The Full Moon
ALBEMARLE, N. C., FEBRUARY 8, 1946
No. 4
VETERANS RETURN
to^ite poems Some
^iwion For instance, Bucky
sS^rinfcti stakes his claim to ira-
Mrtalitv on these lines:
Ofalltlie poems that I detest
li tot’s published-and some
of the rest.”
W.iudrey Thompson wntes:
“liere was once a soldier nam
ed Joe;
WUe fighting got shot in the
toe.
It did not hurt bad,
But it made him so mad
Hat he shot down ten fellows
in a row.”
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mss BEAVER WAS EX-
PUINING to her history class:
■All fee white males had the
^t to vote.”
Harold Perry: “Did they count
timed men as free?”
ft*
H ONE .-VLGEBRA TEST the
Sidents were asked, “Who gave
E sifned numbers?”
One boy replied, “Mr. Algebra,
Ipieis.’’
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EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD
my .tee the moon on clear nights,
ta there's one Full Moon that’s
wn tie world.
When LaFon Key, ex-A.H.S.
Undent, left Bainbridge in Janu-
«y, 1945, he passed a Full Moon
M tie way. In October the paper
aught up with him in California.
It had been to Mississippi, up and
the California coast, and all
wr the Pacific.
The sailor is keeping the paper,
lit only for the news value, but
wauie he can take one look at its
loitfflarks and trace almost a year
II his Navy life.
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tiptlF? WAY TO THE CHIL-
S home game, Mr. Hatley
ned thc driver if he knew where
“ scnool is.
W'.i^D ^1°?^ three blocks from
Jdain ° Monk
A COPY OF THE FULL MCQN
recently received by an ex-
»wm!r John Denning,
4, ™ Marianas with
iifu’?’ Mrs. Pry
ttinaJ their
" a on the island
a mce thank-you note.
interested in
Wmwi seeing
• the atn " ti, material carried
(Bit, ® our papers here
ftEN?? getting
‘•L'wtb^lliettL
and into the
4elett?R to be
that w ii around with
thtgh aftw
5®"d that tif: f someone an-
'ivelopesf contained
News Briefs
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K It « the li-
Sfdin by Dwight
of his brother,
at the Mn*' from
S ^^0 are ,?!• General hos-
boufrlT^
®*'’enth & school
Po»,, ^ loan drive.
I
EX-SERVICE MEN—Who have
returned to high school are J.
C. Redwine, Lloyd Hunsucker,
and Jay Snuggs.
Students Return
After Serving In
Military Forces
Several former students of A.
H. S. have taken the opportunity
to return after serving in the va
rious military services. The G. L’l
among this group are Jay Snuggs,
Lloyd Hunsucker, and J. C. Red
wine.
Jay Snuggs was last here in
1942, after which he served three
years in the Marine Corps. He
was attached to the Second Marine
Division, heavy artillery, and was
a machine gun captain in the
Third Marine Raiders. He traveled
from the Aleutians to New Zeal
and and from New Zealand on to
Tokyo. He plans to remain in high
school until May or possibly De
cember of this year, after which
he will go to mortician school.
Lloyd Hunsucker left A.H.S. in
1941 for the Navy, but he is back
now until “next year or until he
finishes.” While in the Navy,
Lloyd traveled around the world
twice, and as the Navy traditic>n
goes, he had two or three girls in
every port. “They weren’t hard
to get,” he says.
J. C. Redwine went to the Army
in June of last year, but he likes
school the best and plans to be
here “all the time until he fin
ishes.”'
J. C. was attached to the eighty
second regiment.
Fry Heads Group
Mr. Fry has been elected pres
ident of the recently-organized
Charlotte Associated Choral group.
The organization plans to work for
the betterment of music through
out the schools of the district.
Counties within the district are
Anson, Cabarrus, Iredell, Meck
lenburg, Montgomery, Rowan,
Stanly, Union, and Davie.
Foil, I dri
®'^ty
r," .^'ided to^
to
. sn last semester.
are
new
the li-
in the tu, students
II ®'?ht It* ! grade in-
tJ^L®^6tan ann return
*tols. ’ announces Miss Hol-
Vlusic Groups Are
Getting Ready For
Annual Contests
Members of the Boys Double
quartet and Girls’ Ensemble have
been chosen and have begun learn
ing special music to be sung in
the annual District and State high
schobl contests some time in the
spring, according to an announce
ment by Mr. Fry.
These two groups will work
jointly on a revue to be given for
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
at a later date, and plans are be
ing made for the quartet and en
semble to enter the amateur con
test sponsored by the Student
Council.
In forrner years the Boys’ quar
tet and Girls’ Ensemble have play
ed a major role in musical activi
ties of the high school, and again
in 1946 the students look toward
them for “the best in entertain
ment.”
Members of the Boys Double
quartet are C. B. Cranford, Steve
Boyette, Junior Blake, Gene Drye,
Robert Frye, Harold Perry, Harold
Poplin, and Charles Deese.
Members of the Girls’ Ensemble
are Sally Senter, Susie Morgan,
Elizabeth Tucker, Helen Boone,
Audrey Thompson, Imogene Low-
der, Mary E. Bowers, Elsie Tuck
er, and Margaret Hurlocker.
Flu, Bad Weather
Have Effect On
Attendance Roll
CANDIDATE
Due to bad weather and the flu
epidemic, only seventy-nine stu
dents have had perfect attendance
for the third six-weeks period.
Perfect attendance means being
neither absent nor tardy during
that time.
Those who have had perfect
attendance are:
Eighth grade perfect attend
ance: Betty Burleson, Gaynelle
Chandler, Joyce Ann Crowell, Re
becca Dry, Carolyn Russell, Sara
Skidmore, Hattie Tucker, Everett
Hudson, Jimmy Hathcock, Ronald
Lucas, Leroy Swaringen, Jane Bul
lock, Norma Efird, Perline Hart-
sell, Carolyn Poplin, Monzelle
Talbert, Tommy Lilly, Hoyle Gil
bert, Howard Plyler, Malcolm
Pelt, Ben Morris, Joan Caudle,
Ann Dry, Alice Hudson, Sidney
Doby.
Ninth grade perfect attendance:
Ruby Barbee, Sally Beaver, Alvin
Holt, Joe Whitley, Calvin Hopkins,
Madeline Hathcock, Margaret
Morris, Ernest Burleyson, L. C.
London, Clyde Rummage, Peggy
Russell, Betty West, Norma Jane
Bogle, Evelyn Aldridge, Roy Tal
bert, Jimmy Miller, Lewis Gaskin
Jimmie Allen.
Tenth grade perfect attendance:
Ralph Flake, Gilbert Pickier
Charles Reap, Louise McLeod
Betty V. Rogers, Carol Rogers
Elnora Smith, Gerald Rummage
(Continued on page three.)
CLAUD GRIGG
Teachers Backing
Grigg For NCEA
Vice - Presidency
Claud Grigg, superintendent of
the Albemarle city schools, has
been nominated for the Vice-Presi-
dency of the North Carolina Edu
cation association.
Mr. Grigg is past president of
the South Piedmont district. He
served as chairman of the Adult
Education committee of the N.
C. E. A., in 1936-37, serving as
chairman. He has been president-
of the Department of Superinten
dence, and has served as chairman
of that department’s legislative
committee and a member of its
executive committee. Since the
beginning of the war he has been
a member of the Education divi
sion of the War Finance commit
tee of North Carolina, (Schools-at-
War program).
He received his A. B. degree
from Trinity College and his A. M.
from Duke University. He has
.studied at Columbia and has taught
summer schools at Limestone col
lege and Appalachian State Teach
er’s college. He has served as
principal of Hamlet high school,
and as superintendent in Gibson,
in Kings Mountain, and in Albe
marle.
He has taken the same leadirig
part in church and civic affairs in
Albemarle that he has in the ac
tivities of N. C. E. A.
Tickets Are Won
By Three Rooms
Rooms winning free basketball
tickets so far in the clean-up con
test being sponsored by Student
Council are Mr. Fry’s, Mrs. Fry’s,
and Miss Caughman’s.
Tying with Miss Caughman s
room were Mrs. Swicegood’s and
Mr. Hatley’s, so coins were flipped
to determine the winner.
Honor Roll Made
By 152 Students
One hundred and fifty-two stu
dents made honor roll for the six
weeks term ending January 25, the
eighth grade leading with 57 mak
ing honor roll. Those on the
honor roll are:
Eighth grade highest honor:
Hattie Tucker, Sara Skidmore,
Carolyn Russell, Martha Moore,
Norma Talbert.
Honor: Betty Boone, John Bre
mer, Ted Burleson, Shirley Holt,
Jack Morton, Bessie Poplin, At-
trice Rich, Joan Caudle, Elizabeth
Starr, Barbara Smith, Douglas Ar
cher, James Gulledge, Clegg Her
rin, Gene Laughter, Tommy Lilly,
Curtis Ragsdale, Tommy Sibley,
Leroy Swaringen, Jane Bullock,
Jean Bullock, Mary Helen Cooper,
Perline Hartsell, Joyce McDonald,
Monzelle Talbert, Barbara .Setzler,
Jimmie Austin, Esther Brown,
Bernice Crump, Henry Efird, Boyd
Furr, Frances Hinson, Elbert Holt,
Everett Hudson, Bill Kluttz, Larry
Lowder, Connie McLain, Anne
Milton, Lauretta Plyler, Sarah
Frances Poplin, Peggy Redfem,
Juanita Vanhoy, Barbara Ann
Brown, Greta Burris, Gaynelle
Chandler, Joyce Ann Crowell, El-
lene Holbrook, Mary Lamar, Fred
Braswell, Henry Forrest, Elbert
Lowder, Bryant Stallings, Larry
Smith.
Ninth grade highest honor: Sally
Beaver, Alvin Holt, Ray Holt, El-
mon Ru.ssell, Joe Whitley, Marion
Sifford, Jeannine Boysworth.
Honor: Mary Louise Elder,
Adelia Mauldin, Nancy Prie.ster,
Annie Bell, Marlene Lowder, Eliz
abeth Miller, Lula Morris, Jerry
(Continued on page six.)
Students X-Rayed
In County Survey
X-Rays were made of all stu
dents of Albemarle high school on
January 9, from 9 o’clock to 12
o’clock and from 1 o’clock to 3
o’clock at the American Legion
hut.
This survey was sponsored by
the Stanly County Tuberculosis
and Health association in collabo
ration with the County Health de
partment and was paid for by
money received from the Christ
mas Seal sale. The survey is a
part of a national campaign de
signed to find cases of tubercu
losis.
Poll Shows Varied Opinions On Value
Of College, Prospective Wages, il.N.U
Of the 165 persons questioned
in a recent poll taken of high
school students 70 plan to go to
college on completion of their high
school courses, while 23 will go
immediately to work; 23 want two
years or less of specialized train
ing; six will become homemakers,
and 45 are undecided.
The majority of the mdividuals
questioned wanted to go to col
lege. Anne Powell says that sne
wants to be well prepared for her
work and she thinks the best way
is to go to college. Jack Harris
says he’s always planned to go,
and Faye Carlton wants to go be
cause all the best jobs are ^ven to
people w'ho are well educated.
Mary Elizabeth Bowers will oe
content to be a housekeeper, ana
Bessie Lee Bradley thinks that
about two years of specialized
training will be enough.
Another Question asked w^ how-
much the students think they wm
be earning 10 years from now.
C. B. Smith doesn’t
sibly about $95 a week. Sue Culp
thinks that if she is a good com
mercial artist she’ll probably make
about $100 a week.
Fave Carlton believes about
$90 would be about right. (She s
been looking up the rates per hour
^or m°odelsf. Sixteen other peo^
nip expect to make at least
Ind only about 16 think they 11 be
making over $100 a week
It has been proposed that a
world government be j
Replace the UNO. Under this
proposal, each nation would have
a relationship comparable to our
union of the 48 states. Forty-six
of the 165 voted that we should
have such an organization, .while
44 didn’t think so. ,
Betty Bivens says that it would
n’t work at all because nobody
likes the same kind of government
and every nation would be fighting
to have its own particular kind.
Jack Harris thinks the UNO is
working pretty well and shouldn t
be changed until it has been thor-
oughly tried. C. B. Smith believes
that the nations would soon quar
rel and split up as the states did
in the Civil war.
This is the twelfth poll spon
sored by the Institute of Student
Opinion of the Scholastic maga
zine.
By Their Words
“Have you jay-walked today?”
—Mr. Mac.
“My daily prayer is, ‘Lord, help
me to keep alive as long as I
live’.” Rev. C. C. Benton.
“Isn’t Tonto the Lone Ranger’s
horse?”—Mrs. Harris.
“Will you all be quiet and act
like grown-up children ?”—Nancy
Priester.
“May I empty out my pockets to
find my pencil?” — Lester Rags
dale.
“Bones, before you can clap in
here, you have to pay admissoin.”
—Mr. Pry.
“I have five more sheets. Any
body else want to borrow some
paper?”—George Turner.
“It pays to be good: financially,
socially, physically, and spiritual
ly.”—Mr. Benton.
“The British declared war on
England.”—Mary E. Bowers.
“Why are you standing up,
boys? To look at me?” — Miss
Caughman.
“If you breathe carbon monox
ide gas, the first thing you know
you will be dead.”—Mr. Hatley.
“Close that window. My hair
might fall.”—“Monk” McLain.
“Look at all the paragraphs I
forgot to paragraph.” — “Diz”
Owens.
“Her father turned from prac
ticing medicine to a theater.”—
Betty Coble.
“I wish the com canners would
strike.”—Mr. Fry.
“She said not to run in the
halls, but she didn’t say nothing
’bout walkin’ fast.”—Freshman.