Page Eight HIGH LIFE December 4^ Gentry Appoints Daly, Waddell, Milloway To Squad System For tlie first time in the history of Senior hiKh, girls will servo on traffic S(in!((ls. i'hl Gentry, president of the organization, with the idea of main taining continual order in the halls, made tlie appointment, earlier this inontli. 'i'lie three new members are Jean Milloway, Nell Daly and Sally Waddell. 'J'h(‘y have received definite posts. . Other squad meml)ers include Har old Ilornaday, Bill r>uchanan, Dave Sewell, Louis Allen, Bed Adams, Ker- ]nit CohI‘. George Italls, Xorvell Bishop and Tx*e Oorrell. Bill D)y, Daryl Fast, Dave Phoenix, Howard INIorris and Horace Bearden ar(‘ on patrol duty in the main building and lnring the lunch periods. Other members are Tuttle Sherrill, ’lai!d(\ S‘ssoms, George t’virran, John nie Phipps, Ralph Anthony, Barbara Jo Hodgin, Carl Phibbs and Fva ilae fi'rool. Air Raid Demonsiraled Al Memorial Sladium The siM'elacnliir was achieved when s*ven ofiha-rs, enlisted men and 13 army trueUs produced a small scale air raid on a prop village at Memo rial stadium last Saturday night. Dif ferent size bombs, varying from one pound incendiary to tlie 4,000 pound block buster, were displayed. The one pound and 100 pound bombs were real, wliile the others were dummies. Two residents, one hotel, one drug store ^md a tourist camp composed the vil lage which was bombed. A plane flew overhead to give a more realistic at- ntosphere to the scene. One incendiary bomb was placed on a plank which was covering a tub of. water. When the bomb was set off it l)urned through the plank fell through the water and burned a hole in the bottom of the tub letting tlie water out. Recreation Committee Plans Skating Bout, Dance For December Program Of Socials Jitterbugs To Start the recreation program going for the month of December, the committee in charge of the social ac tivities has planned a skating partj’. which will be held tonight at 8 o’clocb at Commerce place. All students who wish to participate are asked to meet at Commerce place, which will be roped off for this purpose. Each i)erson must furnish his own skates. A Christmas dance will be the second social activity of the mouth. The dance, like others this year, will be an informal affair and has been planned for Friday evening, December 2. A local swing band, the Serenaders, under the direction of Carl Pritchard, will furnish the music. In Retrospect The Thanksgiving dance, which was held last Wednesday night, has been pronounced a big success by the com mittee. Approximate!}' 150 students attendel during the course of the eve ning. Mrs. C. A. McNairy has been named chairman for December. Students working under her include Myrtle Ivey, Annie Bon Beale, Doris Vereen and Kathryn McXairy. Tltose shown above at the Senior high Thanksgiving dance include Evelyn Huffine and Garland Michael dancing. Onlookers are Hendrix Wells, Jay Schnik, Bud Poole and Sarali DeBoe. (Staff photo by Irwin Smallwood.) The lost and found department in the school supply shop has a number of lost articles which have been turned in and which may be secured there. MANUEL'S CAFE West Market St. Place of Quality Foods at Inexpensive Prices Vivid Account of German Atrocities Revealed by Chetnik Ruth Mitchell QUALITY GROCERIES At Lowest Possible Prices A.&P. Super Markel Dr. McNutt To Address P.T. A. Group, Tuesday Or. F. H. McNutt of Woman's col lege will speak at the P. T. A. meet- iiig to be held at the Richard son civic centei-, neceml)er 8, on “Youth of Today,” announced 3Irs. J. IS. Pleasants, program chairman, last week. The P. T, .A. sponsored a drive recenlly to collect $148 for tiie inid- get, staled Airs. Harry Jolinson. l>resident. The expenses include sending Senior’s delegates to hoys’ ami girls’ state, painting the teach ers’ room, and recreation. See the Complete Line of SCHOOL and DRESS Shoes at Pollock’s Beautiful Shoes See Alexander Aulo for REPAIRS 308 S. Davie "I’ye never actually fired on a Ger man, but I wish I had I” stated Ruth Alifchell, only foreign woman member of the Serbian Chetnik guerilla army, in an interview before her lecture last Tuesday night at Woman’s college. Her account of the horrors she had witnessed during her European stay included seeing the mangled fragments of children's bodies liangiiig from trees as a result of deliberate bombings of Belgrade's shelters by the Xazis, see ing the atrocious tortures inmates underwent in ihe 11 different prisons where she spent l.'l montlis. experienc ing slow starvation and the indignity of being spat upon. Predicts African Campaign -After explaining her duties in the Chetniks as an espionage agent, she said that their leader. General Mahail- ovifeb, holds open the door of Europe for (he entrance of the United Xation’s armies. She predicted that the Allies would enter into close conflict with the Axis armies through a Xorth Africaii-Tuniish-Balkan route. Miss Alitchell described as the most xciting time of her life the day the little ferbian nation of six and one-half million people declared war on Germany, knowing that they would lose both their lives and possessions. FLASH! Sponsored by the Greensboro high school student council, a War Savings bond and stamp drive will be launched next' Tuesday. Home room officers will take charge of the drive. “Since many of our boys will be away this year, we can show them in this way that we are still behind them,” declared Miss Sara Mims, council adviser. (COLUMBIA T AUNDRY Launderers and Dry Cleaners Battleground Ave. at Cedar St. Janel Cox Made Member Of College Liferary Group Janet Cox, ’41, has recently been made a member of the Quill club at Woman’s college. To attain this high Honor, each can didate submitted samples of her work from which the club selected the best articles. The authors of these selec tions then became members of the club. This year 30 students contributed work, but only six were chosen members. Janet submitted the stories, “My Alother Has Rod Hair'’ and “The Good Dirt.'’ Janet i.s a member of Play- likers and was in the cast of the play, "We, the Women.'' While attending Gre'nsboro high, she became a member of the Order of the Golden Bough, an English class order for the recognition of literary ability. She was the only student of Miss Lou ise Smith's ever to receive an A-^ over an A-j- on autobiography. Her iiiaiiu- seript was entitled. “Coxcomb Red.” Room 302 Takes Top Allendance Average Wilh 98.05 Per (enl Leading this month’s attendance record for the second time in succes sion, is Miss Louise Smith’s home room 302, with an average of 98.05 per cent Miss Dorothy MeXaNiry’s class is sec ond with 97.94 per cent, followed by Aliss Jessie Belle Strickland’s students who averaged 97.8. Other rooms and their averages elude: Mrs. Alma S. Peebles, 91.88 per cent Mrs. Carlotta Jacoby, 92.39; Mrs. Em- ma Avery, 95.51; and Miss Agnes He- Donald, 94.95. Other rooms, all averaging in the 90’s are Mrs. Eleanor Jamieson. 94.75 Jlrs. Katherine McEntire, 93.82; Miss Estelle Mitchell, 97.2; Miss Ida Belle Moore, 97.2; Miss Cathleen Pike, 94.9 Mrs. Blanche Smith, 94.0; Mrs. Grace Alton, 95; and Mrs. Callie Braswell, 97.5. Miss Mozelle Causey, 06.4; Miss Amv Caldwell, 90.3 ; Miss Cleo Brendle, 94.9 Miss Lottie Burnside, 95.43; Miss Louise Burnette, 95.5; Miss Sara Las- ley, 92.7; Miss Sara Mims, 95.13; Miss Frances Humphrey, 94; Miss Lily Walker, 92.4. Mrs. Nellie Blackburn, who is in charge of keeping attendance figures, concluded, “Attendance figures slightly lower this six week period, al though the figures so far this year have been exceptionally good.” Mark Hoffman To Give Piano Recilal Sunday Mark Hoffman, dean of music at Greensboro college, will appear in a piano recital Sunday, December 6, at four o’clock in the Odell Memorial au ditorium. High school music students are cordially invited to attend. The program will include: “Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor,” Bach; “Son ata op. 53” (Waldstein), allegro con brio, adagio molto and allegretto moderate; Ballad In G Minor,” “Ber ceuse” and “Scherzo in C sharp Minor,” Chopin; “Variations on a theme of Paganini,” Brahms; and “The Foun tain of the Acqua Paola Scherzo,” opus, Griffes. J. H. Neese & Sons Complete Line of Leather Billfolds $2.00 and up Phone 2-1944 335 S. Elm St. W. H. Sullivan Company 3135/2 South Greene Street OIL BURNERS and Most Available Heating Equipment * ★ Congratulations to Coach Bob, and to Senior s New Swing Band” * J. Seliiffman^s You will need Higher Mathematics to Compute the Number of GIFT POSSIBILITIES Here, for We have a Gift for Every Person, for Every Purpose. Drop In and See for Yourself.

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