Send Your Valentines
The A. H. S. Way!
Mvli moon
Down The Railroaders,
Tonight, Bulldogs
ALBEMARLE, N. C., FEBRUARY 9, 1940
They Meet Spencer Railroaders In Imporiant Doubleheader Tonight
■ the northeast corner
■f the high school building \va?
Sne of the favorite “galleries” dur-
ng the snow.
The first person that slipped was
'i boy. His feet simply slid out
,’rom under him, and he sat down
rfracefullv. For a moment he
Jvasn’t sure whether he wanted to
^ry or not, but after a while he
„'ot up with a half-disgusted, half-
imbarrassed look on his face.
,■ The next victim was one of the
I'.iny freshmen girls. She had her
lunch packed in a neat little pack-
ige, but after the fall there was
I sandwich here, a cake there, and
“he herself rested on what could
>e called a “mashed” sweet potato.
Next came one of the upper-class
rirls. She slid across the sidewalk
Jnd then down, the most ungrace-
r-ul sprawl imaginable.
‘ Then suddenly the bell rang and
|:nded the morning’s fun.
i SOME DAY, WHEN YOU ARE j
TIRED of life’s regular routine
ind crave the unusual, try work-
ling in a department store. You’ll
“Ircally get some genuine fun!
Dorothy Lee Price, a vocational
O’student in Raylass’, will verify
llthis. One of her numerous duties
is to make exchanges for customers
.who, after making a purchase,
'"change their minds and decide on
different article.
An unusually tough customer
presented herself, not many days
|tgo, and asked Dorothy Lee’s help
fjin selecting some article that she
Ijmight get in exchange for a
Ithristmas present that hadn’t been
Kxactly what she wanted.
" Dot carried the lady about the
"etore, making numerous sugges-
“tions. Nothing was “what she had
in mind”,
ily Just as Dot’s patience was wear
ing thin, a broad smile lighted up
Ajthe lady’s face.
“I know,” she exclaimed. “Snuff!
What brands do you carry?”
DO YOU KNOW WHERE your
fellow lives? Have you ever been
i!in his home? Have you ever met
his parents? Girls, this is only
•half of what you can do during
j(leap year!
® A certain girl really fixed leap
-year up! She made a date with
—her fellow, got her car, £
[for him. She always keeps him
waiting, so he decided not
ready when she arrived.
She went in, met his whole fami-
,ly, and had a nice long chat with
them (one hour of it).
During this time she looked at
the family album, admired the
son’s medal, won at the age
three for being the healthiest baby
tVin the county, and also learned
that the boy she was now dating
had, at one time, been a perfect
angel (according to his mother)
She heard about many of his child
ish pranks and early love affairs.
The best part of the story is
t^the promises he had to make to
keep her from telling the other
members of the Albemarle high
football squad what she had learn
ed about his babyhood.
SW WAS IT THE LEAP YEAR
DANCE, a ball game, or the night-
before that turned Marie Deese
into an absent-minded student the
other day?
Marie was helping in the cafe-
"'’^teria during the lunch hour when
she heard Mr. Gibson say, “Soup,
p\" Without looking or thinking
^ Marie began to dip soup. Her
iB^mind was far away on far more
important things—it seemed to
' With a sudden start, she discov-
i" ered she was dipping soup i
opiate instead of a soup bowl.
Band and Chorus
To Participate In
District Contest
Preparation for the Competition
Festival to be held at Boyden high,
Salisbury, March 29, is well under
way this week, with Mr. Fry and
Mr. Tillotson rehearsing daily with
the chorus and band groups.
This year, Instead of going di
rectly to Greensboro, all schools
will be required to go to district
contests first. There is, however,
one exception to this rule: schools
that received a rating of on
contest last year may
send the contestants in that par
ticular classification directly to the
state festival. This rule will in
clude the boys’ quartet, mixed
quartet, boys’ Glee club, tenor and
’ .ss solos.
New classifications which Albe
marle will enter include the girls’
chorus and band. Included in the
band will be both instrumental so
los and band numbers. Mr. Tillot
son announced that the band will
have about forty pieces.
Included in the band divisions
will be alto saxophone, tenor saxo
phone, trumpet, and bass solos,
saxophone, clarinet, and brass
quartets, and a brass sextet.
Choral divisions in which Albe
marle will be represented include;
mixed chorus, 50-60 voices; girls’
chorus, 30-36 voices; boys’ chorus,
18-24 voices; mixed quartet; girls’
trio; boys’ quartet, and soprano,
alto, tenor, baritone, and bass
Bulldogs Meet Spencer Railroaders
In Important Double-Header Tonight
Conference Clash
Jitterbugs Jive And
Jump In Gym Today
The Friday afternoon jive U
now in session! Sponsored by
the student body. I
be furnished by a tur
will feature popular
Boyden High Is Host
To Student Congress
Featured by discussions on “Stu
dent Participation in Extra-Curric
ular Activities” and an address by
Dr. E. H. Garringer, the first an
nual South Piedmont Student
Council Congress met at Boyden
high school, Salisbury, January
19, with president Harold Kenerly
presiding.
May Decide Title
Both the girls’ and boys’ teams
will journey to Spencer tonight to
emrage the Railroaders in a pair
of contests that should have a
great deal of influence on the
South Piedmont Conference stand
ings.
At present the Railroaders’ boys’
team is leading the loop with vic
tories in seven starts. Tonight’s
game will be a crucial one for
them, as their hopes for bagging
the crown depend greatly on a
The girls’ game will not have a
conference title at stake, but the
Spencer girls will be fighting hard
to avenge a defeat which they suf
fered at the hands of the Albe
marle girls in the first meeting of
the two teams here two weeks ago.
At that time the Bulldogs suffered
defeat at the hands of the Rail
roaders.
Exams Slay the Best As Students
Become Putty In Teachers Hands
Everyone
was tense. There was
whatsoever. Mid-term
exams had started.
All the mighty football players
ere mighty no longer; they were
just putty in the hands of the
weak little teachers; and how they
did long for the wide open spaces!
Buck Mabry said he thought
maybe he’d pass on some, because
in all his discussion questions he
added a little note at the end
which said, “Miss , the reason
I know so much about this question
is because you’re such a good
teacher and make everything so
interesting.”
In algebra Ellen Hearne got the
point to a joke she heard the night
before, and into that stillness came
a real “Hearne” laugh.
“Cornfed” Yeager hummed a lit
tle tune and thought of snow-flakes
falling when she wanted to concen
trate. We wouldn’t advise it.
Corny says it worked.
One class was awakened from
3 stupor by a little boy outside
the window yelling, “Hi, ho. Silver,
away! We gotta get home cause
mom said to.”
To which one bright young thing
up and replied, “Say, brother, you
don’t know how lucky you are. ^
sho’ wish my mother had told
to come home.”
The freshmen had the hardest
time, however, because this
the first time they had ever
exams. They all went around with
a little dazed look. One little girl
was so upset that she threatened
to take to the open road because
this was no life for her.
Everybody lived through
though, and school is just the same
again.
» News Briefs «
The student council, assisted by
the faculty, held open house for
eighth and ninth grade students
Friday evening in the high school
cafeteria. Ping pong, games, and
dancing were enjoyed. Mrs. Tom
Wolfe, president of the Parent-
Teacher association, gave a short
program about Stephen Foster,
after which the group sang some
of his songs.
The double mixed quartet, under
the direction of Paul Fry, will sing
at the Inter-City Rotary dinner in
Troy Thursday. They also appear
ed on the program of the Parent-
Teacher association last Thursday
evening. This is the same group
that appeared in Charlotte last
fall.
The Hi-Y club will hold
ond induction ceremony of the
year Monday night. Candidates
for admission were guests of the
club at the regular weekly meeting
last Monday evening, at which time
Dr. Dwight Ware, pastor of the
Central Methodist church,
speaker.
The Traveling Art Exhibit spon
sored by the Art Department
W.C.U.N.C. is being displayed i
the library February 7-12.
Sidney Gulledge, a graduate of
’39 and freshman at Duke this
year, has received a principal ap
pointment to the United States
Military Academy at West Point.
^Strange Road^ Is
Tragedy Selected
As Contest Entry
‘Strange Road”, a one-act trag
edy by John M. Houston, which
has been selected as Albemarle
high school’s entry in the annual
spring festival of the North Caro
lina High School Dramatic Associ
ation, will be one of a bill of three
plays to be given on a
program temporarily scheduled for
late February, according to an an
nouncement by Miss Rachel Nye
this week.
Leading parts in the drama, con
sidered one of the best short plays
to appear last year, have been as
signed to Jane Austin Turner, Pol
ly Martin, Lydia Bowers, and Lee
Copple. Based on the theme of
immortality, the scene is laid in a
small fishing village on the coast
of New England. This week the
dramatics class began work on a
special set for the production.
Southern Pines has been tempo
rarily designated as the tournament
center for the district composed of
Albemarle, Southern Pines, and
Needham Broughton high of Ra
leigh. Miss Elizabeth Scarborough,
former dramatic coach here, will
produce the Southern Pines entry.
The other play which has been
selected to appear on the program
here, is a mystery-tragedy, “A
Message From Khufu”, in which
Billy Gantt, LeRoy Plyler, and
Charles Lefler have been assigned
parts. The other play of the bill,
comedy, has not yet been selected.
Honor Society Holds
First Student Panel
Social Assurance Through Per
sonality Development’” was the
discussion topic led Thursday aft
ernoon by Miss Evelyn Parks,
Stanly county librarian, in the first
of a series of three open forum dis
cussions to be held by the National
Honor Society.
This first discussion centered
around the theme of student rela
tions in school, business, and social
life. Other discussions planned for
the spring term include a panel on
“The Philosophy of Albemarle
High School” led by A. B. Gibson,
and “Youth and Religion”, for
which a speaker has not yet been
designated.
This is the first time that the
National Honor Society has met on
a regular club basis. The second
Thursday in each month has been
designated as the meeting time for
the group. A special program com
mittee has been responsible for ar
ranging these programs with the
aid of Miss Emma Milling, adviser
to the group.
Cupid To Receive Aid
From Valentine Box
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