Beaming with smiles of anKcipation, are (left to right) Abe Jones,
feature editor; Ed Brown, co-editor-in-chief; and David Buckner, literary
e^tor,_who are bound for Washington and Lee University in Lexington,
Virginia, to attend the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, April
24,-^5, 26.
Editors To Attend SI PA
Convention at Lexington
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XXIII SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 18, 19« NUMBER 12
66 PLAN TRIP TO CAPITAL
Seniors To Leave May 1 For Capital City;
Trip Discontinued During War Years;
Chartered Buses Will Carry Students
>Bd Brown, co-editor of High Life,
Abe Jones, Feature editor, and
David Buckner, Literary editor, will
attend the 18th annual convention
of the Southern Interscholastic Press
Association at Washington and Lee
University in Lexington, Virginia,
on April 25 and 26.
Meeting for the first time in five
years after wartime suspension, a
record attendance is expected.
Speakers will include James A.
Tinen, publisher of Time magazine;
Mark Woods, president of the Amer
ican Broadcasting Co.; Harold R.
Poster, creator of the comic feature
“Mnce Valiant”; Watson Davis,
director of Science Service; and
John E. Allen, editor of Linotype
News and author of many books on
newspaper typography.
Round Table Leaders
Round table discussions of the
probiems of high' school papers will
be led by several well known news
paper men. Among them are : Carle-
ton Harkrader, editor of the Bristol
(Va.) Herald-Courier; Clay Fer
guson, Jr., art director of the Stone
Printing and Manufacturing Co.,
and Harry Nash, managing editor,
Waynesboro - (Va.) News-Virginian.
Contest to be Held
A current event contest will be
held for all delegates wishing to
participate. The contest will cover-
events of the two months immedi
ately preceeding the convention. The
winner will receive his prize at the
convention banquet.
_ Delegates will not spend all their
time in meetings and contests. Re
creational activities will include a
visit to Natural Bi-idge of Virginia,
the Convention banquet, and a dance.
Delegates will also see a baseball
game between Washington and Lee
University and the University of
Virginia.
350 Seniors Measured
For Caps and Gowns
About 350 seniors of all sizes
and shapes flocked to be meas
ured for their graduation gowns
and caps during the week before
Easter, producing a strange as
sortment of statistics. The sen
ior class ranges in height from
Dick Morris’ six feet, six inches,
to the four feet, eleven and a
half inches of Cornelia Fara-
bee. Weights went down from
95 to 235 pounds, while the big
gest head size goes to Bobby
Clemmons.
The caps and gowns, which
are gray, are being ordered
from the C. E. Ward Co. of
New London^ Ohio, and are ex
pected to arrive a few weeks
before graduation.
18 Members Tapped
In H. H. S. Ceremony
To the solemn strains of Ave
Maria, played by Lester Davis on
his violin, Nancy Burton, president
of Torchlight, National Honor Soc
iety, challenged the members to go
forth and seek out those students
deemed worthy of membership, in
0U.pe, (( f y Q yfj||
New Members
White robed members carrying
lighted candles went into the audi
torium and tapped those students
who had been voted on by the stu
dents, faculty, and Torchlight mem
bers, as most eligible. From the
isenior class, they were: Dot Cope
land, Dorothy Siegmund, Lillian
York, Anne Van Horn, Christine
Montafis, Dolores Dunstan, Jean
Pugh, Scott Eubanks, John Haesloop,
Bobby Price, George Martin, Dick
Kelly, Dick Armfleld, and CJharlie
Sharpe. Marcia Furnas, Nancy Page
Smith, and Andy Bell were taken
in fi-om the Junior class, and Zack
Piephoff was taken into the organi
zation by transfer from Columbia,
Arizona.
Candidates are considered on the
basis of scholarship, leadership,
character, and service. After Nancy
opened the program by explaini^ig
the general aiiiis ef Torchlight, mem-
Forum on Planning
state meeting of the North Caro
lina Vocational Guidance Asisoci-
ation is being held here in Greens
boro today and tomorrow. The meet
ing and panel discussions, lasting all
day today and tomorrow morning,
will discuss certain issues such as
Occupational Information, techni
ques in couhseiing. Pood Industry,
Furniture Industry, Planning for
tomorrow, and others.
Seven students from Senior high
will serve on the panel, “Youth
Looks at Counseling,” which opens
at 3:45 this afternoon. The students
are as follows: Bobbie Wiggs, H. C.
Pordham, Pat Aldridge, Lucille
Driver, Prances Sue Mar4uis, Mary
Reynoids, find Ted Ijeonard. Adult
bers of the society explained t.tie | members of the panel include Miss
individual aims as follows: Earl Browne, Grensboro senior
Purpose of SIPA
The SIPA was founded in 1925
under the auspices of the Lee Mem-
oriai Journalism Foundation of
Washington and Lee University to
(Continued, on Page Seven)
Inspector Snijf Solves
“Case of Corn Grain
It has just been revealed by local
police officials that “The Case of
Missing Corn Grain” has been
solved. Due to the efficient work of
Chief Inspector Sycamore S. Sniff,
the thief has been apprehended. In
a statement to High Life, the safe
cracker revealed his ritle, ulterior
motives for committing such a das
tardly crime.
Said Gutherie G. Goopslop, con
fessed thief, in reply to the re-
portter’s carefully phrased ques
tion, “Why did ya do it Gus? Huh?
,Gus replied, “I ain’t a-opeiling my
tater trap.”
With this full and complete con
fession, one of the most baffling
crimes in the history of the South
was solved. Students, practicing
picking multiple dial locks in the
chemistry laboratory, discovered the
crime at 11 :.52 on the night of April
9. The police immediately issued
a twenty-four state alarm and placed
an embargo on all shipping in east
coast ports.
Goopslop was apprehended while-
boarding a north-bound ox-cart with
a one way ticket dangling from his
left paw. Goopslop offered violent
resistance but after four squirts
from Sniff’s trusty water pistol, the
criminal m^eekly surrendered.
Hi-Y Will (onfribuie
To Y Rebuilding Fund
Engaged in a campaign to raise
a isum in the vicinity of fifty dol
lars, as their contribution to the
destroj^ed Y’s in the European and
Y.M.C.A.’s program to rebuild the
Asiatic countries, the Junior Class
Hi-Y Club has before it at present
numerous plans and proposals for
raising its contribution. Members of
the club who are employed have
volunteered to give one day’s salary
to the cause. In addition, the plan
to hold a dance is also being con
sidered. Tentative plans call for
the dance to be in a form resem
bling the open house.
The hay-ride originally planned
for Saturday February 22, (post
poned until March 8, on account of
the weather, and later postponed
until March 22, because none of the
members had dates,) was held last
Saturday night, April 12.
Plans are now being made for
the annuai overnight camping trip
to Camp Nawakwa which is to be
held sometime in May. Speaker at
the meeting next Monday night wilt
be Mr. Kenneth Wible, director of
the city recreation department.
The Greensboro Hi-Y Council is a
new organization composed of the
liresidents of each club, representa
tives elected from each club, and
the advisers. .Julian Culton is presi
dent of the Council, Brown Patter
son is vice-president, and Clyde Tay
lor is secretary and treasurer. The
purpose of the Council is to set up
standards for all Greensboro clubs
and to coordinate programs and
special projects.
Government Issues
Valuable Pamphlets
The Government Printing Office,
Wa.shington 25, D. C., has put out a
great • number of pamphlets and
books which are available to any
one who wishes to send off for them.
Perhaps of interest to high school
students would be those on recrea
tion or aviation, while the booklets
on American history and civics,
such as “Our Constitution,” “World
War II,” and those concerning
Betts, character; Lora Lou Gal
lagher, service; Doris Cooper, leader
ship, and H. 0. Fordham, scholar
ship.
Other members of the group who
assisted in tapping new members
were: Betty Marie Jones, Frances
Sue Marquis, Mae Sarles, Betty Lou
Moore, Martha Nell Keith, Mary
Reynolds. Martha Graves, and Lu
cille Driver.
For the first time since the war, approximately 66 seniors are
going to Washington, D. C. They will leave Thursday, May 1,
and return Sunday, May 4, some time in the evening. They are
traveling via Carolina Coach buses.
^ The cost for a round trip ticket
is $9.50. They will stay at the Am
bassador Hotel for $2.50 a night per
person, or a total of $7.50 per person.
The combined price for trans
portation and hotel is $17.00 which
was accepted as one reservation on
Wednesday, April 9.
Since more than 66 want to go,
Mr. Routh is trying to acquire
either an additional bus or larger
busses. In either case, no one will
be left behind.
Accompanying the party of sen
iors will be Mr. A. P. Routh, Miss
Ida Belle Moore, and Miss Mary
Ellen Blackmon.
While in Washington, the seniors
will visit such places as Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Library of
Congress, Justice Building, and
Smithsonian Institute.
All through the spring months,
similar groups have been and will
be visiting our Nation’s Capital.
To show you what the seniors
will do and see, a schedule of the
trip follows:
Thursday
6:30—^Leave from Y.M.C.A.
12 ;00—^Lunch—Richmond.
1:30—Leave Richmond.
4:06—Mt. Vernon.
6 rOO—^W'^ashington.
7:00—Eat Dinner.
8:00—Boat trip down the Poto
mac.
12 :00—Hotel.
Friday
Breakfast
9 :00—Bureau of Engraving, and
Printing.
10 :00—^Federal Bureau of Investi
gation.
(Continued on Page Six)
high school, and Miss Helen Davis,
Guilford College. Five studetns from
High Point .Tunior high school and
four from .Jamestown high schooi
wili also participate in this panel
discussion.
“Planning for Tomorrow” will be
discussed by Clifford P. Prackllck,
Specialist, U.S. Office of Education,
at 10:30 Tomorrow morning.
Greensboro Loses in Triangular Debates
Planning rebuttal points for their opponent are Mary Reynolds an;l
Chai'les King of Greensboro’s affirmative team. The speaker is Jack
Hunter from Winston, negative speaker for the query. Not shown is
Ramona Crowell, other member of Winston’s team.
^April Showers^ Theme of Dance
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sciGntinc snbjGcts would bG liGlpful dGCorutinj^" tbG t^yni.
in school work. Other topics are
weather, transportation, hobbies,
health, national parleys, surveying,
and agriculture.
Tonight, Friday April 18th is the
big night for the. annual spring
dance which is to be held in the
high school gym from nine ’till
twelve with music fnrnlslied l),v
Paul Bell and his orchestra.
The theme for this dance is quite
naturally “April Showea-s.” 'This
theme is to be further carried out
by a profusion of Spring fiowers
Betty Lou Moore, dance chairman,
has asked the boys not to send their
dates fiowers for this dance. She
has requested that fiowers be sent
only for the commencement Prom
which will wind up a school year of
many highly entertaining social
activities.
At each of the previous dances a
figure has been formed by the dance
committee or chosen representatives,
however there will not be one
toni,ght.
The faculty and parents of stu
dents will chaperon this spring
affair. Everyone is looking forward
to a grand time. This annual dance
is usually one of the best of the
season.
Greensboro and High Point were
scenes of stormy debates when
teams met at both schools Friday,
April 11, to debate the query, “Re
solved : That the fedei’al govern
ment should provide a system of
complete medical care available to
all citizens at public expense.”
Greensboro’s affirmative team
composed of Mary Reynolds and
Charles King lost the decision to
Winston’s negative team, made up
of Jack Hunter and Ramona Powell
when the two teams met in room
106 here before an audience of his
tory students, and others who were
interested in the subject. Judges
for the Greensboro debate were
Howard Carr, Floyd Hendley and
Dr. .Jennings.
At the same time, Jeannine Moore
and Martha Nell Keith making up
Greensboro’s negative team lost the
decision to High Point’s affirmative
team when they debated before the
High Point High School student ■
body.
Contestants w'ere allowed twelve
ininutes for a constructive speech
and five minutes for rebuttals.
Greensboro’s team is coached by
Mrs. Grace B. Wilson.
Winning teams entered the District
contest held on the campus at
W.C.U.N.C. Monday, April 14.
Plans for Graduation
Night Are Discussed
Under the direction of Miss Ida
Belle Moore, the Graduation Night
Committee is preparing the pageant
which will be presented May 30.
Members of the committee are •
Mary Reynolds, Abe Jones, France,s
Sue Marquis, Sam Baker and
Dolores Dunstan.
The theme of the pageant which
will t)e a series of tableaux, is “Let
Us Have Peace.” The scenes will
be taken from American history.