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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XV
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., JIAKCH 1, 1939
NUMBER 8
Debating Team Selected
For Triangular Contest
AT CHAPEL HILL
Chisholm, Cantrell, Halladay,
and Hunt To Represent
Greensboro High.
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‘•Aim Cliisholm and Billy Ilolladay
of the affirmative side, and ilary Lee
Cantrell and Douglass Hunt of the
negative, ■will represent Senior high
school in the annual North Carolina
debating contest,” announced Miss
Causey, faculty adviser for the club,
this week. The question to be dis
cussed is: Resolved—That the United
States should establish an alliance
with Great Britain.
All of the students selected have
been outstanding in school work of
one type or another. Mary Lee rep
resented Albemarle in the debating
contest last year and succeeded in
getting as far as the semi-finals at
Chapel Ilill. Her colleague, Douglass,
was the student chairman for the
Social Standards conference. The mem
bers of the opposition group have
also been prominently identified with
school activities. Aim was an assist
ant cheer leader, and Billy played the
leading role in the dramatic club's
fall production, ‘•The Romancers.”
Alternates will l»e Frances Chisholm
and Annie Louise Patterson. Annie
Louise is a former president of Cen
tral junior high, and Frances is now
a member of the student council.
At the first debate, which will be
March 31, the negative team of Greens-
boro will meet the affirmative of Win-
•; ston-SaJem in that city. On the same
date, the negative team of High Point
I will meet the affirmative teiMi of
yGreesnboro here. If both Greensboro
# teams are successful, they will be
” eligible to compete in the state finals
which will be held in Chapel Hill.
ALVIN YANTISS HEADS
PLAYMASTERS CLUB
Janet Campbell and Betty Hopkins
To Fill Other Key Positions
For Coming Semester.
Alvin Yantiss, one of the new ad
ditions to J^enior high, was elected
president of the Playmasters club at
the last regular meeting. Although he
has been in the organization less than
a year, Alvin has been prominent. He
made his official debut as a father in
‘•The Romancevs,'’ a one-act play pre
sented in the fall.
The other olficers elected wepe; vice-
president, Janet Cqj.gpbell: and secre
tary-treasurer, Betty Hopkins. The
publicity and program chairmen have
not been named.
I Faculty vs. Girls’ Varsity
•’Mow 'em downl'' cries Miss ITice,
and the faculty •’wheezes" go into ac
tion. Jliss Ella Lee Taylor, the light-
ning-tlash of the faculty aggregation,
Miss N’irginia Cohoon, another star
member, with their other stand-outs,
Mrs. (rrace Alton. Mrs. Sara Hucks,
Miss Causey, and Miss Louise Smith
tear into the girls’ varsity basketball
team.
The choir is again sponsoring the
sale of tickets, at -d cents each, and
hopes to finish with enou.gh money to
complete the job of "vestmenting'’ the
a cappella choir.
CLYMER, NEWTON
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Gunter Regains Sports Berth.
Deaton Is Assistant
Business Head.
At a business meeting of the jour
nalism class on Monday. I’aul Pearson,
editor-in-chief, and Doris Carr, busi-
iies.s manager, completed the High Life
staff for the second semester hy an
nouncing ten important additions to it.
L. il. Clymer. former a.ssoeiate edi
tor, will reoccui>y this position for
the .second term, while Elizabeth New
ton. former busines.s manager, for
sakes the financial end of the ]')aner
to become the second associate. Tho
position of assistant business manager
will he filled by Elizabeth Deaton, a
newcomer to the advanced journalism
class.
Jack Gianter, imports editor, will re
main in the berth which he filled so
ably last semester, while the former
feature editor, Tom ‘Wilkinson, will
serve as the new circulation manager.
Rae Schumann and Dorothy Hendrix,
who last year served as news and
copy editors, respectively, will also
reoccupy their old posts. The office
of feature editor will he filled by Mar
tha Gentry, who has recently displayed
an interest in this type of work, while
Edward Faulkner will serve in the
capacity of exchange editor.
Here They Are!
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Settling down to a long siege of liard work prior to the triangular
contests, the G. H. S. debating team, composed of Billy Ilolladay,
Mary Lee Cantrell. Douglass Hunt, and Ann Chisholm, take time out
to argue a small point.
Bouquets For Some—
BUT WHO ARE THEV?
Goming info the office last week, sev
eral persons noticed a pecuiliar odor in
the air. Womlering from whence this
delicious—for it was delicious—frag
rance was emanating, they allowed
theii- eyes to travel around the room
until there, .staring them in the face,
they saw three liuge bouquets. Had
someone tunu'd the office info a florist
shoi)? Or, did Miss Taylor have
some ardent admirer'.' Kerrectl ((Quot
ing t^iats). That piece of brain-
work was right.
In answer to the flood of questions
mat roilowed, our'I^jusning secretary
simply said, “Oh, they were sent here
by mistake, and I .mst kept 'em.’’
P(*rhaps you're right, E. L., hut we
still say, ‘T’roposa's'.' Definitely I Ac
ceptance'.' Mebbce
MRS. THOMPSON SPEAKS
TO SALESMANSHIP CLASS
FRENCH CLUB SELECTS
OFFICERS FOR SEMESTER
Assuming the dutie.s of newely
elected officers in the French chib are
the following: ('lair Gingher, presi
dent : Robert McAlister, vice-president;
Gloria Watson, secretary.
Invitations for participation in the
chib have been extended to all mem-
hers of French three classes and to
eligible students in I-’ronch two.
The program .-^et up for spring in
cludes at least two outside speakers,
probably native.s of France. Tho chib
is also plammig to enter the state
French contest on March 24.
Miss Virginia Bryant Leaves G. H. S.
Virginia Bryant, who has been work
ing in the high school office for the
past semester, has been given a posi
tion at the Riser Trinting Company.
MEMBERS OF FACULTY
FORM NEV/ BOOK CLUB
"A Peculiar Treasure,” hy Edna
P''erber, an autobiography of a mid-
western iirofessional writer, who is
proud of h^ Jewish ancestry, and
•‘All This uninTeaven Too,” by Rachel
Fio'ld. which tells a dramatic story
of the author’s great-aunt, sister-in-
law of Cyrus Field, who was gover
ness in the household of the Due de
Praslin when the bloody murder of
his wife caused her to be imprisoned,
are only two examples of the books
which the newly-formed faculty hook
club has placed on a reserved shelf
in the work room of the library. Each
of its forty members bought one hook.
The club will meet once each semes
ter in the school library. At the
present time, a I'ommittee is taking
care of all official duties. Miss Mc-
Nairy is chairman, and other mem
bers are Airs. Blanche Smith. Miss
Lily Walker, Mr. Thomas, and Mr.s.
Betts.
Will Attend Music Conference
Mr. Hazelman. director of the band,
plans to leave for Louisville, Ken
tucky, in about two weelcs. so that,
he can attend the Southern Music I
Educators' conference, which will last j
a week.
Mrs. Mabelle Thompson, personnel
director of Meyer's department store,
spoke Tuesday, February 21, 1939, to
Mr. Littlejohn’s seventh period class
of salesmanship on “Know Your
Goods.”
Mrs. Thompson explained that the
main object in selling is to satisfy
one's customer and firm.
“Merchandise tliat fits, stays sold,”
stated the speaker, when relating the
importance of pleasing a customer.
If a purchaser is contented with the
goods, he brings big profit; therefore,
it i.s important to learn and remem
ber the type of produce that “agrees”
with each buyer.
Ill conclusion. Mrs. Thompson said
to judge the quality of goods by close
inspection.
SMITH AND PEARSON
SHOW IN CONTESTS
French and Math Examination
To Be Held Later
In Spring.
Ben Smith and Paul Pearson, two
memht'rs of the senior class, won third
place in the state physics contest, while
L. JI. (’lymer took fourth honors in the
second amnial series held on PYbruary
lu, according to results released by the
exieiision (ii\Tsi(]U of Hie nnlveTsiiy.
First ])lace in the state was won by
Cbarlotte high's Jim Mozely and the
second place was also captured for the
Gueen (’ity.
Other entrants from Greensboro were
Wade h''ox and A’irginia I’ope, who also
placed high in The state.
The other contests, math and French,
will he conducted on April 28 and
March 24 respectively.
History 6 Classes Plan
To Visit Legislature
In Raleigh Tomorrow
iliss Moser and Mr. Aycock will take
two bus loads , of history six students
to Raleigh tomorrow to observe the
North. Carolina General Assembly in
iiclion. The pupils, numbering about
69. will leave here early tomorrow
morning and will return late in the
afternoon.
Besides the legislature, the group
will also visit other state institutions,
including the s’ate asylum for the
insane, the state prison, and the North
Carolina State Alusenm of History, all
of which are in Raleigh. They will
eat Intu-li at the North ('arolina state
cafeteria.
Termites vs. Helvetians
LATIN CLASS GOES BUGS
Even though they have read about
the Helvetians migrating, Miss Les
ley’s Latin students have proof that
other things, such as termites, can
also wander around the countryside
or classroom.
While reading about the Gauls burn
ing their homes and getting ready to
leave, the Latin students sitting next
to the window noticed strange objects
scooting along the floor. When they
observed more closely, the budding
naturalists and classists recognized
the identity of the intruders at once.
Termites! As soon as this realization
dawned, feet began to drop on the in
truding guests, like bombs falling on
an enemy camp. The more of the
strange visitors that were killed, the
more came, until the floor looked like
a blanket of insects.
Since the bugs were so thick, the
row of students next to the radiators
was fori-ed to move with great agility.
Anything can happen, n’est-ce pas?—
or should we say, “nonne putas”?
STUDENT GROUP
TO SUPERVISE
LIBRARY CONDUCT
Council Recommends Return Of
Final Examinations At
Senior High.
Students will take over the entire
discipline in the library, when the
recently appointed library committee
gets its work fully underway. The
committee will have authority similar
to that of the cafeteria and traffic
committee. It is planned that five or
six members of the group will be on
duty in the library during every pei*iod
of the day.
The committee was appointed after
a meeting of the student council and
homeroom council, at which it was
decided that the students should be
the ones to clear up the bad conduct,
which has become a “sore spot” in
school.
Chapel Program to Be Given
In conjunction with its drive to
make itself felt as an active and guid
ing force in the school, the council
is planning to give a chapel program
which will acquaint the student body
with the work of its legislative body.
Resumption of Exams Recommended
Student council members have rec
ommended the resumption of exam
inations at Senior high. They hope
that exams,, which were replaced by
weekly tests in 1936, may be reinstated
in G. H. S. courses at some time after
the present semester. They feel that
this is necessary because students
plannimi to iro to collo^p.viopfi p-vpc.v.
ience in taking exams, and those leav
ing school will also- need' a strong
review.
COMMERCIAL CLUB PLANS
REUNION FOR ALUMNI
W. B. Aycock and Ed Grosse Speak
Mr. "W. B. Aycock, member of the
high school coaching staff, and Ed
Grosse, vice-president of the school,
spoke to the Be ‘Worthwhile and Tri-
(luester Girl Reserves at a joint meet
ing held yesterday at the Y. W. C. A.
The speakers used as their topics,
‘■Boy-Girl Relationships.” Plans were
made by the senior club to have a
‘Step-'ii'-Fetcli-It” dance at the “Y,”
March 11.
Trip Through Newspaper Office Is
Scheduled as Headline
Event.
Plans were made by the program
committee of the Commercial club re
cently to have a reunion of commer
cial students Avho were graduated fi*om
this high school since 1935. The pur
poses of the reunion will be to find
out how the graduates are employed
and to secure suggestions from them
regarding methods of improving the
commercial curriculum.
A trip through the newspaper office
was also planned. Both of these
events are to take place at night.
Suggestions made by members con
cerning speakers to talk on various
subjects at future club meetings were:
Miss Taylor to talk on the duties of
a secretary; a Greensboro biTsiness
man to discuss possibilities of sales
manship ; and Miss Price to speak on
vocations.
As a result of the election of officers,
Mary Carrol was elected president of
the clnl). Serving with her during
the spring term will be Rnth Reid
King, vice-president; Helen ‘Wilson,
secretary; Margaret Sigmon, treas-
uer; Cornelia Anderson, program
chairman; Helen York, initiation
chairman; Elizabeth Stack, social
chairman; and Bonnie Apple, publicity
chairman.
Art Classes Display Exhibits
There are two art exhibits in the
library. One, plaster paris statues,
fashioned by Mrs. Braswell’s art
classes, has been placed on top of
the book shelves; the other, bronze
phupies depicting the heads of fam
ous characters in history, is in the
lass case. The latter exhibit was
contributed by members of Miss Lee's
art classes.