The Full Moon
Vol. 22 — No. 2
Albemarle High School, Albemarle, N. C.
October 26, 1956
BERE AND THERE
Jo Ellen Brooks was explain
ing an algebra problem to Linda
Duke. “The answer is X equals
zero,” she wound it up.
“Good night,” Linda replied,
“all that work for nothing!”
One day at the beginning of
football practice, Mr. Robinette
asked Punk for the football he
'vas kicking.
Punk replied, “I chased the
ball and I ought to be able to
kick it.”
“Well,” answered Mr. Robin
ette, “the referees chase the balls
in the games, but they don’t get
to kick it.”
In the Monroe football game
the “Hill Special” had run sev
eral times and the Monroe de
fense was catching on to it, so
instead of giving the ball to
Clyde, Punk Gantt kept it.
One of the defenders who
tackled Clyde anyway said,
“You boys sure faked my pants
off that time.”
- “Your assignment is on the
board,” Coach Webb told his sec
ond period Economics class.
“I’ve got to do some work for
Cashwell. He’s over in Salis
bury in court; I mean he’s on the
jury.”
Larry Joe Burleson and Mrs.
peese occasionally have their
little arguments and one day
Larry Joe threatened to go tell
Cashwell what he thought.
‘‘If you don’t keep guiet. I’m
Soing to tell Mr. Cashwell what
I think!” replied Mrs. Deese.
After drawing a circle with a
crooked line through it, Mr.
Braswell asked the class what
it was. Nobody answered, so he
replied, “An ant swimming
through a puddle of champagne.”
While walking from the K & L
One day, Ann Stone asked, “Do
you know what a straw is for?”
“No, what?” innocently asked
Lulabelle Smith.
“To tell fools when the drink’s
gone,” quipped Ann.
During a recent game, the op
ponent’s quarterback fumbled
the ball. It rolled in front of the
halfback. Seeing Jerry Lowder
^nd Roger Whitley bearing down
on him, the halfback yelled to
the quarterback, “You pick it up;
you dropped it.”
Last Monday afternoon at the
“Unior Varsity football game,
Jenny Henderson asked:
“What’s the score?”
“Seven to seven,” replied Jo
Ellen Brooks.
“Whose favor?” Jenny asked.
“Babe, we can’t go to the next
^ck n’roll show ‘cause it’s on
Homecoming,” explained Billy
Corbett to Larry Freeman.
“Yes, we can; we aren’t going
to be sponsors,” replied Babe.
During a chemistry class, Mr.
Hatley asked Rex Whitley the
Answer to a question. Rex re
plied, “I left my book at home.”
Mr. Hatley answered, “Oh, is
your mother going to study chem
istry today?”
One night at Harmanco’s, Punk
C^antt began a joke session. After
telling four or five jokes Punk
Said, “Yessir, I know a lot of
Sood jokes.”
„ “Yea?” remarked “Q” Smith.
When are you going to tell
them?”
Freshmen Elect
Leaders For Year
Election of the freshman class
officers was held at the first
Meeting of the class on Oct. 8.
The officers are as follows:
President, Paul Welch; vice-pres
ident, Dudley Roache; and sec
retary and treasurer, Billy Tuck
er- Mr. Lippard was elected as the
freshman advisor.
Honor Roll Srnall
Due To Different
Grading System
Due to the change in the grad
ing system the number of those
on honor roll is not so large as
usual. This year there is only
one honor roll, since highest hon
or has been done away with.
Students must make at least
three A’s on academic subjects,
and not more than two B’s.
Those who made honor roll are:
Twelfth. Grade
David Grigg, Gene Langley,
Lane Lowder, Patsy Blake, Jo
Ellen Brooks, Jackie Richardson
Gerry Currier, Robert L. Smith
Clara Bost, Rona Jane Mauldin
Linda Moose, Anne Rogers, Lula
belle Smith, Jewell Bunting, Wm
fred Ford, Ruby Griffin, Carol
Little, and Sylvia Mauldin.
Eleventh Grade
Rita Morris, Sue Winn, Larry
Mullis, Charles Delk, Billy Hart-
sell, Marie Bowers, Pat Smith.
Gay Crowell, Martha Huckabee,
Kay Swindell, Glenda Keever,
Cary McSwain, Wade Smith, Ron
nie Millican, Kitty Almond, Joy
ce Burris, Becky Coble, Libby
Hatley, Barbara Hoey, Peggy Sue
Lisk, Peggy Smith, Evelyn Un
derwood, Diane Watkins, Bar
bara Smith, and Pat Starnes.
Tenth Grade
Brenda Huneycutt, Lane Brown,
Aldena Harrington, Janice Mor
ris, Jo Parks, Judy Redfern, Mar
tha Smith, Sue Tucker, Billie Jo
Barrier, Ruby Morton, Jane
Chandler, Linda Curlee, Nancy
Ivester, Ann Smith, Linda Efird.
Millie Hatley, Gloria Jones, and
Josh Morton.
Ninth Grade
Mary Jo Winn, Charles Brown,
Jimmy Stonestreet, Harry Whit
ley, Joe Stoker, Suzanne Finch,
Bobbie Mullis, Homer Blalock,
E. J. Whitley, Neil Efird, Mike
Ross, Paula Feldman, Jerry Lou
Holbert, Elaine Morris, Pam
Truette, Annette Lowder, Landis
Miller, Jo Ann Holt, and Bobby
Harris.
Crossroads Staff
Is Working Hard
Selling ads for the Crossroads
is keeping members of the busi
ness and literary staffs very
busy these days, as a big attempt
is being made to close this pro
ject in the next few days. Busi
ness manager, Robert L. Srnith,
with the other members, is tak
ing assignments as quickly as
possible in order to make the
way clear for the photography
staff to go to work.
Delmar photographers came to
take individual student pictures
October 22 and 23, taking two
days this year in order to get
some other photographs for use
in the annual. All the girls wore
dark sweaters with white collars
while the boys wore white shirts
with dark coats and ties.
A theme has been chosen by
the annual staff and rough
sketches are being drawn in or
der to get an idea of how the
pages will look. All of the com
mittees are being put to work to
LINDA MOOSE
Carrousel Princess
J. L. CASHWELL
Named to State Committee
CHARLIE SMITH
Annapolis Appointee
PAUL B. FRY
Heads N. C. Choral Group
Full Moon Staff Organized
Students Attend
Press Institute
Chapel Hill played host to stu
dents coming for the Fifteenth
Annual North Carolina Scholastic
Press Institute on October 6. Lin
da Moose, representing the Full
Moon; Jo Ellen Brooks and Rob
ert L. Smith, representing the
Crossroads; Joyce Burris and Gay
Crowell with Mr. and Mrs. Car
ter attended.
Useful information was gained
by each representative and val
uable ideas were brought home
to be used in each publication.
Joyce Burris and Gay Crowell
took turns attending the differ
ent conferences in ordpr to get
an idea of what they will have
to do next year.
After the afternoon session was
adjourned, several of the Albe
marle High School representa
tives went to State College to see
the State-Clemson football game.
carry out this theme.
Work is progressing nicely so
that the deadline can be met
January 13.
English Students
Edit Newspaper
Members of the Full Moon
class have been organized into
a formal staff to work on the
paper this year.
Anne Rogers is managing ed
itor; Lulabelle Smith, news ed
itor; Jeanette Hinson, feature ed
itor; Glenn Talbert, sports edi
tor; Roderick Jordan, assistant
business manager.
News writers are Mary Ewing
Griffin, Jo Ellen Brooks, Jane
Mauldin, Linda Whitley, Vicki
Cranford, Charlie Smith, Larry
Burleson, Robert L. Smith, Bur-
nie Miller, Diane Tucker, Johnny
Renger, and Myrna Mills.
Feature writers are Mickey
Cagle, Ronnie Haire, Janis West-
erlund, Elizabeth Tucker, Win
fred Ford, Rona Jane Mauldin,
Patsy Blake, and Frances Little.
Sports writers are George Mc
Manus, Jimmy Cochran, Don
Taylor, and Buddy Stoker.
Circulation manager is Toby
Ragsdale, and editorial writers
are Gene Langley and David
Grigg.
Elected last year were Linda
Moose, editor, and Wayne Eudy,
business manager.
Full Moon of '39 Reveals Old Secrets
Back in 1939 most of us seniors
were so busy being born that we
didn’t have a chance to read the
newspapers, so here is the news
in a nutshell, straight from a
Full Moon dated December 15,
1939.
The paper was printed on a
single sheet of paper, smaller
than the present Full Moon, and
consisted of only four pages. The
editor was Lee Copple and the
publisher was a journalism class.
There were only nineteen ads
in the paper, and some were un
familiar. Do you remember Mod
el Laundry and Cleaning Works,
Perfection Bread, Maxwell Bro-
'thGrs €tnd Collins, or Community
Food Center? J. W. Lowder says
he can’t sell you groceries, he’d
like to sell you a stove.
On the front page was news
of a dance presented by the Hi-
Y Club, a dress modelling show
put on by the Home Economics
Department, and the announce
ment of winners in a photo con
test sponsored by the Photo
graphy Club. The Dramatics
Club and the Music Department
were presenting a Christmas
pageant. Incidentally, the direct
or of the Mixed Chorus was Mr.
Fry.
The Creative Writing Club was
publishing a magazine called
the Al-Hi-Script, which was sup
ported by money from ads.
Except for an item called “Bull
dog Barks” the sports page was
unfamiliar. Children’s Home top
pled Albemarle that year by 13-
0, but the Bulldogs edged Badin
7-0. Three seniors. Bill Furr, Ted
Wallace, and Buck Mabry, had
made the All-State list of sev
eral papers.
Basketball season was about to
start, and the lead game was with
Presbyterian Junior College.
Many of the present features
in the Full Moon had already
got their start, such as Who’s
Who, Campus Chatter, Here and
There, and a library column.
One thing the students would
Mixed Chorus Is
Planning Program
For N. C. Principals
The Mixed Chorus of Albemarle
High School, under the direction
of Mr. Paul B. Fry, has received
an invitation to sing at a meet
ing of the North Carolina Princ
ipal’s Association on November 8
at the Bessemer School in Greens
boro.
Principals from- all over North
Carolina will attend the dinner
meeting and will hear the sixty-
three voice chorus, which will
perform as a special feature on
the program.
For the performance, the girls
in the chorus will don their fin
est evening apparel and the boys
will wear white dinner jackets.
The many different colors of eve
ning dresses and the formal at
tire of the boys will add color
and variety to the program.
Members of the chorus will
leave sometime during the after
noon on November 8 for Greens
boro. They will make the trip
by bus. The chorus will eat
their evening meal in Greens
boro, then gave their perform
ance for the principals and then
return home by bus.
The program will include such
numbers as “Sleigh Ride,” “Where
in the World But in America,”
“Onward Ye Peoples,” “Battle
Hymn of the Republic,” “Oh,
What a Beautiful Morning,” and
others.
Mr. Fry and the chorus con
sider this invitation a great hon
or and are working hard toward
making their appearance a good
one.
BY THEIR WORDS
“Those who read are wise;
those who don’t read are other
wise.” — R. C. Hatley*
“You, the seniors, are privileg
ed to lead the school—yes, I
know some of you are badly mis
placed.” — Mrs. Deese
“If you made low on these
tests, don’t get discouraged—
we’ll have some more.” — Miss
Bankett
“I’m going to type a letter with
my left hand so nobody will re
cognize my typing.” — Kitty Al
mond
“He’s the same size I am-, only
bigger.” — Larry Freeman
“I do all right on everything
but my subjects.” — Mickey Dry
“This baby looks just like the
other one.” — Mr. Robinette
“I wonder if it would be a
hardship or inconvenience to
anyone to postpone your test un
til tomorrow.” — Mrs. Fry
“When he walked by I felt
like a tunnel when the wind
blows through.” — Frances Little
“Rock and Roll just d-d-doesn’t
affect me at all.” — Clara Bost
“Don’t come back after you
get your report cards and try to
get me to change an A-minus to
a B-plus.” — Miss Caughman
“I’d be the toughest boy in
town if I wasn’t chicken.” —
Jim Stiller
“Never tangle with a man, if
you aren’t one yourself.” —Mick
ey Dry
“Turn on the windshield.” —
Gene Starnes
“We’re going to start a bowling
alley here with heads rolling
down the aisles.” — Mr. Lippard
“I’m always the victim.” —
Rona Jane Mauldin
“I hate to disappoint you peo
ple, but I just don’t have the
guts to jump out this window.”
— “Rat” Lisk
like to see return is the showing
of movies in the auditorium. This
old paper announced the showing
of a feature-length film, “Mis
sissippi,” which was a musical
comedy starring Bing Crosby,
Joann Bennett, and W. C. Fields.