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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
High Life
Changes Dress!
International Honor Rating
VOLUME XVI
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 19, 1939
Vocational Interest Groups’
Special Assemblies Planned
Ben Cone Is Speaker
For Kiwanis Club
At Boys’ Meeting
Ben Cone, representing the Kiwanis
clnb, will speak to the first special
hoys’ assembly on Monday, October 23.
For the first time at G. H. S., separate
assemblies are beitig planned for boys
and girls. Vocational interest groups
have also been scheduled in connection
with the special assemblies. Through
the interest of the vocational depart
ment, Altrusa club, and the men’s civic
clnb, a variety of programs have been
made available for the student body.
Personal and Business Problems
To Be Featured
Problems and suggestions on person
al appearance, social work, and phases
in the experience of young job seek
ers will be diseused in the girls’ assem
blies. Representing the Altrusa club,
JIrs. Olive Lambeth, Mrs. Minnie Mae
West, and Miss France. Brisendine will
speak to the girls during the first
semester. Mrs. Ernestine Milner, who
is personijel director at Guilford col
lege, spoke at the first girls’ assembly
on October 16. Mrs. Milner introduced
the Altrusa club to the group and ex
plained the vocational program which
the clnb has undertaken.
Prominent Greensboro Business Men
To Speak to Boys
In the hoys’ assembly programs,
speakers fr-om the various civic clubs
will explain the purpose, organization,
and various functions of their clubs.
Ben Cone, Kenneth Goodson, M. A. Ar
nold, W. H. Andrews, Montgomery
Hill, and .John Caffey are a few of the
prominent Greensboro business men
who will speak to the boys.
Diffei’ent fields of work will be dis-
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IN MEMORIAM
Death came quickly and silent
ly to John Howard M’a«l, an
active junior at Senior high
school, last Thursday morning
sifter an illness of only live days.
He recently inovel here from
Salisburj', and was living at 834
Olive street. Funeral rites were
held at 11 o’clock Saturday
morning.
Though John had been living
in Greensboro only a short while,
all who knew him ailniired and
liked his quiet way of accoin-
plishing things. “John was po-
lite, friendly, did lovely work,
and in every respect was a good
student,” said Miss Sledge, his
homeroom teacher. “I taught him
English, history, and also had
him for study hall, and I have
nerer found a better mannered
or a better beliaved person,” slic
added.
Miss Margaret Moser, attend
ance offioei-, became acquainteil
with the boy through the office
and simke very highly of him.
She reporteil that he had been to
tl)e office several times for sick-
slips, and had been absent from
school only five days since his
last illness.
Students who were in John’s
classes will look at that empty
desk aiMl will remember a thor-
oughly grand person — John
Ward.
With an Eye
Toward the Future
“Knit two, purl two, knit two—
deal-, I dropped a stitch! Oh-h, Miss
Lesley!”
This will probably be the cry
many 6. H. S. lassies who may be seen
trooping to school with long speary
knitting needles and fluffy balls of yarn
tucked perkily under their arms.
Those who have not heard will be
pleased to know that instead of going
to war these girls intend to “make’
Miss Lesley’s knitting club. These nov
ices have beautiful mind’s eye pictures
of themselves in the sweaters and suits
they plan to make, but many feel that
time alone can tell what the results
M’ill be!
Life to Have
Streamlined Face
Headlines to Emphasize
New Use of Lower Case;
Type Similar to Record’s
Streamlined facing and right-up-to-
the-last-minute type will soon feature
an improved High Life. The transfor
mation was brought about partially in
this issue by the arrival and use of
new type, which is similar to that of
the Greensboro Record.
Erbar Bold Condensed, as the new
print is called, is designed, cut, and
produced by the Mergenthaler Lino
type company. It comes in two sizes—
24 point and 18 point. The new sys
tem, which is composed of capitals and
lower case letters, is a big improve
ment over the old form headlines set
in capitals, because it can be read more
easily and is much more attractive.
The new headlines are sometimes
called no-count, not because the type
isn't good, but because it is so ea.sily
Counted. In the Ipast, members of
the journalism class have had to strug
gle as long as 40 and 50 minutes over
a single head, and often it took them
longer to write the headline than to
do the entire article, Imt now, thanks
to the new type, some of their troubles
are over.
Wunsch Made Rector
Of Black Mt. College
Moser to Organize
Music Appreciation Club
Miss Moser announced last week
that she plams to organize a music
appreciation clnb during the next
month. Tlie clnb will be composed of a
.small, select group who will enjoj’ all
types of music.
Meetings will probably convene in
the office on regular club days] Music
of all types will be studied—sym
phonies, piano selections, singers,
operettas, and bands. Miss Moser has
in her possession the “Nutcracker
Suite’’ by Tschaikowsky and several
piano recordings which can be used as
a basis for a number of programs. Mr.
Brietz and Mr. Hazelman have agreed
to lend her music. Then, too, differ
ent members of the club will con
tribute the use of records.
Miss Moser feels that music is of
interest to all people, and that, in
spite of all the facts, will be entirely
new at Senior high, it will be suc
cessful.'
AV. R. AVuii.sch, a former faculty mem
ber of Senior high, was recently re
elected pre.suleut, or rector, of Black
Mountain college, near Asheville, N, C.
Air. AVnnsch started teaching in
Greensboro iji thr^ 1920'.s. Ills con
tributions to Senior high were various
and many, among them being “Home
spun,’’ a dramatics class, and the cre
ative English class.
After leaving Greensboro Air. M’unsch
taught in Asheville. Jyater he went
to Rollins college, an experimental in-
stittnion, in Florida, where some of
the faculty members, of which he was
one. soon resigned. They said that
the school had too many restrictions
to l>e an experimental one.
These teachers then started a coop
erative institution of their own,
North Carolina. Here the students
are permitted to go to school even if
they are married. The pupils, and
teachers as well, wash dishes, sweep,
and do house work. Classes are taught
very informally, sometimes meeting
the apartments of the professors.
Vocational Students Work Hard at City Jobs
Pictured al)ove is an unusual high school photograph showing a cross-section of the Senior high school
vocation department at work on their down-town jobs. Reading clockwise are Kathryn Burton keeping
books at Ellis-Stone’s; Frank Newton, servicing car at Bales & Truitt’s; and Herbert Smothers filing
want ads at the News-Record office. Reading counter-clockwise are Annie Louise Patterson hunting news
for her Record column, “City Scliool News”; Harry Comer cutting paper for Riser Printing company;
and in the center, hidden in the hood of the car, a shot of Senior high. These pupils, together with
about thirty others in the department spend half the day studying vocational theory, as well as several
regular courses, at school, and the other half working as apprentices down town. (Photographs by
Solomon Kennedy; photographic effects, C. C. Cooley).
Committee Chosen
For College Day
Stephenson to Be Chairman;
Will Have Mrs. Smith’s Help,
and 7 Student Assistants
can Stephenson, of semester 7, has
been clio.sen chairman of the annual
college day. Jean, late candidate for
.■eta,r.v of the studen.l; body, lias
shown her efflcieiu’y by the numerous
positions she has held in the office.s
of G. II. S.
Date Set for Second Semester
The date for college day has not
•t been set, but as usual it will come
in the second semester. The day is
set aside for the seniors who are plan
ning a college career. Representatives
from leading colleges and universities
•ill he here to discuss and show to the
students the advantages of their school.
Seven Student /Xssistanls
Airs. Blanche ^niith, adviser of the
ollege day committee, aniionnced (he
members who are to as.sist .Jean. They
Rosser (ffiirk. Claude Teague, Bob
Banks, .lean Trimble, Theresa Mc('or-
mick, Alen Dixon, and Sue Hall.
Former G.H.S. Teacher
Is Famous Writer s Wife
Among the millions of Americans
who listened to Major George Fielding
Eliotts broadcasts from Tondou. during,
the first week of the war, and since
his return to this country, those at
G. II. S. will be especially interested
to learn that AInjor Eliot’s wife was
Aliss Sara Hodges, roommate of Aliss
Ida Belle Aloore and a former French
teacher at G. Ij[. S. Ala,lor Eliot, author
of the sensational best-seller, The
liamiHirhs Jl’e IFa/c/i, is America's
foremost military expert, writer, and
lecturer in allied fields. lie will lec
ture here at AV. C. U. N. C. on Oc
tober 30.
“As to wliat I am doing,” wrote
Airs. Eliot in a letter to Miss Moore,
’T am my iius’oand's secretary—after
timilly convincing him that the life of
a ‘lady of-leisure’ doesn't appeal to me.
I copy and proofread the manuscripts
lie sends to bis editors, answer the
telephone when he is out, run errands
to various publishers, etc. I find it
absorbingly interesting, .and it is sur
prising the work it entails.”
Mi-s, Eliot Is from Mocksville, N. C.
Airs. Eliot is a jiative of North
Carolina, her home being in Alocks-
ville. From Guilford college, where
she and Aliiss Aloore were room
mates, Airs. Eliot won a scholarship
to Bryn Alawr, in Pennsylvania. After
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Fulure Teachers Club
Organized al G. H, S.
Thalian Club Adds
20 New Members
Beall New Head
Of French Club
'Elizabeth Beall was recently elected
president of the French club. Other
new officers are Janette Sloan, the
girl who came to this country from
Germany last year, vice-president;
Jane Strozier, secretarj’; and Bill
Barnes and Carolyn Stout, program
chairmen.
At the next meeting, the program
committee plans to play games, while
speaking French only. This last, how-
•. is a regular feature of these
meetings.
Alembers of the club not listed are
Gloria Arnold, Bill Barnes, Elizabeth
Beall. Bill Bowman, Tom Carpenter,
Louise Fryar, Sue Hall, Betty Ilorn-
ada.v, Mary Hudson, Alary Jane
I-aughan, Daphne I-iSwis, Laura Grace
Little, Theresa McCormick, Alartlui
•Jane Alitchell, A’ictoria Peiinekamp,
Janette Sloan, Anne Southerland.
Carolyn Stout, Jane Strozier, Jean
Sfephenson, and Gregg Trosper.
A meinliership committee, appointed
the president of the Thaliaus,
Dianne Page, and composed of Alary
.To Flippin, Jane Eller, Dorothy Long,
and Marion Morris, has recently ap-
porved 20 new members for the junior
dramatic club.
All persons wishing to enter were
reipiired to write a formal application
stating why they desired to enter and
their experience.
New ineinhers are Frances Heath,
Dorothy Oates, Alargaret AIcCabe, Hope
Thornburg, Peggy O’Coniielll Beverly
Jvang.sfon, Richard Kiser, Lois Hutton,
Caroline Fiekling, Alartha Hipp, Alil-
clred Bonkeineyer, Charlie King, Mir
iam Young, Charlotte Hume, Shannon
Schumann, Caroline AA’agoner, Irma
Estes, A'iolet Caneega, and Anno Glass.
Economic Groups Have
Speaker and Style Show
All home economics two and four
•lasse.s were recently given a demon
stration on Talon slide-fasteners by
Aliss Hahn from Talon’s New Y'ork
office. The latest colors and styles in
clasp were shown,
complete miniature wardrol)e was
also exhibited, the models being about
18 inches tail. The Talon fasteners
were used in the plackets of the dress-
, skirts, blouses, and shirts.
Aliss Hahn spent the major porllon
of the week demonstrating at various
junior high schools of the city.
Plans Include Program;
Also Helping with Campaigns
For Better School Spirit
To stimulate interest in teachiua
among talented high school students, a
clnb, Future Teachers of America,
was organized last week during ac
tivity period, it was announced by
Air. Francis Tliomas, fa(ailt.v advi.ser,
in \i recent interview.
The club, whose aim is to help pre
pare would-be-teachers in high school
for the positions they will later fill,
is one of the first of this type in
North (.'arolina. Present plans include
discussion programs whereby members
may help solve school problems, as
well as a chapel program and assisting
in campaigns for a better G. II. S.
Organization of the club, which is
open also to students who do not plan
to be teachers, at present, is incom
plete. Dorothy Ix)ng is serving as
temporary chairman.
Barringer and Keep
Design for Bonnetry, Efird’s
Miss Lee's art students have been
busily engaged in many outside ac
tivities during the past fortnight.
A’irginia Barringer, an art student
and former cartoonist for the school
new'spaper, has been doing millinery
posters and ads for the Bonnetry.
Lawrence Keep made a mask, which
will be used by Richard Grubb, for-
ner art student of Aliss liOe’s, in
'bird’s window, which he decorates.
In addition Albert Alyriek, Joe
I'liomas, and Bud Fayad, w’ere respon
sible for the posters and the tlier-
mometer for the recent High Like
subscription campaign.
‘You Must Have
Been a Beautiful
Baby”
Alany thing.s, some unusnal and some
ordinary, have occurred at this school
during the past year, but nothing as
startling as the artf.stio picture exhilit
planned by the members of Airs. Le-
Gwin’s homeroom 14.
The exhilfit will l)e accompanied by
a contest. Now there is nothing un
usnal about a picture contest—that is.
not until you come to this one, for this
is to 1)0 a l)nby picture contest with
the students of the homerooms star
ring in the roles they played some 1.5
years ago. People in room 14 are
therefore certain to discover who “must
have I)eeii a beautiful baby.”
Social Standards
Conference Plans
Are Being Made
Official Convention Motto
Adopted by Heads Is
‘World We Want’
“The AVorld AVe Want” has been
selected as the theme for the eighth
annual Social Standards conference,
which will take place during the week
of December 4. Plans are being made
by the execative'‘commiftee under the
leadership of Douglass Hunt, student
chairman for the socoud consecutive
.vear, to establish a broad year’s pro
gram with Social Standards day only
a beginning.
Ooiifereiice Inaugurated 1931
Since Mr. C. W. Phillips, principal
of G. H. S. in 1931, inaugurated the
Social Standards program, the annual
conference has become one of the most
important events in the school year.
A lietter social standard throughout
the school has been the purpose of the
'etiugs, and this year’s conference
will emphasize especially training for
leadership and training for more intel
ligent participation in student govern
ment.
This year the committee is also at
tempting to profit by the suggestions
offered by the student body in a ques
tionnaire which was filled out last
spring. By using those suggestions and
cooperating with any other school group
which is also interested in the vital
problems of the student, it is hoped
that a solution will be found for many
present .school problems.
To Sponsor Railio Programs
During National Education week,
November 5-11, the committee will spon-
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Playmaslers to Give
Famous 'Candlesticks'
Dick Kiser, Billy Holladay
Will Portray Characters
Of Churchman and Convict
Senior's Band Plans
ImporlanI Schedule
Tr. Herbert Hazelman, Senior
bigh’.s band director, stated last week
that the high .school band is planning
a heavy and varied schedule for the
next few \ve‘ks,
The entire hand will make two im
portant trips. First, it will go to Dur
ham to play for the Durham-Syraeuse
football game. “It is quite an honor
for a higli school band to be invited
to take part in such an important
game,” he .stated. The second trip will
be to play for dear old G. H. S. in a
stiff game against Greensboro’s great-
t rival—Charlotte.
Sixteen selected members are work
ing on .several symphonic movements
wifli students from the AA’onian’s col
lege. Senior high is furnishing the
members of the wind section, while
Woman’s college is furnishing the
string .section of the orchestra. This is
the first attempt for pnjiils of Greens
boro high sclUK)! and the coliege to
•k togetlier on a musical program.
•Richard Kiser and Billy Halladay,
o outstanding members of the dra
matic clnb, will head the cast in the
I’kiymaster’s production of 77ic
Biuhop'H ('nndU'Htieka, by Norman Mc-
Kiim‘l. a dramatic one-act tragedy
based on Victor Hugo’s Lcs Miscr-
ahloH;’ announced Miss Wall, director
of (he dramatic clnb, fhi.s week. Pre
viously published intentions of giving
Sham were changed.
The HiHhop’n Caudlesticks takes
place .nbour thirty miles from Paris at
the beginning of the last century.
Bichard Kiser portrays the part of
the gobcT bishop, who loves all hu
manity and protects everyone who
•ill have confidence in him, while
Billy Halladay takes the part of Jean
Val .lean, a convict, who, althougli n
degenerate type, still bears a spark
cood in him. Persoino, tlie Bishop’s
sister, wlio loves and protects her
brotiicr so mneb that she becomes
Immorous, is to be played by Cressie
Alaxwell. Eleanor Alolen impersonates
the Bishop’s little French maid, Marie.
Tile Sergeant of Gendarmes is played
by Baxter Stapleton, with Roy Evans
as his assi.stant.
’I'he proimrty committee will consist
of Alartha Hornaday, chairman, Elea
nor Dare Taylor, and Frank Wliite-
si(l(*.
All the students taking parts in thi.s
])ro(lu-tion are newcomers to the G. II.
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Catalog Collections
Made by Home Room
Students of home room 313 are mak
ing a collection of college catalogs for
use in prepjiring entrance require
ments in the various seats of higher
learning.
■ene Current, vice-president of this
room, was promoted to the position of
president when Richard Cromwell re
signed.
Harold Fox was given the iwst of
Bill Dobbins, who also resigned, as
traffic otlicer of the room.
Monarch and Rotary Clubs
Select Junior Members
The Monarch and Rotary clubs have
chosen liCslic Sharjte and Jeati Mc
Alister, respectively, as junior mem
bers of fli‘ elnlts for the month of
October. The clubs have been selecting
junior members for two years.