SENIOR PLAY
FEBRUARY 12-13
THE POINTER
BURLINGTON GAME
HERE TONIGHT
VOL. 32, No. 4
HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH POINT, N. C-
Tuesday, January 26, 1954
Music Students
Attend Clinic
Twenty-seven members of the
Senior High orchestra have been
chosen to participate in the 1954
North Carolina All-State High
School Orchestra Clinic to be held
at Duke University on February
4-5.
Those selected are as follows:
Violins—Deanna Lewis, Sam Gar
rard, Rachel Richardson, Lawrence
Brown, Carolyn Kirkman, Paul
Moss, Jimmie Tedder, Marilyn
Pruette, Gloria Snotherly, Penny
Hutchinson; violas — Ann Hicks,
Betsy Ross Davis, Barbara Cran
ford; celli — Marvin Williams,
Nancy Hill, Mae van Zett, Becky
Hamm.er, Becke Blackwell; basses
— Dean Pruette, Shelby Jean
Grady, Betsv Burton; French
horns—L. G. Wilson, Tommy Dale;
clarinets—Mervl Pope, Margaret
Locke; flute—Betsy Bryant; tym-
pani — Larry Ledbetter; percus
sion—Bascom Redding.
Professor Allan Bone, a mem
ber of the Duke University Music
Department and director of the
Duke University Symphony Or
chestra, will conduct the clinic or
chestra. Mr. Bone has recently
studied with Pierre Monteaux,
conductor of the Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra.
Included on the program will be
the Caesar Franck Symphony in
D Minor, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s De
siring” hiy Bach, Mozart’s “Fine
Kleine Natchmusic” for string or
chestra, “Iphigenia in Aulis” by
Gluck, Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh-
ride,’’ and “Sophiticated Lady” by
Duke Ellington.
The program of activities sched
uled for the clinic, which will be
held on Thursday and Friday, in
cludes rehearsals Thursday and on
Friday morning. The 110-piece
orchestra will present its concert
Friday afternoon in the Durham
High School gym before an audi
ence of Durham High students and
teachers. A banquet is planned for
Friday evening, and members of
the orchestra are invited to attend
a performance by the Detroit Sym
phony Orchestra on Friday night.
Housing for members of the or
chestra will be furnished on Thurs
day night by Duke University
officials.
Sowers, Williams
Chosen As Rotarians
Jerry Sowers and Marvin Wil
liams have been selected as Junior
Rotarians for December and Jan
uary, respectively.
Jerry, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
W. Sowers, is a member of home
room 301. Marvin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Williams, is a member
of room 313.
Jerry is a member of the Beta
Club, Who’s Who, the varsity
basketball team, and is an Upper
House representative, and vice-
president of the Senior Class.
Marvin is also in the Beta Club,
a member of the FTA, the orches
tra, the A Cappella Choir, and the
Masque and Gavel. In addition,
both are in the National Honor
Society. 1
Other Junior Rotarians who have
been selected so far this year are
Dean Mac Pruette for September,
David Pancoast for October, and
Jim Casey for November.
In Brief ...
Class rings will be re-ordered
around February 16. Anyone who
wishes to purchase a class ring
this year must be ready to order
at that time.
The North Carolina High
School Library Association will
hold a convention here on April
2-3. The general sessions will be
held in the Senior High School
Auditorium. However, a dance
and banquet will be held at the
Sheraton Hotel on Friday night,
April 2. Between 200 and 250
are expected to attend this con
vention.
Any subscriptions for the Pemi-
can which are not paid for by
February 1 will be canceled.
The Beta Club is selling pen
nants in order to raise money.
These pennants have “High
Point HS” written in white on a
blue background and are selling
for 60c. Members of the Beta
Club have been selling them in
front of the cafeteria during the
lunch periods and at basketball
games. They are also available
at the school store.
Senior Play To Be Presented February 12-13
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the 1954 Senior play, “Every Family Has One.” They are (left to right),
first row: Patsy Handy, (prompter) Margaret Slate, Margaret f.ocke, Carolyn Roberts, Sarah John
son, Barbara Cook; second row: Paul Moss, Ray Montgomery, Becky Hester, Betsy Lewis (stage man
ager), George Eanes, and Ronnie Brewer; third row: Rachel Richardson, Miss Ruth Goodman (direc
tor) and Jimmy Casey.
Mr, Edwin Jones Joins Faculty
As City Schools' Music Teacher
A new member has been added
to the Department of Music in the
Fligh Point City Schools. His name
is Edwin F. Jones, and he is the
new orchestra leader at Junior
High School.
Mr. Jones is a native of Los
Ano-elps. California, and has proved
his love for his
native stale by
attending col
lege there and
te'''’hing in a
number of the
state’s schools.
HL oMM He has been a
student or has
H - taught in six
(ipliformia Hiuh
;chools and col-
leges.
He went to Butler University
rnd^ the University of Southern
California, where he received his
Master of Music degree in 1941.
Mr. Jones’s majors in the field of
music we^e strings and the violin.
He went back to the University of
Key Club Induction
Set For Thursday
The High Point Chapter of the
Key Club International will hold
its 1964 initiation Thursday night
at the Blair Park Clubhouse. The
fifteen inductees will make three-
minute sneeches on the subject,
“MTiat the Key Club Means to
Me” as part of the initiation cere
mony.
Originally scheduled for last
Thursday, the initiation was post
poned due to mid-term exams. The
new inductees are Larkin Kirkman,
Charles Vaughn. Byron Starnes,
Jimmy Marsh, Tommy Hayworth,
Edward Hill. Jerry Bullin, Rich
ard Lester, Tommy Lewis. Duane
Best, Wallace Stamev, N. H. Par
rish, L. G. Wilson, Jim Casey and
Joe Jones. New members of the
Key Club are selected by a vote
of the old members and usually
include candidates from the Soph
omore, Junior and Senior Classes.
At present the club has a member
ship of about 25, and holds meet
ings weekly.
BULLETIN
The Pointer is suonoering a con
test to name the “different look
ing” bison on the High Point High
School pennants, being sold by the
Beta Club.
All contestants must be paid
subscribers to The Pointer. Stu
dents wishing to enter should in
clude their names, homeroom num
bers, and the suggested names for
the bison. This information should
be put in The Pointer box in the
office or handed to any Pointer
reporter not later than Friday.
Southern California in 1951-1953
and worked there for his Doctor
of Music.
Very outstanding in Mr. Jones’s
musical career, were ten years of
teaching at the Jordon Conserva
tory of Music, at Indianapolis, In
diana. There he was instructor of
violin and conductor of the Opera
OrchestrH '-A the Conservatory.
He was also instructor of strings
at the University of Southern
California, and was director of the
band and orchestra at the Los
Angeles High School. Mr. Jones
has also been a teacher at the
Santa Barbara and Bret Harte
high schools in California.
Portuguese Visitor
Observes Schools
Mr. Tulio Lopes Tomaz, foreign
educator from Portugal, is now
visiting the High Point City
Schools. H(; will observe High
Point High School in action the
week of January 26.
His visit is made possible by the
International Teacher Education
Program, which is sponsored by
the U. S. State Department and
the U. S. Office of Education.
This program enables foreign edu
cators to obtain a real insight into
our public schools, their admin
istration, and their extra-curricu
lar activities.
Twelve of these foreign repre
sentatives are now visiting in
North Carolina. Each is assigned
individually to a selected school
system. Mr. Tomaz will be in High
Point through February 5.
He will visit classrooms in order
to study teaching methods. He
will probably be called on by teach
ers to tell students about his
country.
In his native country, Mr. Tomaz
is teacher and director of the ad
vanced courses in physics, chem
istry, and geography in Lycee de
D. Joao de Castro, Lisbon.
He will go to Washington, D. C.,
and New York City from here and
return to Portugal on March 4.
His first week in North Carolina
was spent in Raleigh at the North
Carolina Department of Education.
Mrs. Meeta Jackson is his hos
tess while he is in High Point.
Gaming
Jan. 28—Report cards
Jan. 29—Masque and Gavel in-
ductions
Feb. 4-6 All-state orchestra
clinic at Duke Uni-
versity
Feb. 12-13—Senior play
Feb. 25—Community Concert
Feb. 25-27 S t a t e Basketball
tournament in Win
ston-Salem
Triangular Debates
To Be March 26;
Tryouts Tomorrow
The annual 1954 triangular de
bate of the North Carolina High
School Debating Union, in which
High Point High is represented,
will be held throughout the state
on March 23.
The query being discussed in
this forty-second annual debate
contest is Resolved: That the
President of the United States
should be elected by the direct
vote of the people.
The debating tryouts will be
held tomorrow, to see who will
.represent High Point High in the
debate. Those indicating a desire
to go out for the team are Mar
garet Locke and Betsy Lewis who
were on the team last year, Linda
Groome, Albea Chafin, Bonnie
Tilly, Larkin Kirkman, Barbara
Crawley, Peggy Kepley, Anita
Eagle, Joe Baker, Lee Groome,
Howard Weiss, and Elaine Clay.
The schools whose debaters win
on either or both sides of the query
will send their winners to the dis
trict contests. Then all teams win
ning district titles on the affirma
tive or negative will compete in the
state finals later on in Chapel Hill.
Committee Improves
School Constitution
A committee consisting of five
members of the Future Teachers
of America has been working in
co-operation with the Student
Council to put the preamble to the
school constitution in better work
ing order. Gail Armstrong, Anita
Eagle, Carolyn Guyer, Dot Lloyd,
and Nancy Stockwell are mem
bers of the committee.
The following proposals have
been submitted to the Student
Council by this committee: resump
tion of activity period, establish
ment of an honor roll, alte’-ation of
lunch periods, showing of movies
and writing of English themes to
create more respect for property,
opening of a room where students
can study before school, and en
couragement of people with a high
scholastic standing to be well-
rounded.
This committee was formed af
ter a recent F. T. A. meeting in
which Dean Pruette and David
Pancoast, Student Council leaders,
and Miss Louise Hunter, adviser,
discussed the move which is afoot
to make the preamble more ef
fective. This is to be done by
studying ways and suggesting
measures which will improve the
school.
The preamble has provisions
pertaining to ethics, leadership, in
telligent “followership,” a spirit
of democracy, closer student-fac
ulty relationships, a higher schol
astic attainment, and more student
participation in school activities.
An air of mystery is suggested
in the title of this year’s Senior
play, “Every Family Has One,”
which will be presented in the
High School Auditorium February
12-13.
Becky Hester—as Essie, the
maid—repeatedly declares, “If you
ask^ me—of course, nobody asked
me.” Carolyn Roberts, in the part
of eleven-year-old Penelope, is
willing to do anything if it is
“made interesting.” Warry, the
budding author (George Eanes),
finally admits that perhaps his
grandmother was right—about be
ing “young in the springtime.”
It is necessary for Ronnie Brew
er, as Reginald, to defend his
mechanical ability from the with
ering remarks of his family. Bar
bara _ Cook plays his wife Laura,
who is anxious for her daughter to
belong to the Pour Hundred (so
ciety set).”
Marcia (Margaret Locke) is la
femme in a conventional love tri
angle. ^ Paul Moss, in the role of
, herwin, feels a responsibility to
live up to the Parker name, while
Todd Galloway (Ray Montgomery)
IS without “a dime or an ancestor.”
Saiah Johnson, as Nana, admits
that in this case ‘Tate is a woman
after all.”
Lily s (Rachel Richardson) car
eer as an actress begins right in
the Reardon home.
The conclusion is reached during
a ^ breakfast which Mr. Parker
(Jimmy Casey) describes as un-
hke any in his “fifty-four years of
breakfasts,” and which Mrs. Park
er (Margaret Slate) leaves in dis-
.gust, without being given her
“pat of butter.”
The entire Senior Class will be
gin selling tickets about a week
before the presentation. The price
has been set at 60 cents.
Miss Ruth Goodman, play di
rector, reports that most of the
members of the cast have already
learned their lines, and are really
putting enthusiasm into their
parts.
Y-Teen, l-lf-Y Dance
To Be February 6
The Senior High Y-Teens and
Hi-Y will hold a formal dance
Saturday, February 6, in the all
purpose room of the YMCA from
9-12 o’clock.
The theme will probably be cent
ered around Valentine’s Day. Phyl
lis Conrad, Loui Cox, Evelyn Hy
man, and Kitty Marsh will head
the decorations committee.
A local band with its vocalist
will furnish music for the dance.
During the intermission entertain
ment will probablv be nrovided.
Meryl Pope and Linda Groome
are in charge of the refreshments.
The planning committee was
composed of members of the Jun
ior and Senior Y-Teens and Hi-Y
and their advisers. They were
Nancy McNeill; Phyllis Conrad;
Linda Groome; George Cooke; Mr.
Jim Inson, Hi-Y director; and
Mrs. James Manning, Y-Teen di
rector.
Tickets for the dance will cost
a couple and 75c stag.
January Poll
Which Is Better?
The question presented for this
month’s poll was—Which do you
like better, the activity period be
tween second and third periods as
it was last year or the homeroom
period as we have it this year pre
ceding first period from 8:40 until
9 o’clock ?
Of the 120 students interviewed,
71 preferred the activity period as
it was last year, the general opin
ion being that it provided the need
ed break between morning classes.
Thirty-three students interview
ed said there were too many clubs
trying to hold meetings last year
and that complicated the arrange
ment of the schedule. General
agreement was that there were
too many students wandering
around last year who were doing
nothing. These 33 stated that they
liked the homeroom period this
year. Eight students said that
they liked both and could not say
which they valued more.
All of the teachers interviewed
like the homeroom period as it is
this year. They agreed with the
students that last year too many
clubs had to meet and too many
people wandered the halls.
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