Social Standards
Day Is On Its Way
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
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VOLCME XX
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., FEBRUARY 35, 1944
NUMBER 10
SOCIAL STANDARDS DAY TO BE MARCH 7
Alston, Cuiton, Lewis,
Glasgow Are Winners
Of Debate Tryouts
Amid an atmosphere of excitement
and suspense in the Central Junior
high school auditorium, February 15,
Edgar Alston, Yancey Cuiton, Robert
Lewis and Dewitt Glasgow won the
coveted positions on the Greensboro
High school debating squads and will
be supported by Stark Dillard as first
alternate, Miss Mozelle Causey, ad
viser for the club, announced in a
recent interview^.
The order of procedure for the de
bate tryouts was as follows:
First debate—affirmative, Stark Dil
lard, Edgar Alston; negative, Dewitt
Glasgow, Yancey Cuiton.
Second debate—affirmative, John Se
vier, Glenn Merritt; negative, Dick
Eichhorn, Robert Lewis.
Two affirmative speeches were de
livered also by Rita Pearl and Billie
JIcNeeley who had no opponents avail
able at the time.
At the Debating club meeting Tues
day. February 22, Edger Alston defeat
ed John Sevier in the contest to deter
mine the Senior high school represen
tative in the county oration contest
March 8 in the court house, sponsored
by the American Legion.
Members of the debating team will
have a practice debate with Thomas-
ville from 3 till 5 p.m. Tuesday. The
triangular debates are to be held on
lVlar£li XL
Debating lineup for the contest with
Thomasville (Greensboro team) will be :
Affirmative — first speaker, Yancey
Cuiton; second speaker, Edgar Alston.
Negative—first speaker, DeWitt Glas
gow' ; second speaker, Robert Lewis.
High Life Reporter
interviews Lugosi
By TED WILLIAMSON
‘■Study, go to school, you must learn
the fundamentals of acting if you are
to be a success,” w'as the advice given
for anyone interested in acting by Bela
Lugosi in an interview at the National
theater Tuesday night.
Having just completed his perform
ance in the current dramatic hit, “Ar
senic and Old Lace,” Lugosi w'as pre
paring to retire to his room in the King
Cotton hotel when your reporter found
his in his dressing room.
Lugosi, w'ho is a native of Bavaria,
a small state in Germany, w’as quite
glad to grant the interview'. He is, in
api)earance, the same Lugosi seen in
the “Dracula” pictures (he used no
make-up in them), but is inclined (for
tunately) to be somew'hat less forbid
ding.
Lugosi began his career in Europe
after four years of study, in a dramatic
school. He played straight parts, no
horror roles, until he came to America.
He was playing on the stage bn Broad
way w’hen a Hollywood movie studio
began searching for someone to i>ortray
the title role in the new play, “Dracu
la.” He W'as offered the part and ac
cepted it as his first moving picture
role. Since then he has starred in many
films but prefers the stage. “When
I’m making a picture I’m at the direc
tor's mercy, but on the stage I have
the audience in my hands,” Lugosi
explained.
Lugosi does not like the movies and
never attend sthem. He plays in them
only as a means of making a living
w'hen not on the stage. How'ever, he
thinks the horror films will not lose
popularity, but may be replaced by the
suspense movie.
Seniors to Order Cards
And Invitation Soon
“Between now ami March 15 all
seniors who want to purchase
graduation Invitations will order
them at the Supply shop,” an
nounced Principal A. P. Routh in
assembly last week.
This year’s invitations will be
similar to the standai'd engraved
invitations issued by Senior high
students for the past several years,
but with some small change. Due
to wartime restrictions on the
weight of mail, only one envelope
may be used instead of the two of
former days, and the paper on
which the invitations are printed
will have to be lighter in weight.
The price of the invitations will
be the same as before, five cents.
At the same time that they order
their invitations, seniors will select
calling cards, which are enclosed
with the invitations.
Rev. Kenneth Goodson, above, will
make the principal address at the
Social Standards conference to be
Held here March. 7. He is pastor of
Muir’s OhaiKd Methodist church.
Eldridge Peebles was high scorer at
Senior on the Army Air Corps screen
ing e.xam which was given early in
January to IG and 17 year old high
school boys. He made 310 out of a
possible 300. Leon Hayes was second
W'ith 305.
xVll boys who took the test received
their final scores last week. Any boy
who passed the test, is 17 years old,
and can pass the physical require
ments, can join the Army Air Corps
Enlisted Reserve and not be called to
active duty until he is 18, and may
finish his school semester if he can
finish within six months after his
18th birthday. All 16-year-old boys
who passed the test, may join the re-
school March 15 at 9 a.m., according to an announcement by A. P.
V"12, A-12 Tests Will Be
Conducted Here March 15 '
For the third time since Pearl Harbor, the army-navy college
qualifying tests, A-12 and V-12, will be given here at Senior high
Routh, G. H. S. principal,
These e.xaminations, first conducted^
here last spring, give the boys who
are able to pass a chance to attend
college at the government’s expense
and gain commissions in the army or
navy.
Eligibility Rules
Eligible for participation in the tests
will be men who will be 17, but not
yet 22, on July 3, 1944, and who are
high school graduates or who gradxiate
by July 1. Those who receive satis
factory scores will be instructed to
present their qualifj'ing notices to
either the army or navy authorities,
and will be e.xamined for possible ac
ceptance.
Among the major field of study for
the army trainees, and the branches
of service to which some of them lead,
are as follows: chemical, civil, me
chanical, electrical, marine or sanitary
engineering; medicine or dentistry,
personnel psychology; foreign area and
language study; veterinary medicine;
surveying; internal combustion en
gines ; combustion engines; communi
cations and optics: military and physi
cal training.
Naval Courses
Courses open to navy candidates
are: deck officer, medical corps, dental
corps, general engineering, civil engi
neering, construction corps, engineer
specialists, aerology, supply corps and
chaplain corps.
A number of former Senior high
students have taken and passed this
nationwide test, and are either attend
ing one of the colleges which have
A-12 or V-12 classes, or preparing to
enter March 1,
Bond Quota Is Exceeded
On Mary Nicholson Day
Over $150,000 in war bonds were
sold on Mary Nicholson day observed
in Greensboro February 12. Miss
Nicholson, a former high student, was
killed while flying for the air trans
port auxiliarj' of the Royal Air Force
last year.
Miss Nicholson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Nicholson, was born in the
Gate City in 1905 and attended both
Senior high and Woman’s college. She
is the first Guilford woman to lose her
life in service of her country.
Bond purchasers received free thea
ter tickets by buying on Nicholson day
Plans For Teachers’
Rental Library Made
.Announcing plans for a rental
library to be placed at the disposal
of faculty membei'S, Miss F. Sowell
has male a request for Senior high
teachers to lend books of general
interest to the library.
Briefly, the faculty rental librarj-
w'ill work like this: each contrib
uting teacher will place her book
in the box of Miss Sowell in the
teachers’ room. A card will be
made out with the name of the
teacher and the book, cards and
books being placed in the teachers’
room.
When a teacher wishes to check
out a book, she puts her name and
the date on the card. When books
are returned, the returning date
is put on the card, the rental
money to the amount of 10 cents
for the first three days and three
cents for each extra day is dropped
in the box.
Miss Sowell revealed that all
books will be returned to the con
tributor in May, unless requested
sooner.
Goodson Will Sound Keynole at Opening
Assembly; 'Let's Face it' Wilt Be Theme
By BILL BOGART
As a second major project of the year, student council members
will sponsor the annual Social Standards day, Tuesday, March 7,
when no re^ilar classes will be held at Senior. Kenneth Goodson,
Methodist minister, will make the principal address at the opening;
assembly.
Peebles, Hayes, High
On Air Corps Test
taking another mental exam.
The test consisted of a possible 390
points. The first part, w’hich contained
150 points, was on perception. The
second part, containing 240 points, was
on mechanical aptitude. A score of
190 was required to pass.
A few of the highest scorers were:
Robert H. Jones, 299; Ed Gentry, 298;
Thomas Allred, 296; Ross Fogleman,
296: Wilbur Turrentine, 290; Henry
Stout. 285; Hugh Cox, 283; Henry
Watson, 281; Howard Morris, 280; and
David Swain, 280.
Cain Presents Choir With
Autographed Manuscript
“With best wishes to Miss Tuttle
and her chorus ‘kids’ ”—in this
manner Noble Cain, the well
known choir director inscribed a
copy of his own arrangement of
“The Ix)rd’s I’rayer” for Miss Bula
Tuttle, Senior High choir director
and her “kids.”
Cain, who formerly instructed
Miss Tuttle w’hen she attended
Northwestern University in Evan
ston, Ill., instructed the choir re
cently at a music clinic held at
Woman’s college. He commented
on the enthusiasm and interest of
the choir members.
National Brotherhood Week Observed
At Senior As Three Chaplains Speak
Maintaining “Brotherhood or Chaos”
as its general theme, and completing
a week of activities all over the nation,
the national observance of Brother
hood week comes to a close today.
In cooi)eration with this idea. Senior
presented an unusual chapel program
last Tuesday. Three men, a priest, a
rabbi and a minister, representing the
three leading religions in America,
si>oke to the student body. Rabbi Ryp-
ins introducel the men. all three of
whom are chaplains at the Camp Croft,
S. C., induction center.
1st Lt. John R. Connell, Catholic,
stressed unity of religions in keeping
with Brotherhood w'eek. “We are not
free of guilt; there are plenty of evils
in our own land,” the speaker de
clared. He said that our country was
not perfect when onr forefathers drew
up the Declaration of Independence,
nor is it perfect today. It is up to us
to strive to make it the best that is
possible. “We are fighting for a moral
law.” he added; “the freeest man or
woman is the one who hinds himself by
law.”
Captain David M. Eichhorn, of the
Reformed Jewi.sh faith, illustratetl his
opinion of Brotherhood week by a story
of three rings. His talk brought out
the fact that one can always know the
real religion by the way the people of
that religion serve God.
Lt. Col. Harry H. Gregory, a Bap
tist, representing the Protestants, told
the students that “War is a game.”
He revealed the fact that services of
all religions are held in the same
chapel.
Rev. Mr. E. H. Neese, of West Mar
ket Street Methodist church, spoke in
chapel Tuesday before last.
“Let’s Face It.” meaning let us as
future citizens face the problems that
this war and post-warporiod present
to us, will he the conference theme,
when representatives of over 25 other
high schools will be invited to this
event which originated in North Caro
lina hei*e twelve years ago.
The entire student body will gather
for the initial assembly at 9:30 a.m.
Miss Loretta* Crawford, Bible instruc
tor, will lead devotionals, followed by
a performance of the band. In con
clusion, Mr. Goodson will make his talk.
After a 15-miiiute recess at 10:30
a.m., boys will hold an as.sembly, while
girls will break into small groups,
discussing about 13 topics related to
the main theme. Dr. Sam Ravenel
will speak on physical standings to
the boys, while the moral idea will be
included in Chaplain Rrahn’s discus
sions. Citizenship of future men will
be handled by Mr. Charles Phillips.
Lunch will be served from 12 to
1:30 p.m., when students will eat in
two groups. Those holding red paper
slips eat first, while those with blue
dine last. A choice of a basketball
game or auditorium movies is offered
to the .student in the remaining lunch
period.
From 1:30 to 2:45, girls will hold
their special assembly, w'hen Dr. Ellis,
Laurin Carlson and Mrs. Clyde A.
Milner w'ill speak, respectively, on
physical, moral and citizenship stand
ings after the war. During this period,
l)oys will hold their small group meet
ings.
As a climax to the events, all stu
dents will be invited to an oikui house
in tbe girls’ gym from 3 to 5 p.m.
Music will be by J. Kiinbal Harriman
and his Melody Masters.
52 Prospective Girls
On Girl's State List
Recently, home room teachers were
asked to tuni in the names of two
girls from their homerooms who meet
eligibility retjuirements for Girls’ state.
Following are those who were selected
from junior homerooms: homeroom 4,
Frances Barwiok and Barbara Bell;
10, Lora Crutchfield and Barbara Col
lins; 6, Rae H\’ans and Margaret Ann
Donald; 2, Imogene Hammer and Pat
Hole: 307, Martha Holmes and Betsy
.John Hurley; 8, Patsy Lowe and Bev
erly McNairy; 200, Betty Moore and
Margaret Motley: 201, Athena Pappas
and Carolyn Phillips; .300, Martha Jane
Rogers and Janet Schopp; 204, Annie
Charles Smith and Velma Stepp; 202,
Maude Taylor and Alice Thacker; 301,
Betty Winecoff and Betty Jean Wig
gins.
The list from the old junior home
rooms are as follows: homeroom 7,
Mildred Hayworth and Jean Coble;
102, Billie Sue Langley and Shirley
Pruden; 12, Janice McFalls and Betty
Jo Kirby; 203, Jean Morgan and Mar
garet Patter.son.
From senior homerooms the follow
ing : homeroom 306, Gertrude Archer
and Margaret Barnes; 313, Doris Cave-
ness and Barbara Clegg; 303, Phyllis
Fincher and Maude Dickson; 0, Ellen
Groome and Frances Gregg; 206, Thet-
tis Hoffner and Doris Loflin; 317, Ada
Sue McBnne and Betty Lee; 315, Jean
Milloway and Helen Norman; 305,
Carolyn Pleasants and Doris Purcell;
304, Nina Smith and Jean Story; 302,
Sally Waddell and Katherine Yokes.