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VOLUME XVI.
LEXINGTON, N. C., OCTOBER 21, 1937
No. 1
Former Supt.
Goes To Chapel Hill
Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt who
has so efficiently served as superin
tendent of the city school system for
the past five years, was recently elect
ed to the superintendency of the
Chapel Hill system. Mr. Honeycutt
has proved himself to be a true friend
to all and the school loses him with
many regrets.
Aside from his position as superin
tendent, Mr. Honeycutt took an active
part in the activities of the church.
He was also chairman of the Book
Rental System of North Carolina, with
which he did a splendid job.
Mr. Honeycutt put his whole-heart
ed interest in his work as superintend
ent of the Lexington City Schools. He
attended all the football games and
paid especial attention to the extra
curricula activities of the school. The
students of Lexington High School wish
for Mr. Honeycutt a successful career
in his new work, and will recall with
pleasure the years spent under his
guidance in Lexington High School.
BAND REORGANIZED
Lexington High has been extremely
lucky in getting Mr. Joseph Patrick
Leonard as band master. Mr. Leon
ard came here last week and confer
red with a group of students interest
ed in band work and laid the founda
tion for starting anew the work of
the local band. Mr. Leonard is a na
tive of Ohio. In early boyhood he
was thrown largely upon his own re
sources when his parents were killed
in a train wreck. Having a talent for
music, he has devoted many years to
study of band instruments. He is
noted for the work he has done in
nearby towns, and Lexington is fortu
nate in securing Mr. Leonard to serve
as bandmaster for the high school
band.
STUDENT COUNCIL DIS
CUSSES PLANS
In the weekly meeting of the Stu
dent Council last week Mr. T. D.
Stokes made a brief speech encourag
ing the members to work harder, and
gave some excellent suggestions as to
how the student government could be
improved in the future.
Mr. E. C. Leonard, faculty advisor,
stressed the necessity for checking
noise in the hall. It was suggested
that the Student Council carry on a
campaign to endeavor to eliminate un
necessary noise.
A discussion was carried on in ref
erence to the financial standing of the
council. Also, plans for a social in
the near future were discussed by the
social committee.
PRINCIPAL
A. R. Bullock, new L. H. S. princi
pal, enters upon duties this week.
New Principal
Meets Student Body
A. R. Bullock, the recently elected
principal of the Lexington High School,
was introduced to the student body on
Monday, October eleventh, i Mr. Bul
lock spoke most sincerely and enter
tainingly as to his near future in work
ing with the students of this school.
As to his previous experience, after
receiving both the A. B. and M. A. de
grees from the University of North
Carolina, he has done work at Duke
and Columbia Universities. He has
made an excellent record in the prin-
cipalship of several schools in North
Carolina. Among these are the Sto
vall High School, the Calvin H. Wiley
Elementary School in Salisbury, Thom-
asville High School, and he comes to
Lexington from the Trinity Consoli
dated School where he has held the
offices of superintendent and principal
since 1932.
Mr. Bullock hopes to deal success
fully with his new associates and is
enthusiastically welcomed by both the
faculty and the students.
LEXHIPEP CAMPAIGN
On Thursday, October 14, the an
nual campaign for subscriptions to the
Lexhipep began. The seniors met in
the library, the juniors in the balcony,
the sophomores in the gymnasium and
the freshmen in the auditorium. Rep
resentatives were assigned to each
class, these being Marguerite Thoma
son, Virginia Beck, Ruth Morris and
Ralph Morris to the senior, junior,
sophomore and freshman classes re
spectively.
This year, the staff hopes to publish
four issues of the Lexhipep, which is
the newspaper, and four issues of the
magazine “The Scroll”. The subscrip
tion goal is five hundred students and
with the senior home rooms, Mrs. Ot-
tis Hedrick, Miss Bernice Apple, Mr.
E. C. Leonard and Mr. Tucker’s junior
boys subscribing one hundred per
cent, the remaining students should be
influenced to try to follow this good
example.
DRAMATIC CLUB
REORGANIZED
Fred Harris Elected President of
The Masquers
SUPERINTENDENT
This year Lexington High School ex
pects to have one of the best Drama-
Gic Clubs if not the best Dramatic Club
in the history of the school.
At the club’s first meeting Fred Har
ris was elected president, Odessa Snow
vice-president, and Louise Kirby, sec
retary and treasurer. In his opening
speech Mr. Harris stated the purpose
of the club for this year. “Hereto
fore,” stated Mr. Harris, “the dramatic
club has been a place to come and pay
your dime at a meeting or two and
cut up.” This year it appears it is
going to be different. To be a mem
ber of this club one must try out, that
is, give a reading or lines from a play
or some selection to test his dramatic
art. Old and new members alike must
pass this.
Another new plan is that of having
r crew of about fifteen students who
will work on setting, lighting effects
and other things essential to making
a play a success.
Lexington High has a limited equip
ment of this kind. A group of boys
Retiring Principal
Presented Gift
L. E. Andrews, new superintendent
of Lexington City S Schools.
L. E. Andrews Is
New Superintendent
Coming to Lexington to fill the place
left vacant by Mr. A. W. Honeycutt’s
resignation is M". L. E. Andrews. Mr.
Andrews is a native of Guilford County
where he has resided for many years.
He attended Wake Forest College
where he received his A. B. degree. He
also studied at Columbia University
where he received his M. A. degree,
and has done graduate work at the
University of North Carolina.
Before coming to Lexington Mr. An
drews has held several important po
sitions. He served as principal of a
school in Lewiston, N. C., head of
math department and director of pub
lic speaking in Senior High School at
High Point, and superintendent of the
Aulander system. Mr. Andrews also
was a member of the Wake Forest
summer school faculty.
Mr. Andrews is very enthusiastic
over his work here and he is especially
interested in extra-curricular activi
ties. He states that he has worked
out a very fine programme to improve
the activities already engaged in and
to organize new ones. Since extra
curricular activities do play a very im
portant role in the school life, an ex
tended programme would be very bene
ficial. Mr. Andrews is also desirous
that the students not feel any hesi
tancy in asking him for his personal
help. He states, “I am here to help
each and every one of you, and I hope
that you will feel free to ask for my
personal help at any time.”
When asked about his first impres
sion of the L. H. S. student body, Mr.
Andrews stated that he was highly
pleased and felt that this was as fine
a student body as he has ever worked
with. The student body appreciates
the superintendent’s attitude and is
anxious to coopjerate and give him its
loyal support.
Amid thunderous applause Mr. T. D.
Stokes made his last official appear
ance before the Student Body of L. H.
S. Monday, October 11. The Faculty
Song, led by the Cheerleaders, was sung
with a true school spirit. Mrs. Ottis
Hedrick, as mistress of ceremonies, in
troduced Superintendent Andrews who
led the devotion of Scripture and
prayer. Jack and Ervin Pickett then
gave a musical selection, playing a
duet on the trombone and trumpet.
At the conclusion of this, Fred Harris
gave a splendid resume of Mr. Stokes’
career of fifteen years in Lexington
High School, and Mr. Young expressed
the appreciation that the student
body feels toward Mr. Stokes for his
interest and efforts to stress extra
curricular activities. Miss Bernice
Apple and Odessa Snow expressed the
best wishes from the faculty and stu
dent body, and Mr. Andrews gave best
wishes from the Superintendent to Mr.
Stokes.
Miss Frances Walser, having taught
with Mr. Stokes longer than any other
faculty member, presented a leather
Gladstone traveling bag to him, a gift
from the student body and faculty.
Mr. Stokes accepted with appropriate
words. Upon request he opened the
bag and one would have thought he
was -a magician as he pulled the vari
ous gifts from his bag. Credit should
be given to the teachers for the novelty
cf the contents.,
Mr. Stokes next introduced the new
principal, Mr. A. M. Bullock, who gave
a short speech expressing his desire
to make a good successor to the re
tiring principal. At the conclusion of
his spech, the cheer leaders led the stu
dents in fifteen rahs for both the old
and new principals, Stokes and Bul
lock.
went Tuesday to High Point to see the
High Point High School’s equipment.
High Point has one of the best equip
ped stages in the state. A group is
also going to Chapel Hill to study the
equipment there.
Under the guidance of Mrs. Claire
Cuthrell the Lexington High School
Masquers hope to come through this
year a bigger and better organization.
So here’s luck to the Lexington High
Dramatic Club.
FIRST GENERAL TEACH-
ERS’ MEETING
The first general teachers’ meeting
of the year was held in the Lexington
High School auditorium September 8,
1937. Reverend H. C. Sprinkle of the
Methodist Church opened the meeting
with the devotional services. Mrs.
Charles Redwine gave greetings from
the P.-T. A., and Mrs. Fletcher Wall
gave greetings from the school board.
Mr. L. A. Martin, chairman of the
school board, then introduced Mr. L. E,
Andrews, the new city school superin
tendent. Mr. Andrews’ remarks were
based on the quotations of famous
philosophers: “Know thyself,” Soc
rates; “Control thyself,” Marcus Aure
lius; “Adjust thyself,” Kilpatrick; and
“Deny thyself,” Christ.
At the conclusion of Mr. Andrews’
talk the teachers of the various school
faculties met with their principals for
further discussion and directions.
TRAFFIC PATROL
ORGANIZED BY
STUDENT COUNCIL
At a meeting of the Student Council
Wednesday morning, Harry Berrier,
chairman of Traffic Committee, pre
sented plans for a patrol system to be
enforced during lunch hour. With
the permission of Chief W. R. Banning,
the cars in front of the school will be
stopped for approximately four min
utes until all students have crossed
the street. By this plan, accidents
can be avoided in the rush at lunch
time. The Student Council passed the
plan with a big majority and with the
faculty’s approval the plan will be in
effect Thursday.