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VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 1
GOLDSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 26, 1934
50 CENTS A YEAR
G.H.S. Chooses Class Officers
Fo r*34-*35inA nnual Election
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IS USED
Annie E. Coward, John Gay Britt,
Marshall McDowell and James
Heyward Are Chosen to
Lead Their Classes
G. H. S. GLEE CLUBS
RECENTLY ORGANIZED
Membership Is 103; More Than 200
Tried Out; Mr. Stapleton
Directs Both Clubs
G. H. S. took oil the aspect of a
County Court House on election day,
October 10, as the class officers were
chosen for the coming year.
Each class had a private booth,
and the votes were cast by the x\us-
tralian Ballot System. At the four
booths a chairman was placed to keep
the ‘‘rushing” business rushing
smoothly as the registered members
of each class voted.
The candidates lingered in the
background hoping that the many
votes cast carried their victory
further from the clutches of hopeful
opponents.
A wide range in opinion as to the
best candidates for the different
offices was shown by close races.
Officers elected were:
Seniors: president, Annie E. Coward;
vice-president, Maurice Edwards; sec
retary, James Davis; treasurer, James
Wharton; cheerleaders, Frances Mas
sey and Sallye B. Privette.
Juniors: President, John Gay Britt;
vice-president, Margaret Smith; secre
tary, Mary Graham; treasurer, Powell
Bland; cheerleaders, Betsy Heyward
and Louise Spruill.
Sophomores: President, Marshall
dour; secretary, Hazel Shaver; treas
urer, Ozello Woodward and cheerlead
ers to be elected first class meeting.
Freshmen: President, James Hey
ward; vice-president, James Crone;
secretary, Jack Wharton; treasurer,
George Ham; cheerleaders, Reese
Bailey and Norene Johnson.
The defeated candidates were;
Seniors: President, Norwood Mid
dleton; vice-president. Dot Crawford;
secretary, Dan Aycock; treasurer. Dot
Ballard; cheerleaders, Tommy Pearson
and Rosa Willis.
Juniors: President, O. J. Howell;
vice-president, Allen Andrews; secre
tary, Betsy Parks; treasurer, Isa Sills
Dameron; cheerleaders, Isabel Edger-
ton and Perrye Smith.
Sophomores: President, William Dees
and Katherine Jones; vice-president,
Charles Layton, and Pat Witherington;
secretary, Annie Laurie Howell, and
James Zealy; trea'surer, Carolyn
Smith, and Robert Creech.
Freshmen: President, Margaret
Peacock; vice-president, Harriet Noell;
secretary, Frances Coward; treasurer,
Helen Jane Malone.
A total of one hundred and three
boys and girls have been accepted
into the G. H. S. Glee Clubs for
upperclassmen. Mr. Erie Stapleton
of Princeton, New Jersey, is in
charge of this group.
Seventy girls and thirty-three
boys were selected from the two hun
dred or more that tried out.
The Girls’ Glee Club: Altos: Shirley
Armentrout, Rosanna Barnes, Esther
Casey, Marie Cullins, Jean Dewey, Mar
garet Denmark, Alice Elks, Frances
Gillikin, Carrie Belle Huffman, Edith
Huffman, Frances Massey, Dorothy
Mooring, Colleen McClenny, Ada O’Bri-
ant, Sallie B. Privette, Mildred Schroe-
der, Ruth Slocumb, Perrye Smith,
Mary E. Smith, Mary Jane Smith,
Frances Sutton, Lee Ann Taylor,
Irene Williams, Nellie Williams, Rosa
Willis, Nettie Worrell, and Ozello
Woodward.
Sopranos: Mary Baddour, Ruby Ball,
Anna Best, Esther Braswell, Marjorie
Britt, Claro Brown, Cora Burns, Eunice
Collins, Annie E. Coward, Anita Cox,
Olivia Cox, Wenona Creech, Isa S.
Dameron, Ruth Dillworth, Isabel Edg-
erton, Nellie Farfour, Helen Flowers,
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Attendance Doubled
Enrollment on October 12 had
reached 710. Average daily at
tendance at end of first month
was 683.
The average daily attendance
has more than doubled since 1926
as shown by following statistics:
1926-’27 — 330; 1927-’28 — 338;
1928-»29 — 440; 1929-’30 — 527;
' 1930-’81 — 585; 1931-’32 — 575;
1932-’3B — 583; 1933-'34 — 59L
HI NEWS SUBSCRIPTION
GOAL TOPPED WITH 587
Half-holiday Awarded Students
Success in Campaign Work
for
TWO NEW COURSES
OFFERED STUDENTS
Journalism Class Is Large
This year for the first time in the
history of Journalism in G. H. S., a
separate class for beginners has been
organized to train for staff member
ship. Eorty students, sophomores,
juniors, and seniors, are reporting
regularly to Miss Gordner, teacher
of Journalism and adviser to Hi
News staff.
At present the class is learning
news values, keeping up with cur
rent events, learning the makeup of
a paper, and writing news stories.
The members of the class occupy
the “press box” during each assembly
program, three rows being given
them in the front middle section for
this purpose.
The class aim is to publish an edi
tion of the Hi I^ews without the
aid of the staff within the next three
months.
Another aim is to see who can get
the most column inches in the Hi
Neivs-Argus, and perhaps the
News and Observer. Virginia Ginn,
Dorothy Parker, and 'Ozello Wood
ward, sophoPi Q ave already had
stories in t^ ^ i\rgus. Virginia
and Ozellc ylines.
Two new courses, trigonometry
and sociology, have been added to the
curriculum of Goldsboro High
School.
Miss Ipock is teaching trigonom
etry and advanced algebra to a class
of twenty-four advanced students,
preparing for college math. The
fifth book in geometry, which was
not covered in last year’s course, was
completed before entering the ad
vanced studies.
Eifteen students are enrolled for
a study of sociology and economics,
which is being taught by Miss Beas
ley. This course is a study of man’s
relations in his economic order. With
the country’s economic structure so
disarranged, students taking this sub
ject will, in all probability, be more
competent in dealing with the prob
lems of the day.
Due to the fact that both sociology
and trigonometry classes are being
held at third period, several students
that had planned to take advantage
of both courses were forced to drop
one.
A half-holiday is awarded the
students of G. H. S. today as a re
ward for putting over the most suc
cessful campaign ever conducted for
subscriptions to The Hi News. At
the close of the contest Tuesday
morning the Senior class was lead
ing with 587Y2 per cent. A total of
164 subscriptions was obtained by
all classes. Powell Bland, circula
tion manager, supervised the cam
paign.
The other classes in order of their
percentage standing were Junior,
Sophomore, and Ereshman.
The Senior class will receive as a
prize, a banner in their class colors,
purple and silver.
Miss Ipock’s home room won
arm bands in blue and white for
each individual as a result of achiev
ing the highest percentage of sub
scribers of all the home rooms.
A free subscription was awarded to
every student who brought in 5 out
side subscriptions. The list of stu
dents winning free subscriptions will
be published lacei’;
Clifton James won one dollar
in trade at the Hi News Shoppe
for securing the highest number of
outside subscriptions. He sold 30
yearly subscriptions. Maurice Ed
wards was runner-up with 25.
The campaign was launched on
October 12 with a chapel program
presented by the Journalism Class
and staff.
^^Square Dance and Frolic** to
Be Held in New Gym Tonight
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NEW GYMNASIUM IS
FINALLY COMPLETED
Funds Secured by High School Stu
dents Supplemented By Local
and Federal Aid
The new gym, opened to the
public for the first time tonight and
fulfilling the dream of countless
school children, is a brick veneer
building costing $6,966.66, completed
on September SO.
The gymnasium fund, started in
1930 by students who sold magazine
subscriptions for a commission, has
achieved its goal with local and fed
eral aid; and the gym, begun by the
CWA and completed by the PWA,
is now a reality.
The gym is 60 by 100 feet on the
outside with a playing space of 60
by 82 feet. The remaining 18 feet
have been utilized for both a boys’
and a girls’ dressing room, separated
by the boiler room. The dressing
rooms are complete with two showers
in each room, and the use of hot and
cold water. The balcony, which is
over the dressing rooms, will seat
250.
One standard high school court,
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TO BEGIN AT NINE O’CLOCK
Students Have Decided to Pay Off
School Debts By Sponsoring
a Series of Public
Entertainments
FIVE NEW TEACHERS
ADDED TO FACULTY
BURT P. JOHNSON
IS NEW PRINCIPAL
Armstrong Works, Plays
Mr. Ray Armstrong, superintend
ent of the Goldsboro School system,
was one of the 10,000 teachers who
registered for work at Columbia Uni
versity in New York City during the
past summer session. He studied
Problems in American Education,
Curriculum Construction,, and Phi
losophy of Education. There were 300
students in his Philosophy class
alone.
The study groups met out on the
campus under the trees. Each tree
had a placard bearing the name of
some state on it. The North Caro
lina group to which Mr. Armstrong
belonged consisted of eight.
Asked his opinion of New York,
Mr. Armstrong stated that it is a
most marvelous place. Nights and
week-ends at Columbia were spent
sightseeing in various places of in-
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Mr. Burt P. Johnson, of Lilling-
ton, N. C., has assumed responsibili
ties as principal of the Goldsboro
High School.
In a recent interview Mr. Johnson
told a Hi News reporter that he
was greatly impressed with the atti
tude of the student body relative to
their building and care for it, their
class work and the close relation be
tween teacher and pupil, and their
interest in all outside work in which
the school has a part.
feel indeed fortunate and
happy,” he said, ‘‘in having the op
portunity of working with such a
fine student body this year.”
Mr, Johnson is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina, class
of 1930, having attended Mars Hill
Junior College ’26-’28. For the past
four years he has seTved as princi
pal and athletics coach of the Spring
Hope High School in Wilson Coun-
ty-
Mr. Johnson is adviser to the Hi
News business staff, which is a real
help in that he understands news-
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G. H. S. has five new teachers this
year. There are from out-of-town
school• and the other +wohave taught
and substituted in the Goldsboro
schools before.
Miss Adeline King, who teaches
typing, shorthand and bookkeeping,
is from Nashville, Tenn., and has
taught in Smyrna, near Nashville,
and in Andrew Jackson High School
in Nashville. She received her A. B.
from the Tennessee College. She has
done two summers of graduate work
on her M.A. degree, one at the Uni
versity of California and one at the
George Peabody College.
The Manual Training instructor,
Mr. J. H. Askins, is from Lake City,
S. C. He taught in Greenwood, S. C.
for three years. He received his
B.S. at Clemson College, the Agri
culture and Engineering School of
S. C., in Clemson, S. C. He is now
working on his M.S. degree. Mr.
Askin says he also likes G. H. S. fine
so far.
Miss Erances Neely, typing and
shorthand teacher, is from Park Hill,
S. C. She received her B.S. degree
from Winthrop College, Park Hill,
S. C, Miss Neely has never taught
before, but she says she likes the
school and teaching very much.
Mrs. T. G.' Anderson is teaching
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Merry-making will be at its height
in the new gym tonight at 9 o’clock
when young and old will swing their
partners to the strains of real old
time fiddlin’. It’s the “Square
Dance and Erolic” sponsored by the
Junior and Senior Classes of
G. H. S. to obtain funds with which
to pay off their school debt.
Students of G. H. S. have decided
to undertake some project every few
months in order to equip the school
with such things as a journalism room
with a small commercial press, trophy
cabinet, and library catalogue.
Enthusiastic members of commit
tees have been hard at work to see
that fun and frolic will dominate the
town tonight. The entertainment
Committee, of which John Gay Britt
is chairman and Miss Kornegay
sponsor, will see to it that the orches
tra instills desires to shake a leg; the
figures are called by a country gent
that knows his business; and the en
tertainment is plenty lively.
Those on the committee are: Shir
ley Armentrout, Lee Ann Taylor,
Norborne Smith, Allen Andrews,
Rosa Willis, Millard Bailey, Willis
Denmark, William Vinson, Norwood
Middleton, Anna Best, Nellie Wil
liams, Humphrey Brown, Jim Whar
ton, Harmon Scholar, Mattie Ed
wards, Geraldine Gregory, Rich
mond Smith, and Margaret Smith.
The Advertising Committee con-'
sists of Maurice Edwards, chairman,
Annie Elizabeth Coward, Norwood
Middleton and Miss Gordner, spon
sor. It has been the business of these
journalists to see that the frolic is
publicized far and wide. Respon
sible to these people is the Poster
Committee headed up by Betsy
Parks. Assistants to Betsy are:
Max Eurchgot, Ozello Woodward,
Mary Baddour, Eleanor Taylor,
Dorothy Ballard, and Eloise Sim
mons, who are responsible for the
posters distributed throughout the
town.
The decoration for the big occa
sion has been in charge of cheer
leaders Frances Massey, Sallye Pri
vette, Louise Spruill and Betsy Hey
ward. Miss Ipock has directed the
work.
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Ring Committee Named
At a recent class meeting a com
mittee consisting of Maurice Ed
wards, chairman, Tommy Pearson,
Anna Best, and Eleanor Taylor was
appointed to select the senior class
rings.
The committee has decided to
postpone action until the latter
part of November or first of De
cember.
Stapleton States Plans
Mr. Erie Stapleton, of Princeton,
New Jersey, who is one of the four
directors of the Eastern North Caro
lina Music Festival Association,
working in various parts of Wayne
County, is directing the boys and
girls glee clubs at G. H. S., succeed
ing Miss Mary Brockwell.
On a recent interview, Mr. Staple
ton stated that he plans to do A ca-
j)ella work, which is unaccompanied
choir, w'ith both Glee Clubs. He also
plans to take the clubs to Greens
boro next spring to enter the State
Music Contest, and to enter them
with the 5,000 voices in the State
Music Festival to be held in Raleigh
also next spring.
Mr. Stapleton is a graduate of
Westminster Choir School, in
Princeton, N. J.
Band Captain Selected
Norwood Middleton, solo trumpet,
has been appointed captain of the
Goldsboro High School band for the
coming year by Miss Mary Brock-
well, director. There will be no
orchestra this year.
The band has played at some of the
home football games and is planning
to attend the game in Raleigh today.
To attend the Eastern North Caro
lina Band Festival, the last of April
1935, is the goal to which the music
organization is looking forward
this year. They attended the last
festival, and received high compli
ments from members of the audience
and papers carrying the story.
The personnel of the band follows:
Director—Miss Mary Brockwell;
Trumpets—Norwood Middleton, Powell
Bland, Dorothy Parker, Norborne
Smith, Thomas Snipes, Leland Crow,
Albert Rose, Shelton Pilkington, Lam
bert Jernigan; Clarinets—Frank Par
rott, Annette Rackley, Saxophones—
Ernest Burton, James Crocker; Bari
tone—Harry Hollingsworth; Trom
bone—Henry Kennedy, Jack Wharton;
Altos—James Davis, Reese Bailey,
Hardy Lee Thompson; Drums—Hal
Armentrout, Willis Denmark, Osborne
\Lee; Bass—Richmond Smith.