Friday, February S6, 19^6
HIGH LIFE
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Miss Mary I.yon entertained the Janu
ary Graduating Class at a lovely Val
entine party the night of February 12.
'J'he guests played progressive hearts and
danced during the evening. Miss Helen
Felder won the girls prize and Sammy
Goode the boys.
Ice cream and cake, stuffed dates and
peanuts were served in the dining room
which was attractively decorated in the
Valentine colors. I^ater on in the even
ing James Peterson amused the guests
with several vocal solos.
Saturday night, January 20, Miss Cald
well’s and Miss Sumner’s session rooms
gave a Washington’s birthday party
at the Y. W. C. A. hut. The decorations
and refreshments were carried out in
an appropriate scheme.
The members of the girls basketball
team entertained those from ChaiDel Hill
with a party at Kd Nowell’s drug store
Saturday afternoon, February 20.
Miss Martin, Miss Grogan, Mr. Farth
ing, and Mr. Strickland were present
at the G. H. S.—B. H. S. basketball
game.
Mr. Guy Phillips spent Saturday,
February 20 at Greensboro attending a
meeting of the directors of the Girls
Athletic Association of the State. He
arrived at G. H. S. about 1 P. M. and
was greeted by several of his former
pupils.
Mr. Lee Edwards paid G. H. S. a visit
Friday February 12, when he came to
Greensboro to attend the principals’
meeting held here Friday and Satur
day. He spent the earlier part of the
morning shaking hands with the students
and took lunch in the cafeteria sixth
period.
Mr. Edwards, who was principal of
the Greensboro High School last year, is
now princi}>al of Asheville High School.
SMALL “M” TO MANAGERS
LETTER MEN DECIDE
Thursday, February 4, at 6:30 o'clock,
there was a meeting of the Monogram
Club at the First Baptist Church. Sev
eral important matters were discussed.
The business of selecting a standard
letter for the boys was thoroughly con
sidered. It was brought out that all
the boys preferred a standard letter
instead of tlie variety of styles which they
are now wearing. Since they could not
decide upon a certain kind and how it
should be made, the matter was left over
to be settled at some future date.
It was decided that the managers of
the different teams should wear the
standard letter with a small “M” inside
to show that he was the manager and
not a player. The principal, coach, and
faculty-manager are to select four or
five men which they think are capable
in every way of being the managers;
then, the team will select the manager
from this group.
A discussion concerning the matter of
paying for the letters followed. At
present each boy pays for his letter. It
was brought out that the boys really de
serve their letters free and that the
Athletic Association could buy enough
to last for quite a while and this way
get them cheaper. At this point, Mr.
Charles Phillips was called in; and he
suggested that the monogram club bring
the matter up before the student body.
The new members taken into the
club at the last meeting were pres
ent. They were: Ray Henderson, Bill
Petree, Theron Brown, Ned Lipscomb,
Dave Quate, “Pete” Wyrick, W. M. Col-
trane, Chester Strader, Joe Faulkner,
Jim Watson, “Unk” Homey, Guy Hill,
“Bunny” Wimbish, “Luke” Glascock.
A group of boys and girls had a meet
ing Friday, February 19, to make ar
rangements for transportation to Guil
ford College where the Greensboro
basketball team met the Leaksville team
for the elimination championship series.
Enough cars to take all students who
wished to attend the game were pro
cured, and a large number of Greens
boro spectators were present at the
COMPETITIVE WORK
IN ATHLETIC DRIVE
Students of G. H. S. Will Stage Drive
in March to Secure Members
and Funds.
February 29 will mark the beginning
of an extensive drive to increase the
membership of the Athletic Association.
T’his campaign is under the auspices of,
and in sponsored by the Greensboro High
School Athletic Association. A commit
tee representing each building has been
appointed to aid in the drive. There
will be a friendly rivalry between the
members of various groups. It has been
stated that the winner will receive due
recognition from the office.
The committees are: Barn B—Olga
Kellerman, George Sherrill, and Wood-
row Fordham; New Building—Marguer
ite Tilley, Bill Petree, and James Stid
ham; Main Building—Charlotte Van
Noppen, Victor Jones, and Weldon
Beacham.
RED CROSS COURSE
OFFERED G.H.S. GIRLS
One of Many New Unit Courses Of
fered Students This Semester; Mrs.
George Robertson Teaches Class.
The first of the unit courses which are
being offered to G. H. S. students this
semester was started on February 9 and
is proving most interesting. This is a
course in Red Cross Work taught by
Mrs. George Robertson, a member of
the City Health Department. There will
be 24 lectures in the course, and at the
end an examination sent out by National
Red Cross Headquarters will be given.
In this class the girls are learning many
practical things about diseases and the
care of the sick. Besides gaining this
knowledge and one-fourth school credit,
the girls will each receive a certificate
from the Red Cross Headquarters at
Washington.
The other unit courses which will be
offered are: Art A2:)preciation, which will
he taught by Miss Summerell; School
Courtesy, hy Miss Grogan; and Ivibrary
Work, by Miss Orr. Each of these
courses promises to be as helpful and
instructive as the one now being given,
and the unit credit is a thing not to be
scorned.
SOPHOMORE GIRLS MAKE
BABY’S LAYETTE IN CLASS
The second year domestic arts girls
taught by Miss Zollman have bought,
I>aid for, and are making a baby’s lay
ette.
The layette is being made for little
“Merry Christmas,” who was found the
night before Christmas on the streets of
Greensboro and taken to the Children’s
Home. The girls are working faithfully
and hope to finish the garments very
soon, after which they will take them
to “Merry Christmas.”
Later on in the spring the class will
make children's clothes. The funds for
this are being contributed by some one
else. These clothes will also be given to
the Children’s Home.
THE BAPTIST BOYS CLUB
HAS SUCCESSFUL MEETING
Their ranks swelled by the addition of
several recently-elected members to pro
portions that crowded the club room,
the Baptist Boys’ Club held its regular
weekly meeting Monday night, February
15. Transaction of several important
business matters, including the a2:>point-
ment of a social committee by President
Edwin Lashley, laying of jilans for ex-
jiansion of the club to new quarters, and
arrangements for several prominent lo
cal men to speak before the club, fea
tured the meeting.
Mr. Casi:)er, club leader, made a brief
talk in which he outlined the essentials
of a hajij^y Christian life. His talk was
very well received by the boys.
A freshman, trying to make a good
im.pression on her English teacher, wrote
a theme on “The Great Women of the
Past, Present, and Future.”
TRIP TO N. Y. PLANNED
BY MEMBERS OF STAFF
Paper to Enter Class A at Convention
This Year—Members Will Interview
Coolidge if Possible.
The Greensboro Dailt/ Record, Pilot
I.ife Insurance Company, Proximity
Manufacturing Company, Blue Bell
Overall Company, Pomona Mills, Inc.,
Vick Chemical Comi^any, Dixie Fire In
surance Company, Greensboro Chamber
of Commerce, Dixie Advertising Sign
Com2:)any, Jefferson Standard Life In
surance Company—such is the roll of
honor of Greensboro industries and busi
ness organizations as edited by the five
boys who are going on the High Life
tour to New York in a truck. Major
Edney Ridge, manager of the Daily Rec
ord, has loaned the truck to the boys.
John Mebane, Paul Wimbish, James
Clements, Ernest Williams, and Glenn
Holder comprise the delegation who will
attend the Interscholastic Press Conven
tion at Columbia University. I^ast year
High Life won second place in class B
in the contest which is held in conjunc
tion with the convention. This year it
has been raised to Class A. Over 1,000
high school jmblications from all over
the North and South are exjiected to
enter the contest.
Members of the delegation jolan to
stoj) over in Washington, where an in
terview will be arranged with President
Coolidge if possible. Reservations for
the i^arty while in New Y^ork have been
made at the Bristol hotel, just off Broad
way on 48th street. Ten days is the
length of time which the trip will cover.
In New York outstanding places of
interest will be thoroughly covered. An
itinerary has been drawn iqi for the
week which the jiarty will spend in the
big city, comprising a definite schedule
for each day. They will see most of the
best shows now running in New York.
The boys will leave Greensboro Tues
day morning, March 9, arriving in New
Y'ork Thursday evening, the 11th. Miss
Coleman and Nell Thurman will leave
on the Crescent IJmited Wednesday, the
10th, and arrive late Thursday.
GLEE CLUB WILL GIVE
“BELLE OF BARCELONA”
At the heginning of the semester two
girls' glee clubs were formed. One is
comjiosed of new girls who are just
starting glee club work, and the other,
of girls who have had this training be
fore. There is also a third club com
posed of boys. All three of these clubs
have been working together on an ope
retta, “The Belle of Barcelona.”
The story is that if a Spanish girl who
comes to Washington with her father,
the Siianish consul to the United States,
and falls in love with an American. One
day the young hero is dismayed to find
that the beautiful girl has disappeared,
leaving no forwarding’ address. But
that is not the end; in some way love
always conquers. The American is sent
to Siiain by his government, and there
he finds her. Her father has engaged
her to a rich nobleman, and Hall, the
American, has to fight it out.
Courting in the beautiful plaza, scent
ed, moonlit nights, gay bull fights, in
trigues, and a glorious end—these are
incidents in Hall's fight for Marguerita.
A comical thread is woven through the
story in the jiersons of the Irishman
“Pat,” and the “proiier English gov
erness, Miss Ayers.”
The directors, Mr. Gildersleeve and
Mr. Miller, say that splendid progress
is being made. The musical comedy will
be ready for jiresentation by April. The
junior girls’ glee club is working on the
choruses for the flower girls in the wed
ding scene; the girls and boys of the
senior club will be the Spanish students.
There will be eight special dancers, and
these with the main characters will total
100 on the stage for the finale.
Mr. Wunsch and his dramatics class
w'ill make the scenery, and Mr. Wunsch
w'ill also coach the acting. This, “The
Belle of Barcelona,” will be one of the
most magnificent achievements of the
high school.
LOCAL BOYS MEET
GOVERNOR M’LE AN
Holder and Mebane Have Con
fidential Talk With Governor
In Daily Record Office.
It was Saturday morning, February
20. In front of the Daily Record office
on Greene street w'as parked a big, shiny
limousine with the number 1 in haughty
aloneness on the N. C. license plate. A
battered Ford drew up beside it, and
two high school boys tumbled out, dis
appearing into the new^spaper office. The
limousine seemed to draw aw^ay from
the mongrel flivver as if in proud dis
dain.
Inside the office the two boys looked
around for Major Ridge, manager of
the Record. He stood at the door of
the glass-partitioned space that com
prises his office. In obedience to his
beckoning summons, they entered. In
side stood a stranger—a big, ideally-
projiortioned man.
“Boys, I wuint you to meet Governor
McLean. Governor, this is John Mebane
and Glenn Holder, a couple of prominent
young citizens of our towm,” Mr. Ridge
said. After shaking hands with the gov
ernor, the dazed boys looked helplessly
at Major Ridge. They were afraid to
say anything; how did a person act wdien
he met the governor, anyw^ay, they want
ed to know.
“Making an early start, are you?
That's the best w'ay to success. You
boys are started right—go to it. All
you've got to do is wmrk. Nowadays
every boy has a fair chance—it’s up to
him to take advantage of it. If you fel
lows really want to do big things, the
w’orld lies before you. But you’ve got
to w'ork; nobody else is going to do it
for you,” Governor McLean told them,
after a little preliminary conversation.
A few minutes later tw'O beaming boys
strutted out into the bright sunlight,
fingers hooked in vest pockets, their
bearing that of arrogant jiersons of con
sequence. When a person has just had
his first confidential conversation with
a governor, he naturally does not feel
himself the most unimportant of human
beings, esjiecially if he be a high school
boy.
stateIatin contest
G. H, S. REPRESENTED
Interest is Keen and Competition is
Expected From Practically All the
Larger Schools in State.
Wednesday, February 24, a Latin con
test was held under the auspices of the
I.atiii Department in co-operation with
the Extension Division of the University
of North Carolina. The purpose of the
contest W'as to act as an aid in stimu
lating interest in the study of Latin in
high school, and w'as arranged to test
students’ know'ledge of Latin in the sim
plest and most direct way'by translation
and by questions on grammar.
The contest was open to all accredited
jiublic high schools in the state. Last
year more than 60 schools took part in
this. Greensboro made a good showing
at that time, but this year the contest
W'as open to all Sophomores and Juniors,
as w'ell as Seniors, and it is hoped that
by this a higher score w’as made. The
results will be announced as soon as the
Iiapers are graded.
TYPING CONTEST CALLS
FOR ALL RECORD-BREAKERS
The Typing Contest which is to be
held in Charlotte the latter part of April
is calling for hard, earnest work on the
part of several of the typing students.
Those w'ho stand a chance of taking part
in this contest are Elizabeth Rockwell,
Fanny Rockw'ell, Ruth Capel, Annie
Younts, Ida May Meyers, Cordia Dur
ham, and Elizabeth Campbell.
All of these students have made good
records throughout their course and are
doing extra practice after school and at
vacant jieriods to increase their speed
and accuracy. The prospects are that
those selected for the team will come
back record-breaking w'inners.
Shreveport Ill-Life, Shreveport, La.
Your paper is very good, but if it con
tained more editorials it would be more
interesting.
The Bruin, New Bern, N. C.
Tlie article on “Accuracy First” is
very good. We're sure it wdll prove
jirofitable to those who read it.
The Central Bulletin, Central High
School, Washington, D. C.
Your iiaiier is one of the neatest and
most attractive w'e have had the pleasure
of reading. All of your departments are
W'ell arranged.
Cohisco Outburst, Covington, Va.
We think the paper as a whole is a
rather creditable one, but a paragraph
about the alumni association and a col
umn for exchanges would add to the
practical value of your paper.
The Lee Hi Mirror, Colombus, Miss.
The students seem to be doing excel
lent work in this school, especially in
athletics. Keep it up.
Cupo’ Cofee, Coffee County High School.
We are glad to receive you as a mem
ber of exchanges, and we find your pa-
jier very interesting. Your poems are
very good.
DRAMATIC CLASS
TO GIVE PLAY SOON
“The Charm School” a Clever
Comedy, to he Presented
March 12 at N.C.C.W.
“The Charm School,” a comedy in
three acts, is to be presented by the dra
matic class of Greensboro High School
at the N. C. C. W. Auditorium on either
March 11 or 12.
Students under the direction of Mr.
W. R. Wunsch will paint the scenery for
tlie first act. The production will be
three hours long with plenty of sparkling
humor and clever wit.
'i'he plot centers around Austin Bev-
ans, an automobile salesman, who in
herited a girls’ school from an aunt. He
tries to run it by his ow'n methods of
charm.
lionise McCullock wall be the leading
lady as Elise Benedottie. Bunny Wim
bish W’ill play ojiposite her as Austin
Bevans. They will be ably supported by
David MacKenzie, a law stiident, Ver
non Patterson; Homer Johns, the guard
ian of Elise Benedottie, Maddry Solo
mon; George Boyd, an expert account
ant, Phil Shelton; Miss Curtis, w'ho al
ways tries to think W'ell of the Senior
class, Sara Mendenhall; Miss Hays, w'ho
is loved and feared by all who know her,
Mary Jane Wharton; and a w'hole school
of girls. There will be 26 in the cast.
Wallace Reid played the part of Bev
ans in the screen version of “The Charm
School.” This comedy has had two long
successful seasons in New York and
London.
LOST AND FOUND
Please carry found articles to the
“I,.ost and Found Bureau,” (open be
fore school and the fifth period).
LOST
Literature and Life No. 1724.
Sentence and Theme No. 71456.
Civics No. unknow'n.
American History No. 7849.
Chemistry Note Book.
FOUND
1 black hat.
1 light cap.
5 pairs of gloves.
Fountain pens.
“Representative English Essays” by
Taylor.
“Master of the Vineyard” by Myrtle
Reed.
2 “Outlines of European History.”
2 English books.
1 Plane Geometry book.
1 Community Civics.
1 “Fifteen French Plays.”