September, 1946
THE OWL
Page Three
Junior High Page
Jr. High Journalism
Plans have been made by the Junior
High School faculty for the inclusion
of a Junior High Page in The Owl
each month of the present school year.
At a recent meeting of the teachers
of grades five, six, seven, and eight,
sponsors were designated to collect
the news for the page, as follows:
October—Miss Sue Fletcher
November—Miss Mildred Bullock
December—Miss Annie Gray Bur
roughs
January—Miss Carrie Fuller
February—Mrs. Oscar McFarland
March—Miss Bessie Atkinson
April—Miss Annie Belle Smith
For each issue of The Owl, the
other Junior High School teachers
will meet with the sponsor of the
month to decide upon the articles to
be used on the Junior High Page
These articles will then he assignee
to different rooms for writing, after
which they will be collected by the
sponsor and submitted for publica
tion.
The Junior High home rooms have
elected Owl reporters as follows:
Mrs. McFarland—Jackie Shaw
Miss Smith—Anna Frances Bunn
Miss Fuller—Dora Dickerson
Miss Fletcher—Ann Crymes
Miss Bouroughs—Helen Tatsey
Miss Atkinson—Maxine Harris
Miss Bullock—Jean Hester
The members of the Junior High
School are looking forward to a help
ful and interesting experience in writ
ing and arranging a part of the schoo
newspaper, and they sincerely hope
the readers will enjoy their page.
JUNIOR COUNCIL OFFICERS
School Begins!
By Nancy Byrd
Vacation is over and once again we
come back to our books and papers
for another year. We should be ready
to begin our school work, for many
of us have had such nice trips during
“vacation time.” Some have been to
Washington, D. C., our nation’s capi
tal; others have been to Manteo to
see “The Lost Colony.” Numerous
members of our group have spent
some time at the beaches, and one of
our members flew to Flonaa during
the summer.
All of us have had a very pleasant
summer, and we know that we shall
enjoy this school year. Junior High
is especially fortunate to have its
full number of teachers. Many places
throughout our state had to begin
school with several vacancies in the
faculty, but we are fortunate in hav
ing: Mrs. McFarland, fifth grade;
Miss Fuller and Miss Smith, sixth
grade; Miss Fletcher and Miss Bur
roughs, seventh grade; Miss Bullock
and Miss. Atkinson, eighth grade;
Mrs. MeSwain, Bible; Miss Mewborn,
music. This year we are determined
that we shall do better work than
we have ever done before. We have
had a splendid beginning because of
the efforts of Mr. Credle and Mr. Hix,
and we promise to show our appre
ciation to them by working hard
throughout the coming year.
“Do you mean to tell me,” the
judge said, “that you murdered that
poor old woman for a paltry three
dollars ?”
“Well, judge, you know how it is.
Three bucks here, three bucks there—
it soon mounts up.”
—Masquerader.
Gossip Quiz
Back row: Shirley Harris, Secre
tary; Margaret Seabolt, President.
Front row: Gilbert Ragland, Treas
urer, and Jean Hughes, Vice-Presi
dent.
Junior Student Council
The President’s Message
The Junior Council is the hub of
the Junior High School. From it
come many of the ideas for making
our school a more livable place. It
is made up of a very select group of
students—a boy and a girl elected
from each homeroom with a president
and vice-president from the student
body at large. When a group like this
comes together many fine suggestions
are made.
We are proud of the way our Junior
Council, through its tra .c committee,
handled the conduct of the Junior
High School last year in the halls, in
assembly, in going to and from lunch,
and in many other places.
Council, through its traffic committee,
there were other committees formed
as the need arose, such as the “clean
up,” “dancing,” and many others.
Each did good work. This year we
will follow the same plan. At present
we feel that we need traffic, basement,
assembly, social, and building and
grounds committees.
We remind you that a council mem
ber is a select person. To be elected
to this job his classmates considered
him an outstanding leader, a consci
entious worker, a well behaved person,
one who sticks to a job and is prompt
to do it.
If you have been chosen to represent
your homeroom, you should never for
get that fact and at all times and in
all places you should conduct yourself
in such a way as to assure your class
mates that they have made a wise
choice in sending you to council.
We could not do the good work we
do without the help of our teachers.
Each teacher advises one committee
and they all help us with our two
school parties. Miss Burroughs ad
vises the council which meets once
each week at activity period.
The council is made up of the fol-
owing students: president, Margaret
Seabolt; vice-president, Jean Hughes;
secretary, Shirley Harris; treasurer,
Gilbert Ragland. The room repre
sentatives are: Marion Cash, E. V.
Strother, Shirley Harris, Robert
Wheeler, Peggy Paynter, Billy Payn-
ter. Dotty Harris, Gilbert Ragland,
Anna Frances Bunn, Bobby Bradsher,
Who is as sad as little Bo Peep be
cause he has lost his “one and only”
and does not know how to get her
back? Could this be because Anna
Frances Bunn has a rival? What a
mix up! She really has something
on her hands when Judy begins to
roll her eyes at Bobbie. Could it be
that Floyd is as sad as little Bo Peep
Why is Patsy Brummitt grief
stricken? Did you say someone has
moved to Durham? Who? Oh/Rives.
Who got extra lessons the first day
of school? Donald L. Why?
Don’t look so lonely, Frank. If
Betsy H. is not in your room, you can
see her at recess sometimes. Do you
think he will be able to keep his mind
on his lessons this year?
What about Tony and Howard? She
won’t give her blue horses to anyone
else. What do you think? Don’t ride
away on one of them some day.
Does she like it? What? Being in
the room with Billy P. Who? Juanita.
What about Gilbert and Dotty go
ing to council together? Thought
Dotty was interested in the new boy
called “Jimmy.”
Why do Shirley H’s eyes widen
when she sees a Buick? Look who
drives one.
Did Dorothy D. have a date by mis
take? Ask “Mac.”
Why does Virginia H. stay at home
on Saturdays? Did you ask if Doug
is usually around?
Second Year Bible
Instruction Begins
For the second consecutive year
we have a Bible course in the eighth
grade of our school. The three Bible
classes meet from 8:55 until 11:55,
and are taught by Mrs. E. G. Me
Swain, who also teaches two Bible
classes at the John Nichols School.
For a number of years ministers,
school officials, and church members
have thought about the necessity for
religious and ethical instruction in
the schools. This becomes more and
more vital when we consider that a
study of all books read by children in
their earlier years of schooling shows
that in 1895, 95.6% contained stories
based on the Bible; while in 1935, of
all books studied in the same age
groups, only 6.5% contained any ref
erence to the Bible or Bible stories.
The Bible course is intended to help
remedy this situation.
The textbook used in the classes is
the Bible itself. During the first
semester we study the Old Testa
ment: and during the second se
mester, the New Testament. We list
important facts about the Bible in
notebooks.
It is impossible to have a liberal
education without a knowledge of the
Bible, and we hope that the course
in school will provide a background
for more Bible study and continued
application of its teachings in the
years to come.
Peggy Reynolds, Henry Saye, Ellie
Mitchell, and Dick Taylor.
Before we left last spring we bought
and presented to the school a punch
bowl and tray. We have now secured
four dozen cups and have placed the
entire set in the Home Ec. Cottage
for the entire school to use.
If you are on a committee we hope
you will do your best to make the
plans of that committee a success.
New Jr. High Students
By Ann Burroughs
In visiting among the rooms in the
Junior High School we find twelve
new faces. We are glad to welcome
these new pupils to our school and
we hope very much that they will
soon feel at home among us. The
newcomers are as follows:
Miss Smith’s room: Patricia Huff
from Princeton, N. C.; Guretha Knott
from Berea, N. C.; Elbert Matthews,
Oxford Orphanage; Gloria Duncan,
Oxford Orphanage.
Miss Fuller’s room: Mayilyn Ad
cock from Creedmore, N. C.
Miss Burroughs’ room: Marie
Woodlief fi’om South Rodman, Va.;
William Yeargin, Oxford Orphanage.
Miss Fletcher’s room: Dorothy
Mathews, Oxford Orphanage; Jim
mie W. Collins, Wilmington, N. C.;
Wilma Joan Buchanan, Spruce Pine,
N. C.
Miss Atkinson’s room: Barbara
Duncan, Oxford Orphanage; Goeffrey
Knott, Berea, N. C.
The Junior Band
The Junior Band Class meets for
a half hour each day during the
'activities period.
Pupils from the fifth through the
eighth grade are eligible to join this
class. Lessons consists as follows,
rudiments of music and music theory
and the playing of various instru
ments used in a concert band.
Thirty-five pupils have made appli
cation to enter this class this fall and
Mr. Wagner is trying to locate enough
instruments. Instruments have not
been made during the war and are
now being made in such small quanti
ties so that they are hard to obtain.
Several used instruments have been
located and it is hoped that more will
be available.
An industrious and ambitious pupil
can usually become proficient enough
in a nine month term to be promoted
to the Senior Band and will then be
given a uniform and a place in the big
band.
Our Grade Mothers
By Marilyn Hughes
Without our grade mothers, how
dull school would be! But just like
our real mothers they always think
of something especially nice for us.
And oh, how we do appreciate them!
We think they are tops, and we hope
this year every one of us will be such
good girls and boys that we will
deserve their kindness.
Our grade mothers are:
Fifth grade: Mrs. McFarland;
Mrs. Will Mitchell, Mrs. Fred Par
ham, and Mrs. S. B. Knott.
Sixth grade: Miss Smith; Mrs. J.
C. Adcock, Mrs. L. D. O’Brien, and
Mrs. Allen Baker.
Sixth grade: Miss Fuller; Mrs.
Jack Shaw, Mrs. G. D. Gholson, and
Mrs. Ed Crews.
Seventh grade: Miss Fletcher; Mrs.
F. W. Speed, Mrs. C. W. Hobgood, and
Mrs. R. E. Crymes.
Seventh grade: Miss Burroughs;
Mrs. W. H. Yeargin, Mrs. John L.
Suit, and Mrs. W. G. Talley.
Eighth grade: Miss Atkinson; Mrs.
C. M. Byrd, Mrs. N. B. Cash, and
Mrs. C. G. Averette.
Eighth grade: Miss Bullock; Mrs.
A. B. Dean, Mrs. H. B. Hester, and
Mrs. W. R. Kittrell.