HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
We Welcome
Parents
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, NOVEMBER 1, 1929
NUMBER 7
Debating Club Arranges
Schedule for Present Year
, CLASSES ENTERED
Members Enjoy Social Given At
Cone Club—Boating Is
Big Amusement.
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INITIATION TAKES PLACE
" James Farthiiig Explains Parliamentary
Procedure at Bi-weekly
i- Meeting.
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['-i Convening for the purpose of dis-
•'ifi cussing the inter-school debates for this
year, the Debating club announced the
' i' foIlo'Wing arrangements:
Harry Buice, president, scheduled the
debates. Students of High Point, Salis-
bury, and Winston are to oppose
Greensboro pupils.
\ Firat Debate Comes in November
y During the first week of November
Harry Buice,'Mack Heath and Dorothy
Burnsides will uphold the affirmative
side of the question, Resolved, That the
'V' president of the United States should
be elected for a term of six years. Mary
' Mitchell, Clary Holt, and Edwin Holt
take the negative side of the same ques
tion. The teams combat High Point
students.
Others Use Same Topic
In December the same subject will
be used in opposing Salisbury. Doug
las Cartland, Hadley Hayes, and Ran-
Preeman form the affirmative
^ team, with Charles Hogan, J. Barnes,
^and Glennon Shields making the nega
tive. All of these debaters are juniors
and seniors.
• The following are the sophomore-
freshman debaters. They will be held
in December, probably with Salisbury.
' Representing the affirmative are Ran-
dolph Covington, Bill Callum, and Alma
Tayor, who debate in Greensboro. The
V- negative is upheld by Edgar Meibonn,
Hilliard Klein and Jack McLean.
There is a freshman debate scheduled
'r^between Winston-Salem and Greens-
';^boro in December. On the affirmative,
which debates in Winston-Salem, are
A. C. Holt, Henry Nau, and John De-
Butts. The members of the negative
^^®are Edward Cone, Lane Barksdale, and
Dick Cann.
Club Has Social •
y At a social meeting which was held
'Thursday, October 17, new members of
the debating club were initiated. After
going through some terrible experiences
they became regular members of the
' club.
During the afternoon the members
• j enjoyed boat-riding on the Cone lake.
• To those who went to the social the
most delightful time was the gathering
around the table for the big repast.
(Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon and Miss.
Nora Chaffin had worked faithfully all
jaftefnoon to prepare this spread.
Thursday, October 24, the club held
its regular bi-weekly meeting. At this
'time Mr. James Farthing explained piar-
liamentary procedure.
COUNCIL RECORDS
SEMESTER FAILURES
The scholarshiji cpmmittee /of the
Girls’ Council of G. H. S. has compiled
these statistics:
In semester 1, 26.2 per dent of the
girls failed one or more subjects dur
ing the last report period; in semester
2, 20.1 per cent; in semester 3, 35.4
per cent; in semester 4, 28.8 per cent;
in semester 5, 28.4 per cent; in semes
ter 6, 20 per cent; in semester 7, 17.6
per cent; in semester 8, 12 per cent.
Mary Greer, chairman of the scholar
ship committee, says to watch for a
smaller percentage of failures next re
port period.
PUBLICATION STARTS
information bureau
Cross Questions and Crooked An
swers was the game of early child
hood. In keeping with the lack of
such a pleasure of father in satisfy
ing that want High Life editors
announce a new column to appear
in the publication of November 8.
AH students having questions and
desiring answers to them may de
posit such questions, legibly writ-
tehi in the mail box, so designated,
on the cabinet just inside 307, the
publication room.
Serious questions and silly ques
tions will be answered accordingly
in the next issue of the paper.
SCHOOL TEACHERS
HAVE FIRST SOCIAL
Central Junior High Wins Prize
of Fifty Dollars for
the Best Skit.
INVITATION BY TEACHERS
The first monthly meetting of - the
teachers of the Greensboro schools was
held Thursday, October 24, when the
teachers of the senior high school acted
as hosts and hostessts at a party in the
G. H. S. cafeteria.
This meeting was in charge of Mrs.
Julia Strickland. The guests had a de
lightful time, and enjoyed a good re
past consisting of steak, peas, baked
potatoes, biscuits, frozen orange salad,
and pineapple delight.
Songs were led by H. Grady Miller.
After business matters were concluded,
the. members adjourned to the audito
rium, where the teachers of the differ
ent schools gave skits of their own in
vention, a prize of fifty dollars w’hieh
was offered for the most unique presen
tation being won by Central Junior
High. This prize will go towards a
picture which will adorn the Central
High walls.
Before the party dispersed, the
teachers'^of the junior high schools ex
tended an invitation to the other teach
ers to a party which is to be given at
the Jefferson country club November 21.
All new teachers of the city system
are urged to attend the social.
STUDENT COUNCIL
HOLDS MEETING
FOR DISCUSSION
Greensboro Students Plan
Various Ways and Means
of Making Money.
JOHN MASON PRESIDENT
Next Annual Meeting Will Be Held in
Raleigh—Elect Officers tor Next
Contention.
To discuss school problems was the
purpose of the Student Council Con
gress which met October 25, 26 at
Salisbury, N. C. Plans for the next
meeting and school probleiris were dis
cussed. Chief among the topics men
tioned were lockers, lost and found de
partment;; assembly ‘ progratiis, house,
g'rounds, and traffic committees.
Greensboro students discussed the
demands made on students for money
and ways and means for making money.
This open forum gives the schools new
ideas.
At the meeting the congress adopted
a constitution which was drawn up by
the president, John Mason, of Char
lotte, and the Charlotte student council.
All AA senior high schools are eligi
ble to belong to the congress. No
junior high school will be allowed. Each
school is alowed three delegates and
one faculty adviser.
There were more than one hundred
representatives at the meeting. These
delegates assembled from all the prin
cipal cities of North Carolina.
The presiding officers were John Ma
son, president, from Charlotte; Boyd
Morris, vice-president, Greensboro; tod
the secretary and treasurer, from High
Point.
Raleigh will be the host for the next
meeting, which is held annually. The
officers for the next convention were
elected. Harris, from Raleigh, was
chosen president; and Hammer, Wil
mington, vice-president. Salisbury fur
nished the secretary and treasurer.
The representatives from Greensboro
were Margaret Leak, Margaret Smath-
ers, Harvey Anderson. Boyd Morris
went as an officer and Miss Carrie Cran
ford as faculty adviser.
Paper Does Not Appear
“No High Life!” That’s what stu
dents yelled last week. Staff members
have decided or did decide not to pub
lish the paper on weeks wherein holi
days and examinations occur. There
will be exceptions to this; for example,
the Christmas issue will probably xap-
pear on the day before holidays begin.
High Life Wins Cup for
Third Consecutive Year
“Seven more times and the cup w'ill
be ours,”, so exclaimed Mr. Charles W.
Phillips, G. H. S. principal, as he pre
sented a letter to Mrs. Alma G. Col-
trane. This letter announced High Life
the winner of the Hume Cup for the
third consecutive time.
“High Life” Wins Third Time
This contest conducted annually by
the University of North Carolina ex
tension division, has been won by High
Life ever since the Hume cup has been
awarded. By winning the contest High
Life gives G. H. S. the right to keep
the cup another year. The school that
wins the contest the greatest number
of times within ten years will keep the
prize as a permanent possession
High Schools Enter Contest
All high schools Of the state sub
mit their papers to be judged in che
contest. Charlotte entered their Ram
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hler; Raleigh, the Raleigh Student;
Kernersville, the Spotlight; Lenoir, the
Mountaineer; High Point, The PO'inter;
New Hanover, Sandspim-; Durham, Hi
Roclcet; Greensboro, High Life.
Judges in the contest for the 1928-
1929 award were Addison Hubbard,
dean at U. N. C.; O. J. Coffin, professor
of Journalism; Louis Graves, editor of
the Chapel Hill paper.
The Thomas Hume Cup was given by
the Alumni of the University of North
Carolina in 1926.
Clyde Norcom Edits Paper
Clyde Norcom, student of N. C. C. W.
now, was managing editor of High
Life; and Eruma Griffin enrolled at
Sweet Briar College, Va., was editor
last year. Faculty advisers were Mrs.
.Alma G. Coltrane, Miss Nell Chilton
and Mr. Byron Haworth.
High School Opening to
be Held on Friday Night
GREENSBORO OPEN
FORUM
Nov. 2.—“Mr Hoover Down to
Date,” Buice Blifeh.
Nov. 26.’—“Will Science Supplant
Religion,” Nathan Krass.
Dec. 7.—“Our Heritage,” Judge
Florence Adams.
Jan. 4.—“Water Power,” Prof. W.
E. Mosher.
Jan. 24.—“Propaganda and Social
Control,” Prof. Kimball Young.
NEWSPAPER STAFF
HAS G™ party
Thirty-five Members Gather for
Good Time After Trip
to Durham.
CROWD SEEKS TREASURE
“A rollicking party it was, and every
on© had a good time,” the members of
the High Life staff sing since their
party Friday night.
Thirty-five members of the staff with
their guests entered the Halloween-be
decked cafeteria just after they got
home from the Durham game. Guests
invited by the staff members included
Mr. C. W. Phillips, principal of G. H.
S.; Miss Nell Chilton, Mrs. Alma G.
Coltrane, Mr. Byron Haworth, faculty
advisers of the publication; Misses Ju
lia Searcy, Mary Morrow, Laura Tillett,
and Sara Lesley.
In addition to these the following
students were asked to the social: Har
vey Anderson, student council presi
dent; Priscilla White, girls council
president; Susan Gregory, editor-in-
chief of Homespun; Harry Buice, pres
ident of Debating club; J. Barnes, pres
ident of Dramatics club; Ed Michaels,
president of Torchlight society.
“The refreshment committee, com
posed of Elizabeth Leak, W. B. Mayes,
and Sarah Clegg, and the entertainment
committee, of Leila George Cram, Eliz
abeth Wills, and Bernard Money, both
helped to make the evening a most en
joyable one, while Halloween decora
tions planned by Richard Frazier and
Elizabeth Benbow, lent color to the en
tertainment,” so says Margaret Ker-
nodle, editor-in-chief of High Life.
The main event of the evening was
the treasure hunt, which led pleasure-
seekers over the entire school campus.
PARENT-TEACHERS
MEET NOVEMBER 5
Teachers Conduct Second Association
Gathering in Auditorium
The second meeting of the Parent-
Teachers association will be held Tues
day evening, November 5, in the
Greensboro High School auditorium with
the teachers in charge. Miss Mary
Morrow will preside over the program.
Miss Camille Bifinkley, teacher of
girls’ physical education, will speak five
minutes on the “Importance of Girls
Taking Physical Education.”
This will be followed by a talk on the
policies of the school by Mr. C. W.
Phillips. He wil then answer any ques
tions, which may arise.
“Why Students Fail” will be the sub
ject of a short talk by Mrs. W. E. Bras
well, after which a general discussion
will follow.
PLAN PROGRAM
W. C. Jackson, Former Princi
pal of Greensboro High to
Give Main Address.
BROADHURST TO SPEAK
Teachers to Be on Duty in Session
Rooms as Guides—Parents Are
Urged to Attend.
W. C. Jackson, of the N. C. college
and former principal of Greensboro
high school, will give the main address
at the formal opening of the new senior
high school Friday evening, Novem*
ber 1.
The high school band, under the di
rection of H. Grady Miller, will furnish
the music from the orchestra pit in the
auditorium from 7:30 o’clock until 8:00,
after which Mr. Guy B. Phillips will
take charge of the program.
Mr. E. D. Broadhurst, chairman of
the board of education in Greensboro,
will give a talk. It has been said that
Mr. Broadhurst worked hardest to give
the high school students of Greensboro
a new school.
This will be followed by a series of
greetings from guests. These will in
clude superintendents of schools in
neighboring towns, members of the
board, and Mayor King, of Greensboro.
All the superintendents of -schools in
surrounding towns have received spe
cial invitations to the dedication serv
ice and have been asked to bring any
members of the board he wishes as well
as the principals of the high schools. Th©
civic clubs of Greensboro, including the
Woman’s club and th© Kiwanis club,
have also received special invitations.
The series of greetings will be fol
lowed by the inspection of the build
ings. Each teacher will be in her own
session room to act as guide.
The printed programs for the occa
sion will include a number of impor
tant facts about the history of the
school.
C. W. Phillips said that he was look
ing forward to having a large number
present, particularly parents, as the
children have notified them about the
opening of the building.
“It is their building and their night,”
said Mr. i’hiriips. “This plant has been
built by their representatives for their
children.”
STUDENTS WILL DONATE
TO COMMUNITY CHEST
Sponsors Says It Isn’t the Amount One
Gives, But the Spirit in Which
One Gives.
CHEST AIDS WORTHY CAUSES
The Greensboro Community Chest
will start its annual drive November 1.
As is the custom, the students of the
city schools will donate whatever they
feel that they are able. The feeling
may arise that if a person can’t give a
quarter or more that they are “cheap
skates.”
“It is not the amount that you give
as much as th© spirit with which it is
given,” say sponsors of the drive.
The Community Chest supports the
Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the scouts,
the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and
other such organizations which serve
the public. “Although one person may
not be able to give a large amount, if
each student would bring a dime it
would be a great help to this worthy
cause,” urges Mr. Phillips.
G. H. S. has gone practically one hun
dred per cent in the past.