There's Music In
All Things
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Music—A Thing
of the Soul
VOLUME IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, MARCH 21, 1930
NUMBER 21
G.H.S.DEBATORS
SPONSOR BANQUET
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Clary Holt, Toastmaster for the
Evening, to Have Charge
of Program.
SPEECHES ARE PLANNED
Sophomore Students of Greensboro
Senior High School Plan Debate
With Salisbury Pupils.
A banquet in honor of the triangular
debaters and the alumni -will be given
by the Greensboro High School debat
ing club this evening in the high school
cafeteria, where mor^ than seventy-five
are expected to be present. Clary Holt
has charge of the program and is
toastmaster for the evening. J. Barnes
is chairman of the social committee.
The program which has been planned
for the banquet is:
Welcome—Clary Holt.
Toast to Alumni—Edwin Holt.
“Bravest” to respond.
Toast to the Triangular Debaters—
Elizabeth Sockwell.
Response—Douglas Cartland.
Toast to Guests—Edward Cone.
Response—Margaret Andrews, of High
Point.
Toast to New Members—Mary Mitch
ell.
Response—William Braswell.
Accomplishments of the club will be
given by James A, Farthing, debating
coach.
Our Hopes for the Future—Charles
Hagan.
Triangular Debaters at Work
The Greensboro High School triangu
lar debaters, Charles Hagan and Doro
thy Burnside, composing the affirma
tive team, and J. Barnes and Douglas
Cartland, negative, have written their
first speeches for the debate and they
are readySto be turned over to the de
bating coaches for correction. James
A. Fartring has been coaching them
faithfully for quite a while. The de
baters have been working day and
night on the debate with the determi
nation of winning for their school.
They met with Mr. Keister, who is an
authority on the taxation question, to
discuss the triangular query with him—
Resolved, That North Carolina sliould
adopt the proposed amendment provid
ing for the classification of property
—and they were much encouraged after
the conference with him.
Plan Sophomore Debate
A sophomore debate with Salisbury
on the query. Resolved, That the United
States should grant the Philippine
Islands their immediate independence,
has been planned, and the Greensboro
debating club is expecting to hear from
Salisbury soon.
CAST OF OPERA
PUBLICATION WINS
SECOND AWARD
IN PRESS CONTEST
Classification of Papers De
pends,on Number of Stu
dents in School.
MAGAZINE IS HONORED
Readius from left to right: front row, Lawrence Rnssell, John Atleiny, Frank Tye, L. 11. Dunivant, Gny Hope,
Billy Horton. Second row, “Red” Paris, Ed Landreth, Arnold IlensliaW, G. W. Stamper, John Moore, "Beanie” Curtis.
Back row> Lois Lazenby, Annie .(amrie Felder, Evelj-n Iladdon, Ethel Grey Rogers, Clara Applewhite, and Adelaide
I^prtune. ,
ORCHESTRA CONTEST
AROUSES INTEREST
G. H. S. Band Will Receive Cup
If It Wins in State
Convention.
G.H.S. STUDENTS ENTER
SCHOLASTIC CONTEST
SOPH PUBLICATION
TO APPEAR MARCH 28
Miss Cathleen Pike Adviser; All the
World’s a Stage, Theme of
Coming Issue.
Already the Senior and Junior issues
of High Life have been published. Teh
Sophomore issue will appear March 28.
Miss Cathleen Pike, adviser for the
Sophomores, has had several meetings
with the staff. Members of the staff are
as follows: Martha Shuford, managing
editor; Nancy Hudson, assistant man
aging editor; Winifred Penn, editor;
Elmer Wrenn and Josephine Lucas,
sport editors; and David Finch, art
editor. Faculty advisers include Miss
Mary Harrell, Mr. Byron Haworth, and
Margaret Rue, in Mrs. Coltrane’s ab
sence. The theme to be carried out in
the issue is, “All the World’s a 'Stage.”
WINSTON HOLDS ONE CUP
The band and orchestra contest in
cludes, this spririg, every phase of in
strumental and vocal combinations. So
los and quartettes of all types, as well
as the bands and the orchestras, will
be us^d at this annual occasion.
As long as the band has existed, it
has been contested more than any other
musical gathering. Winston-Salem was
victorious the first year, and Greensboro
won second place. For three continuous
years the same places were made by
the respective contestants, thus the cup
was awarded Winston for permanent
possession. Since that time, however,
G. H. S. h^s been the victor, and has
held that place for two consecutive
years. Greensboro, if successful this
year, will receive the award of a cup.
During the last few years the orches
tra has stood out in, this contest, and
Greensboro took first plabe last year
under the supervision of Earl Slocum.
The first state music contest was held
in Greensboro in 1920. At that time
fourteen students met to contest in
piano solos. Five years later the bajjd
and orchestra contests were begun, and
today there are 46 different divisions in
this state contest in contrast to one ten
years ago.
DATIN' DEPARTMENT
PRESENTS STYLE SHOW
G. II. S. Latin department is pre-
sentins si style, show in Raleigh today.
The students taking part in the style
show left here at 7 o’clock this morn
ing to motor to the N. C. E. A. in Ra
leigh. They were acf’ompanied by
Latin teachers who are attending the
convention.
'At the end of the morning sessions,
when the Roman style show will have
been presented, those participating in
it will be feted with a banquet.
Greensboro High is well repre
sented this year iii the Scholastic
Contest which is being held at
Pittsburgh, Pa. The contest was
closed March 15 and the prize-win
ning compositioris are to be pub
lished April 25 in an annual.maga
zine which is edited by this asso
ciation. Miss Tijlett entered poems
of Grace Hobbs, Susanne Ketehum,
Nancy Hudson, Billy Hobgood, and
Mary Lewis Rucker. “That Laugh,”
a short story by Billy Hobgood,
was also entered. The schools all
over the United States are compet
ing. Many well known writers are
the judges. The prizes that are of
fered are exceedingly worth while.
STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE
MATERIAL ON “TRAILS”
Last Regular Edition of “Homespun”
Appears at G. H. S. for Fourth
Time During Year.
“Sunset Trails” will be the theme of
the fourth issue of Homespun, which
has already gnoe to press and will be
out in a few Aveeks. Miss Tillett, in an
interview, stated that very good ma
terial had been submitted. In this is
sue are several excellent contributions,
both stories and poems, by a new writer
in hgih school, Billye Hobgood. There
is also a very good poem by Mary
Rucker. W. B. Davis has changed
from poetry to prose contributions, and
has written an amusing story, “Freckle-
bones,” in negro dialect. Edith Lathem,
Martha Shuford, Susanne Ketehum
and others have contributed very good
work.
Two books are reviewed in the
coming issue: Hans Frost, by Ilugh
Walpole, and The Great Horn Spoon, by
Eugene Wright.
This will be the last regular issue of
Homespun for the spi’ing. The Virgil
Latin class will have charge of the
fifth one, which will commemorate the
two-thousandth anniversary of the
great Roman poet.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
AT WORK ON OPERA
‘Yoemen oif the Guard” to be
Presented on Friday,
May 9.
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
■The date fior the p^resentation of
“Yeomen of the Guard” has been set for
May 9. The Glee Club is practicing dur
ing all of their spare time so that they
will be able to give their very best.
Practice is held every afternoon for the
chorus as well as for the principals.
Everyone is showing interest in this
routine work. Mr. Grady Miller and
Mr. Joe Johnson are directing these
practices, and are helping the students
with their singing and acting.
A double cast has been chosen so that
a? many students as possible can re
ceive training. The east at present is:
“Red” Paris and Guy Hope as Fairfax;
Shelby Fitzgerald as Sergeant Merill
(Sergeant of the Yeomen of the Guard) ;
John Ademy and Lawrence Russell as
Jack Point (a strolling jester); Frank
Tye and John Moore as Leonard
(Merill’s son); G. W. Stamper and L. H.
Dunivant as Wilford (head jailers and
assistant tormenters); Lois Lazenby
and Annie Laurie Felder as Elsie (a
strolling singer); Ethel Gray Rogers
and Martha Nell Carson as Proebe
(Merill’s daughter); Adelaide Fortune
an?l Clara Applewhite as Dame Car-
ruthers (housekeeper at the tavern);
and Evelyn Haddon as Gate (Dame Car-
ruther’s niece).
“The Yoemen of the Guard” is the
fourth Gilbert and Sullivan opera that
the high school has given. The others
that have been presented are: “The
Pirates of Penzance,” “The Mikado,”
and “Pinafore.”
Pupils of G. H. S. Attending Columbia
Scholastic Press A^ociation,
Visit New York.
\
(New York—Special to High Life)
With two more honors for Greens
boro Senior High School, delegates
from the Columbia Scholastic Press As
sociation have returned to school after
a week in New York City.
Homespun, magazine of this school,-
was again placed in first group of class
B. High Life was in second group of
class B. Publications were classified
according to type of paper or magazine
and according to the number of pupils
enrolled in the respective high schools.
Susan Gregory, editor-in-chief of
Homespun, and Grace Curtis, associate
editor of Homespun, represented l;he
magazine staff at the national conven
tion. Margaret Kernodle, managing
editor of High Life, and Leila George
Cram, assistant managing editor, were
representatives of High Life.
Misses Laura Tillet, Lily Walker,
Kathleen Pike, and Marjorie Craig, and
Miss Henri Etta Lee advised the Home-
spun staff this year, Mrs. Alma G.
Coltrane, Miss Nell Chilton, and Byron-
HaAvorth assist pupils publishing High
Life. '
“The capitol by moonlight” was the
most pictui’esque scene of the train
journey north, according to the dele
gates. “The first thing that we thought
AA'^hen AA’e got to New York, well it was:
‘Is This New York?’—Then—but the
buildings aren’t as high as I expected.”
Thus the representatives reply to ques
tions.
Sight seeing comprised the first half
of the first day, then the convention
in the afternoon, then shows^—then let
ter writing, and cards, and to bed.
“On Friday convention—and Thurs
day—we almost forget that. Margaret
had her picture taken exactly three
times—and Leila George once-—these
pictures being taken for New York pa
pers. Friday at 11:30 the big group
picture AA-as taken, and then a special
Greensboro group picture for North
Carolina papers. Then came more
shoAvs after the convention.”
“Saturday was the gala day of the
meetnig,” say the delegates.
Special meetings of voting delegates,
the convention luncheon, “Heighho
Pharoah,” the varfeity shOAA% and the
convention Avas over.
Phillips Speaks in Winston
On Friday morning, March 28, C. W.
Phillips plans to go to Winston-Salem
tot address the high school student
body. Mr. Phillips AAill speak on the
topic, “If I Were in High School
Again.”
G. H. S. GIRL SCOUTS
TO PRESENT PAGEANT
A flag pageant will be presented at
the Senior High School auditorium
March 21 at 8 o’clock by the Girl Scouts
of Greensboro.
There will be* 300 girls taking part,
from all the troops in Greensboro.
Various lands will be represented in
costume >by folk dancing and singing.
Lands which Avill be represented are
Canada, Argentine, Austria, Egypt, Bel
gium, China, Denmark, France, Czecho
slovakia, Great Britain, Germany, Lat
via, Hungary, SAvitzerland, Luxemburg,
Netherlands, Palestine, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Fin
land, Uruguay, and the United States.
The pageant is free to the public and
seeks to show people Avhat the Girl
Scouts are doing.