“Fortune, Fame, Power
Life, Have Named
Themselves a Star”
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
A World Struggle—the
Struggle for Peace
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, FEBRUARY 21, 1930
NUMBER 17
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
CONTINUES WORK
ON SPRING OPERA
Boys Try Out Second Time for
Parts in “Yoemcn of
the Guards.”
GIRLS CAST STAYS SAME
American Federation Music Club Meets
in Greensboro on Date of Stu
dents’ Exhibition.
A second try-out for. the boys in t)ie
opera, “The Xoeuien of the Guards,”
which will be given by the Greensboro
high school music depiirtment, F’riday
afternoon and evening, May 0, have
been held and the results stand as fol
lows: “lied” Paris and Guy Hope will
sing the leading tenor role “Fairfax,”
Lawrence llussel and .John Adeniy were
chosen for the part of Point; Frank
Tye and John iloore ivere selected to
sing the part of Jjeonard and L. II.
Dunivant Is understudy to i. 'NV
Stamper for the part of Wilfred. Also
G. W. is understudying the part of
Meryl. The role of the first yoeman
will be sung by Steve Douglas and the
second yoeman, Billy Horton.
The cast of* girls is the same as had
been selected before: Lois Jjazenby and
Annie Laurie Felder, singing the part
of Elsie; Ethel Grey /Roger and
Martha Nell Carson, Phoebe; Adelaide
Fortune and Clara Applewhite, Dame
Carruthers; Evelyn Haddon, Kate.
The American Federation of Music
clubs will meet in Greensboro on the
same day that the high school opera
is presented. This was a request of
the clubs, so that the members, num
bering 200 and 300, may hear the opera.
Through these people, the opera will be
talked of throughout the state.
SENIOR LATIN STUDENTS
PLAN HOMESPUN ISSUE
Virgil Class Urges Pupils to Submit Ma
terial for Edition of School
Magazine.
MEMBERS OFFER TWO AWARDS
For the first time in the history of
Greensboro high sehool, the senior latin
classes are issuing a number of Home-
spun. The theme of the issue will be
“Virgil’s Life and Works.”
In order to arouse interest in the
issue throughout the school, a Virgil,
contest will start today. Poems, stories,
art work and anything else pertaining
to the life and works of “Roman Virgil”
may be entered in the contest.
Two prizes will be awarded: one, for
the best story, essay, or poem; the other,
for the best art contribution.
The rules of the contest are:
1. The material must be in to Eng
lish tehchers by Friday, March 7; they,
in turn, must turn these into the senior
supply shop not later than 4 o’clock of
the same day.
2. Anyone may enter, except Virgil
students.
3. The contribution should b^ typed
if possible, if not it should be written
in ink on one side of the paper only.
Miss Leslie says: “I hope every Latin
student will take part in this contest,
for I feel that it will be very worth
while.
Judges for the contest are Elizabeth
Sockwell, editor-in-chief of the Virgil
issue of Homespun; Miss Sara Lesley,
head of the Latin department; and Miss
Laura Tillett, head of the English de
partment.
Pictures read: C'eiiter. Elizabeth Sockwell; lieginniug above eeiiter picture and reading to the left are. Isaac
Gregpry. Leila George Cram. Elizabetli Ayei's, Douglas (.’artiaiid. Marg.aret Kermidle, and U'reva Williams. Because
these students, with longest homtr roll records, embody the characteristics surrounding the star, they are among honor
students who are being feted at the banquet tonight.
Scholarship Committee Gives
Banquet for Star Students
“When times are hard and money spent,
An education is quite excellent.?’
Thus feel the b:j'onze star, the silver
star, and the gold star students who
attend the Scholarship Banquet at six-
thirty tonight in the High School cafe
teria.
This banquet is in honor of the
seventy-five outstanding honor roll stu
dents of Greensboro High School. These
students are:
Elizabeth Sockwell, who has had her
star every month since she has been in
high school; Leila George Cram, who
has had her star every month except
two; Margaret Keruodle, who has beeg
on the honor roll since she entered high
school except for three months.
Others with records of many months
and who are feted tonight follow:
Douglas Cartland, Treva Williams,
Isaac Gregory, Kate Wilkins, Annie Lau
rie Felder, Elsie Miller, Bernice Love,
Clary Holt, W. B. Mayes, Grace Curtis,
Columbia Gaither, Billy Edgerton, Fran
ces Grantham, Angela Patterson, Mamie
Leake Parsons, Wyatt McNairy, Chris
tine Shepherd, Mary Scott Jones, Fran-,
ces Jones, Frances Kernodle, Joe
Knight, John Knight, Marjorie Boone,
Elizabeth Beuhmann, Janie Cashadon,
Eloise Jones, Wallace Siler, Aljna Tay
lor, John King, Anna Atkinson, Wini
fred Penn, Edgar Meibohm, Eloise Tay
lor, Leah Baach, Elizabeth Whaley, Mar
tha Burnside, Edward Cone, Elizabeth
Yates, Ruth Hill, James Hodgin, Charles
Sharpe, Nancy Lou Craven, Rebecca
Jeffries, Margaret Knight, Juanita Pick
ard, Helen Short, Robert Herring, Mar
tha Sliufoi'd, Tom Warren, and Eliza
beth Wills.
The program foi- tonight, of which
Leila George Cram is toastmistress, is as
follows:
Welcome: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star”—Leila George Cram.
Song: “The . Star”—Annie Laurie
Felder.
To the Wearers of Silver Stars: “The
Milky Way”—Douglas Cartland.
I'd the Wearers of the Gold Stars:
“The Big Dipper”—Kate Wilkins,
y Response to “The Big Dipper”—Eliz
abeth Sockwell.
To the Civitans: “Spiral Nebulae”—
Treva Williams.
To Dr. Poteat: “Sirius”—C. W. Phil
lips.
Response to “Sirius”—Dr. Hubert Po-
teeat.
Farewell: “Ye Stars That Are the
Poetry of Heaven”—Leila George Cram.
Dr. Hubert Poteat, speaker for the oc
casion, is dean of Latin at Wake Forest
College.
This banquet is under the direction of
the Scholarship Committee, the chair
man of which is Miss lone Grogan, head
of the Math department. Misses Ger
trude Farlow, Dorothy McNairy, Rena
Cole, and Lena Bullard are other mem
bers of the committee.
FANNIE STARR MITCHELL
ATTENDS ASSOCIATION
Lillian Killingsworth, Former Dean of
Greensboro High School, Leaves'
for National Meeting.
PRINCIPALS GO TO CONFERENCE
Miss Fannie' Starr Mitchell, Greens
boro high school dean of girls, leaves
Tuesday, February 18, for Atlantic City
where she will attend a national meet
ing of deans. This conference is affil
iated with the National Education As
sociation and is a part of this organi
zation. Miss Mitchell went last year
to Cleveland, Ohio, in company with
Miss Lillian Killingsworth, a former
G. H. S. dean, who is now at the North
Carolina College for Women.
Miss Mitchell and Miss Killingsworth
leave Tuesday night and will remain
until the end of the week; the confer
ence of deans meets prior to that of
the regular N. E. A. Association, which
begins next week.
Miss Florence Pannill will also go to
this meeting. Miss Pannill is the city
superintendent of the primary grades.
Mr. Guy Phillips, Greensboro etiy
school superintendent; Mr. Charles
Phillips, senior high sehool principal;
Mr. MeSwain, the principal of Central
junior high school, and two other
Greensboro school principals will at
tend the conference next week.
Mrs. E. H. Strickland head of the
German department, will - go to the
State German meet in Raleigh March
22. Here she will,speak on “Problems
in Teaching German.”
TEACHERS GIVE
NEW OBJECTIVES
FOR CITY SCHOOLS
Committees From Each School
Select Objectives From
All Submitted.,
HAWORTH IS CHAIRMAN
Teachers Vote on Report Given to Com
mittee of Twelve—Pur
pose Explained.
A report of the objectives of the
teachers of Greensboro public schools
has recently been presented to the en
tire faculty group for their adoption.
Each teacher in the sehool system wrote
his own objectives for his class and
then the committees from each sehool
combined them. Later they were passed
on to the committee of twelve teachers,
Mr. Haworth, chairman, and two others
from the high school, three from junior
high, three from grammar school, and
three from the primary grades, who
had been chosen for the purpose.
The objectives as they stand, ready
for adaption, if they are pleasing to
the entire faculty group are:
I. The Profession
A. Personal:
(1) I'd keep ourselves pliysically fit.
(2) To keep pace with growing edu
cation.
(3) To inculcates into our lives de
sirable traits of craracter.
(4) To cultivate a-.pleasing person
ality and a cheerful disposi
tion.
(5) To have regard for personal ap
pearance.
(6) To maintain a sincere and
natural mien.
B. Administrative:
(1) To lend ,co-operation in every
enterprise undertaken by the
administrative department of
the Greensboro schools.
(2) To be ever ready to encourage,
- uphold, or assist fellow-teach
ers and aj,! agencies of the
■ school, as the situation may
dictate.
II. The Child.
A. Citizenship:
To so direct the child, by en
couraging those habits, atti
tudes and skills that tend to
mental, moral and spiritual
growth, that he may meet ade
quately the responsibilities of
citizenship both now and in
‘later life. , .
B. ’Subject Matter:
To endeavor to have the child
measure up to the standard!
requirements of his grade, but
to so provide for individual
difference-that no child may
feel himself a failure.
C. Self Expresion:
To give the child abundant op
portunity for self expression
through creative vi'ork.
III. The Community.
A. To adjust ourselves to the environ-
men of the community in which we
are placed, and to become a vital
part of the social, civic, and religi
ous life.
B. To create a feeling of confidence
and good-will on the part of the
general public toward the existing
system of education.
C. To create a spirit of cooperation
between each - sehool and its pa
trons.
Phillips Heads High School Principals
C. W. Phillips, principal of Senior
high school, was elected president of
AAl High Sehool Principals’ Associa
tion at the convention held in Wilming
ton February 14 and 15 .