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vr ATTEND THE SENIOR PLAY TONIGHT — 8; P. M. The Lexhipep Published by the Students of Lexington High School VOL. XIII LEXINGTON, N. C., FEBRUARY, 1935 “South Is South’ Proving Success Formed No. 4 Seniors Present Cotillion Club New Classes Following a years old custom, the senior class will present a play, entitled “South Is South,” tonight in the high school auditoriiun at eight o’clock. This play promises to be very entertaining and has an imposing cast of characters headed by Mary Martin and Olen Easter, The action revolves around a houseparty given by Grandmother Humphries, played by Virginia Bower. Cupid plays an important part in pairing off the groups of young couples, including Margaret Meacham, Kathleen Black, Doris Smith, Mildred Anne Critcher, Pauline Cope, Racie Yarbrough, Oliver Briggs, Bruce Hinkle, Foyell Smith, Jimmy Fry, Allen Johnson and Donald Wagoner. The two small boy parts enacted by Jimmy Redwine and Frank Brannock, and the negro servants played by Mar garet Leonard and Arthur Daniel add comedy to the plot, A beauti ful wedding scene brings'the play to an impressive close. Now is the time for every high school student to show his or her school spirit by attending the sen ior play. The money taken in from the sale of tickets will go toward the scholarship which is presented every year by the senior class to one of its members. The admis sion price will be fifteen and twenty-five cents. REV. GAINES SPEAKS TO THE CLASS OF BUSINESS PRINCIPLES The desire, the meaning and true aim of life, the business and prac tical aspects involved, were brought out splendidly by Reverend Gaines recently. He told of his desire, as a boy, to engage in various occupa tions; each desire changed as he grew to manhood. Life is a chang ing problem—^and one must be practical, prepared and equal to meet life’s demands, exercising and developing talents. Whether great or small, every human creature has a philosophy of life, an interpretation. Rever end Gaines explained the five classes of philosophy: (1) the stoic—“Grin and bear it;” (2) the cynic—the doubter, the questioner, the "Oh, yeah!” type^ (3) the materalist, whose desire is to make and accumulate money—“Gimme-^ Gimme;” (4) the epicurean—‘Let’s eat;” (5) and last, noblest and greatest, the altruist—^the man who performs well for himself, and who gives a bit of life to others. Let us all strive to develop an individual, true philosophy—to think through to a simple philoso phy that we can use every day of our lives. The Cotillion Club of Lexington High School is proving a success indeed, and can now boast over two hundred members. We cannot contribute the success to any one person because every on eahs help ed. But we give a big hand to Mr. Walser and to Mr. Adkins honor able mention for the entertainment during the last meeting. The officers elected for the club are president, Oliver Briggs; vice president, Jean Hunt; secretary, Bob White; treasurer. Lib Revelle. Since the gymnasium is already engaged for the next few weeks, the CotiUion Club will meet in the form of a tea dance to be given from 3:45 to 5:15 o’clock. A George Washington tea dance will be held on February 22, and another tea dance on March 1. All members are invited for a good time. PLANS FOR DEBATING CLUB COMPLETE _ Plans for the debating club, which was ' organized under the supervision of Mr. Walser, are go ing forward rapidly. A prelimin ary debate will be held with R. J. Reynolds High School, of Winston- Salem, in preparation for a debate with Winston-Salem High School. The latter debate will be held on Friday morning, March 22, in our auditorium before the Senior High School. Our affirmative team will oppose the negative team of Win ston. Jimmy Morris and Joe Leon ard constitute our affirmative team. The negative team of Lex ington High School, of which Pau line Cope and Foyell Smith are the members, will go to Mount Airy to compete with a team there. ’The query for the debates this year is: Resolved: The Federal Government should give aid to general public education. Lexington must win both debates in order to participate in the finals at Chapel Hill. At the first meeting of the Home Economics Club for the new year, “Health” was the topic for the dis cussion. Miss Anne Boykin was the speaker for this meeting. Miss Boykin, who is nurse for the Metro politan Insurance Company, gave a most helpful talk on “Health” and each member of the club who was present was greatly benefited by this practical and useful viewpoint. The “Bill of Rights” was a debt owed by Jefferson. CURRENT EVENTS The file of Lexhipeps which the staff hopes to compile is well on its way toward completion. Papers dating from the first copy of the paper in February, 1922, until the last issue are now filed in Mr. Stokes’ office. However, there are several numbers of the paper which we have been unable to acquire. If any of you have some old copies of the Lexhipep, please bring them to us so that we may at least have one copy of every Lexhipep ever (Continued on Page Four) Following the usual custom at the beginning of the second se mester, several new classes have been started in high school. Some of these classes are begun so that students who have failed a course for the first part of the year will have something to take the second half. Miss Miller has started a class in advanced algebra. ’This is for Sen iors who are planning to go to college next year, and the course should prove very beneficial to them. Geography is taking the place of the course in sociology which was taught the first semester, while Business Principals is given in stead of Economics. Miss Apple is teaching the Geography and only juniors and seniors are allowed to take it. Miss Hoffner teaches Bus iness Principals. Mr. Walser has charge of a small class in creative writing, only a few who are especially interested being allowed to take the course. A course in North Carolina his tory is being taught by Mr. Stokes for the second semester. This is offered to the freshmen and soph omores. Out of all of these new courses every student .should be able to find some subject in v/hich he is inter ested. SENIOR CLASS INVITATIONS CHOSEN The Senior Class invitations to the graduation exercises were chosen the 6th of February by a committee composed of the class officers and a representative of the students. The t5q)e chosen does not necessarily have to be the one used as it is a matter laid subject to the vote of the class. Taking the suggestions of the representative of the engraving company, the same engraving used last year is again being used, but we were very fortunate in getting a new type of paper which shall not be used by any other high school in the state. The order was placed with the same company as usual, namely, Everette Waddey Company, of Richmond, Va. This company fur nishes the invitations of Duke Uni versity, Davidson College, Win- throp and Washington and Lee. It’s work is of a high order and the formal invitations to the. exer cises were chosen as the looks and cost demanded. Mr. Justice: “Clarence, can you tell me what is meant by nutritious food?” Clarence: “Yes, sir, it’s food that doesn’t have any taste to it.” Miss Miller: “Joe, what made the Tower of Pisa lean?” Joe: “There was a famine in the land.” On January 25, the two teams of L. H. S. met Concord on the local court. The boys played a hard fast game and with the score tied at eight and eight early in the second quarter put on the pressure and rolled up twenty-three points be fore the visitors tallied again. The final score was 32 to 11 in our fa vor. This was the third consecu tive victory for this year’s Yellow Jackets. ’The Lexington Girls’ Teams directed by Coach Joe Sink put up a good fight and kept a jump or two ahead of their op ponents throughout the entire game to win by the score of 32 to 25. Early in the second half the Spiderettes slipped up to within one point of a tie but the locals then drew away for a seven point lead which they held to the end. Carrie Lee Bean proved the partic ularly bright star of the winners. L. H. S. again played like the champions that they are when they took a doubleheed^r from the Kan napolis High on the Kannapolis court January 29. The boys show ed their best form to defeat the Little Wonders 30 to 14. Getting the lead at the beginning when Corn made a field, Bailey, Young and Rogers proved equally deadly with their floor shots, ringing up nine points each. The L. H. S. girls had an easy time of it and piled up a score of 41 to 9. S. Leonard, who played throughout the game, led the Lexington scor ing but she was ably abetted by Green and Bean. Ebelein and Rev elle did effective guarding. The local boys kept their basket ball record untarnished when they turned back a threatening Lincoln- ton team on the latter’s court Feb ruary 1, by a score of 23 to 14. This fifth straight victory gave us the undisputed leadership in the conference. Carlton played a flash ing floor game, while Bailey, Rog ers and Young divided scoring honors with 8, 6 and 5 points, re spectively. The Lexington girls were not so fortunate, however, and took their second conference setback, losing 18 to 10. The Lin- colnton girls played a close guard- (Continued on Page Three) TRAVELOGUE ENJOYED BY STUDENTS A selection of pictures entitled “Picture Stories of America” was presented by Dr. Robert E. Roth in the gymnasium of Lexington High School. Prom thousands of pic tures taken by himself. Dr, Roth selected eighty pictmes covering the most beautiful scenes from Mexico to Canada. Around these exquisitely colored and faultlessly reproduced pictures. Dr. Roth wove humorous tales of adventures. Presentations of this type encour age and bring out the desire to see America first.
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