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'0!-r : BISON BEAT SALISBURY TONIGHT THE POINTER PEMICAN GOES TO PRESS VOL. 32. No. 5 HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH POINT, N. C- Tuesday, February 16, 1954 Concert To Be Yo Enlarge Home Economics Department February 25 Jorge Bolet, the brilliant, hand some young pianist, will present the third of this season’s Piedmont Community Concerts on Thursday, February 25, in the Senior High School Auditorium. Bolet is rapidly becoming fam ous as one of the most widely heard and greatly acclaimed key board artists of the younger gen eration. Averaging some 70 re citals a season and performing with the most important symphony orchestras, Bolet’s schedule shows the high place he has won in the music world. Although a Cuban by birth, Bolet considers himself a North American. He received m.ost of his musical education in the United States, where he has long been a citizen. When Cuba entered World War II Bolet enlisted in the Cuban army and was trained as an officer. He was sent to Washington to aid in promoting cultural under standing between the two coun tries. Bolet’s piano debut in Washing ton was entirely unrehearsed. He was a member of a large audience that had gathered one night to hear a concert by a well-known artist. The artist was late in ar riving and when the audience be came impatient, the concert man ager asked if anyone in the audi ence would entertain the waiting crowd. A tall figure in a Cuban officer’s uniform went to the stage and held the audience spellbound until the scheduled artist finally arrived. Since his release from military service and his return to the con cert stage, Jorge Bolet has won steadily increasing recognition as an artist. He has toured Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and Latin America, as well as the United States, and Canada. Beta Pennant Bison Is Named 'Brutus* “Brutus, the Bison’’ is the name chosen for the “poor little mixed- up bison” found on the Beta Club pennant. Freddy Wilson, the Soph omore who sent in the winning entry, will receive a pennant for his prize. Among the other entries in the Pointer-sponsored contest was “Black Bassun,” sent in by Ches ter Haworth, who explained that the Bison looked “fishy” to him. Jimmie Casey was undecided be tween Mae Bull (instead of Mae Bush) and Liberace, so entered both. In Brief. . . ^ , ■ - •, • if. -f - •: ' . 1 ?' , - f rf I Seated above are three members of the School Board having lunch with the school superintendent and the high school principal previous to looking over the Home Economics and other departments. They are (left to right): Principal D. P. Whitley, Mr. D. A. Raleigh, City Superintendent Dean B. Pruette, Mrs. Blake Thompson, and Mr. R. M. Campbell. Distributive Education Meeting To Be Held At Woman’s College The Tenth Annual Convention of the Distributive Education Clubs of North Carolina will be held at the Alumnae House of the Woman’s College on Friday and Saturday, February 26-27. All club members who will be spending the night in Greensboro will be expected to attend a dance and banquet held in honor of the occasion. The banquet proper will be held in the Home Economics Cafeteria. Following this, dancing will be held in the recreation room of the Student Union Building with Jimmy Payne and his Comho Orchestra furnishing the music. Distributive Education majors at Woman’s College will be hostesses for the dance. Mrs. Barbara Coble, who is in charge of Distributive Education here, has stated that the conven tion will be centered around sev eral contests. The contests are: Club Scrapbook or Club Activities Manual Contest, Speech Contest, Individual Student’s Manual Con test, Textile Identification and Use, Essay, Job Application, and Ad-Planning and Layout Contest. Of these. High Point students will participate in three. Lawrence Brown will be in the Speech Con test, Margie McDowell and Dan Odom in the Essay Contest, and O’Neil King and Cecil Coe in the Ad-Planning and Layout Contest. First, second, and third place prizes will be given for each con test. There will be two main sessions which there will be reports Siaiion WHPS-FM Chooses New Staff For Day Schedule from the secretary and treasurer, and the nominations and elections of state officers. Triangular Debates To Be March 26 Some of the other names en tered were: Humperdink, Opy- dildyke. Bully Bison, The Batter ing Bison, Cleo, Sam, Jake (sent in by Harvey Horner), Harvey (sent in by Jake Bradshaw), and Ru- benoulf. William A Murphy To Talk To Students On Crime Prevention The High Point High School Library Club will be host to ap proximately 70 high schools in North Carolina April 2-3 at the annual State Library Convention. The committees for this conven tion are: Housing: Pat Russell, Nancy Stockwell, Peggy Hayworth, Marguerite Lynch and Carolyn Jones; Transportation: Ann Teague, Dana Lee Wilkins, and Shirley Southern; Dance: Mary Ann Lee, Donrie Shepard, Iris Au- man, Lucille Towery, and Gail Sawyer; Publicity: Nancy Stock- well, Pat Russell, Yvonne Thomp son, Lucille Towery, and Ronald Overcash. Miss Virginia Frank and 27 music students from High Point High went to the All-State Orches tra meet at Duke University Feb- rurary 4-5. Betsey Bryant won first seat in the flute section. Mr. Allen Bone, All-State or chestra conductor will be at High Point High School to conduct the high school orchestra the latter part of this week. Coach Simeon has organized a new basketball team, the Red Raiders. The coach of this team is Mr. Louis Hayworth, a teacher at Junior High. The team is compos ed of Freshmen from Senior High. To bring before the student body the importance of National Crime Prevention week, next Thursday’s assembly program will feature Mr. William A. Murphy, Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The local Exchange Club is sponsoring the activities during the week. Mr. Thornton Sharnock, president of the Exchange Club, and Mr. George Gibhardt, chair man of the Crime Prevention Com mittee will introduce the speaker. Mr. Murphy is in charge of the Charlotte office of the F. B. L, and his authority covers all of North Carolina. In his talk he will not only give statistics on crime for the past year, but will probably re late some stories of his own ex periences. The theme for the week was taken from President Eisenhower’s message to the National Exchange Club: “The greatest crime is the tolerance of crime.” The week is dedicated to the prevention, rather than the solving, of crimes. The week began after Boy Scouts had distributed door tags urging everyone to go to church Sunday. Programs will continue throughout the week, with all radio stations carrying speeches and spot announcements. In much the same type of work was last week’s assembly speaker. Sergeant Carl S. Pike. His brief, fact-packed talk was followed by a truly mystifying magic show in which each feat illustrated a point of good safety behavior. Wuh tryouLiu u\or, .J-wly-chosen members of the debate team are preparing for the triangular de bates with Greensboro and Win ston-Salem scheduled for March 26. Members of the 1954 team are Betsy Lewis, Margaret Locke, Linda Groome, and Peggy Kepley. Anita Eagle and Bonnie Tilly are alternates. All schools entering this 42nd annual debate of the High School Debating Union will discuss the query. Resolved: That the Presi dent of the United States should be elected by the direct vote of the people. Elimination contests will be held simultaneously all over the state. Each debater is allowed 16 minutes in which to air his views with not more than four minutes of this to be used on rejoinder. School teams which win on either or both sides of the query go to the district contest. The two win ning teams from each district com pete in the state finals at Chapel Hill. High Point High’s negative team will debate in Winston- Salem; the affirmative, in Greens boro. Winston’s affirmative and Greensboro’s negative will conduct their debates here. In order to take care of the full day’s schedule (from 9 to 3 o’clock) on which WHPS is now operating for the benefit of the elementary schools, a new staff has been chosen. Heading the new staff are Larry Sledge as station manager; Jim mie Casey as the chief announcer, and Barbara Cook as his assistant. The members of the program committee, which schedules the programs, are Dan Odom, Bill Bailey, Betsy Lewis, Ellen Foscue, Joy Goldsmith, Patsy Wall, and Jean Blankenship. In the morning the operators are Harvey Warren, Johnny Muck- enfuss. Jack Pickett, Martha Ear- gle, Rebecca Weaver, Edwin Hed rick, Barbara Cook, Linda Groome, Paul Fine, and H. J. York. The announcers are Roger Jones, David Rawley, Libby Johnson, and Jimmie Casey. On the night schedule, which is the same, the announcers are Bob Marsh, David Rawley, Sammy Guy, Bob Blair, and Albea Chafin, while the operators are Max Par rish, Sam Austin, Larry Ledbetter, Donald Jacobs, and Dan Odom. The radio station is also broad casting tapes for the French classes. Feb. 18—Crime Prevention Week Assembly Feb. 25—Community Concert Feb. 26-27—D. E. Club State Convention Mar. 5-6—Talent Show Mar. 5-6—State Basketball Tournament Mar. 10—National Honor So ciety Induction Mar. 11—End of Sixth month 1954 Pemican Goes To Press, Being Printed Again By Delmar On February 11, the last copy of the 1954 Pemican went to press. The Delmar Company of Char lotte, which was the firm that took the individual photographs for the annual, is printing it. As in previous years, the cover will be done by Kingscraft. This year’s annual, according to Associate Editor Kitty Marsh, will be lithographed as it was last year, instead of engraved, as it has been in previous years. Litho graphing is a process by which the copy and pictures are photo graphed separately, and the nega tives of the two are put together. The same quality of gloss paper will be used. The only change since last year will be the difference in type. A lighter type is to be used to avoid that heavy, black appear ance. The word, Pemican, was chosen for High Point High’s yearbook because of its double meaning: (1) choice bits of bison meat and (2) a summary of events. By September, the new cafeteria will be completed and the cramped Home Economics Department will have been expanded to take in the present cafeteria. The Home Ec. Department will be where the teachers’ room, foods lab, and old cafeteria now are; while the present sewing room is to become an art studio when, and if, an art teacher can be secured. Preliminary sketches made by Voorhees and Everhart, architects, put the new foods lab in the pre sent cafeteria. There will be unit kitchens, modern equipment, and both gas and electric stoves. A suite of rooms—bed room, dining room, and living room— is provid ed for. The wall between the teachers’ lounge and the foods lab will be torn down and a door cut between the foods lab and the present cafe teria. It is possible that a class room for a third home ec. teacher will be included in the new setup. Since the present teacher’s lounge will be absorbed by the home economics department, a new lounge is planned where the cafe teria kitchen now is. Tentative plans also call for the cutting of a corridor between the “horseshoe’’ and the principal’s of fice. This corridor would greatly facilitate unloading. Cafeteria construction is tem porarily held up due to freezing weather and the delayed arrival of door bucks. As soon as possible, work will again be resumed and will be stepped up this summer in order that these much-needed im provements will be ready for the 1954-55 school term. While figures are unavailable as to the cost of the home ec. renovations, the es timated cost of the cafeteria is ?130,000. George Honeycutt Is February Rotarian George Honeycutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Honeycutt, 607 Woodrow Avenue, has been select ed by Mr. Whitley as Junior Ro tarian for the month of February. George, a member of Homeroom 308, is well-known as one of the school’s ace shutterbugs. In addi tion to photographing for the Pemican and the Pointer, he is a member of the DeMolay and the band, and has served on many school committees. Next fall, George plans to enter the School of Modern Photography in New York City. The purpose of choosing Junior Rotarians is to acquaint .Senior boys with the organization and workings of a civic club. The High Point Rotary Club has sponsored this activity for many years. Other Junior Rotarians this year have been Dean Mac Pruette, David Pancoast, Jim Casey, Jerry Sowers, and Marvin Williams. February Poll Students Tell Traits They Like In Dates The question put before the stu dents of High Point High School for the poll this month was: What qualities do you like in a date? 'These are some of the answers: The 1954 Pemican editorial staff included Jane iMarlette, editor-in- chief; Kitty Marsh, associate edi tor; and regular staff members: Becky Hester, Jimmy Casey, Patty Dillon, Pat Russell, Barbara Cook, Irene Whitley, Carolyn Roberts, Loui Cox, Jerry Meeks, Bobby Kirkman, Martha Packer, Vir ginia Cox. Nancy Cridlebaugh, and Barbara Byrum. Members of Business Manager Shirley Miller’s staff are Sarah Johnson. Hannah Barr, Sarah Jane Wall, Eddie Smothers, Eddie Martin, Barbara Wilson, Marjorie Boyles, Sandra Hamby, Frances Blair, Pat Tyson, Judy Rockett, Sonny Butler and Arlen Yokely. Photographers are George Honey cutt, Norman Samet, and Sandy Mendenhall. According to iMiss Louise Tapp, 1954 advisor, most people took ad vantage of the time limit and paid only four dollars for their Pemican, but a few people missed the dead line and paid five. John Hale: “A person that doesn’t have to be in until 1 or 2 o’clock — someone like Terry Moore.” Nancy Chamelin: “I like a boy who is a good sport.” Bob Blair: “I had better not commit myself.” Kitty Tuttle: “One who does not talk so much—so I can.” Vicki Armfield: “This is the description: athletic, muscles, sin cere, sweet, and handsome. Where do you find a boy like this?” Chester Haworth: “A date? What tha—Oh! Yeah! I like the kind without any seeds and that real tropical flower.” Libby Hurst: “Someone who isn’t always talking about the girl he dated last night.” Chester Hodgin: “Patsie Jarrell has the qualities of a perfect date.” (They go steady) Jerry Bullin: “I had rather date a girl.” Phyllis Conrad: “Boys who don’t break dates.”
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