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Putting finishing touches to the commencement pagent, “Tis a Chron
icle of Day by Day,” are the cmmnittee members, ^ated from left to
right are Jim Scott, Bill Baxter, Mary Durtaiid Sapp, Barbara Kent and
Jo Ann Mingia. Standing are Brown Pattersoi^ Bunell Rush, Doris
Duke, Barry Farber, Ray Bond and Bill Ledford.
Photographed wWle planning this morning’s class day progr^a are
seated,*from left to right, Betty Eller, Barry Farber, Mrs. B^dlle LeGwin
and Miss Mozelle Causey—^faculty ^visors—, Betty Pearl, and Bobbie
Jean Shaw. Standing are Jennie Lee Moser, Jimmy Alspaugh, Andy Bell,
and Runell Rush. . High Life Staff Photos by Lowell Dryzer
Graduation Dance Is Set
For Friday Night, May 28
In a bower of flowers underneath
silver boughs, and to the theme of
“Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” will
be held the traditional Commence
ment dance of Greensboro high
school, Friday, May
Music will be furnished by Tommy
Dodameade’s orchestra from High
Point College. Members of the
figure will be officers of the school
and sponsors from each homeroom.
Cost of the orchestra and decora
tions is being furnished by the
P.T.A.
Giving of corsages is optional. It
will be held in one of the two
gymnasiums and will climax a week
of senior activities and examina
tions.
Senior Examinations To Begin Tomorrow
Pinal examintions will get under
way tomorrow, Wednesday, May 26,
following the class day exercises
and senior luncheon of today. The
tests will proceed according to the
following schedule.
SENIORS
Wednesday, May 26
9:00 a.m First Period
10:45 a.m. Second Period
Thursday', May 27
9:00 a.m Third Period
10:45 a.m Fourth or
Fifth Period
Friday, May 28
9:00 a.m Sixth Period
10:45 a.m Seventh Period
OTHERS THAN SENIORS
Thursday, May 27
1:45 p.m Fourth or
Fifth Period
Friday, May 28
9:00 a.m Sixth Period
10:45 a.m Seventh Period
Monday, May 31
9:00 a.m First Period
10:45 a.m Second Period
Tuesday, June 1
9:00 a.m Third Period
All students are asked to follow
the preceeding plan as accurately
as possible. Any class having a
*najority of its membership in the
senior class will take its examina
tion as seniors.. But in case the
class has fewer than half its mem
bership in the senior class, the
examination will be given as “other
than seniors” according to the
schedule above. Those seniors in a
third period class will be given a
special examination before Tuesday,
June 1, regardless of the class mem
bership, in order to determine
whether or not they will be gradu
ating.
Senior Superlatives
Presented Today
Siq>erlattves of the 1948
graduating class were presented
this morning at the annual cl^ss
day program.
The most beautiful girf, Helen
Latham, was escorted by the
most handsome boy, Bradley
'Faircloth. Voted most popular
were Frances Pearman and
Andy Bell. Joanne Mingia and
Barry Farber were the most
original. M(^t athletic girl and
boy were Dot Burton and J. M.
Self. Carrie Chamberlain and
Zack Pi^hoff were voted m^t
talented. The wittiest wctc
Nancy Goff and Frank Klages.
Cutest girl and boy were Louise
Walker and Bobby Crews. Most
carefree were Jean Wilkinson
and Tal Henry. The girl and
boy chosen as the biggest tease
were Betty Wolfe and Paul
Patton. The most diplomatic
were Pat Anderson and Allman
Beaman. The best dressed were
Dolores Hadaway and George
Seay. Chosen as the most win
some were Pat Wagoner and
Bobby Holt. The sweetest were
Nancy Smith and Aaron Allred.
Marcus Furnas and Brown Pat
terson were the most intel
lectual. The most dependable
were Dorothy Ballinger and
Jack Fields.
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Tis a Chronicle of Day by Day' To Characterize
Life of Students at Greensboro High School
“ ’Tis a Chronicle of Day by Day” is the
theme of the anual graduation pageant to be pre
sented by the senior class in the auditorium next
Tuesday night, June 1.
The Greensboro high school custom of present
ing each year a pageant written by members of
the graduating class is different from the com
mencement programs of most other schools in
that it has no valedictorian, speaker, or saluta-
torian.
Motive of this year’s pageant is to picture the
many different mannera in which the seniors have
spent their school days in preparing to cross the
threshold of a new life.
Framework for the drama is the visit to G.H.S.
of a mock delegation from the North Carolina
Education association who discuss the school with
a cross^ection of students. Questions asked these
students are answered through scenes on the
stage which are planned so as to show nearly
every phase of high school life.
Part one of the three-part program consists of
academic scenes, and shows some phase of activ
ity from each of the following: chemistry, Eng
lish, history, credits, registration, journalism,
Bible, family life class, physical educatipn, com
mercial, and D.O. and D.E. classes.
Part two is concerned with activities taking
place outside of the school, and includes ^enes
to familiarize the audience with the social cluh®,
Youth Center, scouting’s place in school life, and
the Washington trip.
In part three, scenes will be presented from
assembly programs. This will include parts of
the operetta, “The Flower of Venezia” and the
play, ‘ ‘ The Inner Willie, ’ ’ the memorial and
Torchlight programs. Student council and Social
Standards day scenes.
In conclusion, the members of the graduating
class of 1948 will file across the stage to receive
their diplomas, closing their high school careers.
Members of the committee who wrote and are
producing the program are Jo Mingia, Ray
Bond, Bill Ledford, Ruenell Rush, Jim Scott,
Bill Baxter, Mary Durland Sapp, Barbara Kent,
Brown Patterson, Doris Duke, and Barry Far-
ber, advised by Mrs. Nellie D. Blackburn, Miss
Mary Ellen Blackburn, and Miss Sara Mims.
Approximately 230 members of a senior class
of almost 300 will take part in the pageant.
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOL. XXIV
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MAY 25, 1948
NUMBER 16
Massing Review' Presented by Seniors
Produced Exclusively
By Graduating Class
By DON HARDISON
Culminating approximately three
weeks work, the annual senior class
day exercises started this morning
at 9:50 in the auditorium with
the presentation of “Passing Re
view,” a history of last year’s
school activity. The massive script
for this year’s production, which
lasted over an hour and a half,
was written, typed, produced and
directed ‘by Barry Farber, Andy
Bell, Brovsm Patterson, Blsa Garrity,
and Gloria Farnell, with the aid of
a number of the faculty, including
Miss Mozelle Causey, Miss Sara
Mims, Mrs. Grace Alton, Mrs. Jessie
Gorell and Mrs. Estelle LeGwin.
All told, over one hundred sen
ior students participated in the
mammoth “passing review of last
year at school.” The opening scene
found Barry Farber and Andy Bell
frequenting an establishment of ill
repute deep in the wilds of wildest
Shanghai, China. A smooth character
of undeterminable origin, though
probably Chinese, Krank Klages, per
suaded the gallant couple that he
possessed powers capable of trans
porting them back through “ the
fathomless abysms of time. When
the swami, as this mystic character
was called, began to cast his spell,
lo and behold time reversed it
self, indeed, and Andy and Barry
found themselves gazing at an exact
replica of school days in the first
grade.
Second scene, which followed a
humrous transition skit, was a
continuation of the opening scene,
in as much as it pictured the same
first grade class, differently cos
tumed to look a little older, and
this time in high school.
Perhaps the funniest episode of
the entire performance was the
library scene. Members of the libra
ry act, were encouraged by none
other than Miss MildrM Herring to
make more noise since there was
scarcely enough to be heard at the
other end of the hall. And one who
did not have the ability to make a
sufficient amount of noise was hasti
ly ousted from the library, while
it was absolutely unthinkable to
enter the library without the big
gest mouthful of the “poppingest”
gum imaginable.
Following the library affair, the
swami conducted Beil and Farber
back to a scene in the cafeteria, a
mwt beloved part of any high
school. But it was slightly different
from what we know it today. No
one hurried, {there was a lunch
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The Other Side of the Desk
A. P. Routh Recalls Events
Of School Year ig47^48
When you receive this last issue
of HIGH LIFE the class room work
for this year will be almost finish
ed and examinations w’ill be just
around the corner. The school year
has passed swiftly and we remem
ber the many high spots of this
year. I think I will make this last
article by a faculty member some
thing of a review of the past niue
school months.
We began the year last Septem
ber with eleven new faculty mem
bers and a total enrollment of al
most ISOO students at Senior High
School. The Youth Center was offi
cially opened principally for stu
dents of Senior High School on Sep
tember 20, with Mr. Huffman as
Director and Miss Monsees as his
assistant. The fall election came
during the first molith of school
and Steve Agapion was named to
the presidency of the Sophomore
class.
The fall sports program was given
over chiefly to football and we won
our share of victories. We took our
first defeat in Charlotte, and that
game virtually knocked us out of
winning the Western Conference
title. Late in October we attempted
our magazine campaign and we
remember that it did not turn out
too well. YTe remember with much
pleasure the operetta produced in
the fall with Lyndon Sikes, Zack
Piephoff, and Sue Baxter and others
taking the leading parts.
We heard much about our new
stadium in the late fall when a
financial campaign was conducted
to build immediately for us a
stadium seating 6.000 people. Some
of us are wondering whether or
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PEINCIPAL A. PALL EOLTH