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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Bring That Waste
Paper On Tuesday!
VOLUIVIE XVIII
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C„ Al’RlL 3, 1!)42
Nl MBER 14
Locals Go To Wake Forest;
Reynolds Wins in Triangle
K. J. Reynolds high school of Win
ston-Salem emerged victorious from the
university of North Carolina triangular
debate comijetition held March 27.
The Reynolds negative team, com
posed of Herbert Weber and Bette Pat
terson, defeated the Greensboro affirm
ative team of Herbert Hattaway and
Paul Miller at Greensboro.
In addition, the Reynolds affirmative
squad eliminated the High Point nega
tive team, while Leigh Rodenbrough
and Brandus Leonard, of the High
Point affirmative, defeated the Greens
boro negative squad, Rachael White-
side and Neil Beard, in High Point.
Since both Reynolds teams won in
the triagnular debates, the group will
go to Chapel Hill to enter the state
•champion ship forensic competition.
Locals To Go To Wake Forest
Both the first and second Greensboro
high team, are at Wake Forest college
today for the state-champion contest
sponsored by that college. The first
team will attempt to retain possession
of the Broughton memorial cup, while
the second team, composed of Bob
Lloyd, Beverly Bell, Ed Alston and
John Taylor, debates the national
query, ‘"Resolved; That all able-bodied
men should have one year compulsory
military training before attaining the
present draft age.”
Bill Halladay, member of last year’s
team, is coach of the second group.
The forensic group was accompanied
by Jean Glenn, who defeated Dacia
Lewis in the local declamation contest,
thus becoming eligible to compete in
the Wake Forest declamation contest.
Other entries include Paul Miller,
Impromptu; Herbert Hattaway, ex
tempore; Edgar Alston, oration; and
Neil Beard, after-dinner speaking.
Junior Honor Roll LisI
Revealed By Moore
With averages of 00 per cent or bet
ter, 42 juniors maintained a general
honor roll standing during the first six
weeks of this semester, announced Miss
.Ida Belle Moore recently, fi’he regular
senior honor roll and the entire special
list appeared in the last issue of High
IJfe.
.luniors on the general honor roll in-
-lnded Kathryn Cassidy, Betty Jane
Chesne.v, I’olly Claiborne, Margaret
Cockman. Allan Cone, C. C. Fordham,
I’ate Forehand, Edwin Gentry, Martha
(’urrent, Neta Mae Davis, Lou Ellen
Duncan, Eleanor Morgan, Martha Mor-
ing, Allene I’arks, Bill Montgomery.
Others Listed
Others listed were Martha Abernethy,
E.xie Barker, Harriet Battle, Betty Sue
Beaman, O. H. Alexander, Norma Lee
Sink, Irwin Smallwood, Mary Frances
. Stack, Bobby Lloyd, Helen Massey,
Kathryn McNairy, Sillus Michalove,
Bets.v Holt, IVade Tesh, Elizabeth
qjgar, Mar.v Frances Truelove, Alice
A’arner. Edith Wagner, ’Piin Warner,
Martha Weidler, John Wiley, Marie
Reynolds, IMaureen Black, Marvin
Borum, Carolyn Brown, Bill Burgess
and Harold Carpenter.
Typing Demonstration
Given For Students
Miss Olga L’Kour.v world's champion
typist, gave a demonstration March 2.3,
to all typing students. She has a
speed of 240 words per minute and can
type while singing in foreign languages.
The Commerce club attended the ex
hibition in place of holding a regular
meeting. Miss L’Koury used a Reming
ton-Rand typewriter and was intro
duced by J. B. Alexander, Remington
representative in Greensboro.
P. T. A. Page
FR.V.XCIOS Rlt'ES, shown above', vice-
president of the junior class, who will
act as a page at North Carolina state
P. T. A. convention in Greensboro. She
has been mentioned as a candidate for
the spring elections here.
Kearney, Rives Chosen
Convention Pages
Frances Rives, room 3C10, and Ashton
Kearne.v, room 15, have been selected
as pages for the P.-T. A. convention,
q’hese two juniors will be in charge of
the errands when the North Carolina
Congress of Parents and Teachers
comes to Greensboro, April 8, 9, and
10, announced Mrs. R. Harry Lewis,
chairman of pages, last week.
I'en other students, selected by the
principals, will serve as pages. They
are Curry high. Prances Htockard and
Hampton. Howerton; Central, Jean
Story and Colbert Smith ; Aycock, Kay
Hunt and Claudius Dockery, Jr.; Gil
lespie Park, .Tune King and Harry Mil
ler ; Lindle.v, Ellen Groome and Wil
liam Bently. q’hese students represent
the junior high departments.
Schedule Announced
^Meeting with Mrs. Lewis to receive
preliminary instructions this week and
with the state president, Mrs. J. S.
Blair, of Elizabethtown, on Monday,
April 0, the pages will prepare for duty
on AVednesday afternoon, AVednesday
night, q’lmrsday afternoon, I’hursday
night :ind Friday morning. Four pages
will be on duty throu,ghout the conven
tion.
q’he Greensboro Council of I’arents
and q’eachers will be hostess for the
convention. Airs. Claudius Dockery is
president of the local council.
Evans, Holleyman Chosen
Directors of Civic Contest
Under the direction of David
Evans, president of the .luiiior Fed
eration of Alusic clubs, and .Joan
Holleyman, preshh'iit of T’orchlight
and member of the high school
choir, junior music clubs ;uid or
ganizations throughout the city
will sponsor the annual Civic
Alusic contest, supervised by Aliss
Nell Clapp, June 1 in the recital
hall at AA’oman's college.
The contest, planned on a com
petitive basis, allows any member
of a local music club to enter one
or more original comiiositions for
voice or instrument by Alay 1.5.
All work submitted must be per
formed by the composer or his as
sociates.
It is hoi)ed by all those in charge
of the contest that a large and
representative group will enter the
event, which offers unusual op
portunities to the young musician.
Elective Bible Course
Added To Curriculum
That an elective course in ttie
study of the Bible will be a part
of the high school eurrieuluin next
year was announced at the last
meeting of the Greensboro board
of education recently.
I Reveiend S. S. Whitley, assis
tant i)astor of the First Presby
terian church, presented the peti
tion requesting the course. Action
was passed despite the protest of
Baptist ministers. This study course
will be under the supervision of
the Bible shidy committee and will
present fairly all sects and denomi
nations, tlie board said.
Collection of Waste Paper
Totals Well Over Five Tons
Paper Queen
Committee To Choose
Official Announcers
A’irgiuiu 8toffel. president of the sen
ior clas.s and chairman of the elections
committee, announced detailed nomina
ting convention plans at the regular
session of council, Alarch 24.
q’hese plans included the decision to
]dace the preliminary voting before the
convention in the hands of the home
room presidents; at the nominatin.g
eenvention, which will be complete
with banner.s desi.gnating the homo
room and its semester number; a ma
jority of 34 votes will be sufficient to
place a candidate on the ballot; and
suiiporters or candidates may secure
registration blanks from Airs. Estelle
4>eGwin or A'irginia Stoffel in the Sup
ply shop.
Official School Amiounced Planned
Since the suggestion that the school
have an official announcer fosr the amp-
lif,\'lng system has met with approval.
Bill Donald, president of the council,
appointed Rachel Johnson and Alaureen
Black to assist Aliss Alozelle Causey
and the speech class in setting dates
for the try-outs and preparing; final
plans for a contest between students
I’or this i)Osition.
Chairman of the constitution com
mittee, Lelia Atkinson, was instructed
by the president to prepare a constitu
tional amendment that will make the
tniHic chief an official member of the
council, q’his amendment will be pre
sented to the student body in a short
lime..
It was also decided that the presi-
(h'lit and vice-president of the council
should check on the student govern
ment reports made by the representa-
lives to the home rooiiL-;.
Pupils, Teachers Purchase
$13,272 In Stamps, Bonds
Students and teachers of Greensboro
city schools have purchased .$1.3,272.90
in defense stamps and bonds. Superin
tendent Ben L. Smith announced on
Alarch 9.
A check-up revealed that 102 faculty
members and 1.157 boys and girls are
taking courses in first aid, while 1,511
boys in the tenth and eleventh grades
are training in physical education and
health. Courses in welding, wood work,
sheet metal and mechaidcs are in ses
sion at 20 shops. A’ital waste materials
are also being collected.
‘'Sugar rationing will begin as soon
as the teachers receive final instruc
tions for its distribution b.v means of
booklets,” Air. Smith declared.
Moore Defeats Beard
In Oratorical Contest
Jess Aloore, Reidsville high student,
captured top honors in the American
Legion oratoricid contest in the 12th dis
trict after defeating Neil Beard, Guil
ford count.v representative, Alarch 20.
Alocre, rated the best debater in the
state at the AA’ake Forest tournament
last April, will go into the state com
petition in High Point, April 1.
LA’DIA BENBOAA’, who added to the
High Life wa.ste pjtper campaign, her
contribution of nearl.y 000 ])ounds of
paper. She made the largest single con-
Iribution in the campaign. (Photo bv
Flynt.)
Students To Construct
Scale Model Aircraft
“q’liere’s no better way to pull part
of the load toward an Allied victory
than to enter intO' the model aircraft
project which is now being sponsored
in G. II. S. by the United States Naval
department,” commented David AA^’al-
trij), drafting instructor, in an inter
view with a High Life reporter.
The Secretary of the Nav.v has asked
the nation’s schools to make 500,900
scale model airplanes “for such pur
poses as recognition, range estimation,
and determination of types. Greens
boro has set as its goal 400 models
and Senior high is alread.y off to a
good start. Students int('rested in this
contest are urged to see either Air.
AA'altrip or A. C. Goedeken.
The navy, army, and civilian defense
groups need thousands of model planes
for range estimations to represent the
aircraft of the T’nited States, England,
Canada, Holland, Australia, Russia,
France, Germany, Italy, .lapan and
other countries engaged in this war,
it was explained.
q’his need r'(iuires the modeling of
planes of tlu' following types: fighters,
scouts, fighter - l)ombers, bombers, tor
pedo carriers and commercial planes.
T’liese model airplanes, as jirescribed
b.v tile mtvy di'partment, will I)e made
on an accurate scale of approximately
(lie inch to every si.v f('et. Boys all
over the United States are helping in
the work, and more than one national
magazine has featured the activities of
the.se young patriots.
Volynfeer Frazier Leaves
lo Join Armed Forces
‘'I’m in the army now. I’m in the
army now.” Humming gaily, Paul
Frazier, English prof at Senior high
and director of dramatics, announced
to his classes last week that he wa.s*
off to “Kaintucky” to join the army.
He stated the rc'iiuirements he had
to ]iass included physical and intelli
gence tests and expressed confidence
that he would pass both examinations
and therefore would not be back to
finish out the school year.
Substituting temporarily is Airs. John
q’aylor, resident of Greensboro.
Announcement regarding the cast of
“He Had A Past” made by Air. Frazier
stated that Aliss Alary Leigh Scales,
recent importation of the French de
partment, is in line for directorship of
the comedy.
q’ipping the scales at 11,741 pounds,
the waste paper, collected through yes
terday in the campaign sponsored at
G. H. S. b.v High Life, neared the goal
of approximately 12 tons set by the'
scdiool ii!t the beginning of the drive,
AIar(?h 20. The money received from
the- sale' (jf the material will be used
by High Life for the school publica
tion..
Fightin.g for the reward of a theatre-
part.v, secured as a prize by Principal
A. P. Routh, the home rooms have
wagi'd a terrific battle. With a total of
l,(i05 ])onnds, Aliss Alozelle Causey’s
room 7, leads the race with Airs. Olive
Betts’ room 10 close behind with a sum
of 1,5.'!4 pounds. However, in one day,
Aliss 8arah Le.slic’^ home room 8 has
climbed into fourth place. Room 2 holds
(lurd place, while the diversified occu
pations and distributive education
groups raid'C fifth.
Room 12 in Si.xth Place
Sixth place is held by Aliss Alargaret
Aloser's room 12, which has collected
718 pounds durin.g the past five days of
the contest. Beginning with 11 pounds
on the first day of the drive, Aliss Sara
Alims’ junior home room, 300, now
l)oasts 581 pounds to its credit, thus
placing it in seventh place.
Following in eighth and ninth posi
tions on the thermometer in the main
hall, used to show the ratings of the-
various rooms, are Airs. Estelle Le-
Gwin’s room 14 and Aliss Lily AAffilker’s
room 202. Aliss Alary Ellen Blackmon’s
room 313, Aliss Cathleen Pike’s room
3.00 and Aliss Louise Smith’s room 302
rank tenth, eleventh and twelfth, with
totals of 425, 420 and 414 pounds.
Betty highly praised the activities
of Stanley .Tohnson, who, she declared
“is responsible for the success of the
cjunpaign and who has undertaken the
f(dl responsibilit.v for colh'cting and
marketing the paper.”
League To Give Free
South American Trip
A free trip to South America will
be awarded to the high' school student
in the United States who scores the
highest grade on a competitive exami
nation concerning world affairs, the
League of Nations association of New
York has announced.
In an announcenu'nt received this
week from the associatio!i, ■which is
sponsorin.g the nation-w’ide contest, it
w’as learned that an e.xamination made
out l)y the United States office of the
organization wonld be given during the
lU'xt two months to students of high
school age. A’aluable prizes w'ill be
aw'arded, first of which is a three-
month tour of Soutli America at the
expense of the league.
Students interested in the offer
should contact the New" A'ork office of
the association immediately. Complete
details on tlie contest may b(> secured
by writing to the League of Nations
asscciatioTi, 8 AV(>st 40th street, New
A ork. Additional information may be
obtained through the history classes, it
was announced.
Secretarial Girls Work
Week For Teachers
For experience, the secretarial ])rac-
tice 2 class worked for various local
teachers during the first period for
one week, stated Aliss Frances Huni-
phre.v, teacher of the class, AVednes-
day.
q’he work to which the future sec
retaries W'ere assigned inclmh'd typing,
taking dictation, office work, and other
related jobs. If this tyin; practice is
successful, the process may be repeated.