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GH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
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TOLUME XVIII
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 5, 1!)41
NUMBER 7
Commercial School Student in Action
200 State Debaters to Participate
In Tournament Here Tomorrow
Full Program Planned
For Visiting Guests;
Locais to Take Part
SHOWN ABOVE is a member of the Commercial school, a sub
division of the, city schools vocational education department, learn
ing to use the dictaphone. (Staff Photo by Jack AVatson.)
Study Office Machinery
At Commercial School
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Teclmical practice in the use of busi
ness office machinesr Mcliuling the type
writer, a(IiliBgAui(I bookkeeping nia-
chihe, and dictaphone, is given at the
commercial school during the day and
night classes, George L. Sandvig, direc
tor of vocational education in the pub
lic schools, announced today.
Walke, Durham Teach
Mrs. Cordelia Walke and Mrs. Ruth
Durham are instructors for the classes,
Air. Sandvig reported. Newest of the
many machines which are now avail
able for commercial school pupils is a
dictaphone, a device used to record
messages, made of a plastic material.
A new bookkeeping machine will be
added to the equipment of the school
soon. Director Sandvig said.
Typing, shorthand, business math,
and office machine practices feature
the main course of study at the school.
Interested persons can apply for fur
ther information by contacting the
leaders at 2-1780 or by applying direct
ly at 207 South Cedar street.
Five Journalism Sludenls
Secure High Life Positions
Five meniliers of the journalism
classes. Alary Kathryn Chambers, Bob
by Lloyd, Alervin Alerritt, Alargaret
Kindley, and .lean Kiger. were offi
cially notified this morning of their
appointment to the High Life staff.
Betty Routh, business manager of the
school paper, nmde the .selections.
Lloyd. Kindley, and Alerritt, of the
jnnior journalism classes, will assume
the title of advertising solicitors. Alary
Kathryn, a member of the advanced
class, will take over the duties as cut
manager for the publication. .lean will
serve as assistant featnre writer.
Pan-American Club Hears
Debate on South America
Combining forces with those of the
debating society for its meeting No
vember 25, the Pan-American club
heard a debate between Paul Aliller and
Herbert Hattaway, affirmatives, and
.John Taylor and Ed Alston, negatives,
on the subject, “Resolved : That a union
of western hemisphere nations should
be formed.”
Aliss Alary Ellen Blackmon and Aliss
Estelle Alitchell, advisers for the Pan-
American group, served as judges for
the event, which was won by the af
firmative.
Talks by Bob and .lean AIcAlister
were originally scheduled on the pro
gram, but the two Senior high gradu
ates were unable to attend. The club
hopes to secure the duo for the next
program.
The group expects to find the double
address by the two brothers particu
larly interesting since the two have
spent the past summer in Panama,
where they visited their father. In
addition, Jean is an ex-,student body
president of the local school and Bob
was an honor roll student and chairman
of the scholar.ship committee.
Occupations Students
Plan Christmas Party
Terminating an extensive survey of
vocational opportunities in the Hnited
States today, IH student workers in the
diversified occupations classes took
another unit in a series of competitive
examinations during class period last
week. George L. Sandvig. coordinator
of vocationai education, conducted the
tests.
High scores on the surveys, which in
cluded generai questions concerning
business English, arithmetic and occu
pation booklets, were maintained by
Paul Aliller, reporter for the Greensboro
News-Record, James Lee, an A. G. S.
radio repair worker, and Kyie Benbow,
who does testing work at the Pittsburgh
laboratory here.
Bringing approximately 200 student
debaters from North Carolina to Senior
high Saturday, December G, members
of the forensic society will sponsor
their second annual practice debate
tournament. Herbert Hattaway, secre
tary-treasurer of the organization, will
serve as general chairman.
Local Teams To Participate
According to reports which were re
leased this morning by Aliss Alozelle
Causey, Senior high debate coach, 10
local teams will participate in the
tourney. Those taking part from
Greensboro are Paul Aliller, Herbert
Hattaway, Neil Beard, Bobby Perry,
Alartha Ann Aloore, Dacia Lewis, A1
Cohen, Irwin Smallwood, Bill Lambert,
Bobby Lloyd, Edgar Alston, John Tay
lor, Rachael AVhiteside, Jean Glenn,
Louis Thacker, Alartha M'eidler, Helen
Alarks, Laura Oliver, Bill Pollard, Har
riet Fox, Rozelle Yoder, Betty Cooley,
Betty Sue Beamon and Bill Aloore.
Debating the state query, “Resolved:
That a union of western hemisphere
nations should be established,” repre
sentatives from Burlington, High Point,
Wake Forest, Raleigh, Hamlet, Reids-
ville, Durham, Winston-Salem, Chapel
Hill, Salisbury, Thomasville, Lexing
ton and Asheville will meet here for
the tournament.
Have Full Day’s Program
A full day’s program, which includes
four rounds of del>ating, has been plan
ned by Chairman Hattaway and his
committees. Lnnch will be served by
the home economics department in the
school cafeteriii. Entertainment, lodg
ing, and general arrangements for the
tourney have been provided by mem
bers of the local cuTb.
Judges will come from AVake Forest,
Woman’s, Greensboro and Guilford col
leges for the affair.
Special guests, including Alayor Huger
S. King and Superintendent Ben L.
Sinith, have been extended an invita
tion to speak to the visiting debaters.
Direct reply from either of the two
has not, as yet, been received by the
forensic club, however.
Music Group To Give
''Marco Polo Travels”
“Adventures and Travels of Alar-
eo Polo,” a comic operetta, vHll be
presented by a local group spon
sored by the Greensboro junior
civic music association, December
10, at the Aycock auditorium.
The original “Marco Polo’s Ad
ventures and Travels” was written
as a play, and the i)erformances
were to be given with the lines
spoken, but contemporary musicians
wrote musical scores, transforming
it into an operetta.
Bundle Campaign Gek
Items for Heedy
Sponsors of Bundle day, Snn-
day, November 25, have proclaimed
that their campaign for toys, fnrni-
tiTre, and clothes which will be dis
tributed to the underprivileged peo
ple of Greensboro during the Christ
mas season, a great success. Ap
proximately 16,000 articles were do
nated by the local citizenry when
requests were made by the boy
scouts and merchants of the city.
Lloyd Griffith supervised the
drive. He was assisted by members
of the junior chamber of commerce.
New G. H. S. Student
Likes Local School
New Torchlighters
To Be Honored Tonight
In order that members of Torch
light may l)ecome l)etter acquainted
with one another, the old members
of the society will entertain the
newly tapped students at an in
formal sleak supper at the Coun
try i)ark clubliouse tonight, begin
ning at 8 p.m.
Under the direction of Miss Ida
Belle Moore, club adviser, and Joan
Holleyman, |)resident, the social
committee, composed of Rachael
Whiteside, chairman, Lelia Atkin
son, and Jack Tilley, will have
charge of the affair.
Avery, Brieti, Moser
To Direct Program
Airs. Emma Sharp Avery, chairman,
E. Raymond Brietz, director of music,
and Aliss Alargaret Aloser, student su
pervisor, will direct the Christmas
pageant this year, announced Principal
A. P. Routh this week. Airs. Gallie
Braswell, of the art department,
and Charles A’aclie, president of the
senior class, will assist the committee
in production.
According to Airs. Avery, the pageant
will probably be given in two scenes,
with the scriptures read I)y candlelight.
The choir, under the direction of E.
Raymond Brietz, will supply the
(’hristmas music. Characters for the
performance, which will include mem
bers of the junior and senior class,
will be selected next week.
Among this year's innovations will
be one narrator in the place of last
years two. Sets for the pageant will
1)C fui'iiished I)y the art classes. Sim
plicity, spiritual significance and the
Christma.s music will feature the occa
sion.
Frazier Reveals Cast
For "Second Fiddle'
Tmdative casting for “Second Fid
dle,” comedy drama by Gnernsey Le-
Pelley, sclu'dnled to be prt'senled about
the third week in January l)y the high
school dramatics group, was announced
M’ednesday by Panl Frazier, director.
The plot of the story, which centers
around the complications caused by an
accidental wedding, involve the hero,
Harold AVerple, Boh Perry; the hero
ine, Sheila Kiiplan; the other woman,
Joyce Pope; the butler. Alervin Aler
ritt; the heroine's mother, Daisy Belle
Anderson ; her aunt, Dorothy Snyder ;
her friends, A'irginia Hunter and An
nie Laurie Bennett; and a lawyer, Ho
mer Barker.
Air. Frazier also announced the fol
lowing committees: publicity. Shannon
Schumann; business and ticket man
ager, Barbara Bond; property holders,
Dan AA’agoner and Bennie Lowe; make
up, Eleanor AVhite and Alary Prances
Jones; advertising, Daisy Belle Ander
son ; prompters, Alice Trosper and Jean
Dinwiddie.
Mrs, Stanley Johnson
Saves Son From Fire
Mrs. Stanley Jolinson, wife of
Senior liigli school’s physics in
structor, turned heroine last Friday
morning when she smothered the
tire from the coveralls of her three
year old son. Dale.
Aeeording to Mr. Johnson, young
Dale wandered too close to an open
hearth fire at their home. The
flames immediately caught the
(hild’s clothes, burning his leg
severely. Mrs. Johnson, upon see
ing her child in flames, rushed to
him and put out the tire with her
bare hands. While she too suffered
burns on her hands, she saved her
son from probable death.
“I just can’t get over the school
spirit and the friendly people liere at
Senior high school.’’ remarked Kathryn
White, a new student cf Aliss Lily
AValker’s homeroom 202. “I think this
school is going to prove interesting if
it continues as it is now. The only
troul)le I have had was trying to get
used to opening a locker,” concluded
Kathryn.
Three Orders of DeMolay
Planning Informal Dance
Three DeAIolay brotherhoods, those
of Greensl)oro, High Point and AATnston-
Salem. plan to coordinate their efforts
and give a til-club dance next Friday.
Location of the dance will be announced
later. DeAIola.v brothers and their dates
will attend the dances, but candidates
for membership with petitions will also
be welcomed.
A committee of members from the
three clubs met last week and discussed
plans for the occasion. Representing
the Greensboro order on this committee
were Paul I’earson, .Toe AIcBane and
R. L. Kirkman.
'World Conditions Up to Us'
Declares Aurelia Dunslan
“Truth, the principle and founda
tion of journalism, itself, is being
squelched' under the iron heel of tyran
ny. America is the only free country
nowadays, the only place where news-
l)apers are not controlled by the gov
ernment and where the white banner
of truth and freedom can wave un
molested.” declared Aurelia Dunstan,
1941 graduate of Greensboi-o high
school and winner of the Quill and
Scroll .$500 scholarshi]) award, in the
highlighting speech of the (juill and
Scoll initiation program, which occu-
])ied the major part of the asiseinbly
program, Thursday, NovemiKu- 27.
New Members Initiated
Preceding her talk, five new members,
Daisy B(‘lle Anderson, Earle Holliday,
Ernest Beasley, Herbert Iliittaway, and
Shannon Schumann. w(>re officially wel
comed into the society by Rachael
IVhit('sid(', pi'esident of the group.
Paul Aliller. menil)er of the club, in
troduced Aurelia, who in closing, chal
lenged the youth of America with the
following words. “Young num and
young women, what happmis to this old
world d('pends on us—on you !ind you
and you and me. Our fathers and the
pilgrims and the settlers are counting
on us to make it a better and .a peace
ful world. A'oung America, it is up to
you!”
The remainder of the assembly pro
gram was devoted to an operetta skit
put on by members of the cast of
“II. AI. S. Pinafore.”
Debate Club Receives
Bids to Tournaments
A^irginia high school in Bristol, A"ir-
ginia, has is.sued an invitation to the
local del>ater,s requesting their atten
dance at the annual Student congress,
according to an announcement made by
Aliss Alozelle Causey, adviser for the
det)ate society, last week.
As a meml)er of the National Forensic
league, A'irginia high decided to ask a
few non-menil)er organizations to par
ticipate in the event. The congress will
convene Decenil)er 12 and will continue
in session for two days.
firlando Senior high scliool in Or
lando, Florida, has also invited the de
leters to its tournament December
19, but becaiise both meets will conflict
with previous engagements, the local
group will be unable to attend either
one.