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VOLUME XX
GREENSBORO SENIOR IHGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 3, 1943
NUMBER 6
Council to Open ^X4r Bond Drive
With Assembly Program Tuesday
^Campaign fo Continue
Bulletin
The classroom teachers will hold
a dinner at the Woman’s club on
Monday, December 6, at 6:15 pan.
The matter of the 30-day absence
wilt be discussed. Tickets wili cost
$1.00.
On Tuesday, December 14, the
Senior high P. T. A. will hold its
regular meeting.
Numa Knight, above left, is shown working at a polishing machine
at the Woodward Prosthetic laboratory while Hilton York looks on.
Both boys are members of the D. 0. class here at Senior high. (Staff
Photo by Ted Williamson.)
Diversified Occupations Class
Members Learn Prosthetics
Three students of Senior high who
have interesting but little known occu
pations are Blanche Winstead, Numa
Knight and Hiiton York.
Being members of the diversified
occupations program, these students
are diligentiy preparing themselves for
careers as prosthetic iaboratory tech
nicians, or to use simpler terms, makers
of artificial teeth.
To attain success in this field re
quires iong and difficult preparation
and study. Few peopie realize the
great skiii required in the manufac
ture of a set of artificial teeth, or den
tures, as the technician always calls
them.
The steps in the preparation of a
denture are: the taking of a wax cast
of the exact shape of the person’s
mouth for whom the denture is in
tended. Then the mold of plaster is
taken from this cast and the wax is
melted off. Teeth are then put in
piace in the mold and rubber or crylic
for the foundation is added.
Steady hands and nimble fingers are
prerequisites of the technician. More
over, artistic sense and good eye sight
are important also.
In spite of the long training and
great skill required of the technician,
the demand for good ones is great and
the pay often $50 to $80 a week.
Students who take this training have
a part-time schedule. They go to work
in the afternoons and work until night.
Their training is taken at the Wood
ward Prosthetic liboratory in the South
eastern building. All three of the stu
dents are seniors who expect to gradu
ate at the end of the school year.
Hilton York, who is 17, has been
working in the prosthetic laboratory
for 214 months and says he likes the
work and will continue it until he re
ceives his salutations from Uncle Sam.
Hilton came to Senior from Central
.Junior high, and is well known around
Senior.
Numa Knight has been taking his
training for about 6 months. He is
16 and came from Central Junior high
also.
(Continued on Page Seven)
Americanism Test
Taken; Average 16.65
According to the report released by
the office, the highest percentage made
by any home room in the American-
1 ism test, was achieved by Miss Kath
erine Epley’s class, room 203 with the
mark, 19.83. This is a second semester
class of juniors. The next two high
est avei’age were made also by old
junior homerooms, 14 and 102,
Other grades made by semester five
juniors were: Room 10, 17.35; room
201, 16.32; room eight, 16.23; room
307, 16.10; room 300, 16.11; room
six, 16.70; room two, 15.57; room 204,
15.51; room four, 15.47; room 301,
14.93; room 202, 14.87; room 200,
14.61.
Of the remaining semester five
ciasses, room seven made a grade of
15.00. The semester seven averages
were as foliows: Room 306, 17.61;
room 313, 17.40; room .303, 17.51; room
305, 17.27; room 200, .7.15; room 304,
10.90; room 315, 10.53; room nine,
10.46; room 317, 10.12; room 302,
15.76.
Sponsored by the Veterans of For
eign Wars, this test was given to
every student in Se'iiior high school
in an attempt to determine their
knowledge of their country’s history.
Edgar Alston, above, is the recently-
elected president of the Senior high
school debating club, which sponsored
a declamation contest here Tuesday,
November 23.
Student Interviews Romberg
By AILEEN MATEER
“To Aileen, with my very best
wishes, sincerely, Sigmund Romberg.”
'Those are the words that Sigmund
Romberg wrote as his autograph to
me as we returned from the WGBG
radio station November 20.
After being introduced in the O.
Henry hotel lobby to Mr. Romberg by
Mr. Marvin McDonald, the manager
of the company, Romberg invited us
to go to the radio station with him
for his broadcast.
On the way to the station, the
•ever-popular Sigmund Romberg asked
us what we thought of boogie woogie.
We were flustered. Never-the-less,
we managed fo tell him that we were
very fond of that type of music but
that we appreciated music of the clas
sical period too. We boldly stated that
we did like boogie woogie but we
thought it would never represent or
have a definite place in the music of
our age.
Romberg definitely dislikes boogie
woogie and agreed that he thought it
wouldn’t or couldn’t be a representa
tive of our musical age.
He further explained the situation
by telling of his experience in the
army camps.
Mr. Romberg has been touring the
camps and camp hospitals all over the
country. He told us that when he
played for the younger set of soldiers,
they preferred a boogie woogie ses
sion and could hardly be satisfied with
anything short of a “hep-cat” jubilee.
(Continued on Page Four)
First Presbyterian Church
Club Plans Christmas Party
The senior department of the First
Presbyterian church will hold its an
nual Christmas party in the church
hut Friday night, December 3. Prizes
are to be awarded to the winners of
various games and there will be danc
ing and games which will begin at
8 p.m.
The church hut will be decorated
with colorful penants, banners and
gay streamers. Refreshments will be
served.
As the guests arrive, they will be
divided into two teams, the Cods and
the Herrings, and given a paper fish
on which is written the name desig
nating his team. A prize will be given
to the winning team.
Further plans are being made by
George Bryant, Jean Barry, and Pat
Hole. Free tickets may be secured
trom them.
Cecil Brown Speaks at
G.H.S.; Lions Sponsor
That Senior is keeping up with
world affairs is proven by the fact
that Cecil Brown, noted correspondent,
writer, and speaker, spoke to resi
dents of Greensboro in the local audi
torium, Friday, November 19th at 8
o’clock.
A group of college girls as well as
the Meistersingers, directed by Walter
Vassar, of Greensboro college, sang
several songs before the speaker was
introduced by Mr. Charles Boyd, local
attorney.
Mann Announces New
Rules For Bus Drivers
“Mr. .1. T. Seawell, buildings and
grounds superintendent, recently re
vealed the rules which the nine bus
drivers and their assistants should fol
low for the school year in order to
prevent accidents and reduce confu
sion,” Mr. G. O. Mann, bus supervisor
for Senior, announced in an interview.
Among the regulations given the
drivers, the following stand out;
1. Pupils must ride their assigned
loads. If a pupil misses his assigned
lead, he will not be permitted to ride
another load.
2. Drivers may be dismissed if they
tolerate smoking and misconduct on
the busses.
3. Busses will not leave in the aft-
erncon until 10 minutes after the close
of school.
4. Speeding and reckless driving
will not be tolerated, not only on the
driveway back of Senior, but also en
route to the destination.
5. Bus drivers will not be allowed
in their busses at any time from the
time the bus is parked until leaving
time in the afternoon.
Stressing the responsibilities of the
.school bus drivers, Mr. Mann declared,
“Since half of the students ride the
school busses, it becomes extremely
important that drivers are careful and
that students cooperate.”
Through December 14;
Priie Being Offered
BUY bonds, BUY stamps and
BUY more bonds!!! Help Senior
high go over the top in the cam
paign to purchase a Jeep, a
Grasshopper” airplane and an
Amphibious Jeep !!!
This will be the cry of all mem
bers of the student council and
bond drive committee all next
week as they launch the initial
war fund campaign of the school
year with a bond-rally assembly
program Tuesday.
The drive, which will be the first
major project of the local council this
year, officially opens Tuesday morning
after the assembly program, and will
continue through home room period the
following Tuesday, December 14.
Bonds — of any denomination —• and
stamps, from 10 cents up, will be sold
during the drive, and sales will be
made through the supply shop, with
Miss Frances Sowell directing the sales
in cooperation with Pete Holmes, school
treasurer. Stamps can be purchased
any time, but applications will have to
be made one day for bonds and they
will be received the next.
There will be a grand prize of $10
to the one person who has the largest
amount of bonds to his credit alter
the final tabulation Tuesday, December
14. The council is also planning to give
a prize to the home room selling the
largest amount, but at press time it
had not been announced.
This is the first drive of this nature
the council has sponsored this year,
but more are being planned. It is hoped
that when the drive is over, buying
will not stop, but keep going to help
I)uy the guns and other equipment for
our fighting forces.
Several Greensboro high boys have
already given their lives for their coun
try, and we should be proud to do
everything possible to keep others from
having to pay the supreme sacrifice.
So start preparing now to buy bonds
and stamps all next week, and if you
are planning to make this a patriotic
Christmas and give a war bond or two,
purchase them next week and have
your shopping over. Last spring. Sen
ior high sold almost $12,000 in stamps
and bonds in a one-week drive. Let’s
not be outdone by them. BUY, BUY,
BUY, and help top that goal.
Talent Program Successful in Chapel;
Emde Trombone Wows Audience
Support your council War Bond drive.
The all local talent chapel program
last Tuesday proved very successful.
Irwin Smallwood, Mr. Emde, who had
charge of the entire program, Jimmie
Rawlins, master of ceremonies, and
all the ether participants in the pro
gram provided the audience with
nearly an hour of real entertainment.
Tom Sasser led the devotional, and
the program got off to good start with
a piano solo by Harold Schiffman.
Next on the program was actually Joe
Troxler, masquerading as a lady. Tom
Sasser and Miss Doris Funderburk
from Woman’s College played a piano
duet.
The quartet, composed of Howard
Morris, Dan Warren, Brantley Gree-
son and Carl Garrett, sang “All
God’s Children Got Shoes” and “Old
MacDonald Had a Farm.” As an en
core, they harmonized on “Show Me
the Way to Go Home.” Bill Bentley,
who plays the piano for Chandler’s
band, played a solo.
Mr. Mason Emde, the very popular
physics teacher who replaced “Jabbo”
Johnson, accompanied by Miss Funder
burk, played “Castles in the Air,” by
Clay Smith, a trombone novelty known
as “Miss Trombone” or “The Slippery
Rag,” and “Blue Indigo.” Harold
Schiffman again played the piano and
Tom Sasser returned to play a solo.
November 23 Miss Kyung Tsao Woo
from Greensboro College spoke in
chapel about how the Chinese cele
brate Thanksgiving. Even though China
has no date especially set aside for
this day, the Chinese people give
thanks for what they have. The choir,
under the direction of Miss Eula
Tuttle, sang “Stordola Pumpa,” “Kye
Song of St. Bride,” and “Prayer of
Thanksgiving.”