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volume XXV
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO,N. C., MARCH 11, 1949
NUMBER 10
Juniors and Seniors Are Tapped in Ceremony
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Honor Society Holds
Semester Induction
Career Day Will Be
Tuesday, March 22
Inauguration of Career Day will
be Tuesday March 22. Guest speak
er in Assembly will be Dr. Richard
A. Bardolph, Associate Professor of
History and Economics at Woman’s
College. His talk will be along the
lines of “It is never too early to
plan.”
During the day, the homerooms
will go to the Library to talk with
various representatives, as they did
recently on College Day.
Representatives
The following trades will be repre-1
seated at the round table discussion I
in the library: Building And Con
struction, Homemaking, Transporta
tion And Aviation, Distribution And
Advertising, Communications And
Radio, Personal Service, Professions,
Public Service, Engineering, Mili
tary Occupations, Manufacturing,
Office Occupations, and Auto Me
chanics And Related Fields.
Bulletins to all students explain
ing the schedule and giving speakers
will be distributed Monday before
Career Day.
A luncheon will be given by Miss
Mary York and her students for
the speakers.
Morning Chapel
Chapel w’ill begin with invocation
by Margaret Hilton, followed by a
statement of the purpose of the day
by Frank Dixon. Tom Neal will
introduce the main speaker, Dr.
Richard A. Bardolph.
Musical numbers will be furnish
ed by a trio from the Vocational
Department.
Ginis Is Winner
In Two Contests
On Wednesday, March 2 five
Senior High students competed
for first place honors in the Guil
ford County American Legion
oratorical contest.
Thomas Ginis, a sophomore
and winner of the recent World
Peace contest, was declar^ first
place winner; while Rebecca
Frazier won second place.
Last Friday night Thomas
spoke again at the Legion buil
ding and was named first place
winner of the liHh District.
He went to Raleigh yesterday
to compete in .the American
Legion contest for this area.
Cashwell is D.A.R. Winner
For Two Consecutive Years
Winning first place in the D.A.R.
menu contest was Fannie Cox Cash-
well. She was first place winner
lost year in the ssme contest.
Fannie Cox has recently been
accepted by Queens Colege, Char
lotte, N. C. for the 1949-1950 session.
She will major in Home Economics,
mainly in foods. Her aim, even
during her early years, was to do
Work in nutrition.
Shown above are fourteen Senior
students who were tapped into
Torchlight, National Honor Society,
last week. They are^left to right:
Tommy Payne, deny Fletcher, Pat
Carson, David Bradley, Sarah
Swain, Jean Sharpe, Alice Hardin,
Carol Williams, president Jackie
Stafford, Elinor WVenn, Nancy Low'-
der, Beverly Chalk, Carolyn Birgel,
Bay Showefty, and Gordon Nelson.
Sue Purdom, absent that day, is also
a new member. Bight are shown the
older members. They are: Bobby
Michael, Betty Jane Thompson,
Jackie Miles, Sidney Smith, Jean
Thacker, Miss Sarah Mims, faculty
adviser, Jackie Stafford, Anna Bee
son, Yvonne Schweistris, Julia Ann
Doggett, Dick Painter, Treva Adams,
Oscar Paris, and Bill Sarles. Not
shown are Emily Ann Dees and Bill
Wright.
Honor Project BoylnS Junior Class To Sponsor Annual
With Chapel Program Clean-Up Day; Agapion Chairman
Striving to make Senior High a
school of honor, the sophomore class
has chosen honesty as their project.
Program Is Presented
Last Tuesday morning the soph
omore council presented a program
to tenth graders only, in hope
of putting their project across to
them and later to the whole student
them. They plan for the seventeen
representatives to give talks in their
respective homerooms each Tuesday
on some selected topic and place
slogans on the boards.
Brjan Heads Council
“Let's make this a school in which
honorable dealing is the rule, in
which the law-breaker meets the
challenge of every good citizen” is
the motto of the sophomore council
with .Terry Bryan as president and
the presidents acting as representa
tives of the various rooms. Mrs.
Nellie Blackburn is faculty adviser
for this group that meets every
Thursday afternoon.
March 8—Care of desks, chairs,
and tables.
March 15—Care of walls.
March 22—Care of library mate-
,rials.
' March 29—Care of textbooks.
April 15—Use of cafeteria. .
April 12—Responsibility of found
articles.
April ID—Lying.
April 26—Cheating on exams.
May 3—opportunities to be hon
orable.
Steve Agapion, a member of the
student council, was asked to serve
as chairman of Clean Up Day for
this year. Since he is President of the
Junior Class, he a.sked permission
to have this as a class project rather
than just a clean I^p Day for the
Student Council. The Presidents
and Vice-presidents of the Junior
homerooms, the Junior Class offi
cers, and faculty of the Juniors
homerooms met and have worked
out the folowing plan w'hich they
have submitted to the approval of
the .Juniors.
The project is a homeroom beauti
fication program. The purpose is
to promote a plan whereby Home
rooms are encouraged to clean, keep
and beautify, in so far as possible,
their rooms. It will work as follows :
During the months of March,
April, and May, the council shall
select the room of the week at inter
vals of two weeks. This room will
receive a plaque which will travel
from winner to winner. On May 24,
the grand winner nil! be announced
and will receive a prize of money
to be used for decorations or mate
rials for that room. The rooms will
he scored Wednesday and Thurs
day preceding each date of an
nouncement. The scoring will be
done by the ten Junior teachers and
a student committee during a period
when the room is vacant. These
scores wil he turned over to a final
committee which will choose the
winning room each two w’eeks and
the final winner.
Dates for the announcement of
the winners are March 11, March
25, April 8, April 22, May 6 and
May 20. The final winner will be
announced May 24.
The council hopes that the stu
dents will fall in line with these
plans, and that the students will help
to lead the school in this much
needed project.
Senior Students Place
In Scholarship Finals
Yvonne Schweistris and Bill
Wright have been chosen to par
ticipate in the finals for the
Angie B. Duke scholarehip. Al-
tliough the boy and girl scholar
ships are separate, they talte the
same preliminary exam, and the
procedure is the same for both.
Those who are outstanding in
the pre’iminarj' exam go to the
regional meeting fi*om here the
winners go to the district meet
ing. North • Carolina is divided
into the East and West districts,
and each year two boys and a
girl from each district win a
$3,000 scholarship to Duke Uni
versity.
Jean Thacker, Sidney Smith,
and Bill Sarles were also in the
semi-finals.
Last Tuesday ten seniors and
five juniors were taken into
Torchlight, National Honor So
ciety, at the Spring tapping. The
students were elected on the basis
of the four qualities for which
the society stands — Character,
Leadership, Service, and Schol
arship.
The new members are from semes
ters six and eight. From the senior
class are Pat Carson, Beverly Chalk,
Jerry Fletcher, Alice Hardin, Nancy
Lowder, Gordon Nelson, Tommy
Payne, Ray Showfety, Jean Sharp,
and Sarah Swain. Carolyn Birgel,
David Bradley, Sue Purdom, Carol
Williams, and Elinor Wrenn were
tapped from the junior class.
During the ceremony Jackie Staf
ford, president of Torchlight, told
of the aims and purposes of the
society. Betty Jane Thompson, Sid
ney Smith, Yvonne Schweistris,
and Treva Adams spoke resi)ectively
on character, schoarship, leadership,
and service. Oth^r members of the
society are Anna Beeson, Bobby
Michael, Julia Ann Doggett, Jean
Thacker, .Jackie Miles, Bill Wright,
Dick Painter, Bill Sarles, Oscar
Paris, and Emily Ann Dees.
Election Proceedings
Persona are tapped into the soc
iety on basis of four ballots. Those
people with a scholastic average
of 90 per cent or better are voted
on by their classmates and the facul
ty. Members of Torchlight count
these, votes and vote accordingly.
Pinal votes are cast by a committee
appointed by Mr. A. P. Routh.
Talent Show Scheduled
For Tuesday, March 15
Next Tuesday Torchlight, Nation
al Honor Society, plans to present
their annual talent show. This
year the talent w’ill vary and many
of the participants will be those
people at Senior with “unknown”
talent. Also, as an added attraction
there will be talent other than from
the school.
Tickets are 25 cents each; the
proceetls will be used in paying for
the society’s new white robes and
for the 100 dollar scholarship offer
ed each year to some senior.
Jean Thacker is student chairman
for the talent show, and Oscar Paris
is to be master of ceremonies.
Art Classes Send
Entries to Exhibit
When the 1949 National Scholastic
Art Exhibit opens at Pittsburgh
this year, eleven of the entries will
be from Senior High School. The
school’s entries were selected by
the process of elimination by Mrs.
Grace Faver and Mrs. Braswell, and
then judged by a committee of col
lege art instructors.
The national prize winners will
be exhibited at the Carnegie Insti
tute galleries. Many of the prizes
are scholarships or cash. Some of
the pictures will be used for repro
duction under such famous sponsor
ship as Ingersoll calendar.
Senior high students w'hose paint
ings and other works of art are to
be sent to Pittsburgh are: Don
Vaughn, Sidney Smith, Estelline
Patterson, Herman Welker, Frank
Hough, and Leonard Allred.
Although Polly White is a 1948
graduate of Senior, her tempera
painting of Community Life also be
sent since it was done after January
1, 1948. Leonard Allred, Don
Vaughn, and Estelline Patterson
have two entries; the others have
one each.