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iihe 9ull Mcen Vol. XV. ALBEMARLE, N. C. — FEBRUARY 10, 1950 No. 4 $631,000 Bond Proposed To Relieve Crowded City Schools ^^^ Hele Tkeie TOMMY LILLY AND Fred Braswell were discussing themes in homeroom. Tom; “I generally write my themes on archaeology.” Fred: “Gee!. Mrs. Fry always makes me write mine on paper.” * * MISS TEAGUE TO HER home ec. class: “Some people haVe the problem of when to come in at night.” Peggy Johnson: “I don’t have that problem any more.” Miss Teague: “What did you do to settle it?” Peggy: “Mama stopped my go ing out!” * * * JACK LEE TO CARROLL Davis: “Do you know the difference be tween elephants and lemons?” Carroll: “No.” Jack: “Fd hate to send you to the store for lemons!” * * * MR. HATLEY SPEAKING to Angela Moncrief during chem istry: “Angela, what’s on your mind?” Angela (startled): “Who, me? Nothing.” Mr. Hatley: “That’s about right.” :1c 4: IN A CERTAIN BIOLOGY class there was a discussion concerning anthrax, and it was stated that cattle are subject to the. disease. Hamilton Morton looked up and asked, “In this case, do you ttiean a cow?” “Just how many kinds of cat tle are there. Bones?” Johnny Youngblood demanded of him. :|c :): 4! A NINTH GRADER wandered into the library recently and ask ed Miss Holbrook to help him find him a book to report on. “What have you already re ported on?” Miss Holbrook in quired. “Biography and friction”, came his prompt reply. 4: >l MONDAY MORNING GEORGE lee asked this question: “Cooper, when do report cards go out?” “Wednesday,” answered Mary Helen. “Well”, sighed George, “to morrow night in my last basket ball game!” * * * MISS MORROW WAS conduct- mg a history discussion. She asked the class, “In history what do you connect the name Robert Bruce with?” Jimmy Skidmore: “A tailback on our B-football team.” (R. Bruce Lowder). * * * JEAN ‘ BAILEY AND HATTIE Tucker were conversing in Mr. f'ry’s homeroom. Jean: “Hattie, have you heard the ‘Bird Brain Boogie’?” Hattie: “No.” Jean: “Shake your head and you’ll hear it!” * * * ALTHOUGH THERE ARE sel dom fights on the schoolgrounds, Ed Patterson was overheard mak ing this statement: “Fighting is all right provided you do it intelligently.” “Yeah,” agreed Doug Knptts, “but you can’t always find a smaller boy!” * * * WHILE WALKING TO school one day, Harry Pawlik saw Miss Lentz talking to a man. After wards Harry observed: “You must h&ve had an im portant conversation with that man, Miss Lentz.” “I did,” she answered. “I was asking him a very important question.” “Really?” asked Harry surpris ed. “I thought that in America It Was the men who asked that question.” IN THE LIMELIGHT—Mary Helen Cooper, D.A.R. Good Citizen; Henry Forrest, Safety Contestant; Harry Pawlik and Bob Young blood, Honorary Lions. Crossroads Set For Publication All of the ads, most of the pic tures, and a great deal of the lit erary material for Crossroads is now in the hands of the printers. Jack Lee, a representative from the Dowd Press, visited the Cross roads staff Tuesday and final plans were made for the publica tion of the yearbook. The annual this year has suf fered setbacks which have delay ed the normal procedure of work. First, the layout was not avail able in October as it was first promised. Then during Christ mas one hundred and twenty-one of the individual pictures made by Ross Studio were burned and had to be made over. ROTO IS BACK Included in this issue we ^ave a Roto Scholastic. This is the first time since 1948 that the Full Moon has carried this supplement. Roto Scholastic is a rotogravure section published by the Journa- hsm Department of the Universi ty of Minnesota. It is distributed free to a limited number of schools in the United States. School Calendar D. O. Banquet April 14 Operetta (Ninth Grade) April 14 Junior-Senior Prom April 21 Field Day April 28 Senior Play May 5 Chorus-Band Concert May 12 Senior Banquet May 19 Science Fair May 26 Baccalaureate Service June 4 Commencement June 5 Memorial Books Given T o Library Mrs. Frank N. Patterson, Sr., has given four books to the high school library in memory of her husband, Frank N. Patterson, and N. F. (Dick) Thompson. Mr. Patterson served eighteen years on the school board and was interested in all phases of school life, especially sports. Mr. Thompson, the father of Mrs. Helms, was an outstanding business man devoted to his home, to his church, and to his work. These books are Lou Gehrig, Will Rogers, Christ in the Fine Arts, and The Big Fisherman. Supt. Grigg Reveals Surprising Details Of Inadequate Facilities; School Board Out lines Building Program as Solution. “If the present building proj^am is not carried out, some Albe marle children will be without classroom space.” This was the startling prediction of Supt. Claud Grigg in a recent interview. A $631,000 building program has been proposed to relieve the critical situation which has developed in the Albemarle city school system because of a lack of classroom space. The Board of County Commissioners has set tentatively April 4th as the date for its ^building program bond election. The Situation. Albemarle city schools are so overcrowded due to the increase of war births that every available classroom is now in use. Rooms which have previously served as storage compartments have been converted into temporary class rooms. Two teachers at West Albe marle are using the original first grade room and its adjacent cloakroom as classrooms. Albe marle high school auditorium is being used every period in the day. Seats unsuited for study and poor lighting typify these improvised classes. There are four first grades at Central, two at West Albemarle, and two at North Albemarle. As the en rollments increase, classrooms are being filled to capacity and the need for space becomes more acute. Building Needs Outlined. The Board of Education has outlined a program which will tend to alleviate this overcrowd ed condition in the city schools.^ The board also disclosed that fa-^ cilities other than classrooms are included in its building plans. At present, West Albemarle school is badly in need of a (Continued on Page Seven) Mars Hill Group To Give Concert The 43-piece band from Mars Hill College, directed by Mr. J. R. Hall, will appear in concert in the A. H. S. auditorium on Saturday night, March 4, at 8:00 p. m. They are being sponsored by Mr. Hatley and the Albemarle band, who are responsible for their en tertainment and housing and for all stage arrangements. All tickets will sell for 25 cents. Playing in the trumpet section is David Gaddy, former student of Mr. Hatley’s band. The following committees have been chosen to make all arrange ments: Publicity: Johnny Eagle, chairman; Johnny Knight and William Litaker. Stage commit tee: Bobby Cree, chairman; Max Lambert and John Herrin. Hous ing: Frances Wingate, chairman; Junior Josey and Lowell Hartsell. Entertainment: Carolyn Akers, chairman; Eddie Crisco and Ave- line Morton. Ushers: Carolyn Jones, Barbara Holt, Aveline Morton, Helen Starr, Julie Ussery, and Ann Walter. Ticket sales; Frank Burrell, chair man, assisted by all the band students. > Term Honor Roll Is Made By 218 Honors ran very high for the first semester at Albemarle High. Eighth Grade— Highest honor: Caroleen Burris, Sally Crook, Anne Russell, Kay Snuggs, Sylvia Whitley, Craig Smith, Jimmie Griffin, Arthur Lynn, Georgia Beaver, Ann Ivey, Peggy Davis, Barbara Eury, Shir ley Swaringen, Claud Grigg, Lar ry Talbert, Lydia Hall, Jo Ann Atkins, Margaret Brunson, Bet- tie Early, Mary Foreman, and Kathryn Groves, Honor: Pattie Sue Almond, Bet ty Jo Burris, Janet Glover, Peg gy Morton, Yvonne Sheppard, Jimmy Howell, Larry Yow, Vann Dorn Camp, Claudette Chandler, Laura Doby, Sue Hunsucker, Doris Hinson, Vann Lowder, Ellen Palmer, Dixie Lee Schadt, Shir ley Lambert, Emily Morton, De laine Curlee, Dan Sibley, Ralph Setzler, Victory Dry, Lowell Hart sell, Dwayne Lowder, Bobbie Reeves, Barbara Holt, Jeanette Howard, Evelyn Kimrey Ninth Grade— Highest honor: Martha Rae Harris, Ellen Cook, Betty Moyle, Barbara Lowder, Peggy Jo Low der, Carolyn Williams, Bernice Roscoe, Frank Burrell, Robert Shaver. (Continued on Page Eight) Susie, Sammy Student Surprised: Phone Call Finds Few At Books Several parents, teachers, and students were surprised when their phones rang about 8:30 on Thursday evening before exams. The question immediately asked was “What are you doing now?” The following answers are typ ical of our “intellectual and ser ious minded” students. Jane Little was studying dili gently when rudely interrupted. Bob Gullege, Patsy Pettit, and “Mot” Moore, the “literary” type, were reading The Stanly News and Press, the want ads in par ticular. Bob Youngblood was in Concord for some reason. How about that, Young’un? Among the younger set were Brother Huckabee, who was deep ly involved, listening to the radio. Must have been a good program. Martha Rae Harris was on the sleepy side, just about ready to hit the hay. Jimmy Skidmore and friends were learn ing the “birds and bees” of biol ogy at his house; Silvia Morrow, busy girl, was washing her hair. Bill Grigg and Hattie Tucker were studying La Francais and both admitted they “were a little (Continued on Page Five) 'Young'un' Kluttz Month's Honorary Lion And Rotarian Bob Youngblood is serving as Junior Lion and Bill Kluttz as Junior Rotarian for the month of February. In this Capacity they attend the weekly meetings of their respect ive clubs. In January, Harry Pawlik serv ed as the honorary student Lion of the month, while Roy Holt ser ved as the honorary student Ro tarian. Other honorary Rotarians for the past year have been Bob Barringer for November and Dwight Cranford for December. By Their Words “I just can’t wait until he takes me out in his car and tells me how wonderful he is.” — Jo Fox. “Bob Youngblood is a ‘man about town’ and a fool about women.” — Cranford Hathcock. “All right boys, no comments from the monkey section.”—Miss Morrow. • “We’ll see some pictures in here tomorrow, but you needn’t bring popcorn.” — Mr. Hatley “Black Beauty needs a bath.”— Mrs. Stovall, referring to her old black Chevrolet. “Does ruthless mean without rlith?” — Mr. Mac. “Will the kindergarten division please get to work.” Mrs Fry to Howard Plyler, who was playing with a toy. “Don’t angry me.” — Roy Holt “I wish I had a plug for Paul Suggs’s mouth.” — Collene Arch er. “Chunk asked my sister to be best woman at his wedding.” — Sue Barringer. “I wish I knew some language besides English so I could read my exam papers.” — Mr. Morris. “They call Hadacol that be cause they had-a-call it some thing.” — F. A. Newton.
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