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HIGH LIFE
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The Retiring Editor
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
TOLDME XVIII
Luncheon Hlghlighfs
Class Day Program
For 1942 Graduates
the presentation of the superla
tives and the reading of the Last Will
and Testament climaxing the event,
the senior c-lass combined their class
day program and the annual senior
luncheon Wednesday at the O. Henry
hot('l.
r>(‘cause the class day program is
usually presented to the student body,
tlie combination of the two major
events was an entirely new idea.
The luncheon program began with
toasts to the school, the senior class,
and the faculty. After the responses to
the.se, the seniors sang their school
song and a number of otlier songs, ac-
ci.mpanied by several members of the
high school band.
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., 3IAV 21).
M MBER 18
Pageant, Awarding of Diplomas
To Conclude Senior Activities
Present Will and Prophecy
After luncheon the main entertain
ment of the afternoon began. First,
the last will and testament and the
]uophecy, written by Bennie Lowe and
Helen Marks, were read. Then come
the climax of the event, the presenta
tion of the superlatives, selected by the
vote of their fellow students. Their
identity remained secret until the pro
gram and the announcement was a
complete surprise, even to those elected.
The committee in charge of class day
was headed by Rachael Whiteside,
chairman, and Miss Louise Smith,
faculty adviser. The remainder of the
committee consisted of the following:
ticket committee, .loan Ilolleyman,
I’restou McLaird and Edgar Sikes;
staging, .Toe I’owell, Richard Kiser,
Tames Dobbins, and Paul Miller; super
latives, Betty Routh, Melvin Grablow-
sky. 1‘aul Miller, Shannon Schumann,
Joyce 1‘ope, and Barbara Bond; last
will, testament, and prophecy, Bennie
Lowe and Helen Marks; decorations,
I>ick Kiser, Bennie Lowe, and Herbert
llattaway; place cards, Preston Mc
Laird and .Toe Powell; music, Edgar
^ikes and Jack Watson; general. Ruth
M'inteiTing, Joyce Poi>g and Herbert
llattaway.
Music Federation Dance
To Climax Spring Events
Meml)crs of the Junior Federation of
Mu-sic clubs will conclude their spring
activities with a dance Saturday, May
•'b. at the home of Mrs. W. S. Coulter
on Sunset drive. ITavid Evans, presi
dent. and .Toan Holleyman. social chair
man will assist Mrs. Coulter in pre
paring for the event.
Couples for the occasion include:
Joan Holleyman and David Evans,
i^luriel Plske and (Traham Meade, Mar
garet Evans and Charles Strandberg,
Jewell Hyatt and Jack Smith, Annie
Laurie Bennett and Thomas Hufflnes,
Doris Osborne and Bill Ilalladay,
Grace Imne and Herbert Hattaway.
■With the annual pageant and award
ing of diplomas climaxing a week of
heated activity, which will end the high
school career of some 400 boys and girls,
Benior high school students will con
clude senior week tonight.
Highlight of the week's program,
which included a baccalaureate sermon
by Dr. J. B. ('raven, of West Market
Street Methodist church, and a concert
l)y niemher.s of the high school choir.
Sunday evening, will be the presenta
tion of the pageant, "Our Fight for
Democracy," tonight. The pageant was
written under the direction of Miss
Cathleen Pike, of the school faculty,
and Phil (Triflin, student chairman.
Miss Dorothy MeXairy, chairman of
the senior teachers, headed the com
mencement committee.
Patriotic Scheme
This year’s pageant will be of a
patriotic and timely nature, keeping in
step with current affairs. Scenes in
the production include the introduc
tion, role of industry, role of agricul
ture, role of the state department, role
of education and the conclusion. Phil
Griffin, assisted by Paul Miller, will
read the pageant.
Individual scenes, all of which depict
the Americas at war. will !)e supervised
by Misses Mary Ellen Blackmon. Estelle
Mitchell. Mrs. Blanche Smith, Miss Ida
Belle Moore and Miss Dorothy MeXairy.
neiT)ert Hattaway will t)e chairman
of the state department scene, which
will bring the play to a conclusion and
which will summarize the ideals and
principles dramatized in preceding
scenes. Other leading figures include
Almeda West, who will depict the Hta-
tue of Liberty : Paul Miller, representa
tive from the TTiited States; Boh Perry,
delegate from (’anada, and Xeil Beard,
secretary of the board.
Bob Lloyd Succeeds
Miller As Staff Head;
Kindley, Ad Head
New Editor and Advertising Manager
/
Superintendent Ben L. Smith and
Principal A. P. Routh will award diplo
mas to the 402 seniors tonight.
Local Council Presents
Banquet For Varsity
Before the Senior high Com
mencement prom last Saturday, the
student council gave a banquet at
the Lotus restaurant for tlie boys
on the varsity teams of the various
sports at Senior high.
Among the other guests at the
banquet were the three coaches of
G. H. S., Jamieson, Mann and John
son, Superintendent B. L. Smith,
and Principal and Mrs. A. P. Routh.
Members of the outgoing and in
coming councils also attended.
At this banquet the varsity let
ters for the newly completed major
sports at Senior high were award
ed. The banquet was concluded in
time for all attendants to get to
the prom on time.
SHOWN ABOVE are Ro]> Lloyd, newly appointed editor of High Life
and Margaret Kindley, new advertising manager. (Staff Plioto by
Irwin Smallwood.)
Eve Curie Declares France Will Rise
But Must Have United Nations Aid
I think the French are j)roviiig to
be a ver.v brave people led by very bad
leaders." .stated Eve Curie, daughter
of rndium-discov-
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Junior Marshals Selected
To Aid Graduation Fetes
Junior home room teachers and Prin
cipal A. P. Routh chose 22 boys and
girls from the It junior home rooms
Monday to aid in the commencement
activities as ushers.
Their activities included serving as
ushers at the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday, comprising the greeting com
mittee at the class day celebration
M’ednesday, and acting as ushers at the
.graduation ceremonies tonight. On the
night of the big event, the marshals
will be dressed foi-mally. The present
officers of the junior class, including
Bernard Lane, president: Mary Xeesc,
vice-president; Virginia Foster, secre-
lai'y; and Edward Alexander, treas
urer. will lead the procession of gradu
ating seniors to the front of the audi
torium tonight when they receive their
diplomas. They will also serve at vari
ous other commencement festivity fetes.
Principal Routh announced, as he
revealed the names of the marshals,
that they had been chosen only after
careful consideration by their home
room advisers.
The junior class marshals for the
1942 Greensboro Senior high school
graduation include Ashton Kearny, Ra
chel Johnson. Tommy It. Gilbert. Peggy
Flowers, Dan Wagoner. JIarilyn Yonnee.
M. (\ Anderson. Gertrude Archer.
Claude Phipps, Carolyn Pleasants. Wal
ter Taylor, Doris Jean Thomas, Bol)hy
DeSanto. ilartha Current. Wiley Sho-
lar. INIary Frances Stack, Pete Miller.
Allenc Parks. Marshall Clegg. Xancy
Clendenin. Amos Lashley and Sue Mc-
Fayden.
erers Pieri'
yiarie Curie, in an
interview before
her lecture at Ay-
cock auditorium.
May ir>.
When asked if
F r a n c e would
rise again, she re
plied simply: "Of
course. France will
not rise in revolt,
however, unless she is sure of aid from
her rightful allies, the Fiiited Xations,’’
she added.
■\^'hen informed of her daughter's de
cision not to enter the field of science,
Madame JIarie Curie, a great believer
in individual independence, offered no
objections. Therefore, with tacit pa
rental consent, Miss Curie enii)arke(l
on a literary career. She .soon be‘ame
a distinguished writer and is author
of the widely-read biography, “Mad
ame Curie." She is also co-anthor of
••niey Speak For a Xation," as well
as a writer for the Baltimore Sun.
Miss ('urie. who arrived in the I’nit-
el Sfate.s only two wi'eks ago after a
trip to Russia and a return journey
through India. China and other places
where the war is actively raging^. de
clared that she believes Russia is able
to withstand the German attack.
Local Girls To Attend
Annual Girls' State
Bulletin!
For all students planning to en
ter an ea.steni or northern state
college next fall, an aptitude test
will be given at Chapel Hill, Sat
urday, June 13, at 9 o’clock, by
the College Board of New York.
Any pei’son interested must get in
touch with Mr. Beu Husbands of
Chapel Hill immeiliatel.v so that
he can notify the New York Board.
This test is not compulsoiy at
present but may become nM*essary
for college entrance in a few years.
Third annual session of Tar Heel
Girls' state will open Sunday, June 14,
at the Woman’s college of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, and will last
through Saturday, June 20. Approxi
mately 2(H> girls from all parts of the
state are expected to attend.
Each unit of the American Legion
auxiliary in North Carolina has been
asked to sponsor one or more girls to
Girls’ state. The purpose of the aunual
session is to give training in an edu
cational program of practical Ameri
canism to as many future citizens of
North Carolina as possible.
In this program, a broader compre
hension of the functions of government
and a keener realization of a girl’s
individual responsibilities to her com
munity are stressed.
Bob Lloyd will serve as editor-in-
chief of High Idfe. local student puh-
licatioii. during 11)42-4:1. Fan] Miller,
retiring elitor. revealed this morning
in an announcement of major stall ap
pointments.
To assume the important position of
advertising manager. Miller and Betty
Routh. who has directed the busine.ss
department of the publication for the
past two .s(>mosters, named Margaret
Kindley. Both IJoyd and Idargaret
Kindley are well-known juniors and
incmbors of the honor roll.
“Owing to tho uncertainty of ju.st
what organization of the staff will bo
iiecessary next your, no other appoint
ments have betMi made to either the
'cporlorial or business departments,
'Editor Miller declared. Other posi
tions indiide those of sports editor,
feature editor, fashion editor, hoadlino
supervisor, copy chief, circulation man
ager and luisiness manager.
Record Cited
Lloyd was promoted to the advanced
class early in tlie year and has served
as assistant to the mak(‘-up editor dur
ing this semester. The new editor has
also been an advertising solicitor and
an agent in tlie luisiness staff of High
1-ife. as w(4I as iiu'inher on the second
debate team.
Margaret Kindley has assisted Betty
Routh in the capacity of assistant in
tlic advertising de]>artment this semes-
t‘r and earlier in tlie year was junior
journalist chainnan.
In comimuiting on the* new staff of-
lici'rs, Miller said. "I feel assured in
leaving the office of editor of High Life
to Bob Lloyd. H(‘ lias alri'ady dis
played. through his active participa
tion in the many depaiTiiients of the
paper, a wide* interest in the pulilica-
ticn. TTie mitire class recognizes the
new ('ditor for his ability and his sin
cere interc'sl.’’
"Margaret Kindley has received con
siderable training in the Imsiiicss de-
partment,” declared Betty Roiilli, “and
is Ihend’ori' (inalilii'd to assume the
dut.v of adverti.siiig manager, a most
difficult post."
F. E. Thomas Awarded
Summer Fellowship
Feature Many Events
The Girls’ state session features
daily resume of world events, reveille
and retreat, a day at the state capital,
a banquet, honoring the governor of
the iiresent session, moving iiietures,
dormitory pajama parties, and a Girls'
state frolic.
Last year, 18 girls from Senior high
represented Greensboro.
Those girls attending this year’s
Girls’ state from Greensboro have not
yet lK*en announced.
Quill and Scroll Accepts
Eight New Members
Initiated Tuesday into the O. Henry
chapter of Quill and Scroll were eight
local students, who include Lolene Har
rison, Boh Lloyd. Ruth Winterling, Sue
McFadyen, Betty Clement, Dorothy
Barker, Bob Perry and Almeda West.
These new' members were officially
accepted into the society in an assembly
program, conducted by Rachael White-
side, president of the group.
I-'. E. Tliomns. local history instruc-
r, has Ikhmi awarded a f‘llowshii) for
work in the field of sia-ial studies at
the T’liiversity of Chapi*! Hill, during
tin* suniimu' teian (his year. 'J’he an-
noniHauiicnt of this achievement 'ame
fiaan ('lydi* A. Erwin, state suiH*rinten-
dent of pulilic instruction, last wwlt,
hut Thomas lias not yet announced hi.s
acceptance of the fellow.ship.
rnrricnluni work in the field will he
carried on under the leadership of Dr.
Carson Ryan of the T'niversity faculty
and M. ]']. Yount, chairman of the
social studies committee. Not only will
graduate. Te(lit in the field of educa
tion be gdven for all cours*s but •Super
intendent Erwin stated (hat 1h(‘ ex
periences gained in this work will be
of great professional value.
The fidlowship offercal to 'J'homas is
one of several provided by the execu
tive -ommitte(* as a means of carrying
forward the 12-year program study.
Hazelman Leads Band
At Memorial Service
Undm- tin* suiM-rvision of IbM'lau't
Hazelman. tli(‘ lo-al band played at
t’oresl. L.awn cemetery Sunday after
noon for (he memorial service of the
.\mcricjin Li’gion.
(UlH>r scheduled baml activities in
clude attendance at tho music .«chool
in Chapel Hill this suimm'r.