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JUNIOR POINTER
Friday, November 18, 1955
We Win With Baby Bison Trouble.
Kay Kearns
In these days when the football hopes of North Carolina
are somewhat dashed with the poor records of Duke and Caro
lina, the record of our High Point Baby Bison is something
to be proud of. Coached by Ray Cornell, this team has won
every one of its games and has been scored upon only once.
There is something about a football victory that gives
everyone a sense of personal victory. When other departments
of the school such as art, music or journalism win good ratings,
people are apt to say, “We are proud of ijou. You did a fine
job.” But w'hen a football game is won people will inevitably
say, “We won!”
We are grateful to our football boys for giving us such a
successful season. For fall wouldn’t be complete without foot
ball, and football wouldn’t be interesting without a winning
team.
Sandra Ridge
Oh, my .stomach hurts! Oh, my back hurts! Oh, my eyes
hurt! Oh, my toes hurt! Oh, my teeth hurt ! !
That is the daily routine that the office girls and Mrs.
Gordon go through. If students’ heads don’t hurt, their little
toes do.
When they win over the office girls and Mrs. Gordon
with their little sick act, they go to the clinic to giggle, primp
or go to sleep. What’s behind all this, you may ask. The ans
wer is nothing but tests. If there are algebra, civics, English
or Latin tests, the clinic is running over with ninth graders.
If there are science, health, and social studies tests, seventh
and eighth graders are terribly sick.
What germ carries this terrible sickness? The lazi
ness germ! The laziness germ is a little virus that goes
around telling its victims that they need not study be
cause they can always get in the clinic and out ot tests.
What’s the cure for this strange illness? The cure is
simple. In fact, it takes about 45 minutes (length of one
period). The bell rings and the patients are up and out of
there like a herd of stampeding cattle leaving behind them
rumpled beds, combs, lip-stick and comic books.
attd Qe*ttle PcayxLz T^C3T EdltOT ^
with Parents
Brenda Haywood
Many teens feel that parents
are unfair when they (teens) have
just gotten a chance to go out with
their friends and have a wonderful
time but parents refuse to let
them go.
Parents, of course, have the best
of intentions, but it seems, at the
time, that they just don’t like kids
and hate to see them have fun.
After thinking it over though,
young folks usually realize that
mothers and fathers are only try
ing to raise them in the best way
possible and they just can’t do
everything they want to all the
time.
Various students have been ask
ed in what way they feel parents
sometimes seem unfair about pri
vileges. Here are some of the an
swers.
Bill Davis: They won’t let you be
cause it’s a school night, but
you don’t go to bed until 10:30
or 11:00 o’clock anyway.
Tam Clary: They think we’re old
enough for responsibilities,
but not old enough for some
privileges.
Gerry Hutchison. They take away
your privileges when grades
are low and sometimes you
i-eally can’t help it.
Zella Moore: They think of their
younger years when such pri
vileges didn’t exist. They say
they didn’t do this and that, so
why should we?
Carlton Hill: They don’t give
enough time for social activi
ties.
Sue Menscer: They give you a lot
of work, and when you are
through, you don’t have much
leisure time.
She Friendly To Everybody;
Who Is This Mystery Girl?
Carole Simeon
Good personality, definitely.
Friendly, yes. These good qualities
as well as many others fit the ninth
grade mystery person.
She has a very gay, vivacious and
light-hearted disposition. Brown
hair, blue eyes and fair complexion
are some of this person’s identify
ing characteristics. Singing in the
ninth grade chorus, participating
in the G. A. A. and being an of
ficer in her homeroom are a few
of her activities.
If you think you can guess this
mystery person, come within one
week to 210. The prize for the first
correct identification will be tickets
to the first basketball game of the
Senior High Black Bison.
A Letter From Miss Washburn^
Teacher Here For 31 Years
Miss Mary Washburn, former
teacher of 117, retired last year
after being on the Junior High
faculty for 31 years. Miss Wash
burn is on the mailing list for the
JUNIOR POINTER. The staff re
cently received a letter from her
fi'om Rutherfordton, N. C. where
she has a home. Realizing how
many friends Miss Washburn has
in school, the staff shares the let
ter with everybody.
Rutherfordton, N. C.
Oct. 25, 1955
Dear Friends,
When the postman brought my
JUNIOR POINTER, I sat down in
the comfortable chair the faculty
gave me and read every word in
the paper. Each article is “tops.”
It was next best to being back at
school and chatting with my
friends there.
I am happy to know the eight
new teachers, especially Mrs. Horn-
aday. I hope she will be as happy
in room 117 as I was.
Thank you for remembering me
in this nice way.
I am wishing for you a happy
and prosperous school year.
Miss Washburn
Jon Cox
You have just settled dowm to a good lunch in the school cafeteria
when one of your friends starts a conversation with you. He accidentally
leans on your chocolate doughnut, smashing it to a pulp. As you are in
the process of cleaning it up, a total stranger walks up to you and grabs
a handful of your French-fries and quickly consumes them.
Another friend offers to get you something in the cold lunch line.
You accept and ask for a sandwich. He purchases it for you and places
it right in your soup. Your banana pudding is unusually rich for he has
dropped your change in it. Your sandwich is ruined so you get up to get
another one. You are immediately swamped with pleas to “Get me this”
and “Get me that.”
After you have distributed the fritoes and peanuts, you utter a cry
of horror for you have just seated yourself in your potatoes which have
been placed in your seat during your absence. You spend five minutes
collecting your money which was evenly distributed among your friends.
Your peas are ruined by someone who thoughtfully left the top of
the salt shaker loose. Your milk is the only thing left but unfortunately
it has an ounce of vinegar in it. You sadly put up your tray along with
those of six of your friends who suddenly had to go out to play.
The J u n i o r P o i n t e r
f" The Paper Pictures the School
All-American — N. S. P. A. — 1954, 1955
Medalist — C. S. P. A. — 1955
Why Was 'White* Team Not Supported ?
Wouldn’t A Traffic Officer Help?
Published every six weeks by ninth grade students of Junior High
School. Ferndale Drive, High Point, N. C.
Principal Lloyd Y. Thayer
Editors Kay Kearns, Brenda Gray
News Editor Libby Greenberg
Sports Editors Diane Schmidley, Jon Cox, Bill Davis
Feature Editor Carolyn Tyson
Personality Editor Carole Simeon
Home Room Editor Joyce Groome
Columnists Julie Drake, Brenda Haywood, Wayne Harrison
Tom McConnell
Reporters; Tam Clary. Nancy Culler. Toni De Marvo. Vicki Harbin, Oinger
Honeycutt, Sandra Mnllis, Ann Pritchett, .Martha Ridge. Betty Iting, Betty
Snider. Mary Woolf.
Cub Reporters: Carole Kearns, Shirley Wood, Myra Bullock, Brenda Black-
well, Sandra James, Barbara Thomas. Betty I.ewis, Kathy Jowett, l.ettie Fay
Mehan, Carolyn Jones, Gevena Blackwell, Daphne Gentry, Judyann Moulton.
Kthel Mae Koonts, Mary Neahr, Gerry Hutchison, Marie Bryson, Gilbert Gates,
Rolf Nijuis, Beonard P'eldmann. Joanne Teague, Beth Parks, Pat Amos, Joyce
Prather, Mary Krites, Patsy Swaim, Jean Wrenn, Janie Goodsom, Terry Dickey,
Frankie Peters, Bob McElfresh, Benny Merrill, Sam Odom, Diannah Winslow,
Scotty Parker.
Dear Editor.
This year the arrangement for
the Junior High football team was
that there should be two of them.
One was to be the blue team, the
other the white.
They were picked by geograph
ical location. Those boys from east
of Main Street were on the blue
team. Boys west of Main Street
were on the white team. They were
not divided according to skill.
Therefore I feel that they both
should have had equal support
from the school, but they didn’t.
One team, the blues, had the
cheerleaders and the band. The
whites did not get support from
the school. The reason I have
written this letter is to try to pre
vent this thing happening in the
future to other teams. I have not
written this letter to be critical.
Jim Pell
Dear Jim,
The dividing of Junior High
football material into two teams,
the blues and the whites, was sug
gested by Mr. Tony Simeon, Senior
High football coach. The purpose
was to give twice as many boys
an opportunity to play football and
thus uncover more prospects for
the Senior High varsity.
The double schedule made com
plications for the band, cheerlead
ers and faculty members who like
to attend Junior High football
games. It was either choose one
or have none because it was im
possible to follow two teams.
The decision to “adopt” the
blues had several reasons behind
it. At the top of the list is the fact
that on the blue team, 17 out of
the 21 boys are in Junior High.
The whites have 26 boys and only
7 of them are students here. An
other factor is that Mr. Ray Cor-
rell. Junior High teacher, coaches
the blues and Mr. Charles Weaver,
Senior High teacher, coaches the
whites.
One of the main purposes of a
Junior High School is to give as
many students as possible a chance
to exercise as many abilities as
possible. This is more of a goal at
this point than producing a varsity
football team.
Brenda Gray
Dear Editor,
I have noticed in the mornings
and after school, on the corner of
Ferndale Drive and Locke Street,
that it is almost impossible for
students to cross the street without
endangering their lives. Because
of no courtesy on the part of the
motorists, many who are parents of
students, fail to give students a
chance to cross the street. It is
true that you see patrol cars
traveling in the school area, but
students receive no help when it
comes to crossing at this very im
portant corner.
The spirit of “every man for
himself” certainly prevails at this
intersection. The boys and girls
who are walking or trying to cross
the street at this corner are cer
tainly getting the wrong end of
the bargain. I would like to give
credit to those few motorists who
stop from time to time to give us
a break.
This letter is not a critism but
it is a challenge to the motorist to
give us a break. Of course a traffic
officer at this intersection would
greatly relieve the problem.
Sandra James
Homeroom 112
Dear Sandra,
I can see (and feel) the school
area traffic situation from your
point of view. I have waited in the
cold rain on the other side of Fern
dale, while dozens of dry, warm
drivers rolled by. I have wished
for a traffic officer to raise an arm
saying, “It’s your turn now.”
However, when 2800 teen-agers
are turned out at the same time
as several hundred parents are
driving around looking for them,
the situation will never be smooth.
Isn t it true that the general at
titude of students is to “go on
across; they'll stop” or “I dare you
to hit me?”
A traffic officer would help.
But even with a traffic officer, it
will always be necessary for each
individual to have a lot of patience
and some common sense.
Brenda Gray
Editors Interview
Well Known Figure
Brenda Gray
Guilford County school paper
editors received an invitation in
October for a interview with Mr.
Basil O’Connor, president of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. Kay Kearns and Brenda
Gray, editors of the JUNIOR
POINTER and Jean Blankenship,
editor of the POINTER, attended.
The intei’view took place in the
cotton room of the King Cotton
Hotel in Greensboro. Cameras from
WBIG were on hand to film the
affair for the TV program.
Mr. O’Connor was formerly a
partner of the late Franklin Delano
Roosevelt in the Connor-Roose-
velt law firm in New York City.
He has been president of the Par
alysis Foundation since 1938. He
has also served as president of the
•American Red Cross.