News For
Students
THE
Vol. XVII, No. 9
POINTER
News By
Students
High Point, N. C., Friday, April 21, 1939
Last Minute
News
Election returns . from senior
homerooms on Thursday morning
reveal that Sara Sears, Amy Lou
Holmes, and Akers Hutchens
were elected to write various
senior reviews for the Senior
Section of the Enterprise to be
published May 28. Sara Sears
was elected senior class prophet;
Amy Lou Holmes, class poet;
and Akers Hutchens, class his
torian.
Price—Five Cents
Girl Reserves To
Hold Conference
Rev. F. L. Conrad, pastor of
the Lutheran Church, will de
liver the commencement sermon
Sunday, June 4. Complete plans
of commencement exercises will
probably be announced in the
next issue of The Pointer.
Sergeant Jack W. McMahon,
of the High Point Police Detec
tive bureau, spoke to Mr. Sam
Smith s fourth period class
Wednesday on the subject of
‘ Criminal Investigation.”
The Girl Reserve Clubs of the
two Carolinas, West Virginia,
and Virginia will hold a confer
ence at Camp Betty Hastings,
off Walkertown road, June . 9-17.
Each club is allowed a cer
tain number of delegates to the
conference. They are chosen in
number according to the size of
the club and town. High Point
is allowed to send seven dele
gates to the conference. There is
a movement at the present, how
ever, to raise this quota to nine
delegates. The delegates must
be either Juniors or Seniors in
high school. Girl Reserve advis
ors, committee members, or sec-
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COUNCIL PRESIDENT
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The Senior High School or
chestra tied with Roanoke Ra
pids, scoring a two, for first
place in the State Music Con
test in session at Greensboro.
Charles Medlin won highest rat
ing in the cello contest. Bobby
Gayle, of Jr. High, won first place
in piano solo. The flute quartet
scoring a two, is composed of Mil
dred Jones, Sarah Scruggs, both
Senior High, and Irene Moose
and Helen Bissett, both of Jun
ior High. A trumpet trio of
Junior High, composed of Homer
Hayworth, Reid Marsh, Sloan
Gibson, won a rating of two in
the contest. The string quartet,
composed of Sloan Gibson, Thom
as Silver, Bobby Gayle, and
Charles Medlin, won a rating of
two.
The approved list of Junior
nominees for the student repre
sentatives to the Student Council
next year has been com
pleted. Others may be added
to the list later. From the fol
lowing list one boy and one girl
will be selected to the Student
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Candidates for the president of
the student council have been nom
inated, and a vigorous campaign
has been launched.
The candidates are: Mull Lutz,
Cecil Prince, Arthur Utley; Mary
Jane Wilson, and Billy Winders.
Their campaign managers are:
Darrell Sechrest, Edward' Short,
Bill Simmons, Sara Sears, and W.
H. Davis, respectively.
Registration is required before a
student may vote in this election.
Registration will continue through
Monday, April 24. On Tuesday
the speeches will be made. The
topics for the candidates will be:
Mull Lutz, Higher Type Citizen
ship; Mary Jane Wilson, Keeping
the Grounds and Building Beauti
ful; Bill Winders, Value of Sports
manship; Cecil Prince, Student
Participation in Government; and
Arthur Utley’s topic is School
Activities. The election will be
held during the latter part of the
week.
Senior Hi-Y Will
Initiate Members
The local Senior Hi-Y is mak
ing plans for the next two weeks
which will include many varied
and interesting activities.
Among these activities is the
electing pf new members.' No
names or’ nutnber of new mem
bers were available. Initiation
plans were also unavailable but
it is usually an interesting and
amusing sight for the onlookers
and should be again.
The Hi-Y’ers are also planning
to fete the Girl Reserves with an
outdoor form of entertainment.
Plans are, going forward under
the direction of Bob Truesdell,
president of the local club.
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ORCHESTRA TIES FOR FIRST
PLACE; FESTIVAL IS PLANNED
JUNIOfilLASSlEEr’”" vr.
PLANNED TO ELECT
A junior class meeting has been
planned for week after next for
the purpose of electing next
year’s senior council representa
tives. President Bill Simmons will
preside.
A slate has not yet been made
out for candidates for senior rep
resentatives, one boy and one
girl.
Also, included in the program
will be a discussion of the elec
tive courses provided for seniors
next year. The advantages of
Home Economcs, Business, Scien
ces, Manuel Training, Geography,
and other elective courses will be
presented, and the possibility of
the addition of other courses will
be taken up.
The election of Senior repre
sentatives necessarily comes a
little late in the year because the
president of the student body
must be selected from the junior
class before the representati'ves
are selected.
The pictorial review of the
Life Adjustment Conference, held
last week, gives us pictures of
two of the main speakers. Dr.
Clyde A. Milner, upper left, and
Dr. Henry Louis Smith, upper
right. Other pictures include stu
dent committees, two representa
tives from the faculty commit
tee, Misses Louise Hunter and
Leslie Johnson, and two speak
ers from Fort Bragg.
The High Point high school
music department is participating
actively in the muse contest held
in Greensboro.
Charles Medlin, local cellist,
won first place in the cello con
test. Shirley Silver was given
second highest rating in the pia
no contest. Bobby Gayle, of High
Point junior high school, won
first rating in this division.
The orchestra entered this year
after a four year absence, and
tied for first place with Roa
noke Rapids high school. The or
chestra was entered in the high
est place in second class. There
were no first class orchestras
entered in the contest. The
judge for the contest was
Dr. Mattern from the University
of Michigan. The string quartet
from High Pint high school re
ceived the second highest rating
possible. This was the only string
quartet entry.
A girls’ trio from the glee club
entered the contest. The boys
quartet which sang at the Life
Adjustment Conference and the
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PRAISEDOySTUDENTS
The second Life Adjustment
Conference of High Point High
School was held here Friday, at
tracting wide enthusiasm through
out the school.
Main addresses were given by
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president of
Guilford College and Dr. Henry
Louis Smith of Greensboro. Pan-
al discussions brought a wide
variety of distinguished experts
in their respective fields. Dr. W.
D. Perry of the University of
North Carolina gave an inter
esting address on Boys’ Problems,
while Miss Betsy Dupuy spoke
to the girls on Girls’ Problems.
Students of the school enthus
iastically entered into the activ
ities, including the tea dance
held Friday afternoon which was
attended by hundreds.
Darrell Sechrest, active leader
in the conference commented:
“I’m sure that this conference
has meant a lot to us and we
shall profit by it in years to
come.”
The Senior class held a meet
ing to discuss plans for the
remainder of the school year on
Tuesday, April 18. President Jos
ephine Deal presided. The de-
votionals were conducted by Ear
line Loftin.
Candidates for junior marshalls
were introduced and then dis
missed. Three types of com
mencement exercises were dis
cussed and a show of hands was
called for to determine what the
majority of the class desired.
A committee was. appointed to
determine whether or not the
class wants a senior dance. The
members of the committee are
Darrell Sechrest, Caroline York,
Mary Holton and Paul T.Bryant.
Chairmen of the various com
mittees necessary for the produc
tion of the senior play were in
troduced and they, in turn, intro
duced the members of their re
spective committees. T’he pub
licity committee includes Sara
Sears, chairman, Annie Laurie
Shelton, Ruth Griffith, Doris Al
bertson, Eloise Haney, Margaret
Harris, Martha 'Varner, Dorothy
Dean Davis, Frances Chappell,
Jack Paul, and Myra 'Ward; the
technical staff — Billy Barker,
chairman, Stephen Clark, Hoyt
Hedrick, and Baker Shelton; the
house committee — Akers Hut
chens, chairman, Geneva Crow
der, Baker Shelton, Mary Stroupe,
Marjorie Poster, Prank Myers,
Wade Morris, Charles Ivey, Amy
Lou Holmes, Wanda Harville;
the property and costuming com
mittee—Betsey Saunders, chair
man, Betty Smith, Doris Byerly,
Alfreda Hardee.
Announcement was also made
of the members of the committee
to choose the senior gift. The
members are: Frances Langley,
Iris Culler, Stephen Clark, and
Charles Ivey.
Miss Elizabeth Lindsay, facul
ty advisor, said that the senior
picnic will be held the last week
of school, while the under-class
men are having their exams.
HIGH POINT COLLEGE BAND
GAVE CONCERT WEDNESDAY
T h i r t y-Six Piece Band
Has Former High Point
High Students
Other students who took part
in the wide program offered
hope that the conference would
be duplicated next year. The
student chairmen who presided
at the panel discussions did an
admirable job keeping the dis
cussions lively.
The thirty-six piece High Point
College band, under the direc
tion of Mr. Olin D. Blickensder-
fer, presented a concert before
the student body last Wednesday
morning.
Dean P. E. Lindley, who is
manager of the college band,
presented the drum major, Rus
sell Hughes, who led the first
number, “Noble Men” which was
composed by Fillmore. The re
maining selections on the pro
gram were directed by Mr. Blick-
ensderfer.
The band was accompanied by
the twin drum majors, Emma
and Evelyn Whittiker.
Former High Point High School
students now playing in the col-
leg band are: Warren Godwin,
Cecil Freeman, Edith Vance,
Jimmy Clark and Jimmie Mc
Call.
AT
HILL STATE MEETING
TODAY
The program included the
following compositions: “Finlan
dia,” “Andante,” “The Gold and
Silver Waltz,” “The Anelus,”
“King Arthur,” and a group of
Mozart selections.
The debating team of High
Point High School debated in the
state meet at Chapel Hill yes
terday and will be debating to
day, the outcome of which was
not available in time for publi
cation.
Sixteen students trying out for
the debating team set the wheels
turning for the most successful
year in the six preceeding years
for the high school.
Kermit Albertson and George
Humphries, affirmative; and Dar
rell Sechrest and Bill Currie, neg
ative; were chosen to make up
the team. Ruth Koontz, affirm
ative, and Prances IJamilton, neg
ative, are the two alternates.
Practice debates were held with
Thomasville and Asheboro. In
the triangular debate with Win
ston-Salem and Greensboro, High
Point’s affirmative defeated Win-
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