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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
PREVENTION!
Economy, Happiness
Life
VOLUME VII
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 8, 1926
NUMBER 2
MOORE IS ELECTED
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
OF THE REFLECTOR
Jack Coble is Chosen Business
Manager — Mary E. King
Class Vice-President.
CAMPBELL IS TREASURER
Seniors Take Over Drive For Subscrip
tions to Publications—Council
Representatives Chosen.
At the first meeting of the senior
class held Friday, September 24, in
Room 103, Beverly Moore was elected
editor-in-chief of the 1927 Reflector
and Jack Cobie was chosen business
manager.
The class officers that had not been
previously elected were chosen as fol
lows ; Mary Elizabeth King, vice-presi
dent ; Cynthia Vaughn, secretary; and
Bill Campbell, treasurer. The election
of student council representative was
postponed in order that the students
might think about their candidates.
After the election Miss lone Grogan
and Betty Brown, editor-in-chief of
High Life appealed to the seniors to
help in the drive being made tor sub
scriptions. Miss Tillet impressed upon
the seniors the importance of putting
the drive across and Finley Atkisson,
the president, added a word for pub
lications.
At the second meeting of the class,
held Friday, September 3d, Mary Lynn
Carlson was elected Student Council
Representative, and Catherine Whar
ton, Girls’ Council representative. The
subscription drive was again discussed.
SEVEN NEW MEMBERS IN
SENIOR CLASS FOR YEAR
Minnie Herman Was Member of High
Point High School Debating
Club Last Year.
McGLAMERY BACK FROM FLORIDA
Seven new students have entered
Greensboro High School as seniors.
Minnie Herman, one of them, conies
from High Point. She was a member
of the High Point high school Debat
ing Club and would have participated
in the Triangular Debate if sickness
had not prevented her.
Oris Clinedinst comes from Glen-
wood. He atended Pomona high
school and played ball on the Pomona
team.
Wylie McGlamery has returned from
Sarasota, Fla., where he went to
school last year.
The other new students, and where
they came from, are; Ida Clark,
Frankfort High School, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Ida Cross, Tiffin, Ohio; Wilhel-
mina Elder, Berwisk, Pa., and Swan-
nie Wade, Beaufort, N. 0.
“I think the new students are ex-
■hellent material,” said Mis Mitchell,
dean of the girls, “and I am expect
ing them to be students who will add
much to High School and to the
Senior class.”
MRS. BRIM, A FORMER
TEACHER, SUBSTITUTES
Mrs. Kenneth Brim, a former mem
ber of the English Department, substi
tuted for Mr. W. H. Coltrane, on Friday
October 1st. Mr. Coletrane was ab
sent from school on account of the trip
he made to Asheville with the football
team.
OPEN FORUM TO HAVE
A SERIES OF LECTURES
A series of eight lectures will be
sponsored this year by the Open
Forum. The meetings will be held
as usual at the Guilford County
Courthouse. Tuesday night, Octo
ber 5th, Norman Angell, the Eng
lish author, delivered the first ad
dress. Seven more lectures are to
be available at different times this
year. The regular price of the
season tickets is $5. Students may
secure them for .$2.50.
PROGRAM GIVEN BY
BOYS OF Hl-Y CLUBS
Ideals of Clubs Given in Talks
Made by Presidents
in Chapel.
NEW MEMBERS TAPPED
Monday, September 27, the members
of the Hi-Y club had charge of the
chapel exercises.
W. 11. Coletrmie introduced Finley
Atkisson, president of the Robert E.
Lee club (Formerly Hi-Y No. I) who
discussed the History of Hi-Y. Bever
ly Moore, president of the Woodrow
Wilson Club (Formerly Hi-Y No. 2)
told “What it means to be a Hi-Y.”
He said that Hi-Y boys lived by the
four “C's” clean living, clean speech,
clean athletics and clean scholarship.
After these talks Mr. Coltrane an
nounced that because of the honor at
tached to being a member of the Hi-Y
club, they were instituting a new cere
mony and that the Knights of the
Hi-Y would enter and tap the new
mendiers. Those chosen are :
Willard Watson, Herman Gardner,
Bill Latham, Lee Whiteheart, Edwin
King, Bill Campbell, Wylie -McGlain-
ery, Willis Hargrove, Norman York,
Glenn ILu'kney, Robert Ballard, Hen
ry Biggs, Dillard McGlamery, Bill
Byers, Bryan Grubbs, Harry Gump,
Ralph Cook.
FORMER HEAD OF LATIN
DEPARTMENT LEAVES
Miss Jane Summerell Resigns To Take
Up Work As Instructor of English
At N. C. C. W.
Miss Jane Summerell, head of the
Latin Department and Student Coun
cil advisor, resigned her position at
G. H. S. to teach English at N. C. C. W.
After graduating from N. C. C. W.
Miss Summerell came to G. H. S. as
a Latin teacher. She left to teach in
the Training School where she re
mained until she continued her studies
at Columbia university, where she re
ceived her blaster's Degree in 1924.
After this she was in the English De
partment of Winthrop college at Rock
Hill, South Carolina, until she came
back a year ago to head the Latin De
partment of Greensboro High.
Aliss Summerell is largely responsi
ble for our student government system.
It was she who first thought of a stu
dent council in Greensboro and with
several other teachers labored to per
fect the present organization.
Morgan Returns To Office
MR. ARCHER PLEASED
WITH THE STANDING
OF SCHOOLS IN CIH
Leads All North Carolina Cities
in Statistical Standings of
the Public Schools.
HE FAVORS SCHOOL BONDS
Miss Mattie Morgan, business mana
ger of the Greensboro Public Schools,
has returned to her office after three
days absence, on account of a severe
cold.
Money Raised From Bond Issue Would
Be Used to Erect New
School Buildings.
“Naturally, I am very much gratified
that the Greensboro High School for
another year has topped those of the
principal cities of North Carolina.
However, I am far from satisfied with
the standing and believe that it will
be possible to obtain an even higher
standing of perfection,” said Superin
tendent Archer in speaking of the
showing made by the Greensboro High
School during the past year.
“While I do not claim to be a long
faced alarmist,” he futher added, “un
less Greensboro receives a favorable
verdict in the School Case of Greater
Greensboro, now before the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, I honestly be
lieve that it will be with only the
hardest kind of a struggle that we will
be able to maintain our present high
standard.”
(Continued on Page Five)
SEMESTER VIII OFFICERS
ARE ELECTED FOR TERM
Banks Simpson Elected President, Mil
dred Nash, Vice-President, Elea
Harrelson, Sec’y-Treas.
WATSON CHOSEN VALEDICTORIAN
At a recent meeting of Semester
VIII, the class elected its officers for
the coming year. Those elected were:
Banks Simpson, president; Mildred
Nash, vice-president; Elea Harrelson,
secretary and treasurer. Other officers
are: historian, Annie Hogan, who
writes the class history ; testator, Wil
lis Hargrove, who is author of the last
will and testament; prophet, George
Donovant, who foretells the future of
each senior; and valedictorian, Wil
lard Watson, who speaks in behalf of
the seniors at their commencement.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE AT
G. H. S. DURING SUMMER
Cooks and Maids Wear White—Cafe
teria Walls Painted and Tables Re
paired—Cretonne Curtains.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12
BANKING DAY AT G. H. S.
Willard Watson
PRESIDENT STUDENT COUNCIL
PRESIDENT WATSON
HAS GREAT CAREER
In Third Season Varsity Foot
ball—Member of Monogram
and Hi-Y Clubs.
ORGANIZES NEW COUNCIL
Willard Watson, president of the
Student Council, came to Greensboro
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the spring
of 1924. He entered the sophomore
class and will graduate this year at
mid-term.
Watson’s athletic career is outstand
ing. He has played two seasons of
varsity basket-ball and is in his third
season of varsity football. During 1925-
192(5, lie served as captain of both
the football and the basketball teams.
Last year, Watson was president of
the Boys’ Athletic Association. Be
sides being a charter member of the
Monogram Club, he was recently
honored with membership in Hi-Y.
Watson is at present organizing the
new council. Extensive plans have
been prepared for the years program.
A revision of the point system is now
under way.
Alany improvements have been made
in the cafeteria during the summer.
The walls and ceiling have had a coat
of white i)aint, and the tables have
been repaired and painted, too. New
purple cretonne draperies have been
hung at the windows. Mrs. Comer has
required all the cooks and maids this
year to wear solid white dresses and
aprons.
“Any further suggestions that the stu
dents think would be beneficial to the
cafeteria will be appreciated,” Mrs.
Comer stated.
October 11-15 is Thrift Week, and
G. H. S. will have her first banking
day Tuesday, the 12th. Pupils will
continue their old accounts or start
new ones on this day.
INDUSTRIAL ART COURSE
TAUGHT BY MISS BOLEY
Held In Attic of New Building at Sec
ond and Third Periods on Wednes
days, Thursdays, and Fridays.
DOHNANT THEME IN
CHAPEL PROCRAMS
IS FIRE PREYENTION
Greensboro Fire Department
Demonstrated Alarm Sys
tem During Week.
C. W. GOLD MAKES TALK
R. D. Douglas Says “Will, Not Intellect,
Rules the World”—Stresses Pre
vention of Fire.
National Fire Prevention Week was
observed in' Greensboro High School at
chapel periods all during the week of
October 4.
Monday at chapel period, R. D.
Douglas, banker and lawyer, made a
talk to the students.
The theme of his speech was the
fact that will, not intellect, rules the
world. He impressed on all the stu
dents that the combined effort and will
to prevent fires would save Greensboro
much.
C. W. Gold, vice-president of the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Company, talked; and during the week
the Greensboro Fire Department gave
a demostration of the alarm system in
Greensboro.
Tuesday, Sherwood Blackwell, state
fire inspector had charge of the pro
gram.
THREE PLAYS ARE TO BE
PRESENTED IN OCTOBER
Players Are Chosen From The Classes
In Dramatics and Pub
lic Speaking.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fri
days of each week, at the second and
third periods, an Industrial Art course
is given in the attic of the new build
ing. It is a double-period class under
the supervision of Miss Lena Boley,
head of the Art Department in the
Greensboro Citj’ Schools. Practically
all of the fifteen pupils enrolled are
freshmen.
Full credit is given for the course,
since six periods a week are spent in
study.
At present the class is engaged in the
making of a manual to be used in the
study of their subjects. It will include
projects in wood-working, textiles, pa
per, iirinting, book-binding, clothing,
food, leather, glass, and clay. These
subjects will not be taken up in detail,
however, because the fields are so large
and the time so limited.
Excursions to various industrial
ifiants in the city will be made as the
class progresses.
The class in Public Speaking and the
class in Dramatics, both taught by
Miss Marian Bliss, will present three
one-act plays at the N. C. C. W. audi
torium on Friday, October 29, 1926.
The three plays chosen for presenta
tion are: “The Trysting Place,” by
Booth Tarkington; “A Fan and Two
Candlesticks,” by Mary MacMillan,
and “The Florist’s Shop” by Winifred
Hawkridge. These plays have been
produced by little theaters and col
leges. Each time they have enjoyed
a successful run. The.v also appear on
the approved list of plays of the Na
tion Drama League.
The all-star cast chosen for the
plays are: for “The Trysting Place,”
Tallulah Matheny, Jane Harris, Page
Howard, Leon Wells, Ernest Scarboro,
J. D. McNairy, Jr., and Henry Weil-
and; for “The Florist's Shop,” Henry
Biggs, Nell Applewhite, Doris Plogan,
Edward Stainback, and Macon Crock
er ; for “A Fan and Two Candle
sticks,” Hilda Davidson, Joe Mann,
and Louis Brooks.
GIRLS BIBLE CLASS IS
LED BY MISS COLEMAN
During the past two months Miss
Inabelle Coleman has been teaching a
group of girls in a Bible class at the
Baptist Church. The class met for an
hour every Monday and Wednesday
morning at 10:30 o’clock. The Book
of John was stiLdied and outlined and
the girls kept notebooks of their work.
They have decided to form a High
School Girls’ Club and meet every
Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock this
winter. The Bible study will be from
5 to 6 o’clock and then a light supper
will probably be served for about 20
cents.
Miss Coleman invites all girls of the
High School age to join.