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Vol. XVIII, No. 3
High Point, N. C., Thursday, October 24, 1940
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WHISPERING
GRASS
By Bill Currie
Sophomore President and Secretary Still Unelected
Here we go again, but what
the outcome will be remains
to be seen.
The other day we were sitting
in the stall of the Pointer await
ing inspiration to write this little
corner, when in
walked two young
gentlemen and
without any cer
emony they rais
ed the windows tc
the fullest height
Of course, we
were amazed at
the performance, but one of them
hastened to explain that they had
a political banner streaming from
the window. We were shocked be
yond recovery because it is a well-
known fact that the POINTER is
non-partisan.
Then we got to talking, and both
of them expounded at length on
their views of high school life. The
first stated he thought the home
work assignments were about 3b
times too long, and he didn’t have
such a high regard for the faculty
members. We believe he wished he
was back in junior high.
His colleague immediately hit
our sorest spot by declaring in no
uncertain tones that he thought
the POINTER was “very bad.” We
tried to keep our temper and de
fend our brain child the best we
could, but we were well aware of
the fact that he was not the only
one who thought that way. We
wonder if these two young inno
cents are shining examples of our
sophomore class.
love—LOVE
One of our staff members, and
a very efficient one, at that. Dot
Chamberlain, is often very much
peeved with us because we aren’t
in love with her boy friend like she
is. We have never been able to un
derstand a person who is not able
to love alone. When one loves, its
okay, but don’t try to make every
body else love your lover. That s
pretty involved, but you might be
able to figure it out if you try
hard and long enough.
This corner wishes to extend a
bunch of orchids to the high school
band. Enough cannot be said about
the praiseworthy improvement that
has been made this year since Mr.
Jimmy Davis took over the shoes
of director. We wish them, if pos
sible, even greater success in the
future.
THE TRUTH
A couple of guys were sitting
behind me at the auto races Sun
day, and needless to say, they
were not quite what they should
be. One said to the other, “Say,
Jim” (Jim wasn’t really his name),
“did you see that bunch of guys
from somewhere beat - - - - outa
High Point high the other night?”
The one addressed, looking all
' around, “Shhh!! Yeah, I saw it but
it was unfair. Yeah, it was, ’cause
I heard they were gonna get Billy
Myers, that Lexington back, for
draft dodging.”
S,,oop McCrary, Lexington
scribe, seemed to feel that the Bi
son had won a moral victory last
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New Amendments Reality As Lower House Assembles
CuUer Will
Act In Role
Of Speaker
Delegates Given Heart-Warm
ing Lecture on “School
Morale”
Over a year of hard work
was climaxed Tuesday after
noon when the first meeting
of the new Lower House of
the Student Council convened
for business.
Vice President Ruth Culler will
preside over the lower house in the
absence of the president. That rule
is merely a formality since the
president will always be absent,
and Ruth Culler will naturally be
the speaker of the house.
The delegates were given a tho
rough talking to by Humpereys
and Miss Hunter on, “School Mo
rale”. School morale is defined as,"
having a larger and finer school
spirit, and the desire to aid your
school to reach the summit through
cooperation with the faculty and
fellow class members.”
PREXY EXPOUNDS
The president declared that
every student should feel it his
duty to uphold the principals for
which the principals for which
High Point high school stands, and
he also stated that every student
should try to make the school bet
ter by personal contribution to the
upholding of the rules. He took
special care to call upon each of the
newly elected members to do their
bit to pass the responsibility onto
the student body at large.
The Lower House of the Student
Council is composed of a represen
tative from each home room, and
give wider student participation.
The house will pass on all legis-
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ILDEBTOH IN’the FOB
fISS
Pictured above are the students upon whom the Sophomore and Junior classes have bestowed offices in
recent elections, and those who are still subject to run-offs. Top row reading from left to right: John
Crowder, sophomore vice-president, Ray Williard, still running for sophomore president, Leigh Roden-
bough, who is in the same boat with Williard, and Barbara Lynn, sophomore treasurer. Bottom row: Bill
Sizemore, junior president. Tommy Stanton, junior vice-president, and Dina Taylor, Junior secretary and
treasurer.
TAYLOR AJ_P0LLS
Prexy Sho^s Real Political
Genius After Wtihdrawing
V ice-Presidential
Council Looks to Future
P.-T. A. OPENS
CAMPAIGN FOR
MEMBERSHIP
First Meeting Will Be Highlighted
By Department Display
Plans For Coming
Activity Already
Being Fdrmulated
Motion Pictuit and ' Social
Standards Conference Be
ing Considered
HOMECOMING
SUCCESSFUL
LAST WEEK
Parade
Headed the
Celebration
Colorful
In a press conference the other
afternoon. Senior President Gloria
Ildreton stated that her plans for
the future were indefinite, in spite
of the fact her platform speech
stated that her plans were definite.
Glancing over the platform
speech, we find that the president
offered to the students a wide pro
gram for the future which was
headed by a social between the
junior and sophomore classes with
the seniors heading the group. Also
the social standing between the
three classes would work on a
larger scale.
After her conference with Sen
ior Adviser Miss Lindsey, the
president said that the seniors
would hold a class meeting in the
next few days.
Bud Waite To Tell Of Adventures
With Byrd On Collins Festival
Rotary Sponsored Entertainment
Will Bring Two Additional
Shows to High Point
Tonight, Bud Waite will relive
his adventures with Admiral
Byrd in little America as he pre
sents the second in the Collins
Entertainment Festival series to
an enthusiastic audience in the
Senior high school auditorium.
The first in this series was a
musical drama built around the
life and love of Frank Schubert,
famous composer, presented on
October 17, by the Hu^o Brandt
company.
November 1, the Doris Peterson
company will p^'esent the third
in the series, a marimba and
xylophone musical program. Do
ris Peterson has been proclaim
ed National Champion of Marim
ba and Xylophone.
The fourth and last performan
ce, on November 7, will be a play
Preceeding the actual campaign
for membership, the Parent Teach
er council met October 17, to work
out plans for the coming “Parent
Go to School Night”, and also
elect officers for the council.
Mrs. T. A. Tilden was elected
chairman of the council while the
rest of the members were urged to
aid in the campaign for member
ship in the Parent Teacher Asso
ciation proper. The drive will take
place between the dates of October
18, to October 25, and( the council
wishes to urge every student,
through the POINTER to try to
convince his parents that it is a
duty and a privileged to become
members of the association.
In the “Parent Go To School”
activity the members of the ocun
cil will serve as joint hostesses!, in
the home rooms before the meeting
in the auditorium, and will assist
the teacher in greeting all the vi
siting parents.
After the greeting in the home
home rooms on the night of parent
visitation the entire aggregation
of parents, anxious to learn of the
progress of their particular child,
will convene in the auditorium
where they will be addressed by
Charles C. Carrill, superintendent
of High Point public schools.
At the conclusion of the as
sembly the parents will follow the
schedule regularly observed by
their children on every school day.
Of particular interest will be the
science displays, and most of all
the Physics outlay which will be Under the able direction of Miss
set up entirely by the students to Virginia Frank the Artist’s Bu-
show the principals of modem
With a keen foresight for the fu
ture, the student council is already
making plans for their acmpaign
to make High Point high school
one of the nations leading points in
student government.
The lower house has already
begun to function and that is a
milestone in the history of stu
dent government in High Point
high. .
The council plans to sponsor a
feature length motion picture in
January, immediately after the
current serial is completed, and
plans for that movie are already
taking shape. The company from
which the council planned to secure
the film sent an interesting list
from which student officials will
most likely select a story starring
that star of] stars. Jack Benny.
The question of dances has been
settled once and for all by the
council after a conference with
Prinicpal D. P. Whitley. It is an
established fact that certain fac
tions of citizens do not approve of
dances sponsored by the school,
and therefore the council feels in
deed fortunate in being able to of
fer two dances to the students dur
ing the coming year.
One will be held after the Social
Standards conference which will
come next spring, and t he
other will be the feature social
event of the year, the Junior Sen
ior prom, at which time the real
splendor of High School life is
shown off. I.
With a flashing array of blue
and and white and music by the
band. High Point high school be
gan the 1940 homecoming celebra
tion with one of the most colorful
parades the school has ever under
taken.
Each romeroom participated in
the project by selecting members
of the homeroom to carry out their
ideas. The parade began at the
school about 3 o’clock, and the stu
dents marched through the busi
ness district of the city. It was led
by the cheerleaders, who were fol
lowed by the drum major, Tom
Henderson, and the majorettes.
Since cars weile excluded, babjj
carriages, horses and wagons, and
bicycles took their places. An out
standing feature was the large
dummy displayed by room 210. Pla
cards assuring the Bison’s success
were in evidence.
After the parade, a pep rally
was held at the vacant lot beside
the postoffice, with the cheerlead
ers and the band leading the activ
ities.
students, and other loyal support-
Over 6.000 High Point alumnae,
ers attended the game at Albion
Millis Stadium.
CROWDER PILES UP BIG
MAJORITY, KNOX AND
HUNSUCKERON COUNCIL
Run Off to Take Place Sometime Next Week, Candidates Re
new Campaigning for New Vote.
After a heated campaign and a closely fought election,
the sophomore class is still without a president, or a secre
tary. Ray Williard and Leigh Rodenbough are locked in a
strangle hold for the president’s office, while William Craven
and Margaret McKinney are both without a majority for
-4* secretary.
John Crowder carried off the
vice pesident’s office with a and-
slide over John McHugh. This is
Crowder’s first victory in school
politics by such a convincing ma
jority.
The student council, at its next
meeting will find representing the
largest sophomore class in history,
Eddie Knox, and Sara Coe Hun-
sucker. Both of thes» students
come to high school as recognized
leaders from Junior Highh and
will be valuable to the council in
that they are both firm believers
in Student Paritcipation in a wide
scale.
The fact that the president’s
race is yet to be decided make it
imperative that a run-off between
the two surviving candidates take
place some time next week. Class
Adviser Mr. Ken Smith announced
that definate plans for the run-off
would be announced in the future.
The winning council candidates
stood for all the things that class
officers have been standing for
since time began, but they put it
across in such a way that the stu
dents were convinced that a better
future would be in store for the
class if the votes went for Knox
and Hunsucker.
Naturally being new to the organ
ization of high school policies, the
sophomores had a little trouble get
ting their machinery to run
smoothly, but now with the ex
perience on one election already
behind them, it is expected they
will have hard battles for office,
and votes will be roped in by the-
usual methods with which every
student is familiar.
While it is comprobable that any
further official campaigning will
be open, there is already a cam
paign of back slapping going to at
tempt the election of both the
candidates.
Artist’s Bvireau
Selected by Frank
Bud Waite, pictured above, will
appear on the high school stage
tonite in a lecture on his harrow
ing experience with the second ex
pedition of Admiral Byrd to the
South Pole. He appears as a spe
cial attraction of the Collin’s Fes
tival.
“The Big Pond” which was a very
popular comedy hit in both New
York and Chicago.
science, and new devices. Mr. Tho
mas Baldwin, High Point’s Ein
stein, will be on hand to offer
technical knowledge when it be
comes too tough for the students,
and if it becomes too tough for him,
its too tough to be asked.
Every parent is urged to join
the Parent Teachers Association
since it is known to bring about a
better understanding between the
parents, the teachers, and the pu
pils themselves.
reau has a membership of about
thirteen. Those who tried out and
were accepted are as follows;
Pianists, Peyton Vorhees, Juanita
Coppedge,, Alice Rae Turned, Bob
Gayle; fluts solos, Phyllis Strick
land, Sarah Scruggs; violin, Jack
New Reports
Are Lauded
“The true purpose of education
is to effect changes in conduct on
the part of the person educated.
Only that person has been truly
educated during a term, a year, or
any other period of time, whose
conduct has been materially chang
ed at the end of that period as
measured by his conduct at the be
ginning.”
Realizing the truth of this quo
tation, which appears on the stu
dents’ report card, the administra
tion has adapted a new report card
on which students are to be graded
on their attiudes and habits as well
as their scholastic ability. There
are ten of these new items which
are as follows: attiude, courtesy,
dependability, effort, initative, self-
reliance, purposefulness, orderli-
Firmly installed, in their offices,
the Junior Glass leaders begin a
serious campaign to make tne un
derclasses outstanding in school
life this year.
In the election which was held
October 15, the Juniors selectea
Bill Sizemore as president, and
backed him with Tommye Stanton
in the vice president’s chair, while
Dina Taylor will be the secretary
and treasurer.
Sizemore showed real political
genius which will always be need
ed in High Point high school, when,
rather than risk his chances
against charming Tommye Stan
ton for the vice presidency, he
withdrew; from that race and en
tered the presidential campaign
by petition.
This shrewd move on his part
netted him the office, as he gained
popularity with amazing speed
once announced to be in the run
ning for the main, office while he
had been only an average candi
date for vice president.
The Juniors showed their taste
for beauty and brains as well
when they elected Tommye Stanton
to fill the vice presidential seat.
She is a class leader and one of
High Point’s five crack band ma
jorettes.
The elecion of Dina Taylor to
the office of secretary and treasu
rer was no surprise. A leader for
several years in class work, Miss
Taylor has either held office, or
been dominant behind the scenes
ever since she entered High School.
All three of the winning candi
dates ran on about the same plat
form as did those who were de
feated. A wider social activity, and
greater co-operation between the
classes constituted the planks up
on which the candidates based
their campaigns.
It seems that those elected con
vinced the class that the plans
would be firmly nailed into the fi
ber of student activity in High
Point high school.
HONOR SOCIETY
At the initial meeting of the
year, the National Honor Society
elected the following ofii
President, Ruby Parker; .
ident, Charles Medlin;
Katherine Cross; and treasurer,
Ruth Culler. This is the first
time in several years that a girl
has been elected to the office of
president.
As the first project of the year
the society will sponsor the sale
of Christmas cards, which is a
usual custom. These cards will be
on sale in a few weeks and may be
secured from any member of the
society.
Davis Improves Maneuvers for Band
As Spectators Are Amazed at Sight
Dillard and Jacquelin Price; String
bass, Kelly Lawoon; Cellist, Char- ness, self-control, punctuality, and
honest,
les Medlin; viola, Jacquelin Price;
trumphet, Homer Haworth; accor-
dian, Peyton Vorhees; and cova-
llsts, Gilbrt Gray (bass) and Mar
garet Kernodle (saprono), Rebecca
Conrad has been tentively accepted
as a pianist.
Although the new report cards
are not yet well understood by the
students, both the students and fa
culty realize the great possibilities,
and the great adventures in this
new system of recording grades.
High Point high school’s crack
band takes! the stairs to greater
heights every appearance as the
public at large as well as the stu
dents heap praise upon the work
accompished so far by the director,
Mr. Jimmy Davis.
Homecoming night saw the
seventy piece musical organization
from the words, “Hello Grads” be
fore the High Point stands, in hon
or of the graduates who had re
turned for the homecoming tilt be
tween the Bison and Lexington.
The adition of new members
from the musical talent of Junior
high makes it probable that the
local band wil receive a much
higher rating at the state contest
this year, both on the parade field
and on the concert stage.
As a parade band, the Bison
marchers can compete with the
best. They have five of the clas
siest majorettes in the state, either
in high school or colleges and can
boast of excelent drum majoring in
the person of genial Thomas Hen
derson.
Henderson come to High Point
with experience. He had led a band
in junior high, both in Asheville,
and Roanoke, Virginia, and is rece
iving expert instruction under Mr.
Davis, band director, who has been
one of the greatest drum majors
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