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Come, Home For Homecoming!
Tonight
We’ll
Beat
Children’s
Home
The Lexhipep
Then After
Homecoming
They Won’t
Be Alone
Vol. XXIV
LEXINGTON, N. C„ OCTOBER 4, 1946
No. 1
Stanford Tate, Woody McKay, and Jack Alber.
Ye Olde Song Shoppe,” Written
And Produced By Ed Easter, Ushers
In Lexhipep Subscription Drive
Featuring the music of Jerome
Kern, Cole Porter and George Gersh
win, Ed Easter, Jr., reproduced for his
alma mater, “Ye Olde Song Shoppe.”
^ This musical comedy was written by
the producer, now a senior at the
University of North Carolina.
Starring in the title role was Ed
Easter, tenor. He was ably assisted by
Miss Dot Spruill, contralto; Sue Hoop
er, soprano; Joe Ayers, baritone, and
Mrs. L. E. Andrews, accompanist on
the piano. Mrs. Paul Miller was guest
star, playing her original composi
tions on the piano. Other characters
were Betty Jo Everhart and Woody
McKay, comedians; Jack Alber and
Jack Swaim, the Sani-Flush twins;
and numerous customers.
The music ranged from semi-classic
to the most popular novelties, with
the climax coming near the end as
Ed, Dot, Sue, and Joe gave them ar
rangement of “Doin’ What Comes
Naturally.”
This performance started the
hipep subscription drive for 1946-47.
New Veterans Club
Organized
Hayes Robbins, President
The newest club in school is the
Veterans Club which is composed of
boys that have been in service and
have returned to Lexington High
School. „ ^
A meeting was called September 10
in the auditorium to elect officers of
the club and to decide on a project.
Hayes Robbins, who served in the
Navy for three years, was elected
president of the club. “Chub” Wilson,
secretary of the club, served six weeks
in the Navy before he was medically
discharged.
Other members of the club are:
Ralph Lanning, who served three years
with the Army in the European the
ater; Ira W. Church, who served three
years in the Atlantic and South Pa
cific with the Navy; Paul R. Shoe-
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Yellow Jackets Meet Children’s Home
"Eonightj Old Rivals Clash at Eight
L.H.S. Opens With
Many New Members
On Faculty
There are fourteen new teachers in
Lexington High School this year, and
the school is indeed fortunate in hav
ing these new teachers by the opening
of school. A list of them Including
the subjects taught and other infor
mation follows:
A game that will mean a great
deal to the Yellow Jackets this year
will be palyed tonight at Holt-Moffitt
field when Children’s Home’s hard
hitting eleven meets the Yellow Jack
ets. Starting time has been set at
eight o’clock.
Children’s Home had one of tne
best teams in the state last year, and
has been the class B champions for
the past two years. Lexington has
been beaten by the Home for the la^
two years by large scores but Coach
Jimmy Maus believes he has a sur-
prise in store for them tonight. Both
teams have a good chance at win
ning the class championship and the
winner may well come from the game
tonight. , , i j
Coach Maus has already determined
tonight’s mixup as one of the tough
est of the season. Children’s Home
has a big, rough team and they will
be hard to beat.
Lexington’s lineup will be;
LE—Pete Clark.
LT—Bill Blaylock.
LG—Benny Walser.
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New Senior Class Officers
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
October 4—Football; Children’i
Home, here.
October 4—Assembly.
October 11—Football: High Point
there.
October 11—Assembly.
October 14—Southeast Assembly:
The Lewis Players.
October 18 — Football; Barium
Springs—Homecoming Game.
October 18—Assembly.
October 25—Football; Monroe
there.
October 25—Assembly.
November 1—Football; Reidsyille^
here.
November 1—Assembly.
November 8—Football; Thomas-
ville, there.
November 15—Football: Concord
here.
November 22—Football: Albe
marle, here.
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The new senior ciass officers: Top row. Bob Peeler, president; left to
right, below; Stanford Tate, treasurer; Paul WilUams, vice-president,
and Peggy Pean Thomason, secretary.
Subject: Freshmen Teachers
Miss Lillian Raper, a former student
of LH.S., graduated from W.C.U.N.C.
in the class of ’46. She resides at
the Parkview Apartments.
Miss Virginia Gibson is a graduate
Qf the University of Michigan, and
her home is in Cleveland, Ohio.
Business Department
Miss Carolyn Hollingsworth resides
at Hege Inn. She is a graduate
of W.C.U.N.C. and her home is in
Goldsboro.
Assistant Coach
Mr. Clayton C. Gaddy from Wades-
boro, is a graduate of Catawba Col
lege, where he participated in ®tl^
letics. Ke is th,G new assists^nt coapCxi
at L.HH. and teaches boys’ physical
ed. He married a Lexington girl, the
former Anna Green, and lives at the
Ben Green home on West Center
Street.
English
Mrs. Fred B. Lewis is a graduate of
G.C. She is the eleventh grade Eng
lish teacher and the dramatics teach
er. She lives on Route No. 6, Lexing
ton and comes to us from Tyro.
Miss Lillian Jones, who taught at
Davis-Townsend last year, teaches
ninth grade English and first and
second year Latin. She has an A.B.
degree from the University of Louis
ville and her Master’s from the Uni
versity of Kentucky.
Mrs. William Wright, who- is a grad
uate of Duke University and a former
student of L.H.S., teaches ninth grade
Civics. She resides at West Second
Avenue and is the former Bill Gordon.
Miss Jeanette Wade lives at Cen
tury Oaks. She is a teacher of tenth
grade history, is from Charlotte, and
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