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THE BARKER
FRIDAY, RECEMBER 13, 1957
Conduct Needs Improving
What’s happened to the sportsmanship, conduct, and common decency
of the students at Williams High School? Remember the Asheboro game?
Our athletic leaders were trying to get Asheboro on our athletic schedule
—to be able to play this school in basketball, football, and baseball. Yet
what happens? Asheboro’s cheerleaders’ pocketbooks and money were
stolen; boys tried to pick fights with Asheboro Jr. varsity players; and
several Burlington girls’ pocketbooks were stolen. Is this conduct compli
mentary to a host high school at a basketball game?
We are .striving to keep from having a bad reputation. You can do
a hundred good acts, and it takes only one bad act to ruin a whole student
body’s reputation.
What’s the solution? Every student in this school must take it on
his shoulders to do his part; set an example, and make others live by that
example. You don’t want forced discipline. Some get added freedom in
high school and run absolutely wild. This entire student body should put
cn a clean-up campaign. Stop boys from running under the bleachers.
Correct the conduct of your fellow classmates! If we don’t correct our
conduct, we could lose the privilege to witness athletic events (and this
viewpoint comes from an authorized source). Let’s do something to
improve this situation now.
Projects are now under way to improve the general conduct of
students at the games. Posters are being displayed in the school depicting
fair play and good sportsmanship. Discussion groups in the homerooms
and clubs will instill in the students a greater sense of lo^'alty to the
school and will insist on courteous treatment of visiting teams. The Student
Council will send a telegram to the visiting team on the day of the game
extending a warm welcome and assurance of a good game. A service club
will meet the visitors prior to the game and assist them while they are
our guests. The club will also provide a basket of fruit for these guests
when they depart.
The important thing for the student body is not who won or lost
but how the game was played.
The World Of Entertainment
Behind the Footlights (cliche for cliche’s sake); Late, late review—“Junior
Miss” did prove novel. Everyone expected a flop, and it was a success,
with the exception of some miscasting.
Late review—The Junior Play was everything that could be expected
from high school dramatists, starting with the selection of the play (slap
stick to philosophy), down to the sharp character portrayal (Grandpa is
one of the most memorable characters the W. H. S, stage has ever seen).
Review of “The Rivalry”—$2.20 a ticket is expensive boredom.
Future Review—Local theatre goers have a treat in store on January
10. "No For Sergeants” will be presented at Memorial Auditorium
in Chapel Hill.
The Burlington Playmakers have begun work on their second play,
“Dark "Victory.” This should make or break them.
The Flickers: “Mr. Rock and Roll” was worth the price just to see the
performers’ faces. Otherwise, the movies were better on T. V.
The Flickering Flickers: T. V. musicals have run the gauntlet of success
during the past month—from the freshness of “Huckleberry Finn,” pre
sented by the Theatre Guild of America, to the banality of “Annie, Get
Your Gun.”
Pistol packing time (which is any time, any station) now offers hour
long gun conversations, “Maverick” and “Wagon Train,” Isn’t there a
point of satiety?
That rock and roll show with a paralysed Elvis is rather good. It’s
called the Nelson show or something.
“Seven Lively Arts” improves with every show. Story of evangelism
was an excellent documentary. Their story of jazz should be better.
Channel 5 and 7 are offering such movies as "High Noon” and “The
African Queen.”
Between the Covers: Franscoise Sagan has done it again. She calls this
mental depression “Those Without Shadows.”
Cozzins’s “By Love Possessed,” national best seller, has been called
the great American novel by some critics, and by others, an artistic
“Peyton Place.”
Radio (believe it or not rip): The Burlington Playmakers present a Broad
way musical every Monday night which is “different.”
THE BARKER
Published monthly as the official voice of Williams High School.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Calvin Linnemann
MANAGING EDITOR Wanda Ware
NEWS EDITOR Jim Copland
EDITORIAL STAFF
Feature Editors Frank Rich, Ruth Lemmons
Society Editor Becky Carlyle
Sports Editors Johnny Weeks, Malcolm Kilpatrick, Mike Barham
Associate Editor Sandra Schiffley
BUSINESS STAFF
Circulation Manager Jack Newman
Business Manager Alvis Rich
Advertising Manager Tripp May
Photographers George Best, Lin Puckett
Typists Billie Gray Thomas, Sandra Rackley
ASSISTANT EDITORS Phil Deaton, Nancy Lorimer, Ruth Lupton,
ADVISOR Mrs. Ella Booker
Shall We Ride On?
BY RANNY UMBERGER
Like lint against a velvet sky
The desert’s Advent stars are flung.
As loosely as these lights themselves.
The crescent of the moon is hung.
Like silver foil it hangs!
When slowly down a sand-swept trail
Strange silhouettes appear.
It is a couple and their steed!
They speak as they draw near.
Keep silence!
Joseph: The wind blows hard and
cold tonight
Against our little donkey’s face.
He begs for me to stop awhile
And slow his weary, cadenced pace.
Shall we ride on?
Mary: Yes, Joseph. He can bear my
burden
If I can bear this child.
Oh, please ride on to Bethlehem.
His birth must never be this wild.
Make haste! The time is near!
Joseph: An old man’s inn is up ahead
Its hall’s are warm, its beds, as down.
Mary: But if, my Joseph, we should
stop
The Significance Of Christmas
BY SANDRA SCHIFFLEY
When we think of Christmas, a great many things come to mind. The
fellowship with friends, the exchanging of presents^ and the aromatic
turkey are all symbolic of cv Chrisfrn.ns season '^ut we 'hc"! ' ' '■er-.’
mat this time marks the comniemoraiioii of our SaviouC.s birtn.
Then we would never reach the town.
Ride on. Ride on to Bethlehem!
Joseph: The shops of Bethlehem are
filled!
And town is not so far away.
Let’s rest within the old man’s walls!
We’ll travel on again next day.
Besides, the time draws nigh.
Mary: Alas, our journey is too late
For even this is tight and shut.
And all they leave to comfort us
Be nothing, save this meager hut.
It is not fit for God’s own child.
Joseph: A birth among the stable’s
folk
Is not so low a fate.
The spider’s birth be worse than this.
And yet he dwells in king’s estate.
Shall ours be greater than a king?
Mary: Yea! Greater than a thousand
Icjn^
Everyone in the free world should
be thankful and humble for the mi
raculous event which took place in
Bethlehem more than nineteen hun
dred years ago. “And an angel of
the Lord appeared to them, and the
glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were filled with fear. And
the angel said to them, “Be not
afraid; for to you is born this day
in the city of David a Savior, who
is Christ the Lord.”
The lowly sheep and camels, the
shepherds, the stable where He was
born, all reveal how very human
Christ was. The Star of Bethlehem,
the wise men from the East, and the
angels, however, are embolic of the
profound spiritual happening that oc
curred.
Needed: Neiv
School Song
BY MARVIN COBLE
Can you remem.ber the last time
the student body sang the school
song, “Williams High” in chapel?
As well as I can remember, it has
been at least two years. I took a
survey yesterday to find out just how
many students knew the song. I was
especially interested in the answers
given by the members of the fresh
man and sophomore classes.
Question: What do you think of
the school song?
Cliffie Elder: “I didn’t know we
had one.”
Bob McCloud: “I’ve never heard
it.”
Gloria Christopher: “What is it?’
Ed Thomas: “How do you expect
us to know what we think of it, when
we don’t know it!”
Holland Phillips: “I don’t know
it!”
From these and similar comments
I gathered that 90 per cent of the
freshmen and sophomores don’t even
know we have a school song, except
for someone who replied: “Onward
Bulldogs?”
Why aren’t we singing our school
song? Probably the main reason is
the tune that no one can seem to
carry, and the words which in them
selves are so, well, different. The
tune was originally called “Burling
ton High”, and when you think of
changing the three syllable word
“Burlington” to the one syllable word
“Williams” you can imagine the mix-
up.
I wish the Student Council would
get our glee club director, Mr. Fiz-
gerald, to write a new school song
that would be sung during every
chapel program instead of the dead-
uh-what’s that name?
For years the wise men had been
instructed and prepared for the Mes
siah’s birth. On the marvelous night
so long ago, they were meek and
joyous, frightened and glad, and we,
the people of today, should experi
ence the same feeling. We should be
joyous on Christ’s birthday, but hum
ble, remembering the Holy and divine
significance of this day.
When Christmas day arrives, may
we as individuals think not only
about the gifts we have received, but
also remember that on this blessed
day of peace and joy, Jesus was born
to die for us.
. lUjgiity as a Slone!
I guess it would be best, old man.
To have our son alone.
But where shall he lay his head?
Joseph: There on the lamb’s wool,
Mary.
There by the old hen’s nest
Is as good a place as any
To lay our child to rest.
Come, sit and wait with me.
So they lit the hut with starlight
And warmed the room with love
While night crept in about them
Like fingers of a glove.
They wrought his bed of a manger
A mattress of new hay.
At last! The holy hour was here!
Christmas Crossivord Puzzle
Across
I. Homecoming queen
4. Vice-pres. Freshman class
7. Initials of senior superlative—
Most Musical girl
9. Perry Como’s latest record—
Rose
10. New book: on Modern Art
11. Initials of Jr. Exchange Club
president
14. Art editor of the annual
17. Singer: Maria Alberghetti
18. Initials of Junior: Tommy Boone
19. Frank Sinatra’s latest movie: Pal..
23. Co-captain of varsity football
squad
24. Initials of Junior assistant to the
annual—boy
26. First name of Junior assistant to
the annual: Porterfield
28. World history teacher
29. Male duck
Down
1. Editor of the annual
2. Annual queen
3. Pres, of the Key Club
5. Initials of the author of “Rubai
yat”
6. Pres, of the Band
8. Freshman Betty Long’s initials
12. Initials of senior superlative —
Most Intellectual girl
13. Pres, of the Junior Civitan Club
15. Initials of The Barker advisor
16. Winner of the Voice of De
mocracy contest
20. Trumpet soloist for the Band
21. Pres, of the Bible Club
22. Initials of senior superlative —
Best Dres.sed boy
23. First name of Glee Club accom
panist
25. Pat Boone’s latest movie: April....
27. Initials of National Education As
sociation