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Hhe 9ull Mcch Vol. 16 — No. 1 Albemarle High School, Albemarle, N, C. October 6, 1950 STURENT COUNCIL—Front row (left to right): Charles Litaker, president; William Litaker, vice president; Carolyn Williams, secretary; Joe Hudson, treasurer; Avanell Osborne, Trudie Weaver, Ellen Cook. Second row: Joe Gaskin, Harold Hudson, Whit Whitley, Harold Smith, Martha Har. ward, C. B. Crook, Judie Whitley, Niell Hatley. Third row: Roger Furr. J. D. Gillmore, Claud Grigg, Nancy Austin. i Council Representatives Are Selected For Year — ^ CALENDAR Heie ^JheiC DONALD PERRY, RETURN ING from Kannapolis on the band bus, shouted, “Is everybody hung ry?” Band students: “Yea, bo!” Donald: “Then let that stomach growl!” DURING A DISCUSSION on cultural changes in sociology class, Mr, Price asked, “Have any crises arisen in your school or * com munity?” “Yes!” came a quick reply from Don Wooley. “Our freedom has been curbed this year.” IN BIBLE CLASS Miss Harris on was talking about the purpose of high school. Miss Harrison: “What should you get out of high school?” Skip McManus: “Yourself.” DURING LUNCH PERIOD Lil lian Copley was idly scribbling in the study hall. Suddenly she said: “I guess my pen will have to go on itching.” “Itching?” asked Frances Win gate. “Yeah,” answered Lillian. “I’m out of scratch paper,” LIB ELDER AND Angela Mon- crief were chatting in Purcells. “I met the most marvelous boy,” said Angela. “He’d be wonderful for you.” “Is he my type?” asked Lib. “Sure,” Angela responded. “He’s alive and breathing.” MARILYN GREENE GOT mix ed up in Miss Michael's geometry class. Marilyn: “Miss Angle —” Miss Michael: “Marilyn, you Should have said Miss Curve.” HENRY CARPENTER WAS boasting to Buddy Boone. “I took E>ead’s Man Curve at 80 miles an hour going to Charlotte last night.” Buddy Boone: “I’ll bet you five dollars on that—it’s impossible.” . Henry: “Well, I did! Forty go- jng over there and forty coming back,” WHEN ASKED HOW many problems he had worked in alge bra, Joe Whitley replied, “When I 'vork two more besides the one I’m working on. I’ll have three,” RETURNING TO HIS seat af ter writing French sentences on the board, Kenny Brown asked Jo Anne Burrell, “Can’t I write Sood?” Jo Anne: “I don’t know; I can’t J^ead it,” SKIP McMANUS AND Reid McLendon were arguing about Skip’s car. Skip: “Reid, you can get out and I’ll walk.” THE CLASS HAD STUDIED ^ong and hard on the English as signment on the Anglo-Saxon Period, so it was with surprise that they heard Mrs. Fry begin y^ith: “There are several things this lesson that I’m sure you niust have found interesting.” , “Mrs. Fry,” queried Arthur Bur- I'ls, “are you sure that you are ^sing the same book that we are?” SUE TAYLOR AND MARY El- Speight were discussing plans. “Sue, I’ve got a hunch,” said Mary Ellen. “Oh,” exclaimed Sue, “I thought J^ou were just round shouldered.” IN CHORUS CLASS during roll Call, Mr. Fry made this state ment: “Just answer to your name and don’t raise your hand; then I ''^on’t have to look at you.” MRS. LYKE ON THE biology *ield trip at Morrow Mountain ex claimed, “Oh, isn’t that a cute house!” Just then she looked closer and Jjnderstood why the class roared, ^n the house were two signs: Ladies” and “Men”. Building Funds $20,000 Short Of Amount Needed Twenty thounsand dollars is still needed to meet the low bids for proposed additions to West Albemarle and Central element- tary schools. The Albemarle city school board received bids September 26 on proposed additions to West Albe marle and Central elementary schools. The bids totaled more than $20,000 over the amount of money available, and the school board will decide later if the contracts will be let or not. Among the general contractors Frank Conner of Charlotte bid lowest with $116,900.00, and J. D. Harwood and Sons was second low, bidding $117,300.00. Bidding low for plumbing and heating at Central elementary school were $8,615.00 for plumbing by Lorch Plumbing, and $9,948.00 for heating by Albemarle Plumb ing and Heating company. Medlin Electric Service of Mt. Pleasant bid low for electricity for West Albemarle school at $3,- 726.50. Electrical Contracting and Engineering company bid low for Central at $5,600.00. The low bids on all work come to a total of $155^659.50. Three new men and seven new ladies in addition to a new high school principal have been add ed to the Albemarle high school faculty. They are Miss Schell, Miss Bankett, Miss Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Coble, Miss Kyzer, Mr. Price, Mr. Jeffords, and Mrs. Westerlund. Miss Schell, the girls’ physical education teacher and basketball coach, is a 1950 graduate of Ca tawba college. Her hobby, as one might expect, is sports. She thinks that A.H.S. has a fine school system and the students are very co-operative. Another teacher who is teach ing her first year here is Miss Bankett, one of the business ed ucation teachers. She also grad uated from Catawba college in Salisbury and thinks A.H.S. is a wonderful place. Stamp col lecting is her favorite hobby. Miss Caldwell, the eleventh grade English teacher, whose home town is Wadeville, comes to Albemarle from the Star schools. Photography is her fav orite pastime. Miss Caldwell, a graduate of Wake Forest col lege, thinks A.H.S. is grand. Sept. 5 — School Opened. Oct. 26 — District Teachers' Meeting. Nov. 23, 24 — Thanksgiving Holidays. Dec. 15 - Jan. 1 — Christmas Holidays. March 23-26 — Easter Holidays May 27 — Baccalaureate Sermon. June 1 — Commencement. News Briefs Paper at 10c a pack and pencils at 5c each are on sale at the stu dent store in the lobby of the typing room. The store is run by the student council with Joe Hud son, treasurer, in charge. The honor system of payment is used, * * * All persons who have had home ec, at any time are eligible for membership in the F,H,A., accord ing to Mrs. Coble. * * # According to Miss Schell, girls basketball practice will start around the second week in Oc tober. Another teacher who is en joying his first year of teaching at A.H.S. is Mr. Pat Hunt, the seventh grade teacher, who is also an assistant football coach. Mr. Hunt is originally from North Wilkesboro, but graduated from Western Carolina Teachers’ col lege. The home economics teacher, Mrs. Warren Coble, graduated from W.C.U.N.C. and hails from Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. She taught at Endy school last year and has previously taught at Hugh Morson in Raleigh. Mrs. Coble has no hobby exactly, ex cept working on the new home which she and her husband are planning to move into this winter. Another graduate of W.C.U.N.C. is Miss Mildred Kyzer, who teaches shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping. When asked her opinion of A.H.S., she repiled, “I think it’s a fine place and I am enjoying my work here. I also like the people,” This is also Miss Kyzer’s first year of teach ing. Her home town is Hamlet, and she enjoys playing the piano. Student council representatives for the coming year were chosen last week at A.H.S. They will represent their respective home rooms at Student Council meet ings held every two weeks for the purpose of planning activities for th student body. Representatives for their re spective grades are: Eighth grade: Martha Harward, Yoder Whitley, Bobby Peck. Ninth grade: Jo Ann Atkins, J. D. Gilmore, Roger Furr, Claud Grigg, C. B. Crook, Tenth grade: Trudie Weaver, Ellen Cook, Avanelle Osborne, Judith Whitley, Bill Huckabee. Eleventh grade: Nancy Austin, Joe Gaskin, Jimmy Skidmore, Harold Smith. Twelfth grade: Nell Hatley, Whit Whitley, Harold Hudson, Dickie Mauldin. These representatives will work with the student body officers chosen last spring: president, Charles Litaker; vice president, William Litaker; secretary, Caro lyn Williams; and treasurer, Joe Hudson. Also meeting with the council are Miss Catherine Harri son and Mrs. J. S. Cashwell. Mr. Mott Price, who teaches world history and sociology, is a graduate of Barium Springs high school and Davidson col lege. He is also one of the as sistant football coaches and nat urally, sports is his hobby, Mr. Price thinks that the students and the school are swell. A former A.H.S. student, Mrs. Westerlund, has returned to teach ninth grade ■ English and U. S. history. She graduated from Queens college and attended summer school this year at Ca tawba. Mrs. Westerlund replied, “A.H.S. certainly has grown to magnificent proportions”, when asked her opinion of the school. Her hobbies include reading books. Mrs. Pat Hunt, who is the new mathematics teacher, lives in North Wilkesboro, and says that A.H.S. is a very fine school and she enjoys teaching here. She is the wife of the seventh grade teacher. Mr. Jeffords, who teaches U. S. history, is from Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is the Jiead B-team football coach. He grad uated from Furman college and attended Carolina one year. Joe L Cashwell Takes Over Job As AHS Principal Mr. J. L. Cashwell, who is or iginally from the community of Ingold in Sampson county, is taking the place left by Mr. H. C. McFadyen as principal of AHS this year. Coming to Albemarle from Grimesland school in Pitt coun ty, Mr. Cashwell was highly recommended and was elected by the school board to take over the position of principal of AHS. Mr. Cashwell attended a public school at Ingold, then went to Wingate Junior college, and later graduated'at the Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He and his family are making their home in Albemarle at 155 North First street. He has two children, Richard and Susan. Reading is a pastime which he enjoys, and while in school at Wingate he played football and baseball. When asked what he thought of AHS he said, “It is one of the finest high schools in the state and one of the nicest student bodies to work with.” Harwood Chosen Senior President John Harwood, an outstanding senior, was chosen president of the senior class at a class meeting recently. Other officers were also chosen: vice-president, “Whit” Whitley; secretary, Myra Davis; and treas urer, Ed Patterson, John Harwood, the president, has been outstanding all through high school, being on the varsity basketball team for 2 years, on the A. H, S, baseball team for one year, and council represen tative for his home room last year. This year he is also serving as assistant business manager of Crossroads. By Their Words “If you stop you’ll never know the great surprises that lie ahead.”—Dr. Stevens. « * * “I always borrow from a pes simist—he never expects it back anyhow.”—Frances Wingate. ♦ ♦ « “I wish I had a stomach to hold up these football pants.”—Coach Webb, * * * “That was the best football game I never played in Friday night.”—Sonny Bowers. * * « “When you have children, you don’t have hobbies,”—Mrs, West erlund. * * * “Today is payday if I could get up town.”—George Causby. * * * “Well, it won’t be long now!!!” —Miss Lentz. * * * “If you .don’t know what you’re aiming at, don’t pull the trigger,” —Mr, Fry, * * * “With the world situation what it is, this year may be the last opportunity you’ll have to pre pare yourself for what is before you,”—Mr, Grigg, * * * “One advantage of my car in the winter time is that it doesn’t have any windows on the side where the girl sits.” — Jimmy Green. * * * “If you go into the toilet a few minutes, late, you don’t have to light a cigarette to smoke—just breathe.”—Mr. Cashwell. * ♦ * “Is he going to college, or is he going to Duke?” — Sidney Helms. • • • “If you need any help, let it be known, just so you don’t ask —Mrs. McAdams substitut ing for Mrs. Hunt. AHS Adds Eleven New Teachers -- Four Men, Seven Ladies — To Its Faculty