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FOR A BETTER G. H. S.
Vol. 3.
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., April 3, 1923
No. 12
UNUSUAL TALENT REVEALED
IN DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES’
Audience Very Appreciative
Senior worries concerning the fi
nancial state of the “Reflector” for
this year should be modified in
some degree at least by the success
of “What Happened to Jones” giv
en by the Dramatic Club, Friday,
the twenty-third of March. Laugh
ably, the play was a success from
the start to the finish. Those un
fortunate enough to miss it missed a
real comedy and then some.
There was to begin with, a real
sure enough “all star” cast. Robert
Wilkins played the part of the
nervous Professor Goodly to per
fection. Jones, as played by our
veteran actor, Robert Irvin, could
not have been better. From the
bottom of our hearts we sympathized
with him especially when he met the
prim but gushing (old) maid, Miss
Alvina Starlight. This difficult role
was handled with ail the art
of a true actress by Margaret
Sweeney. Nancy Little as “Helma,”
the Swedish servant girl, who
steadily declared, “I aint seen no
body go out, I aint seen nobody
nohow,” was also fully up to the
type. For that matter the entire
cast was fitted to the individual
places not as amateurs but as
tranied actors. Margaret Stockton,
Mary Rosalind Bowden, and Jose
phine Thomason played to perfec
tion the parts of the daughters of
the Professor and Mrs. Goodly, the
latter part, played by Bertha Ferree
was charmingly portrayed and loud
ly applauded. Richard, played by
Norman Cooper, was usually well
done and gave great credit to the
actor. The real bishop, Clinton
Jackson, was a scream. Although
the part of the superintendent of the
insane asylum was a small one, it
was exceptionally well done by
Herman High. And to have seen
Moulton Averv do the oart of the
Indian one would have thought that
he was a real redskin.
Much of the play’s success was
due to the untiring efforts of Miss
Grogan and Miss Beckwith who
coached the cast for four weeks.
The Dramatic Club has set a high
standard for next year and the
years to come. Other plays have
come and gone the way of oblivion
but none has won and held its audi
ence so tensely in the grip of gay
laughter and joyous mirth as “What
Happened to Jones.”
—'Thomas Shaw, Jr.
G.H.S. DEFEATS ASHEVILLE
IN TRIANGULAR DEBATE
Loses in Winston-Salem
Friday night the Greensboro af
firmative team defeated the Ashe
ville negative team by a vote of two
to one. The query of the debate
was: “Resolved, that Conggress
should provide for the enforcement
of the railroad labor board decis
ions.”
Miss Lucile Boon and Mr. Charlie
Lipscomb ably represented G. H. S.,
while Messrs. Hugh Sinkler and
Hilliard Greenwood did well for
Asheville. The visitors showed very
good debating form, but the Gate
City had a little the better edge on
them, when it came to the rejoin
ders.
The judges were Fred N. Tate, of
High Point, and R. H. Wharton and
L. B. Hunley of Greensboro.
In Winston-Salem the Greensboro
negative team, Messrs. William Neal
and Moulton Avery, lost a close de
cision to the Twin City debaters.
BIRD PROGRAM GIVEN IN
CHAPEL BY REV. STEVENS
All who heard the Rev. Stevens at
chapel period Tuesday, March 20,
had a rare treat. He described
his boyhood days on his father’s
farm, w’hich w’as very interesting.
He held his audience spellbound
when he imitated animals and many
birds. He closed with a hymn in
bird language.
MR. WALDROP TALKS ABOUT
CIVIL ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING
On Monday, March 19, Mr. Wal
drop spoke of civil-engineering as
a vocation. This is about the sixth
vocational talk that we have had in
chapel. He stated that if one wanted
to have easy work and to clean up
money that this was not for him.
He also added that a boy should
know mathematics and science and
also love such as these if he wished
to make this vocation a success.
“A man does not necessarily have
to be a civil engineer, but a civil
engineer must be a man!” Mr. Wal
drop concluded.
HI-Y CLUB NO. 2
HiY Club No. 2 has put on a
contest among themselves for getting
members for the Y. M. C. A. Mr.
Charlie Phillips, our leader, ap
pointed Elmer Shelton and Arthur
Davant as captains of the two teams.
These two captains chose the rest
of the members of the club, one
after the other, till the whole club
was divided into two teams of ten
each. Then they started working.
It was agreed that the contest was
to run a month, from March 15
to April 12. The losers of this
contest are to pay for the winner’s
supper on the regular Thursday
night meeting. Mr. Casper said
that he would see to it that the
winners got a little extra ice cream
furnished by the Y. M. C. A. All
of the members are working hard to
help their team win.
-^Arthur Davant.
It is with the idea of re
lief for the permanent editors
that we take up and carry
their work forward in this
single issue of “High Life”.
We cannot hope to excell
their work, or even equal it,
but it is with the idea of real
ly putting something con
crete before the public, some
thing expressive of our Eng
lish work, that we, the second
and fourth period Junior
English Classes put forward
the results of our efforts.
DR. J.H.OOOK ADDRESSES
MOTHERS AND TEACHERS
j Social Followed Meeting
CAST OF PLAY DELIGHTFULLY
ENTERTAINED BY COACHES
Attractive Place Cards
Harold Lashley and John Ward
spent the holidays in Washington
and New York.
Neal Jones, ’22, a student of
Davidson, was a visitor here Monday
morning. We are always glad to
have old students back.
George Taylor and Johnson Dan
iels, formerly G. H. S. stars, spent
the Easter holidays in the city.
Mildred Leak and Eugenia Hunter
of Gaucher College spent the holi
days with their parents.
Mr. Kiser and Mr. Barton have
been strutting around the school in
their new spring suits—“Nuf Sed.”
On Tuesday night, March 27, at
6:30 o’clock at the Tea Garden the
members of the cast of “What Hap
pened to Jones,” were the guests at
a delightful dinner given by Misses’
Grogan and Beckwith, the coaches
of the play.
The place cards were named by a
line characteristic of each person’s
part in the play and every one en
joyed the search for his place. Also
the fortune of each one was told by
another person.
It was a delightful little affair and
thoroughly enjoyed by the following
cast: Misses Josephine Thomason,
Margaret Stockton, Margaret Swee
ney, Bertha Ferree, Nancy Little,
Mary Rosalind Bowden, and Messrs.
Robert Irvin, Leonard Temko, Nor
man Cooper, Clinton Jackson, Moul
ton Avery, Herman High, Robert
Wilkins. Mr. Taylor, of N. C. C.
W., who so obligingly assisted in the
coaching, and Mrs. Taylor was also
present.
WHO'S WHO, AND WHY
AT G. H. S.
MISS SUMMERELL
Miss Summerell has a way of
making a student want to do his
best, makes him or her feel as it
it were an obligation to do so.
Above all she knows Latin, but
Cicero and Virgil have not dwarfed
her broad outlook on the problems
of G. H. S. After four years she
has reached the “Land of Heart’s
Desire,” the Student Co-operative
Plan for Greensboro High School.
Truly she is a teacher among teach
ers and a friend as well, full of
joy and life. Three cheers “Cum
Laud” for Miss Jane Summerell of
Greensboro High School!
JENNY LIND PENN
Here’s to our baseball sponsor
for 19231 A congenial sport is she,
j always ready to push G. H. S. along,
j She is the loveliest of the girls, the
most sympathetic of friends and
■ always cheerfully ready for service.
, Here’s to her—may she succeed.
EDNA CARTLAND
Edna Cartland, because of her
; popularity among the members of
the squad, was chosen sponsor of
the football team. Edna is just
the girl for a sponsor, she is popu
lar, dependable and always ready
(Continued on page 3I
“Germany goes to one extreme
and the United States to the other,”
stated Dr. J. H. Cook in his talk
before the Parent-Teacher associa
tion. “In Germany the child begins
to study a special course when he
is in the third grade. In our coun
try he rarely specializes in any
thing until after he has finished
college. We should be able to
strike a happy medium between
these two methods of handling the
education of our youth.”
Statistics show that though most
college educations lead to the pro
fessions, only three per cent of the
population in the South Atlantic
States enter the profession. Fifty-
one per cent enters agriculture,
eighteen per cent manufacturing, six
per cent the trades and five per
cent transportation. Known means
for aiding students in selecting their
vocation, according to Dr. Cook,
were enumerated as follows;
First, the intelligence tests;
Second, actual workshops in the
school representing the different vo
cations;
Third, a vocational survey of the
city in which the student lives;
Fourth, a vocational counselor
with the schools. ^
At the conclusion of this talk the
meeting adjourned to the high
school cafeteria, where enjoyable
refreshments consisting of orange
sherbert, and white block cake were
served.
WHAT IS THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
Mr. G. B. Phillips—“High school
students can and should co-operate
in the government of the school and
for that reason I am confident that
the co-operative system as outlined
will mean a new day in the life
of G. H. S.”
Miss Gressitt—“If student co-op
eration will make the pupil feel
his responsibility not only to him
self, but to the school as a whole,
as we believe this broadening of
his field of activities will bring
about, then its introduction will
prove an epoch making event in the
life of the Greensboro high school
and March 21, 1923, will go down in
history as the red letter day of
our institution.”
Miss Killingsworth—“Student par
ticipation teaches the boys and girls
of the high school to do right
without being watched over or told
to do it.”
Miss Summerell—“I think it is the
greatest step forward taken by the
high school this year.”
Mr. Charlie Philllips—“Student
participation is, unquestionably, the
finest thing that could come to G.
H. S.”
Robert Wilkins—^“Student partici
pation is the greatest thing that
ever came to the high school and
each student should feel it his duty
to back the council in every measure
it proposes.”
NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL
MAKES FIRST APPPEARANCE
BEFORE STUDENT BODY
Robert Irvin, President
G. H. S. has just taken a long
step towards supremacy among the
high schools of North Carolina*
This step was brought about by
many years of work and mental
agony on the part of Miss Jane
Summerell of the faculty. G. H. S.
has adopted the plan of student
participation proposed by Miss Sum
merell four years ago. In the
years to come Miss Summerell will
be revered more and more because
through her efforts the plan of stu
dent participation was brought to
the best high school in the Old
North State, for the betterment of
it and its work.
The first council was introduced
to the students during the chapel
exercises on Wednesday. All the
members of the council were on the
stage. The preamble was read by
the president and each part was ex
plained by a member. After the
thorough explanation of the consti
tution and the work of the council
each class president expressed his
opinion on the subject and showed
the council that they were behind
them and believed that this would
raise the standard of the high
school.
Robert Irvin, the president of the
senior class is acting as the presi
dent of the council. Under his
leadership and with the help of Mr.
Charlie Phillips, the council expects
to better conditions in Greensboro
high school. Lucille Hack and
Oscar Wrenn will also represent
the seniors on the council while
Louise Smtih will represent “High
Life.” The junior class is fortunate
in being represented by Egbert An
derson and Spencer Adams, two
ardent supporters of anything the
school undertakes. Adam Clement
and P. B. Whittington represent the
sophomore and freshman classes re
spectively. Helen Clapp is well
qualified to represent the Girls’
Athletic Association while Willie
Green, the old reliable, will repre
sent the Boys’ Association.
The students of G. H. S. should
stand behind this council and sup
port it in everything it undertakes
and help it to succeed in its
purpose to better conditions in
Greensboro high school.
Open House at the Y. M. C. A.
Jeff Fordham. a G. H. S. alumni,
starred in the indoor meet held at
Durham.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
March 20, 21, and 22 the Y. M. C.
A. held what was called “Open
House.” All grammar school boys
who were not members of the “Y.”
were invited to come to the “Y”
and enjoy an hour in the Gymna
sium and about thirty minutes in
the pool. About 300 boys attended
these periods and seemed to enjoy
them. A regular program was
arranged for the boys in the Gym
and many new games were played.
Mr. H. W. Parks was in charge of
these games. Thursday afternoon
pictures were taken. All the boys
had a good time and learned many
things they didn’t know.
—Arthur Davant