HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Be Book
Week
International Honor Rating—Quill and Scroll
VOLUME XVI
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., NOVEMBER 16, 1939
NUMBER 5
Plans Progress Rapidly
For Mid-Year Graduation
Student Officers
And Committees
Chosen to Help
Elizabeth Martin, president of se
mester eight, has announced the com
mittees which will have charge of the
mid-year garduation exercises. Al
though both the exact number eligible
for graduation and the date for the
great occasion are at^ the present unde
cided, plans and preparations are rap
idly progressing. Assisting Miss Strick
land, faculty adviser, will be Elizabeth,
Lillian Bennett, vice-president of pres
ent semester eight, and Jamie Fowler,
secretary and treasurer.
Class Day chapel program will be
under the direction of Elizabeth Mar
tin, president of semester eight, active
Girl Keserve, vice-president of session
room, and recent addition to Torch
light. Lody Glenn, heavyweight foot
ball star and vice-president of home
room council, will direct entertainment
on Class Day. Mark Benyunos, also a
newly-eiected Torchlight member, will
plan the program for graduation night.
Frances Gwyn, girl reserve and out
standing home economics student,
have charge of invitations. Lenett
Ilelrick will attend to the purchasing
and distribution of caps and gowns.
Necessary correspondence in connec
tion with graduation, will be carried
on by Frances Wilson. Catherine Bru
ton, a member of the diversified occu
pations group who works part-time at
Ellis, Stone’s, is chairman of the gift
committee.
Assisting the chairmen of the various
committees will be Jamie Fowler, Clyde
Fields, Bob Fulton, Georgia Thornton,
and Lillian Bennett, Class Day com
mittee; Mary Mitchell, Iloma Murray,
and Graham Bethune, entertainment on
Class Day; Cornelia Anderson, Eliza
beth Burchett, graduation Jiight pro
gram : Mary Ellen Russell, invitations;
Jerry Poarch, Carolyn Holt, Bill Wash
ington, caps and gowns; Marie Coe, cor
respondence; and Catherine Coble, gift
committee.
Back to Grammar
School Days
or
The Red Car Rolls Again
It’s a well-known fact that there’s
an awful lack of dignity among .some
of these G. H. S. juniors, but really
—even with tliis advance knowledge as
a shock absorber—it’s rather hard to
believe the scene that confronted the
pupils in one of Miss McNaiiy’s
geometry G classes recently. A cluster
of girls, an excited murmur, and a
^tiffled titter immediately told new
comers that something was up. With a
shrug, a push, and a jerk, they w'ormed
tlieir way to the nucleus of the group,
and there, before their astonished eyes,
sat a grinning boy winding up a little
red car in preparation for
around his desk top.
trip
Honor Sociefy to
initiate New Students
Edward Nell Accepts
Eighteen People Into
Quill and Scroll
"Boy-Friend Relationship"
Subject of Rosa's Talk
“We miglit ask ourselves what
liie sort of popularity we have to-
da'y will be tomorrow,” Mrs. Bess
N. Rosa, iiotecl lecturer, stated to
the Home Economics club yester-
day at its regular meeting. “It is
perfectly natural,” siie continued,
“to want to be popular, yet it is
better to have a larger gi*o«p of
friends than to single off and ‘go
steady’, so to speak.
Mrs. Rosa stressed the fact that
having boy friends and girl friends
is part of one’s personal develop
ment. “Old folks’ advice on this
subject may soimd rather ei-ancky,
but it Is i-eally quite semsible,” she
deciarel in conclusion.
Tl!b\ GIVEN
Other activities of the Home Ec
onomics club (his week incliidel
a delightful tea given to members
of the faculty on Tuesday after
noon. Tins delightful affair was
given uiidei' the supervision of Miss
M.\Ttle Stedinan, facully adviser,
and Louise Golding, club president.
Dean Bradshaw to Lecture
On Social Standards Day
The World They Want
Dr. Frelwell to Visit
City Schools Nov. 23
To Address G. H. S. Assembly
On Carious School Activities;
Will Make Tour of City
Dr. Elbert K. Fretwell, the foremost
authoritj’ in America on the subject
of high school extra-curricular activi
ties, will visit the Greensboro city
schools on Thursday, November 23.
Special Assembly Program
Dr. Fretwell, who resides in New
York City anl teaches at Columbia
iiniversitj', will spend next Thursday
morning at Senior high and will speak
on "School Activities” at the morning
assemldy wliich is open, of course, to
all Students of the school. During the
remainder of the morning, the student
council, committee chairmen, home
room council, infer-clnh council, and
the jonrnalisni classes will have a
chance to confer with Dr. Fretwell.
To Speak to Kivvauians
After a tour of the city. Dr, Fret
well will talk to (he Kiwnnians on
some pha.si‘ of education at their weekly
luncheon. During the afternoon he
will meet with the student councils of
the three junior high schools. The
noted educator will conclude his local
activities when he speaks on ‘‘Tniprov-
ing Our l^rofessiou" to the faculty of
the city schools at a call meetin:
Thursday afternoon.
Eighteen students from Greensboro
senior high school will be initiated into
Quill and Scroll, international honor
society for high .school journalists, No
vember 27, ill chapel. They are Bar
bara Bentley, Janet Cox, Aurelia
Dmistan, Alien Dixon, Irma Estes, Ed-
ard Faulkner, Sue Hall, Eleanor
Dare Taylor, Lewi-s Thornlow, Dianne
Page, Hazel Swiuson, .Anne Glass, Jane
Winfrey, Alleene I.)arby, Annie r.K)uise
Patterson, Claude Teague, Douglass
Hunt, and Gloria Blumenthal.
Requirements for Club
In order to become a member of
Quill and Scroll, one must be in the
upper third of his class schola.sticaIly,
and hi* recommended to Miss Pike,
faculty adviser for the club, for his
writing ability by the adviser for pub
lications, an English teacher, or a
member of Quill and Scroll. To Miss
I Pike, he must .submit samples of his
journ.'ilistie work, and she determines
whether or not the material is of sutfi-
cient quality to be sent to Edward
Nell, executive secretary of tlie inter-
jiatioiial Quill and Scroll society at
Northwestern university in Chicago.
After Mr. Nell has reviewed the sub
mitted material from every journalis
tic angle possible, be announces whetb-
or or not the person has "made’
honor .society.
Torchlight Attempts
To Raise Fifty Dollars
Projects for This Year
Discussed at Meeting;
Plans Made for Initiation
G. H. S. Delegates Attend
Conference in Burlington
Mary Carroll, Peggy Yates, Ernest
Beasley, and Berry Reid, four members
of the Social Standards committee, at
tended the annual Burlington Social
Standards conference last week.
Dean R. B. House, of the T’niversity
of North Carolina, delivered the key
note address after a brief preliminary
program of welcome to visiting dele
gates by Principal F. 51. BiggerstalT.
Representatives from Durham, Win
ston-Salem, Chapel Hill, 5It. Airy, High
Point. Greensboro, and Reidsville were
among the groups of delegates from
out-of-town high, schools.
Caldwell's Room Leads
In Atiendance Report
Fifteen rooms last month made an
average attendance of !)."%. (he re
quired quota for the monthly Imlf-holi-
lay. Miss Caldwell’s i-oom leads the list
rith Following close behind is
Miss Harhison’s joom with 07.42%.
Other roonm with attendance averages
above 0.")% are 5Irs. .Wery, 0(;.8!>%:
5Iiss Blackmon, 0(i.S%.; Jliss Mitchell.
%; Mi.ss I.esley. 0(>.(;%; illss Mc
Donald, Oi!.UO% : Jliss MeXairy,
; 5Irs. Blacklmrn, ; Jliss
Burnsidi', !».177%: Mr.s. Betts, !)-■>.(!%;
Mr. Hume, ; .Miss Sledge,
-Miss I.ee. !r>%.
Average 90%
Next are 1!) roum.s with an average
of or above. They are Miss Walk
er, !)4,S% ; -Mrs, Peebles, 94.(i7% ; Miss
Pike, 5Iiss Moore, 94.2%; Mr.s.
Alton, 9.3.9%; Jliss Wall, 9.3.9%; 5Iiss
Farlow. 9.3.84%; Mr. Blackman,
9.3.83%: Mr. Richards, 93.75%; Miss
Bradley, 93.7.5%; Miss Cohoon, 93.7% ;
ifr. Ilucks, 93.18% ; Miss Louise Smith,
92.92%; JIrs, Braswell, 92.7%; Mrs.
B, Smith, 92.fi% ; Mr. q'homas, 92.30% ;
5ilss Strickland, 91.9G%: 5Iiss Ilnteh-
inson, 90.83%; and 5Ir.s. LoGwin, 90%,
51iss Causey'.s room had an average
of SG.8%
Wuy.s and means of securing fifty
dollars in cash to replenish the soci
ety's scholarship fund were disenssed
last week at the semi-monthly meet
ing of Torchlight, national honor organ
ization. 51arshall Jlorris, president of
the group, presided. 'The scholar.ship,
at present, is under loan to a former
member of the clnh, and, therefore, it
was decided that a similar fund should
he raised if possible.
'riie president also welcomed a score
of newly-tapped members and explained
le varied projects that the , society
'onld undertake during this year. The
v> main events will he College Day
and Homecoming Day.
('ommittee chairmen were appointed,
which included : Harriet Sink, scholar-
diip: Jean Stephenson, social: Boh
Mc.VIlister, ways and Jiieans; Daphne
Lewis, program: and Elizabeth Beall,
archives. The latter is a coniinittee that
keeps a record and picture of each
Torchlight niemher in high school.
Jn addition to this, it was decided
that initiation fob new members, which
will take place soon, would be in the
form of a hay ride and weiner roast
at Frankie Chisholm’s home, at Sedge-
field, which will take place at an early
date.
Also, phin.s were made to .send a
group of students to Junior liigh schools
tlironghout the city, to exjfiain Torch
light requirements, in order that stu
dents might better prepare ihemselves
for entrance in this .society upon reach-
high school.
Left to right are Garland Wolfe, Mickey Palmer, and Buddy Gaddy
studiously studying the globe in connection witli Social Standards
Day. who.se theme is the “World We Want.”—Photo by Solomon
Kennedy.
W. K. Goodson Leader
For First Open Forum
On Student Problems
Banquet to Conclude
Program’s Activities;
Yates Is Chairman
Irene Current Reports
On State Congress for 313
Irene Current, president of room 313.
ive a reflort on (he State Student
Council Congress which was held in
Durham, during the home room pro-
:ram last 'J’lmrsday.
Following the talk, as a part of the
■nfertaiiiment, Muriel Fiske's row pre-
ented games and puzzles. It has he‘u
decided that each row in this room
. In its turn, have cliarge of the
progi'am.
Inter-Club Council
Reorganized at G.H.S.
Purpose of Organization
To Establish Relationship
Between Other Clubs
Reorganization of the Intei--Chih
council at G. II. S. began Friday, No-
•emher 10, due to the combined efforts
of 5Xr. Routh and Miss Blackmon. The
purpose of this co.nncil. which i.s com
posed of the presidents of all (he
■hool clubs, is to establish a relation
ship Itetween these clubs, develop a itet-
ter mulerstamling of the activities of
the other organizations in the .school,
and possibly to organize other clubs.
' Officers Elected.
The group, consisting of approxi
mately 23 members. electel JIarshall
Morri.s, president; Elizaliefh Beal, vice-
president: Daphm* Lewis, secretary,
and Martha Hornaday ami Allen Dixon,
board members.
Experience Is the
Greatest Teacher
or
Up in the Clouds
Pugh, G. H. S. Junior,
Interviews Author
Of Grammar Text
trip to New Y’ork has become
quite a common occurence since the
opening of the 'World'.s Fair, hut if,
hen on that trip, you interview the
writer of your English grammar text
hook, a.s one bright junior, .Tesse I’ugh,
did, fhat'.s a different story. While
idly iiisiiectlng the New York Museum
of Natural Ilistor.v, a bright thought
•struck the wanderlii.g student. Why
hot interview Dr. Tressler, the writer
of his gj'ainmar, Finjlitili in Action?
Grabbing a subway hoinid for Rich
mond Hill high school, where Dr.
Tressler heads the Englisli depart
ment, he set out ni)on Ins (pie.st.
Enters M’riter’s Office
.\t Riclinioiid high, the slightly dis
concerting announcement that the fa
mous writer would not. he in until |
one did not daunt .fesso. .hut the ar
rival of one o'clock did. 'I'lirusting his
fears behind him, however, and ad-
(Contiiiucd on Page Three)
Have you heard about Bill Leonard?
Its so funny its hard to write—hut
here ’ti.s.
It seems that Bill, a student here at
Greensboro high last year, went to
Baltimore this summer in the company
of Charles McAdoo. To niuke a long
story brief the two hoys became so in
fatuated with two belles of Baltimore
that before many months of courtship
and passed, matters were getting .so
serious that they were even thinking
of making a trip to the courthouse.
But Bill got cold feet and trucked hack
to the good old north state.
But he’s still up in the clouds—he
has entered in the T’nited States Air
Corps at Langley Field, Virginia.
Future Teachers Club
Elects Dixon As Head
Allen Dixon was recently elected
chairman of the newly organized club,
Future Teacher.s of America. Other
■mhers of this club are Dorothy Long,
Marion 8ifforl, Doris Jones, Harry
('oiner, Raymond Rogers, Lawrence
ciiver, and Douglass Hunt.
This novel organization trains the
intellectual type of boy or girl for ae-
cepting responsibility in a democracy
and helps him understand the require
ments of a pedagogical career.
A ‘Rendezvous with Death’
and ‘W rong'W ay’ Sprin\le
'T have a rendezvotis with Death,
At some disputed barricade,”
recited Faye Sprinkle, from Alan See-
ger's famous World War poem, when
sin* breezed into Miss Louise Smith's
home room last Thursday and hurst
fortli into iambic metrics, much to the
surprise of the assembled group. Hav
ing finished the recitation, Faye turned,
and, clothed in dignify stalked from
the room.
Behind her she left a hliuik room,
absolutely amazed at the apparition.
•Alercy,” wondered the students, “did
this girl have a Joan of Arch or Quaker
complex that moved her to proceed un
invited and ununnonncwl into strange
rooms, there to recite peculiar treasures
of poesy?”
While they were thus cogitating on
feminino idiosyncrasies, our . heroine,
all unaware of her terrible error, en
countered Virgil Sehenck, JIary Hamp
ton Seott. and Lacy Sellars, who (inick-
ly disillusioned her mind, in the hall.
• Now for (he denonnenient. It seems
that (he home room program of Mrs.
Avery's group, did not show np. and
therefore her program chairman, learn
ing that Miss Mini's room. 3(10. had pre
pared a carefuily arranged Armistice
Day program, conceived the idea of
"borrowing” each speaker, as he fin
ished, and sending him down to .30G.
pageant days used to travel from one
nnw'h as (he wagons in the Elizabe'than
square to another in old London.
The whole thing worked well until
Faye oiit-Con-iganed the famous flier.
However, the point which complicated
matters was the fact that unsmspeeting
Mis.s Smith thought Faye a' representa-
Four G. H. S. Teachers
To Attend Florida Meeting
Miss Cohoon, Mr. Littlejohn, 5Ii
I‘arker, and Mr. Richards are planning
to attend the annual meeting of the
SontlK'ni Business 'D'acher’s Eduen
tional association, which will he held
November 30 through December 2 at
tin* Roosevelt hotel in Jacksonville,
Florida. 'I'his association, which was
founded IG years ago, includes 12
Southern states and has a niomhership
,000. Many prominent .si)eakers
will he present at the meeting because
the National ('onucil of Busijiess Edu
cation is liaving a joint ses-sion with
the Southern association.
Miicli Eiii eriainment i’lanneil
Many activities are planned for the
■nferrainment of the members. Two
I-'lit-seeing tours will ho conducted;
nc oil Thursday afternoon at 1, and
one on Saturday afternoon at 2. 'I'liey
will include Jaeksonville, St. Augus
tine, and many other places of interest.
On Friday evening at 7. the conven
tion delegates will he entertained hy
the professional entertainers of the
Roosevelt Hotel Night clnh. Dr, .loiin
Robert Gregg will be master of I'eve-
moiiics, and new dance steps and tricky
bridge will be demonstrated ..by ex-
IHTts, laitei' a short talk will be given
by Dean B'illiam S. Taylor of the
rniversity of Kentucky on his last
.veiir and a half study in Europe
.Mr. Humphrey VisILs Business,
Department
The commercial department, of Sen
ior high liad as a visitor, last Tues
day, Mr. Clyde 5V. Humphrey, who is
connected with the Gregg rnblishing
company in New York city. Mr.
lliiniphrey, who at one time supervised
practice teachers of Woman’.s college
(ConJhiucd on Pago Three)
Dr. Francis F. Bradshaw, dean of
students at the University of North
Carolina, will deliver the keynote ad
dress for tlie eighth annual Social
Standards conferenoo, which will b^
held on December 0.
0|)en Forum
'I'his .vear for Flie first time an open
oriiin will bo held at the afternoon
geiu'ral ini'eting. ‘•'riie World We
Want,” theme for the conference, will
the topic under discussion with
.special emphasis on student problems.
Rev. W. Kenneth Goodson, assi.stant
pastor of (he West Jlarket Methodist
'hurch, will lead the fornm, after
whicli ho will summarize the thoughts
of the day to close the afternoon pro
gram.
Banquet to Be Held
As tlie concluding feature of the day,
a banquet will he given in the school
cafeteria. 'I'he puriKise of this meeting
is to plan a broader social standanls
program for the year. Representatives
from various schools, educational lead
ers, civic leaders, faculty members,
and a mimher of students will be pres
ent for the discussion. 1‘eggy i’ates, u
Social Standards committee member,
is the general chairman of arrange
ments for the banqxiet.
Black Masque Unit
Proposed at G. H. S,
Player’s Honor Group
Founded at Rocky Mount.
Membership Coveted
Ninety-Nineteen Hears
Ben L. Smith at Banquet
Ben L. Smith, superintendent
of the Greensboro (titj’ schools, made
the principal a(ldre.s.s at the hamiuet
of the Ninety-Nineteen at Duke uni-
Tsity, I'riday. Nove]nl)er 10. The or
ganization is an honor scholastic frat
ernity, requiring for membership an
average of ninety or more on each
tiveofthe Home Room Council come to 1 «ubject for the duration of two years
‘Olloct I*. T. A. membership dues! of college work.
'Black Masque,’' a name adopted
by the .'itate honor society for high
school dramatists, may soon he on the
lips of every student in G. H. S., for
the I'iaymaster clnh has recently l>eeii
asked to sponsor a local chapter of
thus society, which was originated in
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by C.
M. Edsmi. ilr. Kdson, who has taught
in two sessions of summer school in
the departmi'iit for Junior I'laymakers
of the University of North Carolina,
says, “'The niembershiii in the drama
honor assiK-iation in some schools hav
ing chajiters is more coveted than any
other club or lionor attention.”
Requlix'ineiits Explained
"To be eligible to belong to a chap
ter one must have one liigh scIkkiI
drama credit, must have appeared as
lead in one full-act play, or leads in
thri-e one-act plays,” cxpluin.s Martha
Iloi'iiaday, I'la.viua.ster president.
In addition to other activities, an
annual .state -onv‘ntion and tourna-
ineiit is heid, in which cadi .-hapter eu-
’is original plays written by its mem-
■rs. Tlien the most outstanding drama
iident of all f'hc state chapti*rs is
'lecti'd and receives a scholarship to
II' Junior Playmaker summer school
•Id at Chapel Hill,
Garden Club Plans
Arboretum for Campus
'I'lie making of a wild flower arbo
retum behind the gym and the plant
ing of flywei-.s around the gnninds are
to be (he chief projects of the stu
dent garden clnh for this year. Mem
bers have already started a pansy
garden, and very soon they will border
the shrubs with jiinqnil, tulip, and iris
bulbs, hoi.lng that these flowers will
ighten (he grounds tins spring.
Cliih .Asks for Bulbs
Under the direction of Mrs. Blaek-
luirn, plans are lieing made to work
out the wild flower arboretum proj(K.‘t
by sotting out native wild flowers and
fern around the jneturesque litth*
branch and hill behind the cafeteria
and gym,
"In ordiT that we may cover as
much ground as possible,” stated Mrs.
Buackhnrn, “the clnh wishes that any
one having extra hulks or plants would
contrihiite them (o this cause.”
5Irs. Blackhiirn’.s last period class of
about twenty boys are aiding the club
by planting approximately ten dollars
worth of bulbs.