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VOLUME XVII
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
All-American, N. S. p. A.-Internatioiial Honor Rating, Quill and Scroll
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C.. MARCH 21, 1941
M MBER 11
Council Groups to Sponsor Dance
At y^mory 8:30-11:45 on April 18
General Committee
To Name Sponsors,
Juniors and Seniors
Jean Garber Chairman;
Atkinson, Perry at Door;
Thornton Picks Chaperons
‘•To break the ice and set np a social
standard for high school students, the
Co-Recreation group will sponsor a dime
(lance for the entire student body at
the armory April 18, from 8:35 to 11 ;45
p.m. This is the first time in the re
cent history of the school that an event
of this type has been scheduled, an
nounced Jean Garber, chairman of the
dance committee, Tuesday, at the con
clusion of the student council meeting.
She was selected by Douglass Hunt,
president of the council.
Joe McRane, Martha Sholar, and
Dianne Page will work with Jean Gar
ber on the general committee for the
dance.
Atkinson, Perry at Door
Delia Atkinson and Bobby Perry, co-
chairmen of the door committee, will be
assisted by Douglass Hunt and Elea
nor AVhite. They will, of course, be in
charge of admission at the door.
The floor committee', with Charlie
Weill and Bill Halladay, co-chairmen,
and Jewel Wyatt, Margaret Welker,
Betty Jo Ferrell, members, will see
that the dance' moves smoothly.
Thornton Secures Chaperons
The other committees include the
chaperon group headed by Ann Thorn
ton, with Evelyn Rayle, Rachel Bax
ter, Neil Beard, Billy Donald, and the
committee for the sale of cold drinks
with Bill Brinkley, chairman, and Bev
erly Ileitman, Herbert Hattaway, and
Joan Ilolleyman, members.
The dance committee will choose
sponsors, two from the .innior class
and two from the senior class, in the
next fortnight. High Life will carry
the names of those selected in the
next issue.
Hazelman Judges Bands
In Georgia State Contest
Herbert Hazelman. director of the
Greensboro high school band, is at
tending the annual Georgia state music
contest being held in Atlanta March
10, 20, 21.
Mr. Hazelman. while on his trip, is
ai)pearing in a panel discussion of
credit for music in the Georgia second
ary schools. Dike the state festival,
this discussion is being sponsored by
the Atlanta music education cliib. He
is also acting as judge for the event.
2.
A STATEMENT OF POLICY
Life re(?eiitly has liatT no clearly defined editorial policy.
We admit that we have been vagne. But, because we think we
ought to publish the things we stand for permanently, we are
printing them here on the front page. This is a policy editorial.
It IS an attempt to state simply the principles for w'hich we
stand. Those principles follow below in one-two-three order.
Read them.
1. We believe that the students in this school must learn to
accept responsibility for themselves and the entire student
body. It means service. It means you.
We believe, that each person here must learn discipline.
He must learn to control his own actions. He must learn to
control his feelings toward others. He imist learn that self-
discipline is infinitely more important outside the classroom
than in it. In short, he must learn to act wisely and cour
teously and to stand firmly for his convictions, at the same
time granting his opponents the right to stand eqiiallv as
firmly for what they hold worthwhile.
We believe that all of ns together must give in here and
go out of our way there to build a common bond of affection
and cooperation between the students, the facult}", the ad
ministration, and our parents.
Wc believe that each of us has a duty to the nation as well
as to the school; we believe we cannot perform our duty to
the nation without first discharging the obligation we owe
the school.
These things the paper stands for. We stand for them
because we believe that an honest attempt at applying them
will eliminate the things we deplore around school: public
wooing, destruction of property, bad conduct, wliich in the
final analysis, is only seltishnes.s, and lack of consideration.
We want to see built a real school spirit, a spirit that will
last beyond one generation of students. We would like to see
a national spirit, a spirit of patriotism, a spirit that puts
country before self; others, before the individual. We be
lieve the foundation for that spirit is here. It is for the
student body to raise that torch.
3.
Douglass Hunt Wins
County Oration Meet
Douglass Hunt, winner of the Amer
ican Tyegion county meet in Greens
boro last week, will enter the district
contest Monday in Roxboro. Subject
for the series of orations is “The Con
stitution : Its Benefits.”
Winner of the district tournament,
to which Alamance, Person, Rocking
ham, Caswell, and Guilford will all
•scuid representatives, will compete in
the state contest.
Frank Dix Announces Date
Camp Graystone Opens
“Beginning June In, Gi-aystone, local
Roy Scout camp, will be open for
four consecutive weeks,” Prank Dix,
scout director, annoimced last week.
At the .same time he said that High
Rock, Sea Scouts camp, would start its
season July 10 and end it July 20.
Committee Prepares
College Day Plans
In preparation for Senior high’s an
nual College Da.v, on April 25, a full-
schedule affair including a luncheon
for representatives, Beverly Ileitman,
general chairman for the event, has
issued questionnaires to seniors con
cerning their preference of college rep
resentatives and has selected a member
from each Semester S lioine room to
serve as committeeman.
As chairman, Hazel Swinson directed
Gregg Trosper, Thomas Huifines, Bet
ty Shipman. Clifford Frazier, Charles
Weill, and Iona Parrish, typist, all
members of the interrogatory group.
With Martie Mcf'lennan responsible for
publicity. Sarah Armstrong, Marian
Davis, and Elsie Lewis are planning
the luncheon, while Torchlight, led by
its president, Tom Carpenter, will sup
ply registrars and guides.
Senior Students Enter
Winston Music Contest
Specializing in, vocal work and piano
and violin solo events, approximately
450 junior and senior high school pu
pils will participate in the district
eveiit.s in Winston-Salem today and to
morrow which this year precede the
annual music contest conducted each
year by Woman’s college for North
Carolina public school music pupils.
Senior Not Required to Enter
Because of their excellent ratings in
past years. Senior high’s hand and or-
•hestra are not required to enter the
district meets. Two junior high hands
from Greenshoror will enter the district
contest in Durham next week-end i)i-
stead of the Winston event, this privi
lege having been granted to that group
because their director, Herbert Hazel
man, who also conducts the high school
group, will he in Atlanta judging the
instrumental section of the Georgia
fifth district contest. The hands going
to Durham will be the 70-piece band
of Central junior high and the units
of Bindley junior high school.
Paging Cicero/
I’LL GET ALONG SOMEHOW
It's sad news for some, hut you
can’t get along without it. If you Avere
depriv('d of it, you Avouldii’t have
state capitals, automoI)iles, dentists,
feminine pulchritude, or even lihrarie.s.
It is Latin, the very backbone of the
English language.
Proving this fact, the local Latin
club presented at its meeting last
Wednesday an enlightening skit, “A
Day Without Latin,” with I>ett.\'
Routh, Elizabeth Gabriel, Preston
Floyd, and Leon Gibbs furnishing the
action.
'I'he .story concerned a recalcitrant
young Latin student Avho, after being
assured by his father that if he could
get along without using the language
for one day, he would no longer be
forced to study it, discovered rather
painfully that Latin meant necessities,
as Avell as luxuries. Crestfallen, he
lesumed his lessons in the irreplace
able ancient tongue,
N. B., Cicero!
•
James Hauser Studies
At Lees-M’Rae College
.Tames Hauser, graduate of Greens
boro high school and at present a
fresliman at Tx'e's McRae college, Ban
ner Elk, North Carolina, represented
his school in the Piedmont Golden
(xloves tonrnament at Greensboro and
succeeded in entering the finals.
For his present semester’s work.
Hauser made the highest honor roll
of his school Avhich requires an aver
age of ninety-live.
Boys to Spend Week-End
Preparing Camp Grounds
I’nder the leadership of Claude
O’Brien and Carl Cense, the order of
the Arrow, honor campers’ .society, will
spend March 28, 20, 30 at Camp Gray-
stone. The main purpose of their visit
will he to plan and make general im
provement in preparation for the sum
mer camping season.
School Debating Team
Ready for State Contest
Having already engagwl in a rec
ord miinber of practice debates, the
school forensic team huckled down
to work today for the State Tri
angular Debate contest to be held
- Friday, March 28.
On that day the local affinnative,
Bill Halladjiy and Martha Hipp,
will engage the High Point nega
tive team here. Paul Miller and
Douglass Hunt, Greensboro nega
tive, will debate the Winston-Salem
team in that city.
G. H.S. Entries Win
In Local Art Contest
Over Forty Local Winners
To Go to Chapel Hill;
Final Jutlging March 25
Over forty art entries from Senior
high school were selected on March 12,
by the local judges at Woman’s col
lege. to he sent to Chapel Hill, where
the final judgment in the fourth annual
North (’arolina school art exhibition
will take place on March 25.
Students Win Places
The following students had work sel
ected: oil, Douglass limit and Gene
Thornton; water color, Catherine Winn
(two entries), .lean Nowell, and Vir
ginia Haynes; tempera, Charlotte Gra
ham. Kenna Beall, and Gone Thornton
(two entries) ; pencil, .Dianne Page,
(’alherine Winn, .lack Williams; ink,
Bennie Lowe, Charlotte Graham, and
Bill Pollard: clialk. Gene Thornton;
crayon, Charlotte Graham and Sara
Trexler.
Design Winners .Vimouiiced
Design, Sara Trexler. Daisy B. An
derson, and Eugene Ivey: surface pat
tern, Douglass Hunt and (!aroline Fick-
ling: textiles, Catherine Winn, Doris
Jones, Vivienne O'Connor. Helen Pap
pas, Catherine ('arter, and Peggy Clen-
denin: weaving. Ed York: prints, Hel
en Pappas and Mary Frances Smith.
Pupils Enter ('lay, (’raft Divisions
^letal, Klindy IMillcr, Margaret Stark,
and Marjorie ('ain; clay modeling,
Jiichard Kiser and (iene Thornton;
wood carving, Rhudy Miller, Harrell
Whittemore, liichard Kiser, and Lon
nie Albright: pottery, .1. P. Williams
(two entries), Ed York (two entries),
Espie Dentiste. Bennie Lowe, and Billy
Simmons.
Death Takes Two
Students
Senior high school lost two of
its students last week-end, when
death claimed Ralph Barbee and
William Francis Hancock, The
former diel in a Durham hospital
after a prolongel illness, while
Hancock failed to recover from
injuries received in an accident
Saturday afternoon.
As both boys, though juniors,
were known throughout the school
as “good citizens and grand
boys,” it was with quiet rever
ence that the entire student bwly
bowed in devotional at assembly
period Monday.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 10:30 a.ni. for Han
cock, .son of Mr. and Mrs, W. S.
Hancock, L503 KandoI))h avenue,
at First Baptist church, and
were followed by Interment in
Forest Lawn cemetery.
Burial of Ralph Barbee, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph N. Barliee,
203 S. Eugene street, took place
at the Vickery’s Chapel cemetei-y
after services at 2:30 in Cente
nary Metholist church.
Page Averages 97.5;
Heads Scholar Roll;
Winterling Second
F. Thomas, H. Swinson
Take 2nd, 3rd Places;
5 Others Honored
ilaking the highest possible average
of l)7.57c, Dianne Page, daughter of
:\Ir. and Mrs. A. K. Page, 1026 West
JIarket street, topped the scholarship
honor roll at Green.shoro high school
for the first six week period of the
second semester, nnnonneed Miss Ida
Belle Moore, keeper of the honor roll,
yesterday.
Ranking near the top on the senior
honor list were Ruth Winterling, 07%;
Faye Thomas, 00.75% ; and Hazel Swiii-
son, 06.25%.
Make Special Honor Roll
Other senior students listed on the
special honor roll wore Beverly Heit-
man, Louise Howard, Sarah .Teffress,
Betty Shipman, Bill Brinkley, Tom Cai*-
penter, Eva Bowles, Margaret Welkei*,
and Elva Spencer.
Reach General Honor Roll
Senior students making an average
of 0t>% or better were Billy Halladay,
Althea Hardin, Virginia Haynes, Kath
ryn Humphreys, Estelle Hendrix, Fran
ce's Hodgin, Leota Holler. Carolyn Kil
lian, Beverly Langston, Helen Leonard,
Elsie Lewis, INIildrod Conrad, Janet
Cox, Linna Crawford, Gilda Jane
Crotts, Betsy Denny, Eleanor Dare
Taylor, Gene Thornton, Jack Tilley,
Eva Travis, Gregg Trospei-, Celia Var
ner, Jlary Lee Jacobs, (.'arol Jarvis,
Jack Jarvis, Elmer Jones, (fayle Jenk
ins, Lacy Sellars. Leslie Sharpe, Marie
Varner, Ami Chrismoii, Jane Eller,
(Continued on Pugc Eiyht)
WPA Supplies $3,996
For Irving Park Library
'J'he Irving Park school library
ceh^iratcd its formal opening on
March 12 with a lea. The funds
for the building were appropriated
by the county board of commission
ers and the WI‘A.
The latter supplied .lio,•'106.46 in
labor and 8600.6(i in materials,
wliile the county board of commis
sioners donated $6,171,55, making
a total of $16,167.77. Eifteen him-
dr(Hl of this went for books and
furniture.
^ The library, which consists of
three sections, contains a main
reading room, a reference room,
and a work room.
Local Teachers Hear
Routh, Teague Reports
All teacliers who attended the city
faculty meeting last Monday, at Cen
tral junior high school, heard reports
from various recent conferences. Ben
L. Smith, superintendent of the city
schools, presided.
A. P. Routh, GrtHUisliovo high scliool
principal, and M. I). Teague, business
manager, reported on the Atlantic City
conference of the National Education
al association. OJher speakers heard
wer(‘ Mrs. Margaret Wall, who spoke
on science in the elementary grades.
Miss Carrie Phillips, Mrs. Mary D.
(Jraiit, Mrs. Chrystall Bachtell, and
Jliss Ethel IVIcNairy.
Mrs. Betts, Dr. Hunt Speak
At N. Y. Meeting
“You, Too, ('an Sell Ads” was the
subject of the talk i)resented by Mrs.
Olive Betts Ix'fore a divisional meet
ing attended by more than 160 students
and teachers from all over the IJjiited
States, at the (kjlumhia Scholastic
meeting in New York last wf^ek.
Douglass Hunt led a group meeting
on the subject of “Planning the High
I School Paper’s Editorial Policy.”