The Full Moon
Volume
24
ALBEMARLE, N. C., MARCH 8, 1946
1 rAMERA ALWAYS attracts
iSand when Mr Ivey was
lukine pictures for this Full
no exception.
1 MDiber of students were gath-
around watching with much
^Kst, Mr. Ivey was looking m
Zmcn, ‘he group was looking
i(Koiisciously pleasant, waiting
ibe snapped, when a grammar
B^er rushed around the corner
5 tie building, planted herself
«rely in the middle of things,
i announced loudly, “Oh, he’s
fugtotake a picture!”
* * *
THE SETTLEMENT OF TEX-
IS had been the subject of dis-
diiioii in Mrs. Williams’s history
te
Hr. Williams began to question
t!« stidents about the lesson. She
likti, “Who led the settlers into
lesas?"
Ckarles Morris answered,
fcs.”
* * *
I.\' HER FIRST PERIOD Eng-
t!l class Miss Fulcher gave the
(Biieiits some sentences to fill in
Ik blanks. One sentence read,
It's hard to catch a .”
Edith Heame was called on to
ffiin the blank.
Sle rapidly replied, “It’s hard
Id catch a man.”
* * *
1 GROUP OF NINTH GRAD
IES were discussing the problem
if ‘How to get your .teacher to
pt you a good grade.”
ScBeone suggested that you give
jmr teacher an apple every day
mi that would do the trick. Some-
K else said that if you brought
iff candy it would help.
Ward Crisco said that the
ij he'd get good grades would be
their necks. He was feel-
■f pretty good because the oth-
«! agreed when suddenly his face
uned red.
Camp had laughing-
"Is that the reason you
we bad grades in Mr. Hatley’s
“iJlr. Morris’s classes?”
.
No. 6
Betty Lee McQueen, Jane Gulledge, Jane Redwine, Nancy Glover, Betty Harley. Back row **MUs
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Musicians Prepare
To Enter Contest
[Drama Club To Present Play
. ■ - A DISCUSSION in
tuZi, of mechanics
® taght up.
todif; .couldn’t
longer, so he came up
JJthis qMstion: “Why did they
GAVE a
5Lr ^ ^ last
tk! L “fter cor-
t»Ht ? her pupils
each word they missed tS
a” '"'ho
S'.'^M'ired to come to her
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pays to be ignorant.”
Win, “It
CON-
‘*HPercomL-K ’"e"'bers of
biology “'“’d be ex-
»eed a^„.®*"dents. They
*^0 see
•their eyes L '^ater
^Station greater
®*»pes. than ten mi-
OUT WITH
^ We dav " so'we
?,Wli«g iii, Hatley stop-
i “Yo“
“Yes sir.”'*'*’’ Hearne
k^j'^thherbov^i^? town
W « blushing,” she
everybody,” came
Music groups of Albemarle high
school have been preparing for the
district and state contests, under
the direction of Mr. Fry.
These contests are annual events
sponsored by the Music department
of Woman’s College of which H.
Hugh Altavater is the head. The
contest this year is the first to be
held since 1942, when the event
was discontinued due to transpor
tation difficulties.
Over a period of years the con
test idea has assumed tremendous
proportions and now thousands of
students are taking part in it. It
has been classified into band, or
chestra, choral, and piano groups,
each separate with a separate
judge.
This year the district contest
will be held at Queen’s College in
Charlotte April 5-G. The Boys’
chorus. Girls’ chorus,*Boys’ Double
quartet, Girls’ trio. Mixed quartet,
and bass, tenor, alto, and soprano
soloists will represent Albemarle
high.
Due to a small enrollment this
year these groups will be put in
class B, although they will be al
lowed to compete with class A,
which includes the largest schools
in the state.
All contestants in the State con
test must have a rating of I in the
districti In the past soloists and
Wilson Resumes
Duties At A. H. S.
El “Doc” Wilson, who was re
cently discharged from the Army,
returned to A. H. S. this week to
assume his duties as director of
vocational education.
“Doc” was last here in 1943,
when he taught Industrial Arts.
He is expected to help with some
of the shop classes and to direct
the work of about a dozen students
for whom he finds employment.
During the past year and a half,
no vocational director has been
available and the work has been
discontinued. Next year, however,
the work will be expanded under
the direction of Mr. Wilson. He
will talk with the Albemarle busi
ness men and line up jobs for the
students next year.
It is a possibility that he may
organize a class for returning vet
erans to review and prepare them
for college work.
choral groups from Albemarle high
have won high ratings in both
events.
Miss Annyce Worsham will en
ter a pupil in the Junior high and
one in the high school district
piano contests. Miss Worsham’s
pupils have always held the high
est ratings in these contests.
Comedy In Four Scenes
Will Be Given For
Assembly Soon.
Soon to be given as a chapel
program is a play, “The Queen’s
Choice,” which will be presented
by the Dramatics club under the
direction of Miss Beaver.
The play is a comedy in four
scenes in which the main charac
ter, Queen Elizabeth, who is single,
eligible and anxious, is played by
Ann Johnson. Her faithful ad
mirers and would-be husbands are
Sir Walter Raleigh, to be played
by Gene Brooks, and Prince Al
bert, who will be played by Buddy
Lowder. C. B. Smith is cast as
Wm. Shakespeare.
Queen Elizabeth is hard put to
choose between Sir Walter and
Prince Albert, particularly when
she is in love with some one else.
The Dramatics club meets three
times weekly and has presented
two plays so far, “Twin Trouble”
and “’The Lighthouse Keeper’s
Daughter.”
The officers of the club are Jane
Gulledge, president; Jeanette Sells,
secretary; and Lillian Gaskin,
treasurer.
$700,000.00 School
Building Program
Is Recommended
Addition to High School,
New Grammar School
Needed In City.
Stanly County Commissioners
have agreed, upon recommendation
of the city and county school
boards, to call a special election in
August in oi-der to ascertain the
wishes of the voters of the county
in the matter of a bond issue of
$500,000 to be added to $200,000
now available for carrying out a
countywide school building pro
gram.
The city’s part of these funds
would be used to replace the Wis-
cassett grammar school, which
was burned several years ago, and
to finance two small projects at
the high school.
Due to war restrictions it has
been impossible to replace the
grammar school building before
this time. Students from the Wis-
cassett school were divided between
the Central and the Efird schools,
thus straining every facility of the
two schools and handicapping the
work done.
In addition to this overload of
I students, the birth rate has in
creased so amazingly in the last
[ several years that already its re
sults are being felt.in the schools.
There are three more first grades
in the city system this year than
two years ago, and a greatly in
creased enrollment will continue
for years to come.
There are no further facilities to
be made use of in the grammar
schools.
The situation in the high school
is due partly to increased enroll
ment but mainly to the addition
of twelfth grade next year.
There are no graduates this
year, so added to the present en
rollment will be the 175 new eighth
graders who must be cared for in
a building already filled to ca
pacity.
New classrooms, new lockers,
new equipment must be provided.
ATTENDS MEETING
Supt. Claud Grigg is in New
York this week attending the con
ference of the American Associa
tion of School Administrators.
Students’ Fiction Favorites Range From
War Heroes or Perry Mason to Heidi
When students were interviewed
and the question, “If you could be
a character in a book, what char
acter would you choose to be?” was
asked, a wide range of answers
was received. Their choice ranged
from characters out of Uncle Re
mus to present-day war heroes.
High school would probably be
filled with Jo Marches out of Little
Women if the answers of “Kitten”
Cranford, Sue Fowler, and Maxine
Harley can be a standard for judg
ing. They pick her because of her
wonderful personality and her
ability to stay happy.
Tommy Sibley took Colonel Scott
out of God Is My Co-Pilot because
of his daring and thrilling adven
tures. C. B. Smith would be Cap
tain Lawson from Thirty Seconds
Over Tokyo because he is interest
ed in flying.
“I’d just stay myself,” says Mr.
McFadyen, but he admires Captain
Horatio Hornblower except that he
gets seasick too easily. The Cap
tain has a lot of adventures and
never gets killed.
Ruth out of Leave Her to Heav
en seems to have made a hit with
some of the students, because Betty
Anderson and Juanita Gibson
chose her. Betty said the reasori
she likes Ruth is that in the end
she got Cornel Wilde. Juanita
likes her because of her kind way
with people.
Peggy Morris would be like Katy
in Gauntlet if she had her way.
Detective novel characters are
favorites with some people, and
Perry Mason’s stories especially.
Betty McAdams would like to be
Perry and live the adventurous life
he leads. Helen Lisk w'ould like
to be Della Street just to go
around with Perry.
A lot of people enjoy historical
novels. Miss Berrier would be
Scarlett O’Hara because. Gone
With the Wind appealed to her
so much. Ottie Jane Springer
would like to be Diane from The
Robe. Virginia Dare is Mary Rus
sell’s ideal.
Mary Lamar would like to be
Heidi.
By Their Words
(After reading a half page of
instructions to the second period
English class). “That’s what I’ll
ask you not to do.”—Mrs. Pry.
“I want an evening dress to
stand in because I’m a stand-in.”
—“Bones” Burleson.
“Moses (Austin) founded Tex
as.”—Charles Morris.
“Sorry I don’t have refresh
ments for all of you.”—Mrs. Har
ris (after giving cough drops to
several students).
“I don’t know whether it was a
nightmare or not, but it must have
been some kind of a horse.”—
George Turner.
“Burp!—That wasn’t bad man
ners, just good beer.” — Jay
Snuggs.
“I put funny papers in my shoes
to tickle my feet.” — “Mickie”
Thompson.
“All present except those at oth
er places.”—Mr. Hatley.
“Hollywood doesn’t know what
it’s missing with all these cute peo
ple in French class.”—Mrs. Harris.
“That’s a banana bunch, a bunch
with a peal (appeal).” — Donald
McLain.
“Let’s go to Charlotte.” — Joe
Edwards.
“How do you know’ when to
stop?”—Mr. Mac listening to the
boogie woogie of the Musical Mo
rons.