Spring Fever
Shown after winning part's in “A Case of Springtime” to be presented
by the Playmasters in March are, front row, left to riglit: Gail Schaffert,
Lyndon Sykes, Larry Lambeth, and Sue Ellen Baxter: back row, left to
right; Mary Reynolds, Lucile Driver, Tatum Sparger, Frances Sue Mar
quis, Jimmy Davis and Loyce Nance. Not shown are: Wiley Rush, June
Blumenthal, Dot Thomas, Nancy Lowder and Bob Price.
Playmasters To Present
Case of Springtime^
With a cast of 15 students, the hilarious comedy, “A Case of
Springtime,” will be presented by the Playmasters, school dra
matic club, under the direction of their new adviser, Mrs. Grace
B. Wilson, who is taking Miss Susanne Hurley’s place in the club.
Taking leading roles in the thres^’
act production are Larry Lambeth, n ■ ■ ■■■ i
Brotherhood Week
To Be Observed
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOL. XXIII
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., FEBRUARY 7, 1947
NUMBER 8
75 TAKE APTITUDE TESTS
Wiley Rush, Frances Sue Marquis
Lucile Driver, Tatum Sparger, Mary
Reynolds, Sue Ellen Baxter, Jim
my Daves, Gail Schaffert and Lyn
don Sykes.
Others taking parts are: June
Blumenthal, Dot Thomas, Nancy
Lowder, Bobby Price and Loyce
Nance.
Bob and Joan
Bob Parker, a good looking eigh
teen year old boy, constantly in
trouble, who is fighting the competi
tion of a College for the affection of
his girl, is played by Larry Lambeth,
while Sue Ellen Baxter will take
the part of Joan Abernaker, his girl,
who is quite pretty and very fond
of Bob, but inclined to lean to
ward “a real college man.”
Mr. and Mrs. Parker
Playing Mr. and Mrs. Parker,
Bob’s parents will be Wiley Rush
and Frances Sue Marquis while
Bob’s sister Betty is portrayed by
Lucile Driver. She is an attractive,
vivacious girl who is all wrapped
up in Eddie, who will go to college
next year. Jimmy Davis will take
the role of Eddie.
Dickie and Gwen
Dickie Parker, younger brother
of Bob and Betty, is played by
Tatum Sparger. Gwen Anderson, a
thirteen-year-old who is just crazy
about Dickie is played by Mary
Reynolds.
Lyndon Sykes plays Mr. Aber
naker, the high school principal,
and Gail Schaffert will play the
Parker’s maid.
Mrs. Brunswick played by June
Blumenthal, Mrs. .Tames by Dot
Thomas, and Mrs. Hill pla.ved b.v
Nancy Lowder are the three P.T.A
ladies; Bob Price will be the plain
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Job Training Students
Successful in Work
Employers have often been quoted
as saying, “I would much rather
have a student who graduates from
Greensboro high school with the
type of training given there in the
job training program, than one who
simply starts in after school without
any previous training.”
This preference has l>een proved
in a recent survey in which it was
found that 96% of the students were
still in the same job at higher
wages a year after they left school.
Of these, 41 per cent were girls
and 55 per cent were boys. Majority
of the girls who quit their jobs
resigned because of marriage. Most
of the boys left either for better
jobs or further education or to go
into the Army.
One senior girl has been parti
cularly successful in her job. When
she first started in the Art Shop,
it was as a sales girl and to help
with film developement. Now she
is in charge of all the film develop
ing and is working toward assltant
manager in the shop.
Another instance is the ease of
two bo.vs who first started work in
the National Theater as ushers, and
who are now part of the manager
training program.
Throughout the nation during the
week of February 16-23 public
schools along with many other or
ganizations will celebrate the four
teenth annual observance of Amer
ican Brotherhood Week which is
.sponsored by the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews.
Honorary chairman of the 1947
celebration is President Harry Tru
man. John G. Winant will act as
General Chairman and will be as
sisted by senators, representatives,
mayors, school officials, student
leaders, and hundreds of prominent
Americans in the business and en
tertainment fields.
General Chairman Winant has
acknowledged public school activi
ties by saying, “It gives me the
greatest pleasure to know that the
students of our country are giving
such support to Brotherhood Week
and to the principles of good will
toward each other. The future of
our country and indeed of the -ivhole
world depends on our young people
and their dedicatin to these ideals.”
The theme of Brotherhood Week,
which is celebrated annually during
the period of the birthdays of
George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln, is “Brotherhood—Pattern
for Peace.”
Seniors To Compete
In Pepsi-Cola Test
On Friday, Feb. 14
At recent home room meetings,
seniors from Greensboro Senior
high school were honored by fel
low students when elected to com
plete with seniors from other high
schools throughout the United States
and territories for the 121 four-year
college scholai'ships and more than
600 fift,y-dollar certificates of merit
being offered again this year by
the Pepsl-Cola Scholarship Board.
Chosen from among the 400 sen
iors as the students “most likely
to make important contributions to
human progress,” these outstanding
boys and girls will try with other
North Carolina high school seniors
for the scholarships and certificates
of merit which are set aside specifi
cally for this state. They are: from
homeroom 200—Margaret Alston,
Peggy Bentley, Earl Betts, Dick
Armfield, Jim Alexander; from 203
—Beverly Sturgeon, Frank Tutzauer,
Gerald Thomas, Bert Smith, Charlie
Strong; 302—H.' C. Fordham, Jim
Finch, Martha Graves; 303—Nancy
Burton, Julian Culton, Roy Clem
mons, Ed Coble ; 313—Helen Mae
Sarles, Mary Reynolds, Herbert
Sims; 317—Abe .Tones, Dick Kelly,
and Martha Nell Keith. The quota
to take this test is set at 20, al
though 23 names are on the list. Of
these, three will be eliminated by
a means not yet decided upon.
At 9 a.m. next Friday. February
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G. H. S. Registration
Totals 1200 for Term
Approximately 1209 students
here at Senior High registered
on Thursday, January 23, 1947,
for the Spring term. Seniors be
gan registering at 8:45 in the
morning; Juniors at 11:00; and
Sophomores at 2:00 in the after
noon.
Miss Estelle Mitchell checked
the boys’ schedules on the left
side of the auditorium. Miss Lu
cille Browne okayed the stu
dents taking D.O. and D.E. in
the center, and Miss Estelle
LeGwin checked the girls’
schedules on the right side of
the auditorium.
With the usual confusion, the
Sophomores registered for their
first time here at G.H.S.
Senior (lau Leads
School Honor Roll
With 75 members on the honor
roll the Seniors again led the school
for the third report i)^r!iod. he
Juniors were runners-up with 41,
while the Sophomores had 36.
he Seniors also led the Special
Honor Roll with 13 members, while
the Juniors had 10, and the Sopho
mores had 9.
Boom 306, 315, and 317 are tried
for first place, each having 10 mem
bers on the Regular Honor Roll.
Room 302 won out on the Special
14, candidates will take a special Honor Roll with four . members
Students Recommended
For Quill and Scroll
Junior and senior English teach
ers last week recommended those
students who were doing outstand
ing w'ork in creative writing for
membership in Quill and Scroll, In
ternational Honor Society for High
-School Journalists.
Those students who were recom
mended by jMiss Sarah Mims are:
Dolores Dunstan, Bill Oden, Jim
Alexander, Peter Lang, Lora Lon
Gallagher, Julian Culton, Marion
Turner, Merlin Bynum, Sam Baker,
Helen Whitele.v, Ted Leonard, Betty
Lou Moore, Mary Durland Sapp.
Bob Mims, Marcia Furnas, Nancy
P. Smith, Bill Hoake and Carrie
Chamberlain.
Miss Louise C. Smith has listed
the following people as fitted for
Quill and Scroll membership: Bob
bie Jean Shaw, Margaret Alston,
Mary Barton, Ed Brown, Carol
Byrd, Carolyn Watson, Lo.yee Nance,
David Buckner, Herbert Jones, and
Peggy Bentley.
Mrs. John Holand has recom
mended Frances Sue Marquis, Ada
Jane Moore, Gerald Thomas, and
Dick Kelly, and Abe Jones, while
Miss. Carolyn Rogerson has listed
Jack Bullard, Jack Fields, Becky
Breedon, Betty Pearl, Johnsie Cran
ford, and Bett.y Finch as candidates
for Quill and Scroll membership.
For their outstanding work in
the field of writing. Brooks Gil
more, Charles Strong and Jim Finch
have been recommended vby Mrs.
Ruth Schmidt. Mrs. Pat Myriek has
recommended Liiicile Driver, Nancy
Burton, Helen Mae Sarles.
aptitude test which has been espe
ciall.v prepared for this competition
by the College Ehtranee Examina
tion Board, an independent testing
board composed of representatives
of America’s largest colleges and
universities.
According to Miss Lucille Browne,
every precaution has been taken by
the Pepsi-Cola Schoiar.sbip Board
to insure the uniform testing neces-
sar.v for complete fairne.ss to ail
candidates throughout the country.
The tests will arrive at Miss
Browne’s office in a sealed package
and are not to be opened until the
day of the examination and then
only in the presence of the candi
dates. Detailed instructions for the
testing procedures will be enclosed,
and, according to Principal A. P.
Routh, two faculty members must
be present during the entire two-
liour testing period, the.se faculty
members being thoroughly familiar
with each step. Immediately follow
ing the examination, the pai>ers will
be collected, placed in an envelope
provided for that purpose, and sent
at once for scoring to the College
Entrance Examination Board.
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$500 To Be Given
To Exam Winner
Details of a competitive exami
nation to be given March 28 based
on information about the United
Nations, _ with a prize for the na
tional winner of a trip to Europe
or $500, have been revealed by Miss
Lucille Browne.
Anyone who wishes to may enter
the contest simply by giving his
name to either Miss Browne or Miss
Mary Ellen Blackmon. The exam
will be based on two booklets about
tbe^ United Nations organization
which will be ordered for you if you
wish to enter, and on any extra
reading recommended in the book
lets.
■ National winner will receive a
trip to Europe, if such a trip is
possible this summer. If Europe
is not open to tourists, the winner
will be given $500 to be used to fur
ther his education.
Second prize will be a sum of
$100 to be used toward the winner’s
education.
History 8 classes will conduct a
short study based on the exam ma
terial, but not all History 8 stu
dents will enter the contest.
having an average of 95 or better.
Special Honor Roll
Boom 1—^Beverly Chalk
Room 6—Annie Maude Harring
ton
Room 8—-Betty Pearl, Zaek Pie-
phofl
Rooml2—Bobby Michael
Room 16—Oscar Paris
Room 201—^Billy Sarles
Room 202—Andy Bell
Room 204—Patsy Wagoner
Room 300—Nancy Paige Smith,
Syde Tolor
Room 302—Martha Graves, Lu
cille Driver, Dolores Dunstan, H. 0.
Fordham
Room 303—Nancy Burton, Carol
Byrd, Doris Cooper
Room 304—Mary Ann Walser,
Carol.vii Watson
Boom 307—Carrie Chamberlain,
Glenna DeWitt, Johnsie Crawford
Boom 313—Mary Re.ynolds, Betty
Lee Simpson
Room 315—^Frances Sue Marquis
Room 317—Peter Lang
Room 2—Sidney Smith, Ja'ckie
Stafford
Room 3—^.Tean Thacker, Betty
Jane Thompson
M. Room—Delores Whisonant
Regular Honor Roll
Room 1—Isobel Armstrong, Anna
M. Beeson, Seymour Bates
Room 2-—-Patsy Carson, Bob Clegg,
Robert Carlson
Boom 3—Wilma Comer, Hazel
Connell, Emily Ann Dees, Julia Ann
Doggett, Dorothy Cozart, Ooleen
Crist
Room 4—Martha Jones, Betty
Kirkman, Joyce Lemons, Jean Jar
vis, Bertha Lang, Bill Ledford, Lacy
Lucas, Jane Long
Room 6—Lynne Goodman, Robert
Hassel, Betty Gunter, Bill Hooke,
Jean Irving
Room 7-^eraldine Fletcher, Re
becca Fondren, Jean Fogleman, Mar
jorie Gillie
Boom 8—Mary Ellen Parker,
Coleen Peele
Room 10—^Hope Leonard, Nancy
Lowder, Josephine Langley
Room 12—^Juanita Millikan, Elsie
Matthews, James Montgomery, Jim
my Meleton
Room 14—Bob MePheeters, War
ren Matthews
Ro^im 15—Gloria Darnell, Jack
Fields, Pegy Fields, Marcia Furnas
Room 16—Dick Painter, Betty
Jane Pope, Tommy Payne
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75 Sludenli Given
Tesis Deiermining
Suilable Vocalions
Mrs. Margaret Foust, local repre
sentative from the United States
Government Employment Office, in
cooperation with the coordinators
of the Diversified Occupations and
Distributive Education departments
at Senior High, gave aptitude tests
to approximately 75 seniors last
Tuesday. These tests were available
to any senior interested in securing
a permanent job after graduation in
June.
In 'order that students be placed
on jobs for which they are best
suited and will be most successful,
the results of these tests will be cal
culated and used for the advantage
of the people taking them. These
general aptitude tests will show the
students’ ability in certain lines,
such as secretarial, nursing, jour
nalistic, personnel, and many others.
All seniors wanting permanent em
ployment after graduation in June
should see Miss Lucille Browne in
order that certain information con
cerning grades, abilities, interests,
and needs of the particular students
be on file. This information should
be turnd in soon, as it will be help
ful to the many graduates.
During the spring months, Mrs.
Foust and the coordinators of D.O.
and D.E., Miss Frances Sowell, Mrs.
Grace Wilson, and Miss Lucille
Browne will make a survey of busi
ness needs of all local employers.
Later, with the results of the apti
tude tests and individual interests
on file, graduates will be given an
’opportunity to interview prospective
employers.
Since the local employers offer
to students such a variety of voca
tions and opportunities in the world
of business, individuality will count
a great deal. All possible efforts
are being made by the D.O. and D.E.
coordinators to aid the stiidents in
finding successful jobs.
3 New Members
Tentative dates for a number of
events to occur during the year
have recently been set up by the Stu
dent Council. Close competitors for
the honor of being the most active
month will be April and May.
With Ai>ril comes Alumni Day on
the first, or March 31. April Hth
will bring both Flag Day and Senior
High’s spring -dance, closely follow
ed by clean-np-day on the 17th. Be
ginning on April 29, and continued
on May 6 and 13th will be the elec
tions for next year’s officers. Of
course, such important affairs as
Exams, Junior-Senior Prom, Class
Day, and Graduation will also occur
toward the last of the month. The
dates for a number of minor events
still remain to be set.
New Representatives
Recently appointed to the council
to represent the sophomore class
were Joslin Chamberlain, Richard
Clemmons, and Sue Ellen Baxter.
These representatives replaced Imo-
gene Apple, Theona Pierce, an-d
Martha Everett, all of whom did
not return to council at the begin
ning of the second semester, due to
schedule dlfliculties.
Profits o-f the council from the
musical revue, “Foolish Fantasies,”
presented by the choir last Decem
ber 8, amounted to $62.87, which
was one third of the total returns.
Arrangements have been made to
have photographs of the present
council taken and mounted, a custom
which will be carried on by future
councils to form a record of Senior
High’s student governments.
Recreation rooms are to be re
opened as soon ag the numerous re
pairs necessary are made. Students
have been requested to handle the
equipment with care.