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JUNIOR POINTER
Wednesday^ Feb. 20, 1946
A New President
A Fresh Aim
Dorothy Kendall, president of the executive committee,
has announced that her main objective will be the formula
tion and adoption of a plan whereby merit in any phase of
school activity will be awarded in a recognition service at the
end of the school year. The Junior Pointer is enthusiastically
and wholeheartedly behind this plan. The following editorial
presents our reasoning on this subject.
★ ★ ★ RENDER UNTO CAESAR
The auditorium was full. The attention of several hun
dred students was centered on a group of husky individuals,
all members of a champion Jr. High athletic team. “The fine
athletic records these people achieved entitle them to an
HP monogram,” Coach McCoy was saying, “and each person
seated on this stage has proved outstanding in the sports
field.”
And you are quite right. Coach.
But down on the front row, listening intently is Jackie
Jones, who, by working and practising hard all year, now holds
first seat in the orchestra’s violin section. A few rows behind
sits Becky Baker who, unable to play on a team because of
severe sinus, made all A’s on her last report card. Becky has
also devoted much time serving as monitor and library page.
Nancy Johnson, nearby, contributes regularly to the Jr.
POINTER and spends several periods a week as assistant to
Miss Heath in the office. But these people receive no recog
nition.
A movement is being considered in Jr. High to install a
point system whereby those who excel in fields other than
sports may receive awards. This plan is in successful opera
tion in other schools over the nation and if a similar plan could
be worked out and put into operation here the JR. POINTER
would be backing it up 100%. Would you?
M. R.
★ ★ ★ THE BEST EVER
Of course we’d say that! After all, they’re from our class.
They’re our officers and we ninth graders have felt personally
responsible for them. Our outgoing executive committee has
completed a job well done. Between studying for Latin exams
and meeting with Girl Reserves or Boy Scouts after school,
DEWEY, BOBBY, EVELYN and SARA have really put their
time and effort toward bettering our school. And to DOT,
DONALD, CAROLYN and BETTY ANN, who have to contend
with those same exams and extra- curricular activities, we
wish the same amount of luck and success!
★ ★ ★ WOES OF A SCHOOL BUS RIDER
“WHY IS THAT SCHOOL BUS ALWAYS LATE?” threateningly
demands teacher when I am that **dillar-a^dollar*^ student for the
twentieth time on the twentieth school day of the month. I guess she
thinks I had plenty of time to figure out the answer while I shivered that
half hour waiting for the “dag-gone” hus to come.
But it usually manages to come soon enough for me to put in an
appearance at school ibefore the students are dismissed. I climb on the
thing and scramble for a seat to the tune of C-r-runch C-r-r-runcH
Grind! What is that? Gears mechings or human bones jostling? Some
one beside me asks gently (with teeth bared); “Pardon me, but are my
ribs hurting your elbow?”
Whoever thought up that saying about the pen being mightier than
the sword must have been a school bus alumnus and he must have been
thinking of p-i-n. A little straight pin on a crowded school bus can make
a mighty, explosion. And someone is always trying it.
Oh, to have been living in Abe Lincoln’s time when schools
were within walking distance!
EVERETT ELLINGTON.
Group Leaders and Their Weapons
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Buzzing Around With the Clubs
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These are the group leaders who operate in the cafeteria during the
second lunch periods. These placards are to guide you; but as one
leader jokingly remarked: “They can be clubs to make you.” They
are: First row—Mary Ann Hinson, Edith Hunsucker, Joan Jarrell,
Rebecca Dickens, Vivian Langston, Doris Cecil. Second row—Alan
Conrad, Gladys Linthicum, Shirleyi Kirkman, Barbara Mabrey.
An Outgoing President
, *A Real Accomplishment
Dot Kendall (newly-elected president), in her inauguaral speech,
cited the cafeteria group plan as being one of the outstanding achive-
ments of the Greer administration.
This statement of Dot’s did not come about just because she had
to have something to say. Students’ getting their lunches in grroups and
the groups’ rotating their turns at being first, is a good plan and it is
working.
Says Charles Byrd of 211: “I eat in the cafeteria every day and
I like the group system very much. It assures you of a certain place in
line and, thereby cuts down the urge to ‘break your neck’ getting down
there every day.”
Says Mr. Coffield: “Every year there has ibeen a great ‘falling
off’ of the cafeteria lines long before this. The decrease in the lines
has not been so noticeable this year. This is due, I think, to the group
system of getting lunches. Heretofore, certain students, who were
always last in line due to the distance of their rooms from the cafeteria,
became discouraged and would gradually drop off. This fairer arrange
ment has held a greater proportion of regular cafeteria diners.”
STUDENT OPINION
Do you think teachers should take gaps in the lunch line?
HELEN DALLAS: YES. Teachers should be respected,
and that is one way you can show RESPECT and COURTESY.
DEWEY GREER: YES. Teachers have so little time to
themselves, they should have the privilege of taking gaps to
get through with their lunch early.
SUZANNE SLATE: NO. Since the students are first in
the lunch line only once a week, it doesn’t seem fair for eight
or ten teachers to step in FRONT of them when they are
FIRST.
BILL McQUINN: NO. The group system isn’t working
very well, and if the teachers will get in line with their groups,
it will probably make the whole system more orderly and
Gff6CtiV6.
SALLY TREPKE: YES. It wouldn’t be right for teachers
to have to stand in line for lunch, after they have had to
STAND much of the time teaching.
MARY LEE CHURCH: YES. Teachers should be al
lowed to eat when it is convenient for them, because they have
responsibilities, and need to get BACK to the room BEFORE
the students do.
Letters to The Editor
Dear Editor:
Last year everyone thoroughly
enjoyed the operetta, H. M. S. Pin
afore. Why not have another one?
Several people have been talking
about how much they would like
another.
We could give the proceeds to
some civic organization or use the
money in our school. It would
help, too, to develop the talent in
Junior High. I am sure that our
auditorium would again be packed
and that everyone would enjoy the
production.
MARY LOU DILLON—103.
Dear Editor:
For a long time the students of
Junior High have enjoyed the ap
pearance of a group of colored sing
ers from William Penn High school
each year. Why not have a group
of Junior High students give a
program of some kind at William
Penn each year? I feel sure that
the students there would enjoy our
program as much as we enjoy
theirs.
Since the William Penn students
would no doubt hesitate to invite
us, why not make the offer our
selves ? I believe that this ex
change of programs would be a
good thing for both schools.
BECKY DOWDY—103.
Dear Editor:
In browsing through the papers
on the exchange table in 210, I
came across an interesting article
in the “Phillipian” (Phillips Junior
High School, Minneapolis, Minn.)
It was a news article on the
front page telling about a recog
nition service held at assembly at
which time awards of merit were
presented to students. These
awards were given for excellence
in journalism, music, library, mem
bers of the stage crew and such
phases of school activity.
Since we do not have any grad
uation exercises at the end of the
year, I think this form of service
would be a most fitting one with
which to close the year’s work.
PATSY CLODFELTER, 208.
GERUNDS
Gerunds are my problem child;
Over them my brain runs wild.
Why must they end in ing?
Why not in n, ed or t?
Swimming and leaving gerunds
may be.
But why, for the life of me, I can
not see.
Pai-ticiples are just the same at
sight.
Oh, my gosh! Why wasn’t I bom
bright?
SUZANNE SLATE, 103.
LITTLE SIR ECHO
Miss Helen Young sent Robert
Clapp some issues of the JUNIOR
POINTER. Robert, a former stu
dent of Miss Young’s, attends
Weston High School, at Weston,
Massachusetts (9 miles from Bos
ton). He is co-captain of his foot
ball team and a basketball varsity
man.
The following is an excerpt
taken from a letter to Miss Young:
“Do you have Negro and white
children in your school? I didn’t
notice any of them in your papers.
(By the way, they are remarkable
publications for a junior high
school. Even our high school paper
doesn’t compare with it.)”
Ahem! . . . What fine apprecia
tion of art the lettermen in Massa
chusetts have?
GOOD WORK TRAVELS FAR
The folllowing is a quotation
taken from the exchange column
of “The Willard Echo,” Santa
Ana, Calif.:
“The Junior Pointer of High
Point Junior High, High Point,
N. C., reveals that 10 panels bear
ing the name of their school, have
been placed in hospital, for place
ment on the beds of wounded serv
icemen.”
^jumblsd. and
Three short rings for the janitor was all, so the English class went
back to their work. But—Mrs. Dodamead walked quietly over to the
phone, picked it up and answered softly—“Hello!”
It was ninth grade exam day.
Miss Heath was really in dismay!
Sara B. was lost and couldn’t be found—
Had she been murdered, kidnaped, or drowned?
Then a noise was heard in the supply room.
In there sat Sara, studying about the moon!
My—212 is progressing from animals (?) on the bulletin board to a
higher type of animal life! (or is it?) Ronald Martin, Darrell Lloyd, and
Wallace Heily make up their “royalty” group which, instead of thrones,
recline on a row all their own . . . moron row!
Strange things come from Japanese isles.
Bracelets, trinkets, and crocodiles.
But strangest of all is Jr. (Mr. Nick’s pet),
A Japanese skull—Frightening?—You bet!
Through the ages (that’s truer than you think) two sentinels have
watched over the books in the library and have just recently earned a
reward. The famous “Athena” and “Apollo” have just had a bath,
you see Pappy Yokum isn’t the only one that takes a bath once
year.
Do your words get twisted around?
Do you say up, when you really mean down?
Little Carl Stone of 108
Recently made just such a mistake.
On one damp dark day.
He was heard to say:
Oh, me. I’m tired of this HUMAN weather,”
When he really meant HUMID—althogether!
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