Hear the Swiss Bell
Ringers
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Back Our
Cagemen!
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, JANUARY 10, 1930
NUMBER 13
PUBLICATIONS ENTER
NATIONAL CONTEST
IN NEW YORK CITY
School Again Sends Blue Rib
bon Publications to
Convention.
HAVE WONFORMERPEIZES
Members of Staffs Will Also Attend
C. S. P. A. Confer.
ence. '
“Boys and girls together, me and Mamie
O’Rourke,
Tripped the light fantastic on the side
walks of New York.”
Greensboro senior high school pub
lication staffs are making plans to at
tend the sixth Columbia Scholastic
Press Association on, March 13-15,
1930, in the city of New York.
This convention is an annual culmina
tion of school journalism. I./eaders of
writing and publishing give advice
and suggestions at the meetings. Lunch
eon, theatre parties, and a visit to
newspaper offices are included in the
routine of those attending the conven
tion. Delegates associate with students
from the entire nation and leaders in
professions.
The Rchool Press Review, official pub
lication of this associati'dn, is the link
between members during the year. The
latest issue of this magazine contains
convention news.
In connection with this convention an
annual contest is sponsored for news
papers and magazines published by
schools below the rank of college and
normal school.
In 1925 High Life, G. II. S. news
paper won a shield. Both High Life
and Homespun, G. H. S. magazine, took
first place in Class B in 192G. The
local magazine won first place in Class
B in 1927 and High Life, third place.
In 1928 the paper took second place,
and the magazine, first place. Last
year, High Life made second place and
Homespun second.
Copies of local publications euterin;
the 1930 contest must be in New York
Febi-uary 22, 1930.
SENIOR LATIN STUDENTS
HONOR POET OF ROME
Virgril Will Be Complimented Daring
Two-Thousandth Anniversary
of His Birth.
For the purpose of celebrating the
two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil’s
birth, students of Miss Sara I^esley’s
Latin 7 class have selected officials to
take charge of their tributes to the Ro
man poet.
Elizabeth Sockwell is president or
chairman of the group ; Elizabeth Wills,
vice-chairman; Margaret Kernodle,
publicity agent; Leila George Cram,
program chairman.
Class roll reads as follows: Nellie
Allred, Douglas Cartland, Leila George
Cram, Sarah B. Clegg, Irene Dorsett,
Margaret Kernodle, Elizabeth LeaL
Bcmlce Ix)ve Mary Mann, Harriett
Powers, Carey Sloan, Elizabeth Sock-
well, James Strickland, Elizabeth Wills,
Catherine Wagoner.
The first Qf a series of programs was
given last Friday, January 3. This was
a debate on the spelling of Virgil’s
name.
The program today is the recitation
of Tennsyson’s tribute to I' irgil by
Douglas Cartland. A selection from Vir
gil will be given in the near future.
Other programs will be announced.
CURRENT PROBLEMS CLASS
The members are: (first row left to right) Jack Nowlin, Olga Kellam,
Elizabeth Sockwell, Carey Sloan. Margaret Bowles. Sarah Boyles, Lewis Sutton.
(Second row, left to right) Ralph Murray^ Mack Heath. John Lindeman, “Red”
Whitt. Idriie.st Stadium, Harry Knice, and' Roy Bradley.
Interesting Figures
About G. H. S.
Enrol’d to date for year. Dropped
Boys
Girls Boys Girls
582
569 26 36
(13 more boys than girls). Unusual.
Present Enrollment
Boys
Girls
556
533
(23 more boys than girls). Unusual.
Absences to Date
Boys
Girls
1912
1886
(Girls usually lead in absences).
Tardies to Date
Boys
Girls
512
270
(These
are not unusual; boys usually
lead in tardies).
MID-TERM GRADUATES
HAVE ‘FULL’ PROGRAM
Rev. Reginald Mollette, Pastor of First
Episcopal Church, Preaches Ser
mon to Students.
SENIOR CLASS SENDS INVITATIONS
Think of it. Another semester is
about to close and those seniors are
full of ideas which will not be revealed
A
quite yet.
On Wednesday, January 15 Senior
day will be held. The farewell program
will be held Friday, January 17, in the
high school auditorium, similar to the
farewell programs rendered by other
graduation classes. The sermon will
be preached by Rev. Reginald Mallett
at the First Episcopal Church Sunday,
January 19. Thursday, January 23,
class day will be held, consisting of a
play of entirely student production, G.
W’. Stamper and Ixmise Hardin are
directing the play. Graduation exer
cises are scheduled for Friday, January
24, at 8:00 o’clock, ending the senior
class program.
Already their invitations have been
sent out. They are different from any
invitations had by other classes. The
high school was at the top of the invi
tation and an etching of the school at
the bottom. The words on it were:
The Senior Class of
Greensboro High School
announces its
Commencement Exercises
January 24, 1930
Greensboro High School
Miss Mary Ellem Blackman, head of
the history department, holds the ses
sion room of these seniors and advises
them on their plans.
MISS WILLIE HALL
INTRODUCESCOURSE
Current Problems is Subject Of
fered—Taught in Many Col
leges—Very International.
AIDS DEBATING STUDENTS
Among the new courses introduced
this semester is a (current problems)
class taught by Miss Willie T. Hall. This
same course is given at many of the col
leges and its purpose is to study inter
national, state and local affairs. For
the latest information the members of
the- class read the daily newspapers,
magazines and the Congressional Rec
ords.
Miss Hall has impressed upon the
class the necessity to keep reading for
information, to keep seeking opinions
of various writers and to bring material
to class to exchange. She has placed as
the object of the class to “Get and
Give.’'
At the beginning of the semester the
class organized their class as if it was
a club. The members numbering thir
teen chose Harry Buice for their presi
dent ; Olga Kellam, vice-president, and
Carey Sloan, secreta-’y and treasurer.
5 TORCHLIGHT MEMBERS
GO TO BESSEMER HIGH
Branch of National Honor Society Will
Be Established At Bessemer
High in the Near Future.
Five members of the Torchlight So
ciety went to Bessemer high school
Tuesday, January 7. for the purpose of
interesting the upperclassmen in tfi.e
formation of a branch of the National
Honor Society.
The upperclassmen were corralled
into the Bessemer auditorium at the
second period, and there the five mem
bers of the Greensboro high unit, Ed
Michaels, president; Adelaide Fortune,
Susan Gregory, Priscilla White, and
Plummer Nicholsou, spoke to them.
The members were accompanied by
Misses Fannie Starr Mitchell and
Laura Tillett, faculty advisers of the
organization. Ed Michaels related the
history of the honor society, and Susan
Gi'egory, Plummer Nicholson, Priscilla
White, and Adelaide Fortune each ex-
plai)ied the requisites of character,
scholarship, leadership, and service,
which each student must possess before
he is elected to membership in the so
ciety. These talks were brief and to
the point, and it is expected that the
efforts of these G. H. S. students will
bear fruit.
The following is a schedule for
both senior and regular examina
tions. A new semester will start
Monday, January 27.
SENIOR EXAMINATIONS
Thursday, January 16, Periods 6
and 1.
Friday, January 17, Periods 2
and 3.
Monday, January 20, Periods 4
and 5.
Tuesday, January 21, make-ups.
REGULAR EXAMINATIONS
Tuesday, January 21, Periods
6 and 1.
Wednesday, January 22, Periods 2
and 3.
Thursday, January 23, Periods 4
and 5.
Friday, January 24, make-ups.
DEBATERS DECIDE
TO ENTER CONTEST
Club Makes Preparation for
State Triangular Which
Comes in Spring Semester.
PLANS NOT COMPLETE
At a meeting of the Greensboro high
school debating club Thursday after
noon, January 2, J. H. Johnson, direc
tor of dramatics, explained in full the
state oratorical contest which is being
sponsored by the American Legion.
After the detailed explanation, the ques
tion was turned into an open discussion,
in which almost every member partici
pated and showed great interest.
Eight members of the club expressed
their desire for entering. They are
Douglas Cartland, Charles Hagan, Glen-
non Shields, Jack McLean, Maenette
Graff, James Strickland, Dorothy Burn
side, and Mary Mitchell.
During the past semester the largest
program in the debating club’s hitsory
was rendered. Three dual debates were
held, the first one was with High Point;
second with Winston-Salem; and third
with Salisbury. Out of the six debates,
Greensboro won four. Eighteen people
were trained for these debates.
In the club meetings great enthusiasm
and interest has been shown by a ma
jority of the forty members. When a
query was not debated, the members
had the privilege of discussing some
civic topic.
Plans for next semester are now
ing worked out: a freshman-sophomore
debate will probably be held with the
Training School, -which Miss Nora Chaffin
is coaching. Plans for the state tri
angular debate are being worked out
also. The query for this debate will be:
Resolved, that North Carolina should
adopt the proposed constitutional
amendment, authorizing the classifica
tion of property for taxation. Prelimi
naries, for which thirty contestants are
expected to try out, will be held the
first of next semester.
FORMER TEACHER
IS VICE-CONSUL
A former teacher of G. H. S., Alvin
T. Rowe, and a member of the high
school faculty of Asheville, is vice-con
sul in Bluefielcis, Nicaragua. Mr. Rowe
has complete charge in the absence of
consul, who is in the United States at
present. lie is the highest offlciai rep
resentative of the United States in all
Eastern Nicaragua.
The new consul was a French teacher
at the Asheville school, and also an as
sistant of Mr. W. R. Wunsch on the
newspaper and magazine. He was con
nected with the dramatic department of
that school, acting as business manager.
Mr. Rowe was also a faculty adviser
of High Life in 1925.
SWISS BELL RINGERS
PERFORM TWICE
AT HIGH SCHOOL
Performance Includes Instru
ments as Hungarian Dulci- ,
mer, Swiss BeUs, and Cello.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
Grady Miller Says Program Is Worth-
While to Musical People and Hopes
Students Will Attend.
Georgette’s famous players of musical
novelties and the Swiss Bell Ringers
will be in Greensboro January 13, on a
return engagement to furnish lioth an
afternoon and an evening performance
in the Greensboro High School audi
torium, where a large number will be
expected to assemble to hear the well-
known artists.
The company has toured for seven
teen successive years, being the oldest
independent attraction now before the
public. They not only have traveled in
the United States, but all over Europe,
where they were paid high tribute.
Among the instruments they use are
the Hungarian Dulcimer, saxophone,
Aluminum tubes, piano accordion, piano,
Swiss hand bells, cello, violin, musical
flowers, and xylophone.
The matinee performance, which will
be furnished by the Swiss Bell Ringers,
will consist of their telling how instru
ments are made and played. This pro
gram will be of particular interest to
the music students.
The music department of Greensboro
High School will have charge of the
tickets, \vhich will be on sale in the
Senior Supply Shop.
Any individual who wants to may sell
tickets and if he sells ten tickets he gets
one free. The proceeds will go to the
Music Department for new instruments.
Anyone who does not go to the matinee
performance will remain in their ses
sion rooms until 3 :30 o’^clock.
To quote Mr. Miller in regard to the
Swiss Bell Ringers is that: “The Swiss
Bell Ringers are very famous. And I
think they will be very interesting and
worthwhile particularly to those tak
ing any form of music and I hope every
student in high school will attend.”
ATTENDANCE INCREASES
IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Magazine Records 861 High Schools in
State of North Carolina Offer
ing Five Courses. '
The State School Facts', an oflicial
publication of the State Superintendent
of Public instructions contains statis
tics that show a great increase in the
attendance at the public schools over
the former one.
At this time the magazine portrays
that there are 861 public high schools
in the state, offering five courses of in
struction to students. In fact, there
is a high school of this type in every
county.
The number of graduates have in
creased 74.3 per cent. The greatest in
crease that this paper records has been
in the rural schools.
Secondary education at public ex-
lieiise has shown a tremendous growth
during the same period. At present,
16 per cent of the white enrollment and
five per cent of the colored enrollment
is actually in high school, whereas
twenty years ago two per cent of the
white children and no colored children
was in attendance. This is indeed a
gratifying survey, and it shows that
efforts to better education in the state
have not been in vaiur