Music Fills
the Air!
HIGH LIFE
C ontest—Opera
Everywhere
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
TOLUMS IX
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, APRIL 25, 1930
NUMBER 24
TRIANGLEDEBATERS
LOSE IN CONTEST
FORAYCOCKCUP
Sophomore Debate With Salis
bury Held This Afternoon;
Affirmative Debates Here.
CLUBS PLAN BANQUET
Annual Banquet at Which Winston,
Greensboro and High Point Debating
Clubs Attend, Is Discussed.
Resolved, that the Philippines should
be granted their immediate indepen
dence, is the query for the sophomore
dual debate with Salisbury, being held
this afternoon. Greensboro’s affirma
tive team, composed of Henry Nau,
Alma Taylor, and Palmer Holt, are de
bating at chapel period, and Edgar
Meibohm, Hilliard Clein, and Dick
Cann, the negative team, are debating
at Salisbury.
These six debaters, under the personal
supervision of Miss Nora Chaffin, one
of the debating coaches, have done a
great deal of practicing on their
This debate closes the debating pro
gram with other schools for this year,
making a total of ten debates.
Out of the ten, in which 28 debaters
of Greensboro participated, only two
were lost. This is the record of the
debating club, with James A. Farthing,
Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon, and Miss
Nora Chaffin, acting as coaches.
Debaters Go to Chapel Hill
In the state-wide triangular debate
both teams, negative, composed of
Douglas Cartland and J. Barnes, and,
affirmative, Charles Hagan and Dorothy
Burnside, won over Winston-Salem and
High Point. Therefore they went to
Chapfel Hill to compete for the Aycoek
Memorial cup. The debaters left
Thursday morning, according to Miss
Chaffin and Mr. Farthing. Although
they lost in the contest, they stayed un
til Friday afternoon and heard the
finals that morning.
Plan Tri-City Banquet
A letter has been received by the
Greensboro debating club from Win
ston-Salem discussing the plans for the
tri-city banquet, which will be held
some time before school closes. An an
nual custom for Greensboro, Winston-
Salem and High Point debating clubs to
have a banquet was started last year,
when it was held in Greensboro.
MR. ROUTH APPOINTED
HEAD OF BUDGET GROUP
Students Purchasing Tickets to Receire
Publications and Be Admitted
to All Events.
A committee composed of Mr. Routh,
as chairman, with the following assist
ants: Mrs. Alma G. Ctoltraue, Miss Ca
mille Brinkley, William Blair, J.
Barnes, Aliee Grubbs, Claire Apple-
white, Charles Shaffer, Evelyn Stedman,
and lamest White, is making plans tor
forming an activities budget. In this
budget all baseball, basketball, tennis,
hockey, and football games, the opera,
all plays. High Life, and
are included.
Out of 1,350 students, there must be
at least 1,000 students heartily inter
ested, co-operating, and participating
in this plan to make it a possibility,
and finally a success. The committee
is making every effort possible to make
the price of the tickets low enough lor
all the students to be able to purchase
one.
Once the tickets are purchased, the
student will have the privilege of the
publications, the opera, all athletic per
formances and all dramatic productions.
Exam Schedules
Senior exams: May 22, 23, 26.
Regular exams: May 27, 28, 29.
Make-up exams and special exams:
May 30.
MUSIC CONTEST
HELD APRIL 24-25
Contestants Meet At N. C. Col
lege Under Direction of
Dr. Wade Brown.
G. H. S. PRESENTS OPERA
Reports from the district music con
tests, Saturday 12, shows that 103
schools took part in the events, a
larger number than last year, accord
ing to Dr. Wade R. Brown, director
of the state high school music contest
that is being held at North Carolina
College yesterday and today.
Last year Greensboro won in Class
A, which is open to all schools with
an enrollment of more than 500. Lenoir
won in Class B, which is open to
schools with an enfollment between
200 and oOO, and Bragtown in Class
C, which is open to schools smaller
than 200.
This year Mr. Miller is quite pleased
with the work of the Glee clubs and
mixed chorus and he thinks they have
an excellent chance to keep the cups
won last year.
Besides the chorus numbers, there
will be solos and quartettes by stu
dents of the music department. Also
the band and orchestra will enter to-
■gether with the instrumental solos.
The G'reensboro Music Department is
also^ at this time w'orking on “The
Yoemau of the Guard,” the Gilbert-Sul-
livan opera to be presented May 9 at
senior high auditorium.
“This is well under way,” says Mr.
Miller, “and we hope to make it the
best ever given by our school.”
GIRLS’COUNCIL PRESENTS
PROGRAW^T CHAPEL
Phi Beta Kappa Society Sends Speaker
to Senior School
April 3.
LATIN CLASS GIVES VIRGIL PLAY
The’last chapel program for the cur
rent school year will probably be May
20 or earlier.
Monday, April 28, the girls meet in
chapel to participate in a program spon
sored by the Girls’ Council. At this
time the girls' code recently composed,
will be completed before votes are
taken on its acceptance.
The national Phi Betta Kappa so
ciety will bring a speaker here Wednes
day, April 3 for celebration of the
two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil’s
birth.
“The Yeoman of the Guards,” Gilbert
and Sullivan opera, which G. II. S.
music and dramatics departments pre
sent May 9, will be the program on
that date. The State Music Federa
tion will meet in Greensboro, May 9.
Out-of-town junior guests will have
complimentary tickets for the opera.
Mrs. J. Norman Wills is general chair
man of this convention.
The celebration of Virgil’s birth will
culminate in a play presented by Latin
7 and 8 students. May 2 or 16.
The senior farewell program is sched
uled for a date about May 15.
Other programs will be announced
later. The definite date for the inaugu
ration of student officials for ’30-’31 has
not been set.
SPRING GRADUATES
PLAN EXERCISES
AWARDS OFFERED
Several Programs Offered by
Semester Eight—Diplomas
Awarded May 29.
DR. B. R. LACY IS SPEAKER
Noted North Carolinian Speaks at Pre
sentation of Diplo
mas.
As the 135 seniors near graduation,
preparation for that event is being
-made. Class day plans, the farewell
program, the final night, receive the at
tention of the semester Vni^ students
as do the term papers, short stories,
one-act plays, and other details.
Dr. Ben R. Lacy, president of the
Union Theological Seminary at Rich
mond, Virginia, speaks to the students
at 8:15 o’clock, Thursday evening,
May 29.
Dr. Lacy, son of the late Ben R.
Lacy, treasurer of North Carolina col
lege, was born at Raleigh, N. C., and
was educated in Raleigh and at David
son College where he won a scholar
ship to Oxford. After taking a course
in theology, he went to Jackson County,
N. C., as a home missionary.
When a High Life reporter inter
viewed several Greensboro friends of
Dr. I^cy, there was a general exclama
tion of “his great popularity in the
World War as army chaplain.”
After the war he was at Central
Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he
remained until his election to the posi
tion he now holds.
On the evening that Dr. Lacy talks
there will be the presentation of the
diplomas and _ special awards. These
are the special awards: a set of O.
Henry’s works for the best short story
written by a member of the class, a
Civitan cup for a citizenship essay, the
Morehead cup for the history essay, the
P. T. A. cup for the best all-’round stu
dent, and the debating cup.
The regular class day program is to
be at 5:30 Wednesday afternoon, May
28. A definite plan for this has not
been decided upon.
■ The farewell program at the chapel
period will probably be May 14 or 16.
Social .functions are also beginning
for the class.
During the class day program, May 28,
the seniors will hand down their colors
to the in-coming freshmen, thereby re
newing an old G. PI. S. custom.
‘High Life” Enters
Hume Cup Contest
Publications of the Greensboro
Senior High School enter the seventh
annual state contest sponsored by
the University Extension Division of
the University of North Carolina
this spring.
The Thomas Hume Cup, which
High Life has won for the three
years that it has been presented is
the award for excellency in the high
school journalism contest for news
paper contest. The Durham .“Hi
Rocket” won first place in 1925.
“Homespun” has won the contest for
1926, 1927, and 1928. Magazines re
ceive a trophy cup, presented by the
University of North Carolina. All
the copies of publications in this con
test must be submitted.
G.H.S. CONDUCTS
SUMMER SCHOOL
Begins June 9th and Lasts
^ Through July 24th This
Season.
McSWAIN IS IN CHARGE
For the fifth time, the annual sum
mer school for and at G. H. S. will con
vene June 9 and end July 24, 1930. The
session will last forty days, six days a
week.
There were 128 students at the 1929
summer schobl which was in charge of
Mr. E. T. McSwain, principal of Central
Junior High.
Summer school at the senior high
school this year is open to both senior
and junior high school pupils. This
school, primarily for make-up work, was
for the first time last year open to stu
dents desiring to take new sbujects.
C. W. Phillips, principal of G. H. S.,
is in charge of the summer school for
enrollment. The teacher or superin
tendent after he leaves has not been
announcd.
Faculty for the summer study is a
portion of the present faculty. • There
will be from eight to ten teachers un
less a sufficiently large number of stu
dents requires more.
A subject is taught if as few as two
pupils desire to take that course be
cause the school is essentially a coach
ing school.
Records show summer schools since
1925, but there were such schools here
before that date.
GREENSBORO HIGH
PUPILS SELECT
SCHOOLCANDIDATES
student Body Holds Real Elec
tion of School Officers
May First.
NOMINEES ARE SELECTED
For President of Student Body, Charles
Hagan, Rigdon Dees, Charles Shaffer
Are Up for the Office.
Press*"Association Convenes
At Lee School of Journalism
So
“Carry me hapJc to ole Viryinia”
The fifth annual convention of the
Sonthern Interscholastie I’ress Associa
tion will convene May- 9 and 10 at
Washington and Lee University. Under
the auspices of the Lee School of Jour
nalism, assisted, by Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalistic fraternity and
Pi Delta Epsilon, national honor jour
nalistic fraternity, the two-day discus
sion of school publications will be con
ducted.
G. H. S. enters publications in the
contest and will send representatives
from both Homespun and High Life to
the convention which will be in the na
ture of round table discussions, and
special features culminating in a ban
quet Saturday evening, May 10. Profes
sor William L. Mapel, director of S. I.
P. A. says the banquet details will
remain secret until a later date.
Delegates will publish a full-sized
newspaper as a convention project, the
paper appearing at the banquet and the
the Banquet News.
The new fully-equipped printing lab
oratory of the Lee School of Journalism,
valued at more than'$15,000, will be
opened to representatives. This lab
oratory prints a four-page paper twice
each week.
Twelve states will have delegates at
the S. I. P. A. May 9 and 10. Delegates
will number several hundred.
When student editors, advisers, and
journalism teachers meet at Washing
ton and Lee, twelve loving cups will be
awarded as prizes for the best publica
tion in the south to be submitted by
high and prep schools.
For the individual contest there will
be given a book not yet designated.
Students participated in a test given
April 15 at the individual schools.
The G. H. S. students at large have
completed the nomination for president
of the student body, president of Girls’
Council, and leaders for cheering. The
rea:i election will occur either the first
or the second week of May. As candi
dates for major offices of G. H. S. the
following names will appear on the bal
lot at that time: President of student
body, Charles Hagan, Charles Shaffer,
and Rigdon Dees; president of Girls’
Connell, Manie T>eak Parsons/ Anna
Wills, and Kate Wilkins. Cheer leaders,
Henry Betts, and Harry Hill.
The semesters have also had impor
tant class meetings in order to select
nominees for the different position in.
the classes. These officials will be
elected at the same time that the other
officials of the whole school will be
elected. The candidates for the differ
ent semesters are as follows:
Semester three (preseht)
Girls’ Council—Edna Faulkner, Mar
tha Burnside.
Student Council Representative—
Elmer Wren, Margaret Knight.
President of Semester—Emory Car
ver, Sidney Ogbnrn.
Semester four (present)
Girls’ Council—Elizabeth Craven,
Eloise Taylor.
Student Council Representative —
Mary Rucker, Charles Edwards.
President of Semester—Josephine
Lucas, Frank York.
Semester five (present)
Girls’ Council—Mary Elizabeth Cun
ningham, Agnes Leak.
Student Council—Marjorie Boone,
Otis Phillips.
Semester President—Frank Aberne-
thy, Henry Betts.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVE
AWARDS IN CONTEST
“High Life” Is Awarded First Class
Honor Rating—Ex
cellence.
PAPERS RECEIVE .CERTIFICATES
“High Life” has received the award
of first class honor rating—excellent
from the National Scholastic Press As
sociation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Out of a possible score of 1,000 the
local paper was scored 785. This is the
tenth all-American newspaper critical
service, the oldest in the United States.
Five different ratings are possible.
These are: All-American honor rating,
superior; first class honor rating, excel
lent; second class honor rating, good*
third class honor rating, fair; fourth
class, below average—no honors.
Two thousand publications have mem
bership in N. S. P. A. Six hundred and
forty-one newspapers entered the con
test. Publications of Alaska, Hawaii,
and British Honduras, in addition the
United States, are enrolled.
Fred L. Kildow, instructor in journal,
ism at the University of Minnesota, is
director of the Association.
The Press Association sent the local
staff a complete score book thereby des
ignating the exact deficiencies. In ad
dition to this other pamphlets concern
ing the critical service were forwarded.