June 2, 1932
GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
Page Five
CLASS HISTORY By Marion TVeil
Four short years ago a group of
very young and inexperienced boys
and girls entered a very new and
gorgeous high school building for
the first time. So excited were they
that everything about the building
seemed wonderful. Although the
auditorium was unfinished, this
made no difference to them.
The first year they took a small
part in the activities of the school.
They were represented in class de
bates but were defeated by the Jun
ior Class. A few members even
took part in the dramatic production
of the year, and some went to
Greensboro with the Glee Club. But
the majority were content to be
amused with Julius Caesar the first
year. It was during this year that
Mr. Wilson came to them. Although
he came in the middle of the year,
it didn’t take him long to know the
students and they soon made him
feel at home.
They entered the next year, just
as the Yo-Yo epidemic was gripping
everybody. Although this fad proved
quite annoying to the faculty,
who were always confronted by them
on class, it died out as rapidly as it
came in. This time the class won
even more laurels in debating and
were entered in the final contest for
the Giddens Cup, in which they were
defeated. This was the year that
the ’Quakes “brought home the ba
con” in the eastern championship
and the sophomore class was well
represented, with such athletes as
Bland, Hawley, Hooks, Hobson,
and Worrell. As far as academic
work went, Silas Marner kept them
busily engaged that year.
The third year they entered their
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most exciting and thrilling year of
all, filled with happy and memor
able events that always happen in
one’s Junior year and make one be
gin to feel important. That year
the class beat the seniors in inter
class debates but again lost out in
the finals. The class was represent
ed in the triangular debating team,
which brought the Aycock Memorial
Cup into the permanent possession
of G. H. S. The class did some
thing this year which was most orig
inal. After studying “Sir Eoger
de Coverly Papers” in English, they
put out a Junior Edition of the
Goldshoro Hi News, which was a
very successful one. Then came the
much debated question of the Jun
ior ring. As this was a “depression
year,” the faculty had decided that
the purchase of class rings could be
postponed to the next year. But
these^ head-strong juniors were de
termined to get the rings their Jun
ior year, and this was finally agreed
upon. What a red-letter day for
them when they gazed upon the
gorgeous object of their heated dis
cussion and how they did appreciate
them! The closing episode of this
eventful year was the presentation
of the Junior play, “Polly With a
Past,” which, combined with a re
ception afterwards, constituted a
most original form of entertainment
for the seniors?
As these students entered their
concluding year in G. H. S.
more honors were awaiting
them. Under the able lead
ership of Miss Gordner, and the
splendid editor-ship of Dorothy
Hooks, the school published by far
its best paper, which won high recog-
nition by being granted a chapter
I in the “Quill and Scroll,” an Inter
national Honor Society for High
School Journalists, and which con
tained six page editions and two
eight-page editions. The second
year French class presented at a
state teacher’s meeting in Durham
“Le Voyage de Monsieur Per rich-
on,” which was highly praised. The
class was also represented this year
in the triangular debates by Lillian
Gordon and in the interclass debates
by Florence Brooks, Mary Kelley,
and Elizabeth Johnson, who de
feated the Juniors in the
fiist conflict. Helen Smith,
the class president, won a
very high honor by securing a $1000
Scholarship to Brenau College. An-
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other member of the class, Brogden
Spence, won third place in the
Trumpet Solos at the Music Contest
in Greensboro. Bob Edwards attend
ed the Engineer’s Fair at IsT. C. State
in Raleigh to represent the Senior
Class. The last phase of this four-
year experience was the enjoyable
Senior picnic, especially since it in
volved a half-holiday. A banquet
was given up this year by the two
interested classes in an effort to take
care of the completion of the stage
equipment and a barbecue put in
its place. However the seniors were
thrilled to be able to graduate in one
of the finest school auditoriums in
the state.
That happy, carefree, inexperi
enced bunch who entered four years
ago are the same bunch as the pres
ent class of 1932. Although we were
a proud group on entering, words
cannot describe our feelings of pride
and enthusiasm as we gaze with a
longing glance at that part of the
building which has previously been
called anything from an auditorium
to a “hunting ground,” and in which
we, the seniors of 1932, have the
great privilege of being the first to
graduate.
Sophomores Participate
Jerry Derr, Abraham Gordon, and
Paul Borden, three sophomores from
G. H. S., competed with 130 other
boys from high schools of twelve
ISTorth Carolina cities for the Emily
Jane Culver scholarships, in the
preliminary examination on March
19. The final examination for the
winners of this will be given May 7
at Duke University, when the winner
will be selected.
The award is worth $6,000 over a
period of three years and the select
ed one will attend the Culver Mili-
tarj^ Academy for three years.
The committee in charge of the
award in this state is Dr. W. A.
Brownlee and R, L. Latham, with
Dr. Edgar W. Knight in charge.
The other cities holding the pre
liminary examinations were Wash
ington, Wilmington, Charlotte, Fay
etteville, Winston-Salem, Raleigh,
Greensboro, Tarboro, Edenton, Le
noir, and Jacksonville.
Faculty vs. Seniors
N"ow that the dust has settled
after that triple play which ended
the annual faculty-senior baseball
game, the seniors can question the
faculty about some of those state
ments published before the game.
Who said that the faculty was get
ting younger and more agile? And
who claimed that seniors have an
inferiority complex when the
“profs” curves come across ?
The seniors had postponed this
licking for years, but it had to come,
and come it did, in a most dramatic
way. Those who missed seeing that
ninth inning missed one of the
morsels rarely served on any dia
mond. With the score 9 and 6 in
favor of the seniors, and two on
and nobody out, and coach Bullock
coming up, the batter hit a line
drive to one Fred Smith, who, being
in the way, caught it, tagged first
and caught another off of second,
retiring the side, and ending the
game.
In retrospect—it looks like a great
game—many seeing their first triple
play—and the faculty their first
defeat.
WORDS FROM THE WISE
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Education is a better safeguard
for liberty than a standing army.—
Everett.
A great nation is made only by
worthy citizens.—Warner.
Infinite is the help man can yield
to man.—Carlyle.
It is to local self-government that
we owe what we are and what we
hope to be.—Wehster.
The noblest motive is public good.
■—Virgil.
Authority must not forget hu
manity.—0 ’Bielly.
As a citizen may not elect what
laws he will obey, neither may the
Executive elect which he will en
force.—H arrison.
Cultivate peace and harmony with
all.—Washington.
Of all kinds of prides, hold na
tional pride the most foolish; it
ruined Greece; it ruined Judea and
Rome.—H erder.
The mongoose kills the most poi
sonous of snakes.
The iguana, a lizard, grows to be
six feet long.
The miter is the ofiicial head dress
of a bishop.
Ginger was originally an Asiatic
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