“Try Out”
For Council Play
VOLUME XIX
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
'‘Our War^
See Page Two
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Fabius M. Clements Killed In Af
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 5. 1943
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Second .Alumnus To Die For Country
Lt. Fabius iX. Clements ’3G was killed
in action in African fighting Febru
ary 2, declared a war department com
munication received by Mrs. F. M.
Clements, ioOT Simpson street of this
city, Wednesday.
Lieutenant Clements had been fight
ing in Africa since the allied invasion
of that country in November, having
gone to Algeria from England where
he had been stationed since April of
last year.
After graduating from Senior High
in .1936, he attended iXcCallie school,
from which place the member of the
Purple Heart and Silver Star honor
order of the X’. S. Army attended State
college, where he studied textile chem
istry and dyeing, managed the “Agro-
racck,” which is the school’s annual,
attained the rank of Major in the
R, 0. T. C. unit, and received the pres
idency of the North Carolina Colle
giate Press association.
Recognized by High Life
Lieutenant Clements’ mother was in-
teiu-iewed by a Xligh Life reporter earl.\-
in .January. It was learned at that
rLne that Clements had received his
honor order recognition from General
Ei.^^enhour soon after the allied land
ings for leading a group of soldiers who
wiped out an enemy machine gun nest.
.\ccording to a letter Mrs. Clements
i-eceived, F. M. was enjoying his stay
in Africa and described the French as
"happy to see the allied soldiers and
({uite cordial in receiving them.”
Clements is the second known gradu
ate of Greensboro High who has been
killed so far in the war, Private Thom-
:c-- Bledsoe being the first to give up
hi.s life for his country.
Blackmon Returns
Illness
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Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon, head of
riie history department, returned to
Greensboro high school today after
nearly a five month illness, which was
spent at Piedmont Memorial hospital,
''Jreensboro; Duke hospital, Durham;
and the Charlotte Memorial hospital,
Charlotte.
l^liss Blackmon will resume her
teaching duties when the new report
lieriod begins next week.
During her .sickness Miss Lela Pruitt,
a Greensboro college student teacher,
and Miss Rachel Clifford, a substitute
in.structor. taught her classes.
ili.ss Clifford, who was assigned to
home room 313 at the change of the
>;enie.sters, will turn that group over to
the history department head.
In the past ^liss Blackmon has been
one of the most active teachers at
Senior high. Last year she co-advised
the Social Standards Day which will
l>e the last one to be presented at
Senior high for the duration.
Having graduated from Winthrop
•college, she has held many educational
and extra - curricular positions. Miss
Blackmon has helped to promote vari
ous school programs, the last of which
was her aiding in the instruction of
■first aid at Greensboro high.
Journal Collection Drive
Nears Successful Close
"Only a small amount of High Tfife
J^ubscription money remains to be col
lected," stated Editor Bob Lloyd yes
terday. “and the bulk was received dur
ing the first two days of the drive.
Those few students who have not turned
in the second semester payment of 25
cents are asked to do so today.”
"Although the deadline for collections
to end was yesterday, the time was
extended in the hope of securing a. 1009o
paid cir-ulation.
Lloyd And Anderson
To Attend Convention
Bob Lloyd, editor-in-chief, and M. C.
Anderson, associate editor, of High
Life will attend the C. S. P. A. con
vention at New York city March 11-13.
The boys will leave Greensboro Wed
nesday arriving in New York that
evening.
Students and teachers representing
every state in the union are expected
to be present at the convention which
will feature speeches and appearances
of famous newspaper personalities.
The role of high school publications
in the war effort will be the theme of
the convention, the theme topic being
“Student Publications—In the Nations
Service.”
Treasury department and official
Ihiited States government releases will
be discu.ssod in relation to school pub
lications. In the past the Treasury de
partment has made several releases of
news, mats and general information
about war bonds and stamps. High
Life has participated in these activi
ties so far. Extension and l)roadening
of those activities by government agen
cies will be discussed.
The formation of the convention has
been approved and encouraged by gov
ernment agencies, this year, although
most ether organizations conventions
have been cancellt'd l)ecause of the war.
The main purpose of the confab, being
to join student ne\vs))apers into an or
ganization for distributing news of
war stamps and Imnds, will make it
possible for the convenlicn to continue
during the war.
Senior High
Participates
In Rationing
■With 35 teachers and many more
students, the registering for War Ra
tion Book Two was carried out at
Greensboro high during last week.
Students observed a half day schedule.
I’upils aiding the faculty included
the Torchlight, student council. Quill
and Scroll, home room, and subject
groups, who helped to fill out ration
book information and direct applicants
to the correct clerks for obtaining their
books.
Tlio organization at Senior high in
cluded three assmbly lines in the cafe
teria for persons wishing to obtain
their ration, hese assmbly lines were
divided into specialized groups.
The first of these gi*oups, tlie tailor
ing clerks, included teachers Black
burn, Moore, Slattery, Walker, B.
Smith, Hall, McNairy, Mann, Sewell,
Mims, Hutchinson, Johnson and Flor-
ance.
The second group recording clerks,
included Misses Causey, Crawford,
Strickland, Humphrey, Brendle, and!
Clifford; while the third group, docu
mentary clerks, included instructors
.Tamifc'son, Braswell, Burnette, L. Smith
and Masters.
Validating clerks were faculty mem
bers McDonald, Caldwell, Mitchell, Mc-
Eiitire, Alton and Burnside.
A declaration section, which cor-
ricted and aided people in filling out
canned food and coffee declarations,
was comprised of teachers R. Jamie
son, Avery, Jacoby, and Bike, and was
located in the girls’ gymnasium.
Class President
Shown above is IMargaret Daniel
Wilkerson, High Life reporter, honor
roll student, and president of (Xuill and
Scroll, who was elected president of the
present senior class by the student
council Jlonday.
Debate Triangle Friday
To Include Local Team
According to Miss Mozelle Cau
sey, debate adviser, Greensboro sen
ior high’s debating team will clash
in a heated forum with R. J. Rey
nolds high of Winston-Salem at
7:30 p.m., Friday night, March 12,
in the traditional Triangular I)e-
l)ate sponsored each year by the
rniversity of North Carolina. Miss
Causey stated that the public is
invited to attend the meet which
will be held at the Civic Center.
Debating anirmatively for Greens
boro on tlie selecied query, “Re
solved : That the L. S. government
should appropriate federal aid to
education.” will be Martha .\nn
Weidler and Beverly Bell, while
the negative will be Jean Glenn
and Bill Walkcmeyer. Greensboro’s
negative team will ti’avel to High
Point' to l)attle their afiirmative,
while the local aJiirmative l•enlains
on heme grounds to lock horns
wi'h the Winston negative.
Greensboro DeMolay
Elects Committees
Leaders of the Greensboro chapter
of the order of DeMolay announced
Wednesday over a dozen appointments
to the committees of the chapter. These
appointees will hold office for the
next four month.s.
Councilors Jerome Hyman, Bob
Lloyd, and Willard Dyer submitted the
list of appointments to advisers H. R.
White and J. C. Squires February 10,
the advi.sers approving the candidates
Wednesday.
Among the new appointments are
included Junior Councilor Dyer, chair
man: Dennis Williams and Charles
Wells to the social committee. This
group will plan dances, parties, and
mixed socials.
The recreation committee, which
plans the inter-chapter sporting con
tests, will be headed by Bill Lambert.
Other members of the committee in
clude Harold Moag and Gene Spencer.
Senior Councilor Lloyd will load the
ritual and publicity committees, being
aided by Bobby Clark on the former
committee, and M. C. Anderson and
.Xolm Sevier on the latter.
Louis Ih'iU'd and John Wile.v will
comprise the attendance couimitteo
whose executive is Master Councilor
Hyman.
'I’lie councilors appointed Charles
\\'agiHU-. Almoner; and Kenneth Kriegs-
iiian, obligatory chairman.
Ollier activities of tlu' group for the
past fortnight include the phiuning of
a dance to be staged in the Masonic
Temple liascment by the social commit
tee and the completion of a DeMolay
scrapboolc by the publicity committee.
Wilkerson Appointed
As Class President
To Succeed Curran
In a surprise announcement, Tim
Warner, president of the student coun
cil, revealed the appointment of Mar
garet Daniel Wilkerson. 12tli year stu
dent and member of the High Life staff,
to succetMl Gwrge Curran as senior class
president. Curran resigned due to his
inabilty to attend a minimmn number
of council meetings.
It would be well to note some
of the activities in which Margaret has
participated prior to this announce
ment.
She atteiuled Central Junior High
School where she held numerous offices
and positions of honor, including pres
ident of Girl Reserves, secretary of
home room and secretary of squads.
During her three years here at Senior
she has maintained a high scholastic
average in all lier studies.
Here, also, she has particularly dis
tinguished herself in the journalism
field. She rose from headline editor
of High Life last year to writer of the
City School News” column which ap
pears in the Greensboro Record. After
a membership on Quill and Scroll, na
tional honor society for high school
journalists, for two years, she is now
pi'esident of that society.
She has also entered into many other
activities of note, inelnding meml)or of
school co-recreation committee last year,
memlier of Mariner Girl Scout troop,
school office assistant and member of
the Gillowana social club for two years.
She will have many re.^fponsibilities
ill regard to the coming school elec
tions, and the graduation of the senior
class.
Students Voice Opinions on Many Topics
About Themselves at Senior High School
Asking ipiestions of interest to high
school students, High Life recently
conducted a poll to determine how the
students felt about subjects related to
them.
When quizzed upon the extension of
smoking privileges, eighty percent of
the students enqiluisized the fact that
Senior enjoys lenient and fair rules
about smoking on the campus. The
majority of the students feel that the
.smoking problem is handled sensibly
and should not be encouraged further.
Ninety percent of the students (luiz-
zed replied that they did not think
they were being prepared for the prob
lems of a post war world. Tiiey feel
that more steps in this direction should
bo taken.
Tlie group of students questioned
agreed unanimously that the honor roll
students sliculd enjoy special privileges
ill rei'Ognition of their outstanding
work. They also stated that si>ecial
privileges would inspire more students
to make the honor roll.
_Tlu‘_iiverage high school student is
net taking even a moderately active
parr in the war effort, according to.
seventy iHTcent of the group. J^hen*
.Qiould be some organization tliat
would plan a program whereby the
high schoolers could help do their
share, was the general oiiinioii of the
group.
'Flu' destruelicn of school property
is totally unnecessary and lias no justi
fication what so ever, agreed all of the
students.
Niiity percent of the students ex
pressed disappointment that the Vic
tory Corps, organized last fall, has
not materialized yet. This would have
been an outlet for the pent-up energy
of pupils, riunarked the students.
Sixty percent of the G. S. li.er’s
think that the luiu-li lino is protected
effectively from break-ins by fair and
uiipredjudiced students. I'he otlier forty
percent emphasize that the line is
broken in. the offender asked to leavi;—
and the situation ends there with no
action being taken against this person
when he remains in the line.
Only ten pcu'ceiit of the group thinks
that the behavior that prevails among
the student body at as.sombly program
is excusable at all. J'he other ninety
percent assert the liehavior is iitrocions
and kindergartenish. 1’hey insist that
the persons parti-ipating in unman
nerly actions should he punislied in
some form.
Greensboro High Plans
Large Music Festival
In Ma.v, a festival of sizeable pro
portions will be staged by music stu-
(hmts and faculty directors of Senior
high selionl. A series of three concerts
is being planixal, one of them given
ov! r to an all-city Elementar.v orehos-
Ira and Hie all-city Junior high school
band.
For more than 20 years, local high
.sctioi I people lia\’e been a part of
that throng Hint has gathered an
nually at Woman’s college for the
.state contest-festival. 'I'lius they have
become a ixirfion of that force which
has iK'iiM'd to make Gremisboro a musi
cal center in the state. I'.ecanse of
fransportiiliun didicnlties. tin' state
eont'.sl.-festival was cancelled this year.
AlHiough the music listed in the
slate bull('fin is not rispiired. it is
highly recommended; music of the
.same calibre may bo substituted, how
ever. Stiuh'iils participating in these
solo events will perform for a criti
cism frian the judge rather than for
a rating or a grade. Tlie judge will be
inslructed to make recommendalioiis
as to wliloh classifications .shall ap
pear on the festival program.
Ae(;ording to J. Kimball Ilarriman,
orchestral diri'ctor. J. Harris Mitchell,
band director, and :\liss Garlotta B.
•laeoby, choral lirector, tlie.se festival
programs are being planned for Hie
first week in Jlay which is National
.Music week.
'I'lie first one will feature soloists
who were outstanding in tlie Ajiril 30
(•ont(‘st, and it will be climaxed b.v Hie
Girl’s glee club. 'I’lie second will fea
ture ail orchestra composiHl of (*leineii-
tary students seli'cfed frcni various
schools and a band whose personnel
consists of players selected from each
of Hie four junior high scliools. 'I’lie
third and linal program will give oeniai
space to the orchestra, band and choir.