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GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
May 17, 1935
Goldsb©!?’© Hi Nawi
Published eight times a year by the Journalism Students
Goldsboro, N. C., High School
VOLUME VIII
INTEBNATIONAL
NUMBER 8
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Ohief Norwood Middleton, |35
Managing Editor Thomas Pearson, 35
Editorial Board— , . t. me
Marie Ellis, ’34; Whitmel Gurley, ’35; Maurice Edwards, 35; Anna Best, 35;
Annie Elizabeth Coward. '35. , „ ^ „ tit j
Stdff Writers and Assistants—Powell Bland, *36; Millard Bailey, 36; Ozello Wood-
ward, ’37; Irene Mitcham, ’37; Dorothy Parker, ’37 ,
Faculty Adviser Miss Ida Gordner
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Jam^ Wharton, 35
Assistant Business Manaffer ..........Billy Moye, rfb
Circvlaiion Manager ' loc
Advertising Managers Hal Armentrout, 35; Nellie Williams, 35
Assistant Advertising Manager *
Arline Robertson, ’35; Louise Spruill, ’36; Colleen McClenny, 37; Marpret
Denmark, ’35; Ozello Woodward, ’37; G. T. Holloman, ’36; Powell BUnd,
’36; Ruth Slocumb, ’37; Marjorie Harrell, ’36; Virginia Ginn, 37; Hazel
Shaver, ’37; Mary Baddour, ’37 ^ o t. a -u
Typists—Lonnie Wiggins, *35; Annie E. Coward, 35; Sarah Spruill, 35 , Nellie
Williams, ’35; Sallye B. Privette, ’35; Hal Armentrout ’35
Faculty Adviser Mr. Burt P. Johnson
CNewsoaoer Member)
Subscription, 50 Cents a Year. Advertising rates; 35 cents per column inch for
a single-issue ad; special rates on ad contracts.
Entered as second class matter October 26, 1931, at the Postofflce at Goldsboro,
North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
The Editor Takes
Three Viewpoints
One can look at life from three different viewpoints—retrospective,
introspective, and prospective, according to Rev. I). H. Danner, noted
evangelist.
Retrospective thoughts, thoughts of happenings gone hy, come to the
seniors as they are about to he graduated from the place that has been
the basis of their education. Most of the recollections are of the past
four sessions in high school.
As they look back over these four years many thoughts come into
their minds—thoughts of work and pleasure. They have seen student
activity increase with the organization and development of the club
work, the success of the athletic teams, the continuance and success of
debating, Junior Plays still being presented, and many others.
Achievements
Outstanding among the achievements of the past year are the winning
of the Aycock Memorial Debating Cup and the launching of a drive for
a tax to provide the students of the Goldsboro schools a greatei educa
tional opportunity. _ n u +
Both of the debating teams won in the New Bern-Goldsboro-Kinston
triangle, both advanced to the semi-finals in Chapel Hill, and the aiSrm-
ative went to the state finals with Greensboro’s negative and won. Many
students have taken part in the inter-class debates, and the seniors won
in the finals of the Giddens’ Cup series.
Supplement Vote
When the National Honor Society received notice of the abrogation
of their charter, as a result of the school being dropped from the accred
ited list of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges,
they immediately began a movement to get a supplementary tax for a
nine months’ school.
Through special teaching arrangements, the juniors were able to pre
sent the successful comedy, “The Three Graces.” The High School Glee
Clubs entered the State Music Festival in Greensboro along with several
other individual entries. The band received praise for their concert in
the Eastern Carolina Band Festival in Raleigh.
Student Delegations
Student delegations to various conventions have increased this year.
G H S has sent delegates to the Student Council Congress in Ashe
ville the Student Social Study Convention in Greensboro, and the South
ern interscholastic Press Association in Lexington, Virginia. ^
American History and Economics students made an educational trip
to the nation’s capital city. This trip fits in exactly with the kind of
work our superintendent is planning for the courses in the future.
"Hi News" Recognized
Editors of this publication saw their work receive the First Class
Honor rating in the National Scholastic Press Association critical serv
ice Hi News staff members with the aid of other students presented
the dramatization of “Bird’s Christmas Carol” at Christmas time to
help clear up a deficit. ^ . • , • i ^
Final examinations over, the seniors look within their introspective
lives and see themselves ready to leave Goldsboro High School and enter
into the prospective. As they view themselves inwardly, gratitude is
felt to the school and student body for their part in aiding them in
equipping themselves for those much-heard-of obstacles that lie ahead.
Prospective Views
Although these seniors will be graduated tonight, probably never to
return to G. H. S. for schooling, their preeminent hope during the first
nart of the prospective era is the success of the special school supple
ment vote on June 15. With the cooperation of the students in the
Motor Corps activity, the “sticker” campaign, and the tell-your-parents
plan the election should be a howling victory. The voting of all the
people that register will step up the odds for winning.
Prospects for next year’s Hi News staff seem considerably bright with
the addition of Journalism II to the literary curriculum. Develop
ment of several sophomores in this year’s class with the many juniors
will aid in the goal to reach the All-American rating in the N S. P. A.
pritipal service “We, the senior members of this years staff, shall
anticipate a continued development of journalism in Goldsboro High
School.”
WE CAN; WE WILL
“Above everything else see that
they (parents) are registered and
that they vote. Then commend
yourself for doing an act for child
hood in your own home town”—Mr.
Ray Armstrong.
So, fellow students, this is all
that remains to make this campaign
the most outstanding incident in the
history of dear G. H. S.
Let’s not preach cooperation, loy
alty and pride. No, we’ll be short,
concise, right at the point. We can;
we will.
Then even Julius Caesar will have
nothing on us for venimus, vidimus,
vicimus.
Action Is Needed
Goldsboro High School has lost
its prestige because twenty school
days have been dropped from its
scholastic year. Its graduates are
refused admission into acccredited
colleges because they lajck eighty
days of high school work.
Can this handicap be overcome?
Shall we permit our graduates to
be ostracized from A-rating insti
tutions of higher learning? God for
bid it!
Action is needed now. Tempori-
zation is out of order. We must
arouse the citizenry of this fair com
munity to secure for our high school
a nine-month school term. We
heartily endorse and will whole
heartedly support any movement
for the betterment of the Goldsboro
schools.
“Where there is union, there is
strength,” so let us as one man arise
and rally around our educators. The
youth of Goldsboro are deserving
of the best in education.
Father Peter M. Denges, Pastor,
Saint Mary’s Church.
Dr. Hume Honored
A man who serves his fellowmen
is worthy of being remembered. For
this reason the University of North
Carolina presents annually to the
North Carolina high school that
publishes the best magazine or news
paper the Hume Memorial Cup in
memoriam to Dr. Thomas Hume,
who for twenty-two years served this
university faithfully as professor of
English literature.
Dr. Hume was born in Ports
mouth, Virginia, on October 21,
1837. After having earned a Bach
elor of Arts degree from Richmond
College in 1855, he took three years
of graduate work at the University
of Virginia.
Because the War between the
States defeated his plans of study
ing in a German university, he ac
cepted the professorship of English
and French in the Chesapeake Fe
male College, where he served for
a short time before enlisting for ac
tive service in the Third Regiment,
Virginia Infantry. Later he was
transferred to the post chaplaincy
at Petersburg, where he remained
as official pastor of the Confederate
hospitals until the surrender at Ap
pomattox.
After serving two years as pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Dan
ville, Virginia, he succeeded his fa
ther as pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Norfolk, Virginia.
He was called from Norfolk Col
lege in 1885 to fill the position of
professor of English literature and
language in the University of North
Carolina. In 1907 he resigned to
do- constructive literary work with
the aid of an annuity from the
Carnegie Foundation. He was the
first North Carolina teacher to be
recognized by this foundation.
A PARTING WORD
To you, the under classmen, we,
the seniors, wish the heartiest and
most sincere best wishes. We wish
for you a happy high school life
filled with the sunshine of knowl
edge, work, and play.
We challenge you to fight and
with “the game fish to swim up
stream.” High school days cover
the four great years of development
in your life—when your wisdom,
reasoning, knowledge, ability, and
beauty expand and display them
selves in your every deed.
Then it’s your task to get up and
a goin’. We’re through now. We’ve
passed our Latin and our French.
We’ve learned to use the comma and
the semicolon. We’ve learned to
measure angles and find unknowns,
for we’ve been living a high school
life. We’ve been awake to the vital
fact that we are living—living the
best years of our life. We haven’t
been dismally preparing for life.
We've lived a life. We’ve discov
ered the undiscovered, seen the un
seen, heard the unheard, gained the
ungained. We’ve lived.
Tonight for you as well as for us
will a new road be opened. The
threshold is before us all—the
threshold of new opportunity. Life
doesn’t begin with graduation—it
begins with the A B C’s.
Shake yourself and begin anew.
Whether it be a freshman, sopho
more, junior, senior, or unknown
year that awaits you—start living
it tonight. And when you’ve com
pleted your course, you will have
the ever-gratifying sense that you’ve
been living—you may say with
Saint Paul, “I have fought the good
fight; I have finished the course.”
'SCENE IN THE DARK"—By Misanna Beste
Attention!
(Editor’s note: Ladies and gentle
men, by special contract the Golds
boro Hi News has been able to se
cure the monthly letter report of
the only female detective in tihe
state, Misanna Beste.)
May, 1935.
To Scotland Yard,
London, England.
My dear Chief O’Connoly:
I have found my work in North
Carolina very interesting for the
past month. Since landing in the
United States I have been in a rush
ing cyclone of crime—murders,
robberies, stock defaults, forgery,
Chicago. The first of May you
transferred me to the Tar Heel
State, as I have learned to call it.
The state is very fear-crime-minded,
and I have, however, had one ex
tremely interesting experience.
Two weeks ago a reporter of
Goldsboro Hi News wrote a plead
ing letter, requesting me to come
to her rescue and help her secure
copy material for her column “Chit-
Chat.” Not having seen the city
I decided to comply with the youth’s
urgent need. So to Goldsboro I
went. I enclose accounts of some
of the rushing affairs of a few of
the seniors, as written by Chit-Chat
after my investigation. . . .
“Well, for quite a while we’ve
all thought it was a quintuplet af
fair—Maurice, Rosa, ^i^itmel, Shir
ley, and Frances R. But I have
discovered that it’s a twin affair—
only Maurice and Shirley.
Well, track and James D. are all
a woman desires. At least it looks
that way sometimes. Has Ann really
broken up with Russell ? Oh, James!
These library spooners—oh me!
Don’t take this personally. It’s
meant only for Rupert P.
Succumb, Tommy, succumb. Annie
Elizabeth is determined to have you
whether or no. So I advise you to
whether.
And there is one woman—woman
spelt with a little w as in worm—
who hasn’t taken a single tumble.
And that’s Katherine K.
Good ole M. Denmark, the girl
who wears her food so well, is al
most in the same fix as the above
mentioned K. K. But I remember
that long time ago—well . . .
From all I can gather Archie will
have the biggest part of Tiny’s lit
tle heart.
Hal A. can’t decide betwix Betsy,
Dot B., and Lee. Won’t someone
help the poor boy in distress ?
And so Jo Pete knocked us all
down and upped and asked Betsy P.
to the banquet. Well!
Billy R. makes me very unhappy.
For four years since we’ve been in
G. H. S., I haven’t heard of his
having a single case. But whom
did he take to the banquet and
whom did he take to the Senior
Picnic ?
I’m telling you, I probably don’t
need to, that Dot B. is plenty good.
She’s bound to be when there are
dozens of dignified seniors waiting
a chance, among whom are Wimpy,
Dan, and Wiley.
And just when we thought Sallye
B. and Alvin had it so bad. Bill
Peacock comes back to the horizon
and a question mark comes to Sal-
lye’s mind.
Harry, child, how do you do it?
You play around with Lib and Lib,
but we all know that Louise S.
must be your true love else you
wouldn’t have tried to make her
jealous by taking her sister to the
banquet.
Millard B. better watch out for
this Nellie W. ’cause she likes to
watch a certain Billy Gary draw
pictures of Popeye 1
Still Norwood is determined that
he’ll have Ozello. Well, Powell
helped win the Aycock cup Ozello
ought not to be so hard to win.
Guinea, I have found, can always
make room for one more if the one
is Perrye.
After years and months of each
other Royce and Robert had a “bust-
up.” Don’t worry, Royce, you can’t
get rid of a bad penny.
It’s plain to anyone with eyes
that Polly’s heart is simply lost to
Sara B.
So far I haven’t been successful
about James B. It was rumored
that Carolyn S. was his one and
only for a while. But he “swars”
he’s a woman-hater now.
And so Kenneth sits and watches
Dick, an alumnus, walk off with
Lee Ann. Well, anybody will take
your cake if you don’t eat it.
And here’s another of those bum-
fuzzling affairs of thick population.
Cedric C., Henry K., and Homer B.,
all seem to be battling for the af
fections of one Elizabeth W.
Clarence B., the science wizard,
takes a special liking to Lillie W.,
Rosa’s twin. And so, I guess, Lillie
keeps informed. But I’m smart
enough to know that H20 means
water.
Dick H. better buy a box of St.
Joseph’s Aspirin ’cause one of these
first days a few of his girls are
gonna get together and give him a
bad headache.
Well, Watson, Sherlock will write
you again next month and if I do
any particularly good piece of
sleuthing around I’ll wire. I have
deducted from the Yard’s report
that things are rather slow.
By the way, we’re having jolly
weather here in N. C. No fogs you
know, old chap.
Well Cheerio,
Misanna Beste.
Tapped Into Golden Fleece
Ernest ^ E'utsler, Goldsboro High
graduate in ’31, has recently brought
honor to himself, his college, and
his high school due to his o^stand-
ing work.
Ernest, son of' Mr. and Mrs E. E.
Eutsler, has been tapped inO the
“Golden Fleece” honor socHy in
Chapel Hill. This is the ighest
honor that can come to a tudent
on the campus. In order t make
the society a student must bve an
outstanding scholastic record s well
as an excellent record forsxtra-
curricular activities.