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From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XXIV
• SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., NOVEMBER 14, 1947
NUMBER 5
'OPENING DOORS' IS CONFERENCE THEME
E agazine Sales Campaign Is Completed
inderson Leads
In Individual Sales
In an announcement of the re-
tults of the magazine subsription
firiye, Mrs. Grace B. Wilson stated
that a total of $1,389.90 was col
lected by GHS students. Winning
fthe grand prize offered for the high-
(St individual salesman is Pat An-
Llerson with a total of $114.75.
Only two homerooms, 202 and 203,
■ achieved a goal ($3 per person) set
^or each home-room. ^)2, Mrs. Al-
jton’s homeroom, topped this goal
§vith a total of $203,995 and led all
I the other home-rooms in number of
Students participating. Homeroom
03 collected $150, 'thus achieving
heir .goal.
These students, Pat Anderson,
darie Essa, Lowell Dryzer, Hubert
ipalk, Nancy Smith, Jean Brince-
beld, Nancy Beane, Betty Jean Pope,
Jane Collison, BiU Hogshead, and
Tommy Ward are the grand prize
frinners, the leading student sales-
foulh Center Gives
)wn Radio Program
‘Youth on the Air,” a radio show,
produced by the Youth Center for
the purpose of presenting teen-aged
ilent to the listening public, is
presented each Saturday morning at
io o’clock. Announcer Don Harrison,
iefines it as; “a program produced
exclusively by teen-agers, for the
eneflt of teen-agers and for the
enjoyment of all.”
Origination from the stage of the
joft, the program is directed by
)avid Breedon and Don Hardison.
Che show has run for six weeks and
rwill continue the year ’round. Un
like most activities at the center,
[Youth on the Air is open to any
person under twenty years of age.
“^it is broadcast over radio staton
■ YGBG.
Among the features of the show
:.'are a twelve-piece band, composed
f almost entirely of members of the
rHS band, and the Thought of the
/^eek. A dozen roses are presented
to the mother who sends the -best
thought, etiher original or quoted,
|to the center each week.
Auditions are held every Thurs
day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
|ploft and any person interested in
- appearing on the show should b-
.^resent .Singing, dramatic talent,
,instrumental abilities are among (the
Qualities desired. Anyone interested
tin script writing, sound effects,, or
',other related subjects should con
tact Miss Monsees or David Bree-
■don, production manager.
November 20 Set
As Date of Social
Slandards Day
Shown here is a portion of the “Beat High Point Parade,” one of the preliminaiies to the defeat of the
High Point football team Friday, November 7, by a sco re of 21-14. The truck is only one of the many vehicles
which took part in the parade. The event was sponsorecl by the Senior high school cheerleadei^.
(Staff Photo by Lowell Dryzer)
Plans Progressing
On Stadium Project
In a mass meeting of Greens
boro’s Touchdown Club Monday,
VV. H. Holderness led a discus
sion about plans made for the
new Senior high Stadium.
Holderness said that the com
mittee led by Vic Higgins and
John Sockwell decided to sell
$100 shares of non-profit stock
to raise the needed $150,000 for
completing the stadium.
Agrements were passed out
and mend)ers present agreed to
subserve $10,100. People are
asked to mail in additional sub
scriptions to John Sockwell at
the Bank of Greensboro.
In addition to discussion of
the stadium, pictures were
shown of the Duke-Georgia Tech
game.
Bob MePheeters Is Prexy
Of Senior Class Hi-Y Club
By FRANCES NEWTON
The annual Social Standards Con
ference will be held Thursday, No
vember 20, at this school. The theme
for this year’s program will be
“Opening Doors.” Rev. Herman Dun
can is to be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Ike Greer will speak to the boys
assembly and Miss Ruth Shaver,
the girls assembly.
Three Divisions
Social Standards day has been
broken up into three main divi
sions ; social, spiritual, and material.
Rev. Duncan, who is noted for his
work with high school pupils as
director of the Youth Center in
Asheboro before his transfer to Con-
Cord, N. C. will have charge of the
spiritual part of the program. Rev.
Duncan is also a prominent scout
w’orker. He will speak to the entire
student body.
The social portion of the program
has been broken up Into two parts.
The boys assembly with Dr. Greer.
Superintendent of the Baptist
Orphange in Thomasville, as their
speaker and the girls assembly with
Miss Shaver, critic teacher of
French at W. C. U. N. C., as the
speaker.
[New Books on Display in Library;
[Hunt To Be Honor Guest at Tea
In accordance with book week,
Vthe Senior high school Iil)rar.v will
•Vhave many new books on display
l^rom the 16-22 of Novem()er. On.
' t\^'ednesday• afternoon, the lil>ra-
'‘/[rians, Miss Mildred Herring and
;]Miss Carolyn McRae, along with the
^tu'dent library -staff are giving a
tea for the faculty of Greensboro
high and school librarians of the
city. Miss Mabel Leigh Hunt, author
.•of many childrens books, will lx.
. honor guess.
Miss Hunt, whose newest book is
-^‘Double Birthday Present,” will be
a guest of Stralighii’s Book Shop
during book week. Miss Hunt will
speak at varioUvS schools in the city
and also at Guilford college.
The girls who are o nthe student
library staff will assist in serving
the guests punch and cookies.
The new books will be of universal
subjects and -will not be checked out
until Friday. Miss Herring suggests
that the students come in during the
week, examine the books and make
li.S’ts of the books they would lik;
reserved for them. No reserve will
be taken until after the books have
begun to -be charged out.
Books On Display
Also on display in the library will
be the many beautifully illustrated
books among which are the lovely
editions of “The Yearling.” “Tom
Sawyer.” “Huckleberry Finn,” “Little
Women,” “Jane Eyre,” “Wuthering
Heights,” “Canterbury Tales,’'
“Tales of Edgar Allen Poe.” “Bird’.-
Christmas Carol,” “Little Men.”
“Jo’s Boys,” “Rip Van Wrinkle,”
“Green Mansions,” “Stories from
the Great Operas” and others stated
Miss Herring.
These books are not charged out
but kept for display purposes. The
students are cordially invited to in
spect these books so that they might
get an idea for their per.sonal libra
ries or for Christmas gifts.
The recently reorganized senior
class Hi-Y club has planned its
first social event of the year,
hayride to be held at Guilford col
lege tomorrow night. As its firsr
service project of the year, the club
is planning to help organize a sopho
more club.
Officers of the Co-Me-An, or sen
ior class, club are president. Bob
MePheeters; vice-president, Clyde
Taylor; secretary, Bill Black: [reas-
iirer, Clyde Collins, and representa
tive to the inter-club council Brown
Patterson.
Program chairman Clyde Taylor
has annotmeed that several interest
ing speakers have been secured for
the next few meetings. In the previ
ous meetings the club has been utili
zing the talent of several of its mem
bers. Both Bill Black and Frank
Klages have presented piano contri
butions, with Black aecompaiiing
himself with song. Jimmy and Law
rence Alspaugh have recently l)ee)i
admitted to the club.
First meeting of the junior class
Hi-Y club was held last Jlonday
night. Officers elected were: presi
dent Joslin Chamberlain, vice-presi
dent Charles Collins, secretary
“Sandy” Bull, and treasurer Charles
Sparrow.
Drive for Members Is
Completed by Center
Membership drive for the
Youth Center met with consider
able success here, according to
Weddie Huffman, The exact
number and the winning hmne
room were not know at press
time.
The drive is an effort to raise
the regular membership above
the 1,060 mark. Monthly mem
bership has averaged around
800, but the budget calls for at
least 1,000 a month. Any paid
memberships above that figure
go toward a recreational fund.
If sufficient membei^hip is
acquired, an effort will be made
to bring “name” bands to the
Loft, free of charge to members.
About 800 stuednts, states Mr.
Huffman, are regular members,
and more tiian 20,000 have at
tended the Loft since it oi)eiied
August 1.
Memberships Sought
By Junior Red Gross
School-Sponsored Paper
Drive Benefits Treasury
The American Junior Red Cro
Srudenf Council is currently spon-
^ soring a scrap paper drive, the pro-
! ceeds of which will go to the school
elected sophomore
the students’ division of the Red P^'f'^idenr Steve Agapion, launched
Cross, will hold its annual enroll-assembly Wednesday,
nient campaign in Senior high school' 22.
ilondav, Noveuxber 17 ' I S^'rap paper collected throughout
Last' year the .Tunior Red Cros. homeroom will be
reached a total membership of over
nineteen million.
There are many children in this
country as well a.s overseas who
are in need of aid. Veteran hospi
tals are de.sperately in need o'
things supplied only by the Junior
Red Cross. Last week the new polio
clinic here in Greensboro requested
that the Red Cross assist in the dec
oration of the rooms.
picked up each Friday afternnoon
and taki^n to be bound and weighed
by members of the committee for
this drive. Committeemen and the
floors they cover are: in the main
building, first floor, Steve Agapion:
second floor, Cl.yde Taylor; third
floor, David Bradley; in the science
building, first floor, Eddie Finch;
second floor, Lawrence Alspaugh,
and in the cafeteria building, Bill
Ledford.
Program Topics
, The material part of the program
consists of thirty sectional group
meetings wffiich have been divided
equally between the boys and the
girls. Topics for girls’ groups and
the speakers are as follows: Music
—Mrs, Sidney LeBaur, Home Mak
er; Sports and Recreational—Miss
Doris Hutchinson, Director of Physi
cal Education at Guilford College*
Religious Activities—Miss Catherine
Cole, Director of Religious Educa
tion at First Presbyterian Church;
Office Work—Miss Ethel Mae Angelo,
Personnel officer atSears; College—
Miss Betsy Bullock, President of the
student body at Woman’s college;
Radio—Miss Jane Grills,^Director of
Radio Dramatics at University of
North Carolina; Medicine — Dr.
Martha Doran, Health Department
at Woman’s college; Teaching—
Miss Helen Deens, Education De
partment at Guilford college; Hob
bies—Miss E. Vera Idol, Head of
English Department at High Point
college; Journalism—Miss Eleanor
Dare Taylor, News-Record Staff:
Designing—Mr. Luther Self, Student
at State college; International Poli
tics—Mr. Jack Matlock, Student at
Duke university; Home Making—
Mrs. J. M. Garrison, home maker;
Hostess—A hostess from the Capital
Airlines who will be flown in; Per-
sonel Work—Mrs. Pearle Foster,
Personnel Director of Mother-
Daughter Shop in Winston-Salem;
Fashions—Miss Willa Lawrence,
(Coyitinucd on Page Seven)
Burnef Elected To Head
Young Speakers Club
The Young Speakers Club, under
the direction of Miss Mozelle Causey
recenrly elected officers for this
seme>ter. They are: president, Lin
ing Burnet; vice-president, Isabel
Armstrong; secretary, Rebecca Fraz
ier : treasurer. Frances Pearman.
Jlr. McNeil Smith, attorney, spoke
to the club a week ago last Tues
day. He was representing the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and the Bar
Association of Greensboro.
These two organizations are
sponsoring a World Peace Contest.
The subject will,be “How Can the
V. N. be Strengthened’?” Besides
this conte.st the Club will partici
pate in the American Legion Ora
tion Contest and other debates.
The members of the club are as
follows: Marie Catherine .Jennings,
Rill Wright, Johnsie Cranford. Tom
my Neal, Robert Russell, Barbara
Crutchfield. Harry Bryant. Lining
Burnet, Allen Ham, Edwin Boyd, ■
Billy Ferguson, Mary Catherine
Clymer .Isabel Armstrong. Donease
Newnam, Fran Pearman, Betty
Browm, Peggy Coble, Silvia Smith,
Rebecca Frazier.