One Week Down and
Seventeen More
To Go!
The Pointer
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THE HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL
VOL. XIII, No. 17
High Point, N. C., Wednesday, February 6, 1929
Five Cents a Copy
Rev. Farmer Speaks
to the Student Body
at Assembly Period
Minister Tells Audience Secret
of Success and the Value
of a Good Reputation.
“What sayest thou of thyself?”
or what trade mark does your life
bear? was the theme of a talk
which Rev. Roy I. Farmer, pastor
of the First Methodist Protestant
church, made to the high school
students at the regular assembly
period on Friday, February 1.
Rev. Farmer, in his address,
made use of an appeal Marion
Shipman had previously made to
the student body, during a brief
pep meeting, for unified cheering
at the games to state that success
in any undertaking requires co
operation. To illustrate his point
forcibly, the speaker told the story
of a celebrated organist who was
unable to give his concert until he
acknowledged the help of the
youngster who pumped the organ,
and whose cooperation was essen
tial to his success.
One of our most precious pos
sessions, Rev. Farmer continued to
say, is our reputation, and that
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Flute Solos, Readings, Songs
and Dances Are Presented At
Meeting January 30 in Audi
torium.
VOUNG PEOPLE HOED
The sophomore class witnessed a
varied program at the monthly
meeting January 30th. The pro
gram included “Robin Adair” a
flute solo by Miriam Sloan, and a
tap dance by Mary Drew and Caro
line Dalton, accompanied by Ele
anor Stephens at the pinao. Miss
Johnnie Muse, well known to high
school students, entertained with
three amusing readings. Eleanor
Stephens rendered a piano solo,
“Narcissus,” by Nevin. Next on
the program was a quartet of
popular music. The music rendered
was “By the Old Ohio Where the
Shy Little Violets Grow,” and
“Me and the Man in the Moon.”
After this Velva Hayden gave a
tap dance. In conclusion, the class
sang the sophomore class song.
Frank Steed reminded the class
that the picture of the sophomore
officers, which was run in The
Pointer in the fall, had not yet
been paid for and urged each mem
ber to bring the necessary 15 cents.
Francis Einstein was in charge
of the devotional exercises.
HONOR ROLL
Seven out out of eleven
hundred students of High
Point high school had the
honor of making the “A”
semester honor roll. These
students are so honored be
cause they have made nothing
less on their semester grades
than an “A.” Two are seniors,
three juniors, and two sopho
mores. The freshmen are not
represented. The following are
those who made this honor
roll:
Seniors: Virginia Dlffee and
Anna Gertrude Douglas. Ju
niors: Marion Williams, Carey
Atkins, and Nell McMullan.
Sophomores: Lee Forward and
Dorothy Forward.
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aOH HIHLEEIC SEffl
Participated In All the Major
Sports At College—Captain
of Three Teams—Tells Joke
On Mr. King.
Freshman Class is
Leader in Names on
Semester Honor Roll
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ARE AGAIN EEECTED
Will Serve Until Some Time In
In Spring. List Is Incomplete
On Account of Intervening
Activities.
Dr. Brown, Chattanooga, Prin
cipal Speaker—High School
Students Attend Three Ses
sions, Including Banquet.
Almost sixty High Point high
school students were delegates to
the High Point Township Young
People’s conference which con
vened in this city Friday, February
1st. The meetings were held at the
First Methodist Protestant Church.
The conference was one for young
people from fifteen to twenty years
of age, who represented practically
every Sunday School in the city.
The conference opened with regi
stration at 9:30 Friday morning
and went immediately into the
first session. Miss Daisy Magee
of Raleigh, a worker in the N. C.
Sunday School Association, helped
the delegates “get acquainted.’
The opening hymn was “Come,
Thou Almighty King,” after which
the worship service was conducted
by Ina MacAdams, secretary of the
conference committee.
Dr. Arlo Brown, President of
University of Chattanooga, Chat
tanooga, Tenn., was the principal
speaker of the conference. His sub-
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SENIORS UM LESS
NUMBER OE EWES
IHAN OEHER CLASSES
Freshmen, Leaders Last Time,
Take Second Place. Room 202,
Freshman, Has Only Four
Tardies.
BIG SISTER CLUB HAS
PARTY WED., JAH, 30
The Big Sisters entertained with
a party Wednesday night, January
30th in the cafeteria of the high
school. The program committee
with Dorothy Willis as chairman,
planned an interesting entertain
ment. Miss Wilson directed several
folk dances and games. Alma
Andrews played a piano solo,
“Juba,” and Adelaide Crowell
played several pieces of popular
music on the violin.
The room was artistically deco
rated with ferns and narcissi.
Marguerite Neave was head of the
decoration committee. Katherine
Weant, assisted by Eloise Ingram,
and Wilma Farabee, served the
refreshments, consisting of ice
cream, cake, and nuts.
The tardy chart shows that the
seniors are leading their school in
the least number of tardies. They
have only fifty-two tardies down
against them, which is a decided
improvement over the last six
weeks periods, when they had more
tardies than any of the other
classes. The freshmen led last time
the chart was arranged, and this
time, although they are forced to
yield first place to the older boys
and girls, they take second place,
as they have only sixty-five tardies.
The juniors have eighty-eight tar
dies, and the sophomores, ninety-
two.
The percentage of the tardies
shows that there is improvement in
the record of only one class, the
senior one. Their percentage for
this period is 32.7, which is better
than the percentage made during
the preceeding six weeks. The fresh
man class has the lowest rating in
the per cent, having 17.5. The
sophomores pile up 29.8 and the
juniors, 41.7.
For the home rooms, four fresh-
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WRESTLING STOPPED
BECAUSE OF SPRING
FOOTBALL TRAINING
If you want to know how it
feels to be the only Tar Heel con
testant in a Virginia cross-country
race and to pull tenth place when
there are only ten places to pull,
ask Coach Marlette. Anyway, even
if he did have such luck. Coach
won a little bronze medal, and he
seems to prize that medal very
highly.
Mr. Wade E. Marlette, known
as “Coach” to the students of this
school, was graduated from Elon
College high school in 1919. During
two of his high school years, he
plaved on the basketh'ifl football,
and the baseball team.
When he was at Elon College,
Coach Marlette participated in all
the major sports. He won two let
ters and a star in both basketball
and football. He was also awarded
a letter four years in basket ball
and in track, and he was captain
of all the teams for one year each
except the football team. He was
graduated from Elon in 1923.
During the summer of 1924,
our present athletic coach attended
the University of North Carolina.
In 1927-28 he went to summer
schools at Harvard and in 1928
also to the University of Michigan.
“Coach” played professional
baseball in 1923 with the Pitts
burgh National League club, for
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The election of new officers by
some of the home rooms has taken
place during the past two weeks.
These officers will serve until a
third election is held in the spring.
The election of this group
has not been completed all over the
school due to the fact that exami
nations, and meetings of clubs and
other school organizations have
intervened. However, this election
will be completed soon and the
further results will be published.
The officers which have been re
ported are as follows, named in the
order of captain, lieutenants, treas
urer, reporter, and cheer leaders:
Room 101: Herman DeLapp,
Elizabeth B. Bradner and Spencer
Osborne, Banks Postom, and Irene
Seward. (No cheer leaders.)
Room 105: Lucas Abels, Jewel
Hill and Clarice Snipes, Carl Jones,
La Verne Hudson.
Room 106: Carl Gibson, Dot
Franklin and Hazel Smathers, Bud
Gurley, Anna Gcrtiude Douglas.
Room 201: Pauline Haynes,
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NEW SIRING ENSEMBLE
IS 0RGANI2ED BV MISS
ERANK, lANUM 29IH
Will Give Series of Sunday
Afternoon Concerts — Harp
Soloist Will Play In One of
Programs.
Sophomores Get Honors for
Third Six Weeks’ Roll. Fresh
men and Juniors Next.
Almost every class seems to be
gaining honors lately. The seniors
have the best record on the tardy
chart, the freshmen put the largest
number on the semester honor roll,
and the sophomores have the most
on the monthly honor roll. The
“A” semester roll is boxed in The
Pointer, but the “B” and even
the “C” group have not as yet been
made public through the columns
of this paper.
The freshman class have thirty-
three students on the honor roll
for this semester, and thereby take
first place from the seniors, who
have thirty on the roll. The sopho
mores are not far behind with
twenty-seven of their number
listed, while the juniors are last.
They have twenty-five of their
group to make this honor. These
statistics include the “A,” the
“B” and the “C” groups. The
freshmen also take first place for
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IDNIORlfflEDS
INIIIAINIHORSBAV
NINE IN CAEEIERIA
Fifteen New Members Receive
Orders of the Club—“Duck
ing” a Feature of the Initi
ation—Refreshments Served.
L, ARMS!
OF
Flashing Forward and Guard
Are Awarded Prize Offered By
the Merit Shoe Co., This
City.
The wrestling team has been
discontinued and practice called
off for probably the rest of the term
on account of spring football train
ing which starts this week. As a
number of the boys going out for
wrestling play football. Coach El
lington thought it advisable to call
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On Friday night the girls lost a
very close basket ball game to a
hustling group of young lassies
from Germantown. But the game
was not won by the visitors until
they had had their shoes run off by
the local girls. And the irony of
the whole thing is that while the
Germanton girls were losing their
basket ball footgear the local
lassies were winning two pairs of
street shoes. Just before the game
W. W. Merit, of the Merit Shoe
Company of High Point, offered
two pairs of shoes to the girls
putting up the best performance
for the night’s contest. One pair
went to the best guard and one to
the most consistent forward. Maude
Hamil evidently had an eye on a
pair of shoes as well as on the
basket, for she won one of the
desired sole-giving comforts by
ringing up basket after basket,
with the regularity of the clang of
a farmer’s dinner bell. Edith Arm
strong guarded the visitors with
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A string ensemble, under the
direction of Miss Virginia Frank,
was organized and held its first
rehearsal after school, Tuesday,
January 29. The ensemble will
consist of eighteen first violins,
eighteen second violins, six cellos,
five violas, three basso and a piano,
making a total of fifty string in
struments.
The string ensemble will give a
series of Sunday afternoon con
certs. A harp soloist from Winston-
Salem will play several selections
at one of the programs. The public
will be cordially invited. The dates
of the concerts have not yet been
made public.
GIRLS PLAY PRACTICE
GAME WITH THOMASVILLE
“ ‘Mid howls and shrieks and
sights unholy” was the initiation
of the new members of the Junior
Hi-Y held Thursday night, Janu
ary 31st. The scene was the school
cafeteria. The old members of the
club conducted the form of the
initiation and were assisted by
Messers Johnston and Patrick.
The new members assembled at
7 o’clock, and were conducted into
the cafeteria. Here they “enjoyed”
such games as ducking in cold
water, and being ridden aloft by
an “aeroplane” and then told to
jump.
After the initiation, all were
served with ice cream and cake.
The boys who were recently elected
into the club and who were prop
erly initiated at this time were:
Sam Clapp, Odell Lindsay, Burt
Asbury, Thomas Gordy, Paul
Shoaf, Wendell Dunbar, James
Montgomery, Glen Hedgecoclq
Norton Jeffers, John Jennings,
Hariss Jarrell, William Myers, T.
G. Shelton, William Gross, and
Franklin Carpenter.
H
LIB” RAGAN IS CHOSEN
GIRLS’ VICE PRESIDENT
The girls’ basket ball team held
a practice game with Thomasvllle
one afternoon last week m the local
gymnasium. No official score was
kept; however, the High Pointers
outplayed the visitors in every
phase of the game, and it is a
certain fact that they ran up the
larger score. Miss Henderson sent
in practically every girl on the
local squad, trying several com
binations and giving each girl a
chance to show what she could do
in a game. The Thomasvllle coach
also sent in a great number of subs
Miss Henderson hopes to hold sev
eral practice games, as she thinks
it will strengthen the High Point
team and will help to carry the
local girls to the championship.
The announcement of the results
of the election of the girls’ vice
president shows that Elizabeth
Ragan was elected. This election
was held last week after the meet
ing of the girls of the student body.
The girls voted in the meeting,
but as there was some doubt as to
the count, it was decided by those
in charge that it would be best to
hold a second election. The nomi
nees of both of the contests were
Rose Askew and Elizabeth Ragan.
“Lib”, as she is popularly known,
is a senior and is a member of the
basketball team.
Helen Osborne was recently
chosen by the girls as their presi
dent for the year, and this election
of the vice president completes the
list of officers for the year 1929.