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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 25, 1949
NUMBER 11
'HIGH LIFE' TAKES FIRST PLACE RATING
Square Dance Makes
Boys' Trip Possible
Dynamic Mountain Boy*? fnriii.sli-
ed [lie music for the square dance
triven by the Key Club last Friday
night. Fire Chief C. W. ‘Wyrick
called the fijiures for the dance
which was held in the girl’s gym.
Cold drinks and candy were sohl
during the evening by members of
the club and their dates. Bales of
hay wore u.sed throughout the gym
with other appropriate decorations.
Convention Held
The proceeds from the dance were
usel to send Bob Michael, Ri'hard
Clemmons, and Dickie Sharpe to
Washington, D. C. to the sixth
annual Key Club convention. T^v'O
thousand boys are expected to at
tend the meeting from the United
States and Candda. All expenses
will be paid for the three delegates
from Greensboro w^ho left yester
day to stay through Sunday.
A complete tour of Washington
has been scheduled for the delegates.
Senator A. Howard McGrath, chair
man of the senate of the District
of Columbia; Vice-president Albin
W. Barkley; and Secretary of De
fense James Forrestal have been
asked to speak at the different ses
sions. General Hoyt Vandenberg,
chief of the air force, is presenting
“Operation Happiness” with a 78
piece cast for the entertainment of
the g”Oup.
Cwnmitteeraen Named
The committee chairmen for the
dance were: Dickie Sharpe, decora
tion ; Richard Clemmons and John
Colson, refreshments; Mike Myers,
publicity; Kemp Clendenin and Bob
Michael, clean-up; Mike Myers, tic
kets: and Bob Carlson made the
arrangements for the dance to be
held at school.
Mr. Bruce Peabody, advi.'sor of
the club, and members of the
Kiwanis club chaperoned the dance.
Prizes were given for the best cos
tumes.
Banquet Planned by
Vocational Students
The Distributors club and the
Diversified Occupations classes of
Greensboro High School will hold
their sixth annual Employer-Em
ployee Bamiuet at the Masonic
Temple March 31, at 7 :3() p.m. The
ban(iuet will be informal.
Key speaker of the occasion is
Rev. Paul Herbin, pastor of Wesley
Memorial Church of High Point,
North Carolina. His topic will be
‘■Don't Fool Yourself.”
Theme of the banquet will be
April Fool’s Day. The program will
consist of entertainment by members
of the D.O. and D.E. classes with
some of the bosses contributing.
The work of the banquet has been
divided among the three 'lasses.
each sharing in work and responsi
bilities. Overall planning is com
posed ‘of class presidents and lea
ders who are working in the follow
ing fields i)rogram and publicity,
Pr.'nik Dixon, James Norman: place
cards and seating arrangement.
John (.Temmons, Bill Parker: menu
and table settings, Margaret Hilton,
Ila P>ass.
Fngraved invitations have been
sent to all bosses by the .students.
Juniors, Seniors To Gef
(lass Rings, March 31
Next Thursday, NIarch .31 Mr.
Ronald Reed, representative of the
8tar Engraving company, will l)e
at Senior High to distrilmte the
cla.ss rings. Only .iunior.s and .sen-
ior.s ordered rin.g.s hist fall when
each student made a payment of
two dollars; a remaining is
due upon receiving the ring. Thus,
the total cost of a ring is $11.20.
Working hard to get HIGH LIFE out are the staff and adviser. On the first row from left to right are
Vvoiine Sehweistris, girls’ sports editor; ,lulia Ann Doggett and Alice Hardin, cp-editors; and Betty Jean
Poj>e, reporter. On the back row from left to right are Tommy Neal, feature editor; Treva Adams, busi
ness niaiiager; Gordon Battle, boys’ sports editor; Anne Budd, copy editor; and Mr. Sam J. Underwood,
aIviser.
Spnns Fever^ To Be Given
By Dramatics Club, May 10
When “Sping Fever’’ is presented
at Senior on May 10, GHSers will
witness a play That’s fast, furious,
and funny.
vStudents Take Parts
Mrs. Spangler, played by Jean
Tribble, keeps a rooming house at
Brookfield college where college
l)oys room. Things seem to happen
just l)efore Commencement for
spring fever has hit Brookfield.
Chemistry student Ed Burns turns
liLs room into a laboratory, where
he tries to find a substitute for
dynamite. Vic Lewis uses the living-
room to do his art work: Howard
Brant, a senior, types desperately
on his term paper on zoology that
he might get his diploma the next
day. These typical college students
are characterized by Tatum Spar
ger, P’red Price, and Tommy Payne.
It’s Veiy Confusing *
Lou Herron, a journalism student,
played by Betty Jane Thompson,
runs in every now and then to use
the typewriter and—maybe to see
High Point Editor Assists
Group in Planning Annual
The last Annual meeting was held
two weeks ago with Ileywood Wash
burn and Nancy Jo Smith from
High Point as guests. Heywood is
editor of the High Point annwil and
Nancy Jo is a staff member. They
discused with the group of more
than one hundred, plans for a
Greensboro High School annual.
They talked about the length of time
re(inired for the make-up and publi
cation. cost, size, organization of
staff, and the po.mhilities for an
annual for Senior.
Bob Carlson announced that an
editor and staff has not yet been
selected hut that a group has been
appointed to make some defiliite
plans. The staff will consist of not
more than thirty •members hut a
nitndi larger group will be needed
to soli(‘it ads.
There will be a supplement in
the annual of next, year’s class
of ’49.
Ed. Forgetting to reserve rooms in
the hotel for her millionaire father
and mother, Anne Purchell. played
by Jean Klutz, persuades Howard
to let her father stay with him
(■ while her mother will stay with
her.)
Jlr. Purchell is taken for an art
model who doesn’t want to ix)se as a
Bolshevik, so the boys gag him so
Vic won’t fail in his first commission
for a picture. Mr. Purchell is very
angry and decides to withdraw his
offer to present a new science build
ing to the college.
Aunt Maude Pretends
Howard’s Aunt Maude learns of
his failure to pass his zoology
course, so she deckles to pose as a
famous zoologist, to get on the good
side of Professor Bean, and .get him
to ‘‘pass” her nephew.
Jean Thacker takes the part,of
Vivian George, Vic’s girl: Henry
and Phoebe Purchell, Anne's father
and mother, are played by Bill
Zuckerman and Janet Price. Maude
(’orey, Howard’s spinster aunt from
California, is characterized by
Nanc.v Lowder. Professor Virgil
Bean and Dr. Dixon are pla>-\?d by
Lining Burnet and David Bai'!)ee.
Room 215 is Given Plaque
In FirsI Clean-Up Period
The clean-up project. sponsorel
by the junior class, has announced
the winners for the first grading
I)eriod. They were: first place. NIiss
Moore, 21.5: sec'ond place. IMiss
Mims. .300: third pla-e. NIrs. Alton
202. T’oday the winners for the sec
ond two weeks grading period will
be announced. The homeroom win
ning for the second two weeks grad
ing period will be aniiouncwl. The
hdineroom winnin.g first place keeps
a plague in their room for two
weeks.
Steve A.gapion is student chair
man for the c)ean-iip committee
q’he committee, made up of the ten
junior teachers and two students,
makes the first gradin.g. l-Vnal
grading is mude by a teacher who
has no homeroom and two student;
whovse homeroom.s have been eli
minated from the contest.
Contest Winners Are
Huggins and Markley
Ill recent contests held by vari
ous clubs Senior High speech stu
dents have taken high honors.
Huggins Is Victorious
Winner of the first prize in the
contest sponsored by the Co-Opera
tive club was Joan Higgins, who
received a $25 award speaking on
"How Civic Clulis Can Best Serve
Youth.” A recording of her speech
will be ’entered in the district finals
at Richmond, Virginia. William
Zuckerman was the recipient of the
second prize of $15.
Others Gain Honors
Last Monday in speech class stii-
Ients competed for the winning
speech on Soil Conservation. Judges,
Mrs. Allen Dixon, iliss Mozelle
(’au.sey, and Jlrs. Grace Alton,
nameil Jim Markley first place win
ner of $5. Jim represented Senior
at Bessemer High school Tuesday
and won third place for Guilford
county.
')rher .students who placed at Sen
ior were: Billy Ferguson, second:
Jean Fogleman. third: and Boh
(’nrlson, fourth.
Ginis Wins SeeoiKl
iVhen Thomas Ginis went to Ra
Vigh to sneak in the second division
finals )f the American L^ion con-
rest, he won second, hut he almost
tied for first.
Senior Teacher Gets
World War II Medals
Mr. Charles D. Bates. Director
of Vocational Education at Sen-
ior High, has just re‘eived
medals and ribbons covering
his service during World War
II. The.se medals are:
The American Campaign
Medal.
The .American Defense Ser
vice Medal.
The .\siatie-Pacifie Campaign
M^^dal.
World War II Victory Medal.
The .\nuy of Occupation Medal
with Japan clasp.
The Philippine Liberation
Ribbon with one bronze service
star.
Mr. Bates was a Lt. Col. in
the U. S. .4miy .Air Corps.
Judges Give Praise
To Feature Stories
"When the Columbia Scholas
tic Press Association convened
March 10 for their 25th year, the
judges of the school journalism
contest rated High Life as first
place.
Papers Are Judged Carefully
Ninety-three printed high school
papers from coast to coast in schools
of 1,001 to 1,500 pqpils were enter
ed in the same class as HIGH LIFE.
Eleven of these received medalist
rating and 8 were rated first place.
Edited by Julia Ann Doggett and
Alice HarUjn, HIGH LIE^ was
judged on the basis of general, in
teresting, and informal makeup,
new^s coverage, story content, edi
torial pages, advertising, sports and
feature coverage, typography, pic
ture and cartoon layout.
Feature Columns Praised
Impressed by the feature columns
and bits of creative writing which
vary the makeup, the judges gave
much praise to Joan Klein’s “Daily
Doubles” Tom Neal’s feature story
on Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cotton, and
Yvonne Schweistris’s features. Bev
erly Baylor, member of journalism
class, was also cited for her “Diggin’
the Disc” column. The Judges also
commended the sport column by Gor
don Battle. Use of short news boxes
and pictures caused comments of ap
proval from the contesters.
The editions of HIGH LIFE,
proudly proclaiming Greensboro as
the birthplace of 0. Henry, were
worthy heirs to a brilliant literary
tradition.
Staff Members Listed
Other staff members, other than
those already mentioned, who made
this first rating possible are: Anne
Rudd, copy editor; Yvonne Sehweis
tris, girls’ sports editor; Betty Jean
Pope, reporter; Treva Adams, busi
ness manager; Richard Clemmons,
circulation manager; Charles Mans
field, photographer; Erie Curtis,
cartoonist: and Bert Wade, art
editor with Mr. S'amuel J. Under
wood. the faculty advisor.
eSPA Is Well Attended
Of the 350 students from 25 states
and the District of Columbia present
at the convention were four dele
gates from Senior.
On Thursday, March 10, the an
nual Convention was opened with
a welcome speech from Dr. Harry
J. Carman, dean of Columbia col
lege. Principal speaker was Turner
Catledge, assistant managing editor
of the New York Times.
Sectional meetings, divisional pro
grams, round table discussions, and
clinics were atended by the students
so they might iron out the problems
they have on their respective publi
cations. The meetings were con
cluded af'noon on Saturday with a
luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel. A welcome speech that had
been recorded by Dr. Dwight D.
Ei.senhower. president of the uni
versity. was played. After Eisen
hower’s si>eeeh, George V. Allen,
assistant Secretary of State for
Public Affairs, gave a talk on the
art journalism will play In making
world peace possible.
Band Takes Part
in Music Meeting
Last Thursday. March 17. the Sen
ior High l)and left for Charlotte
to take part in the national conven
tion of America Bandmasters’ asso
ciation.
Greensl)oro. lyenoir, and Char
lotte were the three North Caro
lina high schools invited to perform
for America’.s leading band direc
tors. The college bands participa
ting were those of Duke, Davidson,
Carolina. This was one of the few
times high school hands have play
ed before a national bandmasters’
convention.
On Friday Senior’s band played
with the Duke T^niyersity hand in
the Charlotte armory. Seven famed
handmaster.s each conducted por
tions of Greensboro’s program.