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VOLUME XXI — NUMBER 5
Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
JUNE, 1953 — 10 CENTS
Commencemeiil Program Scheduled For June 5
Marshals, Ushers
Announced For
Commencement
It has been announced that
Cietus Clark and Ernestine
Powell have been selected to
serve as marshals for the class
of 1953. Mr. R. D. Smith is fac
ulty marshal. The following
students will serve as ushers
at the various programs:
Louise Carver. Catherine
Faust. Marilyn Laurence.
Grade Nevilles. Roberta Mor
row. Betty Sue Noell and
Elaine Norwood.
All student marshals and
ushers are members of the jun
ior class.
Student Council
onsors Annual
Sp
Ball
Senior Class
Day Program
The Senior Class Day Pro
gram will be held on May, 29,
1953 at 2:00 P. M, in the school
cafeteria. The highlight of the
program will be a skit entitled
•‘Memories.” The characters
are as follows: Grandmother,
Ola Mae Farrington; Peggy,
Dorothy Weaver; and Ann,
Emma Harriston.
The "omsining part a*
program will be as follows:
the welcome address, Deloris
Farrington; class will, Ernes
tine King; class history, Wal
ter Jackson; class toasts, Inez
Alston, Nelson Riggsbee, Ruby
Booth, and Bobby Hagood.
The class Trio, Charlie Booth,
Ruby Booth, and Inez Alston,
will sing “Memories.”
BERTHA HEADEN
Spring
The Annual Spring Ball spon
sored by the Student Council for
the entire student body was one
of the high spots on our social
calendar for this school year.
The setting was a spring gar
den scene with seasonal flowers
and shrubs being used for dec
oration. A green and white color
scheme was carried out. Indi
vidual cakes with punch were
served, along with nuts and
candy.
The girls and fellows were
rather elegantly and beautifully
dressed.
One of the highlights of the
Sprng Bail was me period when
the athletic boys and girls were
honored for their contributions
to the school life this year. Re
marks were made by Robert
Winston, Captain of the football
squad for 1953-54 and co-captain
Arnold Harris, Coach Bob
Kornegay, and Mr. Smith.
Music was furnished by How
ard Davis. The memories of the
Spring Ball will live with us for
a long time.
Members Of The Class Of 1953
Lincoln High
Sclioul Dciiiu
Receives Rating
The Lincoln High School
Band received an A-1 (super
ior) rating at the Annual
Band Festival held in Greens
boro, N. C. on May 1.
Aria, a short classic by Ten-
aglia, was rendered as the
competing entry.
Shown above, they are, front row, left to right: Inez
Alston, Ruby Booth, Dorothy Weaver, Betty Dooley, Julia
Purefoy, Barbara Edwards. Second row, left to right: Charles
Jackson, Emma Jean Hairston, Bernice Johnson, Ola Far
rington. Florence Suitt, Ernestine King, Charlie Mae Booth.
Third row, left to right: James Pendergraft, Walter Jackson,
Edward Battle. Ross Farrington, Bobby Hagood, Wenzo
Thompson, and Benjamin Jones.
JUNIORS HONOR SENIORS IN
ANNUAL RECEPTION MAY 8th
Classes Announce Robert Winston
Honor Roll For
Fifth Period
The following students made
an average of “B” plus or above
for the fifth six weeks period.
9-A
Ida Battle and Carolyn Brew
er.
9- B
Shirley Blackwell and Malissa
Farrington.
10- A
Barbara Burnette, Betsy Ann
Cordel, Beatrice Robinson.
10-B
Faye Atwater, Frances Har
graves, Bertha Headen, Alberta
Jones, Alicia Jones, Gwendolyn
Snipes, and Robert Snipes.
11th
Betty Briggs, Ernestine Cole,
Alice Hargraves, Annie Mae
Jones, Gracie Nevilles, Ernes
tine Powell, Ruthie Stroud, Jean
Wright, James Cotton, and Rob-
bert Winston.
12th
Wenzo Thompson, Ross Far
rington, and Ola Farrington.
Next Student
Council President
With an almost landside vote
Robert Winston, President of the
Junior Class, won the position
of the 1953-54 president of the
Student Council on Election Day,
May 15.
The other results of the elec
tion are as follow: Arnold Har
ris, vice-president; Betty Briggs,
secretary; Carolyn Hogan, as
sistant secretary; and Roosevelt
Colson, treasurer.
The annual reception to the
Senior Class of Lincoln High
School was a colorful affair this
year, held in the school lunch
room on Friday evening^ May 8,
from eight-thirty to twelve
o’clock.
The interm‘""’^n program fea-
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cheerful toasts: Robert Winston,
class president, and Joe Morgan,
to the seniors; Ernestine Powell,
to the principal; Roberta Mor
row, to the teachers; Alice Har
graves to the alumni; Ruthie
Stroud, in French to the class ad
viser, Mrs. M. D. Turner; Ralph
Bynum, to the team and the
coaches, Mrs. M. D. Fulford and
“Coach” Kornegay; to all the
guests by Annie Mae Jones. The
grand march and class songs al
so were part of the intermission
program.
Heading the receiving line was
the junior class adviser, Mrs. M.
D, Turner, who presented the
guests to the principal and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mc-
Dougle. Others in the receiving
line were Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Mason; and Mrs. Charlotte Bur
nette, grandmother of the presi
dent of the junior class, Robert
Winston; and Mr. and Mrs.
Hubert Robinson, Sr.
Serving in various capacities
were members of the sophomore
class, dressed in the junior class
colors of white P^a green,
ner caflecf lortli many'i^voi auie
comments by the guests.
The Bull City Night Hawks
Orchestra was at its best with
the music, featuring as soloists,
Albert Regester, Jr. and Miss
Helen Thurber.
Miss Ruth Pope, the teacher
of vocational home economics,
and a group of sophomores—
Carolyn Hogan, Veora Hackney,
Betty Hogan, Gloria Vickers,
and Robert Snipes planned and
served very attractively a deli
cious menu.
The corridors were beautiful
with furniture in white and
green—love seats, gliders, and
springing chairs from Ogburn
Furniture Company, Johnson-
Stroud-Ward Furniture Comp
any, and Riggsbee-Hinson Furni
ture Company.
TWENTY-FOUR
TO RECEIVE
DIPLOMAS
The final program of the Com
mencement Exercises is sched
uled for Friday night, June 5
at the Northside Elementary
School Auditorium.
Mr. E. D. Lowery, class ad
viser, and members of the class
are busily preparing a program
for presentation. The theme of
the program is music and the
program is entitled “With A
Song In My Heart.” All mem
bers of the graduating class will
participate. The high school
band and chorus will be fea
tured as a major part of the pro
gram.
The salutatory and valedic
tory addresses will be deliver
ed by Ross Farrington and
Wenzo Thompson respectively.
Members of the graduation
class are as follows: Dillie Inez
Alston, Charlie Mae Booth,
Ruby Elaine Booth, Betty Louise
Dooley, Barbara Jean Edwards,
Delores Farrington, Ola Mar Far
rington, Emma Jean Hairston,
Bernice Carolyn Johnson, Ernes
tine Algeania King, Rebecca
Partin, Julia Belle Put*
Florence Marie Suitt, r^rothy
Marie Weaver, Ross
Johnnie Goins, J-. Charles
Jackson, Walter *V. Jackson,
Benjamin Jones. Edward Lee
-on Riggsbee, Wenzo Thompso..,
and Bobby O. Hagood.
Rev. E. T. Browne
To Speak At
Vespers May 31
Reverend Emmett Taliaferro
Browne, pastor of Mount Ver
non Baptist Church, Durham,
North Carolina will be speak
er for the Senior Vespers pro
gram May 31, 1953 at 5:00
o’clock p. m. Music will be
rendered by the school chorus.
Uniform Drive
Project Ends
One of the projects carried
out by the Band Uniform Com
mittee came to an end on
April 25. when Mr. Fred Mc
Call, law instructor at the Uni-
sity. won a 1953 Ford car for
a donation of SI.00 to the Uni
form Drive. Hundreds of per
sons were on hand to witness
the climax of this project.
VALEDICTORY
DELIVERED BY WENZO THOMPSON
TN TODAY ALREADY WALKS TOMORROW
Plato declares that the pur
pose of education is “to give
to the body and soul all the
perfection of which they are
capable.” Learning among us
had come to be regarded too
much as a means of improving
one’s material comforts. We
have put too much emphasis on
the “practical” in education.
But will not a study of the
beautiful in life do much to
ward fitting the citizen for his
place in the modern world? Ex-
President Elliot of Yale Univer
sity said: “It is undeniable that
the American democracy has
thus far failed to take proper
account of the sense of beauty as
a means of happiness and to pro
vide for the training of that
sense.”
Popular culture is a sign of
the times. People do want
money and are willing to work
and to speculate in order to
acquire wealth. They crave en
tertainment and throng moving
picture shows and jazz palaces
in the feverish persuit of such
ideal pleasure. But beneath these
hectic tendencies of the age
more determined movements in
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Jean Wright To
Lead Echo Staff
Next Year
As a result of the school elec
tions which were held on May
15, Jean Wright will lead the
Echo Staff next year.
Other results are as follows:
Assistant Editor, Gloria Vick
ers; Staff Reporter, Faye At
water; Assistant Staff Reporter,
Leo Leake, Business Manager,
Allen Mason; Assistant Business
Manager, Anne Mae Jones;
Sports Editor, Betsy Ann Cordal;
Assistant Sports Editor, Elaine
Hairston; Secretary, Katrina
Baldwin; Assistant Secretary,
Alicia Jones.
Other positions on the staff
will be filled by the new staff
members and the advisory com
mittee at the first September
meeting.
CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS!