944 Students
Buy Insurance
Melinda Causby
Each year Pilot Life Insurance
Company ofters a special policy
to students to cover accidents at
school and going to and from
school.
This year 944 students bought
insurance with the money total
ing SI ,416, an increase of $264.75
over last year’s 81,151.25. Part
of the increase is due to a 26c in
crease in price.
“Accidents last year included
broken arms, sprained fingers and
ankles and many kinds of cuts,”
stated Mrs. Barbara Gordon, school
secretary. “We have had all kinds
of accidents.”
Mrs. Gordon wishes to suggest
to students that, if anytime they
are injured at school or going to
and from school, they should re
port the injury to the office and
secure an insurance slip.
“After a minor accident has oc
curred”, she went on to say, “we
have no way of knowing about it
unless it is reported promptly.”
All boys who play football must
have this insurance before they can
report for practice.
Junior Pointer
Vol. 30, No. 1
•Junior High School, High Point, N. C.
Friday, October 25, 1957
American Education Week to Feature
Open House, Radio Play by Council
Photo by David R. Duncan
Candy Crawford and all she won by being high salesman in
magazine contest. Besides Fritz, she has a Hawk-eye flash camera,
a Philco portable radio, a trophy, a lapel pin, a citation and 57 hersheys.
Magazine Sales Exceed Goal;
Rooms 214, 210 Lead School
Bill Abernethy
With an effort spearheaded by Mrs. Lena Hedrick’s
homeroom 214 and Mrs. Thelma Briggs’ 210, Junior High
pushed over its magazine drive of $7,000 by a margin of
$760.22. Mrs. Hedrick’s room, an eighth grade, brought in
$684.00. Mrs. Briggs’ room, a ninth grade, brought in $505.00.
Three individual leaders brought in over SIOO.OO in subscriptions.
They were: Candy Crawford with 8332.46, Randy Hutchens with 8114.00
and Elizabeth Rives with $100.25.
Candy, who led her nearest two
competitors by a margin of over
$200.00 for top'-salesman-of-the-
sehool spot, chose a Philco port
able radio as her prize. iShe also
won a brownie Hawk-eye flash
camera outfit as daily prize win
ner on the last day of the cam-
naig’n. Moreover. sh» received a
trophy inscribed with her name
and accomplishment, a lapel pin
and a citation.
Randy, of 204, chose a record
player as his prize. He won a foot
ball as a daily prize winner. Eliza
beth, of 112, received a movie
camera for her effort in the cam
paign. Both Randy and Eliabeth
will receive lapel pins and citations
Teachers whose rooms were
highest in the seventh, eig'hth and
ninth grades, received desk clocks.
These teachers were Miss Mildred
Knox, Mrs. Lena Hedrick and Mrs.
Thelma Briggs.
This year magazines were sold
for the Educational Reader Ser
vice Corporation.
Junior High receives practically
all the money for its activity fund
from its part of the magazine
sales. This makes it unnecessary
to put on projects to raise money.
School causes which have been
financed through this source are
Junior Pointer, Student Council
activities, handbooks, American
Education Week and student
dances.
Dr Thayer to Help
With Instruction
Of New Principals
Doris Messinger
Dr. Lloyd Thayer, principal of
Junior High has been appointed
to prepare for and conduct five
meetings that will be held through
out the state for new principals.
The State Department of Public
Instruction is holding these meet
ings.
As co-chairman of the committee
Dr. Thayer will preside at the
meetings planned for this part of
the state. About 125 new princi
pals in North Carolina will at
tend these meetings in order to
get help in their new jobs.
Such matters as making reports,
attendance, bus itransportation, or
ganizing the school, cafeteria and
directing instruction will be dis
cussed. Meetings will be held in
Greenville, Durham and Winston-
Salem.
Donna Ray Clement
“An Educated People Moves Freedom Forward” is the
theme for the 1957 American Education Week, November
10-16. There will be an Open House at Junior High, Monday,
November 11, when parents and teachers will have a chance
to meet and discuss accomplishments of the students up to
this point.
Parents will meet in the school auditoi’ium at 7:30. The pro
gram for the evening will include a play entitled “Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow.” The cast will consist of Student Council members.
Prom the auditorium the par
ents will visit the various rooms
and to climax the evening, re
freshments made by the home
economics department will be
served in the gymnasium.
Also as a part of the celebra
tion the Student Council will pre
sent a play entitled “Keeping Up
With Today” on WMFR radio.
The daily topics for American
Education Week are:
“Education for Moral Values”,
Sunday, November 10; “Education
for Responsible Citizenship”, Mon
day, November 11; “What Our
Schools Should Achieve”, Tuesday,
November 12; “Ways to Provide
Better Education”', Wednesday,
Judy Culp^ Council President
Calls for Loyalty to School
*• Becky
“I hope that together we may
pledge our best loyalty to Junior
High, our best in striving toward
self-development, our truest faith
to ourselves, and our sincerest
confidence in the contribution we
have to make personally. — You
and I together, with a job only we
can do.” With this wish, Judy Culp,
the new president of Junior High,
closed her inaugural speech on
September 20 at the installation
service before the student body.
Lyndia Williard, vice-president,
and Kathy Jowett, secretary-trea
surer, were installed by Bill
Petree, the former president. Judy
took her oath from Dr. Lloyd Y.
Thayer. A councilman, and mayor
from each room, 84 monitors, and
the chairmen of the standing com
mittees were also installed during
the service.
The chairmen of the committees
are as follows:
Auditorium, Bob Zimmerman;
Bulletin Board, Linda Henry and
Pat Kidd; Cafeteria, Joy Watkins
and Freddie De Lappe; Campus,
Wayne Snider and Tommy Mar-
ley; Civic Affairs, Jimmie Sue
Hart and Jimmy Morgan; Devo
tions, Ann Patterson and Sylvia
Freeman; House Committee, Louis
Bissette; Of ice. Lost and Found,
Becky Fowler and Anita Gregroy;
Junior Red Cross, Linda Cabot;
Social, J. R. Manors and Donna
Raye Clement; Visual Aids, Scott"
Parker.
Bulletin
Mrs. Lena Hedrick’s eighth
grade 214 is the only room in
school to report 100% subscrip
tion to the Junior Pointer. They
have 34 students taking the
school paper. Miss Minton’s
room 201 is second with 29.
Then comes 205 with 28, 217
with 26 and 209 with 25. These
are Mrs. Beamon’s, Miss Pri-
vette’s and Miss Nash’s rooms,
respectively.
November 13; Our Community’s
Teachers”, Thursday, November
14; “Our School-Community Re
lationships”, Friday, November 15;
“Our Own Responsibility for Bet
ter Schools”, (Saturday, Novem
ber 16.
Parents are always urged to
visit the school and sit in on any
class during American Education
Week. They are also invited to
have lunch in the school cafeteria.
Bulletin boards all over the
building point up the theme of
the week and portray work that
is going on in the classrooms.
There are also special exhibits
in the art and woodworking de
partments.
October 31 to See
Sad ie Hawkins Here;
Sposored by 0.A.A.
Jimmie Hughey
Look out boys . . . Here comes
Sadie Hawkins.
That’s what one will hear on
October 31, the day of the Sadie
Hawkins Race and Dance. It will
be held immediately after school,
with anyone from Junior High
attending. The boys will line up
for the race at the flagpole and
the girls at the basketball court.
When the whistle is blown every
one will run. Girls will chase boys
and take them into the gym im
mediately after they are caught,
for the dance. Boys may be asked
ahead of time but still have to be
caught.
Inside, there will be a variety
of two cent g-ames, and refresh
ments may be purchased.
This will be boys’ day. The girls
will assist the boys as the boys
have done in the past.
This dance will be sponsored by
the G.A.A., to raise money for
their Play Day in Greensboro this
spring.
Nine New Personalities Added to Faculty This Year; Four Are Men
Sue Latimer
Nine new seventh and eighth
grade teachers have entered Jun
ior High school’s “stately halls”
this fall. Men make up an un
usually high percentage of this
year’s newcomers with four of the
nine being of the “dominating
sex’.’
Teacher of seventh grade sub
jects in room 116 is Miss Sarah
Brawley. Miss Brawley comes
from Statesville, N. C. and attend
ed Flora MacDonald College in
Red Springs, N. C. One of her
main interests is music. About
Junior High she says, “The stu-
• dents are nice. I like it a lot”.
Mr. Donald Kearns teaches sev
enth grade subjects in room 6. A
graduate of High Point College, he
comes from Troy, N. C. He major
ed in social studies in college. One
of Mr. Kearns’ main interests is
travel. He was in the army two
years during which time he visit
ed Korea and Japan.
Teaching for her first year in
room 202 is Miss Jean Mosley. A
graduate of High Point College,
Miss Mosley teaches eighth grade
math and English. She was a mem
ber of the Scholastic Honor Society
and co-editor of the college paper,
the Hi-Po.
Teacher and father of a 10-
month old daughter is Mr. Ingle
Cook who teaches seventh grade
subjects in room 113. He comes
from Kannapolis, N. C. and at
tended Catawba College in Salis
bury. His main interests are sports
and good music. He says that he
is “very impressed” with Junior
High. )
Mrs. Laura Phillips is the new
girls’ counselor and guidance teach
er. She is from Marion, N. C. and
attended Western North Carolina
Teachers College in Cullowhee, N.
C. where she received a Bachelor
of Science degree in French and
business and also the University
of North Carolina where she re
ceived a Masters degree in French
and guidance. Her main interest
is music and she collects records.
Her husband works at Wachovia
Bank.
Teacher of eighth grade math
and social studies in room 216 is
Mr. Hilbert Carroll. He is fi’om
Grahn, Kentucky and attended
High Point College where he
majored in social studies. He is
very interested in teaching Bible
and almost has a Doctor of Divin
ity degree.
Mrs. Doris Cox, teacher of Bible,
is originally from Elizabeth City,
N. C. She attended Meredith Col
lege in Raleigh where she majored
in Bible and English. One of her
main interests is reading. 'She
was married several weeks ago
and her husband is a teacher at
Senior High.
Teacher of industrial arts in
room 3 is Mr. Jasper Jones. A
graduate of East Carolina College
in Greenville, N. C., he is from
Oxford, N. C. He majored in in
dustrial arts in college. He is very
fond of fishing, hunting and work
ing with wood in the workshop.
Although new to Junior High,
Mrs. Ida Pickens is not new to
teaching. She has taught in High
Point grammar schools for sev
eral years. A graduate of Duke
University, she teaches seventh
grade art in room 4. She loves
creative work, especially drawing
and sewing.