HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Spring Fever
Edition
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, APRIL 19, 1929
NUMBER 14
G. H. S. Debaters Compete
in Annual State Contest
AT CHAPEL HILL
Is Second Time That G. H. S.
Has Entered Final Race
for Aycock Cup
HAD WINNING TEAM IN ’27
JVIiss Blackmon, James Farthing:, W. W.
Blair, and Byron Haworth Are
Debating Coaches
Ill having Eliz^aboth Boyst, Louis
Brooks, Henry Weiland. and Harold
Cone to represent G. II. S. in the state
debates at Cliapel Hill, the high school
coaches believe that G. II. R. lias a good
chance in the final race. Eli;iaboth and
Louis are upholding the affirmative of
the query: Resolved, that the TTiitc'd
States should join the World Court.
Henry and Harold are supporting the
negative side of the (piestiou.
Club Has Grown
The first debating club at G. II. R.
was organized in 192.1. and from a few
enthusiasts the club has grown to a
membership of 40. Within these four
years the club has made itself a part
of G. IT. S. and has won honor for
the school. In 1927 Henry Biggs won
the Aycock Memorial Cup in the state
debating contest.
There are now two separate clubs in |
the high school. The Senior Debating
Club has its enrollmen't from the sopho
mores, juniors, and seniors. Two years
ago a freshman club was started, and
it now has 35 members. In this way
students become interested in debating
when they first enter high school.
Extensive Program
The program outlined for the spring
is the largest in the history of the club.
A. C. Holt and Dick Cann, from the
freshman club, represent G. H. S. in
the triangular with Charlotte and
Salisbury on April 30. The query is:
Resolved, that the jury system should
be abolished. A dual debate with High
Point is scheduled for May 3. On May
17 the freshman triangle debates with
High Point and Winston on the sub
ject: Resolved, that the president of
the TTiited States should be elected for
a single term of six years.
Since its organization the club has
endeavored to become an outstanding
activity in high school life. And it
has aimed to train a great number of
debaters rather than produce cham
pions.
Miss IMary Ellen Blackmon, .Tames
A. Farthing. W. W. Blair, and Byron
Haworth are the debating coaches.
HOMESPUN PRODUCTION
RECEIVES RECOGNITION
IMiss Eulalia Cox. teacher of
English in AVilson High School,
AVilson, X. (’., has sent to the
Jlt/inrspiiii staff, requesting several
copies of the February issue of the
local magazine. The i)lay entitled
“AA’iiite Do.e" which was published
in /{oiii(‘si)un. is to be presented by
the AVilson High School. Ifiie play
was written by Douglas Long, a
(L II. S. student.
It j)leases and encourages the
Homespun staff to know that other
city schools I'onsider their publica
tion of enough worth to present the
plays wlii-h are published in their
magazine.
TWELVE STUDENTS
OF SEMESTER SEVEN
AND EIGHT HONORED
Tapped into Torchlight Society
Monday in Very Impres
sive Ceremony
MARY B. WILLIAMS TALKS
Newly Added Members Bring the Total
Membership from Fifteen to
Twenty-Seven
DRAMATIC STUDENTS
STAGE ANNUALPLAY
Cast of Nine Presents “Peg O’
My Heart” at Odell
Memorial
ELIZABETH WOOD IS STAR
SEMESTER VllI SENIORS
COMPLETE REFLECTOR
Drive Is Being Made to Get Subscrip,
tions for High School
Yearbook
The Reflector, G. II. S.’s annual,
which is published by the 8th semester
seniors each fall and spring, will come
out sometime during the first of June.
For this year book will be the pic
ture and write-up of every senior. It
has something about the teachers, di
rectors, and also about their activities.
Although many people get much
pleasure from reading this annual, it
is a great expense, and “only the
smaller high schools publish one,” says
Miss Lily AAhilker. For this reason
there is some agitation at G. H. R. in
favor of discontinuing the year book.
A drive is being made now to get
subscriptions to the Reflector, and only
a limited number of subscriptions will
be taken, since the number to be pub
lished has already been decided.
“Peg O’ Aly Heart,” by Taylor, was
the dramatic production staged by the
G. II. R. Dramatic Club on April IG.
The pre.sentation was directed by
J. II. Johnson and presented at Odell
Memorial. High School dramatic en
thusiasts considered the performance a
delightful success.
The plot centered around Peg, a poor
Irish girl, living in New York, who
was made an heiress by . the death of
her uncle, and was called to England
to be roared by an aristocratic aunt.
Rhe was like a duck out of water in
those surroundings, but won her way,
and also the heart of a worthy Eng
lishman named Jerry.
The characters were as follows: Peg
O'Connor, Elizabeth AA'oods: Jerry,
Harry Alnrray; Airs. Chichester, Ra
chael Lipscomb: Ethel. Lois Lazenby;
.Vleric, J. Barnes; Butler, Everett
Rfainper: Maid, Anna AA’ills; Hawks,
Settle Avery; Brent. Guy Hope.
Elizabeth AA’oods, the star of the
play, won her audience by her charm
as I'eg. Another person who deserved
credit was Lois Lazenby. Rhe had a
hard role to act, and she did it excep
tionally well. ,7. Barnes also succeeded
in adopting a very English accent for
his role of Aleric. All the characters
acted well and showed extensive train
ing and coaching, according to local
authorities who had been watching the
progress of the local Dramatic Club.
Twelve students of semesters seven
and eight of Greensboro High School
received candles, the emblem of the
National Honor Society, in chapel Mon
day, April 8, when the old members
had the semester's tapping ceremony.
Afr. C. AA’. Phillips, principal of the
high school, gave an introduction stat
ing the principles of the society and the
manner in which new members are
chosen.
Harold Cone, pianist, and Arlindo
Cate, violinist, both members of the
society, played “Lullaby.” from Jocelyn,
while the white-robed members, wear
ing graduate caps, and carrying lighted
tapers, marched slowly to the platform.
A short and challenging talk was
made by Alary Bally AA’illiams, presi
dent of the society, in which she spoke
of the principles for which the society
stands, and the ideals to which its
members live. Rhe then bade the old
members go forth and give candles to
those who had been designated by the
senior class, the faculty committee, and
the Torchlight group as worthy of be
coming members of the honor society.
Froin semester seven, Ed Alichaels,
Adelaide Fortune, IlaiTj- Buice, David
Stern, Susan Gregory and Plummer
Nicholson were given candles. Those
from semester eight were: Lucy
Crocker, Louis Brooks, Bobby Scott,
Helen Davis, Louise Cheek, and Alar-
garet Alurehison.
The newly added members bring the
total membership from fifteen to
twenty-seven. Now fifteen per cent of
the members of semester eight belong
to file society, and ten per cent of
semester seven.
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Students Name Candidates
for Offices in Preliminary
finalsIn^spring
New Torchlight Members
Semester 8—Lucy Crocker, Mar-
garet Murehison, Louise Cheek,
Louis Brooks, Bobby Scott, Helen
Davis.
Semester 7—David Stern, Susan
Gregory, Ed Alichaels, Adelaide For
tune, Plummer Nicholson. Harry
Biiioe.
J. Barnes Is Third Candidate
for President of the
Student Body
UNIVERSITY OF N. C.
SPONSORS CONTEST
Sixth Annual State Journalistic
Contest for High Schools.
Enter G.H.S. Publications
CUP AWARDED ANNUALLY
G. H. S. TEACHERS HAVE
PICNIC AT CLUB HOUSE
On April 0 more than 30 members
of Greensboro High School's faculty
motored to the Cone Country Club at
the invitation of Air. Elmo Sellars, an
“adopted” member of the faculty. They
left from the high school about 5
o’clock and arrived at the club in time
to take advantage of the boats. They
went boat-riding until time for a
brunswick stew supper. Aliss Frances
Sumners, head of the Domestic Science
Department at Greensboro High School,
was in charge of the supper. Follow
ing supper a few tables of bridge were
enjoyed. Following the bridge game a
.sfjuare dance, led by Aliss Alary Alor-
row, was enjoyed.
FOUR WILL REPRESENT
G. H. S. AT PRESS MEET
Winners of Contest Will Be Announced
and Cups and Prizes Awarded
Saturday Night
HOMESPUN HAS AVON FIRST PLACE
Four delegates will represent G. H. S.
at the Southern Interscholastic Press
Association meeting held at Washing
ton and T.iee University Alay 10-11.
From Homespun, Carmen Patterson
and Susan Gregory are the delegates,
and representing High Life are Alary
Bally AA’illiams and Albert Lindy. Airs.
Alma G. Coletrane. High Life adviser,
will also attend the convention.
The convention begins Friday morn
ing and closes with the “Alade-in-
A'irgiiiia” banquet Saturday night.
Scheduled on the program for the two-
d-ay meeting are several addresses by
prominent journalists and round table
discussions conducted by students of
the Lee School of Journalism. At the
banquet Saturday night winners in the
contest will be announced and cups and
prizes awarded.
Last year Homespun was awarded
first place in magazines of its class, and
Hky Hiyh, Asheville High School pub
lication, took first place in papers in
class B.
The T'niversity of North Carolina
will sponsor its sixth annual contest in
high school journalism for North Caro
lina high schools. Publications which
are to be entered in the contest should
be forwarded to the central committee
at the university by June I, 3929.
The object of the contest is to attain
excellency in the field of journalism.
The contest is known as the Hume cup
high school newspai>er and magazine
contest. The extending of the contest
over a period of ten years makes the
cup a much more coveted trophy than
one that may be won in a single year.
Tbe cup is to be awarded annually to
the high school whose paper is judged
as the best by the committee at the
university.
The magazine contest is also open to
the North Carolina public schools. The
judges of the contest will take into
consideration literary excellence, edi
tors values, and the general make-up
and appearance of the magazine.
The high school which wins the
award of the judges will receive and
hold in permanent possession a trophy
lireseiited by the University of North
Carolina.
The establishment is a fitting tribute
paid by a group of students at the
university to a greatly beloved English
professor. Dr. Hume, who by his elo
quence and charm was in constant
demand at the university.
Last year the cup was awarded to
Greensboro High School at the gradu
ating exercise June 1, 1928.
A hearty invitation is extended to all
the high schools to enter the contest.
SELECT CHEER LEADERS
Elizabeth Wills Wins in Primary
Nominee for Girls’
Council
ENGLISH IV CLASSES
STUDY N. C. FOLK LORE
For the purpose of studying in detail
North Carolina folklore, the English lA’
classes, taught by Aliss Alargaret Craig,
are collecting, counting, and singing
games which are heard and played in
North Carolina.
The songs and jingles are being first
collected, then typed and classified.
Aliss Craig says that this employ
ment will be of much help to the stu
dents, and will help hold in reserve the
folk songs, which, since the manufac
turing of mechanical toys, are uni
formly being omitted.
Five students from G. II. S. served
as pages at a musical at the King
Cotton ballroom on April 5. The en
tertainment was under the auspices of
the local U. D. C. Those serving as
marshals were: Annie Louise Rogers,
Louise AA’liittington, Ethel Grey Rogers,
Alargaret AVhite, and Elizabeth Alurphy.
Nominations for class officers and
Girls’ Council and Student Council
presidents for next year have been com
pleted and are ready for the final
election.
J. Barnes was named the third nomi
nee for Student Council president in
the primary election held Alonday,
April 1.5. At the same time Elizabeth
AVills was chosen by the girls as the
third candidate for president of the
Girls* Council.
Ill the election Alonday, nominees
were named for presidents of the ris
ing semesters. Fred Byers and Ed
Alichaels are the candidates for senior
president, and AA’. AI. Paris and Pris
cilla AA’hite are running for the semes
ter 7 office. From semester 6, Dorothy
Burnside and Guy Hope were cliosen
to run for the presidency, and from
semester 5, Alack Heath and Rigdon
Dees. Semester 4 named AVilliam A’on-
ning and Alarjorie Boone as candidates
of that office, and semester 3, Alary
Rucker and Joe Clement. Running for
the presidency of semester 2 are Joe
Dees and Leah Baach.
At the same time nominations were
made for semester representatives on
the Girls’ Council. For Student Coun
cil from semester 8 were John Linde-
man and Alargaret Leak; semester 7,
Carey Sloan and Lillian Hane; semes
ter 0, Alargaret Smathers and Glenn
AIcNairy; semester 5, Charles Shaffer
and John Gunter; semester 4, Alary
Scott Jones and AA’allace Siler; semes
ter 3, Frances Bumpass and Elmer
AA’renn; and semester 2, Dick Strader
and John Hayes.
Nominees for semester representa
tives on the Girls’ Council were also
named. From semester 8 the candi
dates were Alary Burton High and
Lynette AA’illiams; semester 7, Sarah
Clegg and Leila George Cram; semester
0, Alary Grier and Ethel Gray Rogers;
semester 5, Angela Patterson and Anna
AA’ills; semester 4, Alary Elizabeth
Cunningham and Frances Jones ; semes
ter 2, Helen Crutchfield and Alargaret
Knight.
Ernest Hunt, Harriet Powers, Na
than Lipscomb, Ralph Faison, Charles
Shoffiier, and Eva Harris are the can
didates for cheer leaders. From these
six a chief and two assist-ants will be
elected to serve next year.
The final election for next year’s
officers will be held sometime in Alay.
Last year marked the inaguratiou of
the Australian ballot system here and
it will be used again this year. This
system was Introduced by the Student
Council, and the elections also are
supervised by the Council.
Instead of continuing the old custom
of having “Kid Day,” the seniors have
decided to have something new this
year. In other words, they want to
be original. Instead of “Kid Day,” they
are to have “Costume Day,” with each
senior representing a character in lit-
erature, such as Hamlet in Shake
speare’s “Hamlet.” They will not tell
when this “Costume Day” will be held
because it’s a secret, but be on the
watchoiit.