The Full Moon
Volume 22
ALBEMARLE, N. C., DECEMBER 17, 1943
HERE^^HERE
lend—I’H scream!
" The screech sounded strangely
iJ Jean Griffith. And another
Icoenizable as Laviene
rordan^-l
Jjgher. Run faster!
= ' “Lookout! He’ll bite me. Im
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A loud crash was heard. Then
all was silent and not a word
• '®By thls^lme'their curiosity get-
■tinVthe better of them, a group
cLsing by gathered all their cour-
: 8ge and crept in to pick up the re-
J®&ne their .surprise when
they peeked behind the stage,
■ Tnlv to find Jean standing, her
“.knees shaking with fear, and
■ vith the weapon (a broom) drip-
■ fting with blood.
I There before her lay a little
"dead mouse. ^ ^
i MR. FRY IN MIXED chorus
was relating what type of m””i-
Hect at the Concert.
—and wedding music—’
[ “Oh,” exclaimed Betty Hatley
II excitedly, “is that what it’s going
U to be?”
I “Yes, Betty, but you have to
">funiish your own man,” answered
Mr. Fry dryly.
AIN’T IT AWFUL? Before
Big Brother ever gets drafted, his
^ttle sister has .taken over half of
-fcs wardrobe; and when he does
-go, she takes over completely.
She sports his loudest checked
HBaiinel shirt, carries his billfold and
Bttien wears his prize sport jacket.
Windbreakers and slacks are
(quite the stuff. Her suits and
{coats are all man-tailored, and her
Iplaid socks are exact copies of
And that’s not the half of it!
Iff When brother finally gets in the
'■ -vice, Sis takes over the pins,
V|^ripes, caps, insignia, and every
thing else she possibly can wear.
Poor boys! How could the
, jrld get along without them!
jjust think how hard they hafta
[■work to out-do the girls.
There oughta be a law agin
IN SOCIOLOGY CLASS M
^ vas writing history dates
n the board for the students to
^member. Every little bit she
wrote up another date.
Finally Mahlon Hill said plain-
Uvely, “Miss Berrier, I’m getting
0 many dates that I’m going to
;o break some of them.”
i ON THE MORNING THAT
jrtudents of Mrs. Fry’s English
:cla.ss were supposed to hand in
jtwo By-Their-Words and a feature
itory for the FULL MOON, Ber-
inice Austin appealed to Mr. Hat-
CAST OF EVER SINCE EVE—Front
helm, Betty Wolfe, Jean Griffith, Ellei
Jack Harri., Pete, Clark, Jimmy Siffo.
Dwight Wil-
, eft to right:
Gene Beeker wa»
Juniors Highest
This Honor Roll
“Ever Since Eve” Presented
The tenth grade really has
__me smart students, or at least
that’s what showed up on some of
the report cards this time, with
fifteen making highest honor.
The other grades didn’t show up
all bad either.
Eighth Grade: Highest Honor—
Lou Merle Griffin; Honor: Miriam
Whitley, Eleanor Mullinix, Louise
McLeod, Betty McQueen, Jeanette
Sells, Buddy Lowder, Betty Bow
ers, Jean Bowers, Jane Gulledge,
Betty Jo Hatley, Halbert Lowder,
Betty Lou Still, Betty Taylor,
Carol Rogers, Shirley Smith, Alex
Moorehead, George Winecoff, Bet
ty Jean Hatley.
Ninth Grade: Highest Honor—
Betty Bivens, Faye Carlton, Max
Bogle, Carolyn Holt. Honor: Da
vid Lowder, Jack Harris, Jimmy
Hatley, Harold Kirk, Paul Low
der, Anne Powell, Coleen Solomon,
FVanklin Lisenby, Betty Ander
son, Ellen Bigler, Sue Culp, Hel
en Lisk, Peggy Wolfe, Merle Hun-
sucker, Sarah Lee, Steve Boyette,
Bill Bremer, Bobbie Jo Kiser, Peg
gy Moorehead, Daphene Poplin,
Ramelle Rummage.
Tenth Grade: Highest Honor—
Fritz Luther, Dan Talbert, Bobbie
Talbert, Dwight Wilhelm, Mary
Elizabeth Archer, Colleen Glover,
Madge Kennedy, Jean Lisenby,
Betty McAdams, Robbie Sharkey,
Helen Smart, Dorothy Swaringen,
Calvin Wallace, Jane Morton,
Reece Cranford. Honor: Ranees
(Continued on page six.
News Briefs
been lost from the library. The
students are asked to return these
books if found.
The students will get two weeks
for Christmas holidays this year,
Dec. 17 to Jan. 3.
Elsie Janice Brooks has had 143
inches printed in the Stanly News
and Press this year. She is report-
for the city schools.
Everett Ford was sworn into the
Navy last Saturday through its
V-12 program, and will leave for
college March 1, 1944.
Six students from Albemarle
High School appeared in a musical
Christmas program presented by
East Albemarle School chorus class
under the direction of Mrs. Margie
Mauney on Dec. 10, in East Albe
marle school auditorium,
dents were: Pete Clark, Evelyn
Morton, Patsy Ingram, Josephine
Pickier, Onis Shankle, and Imo-
gene Lowder.
Bill Rogers, Charles Poplin, Wal
ter Lane “Bo” McCall, and Fred
Plyler have all been sworn into the
Army Air Corps recently. These
boys expect to finish out their pres
ent school year.
Beeker, Bigler, And
Grilfith Played
Main Roles
Ever Since EVe” ,a comedy
three acts, written by Ryerson and
Clements; directed by Miss The
resa Linn Taylor; and starring El
len Bigler and Gene Beeker, was
presented by THE BLACK MAS
QUE club Dec. 10 in the A. H. S.
auditorium.
Gene Beeker, as Johnny Clover,
..as the editor of a high school pa
per, THE PENGUIM; and his best
friend. Spud Erwin (Pete Clark)
was business manager.
Martha Willard (Betty Wolfe),
teacher of journalism, installed
Susan Blake (Ellen Bigler) as as
sociate editor, with Spud’s sister,
Betsy (Helen Brown) as her as
sistant.
The play deals with Johnny’s
and Spud’s troubles, which include
women journalists. Mothers’ fussy
care, danger of arrest by Officer
“Cappy” Simmons (Dwight Wil
helm) the charms and whims of
Southern siren Lucybelle Lee
(Jean Griffith), and fear of losing
their lady fair to football Captain
Preston Hughes (Johnny Gaskin).
Extra comedy was added by
Rose Morton as Mrs. Clover, Ever
ett Ford as Mr. Clover and Bill
Parker as Henry Quinn, “i'
youngest high school principal
the state”, all in stellar roles.
Continued on page four.)
Orchestra Brings
Program to A.H.S.
Charlotte Symphony Plays
Well-known Selections.
The Charlotte Symphony Orches-
,.a, with Mr. G. S. de Roxlo, con
ductor, presented a concert in the
auditorium of the Albemarle High
School Wednesday night for the
people of Stanly County. This
Concert was sponsored by the Stan
ly Concert Association, recently
organized for the purpose of bring
ing this and other outstanding at
tractions to the citizens of Stanly
County.
The orchestra is composed of
ipproximately 50 outstanding
::harlotte musicians, who, during
the past ten years of the orches
tra’s existence, have perfected
themselves into an organization of
the first rank.
It has given more than 50 public
performances. The attendance for
six concerts given during the past
season was 10,500 people.
The program was as follows:
Mozart—G. Minor Symphony
Allegro molto
Andante
Minuetto
Roxlo—Spanish Serenade
Roxlo—Impromptu
Roxlo—Southern Rhapsody
(Polk songs)
Intermission
Bach—Aria in C
McDowell—Scotch Poem
Wagner—Tannhauser March
Sibelius—Valse Triste
Strauss—Tales from the Vienna
Woods
Mr. de Roxlo, conductor of the
orchestra, is Spanish by birth. He
was educated in Barcelona and in
Paris, and has had wide experience
on the continent and in South
America as teacher, conductor, and
composer. Since coming to the
United States and settling in
Charlotte, he has become an
American citizen.
A special bus was run from
Misenheimer in order that the stu
dents and faculty members of
Pfeiffer and residents of New Lon
don and Richfield might attend this
concert.
f, lepiieu, lou snouiQ
jhave been here yesterday, because
H talked out then.”
L MRS. HARRIS, WHO HAD just
gjished telling her first year
Prench class about idiomatic phras-
pB, asked one of the students to
Iboard^^ illustration on the black-
phrase was completed,
|»ichard Wright asked very serious-
Is that another one of those
Wi^ic phrases?”
I Mrs. Harris gave up.
j^I^V^ERYTHING was QUIET i
9..
f * initiated into the
Athletic Association walked
A few people looked up and
at her, then continued '
ly.
whole library
laughter.
J I’m being ne
gotiated mto the Girls’ Athletic
; Association.’
Ghosts Of The Past Are To Be Found
Among Panels Of Scenery Back Stage
The opera may have its phan-
ms, the playhouse its spooks and
shadows, but they’ve nothing on
i. S. Plundering among the
of scenery behind the stage,
finds written everywhere the
names and casts of plays given by
former generations—the ghosts of
by-gone days.
“Laugh, Clown,” Nov. ’34, star
ring Dick Henning, Watt Efird,
John Underwood (or these were
the only names findable) is one of
the oldest plays whose memo we
could read.—We really found one
rare one. “The Wedding”, pre
sented on February 27, 1935, and
also given in the spring of 1941,
had the two casts up, side by
side: Bill Littlefield—Kelly Jor
dan; Jack Efird—Charles Poplin,
Geraldine Rogers—Jo Morton;
Watt Efird—Craig Eury; Laura
Mae Shaver—Marie Hurlocker,
Maurice East—Everett Ford; Mar
garet Huneycutt —(no name was
Opposite this. The ’41 cast must
have omitted the P^rt).—On the
very next day, February 28, 1935,
the scenery read, “Won at Con-
^"“'see You Later”—March 26,
1935, must have put the school out
in the aisles with this superb
cast: Hazel Smith; Barret Tuck
er- Jinny Doyle; Annie Laura Ma
bry- Bleachmond Hunsucker;
James “Blair” Morrow; Ernest
Martin; Ida Rose Clark; Thur
man Furr; Clyde Melton; and Bill
Gantt.—Does anyone remember
“The Hood” with Bill Littlefield?
Or “Grandma Pulls the Stnng”?
The titles of these were all that
we could find.
What’s this? A play given Nov.
11 1932. Get the dust off the
scenery and find the title: “(^laim
Allowed”—Nov. 11,
Marion Mann, ‘Mot’ McManus,
Mary E. Morrow, Sam Moss, Er
nest Misenheimer, Mary Alice
Starr, Kate Little, John Horton,
Dick Henning, Bobbie Pickier,
George Copple.
Senior play of ’36—“Girl Shy”,
starring Ralph Robinette and Ger
aldine Rogers.
During the moving of about
three sets of scenery, plus dirt and
dust, we found on the very last
piece, (of course it had to be on
the last piece and were we tired!)
“At the Dance”—“Oh, Kay”—
’37; with Bill Mann, Kat. Palmer,
and Dona Gantt—“Big Hearted
Hubert”—’37 (this one was all
over the place)—“Tons of Money”
—’38—“The Third Ingredient”—
March 27, 1936—Laura Mae Sha-
''^When we first spied, “Lawd,
Does Yo’ Understand?” we just
thought that some scared actor
had written this before curtain
Continued on page four.)
Mixed Chorus Aids
Bible Department
In Annual Service
The Bible and Music depart
ments of A. H. S. combined to pro
duce the Christmas program given
chapel this afternoon.
A robed choir of students
sang seven songs: “Westminster
Carol”, “Sleep on Child Jeps”,
“Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming”,
“O Holy Night”, “Ye Watchers and
Y"e Holy Ones”, “Lord’s Prayer”,
and “Silent Night”.
These songs supplemented the
reading of the traditional Christ
mas story from the Bible.
Miss Peebles’s fifth period Ad
vanced Bible Class were respon
sible for the planning and presen
tation of the Bible reading.
By Their Words
“As long as there is hatred in
our hearts, there will always be
war.”—Mr. L. B. Olive.
“I can’t play chewing gum with
out chewing basketball.” — Clau-
dine Lowder.
“Miss Caughman, how do you
add these? Multiply them?”—Jim
my Knotts.
“You look sleepy. What hap
pened? Did someone kick you out
of your tree last night?”—Richard
Wright.
“Boys, we’re going to put a lit
tle physics in this basketball
stuff.”—Mr. Hatley.
“I passed a test in French the
other day and Mrs. Harris looked
at me and said, ‘You cheated’.”—
Hinky Turner.
“Now don’t everybody get up
and leave the play while the act
is on. Wait until it’s over.”—-Jim-
my Boyce.