HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, SEPTEMBER 13, 1929
MR. C. W. PHILLIPS
TELLS OPPORTUNin
OFFERED BY SCHOOL
At Present, Plant Consists of
Administration, Science, and
Cafeteria Buildings.
ADEQUATE AUDITORIUM
Field House Is Being Constructed for
Accomodation of Boys and
Girls of School.
“We have a real school we may call
our own, now, one which we should be
proud of and protect,” was a statement
made by Mr. C. W. Phillips, concerning
the ftew senior high school located on
Westover Terrace.
The plant consists of three modern,
fully equipped buildings,,the administra
tion, Science, and Cafeteria buildings.
Install Telephones
There is a switchboard and twenty
telephones in the school. This will make
it possible to have contact with outside
from the Science building, the Cafeteria
manager, the furnace room the music
and publication departments, which,
according to Mr. Phillips, will add to the
efficiency of the school and save time.
The cafeteria is adequate to accom
odate all of the pupils and teachers
comfortably. There are all modern con
veniences to give the type of service
needed. As well as supplying actual
needs for food it will serve as a place
for banquets, parties, socials, teas, and
similar demands.
- The Science equipment has been in
creased not only for the physics and
chemists laboratories, but for biology,
general sciences and home economies all
of this equipment is new and complete.
Offer New Art Courses
The Art department is entirely new
with the exception of a small class which
was held formerly at Central high
school. Miss Lee, the art director, is to
be at the school all the time to give
advice and instructions in costuming
and decoration, as well as to have classes
in photography, crafts, pen and ink
drawing, painting and clay modeling.
This work offers the pupils an oppor
tunity to choose decorating or any other
phase of this work in which they major.
Field House Erected
A field house is now being built for
the accomodation of both boys and girls
-of the school. This building will have a
dressing room for classes and for the
athletic squads. Mr. L. C. Belding and
Miss Camille Brinkley will spend most
of their time at the Senior High School,
with the exception of two periods each
day, during which they will work with
Mr. Parks, doing physical education
work in local grammer schools.
“They will, however form a nucleus
for what we hope will be a physical
education program to care for all stu
dents,” Mr. Phillips states, “and the
coaches will be able to train for health
about two hundred boys and girls in
addition to those working in athletic
teams.”
Library Looks to Future
The library of the school has been
built with an idea for beauty as well as
for service. There is sufficient space for
the books formerly used and additional
space for growth in the future. There
is space for a work room and classes in
library work.
The auditorium is large enough to
accomodate the entire student body,
making it possible for all to attend at
once. Chapel programs have been so
arranged to make use of the auditorium
and enjoy its beauty.
HIGH LIFE BECOMES
WEEKLY PUBLICATION
“High Life” takes two forward
steps this year. First there will be
four pages and second, “High Life”
will be published weekly. Formerly,
the paper was issued bi-weekly and
contained six pages.
There is also a slight increase in
the subscription cha'rge. In the past
the price was sixty cents. This year
it will be seventy-five.
With these changes “High Life”
Staff hopes to publish the best pa
per in its history.
MR. MILLER HEARS
BLOCH'S "AMERICA”
Symphony Is About History of
American People Since
Time of Indians.
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS PLAY
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WITH NEW INTERIOR
WELCOMES PUPILS
Dressing Rooms Are Built on
Stage and New Curtains
Have Been Ordered.
GROUNDS GET ATTENTION
Shops Are Constructed On Ground Floor
of Bam B for Use On Manual
Training Classes.
“One of the most interesting things
that happened while I was studying at
Columbia University, New York City,
this summer,” related Mr. Grady Miller
to the High Life reporter, “was the
visit of Mr. Earnest Bloch, who was the
composer of “America.”
This is the symphony which portrays
the history of our country beginning
with the first development of the In
dians through the Colonial period, the
civil war on to the present Jazz Age
and then to the future.
“America” won first place in the con
test for symphony compositions by
American composers.
During Mr. Bloch’s visit he rehearsed
the All City High School Orchestra in
this symphony. All music students at
the Music College were allowed to hear
the rehearsal.
“The enthusiasm that these High
School students showed in being under
such a well known man, and the enthusi
asm he showed in training them to per
form this masterpiece,” Mr. Miller said,
“was the most outstanding thing that
impressed me while at the University.
At the concert the orchestra played
Mr. Bloch’s piece under the direction- of
Van Hooystraten who is the director of
the Philharmonica orchestra of New
York City.
The composition ends with the hymn
“America”, his own setting. It is
thought that this will be adopted some
day in the place of tlie “America” to the
tune of “God Save the King.”
Pupils of Greensboro Senior High
School, moving into new buildings, are
taking notice of the fact that the old
High School on Spring Street, now used
as Central Junior High School, has been
improved and renovated at considerable
expense to the city during the summer.
One thousand dollars was expended for
repainting the interiors of all the rooms,
a color scheme, of brown and light buff
was used throughout. Enough lockers
have been installed so that every two
pupils can have a locker. The audi
torium has been thoroughly renovated
and rooms were built on the stage. A
curtain has been ordered also. “The
grounds are in the process of extensive
improvements and the attempt is being
made to restore the grass,” according
to the principal, Mr. E. T. MeSwain.
Manual training will be offered the
boys, the second floor of barn B, with
the partitions removed, being utilized
for the manual training shop. The base
ment of the main building, where the
physics and chemistry labs were housed,
will be used for classes in industrial
art. Only the first floor of the Bain
house will be used for Home E 'onomics.
Junior High has enrolled two hundred
and twenty-five intermediate pupils and
five hundred and twenty-five from the
sixth grade to the eighth. The faculty
comprises twenty-eight teachers, with
E. T. MeSwain as principal. Mr.
MsSwain was formerly principal of
Caldwell School.
CITY SCHOOL LIBRARIES
RUN ON DIFFERENT PLAN
Department Heads Are Given Chance to
Order Books Needed for Their
Respective Classes.
Libraries in the Greensboro city
school system, according to announce
ment of Mr. Guy Phillips, will be run
under a different plan this year from
that of the past. It is‘called the per
oapital-per monthly plan. Instead of
buying two hundred dollars worth, or
whatever the amount may be, of books
and distributing them among the libra
ries a certain amount of money will be
given to each library for the teachers
and principals to choose and buy the
books they want and need. It is prob
able that in the past some books were
issued to the libraries that were not
needed, Mr. Phillips said. By follow
ing the proposed plan for the year the
superintendent said he hoped the libra
ries would grow not only a great deal
larger but better.
SEMESTER VI STUDENT
WINS FAME AS ARTIST
Douglas Cartland is Lucky Boy
Painting Attractive Set of
Alphabets.
RECEIVES ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
GONE BUT NOT
FORGOTTEN
In addition to other change made
in the senior high school for the
second 192^ semester many teachers
have been substituted for ones who
taught last year but for vdrious rea
sons did not return this year. The
former teachers who did not continue
teaching this year are: Mr. Norman
Block (studying at Harvard), Miss
Dorothy Brown (now head of Math
ematics in a girls school in New
England), Miss Virginia Farinholt
(studying), Miss Elise Gathings
(studying), Mr. Carlyle Shepard (Edu
cational department at Guilford Col
lege), Miss Mary A. Strother (mar
ried), Mr. R. W. Wilkins (studying),
Miss Margaret Young (Dixie Fire
Insurance company), Mr. Edgar All-
red, Miss Mary Johnston, Mira Rachel
Sibley. Teachers elected to replace
these are: Misses Pauline Sawyer,
Camille Brinkley, Rachel Lee, Cath-
leen Pike, Virginia McClamrock, Car-
ree Cra^vford, Nora Chaffin, Mrs. H.
A. Helms and Mr. Lester C. Belding.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
DEBATES OPERETTAS
FOR USE IN SPRING
Mr. Miller Says That Scenery
Will Probably Be Made for
Operetta in School.
LARGER CAST TO BE USED
Mr. Miller Spends Day In Search of
Operetta Suitable for High School
Students tc Produce.
TARKINGTON'SPLAY
CHRISTENS G. H. S.
Usual Procedure of Opening
Season With Purple and
Gold Revue Changed.
GREAT YEAR PREDICTED
Douglas Cartland, semester VI student
of Greensboro High School, received a
hundred dollar cheek for painting the
most attractive set of alphabets in a
contest conducted by the Shredded
Wheat Company of Niagara Falls.
Seven hundred dollars are given each
month, one hundred dollars of which
is the first prize.
To compete in the contest children
have to collect twenty-six slips, one for
each letter in the alphabet. These come
in Shredded Wheat boxes.
The following letter was written to
Douglas by Mr. George Olive, adver
tising manager—■
Dear Friend:
It gives us much pleasure to inform
you that the judges have awarded you
the first prize for the best colored com
plete set of paper inserts which you
saved from four Shredded Wheat pack
ages. We are therefore enclosing our
check for one hundred dollars in accor
dance with the contest.
We congratulate you on your success
and wish to compliment you on the ex
cellence of your work.
With all good wishes,
Very truly yours,
GEORGE OLIVE.
“Seventeen”, the first dramatic pre
sentation of the season, which is to be
given about the last of October, will
christen the new G. H. S. auditorium.
This play was written by Booth Tark-
ingtou, a noted American novelist, is an
amusing study of a very young man with
his first love affair.
The usual procedure of opening the
season with, the Purple and Gold Revue
was changed since Mr. J. If. Johnson,
head of the dramatic department, con
sidered that a more dignified presenta
tion would seem better suited in the
initial performance. Plans are being
made to give the revue in the spring.
Mr. Johnson, who is highly pleased
and enthusiastic over the new stage pre
dicts a great year for dramatics. When
interviewed, he stated: “I am fully con
fident that there is not another high
school auditorium and stage in the
South that can compare with ours, and
I am sure we are going to have a great
year.”
AUDITORIUM PROGRAMS
BRING PUPILS TOGETHER
Students Will Have Opportunity of See
ing Moving Pictures That Have
Educational Value.
ALL ACTIVITIES MEET THURSDAY
For the purpose of making use of the
auditorium of the new school, and to
bring together all of the pupils of the
plant for programs of educational and
entertaining value, chapel will be held
daily at the new Greensboro senior
high school.
Mr. Phillips said, in discussing the
plans for each week, that a moving pic
ture will be given each Monday.
A session room period will be held
each Tuesday at the regular Chapel
program time.
Wednesday speaker or program from
outside the school will be brought to the
pupils.
For Thursday, activity day, various
clubs and organizations of the school
will sponsor the program.
“The Gondolier” and “The Yeoman of
the Guard,” operettas by Gilbert and
Sullivan are being discussed by the
music department of G. H. S. One of
these two musical dramas will probab
ly be used for the spring operetta given
by the high school.
Three other dramas in music given
by the high school in the past have
been by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mr. Grady Miller in speaking of “The
Gondolier,” declared, “The stage is very
difficult. In the second act a spectacu
lar scene will take place which calls for
a gondola that is to glide across the
stage. We think, however, with the
equipment we have at the senior high
school, we will be able to build , this
scenery in school.”
Heretofore all of the stage setting
has been made by outsiders. The high
school has the same kind of equipment
for building stage sets and sceneries iu
the dramatic as the North Carolina
College.
Mr. J. H, Johnson offers a special
instruction in stage sceneries in the dra
matic course.
Demands Large Cast
“The Gondolier” calls for a much
larger cast than previous operettas. This
will give students a better chance for
principal parts. The orchestra is com
posed almost entirely of the music fac
ulty and the high school orchestra. Ac
cording to Mr. Miller there will not be
an elimination of students for lack of
space in the orchestra.
“The Yeoman of the Guard” also calls
for a large cast and chorus. There will
be, however, bdt one stage setting in
this operetta. These two operettas have
been selected as the best and it is
thought one of these will be used in the
spring.
Miller Visits Tans
Mr. Grady Miller spent a day in Tans,
a Music and Theatrical Library in New
York City. All of the operettas given
in the Greensboro City Schools have
been ordered from this library includ
ing “Pirates of Penzance,” “Mikado”
and “Pinafore”.
He said, “Just going to Tans is an
opportunity that one can hardly afford
to miss. I had the pleasure of spending
practically a whole day in this library
loolcing over material for operettas.”
NEW COURSES AT G.H.S.
OFFERED TO STUDENTS
Courses in Science, Arts, English, and
Creative Work Are Included in
Present Plans.
In accordance with the progressive
program of the Greensboro school sys
tem, the senior high school has added
to its curriculum this year a number
of interesting courses.
In the English Department, a course
in Shakeseare is offered, this is a depar
ture from the usual and should prove
popular mth the students particularly
inerested in English.
The Science Department is giving ex
perimental physics.