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Page 2 the lexhipep October 10, 1963 The Lexhipep PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STUDENTS OF LEXINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL THE 1963-1964 LEXHIPEP STAFF Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editors Editor Exchange Editor Columnist—Mr. and Miss LSHS Gossip Columnist Humor Editor Club Editor Elaine Yates Susan Moore Cordy Easter Jimmy Philpott Doug Pritchard Donnie Knepper and Jack Carter Larry Young Jane Leonard Evelyn Hackney _ Sherry Wilson Jack Palmer Foreign Correspondent Assembly Editor Reporters Photographer Typists Advisor _ John McWhorter Truls Bastiansen „ Anne Bingham Cheryl Craver and Linda Kirkman Joe Hankins Carolyn Beck and David Siceloff Mr. David M. Holcombe Serious Thoughts —LARRY YOUNG “. . . Blessed is the man that walketh with God, for in his heart there flows a constant stream of joy . . .” Our hearts become out of tune when we close our eyes to our many blessings and listen to the mournful songs of envy, jealously, hatred, or discontent. When we send out a joyful tune from our hearts, a joyful tune will resound and beep our souls overflowing with happiness. A joyous heart responds to a righteous way of life through close communion with the Lord. The American Privilege “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, in sure domestic tranquility, pro vide for the common defense, promote the general weifare, and secure the blessings of lib erty to ourselves and our poster ity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Or of the press; . . ” Ho'v very familiar these words are to every American, but how many of these Americans really know v'hat it means to have freedom of speech or of the press? Freedom of speech is the right of each person to say what he thinks. This freedom is limited in several ways. No one can make slanderous remarks, use lang uage that offends the public sense of decency^ or use words that constitute “a clear and pres ent danger” to the country. De mocracy rests upon the belief that the common man, if he knows the facts, will make wise and generous decisions. The press has enormous pow er over the public mind. Free dom of the press gives us the assurance that the national gov ernment cannot deliberately keep people from finding out the clear, unvarnished truth. It took a steady battle fought by many bold writers and publishers to secure this freedom. Many suf fered severe persecution and harsh sentences. It is the duty of every .4merican to keep these freedoms alive today by expres sing their frank, honest opinions. The Bible tells us this about freedom of speech. “We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.” (John 3-11) Club Activities Club Groups I and II have met and most clubs have elected their officers. It has been sug- gestd that all clubs appoint a publicity chairman to keep the Lexhipep up to date on all of the club functions. It is still early in the school year and the clubs are still get ting organized. These clubs are already making progress: Key Club—Parking cars at the football games. Spanish Club—Planning Span ish dinner, complete with chilli pepper. Science Club—Organizing Jun ior Engineers in co-operation with engineers from Western Electric Corporation. Library Club—Elected the fol lowing officers: President, Cath erine Lambeth; Vice Presilent, Hetty Parker; Secretary, Julie Lindsey; Treasurer; Vaughn Smith; Reporter, Pat Sever ance. Robbie Shoaf was chosen as Homecoming Sponsor. The purpose of the Library Club is to create varied interests in dif- “We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:20) “But speaking the truth in love, rniay grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:” (Ephesians 4:15) “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). Prayer: We thank Thee for all of the heroes of freedom. We realize bow fortunate we are to live in a country where freedom of speech and of the press is ex ercised. Help us, 0 God, to do our part as American citizens in keeping these freedoms alive. We remember Thy promise to us that the truth shall make us free. May we speak words that would be pleasing in thy sight. Amen. By Judy Hege Member, Student Assistant Library Staff There was a fair in Davidson Counr.y recently and the entire Lexington Senior High School Li brary Staff (including Mrs. E. Paul Sink, librarian and Mrs. James Fry, assistant, and all thirteen of the student assist ants) went hurrying out to eat cotton candy, to view the ex hibits, and to ride all the excit ing rides. But, wait! When I said the en tire library staff went to the fair, I meant literally the entire library itself—even the books went to the fair this year. As I wandered about the fair grounds, I observed strange and unusual things, as I shall tell you now. As THE ROTHSCHILDS join ed ETHAN FROME, they made plans to ride the tilt-a-whirl. KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER and THE IMPERIAL. WOMAN wanted LORD JIM and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO to win a teddy bear for them! THE LITTLE WORLD OF DtON CA- MILLO was quite upset after his ride on the loop-o-plane. ANIMAL FARM was visiting all the animal exhibits, to talk shop, of course. GRANDMOTH ER ’and the priests were having their fortunes read. And all from the library showed their PROFILES IN COURAGE by trying even the most daring of the rides. Speaking of courage, THE giant went to see the side show starring Eika, the snake eater. Of course, the billing for this was THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES' It is true, we have to admit, that JANE EYRE be came frightened when she rode the rock-o-plane; they had stop ped with her on the top and she was upside down! She wished so much that she ha^j had DAV ID COPPERFIELD with her. ATOMS IN THE FAMILY was the theme for the Oak Ridge ex hibit that MADAME CURIE went to see and found m'Ost in formative and interesting. “THIS I REMEMBER”, said Eleanor Roosevelt, in speaking of the fair, “the rides were thril ling, the exhibits interesting. It was truly A NIGHT TO' RE MEMBER; the books went to the fair!” Yes, the big night was over, and all had to return to their proper places. Mrs. Sink, Mrs. Fry and all thirteen student as sistants were waiting for the books at the Lexington Senior High School Library. Students were ready to come in from study balls, many wanting to borrow books. In dutiful fashion, then, the books climbed back upon the shelves and settled themselves imtil some friendly student, wanting a “good book to read” would borrow them. LOiOKING BACKWARD, KIM realized that the night of the fair was now GONE, WITH THE WIND. ferent types of literature and to in Still in students who use the library the value of reading and how to use the library prop erly. As each club has organized, the publicity chairmen should turn in the officers’ names and the activities to the Lexhipep, Room 4. Rule Of Life Do all the good you can. By all the naeans you can, In all the ways you can. In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long -as ever you can. SCHOOL SPIRIT Recently school spirit has been the main topic of subjects at LSHS. Students have truly been shown what school spirit can do when the right amount of it is exercised at the right time. Our first two football games—one which was tied with Reynolds, and the other won over Salisbury^has proved this fact to be true. However, too much praise may have caused our team to be overly confident in themselves. Our last two non-conference games were lost possibly due to this fact. Yet we must go on to cheer our team to victory and give them the support which they need in order to play a good game. We should also support the various concession stands throughout the stadium. Several new concession stands have been built to pro vide students with faster service and more convenience. The opera tion of these stands is the Juniors’ project for raising money to be used in planning the annual Junior-Senior which is held in the spring. More support means a better Junior-Senior! ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION COMBINED IN NEW ADVENTURE SERIES “The Great Adventure,” a distinctive new series of hour-long adventure-dramas on factual incidents in American History, is now seen on WFMY-TV, Channel 2, Greensboro, each Friday, 7:30- 8:30 p.m. “The Great Adventure,” narrated by noted actor Van Heflin, is presented with the cooperation of the National Education Association. Some of the historic events that are scheduled to be re-created on “The Great Adventure” are: the saga of “Speed King” Barney Oldfield—the race car driver whose personal risk and courage play ed an important part in the growth of the American automobile industry; the suspenseful account of General Mark Clark’s journey by submarine to a daring African rendezvous with French forces in preparation for an American landing; the amazing expose of big-city corruption and of notorious Boss Tweed by two intrepid newspaper reporters; the gripping account of how a group of Cahfornia farmers fought a bloody war against unjustly high produce shipping rates; and the story of “The Queen of the Skies'—the last hours of the ill-fated dirigible Akron. Composer Richard Rodgers has written the theme music for the series, and Joseph Coften, Ricardo Montalban, Jackie Cooper, and Lee Marvin are a few of the stars scheduled to appear in early presentations of “The Great Adventure.” i . 1 .... Thompson Miller Is October's Citizen Of The Month Thompson Miller has been selected by the Citizenship Oommittee of the House of Representatives as September’s “Citizen of the Month.” He is the son of Mrs. Vann Miller and the late George Vann Miller. A very popular member of the Senior Class, Thompson is noted for his athletic ability and friendly personality Thompson’s main interests are centered around sports. He is a valuable member of the football team, playing right halfback on offense and corner man on defense. Other sports in which he is active are wrestling and baseball. Thompson is now a member of the Monogram Club, Pep Club, Honor Society, and was a member of the Latin Club and President of the Key Club. He was recently elected the senior with the “Best Personality.” Thompson is now Treasurer of the Student Council and President of the Senior Class and was at one time Storekeeper for the Student Council. To be elected “Citizen of the Month” is an honorable award of which very few people receive. Thompson Miller is worthy to receive this honor. Vi Forteller Litt Om Norge The Norwegians are descendants of the Vikings. They went around with ■their long beards, burning down European villages and carry ing away young, pretty, and screaming girls. And the fact is that a Viking from Norway, Leif Erikson, discovered America about five hundred years before Columbus. No wonder we are proud of being their descendants. AH Norwegians show a keen interest in politics, and everyone of them could run the country better than our prime minister. The men are very polite. They will for example give up their seat on the train, not only to pretty girls, but even to some old wom en — if they are tired of sitting down, or have to get off at the next stop anyway. Every year many tourists visit our country, and a lot of them are American dollar-tourists. The tourists are attracted by the beauty of Norway’s mountains, glaciers, fjords, and girls. The most part of Norway is covered by snow for about four or five months, and in January and February, it might be as cold as 40 below zero in some places. Our main sport in the winter is skiing and skating, and in the summer, soccer and track. Even though we are far north, we have a warm coastal climate in Norway due to the Gulf Stream. In the winter, it seldom goes be low zero there. Also, our capital, is situated in the south of the country and has about a half million inhabitants. Here our king, Olav V lives in an ancestral mansion. The school system and government are dif ferent from the American; however, more about this subject will be continued in the next paper.
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