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Volume XIX
Two Classes
Write Plays
For Contest
Mr. Clifton Britton and Miss
Alice Lee Harris’ homeroom class
es in dramatics have this year
been writing original plays.
When the classes have com
pleted their plays, they will enter
them in the state contest for orig
inal plays at Chapel Hill.
The play being written by Mr.
Britton’s class is entitled “Crdss
The River.”
The story- takes place on an
island in the lowgrounds near
Weldon. It is the story of an old
Negro woman, Aunt Gallie, and
the girl, Lizzie, she has raised
since babyhood. As Lizzie reach
es womanhood, she becomes an-
gaged to Jim, a stalwart young
Negro.
One day Lizzie does not return
from a trip to Weldon. As the
river rises and Lizzie does not
return, the people become worried
over her welfare. They are afraid
she might, as her mother did, go
to Baltimore to cook for the white
folks. For the remainder of the
play, the audience is kept in deep
suspense, wondering about the
outcome of Lizzie.
The class has been working
steadily on the play, dividing
themselves into five to ten differ
ent groups each day. Sometimes
they work on the play in one
large group. They expect to com
plete it shortly.
Miss Harris’ room is writing a
light tragedy, the idea itself and
the lines of the play were origin
ally written by Jane Parker, one
of the members of the class. She
has also drawn pictures of some
of the scenes of the play. The
•entire class, however, is now re
writing the lines.
The story takes place in the
;summer home of Anna, David,
and their maid, somewhere in
.the mountains near Asheville.
Lee, a good friend of David, is
•suffering from an accident in the
war. He is now in the hospital,
.suffering often from a bad case
of delirium, and thinks he has
nothing to live for. David, in an
attempt to save his friend, has
his own wife, Anna, write letters
to Lee, and sign them Eileen.
After a while, this friendship that
Lee has at first felt for Eileen,
grows into love. One day Lee
escapes from the hospital and goes
to David’s home looking for
Eileen. Then comes the thrilling
climax of the story.
Goldsboro, N. C., November 21,1945
CAST OF PLAY
Number 2
is
First row: Margie Perry. Marjorie Pate, Sarah Jane Pate, Ava Crumpler, Gaynelle Sauls.
Back row: Ned Champion, Gordon Davis, Mannie Bernstein, Catherine Robinson.
Parents Join In Observing
National Education Week
Glee Club
Gives First
Concert Here
The Goldsboro high school Glee
Club and the boys’ chorus made
their first public appearance
Thursday night, November 15, at
the open house held by the school
in observance of American Edu
cation week.
The Glee Club presented a
number of patriotic selections in
cluding: America, Yankee Doodle,
Dixie, and the Battle Hymn of the
Republic. Following the patriotic
numbers the Glee Club sang the
folk songs, Steal Away, Home on
the Range, and Mistress Shady.
The boys’ chorus sang The
Army Air Corps, Over There,
Coming in on a Wing and a
Prayer, and This Is My Country
with Carlton Frederick singing
the solo part.
Concluding the program, the
Glee Club offered God Bless
America, America the Beautiful,
and the Star Spangled Banner.
The audience received the pro
gram with rounds of applause.
Ava Crumpler was accompanist.
Goldmasquer's
Production
Progresses
Plans are rapidly maturing for
the first Goldsmasquers’ produc
tion, “The Lady Who Came to
Stay.”
The characters: Katherine,
Margie Perry; Emma, Ava Crum
ple; Milly, Gaynelle Sauls; Phobe,
Marjorie Pate; Ann, Catherine
Robinson; Sadie, Sarah Jane Pate;
Roy, Ned Champion; Roger, Man
nie Bernstein, and the Doctor,
Gordon Davis; are practicing
every day so they can produce
a good show.
The technical staff has not yet
been completed, but it will con
sist of Stage Craft students who
are busy building the sets.
Picture Shown Here
A moving picture was shown to
the students of the eighth grades
in the auditorium of William
Street School recently.
This picture told how the Chi
cago Tribune gets the vast amount
of paper it uses in a day’s print
ing.
The picture was loaned to the
school by Mr. Henry Belk, the
editor of the News-Argus.
An estimated 400 to 500 parents
of GHS students attended an
American Education Week open
ing last Thursday night at which
a proposal was made that a Par-
ent-Teacher Council be formed to
better relationships between par
ents, teachers, and pupils.
The proposal was made by
Judge Paul B. Edmundson of the
Wayne County Court, who has a
son, Paul Jr., in school.
At the first of the meeting the
Rev. James M. McChesney deliv
ered the invocation after which
the Goldsboro mixed glee club
sang several groups of patriotic
and American folk songs under
the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth
Spicer.
Week Explained
Mr. Eugene Roberts told the
parents the purpose and the good
of American Education Week.
Mr. C. W. Twilford, principal
of GHS, gave the parents the
school’s proposal . to cooperate
with the parents and to have rep
resentatives at the P. T. C. if one |
was organized. Afterwards Judge i
Paul Edmundson gave the faculty >
the parents’ proposal to help to
make the students get the full
benefit of their schooling. He told
the parents that they could not
expect the teachers to do what
the parents are supposed to do.
He said that a meeting of all par
ents interested in the council
—See PARENTS, Page 6—
Thanksgiving To Be
Observed By School
Thanksgiving is to be observed
today in GHS by the Seniors’
presentation of the traditional
Thanksgiving program at 9:30.
Following the close of school
today there will be a two-day hol
iday and teachers and students
have planned various ways in
which to observe the day. School
will reopen on next Monday at
9 o’clock.
Speaker at the program will be
the Rev. James McChesney, from
the local Presbyterian church. At
the beginning of the program the
the glee club, under the direction
of Mrs. Elizabeth Spicer, will
sing, “We Gather Together,” after
which a member of the senior
class will read the scripture
The entire student body will
unite in the Lord’s Prayer follow-
! ed by a selection by the .?lee,club.
Mr. McChesney will then deliver
the Thanksgiving address. The
congregation will sing, ‘-Come Ye
Thankful People Come,” in clos
ing.
The stage is to be decorated
with Thanksgiving baskets which
have been filled this week by the
homerooms.
These baskets will be distribut
ed to some of the needy families
of the city. It has long been the
custom of the high school stu
dents thus to remember the less
fortunate on Thanksgiving day.
Miss Elsie May’s homeroom is
in charge of the Thanksgiving
activities and the program.
Two Facility
Members Speak
To Rotary Club
Two members of the Goldsboro
High School faculty spoke before
the Rotary Club last week in rec
ognition of National Education
week. They were presented by
Supt. Ray Armstrong, of the city
schools, who was in charge of the
program of the evening. The'
speakers were Coach Norris Jef
frey and Mr. Eugene L. Roberts, ;
vocational teacher. j
Coach Jeffrey spoke of the need |
of a physical education plant for
the high school. He stated that
no other school in the state of
comparable size was without a
physical education building of
some sort. He stated that William
Street has a gymnasium and that
the Memorial Community Build
ing also has one, and that both of
these are sometimes used by the
school. But he emphasized the
difficulty of using buildings so far
removed from the high school. On
days when the weather is bad one
group of students may be weather
bound at the gymnasium while
they should be on class out at the
school; and another group might
be at school while it was supposed
to be at the gymnasium. At
neither of the places is there any
provision for the storage of equip
ment. He urged the building of
a plant such as the school needs.
Mr. Roberts stated that at the
present time there are 381 high
school students in vocational
classes at the high school, and said
Books Given
Library As
Memorials
Two friends of GHS have do
nated to the school library books
in memory of members of their
families.
Mrs. Frederick C. Coenen,
Chapel Hill, gave a series of, “The
Wonder Book” in memory of her
mother, the late Mrs. Annie
Crawford Creech, who was a
member of the board of trustees
for the Goldsboro Schools.
Mrs. N. A. Edwards gave thirty-
two books of science to the library
in memory of her son. Nelson
Arthur, who was ,a member of
the class of ’44 until he met his
death in 1942.
Mrs. Edwards said that she
wanted to do something for the
lovers of science in GHS by giv
ing the books that her own son
would be interested in as he was
a lover of science.
The books are: Attaining Ma
turity—Cole; Audubon—Rourke;
Careers in Science—Pollark; Elec
tronics for Boys and Girls—Ben-
dick; Elementary Meteorology
Candle; Everyday Science—Cald
well; Fundamentals of Physics &
Their Applications to Modern
Life—Dees; George Westinghouse
—Garbedian; Goethals and the
Panama Canal—Fast; He Con
quered the Andes—Ives; Health &
First Aid—Fishbein; Leonardo-
Master of the Renaissance—^Lan
sing; Luther Burbank—Beaty;
Man of Molokai—Roos; Many
SCHOOL BOARD
IS NOW STUDYING
CITYPLANTS'NEEDS
A physical education building for Goldsboro High School
looms as a possibility for the not so far distant future.
This was announced here following two meetings of Golds
boro school officials with Mr. W. F. Caudle, buildings and
grounds specialist of the State Department of Agriculture.
Although the building is not in immediate sight, school offi-
cials have listed that as one of the urgent needs of the schools of
the city in their post war build-
m |, ing plans.
jS|l|inA Plans of the building committee
Players
Act Here
The Sauline Players returned to
GHS Monday, November 12, to
present a three-act comedy,
“Andy Hardy.”
Mr. Hardy (Mr. Joseph Sau
line) was a small town district
judge who was trying to live an
honest life.
Mrs. Hardy (Mrs. Joseph Sau
line) was the mother and was
very dear to every character. She
was a good housewife, but no poli
tician.
Andy Hardy was a boy of about
sixteen years of age, who was
used to having his father give him
money. However, in the end he
finally lands a job. He was very
amusing and kept the audience
laughing.
Marion Hardy (Jane Avis But
ler) was the attractive
for the city schools also include
proposed additions to Walnut
street primary school and to sev
eral of the over-crowded Negro
schools.
Credle Studies
Mr. Credle came to Goldsboro,
the last day of October and met
with Superintendent Ray Arm
strong and members of the school
board’s building committee—Dr.
D. J. Rose, Mr. Lionel Weil, and
Mrs. T. B. Dameron. In this prelim
inary meeting Mr. Credle heard
the tentative plans of the board,
and after studying these he re
turned to the city for further con
ferences. Out of these talks grew
definite plans for a post war
building program which would
make needed improvements at
several of the schools in the city
system.
Trends in population, growth,
and movement for the present
and future were studied, and
plans made in accordance with
the expected needs.
Which First?
Although no announcement has
„ , young been made as to which of the
aug er of Judge Hardy who school improvements would be
wf Choose-: made first, it is definitely known
Wayne Trenton III (Jerry John- that a physical educatiDU>iiildine ,
soi^). a wealthy vouns-ja ' -—i
Loveridge; Minerals-Zim; Men I m “‘y-
of Science—Dunlap- Our Living ! Hardy (Joan Mane The fact is, according to the an-
World-Fenton; Plants and Flow- i Mr“Tnd Mrs^Hardy"* wS^'^Ld '
,Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, who had m the state of. comparable size to
been married for two years, and Goldsboro high school is without
as her marriage lost some of its some type of physical education
glamour, she immediately “ran building
home to Mama.”
Two Groups
Will Present
Play This Year
GHS juniors and Goldsmasquers
will give a play this year. Mr.
Clifton Britton, teacher of drama
tics, will direct the play.
With the profit from the pro
duction, the juniors plan to fi
nance the junior-senior in the
spring. Mr. Britton talked to the
class about the problems of pro
ducing the play.
The Christmas pageant, “Why
the Chimes Rang”, is also to be
given by the juniors. Try-outs for
the parts were held Monday after
noon.
ers in the Home—Post; Radio’s
One-Hundred Men of Science—
Dunlap; Rubber’s Goodyear—Reg-
li; Science Year Book of 1945—
Ratcliffe; Sir Wilford Grenfell—
Fax; So You Want to Be a Chem
ist?—Corth; Story Behind Steel—
Schoenen; Taxidermis—Rowley;
The Chemical Industry—Perry;
The Microscope—Gags; The World
of Plant Life—Hylander; Weather
—Pickwell; Wide Fields-Story of
Henri Fabre—Eherle.
Mr. Herman Weil also gave the
library a large group of books.
there could be many more if
teachers were available. There are
only four vocational teachers, and
'three or four more are needed to
meet the urgent demands of the
school’s program.
The speaker said that the aims
of vocational teaching are to train
the pupils to make a living and to
train them to live more abundant
lives.
At present courses in home eco
nomics, typing, general business,
—See FACULTY, Page 5—
At the conclusion of the play,
Mrs. Hardy returns home after
leaving very mysteriously, and
Estelle returns to her husband.
Judge Hardy again wins the elec
tion he was so worried about, and
Marion finds that she loves Wayne
better than politics.
Batson Leads
In Typing Contest
Mary Elizabeth Batson, first
year typing student, leads the typ
ing class with 28 words a minute.
Marjorie Pate follows with 27
words a minute.
There are no second year typing
students because of the school’s
transference to the twelfth grade
system.
Miss Marguerite Cooper is
teacher of typing.
28 Students Make
Quarter Honor Roll
Only twenty-eight students of
the more than 450 enrolled in
Goldsboro High School made the
honor roll for the first quarter,
according to a list released by
Principal C. W. Twiford this week.
Freshmen led the list with
twelve members making the roll,
while sophomores took second
place with ten members winning
the coveted honor. Juniors mak
ing the grade numbered only six.
On a percentage basis the soph
omores won, for there are many
more freshmen than there are
sophomores, while they placed
only two fewer on the roll.
Requirements for the honor roll
are that a student must not make
more than two two’s, while all
other grades must be one’s. De
portment grade must be satisfac
tory. Any grade lower than a
two disqualifies a student from
making the honor roll.
Listed below are those making
the roll by classes, the names ap
pearing in alphabetical order:
Freshmen: Joyce Bagley, Do
reen Denise, Robert Fleming,
Ruby Forehand, Dana James Gul
ley, Mary Grey Hollowell, Caro
lyn Loftin, Laura Lynch, Troy
Pate, Robert Southerland, Marie
Taylor, and Kenneth Williams.
Sophomores: Polly Edgerton,
Lillian Overman, Jane Parker,
Anna Frank Strosnider, La Verne
Tew, John Thompson, Marilyn
Tolochko, and Gilda Vann.
Juniors: Susan Jenkins, Con
stance Johnson, Marilyn Johnson,
Eldred Moore, Susan Smith, and
Daron Ward.
As soon as tentative sketches of
the building improvements have
been completed, A. J. Maxwell,
Jr., local architect, will begin
work on definite plans for the
■building at the high school as well
as for the proposed additions at
other schools.
Wing Extension
The tentative plans for the high
school would include an extension
of the east wing of the present
building so as to add two addi
tional rooms upstairs and two
downstairs; and then to tJie end ©f
this addition and extending west
ward the physical education plant
would be built, connecting with
the main school plant from both
floors.
The proposed building would
have a large gymnasium on the
ground floor, equipped with space
for all types of physical training
usually associated with a good
educational plant, and on the sec
ond floor would be a track around
the balcony and space for seating
several hundred spectators who
might attend games played in the
building.
Plans for Walnut Street would
include a 6 room addition, a cafe
teria, and a combination library
and music room. At the present
time the Walnut street fourth
grade is over at William street
and there are enough pupils in
that grade to fill five class rooms.
If they could be transferred back
to Walnut street that would re
lease much needed space at the
William Street school.
Walnut Street Crowded
At present the Walnut Street
auditorium is being used as an
auditorium, a cafeteria, a music
hail, and in addition one part of
it has had to be partitioned off for
a class room.
Among the colored schools
space is badly needed. At East
End the classes have to meet in
three shifts to enable all students
to be provided for. The situation
at Greenleaf is bad, so is it at
Dillard High where there is no
cafeteria at all, and the School
Street situation has been described
I as impossible.