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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 17, 1937
NUMBER 7
Klages to Have Title Role
In Playmaster's Production
CAROLYN COKER
WILL PLAY PART
OF AMY GREY
Committees Chosen for Stage
and Technical Dra
matic Work.
PUBLICITY HEAD NAMED
Costuming and Scenic Painting Are to
Be Part of Students’ Job for
the Production.
Virginia Klnge.s, a newcomer to
Senior high and a product of the state
of Illinois, has been given the title role
of “Allee-Sit-by-the-Fire,” the winter
production of the Playmasters, stated
afiss Lottie Wall, director, today.
This yonng actress came to Greens
boro last .June from Main high school,
Park liidge. III., where she studied
dramatics for two years and appeared
in an eighth grade play.
The other leading part, that of Amy
Grey, will be portrayed by Carolyn
Coker. The supporting cast is well
known to G. II. S. play-goers and con
sists of; George Miles, Steve Kollo;
Susannah Wimbish, Genevra Dunbar;
Frank Barrett, Colonel Grey; Edgar
McDowell, Cosmo Grey; Elizabeth Dea
ton. Richardson (Steve's maul) ; Ann
Chisholm, (Amy’s nurse) ; and Betty
Barbara Hopkins, (Amy’s maid).
All scenes will be painted by the
Playmastei's; the nineteenth century
costumes are also to be made by the
students.
The following committees will have
charge of this work for the produc
tion : Scenic technician. Virginia
Vache; assistants, Mary Power, Eliza
beth Deaton, Rhea Sykes, and Eloise
Blackwelder. Costume mistress, Martha
Minhiniiette; assistants, Txiis Honey
cutt, Carolyn Coker, Elsie Moore, Ruth
Collins, Rhea Sykes, Jane Faison, Sue
Wimbish, Margaret Webb, and Betty
Barbara Hopkins. Other committees
are: Publicity chairman, Ann Chis
holm; assistants. Max Hendrix, Mary
Power, Elizabeth Deaton, and Jean
Stafford. Property mistress, Eloise
Hood; assistant, Sarah Cornelius. The
make-up work will be under the super
vision of Miss I./Ottie Burnside.
Leads for New Play
KING ARTHUR STEPS
OUT AT SENIOR HIGH
No flourish of trumpets or clanking
of armor, but King Arthur's court
nevertheless. A gala procession of bril
liant costumes adorns the corridors
Ladies in royal purple and gold with
page boy bobs. Have you not heard?
Ton of our basketball girls have been
garbed in new gym suits. And they
beat all for elegance! Purple shorts,
gold stripes down the side, satin
blouses with purple numbers on front—
all this finery will surely dazzle the
eyes of every opponent so that vic
tory is now an assured outcome of all
the games. Consequently, be on hand
to see the ladies royal of the athletic
court of G. H. S. trounce every rival of
the season. And by all means see the
new uniforms — they alone are worth
the price of admission.
Reading from left to right are, Carolyn Coker, Virginia Klages, and
George Miles, Jr., in typical characterization, though not in costume, for
the Playmasters’ January production, “Alice-Sit-By-the-Fire,'' by
James Barrie. —Photo by James Mitchell.
Senior Calendar
January 23—Baccalaureate Sermon at
Asheboro Street Baptist church.
January 24—Skip Day.
January 26—Term closes.
January 28—Commencement. Dr. W.
W. Peele, presiding elder of the
Greensboro district, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, to deliver
the address.
CHRISTMASPAGEANT
IS GIVEN TODAY
Moffett and Ware Are Joseph
and Mary; Truitt and Lewis
to Read Scripture.
HAYES IS CHIEF ANGEL
■‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King!
Let every heart, prepare him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven, and heaven, and nature
sing.”
BANQUET IS GIVEN
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
All informal banquet was given
for the school board by the home
economics department, on Decem
ber 0. The guests were received
in the homemaking room by -\nnis
Hines. Ill addition to the mem-
!)ers of the board, Mr. Ben L.
■ Smi'.b, Ml-. A. P. Routh, and Mr.
IM. B. Teague, tbe school business
manager, were present.
A liglited Christinas tree stood
ill one corner of the room, and
poin.settias, candles, and fern were
used for table decorations, emble
matic of tbe Christmas spirit.
SKIT PRESENTED BY MISS
CASON’S ENGLISH 3 CLASS
“Eppie’s Punishment” was the title
of the skit which three girls of Miss
Cason’s English 3 class presented in
their room after completing the study
of “Silas Marner.”
The characters were: Eppie, Marga
ret Sullivan; Silas Marner, Doris Dale
Reynolds; Dolly Winthrop, Aline
Thompson.
The skit dealt with the first pun
ishment of Eppie, when Silas put her
in the coal hole.
DEBATING TEAM CHOSEN
FOR FORENSIC CONTEST
Ethel Pope, Martha Hornady, Charles
Lewis, and Willa Jean Hayes
Compose First Team.
SECOND TEAM IS ALSO NAMED
Ethel Pope, Martha Iloniady, Charles
Lewis, and Willa Jean Hayes were
chosen to compose the G.H.S. debating
team after the tryouts Wednesday aft
ernoon and night. The suh.iect for the
arguments was the triangular debate
fo{)ic, ••Resolved: That tbe several
states should adopt a unicameral sys
tem of legislation.”
Ethel Pope is a recent addition to
the club and to tbe school. She came
here from a northern school and until
Wednesday had never engaged in de
bating. Martha Hornady was a mem
ber of the club last year but did not
win recognition then. She is a sopho
more and has great promise as a de
bater. Willa Jean Hayes and Charles
Lewis were on tbe first team last year.
They participated in the State Trian
gular debate at Chapel Hill after de
feating the High Point and Winston-
Salem clubs.
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This is one of the carols whicli wdll
drift through the auditorium this aft
ernoon during the Christmas pageant
wii-.'vh will be given by the students of
semester seven. Other carols whicli
will be sung by the Glee Club, under
the direction of Mr. Brietz, are “SiiOCt
'Night,” “O Holy Night,” “O Little
Town of Bethlehem,” “We Three
Kings,” “Hark the Herald Angels
Sing,” and “It Came Upon the Mid
night Clear.”
Miss Estelle Mitchell, who is the
chairman of the senior advisers, will
be assisted in producing the pageant
by ABss Lee, Miss Caldwell, Miss
Cason, Miss Pike, and Miss Sledge.
Jane Ware and Howard Mjoifett will
impersonate Mary and Joseph, while
Charles rxiwis and John Trnitt will al
ternate ill reading the scripture. Anne
Hayes Mill be the chief angel who tells
the shepherds of the birth of Christ.
DR. GILL SPEAKS TO
G. H. S. CHARM SCHOOL
Dr. Aurelia Gill, of Woman's col
lege, spoke to the girls of the Charm
school, Tuesday, December 14, during
club period.
Dr. Gill's subject was “Health As a
Fundamental Basis for Charm.” In her
talk Dr. Gill discussed the relation
ship between health and personality.
The Chariii school is a club which
was recently organized under the direc
tion of Miss Eunice Kneece and which
meets every second and fourth Tues
day.
Twas the Night Before Christmas
HOMECOMING DAY
WILL BE STAGED
EARLY IN JANUARY
Graduates Will Be Presented
to Teachers and Students at
Morning Chapel Session.
HONORS ALUMNI SINCE ’29
Jane Webb, Student Chairman, Is Aided
by Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon
and the Student Council.
The Greensboro Senior high school
annual homecoming, which honors all
aliuiini who have graduated since 1929,.
will take place January 4, 1938. At
least two hundred graduates are ex
pected for the event.
The visiting alumni will be pre
sented to the faculty and student body
at a morning chapel session. The pro
gram will be oifered by graduate talent,
which has not yet been selected.
Jane Webb, student chairman for the
occasion, is being assisted by Mass
Mary Ellen Blackmon, faculty adviser,
and the members of the student coun
cil. The Torchlight society is manag
ing the contact work, and the publicity
is being handled by Laura Spence.
Catherine Pai-is and her welcoming
committee are to greet the visitors as
they arrive. The guest book and other
rec-ords of the day will be kept by Jean
Tates, trcasuJ’ei* of the studeixt CGuncih -
Jane Murray, chairman of the school
lieautiful committee, is supervising the
decoration of the cafeteria, where
lunch M-lli be served to the alumni
from 12 :30 to 1 p. m.
PLAQUE AWARDED FIRST
SIGHT-SAVING CLASS
Is Presenited by Kiwanis Club to
Commemorate Beginning
of This Project.
A bronze plaque commemorating the
beginning of the Sight-Saving classes
in the school was presented at a re
cent meeting of the Kiwanis club by-
Mr. Ben L. Smith, superintendent of'
city schools.
The inscription on the plaque reads
as follows: “Initial Sight-Saving Class
in North Carolina. Equipped and spon
sored by the Kiwanis Club, North Caro
lina—the Central School, September 3,
1937.”
The classes are under the direction
of Miss Lulu Gilbert, formerly of Clara
J. Peck school, and are held at Central
Junior High School.
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MYSTERY VEILS
PURNELL’S SHINER
Naturally shy and self-conscious, Mi’.
“Hap” Purnell, of the math depart
ment, was not any too “happy” a few
days back when he found himself the
object of 1,500 inquisitive stares. The
reason for this unified student body
gaze was none other than the “shiner”
which circled the genial coach’s right
orb. Various and sundry rumors as
to the why and wherefore of the black
beauty circulated around every class
room. However, all that could be
learned from Mr. Purnell himself was
that he received the artificial coloring
playing tag football. How? Where?
When! With whom? That remains
secret. All of which gives us a class A
G. H. S. mystery; so go to it, would-
be Vances and Holmeses. The case is
yours!
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