Bring In Your Scrap
To Lick the Jap
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
"‘Private Hargroves
at G. H. S.P** See Pg, 2
VOLUME XIX
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 9, 1942
NUMBER 3
Alexander Chosen D. A. R. Pilgrim
By Faculty and Senior Classmen
Mell Alexander, president of tlie sen
ior class and prominent 32th year stu
dent, won the elections for the 1942
D. A. R. Good Pilgrim of Senior high
school, in wdiich the members of the
senior class nominated 22 girls and
elected three candidates. From these
three candidates the members of the
faculty chose Mell, the other two can
didates being Rachael Johnson and
Martha Ann Weidler.
Mell, .as Good Pilgrim, will collect
and compile a scrapbook which will
include newspaper clippings of all of
her activities throughout the school
year in the way of her school, church
and social doings. She will submit her
book to Mrs. YV. C. Grier, state chair
man of the Good Citizenship commit
tee, December 1, and will then receive
her Good Pilgrim pin.
Girls submitting the best scrapbooks
w’ill receive invitations to the state
Pilgrimage conference at Greensboro in
March, 1943. At this conference,
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion officials will choose one girl to
represent (North Carolina at the na
tional pilgrimage to be held later next
spring.
The chairmen of the D. A. R. for
this event include Mrs. John T. Gard
ner, national chairman; Mrs. Grier,
state chairman; and Mrs. .Tohn M.
Betts, local chairman for the Rachel
Caldwell chapter.
President at Central
Mell was the president of the stu
dent body at Central Junior high school,
president of the inter-club council of
the Girl Reserves last year, 1941-42
feature writer and fashion editor on
High Life, president of her homeroom
and of the junior class, a delegate to
Girls’ State last summer, and an active
worker at the defense control center.
After tabulating the results of the
faculty’s voting. Principal A. P. Routh
declared: “I feel sure that the stu
dents and faculty have made a wise
choice in selecting Mell as the D. A. R.
Pilgrim. This is one of the highest
honors that Senior high offers the girl
student, and we should feel justly proud
in electing a girl who is such a fine
example of leadership, dependability,
service and patriotism.”
In addition to Mell, Rachel and
Martha Ann, the other girls nominated
by the senior homerooms include Micky
Black, Bobby Clay, Margaret Cock-
man. Betty Cooley, Peggy Covington,
Harriet Fox, Peggy Flower, Gladys
.Tones, Kathleen Langley, Dacia Lewis,
Sue McFadyen, Eleanor Morgan, Mary
Neese, Sarah Anne Prosser, Lois
Ritchie, Sarah Teague, Doris Jean
Thomas, Edith IVagoner and Naomi
Webb.
When Mell was told of her electicn
to D. A. R. Pilgrim, she exclaimed, “I
am extremely happy. I had no idea I
would win since the students had such
a fine group of girls to choose from.”
D. A. R. Pilgrim
Shown above is Mell Alexander, who
has been chosen 1). A, K. Pilgrim by
students and faculty.
Taylor-Brynelte Vows
Scheduled For Toulghl
West Market Street Motliodist church
will be the setting for a simple but
beautiful wedding tonight at 7 o’clock
when Miss Ella Lee Taylor and Staff
Sei’geant Eugene Raphael Brunette,
United States Army Air force, will
take their vows in a double ring cere
mony before friends and relatives.
Dr. J. B. Craven, pastor of the
church, will officiate and Mrs. Gilbert
Powell will be at the organ.
Mrs. Willard Cardwell will sing
“Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee,” by
Gounod and “O Promise Me,” by De
Koven. A program of traditional wed
ding music will also be played.
The bride will be dressed in a vic
tory blue alpaca crepe two-piece suit
with gold flicked buttons. Other acces
sories will be in black ; at her shoulder
will be a purple-throated orchid.
Miss Elizabeth TIarvell, the maid of
honor, will wear a two-piece black
dress and black accessories; at her
shoulder will be a corsage of pink
roses.
Ccrporal Janies Phillips, a friend of
the bridegroom, will serve as best man.
“I will be delighted to have any of
my high school friends attend the wed
ding that would like to come,” stated
■Miss Taylor in an interview earlier
this week, “and for the present, I hope
to continue my high school work.”
After the war, the couple will move
to the bridegroom’s 1210-acre sheep
ranch located in the high Sierras, bO
miles from the heart of Yosemite val
ley.
Test Tube Breakers
Reveal Leather Ap
“Today,” announces Miss Agnes Mac
Donald, the chemistry teacher, “we are
going into the lab and perform experi
ments.”
So, you troop into the lab, together
with the other young Edisons, and put
on one of those fashionable rubber
aprons that w’rap around you about
three times.
You lean up against one of the desks
and start wTiting, only to discover that
it has been acid proofed and there is a
most attractive green stain on your
arm.
Then you assemble the apparatus
necessary for making hydrogen and
succeed in spilling water all over the
floor before everything is ready to begin.
Experiment;
ron Adventures
You barely manage to get through
the experiment without ruining all the
chemicals found in the lab.
About this time, the boy behind you
flnishes his experiment and starts on
one of his own invention. There is an
explosion and the cork from his bottle
hits the ceiling, breaking the glass tube
in it and then the bottle is lying on
the floor at your feet.
■\Vhen your desk has been about half
cleared, the bell rings and you realize
that you have a geometry class in the
main building next period. So you
tear off your apron and rush out. leav
ing your partner with the rest of the
work to do, fully expecting to be mur
dered by her, come next chemistry
class.
Chapel Hill Officials
Reveal Debate Query
E. R. Rankin, secretary of the North
Carolina High School Debating union,
iinncunccd Monday that the state de
bate query for this school year will
be “Resolved: That the United States
should adopt the policy of extending
federal aid to general public educa-
lioii.”
To prepare this debate, the local
forensic society has contacted over 50
persons whom they regarded as pro
spective members for the club. Twenty-
three pupils graduated from Lindley
Junior high were recruited for mem
bers in addition to 17 graduates of
Central Junior high, previously an-
iioimced.
At a meeting of the club September
24, it was decided to wmrk on the na
tional query, which deals with post
war problems, in addition to the state
question. Night meetings were dis
cussed, but a regular time for meet
ing was not agreed upon.
Jean Glenn, secretary of the group,
announced Tuesday that only a few
seniors are participating in the club’s
activities, while many juniors have
become members. She declared, “To
prepare the state and national debates
well and to produce a winning triangu
lar debate team, we must have the
support and cooperation of both
classes.”
Routh Asks Students
To Aid Salvage Drive
A (lefinite (‘ontribiition to the war
effort can be made by each student
in Senior liigh, according to A. I*.
Routh, principal.
“Find the scrap in your homes
and either bring it to seliool, where
sjilvage bins will be furnished, or
put it ill front of your house so it
can be collected,” he urged.
Bins on the Senior high campus
will be located in the front and
back of the school.
Civic Music ^ssocialion
To Sponsor Studenl Series
T’nder the supervision of the Junicr
Civic music association members of
the group are offering to the school
students of Greensboro and Guilford
county a series of musical programs.
This year four presentations will be
given: “Doodle Dandy of the U. S. A.”,
on October 27; Strawl)ridge ballet,
a pantomime showing the classic bal
lets of the T'nited nations, in January :
performances by the Suzari Marionet
tes, “I'eter and the Wolf” for elemen
tary grades and “Buffalo Bill,” for
high school students, on March 3; and
a concert by the Cleveland symphony
orchestra on March 25.
Shows at 2:30
Each presentation, except the Marion
ettes is scheduled for 2 :30 p.m. in the
Aycock auditorium. The marionette
show will be staged at the Odell Me
morial auditorium, Greensboro college
at 2 :.30 and “Buffalo Bill,” the presen
tation for high school students, will be
given at 3:30.
Home Ec Glasses Fix
Exhibit Booth at Fair
War and its effect on household
equipment, clothing and food will be
shown by posters and exhibit articles
in a booth arranged by Senior high
.school’s home economics department
at the Greensboro fair.
New Staff Members
Announced by Lloyd
Bob Lloyd, editor of High Life,
announced today the following ad
ditions to the staff' of High IJfe:
Bill Andrews, Irwin Smallwood
and Louis Thacker will act as
staff photograpliers. Beverly Bell
and John Sevier will assume the
positions of co-junior journalist
chairtnen, with Beverly handling
the advertising and Sevier super
vising the circulation.
Sevier has succeeded in secur
ing over 75 inches of advertising
and, therefore, automatically as
sumes the position of advertising
agent.
Jangling Keys Now
Headed For Defense
Keys that have been jingle, jangle,
jingling unused in the pockets of Sen
ior high students are now being trans
formed into munitions, for the 1‘aper
and Twine club, a national club of
paper men, sponsored ’a campaign for
the collection of old keys from Septem
ber 17 to October 1, placing cans in
each home room to receive the keys.
According to figures posted by A. P.
Routh, principal, a total of 2,843 keys
were collected. Room 10 led with
353, 201 of these contributed by Horace
Bearden.
Smith's Room Leads
Attendance Average
With 99.5 Per Cent
Leading this month’s attendance rec
ord is Miss Louise Smith’s room, 302,
with an average of 99.05 per cent. Mrs.
Emma Avery’s class came in next with
9S.99 ix^r cent, followed closely by Mrs.
E. E. McEntire’s students, who aver
aged 98.90.
Other rooms and their averages in
clude Mrs. Alma S. Peebles, 95.16 per
cent; Mrs. Carlotta Jacoby, 98; Miss
Gertrude Farlow, 96.07; Mrs. Eleanor
Jamieson, 98.40; Miss Agnes McDou-
old, 97.56; and Miss Dorothy ^IcNairy,
98.6.
The other rooms, all averaging in the
90’s, are: Miss Estelle Mitchell, 98.12;
Miss Ida Belle Jloore, 97.9; Miss Cath-
leen Pike, 98.04; Mrs. Blanche Smith,
94.15; YV. G. Slattery, 98; and Mrs.
Grace Alton, 97.8.
Mrs. Callie Braswell’s room had
98.85; Miss Lottie Burnside, 97; Mrs.
Olive Betts, 97; Miss Jessie Belle
Strickland, 97.22; Miss Amy Caldwell,
98.3; Miss Moselle Causey, 08.1; Miss
Cleo Brendle, 97; Miss Louise Burnette,
95; Miss Sara Lesley, 98.5; Miss Sara
Mims, 97.63; Miss Frances Humphrey,
97: and Miss Lily Walker, 97.3.
Miss Nellie Blackburn, attendance
director, concluded, “attendance figures
so far this year are slightly higher
than those of last year.”
Musician Plus Councilman
Plus Journalist Equals Sevier
Joiix Skvieb
“You want to interview me?”
He shook his head characteristically
with a somewhat bewuldered smile of
pleasure drawing on his countenance
as he trudged along
toward a class.
“I don’t under
stand,” he ventured
to the inquisitive
newshound. “What
have I done to . . .
ha ... to deserve
;in interview?”
The reporter, an
old friend of the
i)ashful lad, patient
ly exiJained that
tlie object of the
interview was to
present the reading
pn])lic of High Life
a short sketcli of his life and his
miraeuleii.s accomplishments, miracu
lous ill that he has been handicapped
liis entire life by extreme near-sighted
ness—in journalism, student council
work and as an accomplislu'd harmon
ica player.
Native Greensburgher
’riien John Sevier began. As he
ambled along, thoughtfully choosing
his words, it became evident that he
is a native Green.sburgher although he
has not lived his entire life here. His
grammar grade and junior high years
were spent in attending Central jun
ior high school, where he maintained
a high .scholastic average and served
as home room president in the seventh
and eighth grades. When he came to
Senior high, he became a member of
the student council and has, on several
occasions, delighted audiences with his
ability as a harmonica player.
Gets Advertising
In addition to this, Sevier joined the
journalism class'and has now become
a member of the staff of High Life
through his achievements in the adver
tising field. In his first attempt, he
solicited 73 inches of advertising for
one issue. This feat has never before
been accomplished by a journalism I
student at G. II. S. so early in his
career. “It usually takes a student
from two to five months to accomplish
this,” according to High Life adviser.
Mrs. Olive Betts.
Incredible, all this? “No,” according
to Sevier, but definitely “Yes!” ac
cording to every one else. “MJiat I
have done, so could anyone in my posi
tion if they tried hard enough,” he
stated simply, concealing his dauntless
courage which has enabled him to
overcome supreme difficulties.
“How do I get so many ads? I don’t
know that I've gotten so many. When
I approach a prospective advertiser.
I'm as nice and conventional as pos
sible and he usually gives me an ad,”
he exclaimed. 'Then . . .
“Gosh I'm about to be late to class!”
And with this, off he ran “like a fox
runs,” as he put it.
R®wl@,2§2JMaad
k Hembersliip Drive
With approximately 29 inemberships
at the time High Life went to press,
homeroom 39 is thus far at the top
of the ladder in tlie current B. T. A.
drive.
Other high ranking rooms include:
Miss Lily AValker, room 202, 17: IMrs.
Grace Alton, room 27, 17: Mrs. Callie
Braswell, room 24, 12; and W. G. Slat
tery, room 301, 11.
Subscriptions from other leading
homerooms are: Miss Estelle Mitchell,
room 317, 10; Miss .Jessie Belle Strick
land, room 102, 10; Miss Gertrude Far-
low, room 303, 8: Miss Mary Ellen
Blackmon, room 313, 8; Mrs. Emma
Sharpe Avery, room 300, 8; Miss Dor
othy McNairy, room 206. 8; Miss Ida
Belle Moore, room 315, 8; Miss Sara
Mims, room 300, 7; Miss Amy Cald
well, room 2, 7; and Miss Lottie Burn
side, room 23, 7.
Dancing, Singing Highlight
Supper For New Council
Dancing, playing games, and singing
highlighted the first student council
social of the year held at Country
1‘ark, September 22, for the purpose of
welcoming the recently elected council
iiKunbers.
I'rincipal Routh acted as host for
the occasion.