March 5, 1948
THE LEXHIPEP
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By Nancy Witherspoon
Since this column is about your mind, the reason for the title is quite
obvious. If you can’t figure it out, you’re worse off than I thought (and,
brother, that’s pretty bad). This month we have a little quiz. Anyone
answering all the questions correctly will win either a pass to the picture
show or a 1948 Cadillac. Here goes. The easy questions are first:
1. In what year did L. H. S. win the South Atlantic Football cham
pionship?
2. What is Kitty Philpott’s first name?
3. Of what school is Mrs. Hedrick an alumna?
4. Whose name is on this year’s football trophy?
5. Who were the first Mr. and Miss L. H. S. this year?
6. Whose name is on the dedication plaque in the back of the
auditorium?
7. What is the date on the front of the school building?
8. How many teachers were in the Follies? Name them.
9. What do J. L. Peeler’s initials stand for?
10. Who was Chief Junior Class Marshal last year?
11. How many times does the word LEXHIPEP appear in this issue?
12. How long has the flagpole in front of the building been standing?
(The rest are a little harder.)
13. Whom does Barbara Ritchie like?
14. Ditto Mike Sicelofl.
15. How long have Mary Ann and Johnny been going together? How
long will they go together?
16. Why all the orange sweaters?
17. Why do some people like peroxided hair?
18. Who is the most conceited boy in L. H. S.? '
19. Who will take Stinky’s place?
20. What subject does Mr. Gathings know nothing about?
21. When will spring come?
22. What makes Young’s hair so stiff?
23. Who has the biggest collection of Buick rings?
24. When will prices go down (to normal, that is)?
25. How do some people pass?
26. How many times is “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover’’ played on
the radio each day?
27. How many letters has Jane Gordon written since Bill went to
Carolina?
28. How does Wayne Everhart keep his pilot’s license?
29. When will Jimmy Grayson stop getting into fights? And who is his
secret lover?
30. Why is Sonny Timberlake so fond of the lake? (Barbara will give
five dollars for that answer.)
31. (This is our giant jackpot superduper deluxe question.) Give the
age of each and every teacher in L. H. S.
“Lest Our Old Robes Sit
Easier Than Our New”
—Eunice Auman
Divorce was the only answer Mar
garet could find. She had tried her
best to make a go of her marriage,
but she felt that she could not take
anymore of David’s carelessness and
misunderstandings. Not only did he
leave his clothes lying around on
chairs, and drop ashes on her best
rug, but he was always forgetting to
phone her when he could not get home
for dinner.
These things and many more small
misunderstandings were Very rapidly
carrying their once happy marriage
on the rocks. Margaret and David
never went out or had their friends
in anymore, for Margaret explained
that always when she had something
planned, David would break the date
or engagement at the last minute
Finally David abused Margaret once
too often. She was fed up. She left
that night while David was working
overtime. “Divorce’’ was the only an
swer. . V
Two years later there was a pic
ture of Margaret in the paper. It
was announcing her marriag eto Rob
ert Greene. Margaret had put David
entirely out of her mind. Margaret’s
marriage was a happy one for the
first few months, but soon she began
to see Rob’s faults also. He would
stay out late at night and give no
excuse at all as to his whereabouts.
Often she could smell whiskey on his
breath when he would come in early
in the morning.
When she found that she was go
ing to have a child, she hoped that
Rob’s attitude would change; but af
ter the baby came Rob complained
of the child’s’ crying and its clothes
hanging around everywhere. As the
baby grew older, Rob would punish
the child needlessly.
When the child, Bobby, was asleep,
Margaret would often think of ner
Have You Plans?
—Grace Hendricks
The time is now approaching when,
we the seniors, will don caps and
gowns and proudly receive our diplo
mas. That will be one of the most
important events in our lives. As I
realize this, i stop to think: “What
do Fwant to do in my lifetime? What
do I want to be?’’
In high school one gets only the
fundamentals of his subjects. Boys
and girls hardly take the time to
taste their subjects; very few chew
and digest them. Also very few take
time to plan the coiuses that will
help them in their life’s work. A
great many high school students take
certain subjects because someone said
it was easy or the teacher was not
too strict.
Today there is a crying need for
trained, capable workers, both men
and women. The prime requisite for
both is to choose what they wish and
can do, and do it well. Never be sat
isfied with “Oh, just anything,” in
connection with one’s life’s work. No
matter whether one is beginning high
school, it is not too early to plan for
the future. Choose subjects wisely,
and build dreams high.
Poets’
Corner
SUCCESS
—Bonnie Leonard, ’49
If when climbing the ladder to success
A missing rung you spy.
Do not lose courage and turn back.
For just beyond success may lie.
Stay always unaffected then • ^
Whatever heights you may achieve;
Make friends and keep them; .
True friends who will believe.
Then, if the highest point you reach.
And unaffected you remain;
The friends you’ve made you’ve kept;
Success is only half your gain.
YOU AND I
—Alene Staton, ’49
We will have another fuss some soon
soon day.
And of course it will end in the
usual way—
You going your way and I mine.
Leaving the awful past behind.
Then we’ll make up, but in the end
We’ll find we are only beginning again
first marriage and how she had never
tried to see David’s side of anything.
She now realized that she should have
put forth more effort into under
standing him, but the wrong was done.
She would stay here as Rob’s wife
and be the best mother for Bobby that
a child could ever want. As she put
aside her thoughts of David, a high
school quotation slipped into her
mind, “Lest our old robes sit easier
than our new.’’
The Little Red
Schoolhouse
—Nancy Witherspoon
When the younger generation finds
fault with today’s so-called modern
school system’, grandpa begins to
reminisce about the days gone by
and the little red schoolhouse. He
has us believe that he enjoyed cut
ting wood for the classroom stove. He
seems to think that tfie inadequacy
of his education excuses the inade
quacy of ours.
To understand history or sociology
it is necessary to realize that what
does not progress must degenerate.
There is no standing still. Most of our
American schools have degenerated.
The recent war is, of course, partly
to blame, but if the schools had been
in good condition at the war’s be
ginning, they would require little work
to make up for the lack of atten
tion during the war years.
Overcrowding, lack of textbooks,
lack of space, the teacher shortage arid
other problems are the outer signs of
a gradual degeneration. If something
is not done about these problems im
mediately the future of the school
system will be endangered.
The only possible solution to this
and all other social problems is lead
ers who can see beyond today into
the future. They must be practical
idealists whose only thought is of the
welfare of the people at large.
Study (?) Hall
—Agnes Wilson, ’49
When old people get together, they
usually talk about “way back when—”.
Most of the talk is about their high
school days. And no wonder! Al
though high school life has changed
considerably since then, it was far
advanced.
As I sit here in the study hall I
wonder if all the people around me
realize the full meaning of all the
names written over each of the shelves.
Men and women, who were kind
enough to leave us their knowledge
of a particular subject, have given
these fine works. It’s up to us to
take advantage of it.
Th teacher of this period is one of
the most patient teachers in the school
—she has to be. She is there to help
us to find, as she found, that books
are the foundations for all dreams.
Again I begin to wonder if these
students around me, some workings and
some playing, if they really feel the
wisdom that they should, and respect
truthfully the library.
If We sit and idle our time away
in study hall and don’t acquire the
knowledge that is there for us, we
have only ourselves to blame.
YOU
—Alene Staton, ’49
You brought me the world
Tied with a ribbon of blue.
You set me down upon it.
And promised always to be true.
You put a cushion beneath me.
And promised a life of ease.
And then while no one was looking.
You proposed to me on bended knees.
JUST DREAM
—Alene Staton, ’49
When you are sad, just dream.
No matter how dark everything may
seem,
For dreams always lighten the way
As you live from day to day.
So if someone has done you wrong.
And you think life is no longer a song.
Just dream.
THE LAND OF MAKE
BELIEVE
Bonnie Leonard, ‘49
Over yon hills and over yon streams.
Over yon clouds and over yon dreams,
Ther lies the rainbow and a great pot
of gold
Where the peppermint trees and the
lollipops grow.
Where the housework and schools are
things of the past.
And where the gingerbread houses
their shadows cast—
Over the rippling of the lemonade
stream
Oh, it’s wonderful to be there, if it’s
only a dream.
And on your trip to the land, they say
You can reach out and touch the
Milky Way—
Where the soda pop fountain flows
free for yoiu- taking
It seems a pity when from this dream
you are waking.
So when twilight comes and all is still.
From over yon valley ond over yon hill
Will come a small fairy to carry you
back
To a king’s richest mansion from a
homely shack
In the Land of Make Believe.
LEXINGTON ACCEPTS CHALLENGE
(Continued from page one)
probably save us five dollars in future
years. A city free of crime, illness,
and poverty to a great extent would
be a wonderful place in which to live.
A community center would greatly aid
in bringing this about.
This project would also serve our
adults as well. For them it would be
a place of wholesome and inexpen
sive entertainment. In my opinion,
the adults of this city would also ap
preciate such a building.
Our youth are in a certain sense
loafers and wanderers who would
jump at a chance to spend their
leisure time taking part in some sport
or reading and dancing at a place
where only the right kind of influ
ences were present. Therefore, with
boys and girls eagerly anticipating
such a thing even before it is con
structed, there is a definite need and
a wonderful opportunity for the city
and citizens of Lexington.