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April 30,1954
Mims' Class Celebrates
Shakespeare's Birthday
Happy birthday to Will Shakes
peare and Miss Sara Mims was
sung and celebrated by the Shakes
peare Class last Friday at second
period.
The party was held under the
trees in front of the Science Build
ing. A large rectangular cake baked
by Martha Leonard and complete
with a fudge Globe Theater, green
cocoanut grass, and the words,
“Happy Birthday Miss Mims,” was
devoured along with cokes by the
hungry students of “the bard.”
Miss Mims, teacher of the
Shakespearians and sharer of the
birthday, was presented by the
class with a copy of “The Oxford
Book of English Verse.” The class
then played Shakespearian Bingo,
a brand new kind of Bingo in
which words pertaining to the
realm of Shakespeare are substi
tuted for numbers and in which
the winner must explain each word
or group of words in his Bingo
line. Frances Stafford won a yel
low “goony” bird.
Next came charades led by
Amanda McConnell and George
Artope and composed of famous
Shakespearian sayings enacted by
the students. The high spot came
when Miss Mims wore a small
piece of folded paper for a crown
and frantically rode an imaginary
horse to portray “My kingdom for
a horse.” The festivities ended
with the ringing of the ball, and
the students all agreed “it should
happen every day—or at least every
year.”
The committee for the party, was
composed of Martha Leonard,
chairman; Barbara Jamieson, Jerry
Matherly, and Cynthia Bivens.
Pleasants Boasts S. C. Beach House
With the advent of spring, most
of GHS’s students are turning in
spirit, if not in body, toward THE
BEACH.
One teacher at Senior, however,
has the problem of where and how
to go already solved. Mrs. Mabel
Pleasants is the proud possessor
of a beach cottage at Windy Hill
Reach, South Carolina.
During the summer Mrs. Pleas-
Aspiring Architect
To Study At State
Have you ever heard of a woman
architect? They do exist, and many
women are now entering this pro
fession. To get closer to home,
senior Carole Cofer is planning to
study architecture next year at
nts, along with her sister and the State College.
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and Melissa Thompson, who will be
a flower girl. Barbara Flynn and
Lila Malone will be the court-jes
ters.
Dresses for the court members
are being made now, in the chosen
colors. Sue Simmons, escorted by
Charles Woods; and Patty Wolfe,
with Wayne Wyrick ,will wear blue
dresses.
Frances Strother, escorted by
Don Patterson, and Sue Hege, with
Buddy Birgel, will appear in pink.
Yellow will be worn by Paddy Sue
Wall, who will be with Stewart
Colson, and Beckie Schweistris, es
corted by Bob Jackson. Kay Wrenn
and Zade Turner, squired by Tom-
myriads of other folks who may
just “drop in,” enjoy the life of
ease among the ocean breeze for
three months. The four rooms
downstairs in her house are rent
ed, but only to those people whom
the owners think will really take
care of the place. Upstairs there
are six rooms for Pleasant living.
The cottage, which she got seven
years ago, has proved to be a re
treat for the rest of the faculty
also. Easter, several of the teachers
went down, and next week-end 20
of the stalwart souls are making
the trek. Cots will serve as sleep
ing places for most. There just
aren’t 20 beds in the place!
One of the prime house rules on
the faculty house parties is that
the males cook breakfast. Mr.
Routh’s specialities are scrambled
eggs, scrambled eggs, and scram
bled eggs!
The teachers must have been
studying their pupils closely, for
the tricks played at the gatherings
are ones of which the students
could well be proud. Snakes loom
up from every chair, spiders are
hiding under toast, and new com
ers’ bed’s abound with crawly
things—all rubber, of course. i
Recently accepted at the Raleigh
school, Carole plans to study for
five years. The last year is to be
spent in professional work.
At present Carole is studying
mechanical drawing here at Senior.
This will help her in college with
the study of planning and design
ing buildings and other construc
tions, these being the basic duties
of an architect. Incidentally, Car
ole is the only girl in the mechan
ical drawing classes.
Other subjects which she was
advised to take in high school
were chemistry, physics, art, and
higher math. She is studying all
these this year.
Carole’s father was the cause
of her interest in this profession.
Mr. Cofer, who is display manager
at a downtown department store.
Girls Mutter Sounds
In Shorthand (lasses
Sauntering down a certain hall
of GHS one day you suddenly
come to a surprised halt. What
foreign language is that?
The classroom is full of girls,
and they are sitting there mum-
b,ling weird unintelligible nothings.
Warm Weather Arrives
To Afford New Problem
As has been evident over the
last few weeks, hot weather has
again arrived at Senior.
This presents a new problem to
teachers. Their sweltering students
experience a vast change. Boys
lose interest in everything except
sports such as baseball, golf, ten-
'They’re by no means together, but | girls. The girls just day-
the teacher doesn’t seem to mind, j dream.
By straining your ears you begin ! Hot weather is the basic cause
to catch more and more good J of this, and its by-product, spring
It
English words being muttered
goes something like this:
Dear Mr. Hoopenlauser: Your
letter of May 31 has been forward
ed to my office, and I regret to
inform you that your subscription
to the RADISH GROWER’S
MONTHLY has run out. Please
send a remittance. We will ap
preciate it greatly. Yours truly,
Frank N. Stein, manager.
Now the class falls silent, and
the teacher repeats the letter while
the class writes in little note
books. Oh no—they couldn’t be
fever, adds further to the dilemna.
The high temperature makes it
hard to concentrate, uncomfort
able, and almost unbearable to
come to school.
Believing that it’s better to blow
out one candle than to curse the
heat, one of the few methods of
cooling is offered here. (Sane peo
ple should read no further.)
The solution is a very ingenious
cloth which is quite cool and is
especially designed for left-hand
ed people who are blind in one
eye and can’t see out of the other.
copying that down! She’s going: The scientific name is dacer, but
too fast. They must just be draw- I is commonly called, “kwitchabell-
ing pictures or something.
Right in the middle, “Wait a
minute,” chimes Nancy Payne. But
nobody waits for time, tide, and
shorthand teachers wait for no
girl. So it continued day after day.
studied interior decorating, archi-! Do not disturb—secretaries of to-
tecture, and sculpture. I morrow at work!
I Really Got A Bargain
BY I. M. BROKE
Here is a typical homeroom
period as seen by two typical stu
dents, who are “I’m Broke and
From this the wondering stu- “j Mean It.”
There’s the bell. School’s
dent can see from where the red
faces of some of the teachers
on
come-it’s the result of Pleasant’s ’ bonder what wonderful ba^^^^
Place!
camel? Or do you suggest that I
put them in my private office? A
dollar? Oh, well, I guess the up
keep of lockers comes high these
days. Inflation, you know.
Say, isn’t that stationery simply
Wowie? Monogramed! And those
iakin.” This cloth is just what
everyone has always wanted but
not very much.
Dacer at the present time is un
available since the government has
bought it all to keep the bottom
from falling out of the dacer mar
ket.' They also have to do some
thing to stop the bottom from fall
ing out of dacer pants (which nat
urally offers a cooling effect.)
In actuality, though, the effects
of hot weather have been and will
be changed very little by screw
ball articles such as this. The best
thing to do about it is nothing.
gams I’ll pick up today. Ah, yes. Christmas cards and OHHH, I’m
there’s the first peddler now. Do just going crazy with all these
High Life Staff Parties
FIA Members Disclose
Spring PlanSr Activifies
“I could tell when I walked in
here that most of you will prob
ably be teachers—you like to talk,”
commented Miss Lucille Brown at
a recent F. T. A. meeting.
Although it boasts over 100 mem
bers, Future Teachers is a rela
tively new organization at Senior.
It was formed in 1951 by Mr. Lacy
Anderson for those juniors and
my Kirkman and Bill Williamson,! seniors who were interested in
will wear aqua dresses. Madeline teaching as a profession. Last year.
Holley, escorted by Tony Schiff-
man, and Joyce Steele, who will be
with Joe Kerley, have chosen light
green for their gowns.
Lavender dresses are being made
for Joan Moring and Ann Poole,
who will be escorted by Donnie
Evans and Jerry 'Varner. Betty;
for the first time, the club includ
ed sophomores.
Helping out a Brooks Elemen
tary school under the supervision
of Miss Carrie Phillips, principal,
has been a project of the club for
the past two years. Here the mem-
I want to buy a yearbook? Sure,
I’ll buy one. And HIGH LIFE?
Natch, as long as I can buy on
credit. That way I’ve save $5.50.
Good thing I’m economical . . . .
homeroom dues, huh? Oh, well, we
might have a party some year.
Uh-oh, here comes that girl again
with cameras and I don’t know
what all. What in the world is she
doing on her knees? Begging for
sales, I guess. Well, things are
tough all over. O. K., I’ll take two
rolls of film. Oh dear, she’s faint
ed.
March of Dimes? Only Silas
Marner could turn that down.
Here’s 50 cents. And the Heart
Fund? Here’s another 50 cents.
That makes me feel very good.
Seventyfive cents for a damaged
book. That makes me feel bad.
So they’re selling school pen
nants and tickets to the game to
night? Necessary evils, I guess.
But then, where’s my school spirit?
I’ll take two. Does anybody want
Members of this year’s and next
year’s HIGH LIFE .staff assembled
at Battleground Park on Thurs
day, April 15, for a weiner roast
at 6:30 p. m.
Following the supper a cake was
nvi + 1 4-u presented by the staffs to Miss
sst. Oh, shoot. It 11 take me three Abernethy, HIGIfeLIFE ad-
tr,n« fn Kelton, a
wonderful bargains! Oh give me
two boxes of each. I just can’t re-
bers help take care of the children
Bell and Lila Ann Tice are to wear | during rest periods and recesses,
blue dresses. Their escorts will be j They keep the children busy by a school pin or ring? Well, let me
Charles Highfill and Jimmy Jones. | reading to them or leading them' think it over a while. All righty.
Junior and Sophomore maids of | in games. This program offers I do need them.
honor will wear bright green dress
es. Julianna Clark has as her es
cort Pat Price, and Bobbie Jean
Williams will be squired by Eugene
LeBauer. Marian Cornelius, senior
maid of honor, will wear a white
dress and will be escorted by Wad
dell Solomon.
Student chairmen on the May
Day committee are Beckie Schweis
tris and Bob Cowan. Faculty mem
bers of the group are Miss Dorothy
McNairy, Miss Margie Gabriel, and
Mrs. Jean Newman. The student
council is in charge of the pro
gram. Mr. Herbert Hazelman and
Mr. David Arner direct the bands,
and the staunchions are being pro
vided by the S. S. Davy Jones.
Jean Monnett designed the front
cover of the program for the exer
cises.
would-be teachers the opportunity i Do I need a locker? Of course,
of finding out the hardships as I do, silly! Do you expect me to
well as the joys of teaching. | haul my things around like a pack
Next Monday the Future Teach-'
ers will see a movie, “Skippy,”
showing the trials of a first grad-,
er’s year of school. The movie,
which is filmed in technicolor, will
he an hour long and will be shown
during study periods.
Delta Kappa Gamma, a national
sorority for teachers, annually
Hives a tea for F. T. A. members.
This year it is to be held at Brooks
School on May 10. A $100 scholar
ship will be presented to a senior
member of F. T. A. for college
next year. Members of Delta Kap
pa Gamma will present the pro
gram during the tea.
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home!
Incidentally, I wonder just how
long my money supply is gonna
hold out.
Oh my stars - - - here comes
another money-grubber. School
postcards from the Sophomore
Class, huh? Sophs are really O. K.
Maybe I should kinda help ’em
out a bit. These cards really are
very handsome and only ONE
CENT a piece. Boy, this is the
b st deal I’ve seen all day. But
come to think of it, maybe I
shouldn’t be so gullible. No sir,
boy, I’m not gonna splurge on any
old postcards. Not today, buddy.
Oh, there’s the bell! School’s
over for the day. Guess I’d better
go home and unpack my things.
I surely do feel sorry for all those
iponle who sold me those bargains.
I bet they lost a lot of money.
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Other guests were Martha Moore
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