JUNIOR POINTER
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF HIGH POINT JR. HIGH SCHOOL
VOL. 9. NO. 8.
HIGH POINT, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1937
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR
Bits of News Regarding Places Many Junior High Pupils
Expect to Spend Their Vacations Gathered By Students
(Reid Marsh)
Not much has been said about
the band this year but maybe every
one has heard our practicing and
it has’t been necessary to say any
thing. We have worke-. hard and
ai'e proud of what we have accom
plished.
We have about thirty people in
the band. They are as follows:
George Humphries, and Coy Moose
play the drums; Thomas Taber,
Charles .Taber, James Dewey Foust,
Carl Erickson, Arthur Lyon, and
Edward Sale play clarionets; John
Wilson, Reid Marsh, Arnold Koonce,
Homer Haworth, Billy Kiser, Banks
Hamiliton, Hunter Dalton, Otis
Chapman, and Elmo Jenkins play
the trumpets and cornets; Thomas
Dodamead, and Orlando Roland
play the trombones; Bill Cuz’i'ie and
Robert Hedrick play the baritones;
John Haworth and Sara Ccruggs
play the flutes; Bruce Quigley and
Pete Vail play the meliphones; and
Oscar Whitescarver, George Lyon,
and Billy Bencini play the saxi-
phones.
We have a band room where we
practice and have a very good
time. We have been practicing
every morning except two, which
are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, get
ting ready for the May Day Pro
gram. In the May Day Program,
we played Honor Roll March, Good
Sportsman March, Prep March, and
Fighting Spirit March.
Miss Sharp has asked several
people from the band and orches
tra to play duets, and solos during
the year. Some of us went to
Cloverdale School to show them
some of the instruments and play
for them. Bobby Gale and Sloan
Gibson played a violin duet,
“America the beautiful,” Bill Cur
rie played a solo, “Massa’s in the
cold, cold Ground;” Bruce Quigley
played a solo, “Home, Home on
the Range;” Sara Scruggs played
a solo; Reid Marsh and John Wil
son played a duet, “My Faith Looks
Up to Thee;” Thomas Dodamead
played a solo, “My Bonnie Lies
Over the Ocean;” Thomas Taber
played a solo, “Old Lang Syne;”
and Miss Sharp accompanied us at
the piano. Miss Titman asked John
Wilson and Reid Marsh to play
“My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” for
chapel.
We are working on some new
marches for the music festival at
the close of school.
We are proud of our band at
Junior High School and are vez'y
grateful to Miss Sharp for the
way she has helped us.
“Didja ev'er go a-fishin’ on a bright
sunny day?” That’s what I hope to
do this summer. When the south
bound train leaves High Point, I ex
pect to be among the passengers who
are departing for their summer va
cations. Even now in my mind’s eye,
I can see m-y Aunt’s house sitting
peacefully in the center of a small
valley. Tall oak trees cluster about
it creating pleasant shade. Nearby
there are the fruit trees, vineyards,
and watermelon fields filled with an
abundance of fruit. These are some
of the pleasures that I expect to ex
perience .this summer when I go to
visit my Aunt Maude.
—Mary Frances McEver
How would you like to spend your
vacation? I know there would be
many different answers, but I have
only one thing I want to do and that
is spend a week at camp. I could
go swimming twice a-day, then I
would go canoeing or take a hike. In
the morning we have a time to hike.
We have a time to make beadwork,
leatherwork, or aircraft.
—Arthur Lyon
I would like to spend a month or
two of my vacation time at camp
where I could enjoy such sports as
basketball, golf, baseball, canoeing,
swimming, serf-boarding, track, ten
nis, rifle, hikes, and camping trips.
The ones I like best are rifle and
track. At the end of each month we
have a meet in each event. The boys
are divided into four groups, accord
ing to age. Near the end of the sea
son, there is a canoe trip, down the
French Broad River to Asheville. We
have iiiovico at camp, and on Friday
anybody who wants to can go to Bz’e-
VACATION
vard to a movie. There is a store
where you can buy candy and drinks.
—Horace Haworth
INDUSTRIAL ART EXHIBIT
(Zula Mae Spencer)
For the fiz’st time in recent years
the Industrial Art Department of
the Junior High School will give
an exhibit for the public.
This exhibit will be placed in the
windows of the Beeson Hardware
Store, Friday, May 21 through May
28, under the supervision of the In
dustrial Art teachers, Mr. C. E. Ro
man and Mr. R. K. Looney.
The best projects will be selected
from all grades. Some of the things
to be selected and exhibited will be:
end tables, smoking stands, magazine
racks, waste paper baskets, plant
stands and what-nots.
V
(Phyllis Strickland)
is for vacation, whether voyage
or visit.
As safe by the air as by water. Or
is it?
A is for anteaters and alligators
too.
You can see them this summer in
most any zoo.
C is for climate and climb, also
coast.
The vacation place m-any people like
most.
A is for angling, astronomy and
art.
In these things, this summer, will
many take part.
T is for tennis, target and trout.
Three sports Americans know much
about.
I is for insects, a collection to make.
Their hides or their bites, a sample
to take.
0 is for ocean, majestic and blue.
Many vacation there. How about
you?
N is for the nation whose birthday
is nigh.
It will come very soon on the fourth
of July.
The ones that are attending camp
are Meredith Clark Slane, Nancy
Bennett, jilelvin Hayes, Mar
guerite Murray, Garnett Hin-
shaw, Reid Marsh, Mary Car
oline Simmons, Peggy Jane Bry
ant, Jo Ingram, Sara Scruggs, Bes
sie Lee Creech, Norm.a Page, Mary
Ann Thomas, Sarah Huthchins,
Prank Hunsucker, Norman Silver-,
Frank Montgromery and Sara Ray.
Several are going to Florida: Guy
Brewer, Walter Sullivan ,Charles Mc-
Phersn, June Phillips and Grace
Howard.
Beulah Tedder, Margaret Burgess,
J. S. Well, Marion Rowland, Etta
Sue Ledbetter, David Bouldin, and
Jack Winders are going to Washing
ton.
The beacl^will be represented by
the following: IV'^ry Ann Coe, Adel
Shiffield, A. B. Stanton, Reid Marsh,
Edward Clary, Phyllis Strickland,
Garnett Hinshaw, Arvil Newsom,
Maxine Craven, Jane Hulin and John
Barneycastle.
Other places that will be visited
are Mexico by Byron Grandjean,
Robert and Betty Cowan;Virginia
Snyder; Lake Waccamore and Pamli
co Sound; Phyllis Strickland, Nag’s
Head and Blue Ridge Mountains;
Jack Kimble, Virginia;;; June
Phillips, Georgia; Ho;lt Hinley,
Asheville, N. C; Peggy Jane Bryant;
Michigan; Clifton Moore, Hawk’s
Island; Gloria Ilderton, Sullivan’s
Island; Mariam MacDonald, Canada;
Dorothy Jolly, Albermarle; Sarah
Snipes, Tennessee; Betty Jean Cul
ver, Ganada.: andSarah Hutchens,
Tennessee.
llOR HIGH PUPILS
GIV[ lY FESflVAL
Martha Cherry, for her summer
vacation, is going to Myrtle Beach.
She plans to stay the entire summer,
riding horse-back, doing general art
work, and, of course, swimming.
Shirley Pierce is also going to the
&each for her vacation. She is going
to stay a short length of time and is
expecting a nice trip.
A vacationer from room 3 is Min
nie Lee Kennedy. She is, for an en
joyable length of time, going to
Charleston, S. C.
Dorothy Boyd, Mary Jo Wilson,
Kathryn Cross, and many others are
spending vacations in “The Old North
State.”
After spending o ne day in Wil
liamsburg, I can think of nothing I
would like better than spending one
week there. I would like to sit on all
the old benches, and day-dream of
the past, of the people who once
walked the street and lived in these
homes. The people who lived in
Williamsburg, Thomas Jefferson,
Patrick Henry, and Governor Dine-
viddle and others there seem' more
real after one has spent a day in
Williamsburg. The restoration of
Williamsburg originated with an
Episcopal Minister. He explained his
dream to Mr. Rockefeller. Mr. Rock
efeller decided to undertake it-
—Bobby Lindsay
I would like very much to go to
my uncle’s on a vacation. He lives
in the mountains and I would have a
grand time I am sure. Every time
I go up there I go fishing or rabbit
hunting every day. But at night we
go fox hunting. We go swimming
lots. I would like to spend all sum'-
mer, there.
—William Beamon
Student Council Stresses
Protection Of Grass
SUMMER
BOOK REPORTS IN
All pupils in room 212 have
handed in their required eight book
reports. Our room is very proud
of this record. All during the year
our record was quite high.
(Mary Jo Wilson)
The thunder storms are beginning.
Summer flowers they are bringing.
The birds are heard singiip?
Their merry voices ringing through
all the trees.
The happy children are shedding
their shoes,
Even the grouches are losing their
blues.
The roses are proudly displaying
their hues.
While the mocking bird tells us
Such glorious news in rhythm to
the breeze.
Pupils in room 112 are
sorry Loyd Gray is sick.
very
(Gloria Ilderton)
Every May each school has a
May day program. Well, Junior-
High had the very best this year.
With Hallie Peatross as our Queen,
it made it all better.
The Queen and her attendants
entered and they made a wonder
ful sight. Her maids of honor
were Margaret Hancock and Mar
tha Jane Britt. The attendants,
who were, Peggy King, Vera Rus
sell, Marie Goodman, Elva Myrick,
Willie Cecil, Margaret Causby, Es
sie Hazzard, Elizabeth Davis, Lu
cille Cochran, Mable Wood, Doris
Long, and Elizabeth Lawson, danced
the minuet before the queen.
Meredith Clark Slane danced
around the May pole. The May pole
dance was done by Rebecca Con
rad, Billy Frasier, Ann Tyree,
Gloria Packer, Carolyn Jones, Sarah
Cox, Rachel Sappenfield, Helen
Bissette, Diana Taylor, Elizabeth
Andrews, Nancy Woolen, and Peggy
Jane Byrant.
A few boys showed their skill
in stunt performing. Mrs. Frost’s
home room and Garnett Hinshaw
and Betty Dean Knox did some
excellent stunts also.
Jack Preston was the court jes
ter and had the school screaming
most of the time.
Candy, ice cream, and bailoons
were sold during the performance.
The queen dressed in a long
white taffeta gown and a silver
crown upon her head, marched
stately out, followed by her atten
dants. A very small, little girl and
boy carried the Queen’s train.
The whole performance was ex
cellent and was enjoyed by the en
tire school.
(Nancy Cox)
The regular meeting of the Stu
dent Couircil was held in the cafe
teria on April 26. The president
called the meeting to order and ap
pointed monitors for the following
week. Miss Brown discussed with
the monitors their duty at certain
places. Also, the members discussed
the games of “handball” that are be
ing played very much around the
building on the walks. They decided
that running after the balls and
watching the games, are making the
grass look very worn and ugly. An
effort will be made to protect the
grass during these games.
The program chairman had plan
ned a special program, so Byron
called on different persons to enter
tain the members- First was a duet,
“Uncle Ned” by Gorge White and
'fommy Stanton. Rebecca Conrad
was asked to dance, but because
dancing isn’t in her “line of busi
ness,” Elaine Welborn danced for
her. Byron then asked Marjorie
Morgan to give her opinion of the
May Queen Candidates and what she
thought of the election. Her remarks
were very interesting.
The next meeting was held on May
10. The president appointed moni
tors for the following week and. dis
cussed various subjects with the mem
bers. They then sang “Old Folks at
Home.” Gloria Ilderton gave an in
teresting account of her recent trip
to Detroit, Michigan. The m.eeting
was then adjourned.
GARDEN CLUB PROGRAM
The Garden Clubs of High Point
are giving a program in the Junior-
High School Auditorium Friday aft
ernoon June 4th at 2 o’clock.
There will be a small admission
and the money will be used to help
beautiful High Point’s parks. Let’s
give these people our support and
make our- town more beautiful.
MISS TIIMi GIVES
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(Betty Jean Miller)
Miss Titman and the music de
partment have prepared for our
enter-tainment the last program of
our- school year. This program of
truly American Music is to be
given June 3rd. Tableau, dramatiza
tion, and song will bring to us the
different types of American Music.
Many of us do not realize the rich-
nes of our own native folk songs.
The program will be given in
ten parts. Several will dramatize
the different types of music as
they are sung by the Glee Club.
The first part, Indian music, will be
presented by Mrs. Frost’s room.
Miss Sharp’s room takes the second
part, which are Negro spirituals.
Several types of spirituals will
be used in this scene. In the third
part Miss Brown’s room will give
their version of Pioneer- music
while the glee club sings some of
the popular- pioneer tunes. Mrs.
Ross’s room will give us the
mountain songs. Quite a few of
these are familiar- to us. Miss Wal
ker brings us the ever popular
Stephen Poster songs- We enjoy
these songs so much because we
have learned many of them. The
cowboy songs will be given to us
by Miss Connell’s room. This is
the sixth part, I am sure every
one remembers several cowboy
songs that we have learned this
year. Miss Poole’s room will give
us the American Jazz as the
seventh part of the program. We
all enjoy this type of popular
American music. The eighth part.
Hymns of America, will be taken
by Mr.s, Beamon’s room„ ..
Of course our program could
not be complete without clas
sical music. This part, which
is the ninth part, is to be
given by Mrs. Davis’s room. We
remember “To a Wild Rose” and
“I Love you Truly” as enjoyable
songs of this type. The last part
of the program is to be carried
out by Miss Nash’s room. We have
learned quite a few of these pa
triotic songs.
Those people announcing the
program to the audience are, James
Corrigan, Eldridge French, and
Mary Wood, and Horace Haworth.
Tribute To The
Junior Pointer
(Ruth Culler)
We owe much to the Junior Point
er. This paper has been very bene
ficial to us. We receive culture and
education from it, as well as fun
and enter-tainment. The Junior
Pointer furnishes us news of the
school, the faculty, and the proposed
plans of the principal. In my opin
ion, and I am sure many others will
agree with me, the Junior- Pointer en
ables the students to become acquaint
ed with the problems and plans of
bettering our school and has proved
iself to be a very helpful student ac
tivity. It has given the students the
feeling “of amounting to som-ething”
in our- school. The Junior Pointer-
should be praised, not only because
of its good work, but because it has
rendered such faithful service to our
school. The members of the staff
should be recognized for their effici
ent service.
Let this be a tribute to the Junior
Pointer and may it always stand
foremost in our minds as being an
activity that shall never cease.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Only three pupils in room 205
have had perfect attendance. They
are Dorothy Williams, P. L. Law-
son, and Ernest Gill.