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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
HOLY
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Volume XIV, Number 3
Goldsboro, N. C., December 20, 1940
Fifty Cents Per Year
Assembly To See ^^Why The Chimes Rang'' Today
As Junior Class Presents Annual Christmas Play
• Pictured above are the juniors with speaking parts in today’s Christmas play. Reading
from left to right: Dickie Weatherly, J. D. Pike, Gertrude Edgerton, and Dick Borden.
’’Cast for Green Stockings”
To Begin Practice January 6
Seniors, here it is—the cast for
“Green Stockings,” selected by
Miss Sara Falkener, director, and
a faculty committee of senior teach
ers. The date for presentation is to
be February 14, 1941.
Lessie Pratt Mallard and David
Andrews will take the leads as
Celia Faraday, the eldest daughter,
who is 29 and still unmarried, and
Colonel Smith, a dryly humorous
man of military bearing about 40,
who have a very coincidental love
affair.
Other members of the Faraday
family are: Martha Zealy as Aunt
Ida, a florid, quick tempered, warm
hearted woman of fifty or there
abouts; Kirby Hart as William
Faraday, the well-preserved father
who is 65 and thoroughly selfish;
Sally Sanborn as Phylhs, the
charming and beautiful youngest
sister who is practically engaged;
and Mary Louise Thomson as
Madge and Elizabeth Royall as
Evelyn, the well-dressed and fash
ionable married sisters. Arthur
Boykin will play Martin, the dig
nified old family servant.
Friends of the family are Harry
Ward as Bobby Tarver, Phyllis’s
beau and a candidate for Parlia
ment, who is an empty headed
young man; Tom Dameron as
Henry Steele and George Stenhouse
as Jim Raleigh, two young men
who become rivals over a Certain
unmarried daughter, and John Rob
erts as Admiral Grice, a retired
gentleman of 65 who likewise be
comes interested in the same
daughter.
The play is a three-act comedy
that is laid in England in the early
part of the twentieth century.
Horty Lyles Selected
'*0ood Citizen”
Freshman Homeroom
Leads In Attendance
The “population” of GHS is 772,
somewhat lower than last year’s
814. So is the percentage of atten
dance for the third month, which is
seven-tenths of one per cent less
than the 95.7 per cent for the third
month in 1939-1940.
Mrs. W. P. Middleton’s freshman
homeroom with an average of 99.6
per cent of the students attending
school has the highest percentage.
Mr. R. M. D. Freeman’s senior
homeroom with 98.65 per cent is
next highest; and Mr.. R. J. Davis’s
senior homeroom with 98 per cent
is third.
Hortense Liles has recently been
chosen by the faculty as the “Good
Citizen of GHS.”
Horty was selected to represent
GHS in a state-wide search for the
Pilgrim to )-epresent the Daughters
of the American Revolution in
Washington, D. C., April 11-15. The
Pilgrim is chosen by the state
chairman of the D.A.R. on the basis
of a personal scrapbook submitted
t)y each contestant. Hortense has
completed and sent in her book,
containing a record of her activities
in GHS, the community, and the
church, together with ten letters
of recommendations, each bring
ing out a specific quality.
Patriotism, dependability, and
leadership were the basis for the
selection. Hortense was chosen by
the faculty from a group of three—
Dolores West, Hilda Longest, and
Hortense, whom the Senior Class
elected from twelve nominations.
Three boy take leads in play
with large supporting cast directed
by the Junior homeroom teachers
Active Goldmaskers
Make Little Theater
GHS will soon have a “Little
Theater,” as the Goldmaskers
Club, made up this year of the
dramatics classes of Miss Sara Falk
ener and Miss Fowler Spencer,
are turning Room 16 into one.
Using the money made from dif
ferent shows or plays the classes
have sponsored, the Club is con
structing a small stage and has
bought maroon and natural bur
lap to make a backdrop and cur
tains for the stage and windows.
The curtains and the backdrop are
being made by the students.
One of the best loved of all
Christmas plays, “Why the Chimes
Rang,” will be presented this morn
ing by the Junior Class as the an
nual Christmas Program.
The story is told in two scenes:
one in a humble cottage of a poor
peasant family; the other in a
cathedral.
In the peasant family, Holger
(Dick Borden), the elder of the
brothers, is very sympathetic with
his younger brother, Steen (Dickie
Weatherly), who in child-like man
ner insists upon attending the
Christmas services at the great
cathedral in a nearby town, re
gardless of the circumstances. Ber
tel (J. D. Pike), the uncle of the
brothers, understands and loves
the boys, but he has little feeling
for humanity as a whole. An old
woman (Gertrude Edgerton) be
cause of Holger’s kindness to her
shows the brothers the true mean
ing of Christmas.
Appearing in the cathedral scene
are: Angel, Lois Smith; priest, Mike
Dorsey; woman, Ruth Minton;
scholar, Nancy Paige Swift; young
girl, Dot Perkins; king, Ben Ward;
rich man, George Denmark; and
courtier, Fanny Parker.
In the tableau the characters are:
Angels, Cornelia Grice, Virginia
M('rro’", Mary T.ou Austin, Virginia
Hopewell, Marianna Best, Hazel
Brady, Lizzie Mae Adams, and
Juliette Farfour; Joseph, Keith
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Art Students Design
Practical Presents
To make useful, inexpensive
Christmas gifts. Miss Wagner’s art
classes for a few weeks have been
studying “The Practical Purpose
of Design In Art,” as a main ob
jective.
Famous pictures have been clip
ped from magazines and mounted
on tops of cardboard cigar boxes.
Plaster of Paris placed around the
borders make unusual and attrac
tive frames.
Other parts of cigar boxes have
been used to make name pins and
burnt plaques.
Trinket containers have been
made from some cigar boxes,
while candy boxes, twine, and to
bacco holders have been made from
ice cream containers.
Students have also made pine
needle baskets and mats, wood
carved plaques, plaster moulds and
plaques, and dry plaques.
Attractive Christmas cards have
been made with water colors or
printed with linoleum block prints.
Different colored inks were avail
able to make the same print in sev
eral colors.
MAKE YOUR DATES
The following dates have been
dug up after checking assembly
charts, running down teachers,
and snooping around, and are
dates which we shall all look
forward to except the seventh
one.
December 20-January 6—Christ
mas Holidays
January-First Week—Devotional
Program
January 9—Movie — “That Cer
tain Age”
January 13—Dillard High School
Glee Club Program
January 16—Cooperative Con
cert
January-third week—Vocational
Program
January-last week—Exams be
gin and last two weeks
February 14—Senior Play
Classes Considering
Elections In Spring
Shall GHS have its class elections
in the spring?
The question originated in Coun
cil, and provoked a good deal of
discussion. This culminated in the
appointment of a committee head
ed by Elsie Savage to investigate
the matter further. The committee
compiled opinions both pro and
con and submitted them to Council.
This resulted in a meeting of all
SA officers, the Board of Elections,
and the committee to discuss the
matter. After a thorough discussion
of all points of the question, the
group voted to go on record as fav
oring class elections in the spring.
The third step was a meeting
of all class officers from the fresh
man, Sophomore, and Junior Class
es, together with the second group.
This group, too, favored spring
elections, and the class officers de
cided to present the question to
their respective classes to obtain
a popular opinion.
Up to date, the question has
been taken up by only the Sopho
more Class, but it will be brought
up in the Freshman and Junior
Classes in the near future.
Both sides of the question have
convincing arguments. Some of
these are:
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Freshmen To Start
Weekly Devotions
Following the plan of the present
Junior Class, the Freshmen have
decided to have weekly devotionals
in the auditorium.
The idea is to have more out
side participation, especially from
Goldsboro’s ministers and those ac
tive in church work.
Ralph Bland, president, has
named Jack Cobb chairman of the
committee, and Betty Reaves, Pearl
Privette, and Martha Bell Edger
ton are to work with him. Miss
Mary Craig Suiter is class adviser.
DOWN
THE
HALLS
GLANCES AND
COMMENTS
Our thanks go to the Industrial
Arts Department for the construc
tion and to Miss Wagner and the
Art Department for the beautiful
design of the cathedral window
used today in the Christmas play.
—The Juniors.
A special invitation has been ex
tended to the four class presidents
and to the editor of the Hi News
to attend Council each week.
Only SA members, the faculty,
and post graduates may attend
future SA socials this year.
Twenty-six dolls have been
dressed for the local firemen by
Miss Helen layer’s home econom-
Active Teacher
Lost to GHS
Mrs. W. P. Middleton, who for
the past 15 years had taught in
Goldsboro High School, died in the
Goldsboro Hospital Monday eve
ning following an illness of five
days with cerebral hemmorrhage.
Three minutes of silence was ob
served throughout the high school
at 12:22 on Tuesday in respect to
Mrs. Middleton, and following the
period school was dismissed for the
day as a further tribute.
The body lay in state at the Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church Tues
day afternoon from 1:30 until four
o’clock with several of her former
Latin students on duty. The fun
eral was held at four o’clock with
about thirty GHS Latin students
acting as pallbearers and flower
girls.
Mrs. Middleton had taught Latin
for 15 years and at various times
during the period, algebra and
English. In 1933 she sponsored the
Club P^ederation which was a fore
runner of the present Student As
sociation, and had been adviser to
the National Honor Society since
1933.
As Mrs. Middleton was very ac
tive in the State Latin Teachers
Association, she was elected presi
dent for 1931-32. In 1936-37 she was
president of the Wayne County
ics students, who have vonulteered
to do this work as a Christmas pro
ject.
The GHS band has completed a
heavy pre-Christmas schedule. The
climax of the programs was a con
cert presented together with the
Glee Club in Robinson’s Park on
December 19.
'Ole Santa’ At Work
In Home Ec. Classes
Useful Christmas gifts, made of
material costing from one cent to
thirty cents, have been made by the
students of the home economics de
partment out of inexpensive and
convenient materials.
Gifts for the homemaker include
colorful luncheon mats of Roman
striped kitchen toweling finished
with gay string fringes, and a
checked ginigham breakfast set,
both making colorful arrays on the
table. Dish cloths made or orange
sacks, usually discarded as useless,
aprons of patriotic red, white, and
blue pliofilm and of printed cotton,
and hot pan holders are useful
gifts for the kitchen. “Kitchen
Sue,” a doll made of a dish mop
wooden spoon, dish cloth, and a
dish towel, not only lends color to
the kitchen, but is very useful.
A variety of baskets of all
shapes, types, colors, and for all
purposes, is being made from pine
neediles. Shallow baskets to be
filled with stuffed dates, hot roll
baskets, and baskets for general
use have been made from reeds and
pine needles in many different
shapes. Trays, tea coasters, and
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Willing Spirit Shown
By giving To Needy
“It is more blessed to give than
receive” will have real meaning for
a number of GHS students this
year.
Several groups have taken the re
sponsibility of collecting money,
toys, and clothing for the needy.
Mrs. W. J. White’s fourth and
fifth period sociology and English
class has taken one of the op
portunities offered by the News
Argus and is collecting toys to be
mended by the firemen. The Bulle
tin Board committee is collecting
clothes and toys to be turned over
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