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Volume 17
ALBEMARLE, N. C„ OCTOBER 23, 1939
No. 2.
ONE ALBEMARLE HIGH
SCHOOL BOY related to a Pfeif
fer College boy last week that each
Wednesday Mr. Hatley used to go
to the Stanly Theatre to call the
roll for his physics class. This is
because it is ten cent day. “But”,
claimed the H. S. student, “the
big surprise came last week when
Mr. Hughes came up to the school
to 'see if the boys were cutting
the show to go to the physics
class”.
BATS MAY COME AND BATS
MAY GO, but the poor sucker that
got in the top floor hall went the
way of most bats that come to
school.
Monday morning the prettiest
little bat you ever saw was hang
ing on the wall in the hall upstairs.
He was sleeping peacefully when
suddenly who would spy him but
“Bring-’em-back-alive” Rogers. Mr.
Rogers, seeking the glory a cap
ture of this kind would afford,
quickly went into Miss Laws’
room to get implements to make
the catch. After much hemming
and hawing, Oron got the bat,
which was hollering all the while,
into a flower pot.
Mr. Bat is now reposing in a
cage down in the biology lab—if
not in the snake that he was
caged with!
TIME FLIES I Not so in the Al
bemarle High School. Undoubted
ly the clock family of this particu
lar school is the most disorderly
family in the history of clocks.
They are continually popping off
at the most uncalled for time, or
one of |them will get his feelings
hurt and sit around pouting, re
fusing to make the slightest sound.
Sometimes they will all just lose in
terest in keeping up with the world
and go to sleep. Perhaps they will
doze off for a long time, waking up
just to I yap for a while and then
fall asleep again. Another thing
is, they don’t even get along to
gether! You may go from room to
room and each clock is trying to
make the others out as liars.
The papa clock in the lobby has
to raise his voice every hour or so
to tell them to either speak up or
shut up.
Here’s hoping the clock family
will strike a harmonious note some
day and hold it.
I
WAS IT SEEING TOO MANY
COWBOY SHOWS or was it lis
tening fto the “Lone Ranger” on
'the radio that inspired Jack Morris
to climb onto a silver trash can
•and shout to the best of his ability,
“Hi Yo|Silver!”?
“WRITING POETRY IS ONE
thing I NEVER COULD DO!”
groaned a studious senior as a
poem was assigned . . .
!,,What (can we write about?” . . .
Aw, I don’t know what you want
1^ to do” . . . “What if you won’t
be here tomorrow?” . . . “What
does she think we are, anyway” . . .
Heck, I wish I had laid out this
afternoon.”
Yep, |the poetry season has ar-
rived. I And it is an established
jpct that seniors can beat fresh
men at down right peskiness when
ms season of the year rolls
have never been
0^ some perfectly good
growth by some poetic
his ring down on you to test
never child, you have
fvino- truly horri
fying experience of life.
word to underclass-
poets jt ® budding
of th’pso^ sudden shock during one
SuS®resur°^^ thi^ing
justmenf permanent malad-
'got ’em^bad?®
John Temple Graves II, Nationally Prominent Author
And Economist, To Deliver Commencement Address
C. W. Phillips
Talks At Honor
Society Tapping
Sixteen Tapped For Membership
In National Honor Organization
With Kenneth Brooks, president,
presiding over the ceremony, six
teen students from the eleventh
and twelfth grades were tapped
for membership in the National
Honor Society, Friday, October 20.
The main address was given by
C. W. Phillips, head of the Person
nel Bureau at W. C. U. N. C. Mr.
Phillips has had long experience
in school work and was at one time
the principal of Greensboro High
School. At W. C., he has charge
of counselling students concerning
their work at the college and plac
ing the graduates.
The members tapped were Jose
phine Beaver, Mary Hill, Irma
Lowder, Annabel Perry, Willie
Frances Efird, Josephine Whitley,
Ila Lee Knotts, Billie Ray Drye,
Laura Frances Peck, Polly Martin,
Deward Lefler, Virginia Safrit, Lee
Copple, Hoyle Whitley, Bob Lipe,
Annie Ruth Smith.
Membership requires a high stan
dard of scholarship, character,
leadership, and service, making it
one of the highest honors to be ob
tained by a high school student.
The program was as follows;
The Rosary, Guy Propst; Sym
bolism of Society Emblem, Mr.
Grigg; Tapping of New Members;
Pledge of New Members, Mr. Hal
Turner; Welcome to New Mem
bers, Mr. Gibson; Address, Mr. C.
W. Phillips; Star Spangled Banner,
School.
Faculty To Give
Three-Act Farce
Thursday, November 2 Is Date
Set For “Second Childhood”,-
Proceeds To Go To Publications
When you see Eddie Gehring as
a portly old gentleman of 65 drink
a bottle of youth restorer and sud
denly become a two-month’s-old
baby, you will realize that someone
is in his “Second Childhood”; but
by that time you probably won’t
care. The faculty play to be pre
sented Thursday, November 2, is
just that funny.
Miss Rachel Nye, head of the
dramatic department at A. H. S.,
will direct the production.
A three-act farce, the play cen
ters around Professor Frederick
Reylea, played by A. B. Gibson,
whose fortunes have gone from bad
to worse. In his search for some
contribution to make to medical
science, he hits upon the formula
for a youth restorer. He tries to
persuade General Henry Burbeck,
played by Eddie Gehring, to take
a dose, so that General Burbeck
will be able to marry Sylvia Rey
lea, the scientist’s daughter, whom
he loves.
While Professor Reylea is out of
the room, Marcella Burbeck comes
upon the scene to try to persuade
her father-in-law. General Bur
beck, to take her two month’s old
child. She has been deserted by
her husband and can not keep the
baby, she explains. When he re
fuses she puts the baby down, and
leaves with him in pursuit.
When Professor Reylea returns
and finds the baby, he thinks that
General Burbeck has drunk the
whole bottle. What they do with
the baby, and the success of Pro
fessor Reylea’s invention, round
out the plot of a truly rollicking
farce.
The scene of the play is laid in
the mid-Victorian living room of
Professor Reylea, a room which
has seen much abuse and little
care. In short, a room which has
seen much better days.
All the pal'ts have not been as
signed yet, and a full cast is not
available, but the play has twelve
characters, and the others will be
selected this week.
Proceeds from the play will go
to the “Full Moon” and the “Al-
Hi-Script”, student publications.
The character parts in the play
are exceptionally good, and will re
quire only the interpretation that a
Gehring and a Gibson can give
them.
All of the parts are extremely
comic, and they form together to
make one grand slapstick—a truly
fine evening’s entertainment.
Op cn House Opens Up; Five
Hundred Students Pour In
Sponsored by the Student Coun
cil, Open House for the entire stu
dent body, teachers, and grade par
ents was held jointly in the cafe
teria, biology lab and old gym
nasium on Friday evening, Octo
ber 13.
Main features of the evening
were dancing in the cafeteria,
ping-pong in the biology lab,
games in the old gymnasium, and a
movie shown in the auditorium.
Approximately three-fourths of
the student body, most of _ the
teachers, and a number of visitors
attended.
Highlights of the evening in
cluded a regular ping-pong tourna
ment between Miss Nye and Mr.
Canipe (P. S., Miss Nye won!) ;
Edith Kennedy, jitterbugging with
“Hamp” Talbert, Lydia Bowers
dancing with Hoyle Whitley, and
a number of others.
“Hod” Shankle was spreading
his brand of cheer all over the
place, feeling very happy about
the whole thing, including the foot
ball game of the afternoon.
Mr. Gehring and Miss Laws were
sponsoring the games in the old
gym, some of which were: paper
bag football, drop the handker
chief, and various foot races.
In short the whole affair went
over with the traditional bang, and
if ever a house was opened, this
was one!
Students To Take
Part In Teachers
Meeting Friday
Two groups of students from Al
bemarle high school will take part
in the seventeenth annual conven
tion of the South Piedmont Teach
ers Association to be held at Cen
tral high school in Charlotte Fri
day, October 27, 1939.
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, of Ra
leigh, will speak at the South Pied
mont Teachers Conference, Friday.
Friday afternoon two students,
Jane Austin Turner and Lee Cop
ple, will take part in a student
panel to be conducted by Dr. El
bert K. Fretwell, professor of edu
cation, Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York. Two stu
dents from each of several high
schools in the South Piedmont dis
trict have been invited to send rep
resentatives to this conference. The
discussion will cover such topics as
home room and class organization,
publications, debating, and dra
matics. The representatives will
meet this week to map out an out
line which Dr. Fretwell will follow
in the discussion.
While in Charlotte Dr. Fretwell
will also conduct a clinic for the
student councils of Central high
school and several invited high
school councils on Thursday. Albe
marle has been invited to partici
pate in meeting, and Margaret Nis-
bet, Virginia Niven, Lloyd Skid
more, Jack Castevens, Bob Lipe,
Lee Copple, Ernest Knotts, Jose
phine Beaver, Genevieve Ewing,
and Mrs. Robertson, adviser. This
group will leave early Thursday
morning and spend the day attend
ing conferences and lectures.
Friday night a selected group
from the mixed chorus will par
ticipate in a massed chorus made
up of representatives from several
schools in the South Piedmont Dis
trict. The chorus, under the direc
tion of L. R. Sides, director of mu
sic in the Charlotte city schools,
will sing “Beautiful Savior”, “Vik
ing Song”, “Nelly Was a Lady”,
“I Dream of Jeanie”, “Wake Thee
Now, My Dearest”, and “God Bless
America”.
Members of this group' are Mar
garet Nisbet, Catherine Whiteley,
Willie Prances Efird, Annie Ruth
Smith, Josephine Whitley, Lucinne
Whitlock, Marie Deese, Billie Ray
Dry, Claude Shankle, Bob Lipe,
Ted Wallace, Ned Betts, Deward
Lefler, Max Morton, Hall Carpen
ter, and Bill Helms.
A holiday will be granted in or
der that the teachers may be able
to attend this conference. Albe
marle teachers who hold offices in
the association are A. B. Gibson
and Claud Grigg. Miss Julia Whar
ton Groves, principal of Boyden
high school, Salisbury, is president
of the association.
Journalist Will
Deliver Speech
At Graduation
John Temple Graves II, nation
ally prominent author and econ
omist, and member of the editorial
board of the Birmingham Age-Her
ald, has been secured to deliver
the commencement address at the
graduating exercises in June, 1940.
One of the most forceful and
gifted speakers in the South, Mr.
Graves each year speaks before the
graduating clases of several out
standing colleges and universities.
Last year he delivered the com
mencement address at the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Mr. Graves was graduated from
Princeton university in 1915, and
was admitted to the bar five years
later upon completion of his study
of law at George Washington Uni
versity. Since leaving the law
profession, Mr. Graves has had sev
eral outstanding positions in the
field of journalism, and is now
connected with one of the largest
papers in the South.
He is the author of numerous
books, economic reviews, short
stories and essays. Among his
best known works are two recent
books, “The Book of Alabama and
the South”, and “Tonight in the
South”.
Albemarle high school is one of
the few high schools which have
been able to secure his services,
and authorities have expressed
their delight at being able to have
such an able speaker come to the
school.
« News Briefs »
Br-r-r, it was cold this morning.
Won’t this cold weather ever stop?
Well, just ask one of the general
science students, for they are
learning how the barometer is used
in predicting the weather. A sim
ple barometer has been set up in
the laboratory, and students are
being given a chance to read and
interpret it.
“Lives of a Bengal Lancer”,
Paramount picture featuring Gary
Cooper and Richard Cromwell,
will be shown to the students on
November 18.
An average of one picture a
month will be shown to students,
but no other selection has so far
been announced.
Members of the Hi-Y club spent
six months in the Orient with
George W. Leacock, newly elected
secretary of the Albemarle Cham
ber of Commerce, as Mr. Leacock
talked to them of his trip around
the world Monday night.
“Strength and Beauty” was the
topic chosen by Dr. C. D. Whiteley,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, speaking at the assembly
Monday morning.
Dr. Whiteley urged the students
to make their lives both strong
physically and beautiful mentally
and spiritually. He pointed to
Christ as the perfect combination
of these two qualities, and urged
the students to make their lives
more like His. Dr. Whiteley closed
his talk by explaining how one
takes Christ as a friend.
The band, under the direction
of “Smiling Jack”, played -at the
assembly recently. Mr. Tillotson
has arranged one of the school yells
for the band and it was a feature
of the program.