the Polio hospical
in Greensboro.
The club members started on
these scrapbooks at their regular
club meetings during the first
week in March. In arranging the
books the girls cut out various
pictures and articles which would
appeal most to teen-age girls.
This material consists of fashions,
hairstyles, foods, and movie art
icles.
After having collected the ma
terial for the scrapbooks, the Y'-
Teens took the books and the col
lected material to the Polio
hospital in Greensboro. The Y-
teens felt that the seventeen-year-
old Polio patients would enjoy
pasting the pictures and articles
in the scrapbooks in their leisure
time.
Pemican Purchases New
Speed-Graphic Camera
Let’s have a big smile, now.
Ready? Click! Photography for
the Pemican is now almost as
simple as that, with the brand new
speed-graphic 4x5 camera they
received on February 27.
This camera has been purchased
and paid for by the Pemican to
replace the old one, which is badl.y
in need of repairs. Miss Dorothy
Hollar states regarding this pur
chase, “From now on there will
be no excuse for poor photo
graphy.”
Several pictures for next year’s
annual have already been taken
with the new camera.
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High Point, N. C.
Roving Reporter
Gets A Wliiff
Of H.P.H.S.
By TEASA BLOOM
As your “roving reporter” wms
rambling around (naturally
enough), she smelled some pecul
iar smells and "was beginning to
wonder if High Point High School
is the calm old house of learning
that it’s supposed to be.
Not that there’s anything
wrong; on the contrary, this place
is getting livelier all the time. Now
if you aren’t sure what this report
er means, just catch a whiff of the
closest air as it drifts past.
Your poor old reporter smelled
a smell and its strong, hypnotic
fragrance drew her right to the
chemistry lab., where she found
the source of the odor. There was
Paul Boyles, Jimmy Lovelace, and
Mr. Ishee making rum. Yes, they
were making rum; and as they
happily carried on their experi
ment, Mr. Ishee blithefy assured
me he wouldn’t let the boys touch
a drop and handed me a small
book entitled “Alcohol Talks To
Y’outh.”
Leaying the happy trio, this
poor bewildered “news hound”
dazedly stumbled on; and again
her nostrils were treated to a de
lightful odor; so she opened her
eyes and saw that she was stand
ing right in front of the Home Ec.
Department. As she was a trifle
short where money was concerned,
she walked into the cooking room.
There she learned the amazing
properties of frozen food, while
eating some.
After her hunger was satisfied,
she looked around and just hap
pened to notice Mr. Carr’s works
of art in mechanical drawing.
There were some very interesting
floor plans drawn with an amaz
ing technique, or so said Mr. Carr.
By this time, the stress on her
mental abilities was too much for
this reporter, so she just collapsed
into a deep sleep—from working
too hard.
Brooks, Bright, Bullock
Attend Conference
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Five High School Teachers
Attend Annual Convention
—
Nancy Bright, Cyrus Brooks, and
Buddy Bullock were among the
student council representatives
from various North Carolina
schools who attended the Social
Standards Conference at Curry
High School in Greensboro on Fri
day, March 10.
'The conference was titled
“Career Day”; and as this term
indicates, the entire program was
outlined to emphasize vocational
interests for students. This all-day
affair, which was sponsored by
the student council of Curry High,
included panel discussions and as
semblies. Prominent citizens of
Greensboro and surrounding towns
conducted the discussion groups.
Nancy and Cyrus, members of
the Upper House, and Buddy,
Lower House representative, were
accompanied by Miss Louise Hun
ter.
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Two One-Act
Plays Given
Two one-act comedies were pre
sented by the Masque and Gavel
Society in the auditorium last
Wednesday morning. These were
given for t’ne purpose of raising
money for the tape recorder re
cently purchased for use in '.he
radio station.
The first play, “A Girl in Every
Port,” met with many chuckles
and laughs from the audience. The
plot centered around a young man,
iviax Williams, who got himself
into trouble by proposing to seven
different girls. They were Tomniie
Strother, Nancy Samuels, Kent
Hubbard, Ramelle Hylton, Frances
Mull, Janet Blair, and Norma Jean
Ansell.
“Pink for Proposals,” the sec
ond comedy, was also a success.
Every girl in the cast was seeking
a proposal, so each one wore pink
because they all had found a bit
of information which stated that
men could not resist the color.
The cast included Marty Burton,
Venetia Wilcox, Bill Culler, Teasa
Bloom, Johnny Bell, Elzene Boyles,
and Jim Lovelace.
German Student
Sends Letter
Meeting Held In
Raleigh Auditorium
Last week Gayle Walden, a jun
ior, received a letter from a Ger
man school boy, Joachim Ost,
thanking her for a book which she
sent to Europe.
Gayle contributed “A Child’s
Garden of Verses” early last fall
to the book drive which was spon
sored by the city Rotary Club.
This civic organization put on the
city-wide campaign designed to
supply the students of war-torn
countries with desirable reading
matter and to promote friendly
relations between Europeans and
Americans. Much response to the
good-will effort was found in the
city schools where students do
nated a majority of the books
which were shipped.
A part of the letter reads as
follows:
“Today I want to thank you for
your book “A Child’s Garden of
Verses.’’ I received it at my school
last week. It is a fine book and
I like it very much. I am 10 and
go to the High School for Boys
in Schwab Hall, first grade. There
is also a High School for Girls
here. Schwabisch Hall is a beauti
ful town of about 20,000 inhabit
ants and lies about 76 km. north of
Stuttgart, the capital of this fed
eral state, Wurttemberg, in South
Germany.”
Mr. Walter (as the bell rings):
“Pass out quietly.”
On March 9, 10, and 11 five
teachers from Senior High School
were present at the 66th annual
convention of the North Carolina
Education Association, which was
held in the Raleigh Memorial Au
ditorium in Raleigh, N. C.
The five delegates who attended
the convention were Miss Frank
lin, Miss Blount, Miss Hunter, Mr.
Ishee, and Mr. Hunt. Nineteen
teachers, combined from all the
schools in High Point, went to the
meeting. Of these 19 the largest
group came from Senior High
School, as it is the largest school
in town. There were a total of
25,000 delegates present at the
convention from the entire state.
Upon their arrival Thursday in
Raleigh, delegates registered at
the Memorial Auditorium. That
evening at 8 o’clock the first g'en-
I eral session of the convention was
I held. The second session took place
j at 7:30 the next evening. Ending
I these sessions was the third, which
I was held Saturday morning at
9:30.
Several noted educators attend
ed the meetings where discussions
and talks on the various phases
of modern education were brought
out. Mrs. Lucille Allen of Hen
dersonville, presided over the en
tire convention. She is president
of the N. C. E. A.
New Jazz Combo
Is Organized
If you just happen to turn on
your radio one of these (Saturday
afternoons about 1:16 and tune to
Station WTNC in Thomasville;
you’ll no doubt hear the strains
of “Blue Stump,” the Kingsmen’s
theme song, drifting to you over
the air waves.
The Kingsmen are a group of
H.P.H.S. musicians, four to be ex
act, who broadcast a request pro
gram every Saturday afternoon
for 15 minutes. This group is com
posed of Thomas Potts, piano;
Budd Montgomery, bass fiddle; Bill
Lewis, drums; and H. T. Hartley,
who is vocalist for the group.
The Kingsmen are very adept
at specialty numbers such as
“Rag Mop” and “Chattanooga Shoe
Shine Boy.” They also specialize
in dance music and are willing to
play for private dances.
Little Girl: “Come in to see our
new baby.”
Visitor: “I’ll wait till your
mother is well, thank you.”
Little Girl: “Oh, you needn’t
mind; it’s not catching!”
—Gastonia High
Lazy Junior: “Let’s cut econom
ics today.”
Studious Junior: “Can’t. I need
the sleep.”
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