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From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
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VOLUME XXIV
.SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO. N. C., APRIL 23, 1948
NUMBER 14
ELECTION PROCEEDINGS GET UNDERWAY
Chamberlain To Head May Day Ceremony FOT"iue!day,Aprii27
Maids of Honor Are
leal and Schweistris
To head G. H. S. traditional May
day ceremonies Wednesday, May 6,
is pretty Carrie Chamberlain, May
Queen, and her junior and sopho
more maids of honor, Nancy Beal
and Yvonne Schweistris.
Planned for the event which will
take place on the front campus are
a May ix>le dance, folk dances, at
tendant dances, and music furnished
by the band.
Attendants
Senior class honor attendants are
Marie Carter, Marcia Furnas, Betty
Hendrix, Helen Latham, Pat Wag
oner, and Louise Walker.
Junior class honor attendants will
be Bonnie Jean Crawford, Chippy
Johnson, Jackie Miles, and Theona
Pierce. Attendants of honor from
the sophomore class are Peggy Ever-
itt, Sallie Gray Hicks, Ashley Hol
land and Elinor W'renn.
Carrie is a regular member of the
honor roll, member of Torchlight,
national high school honor society,
and a former secretary of the stu
dent council.
At present she is a council repre-
.sentative and co-chairman of the
.^hool recreation committee.
In addition, she has been an attend
ant to the May Queen for the past
two years, is secretary of her Sun
day school department, a member
of the Children of the American Rev
olution, and a Mariner Girl Scout.
Recently she received the honor
of being elected Daughters of the
American Revolution pilgrimage
winner for the entire state of North
t'arolina.
Special Privileges Given
To Reward Scholarship
Extended to students above the
average scholastically, at a recent
meeting of the Greensboro high
school faculty were special privi
leges which included, for special
honor students, absences from school
for which no excuse ffom home is
required, tardies to classes admitted
without a slip from the office, and
dismissal from fourth or fifth period
classes three minutes early in order
to go to lunch.
Silver star wearers are to be
allowed to exempt themselves from
one examination, if they carry four
major subjects, by letting the chosen
subject teacher know three weeks
in advance of the examination that
he does not wish to take tlie exam
in her class.
Gold star wearers ma.v omit one
exam If they carry four majors, or
two exams if the carry tive majors.
Procedure is the s,ame as that de-
.scrilKJd above for silver star wear
ers.
8tar Wearers
Wearers of gold stars, as of the
first report period lb48 semester, are
Nancy Smith, Clyde Taylor, Joyce
Lemons, Andy Bell, Annie Maude
Harrington, and Marcia Ann Furnas.
Students w'earing silver stars, also
as of the first report period, are
Lacy Lucas, Zack Piephoff, Frances
Newton, Betty Pearl, Betty Kirk-
man, Jimmy Alspaugh, Isobel Arm
strong, Bill Hooke, Gwendolyn
Truitt, Betty Lou Van Hook, Glenna
BeWitt, Doris Duke, Jack Fields,
Elsa Garrity. Robert Carlson, Pat
Carson, and Hope I^eonard.
Also included are Nancy TiOwder,
Jiny Meletion, Bobby Michael, Oscar
Paris, Tommy Payne, Dick Painter,
Sidney Smith, Jackie Stafford, Jean
Thacker, Betty Jean Thompson, Ann
Gross, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Bev
erly Chalk, Hazel Connell, Julia Ann
Boggett, and Emily Ann Dees.
Other silver star wearers are Le-
Poy Tutterow, Delores Whisonant,
Bill Wright, Harry Young, Louis
Bosecrans, Bill Sarles, Treva Adams,
A-iina Bee^n, and Dot Burtcai.
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Smiling at pretty Queen of May Carrie Cliamberlain are her two Maids of Honor, Yvonne Schweistres
and Nancy Beal.
One Hundred Five Seniors To Make Trip;
To Leave at 6:30 Next Thursday, April 28
G. H. S. Playmasters
Receive Second Place
The Playmasters, Greensboro
senior high school dramatics
club, won a second-place rating
in the annual dminaties festival
April 15-18 at Chapel Hill.
Their presentation of “Back
Home,” was entered in the group
consisting of public schools of
over 800 students.
Registering Tuesday, April 13, for the annual senior class trip
to Washington, D. C., were some 105 students who, led by Law
rence Lgerton, arose in the early hours of the morning to head
the line wliieh continued to grow, necessitating the addition' of
another bus to the originally planned two-bus excursion,, and 33
rooms at the hotel in the nation’s capital city.
D.O.-D.E. Holds
Annual Banquet
Fiffli annual employer—employee
hamiuet .given by the Distri!)utor‘s
(’lull and Diversified Oecnpations
(Masses was recently held at the
Masonic Temple.
Cdiarle.s Williams, president of the
tliird-period D.O. class, acred as
master of ceremonies. The invoca
tion was given by Betty Ferguson
who sang “'The Lord’s Prayer.” Mr.
R. G. Trosper. President of the
Merchants Association, accepted the
toast made by the employees.
Guests were introduced by Betty
Ferguson. Bob DeViuie, .Timmy Bar
ham. Charles Williams, and Betty
•lean Williams. Dinner music was
presented by Betty Kirkman and
P.etty Brown. Group singing was
led by Nelie Smith, Gwen Truitt,
and -Timmie Barham which was fol
lowed by a dnet by Nellie Smith
and Carl Gibbs. Jean 'Tidbble gave
two dances succeeded by a comedy
skit presented by Card and Carey
Gibbs, after whkdi Gwen Truitt sang
a solo. Earl Curtis presented his
magic show which was followed by
the Voices of Spring who sang four
numbers.
The high light of the program
was the speaker, Mr. Robert Orinshy
of Winston-Salem who spoke on
“Keep Your Sense of Humor.”
Give Books in Honor of Son
Twx) sets of books were given as
contributions to the school library
on April 21 by Mr. and Mrs. John
IiaulTenheimer, in memory of their
son, John, who was drowned at High
Rock lake almost 15 months ago.
One of these sets contains 16 vol
umes and is entitled “A Compilation
of the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents,” and the other set con
tains three volumes entitled “This
Is Your America.”
Chaperones for the trip will be
Miss Bara Mims, MLss Ida Belle
Moore, Mrs. Estelle I^Guin, Mrs.
Nellie Blackburn, and Principal and
Mi-s. A. I*, lloutli.
To lpav(‘ at C :o0 a.m. Tioxt Thur.s-
day, April 2.S, will be Un order of
registration) : Tjawrence Egerton,
Jack Fields, Bob McPheeters, Pat
Aiiderstui. Clyde Taylor, Lyndon
Sikes. Warren Matthews, Bill Smith,
Spencer Blaylock, Richard Spivey,
Laverne Pfeffer, Marcia Furnas,
Brown i’atferson, Hazel Steele, (rail
Schatfert, Charles Neeley. Marshall
Pegram, Colecme I'eele. I’at Miller,
(’•lark Mitchell, Bill Black, Thurman
(Toss. I'aul Dentiste. Ilodne.v .Tack-
son. and Charles Bausermau.
Also (Tilda Ilinshaw. I..iiwrenee
Alspaugh, HeleiT Fields, Jimmy Al
spaugh. (iwen Truitt. Frank Klages,
‘ Han Thompson. Dickie Neal. Bruce
Merton, Joluisie C’ranford, June Hlu-
menthal, Nancy Goff, Helen Latham.
Uel>ecca Hudson. Helen Tbornbro,
Jane Pegram, Betsy Smith, Bill
Hooke. Nancy Smith, Betty Fergu
son, Filmyer Dyer, Ann Murphy,
Joyc*e Lemons, Zack Piephoff and
Bobby Sptmeer.
Included also are Frank Styers,
Ray Bond, Ruth Underwood, Clyde
('oilins, Carl Baxter, Dot Ballinger,
Betty Pearl, Shirley Lyon, Lynne
(ioodman, Elas Garrity, Bill Lines,
laUrh Gallimbre. Billie Gallimore,
Jean Edwards, Sylvia Alay, Becky
Breedon, (ileiin Davis, Buddy Dot-
son. Mary Mooneyliam, Isabel Arm
strong. Mary Hubert. Jean Wilker-
son, Jean Irving. Paige Welker, l*aul
Patton, aiid Fran Pearman.
Heads Faculty Club
Selected by members of the G.II.S.
faculty last Wednesday to head their
Facrulty club were president. Doro-
Th.v ^MeXairy ; vice-president. Mrgin-
ia Powell : and secretary-trea.-urer,
Louise Weyl.
Concluding dates for the school
election of next year's officers now
in progress as announced recently
by Jimmy Alspaugh, elections chair
man, and Mrs. Estelle LeGuin, coun
cil adviser, are Tuesday, April 27,
for the nomination convention; May
5, for registration; and May 6 for
the actual voting.
Anticipating a heated battle for
presidency of the school are Robert
Carlson and Bobby Michael. Other
candidates for school offices are:
vice-president, Julia. Ann Doggett
and Dickie Sharpe; for secretary,
Ashley Holland, Peggy Montgomery
and Eleanor Wrenn; for treasurer,
Gordon Battle and Don McCollum;
for traffic chief, Eddie Finch and
Jimmy Lindley.
Candidates for rising senior class
officers are: for president, Richard,
Clemmons, Oscar Paris, and Pat Rai-
ford; for vice-president, Harry Bry-
and and Carolyn Gibson; for sec
retary, Pat Sharpe and Mirvioe
Squier; and for treasurer, Margaret
Osborne and Hal Sigmon.
Candidates for the presidency of
the rising junior class are Steve
Agapion and James Roberson; for
vice-president, Sallie Grey Hicks and
Earl Malloy; for secretary, Ann All
red, Marion Faison and Anne Wof
ford ; and for treasurer, Barbara
Holloway and Eddie Lovings,
Representatives
Potential candidates for repersent-
atives of the rising senior class are
Treva Adams, Sue Baxter, Anna
Beeson, Pat Carson, Beverly Chalk,
Jimmy Grumpier, (Thippy Johnson,
Bobby Ix>minack, Jackie Miles, Tom
my Payne, Harry O’Onnor, Betty
Jean Pope, Fred Price, Jimmy Rich
ards, Ann Rudd, Sarah Swain, Jean -
Thacker, and Yvonne Schweistris.
. Potential candidates for represent
atives of the rising junior class
are Mary Louise Ahem, Nancy Beal,
Margery Beane, Phyllis Bell, (Caro
lyn Birger, Betsy Bishop, Keith
Bowman, David Bradley, Lining
Burnett, Kemp Clendening, Beverly
Coble, Peggy (3oble, Peggy Lou Coble,
Ann Edwards, Marie Essa, Mary
Tvou Faust, Craig Galloway, Bob
(ireeson. Betty Lane, Sara Nell Ma-
ness, Betty Lou Marsh, Moody Hud
son, Siissane Sparling, .Timmy Vance
and June Van Horn.
Dancing Classes Held
Dancing classes which have been
conducted by Louis Felicia of Feli
cia StiKlio of Dance free for Lofters •
Wednesday nights, have been
changed to Monday nights from
6 ::T0 to 7:80. Barry Farher, presi-
denl of the class, reports that there
are approximately 2S Lofters in the
class learning all types of hall room
dancing, including jitter-bug.
Music Groups Participating in Contest
Annual State Music contest was
opened iloiiday at Womairs (H)llege
for a week-long session ending to
night at Memorial Stadium. Since
it inauguration, the contest has
been held each year at the col
lege. This year, mar.y changes have
been made in the contest. esi>eciall.v
in the .strictness of the district con-
te.sts which were held earlier in
the spring. These changes have
eliminated a great many high school
music organizations which otherwise
would have attended.
Senior high school, due to tin
standards it has upheld in previous
years and due to the showing of
its groups entered in the district
eliminations, will have every divi
sion of its musical department, vocal
and instrumental, represented, in
cluding many solo and ensemble
groups.
Choir and Glee Club
Choir and Glee club entered the
contest, and GHS was also repre
sented by three smaller groups and
two soloists.
Girls’ Glee club have selected two
numbers for the contest: “Spirit
Flower” by Campbell-Tipton, and
I “Cindy,” an American folk song.
Mixed chorus sang “Dark Water'
by Will James, and Kokoylof;
■■Hear Our Prayer.’
Mixed quartet, composed of
Ellen Baxter, Betty Pearl,
f'tley. and Hal Sigmon sang
‘‘Bless This House” by Brahe, while
the girls’ rrio, Betty Pearl. Betty
Co-stner, and Betty Vaughn, will sing
Mendelssohn’s “I Waited For the
Lord.’
Boys quartet entered their vei’-
sion of “Mosquitoes” by Bliss. The
(piartet includes Bill Utley, Larry
Lambeth. Eugene Foushee, and
I^yndon Sykes.
In the solo aepartinent, Betty
('ostner, soprano, sang “Take .Toy
Home'’ by Bu.ssett, while Handel’s
•Thanks Be t(» Thee’* was sung by
Ti.vndon Sykes.
Orchestra
GHS orchestra was one out of
four orchestras in the state to pass
the district eliminations and there
fore be eligible for the state con
test. For their contest selections
they have chosen two numbers from
the program they played for a high
school assembly several weeks ago;
selections from Bizet’s suite “L’Ar-
lesienne,” and “We All Believe In
the One God” by Bach.
In The class A division thei'e were
also orchestras from Charlotte
j^^j^jand High Point. The fourth orches-
Bill Lindly Junior high school iu
the class C high school division.
Band
(tHS hand is also in Class A with
only two other bands from the
state, I/euior and Charlotte, though
there will be ten !>ands attending
the contest in all. The band will
play as warm up march “Pasedina
Day,” Sousa, followed b.v “Phedre”
by Jules Messenet, overture, and
“From the New' World” by Anton
Dvorak, symphony, all of which
were done by the band at the as
sembly Tuesday. Marching was
a required event for all bands
this year for the first time, and
the band has been preparing fqr
the last two weeks for the contest.
The marching events w’ill be held
at Memorial Stadium tonight
and admission for students will be
twenty-five cents. A mass band com
posed of all ten bands will open the
contest with the playing of the “Star
Spangled Banner,” then they will
perform three other marches to
gether before the contest actually
begins.