High Life
From the Gate City of the South and the Birth Place of 0. Henry
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VOLUME VI
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL GRENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 12, 1926
NUMBER 11
JUDGES CHOOSE
DEBATING TEAM
FOR YEAR 1926
Harry Gump, Edgar Kuyken
dall, Henry Biggs, and John
Mebane Represents Stives
CONTEST BEGINS APRIL 2
Margaret Hood and J. D. McNairy to
Act as Alternates for High
School Team.
Preliminaries for the state-wide tri
angular debate were held Tuesday night
at eight o’clock in the Greensboro High
School auditorium. The four debaters
chosen were: Harry Gump, Edgar Kuy
kendall, Henry Biggs, and John Mebane;
Margaret Hood, and J, D. McNairy
were selected as alternates. Eleven in
teresting speeches were given on the
query: Resolved: That North Carolina
should levy a state tax on property to
aid in the support of an eight months
school term.
Plenry Biggs and Harry Gump will
uphold the affirmative side of the ques
tion while Edgar Kuykendall and John
Mebane will represent the negative. The
affirmative debates Winston-Salem here
on April 2, while the negative opposes
High Point in High Point the same even
ing. The city having both of its teams
to win will go to the University of North
Carolina to compete in the final con
tests April 1.5 and 16.
I.ast year both of the Greensboro
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“MASKS OFF” TIES
WITH WINSTON’S PLAY
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LET’S TELL OUR
PARENTS—
WHAT: To register tomorrow
WHY: So they can vote
WHEN: March 30
FOR: The school election
NOTE: Be sure to register—
but having registered, be
sure to vote—for neglect
ing to vote makes your
name count for a nega
tive vote.
DEPLTATION TEAM
RENDERS PROCRAM
Carolina Boys Give Musical Se
lections—Several Speeches
Made on Hi-Y Ideals.
Ruth Heath’s Production Is Chosen
As One of Best in State-wide
Original Play Contest.
Word has been received from Chapel
Hill that Greensboro is one of the win
ners in the state-Avide original play con
test. From the group submitted from
the various high schools over the state,
Ruth Heath’s play was chosen as one
of the best twm. It is entitled “Masks
Off” and deals with the Prince of Rou-
mania and his recent abdication of the
throne for a girl he loved, who was not
of the nobility. Winston won the other
play with “The Deserter”, by Soretta
Carroll.
Ruth Heath’s play will be staged by
the Dramatic Club and taken to Chapel
Hill March 25 to compete with Win
ston for the state honors. At that time
a convention of the State High School
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On Friday, February 26, the deputa
tion team of the Y. M. C. A. from the
University of North Carolina gave an
interesting program to the boys in the
school auditorium.
Mr. S. Ray Calhoun took charge of the
program. After a short talk by the
chairman, a stringed trio composed of
Alex Mendenhall, a former G. H. S.
student, “Slim”, whose girl calls him
Mr. Madison, and Mr. Smith, whom the
boys called “Smitty,” played a few num
bers. Short talks were made by each
boy on the deputation team on clean
speech, clean living, clean scholarship,
clean sportsmanship, and contagious
Christian character. After the speeches
were over, the trio added Mr. Woodall j
to their number and favored a vocal i
quartet which rendered several musical
numbers.
ATHLETIC DRIVE
BIG SUCCESS IN
ENTIRE SCHOOL
Main Building Win Unknown
Reward, New Building Comes
Second and Barn Third.
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
Campaign Launched Successfully by
Presidents of Boy’s and Girl’s
Athletic Association.
MR. PHILLIPS CLEARS
TROUBLESOME FACTS
“BELLE OF BARCELONA,,
CAST AS YET INCOMPLETE
The cast for a musical comedy, “The
Belle of Barcelona”, is as yet incom
plete. The directors, Mr. Miller and Mr.
Gildersleve, have been trying to get a
complete cast, but have been unable to
do so. The dual requirements, musical
and dramatic, make their task hard. The
principals must be both singers and ac
tors.
There will be a double cast picked,
one for each of the two performances.
The date of performance has not been
definitely set, but will probably be the
second Friday or Saturday in April.
There will be an afternoon and night
performance.
The choruses for the play are complete
and are busy rehearsing the various for
mations. The dancers with the chorus
are practicing every day.
The orchestra is doing very well with
its part of the play. The first rehear
sal of the orchestra was held Friday,
March 5. The first numbers were played
well at sight.
In a recent interview with Mr. Phillips
some facts that have given a number
of students trouble recently were cleared
up.
In regard to the Junior-Senior, any
one with from 23 to 27 credits is in
cluded in the Junior Class and entitled
to an invitation to the banquet, and all
seniors with 31 or more credits are en
tertained.
Any person from rising semesters
three, four, five, six, and seven may be
president of the Student Government,
but heretofore only a Senior has been
given the office. A mid-term graduate
may be the head of the student body,
but his leaving school in the middle of
the year would cause a great deal of
extra disturbance at a time when the
council should be running smoothly.
Each semester of the Senior Class has
its own president.
No one can graduate from G. H. S.
without four years of English and two
semesters of American history. He must
also have 3j6 credits gained from certain
required subjects according to his course.
It is an unwritten law that the Editor-
in-chief of High Life must come from
the June graduating class, and that the
Editor-in-chief of Homespun must be a
representative from the graduates of
January.
BANKING
You’ve heard the one about the little
boy who started saving as a kid—how
he saved and saved and got richer and
richer. Well, the pupils of all the gram
mar schools are hopping along in his
footsteps at full speed. The new bank
ing system went over with a bang in
that quarter and practically every room
is 100 per cent every Tuesday.
Why can’t we Fligh Schoolers do as
well ?
On February 26, the Athletic Asso
ciation of the Greensboro High School
launched a drive to make the paid-up
dues for March one hundred per cent.
When the drive closed Wednesday,
March 3, the entire Main Building had
gone one hundred per cent. The New
Building was second, and Barn B was
third.
The progress of the drive was given in
chapel every day, and on Monday it
showed that |D1 was the first room to
go one hundred per cent. Other rooms
caught the spirit, and before chapel was
over room 103 had furnished the drive On
Tuesday four more rooms were added
to the list: 202, 206, 207, and 204. On
Wednesday, the final day of the drive,
the entire Main Building was reported
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PROFESSOR KONDO
IS SCHOOL VISITOR
Head of Department of Physics
of University of Tokio
Here for a Day.
Professor Kondo, head of the depart
ment of physics of the University of
Tokio, visited the high school on Monday,
March 8. He attended the classes in
physics, home economics, and music.
Dr. Kondo is primarily interested in
vocational training. He has been study
ing this subject at Columbia University
for the last few months. He was edu
cated in this country through the govern
ment system of exchanging students.
While here. Dr. Kondo stated that he
was impressed with the informality of
the classes, the congenial manner in
which they were conducted, and the
spirit of friendship existing in the class
room. This is very much different from
the condition in his homeland, he said,
for there they are exceedingly formal
in all their classes.
G. H. S. LIBRARY GROWS
LATE REPORT REVEALS
Several Valuable Additions are Made—
Include “Woodrow Wilson,” and
A Book of Poems.
The G. H. S. Library may now be
classed as one of the best in the state.
New books are being added at inter
vals.
Nathalia Crand|’s new book,i “Lava
Lane” and also “The Janitor’s Boy”
are now on the shelves of our library.
Nathalia is the twelve-year-old prodigy
of Brooklyn.
“Woodrow Wilson”, by William Allen
White, and “Confessions of a Reformer”
by Frederic C. Howe are among the
political books.
There is nearly a whole shelf of books
on humor, one set being the works of all
American humorists, collected by Tom
Masson, one of humor’s leaders.
John Drinkwater’s poetry is an ex
cellent book for those poetically inclined.
A few more new volumes may be
found in the library on the shelves be
hind Mrs. Orr’s desk.
Minstrel Chief Feature
Of Show Given By Juniors
TORCH LIGHT BIDS
ELEVEN MEMBERS
Miss Boyton Gives Interesting
Account of Her Recent Trip
To Washington—Visited
Congress.
On Monday, March 8, the chapel pro
gram was conducted by the Torch Light
Society. By an impressive ceremony of
passing on the torch, the following new
members were taken into the society:
Semester seven—Phyllis Penn, Beverly
Moore, James Watson, Ernest Williams,
and Bobby Wilson; Semester eight—-
John Mebane, James Tidwell, Charlotte
Van Noppen, Louise McCulloch, Eliza
beth Campbell, and Elibameth Rockwell.
Important announcements were made
concerning the girls’ swimming try-outs,
baseball practices, “The Charm School”,
and Dr. Grenfell’s lecture to be given
March 12, at the Odell Memorial Build
ing.
Afterwards Miss Boyington gave an in
teresting account of her recent trip to
Washington. She enjoyed her trip to
Congress where Senator Simmons was
taking an active part, defending Duke
University.
TEN LOCAL FIRMS
ADVERTISE ON TRUCK
Advertising Will Have Double Value
As The Boys Will Return By
A Different Route.
There are ten Greensboro firms or cor
porations which have taken advertising
space in the form of signs to be display
ed on the “Daily Record” truck in which
the five boys representing High Iufe at
the Columbia University Newspaper
Contest will go to New York.
The “Pilot Ivife Insurance Co.”, the
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SOUSA GIVES CONCERT
AT NATIONAL THEATRE
John Philip Sousa and his famous band
gave a concert at the National Theatre,
Wednesday, March 3. Many G. H. S.
students and faculty attended the con
cert. The program consisted of many of
Sousa’s new pieces, “Black Florse
Troop”, Cuba U^nder Three Flags”, and
many old favorites. “Stars and Stripes
Forever” was given as an encore, while
“Liberty Bell” and “Jazz America” were
pleasing numbers of the program.
Probably the greatest success of the
evening was “Carry Me Back to Ole
Virginny”, a solo by Miss Majorie
Moody, soprana, rendered as an encore.
“U^nited States Field Artillery” was also
well received.
Sousa’s concert took a high place
among the musical treats recently of-
ferred to the people of Greensboro.
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SOLOS FEATURE
Spring Junior-Senior Banquet—
Nets Profit Total $125,
PLAY BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE
Troupe of Black-Faced Comedians
Bring Forth Roar of Applause
By Their Jokes and Songs.
The Junior Class of Greensboro High
School netted $125 at the Carnival given
Friday night, February 26, in the Main
Building of the High School. This fund
will go toward the spring Junior-Senior
banquet.
The ministrel show in the Auditorium
before a crowded house began at 8:00
o’clock. The jokes were practically all
local, and received hearty applause. The
acts of the blacks during another number
were quite amusing. Mr. R. D. Douglas
was interlocutor.
“Sleejiy Time Gal,” was the opening
chorus; then Mr. W. R. Wunsch sang
the “Yodeling Song.” Theron Brown did
a clog dance and gained a roar of ap
plause. The quartet, composed of Floyd
Mills, Paul Scurlock, Kenneth Cates, and
Houston Barbee, rendered several selec
tions. “By the flight of the Stars”,
was the solo sung by Baxter Bason, and
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COUNTY TO VOTE FOR
EQUAL SCHOOL TERMS
Fifty Five Cents Tax Will Give Eight
Months’ Term to All Schools
In County.
Guilford County is putting on a drive
to equalize the school term all over the
county. At present, the county schools
have a term of only six months, and the
city schools have nine months.
'The school tax on property in all the
county is now 25 cents on the $100 and
the cities (High Point and Greensboro)
have an extra tax providing for a
longer term. Raising the tax on all
property, both city and county, to thirty
cent rate, will give a longer team to all
the schools in the county. The city tax
may be raised as high as the city wishes
it.
The citizens of the county will show
their opinions by voting this month.
There will be a separate registrations for
this election; those who register and
do not vote, although they may have
meant to vote for it, will be automati
cally voting against it. Requirements
for voting are: one year in N. C. and
four months in Guilford county.
PRELIMINARY FOR MUSIC
CONTEST TO BE APRIL 1
The preliminaries for the annual Music
Contest will be held some time the first
of April, according to announcement
from Mr. Glenn Gildersleeve. At this
time a violin, a piano, and vocal soloist,
and alternates, will be selected to repre
sent Greensboro in the State Contest
later in April.
I.ast year much interest was shown,
and several hundred entered the State
Contest, held at North Carolina College
for Women. A new feature this year
is the addition of bands as an entrant.
Heretofore, only orchestras have been
allowed to compete. Also, in addition
to a solo and Bach invention, each piano
contestant is required to play at sight
a hymn and jiiece one grade easier than
his solo.
I^ast year, Greensboro did not win a
place in the State Contest, but this year
there is much new material, which prom
ises to give G. FI. S. a better record at
this contest.