“We Will Make The Final Peace” The Full Moon Uncle Sam Awards Contract For Bread Boards To Shop Work Begins Monday Mr. Wilson’s advance class in I manual training will begin work- I ing Monday on a government con- L tract for two hundred bread I boards. J The Industrial Arts department, B headed by Mr. Wilson, placed a ■ bid for this work with the govern- kment several weeks ago and were •notified Monday that their bid had If been accepted. Although the class will not be , paid for the work, since the gov- )ernment furnishes money only for expenses, Mr. Wilson considers ■ that the boys will gain invaluable jexperience in production work. jf Yellow poplar will be used to Jmake the boards and, according to government specifications, each Iboard will be 16” by 24”. When finished, these boards will be shipped to various points over the United States for use in army I camps. French Students To Enter Contest ' Ann Reap, Jeanne Lentz, Ger ald Mann, Eunice Smith, Sam An drew, Idell Mauldin, and Bear tKnotts will take the state French Iexam on March 20. This exam will be given by Miss I ^aws to these students, all second year French students, and will cov er grammar, vocabulary, and ir- ;regular verbs. In 1937 Albemarle won first •iw state, when Helen jUMoigan handed in a perfect paper, j 1 ? French class won sec ond highest, honorable mention. Page Mr. Webster Uncle Sam may be badly in need of women to replace men various jobs, but there’s at least one freshman girl whom we hope he’ll never need as a “What is the muffler of a general*'''” ’’e'' “It’s something you wrap the engme up in to keep it warm,” answered Mary Katherine Arch- Juniors Edit The Full Moon This issue of the Full Moon was put out by Mrs. Fry’s 10th grade English class. News was written by Craig Eury, Kelly Jordan, Everett Ford, John Wilhoit, Winfred Dry, Marie Hurlocker, Max Cranford, and Frances Mann. Wayne Hall, Maitland Smith, Jo Morton, James Morton, E. A. Morton, Dotty Whitley, Doris Dulin, Lois Morgan, Joel Ritchie, Margaret Skidmore, r.lartin Deese and Lewis Shan- kle worked on the features. The sports were covered by Ted Furr; art, Everett Ford; and editorials by Kenneth Coop er and Ticka Senter. On the business committee were Billy Simmons, Kenneth Cooper, Jimmy Bogle, and Ra- ferd Dennis. « News Briefs » Eulalia Tucker has been ap pointed secretary of Student Coun cil to replace Anne Sargent, who has moved to Newport News, Va. To date, Hilda Honeycutt, re porter for the school, has had 575 inches of news printed in the News and Press. One hundred and three seniors ■e planning to graduate this year. Thirty-one plan to return to the twelfth grade. Approximately 300 students jre absent last Wednesday, the day of the snow. Mr. McFadyen stated recently that A. H. S. will go back on reg ular schedule about the end of March, but the exact date has not yet been decided. The Boosters club entertained the coaches and the members of the boys and girls basketball squads at an informal party in the cafeteria yesterday afternoon. MARCH 6, 1942 Boys Will Make 200 Model Airplanes To Be Used By National Government Chorus and Band To Enter Contest For This District A. H. S. choral classes, under the direction of Mr. Fry, and the band, directed by Mr. Barbera, will go to Charlotte on Saturday, March 28, to compete in the an nual district music contests. The choral delegation will be composed of a girls’ chorus, girls’ trio, boys’ quartet, boys’ chorus, mixed quartet, and mixed chorus. There will be in addition a number Members of the choruses are working hard on the contest songs. Mr. Fry states that the mixed cho rus, in particular, as well as sev eral of the smaller groups, has shown excellent possibilities for good work. The band will give selections from Goldman, Lindeman, Tschai- kowsky, Crawford, Gillette, and The Three Bears, novelty, by Long. A clarinet quartette, composed of Keith Russell, Wesley Cole, Bob Redwine, and Ned Reap, will play two marches, one from Tschaikow- sky and one from Schumann. The band will also play the National Anthem and Remember Pearl Har- Debaters Chosen to Represent A.H.S. Betsy Ivey and Ann Reap on the affirmative and Carolyn Stone and Kelly Jordan on the negative will represent A. H. S. in the tri angular debates, March 27, with Hazel McDowell and J. B. Lam bert as the alternates. The query for this year is “Re solved that a union of western hemisphere nations should be es tablished.” le arrangements will be the ; as usual this year, with Al bemarle’s negative debating Kan napolis at Thomasville and the affirmative debating Thomasville Kannapolis. Kannapolis and Thomasville will debate here. Coming Events March 6—Basketball trophies will be awarded in chapel. March 13—Band and Chorus March 21—Contest play, “Ja cob Comes Home.” March 24—Movie, “Tom Saw- and Donald O’Con- March 27—K a n n a p o I i s vs. Thomasville in debate. The subject is “Re solved, that a union phere nations should be established.” March 28 and 28—District Mu sic Contest in Char lotte. March 30—Speaker in chapel from the Golden Chain Society of N. C. State, who will talk on “College.” April 10—Carnival, to be held old gym. Work Has Begun On Contest Play “Jacob Comes Home” is the one-act tragedy which Miss Fitz gerald has chosen for the contest play to be presented this month. The play depicts the life of a persecuted Jewish family in Ber lin, Germany, waiting for the re turn of the head of the house, Ja cob Braun, from a concentration Rudolph Huber, Jacob’s friend, all through the play tells of the horrible life he experienced while in a concentration camp. He has been afraid to talk or show his face to the outside world Awards Offered For Many Models Boys of Albemarle high school have been asked to make 200 model airplanes for the use of the federal government, and plans are being made for the work to be done un der the supervision of Mr. J. C. Morris, vocational director of A. H. S. The local Rotary club is to spon- sor the project, providing for all expenses involved. The committee to assist Mr. Morris is Mr. Fetzer Hartsell and Mr. Hubert Lorch. Secretary of the Navy Knox has asked for 500,000 planes from all the high schools of the U. S. The quota for this state is 5,000 and 200 for this particular school. The planes are being made by a specific scale and must pass a strict requirement before they will pass. The planes range from 5% inches to 25 inches but the average plane is 12 inches. These planes (Continued on Page Four) Chorus Groups and Band To Give Concert Friday Tickets went on sale today for the annual music concert to be next Friday night by the Chorus under the direction of Mr. Paul B. Fry and the Band under the direction of Mr. Nunzio Bar bera. The program will consist of the imbers to be entered in the dis- ict contest in Charlotte March 27 and 28. It will be divided into two parts: vocal selections and numbers by the Band. The program for the Chorus concert is: GIRLS’ CHORUS a. On the Steppe — Gretchani- noff. b. Flower of Dreams—Clokey. GIRLS’ TRIO Bendemeer’s Stream—Brewer. BOYS’ CHORUS I. Water Boy — Robinson-Tre- hune. I. Tradi Nuki (Latvian Frolic) —Withtol arranged by Strickling. BOYS’ QUARTET a. Hob a Derry Darmo (Welch Folk Song) — arranged by Wood. b. I Got Shoes (Negro Spirit- tual)—arranged by Bartho lomew. MIXED QUARTET In Picardie—Osgood-Page. MIXED CHORUS a. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring —J. S. Bach, arranged by Riegger. b. Dem Golden Slippers (Negro Spiritual) — arranged by Strickling. c. Willie, Take Your Drim^ (Burgundian Folk Song) — arranged by Strickling. In addition there will be a num ber of solos. Elimination contests determine who will sing these will be held this afternoon. Numbers to be played by the and are; On the Mall—Goldman. Built on a Rock—Lindeman. Theme from the Piano Concerts L B Flat Minor—Tschaikowsky. Across the Atlantic—Crawford. Cabins—Gillette. Three Bears (novelty)—Long. Clarinet Quartette: Two Petit Marches 1. The Toy Soldiers March— Tschaikowsky. 2. Soldiers’ March — Schu- Remember Pearl Harbor. National Anthem. Admission to the concert will be 25 and 10 cents. The proceeds will be used to pay expenses of going to the contest. Chorus Attends Clinic Tomorrow At Kannapolis \ choral clinic will be held at Kannapolis tomorrow, sponsored by the District Choral association, of which Mr. Fry is president. Approximately 40 students from Albemarle high will attend, and there will be around 600 altogeth- - from 15 schools in this district. Meetings will be held throughout the afternoon, at which time three choruses will be formed—a boys chorus of 150 voices, a girls chorus of 150 voices and mixed chorus of 250 voices. Mr. Fry will direct the mixed chorus. A concert featuring the three' choruses will be given in the J. W. Cannon High School audi torium at 7:30, preceeded by a banquet for the visitors in the Can non Y .M. C. A. at 6:00. These songs will be included in the concert program: “On the Road to Mandalay,” “Soldiers of the Captain,” “Stars of the Sum mer Night,” by the Boys chorus; “Where the Roses Bloom,” “Auro ra,” “Careless, Idle Maiden,” “Pip- pa’s Song,” by the -Girls chorus; “See the Conquering Hero Comes,” “Hymn for the Nations,” “Calm as the Night,” and “Star-Spangled Banner,” by the Mixed chorus. This is the second of these music clinics to be held in this district, the first having been here in Albe marle in December. By Their Words “We don’t know how to appre ciate smoke consumers, because we live where we live.”—Miss Milling. “Mr. Wilson, I’ve finished my thing-a-ma-jig and this what-you- call-it.”—Bill Calloway. “Get me a step ladder and I’ll pick Red Bennett up by the ears.” -Coach DeLotto. “God never lets us down. You let youi-self down.”—Mrs. Nisbet. “Is there any wonder what God said, ‘He is ray beloved son in whom I am well pleased’?”—Mrs. Nisbet. “E. A., Bingham on.”—Miss Holt. “This band coat fits like a cor- Bo McCall. “Every Amreican ought to know about Washington, Lincoln, Jeffer son—and ‘Clementine’.”—Mr. Mc Fadyen. “I’ll have to ask my wife.” — Mr. Fry. “Let’s have littler noise.”—Reed Gaskin, addressing Student Coun-

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