TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1951
Schools Amazed by Hypnotist,
Polgar Demonstrates at State
THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PAGE THREE
Some schools seem to be on a
hypnosis kick. Dr. Polgar, world
renowned hjjpnotist, mystified and
amazed nearly 1,000 people at
North Carolina State College in
Raleigh recently. His specialties
are mental telepathy and mass
hjipnosis, which he demonstrates
on his audiences.
James L. Walters, lecture and
demonstrator, puit ten senior boys
from Falls Villiage, Connecticut,
under his hypnotic spell. Beware
students! If you see a dog with
arms or a cat with a crew-neck
sweater, box ’em up and send ’em
back to State or Connecticut.
Teacher ti’cuble? Need some
tips? Consult the “High Life” of
Greensboro Senior High about the
“Art of Apple polishing”.
Clipped from “Central High
News” were the following excerpts
which we have localized. (Hope
you folks are good sports,)
Sick cf School?
Johnny Williams: “May I gc
home? I don't I'eei well”.
Miss Kate Kitchen: “Where does
it hurt the most?”
Johnny: “In school.”
Absent Minded!
Dinner guest: “Will you pass
the nuts?”
Teacher companion: “Yes, I sup
pose so, but I really should flunk
them.”
Hard to do!
John Baffgrett: “I bumped my
m^;-, crazy bone.”
Celia Brake: “Oh, well, comb
your hair right and the bump
won’t show.”
It seems that Colorado Woman’s
College has a monopoly on Ameri
ca’s beauties. Marilyn Van Derbur,
reigning Miss America and grad
uate of CWC, was honored by a
homecoming parade there recent
ly. Also home for the parade was
Sharon Ritchie Cherry, Miss Am
erica for 1955, and Glennie Hub
bard, who holds the titles of Miss
Congeniality and Miss Nev/ Mex
ico. These also are fonner stu
dents of Colorado Woman’s Col
lege.
A word from “Central High
News.” (So ti’j-3, so tiTie!)
“The student gets the paper
The school gets the fame.
The staff gets the blame.”
A word to the wdse from “The
Triadelphian” of Wheeling, West
Virginia.
“Charles Dickens expressed him
self in prose;
Robert Frost, in poetry;
Joe Ignorance, in profanity.”
.Dear Cy-anta.
Fill Our Stockings, Please
Dear Cy-anta,
It’s Christrias time once again
and we good (?) little boys and
girls at Rocky Mount Senior High
know ypu’re busy, but w'e do hope
that you’ll remember us and fill
our stockings with goodies.
Buzzy Tilley would like a slide
for trigonometry to help him solve
his problems. Craig Daughtridge
wants the Angier B. Duke Scholar
ship more than anything, and Dan
Robbins has his heart set on a
National Merit Scholarship.
Cars or parts of cars are high
on the list of desired presents.
Larry Ward ONLY wants a ’58
black Corvette. Sandy Dalton needs
a jack that is easier to operate
than the one he’ has at the pre
sent, and Frannie Harrison wants
a new car door to replace an old
dented one . . . red, please.
Next year’s football team wants
and desperately needs a new
coach since Mr. Ken Yarborough
is leaving. The basketball team
asks for a iwinning season with
scores like the one between RM
and Kinston.
Miss Dorothy CraighiU, Mrs.
Hiram Cuthrell, and Miss Louise
Barker all want smart (brilliant,
that is! There are enough of the
other kind already!) students in
their language classes — (as
Virhich teacher doesn’t). Gail Wald
Eastern Carolina’s Most
Complete Stock Of
Toys
SPORTING GOODS
JOYNERS’
Sportsmen’s Headduarten
asks th.nt siie nuay" have a few
moi-e lOO’s in French, and I’m
sure many students would like
membersihip in Vingt-sur-Vingt or
similar organizations.
Esther Faye Joyner wants an
adding machine for bookkeeping
and Pasty Daughtridge (senior)
wants a Hi-Fi and “something”
tall, blond headed, blue-eyed, and
wearing a blue uniform! — a
policeman, maybe!?
All of the girls would like a
supply of dates to last them the
rest of the year. Speaking of
Miracles? No——Just Talent
Art Students Tackle Many Projects
The dying, silk screenin'g, pottery making, and Christmas decoration designing are
among the projects tackled by the talented art students this year.
Students now are working wonders with scrap material—wire, cloth, cardboard—
turning them into such things as tiny angels, sleds, choir, manger scenes and other
table ornaments in tone with the Christmas season.
Theater designs are under study this six weeks, with students taking notes for fu
ture possible projects.
Thoce yciais “artisjs” decorated
handkerchiefs, blouses, collars, and
scarves as thci3-, studied dying
materials durir-g the second six
weeks. Under this heading they
took up silk screening, tie dying,
stenciling, and Liock printing.
In the first period they studied
advertising which included making
up products to sell and planning
appropriate ads for them. The
students re-designed various car-
tcns to suit their produic'ts. They
also participated in the Merchant
Marine Contest by making posters.
They took up lettering and made
posters and printed proverfcs.
This work is undsr the sup
ervision of Miss Laura Boice art
teacher, and East Carolina Col
lege students who are doing thdr
practice teaching here. (Students
so far are Miss Shirley Smith, Miss
Janis Hillburn, Miss Janet Hill,
Mrs. Penelope Ware and Miss Ann
Hughes). Others ant majors of
ECC will assist Miss Boice during
the coming months of this school
year.
Members of the class are Bobby
Branch, Bobby Davis, Terry Ez-
zell, Nancy Faye Lane, William
Mallison, Mary, Ellen Ricks, Anna
Spruill, Leighton iSmith, Ellen
Stoval, Pat Thurman, and Edith
Williford.
dates Bobby Branch says he needs
one for the Christmas dance.
Orderly lunch lines iwlould be
greatly appreciated by teachers
on duty in the cafeteria.
The Blackbird staff and the Hi-
Noc-Ar staff both want medalist
ratings for their publications this
year.
Have a nice trip, Cyranta, and
a Merry Chirstmas and Happy
New Year!
Lovingly,
Senior High Students
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Anna Spruill, member of the art class, shoWs Kenneth Tarlton
and Jack Brake the art projects on display. These are the projects
completed in the last twelve weeks. Photo by Killebrew
Jerry isiankensnip, Judy Boyd, and iSkippy Best decorate one of
the largest Christmas trees in the sdhool. These students are
members of Mrs. Gladys Robbins homeroom.
Photo by Killebrew
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Rooms Come Alive
With Bright Scenes
Homerooms have come alive in
the past few days with bright
colors and scenes depicting the
spirit of Chrisitnias ranging from
the Nativity scene in Mrs. Ada
Hobbs room, 103, to outer space
(Sputnik to be exact) in Mrs. Bess
Young’s room, 110.
Open the silver Christmas pack
age decorated with cards, silver
pine and your present will be in
room 206, Mr. A. M. McGregor’s
homeroom.
Oriental cards suiTound a Wise
Men scene and Santa’s reindeer,
Christonas tree, and striped
candy canes decorate the bulletin
board in Mrs. Dorothy Knight’s
room, 208.
“JOjjeux Nod” greets one in 114.
Mrs. Gladys Robbins, teacher, has
probably the lai'gesit Christmas
tree in school. The large bulletin
board shdwB Santa making one of
his visits.
A Bethlehem scene, made of angel
hair and sUver stars, Frosty the
Snowman, and a Christmas tree
decorate Miss Dorothy Craighill’s
homeroom, 116.
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