Let’s Put the
Bond Campaign Across
HIGH LIFE
Plan Now
To Cast Your Vote
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XX
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 21, 1944
NUMBER 14
Melody Masters Repeat
At BTC 10 Hospital
On Tuesday night, last week, the
Melody Masters, popular Senior
high dance band, played a return
engagement at the B.T.C. 10 base
hospital.
Their program consisted of eight
numbers: “String of Pearls,"’ “Blue
Rain,” “No Love, No Nothing,”
“Two O’clock Jump,” “Back Beat
Boogie,” “Lovely Way to Spend
an Evening,” and “Besame Mucho,”
foiu" of which were vocalized by
Sally Waddell, the Masters’ song
bird.
The band gave its program in
two pai*ts, playing before and after
a short act by some G. C. college
girls.
Candidates Convention Will Be Held Tuesday;
Students Cast Ballots lor Officers May 3
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Good Luck, Pal! . . .
Senior High Has 36
Entries in N. C. Art
Competition at W. (.
In the seventh annual North Caro
lina School Art exhibition being Iveld
in Weathei’Spoon gallery at Woman’s
college, April 21-29, Senior high is
represented by 30 pieces of art.
The exhibition is sponsored by the
T'niversity of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill, and in Greensboro by Woman’s
college in cooperation with the North
Carolina Women’s Federation. Ralph
Pearson, famous New York art teacher
and author, will be the sole judge of
the contest.
Entries from this school are as fol
lows : Oil painting, Mary Ann Cham
berlain and Polly Claiborne (each with
two entries) ; water color painting,
Ruby Hoffman, Jean Milloway, Anne
Overcash (two entries), Frances
Craven, Dorothy Penn (two entries),
Mary Ann Chamberlain, Billy Carr,
Marie Patton, Irvin Muse (two en
tries), and Wallace Harrell.
Pencil drawing: Tommy Grubbs,
Barbara Gaskill, Ray Dilley, and Don
McCormick.
Ink drawing: Ray Dilley (two en
tries), Raymond Hepler, Billy Carr
(three entries), Roger Greeson and
Bill Txmg.
Design: Don Everett.
Block printing; Clyde Friddle.
Weaving: Dorothy Isley.
Tempera : Barbara McLaughlin.
Sculpture: Don McCormick, Jean
Milloway and Ted Williamson.
June 5 Registration
For Summer School
Beginning on Monday, June 5, sum
mer school wall be held again at Senior
this year and will continue for thirty-
two school days, closing July 12, it
was announced by Mr. Routh this
morning.
Two classes, each lasting two and
one-half hours, will be taught for six
days a week. First period will begin
at 8 a.m. and the second at 10:30 in
order that the school may be brought
to a close as quickly as possible, the
fourth of July will be the only holi
day observed during the summer ses
sion.
A tuition fee of $10 will be required
of each student for each subject in
which he is enrolled.
By the end of the summer school
session it is expected that forty or
more senior students will have com
pleted adequate work to attain their
graduation.
Girl Reserves Exceed $600
Goal in Easter Lily Sale
Having set their goal for $600 in
the recent drive for the aid of Crippled
Children, the Girl Reserves of the
W. C. A. exceeded their goal with
$~0G.68 worth of Easter lilies sold the
past two Saturdays on the streets of
the city.
Above are Joe Albright, left, and Yancey Culton, discussing the
forthcoming election on May 3. They are candidates for the office of
President of the school and a close race between the two is anticipated.
Bond Sales Begin; War Stamp
Dance Planned For
Friday
Student council members began their second war bond drive yes
terday in an effort to raise $15,000 Muthin the next two weeks. A
50-cent war stamp dance is planned, with the girls’ gym as the scene
and next Friday as the night, when students will swing out to the
music of the Serenaders.
Bond and stamp sales were scheduled
to start Tuesday, but the conflict with
elections plans forced the date to be
moved up.
A special bond committee has been
formed, including one member from
each of the 26 homerooms. It is the
duty of each of these members to boost
sales in his room by making pep talks
and inspiring every student to buy at
least a 10-cent war stamp.
Senior high will buy a Fairchild
I»T-19B with the money raised, and
any additional amounts will go toward
the purchase of a Mitchell B-25 ,bomber
which is the goal of the city schools.
It will take $175,000 from the schools
in order to acquire this tyi>e of plane,
which bombed Tokyo in 1942. A kit,
showing all major parts of the B-25,
will be displayed here soon.
Greensboro high school may secure
the 90% Treasury flag, if as many as
825 students purchase bonds or stamps
in this drive. Let’s show Uncle Sam
that we are behind him!
Orders for bonds are being taken in
the supply room every morning by Bil
lie McNeely and Gertrude Archer, sales
supervisors for the drive. Moreover,
stomps and bonds may be purchased
during lunch periods.
Bill Bogart, council bond chairman,
revealed yesterday that the drive would
end May 4, and that prizes of $10 and
$5 are to be given'to the highest pur
chasers. He also revealed the fact
that High Point high had already ex
ceeded their $15,(K)0, and that Central,
of Charlotte, had sole even more in
war bonds.
During the December drive the cash
value of bonds purchased was $12,601.
Chairman Bogart announces that charts
and posters have been installed in ses
sion rooms to boost the sales of the
present drive.
In addition, war bond adverti.sements
are l)eing given considerable space in
the current High Life issue. The $15,-
OOO goal is expected to be reached, since
the present campaign is being intense
ly inished by the committee, all of
whose members volunteered their ser
vices.
(ullon, Mabry and Albright Up For President
Glasgow, Holi M'Falls Contest Vice-Presidency
By YANCEY CULTON
Once again, as spring rolls around, the students at Senior high
school are going to the polls to cast their votes for next year’s officers.,
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10 Recommended For
Quill and Scroll
Miss Cathleeii Pike, Senior English
teacher, announces that ten members
of the Senior high student body have
been recommended for membership in
Quill and Scroll, national journalism
society. Miss Pike who is the local
adviser for Quill and Scroll, states
that the names of the students are not
yet ready to be given out.
To become a member of Quill and
Scroll, a student first must be recom
mended by the local adviser. He then
submits a piece of his or her writing
to the National Secretary. Th estu-
dent must have not less than an eighty-
five average on his high school W'ork
and must be voted in by the local Quill
and Scroll members.
Senior students who now belong to
Quill and Scroll are: President, Irwin
Smallwood; vice-president, Eleanor
Singletary; secretary. Sue Jarvis; and
treasurer, Vaughn McAlister. Others
are Beverly Bell, Jean Hayes, Mar
garet Barnes and Juanita Kimrey.
Initiation of the ten new members
will be in Assembly, May 0. Feature
speaker at the assembly will be Wil
liam Edgerton, French professor at
Guilford and Senior high alumni.
Joe Warner Submits
Constitution For
Council Approval
Joe Warner, council representative of
the junior class, submitted a new school
constitution to the council members at
their April 11 meeting. It was read
to the group by .Tim Brown, chairman
of the student association constitution
committee.
One of the outstanding factors in this
new document is a provision for two
houses as a governing body instead of
the present one. In this way, Warner
l)elieves that the two groups may check
on the activities of each other and thus
insure liettcr cooperation between the
councilnien and the students.
Harold Schiffman and Elmo Sellars,
new representatives, were given their
oaths of office by President Howard
Morris. Stark Dillard, third new mem
ber, will be installed at the regular
conference Monday.
Sniff—Sniff, There Must Be Some Perfume in the Air;
But What Is So Rare As the Smell of Chenelle No. 5?
All women who impose upon, seduce
and betray into matrimony any of His
Majesty’s subjects by the use of
scents, paints, cosmetics, artificial teeth,
false hair or bolstered hips, shall incur
the i)enalty of law against witchcraft.”
The above law was passed in 1778
by the British Parliament, being de
signed to protect H. M.’s sub.iects from
the clutches of designing women. Of
course the women paid no attention to
said laws as from time immemoi'ial
they have been enhancing themselves
with—among numerous other things—
perfumes of every odor known to man
kind.
The ancient Greeks were perfume
addicts extraordinary. It was not un
usual for guests at a Grecian party
to be subjected to showers of perfume
falling from the ceiling of the room.
Then, too, they had perfumes designed
to clear befuddled minds. (On being
informed of this, a certain G. H. S.
teacher longingly wished for an ample
supply for her journalism class.)
In Latin America at the annual
Mardi Gras celebration, people run
around and see that everybody is
sprayed with i)erfume, regardless of
whether or not one is taking part in
the merrymaking. Dancers deluge one
another and their partners even at the
most exclusive state balls. The most
dignified officials, even the presidents
of the republics, go about armed with
pockets filled with the tiny flasks and
revel in the wholesale spraying.
Turning to an entirely different kind
of perfume, the strangest of all uses
of odors was that which was employed
in World War I. Everyone who has
had experience (or even if you haven’t)
with the nocturnal creature known as
the skunk is well aware of the animal’s
distinctive odor and far-reaching prop
erties, but few of us know that the
scent has been the means of saving
countless human lives.
When an enemy caught a whiff of a
skunk he never knew whether or not
the odor would be immediately fol
lowed by a wave of gas, and would
hastily retire.
But our own men, aware that the
odor was a false alarm, eoiild advance
without hindrance when informed that
the poisonous gas accompanied the fa
miliar scent of the little black and
white denizen of the American wood
lands.
The candidates convention is to be
held in assembly, Tuesday, April 25,,
for the purpose of eliminating the Can-!
didates until only two students are left;
to place on the ballots for each ofiice.|
The various homerooms are asked to’
select a candidate to back in the con-l
vention, either this morning or by Mon
day morning, so that thet delegates may
present them the next day in chapel.
The remaining candidates will then
have one wek in which to present their
campaigns. The ballots will be cast
Tuesday, May 3rd, and the winners an-;
nonneed as quickly as the returns can
be tabulated.
Candidates
Candidates, who were announced in
assemhlj’ Thursday morning, are: Yan
cey Culton, Ed Mabry and Joe Albright
for president of the student body: De-
Witt Glasgow, Jane Holt and Janice
McFalls for the vice-presidency; Mar
tha Boggan and Betsy John Hurley
are running for president of the senior
class, and eight other senior represen
tatives with three senior officers. As
we go to press there has been no stu
dent to apply for the office of traffic
chief, and so the electors’ board will
have to appoint two students to com
pete for this position.
Yesterday morning in assembl.v the
candidates for the office of president
and vice-president each gave a short
two- or three-minute campaign speech
and their qualifications for office. The
remainder of the candidates for next
year’s positions were introduced briefly
l)y Allene Parks, chairman of the elec
tions board.
Delegates Elected
Previously in the week the home
rooms selectel two delegates each; one
who will give the homeroom’s choice,
of candidates and one to cast its vote.
Each hpineroom will be given a pole
and placard with the room number on
it to identify the various groups in
a.sseml)ly.
Vick's Representatives
Interview 15 Students
Mrs. Hattie Johnson, employment
manager at Vick Chemical company,
visited this school April 14 to inter
view students interested in being em
ployed by the firm after graduation.
A nuinl)er of students were interested
in taking the pre-employment examina
tions, but since the Vick's representa
tives had not come prepared for the
two dozen who were interested, the
tests were administered to 15 of them
only.
Students who took the tests were:
Sara Cook, Betty Sue Rximley, Frances
Loflin, Margaret Whitley, Kate Bren,
Lois Williams, Edith Maness and Jack
ie Sitz.
To take the test, students had to be
recommended by Mr. A. P. Routh for
scholarship or by Mrs. Kathryn Mc-
Entire for adeptness in commercial
fields.
Mrs. Johnson was accompanied by
her secretary, Katherine Wimberly,
1943 graduate of Senior,
Mr, R. P. Gorrell, from the civil ser
vice commission, has asked to be per
mitted to come here to give the civil
service examination to advanced short
hand and t.vping students who are in
terested. Already 35 shorthand and
40 typing students have registered. The
exact date of this exam has not been
announced.