The Full Moon
Vol. 20 —No. 3
Albemarle High School, Albemarle, N. C.
November 24, 1954
Here and There
I “MAY I JOIN you?” Bill Beek-
er asked Bill Fisher as they met
in the hall.
, “Heavens!” cried Fisher. “Am
I coming apart?”
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' MISS CAUGHMAN ASKED Mr.
I Robinette last Wednesday if he
were going to have Guidance in
I his home room.
! “No,” Mr. Robinette replied,
i “You can’t guide something that
! won’t be led.”
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I SHIRLEY LOWDER SAID to
I John McLaughlin, “I’ve learned to
drive with gears. Can I drive your
, jeep?”
“I’d rather you’d learn to drive
with a car first,” answered John.
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“DICKIE, DO YOU know what
I the new Monroe doctrine of 1954
I is?” asked Bobby Peck,
i “No, what?” asked Dickie.
“Joe must go,” was the answer.
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: TWELFTH GRADE ENGLISH
; classes have been writing their
autobiographies recently.
! “Charles, what are you gonna
call yours?” Dickie wanted to
I know.
i “The greatest story ever told,”
■ was Charles’ quick reply.
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; ONE SATURDAY NIGHT when
j Pat and Sut were dating, But said,
I “Every time you contradict me
I’m going to kiss you.”
j .“No, you won’t,” Pat promptly
returned.
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I , MR. PENDERGRAFT RE-
! MARKED; “Last year I thought
j that seniors should not be sent to
I detention hall.”
“What changed you mind?” ask-
! ed Elaine Mills.
I “Seniors,” he answered.
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: “MARVIN, LEND ME a nickel,”
I requested Donnie Smith. "I want
j to call a friend.”
; “Here’s ‘a dime,” Marvin an-
I swered. “Call all your friends.”
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I “I’M GOING TO WIN the No-
j bel prize with one of my novels,”
j Ross Mason announced.
I “Why not the Pulitzer too?”
j questioned Opal Eudy.
I ‘Oh, I prefer Budweiser,” Ross
assured her.
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TWO GIRLS WERE teasing
^lizabeth Tucker about a certain
football player when one said:
“I want to go walking down
; some streets and Lanes.”
“Sing a little Lowder,” the oth-
; girl said.
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FRANCES ROSS WAS looking
through a magazine when she
^ at a picture.
That girl looks just like Louise
'-coper.”
“What makes you think so?”
^sked Sue Whitley.
Because she has arms, legs, and
^ Dig mouth.”
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‘ “MY TOOTH HURTS. I think
to have to have it pull-
complained Opal.
Gosh, my head has been hurt-
all day,” piped up Elizabeth
tucker. “Do you think I’ll have
have it pulled?”
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INURING HIS SCIENCE pro-
Mr. Hatley shocked him-
that for a purpose,” he
audience.
,. -He must have wanted to kill
nimself,’' Miss Caughman com
mented.
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FRANCES ROSS: “DO you
«now what they holler at State’s
games instead of rah,
Sue Whitley: “No, what?”
trances: “Moo-Moo.”
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DAVID MOOSE WAS
i^^ng to Coach Robinette.
hear Albemarle has a good
football team,” he said.
^oach Robinette: “That's what
'-”ey say.”
asked Moose.
Cnoiu , Albemarle newspapers
ach drily told him.
BIOLOGY STUDENTS APPEAR ON TV SHOW
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This group of students from Mrs. Lyke’s sophomore biology classes presented a
nature program last Wednesday evening over WBTV under the sponsorship of the
Children’s Nautre Museum of Charlotte. Left to right are Vicki Cranford, Carol Lit
tle, Robert L. Smith, Boyce Hartsell, and Mickey Morgan.
Crossroads Staff
Begins Busy Year
The department heads of the an
nual are busy preparing a dum
my of the 1955 Crossroads in the
annual room every Thursday.
The business staff has, for the
past couple of weeks, been selling
ads to the merchants and business
men of Albemarle. _
Joan Renger, assistant business
manager, reported that they are
now in the process of selling sub
scriptions for the annual. Mem
bers of the business staff are go
ing around to each homeroom dur
ing homeroom period to collect
subscriptions. The annuals this
year will cost $3.00.
Mr. Frank Fleming from Del-
mar Publishing Company in Char
lotte came November 11 to help
prepare a dummy for the annual.
Members of the annual staff
are: Editor Bobby Peck, Assistant
Editor Martha Harwood, Business
Manager Skipper Gantt, Assistant
Business Manager Joan Renger.
Literary Editor Charlotte Pope,
Staff: Pat Allan, Dickie Cashwell,
Bill Beeker, Judy Scaggs, John-
sie Baldwin, Arce Rose Rich, Amo-
relle Tucker, Frances Ross.
Sports Editor Edward Hatley,
Staff: Donnie Smith, Roger Saun
ders, Ann Smith, John David
Moose.
News Brieis
Students will begin Thanksgiv
ing holidays Wednesday, Novem
ber 24, at 2:45 and end them Mon
day morning at 8:30.
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Once again Senior English stu
dents will be ducking. Mrs. Fry
has brought her ferns back to
school.
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Miss Michael is now teaching li
brary science to the ninth grade
English classes.
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Last week the seniors exchang
ed calling cards when they re
ceived their orders from the Print-
craft Personal Card Co. With
the cards, the company sent each
senior a booklet titled Senior Class
Memories.
Business Staff: Elaine Mills,
Frances Litaker, Lendell Smith,
Jeffie Lee, Yoder Whitley, Charles
James, Phyllis Greer, Jean Starr,
Sue Whitley, Lewis James, Opal
Eudy, Elaine Swaringen, Stephen
Sasser, Miriam Davis, Myra Mel
ton, Faye Nash, Shirley Lowder,
Martha Morrow, Mary Jane Kirk
patrick, Leon Snuggs.
Typing Editor Carlene Doby,
Staff: Sue Furr, Elizabeth Hun-
sucker, Libby Howard, Sylvia
Long, Donald Almond.
Art Editor Myra Efird, Staff:
Superlatives Are
Picked By Seniors
The senior class has chosen
their superlatives, whose pictures
will appear in the Crosroads this
spring.
The Full Moon brings them to
you early. They are as follows:
Best Looking, Elizabeth Hunsuck-
er and John David Moose; Cutest,
Ivy Mabe and Skipper Gantt; Most
Popular, Charlotte Pope and
Dickie Cashwell; Most Studious,
Phyllis Greer and Bill Beeker;
Best Athletes, Donnie Smith and
Harvey Ann Smith, and Most
Original, Skipper Gantt and Amo-
relle Tucker.
Most Dependable, Johnny Rum
mage and Joan Renger; Most
Friendly, Roger Saunders and
Judy Scaggs: Most Likely to Suc
ceed, Dickie Cashwell and Fran
ces Litaker; Biggest Talkers, El
liot Gaddy, and Shirley Lowder;
Best All Around, Bobby Peck and
Frances Litaker; Best Dressed,
Charles James and Martha Mor
row; Wittiest, Lyndell Smith and
Frances Ross; and Most Talented,
Edward Hatley and Elaine Low
der.
Jolee Morris, Dorothy Ellis, Jan
ice Parker, Louise Cooper. Pho
tographer Ned Lowder, Staff:
Marvin Clark, Arnell Doby.
Do Hidden Hungers Hinder Horsepower?
Have you heard the expression,
breakfast makes the day? Some
of our students around high school
have varying appetites, ranging
from a full course to a drink of
iuic6.
The he-men of the football team
start off each day with slightly
peculiar breakfasts, such as Don
nie Smith, who won’t eat any
thing, and John David Moose, who
lives on cold chicken and cereaL
One of the slightly overstuffed
jxianagGrs replies, on a diet, so
I can’t eat much. It’s one unsweet
ened glass of orange juice, one
poached egg, two pieces dry toast,
one glass skim milk.” Head of the
whole team. Coach Webb sets a
hne example and expects the
whole squad to follow it by eat
ing soft boiled eggs, bacon, cheese
toast, coffee or milk and juice.
The athletic girls of A.H.S. are
iust about in line with the boys
when it comes to early morning
appetites. Louise Copper, one, of
the basketball girls, takes nothing
but coffee, but the coach. Miss
Lowder, wants eggs, bacon, toast,
juice and coffee.
Literary minded people vary in
their taste. Frances Litaker, edi
tor of the Full Moon, likes cereal
and orange juice with cake to kill
the taste, while Bobby Peck, edi
tor of the Crossroads, likes an all
round breakfast of eggs, sausage,
toast and milk. The two business
managers seem to like the sanie
type things: Skipper Gantt and
Lyndell Smith both eat eggs and
bacon and plenty of milk.
,To represent the school is a big
job; it takes a lot of energy; but
Frances Ross, Student Council
representative, takes nothing but
pancakes and Cokes. Running the
school is even harder, and to do
the job well Charles James has to
have eggs, ham, hot chocolate and
the Charlotte Observer.
It -must take more energy to
play in the Band than to sing in
the Mixed Chorus. Marvin Clark
has bacon, eggs, cereal, toast and
coffee, while Amorelle "rucker has
only toast and coffee.
The majorettes seem to have a
steady diet, according to Judy
Scaggs, who has two pieces of
toast, cereal, and orange juice.
The cheerleaders like a sweet diet,
says Charlotte Pope, with her
cherry pie and hot chocolate.
There’s not much difference in
the Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y breakfast.
Phyllis Greer and Dickie Cashwell
both have Southern breakfasts
(Dickie’s is slightly heavier) of
eggs, orange juice, toast, bacon,
grits, and milk.
It takes a steady breakfast of
eggs, ham, grits, milk, and toast to
run the student store, according to
Barry Whitlock.
Eating a big or small breakfast
doesn’t have a thing to do with
getting into the National Honor
Society. Elaine Lowder has one
egg, toast, coffee, sausage, and
grape jelly, while Leon Snuggs has
one egg, ham, coffee, and toast.
Martha Setzler, a ninth grader
(on a diet), eats one boiled egg,
one glass skimmed milk, slice of
Hollywood bread, and a small
glass of orange juice. Larry
Chance, a senior, has rice and
gravy, steak, and coffee.
It’s undecided whether it takes
a big breakfast or not to raise
the flag each morning, because
Ray Barringer has bacon, eggs,
and coffee and Dwayne Harring
ton doesn’t eat anything.
With all the different varieties
of breakfasts A.H.S. student are
always “tops”.
AHS Mixed Chorus
To Give 'Messiah'
Dec. 5 At 4 P.M.
The A.H.S. Mixed Chorus, made
up of 60 members, under the di
rection of Mr. Paul Fry, will again
present “The Messiah” by George
Frederick Handel, Dec. 5 at 4:00
p.m.
Mr. Fry stated that the follow
ing people would be featured solo
ists this year: Mrs. John W. Al
mond, alto; Marilyn Greene, so
prano; and Mr. William J. Page,
tenor. The bass soloist will be
announced as' soon as further
plans can be completed.
The high school auditorium was
filled to capacity for the superb
performance last year. As a re
sult of this performance, a great
honor was bestowed upon the
choir when Dr. Benjamin Swa-
lin, director of the North Carolina
Little Symphony Orchestra, invit
ed the Mixed Chorus to sing se
lections from “The Messiah” with
the orchestra at its appearance in
Albemarle last spring.
Not only has the chorus been
very busy practicing for “The Mes
siah”, but for performances they
will give in the next two months
also. Their busy schedule started
with their singing at the First
Lutheran church, Sunday night,
Oct. 31. On Sunday morning, Nov.
7, they presented a program at the
First Presbyterian church. The
chorus will also ride on the Pres
byterian church float in the local
Christmas parade Dec. 2.
Other appearances already sched
uled for the Mixed Chorus are the
Associational Meeting at the First
Baptist church Dec. 6, A.H.S. as
sembly program Dec. 10, and the
Lions Club Dec. 15.
Television Stars
Are In Our Midst
Mrs. Lyke, Robert L. Smith,
Boyce Hartsell, and Carol Little
appeared on the Nature Museum
television show in Charlotte on
November 17.
Mrs. Lyke started the discussion
by introducing the pupils, and
they discussed biology at Albe
marle High School.
Robert Smith showed several
paintings connected with biology
in which he felt biology had given
him an opporunity to put his art
talent to work.
Boyce Hartsell discussed wild
life in Stanly County and the Mor
row Mountain section and illus
trated this by showing some
animal tracks cast in plaster.
Transferring leaf prints to cloth
was demontrated by Carol Little.
She also made a leaf print on a
towel on the show and presented
it to Mrs. Laura Owens, director
of the show.
By Their Words
“A gold digger is a girl who
breaks dates by going out with
them.”—Leon Snuggs.
“I hope Fm going down this
one-way street one way.”—Sue
Whitley.
“The only thing we can be first
in is football.”—Mr. Pendergraft.
“If Charlotte and I ever quit go
ing steady, it’ll take a ten ton
truck to get all my stuff home.”—
Dickie Cashwell.
“You know Ernest Hemingway
wrote ‘Snows of Kilamanjaro’, so
I’m going to write ‘The Frost of
Morrow Mountain’.”—Ross Mason.
“Cinder is going to have kittens
any day now.”—Myra Efird, talk
ing about her pet dog.
“I’ve got about as much use for
Christmas cards as a flea has ice
skates.”—Don Honeycutt.
‘"rhat’s why they have birth
certificates — to prove you were
born.”—Mr. Pendergraft.
“I don’t know much about it,
but I know what . I’m talking
about.”—Mr. Hatley.
“There wasn’t a doggone thing
on that road but m6 and the ra
dar.”—Mr. Cashwell.
“I feel the spine of an elbow
in my ribs!”—Dickie Cashwell.
“I liked the beginning and end
ing of that show but not what was
in between.”—Frances Ross.