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VOLlfME XVI
GKEBNSI50R0 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO. N. C., SEPTEMBER 15, 1939
CAMPAIGN FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS LAUNCHED
EXPANSION PLANS
NEARLY COMPLETE
FOR SCHOOL PAPER
One Hundred Per Cent Backing
Of Students and Faculty
Sought By Hard Drive.
Plans for the first animal subscrip
tion campaign for High Life since the
depression were launched this week,
with Mr. Hueks, financial adviser for
the paper, and Reginald Starr, busi
ness manager, in charge.
A short sesion of chapel yesterday
featured the opening of the campaign,
with talks by Jean McAlister, president
of the student body; Jim Perrin, w'ho
presented the pupil’s viewpoint; Fran
ces Chisholm, editor of High Life; and
Gloria Biumenthal, advertising man
ager.
For several years the High Life staff
struggled, with the help of the mer
chants who advertised in these col
umns, to give every member of the
student body a free subscription. As
a result last year’s schedule of issues
had to be severely curtailed because
of lack of funds. In addition, there
was no provision for expansion so that
High Life could take its rightful place
in competition with other school pape;.'
from cities of this size.
The staff plans to get out sixteen
isues of the paper at the rate of one
issue every other week. Each copy
will be 50 per cent larger than those
printed last year, and the charge for
a year’s subscription will be only fifty
cents, or an average charge of about
three cents per copy. Xo copies will
be sold or given to anyone except sub
scribers.
As this is the first attempt to secure
subscriptions, a big effort will be made
to secure as large a number of hundred
per cent home rooms as possible. To
encourage this course, moving picture
parties will be given by the Garolina
and the Xational to the first five homo
rooms turning in one hundred per cent
subscriptions.
In addition, the high school athletic
department, under the direction •of
Coach Bob Jamieson, has made an un
precedentedly generous gift, offering
free football tickets to the next block
of home rooms securing one hundred
per cent subscriptions. Each teacher of
a one hundred per cent home- room
will also receive a year’s subscription
to the paper gratis.
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HONOR SOCIETY PRESENTS
TOP AWARD TO‘HIGH LIFE’
Typical Opening of Typical School
The three people pictured above typify Senior high school in three phases,
as school begin.s. First, Miss Taylor, amiable secretary who listens to all
.students’ woes in the office. Second, an unidentified junior looks weary and
gets down to the old grind, and third. Miss iiorls Hutchinson, new physical
education teacher who comes to G. H. S, for the first time this year.
Hutchinson Interviewed;
Talks of Girls Gym Classes
PLANS FULL YEAR
Diversified Sports Offered;
Only Time Compkte Course
Given to G. H. S. Girls.
Going Up!
—All This and Heaven Too
“International Honor Rating Paper
of Superior Achievements,” top critical
score of Quill and Scroll, international
honor society for high school journal
ists, has just been awarded to High
Life.
Annouiiceinent of the award of this
highest score, which was received by
the stafl’ last week, was made on a
basis of the papers published last year.
Out of a total score of 1.000 points.
High Life received a total of 900 points.
Highest individual scoring was 140
points of a possible 150 on quality of
writing.
TVritten comment of the judges con
cerning this iiaper reads as follows;
“The High Life shows steady improve
ment under the impetus of an alert
and progressive organization. Makeup
and typography are A-1, plus readable
and colorful copy. Ad lineage is re
markably high and the paper boasts
a strong editorial policy, a fine exam
ple of the best in high school journal
ism.”
TOTAL REGISTRATION
SHOWS LARGE DECREASE
A marked decrease in enroll
ment at G. H. S. was evident as
the fall semester opened. This loss
of approximately five hundred stu
dents is due, of course, to the
transfer of the ninth grade to the
junior high schools.
This decrease has brought about
several changes in the school rou
tine. As a result the split lunch
period and the extra chapel pro
gram have both been discontinued.
The total registration of all the
white city schools showed a slight
decrease, but when all the late
comers have registered, the total
is expected to be about the same
as in the 1938-39 school year.
“I hope that physical education lyill
son be a required part of every girl’s
schedule in the Greensboro public
schools. I believe that sooner or later
it will be,” declared Miss Doris
Ilutchiuson, amiable new teacher at
Senior high school and the first full
time girls physical education teacher to
be employed here in years, to a High
Lirw reporter this week.
Miss Hnteliinson is a last year’s
graduate of W. C. U. N. C. and is also
an alumna of Central high school in
Charlotte—one of the local school’s
stiffest rivals. I-Iowever, she has lived
in Greensboro for quite a while, and
states incidentally that her feelings
for Greensboro high and Charlotte
high are about 50-50.
“As to my classes—they will include
health, team sports, recreational sports,
and individual sports, such as tennis,
badminton, ping-pong, golf and riding,”
Miss Ilutchiuson announced. The new
teacher wants to keep her students in
terested, and she plans to do this by
giving them a large number of sports
that are lots of fuii as well as those
that are of valuable use to the pupil
physically.
^Yheu asked about new equipment
out hi the gym, she shook her head
and loolwd at Mi> Jamieson who hap
pened to he standing close by. He re
plied that he didn’t kuow anything
about auy new eiiuipment either, so she
laughed comically and exclaimed, “Let’s
just skip that one!”
“Of course, I haven't done any
teaching here yet,” she continued, "but
all of the students have been as friend
ly as they possibly could, and I’m
sure that I shall like to teach at
G. H. S. very much.” She confessed
that she hadn’t found as much uoise
aud confusion on registration day as
she thought she would find. “However,”
she concluded, “the month isn’t out
yet!”
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HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
TO BE U. N. C. GUESTS
High school seniors from all over
the state will he guests of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina on Satur
day, September 23, when the Univer
sity holds its second annual High
School day. Invitations have been sent
each state high school to attend the
“fete,” arranged' to acquaint them with
their state university.
Arriving in the moruing, seniors will
be met at Graham Memorial by “home
town” students at Carolina, and will
be taken on a tour of the University
till lunch (eaten picnic style), which
is to be served on the campus. In the
afternoon, the group, which numbered
12,000 last year, will be guests of the
University at the Carolina-Citadel
football game. This event concludes
the day’s “organized activities.”
Two buses were chartered for G.H.R.
seniors last year, but as yet no definite
plans have been revealed for this year’s
transportation.
Moving from a cubbyhole In the base
ment of the main building to a spaeiou.s
second ?/'or room in the cafeteria
buidling is q\’ite a change for Mrs.
Braswell's art classes. Leaving her
(pet) rats to search for food instead
of feeding on art des'.sus, Mrs. Bras
well has moved, lock, stoi-.. and barrel,
to her new quarters, where al' lior time
will he devoted to art—not malh. In
cidentally, in the recently acquired art
room, large cabinets and plenty of light
and space are at the disposal of the
talented art students. Now that Greens
boro high can boast of two full time
art instructors, enlarged facilities in
this department, and with wood carv-
clay modeling, and weaving added
to the course of study, the art depart
ment is out to meet the state art re
quirements.
CHAIRMEN APPOINTED
BY STUDENT COUNCIL
President Jean McAlister presided
over the Student council which met
for the first time this year last Mon
day.
The council appointed several com
mittee chairmen which Included:
Social Standards—I)ougla.ss Hunt.
Traffic—Richard Ruby.
Scholarship—Robert McAlister.
Cafeteria—.Jim Perrin.
TVelcoine—Carolyn Lassiter.
In addition to these, Herman Smith
was appoiiited chairman of a commit
tee to keep pi'operty In the washrooms
from being injured and wasted. Cot
ton Morris was appointed program
chairman.
THIRTY-SIX NEW !
STUDENTS ENROLL
Patrolman!
Distant Cities Represented;
San Francisco, Long Island,
Cleveland Heights.
The fact that the sophomore classt-
have been transferred to the junior
high schools does not mean that no
new blood will be entering Greensboro
high school this year, for there are
thirty-six students coming here from
such far-distant locations as San Fran
cisco. California, Cleveland Heights,
Ohio, and Long Island, New Yorli.
However, the greater majority of the
new pupils hail from neighboring
tions of the country.
'fhose new members of the student
body coming from the greatest distance
are Jackie Moose of Polyteelmical high
in San Francisco, Helen Collisou of
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Mercedes
Zimmerman of Ix)ng Island.
Other additions include' Ruth Sice-
ioff of Fort Myers, Florida, Lorena Ac
ton of Florence, Alabama, J. B. Winner
of Suffolk, Virginia, Spurgeon Har-
cum of Norfolk, and Charles Prince of
I;ynchburg. To Senior high from River
side Military Academy come Ed Zane
and Jerome Hyman.
Entering Senior high from Charlotte
{■ re George Estover and Ruth Wynn;
from Reidsville, Garland Gentry
from Wilson, Margaret McCabe; from
Burlington, Mary Blue Britt and Gor
don Hollingsworth; from High Point,
Baxter Stapleton, Crissie Maxwell,
and Norman Ziglor; from Jamestown,
Doyle T.K>we, Louise Landreth, Peggy
Bowman, Lillian Pepper, Ralph Barbee,
James Groomc, aud Fred Abernathy;
from Sanford, Leon Eubanks; from
Belmont, Robert Luttiy; from Mcl..eans-
ille, Florine Wilson; from Elon,
Marie Ray ; from Fairfields, Elsie Aune
•is; from I./exington, Linna Craw
ford; from Liberty, Frank Whitesidfig
(Ofjijjinucjl on Pnge Thrr, j
“Feathers Make the
Bird”
(And Paint Makes the Cafeteria)
"Gosh!” “What a change!” “I never
thought they’d do that.” No, this ab
solutely is not the latest bit of gossip
about Mary’Si new skirt, anybody’s new
:oilfure, nor the newest prank in the
classroom, but just a few of the re
marks made by greatly astonished (not
to mention half - starved) G. H.
students as they scampered into the
;afeteria for their first school luncheon
of the .veai*. Around them was not the
usual dark, dull atmosphere that had
formerly surrounded them during their
noonday lunch, but a brighter, gayer
air due to a newly painteil diulug
room that fairly sparkled with cheer
fulness. Cream and brown paint
bought with the Cafeteria Repair and
Replacement fund, and put on by WPA
workers under the direction of the
school painter, Mr. Hunter, had trans
formed a mere eating place to a de
lightful room that radiated happiness
and cheei-.
Students and Teachers
Have Varied Vacations
The New York World’s Fair, Manteo,
Califorina, Canada, Florida, and vari-
beaches seem to have held the
greatest attraction for the faculty and
students of G. H. S. during the past
summer..
The majority of the summer pilgrim
ages were made to New York, for,
aside from the 90 boj-s taken by the
Y. M. C. A., were Mary Jane Long.
Daphne Lewis, Harriet Sink, Miriam
Youn.g, Gayle Jenkins, Eleanor Whit-
ley, Herman Cone, .Margaret Ann Gar-
■ett, and Dale Warmath. The teach-
■rs were not to he outdone, for from
their ranks went Misses Sledge, Har-
hison, Cahoon, L. Smith, Strickland,
Mims, Causey. Mrs. B. Smith, and'Mrs.
Blackburn all bent on taking in the
sights.
Miss Farlowe and Charlotte Ilume
had real “See America First” tours.
Miss Farlow took a southern route to
California, stopping at the Grand Can
yons, Carlsbad Caverns, and Boulder
Dam. Arriving In California in the
south, she visited Catalina, Long
Beach, Los Angeles and finally the
Fair in San .Francisco. Going north
to Portland, Oregon, she came back
by Montana, South Dakota, Indiana,
and finally home. Charlotte had a
similar trip, seeing both fairs and go
ing up into Canada.
No one can ever say the Alma Mater
doesn't turn out a beach-going crowd,
for most of the beaches on the South
Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
shores were simply infested with stu
dent and teacher alike outdoing the
heat, and washing away cares in the
surf. Taking it a step further were
Ed Faulkner who was at Daytona
Beach, Florida, and Caroline Ticklin
and Miss Stedman, who spent part of
the summer in that state of health
and sunshine.
Paul Green's play at Manteo was
still going strong in its second summer
of production, declared Martie McLew
who was one of the many enthusiastic
tourists who stopped at that historic
island.
On the whole, everyone had a grand
summer except maybe Miss Taylor who
spent a good part of the summer work
ing, Sara Jeffress who was nursing
bad case of poison oak, or some
Mr. Otto Wells, state highway patrol
man. who examined the high school
bus drivers last week in the interests
of safe riding for students.
JUNE GRADUATES
OFF FOR COLLEGE
University of North Carolina,
Woman’s College, State
Are Most Popular.
Off to college daily and gaily trek a
large number of G. H. S. June gradu
ates ; many to home town colleges,
some to neighboi'ing towns, and others
out of the state. Out to California
goes Jack Behrman, former treasurer,
to enter the University of California.
Peggy McAlister wfil register at Con
verse college in Spartanburg, S. C. Five
girl.s will go to Virginia colleges: Jean
Stafford and Elizabeth Deaton to Mary
Baldwin, Mary Prances Haesloop to
Su’llins, Marilyn Reaves bo Hollins,
and Alice McCuIler to Mary Washing
ton. Barbara McFetters will atteu
IlarcV.ni Junior college at Bryn Maw
Pa.; VifSipja Pope at Skidmore col
lege, SkIdmoTfi- N. J.; Jean Leonan
and Beverly Phyllr.»- Cbandgie' at Na
tional Park college in Maryland.
The entrants to North Carolina col
leges are as follows:
Duke: Charles William Andrew
Clair Gingher, Duncan Holt, William
Smedhurg, Ben Smith, and Clyde
Vaughan.
Davidson: Wilbur Lee Carter, Wile-
man Ehly, and Clarence Pierce.
Darlington School for Boys: Bruce
Walls.
Elon: Pichard Weatherly, Margaret
Hauser.
Flora Macdonald: Elizabeth Bagley,
Nancy Sills.
Georgia Tech: Albert Robert Wilson,
Hobart McKeever.
Guilford: Roby Arnold Beal, Edwin
Booth, Esten Combs, E. C. Freeman,
Claude Ilaydon, Charles Hill, Charles
Lahser. Frank Barrett, Wesley Inman.
Paul Cobb, Carlton Thompson, Regi-
LOCAL STUDENT
STUDIES FLYING
AT CITY TORT
Vocational Work Affords Wide
Range of Interests To
35 Students.
Greensboro high school's diversified
occupations program, under the direc
tion of Mr. Q. E. Mathis and Miss
Christine Price, reported recently that
between 30 and 40 students were al
ready faking advantage of the pro
gram, and more were exiiected to enter
in the near future. “Greater variety
and more desirable positions explain
this .vear’s increased numbers,” stated
Miss I'rice.
Heading this year’s lineup is H. B.
Sewell, a member of the senior class,
who is employed at the Greensboro-
Iligh Point airport as “Handy Andy,”
for which service he receives free fly
ing lessons. Another senior, Annie
Louise Patterson, writes a column of
city school news in one of the daily
papers. Equally as thrilled as H. B.
and Annie Louise, many students are
now watching the papers for Annie
Louise’s first article.
Office employment claims many stu
dents, some of whom are: Carolyn
Holt, Catherine Eeavister, Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance Co.; Marie
Coe, Burlington mills; Earlinc Kale,
Merchants' association; Kathryn Bur
ton, Ellis, Stone & Co.: Helen Salios,
fOonthiucd on Page Three)
DOUGLASS HUNT ELECTED
GOVERNOR “BOY’S STATE”
Noted North Carolinians Conduct Con-
ventlon for 134 Boys on Campus
of Tar Heel College.
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ROOM CORRESPONDENTS
NEEDED FOR HIGH LIFE
Some stich ad as this might have
appeared in the business section
of High Life this week, for the
staff is eager for more complete
coverage of school activities.
The presidents of the various
sessiou rooms are requested to ap
point a reporter for each class.
The duties of these roll-room cor
respondents will be to jot down all
events of interest which occur, and
put them in the journalism mail
box for use iu the High Life, or
to hand them to Anne Glass, who
will have charge of this work.
NEW MUSIC AND ARTS
BUILDING DPENED
The Music and Arts building, con
structed last year by the PWA, has
now been reported in good order and
has been accepted by the school board.
This addition to the high school plant
should prove to be a great asset to the
school.
This building, which adjoins the
field house, has been built of brick and
presents an attractive exterior as well
as interior. It will be used primarily
for shop and band classes. Later, how
ever, It is planned that the physical
education classes for girls will be con
ducted there. It is perhaps best suited
for this latter purpose, as it already
of the boy scouts who returned from I houses showers and fifty double lock-
camp covered with chigger bites. | ers for uniforms and other equipment.
Ton honors were he.stowed on Douf'
lass Hi'inr. Green.sboro high senior,
wlien he was elected governor of the
Tar Heel Boys’ State, which convened
ut the University of North Carolina
through the week of August twenty-
seventh to September third.
The convention, under the leadership
of the Americanism committee of the
American r.egion, department of North
Carolina, was the first to be inducted.
Only the mo.st outstanding boys in the
Tar Heel high schools were selected
to attend.
Each day a different phase of gov
ernmental activity was discussed by the
best informed men of the .state. For
instance, when the judicial system and
the set-up for criminal law enforce
ment took the day, the speakers were
Edward Scheldt, chief of the Char
lotte bureau of the FBI, and Judge
Hubert Olive of the superior court
of North Carolina. On the last uight
the speakers were the Honorable Thad
Eure, secretary of state, and the Hon
orable Clyde R. Hoey. Each day after
their legal studies the boys enjoyed
out-of-door sports.
When your reporter interviewed
Douglass Hunt, .she did not find the
"iKise-up” atmosphere, as would have
been true of mo.st high school seniors
winning this honor course.
When asked for a statement, Doug
lass .stated that he thought Dean
Bradshaw of the university the most
infere,sting speaker who talked to
tbeni, so he would state part of Mr.
Bradshaw’s summaiizing speech: “The
Tar Heel Boys’ State was worthwhile;
It was a great endeavor; it was a step
in the right direction; my only hope is
that where we have stepped, we begin
to march.”
The Scalped Indian
of Old Columbia
One afternoon your reporter was
peacefull.v—and quietly walking down
the street in Columbia, S. C., when
suddenly she received a great shock—
or were her eye.s playing tricks?
“Hey, have lujiims been around here
lately?” .she wondered? “No, this can’t
her mind reasoned, but directly in
front walked a boy with his head
scalped! All that could be seen was
simply a little bunch of hair, parted
the middle, at the front of his
forehead.
Finally yours truly managed to get
up enough courage to ask what it was
all about. The “scalped paleface” grin
ned and drawled, “Aw, this is just the
latest style down here—we call ’em
jitterbug haircuts!”