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Welcome Teachers— Come Again HIGH LIFE From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry Hail Social Standards Conference VOLUME XII GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 20, 1932 NUMBER 3 LjN. W. District Teachers, Principals, Superintendents Meet Here ';Group Represents I Fifteen Connties Tenth Annual Meeting of Pro fessional Body; Character Ed ucation, Insurance Policy of North Carolina Is Theme. 1 PROGRAM Is ‘instructive (Columbia and Duke Universities 5 Represented By Outstanding I Lecturers Who Will Deliver Addresses. The tenth annual teachers’ conven tion of the northwestern district of North Carolina will be held at Senior high, October 21-22. Three thousand, eight hundred and eighteen teachers from fifteen counties are included in this district. Character education, the insurance policy of North Carolina, will be' the general theme of the meeting. Three general divisions compose the convention group, there will be a gen eral meeting for all members who are S|present on Friday morning, y Friday afternoon the departmental ^neetings will be held. Four groups di- 5l\’ided according to their special inter- : jests will convene Saturday morning, r'j All business will be handled by Jule sfe. Warren, secretary of the North Car- |»lina Education Association. SJ Those taking part on the prt^ram ; ire: Dr. Edwin H. Reeder, professor it Columbia.is very active in the ele- ililir nentary field and an excellent lec- urer. Mrs. John K. Norton has been .ssociated with the National Education Association in the research depart- nent. She served on the committee vhich assisted the department of su- )erintendents in its preparation of the ast year book on character education. Sv lepresenting Duke, is Dr. Hickman, $ *• /ho is in the school of religion at that nstitution. Mrs. Blanche Preble, pres- 8 dent of the National Classroom Teachers Association, will take part. ( From Richmond, Virginia, comes Dr. B. H, Vanoot, head of the department ;5)f vocational education there. Clyde r^dwin, superintendent of schools at Rutherfordton, will attend, and appear j .bn the program. He is president of the } North Carolina Education Association and has been very active in this work. He is one of the active leaders of the ■W . Student Council Started In 1922 Changes Made In Constitution Since Organization — Con- [r. structive Rather Than Correc- !f tive Work Emphasized. In. student council was organized in =^e spring of 1922, placing the gov- Hfcing of the students in their own ,^inds. For more than a year Miss Jane ^ Summerell, head of the Latin depart- .Snent at that time, tried to convince j|he faculty that such a move would successful. During the fall of '21 [here was campaigning among the stu- lents before they accepted the pro- losed plan. Miss Summerell was the first facul ty adviser. Merrtraon Irvin was elect ed fli-st president and there was a rep- isentative from each semester and a ‘presentative from each school or- -nization. In 1926 and ’27 the peak of discip- ary work was reached. Then the 'ork began to shift toward the con- iructive and in ’28 and '29 the em phasis was on the constructive rather lan the corrective work of the school. Nine Representatives In Council In 1927 and ’28 the number of rep- isentatives in the council was cut 'om 13 to 8 plus a representative from le girls council. This was done be- ,use so many new clubs tried to get a representative, which would make ;he council too crowded to function Droperly. Miss lone Grogan was adviser until 8. Miss Sarah Lesley in '29, '30 and 31. and Miss Nora Chaffin in ’31, and ow there is only one adviser. Miss Chaffin. _ -iDorothy Elkins Is Elected I Session Room 6, President I s —— 1 Mrs. William Smith's session room, 1 number 6, has been organized for the lyear. Dorothy Elkins, formerly a member ; of Lindley junior high, was elected president. Edwin Glenn was elected vice-president and Sara Mae Edger- ton, secretary. Both of the latter were from Central junior high, CHARLES WILEY PHILLIPS U.N.C. Honors C. W. Phillips Principal of Senior High Since 1925; Graduated from U. N. C.; Was Member of Varsity Football Squad; In Army. One's college days frequently consti tute a prophesy of one’s later life. This seems true of Charles Wiley Phillips, principal, of Senior high, During his last year at U. N. C. he was voted the most representative of his Alma Mater. Mr. Phillips obtained early educa tion. He attended Jamestown high school once, made the basketball team while there, won a place on the tri angular debating team, and' got the best grades of any boy in the senior class. The grades won him a scholar ship to the University of North Car olina. While at Carolina he took an active part in the Y. M. C. A„ the,library, and his literary society. In 1918, his junior year, he was drafted into the army. He remained at Camp Sevier until after the Armis tice was signed. He re-entered the University in 1919 and took up his work again with the class of ’21, He was a member of the varsity football squad throughout, his junior year. At the end of the school year he became vice-president of the Y. The Dialectic Society also elected him as one of its associate editors on the mag azine board. He was representative-at- large on the Student Council. The Carolina Magazine says of him: “Charlie Phillips has taken for his ideal in life, first to make a man out of him self and then to aid in transforming other people into men, He has taken for his own guiding star through life, the ideal of service to mankind, and is performing that service well as he helps to build up the spirit, mind, and body of those around him.’’ Mr. Phillips came to Greensboro in the fall of '21 and has been connected with the public schools since that time. He taught English in G. H. S. two years; and was assistant coach for football and basketball. He taught a year each at Aycock and Caldwell, and became principal of G. H. S. in 1925. This position he still holds. He received the degree of M. A, from Columbia University in '27. Last sum mer he traveled over the United States as District Governor of the Rotary Club. Mr. Phillips has been general super intendent of West Market street Sun day school and is teacher of the Ire land Bible class, has sponsored the Hi- Y in school, has served on the Boy Scout Board: and on the Juvenile Commission for ^our years. The Yackety-Yack, U. N. C annual, chose him as representative of the fin est type of educator among the alumni of U, N. C. and among the educators of this state. His selection was widely approved by the press of the state. G. Underwood Heads Point System Group George Underwood heads the point system committee with Miss Ida Belle Moore as faculty adviser. This com mittee is keeping, in the office, a rec ord of each officeholder in the school. The object of this system is to keep students from participating in too many outside activities. Points are given to each officeholder and athlete in the school. The number of points is determined by importance of office held. The maximum number of points allowed is 15. In order to carry the maximum a student must have passed all work the preceeIing semester. In case a student flunks a subject he is not allowed to carry over 10 points. Miller Trains Operetta Cast; Many Try Out Nearly 100 Students Bid For Leading Parts In the Gondo liers; Those Who Failed Will Sing In Chorus. TWO FOR EACH ROLE Will Follow Usual Custom of Using Different People For !^ch Performance. Sixteen to Play Major Leads. The scenes of Act I of the opera to be given by the glee clubs is laid in Venice. The second act takes place in Barataria. The Mississippi r6lls down to the lowlands that border the Gulf of Mex ico. Here at the delta of its mouth are great flat islands, a myriad of them flanked by a network.of rushing river and gulf shore. One of these flat islands is called Barataria. It has labyrinths of waterways. It is an ideal place to hide in. Perhaps, long ago, on this small island basking in the sunlight on the Gulf of Mexico, there once lived roy alty. Perhaps gay court costumes once enlivened the scenery with plumage of multi-colored birds. Never has such an interest been taken in the opera as is now being shown. Tfie extent of this interest is manifest by the number of students who are trying out for the parts. A list follows: The Duke of Plazo—Toro (a grandie of Spain): L. H. Dimivant, L, T. New, Jr., Carlton Raper, Lewis Ginsberg, Ed Gambrell, Harvey Hod- gin, J. J, Shields, and Roy Apple. Luiz (his attendant): Jim Apple- white, Roy Apple, Alvin Ljung, and Felton Hall. Don Alhambro Del Bolerl (the grand Inquistor): Read Touch stone, Howard Cockman, Robert Bak er, Charles Banks, Roy Apple, J. T. Causey, and J. J. Shields. Marco Palmieri (gondolier): Erlu Neese and Raymond Zauber, Guiseppe Palmiere: Sid Wheeler, Hardy Root and John Davis. Antonio: Ike Fes- mire and Roy Apple. Francesco: J. G. Barnes, Leo Swink, Alvin Ljung, William Ingram. Alton Brown, Milton Zauber, Billy Holt, J. T. Causey, and James Watson and Mack Kernodle. Giorgio: Woodrow Creech. John Durham, Carl Wolf, Roy Apple, and J. T. Causey. The Duches of Plaz—Toro: Isolind DeBoe, Mary Delle Lee, Virginia Hammon, Lois Shields, Ruth Hill, Dorothy Goss, Vir ginia Carter, Dorothy Clendenln. Casildo (her daughter): Kathleen Mclver, Martha Nell Carson, Evelyn Haddon, and Helen Sutton. Gianetta: Eva Mae Ziglar, Caroline Dalton, Helen Sutton, Evelyn Haddon, and Mary Delle Lee. Tessa: Louise Brown Michaels, Beverly Burgess, Anne Leigh Chandlr, Margaret Cassidy, Nancy B. Miles and Uois Shields. Fiametta: Eva Mae Ziglar, Frances Foster, I^ene Coe, Alleine Grimes, Edna Doe Faulkner, Caroline Dalton, Lois Moffet, and Beth Carroway. Victoria: Virginia Smith, Lucille Har- ward, Anne Leigh Chandler, Nancy B. Miles. Louise Bell, Ruth Florence, and Virginia Venning. Giulia: Katherine Snead and Doro thy Truitt. Inez (the King’s foster daughter): Ruth Hill, Anne Leigh Chandler, Isolind DeBoe, Margaret Cassidy, Dorothy Goss, Nancy B. Miles, Virginia Carter, Dorothy Truitt, Cecilia Todd, Virginia Smith, Metto Hunt, Elberta Murray. Frances Sowell, and Dorothy Clendenin. First P.-f. A. Held Mrs. F. 0. Chrysler, President, Presides Over Opening Meet ing of Year. Main Object I Welfare Work. Senior high Parent-Teacher associa tion had its first meeting on the night of October 4. • The meeting was pre sided over by the president, Mrs. F. O. Chrysler. The parents attending the meeting carried out the students’ daily schedules. This proved pleasant and worthwhile to all. The main object of the Parent- Teacher association is to help make closer contacts between the schools and homes. Welfare work has been started to the extent of feeding chil dren and getting them clothed for the winter. There has been some money set aside to buy milk for children who are not fortunate enough to have it at home. MISS MARY MORROW President of State Classroom Teach ers Organization. Mary Morrow Heads Group Elected President of State Or ganization of Classroom Teachers at Charlotte Meet Last Spring. Miss Mary Morrow, of Senior high school, is president of the State Asso ciation of Classroom Teachers. When the executive committee of the N. C. E. A. met, they put their hearty approval on the association and organized it as a department of the N. C. E. A. The leaders in this new movement in the state are authorized to attend each district meeting. Miss Morrow will attend meeting in Ashe ville, October 14. As president of the state organiza tion, Miss Morrow's work consists of ’32 Senior Class Is Sixteen Times As Large As ’04 1933 Group Expected to Break Previous Records; Number Mid-Term Graduates Two- Thirds Smaller Than June. The graduating class of '32 was six teen times as large as the one in 1904. In 1904 only fourteen graduated. Nine- teen-thirty-two marks the largest class in the history of the school, number ing 224. Only 13 finished the course in 'll. the smallest number since 1904. • It is expected that '33 will break all records with approximately 326 grad uates. With the exception of the classes of* 'll, ’27, '29 and ’30 each class has ex ceeded its predecessor. Statistics show that 14 graduated in 04; 26 in '09; 52 in 1910; 13 in '11; 156 in '24; 121 in ’25; 132 in '26; 107 in '27; 139 in '28; 109 in ’29; 122 in '30; 193 in ’31; and'224 in ’32. The class of '24 with 156 pupils, was considered so extraordinarily large that Greehsboro Daily News published the fact in headlines along with a picture of the class. Most of these records show the to tal number of January and June grad uates combined. Always the mid-term classes are about two-thirds smaller than the June ones. GUY B. PHILLIPS attending all the district meetings and creating an interest in the work. Miss Morrow says she feels that the work will prove as successful here as it has in Virginia and other spates. Miss Morrow has been a teacher in Greensboro high school for several years. Before coming to Greensboro she taught in the high schools of Ala bama. For a while. Miss Morrow had charge of the girls’ athletics here, but now she devotes all her time to teach ing math. Senior High Enrollment Increases 200 With Nine Fewer Teachers Since 1929 Since 1929 there has been an in crease of 200 students and a decrease of nine teachers at Senior high. The first year that manual training was introduced at Senior high the en rollment in this department was 75, now it is 162. The workroom has bench space for 24 students. The boys make almost everything from a book- end to a floor lamp. This year there are enrolled in the French department 423 pupils. Nearly two hundred of thege are French I. A feature of the French classes is the French club. In pa-st years a reg ular club composed of all the classes met at activities period and carried out a regular program. Some of the students correspond with boys and girls in Prance They find French schools begin earlier than American schools, and they use-Thurs day instead of Saturday as a holiday. The growth of the Latin department in Greensboro has been gradually de creasing in the past eight years. It is believed that one reason for this de crease is the teaching of so many new courses in science, business, and man ual training. This year there is a small increase in enrollment. For five years the class of semester VIII’s have presented a play, of which they have been the authors, producers, and actors. Miss Parlow’s Latin classes have for three years published a mim eographed Latin paper. Three years ago the Latin depart ment gave a style show in Greens boro at the State 'Teachers' meeting and later in Raleigh. There are eleven hundred students in the history department, uniler the leadership of six teachers. The Home Economics classes have increased from 75 to 250 students. In the first semester last fall there were seven classes of girls_ and one class of boys home economics. In the second semester there were eight classes of girls and two classes of boys. This year there are ten classes of girls and no boys. Because of the increased enrollment the boys’ classes have been eliminated. The science department has more than doubled its enrollment since 1926. Biology has increased its enrollment from 180 students to 500 students. ___ Chemistry has made much progress during these six years. The enroll ment has increased from twenty to 200 pupils. The Physics department has increas ed from twelve to 70 students. In 1926 a nature study class was organized. Any time of day the hum of type writers may be heard in the depart ment of commerce. This unit of the high school curri cular comprising bookkeeping, type writing, shorthand, and office train ing now has a total enrollment of 506 pupils. Five years agon there were only 30 machines in the typeing department and today there are fifty. The work in this department ap proximates as nearly as possible that done in the business office. Practice in the use' of office appliances Is given in Room 105, which is equipped with typewriters, adding machines, mimeo graphs, and dicta machines. Much of the actual office work of the school, such as the keeping of the school books, t5T'ing for school pur poses, stencil cutting, mlmec^aphing, and office dictation is done by the students from the commercial depart ment. English is the largest of all depart ments because every student is requir ed to take this course. There are nine full-time teachers with two teachers from other departments holding one English class daily. There are two electives: namely, Journalism and cre ative English. The music department has an or chestra enrollment of 75 students, the band has 61, the glee club 275. ROOMS 2 AND 4 LEFT •FROM 100% LIST High Life regrets to have omitted Misses Kathleen Pike’s and Mary McNairy’s session rooms from the list of rooms that went 100 per cent in the High Life drive. There are forty-five students in session room four and thirty-five in room Z. ASSOCIATED PRESS COMMENDS GAMBRELI Edwin Gambrell, one of the sports editors of High Life and re porter for the Daily News, was asked by the Associated Press to report the Guilford football game. He was to wire 25 words at the close of each quarter and 200 words at the close of the game. He was congratulated for his splendid work on this story. President of Northwestern District Teachers’ Association of N. C. E. A. Students’ Work In High Schools Displayed Friday All Departments Have on Ex hibit Representative Projects in Wood and Soap Carving, Posters and Themes. Junior and Senior high schools have arranged exhibits from each depart ment in the schools displaying the work of the students. From the French department there are notebooks, relief m^ps, illustrated product maps of France, vocabulary charts, flash cards, and other teaching devices. They are carved of wood and soap. The Latin department has posters, notebooks, class work, and soap carv ings made by the students. The Ver gil class made a bulletin board. English department has themes, notebooks, posters, based on parallel reading, while miniature stages have been set up with tiny characters to represent scenes in dramas. There is on exhibit a real airplane that flies. All phases of math will be found In the math exhibit. This includes graphs from algebra, models, figures, and drawings from solid geometry, design and construction work in plane geom etry, and illustrative material from commercial problems in business arith metic. The work is actual classroom projects and samples of daily work done by the pupils. No beauty lover should fail to visit the display of the art department. There are pictures, water colors, plaster casts, clay nydelings, wall hangings, sealing wax work, painted glass, and pen and ink work. In mechanical drawing and wood work, Junior high shows the progress of woodwork from the beginning to end. Senior high will show the fin ishing processes from elementary work to cabinet making. The history department has on ex hibit, papers, charts, to explain the course in government, representative notebooks, and chart showing how the library helps history classes. Guy Phillips District Head Of Association Is Superintendent of City Schools, Chairman of Public Relations Committee of N. C. E. A. Is For Economy. KEEPS TEACHERS POSTED Organized Girls State Athletic Association. Assisted in AA- 1 High School Principals As sociation. Friend of Teachers. Guy B. Phillips, superintendent of the city school system, is the presi dent of the Northwestern District Teachers' Association of the N. C E. A. He leads a busy life, for he is also chairman of the board of stewards of West Market Street Methodist Episco pal church, where he was formerly superintendent of the Sunday school, chairman of Public Relations commit tee of N. C. E. A,, member of Greens boro Civitan club, member of Boy Scout council and numerous other or ganizations that make for the good of the community. Mr. Phillips graduated in 1913 from the University ot North Carolina with an A. B. degree. Tliat summer he at tended Columbia university. That fall he went to Raleigh to coach athletics and teach English at the Raleigh high school, where he re mained for three years. While there he had three championship football teams. He then became superintend ent of the Oxford schools. He held this position for four years. He then came to Greensboro to be come principal of the old Greensboro high school. While here he organized the Gills’ State Athletic Association and helped organize the AA-1 High School Principals' Association. • At the end of four years he went to Salis bury, where he was superintendent of city schools for five years. In July, 1929, he came back to Greensboro to succeed Frederic Archer as superintendent of the city schools. Mr. Phillips has made a warm place for himself in the hearts of the stu dents, the parents, and the teachers of'this city. He is a staunch supporter of the economy plan he himself laid out for the school system. Using dis trict instead of build^^g principals and occupying an older school building for the offices of himself and his fqrce, are only two of the many economy measures he adopted. It has been Mr. Phillips’ policy to let the people know what is happening in education. Be cause of this information the various moves that he has made since he came here' have met with hearty approval by all concerned. He has succeeded in building the schools to a high effi ciency and at the same time maxe sub stantial reductions in expenditures. He has been instrumental in seeing that the city teachers get all of their sal ary and get it on time. Mr. Phillips has really made a name for himself in the minds of students and teachers as being a real friend in cloudy weather as well as In clear. History of Greensboro High Reveals Interesting Faets History of Greensboro high dates back to 1864 when it was first organ ized in the building vacated by Cald well Institute. In 1899 it was trans ferred to the Catholic church on Por- bis street, which included four large class rooms and two laboratories, and from therq to the Spring street build ing in 1911. 'The new Senior high school was completed in 1929. In 1864 the legislature chartered the first high school with Ell Caruthers as principal. The little two-story brick building was located in an oak grove on Sycamore street, a little east of the present county courthouse. Its in terior was equally divided by halls with rooms opening on either side. Board cost teachers who taught in this school from six to eight dollars: tuition in classical department cost fif teen dollars, and in English depart ment eight dollars. Lindsay street school was one of the first schools in Greensboro; It offered some high school work. Samuel C. Smith was the first prin cipal of the school conducted in old Catholic church. He became sick and was succeeded by E. D. Broadhurst, now a prominent Greensboro attor ney. This school ranked among the first In the state. Until 1904 all courses offered were obligatory. 'There were no electives. Nine teachers constituted the faculty. In 1911 the forty thousand dollar Spring street building was completed. It was then the best equipped in the state. In 1919 the high school was again transferred and this time to the new Senior high building which cost $1,000,000. GRADUATING CLASSES PRESENT PICTURES 'Tlie graduating class of Senior high each year presents a gift to the school. In ’28 the class presented the picture "Madonna of the Child.’' This picture was painted by Raphael and was one of his greatest paintings. In '29 the graduation class presented the picture "Aurora.’’ painted by Gludo Reni. This picture is one of the most beautiful of Rent's works because it has so much color brought out In the sky and the costumes of the people. The class of '30 presented the pic ture “King Sea," by Abbey.