JUNIOR POINTER
UBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF HIGH POINT JR. HIGH SCHOOL
EDITED AND P
VOL. 9 NO. 4
HIGH POINT, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937
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Junior High School Honor Roll
(Nancy Cox)
This year, for the first time, the
Student Council will have a complete
new organization for the spring se
mester. New representatives were
elected from each room in order to
give more people a chance to cooper
ate with Student Council work. The
first regular meeting will be held in
the cafeteria on February 1, at 8:45
o’clock.
There are many things the new
members want to keep in mind to
work on and to improve. Some of
them are the order in the halls, pro
tecting the grass, and order in the
cafeteria and the towers. We are
quite sure, with the help of the Stu
dent Council, that our school will be
kept as orderly as it was during the
first part of the year.
The various committees were ap
pointed as follows: poster commit
tee, Frances Edwards, Ruby Parker
and Arlene Hedrick; ground commit
tee, Mimi Wagger, and program com
mittee, Byron Grandjean.
The officers elected from the
seventh grades are as follows: presi
dent, George Humphries; vice presi
dent, Byron Grandjean; secretary,
Betty Lee Scruggs; and treasurer,
George Stallings.
The mayors are as follows: Gus
Muckenfuss, Willard Wilson, Edna
Pierce, Paul Samuels, Elizabeth An
drews, Lula Mae Butler, Melvin Gen
try, Horace Teague, Grady Helmstet-
ler, James Rame, Billy Kivett, Harry
Rothrock, Joe Gibson, Doris Loflin,
Arnold Koonce, Earl Cheves, Lewis
Watkins, Gloria Ilderton, Stewart
Stone, Julia McFarland, Marguerite
Byerly, Carl Erickson, Doris McKin
ney, Margaret Foust, Frank Hun-
sucker, Robert Russell, Margaret
Price, Charles Foxworth, Everette
Towery, Mimi Wagger, Charles Harp
er, and Ivan Burton.
Councilmen: Helen Biss’ette, Cath-
rine Cross, Carter Lassiter, Elaine
Welborn, Billy Carroll, Russell Payne,
Emma Peeler, Lucille Spoone, Emily
Spradley, Helen Hunt, Frances Copp-
ridge, Helen Craven, Estelle Leyton,
Elmer Burns, Tommy Stanton, Eliza
beth Lawson, Bobby Lindsay, W. E.
Anderson, Gloria Packer, Jackie
Childs, George White, Marjie Mor
gan, Roy Agner, Herbert Hodgin,
Nancy Meredith, Rebekah Conrad,
Jimmie Corrigan, Carolyn Thomas,
Loretta Culver, Frank Montgomery,
Antilee Dinkins, and Bill Currie.
8TH GRADES
Margaret Causby.
7TH GRADES
R. G. Kearns, Charles Saunders,
Catherine Albertson, Nancy Cox, Sy
bil Lowder, Frances Edwards, Evelyn
Smith, Charles Harper, Antilee Dink
ins, Hunter Dalton, Williard Wilson,
Betty Jean Bales, Katherine Cross,
Mary Jo Wilson, CTiarles Smith, Ar
thur Kaplan, Mary Ann Coe, Gloria
Ilderton, Mary Ann Thomas, Jo In
gram, AiTine Calloway, Mary Louise
Hasty, Peggy Teague, Carl Erickson,
Anna Lee Hicks, Billy Buie, Marion
Rowland, Marjie Morgan, Betty Lee
Scruggs, Margaret Price, Wayman
Leftwich, Royster Thurman, Marie
Spencer, Virginia Snyder, Ruby Park
er, Sarah Hutchens, Helen Gibson,
Coy Moose, James Dancy, Herbert
Hodgin, Lawrence Holmes, Garnett
Pollock, Doris Culler, Margaret Foust,
Mary Grace Hussey, Miriam McCall,
Bertha Schwab, Nancy Smith, Doris
Snyder, Frances Foster, Louise Lin-
thicum, Maurine Sykes, Roy Agner,
Garnett Hinshaw, Doris McKinney,
June Phillips, Dorothy Price, Edith
Seckler, Phyllis Strickland, Frank
Hunsucker, Ruth Culler, Nancy Mere
dith, Zula Mae Spencer, Lois Swaim,
Erline Smith, Myrtle Davis, Lila Mae
NEW BOOKS ADDED TO
JUNIOR HIGH LIBRARY
Butler, Clark Wilson, Jimmy Smith,
Hassalyne Brewer, Louis Voorhees,
Olive Keener, Elaine Welborn, Bobby
Gayle.
6TH GRADES
Eleanor Younts, Clinton Vanhoy,
Alexander Ferree, Thedis Parrish,
Helen Bissette, Winifred Wall, Billy
Lindsay, Gorrell Speas, Elizabeth An
drews, Emily Cobb, Mary Edith Fer
ree, Helen Lee, Elizabeth Reid, Dina
Taylor, Fred Gueyn Woodruff, Horace
Haworth, Stanley Saunders, Lewis
Watkins, Jean Hardin, Bobbie Lind
say, Lucille Lax, Betty Jean Miller,
Peggy Bryant, Betty Jean Culver,
Helen Craven, Irene Moose, Helen
Pierce, Meredith Clark Slane, Harry
Rothrock, Bill Tilden, Billie Frazier,
Rebekah Conrad, Harry Fleming,
Robert Russell, Betty Fidler, Lawana
Mooney, Wray Cranford, John McFar
land, Ellen Charles, Ellen Childs,
Azielee Kepley, Hallie Peatross, Jac
queline Price, Roy Culler, Joe Gibson,
Bobby Hicks, Billy Peak, Estelle Ley-
ton, Dorothy Moffitt, Billy Kivett,
Leoda Hall, Frances Coppridge, Tom
my Stanton, Julia Dell Sears, Sarah
King, J. D. Holland, Norman Silver,
Anna Lou Doctor, Jennie Lou Jones,
Marguerite Murray, Gloria Packer,
Marjorie Payne, Margaret Perry,
Helen Clark.
(Mary Ann Thomas)
We are glad to know that Mrs. Far
ley has bought new books to add to
our library. Most of them are non
fiction, but she expects some fiction
books to come later.
“Carcajou,” a book about a giant
weasel hated and feared by man and
beast; “Enos Miles,” a fascinating
book about a naturalist’s life; “The
Wolf Song,” an Indian story, is very
exciting. A book enjoyed by most
boys is called “The Wonder Book of
the Air.” “Umi,” a thrilling story of
how a Hawaiian boy became a king,
and “Children of Banana Land” will
be enjoyed by everyone. “The Story
Book of Earth’s Treasures” is a very
pretty non-fiction book; “Tales from
a Finnish Tupa,” a book with many
interesting stories;
PUPILS lU 104 Ely
LECTURE ON NIEKICO
(Nancy Cox)
The Student Council held its regu
lar meeting in the cafeteria on Mon
day, January 18. We discussed rules
and ways to make our school more
orderly in the coming weeks and
made resolutions which we hope will
be carried out. We are presenting
these suggestions to the spring organ
ization. We want our bicycle shed to
be more orderly, the path in front to
grow with grass, to keep our halls
and towers quieter, and to keep paper
off the grounds.
At this meeting, each officer and
stories of courage and love for girls;
“Chiyo’s Return” will be enjoyed;
“Sing Sands,” is a story of an Indian
girl; “Twenty Years Under the Sea,”
will be interesting to sea lovers;
“Skyscrapers” shows our large build
ings of today; “New Illustrated Na
tural History of the World,” has many
interesting pictures; “Nip and Tuck,”
shows real pictures of two little bears
and their adventures. Some other
books are “The Diary of Selma Lager-
lof,” “Houses In America,” “Alban
ian Wonder Tales,” “Colette and
Baba in Timbuctoo,” “The Birth of
Rome,” “Afke’s Ten,” “The Story of
the Bible,” “George Washington,”
“The Prize Song,” “The Book of Liv
ing Reptiles, “Authors of Today and
Yesterday,” and “The Conquest of the
Atlantic.”
(Clark Wilson)
Mr. N. M. Harrison, the promotion
al secretary of High Point College,
gave a lecture and showed pictures
taken on a recent trip to Mexico, in
Mrs. Davis’s room last week. It was
very interesting to see the poor
standard of living in Mexico. He
showed pictures of the types of
homes, which were very crude. The
house is just a small, one room shack
composed of a dirt floor and clay or
very cheap materials for walks.
He showed a very humorous pic
ture of two boys trying to get an
overloaded burro to get up. They
kicked and pushed but they were not
Uhallenge,” | able to get him up.
(Adele Sheffield and
Marie Robertson)
Many members of the families
represented at Jun/jr iiig'h earn
their living in furniture factories.
Two girls in room 202 have told us
some of the facts connected with the
history of furniture design and its
various methods of manufacture.
Their account reads as follows:
In Ancient times furniture was not
made as it is now. Men didn’t draw
plans and look through books for
ideas and designs, nor did they make
furniture with machinery as we do.
They had a hammer, a saw, and some
nails, and although the furniture so
and
PUPILS IN 208 ENJOY
MRS. S. C. CLARK’S VISIT
many room representatives express
ed their appreciation for the coopera-
tion shown and the work done by the , made was crude, it was stout
council members during the first heavy,
half-year’s work.
This meeting was the last meeting
that will be held this year with the
same council officers and members.
The rooms have already elected new
Now, almost all furniture is made
by machines. Of course, a designer
has to look through old books for
ideas, and sometimes he will use an
idea of his own. Then he will have
PUPILS ENJOY PLAN OF
LEARNING NEW WORDS
(Helen Bissette)
Pupils from room 5 are adding to
their word vocabulary, by selecting
words from daily newspapers each
day, and talking about them in their
English class.
These words are studied and put
into sentences. This method is bene
ficial to the pupils in more than add
ing to their vocabulary. It teaches
them to look forward to the daily
paper, observing the headlines, the
latest news, and to know the mean
ing of these words. Each person has
his or her chance in adding to the
word list. It is great fun and the
pupils are enjoying it.
members or re-elected the old ones.' to draw up plans and figure how
We hope the new organization will be much money it will cost to make the
as helpful as the old one. j piece. Next he sends the plan to some
1 other man and lets him blue print it
J , ! Then he sends it to a big manufac-
Many Start Un Second Library, ^^d his employees make it in
just about half an hour. When it is
finished it will be a beautiful piece
of furniture.
The Thomasville Chair Company,
for example, makes furniture at the
rate of a piece a minute.
Some of the machines which make
the furniture are the cut-off saw,
(Continued on page 4)
(Mimi Wagger)
Room 208 had the pleasure of hav
ing Mrs. Steve Clark show some
things that came from China and
Japan. Miss Helen Clark, who is a
missionary in China, brought them
back with her. She has lived in
China for five years, and recently re
ceived a year’s absence which she is
spending studying at Yale University.
Among the things Mrs. Clark show
ed were dolls, showing how the dif
ferent classes of people dress in China
and Japan and many hand-carved
things out of bamboo wood, which
show how the people of China grind
wheat and how they carry their vege
tables and coal around. These are
carried by fastening pots on a long
pole which they carry on their shoul
ders. Mrs. Clark also told us many
things about customs and living con
ditions of the Chinese and Japanese
people.
We enjoyed Mrs. Clark’s talk which
was both interesting and educational.
The people of Mexico are very su
perstitious. Mr. Harrison told us
that he and his family stopped some
where where there was a mother and
a baby child. He said that Mrs. Har
rison, in admiring the child had point
ed toward it. The mother began to
cut up and jabber and seemed very
much disturbed, and upon inquiring
they found that the Mexicans be
lieved that if you point toward the
child a charm is formed and they
think that you must touch the child
to break the charm.
Mr. Harrison showed us many of
his picturesque pictures of oil wells
and of other things of interest.
Among the most interesting were
the pictures of the Grand Canyon.
Most of the pictures of the Grand
Canyon were in color which, of course,
added to its beauty.
The scenery, he said, was no pret
tier anywhere though than in the
western paz’t ui ouz' own state, ok
which we are all proud.
BOYS IN no WIN TWO
GAMES AND TIE ONE
Card; Two Begin Their 3rd
GLEE CLUB SINGS OVER
LOCAL RADIO STATION
(Gloria Ilderton)
The seventh grade glee club, under
the direction of Miss Titman, sang
over the High Point radio station
Friday, January 15. They rendered
three beautiful selections, “Lullaby,”
“Bells of Saint Mary,” and “The Old
Refrain.” Only about thirty-six were
allowed to go. Miss Titman distri
buted slips of paper and around
thirty-six were fortunate enough to
get “go” written on their slips.
Library reading must be an inter
esting thing to most people, because
many have started their second cards
or are almost through with their
first one. Some have started their
third card which is very good. That
means that they have read over fifty-
two books. The ones on their second
card have read over twenty-six.
Freda Carter and Richard Ring
have already started their third card
which is more than anyone in Junior
high school.
The following people are on their
second card: Clinton Vanhoy, Wini
fred Bulla, Antilee Dinkins, Margaret
Lee, McKinley Henderson, Earldine
Patterson, Maurine Sykes, Arline Cal
loway, Mary Louise Hasty, John Mc
Farland, D. A. Yarber, Wayne Cagle,
Bristowe Pitts, Byron Grandjean, Roy
Agner, William Hester, Garnett Hin
shaw, Betty Deane Knox, June Phil
lips, Phyllis Strickland, Doris Sny
der, Mary Ann Coe, Mary Ann
Thomas, Gloria Ilderton, Virginia
Lee Bevill, Barbara Barclift, Martha
Harrison, Erva Freeman, Howard
George, Richard Cranford, Juanita
Lee, and Mary Frances Young.
ALMOST PERFECT
(Donald Bunkelberger)
The basketball team in Miss Cal
houn’s room has recently played three
games. The first game was played
against room 5, Miss Walker’s room.
The game ended in a tie, 3 to 3. The
second game was played against 111,
Miss Whitehead’s room. The victory
went to 110, Miss Calhoun’s group,
14 to 0. The third game was played
against room 6 for the second time.
Again the victory went to 110, 6 to 2.
Harold Teague played an excellent
game for room 6. The players for
Miss Calhoun’s room are: Henry Cul
ler, Jack Winders, Arnold Koonce, Ed
die Lee, and Donald Dunkelberger.
Room 110 thinks a lot of their cap
tain, Henry Culler, as center for the
basketball team. He also plays an
excellent game for 110, Miss Cal
houn’s room.
Miss Walker’s Classes
Begin Work On Posters
(Winifred Wall)
In Miss Walker’s classes many
posters have been started. Before you
could commence one, you were sup
posed to have one picture on the bul
letin board, and also make a certain
average.
Of course, none of these posters
are finished and you cannot tell
which are the best. But I would like j
to say that so far I think these will j
be among the best: Martha Cherry’s
“Four Princess Heads”; Joe Hay
worth’s “A Man and Woman in Co
lonial Dress,” and Helen Bissette’s
“Four American Birds.” Many will
be added to this list soon, because
just a few people have started their
posters.
(Vera Russell)
Room 210 is almost perfect in the
attendance for the year so far. Their
percentage is over 99 percent. They
have only had 16 absences during the
year and have kept the banner since
school began. Room 210 has had
much competition but has won
each time. They are now racing Miss
Connell’s group in 106 and are ex
pecting to enjoy a party given by
the losers. Room 210 hopes they
will be able to keep the banner the
entire year. A new pupil came to
our room January 18. He was imme
diately told by the pupils that room
210 had no absences, rain or shine.
NEW CLASS OFFICERS
ELECTED IN ROOM 208
Room 208 again elected new class
officers. They are as follows: presi
dent, William Northcott; vice-presi
dent, Frank Montgomery; secretary,
Billy Thomas; treasurer, Mimi Wag
ger; program chairman, Mabel
Grimes, and critic, Everette Grayson.
The class officers will take charge
as usual on Fridays during home
room program.
LONG DISTANCE RIDERS
MISS WHITEHEAD TAKES
MISS HANFF'S PLACE
Edward Linthicum and James
Owens rode seventy-four miles on
their bicycles in eight hours. James
Owens was going to pass off some
Scout work and Edward was just rid
ing with him. They went to visit Ed
ward’s mother beyond Asheboro; and
after resting there a short while,
they rode back to High Point.
(Carolyn Jones)
Miss Selma Whitehead of Weldon,
N. C. has come to take the place of
Miss Hanff who is to be married
soon to Dr. Bonner. Miss White-
head, a graduate of Woman’s College
of the University of North Carolina,
will be welcomed here as a new mem-
^ ber of the Junior High school faculty.