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PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS The Lexhipep WORK FOR AN ACCREDITED SCHOOL VOLUME XV. LEXINGTON, N. C., NOVEMBER 9, 1936 No. 1 P.T. A.’S ADOPT SLOGANS FOR YEAR Book Week To Be Observed; Theme, ^‘Books To Grow On’^ This year the theme for Book Week (Nov. 15-21), “Books to Grow On,” is a very fitting one. All of us need good books to help us to grow in mind and spirit, so we can meet successfully the bogeys and phantoms of the new world. During Book Week a play, “Madame Reader’s Wax Works ’ will be given in chapel under the super vision of the librarian. NEW BOOKS FOR ALL "They came; we saw; they went.” What could the librarian have meant when she said that? Why, just that the fifty-two new books we promised you came in on a Monday, 'were put on the shelf Tuesday, and all but two went out that day. A very good record for the new books, don’t you think? Just in case you haven’t seen the fold er in the library containing the covers of the new books, here is a list of most of them for your use; Barbour—Watch That Pass. A new football story. Ripley—Believe It or Not. Ellsbers—Ocean Gold. Undersea 'Treasure Hunting. Douglas—Forgive Us Our Trespasses. Douglas—Magnificent Obsession. Douglas—Green Light. Nordloff & HaU—Men Against the Sea. Nordloff & Hall—Mutiny on the Bounty. Hilton—Lost Horizon. (An almost unbelievable story from which Ronald Colman’s new movie comes.) Day—Life With Father. Lindberg—North to the Orient. Anne Morrow Lindberg’s flight. Cades—Any Girl Can Be Good Look ing. Ertz—Woman Alive. What happens when a mysterious germ kills all the v/omen in the world but one. Burroughs—Tarzan’s Quest. Brande—Wake Up and Live. (If you want to succeed in school and life, read this.) Meader—Trap-lines North. (Fur trappers in the Far North.) Montgomery—Anne of Windy Pop lars. Means—Penny for Luck. Sherman—Gay Chariot. (Cross country adventure in a Model T Ford in search of a lost uncle.) Best—Flag of the Desert. (Bill and Terry have exciting adventures in mysterious West Africa.) Chase & Schlink—Your Money’s Worth. Goldstein—Art in Everyday Life. Queen—Halfway House. (A new mystery.) Abbe Children—Around the World in Eleven Years. Hinkle—Hurricane Pinto. (A horse story.) O’Brien—Siver Chief, Dog of the North. Pease—Win in the Rigging. (Mys tery and Adventure at Sea.) Ransome—Coot Clubs. (Dick and Dorothea have exciting times when they join the “Coot Club.”) Waite—Loyal Traitor. Price—Lubber’s Luck. (A sea story.) Seamen—Disappearance of Anne Shaw. Our President BENNETT’S ROOM WINS P.-T. A. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE In a membership dri\’e sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association, Mr. Bennett’s entire home room won a free pass to the movie, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The parents of this room cooperated practically 100% in joining the Lexington High School P.- T. A. Supt. of City Schools President Roosevelt, who was re-e lected by a huge pluralty in Tuesday’s election, will serve for four more years as our country’s Chief Executive. CREAM OF THE CROP SENIOR John Leonard, the vice president of the Senior Class and the president of the Hi-Y, is (of all the unusual hob bles yet, there is none to compare with this) a spiritualist. He plans to study psychiatry (there’s a big dictionary in a niche in the library) later on, but at the present he is content with liking football and basketball tremendously, staying up after midnight to think (Oh Yeah!) on H. G. Wells. There is just one thing he wants to do that proves he needs to study psychiatry, and that is, go through Thomasville doing 80 miles an hour. JUNIOR Marguerite 'Thomason, of the sixth period knitting Thomasons, is a real ly delightful person to know. Perhaps that is because she likes chocolate and anything mysterious, the latter serv ing to remind me that she dearly loves to look up assignments that cannot be found. This is her third year on the Student Council, beginning that work in junior high, and she is the junior class secretary. She adores out-of- town football games and antiques, and thinks the nicest occupation possible is that of organist in the Little Church Around the Corner. SOPHOMORE You have probably seen Harry Ber- rier patroling the halls and looking vastly important, but then that is the right of any such walking bureau of information as he. This is his third year on the Student Council, having been a seventh grade representative, and he hopes to be the president of our student body before his remaining two years are completed. Upon first meeting him one is impressed most by his courtesy and sincerity of manner. His favorite course is Biology and he says he would like to be a construction engineer, but he reckons he will go into the ice cream business and keep on cheering the L. H. S. football team from the sidelines. FRESHMAN Louis Hartzog is really one of the most outstanding members of the freshmen in that he is a great favorite with everyone, both students and fac ulty. He likes football, fishing and hunting, the latter being THE thing, as far as he is concerned. He likes being a drummer in the band, adven- Know Your School; Kno’w Your Teachers; Know Your Pupils; Know Your Public Mr. A. W. Honeycutt, who presided over the Northwestern District teach- ars’ meeting which was held in High Point, October 23-24. Lexington High Presents Episode Of Pageant On Friday evening, October 23, a pageant was presented in High Point to approximately 1500 North Carolina teachers. Mr. A. W. Honeycutt pre sided as president throughout the pro gram. Greensboro, High Point and Lexington Schools were represented. The episode given by Lexington stu dents not only portrayed education in 1830, but a sketch of the history of North Carolina. With the exception of three characters the cast was chosen from the Glee Club. The cast included: prologue, Odessa Snow; Mr. Gish, Fred Harris; Calvin Henderson Wiley, Robert Clayton; school children: Joan Sink, Glenna Aaron, Margaret Raker, Sara Red- wine, Marguerite Thomason, Charles McDade, Bruce Davis, Jack Pickett, Ervin Pickett, J. D. Clray and E. H. Easter. The former Miss Evelyn Morgan wrote and coached the skit that Lex ington presented. However, after her resignation Mrs. Ottis Hedrick took charge of the last rehearsals and the presentation in High Point. There was much favorable comment on Lex ington’s episode as well as the program as a whole. STUDENT COUNCIL NEWS The Student Council, having recent ly finished painting its new quarters downstairs, has buckled down now to hard work. In the halls much better order is being maintained since the council has made new traffic and or der rules. The council store has been selling a good many school supplies, but it still desires more active cooper ation on the part of the students in buying from it. Students who eat lunch on the school grounds have been throwing so much paper on the ground that it is rather difficult for the council grounds committee to keep the grounds clean. However, it is do ing all that it can and is endeavoring to get the students to throw their pa- The Parent-Teacher Associations have adopted a four point program which includes these slogans; (1) Know your school, (2) Know your teachers, (3) Know your pupils, (4) Know your public. In adopting these slogans the Par ent-Teacher Association had the fol- lo'wing viewpoint in mind: namely, that the only adequate justification for asking people to vote additional taxes for any purpose is a knowledge of all essential conditions revealing these needs. The P.-T. A. therefore is ask ing all school patrons in the school administrative unit to find out the facts as to: (!)• Financial support of schools as provided by the state in op erating on a minimum basis of eight months term. (2) 'What courses are offered in schools which may or may not be justified, and whether adequate instructional supplies and equipment are provided to make such courses ef fective. (3) If the teachers are re quired to do more than can be done with a satisfactory degree of efficiency and health preservation; and how many pupils a teacher is expected to teach daily. In this connection it may 'oe noted that the high school has been warned through a letter received Octo ber 30 that the pupil-teacher ratio which the Southern Association ap proves is 37 pupils per teacner at'wie' present time. Also that nine out of the eighteen high school teachers have a pupil load of more than 750. periods per week. Just what action the South ern Association may take with refer ence to retaining the high school on the accredited list will be determined early in December. In the next place, the P.-T. A.’s feel that the best and easiest way to find out the conditions and needs of the schools is through a more intimate knowledge of their children in relation to their school work. In the last place, it is the feeling of the P.-T. A. that this organization must know what the public generally thinks about the schools, how it feels about the schools’ needs, as well as the public’s ability to make more adequate provision regarding these needs. In making these slogans effective, the P.-T. A.’s of Lexington request the active cooperation of the entire com munity in the hope that through the process of finding out more about our schools and organizing this informa tion, a reasonable solution of the school problem may legitimately be ex pected. ture stories by Putnam, and standing up beside his desk instead of sitting in it. FORMER L. H. S. STUDENT GAINS RECOGNITION Recently a short story by Miss Sara Starr appeared in the Alchemist, the bi-weekly paper of Brenau College, where Miss Starr is a freshman. This was quite an honor, as Miss Starr was the only freshman who had any arti cle published in that edition of t’ne paper. Lexington High is indeed proud of her and hopes that she may have continued success. pers in a trash can. Recently the coimcil adopted some cheating rules recommended by the committee on cheating. Anyone here after who is caught cheating will be punished severely. It is the sincere hope of the council that by having such strict rules on cheating, much unfairness in the school will be elimi nated. The campaign against cheat ing will be carried on the entire school year.
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