Greensboro Takes First Three Places In State Physics Contest
Co-Recreafional Groyp
Plans April 9 Dance
The co-recreational committee com
prised mainly of students and headed
by Miss Dorothy McNairy, announced
yesterday that they were planning two
dances for the Greensboro High student
body, the first of which is scheduled
for April 9.
Music for the April 9 tea dance will
be furnished by the school’s nickelodeon
aud will last from 4 to 6 p.m. on that
Friday afternoon. This social will be
the first for Senior High in nearly four
months, the pre-Christmas dance being
the last one staged.
Another dance will follow the tea
dance on April 22. This social will
feature the music of Carl Pritchard’s
band in an Easter setting.
The committee now includes Martha
Moi’ing, Rachel Johnson, Dinky Brad
ford, Harold Howell, Sarah Ann Bros-
ser, Charles Wagner and Ada Sue Mc-
Bane.
According to co-recreational officials,
the main reason that dances haven’t
been staged during the past several
months was because of the fuel that
was needed to heat the gymnasium.
This fuel was necessary to keep the
classrooms warm.
With the coming of warmer weather
more co-recreational socials are in store
for Senior High, promises the same
source.
Regular Easier Holidays
To Prevail At G. H. S.
Even though the war has made
necessaiy plenty of changes, the
students here at Senior High will
observe the regular Easter holidays.
Classes will end at 4 on Thursday
aftenioon, April 32, and resume at
9:15 on Tuesday, April 27. Plans
for these holidays will most likely
be ipiite different from those of
preceding year’s.
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XIX
GREENSBORO SENIOR mGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 3, 1943 NUMBER 14
Training For Victory^ Undergone
By Greensboro High Students
This year’s graduating class, instead
of being equipped with the customary
threefold education, is facing a world
at w’ar provided with a manifold educa
tion. No longer ai*e they prepared just
along lines of fine arts, but they are
now ready to tace a warring world full
of technical problems and to solve these
jroblems successfully. They are pre
pared to meet Uncle Sam’s urgent de
mands for technical training. This pre
view for further skilled training comes
by way of courses offered in the mathe
matics, physical education and science
departments; namely, physics, chemis
try, radio, drilling, trigonometry aud
pre-induction mathematics as is indi
cated by the current cartoon. All of
these subjects are of particular inter
est to the boys, but the field of science
holds some interest for girls, too.
Senior High is one of the many high
schools all over the country that are
shifting into high gear and revising its
curriculum to meet war-time stand
ards. Schools which still teach the
three “R’s,” the basic fundamentals of
education, are outmoded and definitely
not in step with the times.
Liberal educators have seen need of
giving, in secondary schooling, the full
benefits of a progressively practical
education. This provides the average
student, before his formal schooling is
completed, an insight into the complex
world problems that he will meet.
Greensboro High Boys Take
V-12, A-12 Examinations
Approximately 100 per cent of the
boys at Green.sboro Senior high school
who could qualify reported this morn
ing at 9 a.m. to take the Navy V-12
and the Army A-12 pre-induction exam
inations.
To qualify for the examinations, stu
dents must have attained their 17th
birthday and not have reached their
22nd by July 1. 1048. They also must
have graduated from a secondary school
by that date.
The results of the tests will provide
information useful to the armed forces
ill selecting students for college train
ing under the Navy college training pro
gram, V-12, or the Army specialized
training program; and classifying all
others in respect to their relative train-
aliility.
According to Edgar W. Knight, re
gional director of the Army and Navy
college training program the purpose
of the A-12 training program is to train,
at the college, men in technical and
professional skills required by the army.
Engineers of all types, doctor.s, psy
chologists, physicists, mathematicians
and students of foreign areas are neel-
ed in large numbers, and the Army has
established this program in those col
leges and universities where such train
ing can best be given, he also stated.
The eligibility of an individual for
the Army specialized training program
is not fully evStablished until he has suc
cessfully completed the normal 12 or 13
weeks of basic military training imme
diately following his induction into the
army. Success of the proposed test,
however, will provide the candidate
with a certificate of qualification which,
upon presentation at the time of vol
untary or regular induction, will assure
his assignment to a replacement train
ing center as a i>otential Army special
ized training program trainee.
If it is then determined that he is
potential officer candidate material, he
will be assignetl to an Army specialized
• training unit.
Everything But the
Kitchen Sink
As the bell rang for the dismissal
of (he English class, Mary jumped up
to make her exit, but just as she did,
her pocketbook fell to the floor and
senftored the contents about the room.
.Timmy and Fred ran to her rescue,
and they began to recover her “stuff”
for her. 'I'hey ran up one aisle and
down the other picking up her lipstick
with cue hand, and a pencil and a few
letters with the other. Then under the
teacher’s desk they cited lier mirror
that was then in three pieces. Up
nearer the blackboard lay a compact
with the powder everywhere but
where it should be; yet that wasn’t
.^11 — there were about a half-dozen
pieces of kleenex lying near the door
and beside them they saw a finger-nail
tile and a comb. Well, the boys at
last gave a sigh of I’clief only to find
that there were still
missing. .
behind the
The above cartoon is the fiftb in a series drawn by M. ('. Anderson
depicting victory tiiernes .for high school students. Anderson is a (Jreens-
boro liigh senior and a member of the Torchlight and Quill and Scroll
societies.
April’s Antics Aggravate, Agitate
With Foolish Fancies of First Day
some articles
. And over in the corner
wastebasket a corner of
she
“that” note from Johnny that
oonldn't lose was displayed.
When the three bewildered students
scampered from the room two seconds
before the bell rang, the boys agreed
that Mary couldn’t have left anything
at home except the kitchen sink.
Captain Fulton Invites Boys
From G. H. S. To Armory
Captain Mack Fulton, a member
of the Home Guard who has re
cently been teaching the hoys gym
classes the fundamentals of Army
drills, invited all boys to come to
the Greensboro armory to receive
extra attention.
.\pril th* antagonist, A[)i'il the abom-
iiiabie. nature's mistake, and the
world’s misfortune is here with a roar,
die always hounds in with a hang, and
this year she has held to her lime-
hoiiored custom of doing just that. On
(hat fateful day, that day of a large
portion of the universe, that first day—
April Fool’s—this month is at the
height of her general ohnoxionsness.
She laughs in the countenances of her
many victims with au uncouth air as
he execulioner might laugh at the
oiidenined.
April’s methods are not what are
;em‘rally termed ns sporting or opeu-
:;iid-al)ove-boarI. but rath(*r they are
(lie sneaky side. This fourth
iiioiilh’s strength lies in the fact that
slu* takes old man world completely
nnawaros; moreover, she always pulls
the unexpected. This knock-out blow
delivered from elementary quarters
staggers the unpi-epared world so that
it lak(\s until the tenth month for the
world to recover its (Hjuilibriuin.
T’he first of April sei's the beginning
of a new stale of tiffairs to add to the
world’s already snpcM'fluoiis troubles.
Wars start --major battles are fought- -
wars end—ami ninety per cent of the
populalioii is alYected by that stviinge
malady, spring fever.
In this yearly division of uncertainty
riuto takes many forms, all lanng
highly disagreeable, to discompose the
composed, irritate the jilacid, and anger
the even-tempered. All of tlu'se activi
ties lake i)lacG for a 80-day period, but
(he most active day, Pluto’s heyday, is
.\pril first.
Fci- centuries mankind has IooIccmI
upon the first of anything as a supreme
honor. It has in ages past Ixan desig
nated as tlie highest of the high, but
even the first in adlu'renco to tliat
time-honored phrase, “an exception to
every rule,” has its exception. This
assumes the role of a villain in the
detrimental shai>e of April first.
Making grades of 97.5, 95, and 92.5,
Maurice Prince, Charles AAbagner and
Louis Thacker were first, second and
third place winners respectively in the
North Carolina State Phj’sics Contest
for 1948.
Maurice Prince is a 12tli year stu
dent with a part-time schedule. Wag
ner is vice-president of the Student
Council. Thacker is an honor roll senior
and member of Torchlight, National
Honor Society.
Those physics students who obtained
h.onorable mention in the contest in
clude the following: Robinson Everett,
Durham high school; William Hamp
ton, Durham high school; Edwin Gen
try, Greensboro high school; Bill
Walkcmeyer, Greensboro high school;
Robert Shropshire, Durham high school.
Notice was received Monday by
Principal A. P. Routh aud Stanley
Johnson, local physics director, of the
honor conveyed upon these students.
Mr. C. E. McIntosh, acting director
for the contest, commenting on the
success of the Senior high school
physics .students in the state contest,
stated: “The foregoing record reflects
great credit on your students and the
physics department of your school.
Please convey to the five students our
wiirm congratulations.”
I’revious high school winners in the
state physics contest include Sanford
and Southern Pines high schools tied
in 193S; Charlotte high school in 1939;
Greensboro high school in 1940; and
Durham high school in 1941 and again
in 1942.
It is also noted by' Miss Sara Mims,
head of Senior’s English department,
that for the first time a State English
contest will be held Friday, April 1C.
Five students selected by each English
teacher will have the privilege of tak
ing part in the eliminations.
Mrs. Blanche Smith, history depart
ment head, also announced plans for
a slate history contest on April C.
Over 200 G. H. S. Girls
Engaged In Studying
Red Cross First Aid
What would you do if y'ou saw a
telephone linesman accidentally come
in contact with a high tension wire
while working on a pole, and fall to
the ground with a compound fracture
of the right leg, a cut on the left hand,
and with no breathing in ovidenoe?
Ov(u- 200 Greensboro high school girls
■e now learning the answer to this
and other similar questons through the
study of first aid in llieir physical edu-
‘ation classes.
Eight classes ai’(‘ (aught at Senior,
with an average of about 35 pupils in
i>aeh class. Tin* instructors, Aliss Lily
Walker. Aliss Cleo BriMidle, and Airs.
Emma Avery, are iualilied by the Amer
ican Red Gross to teach the standard
20-hom‘ course.
G. II. S. girls who lalce gym attend
first aid classes one day, and physical
education the lu'Xi, aKc'rnatiug between
Aliss Doris Ilntcliinson, gym supervisor,
and (be tlire(‘ Red Gross instructors.
Th(‘ work is avcrag(‘d, and insti'ad of
giving sci)arat‘ grades for gym anl
tirsl aid. only oju' rc'port is made.
Wliih* these students rec(‘ive no 'Xtr.‘i
credit for liudr first aid worlc, llu'.v will,
upon siic(‘essful completion of the
course, be eligible to take an (‘xaniiiia-
tion to determine (heir fitness as hold-
(‘I'S of StJindard IR'd Cross first ail
(•(‘rtificates.
Ruth Winlerling Makes A's
At U. N. C. Woman's College
Among th‘ 75 Smiior Higli gralu-
atos at the AVomtin’s college who are
fia-shmmi this year, tlie most oiitstJUHl-
ing rix'ord has laxm made l»y Ruth
Wint(*rling, who has made the grade
of A on (‘v«‘r.v suliject which she takes.
Other ontstanding records are nf)tal)le.
’riiose making (‘xe‘ptionall.v high
averages on their first semesN'r of col-
l>g(‘ woj-k arc* Jean Garber. Joan IIol-
leymaii, Alyne Roseberry. Alartha Pear
son. Lelia Atkin.'^on. A'irginia Iliuiter.
Betty ’Routh, Billie .T‘an IMiipps, Alice
Trosper, and Mary Louise Sawyer.
The cotirses which ar(‘ taken by Uiitb
Winterling tire chemistry. Englisli,
Ereix’h, histor.v and home economic.s.
'a