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From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME xxra
GBEENSBOKO SENIOR HIGH, GKEEiNSBORO, N. C„ OCTOBER 4, 1946
NUMBER 2
Sa ra Swain Elected Sophomore President
Close Run-Off Resulls In Election
Of Jimmy Barbee and Paf Raiford;
Maye Claims Position of Secrefary
Following an election run-off Wednesday, October 2, Sara
Swain was duly elected president of the sophomore class over her
opponent, Fred Price. The run-off, caused by the unsually close
mar^n in the balloting for certain positions, also resulted in the
election of , Jimmy Barbee over Bobby Barham for vice-president
and Pat Baiford over Harry Bryant for the office of treasurer.
^ Eliminated earlier in the election
were Dallas Wallace and Alfred
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Heading the Dramatic club for the coming year are Miss Susanne Hurley, new director; Frank
Klages, vice-president; Larry Lambeth, president; Frances Sue Marquis, secretary, and Jimmy
Davis, business manager.
Larry Lambeth To Head Dramatic Club;
Miss Susanne Hurley Is New Coach
Correction
HIGH LIFE announced in the
last issue the resignation of
Julian Culton, senior class repre-
, sentative. This information came
from sources believed to be re
liable, but since we went to
press. Rep. Culton has informed
us that this information is in.
correct. Culton contemplated a
l>a.rt-time schedule which would
have made his attendance at
seventh period Council sesssions
impossible, but he has decided
to continue his regular schedule.
Heading the Senior High Drama
tics Club for the coming year will be
Larry I-a.Tilvth, veteisin club mem
ber, who was elected in the first
meeting of the year, called Monday,
September 28, by Miss Susanne
Hurley, new dramatics coach.
Other officers who were elected
are: Frank Klages, vice-president;
Frances Sue Marquis, secretary;
and Jimmy Davis, business man
ager. The following people were then
selected to serve on a play-reading
committee to recommend plays for
the club to present: Bobby Price,
Lucile Driver, Dolores Hadaway
and Mary Reynolds.
In former years, .the dramatics
and debating clubs have been com
bined under one title, the Senior
High School Speech Club. This year,
however, this club has been disband
ed. Instead, two clubs—^the debating
club, under the direction of Mrs.
Wilson, and the daramtic club, un
der the direction of Miss Hurley,
have been organized.
Those who attended the meeting,
signifying that they are interested in
joining the club, are; Nancy Hope,
Dawn Ijeach, Tatum Sparger, .lean
Pugh, Wiley Rush, John Story,
David Buckner, Sue Baxter, Iris
Summers, Evelyn Solomon, Hazel
Steele, Dora Ann Bowden, Johnsie
Cranford, June Blumenthal, Betty
Jane Thompson, Nancy Lowder,
Joan Boyd, Nancy Curtis, Marilyn
Maness, Jackie McDaniel, Dicky
Patton, Faye Silver, Jackie Fergu
son, Joan Klein, and Ruth Scar
borough.
Dr. Garrison Opens
Fair Assemblies
Opening the fall assembly pro
gram at G.H.S. on September 17,
was Dr. .loseph Garrison, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church of the
Covenant, who was followed on
September 24 by Herbert Sims and
his prt^am of magic. The first part
of the assembly was taken up with
the introduction of sophomore can
didates for office.
Reverend Sam Sox was the main
speaker for this week’s progi-am, and
special music was provided in addi
tion to the speaker.
There is some doubt as to whether
Paul Bell and his orchestra will
play on October 8, and there is also
a vacancy in the schedule for the
following Tuesday.
Following the next program by
Mr. Harriman and the high school
orchestra, there is an open date.
Louise Smith Lists Li\es
As Mexico and Aviation
In response to the inquisitive reporter’s questions, ‘ ‘ How many
years have you taught school at Senior?” Miss Louise Smith
answered: “Since The Year One!” Witty sayings such as this
and pleasant manners, are very typical of this favorite English
teacher. The daughter of a Methodist minister, she claims they
brought her to Greensboro before she was old enough to know
better.
,j>Miss Smith attended Curry and later
Senior High, when it was still situ
Homerooms Elect
Officers for Year
Officers for the coming year were
elected last week by each homeroom
to lead them in all homeroom and
class activities.
Jim Alexander, Blake Stallings,
Rick Ferrell, Bob Gross, Carol Byrd,
Nolley Vereen, Jeanine Moore, Char
lie Sharp, Fil Mabry and Hubert
Jones are senior homeroom presi
dents.
Homeroom prexys in the junior
classes are Bill Hogshead, Sharon
Newnharn, Jennie Lee Moser, Aaron
Allred, Charles Williams, Bill Bur
nette, and Bobbie Jean Shaw.
Billy Beasley, Richard Clemmons,
Prank Dixon, Sonny Grant, Joe
Johnson, Bobby Michael, Alfred
Plckeral, Bob Rltch, James Herndon,
Leon Siler, Charles Taylor, and
Tommy Ward will lead the sopho
more homerooms.
Other senior officers are Earl
Betts, Prank Tutzauer, Buddy
Plynn, Jim Hock, Dorothy Cope
land, Buddy Wilson, Pred Patterson,
Zander Sherrill, Prances Sue Mar
quis and Page Lee, vice presidents,
and Pat Aldridge, Beverly Sturgeon,
Larry Dempsey, Jean Hogshead,
Dick Conrad, Louise Walker, Mar
ion Overby, Jean Reele, Virginia
McDade, Rick Kidd, Nick Bartis,
Ed Turner, Chuck Whitcomb, El-
wood Mitchell and Don
ated on Spring Street. She was the
able editor of High Life. She grad
uated from W’oman’s College, has
done post-graduate work at Colum
bia and W. C., and at the present
is working for a master’s degree at
the University of North Carolina.
Miss Smith has held many teach
ing positions in North Carolina and
Virginia and enjoys teaching Eng
lish a great deal. Many of her sum
mers are spent at camps, where she
has the full responsibility of direc
tor. Her burning passion is Mexico,
where she attended the University
of Mexico one glorious summer!
Among the list of her dislikes are :
Cow-like expressions (of people)
chewing gum, bad manners, teaching
subjects other than English, (eh?
Journalism?), housework, and peo
ple who don’t use ink. The list of
“likes” is much longer including:
Mexico, aviation, (She has 3 hours
in the air), all kinds of sports, a
student body who will follow th(
cheerleaders, cream puffs (but the
doc says, “No”), Mexico, broiled
planked snails, going places ’n doing
thiUgs, dogs, poetry, (special poetry
love at the moment is Gerard Maniy
Hopkins!
Solved! One Mystery
or
secretaries and treasurers.
Bobby Price, Buddy Moore, Bob
Halliburton, Glenn Davis, Bobby
Watson, Ernest Shelton, Laurence
Alspaugh, and Jack Herndon, vice
presidents; Lynne Goodman, Prances
Pearman, Prances MePadden, Doro
thy Ballinger, Marginell Walker.
Carrie Chamberlain, George Seay,
(Continued on Page Three)
Who Is Joan?
Solved! One mystery! In addi
tion to being newspapermen, your
High Life staff has turned detec-
Lanford five and solved the mystery of their
first subscriber.
A letter from Joan Ricketts an
nounced that she was to be our first
subscriber. Now, who is Joan? She
was a.student here at G.H.S. who
moved to Arlington, Va., at the be
ginning of the second semester last
year. At present she is living at
1019 Dartmouth Avenue, College
Park, Md.
Girls Presenf Skil
Af Y-Teen Program
A ^it on the change of name from
Girl Reserves to T-Teens was pres
ented by a group of seven girls at
a special meeting last week for those
girls interes'reil ■ in t.he V-Teen pro
gram.
After the skit with the following
taking part, Elsa Garrity, Betty
Duck, Carolyn Wilkinson, Barbara
Oakley, Betty Jean Pope, Dorothy
Ballinger, and Betty Pearl, Mrs. J.
A. Watson, staff supervisor of the Y
Teen program which is sponsored by
the Y.W.C.A., explained the purpose
and slogan of the new organization
Mrs. Grace B. Wilson is supervi
sor for Senior High, with Miss Mar
garet Woosley and Miss Eloiss
Blackwelder as her assistants. Each
will be advisor for one of the three
class clubs. Many outstanding activi
ties are being planned, and every
girl interested is urged to join her
clas.s club as soon as possible.
Fall Daze
or
Football Follies
What are you doing at 10:41 A.M.
on the twenty-third of Sejitember?
Dozing in study hall, struggling
with a Spanish verb or were you
thinking of the momentous portent
of the hour? At that moment Fall
officially arrived,.
For the majority of students (?)
I’all means football-the thrill of rid
ing 50 or 60 miles to some stadium
in time to get the last bag of stale
peanuts and a seat on the five yard
line-then the thi‘111 of wearing your
thumb out to arrive home, if lucky,
at about 3 A.M.
Of course, there are home games
too: but the real red-blooded Amer
ican football f*i doesn’t count it i
Game ’til the old jalopy has at least
one blowout, has run out of gas, or
has had a breakdown, and walked
at least three miles to a closed gas
.station.
AVhile walking those miles he has
an excellent opportunity to observe
the beauties of nature-the colorful
leaves of the boughs that slap him
in the face as he blunders to the
nearest filling station in the dark of
night.
If you are a true nature lover
and a football fan, the floodlights
on the playing fleld will disclose a
number of things besides the game.
The patch of wild onions on which
yon sat by mistake, the gorgeous
colors of the leaves some playful ( ?)
individual is hurling at your head,
or you can learn (hiow peanuts,
sprout by reserving one of the ten
or fifteen you got for a dime.
Piekeral, candidates for president;
Seymour Bates and Jimmy Rich
ards, running for vice-president,
and Betty Kimball and Edward
Boone, who were seeking the ofiice
of treasurer.
In the earlier election the office
of secretary was claimed by Mar
garet Maye upon defeating the op
posing candidates, France Lawhorne
and Maybeth Loman.
Elected to the position of repre
sentative were Emogene Apple, Mar
tha Everett, “Chippy” Johnson,
Thena Pearce and Mervine Squier.
The defeated candidates for rep
resentative were listed as Eddie
Finch, Jackie Poster, Betty Jean
Freeman, Carolyn Gibson, Prank
Grant, Bobby Leminack, Hatty Mc
Alister, Dickey Meacham, Jackie
Miles, Bobby Moore, Julia Ann
Ogletree, Laverne Schular, Leon
Siler, Marianne Stanley and Betty
Wilkinson,
The new president, Sara Swain, is
a former student of Central Junior
high school where she was extreme
ly active in Student Council and
social activities.
Ted Leonard, president of the
Senior class, and Mrs. Estelle Le-
Gwin, faculty advisor to the Coun
cil, were in charge of the elections.
Senior s Band Travels
To Asheville Game
Departing at seven o’clock
next Friday morning will be
Senior’s Whirlie band which will
spend Friday and Saturday as
the guests of the Asheville band
and High school. They will
attend the Asheville-Greensboro
Western Conference football
game.
Senior Traffic Law
Regufafions Given
As the new school year gets under
way, all students, both old and new,
should lie reminded again of the
traffic rules and regulations, which
keep Senior High running smoothly.
These rules were drawn up in
order that students might travel
from class to- class and from build
ing to building quick and with
the least possible confusion. Traf
fic officers — headed by Ed Coble,
who was elected traffic chief during
last spring's elections — are sta
tioned at various places throughout
the buildings to enforce the regu
lations.
In the Main building students are
asked to remember that the two
center stairwa.ys are for the “up”
traffic and the two end stairways
are for the “down” traffic. When
walking through the halls, always
keep to the right side, except when
going to a locker.
The Science building should be
entered by the door nearest the
Main building, and the stairs at
that door are for “up” traffic, while
those going down use the stairs on
the other end. Leave through the
front door and enter the Main build
ing by its front door.
Special attention should be paid
to the cafeteria rules, for too many
l^ople are inclined to run, break lii
lines, and otherwise cause confusion
and slow up the lunch lines. First
of all, students are asked to walk
to the cafeteria and, if buying their
lunch, get a number at the door
and take their place in line accoi-d-
ing to that number.