MERRY
CHRISTMAS
D
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NEW YEAR
VOLUME V. NUMBER 3
GOLDSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 17, 1931
45 CENTS A YEAR
Modern Auditorium Is To Be
Completed By February 1
Finished Auditorium to Compare
Favorably With Larger and
i\iewer Schools in State;
Will Seat Over 1,200
The auditorium of the Goldsboro
High School is to he completed in
a beautifully modern style by
February first.
The lobby, and the entrance, will
be the most elaborate part and will
be completed in finer detail than
any other section. On one side will
be a ticket room and booth, and cor
responding on the other side, a small
supply room.
The stairs to the balcony will
be on each side of the lobby, next
to the ticket and supply rooms on the
side towards the stage. They will
be curved, and go directly up to the
balcony entrances.
The front of the stage will be an
elliptical arch with a proscenium
matching the curtain, which will be
of rich wine colored velour. The
proscenium is the permanent
drapery which comes from the round
arched part down to the top of the
curtain. This curtain will be ar
ranged so that it may be either
drawn aside or up.
The stage will have a cyclorama
—draperies all around the side, in
the form of a half square with the
two corners rounded, and several
draperies suspended at the top.
The floor of the stage will be hard-
finished, with the front rounded as
it is now. The foot lights will be
at the front, around the curve. The
steps will be at each end of the
stage, rather than on the curve.
The seating capacity will be ap
proximately twelve hundred, 840 on
the main floor and 360 in the bal
cony. The seats are to be heavy,
of a golden oak color, not up
holstered. They are different from
any in Goldsboro, and as one person
said—
‘‘So comfortable that you could sit
in them for hours and hours, without
being tired.”
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G. H. S. DRUM MAJOR
Elton Willis, G. H. S. Drum
Major, led the band in the splendid
performances between the halves of
the Goldsboro-Rocky Mount game
at Goldsboro and the 1ST. C. State-
Catholic University game at Ea-
leigh.
Pos’ Best Wins Ad Contest
Another Lost Word Contest is
Announced
With ‘‘disestablishmentarian”—a
21-letter word—as his entry, Paul
Best won the monthly ad contest in
the ISTovember issue of the Golds
boro Hi I^ews. The prize is a bound
volume of all nine issues of the
Hi [N^kws. This will be presented
in June.
This month another “lost word”
contest will be held. The words
will be pertaining to Christmas and
how!
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C. H. S. CLUBS PRESENT VARIED ACTIVITIES
MILITARY CLUB
The High School Military Club
met Tuesday morning, December 8,
on the baseball field with Mr. Wilson
taking charge. The boys practice
marching; halting, counting off,
right face, right dress, squad right,
squad left, and double time. There
are 32 members in the club now and
Mr. Wilson said he hoped to double
the number after Christmas.
taxidermy club
The Taxidermy Club has started
stuffing. What’s that? Oh, no you
have me wrong, i ^lean stuffing
birds.
Two pigeons have already been
skinned and the club is stuffing them.
The artificial bodies are made from
excelsior and wound with string.
In each body there is a wire running
from end to end to hold it in shape.
While skinning the white pigeon
punched in the
skin. The blue pigeon’s skin had
three holes in it. The book of di
rections said we should be con
gratulated if the skin was not full
of holes.
When the class has mounted a
bird so that it looks life-like, they
will donate it to the Science Club’s
museum.
LATINAS SOCIETAS
The Latinas Societas met in
Room 20 on December 8 for a pro
gram on Jupiter, the Eoman god.
Each student has selected a Latin
name for himself; these names were
handed to the praetor.
The story of Jupiter was told by
Ina Caput (Ina Pate). Doris
Caput (Doris Pate) told the story
of Philemon and Baucis. Sara
Laytona (Sara Layton) gave some
words and expressions of Jupiter
which are in use today. The story
of Europa and the Bull was told by
Helena Virnous (Helen JSTewman).
A game of making Latin words
from one Latin word was played.
The two captains were Thelma
Pedica (Thelma Ginn) and Nita
Galla (Mta Cox), Mta’s side won
three times and Thelma’s twice.
DRAMATIC CLUB
National Honor Society
To Be Established Here
Society Stresses Scholarship,
Service, Leadership, and
Character
It has been definitely decided to
establish a chapter of the “l^a-
tional Honor Society” in the Golds
boro High School. A charter has
been granted us and the local chap
ter will be organized at the end
of the first semester.
The society closely resembles Phi
Beta Kappa, the E'ational Honor
Society for colleges, but is different
in that it stresses scholarship, serv
ice, leadership, and character, rather
than merely scholarship.
The Seniors of past years have
been exceedingly anxious to have
this Honor Society established, since
to become a member is the highest
honor that any student can attain
during his entire high school career.
The membership will be very
limited, only a small number of
seniors being elected at first. The
constitution provides that not more
than fifteen per cent of any senior
class may become members, and not
more than ten per cent of any junior
class. It is not likely that the maxi
mum percentage will be reached this
year.
A committee of teachers, includ
ing the principal, will select those
who are to receive this honor. First
the scholarship of each student will
be determined, since those from the
upper third of the class, only, are
eligible for consideration, Next it
will be.necessary for this committee
to select the students who stand out
in all of the other requirements.
“Our policy will be that of begin
ning with a very small member
ship, in electing only those whose
qualifications are beyond doubt,
since to become a member is a very
great distinction. It is considered
so over the country at large, par
ticularly by the high schools them
selves as well as the colleges which
the students will later attend,” stated
Mr. Wilson.
An attractive feature of member
ship is the watch charm, or key, for
boys and the pin for girls. The two
are similar in design. At the top
are engraved the words “National
Honor Society,” at the bottom -are
the letters C, S, L, S, standing for
Character, Service, Leadership, and
Scholarship, and in the middle is
engraved a burning torch.
10-1 Making Quilts for Needy
At a recent meeting of the
Dramatic Club several good talks
were made.
Frances Edgerton spoke on “The
Life of M^rs. H. G. Fiske”; Virginia
Moore, on “The Life of the French
Actress Sarah Bernhardt”; Nora
Lancaster on “American Drama.”
The constitution was read and ac
cepted. Easly Pace was chairman
of the constitution committee.
The battle cry for the students of
10 I is “warm the needy.” After
Miss Ipock saw the response of the
students to “feed the hungry” she
returned from the Thanksgiving
holidays with the idea to “warm the
needy.”
The students were asked to collect
flour and sugar bags which were to
be converted into cases for the com
forts. Nearly a hundred of these
were collected and it is estimated
that this will be sufficient to make
three cases.
Miss Koch showed the boys how to
card the cotton, which makes it soft
and fluffy.
Mr. Sansbury made the frame,
over which the quits are spread and
tacked. Many of the boys volun
teered to tack the quilts when Miss
Ipock said that this was done, merely
by poking the needle in, bringing it
out, tying the thread and clipping
it off. They even said they’d stitch
them if some girl would guide the
material,
xis the problem took time and a
place for work this enthusiastic class
and its leader worked overtime,
meeting in various homes at night.
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Quill and Scroll Honor Society
To Be Organized In Spring
RADIO CONTROL DE
BATED BY SOCIETY
Pearson and Crawford Win From
Bizzell and Middleton
CHARTER IS GRANTED
A debate, Eesolved: That the
United States adopt the British
Method of Eadio Control, was the
topic of discussion at the meeting
of the Debating Society, December
1, Lillian Goi’don was the pres^iding
officer.
The aifirmative, composed of
Edgar Pearson and Joe Crawford,
won a class decision over a negative
team consisting of James Bizzell and
Norwood Middleton.
The Triangular Debate question,
Eesolved: That United States
should adopt a system of compul
sory unemployment insurance, has
been announced but it is not known
upon what the argumet is to be
based.
This year it seems that (xoldsboro
High School has a good chance of
repeating her triumphs of previous
years as two of last year’s triangular
debaters, Pete Heyward and Black-
well Eobinson, are members of the
club. Besides, there is much good
material in the Society.
Triangular Debating is limited
to those belonging to the Society.
Membership is open to anyone
who has any talent for speaking, or
who wishes to learn how to debate.
The purpose of the Society is to
arouse an interest in debating and to
sponsor Triangular Debates.
At ])resent there are sixteen en
thusiastic members, every class being
represented by at least one member.
Miss Beasley hopes that many
more students will join the club.
Anyone wishing to join now will
have to be voted in by a three-fourths
majority.
The Society is under the sponsor
ship of Miss Beasley, Triangular
Debating coach.
Chapters Established in Only
Seven North Carolina High
Schools; Six Societies in
Foreign Countries
“Ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make ye free,” is the
motto of the Quill and Scroll, the
International Honorary Society for
High School Journalists, a chap
ter of which is to be founded in
Goldsboro High School the latter
part of the school year to serve as
an incentive for better work among
the members of the journalism class.
A charter received on December
9, from George Gallup, international
secretary of the society, states that
a chapter of Quill and Scroll may
be organized at any time Miss Gord-
ner sees fit.
The purpose of the society, as
stated in its constitution, is to in
still in students the ideals of scholar
ship, to advance the standards of
the ])rofession of jounuilism by de-
velo])ing better journalists and by
inculcating a higher code of ethics,
and to promote exact and dispas
sionate thinking, clear and forceful
writing.
To be conu! a member of this so
ciety one must be either a junior,
senior, or a post graduate, must
rank in the upper third of his class
in scholarshi]), and must have done
some superior work in writing, edit
ing, or business management of the
school ])aper.
The name “Quill and Scroll,” is
symbolic of the painstaking efforts
of the scribes of old to record the
events and thoughts in permanent
form.
There are only 650 chapters of
the society in the world, including
six foreign chapters located in
Hawaii, England, China, British
Honduras, and Alaska.
Only seven high schools in North
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THIRTY-THREE STUDENTS ARE ON HONOR ROLLS
FIKST HONOR liOLL
The following students made all
I’s on their reports for the second
six-week period.
Sbnioks
Virginia Crow, Lillian Edgerton,
Lillian Gordon, Lily Bet Hales,
Mary Kelly, Helen Smith, Emmett
Spicer, and Florence Baker.
JiTNIORS
Nora Lancaster, and Pete Hey
ward.
Fresh aiEN
Anna Best, Annie E. Coward, Dan
Aycock.
SECOND HONOE EOLL
The following students made only
one 2 on their reports for the second
six-week period:
Seniors
Dorothy Langston, Martha Pea
cock, Helen Thigpen, Warren Le
Roy, and Leila Brown.
Juniors
Harvey Smith, BlackAvell Eobin
son, Clarence Wilkins.
Sophomores
Thelma Ginn, and Delbert Edger
ton,
Freshmen
Sallie Britt, Sara Spruill, Eosa
Willis, Nellie Williams, Eichard
Helms, Gertrude Hobbs, Katherine
Kalmar, Maurice Edwards, and
Dorothy Ballard,
SPECIAL MENTION
The following made one plus on
two subjects;
Thebna (Jinn—Latin II, Algebra
II,
Elizabeth Johnson—Algebra II,
(ieonietry II,
The following made one plus on
one subject:
Algebra II: Abraham |lJordon,
Ed OuthiAv.
English I: Eosa Willis. \
Science I: Maurice Edwards.
Home Economics I: Anna liest,
Nellie Williams.
Latin I; Norwood Middletom
Marie Ellis.
French II: Helen Smith, Pete'
Heyward, Blackwell Eobinson.
Ilistoiy IV: Arthur Allred.
Typing I: Florence Baker,
DISPLAY CHRISTMAS POSTERS
Yesterday morning, each home
room group had a pleasant surprise
awaiting it. In the middle of each
bulletin board was a cheery Christ-
nuis poster with an appropriate verse
wishing each and every one a Merry
Christmas,
Miss DeVane, the city librarian,
has asked that the best posters be
lent to her during the holidays. She
wishes to place them on display in
the reading room of the public
library.