Eastertide
Greets You
HIGH LIFE
Spring Fever
Meets You
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XII
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO. N. C., APRIL 13, 1933
NUMBER 12
P. T. A. Makes Book
For Procedure of Meets
Mrs. J. J. Andoe
Heads Project
High School Students to Take
Part at Convention; Orches
tra Furnishes Music; Art
Classes Make 65 Place Cards.
MAX NOAH’S CHORUS SINGS
Grady Miller Leads Assembly
Singing; Pupils Tell of Activ
ities.
One of the newest projects of the
State Parent-Teacher Association is to
make a “Record Book," says Mrs. J.
J. Andoe, chairman of the record book
project. Each school is to make their
own book, the cover is to be made by
Robert Howerton, the mounting of
materials by J. E. Bowman, and Lyn
don Forbis is to do the lettering.
The book itself is to contain mate
rial showing the procedure followed by
officers and committee chairmen. It
is to contain records of the State P. T.
A, from April to April. The following
year, such as meetings, cards, and
newspaper clippings during that period.
The State Parent-Teacher conven
tion is to be held at the O. Henry
hotel April 19, 20 and 21. The activi
ties of high school students are to be
given by the high school pupils at the
convention. Wednesday evening at the
banquet the high school orchestra is
to furnish the music and entertain
ment. The 65 place cards for the ban
quet are to be made by the art classes.
The cards are silhouettes and‘are to
mark the places of all the state offi
cers, teachers, speakers, and local com
mittee chairmen.
Thursday the Greensboro Male Cho
rus is to sing, directed by Max Noah.
H. Grady Miller will also lead the as
sembly singing that is to follow the
business that is transacted.
Friday, Grady Miller, high school
music director, is to sing a solo.
Miller’s Band Plays
In Chapel Program
Harris Mitchell’s Bass Quartet
Displays Talents; “Pensain
March,” “Moorish Serenade,”
“Finlandia,” and “Gateway
City March” Given.
The chapel program for April 5 did
not lack entertainment, as the high
school band played for the first time
this term. The entire assembly gave
their undivided attention to the unique
harmony of the instrmnents, a result
of ceaseless efforts of H. Grady Miller.
To open the program in the style of
a band concert the National High
School Band March was played.
Following the well known brass quar
tet, Robert Simmons, Joe White, Jack
Coley and Jack Klingman displayed
their talent after preparations by Har
ris Mitchell. The band played “Per
sian March," “Moorish Serenade," and
"Finlandia," the contest piece. As the
students were departing the prc^am
was concluded with the “Gateway City
March."
Enrollment Increases
City Schools Show Gains in
Average Daily Attendance
Over Last Year.
Depression has not kept students
away from the city schools this year.
Both enrollment and average daily at
tendance increased over last year; the
enrollment by 125 and the daily aver
age attendance by 134.
As the attendance shows more gain
than the enrollment better attendance
is indicated.
The high school’s daily average pres
ent shows 1,867 against 1,767, exactly
100 better than 1932.
Average attendance, however, has
decreased in the white elementary
schools.
WOOTERS’ MINSTREL
TO BE DISCONTINUED
Bill Wooters, director of tlie Harlem
Knights Minstrel team, arinounces that
no other minstrel will be given by his
group.
Due to the number of groups using
the stage at present, Mr. Phillips said
there would not be time for rehears
ing another prc^am of this kind be
fore the end of school.
“I would like to thank every student
who has taken any part in our min
strels,” said the director.
2 Trips Offered
For Best Essays
Oil Paintings Will Be Given to
Next Ten Winners; Trip Will
Include Points of Historical
Interest.
All aboard for your free trip to His
tory-land"!
The American Boy magazine in co
operation with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway offers two eight-day trips
this summer, July and August, with
all cxpen.ses paid, to the high school
boy or girl who submits by May 15 the
best 300-word essays on “Why I Want
to Visit History-land." The next ten
prizes will receive oil paintings, valued
at more than $1,000.
Winners will visit burial places of
Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall
Jackson, Mount Vernon, home of
Thomas Jefferson, Yorktown, Wash
ington, Arlington National cemetery,
beautiful Shenandoah valley and other
points of historical interest.
To take part in the contest, write
at once to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, 721 Transportation Building,
Washington, D. C., asking for the at
tractive history-land booklet.
Then typewrite, ct write in pen and
ink, your essay. Put your name and
address in the upper left hand corner
of each sheet. Write on one side only.
Mail your essay to the Contest Editor,
American Boy Magazine, 550 West
Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Michi
gan, by May 15. Prize winners will be
announced in the July issue.
Students Share
P. T. A. Program
Officers Elected
After Business Meeting, Senior
High Special Activities Were
Explained By Those Partici
pating In Them.
As a special attraction to the par
ents by Senior high, students partici
pation was featured at the P. T. A.
After the business part of the meeting,
in which the officers for the congress
and for the local club were unanimous
ly elected as presented by the nomi
nating committee, Mrs. W. W. Whaley,
program chairman, presented Talmage
Smith, school president.
Talmage introduced C. W. Phillips,
principal, who explained the change
from the 36-point syste mto the 34,
Talmage outlined the student govern
ment, the system of election, and the
20 committees. He said the council
liked to think of their school and its
government as a “little city.”
Ruth Hill gave the requirements for
Torchlight and the Honor Roll. This
was followed by a presentation of the
girls' glee club, the boys' glee club, and
the mixed chorus. They sang two se
lections each, respectively “Russian
Carol,” Rimsky-Korsakov; “In the
Boat," Grieg; “Hunters Farewell,
Mendelssohn; “Let their Celestial Con
certs All Unite," Handel; “How Blest
Are They," Tchiaskovsky and “Night,
Noble.
Mary Helen King outlined the work
of Social Standard committee. Charles
Sharpe spoke on publications and Jack
Cheek on dramatics and the debating
club.
The report of Phyllis Hagedorn on
commencement plans ended the pro
gram.
Students’ Faces
Register Results
Of Report Cards
Happy faces! sad faces! guilty
faces! joyous faces! intelligent faces!
If a stranger should happen to come
to the school now, perhaps he’d won
der why there are so many different
expressions on the faces of our stu
dents. Well, I'll give him the low-
down—reports have just come out!
There goes Jane Smith—she made
A’s! No wonder she’s smiling. Look,
why does Harry Smith have such a
sad look on his face? Oh, it's because
he has flunked three subjects.
No, it’s not because his teachers
didn’t like him as he says. He thought
dancing and the movies were much
more important than studying for that
English and French test.
Why there’s Ted Brown, yeah, no
wonder he has such a guilty look, you
would too, if you had copied the paper
of the girl sitting behind you.
SUMMER SCHOOL
TO OPEN JUNE 5
Summer school opens on Monday,
June 5, one week after school closes
and will last for seven weeks. School
will be in operation for six days a
week, and each student may take
two classes a day.
Each class will last one hour, and
all students taking one hour of work
must remain for a study period of
an hour. Students taking two hours
of class work must remain for two
hours of study. July 4 is the only
holiday observed’ by the summer
school students.
There will be between 75 and 100
students to attend summer school,
and about 25 or 30 of these will
graduate. C. W. Phillips will be in
chaise. The school term will end
on Thursday, July 25.
Honor Society
Taps Members
Torchlight Adds Twenty-nine to
Number; Character, Scholar
ship, Leadership, and Service
Enter Into Selection.
Twenty-nine new members were tap
ped for Torchlight with the usual ef
fective ceremony Monday, April 3.
Character, scholarship, leadership,
and service were the qualifications con
sidered in the election. The faculty,
Torchlight members, and senior class
voted on the students in semesters
seven and eight who were in the up
per fourth of their class in scholastic
standing.
Those tapped were: Clyde Smith,
Winston Davis, Howard Cooke, Mar
garet Barnes, Moses Way, Irene Phry-
das, Paul Curtis, Hill Hunter, Albert
Boyles, Rex Metz, William Bell, Agnes
Louise Wilcox, Hope Burchelle, Kath
ryn Tate, Charles McNeill, Louise Ry
an, Katherine Ellison, Hortense Jones,
Ruel Capel, Mary Anna Gentry, Eva
Mae Ziglar, Prances Womble, Mack
Kernodle, Kendrick Vestal, Jane Bax
ter. W. E. Benbow, Lelah Nell Mas
ters, Marguerite Bishop , and Jack
Guill.
High School Pupils
Attend Festival
West Market Street Methodist
and First Christian Churches
Are Represented at State
Church Choir Celebration In
Raleigh.
The state church choir festival was
held at the city auditorium in Raleigh
April 5. Several local churches were
represented there.
Students who attended the festival
are as follows: Prom the Christian
church, Roberta and Elberta Murray,
Dorothy Truitt, Prances Truitt, and
Prances Foster. From the West Mar
ket Street Methodist went H. Grady
Miller, director of that choir, Edna
Faulkner, John Davis, and L. T. New.
Mrs. Cora Cox Lucas had charge of
the church music, while Max Noah, of
Guilford College, was director over all
the choirs.
Students Observe
'College Day’ April 7
Representatives of Leading Uni
versities Speak Here; Martha
Fry Is Chairman of Com
mittee.
For the first time in the history of
the school, “College Day" was held on
Friday, April 7. under the leadership
of Martha Fry, chairman of the col
lege committee. There was an assem
bly at the second period, where the
representatives from the various col
leges were introduced by the chair
man of the college committee, and
they spoke for a few minutes on their
respective colleges. Each period dim
ing the day, students who were up on
their work were excused from clas.ses
to go to the library to see the repre
sentatives and talk to them. Each
representative was given a table in the'
library on which he kept his neces
sary material to show to the students.
Lunch was served at the school
cafeteria for representatives, and after
school a tea was given to them by the
college committee in the library.
The colleges which were represented
were: William and Mary, Elon, Virginia
Military Institute, Meredith, Sweet-
briar, University of N. C., Wake For
est, Guilford, W. C. of U. N. C., Da
vidson. Flora Macdonald, Wesleyan,
Randolph Macon, Salem, Greensboro
college, N. C. State college, Hollins,
and Duke University.
N. S. P. A. TO HOLD MEETING IN OCTOBER
Grady Miller is Optimistic
Over Outcome of Contest
Senior Class Will Present A Pageant
Entitled ’Today: The Gift of Yesterday'
The graduating class this year is
following in the footsteps of its im
mediate predecessors in departing
from the stereotyped plan of jom-
mencement. “Instead of having an
outside speaker for commencement
night, the seniors will present a
pageant entitled ‘Today: The Gift
of Yesterday,’ written by members
of the graduating class,” says
Phyllis Hagedorn, chairman of the
graduation exercises committee.
The general theme of the pag
eant is built on the progress of civ
ilization, showing each nation at
its height and at the same time
illustrating its contribution to civ
ilization, The pageant opens in
Egypt, the cradle of civilization;
and then the scene changes to the
Holy Land, Greece. England,
Prance, Germany, and then Amer
ica, where her contribution to
schools is shown, and these scenes
build up to the awarding of the
diplomas and the various prizes,
signifying the civilization of the
future which rests with the grad
uates now going out into the
world.
The co-operation of almost every
department in school will be ask
ed when the pageant is presented.
Due to lack of funds the home
economics department will make
most of the costumes, and every
one is asked please to bring any
old costumes that are available, so
that they can be made into cos
tumes for graduation.
1,509 PUBLICATIONS
JUDGED AT N. S. P. A.
High Life is among 721 amateur
newspapers entered in the thir
teenth annual National Scholastic
Press Association critical service,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Eighty-six magazines of which
Homespun is one are contestants
for awards of merit.
Seven hundred and two year
books were considered in the most
recent judging. All these total 1,509
publications for the worst year of
the depression.
Affirmatives
Win Debates
Negatives of Three Schools De
feated In Triangle Debate;
No Team Will Go to Chapel
Hill.
In a spirited debate Greensboro's af
firmative team, composed of David
Stafford and Thomas Miller, were vic
torious over High Point here, March
31.
Resolved: “That North Carolina
should adopt the sales ta xas a feature
of its system of revenue,” was the ques
tion for the triangle debates.
Iris Welch, a senior of High Point
school and Vera York, a junior, com
posed the High Point negative team.
Greensboro’s negative, composed of
A. C. Holt and Howard King, were de
feated at Winston, and High Point's
affirmatives won over the Winston
negative.
Pete Sacrinty collected the ballots
from the judges, Messrs Charles Stone,
C. A. Hines, and Rabbi F. I. Rypens,
that determined the decision of the
debate here.
Since the three affirmative teams
won, no school in this district will go
to Chapel Hill to compete for the
Aycock Memorial cup. Both sides must
win in order for that school to be
represented at Chapel Hill.
Kathryn Tate played a number on
the piano before the debate began.
C. W. Phillips announced that this
was the twentieth year that triangle
debates have been in progress In North
Carolina.
Each speaker had 15 minutes for his
speech.
Graduating Class
Enjoys Reception
Seniors Presented With Free
Passes to “Peg O’ My Heart’
and Entertained with “De
pression Party” In Cafeteria
Afterwards.
The Juniors entertained the seniors
last night by taking them to see “Peg
O' My Heart" and afterwards with a
“depression party" in the cafeteria.
Endeavoring to carry out the plan
of having a good time with little ex
pense, the Juniors served no refresh
ments and had no decorations except
flowers. Bob England and his Eng
lishmen furnished the music.
The receiving line was composed of
the Junior and Senior faculty and the
committee, consisting of Alvin Ljung
chairman; Charlotte Porter, president
of the Junior class; Johnnie Partin,
Rose Rogers, and Pete Sacrinty. The
faculty members were Misses Ida Belle
Moore, Laura Tillett, Rena Cole, Nora
Chaffin, Mary Ellen Blackmon, Mary
Harrell, Lily Walker, Messrs. James
Farthing, and C. .W. Phillips.
Senior Girls
Win in Contest
Claire Hartsook and Alice
Grubbs Win First and Second;
Beverly Burgess and Ruth
Jones Get Third and Fourth
Prizes.
Red heads, brunettes, blondes! How
to choose and who to choose? What
a job the judges had on their hands,
especially with those two senior girls,
Beverley Burgess and Ruth Jones, who
won third and fourth places in the
contest!
Claire Hartsook, a gi-aduate of
Greensboro high school and now a
senior at W. C. of U. N. C., was pro
claimed “Miss Greensboro," and was
awarded a silver loving cup and $20.
Alice Grubbs, a former student of this
school, won second place and was
given an arm bouquet of roses.
Beverly Burgess, who received a
storm of applause with her every ap
pearance, was awarded third prize, a
box of candy, and Ruth Jones, the only
blonde to receive a prize, won fourth
place and was given a box of pink
roses.
The contest held Friday night,
March 31. at the new Greensboro audi
torium, was sponsored by the Junior
Woman's Club of this city.
School And Clubs
To Exhibit Flowers
In Annual Show
Mrs. Roger McDuffie Is In
Charge of Festival at Morri-
son-Neese May 17-18; Prizes
Will Be Given.
Under the supervision of the Greens
boro Council of Garden Clubs, the
third annual flower show is being held
at Morrison-Neese May 17 and 18. The
entries will be classified under two
main divisions, the garden clubs and
the schools. Mrs. Rt^er McDuffie is
in charge of the entire show, while
Mrs. Nellie D. Blackburn, biology
teacher at Senior high, is responsible
for the students' entries.
The schools contestants are divided
into four groups: Primary, elementary,
junior high, and senior high. Senior
high students will probably be inter
ested In some of the following classes
Wild flowers; species, collections, and
arrangement: terrarium; wild, culti
vated, Japanese garden, and dish gar
den.
Bird houses: colony and single; gar
den sticks, bird baths, and ^ feeding
stations Prizes are to be given for
the best posters on conservation and
home beautification. Attractive ar
rangement of cut flowers offers a num
ber of awards, as prizes are given for
the best display in large and small
bowls, Japanese fashion, large and
small vases, tall and flat baskets, and
collection of miniature flowers.
Anyone who is interested in compet
ing in the show may obtain details of
the contest from Mrs. Blackburn or
Mrs. Rc^er McDuffie.
PUPIL’S SPEECH READ
BY MISS FITZGERALD
A speech given in chapel by Irma
Lee Graves concerning the value of
the library to students and how it
should be treated, was read by Miss
Ruth Fitzgerald, professor of educa
tion at W. C. of U. N. C., in the course
of a talk about modern schools which
she gave to the Clvltan Club and over
the radio.
Dates Now Set
For April 27-28
Tryouts Made
Professor E. B. Stimpson, Dean
of Music at High Point Col
lege, Will Judge.
COMPETITION TO BE KEEN
School Will Be Represented in
All 32 Events of Finals; Bas
soon Players Out Last Year.
The music department is practicing
constantly on numbers to be used in
the music contest, April 27-28.
Preliminaries to choose the soloists
will be held April 15, with Professor E.
B. Stimpson, dean of music at High
Point college, acting as judge. Grady
Miller, head of the music department,
states that there will be keen compe
tition for the vocal and instrumental
solos, some of the preliminary events
having six or seven entrants. Those
soloists who try out, even though they
may not be in the state contest, will
be allowed to leave school to attend
their event on Thursday.
Senior high will Re represented in all
32 events at the final contest including
solos and group numbers. The school.
was represented at all but one last
year, that being the bassoon solo. Mr.
Miller says that as a whole the music
department has better material in both
vocal and instrumental fields than ever
before.
On April 21, the glee club and band
will give a concert at W. C. of U. N. C.
to the college girls at their assembly
period.
The contest this year will carry out
the usual program. Solo events will be
held Thursday, while the quartets will
compete that night. Friday has been
set aside for group events, such as glee
clubs, bands, and orchestras. Friday
night there will be a grand concert
made up of the outstanding events of
the entire contest.
Following is the list of contestants
who will sing in the preliminary on
Saturday. April 15: Soprano: Martha
Carson, Eva Mae Ziglar; contralto:
Isolind DeBoe, Ruth Hill, Dorothy
Goss, Evelyn Edleman; tenor: Sid
Wheeler, Felton Hall, Leo Swink, Ike
Fesmire, James Applewhite; baritone,
John Davis, Charles Banks. Clay
Hodgin, Alvin Ljung; bass: L. H. Dun-
ivant and L. H. New.
Curry High Debaters
Win Decisive Combat
In Position to Bid For Perma
nent Possession of Charles B,
Aycock Cup.
Curry high school debaters won a
decision over Stonevllle and James
town. This now places their school in
position to bid for permanent pqsses-
sion of the Charles B. Aycock cup at
the statewide contest in Chapel Hill,
April 14.
The school won the Aycock Cham
pionship cup last year; when won twice
in succession, the cup becomes a per
manent possession of the school. John
Kendrick, Franklin Nells, Georgia Ar
nett, and Jack Gaw will represent the
school at the contest in Chapel Hill.
Sophomores Entertain
Dancing, Singing, and Instru
mental Solos Composed the
Chapel Program Wednesday.
The first semester sophomores will
put on a talent pre^am for the en
tertainment of the student body dur
ing chapel period on Wednesday, April
19.
The program will consist of singing,
dancing, and solos, featuring various
types of musical Instruments. It will
be headed -by Dorothy May Clymer,
who announces the following with
their particular acts: Adelaide Gant,
two tap dances; Dorothy Livengood,
violin solo; Anna Applewhite, songs;
Brockton Lyon, two piano selections;
Louis Fraley, trumpet solo; and John
Latham, trombone solo.
The entertainment will be given in
the form of a radio program announc
ed by Henry Coble.
High Life enters annual contest held
by Emory University of Georgia to
select best high school newspaper in
southeastern states. Last year High
Life placed second.
Scholastic Union
Press Delegates
To See Expostion
Students Will View Many Points
of Interest at Chicago World
Fair.
STAFF TRIP IS PROPOSED
Journey Should Be Made Pos
sible Through Lowered Bus
Rates and Borrowed Cars.
Chicago, bright lights, tall buildings,
the World's Fair, N. S. P. A, next Oc
tober.
Convention dates are moved up to
allow delegates from schools the op
portunity of visiting the Century of
Progress Exposition, a truly educational
and thoroughly amazing event, and
also to attend the National Scholastic
Press Association Convention.
The early dates give the delegates
practidally a full year to put into prac
tice what they learn at the convention.
Excellent programs for secondary and
college divisions are now being plan
ned. Publication staffs and advisers
should arrange now to attend N. S. P.
A. Convention. It is possible bus rates
and rail rates will be exceedingly low.
Opportunities will be great.
Staff members should get up a car
load and wend their way to the Windy
City in October. Delegates learn hun
dreds of helpful things about their job
of producing school publications in
what is virtually a two-day school.
Pamphlet Case
Is Replenished
68 New Booklets Received On
North Carolina; College Girl
and Student Arrange Material
In File.
The Pamphlet case in the library is
being replenished with new material
which it is hoped will prove valuable
to the students. Miss Rebecca Wall
has just received 68 new booklets on
North Carolina alone. The material is
being arranged in the large file on
the right of the desk by a college girl
who is studying Library Science at W.
C., and by a high school student who
is taking a library course. Cards di
recting students to the contents of the
file have been placed in the card cat
alogue.
The information is classified under
the following topics: Agriculture,
American oratory, art, aviation, Baby
lonia, biography. Boy Scouts, crime,
Central America, charities, cities, com
munism, disarmament economics, Edi
son, education, European history, farm
relief.
Prance, Germany, Greensboro high
school. Great Britain, Guilford county,
health, home economics, immigration,
India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, journal
ism, labor. League of Nations, libra
ries, Manchuria, North Carolina, Pan
ama Canal, patriotism, Philippine
Islands, prohibition.
Radio, religion, Russia, safety,
schools, science, sociology, slavery,
south sports, Switzerland, United
States history, recreational guidance.
World Court, writers, books, drama.
East, United States government, in
dustries, maps, biol^, forests and for
estry, ancient history, flags, fire pre
vention.
This material has been collected by
Miss Rebecca Wall, librarian. She
started assembling the booklets in
High Life Receives
New Cabinet File
For Publications
What would we do without the
woodwork department? It has now
completed the dandlest kind of cabi
net with nine big shelves for the pub
lication room to be used to file copies
of High Life.
“Now we can file the copies of High
Life to be used for the bound copies
and those to be sent to the various
state and national contests without
having to fold or roll them," says the
High Life adviser, Mrs. Alma G, Col-
trane, who is quite happy over this
new contribution to the publication
room.
It is about three feet high and con
tains 9 shelves broad and wide enough
for the papers to be laid flat.
G. H. S. appreciates the courtesies
of the boys of the woodwork depart
ment, who are making such handy
articles. High Life staff Is quite proud
of this latest donation in the form of
the much needed file.