Congratulations,
Honor Roll
'^ry Again, Failures
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Help Elect
Your Candidate for
“Miss Front Page”
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO. N. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1948
ontest For ^Miss Front Page^ Crown Is Extended
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“Miss Front Page” candidates caught by the camera as they prepared for the final week of competition. On
the back row are Dot McLaughlin, Gleima DeWitt, Maxine Fields, Elinor Wrenn, Martha Everitt, Gail
Schaffert, Polly White, and Rebecca Fi'azier. Front row: Pat Wagoner, Margaret Osborne, and Jackie
I Miles. (Photo by Lowell Dryzer)
203 Students Make Honor
Roll Third Six Weeks
Honor roll for third six - week
report period was recently released
by Mrs. Blanche Smith. Twenty-
nine students made special honor
roll, while 174 w^ere placed on the
regular honor roll.
SPECIAL HONOR ROLL
Seniors:
Room 12; Jane Long. Lacy liUcas.
Room 14; Zack Piephoff. Dickie
Neal, Betity Pearl,
Room 16; Mary Durland Sapp.
Clyde Taylor.
Room 200; Betty Kirknian.
Room 203; Rita Goldstein.
Room 204; Betty Lou Van Hook.
Room 307; Jack Fields.
Juniors:
Room 3; Robert Carl.son,
Boom 4; Julia Ann Doggeft.
Room 7; Hope T/eonard, Bobby
Michael.
Roo-m 8; Gordon Xel>H>n. Tommy
Payne.
Room 10; Sidney Smith.
Room 15; Mildred Hedrick, Mary
Elizabeth Johnson.
Room 24; Delores Whisonanr.
Room 100; Ijois Rosec-rans.
Sophomores:
Room 1; .loan Marjorie Scott.
Room 2: Carole Williams.
Room 23: Edith Tro.sper.
Boom 302;, David Bradley.
Room 305; Sue Purdom.
Room 311; Margaret Pearce, Alex
Panas.
REGULAR HONOR ROLL
Room 12; Bill Lewis, Dot Mc(’a.':-
key. Bob MePheeters, Warren iVIar-
thew.s, Sylvia May, Frances Moffett.
Mary Mooneyham, Maxine Maness.
Ann Murph.v.
Room 14; Brown Patterson. Fran
ces Newton, Nolan .Presnell. Marx
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Tommy Farr To Play
For Dance Tonight
Tommy Farr and the Duke Am
bassadors. who are billed as “The
South’s Most Outstanding College
Dance Band,’’ will visit the Loft to-
niglit to play for a si>ecial Valen
tine dance from 0 p.m. until 1 a.m.
' The Duke Ambassadors, of Duke
university, consists of 16 musicians
and two vocalists, and is headed
by Tommy Farr.
For Loffers only, the dance will
be semi-formal. Admission charge,
in addition to Februar.v or annual
membership cards, will be 81.20 per
person, including tax.
Helping the program director of
the Loft with the organization for
the dance have been Pat Andei’son.
decorations chairman; Nancy Beale,
dance chairman: and the several
people working with them.
Seniors Will Make Washington Trip
Final preparations for the annual senior excursion to Wash
ington, D. C., are now being made. Two buses, each with a pas
senger capacity of 32, have been chartered, and reservations at
the Hotel Ambassador have been placed for 74 persons for April
29 through March 2. Probable hotel expenses per person will
be $2.50 each night.
The tour will cover the main points of interest in Washington
such as th^ Congi-ess in action, the White House, the Lincoln
Memorial, a probable glimpse of the President, and a tour through
the Smithsonian Institute. Mr, A. P. Routh disclosed that ex
penses per person, including meals, hotel bill, bus fare, and
“spending money’' should be about$30. A deposit covering the
initial expense of bus fare and hotel bill must be m^de by each
senior who expects to make the trip.
THE SERENADE
of the JARS
An old, dilapidated 1936 twin-
engine Rolls-Royce roared up to the
curb in front •ot thii-^-t'amous portals
of learning which led into the mag
nificent Eskimo Pie wrapper-littered
campu.s of the “Gate City High
School*’ (variety is the spice of
life). Two questionable characters,
tlie first of whom was dressed gaud-
il.v in an overcoat, the second of
win m was dressed less gaudily in
no overcoat, stepixHl down from the
automobile and dashed quickly l)e-
hind a lovely clump of sassafras
bushes which sparkled brilliantly
in the snow, ice, and sleet-fogged
sunlight.
For a moment or two they stood
there as though trying desperately
to decide upon a very urgent mat
ter. Presently No Overcoat siM)ke,
in the soft, pleasing rhetoric >f
that portion of the city ci inmonly
known to the layman as the “under-
woiid”: “If 1 ain't mistook for
dat which I isn't, dis is de place.
De ‘mone.v jars’ is hidden, my .first
class confidence man, Twelve Gun'
Cliai’lie Adams reimrts, in a desk
located somewhere in de ver.v near
proximity of de ' hallway in y(.n
building.” No Overcoat lifted an
"iodine-coated'’ finger and pointed
towards the main building of tlie
afore - mentioned establishment of
learning.
Overtaiat reached into his pocket
and took out a rather odd-appearing
in.strument which Smith & Wesson
have a lot of fun fussing around
with, and spoke softly: “Youse had
best be correct in your astoundin'
hypothesis, my right hbnorable
Lancelot, for if ycuse isn’t . . .”
An unhealthy gesture of -the instru
ment ill his hand supplied a suffi
cient ending. '
Cautiously the pair left their hid
ing place and approached the main
building of the afore - mentioned
establishment of great and incom
prehensible learning. No Overcoat
led the way. Overcoat brought up
the rear. Finally they reached the
front door.
Opening the door . . . what to
their wondering eyes should appear
but a hundred jars full of pennies,
dimes, quarters and the like. Over
coat whispered a little nervously:
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Pepsi-Cola Exam
Ratings Revealed
Of the sixteen students from
G.H.S. who took the recent
Pepsi Cola Scholarship test,
five made grades considered to
be much above average.
Ratings are given in deciles.
A rating of ten (16), the high
est decile, means that the stu
dent placed in the top 10 per
cent of the students who took
the test. Ten place in each
decile. The following scored
highest in GJI.S. (First figure
given is the state decile, second
is the national decile.) Bill
Hooke 10—0, Bill Ledford 10—9,
Zack Piephoff 10—9, Bi'own
Patterson 10—8, and Betty
Pearl 9—7.
Changes Made in
High Life Staff
Announcement of the promotion
of news and feature writers Don
Hardison and David Breedon to the
positions of co-news editors was
made yesterday by Mrs. R. John
Holland, High Life adviser, and
David Buckner, editor-in-chief.
At the same time they revealed
that Joan Klein, a first-year jour
nalism student, has been elected to
succeed Exchange Editor Jennie Lee
Moser, who will assume the newly-
created position of social editor.
Although they are both firet-year
journalism students at G. H. S.,
News Editors Breedon and Hardi
son were admitted to the advanced
journalism class in September as a
result of their previous newspaper
experience, Breedon as the writer
of a weekly column of Youth Center
news for .the Grfeensboro Record,
and Hardison as editor of the
I’oughkeepsie Acorn, newspaper of
a private school in Po\ighkeepsie,
New York, which he attended last
year.
According to Editor Buckner, the
boys have done excellent work in
journalism, with Breedon covering
Youth Center news, activities of
the school band and orchestra, and
has written several imaginative fea
tures for the pai)er. In addition
to writing his column, Hardison
has iiandlod several imiwrtant news
stories, which included the Christ
mas pageant, interview* of Edgar
Ansel Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize-win
ning correspondent who addressed
the convention of the United World
Federalists of North Carolina at
\\'CrNC in Noveml)er, and has writ
ten several articles and features
f»r the paper.
Crowning of Winner
Set for February 20
At Carolina Theatre
‘Miss Front Page” will be crown
ed Friday night, February 20, at
the Carolina theatre approximately
at 9 p.m., between the 7 and 9
o’clock shows. When the 22 young
ladies who are competing for the
title have been presented, the win
ner will be announced and crowned
by Frances Newton, associate edi
tor. Patricia Anderson, 1947 queen,
will relinquish her throne to the
1948 winner.
Postponement of the coronation
exercise was due to bad weather.
The contest will not end until
Thursday, February 19, at which
time all votes must be turned in
to Frances Newton.
Chairman of the third annual
contest sponsored by High Life is
Dolores Hadaway. She has chaige
of theatre arrangements and deco
rations.
Master of ceremonies at the coro
nation will be Don Hardison, new
co-news editor of High Life.
Following are the girls and their
sponsors: Dawn Leach, Orchestra;
Jackie Miles, Junior Y-Teens; EH-
nor Wrenn, Sophomore Y-Teens;
Rebecca Frazier, Speakers club;
Gail Schaffert, Dramatics; Annie
Maude Harrington, Girls Athletic
council; Maxine Fields, D. 0.; Pat
Wagoner, Li’l Critters club; Mar
garet Osborne, Choir; Nancy Smith,
Glee club; Betsy Smith, Senior Y-
Teens; Polly ^Vhite, Journalism I;
Jennie Lee Moser, High Life staff;
Sally Gray Hicks, D. D. T.; Yvonne
Schweistris, Les Soeurs; Helen La
tham, Majorettes; Dot Burton, Li
brary staff; Marcia Ann Furnas,
Senior Hi-Y; Carrie Chamberlain,
Band; Dot McLaughlin, D.E.; Glen-
na DeWitt, Student council; and
Martha Everitt, Cheerleaders.
li'l Critters' Conduct
Youth Center Drive
Iiicrea.sed membership to the
Youth Center is the object of a
drive now being conducteti by the
“Li’l Critters,” senior girls social
club.
The campaign was started on
Monday, February 9. and will con
tinue until an indefinite date.
Operation of the center costs
$700 a month and .$1100 a year. The
city and Community Chest donate
$3000 each per year, while $5000 is
needed from memberships.
Membership fees are now $1.00
monthly or $5.00 annually and may
be obtained from any member of
th Lil Critters club.
Youth Center Is Praised
By Drummer Gene Krupa
V.y DAVID BREEDON
Gene Krupa. called King of the
Drums by dance band enthusiasts,
brought his band to the Loft last
week to play for an informal dance,
and before the dance began and
during intermissions he answered
questions about his profession and
how he came to be one of the top
band leaders in the country.
“Anybody who wants to,” said
Krupa, "can get into it (the dance
band field of entertainment), but
it takes plenty of hard work to
really go places in it. Not to men
tion.” he added, “a few good
breaks.”
Krupa, himself, started his musi
cal career with a high school jazz
band in Chicago, and after some
time at St. .Joseph College in In
diana. he continued his work witl
one of the top jazz bands of the
day, Red Nichols and his Five
Pennies. In this group were such
notables as Tommy Dorsey, Glenn
Miller, and Charlie Spivak.
After the Five Pennies came
other famou.s bands for Gene;
Buddy Rogers, Benny Goodman,
Lionel Hampton, and Tommy
Dorsey.
In 1938, he organized his own
band, which enjoyed immediate
success and popularized the idea
among dance fans which had long
been common knowledge to the
music - makers themselves — that
Krupa wa.s King of the Drums.
After several more stops in this
part of the country, Krupa and his
band will move northward on his
tour. After winding up his tour,
he will settle down for an engage
ment with one of the New York
night spots for awhile before mov
ing on to Hollywood to do some
pictures for R.K.O.
“It’s been swell playing here at
your Youth Center,” finished Krupa.
“This is really a great spot you
have. You should have more big
name bands to really put it over!”