Field Day
April 20
$he ^ull Meen
Senior Play
May 3, 4
Vol. 16, No. 4
Albemarle High School, Albemarle, N. C.
April 13, 1951
He\e ati) 'TllC^C
DONALD WOOLEY WANTED
to make this statement plain.
, Mrs. Morris: “It will be all
right to discuss your grades out
side of class.”
Donald: “Remember, that she
said discuss them, not cuss
them.”
* * *
UPON SEEING THE sign
pointing to the cafeteria that
was put up for the FHA ralley,
oruce Lowder made this state
ment:
“Only a man who couldn’t
smell wouldn’t find that place.”
* * *
during a MOVIE at the Stan
ly theater while a,man was run-
down the street, this re
mark was overheard.
Jimmy Skidmore: “Look; he’s
going to the cafeteria.”
* * *
during ECONOMICS CLASS
me other day, Virginia Brown
was looking through a summer
camp catalog.
..^“^ddenly Virginia remarked:
I know that man. He’s Mr.
^obson. Boy he’s really a card.”
J^.^rmey Brown couldn’t resist
paying: “Do you really suppose
likes to be dealt with?”
* * *
the day before the stock
races in Charlotte took place,
^®ard ^^^'^^^^^tion was over-
Donald Wooley: “It’s a fine
^ race, isn’t it?”
:^rs. Hunt: “What race?”
p., ®^ald: “The human race, of
course.”
* * *
This little incident took
class period biology
+u T°^ay our class will be on
^^®section of a frog, and I
. ve a wonderful specimen here
handbag to work with,”
Dan Lyke as she took a
bag from her pocketbook.
ljgj.M^denly a sandwich fell from
f replied Mrs. Lyke, “that’s
^ distinctly remember eat-
my lunch.”
* * *
of5?^ST period was the scene
^is complex little incident,
wirs. Pry: “Max, what is a com-
^'Complex sentence?”
after a n interesting
Wag^^J^nday this conversation
McLendon: “Morris, did
fishing yesterday?”
“I ^®Plied Morris Hathcock,
just drowned a few worms?”
* * *
AlHy^ING CHORUS CAROLYN
Wg ^ ^sked, “Mr. Fry, what are
in PPosed to wear when we sing
"assembly Friday?"
ins Pry: "Oli, nothing.” (mean-
"Othing in particular.)
PERIOD algebra
Wifu ^/ways manages to come up
the answers but algebra.
yon^^®lms: “Mrs. Hunt, how do
last problem?”
lisw- ^unt: “If you-ad-a been-a
Sirt would-a found out.
ain’t Q ^ was a-listening, but I
■a Understanding it yet.”
_ * * * ‘
ConS^® INTERESTING LITTLE
^^ation was heard in French,
moro Whitley: “Just think! Two
]vr«„^®^ths of school.”
days M : “Yes, just 60 more
Soum^' ‘I’lease say two months; it
much shorter.”
,, * * *
is]£? YOU KNOW that today
Said Ellen Speight’s birthday.
one day i“
"Wh
istry.
ley "^t’s that?” asked Mr. Hat-
boys like
T'n » ♦ DC
cloS, ®^EMS THAT b
Joethan girls.
broke up with my
Other day?”
arovii ‘Who’s gonna finish your
socks?”
girl
Honor Group Taps
Six New Members
Into AHS Chapter
Six juniors were
the A.H.S. chapter of tl^ Na
tional Honor Society on Friday
Aoril 6. They were Barbara
Crowell, Jimmy Skidmore, Jane
Ruslell, William Litaker, Patsy
Pettit, and Sue Redfern.
Mr Fry played “Pomp and
Circumstance” as the procession^
a1 as the old members of the
siciefy followed Mr Cashwell
and the speaker, Rev. L. K.
Akers to the stage. The stu
fcnt body
Holv”. after which Ann Taylor
read Psalm 15 and had the pray^
er. Jane Rogers then sang Hold
^'^he’pMpo* e the meeting was
siven by President Ed Patterson,
l^d a brief talk by Eev Akers
tallowed. He talked briefly on
?aTof the four points the ho^
nr ;nrietv has as its ideais
SarMter! scholarship, leader-
chin and service.
"”E^ev Akers pointed out how im-
nortant character is. lo ae
vS it is a costly and expensive
thSi, but for one with ,faitom
Sked.'^G^oSholarship is ac-
irm”e”a*ns^1S^g* a S
turttier In order to .attain a goaJ.
krerdoe‘’snrr^trbo‘ssin?|
^^itiative, not tramping on the
rights of others. In conclusion,
hi stated that by the service we
2fve we will be remembered. We
ouHht to do enough so that we
would be missed if we were
“'’■?he*’six new members were
+>ion tanned into the society and
Somed by The president. Each
was Sven a yellow carnation
Mr Cashwell then administered
^'epSe and the new members
"‘®«fer*thVreaSing of the A.H.S.
enroflment, Marilyn Greene sang
Mr Fry’s playing ‘ Follow the
Glea^’ as the old and new mem,
Srs led by the principal and
rIv Akers, marched out of the
auditorium^
News Briefs
John Harwood and Talmadge
Ituden? Rotarian Ld Stu-
SenfuS re^ecitvely for the
month of April. ^ ^
Mr R. C. Hatley’s cheniistry
3CtG(i SS
and Phys^f opening of Albemar-
fe“s new fil?er^plant jast week end.
E C. Hatley, janitor of thehigh
“^htE\s\fr\oXs'”tr|e
over the punderburke.
mJ? Funderburke has four sons
and one daughter. _——
TAPPED INTO HONOR SOCIETY
Six Juniors were tapped into membership in the Notional Honor
Society diuing assembly last Friday morning. They were chos
en by the faculty and this year's members of the society on
the basis of scholarship, leadership, character, and service. Those
tapped are shown above, first row, left to right, Patsy Pettit, Sue
Redfern, Barbara Crowell, Jane Russell; back row, Jimmy Skid
more and William Litaker.
Freshmen To Give Operetta
To Attend Music
Convention Soon
Mr. Paul Fry and Mr. Spencer
Hatley will attend the Twelfth Bi-
enniel Convention and Festival of
the Southern Music Educators
Conference in Richmond, Virginia,
April 18-21.
The festival and convention will
consist of directors of choruses
and orchestras of the South and
some students working together
to improve musical education.
General sessions will be held in
which timely topics will .be discus
sed by many outstanding people
in the field of music education in
the South.
Section meetings called work
shops will be held giving lessons
to small groups and directors.
Lobby sings will be held each
night to help the people to get ac
quainted and to furnish entertain
ment.
Highlights of the convention
will be a concert given by the
Southern Conference Orchestra
Thursday night, a concert by the
Richmond public schools on Rich
mond Night April 18; Virginia’s
Music, which will be presented in
an original pageant by children of
all grade levels from the schools
of Virginia; a Choral Festival,
which will include workshop daily
and have a climax of joining the
Southern Conference Orchestra,
Thursday night; and band and
Orchestra Repertory Sessions
April 18-20.
'Jerry of lericho
Road' Is Romantic
Comedy Selected.
“Jerry of Jericho Road”, an op
eretta in two acts, will be pre
sented in the near future by the
ninth grade chorus under the di
rection of Paul Fry.
The cast of the operetta was se
lected recently by Mr. Fry. In
the romantic leads are Shirley
Darnell, Claud Grigg, Ralph Setz-
ler, and Kathryn Groves.
Cast ,in comedy roles are James
Hinson as a detective and Mar
garet Brunson as a flapper. .
Others with speaking parts in
the operetta are Arthur Lynn,
Georgia Beaver, Dan Sibley, Neil
Morton, Ann Ivey, and James
Hinson.
Several other boys and girls
will make up the chorus and
dance groups for the show, but
will not have speaking parts.
Some of these will be chosen from
the eighth grade.
Miss Mary Schell is teaching
the dance steps to be used in the
presentation.
The operetta, a romantic com
edy which takes place on a
ranch converted into a tourist
camp, promises to furnish some
fine entertainment.
Mr. Henry McFacIyen, former
principal of A. H. S., was enthusi
astically greeted by the student
body when he visited here on
March 30.
Candy And Ping Pong Main Attractions
As New Student Lounge Proves Success
“T want to get a coke.” ”I w^^t
I wani B record. I
to dance someone to a
want to challenge
game of P from the stu-
you’d probably gym. But
dents *i,e student lounge
no wonder, fof^^i^®that you could
torSC"l.e‘ans o? fun and
fellowship. every morn-
. ‘^oT'cS at 8:30 and
mg at 8.00, ;^2:20, closing at
opens again at anyone has
1:00. During this time^a.y^
the privilege of
pong, dpmin » dancing; buy-
pong’ «|«“Xckers; dancing; buy-
or regular checK^® chewing gum,
avers,
peani
ping pi
Unfd paperan£P^^^^^ a little,
^“^'Tat the tWng that the
it seems tnat ui
or i,pc
potato ^Wps, ^^^^d^^pSnut^bi^tter
?rfc»Vl|;typ|,| paper and
students do most is “buying
candy”. Ping pong is the most
popular game with them. The
Clark bar and Fifth Avenue are
the most popular candy, and juicy
fruit is by far the most popular
chewing gum.
The coke machine is kept hot
too, because about six cases of
coca colas vanish each day. Teach
ers' having so much trouble with
these people who must chew their
gum in class can be well under
stood, since sometimes as many as
three boxes of chewing gum are
sold each day. Let’s hope that it’s
mostly the boys buying those five
and six boxes of candy a day.
Strangely enough,—twenty packs
of paper and about ten pencils are
sold every day.
By the way, a piccolo, donated
by the Lions’ club, is on the way.
Maybe that will attract more
dancers. The lounge is also get
ting a popcorn machine.
Maybe you’ve been wondering
where the concession and all of
those tables came from. Well, the
Veterans, who built them, deserve
that credit. Joe Hudson and Mor
ris Hathcock did the beautiful
paint job in their spare time. Dif
ferent students of A. H. S. were
so generous as to donate the rec
ords in the lounge.
Other than its being a success
in the morning and at noon, the
eigthth graders have started using
the lounge during their play
period.
The State Health representative
visited the lounge the other day
and said that it was an unusually
nice place for high school students
to have fellowship. If you haven’t
been down, go on and see just
how much fun you can have.
Guidance Week Is
Scheduled To Be
Held April 16-20
Outstanding people in the com
munity will teach special cours
es to each of the four high school
grades during Guidance Em
phasis Week to be observed here
at fifth period April 16-20. The
purpose of Guidance Emphasis
Week is to try to help students
make a better personal adjust
ment to school and community.
Parents and any other people of
the community who are interest
ed are asked to attend if they
would like to.
“High School Life” is the topic
to be taught to the ninth grades
in the auditorium by Mr. Ev
erett Beam who was formerly
with the guidance department in
Raleigh. Topics to be discussed
will be “What Good is High
School”, “Why Stay in School”,
and “School Subjects and Jobs.”
Mr. Frank Patterson, Jr., a lo
cal lawyer, will teach “Under
standing Yourself” to the tenth
graders in the new gym. “Get
ting Along With Others”, “Grow
ing Up Socially”, “How to Live
With Parents”, and “Dating
Days” are some of the topics
that will be discussed.
“Planning My Future” is the
topic Mr. Ed Holbert, general sec
retary of the local Y, has chosen
to teach to the eleventh graders
who will meet in the study hall
or the student lounge. Topics to
be discussed are “Should You Go
to College”, “Choosing Your Ca
reer”, “How to Get the Job”,
“What Employers Want”, and
“Your Personality and Your Job”.
The twelfth graders will dis
cuss “Adult Living” being led by
Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pastor of
First Baptist church. This group
will meet in the cafeteria and
discuss “Looking Ahead to Mar
riage” and “Necessity for Having
An Adequate Philosophy of
Life”.
Rogers, Gaskin
Have Best Records
Jane Rogers and Dorothy Gas
kin, having made the highest
records for the four years of
high school, will serve as vale
dictorian and salutatorian re
spectively of the 1951 graduating
class, Mrs. Morris, the ' senior
sponsor, has announced.
Another senior, Martha Knight,
has a record almost equally as
good, so the choice was determin
ed by the number of A minuses
and A pluses each had made.
Other runners-up for the hon
ors were Lois Lowder and Ann
Taylor.
By Their Words
“Quit using your little brothers
and sisters as windshields for
your bicycles on cold mornings.”
—Mr. Hosier.
“Give a woman an inch and
she thinks she’s a ruler.”—Reid »
McLendon.
“My pocketbook is so broke
I’ve got it in splints.” — Frank
Efird.
“I’ve been to a lot of high
schools in North Carolina, but
A.H.S. is still tops over them
all.”—Mr. McFadyen.
“I can’t give you up now, not
after what all our dates cost me.”
—“Whit” W. to Jo Ann B.
“When you’re looking into
those big, beautiful blue eyes,
you can’t see red and green traf
fic lights.”—Mr. Hosier.
“Leadership does not mean
bossing. It is initiative, not
trampling on the rights of oth
ers. It is determination not to
be ordinary.”—Rev. L. R. Akers.
“If you keep on making U-
turns and X-turns, you’ll end up
with an interne.”—Mr. Hosier.
“A drinking man doesn’t think
and a thinking man doesn’t
drink.”—Mr. Adams.