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Mary Nicholson
HIGH LIFE
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From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XX
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., FEBRUARY 11, 1944
NUMBER 9
Second Semester
Schedule
6th School Month
First Teaching Day .. February 10
Last Teaching Day March 8
No. Teaching Days 20
7th School Month
First Teaching Day March 9
Last Teaching Day April 5
No. Teaching Days 20
8th School Month
First Teaching Day April 6
Last Teaching Day May 5
Easter Holidays .. April 7-10 Inch
No. Teaching Days 20
9th School Month
Krst Teaching Day May 8
Last Teaching Day June 2
No. Teaching Days 20
Total Number Teaching Days . 180
Abbott Takes Ptace
As Physics Teacher
Replacing J. C. Mason Emde as
Senior high school physics teacher is
David Abbott, chief engineer at the
WBIG transmitter on the Battleground
road, it was revealed in an exclusive
High Life interview recently.
Mr. Abbott has had much radio ex
perience, even before his graduation
from Senior in the spring of 1938.
In 1932, he received his experimental
amateur operator permit; in 1934, be
gan to service receiving sets and to
conduct more experiments; in 193G,
the federal communications commis
sion licensed him to operate the ama
teur radio station W4DZS.
After his high school graduation, Mr.
Abbott worked as head of the radio
department of a Florida electrical con
tractor oii' 'M^fiiTS' radio ' equipment.
Before coming to Greensboro to take
up the position of chief engineer at
radio station WBIG, he attended night
classes and acquired much practical
exi^erience.
In addition to his duties at the
Wr.lG transmitter, Mr. Abbott has
conducted radio training classes in
Greensboro sponsored by the State
college extension service and the fed
eral communications commission and
recently was in charge of a course in
practical electricity at the local Duke
Power company.
Parent-Teacher Association
Has Interesting Meeting
To recognize social hygiene week,
the P. T. A. of Senior High heard a
talk by Capt. Ernest Vogle, and saw
an interesting movie, shown by Dr.
I'h K. Harder, city health officer. The
meeting which -was arranged by Mrs.
Bess X. Rosa, took place in the audi
torium last Tuesday.
Another attraction on the program
was the musical portion by the band.
G. H. S. Building Improvements Proposed;
Airplane To Honor Senior High Alumna
Nary Nicholson Day
Will Be Observed
Here Tomorrow
Mary Nicholson day will be observed
here in Greensboro tomorrow to sell
$150,000 in war bonds for the pur
chase of an ambulance airplane in hon
or of the late Greensboro aviatrix and
former Senior high student who lost
her life last year in an accident while
flying for the air transport auxiliary
of the Royal Air Force in the United
Kingdom.
Miss Nicholson, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. F. II. Nicholson, formerly of
Greensboro, was born in Greensboro
July 12, 1905, and attended Senior high
.school and Woman’s college for one
year. She was also a student of music
at Guilford colege for two years be
fore going to Portsmouth, Ohio, where
she went to busine.ss school and turned
to flying.
Miss Nicholson received her private
pilot’s license in 192S, being the lirst
woman in North Carolina to get one.
She was secretary to Miss Jaqueline
Cochran, the famous woman flyer, until
last summer when she was called, along
with fifty other American women, for
ATA training and subsequent duty.
Miss Nicholson was the first Guilford
woman to lose her life in this war.
Among the women’s organizations
which will sponsor the event are the
Business and Professional Women’s
lub, the Guilford College Alumni asso
ciation and the Woman's College Alum-
iiiassociation.
Others sponsoriii}:^ *']-^'Aday
ternberger hospital aVi>5l\ifary,
are the
Sternberger hospitaraYi^Jl^^ary, the citi
zens service corps, the Altrnsa club,
the Pilot club, Beta Sigma Phi soror
ity, Delta Theta Chi sorority, Business
and Professional Girls club, Sliapian
club. Woman’s club. Junior Woman’s
club. Junior league, Thalian Spinsters,
Air Corps Mothers, American Associa
tion of University AVomen, V. F. AV.
auxiliary, American Legion auxiliary,
AA’. C. T. U., Greensboro Council of
Garden clubs. Greensboro Council of
Parents and Teachers, Euterpe club,
Guilford Battle chapter. D. A. R., Ra-
(‘hael Caldwell chapter, D. A. P., Guil
ford chapter. Y. I). C., and the Young
Matrons club.
The Altrnsa club has pledged to buy
a $1(M) bond toward the goal, and the
faculty of AA^oman's college designated
all last week as Alary Nicholson week
and had as a quota. $6,000.
All purchasers of bonds tomorrow
wil be given free tickets to any of
the Green.sboro theaters with the ex
ception of the Carolina.
104 Students Make Senior High Honor
Roll; Nine Get Special Recognition
As the last six weeks of the first
semester closed, 104 Senior High stu
dents attained an average of 90 or
ever and nine w’ere placed on the
special honor roll, revealed Miss Ida
Belle Aloore in a recent interview.
The highest average of 98.4 was
Diude by Annie Charles Smith, room
-04. Others making the special honor
roll are Patsy Lowe, room 8; Sara
Poster, room 0; Janice McFalls, room
14; Max ilorgan, room 200; Ed Mabry,
room 203; Leon Hayes, room 200;
Thettis Hoffner, room 206; and Ada
^ue AIcBane, room 317.
Those on the regular honor roll are
as follows: room 4, Joe Albright, Sara
-•illison, Francis Barwuck, Barbara Bell,
Tommy Bowden, Jane Bradford, Mary
Jane Brooks; room 6, Stark Dillard,
Margaret Donald, Jean Dunivent, Rae
Evans, Gerald Ginnings, Dewitt Glas
gow; room 7, Mary Clay BrnfP, Bill
Caffey, Martha Check, Mildred East;
room 8, Bill Little; room 9, Ellen
Groome, Carson Grantham; room 10,
Raymond Bryant, T^mzie Burton, Mar
garet Church, Louise Coble, Carl
Cochrane, Barbara Collins, Lynn Cox,
Eileen Curry; room 102, Kemp Foster.
Room 200, Jack Matlock, Bill Moore,
Margaret Motley, Glenn Merritt, Joe
Jlitchell; room 201, Lucy Nance, Ruth
Peeples, Athena Pappas: room 203,
Don AIcCormick, Roy Moffitt; room 204,
Dora Louise Smith, Elizabeth Stafford,
A’elma Steppe, Louise Stigall, Ralph
Stout; room 206, Bill Kampschmidt,
Bill Johnson, Margaret Hudson, AA’anda
Kidd, Doris Tvoflin, Harold Schiffman,
Jack Scott, Billie Sherwood, Marguerite
(Continued, on Page Five)
Making observations in the aeronautics class are, left to right,
Don Pitch, Jimmy Cross, and Mac Albright. (Staff photo by Ted
Williamson.)
Aeronautics Classes Learn
Plane Spotting, Meteorology
In the two aeronautiCvS classes under Miss Ida Belle Moore’s
supervision, students are learning all phases of aviation. The begin
ning class learns aircraft identification, Avhile the advanced class
studies fundamentals of meteor-'^
ology.
Students of the Aeronautics 1 class
will be able to recognize (>5 to 100
planes in less than a second’s flash
on a screen. The major type planes
of the United States, Britain, Germany
and Japan are included in the si>otting.
After a course of about four weeks
on identification, Miss Moore’s students
will work on navigation principles.
Included in this study is: the reading
and interpreting sectional maps, a
thorough study of navigation instru
ments, the planning of a course by
piloting and dead-reckoning, solving
wind triangles and intersections and
the ideas of a radius of action.
Next in the highl.v-instructive course
comes aerodynamics which includes
the four force.s which act on a plane,
the principle underlying lift and the
stability and performance of airships.
At present the advanced class is
taking a course on meteorology which
is the study of all types of weather.
T'liderlying factors in weather such
as temperature, pressure, humidity,
clouds and high and low in atmos
pheric pressure are just a few topics
to be mentioned in this aeronautics
branch.
Mrs. Estelle LeGwin
Suffers Broken Foot
Airs. James D. TjeGwin, popular
chemistry and biolog.v teacher, at
Senior, suffered a broken metatarsal
bone in her foot in a slight accident
on Saturday, January 29.
Airs. LeGwin broke the bone (meta
tarsals are six small bones in the
n nkle) when she stepped in a hole
while walking and twisted her foot.
The foot was encased in a heavy coat
and Airs. LeGwin, fortunately, was
able to continue teaching her classes.
School Store Supplies
Decreased Due to Shortages
Supplies in the school store are con-
siderabl.v reduced due to war short
ages, Aliss Frances Sowell, manager of
the store announced yesterday. All
the junior high schools in Greensboro
are supplied from the high school and
there is a lack of notebook paper in
all the schools.
'Through February 1, sales in all the
.schools have amounted to $1,6()6.21.
New Gym, Home Ec
Practice House
Are Recommended
A gymnasium, a home economics
piactice house and arcades connecting
Iho main building, science building,
vocational building and the cafeteria
arc among the building needs existing
here at Senior high, according to a
report of a committee apix)inted by
the Guilford county Board of Com
missioners to make a survey of the
buildings of the Guilford schools.
This committee was made up of
T. R. Foust, superintendent of Guil
ford county schools, Charles F. Carroll,
Jr., superintendent of High Point pub
lic schools, and B. L. Smith, superin
tendent of Greensboro public schools,
and these men were assisted in mak
ing the building check-up by W. F.
Credle, director of state sehoolhouse
planning. Raleigh.
The new gym, which is probably
needed more than either of the other
two items, would cost an estimated
$75,000, while the home ec. practice
house would cost approximately $11,-
600 and the arcades, $26,500.
At present. Senior high is using a
frame gym for its indoor sports for
boys, and it will be a decided asset
if the new gym is erected, as there
is not as good accommodations for
spectators as'would be liked. The
girls now have a labox*atory in the
science building for home ec. practice, '
but as more and more girls start tak
ing this subject and more equipment
is acquired, a larger space will be nec
essary for this work. There are
wooden covered walkways between the
buildings now which help immensely
during bad weather, but the new ar
cades which have been proposed will
go well with these other suggested im
provements to make the G. II. S. cam-
j)ns the best in North Carolina.
The recommendations of the com
mittee will be submitted to the county
i commissioners, and the board’s ap
proval will be necessary and an ap
propriation will have to be made.
Aloreover, the building ban will have
to be lifted before construction can
begin and these facilities can not be
considered in immediate prospect.
Nevertheless, it is hoped that they
will all be available with a period of
five years.
Former Senior High Teacher Writes
Editor of Experiences in North Africa
“I want to tell you that I always
read every word of each issue, although
most of the students I taught are now
gone." said First Lt. Herbert Hacks,
Jr., former French teacher at Senior
who is now with the infantry in north
Africa, in a letter recently to your High
Life editor.
Lieutenant Hacks, who has been
gone from G. H. S. since January 16,
1942, receives every issue of High Life
at his post in Africa and says that he
really enjoys every word of it—mainly
i)ecause it keeps him in contact with
his former surroundings here at Senior
and helps him keep in mind the things
that are happening back in his home
town.
Lieutenant Hacks went on to tell
about some of the many intere.sting
things in north Africa. “One of the
most amusing scenes I have witnessed
.occurred some time ago,” Lieutenant
Hacks said. “Two of my friends and
I were standing in front of the post ex
change waiting for a ride to visit the
Arab section of the city. An old Arab
‘salesman’ saw us and imiuediatel.v
tried to sell us each a poignai-d. (A
poignard is a slender dagger typical iii
Africa). He ‘attacked’ me first, but I
pushed him off on one of my friends,
who in turn ‘sicked’ on the third. Then
the old man tried to sell us all the three
daggers for $75. But we weren’t suckers !
He centered his sales talk on the third
friend, who soon told him, in French,
that he wanted absolutely nothing from
him and ‘Allez,’ which usually causes
any Arab to scram. By that time the
jeep for which we had been waiting
came, and as we got in I turned ai-ound
and heard the old man muttering to
himself, in French: ‘C)ne must have
patience with characters.’”
He also told of the Arab boys, who
had nearly all produced shoe boxes.
“An officer or enlisted man can take
hardly a step in town without one say
ing. ‘Hi, Joe, shoe shiiu>—’Melican pol
ish?’ ■’ Lieutenant Hncks said. The chil
dren are also always asking the Yanks
for “sehwing gum” and “bon-bon.”
(Continued on Page Four)