HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME xxxn
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GBEENSBORO, N. C. MAR. 9. 1956
number II
Salisbury To Be Host
To State's Convention
For Honor Societies
Boyden High School in Salis
bury will be host for the National
Hoi-or Society Convention to be
conducted on March 15. 16. and
Vi.
Registration will be from 5 to
9 p. m. Thursday, March 15, and
irom 9 to 10 a. Friday, March
ib. The registiation fee, which
covers all the expenses, is $4 per
person.
Each chapter of the National
Honor Society is entitled to send
one official delegate for every 10
members or major fraction there
of, and one sponsor.
The delegates from the Greens
boro Chapter who are gpmg are
Lisa Anderson, president; Eve Pur-
dom, state publications editor lor
the National Honor Society’s
newspaper; Karl Ray and Jean
Ogbum, juniors. Miss Sara Mims
is the sponsor. The group will
leave Friday morning by car and
return that same night, as some
of the delegates are scheduled to
play in the State Music Contest.
The day’s program consists of
business sessions in the morning,
during which there will be a key
note speaker. After lunch there
will be several small discussion
groups and followii^ that a ban
quet and a social hour.
Paper Subscriptions
To Be Collected Soon
Wednesday, March 14 will be
the date for the collection of the
student body who signed a
' pledge card in the fall of 1955
are expected to pay fifty cents
for this semester’s edition of
HIGH MFE.
Bittinser, Key, Bell, Powell, Debaters
In Annual Triansle Debates At School
Be A Winner, Kate!
Student Leaders, Faculty
Present Split Assemblies
On Behavior At Games
To bring to the attention of the
student body the laok of initiative
to stop poor conduct at basketball
games, several student and fac
ulty leaders were in charge of the
split assembly programs for jun
iors and seniors Tuesday, Febru
ary 28, and for sophomores
Thursday, March 1.
In the junior and senior assem
bly, A. P. Routh, principal, Mrs.
Nellie Blackburn, dean of stu
dents, Bob Herford, student body
vice-president, and Gail Kirk-
man, Student Council member,
spoke on striving to make the
right thing popular.
Bob Herford stated, “We must
all work together' to make our
school not only the biggest, but
also the best.’’
The sophomore assembly pro
gram followed the same pro
cedure. Mrs. Blackburn, Bob,
Gail, and Bob Jamieson, athletic
coach, presided.
At the first assembly program
J. Stanley Johnson, school store
manager, aimounced to seniors
about graduation invitations and
cards. Dick Robinson spoke to the
sophomores about the coming
elections on March 15.
Mr. Routh closed the junior
and senior assembly program by
reminding the students of the
saying, “So play the game that
when you lose, you lose only the
game, and when you win, you win
more than the game.’’
Members of the debating team, Reggie Bell, Judie Bittinger, Nancy
Key, and Mike Powell are preparing for the triangle debate which
will take place sometime next week. The Greensboro Senior High
team competes against Winston-Salem and High Point schools, and
the winner of this contest will debate in the District Tournament
which will take place at Woman’s College.
D.E. Classes Attend State Meeting
At Woiwan^s College On March 2, 3
Katherine Leonard has been
chosen to represent Greensboro
Senior Higrh School in the A. L.
Brordcs Schc^rship competition
for Guilford county. The Brooks
grant is valued at $500 per year.
Leonard is Candidate
For Grant By Brooks
Katharine Leonard, senior, has
been selected as Greensboro High
School’s representative for the A.
L. Brooks Scholarship, which is
valued at $2,000.
The selection was made by a
special committee, who checked
all entrants to find the most qual
ified for the honor. Katharine
was chosen on the basis of her
high scholastic record, leadership,
and character.
This is the first step toward the
scholarship cimpetition. Her
name will be placed before an
other committee, who will deter
mine from nominations of other
schools, the winner from Guilford
County. The person chosen will
receive $2,000—^$500 each year.
In her career at Senior, Katha
rine has been active in the high
school orchestra and music phases.
She was recently elected to Torch
light Honor Society and has been
a consistant honor roll student
since her sophomore year„
March 2. 3 the Distributive Ed
ucation classes attended the state
D.E. Convention which took place
at Woman’s College in the Vir
ginia Dare Alumnae Building and
served as hosts and hostesses for
the social hour and registration.
The registration was Friday
from 10 to 12 a. m. The afternoon
session began at 2 p. m.
Betty Stanford entered the job
application contest and Betty
Simmons competed in the essay
contest. They were both in the
speech contest.
Eldridge Greeson and Ellen
Cole competed in the merchan
dise contest. Billy Matherly ran
for the state presidency.
On Friday night a b'anjiuet at
the O’Henry Hotel ballroom took
place. Meetings were continued
until noon Satui^day.
Mrs. Margaret G. Hadden, GHS
D.E. Co-ordinator, served as
chairman of all the committees for
the convention. Mars. McEntire
served as a judge in the essay con
test. Miss Lucille Browne was
serving as judge of the speech
contest.
The D. E. officers in charge of
Eve Purdom Wins Grant
Given By Elk Organization
Eve Purdom, senior, has been > not more than 300 words sum-
awarded first prizt of $100 in the marizing the activities, accomp-
Elks National Foundation Schol-
Judie Bittinger, junior, and
Nancy Key, Reggie Bell, and Mike
Powell, seniors, will represent
Greensbor Senior High School in
t^e annual triangle debates to
take place March 20.
Miss Mozelle Causey is again
in charge of Senior’s debating
team.
The query for the debate reads
as follows: "Resolved: That gov
ernmental subsidies should be
granted according to the need of
high school graduates who qualify
for additional training.”
Other Competing High Schools
The three competing schools
will be Senior High, Reynolds High
School in Winston-Salem, and
High point High School.
Judie and Nancy, representing
the negatives, will meet the Win
ston affirmative debaters in High
Point, while Mike and Reggie,
Senior’s affirmative representa
tives, will meet High Point’s nega
tives in Winston. Meanwhile the
High Point affirmatives and the
Winston negatives will be de
bating here in Greensboro at the
same time.
The winners in these triangle
debates will have the opportunity
to enter the District Debate Tour
nament which will take place at
Woman’s College. The winning af-
fumative and negative debaters
from the district will enter the
state’ competiion at Chapel Hill.
Each debater will be granted 15
minutes to speak, of which not
i more than five may be used for
the rebuttal. There will be three
judges to decide the winners of
each triangle debate.
Bril Negative Debater
Two years ago Senior’s negative
debaters, Barbara Massey and
Reggie Bell, defeated High Point
the convention are: Billy Mather- 1 High’s affirmative speakers in
ly, president; Betty Stanford, vice- | winston-Salem.
president; Hallie Collins, secre- \ Nancy Key, one of this year’s
tary; Donnie Mathers, treasurer; negative debaters, has never
from the second year senior class, been in a debate before and feels
Junior class officers are: Don
Hicks, president; Ellen Cole, vice-
president; Barbara Taylor, secre
tary; and Paddy Bailey, treasur
er. The first year seniors are:
Sherwood Wilkins, vice-president;
Don White, secretary; and Betty
Simmons, treasurer.
arship contest, while senior Carol
Barber received the second prize
of $50, and lisa Anderson and
lishments and objectives of fur
ther education which the applicant
thinks qualify him for one of the
scholarship awards; (3) a letter
Faye Kivett, both seniors, each of not over 200 words from the
won $25 for third place. ! parents, presenting a picture of
For more than 21 years these I the family situation and showing
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awards, which total $30,000, have
made it possible for many super
ior students to continue their col
lege courses under more favorable
circumstances. 'The awards offer
ed to both boys and girls are first
award, $1,000; second award, $900;
third award, $800; foiurth award,
$700; fifth award, $600; and the
22 $500 awards which amount tq
$11,000.
Scholarship, citizenship, person
ality, leadership, perserverance.
resourcefulness, patriotism, and
financial need are the criteria by
which these young applicants
will be judged.
The Elks National Foundation
Trustees furnished a blank entit
led ‘‘Memorandum of Required
Facts,” which was to be filled out
in typewriting and made a part of
the student’s presentation which
was bound. The bound application
could weigh no more than ten
ounces and had to include these
items: () a recent photograph of
the applicant; (2) a statement of
the applicant’s need for financial
assitance to continue in school;
(4) the applicant’s educational his
tory from the first year of high
or college preparatory school to
the date of application; 5) a
emprehensive letter of recommen
dation covering character, person
ality, and scholarship of the ap
plicant of the grant; (6) two or
three letters of endorsement from
responsible persons, not related to
the applicant, who have had the
opportunity to observe the appli
cant personally; and (7) a letter
of endorsement signed by the
Exalted Ruler or secretary of the
subordinate lodge in the jmisdic-
tion of which the applicant is a
resident, stating that he has re
viewed the application and that
he verifies the substantial accur
acy' of the statement therein.
The applications were filed in
March with the Secretary of the
State Elks Association of the state
in which the applicant is a resi
dent.
Several Scholarships
Available To Seniors
Several scholarships have been
made available to members of the
Senior Class who wish to make
application for the competition.
Especially for students in vo
cational training, the Clyde A. Ir
win Scholarship offers an oppor
tunity for those who are interested
in the career of teaching -voca
tional subjects. There will be four
scholarships given in the state.
Any student interested in getting
further information for the Irwin
grant should see Mr. Anderson.
A $2,000 nursing scholarship is
being offered by Burlington Mills
and will go to some girl in this
high school who is seriously con
sidering nursing as a career. Pour
applications have been made and
these applicants have been invited
tTO Chapel Hill in connection with
the selection.
' Members of Future Teachers
have been given the opportunity
to compete for the $100 Delta
Kappa Gamma Scholarship, of
fered to girls who are planning to
be teachers.
it is a big job. She finds it takes
a great deal of time and work to
gather material which will stand
up under the hard battery of the
affirmative team. In Nancy’s
words, “I am really looking for
ward to my first debate. Of course
I think we have a winning team,
but win or lose, I know we will
have really gained something from
this debate.”
Mike Powell was an alternate
on the debate team two years ago
and last year was one of Senior’s
negative debaters. When question
ed as to nis opinion of this year’s
debate team, Mike replied, "This
year we have an exceptional de
bate team and a good debate
topic. I am only glad that I can
be a small part of it.”
Bittinger, Powell Debate
Judie Bittinger, with Mike Pow
ell as her partner, represented
the GHS negative team last year.
She says that this year, with
Nancy as her partner, they will be
trying their best to put Senior
on top in the debate.
Having been a representative on
one of Senior’s debating teams
since his sophomore year, Reggie
Bell considers it a great honbr to
be a member of the GHS debating
team. In his own words, “I only
hope that I can live up to this
great honor.”
Both Reggie and Mike are also
members of the cast of this year’s
Senior Class Play.
The four debaters are practicing
before and after school every day
for the debate.