JUNIOR POINTER
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF HIGH POINT JR. HIGH SCHOOL
VOLUME X, NUMBER 6
HIGH POINT, N. C., MARCH 31, 1938
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR
Music Program
Presented in Chapel
(Hallie Peatross)
Room 3 gave a very interesting
program Thursday morning, March
17.
Harold Davis led the devotional.
The scene of the play was laid in
Hallie Peatross’ home late one eve
ning. The meeting of the Junior-
High Music Club was called to
order by Arnold Barnes, president
of the club. The club members
were: Margaret Cecil, Helen Stroup,
Billy Welch, Beatrice Shehand,
Francis Kennedy, Margaret Shoe-
make, Nell Collins, Jacqueline Sur-
rett, Edith Causey, Arnold Barnes,
Hallie Peatross, Eugene Pender
grass, Adelaide Upchurch and
Madge Everett. The chairman, Hal
lie Peatross, plantl^ a unique pro
gram for the members. They were
to use their imagination when she
introduced to them four great com
posers and artists. Before the com
posers w'ere introduced, Margaret
Shoemake gave a report on Ignace
Paderewsky; Edith Causey gave a
very interesting report on Menu
hin; Jacqueline Surrett gave the
outstanding points of Mrs. 'Bond’s
life and Adelaide Upchurch re
ported on Chrysler. After each
report the composer, about whom
a report had been made, entered
and played his compositions. Ignace
Paderewski, (Donald Gibhart),
played his famous “Minuet”; Ye
hudi Menuhin, (Billy Gupton),
played Caprice 24-25; the Glee Club
sang one of Mrs. Bond’s (Nancy
Bennett) compositions, “I Love You
Truly. ’ After Chrysler’s (James
Drakos), rendition of “The Old Re-
the program was concluded.
Class of 38 Organized; Garnett Hinshaw
Is President; Superlatives Are Voted On
On Friday, March 4, the eighth
grade class, the first graduating
class of Junior High School, met in
the auditorium to organize and to
elect its officers. The meeting was
presided over by Bill Currie, the
president of the Student Council
The nominations were made from
the floor. The outcome of the elec
tion was Garnett Hinshaw as presi
dent, with George White supporting
her as vice president; Gloria Ilder-
ton as secretary, and Bill Beaver,
treasurer.
The following day the officers
met with Mrs. Ranson to discuss
class pins, poets, cheer leaders, his
torian, last will and testament,
class motto and flower, and class
adviser. Miss Nash was unanimous
ly elected class adviser. The pins
have been decided on and about
one hundred fifty-eight pupils have
ordered them. They should be re
ceived within the next two weeks.
The colors are blue and gold. A
contest is being held in this issue
of THE JUNIOR POINTER for
the class poem and the class song.
The historian and poet will be se
lected by the officers and adviser.
The students entering the contest
for historian will hand in their his
tories to any of the officers as soon
as they are completed.
On the following Friday, the 1938
class met in the auditorium to
nominate superlatives. The meeting
was called to order by the president,
Garnett Hinshaw. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and ap
proved. There were four nomina
tions for each honor. The elections
were held in the home rooms and
the returns were sent to Miss Nash.
Those fortunate enough to hold
honors are: Most attractive girl,
Viola Byrum; best looking boy, Gil
bert Lloyd; wittiest girl, Peggy
Teague; wittiest boy, Grady Gold-
ston; most athletic girl, Garnett
Hinshaw; most athletic boy, James
Kivett; most studious girl, Gloria
Ilderton; most studious boy, Charles
Medlin; most popular girl, Mary
Anne Thomas; most popular boy,
Gilbert Lloyd; most original girl,
Norma Page; most original boy,
George Humphreys; best all-round
girl, Garnett Hinshaw; best all
round boy. Jack Cecil; cutest girl,
Jo Ingram.
News From 209 | Scouts Are Doing
Worthwhile Things
City Beautiful
Contest launched
(Mary Ann Coe)
Making a city a desirable one in
which to live depends a great deal
upon the co-operation of its inhabi
tants in making and keeping it a
beautiful one.
This is exactly what the Garden
Clubs of High Point thought. T'hey
decided to arouse the interest of
the citizens of this city in beauti
fying the surroundings through an
organization known as the City
Beautiful Campaign. In doing this
the clubs agreed to put on a con
test with a prize awarded to the
person or persons entering the
most attractive home or garden.
Committees were appointed to
work on this worthwhile project.
The Boy Scouts were asked to help
by approaching the citizens and
working up enthusiasm among
them. At present they have gotten
about 1,200 persons to co-operate
in this.
To the school child submitting
the best essay or poster a prize
will be awarded. Let’s get busy
and help make our school grounds
and our homes more beautiful. If
you have journalistic or artistic
ability why not enter this contest
and try for the prize ?
(Nellie Hodges)
Room 209 is getting very proud
of its pupils. From the first of the
year until now, we haven’t lost a
pupil.
We have had the attendance ban
ner for three months out of six.
We are planning to keep it the
rest of this year if possible.
We are also proud of our basket
ball team which is composed of Billy
Craven, captain; Clyde Mangum,
Charles Hassell, George White, J. C.
McAllister, and Bobby Conrad. They
w'on the eighth grade championship
and the loving cup in the basketball
tournament and we are very proud
of them.
On Thutsdsy;--Mar-cIl - IT, - we -had
a debate on “Resolved, That Travel
by Air Is Safer Than Land Travel.”
The members of the affirmative side
v/ere Walter Phillips and L. J. Yow.
The members of the negative team
were Robert T'hompson and Howard
George. The chairman was J. C.
McAllister. We had three judges to
come from Miss Deans’s room who
were Dorothy Crater, Virginia
Snider and William Hall, to judge
the debate. The negative team won.
Mrs. Ross wrote down forty-five
authors’ and poets’ names on small
slips of paper and let the pupils
draw a slip. Each pupil is making
a booklet on his author. After the
booklets are finished, the room is
going to have a home room Hall
of Fame of the authors. I think
this is going to be very much fun.
We have had a very attractive
bulletin board this month. We had
different works of Hamlin Garland’s
illustrated. These selections were
illusti'ated very beautifully.
208 Bows to 206
THANKS TO MRS. CLARK
(Gloria Ilderton)
If you have been alert, your eye
would not escape the lovely new
trees in our yard. We have five
evergreens and four big cedar trees
around the building. These have
come to us through the kindness of
Mrs. Steve Clark and there are
more coming in. So let us show
our appreciation to Mrs. Clark and
interest in Junior High by taking
care of this gift and keeping them
up to par with our school because
they certainly have added to beauty
of the grounds.
(Polly Ellison)
Friday, March 26 ,at the home
room period, Mrs. Moffitt’s home
room came to visit Miss Deans’
home room. We had a spelling
match. Miss Deans’ room won over
Mrs. Mbffitfs room and still had
people left. The last one up was
Dorothy Crater. We are looking
foi’ward to more matches with them.
(Peggy Teague)
The Girl Scouts of the Junior
High Troop are decorating and
preparing a room where the band
room has been. This room is to
be used for the regular Girl Scout
meetings and other Scout activi
ties. The meetings are held on
Tuesday at 3:10 under the leader
ship of Miss Poole and Miss An
drews, who are organizing patrols
that make up Troop IV.
Many of the Junior High Scouts
and Scouts of other troops are at
tending the First Aid course. When
they finish and pass the test, they
’receive'the Firtt'Aid >,aittncate and'
pass off the First Aid requirements
for the second and first class. In
this course the Girl Scouts learn
helpful treatments in case of acci
dent or sudden illness before the
services of a physician can be se
cured. Bandages such as the hip,
shoulder, head, and ankle, and ar
tificial respiration, treatment for
dog or snake bites, burns, ivy pois
oning, and many other useful
things are taught.
The Scouts are trying to raise
money for the Troop treasury.
Ways to do this were discussed at
several meetings. Selling coat hang
ers to dry cleaners, selling’ paper
to paper and box companies and
other things were suggested. Very
soon the Scouts are going to begin
raising money needed for the treas
ury.
The Scout directors are planning-
activities for the Girl Scouts. Now
that Spring has come they are
going on hikes and star-gazing
tours, which all Scouts enjoy.
The Girl Scouts in Troop IV
are progressing rapidly in their
Scout work and outside activities.
Library News
(Nancy Cox)
Mrs. Farley has just received
three new books entitled “Hungry
Waters,” “History of North Caro
lina,” and “Birds of the South.”
“Hungry Waters” is an unusually
interesting book written by Thomas.
It is the story of the flood in the
Mississippi River valley about two
years ago. Also, a new 1938 World
Almanac has been received.
The library has several new
newspaper rods in use now.
Mrs. E. T. Erickson has given
to the library a subscription to
“Life.” The pupils and teachers are
grateful to Mrs. Erickson for this
gift.'
Miss Titman and Miss Andrews
are busy working up a program to
be presented by Junior High pupils
during Music Week, which is to be
held in the city during the first
week in May. Miss Connell and
Miss Walker have charge of the
scene arrangement.
The Wide-Awake
English Club in 110
(Irene Moose)
In 110 English class we have
organized an English Club which
was later named “The Wide-Awake
English Club.” The following peo
ple hold an office: Mary Elizabeth
Clark, president; Roy B. Culler,
vice president; Dorothy Pegram,
secretary; Clyde Daniels, treasurer;
Irene Moose, publicity chairman;
Melvin Hayes, program chairman.
At the last meeting we decided to
draw up a constitution. The ones
asked to draw up the constitution
were Billy Kiser, Keith Kerns,
Jimmy Rones and Colleen Tuttle.
The constitution consists of our
aim and what we expect to ac
complish this year. In our club we
have been practicing parliamentary
procedure. Some of the members
forget to go by parliamentary pro
cedure, therefore we have a punish
ment. The members are given de
merits. After they have gotten five
demerits, they have to pay one
cent. We are glad to say not many
have received demerits.
Everyone in our room has en
joyed the club very much and we
hope it will teach us how to act
when \ve become a member of a
large club.
Boys Organize
Literary Society
A literary society under the direc
tion of two organizers and two ad
visers has recently been inaugurat
ed in Junior High. Out of devo
tion and in memory of the late T.
Wingate Andrews, the society has
been named the Andrews Literary
Society. The two able-bodied or
ganizers, so-called, are Arthur Kap
lan and Royster Thurman. A great
many suggestions were offered the
club by Garnett Hinshaw and Clark
Wilson. After much consideration
the two advisers have been selected
and they are Mrs. Harrison and
Miss Carter.
The aim of the club is to have
a better understanding of the finer
arts and this is shown in the pre
amble to their constitution.
“We the people of Junior High
School, in order to establish a bet
ter understanding of the finer
phases of the arts, do ordain and
establish this constitution for the
Andrews Literary Society.”
The members of the society will
be chosen from the eighth grades
alone. Each room will contribute
two members a year to the progress
and success of the society. Five
members from two rooms will be
chosen for the starting of the club
with an increase of two persons
a month until thirty members have
been obtained.
Many definite plans have been
made, but many plans have not
been made and must be taken up
with the advisers.
We sincerely wish them luck in
their project and we hope that
their motto, “Rettei’ things for bet
ter living through an understanding
of the arts,” will long overshadow
the posterity of the present eighth
grade.
For further information concern
ing the club, consult one of the or
ganizers.
FROM 107
Catherine Albertson, Arline Callo
way, Ruth Culler, Helen Gibson,
Ruby Parker, Mimi Wagger, Mary
Jo Wilson, Arthur Kaplan, Royster
Thurman, Clark Wilson, Garnett
Hinshaw, Gloria Ilderton, Na,ncy
Meredith, Bertha Schwab, Nancy
Smith, Phyllis Strickland, Peggy
Teague, Mary Anne Thomas, Alice
McDaniel, Herbert Glenn, Beatrice
Parker, Luther Winslow, Dorothy
Thomas, Elsie Piner, Daphine Wil
liamson, Hale Hardee, Prances
Hamilton, Carl Erickson, Dewey
Yarborough, Lloyd Underwood, Er-
line Smith, Iris Burton, Cornelius
Bennett, Zula Mae Spencer, Lois
Swaim, Evelyn Smoot, Kathryne
Cross, Dorothy Crater, Doris Mc
Kinney, Charles Medlin, Richard
Davis, Harold Haworth, Emilie Cobb,
Gorrell Speas, Helen Bissett, Rebe-
kah Conrad, Azilee Kepley, Fred
Gwyn Woodruff, Belle Glover, Mar
garet Perry, Mina Lee "Yaughan,
Pauline Agner, Angelia Clark, Es
telle Frith, John Dinkins, J. E.
Hipps, Mary Lee Barnes, David
Hodgin, Stanley Saunders, G. L.
Stroud, Anna Lou Doctor, Jennie
Lou Jones, Lois Farlow, Mary Edith
Ferree, Prances Turnage, Hallie
Sykes, Eleanor Younts, Tommy
Stanton, Ray Bradshaw, Martha
Jane Britt, Doris Heath, Donald
Dunkleburger, Alexander Ferree,
John Haworth, Horace Haworth,
Jack Jackson, John McFarland, Rob
ert Russell, Margaret Blackard, Vir
ginia Callicutt, Betty Jean Miller,
Marguerite Murray, Marjorie Payne,
Dina Taylor, Lois Welborne.
(Geraldine French)
Room 107 has elected four pro
gram chairmen who are to give one
program a month. The program
chairmen are; Louis Davis, Doro
thy Greene, Dewey Yarborough,
and Helen Hunt. Two programs
have been given, one by Dorothy
Greene and one by Louis Davis.
Both of these programs were very
interesting. Louis Davis’ program
was about etiquette.
In Miss Nash’s civics class, room
107 has been working on a contract
about High Point. Many of the
pupils have visited prominent men
and have gained information of
great importance about High Point.
Two of the girls in this class visit
ed Mr. Byron Haworth, juvenile
judge, and asked him to come over
and give the class a talk on the
work of the Juvenile Court.
HELP! HELP! GET HIM I
(Bertha Schwab)
Yes! there actually was a fero
cious animal in the girls’ locker
room!-
Help! help! there it goes! Get
him! Hurry before it gets away!!
Crowds of girls began pouring
into the locker room to see what
it was all about. The second that
they got on the spot there was
stampeding and screaming going on.
Several boys were running here and
yonder trying to catch it.
“There he goes, near that locker!”
they screamed.
Finally, when all the noise died
down and the poor beastie escaped,
someone asked what it was. Yes,
you guessed it! A timid, little black
mouse.