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Volume XJV, Number 1
Goldsboro, N. C., October 25, 1940
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4 0HS Classes Select Leaders
For 1940-41 In Close Elections
Kirby Hart, Fanny Lou Parker, Con
way Rose, and Ralph Bland Named
Four Class Presidents
Kirby Hart, Fanny Lou Parker,
Conway Rose, and Ralph Bland
have been chosen by the Senior,
Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman
Classes respectively as their presi
dents for the coming school year.
The general elections and neces
sary revotes in all classes except
the Senior came as a climax of
more than two weeks of planning
and campaigning. A nominating
committee composed of last year’s
four main officers in each class
nominated a student for each office,
and the following week, September
30 through October 4, nominations
by petitions were accepted. The
Nominating Committee issued spec
ial mimeographed petition forms
and took charge of all details con
cerning them.
The week of October 7-11 was
used for registration, campaign
speeches, and voting. Monday and
Tuesday were registration days;
Wednesday, the Freshmen and
Sophomores had their campaign
speeches, Thursday, the Juniors
and Seniors, theirs; and Friday,
the voting. On Tuesday, October
15, Freshmen, Sophomores, and
Juniors participated in a revote.
In the first balloting 452 students
voted this year, an increase of 44
from the 408 who voted last year.
The Freshman Class, as last year,
outoiiune the odiei classes with 128
voting.
The other newly-elected class
officers are.
Senior: Norris Sutton, vice presi
dent; Marie Belk, secretary; John
Faison, treasurer; Buddy Crone,
boy cheerleader; and Peggy Ballard,
girl cheerleader.
Junior: Barbara Edwards, vice
president; Virginia Jernigan, secre
tary; Bob Powell, treasurer; Dickie
Weatherly, boy ’'fcheerleader; and
Carolyn Hollingsworth, girl cheer
leader.
Sophomores: Ned Hart, vice
president; Dorothy Loftin, secre
tary; Barbara Jeffreys, treasurer;
Kenneth Summerlin, boy cheerlead
er; and Susan Griffin, girl cheer
leader.
Freshman: Jack Cobb, vice presi
dent; Meredith Liles, secretary;
Hilda Blalock, treasurer; Mickey
Heyward, boy cheerleader; and
l^etty Reaves, girl cheerleader.
Members of the Board of Elec
tions are Edwin Lee, chairman.
Jane Broadhurst, Bob Kemp, Ruth
Weil, and Frank Roberts, with
Miss Ida Gordner, adviser.
Our Editor
School Band Marches On
Directed By Mr. Saddler
Full of life and flourishing today
is one organization in GHS which
began its work this year under dif
ficulties thrust upon it by, of all
things, the national defense pro
gram. That organization is the GHS
senior band, now under the direc
tion of Mr. W. C. Saddler, who be
gan his work on September 20, re
placing Mr. Elhs WilUamson, called
into service with the National Guard
during the second week of school.
Twenty students in the junior band
are being trained by Mr. Saddler
during the second and third periods.
Now being developed into a group
capable of marching in formation
and precision drilling, the senior
band has this year already given one
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Hilda Longest
14th Hi News Staff
Led By Hilda Longest
It’s a far cry from the Virginia
Street’ School News to the editor
ship of the Hi News. Hilda Long
est has come all the way.
Hilda, when in the third grade
Df Virginia Street School, worked
on the little mimeographed paper
printed by interested students.
When a sophomore, she was assis
tant editor in Miss Best’s journal
ism class. T^ast year, Hildq was
editor of the junior issue of the
Hi News, and now she has been
appointed its editor-in-chief. Hilda
hopes to lead the staff in a success
ful year’s work.
Other members of the editorial
staff are: assistant editor, Edwin
Lee; news editor, Earl Layton; co-
managing editors, George Sten-
hous3 and Peggie Ballard; feature
editor, Sally Sanborn, and assistant
feature editors, Helen Denning and
Lois Smith; co-editorial editors,
Marie Belk and Effie Ruth Max
well; literary editor, Lillian Jen
kins, sports editor, Herbert Bar
bour; picture editors, Walter Hicks,
Norris Sutton and Bob Powell;
staff artists, Charles Thompson
and Buddy Crone; exchange editor,
Carolyn Hollingsworth; alumni
editor, Elizabeth Mayo.
The business staff is: Business
manager, Hortense Liles; co-adver
tising managers, Betsy ModUn and
Prince Nufer; co-circulation manag
ers, Dot Grant and Hilda Bell. Oth
er members of the journalism class,
which has 38 enrolled, are reporters
and staff writers.
Miss Ida Gordner is the adviser
to the staff.
No Social—Yet
Due to the incompletion of the
gym and night football games,
the social has been definitely
postponed until the latter part
of November, stated John
Roberts, SA social committee
chairman.
The reception for new stu
dents, teachers, and freshmen
also has been indefinitely called
off.
Gymnasium Being Repaired
By Industrial Arts Group
Greater comfort will be possible
for spectators and players ahke at
indoor sports events and social ac
tivities held in the William Street
Gym this winter due to the efforts
of the Building Trades department.
Meeting in the morning in the
gym, the students are putting to
practical application the training
they have received in woodwork
and carpentry. By covering the
unsightly bare frame work of the
structure with cypress paneling,
they are not only adding to the
beauty of the building but are
supplying an airtight shell as well.
Plans are being made for the in-
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Fifth Straight Year
Begun By SA Council
Starting its fifth consecutive year
as a vital part of GHS life, this
year’s SA Council promises to be
one of the most successful since its
creation.
Members of the Council for the
first term are:
Freshman homeroom represen
tatives: Ralph Bland (Middleton);
Junior Boles (Harris); John James
(Spencer); Dorothy Jernigan
(Barrett); Doris King (Helms);
Louis Riley (Scarborough); and
Vann Lancaster (Suiter).
Sophomores: Grace Ennis (Tay
lor); Mary Ann Hunt (Cox); Paul
ine Jones (Bonham); Josephine
Potter (Koch); Peggy Reaves
(Wagner); and Pat Stanley (New
ell).
Juniors: Carolyn Hollingsworth
(Ipock); Virginia Jernigan (Falk-
ener); Barbara Roberts (Ezzell);
Emmett Daughtry (Glazener); and
Ben Duke (Sanborn).
Seniors; Shirley Lancaster (Brad-
tord;; Doro.liy Grant (Gordner);
Elizabeth Gopfert (Player); George
Denmark (Saddler); Luke Montz
(White); Thomas Thigpen (Ask-
ins); Virginia Weatherly (Jeffrey);
Elsie Savage (Davis); and Ann
Edgerton (Hamer).
Standing committee chairmen:
Lessie Mallard, assembly; Helen
Bissette, nominating; Hortense
Liles, reception; Kathleen Grimes,
lunch hour; Henry Stenhouse, fin
ance; Kirby Hart, building and
grounds; Billj'^ Brown, stage and
property; Edwin Lee, board of elec
tions; John Roberts, social; Eliza
beth Hawley, athletics; Buddy
Crone, bulletin; Mary Hicks, lost
and found; Hilda Bell and Tom
my Bland, cheering squad.
Class vice presidents: Norris Sut
ton, senior; Barbara Edwards, jun
ior; Ned- Hart, sophomore; and
Jack Cobb, freshman.
SA officers: David Andrews,
president; Bertha Shaver, record
ing secretary; Margaret Scott, cor
responding secretary; Henry Sten
house, treasurer; and Walter Hicks,
parliamentarian.
Delegates To Conventions
The official delegates representing GHS at the two conventions next week-end are pic
tured above. Left to right are; Marie Belk, co-editorial editor of the HI NEWS; Walter Hicks,
SSCC standing committee chairman; Lessie Mallard, SA vice president; David Andrews, SA
president; Hilda Longest, editor; Edwin Lee, assistant editor; Sally Sanborn, feature editor-
and George Stenhouse, co-managing editor. ’
Delegates to Attend Conventions
In Greenville and Lexington, Va.
8 New Teachers Have
Interesting Histories
The eight teachers added to the
GHS faculty represent six colleges
and five states.
Mr. Stanley Scarborough, from
Grifton, has his first chance to
teach what he learned in the Vo
cational department course at
ECTC. Miss Elizabeth Wagner,
also a graduate of ECTC, has
taught art two vears in her home
town, Warrenton.
Mr. Russell Harris came from
the Rocky Mount public schools,
where he has taught trade and
industries for the last three years.
His home town is Clay City, Illi
nois. He attended the Eastern
Illinois State Teacher’s College.
Miss Anna Jean Bonham’s home
address is Bergenfield, N. J., She
attended Guilford College and Col
umbia University; while attending
Columbia she taught at Stuart
House in New York City. Miss
Bonham teaches an English-His-
tory combination.
The French classes, judging from
her past work, have an experienced
teacher in Miss Sara Palkener of
Goldsboro, who has taught at Wil
son, Goldsboro, Southern Pines,
Raleigh, and Danville, Va. She
has French and dramatic classes
here.
An addition to the English and
Social Science Department, Miss
Martha Glazener has taught three
years at Zebulon and Elon College.
Although her home is Chillicothe,
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DOWN ™e halls
Miss Falkener’s homeroom made
the largest contribution, $15.01, dur
ing the Free Lunch Fund Drive,
which ended October 16, and in
which $54.63 was collected and
$128.70 pledged.
Unaccustomed to the voting pro
cess used in class elections in GHS,
the freshmen in Miss Barrett’s
homeroom held discussions and had
candidates talk to them prior to
going to the polls.
Twenty-nine GHS students have
been accepted for employment in
the school under the National
Youth Administration. Maximum
pay is five dollars a month, at
twenty cents an hour, and the
minimum is three dollars.
The present enrollment of GHS is
785, which is a decrease of 86 stu-
Senior Class has 173 students; the
Junior, 196; the Sophomore, 195;
and the Freshman. 221,
Miss Glazener’s English-and-
social-science class took in $33.25 at
the doors on the movie “Jane
Eyre,” sponsored to raise money
for the activity ticket and to pay
homeroom bills.
A neiv method of checking absen
tees is being used in Council for the
first time this year. A cloth with a
pocket for each member of Council
is placed on the Bulletin Board, and
a card bearing the person’s name
and position is placed in his pocket.
When he enters the room, he takes
his card and gives it to the secre
tary, Thus by checking the cards,
she is able to ascertain the absences
dents from that of last year. The faster than by roll call.
S A Council Sends Three Official
Delegates to NCSSCC Hi News
Sends Five to SIPA Meeting
eigen
discus-
iHt to
uses,
GHS will be represented by eight
official delegates at two conven
tions, the State Student Council
Congress and the Southern Inter
scholastic Press Association, next
week-end, November 1-2.
David Andrews, president of the
SA; Lessie Mallard, vice president
of ■‘^le PA: Tnd
i\£w standing cjm-
inittee OTi^SScft'-'which is to ar
range district meetings of North ^
Carolina high school students as
sociations throughout the year
have been elected by Council as of'
ficial delegates. Whe#,i. the Hi
News WMt to press no aft^ei* had
been rec^,^d to a letter a
the SA standing chairmen
as unofficial delegates.
“Student Government as,
oratory for Democracy”
eral topic of the conveni
program includes pan'el
sions, general meetings.,;a.
the Greenville tobacco wari
a banquet, and a dance.
Next Thursday, five nieml^rs of
the Hi News staff, Hilda Longest,
editor; Edwin Lee, assis^tant editor-jf
Sally Sanborn, fe^ure editor!^
Marie Belk, co-editorifl editor; and
George Stenhouse, co-managing
editor; and a faculU^idviser, Miss
Janet Sanborn, wi"cfave for the
SIPA at Washington and Lee Uni
versity in Lexington, Virginia,
This is the sixteenth annual con
vention held at Washington and
Lee and its theme is to be: ‘“Pron-
lems and Responsibilities o f
Scholastic Journalism in Time of
Crisis,”
As usual, many nationally known
journalists will be on the program.
Other highligMs, of the trip will
be the rating of^e Hi News, a
current events test, a sight-seeing
tour of historical Lexington, a visit
to Natural Bridge, convention ban
quet, Quill and Scroll banquet; two
receptions, and a dance.
GHS has been represented at the
SSCC for the past three years and
at the SIPA for six of the last sev
en years.
At the request of Mr. O. W. Rie-
gel, director of the SIPA, Edwin
Lee has been nominated from the
Goldsboro delegation as student
leader during the conference. The
graduation of Morris Fishwick from
Jefferson High School, Roanoke,
Virginia created this vacancy.