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Weather Man Predicts Whirlwinds Over Durham HIGH LIFE From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry Be Thankful No End For Peace and Plenty VOLUME XV GREENSBOEO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., NOVEMBER 23, 1938 NUMBER “Together We Live” Is Theme of 7th Conference DATE TO BE DEG. 6 Meyers Will Keynote; Moseley To Sum Up Annual Meet. With ‘’Together We Live” as its theme the seventh annual Social Standards Conference will open here on Tuesday, December C, at nine o’clock. Dr. Charles F. Meyers, pas tor* of the First Presbyterian church, will make the keynote address before the student body in the school aitdi- torium. As a concluding feature of the day, Mr. Robert F. Moseley, past commander of the local American Le gion unit, will also speak to the stu dent assembly. Preparations for the conference have been progressing rapidly during the past few weeks. These include plans for two 45-minute lunch periods, the special home-room discussion pe riod. and a feature for each lunch period. This program will provide the day’s schedule with more than usual variety. Students serving on the com mittee are Virginia Klages, Harriet Sink, Tom Carpenter, Elizabeth Beall, Martha Hipp, Bobby Clark, Bruce Walls, Wade Fox, Orvaline Koontz, and Douglass Hunt, chairman. Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Blackburn are faculty advisers. Wide Participation Moreover, more than 100 students are preparing themselves for the meet ings they TTfc- in uirect oy nlteiidiiig the Leadership Training School, which is conducted for their benefit. These students, with their assistants, make up approximately three times the num ber of student chairmen in previous years. Next, each student chairman wull present an outline of his or her topic to the faculty at a meeting on November 29, thus enabling the teach- (Continued on Page Four) CITY HIGH SCHOOL HEADS ASSEMBLE HERE DEC. 9 i Approximately DO to 60 North Caro lina high school principals, represent ing as many cities in this state, will assemble in Greensboro Friday, De cember 9, for their annual conference. Mr. A. B. Gibson, principal of the Albemarle high school, is the presiding officer, while Mr. S. G. Chappelk head of the Charles L. Coon high school of Wilson, is secretary. As scheduled at present, the school heads will hold their first general ses sion at 10 :30. Following this will be a luncheon at the Jefferson Roof res taurant at 1:00, and a tour of Vick Chemical company plant at 2:00. A second general session is planned for 3:00 at the Simpson Street school, while the final meeting will be in the form of a banquet at the O. Henry hotel, climaxing the day, at 8:30. ENGLISH 3 STUDENT WRITES COMEDY To add to Senior High’s celebration of Book Week, one of Miss Sledge’s English 3 students, Aurelia Dunstan, has written an unusual one-act comedy, which she calls, “Oh, Gracious, the Book!” On Friday. November 18, the drama tization was presented before the first period, English 3 class with the two characters being portrayed by the au thor. who took the lead, and Baxter Stapleton, another member of the class, who co-starred with her. Three Little Bottles and a Modern Miracle Black magic lurks in the chemistry lab. Water to wine—wine to water. What wonders science hath wrought! Mr. J. W. Blackman, wizard and teacher, must have been thirsty when he reached w-a-a-y back on the re agents shelf and brought forth three little bottles. He then poured the contents of the clear liquid into an empty beaker—“Ejbrumm,” he ex claimed. The great ruler of test tubes then waved a thermometer in the air, and presto!—the water turned to wine. The synthetical expert stated, how ever, that he didnt intend to concoct a beverage, he just poured a solution of phenolphthalein into a beaker contain ing a drop of ammonium hydroxide. The basic reaction produced the change. Had he stopped there, he would have been forgiven, but he carried a good thing too far; he poured the wine solu tion into an acid dampened beaker, and the red solution underwent a trans formation. Shucks, it turned back to water. DR. LUTHER GOBBEL TO SPEAK IN CHAPEL Qiiiil iiiid Scroll to Iiiitiic 17 New Members Into Ranks. Jane Webb, president of the Quill and Scroll club, has just announced that Dr. Luther L. Gobbel, the pres ident of Greensboro college, will be the featured speaker of the formal initiation of new members, which will be held November 29 as the junior senior chapel program. Miss Ford, who graduated from Greensboro college last June, will in trodixce Dr. Gobbel, whose new book, “Church - State Relationships in Edu cation in North Carolina Since 1776,” has just been piiblished. All of the 17 students who will be accepted into the club have submit ted samples of their work which has l)een approved by Mr. Nell, secretary of the national honor society for high school journalists, at Northwestern university. The students to be ini tiated are Bob Banks, Frances Chi holm, Doris Carr, L. M. Clyme Grace Estep, Priscilla Guthrie, Doi othy Hendrix, Margaret Lewi Kirby Moore, Jane Murray, Elizabeth Newton, Arbutus Reele, Ben Smith. Rae Shumann, and Alvin Yantiss. SIX NEW SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE AWARDED IN ’39 Six new scholarships, competition for which is open only to girls living outside of New Jersey, will be offered next year by New Jersey College for Women. New Brunswick, N. J. Only girls who wish to enter college in September, 1938, may compete for these grants, the largest of which is the Douglass scholarship of $800. Awards, which are renewable from year to year, are made on the basis of character, examinations, financial [ need, and scholarly ability. j A folder describing all scholarships may be secui-ed from the secretary of the scholarship committee. New Jer sey College for Women, New Bruns-; wick. New Jersey. i Creative Chemistry Experiment Above is shown P. B. Comer, G. H. S. student conducting a photography experiment in creative chemistry. Anything Can Happen— Especially at Senior High The girls in Beunos Aires will prob ably “sit up and take notice” when they receive letters from the boys who attend the high school for young la dies, Greensboro, N. C., for the address on a letter recently delivered to Mr. Hucks was just that. The letter stated that some girls in Buenos Aires, who are studying English, would like to correspond with American girls. So, for this reason, the boys and girls who are in Mr. Hucks’ French classes, have selected a naine and are planning to write to the young ladies. The boys are all glad to accommodate these South Americans I We wonder if any of them has a brother? 'YE CREATE CENTENNIAL’ RESURRECTED ONCE MORE Is First Authentic Proclamation of Thanksgiving in Print. “Ye Greate Centennial,” a sixty-two- year old paper, was dusted off and re surrected last week, after hibernating in a scrap book for many years. The publication, printed on steam presses in Philadelphia in 1876, is noAV in the possession of Edward Faulkner, hav ing been handed down from his grand father. The paper gave an account of the first printed Thanksgiving proclama tion. It was issued by his Excel lency, Francis Bernard, in 1767. “I have thought fit to appoint, and do with the advice of His Majesty’s Council appoint, Thursday, the Third Day of December next, to be a day of public Thank.sgiving, that we may thereupon with our Heart and Voice return our most humble thanks to Al mighty God for the gracious dispensa tions of His providence since the last religious anniversary of this kind,” stated the journal. Attracting the eye on the front page, is a large sketch of Uncle Sam with the nation’s capitol, battlefront scenes, and an engraving of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in the back ground. Also on the front page is a facsimile of William Penn’s seal and signature to the Pennsylvania char ter with the names of the witnesses. On the back page there is an article entitled “The First Telegraphic Mes sage.” It tells how Professor Morse completed his first message, which was, incidentally. What Hath God Wrought! SENIOR GRAD OF 38 HONORED BY DUKE A. Hayes and Rhea Sikes Also Receive Offices at College. Howard Moffitt, a 1938 G. H. S. graduate, has been elected president of the freshman class of Duke uni versity. While attending Senior high school, Howard was an outstanding leader. In addition to being president of Torchlight; national honor society, he was chairman of Social Standards day. popular member of the band, honor roll student, a track man, and a javelin-thrower. Other 1938 graduates to be hon ored by receiving freshman offices are Anne Hayes and Rhea Sikes. Anne is chairman of her class at Mary Bald win college for girls at Staunton, Va., while Rhea is president of her class at Salem college at Winston-Salem, As students of Greensboro High school both girls rendered many use ful services to the school. Anne was a member of Torchlight, while Rhea was a member of Quill and Scroll and Torchlight, as well as being the president of Playmasters and the win ner of the annual Playmasters cup, BRASWELL EXHIBITS PAINTINGS AT CENTER Mrs. C. 0. Braswell, art teacher at G. H. S., was asked to exhibit two of her paintings, the maximum for any one person, at the Greensboro art cen ter during November in a show com posed entirely of the works of local artists. Her work consists of an in dustrial scene called “Terra Cotta Plant,” and “Landscape.” “Terra Cotta Plant” is executed en tirely in warm colors, which gives a hot, terrifically emotional effect. The men in the foreground, the warm red brick kilns, the truck, the telephone poles, the row of workers houses, are all expressive of industrial and social regimentation. The treatment of red smoke in the sky, resulting from the fires below, is expressive of the art ist’s individuality. It is interpretive of the violence and strife, and at the same time, of the indolence, in modern industry today. The “Landscape” is the exact op posite in treatment of the “Terra Cotta Plant.” Its cool greens and difference in symmetry contrast violently with the hotness of the other. Its very peace, inspired by the golf course at Woman’s college, is in direct opposi tion to the industrial interpretation. FIRST CONVENTION OFHONORSOCIETIES TO CONVENE HERE Mr. H. V. Church to Speak; Hobart McKeever To Preside. Plans have been completed for the first state-wide convention of all na tional honor societies in North Caro lina, which will convene on Decem ber 2 at Greensboro Senior High school. At that time, Hobart McKee ver, president of the local chapter of Torchlight, will act as chairman and presiding officer. The national secre tary of honor societies, Mr. V. H. Church, of Chicago, will be the main speaker, and will also help conduct a round table discussion. Committees w’ere appointed and plans to have a convention were made- at a meeting held last year in Win* ston-Salem, N. C. Invitations, asking that the presi dent, one faculty sponsor, and a dele gate for every ten members of each society, attend this convention, have been sent to 19 high schools in this state. All unofficial delegates must pay their own expenses, however, and will not be privileged to vote. The program for the day has been arranged as follows: 10 :30—^Registration in foyer. 10:30—Student body assembly (Mr. Church to speak). 12:25—Luncheon in the school cafe- tqria. , .. - , • 1 ;30—Business meeting and round table discussion. 4 :30-6 :00—Theatre party at the Car olina. , 8:00-10:00—Informal party. Many delegates plan to stay over night in Greensboro. Therefore, if any student wishes to supply “bed and board,” on Friday night and Satur day morning, he is requested to get in touch immediately with Miss Mims or Hobart McKeever. MARTHA HORNADY HEADS CAST FOR “ROMANCERS” Laid in a setting of “anywhere, any time,” “The Romancers,” first of the one-act plays to be presented by the Playmasters on December 8, presents^ the lives of two romantiques who find most zest in their love because of what they believe to be the lifelong enmity- existing between their fathers. The cast, which is composed almost entirely of newcomers to the higR school stage, consists of Martha Horn- aday, who played the lead in “The Blue Bird” at the University of North Carolina drama school last summer, as the girl; Billy Holliday, a sopho more, as her lover; Alvin Yantiss and Mark Altvater, as the fathers; and Frank Barrett as a professional ab ductor. The set for ‘’The Romancers,” which is very different from any used by the Playmasters heretofore, is being constructed by the combined efforts of the art department, the manual train ing department, and the stage crew. The cast of “Off Nag’s Head,” the- second play to be given the same night,, will be announced later. Richards Makes New Accounting, System A now accounting system for the purpose of keeping all school records concerning activity funds has been arranged by Mr. Richards, head of the commercial department. This system is different from any other on the market.
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