Junior Pointer
Principal's Speech Prompts
Compiling Of School Creed
Jane Weant
Vol. ,36; No. 3
Ferndale Junior High School, High Point, N. C.
March 2,1965
Officers, Committeemen Take Oath
Heading Ferndale’s Student Council the second semester are David
Cecil, vice president; Larry Wagner, president; and Rachel Phillips,
secretary-treasurer.
Dietrich Koch
In the thirty-eiglith election of
Ferndale Junior High School,
the student body elected leaders
for the second semester. They
are Larrv Wagner, president;
David Cecil, \ ice president; and
Rachel Phillips, secretary-treas
urer.
The nesv committeemen this
semester are: Auditorium, Hal
Ingram and Steve Moody; Bulle
tin Board, Roxie Murrow and
Carl Bridgers; Cafeteria, Ken
neth Kirkman and Marianne
Deale; Campus, Judy Sloop and
Tim Ilderton; Civic Affairs, Pat
Wilson; Devotions, Ava Leary
and Ann Harris; House, Cheryl
Caudell; Lost and Found, Devra
Kiel and Sharon Tipton; Junior
Red Cross, Toni Albright; Social,
Gwen Hill and Hugh Moffitt;
and Visual Aid, Tony Lutz and
Robert Hedrick.
Walter Snider, fonner presi
dent, left his office with “I feel
that our school is one of the
greatest institutions of learning
that any of us will ever encoun
ter.”
Larry Wagner, Ferndale’s new
president, entered his office with
“Ferndale is important as a place
for learning, but it is also very
important as a place for growing
up.”
Mrs. Jones To Teach Here 11 Weeks
Devra Kiel
Filling in for Miss Estelle
l.itaker, eighth grade English
and reading teacher, is Mrs. Julie
Jones, native of Winston Salem,
North Carolina. Mrs. Jones will
be here and be part of the faculty
for 11 weeks while Miss Litaker
is at the North Carolina Ad
vancement School at Winston-
Salem.
Having graduated from High
Point College in 1962, Mrs. Jones
began her career as a teacher
of all subjects in a seventh grade
class in Trinity, North Carolina.
High Point was the next city in
which she decided to teach. Af
ter completing her teaching in
High Point, she plans to continue
this profession at different inter
vals.
Mrs. Jones is married to the
Reverend Kelley Jones, minister
of the College Village Methodist
Church in Pligh Point.
Reverend and Mrs. Jones have
a two-year-old daughter, Margie.
Their home is at 1201 Terrell St.
Home Ec Students and Co-Ed
Team Up For Home Decorating
Junior Great Books
Program Introduced
Suzanne Hurley
Readers in the seventh and
ninth grades are taking part in
a city-wide literary reading plan,
the Junior Great Books Program.
Books included in the program
are Shaw’s “Pymalion”, “Anti
gone” by Sophocles, and “The
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn” by Twain. Mrs. Elizabeth
Beamon and Miss Helen Betts
lead the students in class discus
sions and encourage them to
think for themselves and make
judgments about different
aspects of the books.
The program receives favor
able and enthusiastic reactions
from the students. Alice Price of
homeroom 103 had this to say,
“It gives you a chance to read
great literature and discuss it
with people of your own age.”
Walt Snider of homeroom 103,
a participant in the discussions,
said, “The Great Books Reading
Program gives the student an op
portunity to read and enjoy some
of the great classics of our time.
As an outgrowth of the talk
given last fall by Principal Gai
ther C. Frye, a project is under
way to “produce a set of stand
ards that would be helpful in
the growth and progress of all
students who are here at Fern
dale, and possibly of some who
may come after us.” Such is the
hope of Mrs. Grady Moore,
eighth grade English teacher,
who is supervising the project.
A letter was first sent to stu
dents and teachers of each home
room asking their co-operation in
listing their own ideas of school
improvement. These suggestions
were compiled by Mrs. Moore’s
English classes, rooms 117, 214,
and 218, under ten key headings.
The students summarized the
homerooms’ ideas under these
group headings. The finished
product was approved and ac
cepted by the Student Council.
Since all Ferndale sRidents
were involved in this project, it
is the hope of Mrs. Aloore and
her English students that this
creed will be a “practical, useful
aid in the improvement of the
citizenship attitudes and behav
ior here at Ferndale.”
Creed
We the students of Ferndale
Junior High School will strive
always:
• To keep ourselves healthy,
physically build a strong body
for a long lifetime; and men
tally so that we may grow in
wisdom.
• To be honest in thought, word,
and deed so tliat we may be
depended upon.
• To cultivate respect for our
selves and for others so we
may develop into the best citi
zens that we possibly can.
• To recognize and obey the au
thority of law and order which
is for the protection of every
body.
• To have res^Ject for and con
serve our own property, other
private property, and public
property.
• To practice good personal
manners in order to become
the most atRactive persons
that we can be.
• To follow the social rules and
courtesies which are required
for the pleasure, comfort, and
convenience of group activi
ties.
• To accept our duties and re
sponsibilities in a cheerful
manner.
• To serve others to the best of
our ability.
• To grow better as individuals
rather than “staying with the
crowd” all the time.
Attempt Made To Bring Modern
Dance Back Into Church Life
Sharon Tipton
You are seated in church for
a worship service. The minister
has just read the scripture and
closed with a prayer. Suddenly a
group of dancers appear and in
stead of the hymn you are accus
tomed to singing, — a beautiful
dance is performed. What would
your reaction be?
Dr. Russell Montfort, associate
pastor of the First Methodist
Church, and Mrs. Courtney
Slawter, Ferndale’s Modern
Dance instructor and gym teach
er, were asked their opinions on
such an occurrence.
Expressing his feelings. Dr.
Montfort said, “God has chosen
the artists to lead us in an act of
worship as they re-create some
of His beauty. They speak about
things deep and eternal, in a
language which transcends
words. If we can provide some
new insight into truth through
dance — then, what we do is good
and right.”
After a successful dance pro
gram at the Methodist Church,
Mrs. Slawter is presently choreo
graphing another dance to the
music of “Jesu, Joy of Man's De
sires” by Bach. It is to be pre
sented at a Sunday evening wor
ship seiwice soon.
Dr. Montfort pointed out that
the dance has been prostiRited.
There is no comparison in the
“Swan Lake” ballet and the
“Watusi.”
Give progress some leeway!
Don’t judge this new way of wor
ship in term of “guilt by associa
tion.”
Diamonds^ Gold Nuggets Sparkle For Girls
—Photo by Dietrich Koch.
Glenda Smith, Linda Key, and Ann Haworth study Co-Ed magazine
in the Home Economics department for tips on decorating their
bedrooms.
Kathleen Anspach
Ferndale’s ninth grade home
economics class has just finished
a unit on home decorating. The
girls used an article from Co-Ed
magazine in their studies. “They
found the article by Miss Mar
garet Hauser, editor of Co-Ed,
to be a big help and interesting
as well,” said Miss \’irginia
Blount, home economics teacher.
Co-Ed is a high school mag
azine for home economics stu
dents, and is used along with the
text books. The magazine in
troduces the why’s, where’s.
when’s, and how’s of home fur
nishings, and the whole program
is sponsored by Miss Hauser.
High Pointer, Miss Hauser, has
recently tied with the editor of
New ideas for Decorating for a
journalistic award — Dorothy
Dawe Award Gold Ciqi — for
home decorating. This is an an
nual award presented by the
American Furniture Mart in
Chicago, and has featured the
opening day of the market for
the past 17 years.
Bob Bodle
“Diamonds are a gill’s best
friend.” This phrase came to life
for eighth grade girls of home
room 214 when they viewed a
special exhibit on rocks and min
erals at High Point College rec
ently. Mr. George Nicholson,
their science teacher, arranged
the trip with the instructor at
the college.
Dr. Hawsley Miller, instructor
of geology and zoology, con
ducted the tour in the science
department of the college. Dr.
Miller’s collection consisted of
288 rocks and minerals.
Specimens were spread out on
a table where the girls could
identify the rocks by a numbered
chart. Diamonds and gold nug
gets were among the more valu
able minerals.
A microscope with one hun
dred different slides was also set
up to show the ciystalline struc
ture of various minerals. With
the slides, beautiful lines and
colors could be seen that were
not visible with the naked eye.
—Photo by Bob Bodle.
As an outgrowth of their science class these girls went to High Point
College to study a rock and mineral exhibit. Left to right they are
Doris Hancock, Nancy Marsh, Patsy Hopkins, Sherry Warner,
Charlotte Barher, Viki Keck, Lynn Gladstone, Janie Higgins, Joyce
Proctor, and Pam Royale. In the background is Dr. Hawsley Miller,
instructor of geology and zoology.