Mr. Thayer, Principal, to Speak
Before Top National Educators
Judy Robins
Junior Pointer
Mr. Lloyd Y. Thayer, principal
of High Point Junior High School,
will drive to Washington on Feb.
24 to speak before the convention
209 Will Give
Seasonal Poem
At Assembly
Connie Newman
Today, at assembly period. Miss
Unity Nash’s room 209 will give a
dramatization of James Whitcomb
Riley’s poem, “An Old Sweatheart
of Mine.” It will emplhasize the
■theme of Valentine’s which comes
up tomoiTow.
The story of the poem concerns
an old man dreaming of his young
er years and his teen-age sweet
heart. Jerry Beck will act the part
of the old man wit’n Carole Kearns
as his sweetheart. Carole will sing
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow,”
and “Let Me Call You Sweet
heart.” Members of the cast will
poi’tray in costume such popular
tunes as “Tea for Two” and
‘“School Days.”
Dinah Nibbelink will be nar
rator and Judy Beth Hicks will
have devotions. Other cast mem
bers will include Judy Cox, Jim
Foley, Robert Guarino and Linda
Weisner.
Junior High Age
A Hazardous One
Bill Abernethy
What age is involved in more ac
cidents than any other? It would
seem that the Junior High age
boys and girls would be. Accord
ing to figures released by Pilot
Life Insurance Company of Greens
boro this is correct. Pilot Life’s
scholastic accident policy covers
most of the pupils in High Point’s
city schools.
In the city of High Point 5,557
were insured under this policy
last year and on the average about
52 out of 1,000 collect on their
policies. High Point is very for
tunate because intersciholastic
football games are covered by
this policy. This city is one of the
few that does this. We only pay
a few cents more for this extra
protection. About one fifth of all
people Who collected were engaged
in football at the time their injur
ies occurred.
Over one half of the accidents
happened on the school campus or
on the athletic field. Other places
which proved hazardous were the
classroom, gym, going to and from
school, and on the stairs of High
Point city scihcols. Throughout the
state of North Carolina the most
hazardous places were the grounds
of the school and the gym.
of the National Association of
Secondary School Principals. Mr.
Thayer is one of the two selected
from the whole nation to discuss
the Junior High program.
He will speak on the subject,’
“What Education Program is
Needed in the Junior High School.”
The convention will then discuss
his ideas. This speech will be pub
lished in the “Bulletin of the Na
tional Association of Secondary
School Principals.”
In comimenting on the signifi
cance of ithis trip to him, Mr. Thay
er said thoughtfully, “One reason
why I was so grateful for this op
portunity to speak is that very few
people from the southeastern states
are ever asked to be on the pro
gram and practically no one from
North Carolina has been invited
previously.”
Vol. 29, No. 3
Junior High School, High Point, N. C.
February 13, 1957
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Bill Petree, President
Jim Fuller, Vice-President
Linda Weisner, Secretary
Now Being Applied Ngw Officefs Tdko Oath of Office
To New Gymnasium
The new half million dollar gym
nasium between Junior and Senior
High School is beginning to take
o-n that completed look and tons of
earth are being upturned for a new
athletic field.
According to Dr. Dean B. Pruette
the gym will be one of the finest in
the state. It will be much bigger
than the gym in either school. It
will have two half courts, one
for Senior High and one for Junior
Higih. The new half court will be
larger than the court at Junior
High.
In all, there will be 14 baskets,
two for Senior High exhibition
games, six for Se.nior High Phy
sical education classes and six for
Junior High physical education
classes.
In the balcony, after the seats
are pulled away, there will be a
volley ball court which can be used
for gymnastics and for wrestling
matches.
The new atletic field will also
offer greatly improved facilities,
according to D-r. Pruette. A stand
ard one quarter mile size, it will
■have 220 yards straighLa-ways.
Curbing on the turns will be of
bull-nose 'brick instead of boards.
In the center of the track will
be the football field where the high
■school Bison will practice.
The baseball field which is used
by Junior High, Senior High and
the Red Shield Boys’ Club will be
moved over about 100 feet to the
right. The batter’s box will still
face the same way with the back
stop and the position of the bases
bc'ing changed.
A p’ublic dedication is being
planned but the date cannot be
set yet.
Nothing But A’s
For li Students
Second Semester
Eleven students have noth
ing but A’s on their report
cards for the first semester.
They are: Hope Knight, 212;
Lynnette Rice, 10; Nancy
Woodell, Kenneth Wallin,
113; Judy Gilliam, 103; Lar
ry Kilby, 207; Jill Knight,
208; Roger Strickland, Car
ole Kearns,'209. 'y ' ' ' t
A close score of si-, bo five ga've
ninth graders a ors point lead
way in the perfect fecord depart
ment. The five ‘wei’e seventh grad-
e.s. No eighth grade student with
an all A record was reported.
Hope Knight, a seventh grader
and Jill Knight, a ninth grader,
are sisters. They moved to High
PoirJt from Chicago,-, 111. the mid
dle c;f last year. Botlh have made
straight A’s since the fifth grade.
For the last re'p'crt in the sixth
grade, Hope made all A pluses.
Nancy Woodell of Miss Rowena
Austin’s room 113 also has an un
usual scholastic record. Since the
first grade she has iriade only five
B’s.
Dr. Dean B. Pruette, superin
tendent of High Point Schools, re
turned to his home Monday after
undergoing major snrgery at the
Baptist Hospital in Winston-
Salem. He is “doing splendidly”
and hopes to be bach at his office
soon.
Betty Ring
"Try to live our best, act
our best today, for today is
the sure preparation for to
morrow and all the other to
morrows that follow,” advis
ed Bill Petree as he made his
inaugural address to the stu
dent body in the installation
service held February 5.
In additisn to the installation
■of the president, Jim Fuller took
the oath of vice-ipresidemt and
Linda Weisner became secretary-
treasurer of the school.
Lloyd Y. Thayer, principal, in
stalled the president. Myra Bul-
$2,540 Brought In
For Stamps Sales
Over 3097 students have parti
cipated in the sale of saving stamps
•«'hich started October 213. The
total amount collected from these
sales is a speotacular $2,540.10.
The students incharge of these
■sales every Tuesday are Jon Cox,
Tom Kester, Bill Petree, Becky
Caddell, Dinalh Nibbelink, Jimmy
Morgan, Judy Culp, Judy Bruton
and Billy Michaels.
“The room collecting the most
money is 205, Mrs. Beamon’s
room,” smiled Mrs. Padgett. This
room never fails to turn in less
than $20 and have tuimed in as
musoh as $43. Often high rooms
are 212 and 209.
The salesman in room, 209 dreads
to see Bill Grady coming to buy
stamps. The reason for this is
that Bill brings all pennies for his
Stamps.
Yvonne Womble and Chum, her
dog. Yvonne, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl V. Womble, 820 Arbor-
dale Drive, was selected school
Valentine in a contest sponsored
by the JUNIOR POINTER.
“Love me — love my dog” is not
just an old siaying to Yvonne Wom
ble, the school Valentine for 1956-
57. “I would just die,” says Yvonne,
if Chum isihsuld get run over. She
is just like -a sister to me.” Chum,
a Manchester terrier, has been with
the Wombles almost as long as
Yvonne has, having come to live
with the-m when Yvonne was only
one year old.
“Vc'nnie” is a girl of several ac
complishments. As a special art
student she has done several oil
paintings. As a musician, she is
first violinist in the Junior High
Orchestra. As a cancer, she is,
now doing toe-tap, the m'ost dif
ficult form cf cianci ig. She is also
an honor I'oll student.
Her school work comes ahead
of all her other interests.
How has she attained profic
iency in so many things ? “Just by
being interested and_ working con
stantly with them,”’ says Vonnie.
She developed her skill as a violin
ist entirely in group classes in the
public schools. ‘She -has bad no pri
vate instruction. In addition to her
art classes at school her mother,
who is an artist, has helped her.
As for dancing she has had les
sons in this art for H out of her
14 years.
In a Junior Pointer sponsored
contest for the prettiest, sweet
est girl in school to be featured as
the school Valentine, Yvonne came
■out ahead of the other two final
ists, Beth Parks and Priscilla Dav
is. All homerooms had st chance to
vote on these three who had been
chc'sen from a list cf candidates
submitted by the hoimerooms. The
original list included: Becky 'Smith,
Beth Thomas, Carole Kearns, Mar
tha Temple, Marlene Cox, Janice
Rogers, Becky Caddell, Betty Lew
is, Belinda Davis, Candy Craw
ford, Fonda Hampton, Kay Hed
rick, Pat Moser, Kitty Stronach,
Kaijhiy Jowett, Carolyn MaKtin,
Price Marsh, Diana Winslow, Ann
Tinsley, Judy Bruton and Linda
Weisner.
lock, last semester’s president, in
stalled the vice-president and sec-
retary-trasurer. The mayors, coun-
cilmen and monitors for this se
mester also took their office.
Miss Nancy Staley, music di
rector, and the ninth grade chorus
prescinted the devotions. Carolyn
Martin played the piano for the
program.
The nev faculty members were
introduced to the students. Each
teacher spoke for a few minutes.
They are: Mrs. Patricia Eby, Mrs.
Marion Erath, Mrs. Helen Miller,
Mrs. Katharine Ring, Mrs. Imo-
gene White, Mr. Charles Weaver.
Miss Patricia Privette who is ^Iso
a new teacher did not speak to the
students.
The committee chairmen for the
second semester are: Auditorium
—Dickie Blackwell, Bill Wyche;
Bulletin Board — Carol Cridle-
baugh; Cafeteria — Rita Wiley,
Becky Burwell; Campus — Dar
rell McE'O'nald, Ed Ellington; Civic
Affairs—Carolyn Martin, Larry
Kilby; House — Jim Puller; Devo
tions — Dinah Nibbelink, Judy
Culp; Junior Red Cross — Yvonne
Womble, Pat Besoher; Lost and
Pound — Betty Whteless, Myra
Bullock; Social — Johnny Corpen-
ing', Martha Temple; Visual Aids
— Jim Foley, Scotty Parker.
Attendance Record
Show Improvements
Attendance records for January
show success in the fight against
two chronic school ailments, ab
senteeism and tardiness. The per
centage of attendance for the
fourth school month was 93.9%.
Last year’s record Shows a percent
age of 92.3% for the same month.
The reason for this success, says
Mr. Charles Weaver, boys’ counsel,
lor, is that, this year. Junior High
has organized itself in sudh man
ner so as to make attendance de-
sireable. “Students know,” con
tinues Mr. Weaver, “that teachers
will insist on legitimate excuses
for absences and tardies within two
days, or they will be dealt with ac
cording to the rules of the school.”
Mr. Weaver says also that he
could write an amusing article
about some of the un-legitimate
excuses he receives for school ab
sences and tardies. For instance,
one boy said he had to stay at home
to keep the dog from biting the car
penter who was coming to fix the
porch. A girl said she was tardy
because her aunt went to the bak
ery at 7:30 to buy doughnuts.