i I Good Luck, T riangular Debaters HIGH LIFE Editors Pledge to ‘‘Keep 'Em Rolling!” From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry VOLUME XVIII GKEENSBOKO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARI H 20, 1942 M MBER 13 HIGH LIFE ISSUES CALL FOR SCRAP PAPER Two-Week Campaign Offers Students Chance To Bolster Nation At War Organizing to give everyone a chance to aid in national defense, High Life will launch Tuesday an all-ont drive to collect waste paper, Betty Routh, busi ness manager, announced today. Stanley Johnson, faculty member in charge of the supply shop, will help in putting on the campaign. He stated that a large thermometer will be placed in the hall to register the amount of paper each home room collects. This will be recorded by chairmen, who will report daily. Everyone Can Help “This,” declared Mr. Johnson, “is the chance everyone has been looking for. There is not one person who cannot do his part by bringing old papers and magazines to sell to Uncle Sam.” The proceeds from the campaign will be added to High Life's funds. It is understood that this campaign will not interfere with a similar one being carried out by the student coun cil, as the student council is collect ing only the paper iised at school, while the High Life campaign is to collect paper from the homes. Prize May Be Offered $s- Prizes to the home room which collects the largest number of pounds of waste paper may he offered. Other publicity stunts will also he offered in an attempt to reach the ultimate goal of the campaign, the collection of 2,000 pounds of paper. "“Ulittrles Holder, student in Jliss Hen ri Etta Lee's art class, is in charge of the art work for the drive. Holder has constructed a number of black ar rows which will indicate the daily num ber of pounds of waste paper gathered by each room. Avon Players To Give 'Hamlet' Here April 2 Ophelia ITOTUREl) above is Miss Helen Yeung, who will star in the Avon Players’ production of Shakespeare’s ■'Hamlet,” to be presented in the local auditorium April 2. Schumann. Edwards Head Dramatic Club “Hamlet,” Shakespeare's most fam ous tragedy, will be presented by the Avon players Thursday morning. April 2. at 10 a.m., in the Senior high school auditorium. “Since the price of admission, tax included, is only 25 cents, this unusual opportunity to see a comi>lete Shake spearean drama pre.sented by a nation ally-known group of actors should be snapped up by every English student Shannon Schumann and Betty Gayle Edwards now preside as president and vice-president respectively of the Senior Dramatic club since their election at the society’s semi - monthly meeting Tuesday, March 10. Other students holding office include Eleanor White, secretary and Dan AYagoner, treasurer. The society passed a motion for the redecoration and much-needed improve ment of the stage scenery and green room. Della Mae Trotter, will serve as chairman of the committee for decora tion, which will repaint the two dress ing rooms under the stage, obtain a property room and refinish the school’s present scenery. The club’s spring production, “He Had a Past,” has been tentatively set for May 1. Those taking part in the drama include Daisy Belle Anderson, Shannon Schumann, Jean Dinwiddle, Ann Thornton, Shelia Kaplan, Dot Sny der, Mollle Peck, Bob Perry, Mervine Merritt, Jack AVatson and Arvil Moser. Eorensic Team Enters Triangular Competition Winners In Art Contest Herbert Hattavvay and Paul Mil ler, ineiubers of the Greensboro af firmative team, will debate the state query, “Resolved—That a union of the nations of the western hemi sphere should be established,” against the negative team of Rey nolds high of Winston-Salem, in rhapel next Friday, in tlie first round of the North Carolina debate tournament., Rachael Whiteside and Neil Beard, rei)resenting the negative, will debate the High Point team in the Bison city at the same time. City-Wide Easter Seal Campaign Launched Ouida Poole aimounced after a sup per meeting at the Y. AA". C. A. Monday that the Senior high inter-club council would sponsor the Easter Seal cam paign throughout the Greensboro city schools. Although xAnn Xewton has been named chairman of the event, she will be assisted by Ouida, who is president of the Greensboro inter-club council, a girl reserve organization. The council is composed of the president, vice-presi dent and one representative from each girl reserve club in the cit,v. Miss Rosa Abbot, member of the Na tional Association for the Stiidy of Ex ceptional Children, and president of the local chapter, told the members of the council about the details of the cam paign and explained how they would be helping the institutions for crip pled children in North Carolina. Booth in Main Hal! A booth will be placed in the front hall a week before Easter and students will have a chance to purchase the stamps there. Members of the Senior girl reserves, the Be AA’orthwhiles, will present! a radio program over the radio each da,y and on Saturday before Eas ter they will sell paper lilies, similar to poppies, on Elm street. The junior clubs will put on skits at the junior high schools and gram mar schools in order to encourage the sales in those schools. The negro girl reserves will be in charge of the cam paign in their district. PICTURED ABOVE are a group of four art winners in the 1942 contest. The successful contestants, Richard Kiser, David Evans, Renna Beal and Billie Gene Pliipps, are pictured ahove with Bennie Lowe. (Staff Photo'by Trvvin Smallwood.) Evans, Phipps, Beall, Kiser Win Honors in Art Contest Routh Heads NCEA Elections Committee Principal A. P. Routh was ap pointed chairman of the elections committee of the North Carolina Education association by K- G. Phil lips, president of the N. C. E. A., last week. Other members of the committee include W. H. Cude, Colfax; Miss Pauline Hassell, Edenton; W. B. Harrell, Fayetteville; and Mrs. Rutli Vick Warren, Wilmington. McFarland, Sewell New Co-Capfains For Grid Team ill the high school.’’ declared Miss Mims, head of the English department, which is sponsorin,g the event. Selman To Portray Hamlet .Toseph Selman. for 11 years director of the Avon players, will portray the exactiipg role of the moody, depressed Hamlet. His brother, Harold, will be seen in the part of the wary old coun cilor, Polonius. Eugenie DuBose, who has su])ported such stars as Robert B. Mentall. Edna Mae Oliver and AA'alter Gonnolly and has drawn the highest praise for her performance of Lad,v Alaclieth, will play Hamlet’s mother, the (pieen, who mar ries her husband's murderer. ‘I’m A Legless Tray’ Posters Remind Students of Duty Vicks Offers G. H. 5. Boys Special Training Course “Announcement of special training courses available to G. H. S. students have just been made bj' A^ick Chemical company,” announced A. S. Proctor, director of distributive education, Tues day. “Qualifications applicants for the training must have include good physi cal characteristics, good health, and a scholastic rank within the upper third of the applicant’s class,” Mr, Proctor continued. “The age limit is I7I/2 years. The boys must be dependable, respon sible, willing to learn, and must pos sess initiative,” he added. Have you ever been helpless and had no one to help you'.' If you have never l)een, you -don't realize how the “le,g- less” trays feel, or the way the trash that's left on the table in the cafeteria moans in its plight. Art Classes Make Posters Trays that are left on tal)le every da,v seem to sa,v, “I'm a le.gless tray: please assist me to the window,” or '‘AA"e trays can't walk—it’s your place to carry us,” or at least that’s the in terpretation given l)y the students of Aliss Henri Etta Lee's art classes when they made posters last week for the school cafeteria in an effort to try to urge individuals to carry their trays to the window and waste materials i to the trash cans. Miller Leads OisOTsien At New York Meetlrsi student Council Project This is a a project recently started b,v the student council, under the su pervision of the adviser, Mrs. Estelle LeGwin. in order to make the cafe teria a cleaner place in which to eat. In addition, the group hoped to speed up the lunch lines and to encourage students to return their trays to the dish window. Speaking before one of the Sat urday morning group meetings of the Columbia Scholastic I’ress As sociation convention last week, Paul Miller, editor of Higli Life and one of five Greensboro dele gates to the New York meet, serv ed as chairman for a panel dis cussion on “xV Sound Editorial Policy,” Aliller was invited to lead the group l)y the committee in charge of the convention programs. Miller al.so won honorable men tion for newswriting in the south eastern states Quill and Scroll con test held for all journalism stu dents, revealed Rachael AAliiteside, president of the local group, March At the annual bampiet held for the football, wrestling and basketball scpiads Dave Sewell, scrappy center and Bob AicEarland, powerful halfback, were named co-ctiptains of the ’42 edi tion of the AA'hirlwind grid team. Sewell, who alternated with Bob Eondrem at the pivot position last fall, p’ayed a rugged brand of ball and de spite his size was a demon on defense as well as offensiv Sew(>ll also won the state championship in the 14.5 pound division in wi-estling and is a c.indi- date for base-ball. AlcFjirland was known by many fans as being the- hardest di'i\’ing fnllback in the state- last se-ason in spite of his we-ight. .AicEarland and Me-Cormick split the duties the past grid season at the plnnging back speet, but McFarlanel has been shifte-d tee the right wing in spring practice. AATnners in the local division of the annual state art contest, ine-lueling alumni, were offlciall,v announceHl last wee-k by Mrs. Callie O. Braswell, head of the art departmemt. David Evans, Richard Kiser, Billie Gene Phipps and Kenna Beall won hon- or.S for we>rk in the fielels eef wate-rcolor painting, design and crayon drawing. Others Win in Various Fields Other winners included: temjiera painting, Charlotte Graham and Kenna Beall; textile design, Lois Finch, Mack ITarson, Poll,y Claiborne, A^irginia Ha,vnes, l’egg,v Clendenin, Mar,gle Kel- 1am, Mildred Ta,vlor, Bill Simmons, Eva Stack, A'irginia Caroline Davis and Rose Holderfleld; prints. Gene Thornton, Dot Gwyn and Mack Pear son : and sculpture, AATllard Thomas, Russell Crevensten, Jack Alartin, .Tohn Taylor and Buddy Nolan. Large Group Wins in Sketching Pencil drawings and sketches, .1. R. Lackey, Douglass Hunt, Bill Cavan, Catherine AATnn and Rachael AAJiite- side: ink drawings and sketches, Bilfv Carr, Dot Smithernian, Douglass limit, Kenna Beall and Alarshall .Adams; charcoal drawing, Dacia Lewis and Lou Ellen Duncan : jiastel drawing. Gene Thornton; oil painting, Dora Kirkpatrick; watercolor jiainting, Cath erine AATnn, Don,glass Hunt and Dora Kirkimtrick : ceramics, Raljih Cole, Har old Keels, Ed A'ork and .1. P, AYilliams; and lettering, Daisy Belli-.Anderson and Adrginia Stoffel. 200 New Books Displayed in Library Last Week Arithmetic, Geography Aid Navy Recruits 9. other members of the advanced class also entered the local contest which included newswriting and headline writing contests. To inform high .schools of methods in which the,v can aid graduates planning to enter the navy, the Navy Educational program committee issued a poster last month which i-xplains the basic require ments in arithmetic and science for all technical work. xArithmetic, geometry, elements of physics, physical geograph,y, trigonom- etr.v, algebra and physics of electricity are listed as subjects that should he studied. “xApproximalely 200 new books, cost ing about .jilKM), arrived in the librar,v last week,” stated Airs, Beatrice Hall, school librarian, today. These new books on displa,v included replacements of lost books and copies of popular ^■olumes which are in constant use. Airs. Hall concluded. Some of these widely read books in clude “The AA’^hite Cliffs,” Alice Duer Aliller; “These Alen I Knew,” Rositer Forges;' “South By Thunderbird,” Gud- son Strode; “The American AA^ay” and Full Ahead,” Felix Rissenherg, Jr.; “Buried Alive,” Arnold Bennett; “Ixct the King Beware,” Ilonore Alorrow; “The Tree of Libert,v,” Elizabeth Page. A.:

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