May Santa Come to
See You
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
May You Help
Others Too
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, DECEMBER 20, 1929.
NUMBER 12
“The Scholastic” Presents
i Awards for Art Works
, «AS DEFINITE AIM
i jj^izes Are Not Primarily to
' Discover Talents, but to In
crease Appreciation of Art.
ORIGINALITY IMPORTANT
'Y, —•—
Iv.'National Masrazine Offers $4,500 in Cash
Awards—G. H. S. Students Eli-
: -' gible for Contest.
^ The Nuti(-ruul Scholastic, a national
school magazine presents 4,000.00 dol
lars in cash prizes to any junior or
senior high school student in Ainejrica
for the most outstanding work done in
literature, and the visual arts. The
Scholastiic, which is becoming well-
known throughout the country, as the
national “blue ribbons of American sec
ondary education,” wishes everyone to
know that the purpose of the awards.is
not primarily to discover the rare
talent, and genius of the few, but is as
much their desire to reveal to the thous
ands who participate in the contest the
opportunities for increasing their appre
ciation of all jartigtic media.
Officials Make Literary Division
Awards in the literary division of the
contest are: first, the “Walter Byrner
Scholastic Poetry prize,” which is given
for the best poem, the maximum num
ber of lines that may be submitted by
any one contestant being limited to 200;
first prize, $100; second prize, and third
prize, .$50 and $25, respectively, and ten
honorable mentioning $10 each. The es
say prizes for the best essay on any
subject which is not to exceed 2,000
words will be given. Each award is
the same as for the poetiy. As for
the short story, the limited number of
words being .3,000 and the prizes are
also the same. Enjoijhiff the Arts, a
volume which is now available at a low
price of 85 cents will be of much value
to any contestant in this division of
the opportunity.
Art Classification Numbers Four
In the art discussion, there are four
distinct classifications. Pictoifial arts, a
phase of art may be pictured of land
scapes, figures, either realistic or imagi
native in style. The size after mounted
should not exceed 22x28 inches. The
cash being the same as in the literary
division. Any form of sculpture may be
entered: the figures may be human or
animal, modeled in the round or relife.
The prizes are $50, $2.5^^15, and five
.$5 each. ' •
Another form of art, designs, should
portray ideas appropriate for deyelop-
ment in silk, wall paper, velvet, and
other printed fabrics. East, the Carne
gie Museum prizes will be presented to
the student drawing the best animal or
plant living or-extinct among the speci
mens that might appear in a museum.
Along with this piece of art there is a
scheme for, a textile, a piece of pottery,
or jewelry and showing the application
of each in design and color.
All manuscript should reach the office
of The Scholastic by March 15, 1030.
The Scholastic is vitally concerned
with the desire of high school'Students
to express themselves in either, or both
phases of this artistic, and therefore
urges every boy or girl, who has a
talent running in these lines to parti
cipate in the all-Natioiial Scholastic
Awards.
A special award, the George Bellows
prize, is given for objects submitted in
either division, this being because Bel
lows works were .outsfanding in both
media.
Stop! Look! Listen!
STOP! Think of someone less
fortunate, and do something to make
them happy on Christmas day.
LOOK! Eleven days—two hundred
and sixty-four hours—fifty thousand,
eight hundred and forty minutes—
nine hundred and fifty thousand,
four hundred seconds-^ne and the
same thing—Christmas Holidays.
LISTEN! Don’t eat too much of
Grandma’s mince pie; you may want
to eat again. Eleven days! It’s true;
but just remember school will begin
on. January first, nineteen hundred
and thirty. Make it your New Year
Resolutiop to be on time!
JUNIORS ENTERTAIN
MID-TERM GRADS
Dancing and Music Feature the
Evening—Frank Warner
and “Red” Paris Sing.
HOSTS AT THE CAFETERIA
TEACHER ARRANGES
TABLEAU SKETCH
ABOUT CHRISTMAS
Semester Seven and Mr. Mil
ler’s Glee Club Take Part
in Pantomime.
MISS GROGAN IS SPONSOR
Pageant Takes Place in Auditorium Fri
day Afternoon, December 20, Be
fore Student Body-
The first entertaining for the mid-sea
son graduates of Greensboro high school
was held last evening, when the juniors,
semester 6, sponsored the regular jun
ior-senior banquet in the high school
cafeteria.
The- main features of the evening,
consisting mostly of dancing and music,
was afforded by these: Frank Warner,
“Red” Paris, and John Lindeman, who
sang; chorus of Byrum’s dancers from
the Acme Studio; an aerobatic dancer;
an exhibition dance by Louise, Harri
son and “Pat” Ryder; and similar fea
tures.
Ten musicians of Greensboro high
school, under the personal direction of
Earl A. Slocum, furnished the music
for dancing.
Such a program that was afforded
last evening was due to the responsi-'
ble officials of the class. Guy Hope,
president of the junior class, acted as
master of ceremonies, with these as
sistants; Kate Wilkins, hostess, Charles
Hagan, chairman of the -finance com
mittee, ‘Dorothy Burnsid^ chairman of
the invitation committee, and Virginia
Clement, chairman of entertainment
committee.
Although the junior-senior banquet
is an annual custom of the high school,
it has not- been the custom to use the
cafeteria as the place for entertain
ment, this being a new custom insti
tuted by the present junior class. The
past three- classes have used a club
house. Last spring the banquet was
held in the Masonic Temple. This idea
not only cuts the expenses of the ban
quet, but patronizes the school, since
Greensboro high has a eafeterial worthy
of patronage along with the other fa
cilities of the new school. C. W. Phil
lips, who w’as'very much in favor of
this idea, persuaded the class to use
the new cafeteria.
The following is a copy of an invita
tion sent out by the junior class:
SILVER SLIPPER CABARET
Thur.sday, December Nineteenth
Eight-thirty o’clock
High School Cafeteria
More than one hundred and forty
students attended.
The junior-senior last spring was in
the form of a wedding, uniting Miss
Ima Junior and Mr. U. R. A. Senior.
Students Pay Respects
to Famous Poet of Rome
In keeping with the holiday spirit,
Miss lone Grogan, head of the G. II. S.
Math department, has arranged a
Christmas tableau-pantomime to be pre
sented in chapel, Friday, December 20.
“Miss Grogan’s presentation is an an
nual event, to which the Semester Sev-
ents and Mr. Miller’s Glee Clubs con
tribute. Because of the addition of the
elegant auditorium which was made
possible by the Greensboro School
Board, the tableau will be presented
this year ou a more elaborate scale
than before. Shelby Fitzgerald, G. H.
S. stage electrician, has arranged some
veiT fine lighting effects tor the pre
sentation ; costumes have been com
pleted, and parts have been assigned.
Everything is in readiness for a really
glorious pageant.”
The program, as announced by Miss
Grogan, is as follows:
I— Proc-essional, “Come, All Ye Faith
ful.”
II— First tableau, “Hark, the Herald
Angels Sing.”
III— Scripture reading, Matthew,
2:11—Henry Allen.
IV— Second jtableau, “The First
Noel.”
V— “O, Little Town of Bethlehem.”
VI— Third tableau, “There’s a Beau
tiful Star.”
VII— Fourth tableau, “Angels from
the Realms of Glory.”
VIII— Scripture reading, Luke 2 :8-
11—Carey Sloan.
IX— ^Fifth tableau, “We Three Kings
of Orient Are.”
X— ‘"Joy to the World.”
XI— Sixth tableau, “Silent Night,”
(two verses) ; “Sleep, My Infant
Jesus.”
XII— “I Heard the Bells on Christ
mas Day.”
Characters are as follows:
Mary, Sarah Burton Clegg; Joseph
J. Barnes; Eulyss Troxler, James
Strickland, Bene Curtis, wise men;
Billy Horton, Richard Frazier, W. M.
I’aris, Lloyd Faires, Hadley Hayes,
Isaac Gregory, shepherds; Carey Sloan,
and Henry Allen, scripture readers;
Gladys Barbee, Elizabeth Sockwell.
Sarah Louise Lucas, Irene Dorsett,
Leila George Cram, Jennie Homey,
Grace Curtsi, Margaret Byrd, Ethel
Grey Rogers, Betty Hausen, Gladys
Young, Priscilla White, Lois Chenault,
Harriet Powers, Susan Gregory, Kat
rine Smith, Elizabeth Simmons, Marion
Goss, Jennie Edwards, angels.
Curtain and stage—Thomas Knight.
Lights—Shelby Fitzgerald.
Costumes—Lois Siler, Frances Swift,
Edythe Bennett, Virginia Clement,
Elizabeth Leak.
G. H. S. GLEE CLUB PLAN
TO GO CAROLING ON EVE
The Girls’ Glee Club and the
Boys’ Glee Club of the Greensboro
Senior High School are planning to
have their annual caroling this
Christmas Eve. As has been the
custom each year, the Mixed Cho
rus will assembly at the Guilford
Court House and go from there in
large trucks to the places of car-
oling.
This will start about nine o’clock
and end at the Country Club where
the group will gather for refresh
ments and a^general get-together.
The songs that will be included
in this program are the Christmas
carols such as; > “Silent Night,”
“Hark' the Herald Angels Sing,”
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,”
and other similar carols.
CONTESTS’WINNERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Bill Allen and David Morrah
Secure First Place for Prize
winning Contributions.
MANY STUDENTS SUBMIT
“A penny for your thoughts.”
“Not so. I’m . entering mine in the
High Life contest.”
So one might have heard contestants’
speak of the Christmas cartoon and es-
special Christmas issue of High Life.
Greensboro Book Store a'warded him
the book, “Sacrifice.”
Bill Allen receives first prize in the
short story contest. His story, “A First
Gift,” appears on page three of this
special Christmas issue of High Life.
David Morrah won the cartoon con
test, the Carolina Theatre presenting
him with passes for his success. His
cartoon is on page two of this paper. '
Frances Keriiodle was successful for
second place in the story contest, get
ting as her aw’ard a gift from Fordham-
McDuffie Drug Company. She wrote
“T_he Vuletide Detective.”
Elizabeth Sockwell drew the cartoon
selected as second best by the judges.
She receives a gold pencil given by
Schiffman Jewelry Company.
Leila George Cram took third place
with her short story, “Forfeited a
House Party,” getting a gift from Mor-
fison-Neese Furniture Co.
Carey Sloan was third in the cartoon
contest.
Judges for the Cartoon contest were
Mrs. George Clark, art teacher at Cen
tral Junior High School, J. H. Johnson,
head of G. H. S. dramatics depart
ment, Richard Frazier, art editor of
High Life.
Mrs. Alma G. Coletrane, Miss Nell
Chilton, and Byron Haworth, faculty
advisers of High Life, decided which
stories were best.
U. B. T. GIVES TRIP
Will Celebrate in Various Ways
Two-thousandth Anniversary
of Vergil’s Birth.
HOMESPUN ISSUE SPECIAL
First Program Is a Dedication to the
Correct Spelling of
His Name.
In celebrating the two thousandth an
niversary of Vergil’s birth, the Latin
VH and Latin VHI classes of the
Greensboro high school plan various
tributes to the “wielder of the stateliest
measure ever molded by the lips of
man.”
Miss Sara Lesley, head of the Latin
department of G. H. S., teaches these
classes. She has described in detail the
trip on the Mediterranean, planned by
the University Bureau of Travel, which
will be the culmination of world-wide
commemoration of the greatest Roman
X)oet. This tour, which begins in late
May or early June, will take Vergil en
thusiasts to all placeg to which the poet
ever went. Miss I^esley says she sin
cerely hopes the Fates w'on’t prevent
her taking this tour.
The first program of the series which
will continue throughout the spring
semester, probably will be a debate on
the correct spelling of Vergil’s najpe.
This will be brief, with the query stated
as follows; Resolved, that V-e-r-g-i-1 is
J the correct way of spelling the great
poet’s name. James Strickland and
Elizabeth Sockwell will uphold the
affirmative, and Douglas Cartland and
Margare^ Kernodle, the negative side of
the debate. T^ila George Cram will be
in charge of the prograln.
Another short program for students
will be the recitation by the Latin VIII
class. At this time these puipls wfill give
Tennyson’s tribute to Vergil to music,
played by a member of the class. “That
ocean roll of rhythm sounding forever
of imperial Rome” will be shown the
G. I-I. S. student body when the class
recites a passage from the first book
of the Aeiieid.
A special isgue of Homesimn, prob
ably a modern play with reference to
the poet as well aS dramatization from
his writings, will also be among the
ways in which the students pay re
spects to Vergil.
P. T. A. MEETS JAN. 7
The next meeting of the I’arent-
Teaclier Association will be held the
first Tuesday in January, which is Jan
uary 7, in the high school anditorium at
8 o’clock.
Mrs. S. O. Lindeman. president of
this organization, extends an invitation
to every mother and father, whether
they are members or not. At this assem
bly. ?ilrs. Sliarky, of Chapel Hill, con
nected with welfare work, will talk.
MUSICAL NOVELTIES
TO COME HERE JAN. 13
Georgette’s Famous Players of musical
novelties and S-vviss Bell Ringers will
be here January 13. The S^viss Bell
Ringers are the'oldest independent at
traction now before the public. This
company has travelled seven years with
but one change in the personnel of the
company.
The audience ha? always been
pleased, and Mr. Georgette will con
tinue to exercise his efforts in produc
ing a worth-while entertainment in the
public eye.
G. H. S. DEBATING CLUB
MEETS DECEMBER FIFTH
Hadley Hayes Takes Charge in Absence
of Harry Buice—Negative
Wins Discussion.
Resolved: That mergers of over
$5,000,000 should .be prohibited, was the
query discussed by members of the de
bating club at their regular meeting
held Thursday, December 5.
In the absence of the president,
Harry Buice, Hadley Hayes presided.
The discussion for the affirmative was
led by Polly Pritchett; James Strick
land upheld the negative. This ques
tion was one of serious import, involv
ing many points both pro and con.
The argument was spirited; James
Strickland spoke three times, Douglas
Cartland four times, Edward Cone,
Glennon Shields, Holt Knight, and
others contributed to the qaery. At
the end, the negative was victor by a
small majority.
The meeting which was held yester
day was one of compliment to the pres
ident, who will graduate after Christ
mas. The discussion was: Resolved,
That all nations should disarm.