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Vol. XIV. No. 14
High Point, N. C., Wedn esday, January 8, 1930
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Present Incumbents Will Lead
Fellow Students Until
Spring
Home room officers for the second
term were elected last Thursday
morning. This was the second election
of the year, and those chosen at this
time will hold office until a third elec
tion is held in the spring.
A captain, two first lieutenants,
two second lieutenants, a cheerleader,
a treasurer, and a reporter were chos
en in each home room. Some of the
groups decided to keep the same
treasurers and reporters who had
held office since the first of the year.
The following are the officers ac
cording to home rooms:
101—Captain, Harvey Curlee; first
lieutenants, Eloise Ingram, Katherine
Weant; second lieutenants, Wyatt
Wall, Meeta Heath; reporter, Eliza
McLaurin; cheerleader, Ed Cook;
treasurer, Bill Price.
105— Captain, Alfred Moffitt; first
lieutenants, Mildred Schulteiss, Har
ry Coble; second lieutenants, Dorothy
Smith, I)jrothy Willis; cheerleader,
Sam Winslow; reporter, John White-
scarver; treasurer. Rip Tabb; librar
ian, William McAnally.
106— Captain, Ellen Anderson;
first lieutenants, Kenneth Royal,
Weldon Hicks; second lieutenants,
James McLaurin, Mildred Von Drehle;
treasurer, S. T. Hensley; cheerleader,
Herman Stevens; reporter, Graeser
Thompson; library reporter, Seldon
Mitchell.
201—Captain, Floyd Adams; lieu
tenants, Carl Gibson, May Hayes;
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What The New Year Means
to You
By Mary Edith Woody
It means added opportunities to
gain the kind of education that
every boy and girl needs.
It means a chance to cultivate
special talents in the way of art,
music, and dramatics.
It means a time to develop hab
its of industry that will prove val
uable in after life.
It means an opportunity to de
velop the body physically through
healthful exercise and habits of
right living.
It means a possibility to develop
qualities of leadership through or
ganizations and extra-curricular
activities.
It means the strengthening of
habits of punctuality in meeting
obligations, and thoroughness and
dependability in the performance
of every duty.
It means fair dealing and un
limited honesty at all times.
It means a growth in school and
personal loyalty.
It means that every one in his
school life will strive for the high
est ideal—the chance to serve.
Jewel Welch Translates French
Letter; Prizes Given to
Nine Students
!e:
Mr. Johnston Makes Inspiring
Talk at First Assembly
' of 1930
Winners in the French contest
sponsored by the Broadhurst theatre
have been announced. They are Jewel
Welch, first prize of five tickets to
the Broadhurst; Kate Workman, sec
ond prize of three tickets; Dorothy
Forward, third prize of two tickets;
Sherrod Salisbury, Burt Asbury,
Agnes Byrum, W. L. Tabb, Mildred
Schulteiss, and J. H. Barker, one
ticket each.
Jewel Welch, winner of the first
prize, is a senior and has an excel
lent schola'stic record. She is an all
round student. When Miss Albright
was asked about Jewel, she said, “Oh,
she’s so dependable and so accurate
in her work that she never makes
mistakes. She made an excellent big
sister. I’m enthusiastic about Jewel.’’
In the dean’s opini;>n Jewel really
is a jewel. This is her second year in
French. Her teacher is Miss Leila
Bell.
Kate Workman, winner of second
place, is a junior. She also has been
making high grades in French. Dor-
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Harvey Curlee Is Honored
By Older Boys’ Conference
Calendar For January
Jan. 10—Basketball game with Gas
tonia—Here.
Assembly program by-
Oratio Club.
Jan. 14—Double-header with Salis
bury—Here.
Jan. 15—All-American Newspaper
Contest closes.
Jan. 16—Junior Class meeting.
Jan. 17—High Point vs. Greensboro
—Here.
Assembly program by
manual training depart
ment.
Jan. 22-24 — Mid-Term examina
tions.
Jan. 24—High Point vs. Asheville—
Here.
Jan. 28—^High Point vs. Charlotte
—Here.
Jan._30—Senior Class meeting.
Jan. 31—Assembly program by
Tumblers’ Club.
“Wo du nist, sei alles”—'“Wherever
thou art, be wholly there,’’ quoted Mr.
Former Students
Visit Higii School
With the beginning |i the holidays
many former H. P. Kk,?. students re
turned home to revisit ^he “scenes of
their childhood.’’ \
It seems r.c
SEIR l-y HEAD IS
Fifteen H.P.H.S. Boys Go As
Delegates to Meeting
In Charlotte
HISIORICALSOCIEEY
Miss Meador Spends Part of
Holidays at National
Conference
Miss Qraham Is
Northern Visitor
Miss Mae Graham, assistant librar
ian, spent the Christmas holidays in
New Y^ork and New Jersey. She re
turned Tuesday morning somewhat
sleepy and hungry. That’s not saying
that she was not fed while in New
York, but that she did not have the
time to eat before school.
When interviewed by a “Pointer”
reporter, she stated that the weather
was no colder than the weather in
High Point, but that it was sleeting
and snowing the 29th, and that on
Saturday there was a very thick fog
that the inhabitants compared with
a London fog. She spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister in New
Jersey.
While in New York she went shop
ping or rather looking. She saw Miss
Singer, who taught here last year but
is studying in Boston, and was spend
ing the holidays in New York. She
also visited Ellis Island.
She saw five shows: “The Little
Accident,” “It’s a Wise Child,” “A
Bird In Hand,” “Street Scene,” and
Jane Cowl in “Jerry.”
Johnston to the school on New Year’s
morning, in a talk appropriate to the
season.
“Around New Year’s time we
should take inventory of iourselves
and of the happenings of the past
twelve months,” he said.
The speaker compared life to the
surging of the waves or the swing
ing of a pendulum.
“Progress is not the same at all
time,” he remarked. “Days, months,
and even years may go by in which
you apparently make but little prog
ress, but all the time you should be
moving upward. It is impossible to
lead a neutral life. Every living thing
must move either forward or back
ward. T"he important thing is wheth
er we are putting forth an effort. We
play a large part in our own develop
ment.”
Mr. Johnston continued by saying
that people are forever getting ready
for something in the future, instead
of paying attention to the present. In
his way both the force and the im
portance of the present are lost
sight of.
“Only by putting all we have into
the present,” said he in conclusion,
“can we make the future secure.”
James Frazier Held Up;
Has Exciting Experience
James Frazier, student in the high
school, experienced a hold-up near the
the Knox upholstering factory short
ly before the Christmas holidays.
He was in a car v/ith three other
boys about twelve o’clock at night
when the incident occurred.
Threatening to Shoot, two men
jumped on the running board of the
car and tried to get the key. James,
however, was too quick for them,
and grabbed the key. The boys
began to fight the men. Rocks,
pieces of iron, and other weapons
were used, but no one was seriously
hurt.
After a few minutes of struggle
the men fled, and the boys lost no
time in getting awey from the place.
proper thing, when one Is home fm
vacation, to rush over to one’s old
high school, be met at the entrance
with open arms, trot all over the
building visiting former teachers and
classrooms, and have lunch in the
safeteria.
All this must be coupled with a
“dressed-up” appearance and a most
dignified air. Every one, however, en
joys these occasions, both the visit
ors and those visited.
Among those who came over to re
new old friendships were four out
standing members of last year’s sen
ior class: Frances Douglas, Dell
Hicks, Lucille Dunn, and Irene Mc
Anally from Salem .College.
Then Emma Fritz, student-teacher
at Lenoir-Rhyne, and Anna Gertrude
Douglas, who is making a name for
herself at Duke, were here.
Everyone seemed glad to see Fred
Ingram from State, “Red” Whitener
from Catawba, Albert Hart from the
Citadel, and David Parsons from
Guilford.
Dot Varner, the little blond who
finished here last year, came back
also.
There were others who visited the
high school last week and brought
pleasure to former friends and school
mates.
While certain other faculty mem
bers were using their precious holi
days for a bit of fun and merrymak
ing, Miss Mae Meador preferred t
more serious divershM:wtf~7rhr^^Tio-
tfiC'meeting of the American Histor
ical Association in Durham and
Chapel Hill from December 30 to
January 1.
Duke and Carolina were joint
hosts to the forty-fourth annual con
ference, this being the first time that
the national meeting has been held
south of Washington, D. C.
Headquarters for the astsociation
were in the Washington Duke Hotel,
Durham, but the general sessions
were divided betw'een the two univer
sities.
“Generally speaking,” said Miss
Meador, “the reports, discussions, and
dinner conferences were very inter
esting; nevertheless this cannot be
said of all.”
“The address of R. D. W. Connor,
of the University of North Carolina,
on the ‘Rehabilitation of Rural Com
munities’ was particularly outstand
ing,” continued Miss Meador, “and
the speaker was accorded the great
est ovation of any during the entire
meeting. Mr. Connor particularly
brought out the progress of North
Carolina in his message.”
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At the Older Boys’ Conference,
which was held in Charlotte Decem
ber 14, 15, and 16, Harvey Curlee,
president of the Senior Hi-Y, was
elected vice-president for next year.
When interviewed, Harvey said, “I
surely was surprised to find that I
had been elected to an office in the
Older Boys’ Conference. I think that
these conferences are a fine help to
the boys of North Carolina and Amer
ica”.
Plarvey was one of the fifteen boys
to go from High Point. Several were
sent from this school, and the rest
from various churches in the city.
The delegates left at noon on Friday,
December 14, and stayed in Charlotte
until Sunday. All the delegates agree
that thy had a fine time in Char
lotte.
Irwin Coffield, one of the delegates,
said: “I had a chauffeur to drive me
around. W'henever I wanted to go
anywhere, I just told the chauffeur
and he took me.”
The delegates arrived about 5:00
Friday afternoon. They gathered at
the Y, and were assigned t£~—-Iiieir^
homes fqr_-tb»--^^l^d. At 7:30
ere was another meeting, at which
the officers for this year were intro
duced. Dr. Rondthaler made a talk at
On Saturday morning the delegates
were divided into groups for discus
sion. Then they went back to the au-
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Miss Taylor Has
Resigned Position
1929 Has Witnessed Many Important
And Successful Events For H.P.H.S.
Events of more than usual import
ance have taken place in the year
which has just passed. 1929 has prov
ed to be a successful year in almost
every phase of high school activity.
From January 1, 1929, many stu
dents made every day count, and
they were still continuing to do so
when 1930 was ushered in. Some of
the outstanding happenings of this
successful year are chronicled below.
In January the National Honor So
ciety sponsors an Honesty Campaign.
The basketball team opens the sea
son by defeating Guilford Hi, while
the girls defeat Winston. Gilbert
Hankins is elected football captain for
1929. The “Pointer” enters the All-
American contest. Miss Frank or
ganizes the String Ensemble.
February is not without its events.
Seven out of eleven hundred students
make the “A” semester honor roll.
Robert Hubbard, Eagle Scout, is one
of fifty-two scouts in the U. S. to re
ceive the Harmon Foundation Scout
award. Rose Askew is elected secre
tary at the Student Council meeting
in Asheville.
The March wind is very successful
in blowing in the happenings of this
month. In the national contest the
“Pointer” is awarded third place. The
dramatic club presents a program of
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STAFF MEMBERS WANT
QUILL AND SCROLL CLUB
Members of the “Pointer” staff are
applicants for admission to the Quill
and Scroll club, a national honor so
ciety for high school journalists.
According to the constitution of the
club, to be eligible for membership,
the candidate must meet he follow
ing requirements: 1. He must be a
member of either the junior or senior
class. 2. He must be in the upper
third of his class. 3. He must have
done superior work in journalism or
in some phase of creative work. 4.
He must be recommended by a super
visor. 5. He must be approved by the
national secretary-treasurer.
This week specimens of each candi
date’s writing and his application with
the necessary recommendation will be
sent to the national organization.
T’he above requirements show that
membership in this society is not
easily gained, but that it must be won
by hard and constant work of a su
perior kind.
The students and faculty of H. P.
H. S. regret very much the resigna
tion of Miss Maxwell Taylor, who
taught freshman and sophomore Eng
lish. She resigned because the illness
of her father made it necessary for
her to be at home. Miss Taylor, a
graduate of Bessie Tift College, was
here only this year, but she made
many friends before she left.
Miss Mildred Walker is taking Miss
Taylor’s place. Miss Walker is a
.graduate of Randolph-Macon College.
While a student there she was editor
of the college paper, and a member of
both the hockey and basketball teams.
Miss Walker also studied at the Uni-
\’tersity of North Carolina, having
completed nearly half of the work
required for an M. A. degree. She
was a member of the Carolina Play-
makers while in Chapel Hill.
Pictures, Gift of ’28,
Hanging In Cafeteria
Three new pictures, as a part of the
gift of the class of ’28, have been
hung in the cafeteria in the last few
weeks. These pictures are master
pieces of art. They lend an atmos
phere of refinement and culture to
the room. The smaller two are com
panion pictures of Italian boys eating
grapes and melons. The third is a
sea scene done in a very realistic and
natural way.
The pictures were bought with part
of the money that the class of ’28 left
as a gift. They have been here at
the school for some time, but they
have been hung only recently.
It is hoped that having these beau
tiful pictures on the walls willl help
the students appreciate real work of
I art.