“HIGH” LIFE, MAY 27, 1921
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HISTORY OF GREENSBORO HIGH
SCHOOL
(Continued from page two)
Chapter IX.
'Fhe board of education elected Mr. Fred
erick Archer to the superintendency in 1917.
He has proved one of the most capable men
yet to hold the place. Upon entering upon
his duties, he began to correlate the work
of the system of schools here. He increased
the faculty to meet the needs of a growing
student body. Since the war many new
subjects have been added to the curriculum
and others discontiued during the war be
cause of a scarcity of teachers, have been
reinstalled. F'ive courses of study are
offered so that a student may select those
best suited to his needs.
The courses have been stiffened and im
proved so as to make G. H. S. an accredited
high school.
In 1918, G. H. S. won both sides of the
triangular debate and sent her represent
atives to Chapel Hill for the first time. It
is interesting to note that that was the first
year girls were on the debating teams. One
of the G. H. S. teams nearly came out in the
finals at Chapel Hill.
'fhe class of 1918 is one of which the en
tire school should be proud. They made a
large number of patriotic speeches urging
the community to save and thereby help win
the war. They gave up their annual “Re
flector” and school magazine, “The Sage”
out of pure patriotism. The girls unani
mously agreed to have but one dress for
commencement and pledged not to spend
more than five dollars for it.
In the fall of 1918 a large number of high
school students contributed three dollars
each to the United War Work Fund. The
students also held a large sum in W. S. S.
and L.ibert\' bonds. The patriotism of the
students stood out in ever)’thing. It reached
its highest point when John Callum, one of
the students paid the supreme sacrifice for
the cause of right. Quite a number of high
school boys entered the army.
November 11, 1919, G. H. S. set the com
munity an example for observing Armistice
Day by holding a beautiful memorial ser
vice for the soldiers from the school.
In 1919 the record of the various athletic
reams reached the highest marks of fame.
F'ootball players won the western champion
ship, the track team won the state champion
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ship as did also the girls basketball team.
It is worth remiarking that the girls did not
lose a game the whole year thru. It was
during that year that athletics for the girls
took another turn. Miss Helen Bennett,
teacher of Latin and Miss Gladys Wilson,
teacher of expression, started a class in
Swedish gymnastics and folk dancing.
Scholarship also made an upward climb
and as several honors were brought to G.
H. S.
To take care of the increasing population
two structures at the rear of the high
school were erected. .As they were rude,
plain, hastily built structures the students
soon dubbed them barns, which honored
title they bear to this day. In one a cafe
teria occupied the ground floor and the
junior high the four rooms upstairs. The
other was given wholly to the freshman
classes.
During the 1920-21 session the school has
improved and grown as if by magic. The
student body has increased to seven hund
red and fifty. Athletics have taken a great
shoot into prominence and popularity. The
girls have had more kinds than ever before
and the boys and girls have honored them
selves almost without exception in the games
they have played. The boys track team
won the south Atlarrtic relay race and track
meet cups with nineteen medals for good
measure. In May the girls held their first
field day at Cone Park. The spectators
declared that it was a great success and arc
going to make an annual affair of it.
For the second time in the history of the
school the G. H. S. debaters won both sides
of the debate and sent her representatives to
Chapel Hill.
Her affirmative team won the distinc
tion of debating in the finals. Both teams
were excepionally fine and it was only a
turn of fate that gave the decision to Dur
ham.
The juniors and Sophomores decided to
start student government in G. H. S. There
was a great deal of opposition to be over
come but after a heated argument the issue
won. A council of two from each class and
one at large was elected to form the student
council. Ever}'one believes that it was the
beginning of a new era in the life of the
school.
d here are two lively literary societies in
G. H. S. The girls have named theirs the
Claxtonian. The programs they hold are
original and full of pep. The plan is that
anyone taking part on the programs gets
credit in English for it.
“High” Life, a newspaper published twice
a month, was founded by the class of 1921
to take the place of “The Sage”.
The growth of activities in G. H. S. is
one series of advances of which any school
anywhere might be proud. True others ex
cel the school in some things, but no tone
can show a school in the south that excels
in more things, has a finer faculty and stu-
,!ent body, and a finer and more patriotic
school spirit, d hat is why in a few short
j’ears G. H. S. has made a place—an envi
able place—for herself in the sun. That is
why much is in store for the school in the
future. That is why G. H. S. is the mill
that is to turn out the leaders of to-morrow.
—Alyrtle Ellen LaBarr
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STANDS HIGH IN STATE
CONTEST
G. FI. S. made a fine record in typewrit
ing contest, Friday at 12;45. The type
writing team composed of Mary Causey,
Lucile Petitt and Naomi Whitfield lef for
Charlotte to compete in the annual type
writing contest held in North Carolina every
>’ear. A large crowd of Charlotte high
school boys and girls met the team at the
train. They left nothing undone to give
our folks a good time. The school gave a
reception in honor of the visiting teams
Friday night.
Saturday morning, May the seventh, the
contest was held in the City Auditorium.
There were five teams representing Char
lotte, Durham, Greensboro, Raleigh and
Winston-Salem in the contest. There were
three contests of fifteen minutes each
Every contestant clicked away rapidly un
moved by the many spectators. After each
contest there was a rest period of twenty
minutes. When the papers were corrected
it was found that Mary Causey of G. H. S.
made the highest average of all the con
testants. She averaged fifty-nine words a
minute. It was found that Greensboro and
Winston-Salem tied for the honors. The
papers were sent to Mr. Kimball in New
York to be officially corrected. He will
decide which team merits the silver loving
cup offered to the one scoring the highest.
G. H. S. is proud of her typewriting team
and appreciates the splendid work and fight
they exhibited at Charlotte.