HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, NOVEMBER 9, 1928
NUMBER 6
JUNIOR CLASS HOLDS
ANNUAL FUN AFFAIRS
TO FURNISH MONEY
High Life Staff Gets Out Extra
in Their Stunt—Sells
tor F.ive Cents
GIRL COUNCIL STUNT WINS
All Orjfanizations of School Asked to
Present Ten-Minute Skit—Ten Clubs
Respond to Call From Juniors
Juniors of soinestor uslierod in the
first hiK niitht of tjie year by stalling
the annual stunt night program Friday
night, November 2.
The program was filled with feature
numbers. Each organization present
ing a stunt hiid a particularly novel
idea. Practically every organization
was to- some extent responsible for the
fuii-making. The first nuiiiber was
presented by the junior class and. the
participants were black-faced come-
■ dians.
A mock trial was staged by the
Student Council. The Homespun staff
presented a play with Homespun as
the central idea. Members of the Girls'
Council presented a play in three acts.
The idea was novel, all the parts well
jK-ted—even to the impersonation of
“kitty.” ’
The paper staff edited an extra in
five minutes and during the other five
sold the copies at five cents apiece.
Torchlight Society presented a panto
mime to music. The ’Worthwhile Girl
Reserves gave a pantomime and so did
the Ili-Y Club. The Debating Club
and Dramatics Club presented num
bers which were special features to the
program. The proceeds from the stunt
night performance will be used to de
fray the expenses of the mid-term
junior-senior banquet. The entire
amount will not be used for this pur
pose for the organizations wiil receive
some part of the amount raised.
Despite the fact that a number of
other entertainments were being staged
last Friday night, a full house awaited
the young stunt producers. More than
a hundred students took part in the
performance.
Arrange Armistice
Day Chapel Program
Armistice day, which this year
comes on Sunday, will be celebrated
here on November 12. This tenth
year commemoration, in Greensboro,
will surpass all previous programs.
In ail the schools there will be
fitting programs in observing this
day. iliss Mary Bynum Paris’ ses
sion room will conduct the memo
rial program in chapel on Monday,
Tuesday, and IVednesday.
Si'veral riaidings, a song by the
class, violin solos, and tableaux will
be on the program arranged. On
Monday, Boyd- Morris will preside,
and the other two days Dorothy
Burnside will conduct the program.
REFLECTOR STAFFS
WORK TO GET MORE
TO BEAR EXPENSES
G.H.S. PUPILS HEAR
CHARLES WATKINS
Here in Interest of Community
Chest Drive—Speaks From
Business Experience
IS HERE FROM INDIANA
LOCAL GIRLS’ COUNCIL
HAS WEEKLY MEETING
Catherine Lambe, Chairman of Social
Committee, Arranges for Banquet
Latter Part of Month
PLAN BANQUET FOR NEW GIRLS
Tuesday. November 0, in 101 the
Girls’ Council met to make plans lor
the “New Girls’ ” banquet. The meet
ing was presided over by Elizabeth
Boyst, president. The minutes were
read by the secretary, Mary Burton
High, and corrected by the president.
Catherine Lambe, chairman of the
social committee, made a report con
cerning a baiKiuet to be given Novem
ber 2‘b This affair will be held in
Y. W. C. A. and the price per person
will be oO cents. The bampict will
start at 5:20 and is entirely for the
new girls who are now at Central
High. More definite plans for the ban
quet were discussed.
The purpose of the banquet will be
to acquaint the new girls of the high
school with every phase of school life.
Others than the new girls, council
members and representatives from the
various organizations will be present.
Frances Faust, chairman of the
needle and thread committee, reports
that the sewing box in the office is
now ready for work.
With a scout program as a five-
minute feature at chapel Monday, No
vember 5, Mr. Charles Watkins ap
peared as the principal speaker. Mr.
Watkins is from Indiana and is here
in the interest of the community chest
drive.
He spoke effectively of his work and
experience in the General Motors in
dustry. All the thousands of people
used ill the great plant were employed
by him, and the question hardest to
answer when applying for a job was,
“What can you do?” declared the
speaker. “’The answers received in
such incidents mold and make the
great drama of life,” said the speaker.
‘There is a place in life for every school
girl and boy who will just meet the
responsibility, and there has never been
such an insistent call for trained
workers as business and society calls
for today.”
Illustrations dejiicting the value of
credit were forcefully presented. “Noth
ing can be finer than the building up
of credit. In high schools all over the
country today they are paging leaders
for tomorrow,” continued Mr. Watkins.
The speaker challenged the students
to an appreciation of the high schools
in preparing for life. His closing mes
sage came in the reading of “How
to Die,” by Kipling. Tt matters not
that we win or lose, but how you
play the game.”
Mr. Watkins also spoke at the chai^el
exercises ’I’uesday and Wednesday and
at a teachers’ meeting 'Thursday.
Individual Pictures for Mid-
Term Annual Have Been
Completed
SEM. 7 BEING SNAPPED
Business Meeting to Be Held at Which
Time All Ads Will Be
Checked Up
Reflector staffs from both semesters
are already at work. Advertisements
suliicient to cover the expense of the
publication have not yet been secured.
Students are working, but desired re
sults have not been reaped.
The individual pictures for the mid
term annual have been completed and
the majority of work on group pic
tures lias been finished. Not all the
write-ups for the group pictures have
been turned in to the activity editor.
Members of semester 7 are having
the Individnal pictures made. This
matter will be completed within the
next few weeks. Frances Lindy is
chairman of the check-up committee,
and when the day is named each senior
is supposed t o comply with this
reipiest.
Misses Lily Walker, Mary Ellen
Blackmon, and Mr. W. W. Blair are
faculty advisers for this school pub
lication.
The semester 7 group, with Mary
Leet T'nderwood editor-in-chief, will
meet sometime next week. At this
meeting there will be a report of the
amount of advertisements secured.
•'This report will be made by Albert
Lindy. business manager.
GIRL SCOUTS HAVE
SCOUT WEEK HERE
They Lunch at Camp in Order
to Celebrate Its
Naming
EACH DAY HAS PROGRAM
P. T. A. MEETING NOV. 13
AT G. H. S. AUDITORIUM
'I'lie regular 1*. 'T. A. meeting, iiost-
poned on account of election, will be
held next 'Tuesday night, November 13.
Dr. John Cook, from N. C. C., will be
the speaker of the evening. “Useful
Citizenship’’ will be the subject treated
by the speaker. Special music fur
nished by the G. II. S. girls’ quartette
will be the feature number of the pro
gram. 'This same quartette appeared
on the program on junior stunt night,
November 2.
'The singing of “America” by the
audience followed by the inveaotion will
open the second 1*. T. A. meeting of
this year. The meeting will be called
at 8 o’clock in the high school audi
torium.
“Scout Week” has been observed by
Girl Scouts of Greensboro during the
past week. Sunday marked the initial
day and each day since has been of
some significance.
'File week of November 4-0 is ob
served annually throughout scoutdom,
and this year it has been by more Girl
Scouts than ever before. Local scouts
li-ive been doing various tasks dnrinj:
the week.
Monday was marked by special work
in the home. Each girl was supposed
to do some task or aid her mother in
some way. Tuesday was community
service day and some scouts cared for
children while parents went to vote.
Chapel programs in the various city
schools were conducted by Girl Scout
troops. 'Fbe troop from the Church of
the Covenant was in charge of the pro
gram in the high school. Tree plant
ing at Guilford Battleground, a memo
rial, and Founders day were observed
'Fliursday and Friday.
'Tomorrow scouts will motor to the
camp and enjoy the celebration of
naming the camp site. The camp has
been unnamed since completion and
so tomorrow the place will officially
receive a name from the Girl Scouts
of Greensboro. Girls from all the local
troops will carry lunches and spend
the day. Saturday brings this ob
servance to a culmination and a close.
OBSERVE BOOK WEEK
ALL OVER THE NATION
FOR THE TENTH TIME
WILLIAM q'RANTER
BILL TRANTER IS
AN EAGLE SCOUT
Receives This Distinction Oc
tober 27 at Monthly
Court of Honor
COMES FROM CALDWELL
Rill Tranter is now an Eagle Scout.
He received this distinction Saturday
night, October 27, at the monthly Court
of Honor.
It has not been without work that
Bill has been awarded this coveted
honor. He has been a scout for years
and wears merit badges.
'File new Eagle Scout is a member of
the mid-term graduating class and as
sistant business manager of High Life.
'Fhis is his second year on the high
school paper staff. He is also on the
11)20 Reflector staff and assistant man
ager of the senior supply room.
Bill came to Greensboro High School
four years ago and since then has
proved himself versatile in every ca
pacity. Although he has not entered
the field of athletics, he is always seen
at the football games and is a sup
porter of tbe various sports at school.
NEXT HOMESPUN ISSUE
APPEARS IN DECEMBER
The Motiff Is of the Wondrous
the ^'rivolous Things
in Life
IS LAST ONE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Miss Ann C. Moore, Supervisor
of Children’s Work in New
York Library, Speaks
KNOWN FOR ‘THREE OWLS’
In Third Volume of Her Book She En
titles a Chapter “Land
of O’Henry”
IMonday marks the tenth annual cele-
liration of Book Week as a national
observance. F. K. Matthews was the
leading spirit in the “more books and
better l)ooks” movement. He felt the
need of better books for boys, and now
tb* nation observes this week.
Greensboro city schools have already
scheduled many feature numbers. Miss
Ann C. Moore, supervisor of children’s
work in the New Y'ork city library,
will be here and is scheduled for a
number of engagements. Miss Moore
cojiies here under the auspices of the
Book Shop, with the P. 'T. A. and
library co-operating. Her first visit to
the South was in 1025 when she visited
Greensboro. Miss Moore has been with
the New York public library for 20
years and is considered the greatest
authority in the United States on chil
dren’s literature.
A full program has already been
arranged for the visitor, and she will
probably visit all the Greensboro
schools during her stay. At chapel
Wednesday Miss Moore will appear at
G. II. S. At four she will tell stories
to children in the children’s side at
the public library. Thursday morning
she will speak to the students of N. C.
C. W. training school. 'That afternoon
she will be in the parade which starts
from the city library at four. Miss
Moore will appear in High Point
'Fhiirsday night. Simpson street school
will be visited Friday morning, and
also a countj- school. The Greensboro
Congress of P. T. A. will have Miss
Moore as speaker at an open forum
meeting at the court house Friday
afternoon. Immediately following this
she will be entertained at a reception
at the Book Shop on Greene street.
Since Miss Moore’s first trip to
Greensboro she has completed her third
volume of Three Owls, which has just
recently been published. In this latest
edition she has a chapter entitled
“Land of O. Henry,” which sets forth
her visit to Greensboro in 1925.
GREENSBORO TEACHERS
WRITE FOR MAGAZINE
Homespun will probably make its
second appearance the first of Decem
ber. 'Fhis issue will have as its motif
the unusual and wondrous in life.
A list of topics for this issue is
already in the hands of each G. H. S.
English teacher. Some material has
’onie in from students other than staff
members, but students in tbe least in
clined to write are urged by tbe editor
to make contributions for any issue.
'There will probably be a sliort story
of a serious or fanciful nature entitled
“Shadows.” A poem of incidents called
“Butterflies” will touch upon the more
frivolous side of life.
'Fliis issue of the magazine will be
the last before Christmas, and the next
will be edited sometime during Janu
ary. Five issues of this pubiication are
edited per school year.
An article by Dick Douglas will be
run in the alumni section of the maga
zine which is edited by Lucy Crocker.
Mr. Byron Haworth and Miss Nellie K.
Dry Are Preparing Manuscripts
for the Magazines
The Xorth Carolina Teacher, pub
lished monthly as a teachers’ guide and
magazine, often contains articles by
G. II. 8. teachers. Mr. Byron Ha
worth, High Life adviser, and Miss
Nellie K. Dry, science teacher at
G. II. 8., are preparing manuscripts
for the magazine. 'These articles will
be published sometime during tbe
school year.
Mr. Haworth writes of “'The Teach
er’s Recreation,” and Miss Dry in re
gard to nature study through a field
course.
Imst year a number of teachers had
articles appear in the magazine. Mr.
I’hillips, acting superintendent of city
schools, made several contributions to
the publication. From time to time
G. IT. S. teachers will submit articles
which will probably be used by the
editor during the year.