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JUNIOR POINTER
Friday, October 26, 1957
Summen,
Pillowed and husked on the silent plain
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain
Wearied of pleasuring weeks away
Summer is lying asleep today.
('ut by Marion Diack
Will Aiilumn Winds
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Now the air is chilled with autumn winds and it’s once
more time for ghosts and goblins to prowl. The whole town is
preparing for an invasion of Halloween spooks and witches.
One remembers all the hilarious activities in which he par
ticipated on those eerie nights.
Will anyone remember an incident like this? ....
.... A nice lady, Mrs. Jones loved children and had
spent all day making cakes and cookies for the goblins that
would come to her door. Although she was ill, she stayed up
later than usual to give out her treats to the spooks. Late
that night, after she had retired, her door bell rang for
tricks or treats. Because she could not get out of bed to
answer the door she found, next morning, her beloved potted
plants broken and scattered from one end of the block to
the other.
Will October 31 ever bring you that sort of memory?
Connie Newman
So Many New Things
What ALaut OiiilaGh?
Everyone is impressed with newness at the opening of
this new school year.
New methods such as teaching school by television are
signs of progress in education. Seven of the best new tele
vision sets are in this school. Our own Dr. Dean B. Pruette,
superintendent of High Point City Schools, heads the project
for the state and three teachers from Junior High spent part
of this summer at a workshop in Chapel Hill learning about it.
New buildings .such as our new gymnasium and the new
Montlieu Avenue school with grounds cleared nearby for
a new junior high .school are signs of progress in local school
facilities. They are all modern with the latest equipment.
The new teachers in this school, whom a lot of you know
and work with give a new life and vitality to the school.
Let’s all try to keep in step with this new, fresh outlook.
Sue Latimer
Room Mayors
Mayor
Steve Hyman
John Womack
Nancy Livengood
June Jordan
Ronnie Taylor .
Jean Ruth
Larry Kelly
Jerry Freedle
Linda Pugh
Joel McDaniels
Robert Perry
Ray Hedrick
Larry Craven
Jerry Lawson
Nancy Rutherford
Wayne Farmer
.Sandra Campbell
Rodney Kearns
Joey Rowe
Janice Webb
Ginger Shaw
Bill Gregory
Shirley Tate
Van Aulbert
Johnny Davis
Edgar Banks
Jewel Lowry
David Dahle
Linda Tunstall
Sharon Brady
Patsy Peatross
Jimmy Morgan
Ken Brewer
Carolyn Conrad
Steve Hudson
Joe Slate
Becky Smith
Ann Campbell
Jimmy Hart
David Conrad
No Figurehead !
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Mayor Is Important
The mayor of the homeroom is
not just a figurehead. Sometimes
he has big jobs to do and always
there is that steady responsibility.
The mayor of the homeroom
handled the money and records
during the magazine drive, for in
stance. This was no easy task
since the time for handling it was
short and receipts were heavy.
But they did an efficient job.
Steady responsibility consists of
keeping homeroom meetings gd-
ing from week to week. Council
reports in the homeroom are im
portant.
Student from London Likes Living Here .
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Glenn Davis
I feel very privileged to be writ
ing this article and as I have lived
in London, England for most of
my life, I shall try to tell you a
few of the things which stand
out and I hope they will be of
interest to you.
London has a population of
around eight million and is com
posed of Boroughs which compare
in size with High Point and have
populations of up to one hundred
and eighty thousand in each.
The center of government in
England is conducted from West
minster and when you visit the
Houses of Parliment, where I have
sat and listened to a debate, you
are impressed by the building
which is some hundreds of years
old and particularly by Big Ben,
which is the clock overlooking the
Houses of Parliment.
This clock is 24’ in diameter,
the figures are 2’ long, the minute
hand is 14’ long and weighs 250
lbs. The clock itself weighs nearly
6,000 lbs. and the gear wheels are
so large that recently a man was
crushed to death amongst them.
There is a light on top of Big Ben
which is lit when Parliament is
sitting.
I very much like living in High
Point but I must say I do miss
the colorful London double decker
buses. These buses are as com
fortable as any car and are paint
ed bright red and they run all over
London and on some services you
get a bus every three minutes.
The whole system is run by Lon
don Transport. I am also used to
traveling by underground trains
Photo by David R. Duncan
.Mrs. Barbara Gordon, school secretary . . .
Always Smiling^ Mrs, Gordon
Attends to a Dozen Things
Judv Cameron
and these trains run as frequently
as one-half minute at some sta
tions. They, too, ax'e extremely
comfortable and run very fast. It
costs approximately one cent per
mile to travel on these buses and
trains.
I have been on holiday in Wales
and climbed the highest mountain
in the British Isles which is Mount
Snowdon and this mountain has
nearly always a cap of snow in
the winter and summer.
Your games are so completely
different. I have been used to
playing football, which I believe
you call soccer with a round ball
and eleven players on each side.
The goal posts are similar to
those which you use in your game
of football except the to.p posts
are cut cff. Our game of rugby is
very much like your football, but
we do not wear all the padding
which you do and you only tackle
the player who has the ball.
In conclusion I would say how
greatly I appreciate the very
friendly attitude you have shown
towards me and I feel that your
jokes and “leg-pulling” are a part
of your friendliness, which I do
not feel I shall ever forget.
I am thoroughly enjoying living
here in High Point and I sincerely
hope I shall be able to stay.
“May I use the phone?"
“I sprained my ankle.”
“I’ve lost a pair of glasses.”
'Such pleas greet Mrs. Barbara
Gordon, school secretary, from
the time she arrives at 8:00 a. m.
until she leaves at 5:30 p. m. And
she never has been known to re
spond with anything but a smile.
This being on the go arid help
ing the helpless are sidelines to
her regular duties of taking dic
tation, typing, mimeographing and
keeping books, records and reports.
“I do lots of different things,”
commented Mrs. Gordon. ‘“That’s
what makes it so much fun.”
Mrs. Gordon is a person of many
accomplishments. In the second
semester of her ninth grade here
she enjoyed a reign as president
of Junior High. In High Point
Senior High she was editor of the
Pemican. She won the Service
Award of the National Honor So
ciety and she was voted Best-All-
Round Senior. She also belonged
to the Beta Club and the Masque
and Gavel.
“My hobby is music”, Mrs. Gor
don went on to say, “and I get
satisfaction out of playing the
organ. I don’t guess you’d include
football as a hobby, but I love
it”, she added with a grin.
“I love my work here, partly
because it involves working with
students, learning the problems
they face and trying to help
them. To the office is the first
place they should come if they
have doubts in their minds or if
they are in trouble”, she con
tinued.
The job of keeping everyone’s
records straight, mimeographing
tests and other work plus acting
as lost and found head, nurse, dir
ector of information and errand
boy is certainly not an easy one.
Yet Mrs. Gordon always manages
to keep neat, prompt, patient and
efficient. And there’s always that
smile.
“It’s just as easy, if not easier,,
to sm.ile at people than to snap
at them”, she concluded, “and I
feel much happier with this atti
tude in mind.”
Laws of Sportsmanship
1 WILL not cheat, nor will I
play for keeps or for money. If
I should not play fair, the loser
tvould lose the fun of the game,
the winner would lose his self-
respect, and the game itself would
become a mean and often cruel
business.
IF I PLAY in a group game,
I will not play for my own glory,
but for the sticcess of my team
and the ftin of the game.
I WILL treat my opponents
with courtesy and trust them if
they deserve it. I will be friendly.
I will be a good loser or a gen
erous winner.
AND in my work as well as
in ?ny play, I will be sportsman
like—generous, fair, honorable.
JUNIOR POINTER
Published every six weeks by eighth and ninth grade students of
Junior High School, Ferndale Drive, High Point, N. C.
Principal Dr. Lloyd Y. Thayer
Editors Sue Latimer, Connie Newnam
Home Room Editor Sylvia Saunders
Sports Editors Jimmy Lue Hart, Scotty Parker
Music Editor Reita Wallin
Reporters: Linda Cabot, Donna Ray Clement, Judy Cameron, .Jimmie
Hughey, Pat Kidd, Mary Muckenfuss, Becky Fowler, Ray
York, Bill Abernethy, Louis Bissette, Freddie De Lappe,
Judy Culp, Betty Proffitt, Patsy Peatross, Pamela Rogers,
Darius Lewellyn.
Homeroom Reporters: Ruth Folger, T.ynn ('ampbell, Delores Raye. Mary
Dou Hecigecock, Mike Waggoner, Kathy Lewis, Julia Fogleman, Henry Malone,,
Billy Barker, John Russell, Judy Van Anda, Wanda Snyder. Richard Helms!
Skpi Brady, Diana Deyo, Irwin Coffield, .Mike Chapman, Ronnie Osborne,
Betsy Creech, Luther Fowler, Jackie Poole, Joan Hubbard, Shirley Ann Tate!
Lee Sherrill, Linda Hodgin, Brenda Yarborough, Nancy Inman, Tom Rochelle’
Gloria Jean Pirtle, Sue Linville, Judy Johnson. Bob Cecil, Juanita Inman’
Michael Helmstetler, Xeal Armfield, Grace Reitzel, Calvin Deal, Charles Morgan.
Adviser Mrs. Thelma Briggs