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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, FEBRUARY 14, 1930
NUMBER 16
STUDENTSOFVIRGIL
PUBLISH MAGAZINE
Miss Sarah Lesley is Teacher
of Both Classes About
Famous Poet.
SENIORS CHOOSE EDITOR
Pupils in Semester Eight Course Elect
Staff for Last Edition of
Homespun.
Senior Superlatives
Roman Virgil, thou that singest—
Seniors of Gjreensboro Senior High
School on paying tribute of the tribute
to this great Roman poet whose . two
thousandth anniversary.
As a part of this tribute, five-min
ute -programs are presented each week
by members of the Virgil classes.
There have been four of these programs
thus far. Individuals and classes as a
whole participate in these *skits.
For this week the Latin 8 students
recite a selection from the first book of
the Aenied in the Latin poetry. Miss
Sara Lesley, teacher of Latin 7 and 8
classes will give a discussion fo a trip
about the Mediterranean touching the
spots of interest to Virgil enthusiasts.
This talk will be the culmination of a
series of sketches from the life of Vir
gil, these being given by members of
the class.
Semester 7 Latin students have not
yet begun to study Virgil and so have
not started to take part in the pro
grams.
The major part of hte respects to
this poet will be in the form of a play
April 4 and a special issue of Home-
spun edtied by the Senior Latin stu
dents. This too, will likely appear the
latter part of April.
' Editors for this publication were
elected: Elizabeth Sockwell, editor-in-
chief; Elizabeth Wills, Margaret Ker*
uodle, -Douglas Cartland, and Dorothy
Burnside. These people with Miss Sara
Lesley appointed the following stu
dents: Nellie Allred, Harriet Powers,
Leila George Cram, Elizabeth Leake,
Marjorie Boone, Irene Dorsett, Bernice
Love, Frances Kernodle, Mary Scott
Jones, Abbott Whitney, James Doubles,
Sarah B, Clegg, are assistant editors;
Carey Sloan, art editor; James Strick
land, business manager; Misses Sara
Lesley and Laura Tillett, faculty ad
visers.
Katherine Wagoner is typing editor.
A contest, to be announced next week
is open to all students of the school
and will pertain to the issue of Home-
spun published by this class.
SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE
GET-TO-GETHER, FEB. 22
The purpose Is for Members to Beco^me
Better Acquainted Before
Graduation.
Boys
Best Dressed Henry Allen
Most Popular “Red” Paris
Best-Looking Harvey Anderson
Most Dependable. .James Strickland
Most Attractive “Red” Paris
Biggest Heart-Smasher, Beanie Curtis
Most Studious .... Douglas Cartland
Best Sport, tie, Beanie Curtis and
“Red” Paris.
Best Athlete Boyd Morris
Most Original Billy Horten
Girls
Prettiest Susan Gregory
Best Dressed .... Elizabeth Sockwell
Most Popular Priscilla White
Most Dependable M. Kernodle
Most Attractive .... Harriet Powers
Biggest Flirt Louise Harrison
Most Studious .. Margaret Kernodle
Best Sport Priscilla White
Best Athlete .... Leila George Cram
Most Original .'..... Rebecca Heath
Cutest Harriet Powers
DIRECTOR STATES
CAST OF OPERETTA
Music Department With Dra
matics Department Presents
‘The Yoeman of the Guard/
SCHOOL RENTS COSTUMES
Oast for the opera, “The Yoeman of
the Guards,” which will be presented
by the music department of Greensboro
High School the first week of May, has
beeii chosen.
The cast, being single, of boys, is:
Point, John Ademy: Wilfred, G.
W. Stamper; Lieutenat, Allan Stan
ley; Leonard, John Moore, and
Fairfax, Guy H6pe. In the cast of
girls who are doubling are : Lois Lazen-
by and Annie Lairie Felder, taking the
part of Elsie; Ethel Gray Rogers and
Martha Nell Carson, Phoebe; Adelaide
Fortune and Clara Applewhite, Dame
Carruthers; and Evelyn Haddon, Kate.
Grady Miller, director of music in
Greensboro High School, said that he
thought the cast for the opera, was the
best he had ever had due to the fact
that most of "them have played in operas
before, also that each person seemed
suited to his or her part. “The choruses
of the opera are under way and are
coming along fine,” said Mr. Miller,
“and 1 am quite pleased with them.”
The acting of the parts will have to
be worked on a great deal j’et.
All costumes and sc-enery for this
opera will be rented from a great north-
earn producer, Joseph Sainton Com-
pany.
This opera, being the fourth opera
of Gilbert and Sullivan to be presented
in Greensboro by the music department
will be given the first week in May as
a finale of music week which will be
held at that time in Greensboro.
SCHOOLS OBSERVE
‘UVEATHOME’
PROGRAMS HERE
—.—
Governor O. Max Gardener
Wants Children to Realize
Need of Gardens.
AGRICULTURE JS SERIOUS
Students Ought to Know of Farm Con
ditions'in State of North
Carolina.
Through the request of Governor O.
Max Gardner and for the purposes of
(1) acquainting each child in the ele
mentary and high school with Gov
ernor Gardner’s live-at-home program,
and (2( to bring home to him the real
significance of the keeping of a family
cow, a few hens, some pigs, and main
taining a garden in their relationship
to the welfare of the family and of
home week was observed this week,
the community as a whole, live-at-
February 10-14, in every school in
North Carolina.
Gardner Requests Crops
The main purpose of the live-at-
home program is to encourage , all of
the farmers to grow for themselves and
to supply for themselves all the food
and feedstuffs and livestock products
necessary/ for family and farm con
sumption the year round. Also the
farmers should be encouraged to grow
enough surplus to supply the small
towns and the cities which are the log
ical markets; and the city folk of
this state should be eucouraged to
give a preference to the North Caro
lina farmer in their purchase of the
supplies which he grows. •
LEADERS OF G. H. S.
ORGANIZATIONS
Torchlight Society — Elizabeth
Wills.
Girls’ Monogram Club—Margaret
Bowles.
French Club—Grace Curtis.
Dramatics Club—Kate Wilkins.
Boys’ Hi-Y, senior, junior, G. W.
Stamper, Mack Heath.
Girls’ Reserve—Susan Gregory.
President of Girls’ Council—Pris-
filla White.
Debating Club—Charles Hagan.
Student Council—Harvey Ander-
CHARLES T.HAaN
ELECTED PRESIDENT
BY POPULAR VOTE
High School Debaters Elect J.
Barnes to Position of
Vice-President.
J. A. FARTHING IS COACH
Dorothy Burnside Becomes Treasurer;
Mack Heath Succeeds As Ser-
geant-at-Arms.
Semester eight is planning a party for
Saturday night, February 22. This get-
together,' which will be held in the high
school cafeteria, is for the purpose of
members of the senior class becoming
better acquainted before graduation.
Miss lone Grogan is assisting the en
tertainment committee in planning the
party.
“Red” Paris, president of the semester,
says, “If the hundred and thirty-three
members of the class are present at the
party, it should be beneficial as well as
enjoyable to the entire group.”
Other socials are being planned for
the remainder, of the semester, includ
ing weiner roasts, picnics, swimming
parties, and many senior entertain
ments.
H. MITCHELL GOES
TO NEW JERSEY FEB. 27
J. Harris Mitchell, a senior at Greens
boro high school, has been selected as
a representative tot play the French
horn for the national high school orches
tra, composed of 200 high school stu
dents from all sections of the U. S. A.,
to play in the annual convention of the
department of superintendents in At
lantic City, N. J., Thursday, February
27. The concert will be directed by
Joseph E. Moody, director of the school
of music of University of Michigan, with
Walter Damrosch, of New York Sym
phony orchestra, as guest conductor. The
concert will, be presented before ten
thousand school representatives.
Farmers Need Less Tobacco
Every fanner throughout the state
has been urged to plant no more cototn
and tobacco in 1930 than he grew in
1929, and that he supplement his cash
crops with enough food and feed crops
for home and farm use next summer
and winter.
It is important that school children
become .acquainted with the agricul
tural conditions and needs of the state
and that they understand the live-at-
home movement so they may help se
cure the good will of their parents and
neighbors.
On Tuesday of this week a program
on “live-at-home” was conducted in
each session room in Greensboro High
School, ^here and when each pupil was
told about the movement. The best
program given that afternoon for the
benefit of entire student body. Later
a letter from high school will -be sent
Governor Gar-dner telling him briefly
of the live-at-home activities in Avhich
the school participated during the
week.
State Sponsors Contest
The state is sponsoring an essay con
test for all the high schools in North
Carolina. A prize will be presented
to the pupil who writes the best es
say, which must be on some phase of
the live-at-home program, and to con
tain not less than 800 w'ords nor more
than 1,500 words. The district judging
committees will file report of decisions
on or before April 15, 1930, and not
later than May 15. 1930, the Iwst essay
will be forwarded to Raleigh to the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion. There final decisions for the
best essay will be made and it will be
found in a volume called, “The N. C.
Youth’s Declaration of Independence,”
to be filed in the Governor’s office in
the Capitol. .
J.H. JOHNSON PLANS
ELECTIVE COURSE
Work of Class Consists in
Studying and Directing
Plays During Semester.
FEW PUPILS ARE ELIGIBLE
At the recent meeting of the Dramatic
Club J. H. Johnson announced his in
tention of organizing a Dramatics II
class.
The work of the class is the direction
and study of plays. Each member is re
quired to direct at least one play, and
the best of these will .be given in
chapel.
No oYie is allowed to take this course
except students who have taken Dra
matics I and have acquired some knowl
edge of the stage. The class will meet
at seventh period every other Thursday.
The course is a new one and as yet no
decision has been reached as to the
credit that will be given. At the end of
the semester Mr. Johnson will recom
mend certain students, who have done
creditable work, to Mr. Phillips and he
will give them the amount of credit that
they deserve. All students will, of
course, receive the same amount of
credit.
Mr. Johnson said: “It is hoped that
this plan will be enthusiastically sup
ported and if so- a Dramatics II class
will . be permanently established in
school.
WAKEFoSfpROFESSOR
SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
Leila George Cram Is Toastmistress for
Scholarship Banquet in Honor
of Star Pupils.
ART DEPARTMENT MAKES FAVORS
Since Thursday afternoon, Pebrual’y
6, when the debating club met to elect
new officers Charles Hagan has been
performing the duties of president. Dor
othy Burnside and J. Barnes were put
up with him for the much-coveted office;
however, Charles came through with
the ruling majority. Charles has been
a prominent member of the club for
the last two years, being chairman of
the program committee last semester.
He has taken part in many debates
and in none has he lost. Last year he
was in the dual debate with High Point
and won. This year he helped win the
debate with Salisbury. He is at pres
ent trying out for the triangular de
bate to be held in the spring.
The other officers elected were J.
Barnes, vice-president; Dorothy Burn
side, secretary; and Ma'ck Heath, ser
geant-at-arms. J. Barnes was vice-pres
ident of the club last semester and he
has worked a great deal in the club.
He performed the complete duties of
the president, since Harry Buice, presi
dent, left for college.
Although Dorothy Burnside was just
taken into the club as a member this*
year, she has done excellent work and
shown great interest from the first.
She took part in the dual debate with
High Point and won.
Sergeant-at-Arms, Mack Heath, has
also been an outstanding member in
the club, particularly this year when
he helped win the dual debate with
High Point.
After the elections, the new presi
dent, Charles Hagan, expressed his ap
preciation of the honor that the club
had bestowed upon him.
This executive staff of the club with
the assistance of faculty advisers are
making plans for next semester.
James A. Farthing, coach, gave a
brief talk, • at the meeting, about the
coming triangular debating, urging
members to try out, for which the pre
liminaries will be held Monday evening
in the high school auditorium at 7:00'
o’clock.
Wisdom means fun
As well as work,
When work is done
Our duty we- shirk.
These are the plans
For Friday night;
When we’ll lick the pans
By the banquet lights.
Wearers of gold and silver stars and
all seniors who were on the honor
roll for last month will be entertained
at a banquet Friday night,' February
21, at 6:30 o’clock.
The committee for the occasion con
sists of Misses lone Grogan, Rena Cole,
Lena Bullard, Gertrude Farlow, and
Dorothy McNairy. Other faculty mem
bers will assist the committee. Miss
Laura Tillett, adviser for Torchlight
Society, w'ill attend the feast.
Leila 'George Cram is toastmistress
for the evening. During the banquet
Dr. Hubert Poteat, of Wake Forest,
^fill speak to the honor students.
The art department plans all decora
tions and favors for the event, in which
Miss Henri Etta Lee, head of the de-
partmenti will be in charge.
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
TAKE CAROLINA EXAMS
Papers Will Be Sent to Students’ Col
leges After They Are Graded
in Raleigh.
State examinations for high school
seniors were given Thursday, February.
13, when eveiy senior in North Caro
lina took the same test, at the same
time, and under the same conditions.
It is an annual custom for these
state examinations to be given to the
seniors and last year the seniors of
Greensboro High School were well
above the median in practically every
subject.
After the tests were finished Thurs
day, they were sent directly to Ra
leigh, where they will be graded. Tbe
seniors failing or passing on these tests
will have nothing to do with holding
a student back from college or helping
him there, however, the'test paper will
be sent to the college the student en
ters and will be used for reference.