Qafudif,n i.
March winds have begun their
frolicking escapades, cutting ca
pers everywhere, and especially
around feminine hemlines. I just
couldn’t help overhearing bits of
conversation between two puffs of
wind as they began shooting the
breeze about . . . “Butterball” play
ing with liquid air . . . Harvey Til-
lis mixing- junior and senior liter
ature the same semester . . . Miss
Hunter acting in the capacity of
a preacher . . . Herbert Clapp and
Paul Brooks looking mighty proud
as they surveyed their “not-so-
new” new cars . . . Mr. Rodhe car
rying on an actual conversation
without using the adverb “actually”
. . . The absence of Betty Lee Cox
who was recently operated on for
appendicitis . . . Another H. P. H. S.
maid making history for herself—
Emma Jones, who lately became
a Mrs. Foster . . . Robert Brady
alertly listening to Mr. Charles W.
Brown of the F. B. I. as he told
about the escapades of “The Brady
Gang” . . . The mysterious “Sweet-
heart-of-the-Week” picture on the
door of the Pemican office . . .
That surprise party given by the
Pemican staff to Suzanne on her
18th birthday . . . The return of
Jack Powell to the basketball
squad after a week’s session with
■mumps . . . Relieved seniors who
turned in those precious term pa
pers . . . The impatient look on the
■countenances of all juniors and sen
iors when Mr. Whitley announced
that class rings had arrived . . .
Incidentally, have you noticed the
■change of mounting for this year’s
rings ? . . . Couldn’t help mention
ing the result of Friday night’s
game with Greensboro . . . Now
those two puffs of -wind have died
down to a whisper, but they are
mumbling about the way tennis
balls were kept in a whirl one aft
ernoon while Anne Garst and Ja
nette Hankins were “attempting”
to play some “pre-season” tennis
. . . Just goes to show you that
there’s something in the wind!
THE POINTER
VOL. 28. No. 6
HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH POINT, N. C.
February 28, 1950
Craven To Attend
D. A. R. Meeting
Doris Craven, the Good Citizen
ship Pilgrim from High Point High
School, will attend the state D. A.
R. convention at Charlotte March
2. She will represent the Alexan
der Martin Chapter of High Point.
Doris was chosen to be the
Good Citizenship Pilgrim on the
basis of dependability, leadership,
service, and patriotism.
The state Good Citizenship Pil
grim will be selected from all the
local representatives at the con
vention on March 2. They will be
judged on the basis of scrapbooks
prepared by the girls and giving
a picture of their lives and activ
ities. The state winner will re
ceive a trip to the National D. A. R.
Convention on May 19.
Last year Marilyn Robinette was
chosen as High Point High’s Good
Citizenship Pilgrim, and her scrap
book received honorable mention at
the state convention.
Doris will be accompanied by
Anne Newton of Trinity, and Nan
cy Jean Gray of Thomasville, who
were chosen as Pilgrims from
their respective schools.
Charles F. Carroll
To Speak Today
In Atlantic City
Mr. Charles F. Carroll, superin
tendent of High Point city schools,
will speak today in Atlantic City
on the subject, “A Usable School
Building for Modern School-Build
ing Education.” The occasion is
the annual meeting of the Ameri
can Association of School Admin
istrators.
In his talk which -will be pre
sented as the basis of a discussion
group, Mr. Carroll will state that
from 1950-1960 the American peo
ple will spend from eight to twelve
billion dollars on a school building
program.
He will describe the modern
school building as being (1) usable,
(2) beautiful without being decora
tive, (3) economical.
While being interviewed, Mr.
Carroll said: “A school has no
value except to the extent that it
promotes the educational program
carried on within.”
pictured above have reason to smile approvingly as they glance at last year’s
of their past services on the staff, they have been chosen to head the
f I ®®^ted to the left is Venetia Wilcox, associate editor; Albert Hale, editor-in-
cluer; and Mary Lib Casey, business manager.
N.H.S.ToHold
Convention
The High Point chapter of the
National Honor Society has sub
mitted the name of Clara Barton
as a candidate for admission in
the Hall of Fame in New York
City.
Each chapter of the Honor So
ciety in the United States was in
vited to submit a name. The per
son chosen must have been dead
for twenty years.
Mem.bers of the local organiza
tion recently completed a study of
the qualities of various persons
considered for election, and the fi
nal ballot contained the names of
Zebulon Vance, Clara Barton, and
Ztb Stewart.
After each chapter submits its
name, the one with the highest
number of votes will be sent to a
college of 100 electors.
The North Carolina State Con
vention of the National Honor So
ciety will be held in Concord on
March 3 and 4.
Tommie Lentz, president of the
local chapter, and four other dele
gates from High Point High School
will go to the convention. There
will be around 300 delegates in all.
Coming Up
March 3—Basketball game here.
March 7—Play by Masque and
Gavel.
March 8—Report Cards.
March 9, 10, 11—State A A Tour
nament in Durham.
March 16-17—Talent Show.
March 17 — Legion Speaking
Contest.
March 20—Community Concert.
Radio Schedule
February 28—Book Quiz.
March 1 — Scenes from Silas
Marner.
March 2 — Program by Dean’s
Office Staff.
March 7—Story Hour.
March 8—Drama and Music by
French Classes.
March 9—“Music We Like” by
Announcers’ Club.
March 14—Program by Oak Hill
School.
March 15—Study in Local Gov
ernment.
Look in the High Point Enter
prise and you will find the pro
gram which will be broadcast on
our school station each evening.
The program will be found at the
top of the regular network radio
schedule.
Faculty Has
Mock Service
“I love you truly, t-r-u-ly, dear,”
are strains which bring to one’s
mind a wedding; and that is ex
actly what the faculty brought to
the students (who forfeited a nice
shiny quarter) last Friday morn
ing.
A mock wedding was presented
by the high school faculty last Fri
day in the auditorium for the pur
pose of raising funds for the pur
chase of a tape recorder to be used
in connection with the radio sta
tion.
The wide-eyed students who
jammed the auditorium watched
the blushing buxom bride, Sgt.
Frank Shields, gaze down into the
eyes of the beaming groom, por
trayed by Mrs. Flossie Shaw. After
the traditional wedding music had
been rendered by Mr. Carl Cron-
stedt, the bridal pair spoke their
vows before Miss Louise Hunter,
the official splicer. The jilted
sweetheart, played by Mr. Paul
Walter, sang with tear-filled eyes
a song of grief while the other by
standers agreed sympathetically.
Only faculty members were cast in
the dramatization.
Hale, Wilcox,
And Casey To
Head Pemican
Flash! We interrupt at this
time to bring you a special news
bulletin from the Pemican office
at High Point Senior High School.
Today it was announced by offi
cials at the school that Albert
Hale, president of the junior class,
will edit the 1950-1961 yearbook.
Assisting him will be Venetia Wil
cox and Mary Elizabeth Casey,
who were chosen associate editor
and business manager, respec
tively.
And now, stand by for the news
in detail. vUbert, who is succeed
ing Suzanne Slate as editor, has
had nearly a year’s experience on
the yearbook staff. He has helped
in tbe publication of the Key Club
Directory and has worked with
the darkroom staff. Venetia and
Mary Elizabeth have also had a
year’s experience working with
the annual.
Helping Albert and Venetia on
the editorial staff will be: Max
Williams, Sam Gibson, and Jean
ette Hankins, engraving editors:
Vivian Miller and Tbomasine
'Strother, printing editors; Gladys
Hall and Prances Mull, copy
itors; Ronnie Current, sports ed
itor; Jean Larcom, art editor; Andy
Pickens, photographer; and Ann
Wright, typist.
Miss Dorothy Hollar, Pemican
faculty adviser, states that a busi
ness staff will be elected sometime
within the next few weeks, and
that some of the rising juniors may
be added to tbe editorial staff later.
She also says that work will begin
on next year’s annual during
'March.
Ann Wright And Sonny Sorrell Cop Votes For
Most Typical Boy And Girl Of H. P. H. S.
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ANN WRIGHT
Committee Chairmen
Chosen For Prom
Committee chairmen for the 1950
Junior-Senior prom have been se
lected. They are as follows: Dec
oration committee. Bob Fountain
and Anne Bain; refreshment com
mittee, Martha Stone; invitation
committee, Joan Crowder; pro
gram committee, David Driver and
Pat Jo’nnson; music committee,
Robert Brady; check room commit
tee, Darrell Winslow; ticket com
mittee, Betty Jo Snyder; and pow
der room committee, Geraldine Da
vis.
'Committee members will be
chosen by the chairman of each
of the committees from the list of
people who have signed up in Miss
Goodman’s and Miss Lindsay’s
rooms.
Junior And Sophomore
Emerge Victorious
Here’s the news you’ve been
waiting for—the most typical teen
agers of High Point High School!
From a slate of eight nominees,
the student body selected Ann
Wright and Sonny Sorrell as most
typical. The slate, consisting of
two nominees from each class, was
made up of Glenn Hudson, Jo Ann
Rothrock, Jimmy Johnson, Ann
Wi’ight, Sonny Sorrell, Helen
Ridge, Donnie Boone, and Peggy
Smithdeal.
Ann is a diminutive member of
the junior class, and is the bearer
of a thatch of naturally curly hair.
Oh yeah, boys, she’s a blonde. Her
sparkling personality and natural
wit make her a great favorite with
everyone. Ann is a lover of the
great out-of-doors, and spends a
great deal of time at the beach
every summer and at the rifle
range located near her home; she’s
a pretty good marksman, too. Last
year she was on the POINTER
business staff and next year will
be a typist on the PEMICAN staff.
Sonny Sorrell proves to be very
typical. A look at his history will
show that he likes to eat T-bone
steak, which makes muscles for the
sports he favors, baseball and foot
ball. This 5’-ll” Adonis likes girls,
and do they like him! Blue-eyed,
blond-haired Sonny’s constant com
panions are Monk Palls, Tommy
Wood, and C. B. Brown.
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SONNY SORRELL
McGuinn And Fountain
To Attend Convention
Talent Show Has
Aquatic Setting
Have you ever been at the 'bot
tom of the ocean ? That’s where
the 1950 Talent Show is going to
be (the setting that is).
The Talent Review with its 40-
member cast will emerge from its
watery habitat to give its only pub
lic appearances in the high school
auditorium Thursday and Friday
evenings, March 16 and 17. The
curtain will rise at 8 p. m.
An admission of 50 cents per
person will be charged for this two-
hour program, “The Pearls of
Pauline, written, acted, and pro
duced by the students of H. P.
H. IS. The talented cast includes
ballerinas, a tap dancer, an accord
ionist, pianist, vocalists, a rgirls’
chorus, and the Dreamsters. This
year something new has ;been
added in the form of a boys’ cho
rus line led by Jack “Butterball”
Petty (no whistling, please).
Rehearsals have been conducted
by Mr. Paul Walter the past four
weeks. While the cast has been
working for perfection, the com
mittees have been scurrying around
gathering props, arranging cos
tumes, selling tickets, and complet
ing other necessary tasks in order
to make the performance success
ful.
The National Key Club Conven
tion will be held at Columbus, Ohio,
beginning on April 28, and contin
uing throughout the week-end.
Members of the club will elect
a new slate of officers at the con
vention. The local club plans to
run Bill Barrett for International
Trustee.
Bill McGuinn and Bob Fountain
are to attend the convention as
delegates from the High Point
chapter of the club. First and sec
ond alternates are C. L. Corn and
Jack Petty.
The delegates, who will stay at
one of the 'Columbus hotels, will
be entertained at a banquet and
dance on Saturday night.
Lumberton To Be
Scene Of Library
Meeting In March
This year the annual spring
meeting of the North Carolina .Stu
dents’ Library Association will be
held in Lumberton on March 24
and 25.
The High Point High School Li
brary Club is sending four dele
gates to the convention, who will
be accompanied by Miss Rosemary
Raney, co-ordinator of the city
school libraries. The four student
delegates are Iris Scearce, Frances
Mull, Elzene Boyles, and Nancy
Samuels.
Frances Mull has received an in
vitation to serve on the nominating
committee at this meeting. Offi
cers for the coming year will be
elected at the spring convention.
Gilbert Murphy of Greensboro
High School is now acting-presi
dent of the association.
N. H. S.To Sell Cards
Senior calling cards will be sold
again this year by the National
Honor Society. Orders will prob
ably be taken within the next week.