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Page Two JUNIOR POINTER Wednesday, April 18, 1956 Delinquency Gets Spotlight; All Teen-age Action Not Bad Brenda Gray On students’ night of the Jaycee Jollies the teen-agers gave a jjretty bad performance. They were yelling, throw ing things from the balcony, and ruining the program for others. For the news papers and the people of the town, the incident clearly brought up juvenile delinquency. Delinquents, today, are a common topic. The usual daily whisper, “Did you read in the paper last night about that young boy killer?” People are always ready to read the bad deeds, but it’s doubtful they would be particularly interested in the good ones. The good accounts are usually neither ex citing or shocking. It’s a known fact the few bad ones get the publicity while the few hundred good ones carry on as they should. Maybe that’s the reason teen-agers violate rules—to get publicity. But whatever, it seems older folks delight in “wondering what the younger generation’s coming to.” Many young people take the attitude that because a few black sheep are critized and maybe arrested, everyone’s against them. They feel officers are out to get them. Maybe this is true and maybe not. It is true that teen-agers violate some rules at a record rate, such as speeding. However, the good ones do now and will probably forever outnumber the bad ones by a wide margin. And they’ll_ prob ably always be the ones who quietly help the world, while the delinquents boisterously damage it, and get the public eye. Can Big Thorns, Cyclone Fence Hold Back the Rushing Herd? Kay Kearns It has become a familiar but distressing sight to see men replacing the campus hedge on Ferndale Drive. Upon asking Mr. Jack Cox, superintendent of the maintenance department, how many times the hedge had been replaced, we received this answer, “I lost count long ago.” They have had to replant the hedge so many times and this has cost the city so much money that they have finally resorted to the use of a cyclone fence to protect the plants. Some of the students have complained about the looks of this fence, but it is because of students’ inconsideration that the fence is being used. Often a student says to himself as he cuts through the hedge, “Oh, well, this one time won’t make any difference.” But, with 1300 students all having the same idea the results can be disastrous. Every time one person cuts through the hedge he is costing his parents, as tax payers, money. To move the fence and to get a new hedge cost $312.50. $100 was used to move the fence while each bush, 75 of them, cost $2.50 each. $25 was spent on manual labor. So next time you start to cut through the hedge, stop and think, if not for the beauty of the school, for the money that you will be costing your mother and father. The few seconds that it takes you to walk around won’t make you too late. The abelia, the shrub that was used for the old hedge has been said to be defenseless against the students of Junior High. But the new pyracanthera, with one inch thorns may be able to hold its own provided the fence is charged with 100 volts of electricity. Question for Beach Trippers Julia Drake As each Thursday night rolls around, it finds most students studying hard for the upcoming test on Friday. But, from around Easter-time till the end of school, in June, Thursday night also finds an ever-increasing number of stu dents preparing to take off early Friday morning for a glorious week-end at the beach. Come Friday, the students who are at Junior High are slaving over a tough Latin exam or a tricky sentence that is to be dia gramed. Those others are resting on the beach, soaking up the health ful sun rays that turn the whitest of complexionns into a cinnaman tan. The “beach - combers” return to school on Monday morning. March ing up to the teacher’s desk, they sweetly ask if they can make up their tests — at the teacher’s own convenience, of course! As far as most teachers are con cerned “their convenience” means only the time on Friday when everyone else took the test. It was that same day when “It is absolu tely necessary for so and so to be absent.” ■Say that you walk into your classroom next Friday expecting to have a big test, one that you know you are ready for. You find no teacher there to give you the test. Later in the day she sends you a note saying that she was on the roof taking a sun bath during that class period. So, will you mind making up the work after school? She’s perfectly willing to work with you at your owm convenience. If days at the beach before school is out are so important that par ents must write notes asking that their children be excused from public school for this purpose, there is nothing to hinder this practice. But, when they return, they should not expect private in struction on the work they missed. Nor should they expect credit for work they didn’t do. about The Teachers Richard Hayes Mr. Lloyd Y. Thayer, principal here, recently received a handsome certificate of award enclosed in a folder of genuine leather. Given by the National Association of Secon dary School Principals at their an nual meeting in Chicago, this award cites Mr. Thayer for out standing service in education. Es pecially impressive is the gold seal of the organization. * ♦ * Announcement came early in April of the birth of David Scott S'huford, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bhuford. Mr. Shuford was teacher here for several years; and, during first semester of this year, he was boys’ counsellor. * * * Mrs. Julia McDaniel, girls phy sical education teacher through October, has been blessed also with a son, Ernest Patrick McDaniel, junior. * * Around the middle of August Miss Elizabeth Cromer, Bible teacher, will wed Mr. Robert Cars well who now attends Southern Lutheran Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina. Miss Cromer plans to teach in Colum.bia after her mar riage. * * * Mrs. Hallie Cheek, seventh grade teacher of 111 has returned to her home in Hillcrest Manor Apartments, after major surgery at High Point Memorial Hospital. She is now improving greatly. Substituting for her is Mrs. Louise Bedford, who is remembered here as Miss Madison, art teacher for several years. * * * Mrs. Doris ivifeamead has re placed Mrs. Mary Sue Brown in 109 for the rest of the year. Mrs. Brown took over Mr. Shuford’s work as counsellor and guidance teacher when Mr. Shuford resigned in February. Working In Library Sees Plenty Action Ginger Honeycutt Library period seems to be a time of quiet and learning for all who enter the library to read. But, as one who stamps these books, I can tell you that it’s anything but peaceful. First of all the cards must be given out. Then I pick up the stamper. The long, impatient line wants to go faster than I could possibly do. Card after card and (book after book pour onto the desk. Meanwhile my partner is stamp ing the books being checked out. She pleads for help and I quickly shove the last book in the desk and dash to help, but I’m too slow. A huge pile of books cascades around my feet. I feel the floor move and I find myself grasping the legs of the chair, completely surrounded by facts and fiction. White cards must be placed in their correct holders. I wrestle with this for a while. Yellow cards must then be placed alphabetically. Number seven is 'missing. My fel low librarian and I must find whose cards six and eight are. We ponder carefully until we finally guess the right person. Heaps of books must be placed with their cards and placed on the mobile shelves. This is the home stretch in the race against time. Through at last! Exhausted I am but I’ve got two whole minutes to rest in peace. O tidings of com fort and joy! BILLY DAVIS Standing ROGER STRICKLAND Seated BOY SCIENTISTS ■Afftate>44A* Betty Snyder Billy Davis of homeroom 103 and Roger Strickland of homeroom 104 at their early age have already been experimenting with atomic energy. Both boys have a lab in their homes. They started these labs from a plain chemistry set about two years ago. While Billy works on plain chemistry Roger works some on organic chemistry. Most of their experiments are Billy is the grandson of Mrs. W. done individually except for their A. Davis of 804 Arbordale Drive, two-way communication system called an intercon. This system is set up between the boys’ homes. Once, when trying to make nitro glycerin, one of their experiments exploded and ruined the walls. They have tried many experiments including a television studio, but they like chemistry best. One of the latest of their experiments is working with protozoids. Roger and Billy are so interested in their hobby that they find time to work on it every day. Both ara very ambitious and do much re search. They read many books of their own and those checked out from the library. In their vocabu lary are many scientific terms. Roger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Strickland. His family are in the process of moving into a mod ernistic home at 601 Hillcrest Drive. He has one brother. Tommy, who is eleven. Tommy isn’t very interested in chemistry and ex periments except for the explos ions. With all the time spent on their hobby, both boys still find time to keep up their school work and make all A’s. Billy stated, though, that before they could do any expejjments with atomic energy someone would have to donate a cyclotron. Both Roger and Billy hope to continue their work and some day be scien tist. Features Compiled Make Perfect Pair What if one person could have the best qualities of nine or ten other individuals? And what if these nine or ten other individuals had the best single quality in one line of any of the 1340 Students in Junior High! What a knockout this combination would make. The Junior Pointer staff got to supposing what such a person would be like and so they appointed a panel of critics to put one to gether. The critics have come up with not one but two persons, a girl and a boy. Incidentally the critics were Eleanor Wood, Delores Efird, Becky Oakley and Carolyn Martin. These young ladies have picked out outstanding characteristics of var ious students to put together in the one ideal person. Here is their girl. She has Brenda Gray’s auburn curls and S_andra Ridge’s wide grey eyes. Her figure lo^s like that of Dg»-lpnn and she dresses it like Libby Green- bfiJig, She can amuse you like Carol Spinnett, but when the time comes to be serious she can excel in her studies like Carole Ann IfpgrTig Her personality is as pleasing as Joyce Groome’s; and, when she smiles, she shows teeth as pretty as Carole Simeon’s and a profile as interesting as Nancy Boone’s. Here is that wonderful boy which the girls put together. They took Cliffie Hawkin.s’ hair and combin ed it with Butch Murrow’s eyes and Ellis Baker’s teeth. To make this boy fun to be with, these girls would add a generous amount of whatever Bill Davis has. To bal ance these fun-loving qualities, they’d include Harold Woodell’s scholarship. This boy’s profile might remind one of Lyman Dillons’' his clothes would be to the Harrison (Wayne) manner cut. And his per sonality would definitely be like Keith Sedberry’s. Oh, yes, a fine physique! who else but John Kirk- The Junior Pointer Published every six weeks by eighth and 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
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