JUNIOR POINTER
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF HIGH POINT JR. HIGH SCHOOL
VOL. 9 NO. 1
HIGH POINT, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936
m«L HOLDS FIRST
REGOUIR MEETING
(Nancy Cox)
The Student Council held its first
regular meeting of the year in the
school cafeteria on Monday morning’,
September 28th. Several call meet
ings had been previously held for the
purpose of appointing temporary
monitors to aid in student control.
The purpose of this regular meeting
was to discuss plans for the coming
year. T'he Student Council Honor Roll
was discussed in detail. Other busi
ness discussed included suggestions
made by council members on ways of
improving student conduct. We want
to make our school better and finer.
Monitors were appointed to be on duty
for the next two weeks. Committees
appointed were: poster committee.
Ruby Parker; grounds committee.
Garnet Hinshaw; and program com
mittee, Vera Russell.
A weiner roast was planned in cel
ebration of the beginning of the
year’s work for the Student Council.
This took place at the City Lake,
October 2nd.
The Council officers, chosen from
the eighth grades, are as follows:
President, Vernon Russell; vice-presi
dent, Vera Russel; secretary, Ha Sta
nley; treasurer, Ruth Needham.
Mayors: Billy Lindsay, Eleanor
Yount's, Winifred Wall, Donald Dunk-
Mberger, Jack Jackson, Billy Ballard,
Betty Jean Miller, Marguerite Mur
ray, Bobby Gayle, Bill Perry, Wray
Anw)s, Mary Jo Wilson, Paul Barrin-
' g^J George Humphreys, Billy Price,
Ruby Parker, James Therrell, Cecil
Garrett, Dorothy Millikan, Macy
Jackson, Stanton Cecil, Basil John
son, Rachel Ingram, Charles Medlen,
Cox, Charlie Poxworth, Earl Cheves,
Lloyd Hepler, Horace Teague, Calvin
Freeman.
Councilmen: Dina Taylor, Dorothy
Pegram, Ralph Barrow, Lois Farlow,
a^quelyn Price, Irene Moser, Hor-
LHaworth, George Moser, Ray Cul-
' Eleanor Dodameade, Billie Fraz-
5;' Maxie Crowder, Margaret Bar-
Ion,,j'Viola Byrum, Ruth Williard,
Kendall Bowers, Helen Hunt, Lathetis
Clifton, Richard Ring, Lloyd Lackey,
Garnett Hinshaw, Sarah Green, Mary
Hauser, Norma Page, Ruth Culler,
Olive Keener, Ray Cox, Carolyn
Thomas, Ray Durham, Essie Haz-
zard, Phylliss Young, Evelyn Sellers,
and Mary Elizabeth Hauser.
MRS. FARLEY APPOINTS
STUDENT LIBRARIANS
IE
(Mary Anne Thomas)
Every year from the sixth and the
seventh grades, Mrs. Farley appoints
two or three librarians from each
room. The work of the librarians is
to stamp the books that are checked
out by the students, and to find their
cards. Mrs. Farley picks the students
that are capable of doing this work.
The seventh grade librarians are
as follows: Bill Currie, Dorothy
Chamberlain, Mary Jo Wilson, Kath
ryn Cross, Royster Thurman, Su-
sanne Lindeman, George Stallings,
Nancy Cox, George Humphries, Ruth
Hill, Antilee Dinkins, Ruth Williard,
Billy Weinell, Dorothy Leach, Cecil
Garrett, Peggy Teague, Jack Grogan,
Richard Ring, Hazel Bell, Charles
York, Garnett Hinshaw, Dorothy
Price, David Boulden, Doris Snyder,
Garnett Pollock, Sara Scruggs, Mary
Anne Coe, Mary Anne Thomas, Ruby
Parker, Mimi Wagger, Calvin Cromer,
Juanita Coppedge, Prank Hunsucker,
Thomas Tabor.
The sixth grade librarians are
Eleanor Younts, Dorothy Pegram, Joe
Hayworth, David Powell, Dina Taylor,
Elizabeth Andrews, John Haworth,
Bruce Quigley, Peggy Jane Bryant,
Arnold Koonce, Jacquelyn Price,
Helen Craven, Horace Haworth,
Stanley Saunders, Anna Lou Doctor,
Norman Silver, Bobby Hicks, John
Hinshaw, Dorothy Moffitt, Frances
Coppridge, Robert Russell, Betty Fid-
ler, and Winifred Wall.
EIGHT NEW TEACHERS
WELCOMED AT JR. HIGH
Honor Roll New Phase
Of Student Council
(Vera Russell)
Did you know that your home room
may be on the Student Council Honor
Roll each month ? Each room is given
a place there at the beginning of
every month. Can you keep it there ?
To do so, your room must not have
anyone appear before the Student
Council Executive Committee and be
found guilty of any offense.
This executive committee is made
up of the council officers who are as
follows: Vernon Kennedy, president;
Vera Russell, vice-president; Ha Sta-
mey, secretary; Ruth Needham, treas
urer. These people will hear the case
and decide whether or not the offend
er is guilty. If he is found not guilty
the room will remain on the honor
roll. If he is guilty, he is corrected
by his home room teacher and the
room is taken off the honor roll for
the month.
Let’s work together to make our
school the best!
Welcome, Sixth Grade Students
As a representative of the upper
classmen, I wish to extend a hearty
welcome to the new students and par
ticularly the sixth-graders to become
an active part of the Junior High
School student body. We hope that
you will enjoy your work with us this
year very much. —Garnett Hinshaw.
(Arthur Kaplan)
Each year we are glad to welcome
new teachers. This year we have
cix—ne-w—teaehers and two tepchers
that taught here a few years ago and
are returning to Junior High.
Mr. Looney, who is our new sixth
grade shop teacher, has just gradu
ated from the State College in Ten
nessee. He likes teaching at Junior
High School very much.
Mrs. Beaman taught here three
years ago. She has been living in
Charleston and Winston-Salem. She
was Miss Weir before her marriage.
Another of our former teachers has
returned. Mrs. Ross, who taught here
four years ago, has been teaching at
Oak Hill for the last three years. She
says she is glad to be back.
Miss Adams, who is the new cook
ing teacher, has been teaching at In
dian Trail, N. C. She says she likes
the teachers and pupils very much.
Miss Deans is teaching 6th grade
science. She says her great aim is to
create some scientists of the 6th
grade pupils.
A student teacher we had here last
year is now teaching here. She is Miss
Hayworth. Miss Hayworth has been
going to High Point College.
Miss Moser has just graduated from
The University for Women in Greens
boro. Last year she went to the Uni
versity of Chicago and specialized in
history.
One of the teachers would not an
swer a question asTced her by the re
porter. She was Miss Connell. Miss
Connell has been teaching at the
Hugh Morson High School in Ral
eigh- She was asked, “Do you like Jun
ior High better than where you have
been teaching?” Miss Connell would
not answer that, but, she said this
was a fine school.
To every new teacher, Junior High
gives a hearty welcome.
COLLECM SHELLS
Having spent my past two sum
mers at Myrtle Beach, S. C., I have
become very much interested in mak
ing a collection of sea shells and other
sea specimens.
To find these shells I got up early
in the mornings and scoured the
beach for about a half a mile. Often
in the afternoons I hunted them in
places along the beach where nobody
lived.
Most of my shells are round or ob
long and are of many sizes. The col
ors of them are very pretty. Some
are striped, others are red, blue,
white, and many other colors.
One very interesting shell is called
the sea dollar. It is ropind and about
the size of a silver dollar, is white
and marked with a perfect star on
top. Another name for this is Noah’s
Ark because when broken open one
finds several perfect formations of
tiny doves.
An unusual specimen is a shell
with a shrub-like parasite growing
on it. Attached to this growth is a
small shell called barnacle. This barn
acle attaches itself to boats, piers,
and sea 'weed.
Besides these and the usual shells
found along the beach, I have col
lected conchs, cone shells, sea bis
cuits, snail shells, pincushions, peri
winkles, and lady slippers.
Among the other interesting speci
mens are the sponge and coral, both
of which are skeletons of small sea
animals. I have more than a hundred
sharks’ teeth ranging in size from the
head of a pin to about three inches
m length. My largest find was a King
or Horse-shoe Crab whose shell is
like the armor worn by a knight. It is
about twelve inches long. This crab
has ten claws that are very strong
and powerful.
I have derived a great deal of pleas
ure from collecting these shells and
hope to add to them in the futqre.
—Mary Ann Coe.
EIGHTH GRADE PUPILS
WORK DURING VACATION
(Elsie Molette)
During this past summer many
eighth grade pupils found jobs and
worked at different places. Some made
enough money to buy clothes, school
supplies, and other helpful things.
Som.e helped their mothers pay some
debts.
Most girls that worked kept house
for their neighbors or parents. Jew
ell Nance says, “Mother works and
during my vacation I keep house.
Some things I do are to sweep, make
up beds, cook, and iron.” Edith Free
man and Carolyn Thomas kept house
for their sisters. Eula Coldfelter kept
house for her mother. Jane Grubb and
Evelyn Sellers helped their neighbors
keep house.
The boys worked at a number of
different kinds of work. Three worked
on farms; Fraley Mitchell raised
corn, Ross Huggins helped at a dairy
in Lumberton, N. C., and Grady Helm-
steller grew vegetables on his grand
father’s farm. Robert McCall worked
around in the neighborhood mowing
the lawns. Richard Ingram wrapped
pies and still does after school and
on Saturdays. Franklin Carroll
worked at the Fly Back Company
where they make bangos. J. T. Hunt
worked in a mill, Bill Bean in a re
pair shop repairing furniture and pi
ano benches, while J. B. Ridge re
paired bicycles. Two boys helped feed
people, one worked at a cafe and the
other, at a weiner stand. Vernon Ken
nedy painted signs and hopes this
may be his life occupation.
PUPILS GO ON FIELD TRIP
(Billy Frazier)
Miss Deans’ home room, 206, took
a field trip one afternoon. The pur
pose of the trip was to find insects,
mosses, ferns, floweia, water animals,
and rocks of diffe^nt shapes for
their museum. T'he^^pupils were di
vided into groups, and each group
looked for one particular thing. Thi,
trip probably pi’oved very interesting
and educational to those who took it.
PRE1E£R00SEVEEI
(Louis Voorhees)
If you have ever had the honor of
shaking hands with a very prominent
man, you can imagine the thrill I
got when I shook hands with the most
prominent man in the United States
-President Roosevelt.
On the Fourth of July the Presi
dent visited Charlottesville, Virginia,
to make a speech in honor of Thomas
Jefferson at his home, Monticello.
The scouts ushered and were the
President’s guards and some of them
worked in the first aid tents. I was
an usher and a President’s guard. I
got up at six o’clock on Saturday and
went up to the armory. From there
we went to Monticello in trucks. When
we got up there I was put in a group
of the first-aid tents. It took us about
half an hour to put them up. Then
PresEdent Roosevelt arrived and I
was put on as a President’s guard.
There were only six boys who had this
honor. We had to stand at attention
while Governor Perry of Virginia and
President Roosevelt spoke. Then the
band played “The Star Spangled
Banner” and we saluted all the time
it played.
Then came the thrill of my life. I
got to shake hands with Senator Car
ter Glass and President Roosevelt.
After that Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr.
Roosevelt went to the grave of Thom
as Jefferson and put a beautiful
wreath there.
EIGHTH GRADES ENJOY
MR. CECIL’S SPEECH
(Charles Deviney)
Mr. Cecil spoke to the eighth grade
pupils of Jr. High Monday, October
5, 1936, about his trip to Europe.
He left from New York; harbor Au
gust 8th on the ship “Europa.’’ They
were entertained by .bands, orchestras,
and moving picture shows. There
were Germans and Americans on the
ship. They were served six meals a
day instead of three.
He visited the home of Adolf Hit
ler, dictator of Germany^ He ate in
a restaurant that was four hundred
years old and saw the third largest
cathedral in the world. He visited the
tomb of the unknown soldier while
he was| in Germany. He said beer was
the chief drink in Germany
While in France, he visited the
“Eiffel” tower in Paris- He saw the
place where Napoleon was buried and
visited many cathedrals and restau
rants in France. Mr. Cecil also vis
ited the grave of the unknown soldier
of Prance. He said wine was the chief
drink of Prance.
Mr. Cecil went to England where
he visited the home where Shake-
spare was born and lived. He went
to the place where Sir Walter Ral
eigh was executed. He saw the chair
in which King Edward VIII is to
be crowned soon. He also saw the
king’s and queen’s crowns and said
that they had diamonds half as big
as your fist in them.
He returned to New York on the
sister ship of the “Europa,” the
‘ Bremen ”
Makes A Guitar—Then
He Plays Up A Storm
One year ago; nineteen new pupils
enrolled at Junior High from other
North Carolina cities. Miss Poole,
Miss Hanff, and Mrs. Freeman were
our new teachers.
Last summer I made a little gui
tar. I first got a little cigar box and
cut a hole in the middle of it. Then
I made a little wooden handle and
nailed it to the box. I got a few pot
ted ham keys at the store and used
them to tighten the strings. I then
got a piece of screen wire and raveled
off six strings. I put them on my lit
tle box which was now a little guitar.
It would make a noise that I called
music. I also got a piece of tin and
got my father’s tin cutters and made
a little tin pick. Then I played up a
storm!
—Junior King.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR
Om™ #11 HIGH
(Jo Ingram)
Miss Sharp is again going to have
an orchestra this year. There are
eighteen pupils who already know
how to play instruments. There are
thirty who are going to take different
instruments from her as beginners.
The beginners are Wayland Linthi-
cum, Helen Clark, Jack Davis, Leola
Hall, Eleanor Dodameade, Betty Lou
Isom, Rebecca Conrad, Ray Tucker,
Lawrence Holmes, Coy Moose, Rich
ard McPherson, Julia Pay Sitiff, Ger
aldine Haynes, and Bobby Holmes, the
violin players. Arthur Lyon, Edward
Sail, James Pewy Foust, and Basil
Johnson are clarinet players. Banks
Hamilton, Elmer Jenkins, and Reid
March play the trumpet. George Lyon
and Billy Bencini are to play the
saxaphone. Bruce Quigley plays
French horn, John Hayworth plays
the flute, and Thomas Dodameade is
going to play the trombone.
The ones who know how to play
their instruments are Bobby Gayle,
Dewey Owens, Carolyn Brown, Clyde
Daniels, Wray Russell, Helen Mere
dith, Jack Cecil, Doris Lowe, and Flo
ra Ann Lee, violinists. Jo Ingram and
Hunter Dalton are to play the piano.
Coy Moose and George Humphries
are the drummers. Marion Roland and
John Wilson are the trumpet players.
Orlando Rowland plays the trombone,
Tom Tabor, the clarinet and Sarah
Scruggs, the flute.
We are going to buy some new mu
sic books this year as the ones we
have are not as interesting to play
from as the new books will be.
Miss Sharp says she would like to
have as many other beginners as pos
sible. She hopes the orchestra will be
a. success feis year. -
Jujiior Store Doing Good
Business—Clerks Glad
To Serve — Drop In!
(Arthur Kaplan)
This year in the school store they
have been doing good business. The
seventh and eighth grade pupils have
been buying their supplies there.
Some of the sixth graders don’t seem
to know there is a store here. The
store is in the upper part of tower
three. It is open during home room
and lunch periods.
In the store you can buy ink, pens,
pencils, paper, tablets, notebooks, and
anything in the way of school supplies.
The storekeepers are pupils from
the seventh grades. They are as fol
lows: Jimmy Corrigan, Arline Callo
way, Antillee Dinkins, Bertha Schwab,
Mimi Wagger, Peggy Teague, Mary
Ann Thomas, Nancy Meredith, Vir
ginia Snyder, Cecil French, and Doyle
Stevenson. Miss Moore has charge of
the store.
Come in today and get the supplies
you need. T'he supplies are as cheap
as they are in any store down town.
In many instances we have in our
school store cheaper and better sup
plies.
CONTESTS FOR JUNIOR
POINTER SUBSCRIBERS
(Peggy Teague)
Many rooms had contests for sub
scriptions to the Junior Pointer.
Mrs. Beaman’s room had two teams,
the Midgets and the Giants. Mrs-
Ross’s room drew nr.ines out of a bas
ket and they had two captains. The
winning side had a surprise. Miss
Hayworth’s room had two sides, the
girls against the boys. Miss Hanff’s
room had the Early Birds against the
Worms. Miss Fleming’s room tried to
see which row could have the most
subscribers. Mrs. Davis’s room had
sides, the Panthers and the Tigers.
Mrs. Hinshaw’s room was divided in
to four groups, and Miss Idol’s class
had sides and the winning side got
out of English and spelling home
work. Other rooms had contests, also.