Levina, Pick Represent
School in Spelling Bee
Ed Johnson
Ferndale was represented in
the city-wide spelling contest
by Susan Levina of homeroom
112, and by Lasley Pick of home
room ten. both girls are seventh
graders. They gained this posi
tion by winning the school spell
ing contest.
Actually, Susan won the
school contest by winning over
Lasley, but the school has two
representatives in the city-wide
contest. Susan won when she
spelled the word which Lasley
missed and then spelled correctly
the next word. She correctly
spelled silhouette.
In third place was Bruce Sice-
loff of homeroom 110. Bruce also
is a seventh grader.
There were two representa
tives from each seventh and
eighth grade homeroom. The
contest was started with two
rounds of junior words and then
went to intermediate words and
then to senior words. Each con
testant was allowed two misses.
Students Go to Polls Today
To Select 1965-66 Officers
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CHOICE
FOR
PRESIDENT
1965 - 66
Barbara Alexander
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Mike Parker
Marv Burnlev
\Mth primaries just o\’er on
Monday and final elections to
day, both candidates and stu
dents are awaiting the results
with interest. After hours of pos
ter-making and speech-prepar
ing, candidates find that their
work is over and the decision
now rests upon the voters. In the
primaries Mary Burnley and
Mike Parker were chosen from
an original field of three, includ
ing Lynn Gladstone.
Junior Pointer
Vol. 36; No. 4
Decorators' Forum
Eemdale Junior High School, High Point, N. C.
April 29,1965
Ferndale to Get Badly-Needed Sprucing Up
Mary, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. II. Burnley, is a member
of homeroom 3, a straight “A”
student, and is active in the
Modern Dance Group.
Mike Parker, member of home
room 205, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. R. Parker. He played
first string on the junior \'arsity
basketball team this year.
Fighting it out for vice-presi
dent are Kathy Morgan of home
room 3 and Lee Lyles, a member
of homeroom 206. Danny Dagen-
hart, who is in homeroom 117,
was also in the race for vice-
president originally.
Gail Cadick of homeroom 104
and Sara Oldam of homeroom 3
are still in the race for secre-
tarv, although Myra Lancaster
and Susan Kirk also competed.
Officers elected today will be
the seventv-second set of officers
at Ferndale and will take office
next fall to serve the first semes
ter.
Susan Levina and Lasley Eick
pause after winning spelling eon-
test.
PT'i'udale once claimed to be
Miss Junior High of the Caro-
linas. But now she’s run-down
and just plain shabbv — in looks,
that is.
Hearing that the summer of
’65 brings Ferndale’s turn for at
tention, the Junior Pointer staff
found Mr. Cox, head of main
tenance department, and asked
liim what improvements he had
in mind for this school.
Mr. Cox said that he had noth
ing specific in mind and that he
would welcome suggestions. So
the staff talked to the people who
live hei'e to see \shat they have
in mind.
BRENDA KELLY; The audi
torium is to a school what a liv-
Dr. Scott Underscores
Value of Good Grades
Among the many nndtiple
choice blanks facing students in
the spring are the spaces to be
marked to chart educational
courses for next year and maybe
for the rest of the way. Dr. Jack
Scott, principal of Central High,
considers ninth grade choices so
important that he made two trips
to Ferndale to counsel ninth
graders and their parents.
Dr. Scott’s main concern was
that everyone should understand
that, like it or not, grades are
crucial for college admissions or
employment, and they will be
come more crucial. Citing sev
eral instances of college rejec
tions of students having average
grades. Dr. Scott advised first
that students avoid overloading
in the tenth grade and that they
make sure now that required
courses are in their schedule.
“I would advise very few — or
I would say not any — tenth
graders to take six subjects,” said
the Central High principal. He
explained tliat it wasn’t that
some students weren’t capable of
handling six subjects; it was that,
with six preparations, students
find themselves incapable of the
academic excellence that con
centration on five would achieve.
Central is offering two new
courses to rising sophomores.
The courses are dramatics and
general music. Scott explained
that the dramatics course is not
just plav-acting, and the music
course will not train one to per
form. The courses will give a
foundation of principles of dra
ma and music and develop dis
cernment in these arts.
Caul Bridgers
ing room is to a home. What a
place we have to take our guests
in our school home! The pink
walls with the orange do-dads
and curlicue decorations woidd
be unpretty even if the paint
w'eren’t chipping and falling off
everywhere. Paint the whole
auditorum ONE NEUTRAL
SHADE.
PHILIP WOOD: Whatever it
takes to get rid of those three
generations of names plastered
everywhere back stage.
PECCY MILI.ER: The halls
are dark and ghx my. If the walls
weren’t so drab, maybe pc'ople
Any More Ideas?
wouldn’t get so tired. However
we don’t nec'd to see six colors at
one time as we now see in the
hall outside the auditorium.
LINDA McDERMOTT: Eor
three years I have been walking
down the halls of Eerndale and
each year I’ve noticed the floor
gets dirtier and dirtier and dirt
ier. Now the floor is actually an
expensive terrazzo tile; but,
through the grime, it’s hard to
tell, (hice it’s really clean, a wax
and shine now and then would
be wonderful. Eerndale has a
right to a bright outlook; so let’s
get on the ball in the hall!
Creative Writing
To Be Published
In Last Issue
Athletes have their space in
the Junior Pointer. So do the
artists, the singers, the spellers,
and the dancers.
Creative writers will have their
turn in the last issue. A whole
page will carry original poems
and essays. Steve Ellis will ed't
the page and Mrs. Elizabet,
Beamon of 205 will be its adviser.
Every teacher is invited to
send entries of student literary
effort to Steve or Mrs. Beamon
right away.
N.C.'s Advancement School A Unique Effort
News Notes
Mrs. Hester Honored
Cheerleaders
Art Contest
Suzanne Hurley
MRS. REBECCA HESTER,
Latin and T\’ math teacher and
mother of seven children, was
nominated for the 1965 State
Mother of the Year. Mrs. Hester
was nominated by the High
Point Kiwanis Chd:) for “traits
such as courage, cheerfulness
and understanding that are
associated with good mothers”.
She and the other nominees were
honored with a luncheon and tea
in Raleigh.
MAUSTY CRAY, BECKY Mc-
KINNEY, DEVAIR CATER,
DEBBIE CECIL, GARY PACE,
and ROBERT HEDRICK were
selected for Central High
School’s cheerleading squad
from Ferndale.
BETH BENCINI of home
room 210, won second place in
the Junior W’omen’s Club art
contest. Her winning entry was
a water color entitled “Autumn
Scene on Ferndale’s Campus.”
Also, Andrea Sanders of 118 won
honorable mention foi- a pastel
portrait of a fellow student,
Andrew Newcomb.
“North Carolina’s Advance
ment School has been called the
most exciting experiment in
American education today.” The
Raleigh News and Observer
made this statement concerning
this experimental school at 'Wins
ton-Salem.
The only such school in the
Lhiited States founded to help
eighth grade boys who don’t
achieve what they ccndd sch-
lasticallv because of lack of
motivation. It has already had
135 boys to pass through its first
regular session. The session con
sists of eleven weeks of study
and recreation.
Born in the old City Memorial
Hospital, this five month-old
school will operate for at least
three years on state and federal
funds and a grant from the
Carnegie Corporation.
Director of the school, Dr.
Beth Bencini and Beth Hunt
Gordon McAndrew, a young
educator with a Ph.D. from the
University of California, said that
his first reaction to tbe school
was “impossible”. “And yet,” said
McAndrew, “when I left to go
back home, I coiddn’t get it out
of juy mind. If we could bring it
off, it would be the most exciting
thing in education in the United
States.”
Miss Estelle Litaker, eighth
grade English teacher at Fern
dale, was chosen to be a social
studies and reading teacher for
the school.
Other staff members were
George Saims, football player for
the Buffalo Bills; Alton White,
football player from Florida
State; Lowell Dodge, an edu
cator who just returned from the
Ivory Coast of Africa; Bickley
Dodge, a 1963 graduate of Smith
College, who had also been in
Africa; and Dr. Lawrence Con-
ant of the University of British
Columbia.
Ninth Grade Chorus Rated
Superior in Choral Contest
Mary Austin Gray
Armed with determination,
Ferndale’s ninth grade girls’
chorus strived for, and received
a superior rating from the an-
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J
Cheryl Caudell, Arzella Bare, and Delight Matthews are three of
those responsible for a superior rating in the ninth grade chorus.
nual District Choral Contest. Di
rected by Mrs. Lena Hedrick, the
38 girl chorus sang “Ours is the
World” by Haydn Morgan and
“Boundless Mercy” by Lara Hog-
gard. The judges, Mr. Donald
Plott, of Davidson College; Dr.
Richard Cox, from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro;
and Miss Ann Royster, from
Hickory schools, were consistent
in their complimentary com
ments.
other
the
High Point-Greensboro-Whnston-
Saiem area were judged on tone,
intonation, diction, technique,
balance, interpretation, and mus
ical effect. This contest was held
at Ferndale on March 20.
The eighth grade girls’ chorus,
directed by Mrs. Hedrick, along
with the boys’ glee club, directed
by Mrs. Florence Greene, re
ceived excellent ratings.
Ferndale and fourteen
junior high schools from