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PAGE FOUR T HE PILOT OCTOBER, 1950 A Letter Home Howdy Maw, Where’s Paw? I thought I’d drap youall a let ter since I han’t writ one in a spell. I hope this here letter don’t find you’ns ailing. Seems to me as how you’ns ought to be purty pert be cause the corn crap was plentiful and sugar is available anywhar. Maw, you should’n ought to wor ry ’bout me, I got some a the finest teachers found anywhar. Dr, Mor- risett is a good ole feller. Today he kept us two hours. He puts a cough- drap under his tongue, and when it melts, he always dismisses the class. He made us stay an hour overtime today before he found out he had a button under his tongue. Maw, Mr. Stacy sure is a hum dinger. He is the biology teacher. The other day he asked me which came first, the chicken or the eee. I told him I didn’t eggactly He has been teaching us about kan garoos. This subject really keeps us hopping. Now, maw, Mr. Martin is a nice lil’ man with a crew cut. The other night he and his wife were out rid ing in the country. The moon was a ghastly galleon sailing across a clear blue sky springled with little twinkling stars. Mr. Martin drew Mrs. Martin close by his side and said in a voice that echoed romance, T wonder if Deacon ate his dog Mr. Fisher is my English teacher here, maw. He went to get a hair cut the other day and said to the barber, “are you the man who cut my hair last?” The barber replied, “no, it couldn’t have been me I’ve only been here six months.” Miss Miller is the piano teacher. She went into the Snack Shop a day or so ago and ordered her lunch. When the waiter asked her how she wanted her rice,* she very curtly replied, “Thrown at me.” Miss Starnes is the Dean of Wo men. The other morning Bob Wright brought his girl friend in at 3 o’clock. Miss Starnes got plenty mad and asked Bob what he meant by bringing in a girl a 3 o’clock. Bob very shyly replied, “But I have a class at 8:30.” Well, I better close now. I may be home soon. My roommate said if I didn’t quit talking in my sleep, he would have me sent home to The Boiling Springs Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel, now, how are you’ns? Wonder if Bryan G. would mind if we used his hearty greet ing. Well, we don’t care if he does, because it more than likely isn’t original anyway. Since this is the first time the freshmen have wit nessed this column, we’ll give them an idea of what the big come-off is. We don’t want to lose any friends, purposely, that is, especially Gene Cornwell, by some of our remarks, but facts are facts. Speaking of Gene, that reminds us of a little bionde from Gastonia named Peg gy. Maybe you’ll get the connec tion when we say that her last name is Millen. Well, we can’t sing the “on the make” song to them anymore, because they seem to have it “made.” Another “made” two some seems to be Wilma and Speedy, what hoppened to Painter. We don’t exactly know who the “instigaitors” of the turtle-afjair that they live on east wing. How’d we ever come to that conclusion? Well, right after I let out the first yell, Rachel Morgan stuck her head out of a door about a mile up the hall and said, “I didn’t do it, what ever it is.” Cora Ray could have had something to do with it, and so could Eleanor, but we have an idea that it was Rachel. Anyway, they all paid and we don’t mean with money, either. Well, what would you do if you saw your “Lit” book rise up in the air? It’s good to see some of last year’s couples back together again this year (that seldom ever hap pens). Rachel and Bob, Sparkle and Beth, Betty Jane and Stegall, and last but not least Jean and Bryan. Wonder if Agnes misses “Ace” as much as she puts on that she does. Oh yes, of course, we want to con gratulate Frank and Lillian. By the way, there are two missing in the line some place we don’t mean females. Who is the cute brunette from Wheaton Academy that’s going steady by mail. Come on, Nancy, give the boys a break. We noticed the otl: Jim Trantham had .that ki things are going to work out? That reminds us Evelyn Leigh seems to be having a pretty time trying to make up her mind just who she is on the “make” for I guess all the English classes un der the able instruction of Profes sor Martin know that he has a well- trained dog, by now. O. G. Morehead and Jim Daniels seem to like that road between here and Forest City pretty well. Too bad that their friends up there are away at school. I think they just ride u there every Saturday night froi force of habit, or maybe they hav little sisters. I don’t know just what the bi_ come-off is but it seems that every time anyone sits down beside their friends at the cafeteria, J Stamey and Andy Sealey wai sing to them. Of course, they do have a lot of room to sing. . especially Sealey. We could be re ferring to Frances Rhyne, but we can’t be sure about those things. Did anyone see Roger Wright and Ellen Clary “intermingling phalan ges” the other day? In case any one doesn’t know the definition o1 that, just speak to Roger he’s got a good one. We think we know, but we wouldn’t want to make I guess Iris Champion was pretty happy when Furman University stormed the campus. Wonder why Doris Grigg is always talking about Wake Forest? Is someone of ' If there is, we don’t know them. Attention girls! Those Georgia boys can be “made” but it ^ be a “push-over.” By the way, has anyone seen any candidates ' would be interested? Well, since the freshmen have an idea of what this column deals with, we’ll bring this to a ceasing halt, just reminding you to watch step, because we have eye o you. Pat Blanton r day that new style 1 with the Only Fifty Passed Porthole Test The results of our annual Port hole test were rather disconcert ing. Only fifty students out of the entire student body passed, or around fourteen percent of those who took it. To those unfamiliar with our campus terminology, the Porthole is our social bluebook which gives, in detail, our official do’s and don’ts. What these re sults indicate we won’t attempt to interpret, but perhaps it is signifi cant that not a single day student passed the examination. Jean, all of us know by now that you miss Carl Cox, but you don’t have to talk about it all the time. Maybe if you would give up some of your trips to Cliffside, you could traipse down to see him. Wonder why Joan Kincaid is al ways coming in last at the cafe teria. It couldn’t be to get one last look before the eight-thirty class at “Rudolph Scrounge” Wardell. Harold Rogers and Houston Whit- ty seemed to be having a “whup- ping” big time at the pep rally the other night. We still think they should have been cheer-leaders. Dorothy Robertson and W. F. Lat- timore, surely lost no time in get ting a case started. We noticed a few more cases, but they didn’t last long enough to make the paper. Barbara Huggins and Mary Dean Minges were two of the cutest rats on the campus, and also two of the most cooperative. Speaking of rats, what happened to Glenn Petty john and John Pierce? Could it be that these two football players turned “slightly” chicken? Well, what do you think? i What happened to Barbara Crow could anything be wrong between her and Puckett, or are they just staying apart to see how i HUDSON'S DEPARTMENT STORE in SHELBY features PETERS SHOES For All the Family • Weatherbird • City Club • Velvet Step COLLEGE STUDENTS Meet Youi Fiiends at the College Snack Shop Carnes' Corn So far, everything is normal; no- oody is studying, everybody is grip ing about their bad grades, and nothing is being done about the weather. Not too much can be done about the weather, but I have some advice for the bad grades and grip ing. My advice to you is pull your grades up. Well, now, you may say this advice ain’t so hot (Watch your language), but I’ll guarantee that if you follow, you’ll have better grades. Many students can’t get English. Now, this shouldn’t be because lots of time you use it in your speech. I realize, of course, that the other foreign languages are harder . . . .but remember the harder they are, the bigger they fall, (or some- If you make a bad grade in chena- istry, don’t blow up the laboratory. This irritates the instructor; also it may disturb the other classes. A quieter way is to resolve to your self that you’ll make a better grade. You’ll feel much better until the next six weeks grades, come out. By the way, don’t flunk examina tions. This is one of the most fre quent causes of bad pades. Some of you more industrious scholars may find that studying helps. Go to the library at frequent inter vals (Once or twice a semester). You’ll find some interesting pic tures in the books on the reserve shelf. While you’re in the library, talk a couple of octaves lower than you normally do, and try to con fine your laughs to rollicking gig gles. Be alert in class. Try to catch all the jokes. . . .throw a few yourself. (Don’t be one way all your life). If you’ve had a course in shorthand, art or mechanical draw ing, you may want to take a few notes. If you become bored in class and feel led to yawn, do not stiffle this urge. You may choke to death. Put an open note-book or a blonde before your face and yawn to your little heart’s content. How do you think your poor instructor feels, looking down various throats of his pupils for a solid hour? The professors and professoresses have to go through alot. Let’s make next week “Be kind to Instructors” week. Do a good deed for them. Dust their erasers, help them across the street, and apologize for what you have called them. If you should happen to be late for class, don’t slam the door, you may wake the students up. You’ve already been marked absent, so you have to be tactful. In the immortal words of Chau- tr: “Wemo ue impune lacessit,” which means “Plamen Qui meruit ferat” or I’ll dig you later. Until then, I remain Superfluously Yours, Ray Carnes COLLEGE GULF SERVICE STATION • CAR SERVICE Welcome to All Students Boiling; Springs, N. C.
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