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VOLUME 2.
HIGH POINT, N. C., OCT. 23, 1922.
No. 2.
VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
OPENS UNDER MR. ARTAU
Very Good Prospects Are in View for
This Year
The vocational department of the
high scho',) will open this term with
the best prospects in several years.
There are several different divisions of
the department among which will be
classes in water coloring, wood-carv
ing, clay modeling, and metal emboss
ing.
There are from fifty to sixty pupils
enrolled for industrial arts. Ten of
these are girls. Mr. Artau stated
that there would be special courses in
f.rt for the girls.
Three magazines, “Industrial Arts,”
“Pencil Points,” and Industrial Edu
cation,” and se'^eral catalogues anc
pamphlets will be at the disposal of
the students so that they need not con
fine their study to the text book alone.
One of the finest text books on the
market is being used.
The department is equipped with
plenty of machines and desks, but
material is lacking. They should
also have models for the clay work.
Mr. Artau says that he is planning
to take the students on excursions lo
some of the factories in town so that
they may learn the kinds of ma
chines used and how they are oper
ated.
The policy of the department will be
not to make a large number of things,
but to create beauty. Tlie pupils will
be taught to appreciate pretty things
and u.se good teste in selecting them.
The mechanical drawing course will
he divided into three parts, covering
a space of three yars. Instead of
just requiring the students to repro
duce the plates as they are in the
book, lectures will be given several
times weekly and the different plates
will be explained so that each one
will understand what he is drawing.
Vocational work will begin Wedne.s-
day, October 18, and all classes will
probably be open by next week.
WED IN QUIET CERE.MONY
Miss lone Belle Morrison, of this
city, and C. M. Bradley, of Akron,
Ohio, were united in marriage Tues
day night, October 10, at the G. M,
Morrison residence, Jordan street.
Rev. J. A. Clarke, of the First Bap
tist church, officiatiiiw.
Immediately after the ceremony the
happy couple left for Wa.shington,
New York and other uoints of inter
est. The bride is well known in this
citv. where she has been a former
nupil of our high school. Mr. Brad-
lev is connected with the Goodrich
Tire Co. in Akron, Ohio, in which citv
the bride and groom are now resid
ing.
CAPPY RICKS IS PRESENTED AT
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
“Cappy Ricks,” the noted comedy
farce, was delightfully presented at
the high school auditorium Wednes
day night, October 18. From the
time when the curtain went up and
the audience became acquainted with
Cappy and his general-manager, Skin
ner, until the play closed with Flor
ence Ricks, Cappys daughter, in the
arms of her sailor lover. Matt Peas-
ley, the audience roared with laugh
ter. Cecil Pericles Bernard, the young
dude from New York, who was sent
to San Francisco by his father to
forget the chorus girl with whom he
was in love, also played a lekding
part, provoking old Cappy, by his stu
pid ways. Cappy, whose name was
Alden P. Ricks, was a very peculiar
character, at one minute reprimand
ing Skinner for his faults and the
next patting him on the back and
extolling his virtues.
This play, which was presented by
a New York cast, was put on under
the auspices of the high school ath
letic associaton, and was one of the
cleanest plays staged in High Point in
several months. It was thoroughly
enjoyed by all who attended.
A neat sum was netted for the ath
letic association.
A VOTE OF THANKS TO THE
PEOPLE OF HIGH POINT
This is written to the citizens of
Hgh Point as a means of expressing
the gratitude of the students of our
local high school. The building in
which we now hold classes is almost
an entirely different one from what
we attended last year. A new heat
ing system has, been installed, the
auditorium is equipped with the best
scenery to be found, and soon a new
gong and bell system will be put in.
Elm and Grimes street schools are
virtually built over, while a new ne
gro school has been completed, and a
grammar grade building will be done
by January. All this has been made
possible by your foresight and gen
erosity; and we, the high school stu
dents. adopt this as a means of ex
pressing our thanks to you who voted
for the bond issue, and may the grad
uates of this instituion pay vou back
a thousandfold by their efforts to
make _ High Point the most progres
sive city in North Carolina.
ROOM 31 GOES 100 PER
CENT FOR THE POINTER
Room 31, Mrs. Ranson’s senior class,
was the first room in H. P. H. S. to
subscribe 100 per cent to the high
school weekly. On Thursday after
noon this senior class decided to be
100 per cent on Friday morning and
they did it. Room 30, Mr. Owen’s se
nior room, is also doing good work-
They became 100 per cent by Friday
morning also.
The senior classes are doing good
work; now the thing for the other
classes to do is to fall in behind them
and do the same thing. Subscribe to
the Pointer!
SENIOR CLASS ORGANI7ES
The senior class met on Thursday
morning, October 19, in room ,31 and
was organized with the following offi
cers: Richard Salsbury, president;
Henry Weedon, vice-president; Lyda
Preddy, secretary, and Fred Andre^ys,
treasurer. No definite plans as to
what the class expected to do, were
outlined. But the following committees
were appointed; the committee to
draw up a class motto were: Henry
Weedon, chairman, with Alice Barbee
and Margaret Clinard; the commit
tee to decide on the colors for the
cla.ss were: Lillian Smith, chairman,
with Madge Idol and Eloice Hutchens.
NEW COURSES ARE OFFERED
CORRECTION
In the list of teachesr in last week’s
issue the names of Mrs. L. P. Horton,
teacher of dome.stic art's and Mr. Hen
ry Artau, instructor of industrial arts
were unintentionally omitted. We are
glad to make this correction, heca”se
the domestic and industial arts de-
nartment is a definite part of the
high school work.
This year, for the first ime in the
history of the school, H. P. H. S. is
offering a course in newspaper writ
ing. ’This course, which will be called
English V, will be given the first se
mester of this school year, and it will
count one-half unit toward graduation
and college entrance. The second
.semester there will be offered a course
in_ debating and public speaking, which
will be known as English VI. This
course will also count one-half unit
toward graduation and college en
trance. Both of these courses will be
taught bv Mr. Owens, head of the
.English department.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for
everyone, and especially those who ex
pect to make work of this nature their
life work. The .studies in debating and
public speaking will mean much to
the school in the triangular debate,
in which H. P. H. S. will participate,
and the course in newspaper writing
will be very advantageous to those
who are on the Pointer .^taff, as well
as all others who are interested.
Mr. Owens expects to begin his
classes in newspaper writing within
the next teif days, as soon as the text
books are secured.