Homecoming
Issue
THE FULL MOON
Welcome,
Alumni
ALBEMARLE, N. C„ NOVEMBER 24, 1939
THGR&
THE CHEMISTRY CLASSES
are studying atoms. Miss Milling,
wishing to make things clear,
i wrote the atomic theory on the
■ board. Then, some bright student
(!!) slipped into the lab and
-changed the word ‘theory’ to the
' word ‘ache.’ Thus making the
_ ‘atomic theory’ into ‘atomic ache.’
IN THE LAST FULL MOON
. there was an article on poetic
■■seniors. Now the seniors are
■ mighty, as the school song goes, or
■ they wouldn’t be able to carry such
“A theme a week,” says Mr.
: Gibson.
i “A story a day,” echoes Miss
(Ellerbe.
“Oh! my head,” says twelfth
English.
You may see a senior anklin’
through the halls with a lofty ex-
: pression on his face quoting Shak-
;espeare:
“ ‘When to the sessions of sweet
: silent thought
I, summon up remem—’
Whoops! I’ve got it!”
If you venture to ask just what
he has got, he will probably look
rat you scornfully and say, “Why,
i a subject for my theme, of course.”
There is a petition going around
■ that the seniors are going to send
?to the president in hopes that he
I will make a law. It is a document
providing sanitorium expenses for
C overworked seniors.
! ROYCE WATSON must have a
I habit of passing out tooth picks
f before lunch and not after. The
other morning in vocational class,
Eoyce went all over the class, giv
ing each member a tooth pick.
* ALBEMARLE HI WAS
■PLUNGED sharply into the social
whirl when a group of intimate
friends entertained at a shower for
“Yankee” Steele, whose marriage
to an unidentified ninth grader,
who we think is one of the “mighty
eleven,” was jokingly announced.
i. Numerous beautiful gifts, such
‘as a cook book, Irish potato, acorn,
pair of broken glasses, and a satch
el were given. Refreshments con
sisted of a bite to each of Hal
IPeck’s popsicle.
''' NOTICE! HAVE YOU READ
Hhe latest? The Full Moon has j
“some strong competition! The i
Empty Moon, published by Joyce
Ellis, one of our small (!!!) fresh-j
men, is really going to give the I
j Full Moon some competition. !
Joyce says, “I didn’t mean to
give the Fxdl Moon such competi-
=tion, but my paper began getting |
Ikso many subscriptions that I juyt
^decided to forget the school paper
Oland spend all my time on my own.”
Joyce has an eye for news and
she really uses it. Her paper con
tains the latest personals on stu-
.^dents and faculty.
L WHEN TICKA SENTER SAW
l|[her big brother James drinking out
;rtf the bucket during a game, she
' jxclaimed rather solemnly, “My
“ mother has always raised James on
* Doiled water, and now he comes up
“•‘irinking out of a bucket. Gosh,
it’ll kill him!”
IF YOU SEE STUDENTS go
ng about with their noses in the
lir looking straight up when they
[Oass you on the street, don’t think
“ ;hey are snubbing you, because
■ ;hey are only Biology students look-
ng for specimens of leaves. Don’t
hink the poor creature crazy who
-suddenly stops stark still and
XJints like a bird dog, then starts
umping like a basketball player
► 0 a hmb fp above his head. He
t las only spied a beautiful leaf just
lut of his reach. Miss Winnie
tfoore is doing her best, and quite
ibi^ccessfully, trying to turn her
students into nature lovers.
m
Albemarle-Barium Springs Football
Game Is Feature of Homecoming
Boosters Have
Pep Rally and
Chapel Program
Albemarle high school students
gave a good example of their school
spirit last night at a bonfire, which
was held back of the school build
ing.
Mr. Grigg, Mr. Canipe, Mr.
Gehring, and Miss Laws made pep
talks concerning the homecoming
game today. This was followed by
talks by the following students:
‘Hod’ Shankle, president of the
Boosters club; John Lamar, mana
ger of the football team; and the
captain of the team.
After the meeting a pep parade,
led by Patrolman R. B. Coe and
Mr. Boger Little, proceeded
through town. When the parade
reached the square, school yells
were led by the cheerleaders: Ma
rie Deese, Josephine Whitley, Ila
Lee Knotts, Marie Ehringer, and
Deward Lefler.
This is the second bonfire in the
history of Albemarle high school.
The first bonfire was held last year
just before the Concord-Albemarle
game. Its effectiveness was prov
ed by the fact that Albemarle won
this game by a score of 26-19.
«News Briefs »
Dr. George H. Rhodes, pastor of
the First Lutheran church of Albe
marle, will be the speaker on a
special Thanksgiving assembly pro
gram to be given Monday morn
ing. The mixed choir will sing
“Prayer of Thanksgiving”.
A musical revue, produced and
directed by Jack Jordan, former A.
H. S. student, will be presented in
the auditorium tonight at 8:00
Approximately one hundred and
twenty students from the eleventh
and twelfth grades plan to graduate
this year.
Thanksgiving holidays will be
from Wednesday, November 29, at
3:10, until Monday morning, De
cember 4.
Father Louis A. Wheeler, S. J.,
of Baltimore, was the speaker at
the assembly program last Friday.
Claude Shankle sang a tenor solo,
“Fairest Lord Jesus”, and Frances
Mann, soprano, sang “Calm As the
Night” by Carl Bohm.
Lo, We Have
An Office!
Friends of the outside world.
Full Moon staff now pos
ses an office, a whole office!
Phis bit of luxury (with di-
■ ■ of 8 by 9!)
is next to Mis,
under the nur
know it by the
door: Full Moon
Eller
73. You’ll
.vork, i
clock that doesn’i
r baskel
do-
- ecially .
nee it was thoughtfully
ated by our faithful janitor,
lailey). There is a stray chair,
ne ruler, several pencil stubs,
ne protractor, three thumb
icks and eight paper clips float-
“The only draw back”,
nented Mr. McFadyen
;iving our hangout the
>ver, “is that there’s no
Richfield High Is
First In Series
Of Observations
Four representatives of the Al
bemarle high school Student Coun
cil. Yvonne Foreman, Ruby Lefler,
Kelly Jordan, and Lloyd Skidmore,
spent Tuesday observing at Rich
field high school.
Previously, four students of
Richfield high, Helen Mauney,
Edith Misenheimer, Holt Hunter,
and Maurice Pickier, had made the
first in this series of visits when
they spent the day as guests of the
high school student council here.
They were shown the various
classes and clubs, and allowed to
visit any of them which they de
sired. They were also guests at a
luncheon in the high school cafe-
The plan that is being carried
out is that of learning through ob
servation. Representatives from
the two schools exchange visits,
after which they hold a panel dis
cussion, in which common problems
are brought up and discussed.
Bitter Rivalry
Renewed With
Orphan Eleven
Today is homecoming day—and
as the principal feature of this
event, the Bulldogs of Albemarle
high school will play host to the
Barium Springs Orphans in the
fourth game of a bitter football
Albemarle has met Barium
Springs three times on the gridiron,
and has three times suffered de
feat at their hands, the first time
in 1936 by a 26-13 score, in 1937
by 20-0. and last year in a mud
battle by 4-0. This game has al
ways drawn a great deal of inter
est among students and townspeo
ple, and it was for this reason that
Barium Springs was chosen for the
Homecoming Day opponent.
Dr. Dwight Ware
Makes Talk On
Chapel Program
‘“The world is yours”, Dr.
Dwight Ware, new pastor of the
Central Methodist church, told the
students in an address made in
chapel Monday morning.
After an introduction by Lee
Copple, Dr. Ware began with, “I
don’t know about all that stuff that
he kept me from getting up here
with; I’m just one of you and
mighty glad to be here.” With
this. Dr. Ware immediately had an
eager audience of alert students.
Turning to a more serious sub
ject, Dr. Ware said, “The world is
yours. Today the world belongs,
in a sense, to those who are young.
It is built about you. The world
of entertainment is yours.” Then
discussing the objectionable quali
ties of the world today, Dr. Ware
asked, “Is that the kind of world
you want? Are you going to let
the world mold you or are you go
ing to mold it? What kind of world
are you going to let be yours?”
Touching on the subject of mod
ern youth and the drinking ques
tion, Dr. Ware asserted, “If you
want to smell like a hog, it’s a
whole lot cheaper to go to the pig
“What you do represents you,”
he stated. “Little things represent
you. What kind of labels are you
wearing? You know I’ve always
liked the label of a wing, a wing
that soars above the disorder of
life into the heavens and their al-
In closing, Dr. Ware smiled, “I
like you, I like the way your hair
is disarrayed; I like the way your
clothes hang on you. The world’s
yours, so get out and take it, and
take it like a man!”
Under the direction of Mr. Fry,
music, furnished by the mixed
chorus choir, included a proces
sional, “Largo” by Handel; “Come
Thou Almighty King”, Giardini, by
the students; “God So Loved the
World”, Stainer, by the choir; and
a recessional, “Dear Land of
Home”, Sibelius.
This program was arranged by
the members of the Student Coun
cil chapel committee.
December 15 Date
This year finds Albemarle com- A I Uj; Qrrint
ing up to this conference scrap ^Or /Al-nl-OCript
with one of the best records in
many years, having won seven
games, four of them conference
scraps, and losing only one, an im
portant conference clash with
Children’s Home, 13-6. The Bull
dogs hold conference victories over
State,sville, Spencer, Concord, and
Monroe, while trouncing three non
conference foes, Badin, Salisbury,
and Asheboro.
The Barium Springs record is
slightly less impressive, they hav
ing gone down in defeat several
times in an extremely hard sched-
The Bulldogs are in good condi-
_jn this afternoon, having fully
recovered from a stream of injuries
which hit the squad two weeks ago.
With an open date last Friday, the
team has had time to rest and work
on polishing up their attack for
this game. Coach Canipe has been
drilling the boys until dark several
days this week in order to perfect
their attack.
The Bulldogs will be slightly fa
vored today by virtue of their
higher rating in conference com
petition, but the Bulldogs have not
easily forgotten when “that great
team of 36”, featuring a backfield
of Ernest Safrit, Robert Osborne,
Cob Talbert, and Ikey Williams,
■■'ent up to Barium and came back
1 the short end of a 26-13 score.
Barium Springs has always had
reputation of building light but
fast teams. Especially is this true
the backfield, where they are
noted for their scat backs, and so
you may look for plenty of action
the field today.
The first edition of the Al-Hi-
Script, high shool literary maga
zine, will be issued December 15.
Though the staff has not yet
been selected, material, consisting
of short stories, essays, and poems,
has been compiled and selected for
this issue.
The magazine, issued for the
first time last year, is published by
the Creative Writing club, under
the sponsorship of Miss Watson
and Mr. Gibson.
Santa Claus To
Invade Gridiron
Tfiis Afternoon
Ring-Ring.
“Hello.”
“Is this Mr. Gibson?”
“Yes.”
“Well, this is Santa Claus. I
am going to be in Albemarle
Friday and 1 hear your football
Spring!. ^ l'heaV”
r hom
V if i
will all be glad to
Claus was calling but if he had
not left home yet he would
probably come by plane and he
would certainly be here Friday.