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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XVIII
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., FEBRl ARY (i, 1942
NIMBER 10
Uncle Sam In Paint
Senior Students Meet Challenge
To Live For Nation, Report States
Local Students Plan
Community Service
FOR DEFENSE—this poster, advertising defense stamps and l)onds,
the work of art instructor Miss Henri Etta Lee, will be sent by a
local federal agency to the treasury department, Washington, D. C.
(Staff photo by J. Watson).
Employmefi! Bureau
Compfeles kr?ep
Approximately 300 Senior liis'h school
students are now employed )>y local
firms in some type of work, a report
made public this week by (Miss Mar
garet Moser and A. S. Proctor, direc
tors of the newly organiKed placement
bureau, reveals.
218 Desire Part-Time Work
•Frbis-r-i-sforination was secured from
a school-wide check which IMr. Proctor
and Miss Moser conducted during the
fall. Each student in the school filled
in a blank, giving specific information
for the placement bureau.
Of the students filling out the blanks,
185 stated their desire to secure part-
time work of some nature during their
regular school day, while 2.30 boys and
girls were employed during the past
holiday season.
Hold Many Jobs
The ,1obs that the students fill range
from “odd ,ioI)S in lady’s house” to
^Tlance teacher.” A ma.iority of the
i)oys listed such pcsitions as gi’ocery
clerks, soda .ierker and delivery boy,
while such jobs as saleslady, dress
maker and typist were frequent among
the girls.
"From our survey, we find that prac
tically every student, regardless of the
income of his family, desires to work
during his vacation period, during
school and following graduation,” Miss
Moser stated in announcing the results
of the cross-school vote. Senior high
school is, according to Miss Moser,
keeping in line with the national trend,
the desire of all to be active for their
own interests as well as for the inter
ests of the country as a whole.
Lesley i’lans Installation
Of Latin 5 and 6 Course
Because of increasing demands
from Senior students and from
pupils now receiving elementary
Latin instruction at the junior
high schools, Latin 5 and > courses
will probably start at the begin
ning of the September. 1042. term,
(Miss 8arah Lesley head of the
Senior high Latin department, an
nounced this week.
(Miss Lesley and Miss Gertrude
Fallow of Senior high school, as
well as the Latin teachers from
the junior high schools, have re
peatedly urged their elementary
students to continue Latin beyond
the reipiired time. However, in the
past, few students have desired to
take the proposed course, and con-
seijuently it was not previously of
fered.
The classes, under the super
vision of Miss Lesley, will read
sudi Latin prose as that of Cicero
and the poetry of Virgil, the in
structor stated.
Greensboro High Celebrates
Sidney Lanier Centennial
15 New Library Assistants
Began Work Last Week
To assist her in the library for the
remainder of the semester, Mrs. P>eat-
rice Hall, school librarian, has selected
15 boys and girls, whO' began work
last week.
The group includes Mar.garet M’il-
liams, Carolyn ITeasants, Cora Belle
Schrum, Charles Mitchell, Louise At
kins, (Martha Faulconer, Helen Clapp,
Eloise Crawford, Helen I’ickard, Fran
ces Rives, Mary Robbins, Kay M"il-
liams, Grace Temple, Charlotte Davis
and Jacqueline Duke.
Show Spirit of Cooperativeness
The students work as assistants in
a spirit of cooperativeness and good
citizenship to help the school, receiv
ing, as a result, one-fourth of a credit.
The assistants’ duties include checking
out and taking in hundreds of books
every day in addition to tasks of keep
ing the library in order.
To celebrate the one-hundredth an
niversary of the birthday of Sidney
Lanier, Southern poet born in Georgia,
20 meml)ers of the seventh period
speech class visited different English
classes Tuesday and presented a short
sketch of Lanier’s life; supplementin,g
the report with the reading of a group
of his poems.
At the suggestion of Ben L. Smith,
superintendent, the speech class took
charge of the celebration.
'Those members of the speech class
participating in the event included
John Lowdermilk. Herbert Hattaway,
(Marian (McNeill, Emry Green, Mollie
Bekarsky, Edgar Alston, Robert Curry,
(Martha .Lowry, Sara McDonald. Jjaura
Oliver, John Taylor, Leroy Paschal,
Buster iVoods, A. D. Garrison, Nancy
Curtis, Merle I’ickard, Gladys Craw
ford, Neil Beard, Leland Ncell and
Bill Pollard.
D. E. Glass Sponsors
Round Table Program
T'sing the sub.ject of defense bonds
and stamps in relation to high school
students, the distril)Utive education
class sponsored a radio program over
WBIG last night.
I’aul (Miller, chairman of the group,
Herbert Hattaway, Dacia Lewis and
Ruth AVinterling participated in the
round-table discussion.
“In cooperation with the civilian
defense program, a campus commu
nity service organization, composed
at present of 30 members, has re
cently been formed here,” declared
Mrs. Nellie Blackburn, dean of stu
dents today.
“This service,” continued Mrs.
Blackburn, “includes three divis
ions of community aid. Students
are being trained to be prepared
for disaster and to care for small
children whose parents are partici
pating in defense work, or while
they attend social activities.”
In case of social activities (i. e.,
non-defense work), it was learned
that reasonable fees wilt be charged
for the service.
“This work is just one example,”
Mrs. Blackburn added, “of the way
high school students are vUlIing to
help in a time of national crisis.”
These interested in the service
should call Mrs. Blackburn in the
clinic at Senior high.
rr
Soft Bricks Mar Life,
Ndfyft Tells Grads
rr
Featured speaker at exercises .Janu
ary 20 for mid-term graduates was Dr.
Franklin (McNutt, new head of the edu
cation department of tVoman’s college.
Dr. McNutts topic was “Making the
Man.”
“Although these young ladies may
feel that this subject does not apply
to them, they will some day be engaged
in tlie 'work of remaking some young
man,” he declared. tVitli a number of
telling illustrations. Dr. (McNutt show
ed the group liow soft bricks used in
the building of a character would even
tually load to the undermining of its
foundation.
“Live up to your ideals and strive to
construct your personality on a solid
basis,” he concluded.
On the preceding Sunday. .January
18, Reverend J. Ben Eller, pastor of
the Asheboro 8tr('Ot Baptist church,
delivered the baccalaureate sermon to
the 33 graduating pupils.
Kayle Receives Awards
After the presentation of diplomas
by Superintendent Ben J,. Smith, Eve
lyn Itayle, class valedictorian, received
two awards ])resented by A. I’. Roeith,
principal of Senior high. By virtue of
her high scholastic record Evelvn won
the American Business Club Scholar
ship cup and by a secret ballot, among
her classmates, was awarded the
1’. 'r. A. Best-All Round cup.
Hutchinson Rates Students
On Personality Qualities
BecaiTse regular activity grades
denote a girl’s acadcnnic woi-k only.
Miss Doris Hutchinson, physical
education instructor, has devised a
chart that includes ratings on neat
ness in appearance, leadership,
courtesy, cooperation, respect and
punctuality, she announced Janu
ary !).
Issued every report period, the
Girls’ Physical Education Rating
chart contains :in explajiatory note
from Miss Hutchinson stating tha,t
since parents have a genuine in
terest in all the results of their
daughters’ education, she has pre
pared a record of their personality
traits and asks parents’ coopera
tion and encouragement to improve
them.
Check-Up Reveals Enlire School Program
Includes Complete Defense Organization
‘This Is London’
EDWARD R. .MLRROW. famous GBS
correspondent of AVorld AVar II, will
sjjcak in the auditori\mi, F(I)ruary 17.
Enter Miller's Storf,
Headlines In Contest
M'ritten hy Paul (Miller, editor of
High Life, the special student defense
story on page one of today's High
Life will be entered in the Quill and
Scroll’s annual news writing contest,
(Mrs. ()(ive Betts, journalism instruc
tor, announced today.
Also, (Mrs. Betts said, a series of
headlines, written last week hy Miller
for the contest, will be entered. Man
ner in th(' advertising contest will be
announced later.
Each year the (juill and Scroll soci
ety conducts several newspaper writing
contests, mainly news, feature, edi
torial, headlines, and advertising com
petitions. National winners receive gold
medals in recogiution of their ability.
Ijast year’s entry in the feature con
test, Aurelia Dunstan, wen a medal
plus a scholarship to the University of
Georgia. This year two members of
thoMligh Life staff. Rachael AVhiteside
and Herbert Hattaway, won honors
for editorial and current events tests,
respc'clil vel.\'.
Hij PAUL (MILLER
Senior high school students were
(|uick to answer President Fraidclin
I). Roosevelt’s call for “every man,
woman and child in the United States
tO' do his share — regardless of how
small that share may seem,” a resume
of school defmise activities reveals.
Inaugurate Pliysiral Education
Forc'inost among the .school-wide pro
gram in the inauguration of compulsory
physical education classes in which
both boys and girls will stud.y first
aid, nursing and hygiene, the knowl
edge of which is deemed essential to
the winning of a total victory. School
oflici.ils desire to see ever,v student be
come physically, as well as mentally,
rehabilitated.
'Thrcughoid' the entire' school — from
(he home eca)nondcs laboratory to prom-
iiu'nt social chibs—1,228 students are
Irying to do their share. AVhile future
homemakers study the problems of nu
trition and food rationing, girls in the
“Knit AA'its” club sew and knit warm
clothing for the boys in service.
Teach Patriotism
'To instill in ever.v school citizen a
new realization of true patriotism, the
iiistory department, headed by Miss
Mary Ellen Blackmon, has mapped out
a course of study to include early
.American history, placing special em
phasis upon the constitution and the
declaration of indeiiendence, “written
guarantees of our life-long liberties.”
Also included in the study will he dis
cussion of problems confronting our
South American neighbors and the
undersliinding of our government’s
Good Neighbor policy.
From defense stamps to scrap paper,
from air raid drills to immunization
against disease', Seinor high school stu-
di'uts ar(' iiu'eting (he challenge to be
good Americans.
Edward Murrow to Speak
In Auditorium, February 17
“T'liis Is London” will be the subject
of the address Edward R. Alurrow,
famous Europf'an war correspondent
and native of Guilford county, will de
liver in the Senior high audilorium
February 17 at 8 ]).m. Alurrow’s iip-
liearance will be sponsored by the local
chapter of Bundles for Britain.
Recognize Fameus Voice
Kince (he days before the outbreak
(f the European conuict, Americans
('verywheix' have' come to recognize the
familiar voice of Edward (Murrow as
h(' o])ene(l the imijority of GB8 short
wave broadcasts from London. Besides
giving to Ihe world some of the warm
est, (nu'st-to-lifo ])ictures of the British
sc('ii(', llu' na!ionally-known announci'i'
has ])ioiu'('red in radio’s covei'age of
Ihe war.
Alui-row arrived in Europe' in 1937 to
assume charge of Colund)ia’s European
burc'au. Even before the actual fighting
took j)lace, he w;is heard in various
de.scriptions of histor.v-making events.
AA'hile in charge of this vast news
boundary (Mr. Alurrow made the first
(,'llicial broiidcast from the Alaginot
line.
Goes To London
Leaving such Luiious colleagues as
AA'illiam L. .Shirer and Eric Hevareid
in charge of Paris and Berlin posts,
Alurrow assigned himself to the task
of covering Britain’s war effort. His
appearance here February 17 will he
his first journey home.
Room 317 Wins Plaque
For Scholarship Standing
AA'itli an average of 83 ])er cent. Aliss
Estelle AlitchelTs homeroom 317 led
(he school in scholastic activities dur
ing the past school month, .loan Holley-
man, chairman of the .scholarship com
mittee from the student council, re
vealed this week.
Student officers from the i-oom will
receive a scholarship plaque sig.nifying
the high average of the group.
Trailing witli 82.2 iM'r cent average
was Aliss Ida P>('lh' Aloore’s room 315.
Third place went to Aliss Dorothy AIc-
Nairy’s session room, 20(>.
Scales Joins Faculty
As French Instructor
“It’s good to he hack!” declarid Aliss
Alary Leigh Scales, G. 11. S. alumna,
who joined the Greensboro high faculty
at the beginning of the new semester
as Frc'iich teacher, in an interview with
a High Life reporter last week.
Aliss 8cal('s, who rei)laces IJf'Utenant
Herbert Ilucks, received her education
at Converse college and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Be
fore coming here, she was emplo.yed at
Franklinton high school, Franklinton,
North Carolina.