John Clinard, Jimmy Johnson and Butch Kimsey, active participants
in the campaigning of second semester elections, show what can be done
with poster paper, magic markers, and a bit of oratory. Candidates are
limited to five dollars for campaigning—but they make out.
In-Service Education Program
Led by Four Ferndale Teachers
Jane McGahey
Out of thirty-six teachers tabbed as discussion leaders
for the In-Service Education training program, Ferndale
has contributed four. These four teachers are Mrs. Elizabeth
Beamon, Miss Mildred Knox, Miss Estelle Litaker, and Miss
Helen Betts.
Nearly 400 teachers — about 75
per cent of all teachers in High
Point — are taking part in the pro
gram. It is designed to help teach
ers teach students to read better.
Teachers are delving into ten dif
ferent areas of reading. These areas
are Reading Readiness, Phonetic
Skills, Structural Skills, Com
prehension and Study Skills, Crea
tive Reading, Reading Interests,
Related Language Activities, En
richment, Reading in other Cur
ricular Areas, and Evaluating
Growth and Providing for Individual
Differences.
Miss Betts’ topic is Reading
Readiness, Miss Litaker has Read
ing Interests, Miss Knox has En
richment, and Mrs. Beamon will
discuss Evaluating Growth and
Providing for Individual Differ
ences.
The groups meet Monday night,
Tuesday afternoon, Thursday after
noon, and Thursday night. Each
meeting is one and one-half hours
long. The first meeting was held
.lanuary 4 and they will continue
through March 22.
Carolyn Snider
Despite snow, exams, and a flu
epidemic, certain seventh, eighth,
and ninth grade classes carried out
projects during the last six-weeks
period.
Mr. Hugh Whitley’s ninth grade
English classroom is filled with a
Shakespearean air created by stu
dents when, having completed a
study of Hamlet, they decided to
put their projects for the course
on display. The walls are covered
with black-ink drawings of Hamlet
characters while tables hold booklets
with very informative covers dis
cussing the play, dolls dressed as
characters from the play, and re
productions of Globe Theater.
Everything from log cabins to
great American wars were recreat
ed when eighth gmade students of
Mrs. Judy Clodfelter’s literature
classes finished reading a series of
stories on early American life.
Decade of Growth
H. P. Schools Show Expansion
John Clinard
In the past ten years, the High Point city schools, under
the leadership of Dr. Dean B. Pruette, have made progress
by leaps and bounds. Of greatest importance is the addition
of two elementary schools, Montlieu and Northwood, one
junior high. Northeast, and a half million dollar boy’s gym
that can accomodate four junior high games at a time.
When Dr. Pruette came here in
Civic Classes
Will Tour Jail
Sandra Koonts
Mrs. Unity Fundei-burk, Mr.
Donald Kearns and Mr. Dean Dull,
civics teachers will take their stu
dents to jail today.
The tour will be given in as
sociation with Crime Prevention
Week, which is sponsored by the
Exchange Club of High Point. Mr.
Carl Shelton, assistant fire chief
and president of the Exchange
Club will conduct the tour. Mr.
Shelton has served as guide for the
past five years.
Included in the tour will be a
display of fire arms and traffic
sui-vey results. These tours are
planned so that the students can
become better acquainted with the
work of the city police depart
ment.
Mitchell, Kindley, Calvert Win Election
Pete Thomas
David Mitchell, Paul Kindley, and Connie Calvert have been selected as Femdale’s sec
ond semester officers. Ferndale students selected these three from thirteen other candi
dates. Mitchell was victor over Ricky Leonard, while Paul defeated Joan Asbury. In secre
tary-treasurer post, Connie Calvert won over Andi Marsden. It was a close race with an
extremely high number of voters registering. For the first time, seventh and eighth graders
helped to tally votes.
New officers were officially sworn in on January 31. Past president, Bill Southerland, gave his farewell
speech, after which Paul and Connie took their oaths. Dr. Weaver then swore in president, David Mitchell. In
his inaugural speech, David made it evident that he would strive to raise Fernd-ale’s standards.
He introduced his new committee heads as: Social committee, Ricky Leonard, and Jane Tyson, Civic affairs,
Russ Mendenhall, Cafeteria, Sara Lee Cassell, House committee, Anne Stephens, Visual Aids, Doyle Hill and
David Argo, Bulletin boards, Ellen Ruth Weant, Red Cross, Jennifer Carr and Lucy Wyche, Campus com
mittee, Jody Morgan, Lost and Found, Janet Groome, Auditorium, John Koontz, Devotions, Steve Loflin and
Joan Asbury, and Junior Store, Beverly Bullin.
David
The new presi
dent is David
Mitchell of
homeroom 2 0 4.
David is the son
of Mrs. Ruby
Mitchell, and he
lives at 1107
Richland Street.
David served as
head clerk for
the Junior Store
Paul
Paul Kindley
of homeroom 118
has been elected
vice - president.
Paul is the son
of Reece Kindley
of 611 Chestnut
Street. Moving
to High Point
in 1959, Paul is
a kind of new
comer. Besides
Connie
The second
semester secre
tary - treasurer
is Connie
Calvert of home
room 216. She is
the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs.
R. T. Calvert,
and she lives at
117 Brantley
Circle. Connie
from which he was committee head.
He is also a member of Femdale’s
advanced band. While in the seventh
grade, David, a newsboy for the
High Point Enterprise, won a trip
to Europe as one of the top news-
carriers in the country. After his
trip, David gave a talk on his trip
as a chapel program to the Fern-
dale students. He has already held
his first council meeting
being an honor roll student, Paul
is also a fine athlete. He was mem
ber of this year’s Ferndale foot
ball squad, is now playing school
basketball, and plans to go out
for track this spring. After gradua
tion from high school, Paul hopes
to attend Duke University. He
served as a monitor during the
first semester and also in the
eighth grade.
is a member of this year’s advanc
ed band. Besides maintaining good
grades, Connie also has many out
side activities. She has received
her curved bar in the girl scouts,
and she is an active member of
Y-Teens. She attends First Pres
byterian Church of High Point.
During the first semester, she
substituted as secretary-treasurer
several times.
Junior Pointer
Vol. 34, No. 3
'Well
Ferndale Junior High Scho ol. High Point, N. C.
February 14, 1962
1952, there were approximately 300
school teachers in the entire city
system. Now there are 476. Every
school has had individual atten
tion. Everything from new windows
to entire wings has been added to
the buildings. In addition to this,
the grounds of many schools have
been improved.
It is unwise to predict the future
growth of schools in High Point;
it will largely depend on the popula
tion growth and possible shifts of
the city school districts. The loss
of Ray Street School has compelled
High Point to build -another school,
which will be built in Kirkman
Park.
Definite future plans include
several rooms to be added to Brent
wood Elementary School and Wil
liam Penn Senior High School.
A member of the school board
predicts that in the next ten years.
High Point will need to add at
least one high school, one junior
high, and two or three elementary
schools.
“When you come back after
Christmas, you may expect the
most important part of the year’s
work”, said an English teacher and
a lover of nature on December 19.
“This,” she went on, “is the best
learning time of the year — the
uninterrupted period between
Christmas and Easter.”
Her calendar for January look
ed like this:
January 3 — A beautiful snow
fall—school closed
January 10 — A snowfall —
schools closed
January 11 — Snow — schools
closed
January 26 — Flu hits — 276
students absent
January 29 — A blasted snow
storm and flu epidemic take
502 students out of school
Well, anyway, the teacher was
able to get across the meaning of
the word ironical.
Ghost Story Dramas
To Be Produced
By Little Theater
Ginny Gray
Laughter, mystery and suspense
are the expected reactions when
the Little Theater presents two
plays an February 18, 19, and 20.
The plays will be the Laughing
Ghost, which takes place at 3:00
a. m. in a haunted house, and the
Uninvited Ghost, which takes place
at 3:00 p. m. in an abandoned
house, the Redcay Mansion. The
plays are being directed by Mr.
Hugh Whitley, ninth grade English
teacher.
The characters for the Laughing
Ghost are Karen Conrad, Lance
Maners, Abby Krauss, Patty Price,
Sara Lee Cassell, John Koontz, and
Lynn Monroe.
Lucy Wyche, Beverly Echerd, Bob
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Art Department Receives 104
Awards in Regional Contest
Jennifer Carr
Ferndale’s art department, under the direction of Mrs.
Ida Pickens and Mrs. Lillian Madison, received 104 awards
at the annual judging of the Scholastic Art Awards contest
held in Greensboro on February 10.
These awards included selection of one Gold Key work to compete
for Hallmark Honor Prize, 16 other Gold Keys and 87 Certificates of
Merit. These 87 Certificates of Merit were almost 20% of the entire
number given for this -area which includes Piedmont North Carolina and
Virginia. The total number given to all schools in the area was 446.
Jane Beasley of room 202
News Notes..
• Go, Trojans
• New Honor System
• High Attendance
Gloria Halstead
• “Trojans” is the new name
selected by the student council for
the school’s athletic teams. Coach
Ray Correll informed the student
body of the need of a new name.
“Baby Bison,” former name of the
athletic teams, was shared by Fem-
d-ale and High Point High Junior
Varsity team, the rightful owner.
® Mr. Donald Kearns, ninth
grade civics teacher, introduced an
honor system to the Student
Council. After two oiffenses, a stu
dent will be brought to trial before
the Student Council. All students
are on their honor to report misde
meanors.
• The fourth month attendance
was led by Miss Mildred Knox’s
homeroom 112 w-ith 94.3% in t’ne
seventh grade. The eighth grade
was p-aced by Mrs. Judy Clodfelter’s
homeroom 202 with an attendance
of 98.4%. Mrs. Thelma Briggs’
homeroom 210 again led the ninth
grade with an attendance record
of 96.5%.
• Mrs. Elizabeth Beamon’s home
room 205 is the only class having
a hundred per cent subscription to
the Junior Pointer.
room Z02 re
ceived one of the five coveted Hall
mark selections to be exhibited in
New York to compete for the $100
Hall Mark Honor prize.
For the third consecutive year
Ferndale has received more awards
than any other individual school in
the area.
Students winning Gold Keys are
Jane Beasley, Sallye Woodruff (2),
Jeanette Hill, Liba Rogers, Tom
my Lewis, Carol Parker, Linda
Walton, Darrell Brewer, Donn-a
Brewer, Charles Bowers, David
Lassiter, Barbara Stone, Evoughn
Wilson, Bonnie Warner, Ruth Phil
lips, and Gloria Pope.
The art pieces will be on exhibit
at Woman’s College Weatherspoon
Gallery in Greensboro from Febru
ary 18 through March 3.
Art teachers Mrs. Pickens and
Mrs. Madison, agreed, “We are de
lighted with these results; and are
proud again of the quality of work
as evidenced by the consistent suc
cesses of Ferndale’s art students
Chorus Excellent
Sharon Teague
At the district choral contest the
Ferndale chorus directed by Mrs.
Lena Hedrick achieved an excellent
rating.
Other schools in this area re
ceiving an excellent or superior
rating were the High Point girls
chorus, the High Point mixed chorus
and the Northeast girls chorus.