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volume XXV
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO,N. C., JUNE 3, 1949
Congratulations
Seniors
NUMBER 16
ANNUAL THEME IS CARRIED IN CLASS DAY
Superlatives of Ihe 1949 graduating class were presented this niorniug at the annual Class Day program.
Fred Price read a verse of poetrj’ as each couple was presented on the stage which was decorated as an old
fashion garden.
Pictured above they are: top row—Beverly Chalk and Earl Williams, best dressed; Bonnie Jean Crawford
and Joslin Chamberlain, cutest; Margie Ann Mitchell and Sid Wade, wittiest; second row—Emily Ann Dees
and Gordon Nelson, most talented; Theona Pearce, most beautiful girl, and Bobby Watson, most handsome boy;
Julia Ann Ogletree and Jim Finison, best athletes; third row—Jerry Fletcher and Charlie Thacker, best
sports; Addie Belle Clemmons and Tommy Ward, sweetest; Jackie Miles and Richard Clemmons, best personal
ity; fourth row—Anna Beeson and Mike Myers, friendliest; Julia Ann Doggett and Bobby Michael, most de
pendable; Watty McAlister and John Story, most original; fifth row—Yvonne Schweistris and Bob Carlson,
most popular; Jean Thacker and Oscar Paris, most dignified; Jackie Stafford and Bill Wright, most intellectual.
Dr. W. C Jackson To Give
Commencement Address
Commencement exercises will be
held at Greensboro Senior High
next Friday night at 8 o’clock.
The Processional, “Pomp and Cir
cumstance” by Phgar will be played
by the Orchestra under the direc
tion of J. Kimball TIarriman. Invo
cation will be given by the Reverend
Paul Townsend. Special music wil
be sung by the high school (juartet.
and the Commencement address will
be given by Chancellor W. C. Jack-
son of the ‘Woman’s College of the
T'niversity of North Carolina.
Superintendent B. L. Smith will
prf^ent the diplomas to 8.0O Seniors.
Preesntation of the awards and
honors will be done by Principal
A. P. Routh. Those awards to be
presented are the Troxler JInsi'-
Award, the Brietz-IIaj^elman Music
Award, the Miller Music Award.
Jamieson Football Trophy, Torch
light Scholarship. Jenkin.s Home
oonomics Award, Basketball award,
Petts Journalism Trophy.
Playmasters Trophy, Boone Base
ball Award, D.A.R. Award, two vo-
Dr. E. C. Few To Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
Baccalaureate sermon for the
seniors will he conducted Sun
day, June 5 at the West Market
Street Methodist Church by Dr.
Eueene C. Few. pastor.
The Senior High School Choir
will present the music under the
direction of Miss Eula Mae
Tuttle with Mrs. Lucas Abies
acting as organist.
Seniors are asked to meet at
the chii’Th at 7:15 p.m. If the
weather is clear, they are to line
up on Library Place, the street
^ide the church. However, if
it is raining, the line will be
formed in the basement of the
church.
eational awards, Hammond Tennis
Trophy, Godwin Basketball Trophy,
two bus drivers awards. Girls’ Alum
ni Trophy. Hendrix track Trophy,
McDaniel Lewis Trophy, Civitan
Essay Award, 0. Henry Study Club
Scholarship, P.T.A. Best All-Round
Award. O. Henry Study Club Award
find school gold star scholarship
awards will also be presented.
Reverend Paul Townsend will give
the benediction, and the Recessional,
"Pomp and Circumstance” will be
played as the Seniors file out of the
auditorium.
Announcement Made
Of Exam Schedule
Examination schedule for the
spring semester of 1949 has been
released by Mr. A. P. Routh’s office.
Spring exams are different from
those of the first semester in that
rhe seniors end rheir exams a day
earlier than the juniors and soph
omores.
Below is the schedule:
Momlay, —June 6—9 :00, first peri
od exams for seniors: 10:45, second
period exam for all students.
Tuesday, June 7—9:00, third peri
od exam for all students: 10:45,
fourth or fifth period exam for all
students.
Wednesday, June 8—9 :00, sixth
eriod exam for students: 10:45,
seventh period exam for all studenrs.
Thursday. June 9—9:00, first peri
od exam for sophomores and juniors
and “make-up exams” for seniors.
The first exam of each day will
last from 9:00 until 10:.S0, and the
duration of the second exam will
from 10:45 until 12:15.
On Friday, report cards will dis
tributed to all underclassmen.
Awards Presented at
Tuesday's Assembly
T>ast Tuesday in cliapel, Mr. A. P.
Routh presented awards to juniors
and sophomores: these awards, in
years past, were given on class day.
The Debating Cup was given joint
ly to Lining Burnet and Thomas
Ginis. For essays on Soil Conser
vation, four Senior students won
prize.s given by the Guilford Dairy
Cooperative. Receiving .$5, .$8, .$2.
and $1 resi>ectively were Jim Mark-
ly, Bill Ferguson. J(‘an Fogleman,
and Bob Carlson. Jim also won third
place in the county contest.
At the beginning of the program
Bob Carlson wms presented the Civi
tan Best Citizen Plaque by Mr.
Bryce Holt.
Seven High Life staff members
were presented with Quill and Scroll
pins. They were Julia Ann Doggett,
Alice Hardin. Treva Adams, Anne
Rudd, Tom Neal. Yvonne Schweis
tris, and Gordon Battle.
Burnet Is Elected
Chief Marshal
With Lining Burnet as their chief
and Mrs. E. W. Madlin as their
faculty adviser, marshalls from the
ten junior homerooms are scheduled
to participate in the 1949 radnating
exercises at Senior. Each junior
homeroom elected two marshalls
who will take part in Class Day.
the Band concert, Baccalaureatt
Sermon, and Graduation Night.
The marshalls are: Thatcher
Townsend and Suzanne Sparling
room 804: Sam Eherdr and Rebecca
Frazier, room 818: Don McCollum
and Pat McMahan, room 6: Bob
ITlghfill and Sally Gray Hicks, room
806: Bill Wrenn and Carole Wil
liams, room 802: Lining Burnet and
Peggy Coble, room lOO: Alex Panas
and Mickey Pickett, room 805:
James Robertson and Sue Pnrdom.
"oom 815: J. W. Boejack and Anne
Allred, room 811: Don Johnson
and Martha Lashley, room 2.
Annual Class Day Program
Is Presented This Morning
Class Day for 1949 was presented this morning in the G. H. S.
auditorium. The yearly review of activities at Senior had a theme
that is familiar to all, “This Is the Annual, Mr. Routh.”
Leading characters Anne Rudd, Beverly Baylor, Bob Carlson,
and Fred Price opened the humorous pageant in a scene showing
the planning of the annual. As they looked through material
for the annual, certain of the pictures came to life, making up
the scenes of the program.
The opening scene was a portrayal of the senior class. The
other scenes, and as they were given, were: the band; Torchlight
tapping; sports and a basketball game; Sue Ellen Baxter singing
‘ ‘ My Two Front Teeth ’'; Bob Carlson on nominating day; a home
room scene; the library; in the halls; in the office; eighth period
study; the Youth Center; May Day scone; the Washington trip.
Each of the scenes was portrayed by members of the senior class,
supposedly taken from trne experiences.
Immediately following the pageant, the Last Will and Testa
ment and the Class Prophecy were read. The last thing on the
program was the presentation of superlatives. Each superlative
was introduced in poetic verse.
Special Events To Honor
Graduating Class of M9
As always, several events have
been planned to honor the gradu
ating Seniors. This series of events
will begin today with the Class Day
program and the Senior luncheon.
Clemmons To Preside
Senior class president Richard
Clemmons will preside at the 11:30
A.M. luncheon at Starmount coun
try club. Invocation will be given
by Superintendent B. L. Smith,
while Emogene Apple and Wilhelma
Motley are toast mistresses. There
will be informal entertainment with
Miss Eula Tuttle in charge of the
music.
Special guests for the luncheon
are Dr. W. C. Jackson, Dr. Eugene
C. Few, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Routh, and Miss
Diana Darden. Other special guests
are the Senior class teachers Misses
Estelle Mitchell, Maude Carter,
Sarah Lesley, Dorothy McNairy,
Virginia Powell, Eula Tuttle, Mary
E. York, Mrs. Cordelia Walke, Mr.
Clifford Long, and Mrs. Mabel
Pleasants.
A free ticket to the Carolina
theatre will be given to each Sen
ior. It is hoped that Seniors will
use their tickets n the afternoon
when the theatre is not so rushed.
Concert To Be Given
Nert Sunday the Band, under the
direction of Herbert Hazelman, will
present a program in the auditorium
to honor the graduating class.
An overture, “Das Pensionat” by
Von Supee, followed by “Toccata
and Fugue in D Minor” by Bach
will be the first selections. Solos
will then be given by a senior, a jun
ior a sophomore, and a rising soph
omore.
Cornet player Bobby Ritch will
play a solo, “Romance in B Flat”
iiy Rubinstein. Nex't an oboe solo,
"Serenade Roccoco” will be played
Summer School Begins
June 13; Ends July 20
Senior High summer school will
begin Monday, June 13 and last
until 'Wedne.sday, July 20. A fee of
$15 per subject will be charged, but
■f a student wishes to take two sub
jects. he may do so for $25. Tuition
must he brought Monday, June 13,
tt nine o’clock, at which time sched
ules will be assigned.
Any subject will be offered if
•■here are as many as five students
wishing the subject. Any student
massing the work taken will receive
credit. However, no credit will be
given a person with more than
me nnexesned absence of more than
two unexeused tardies. Each jjeriod
wil last two and a half hours, and
no student may take more than two
subjects.
by Margaret Pritchett. A tuba solo
“Samsonian Polka,” played by
Buddy Barker, will be followed by
“Concertina” by Weber, played by
Betty Lou Cresdy of Central Junior
High.
Selected as the last two pieces are
“Slavonic Rhapsody” by Friedeman
and “Suite For Military Band” by
Holst.
Tea To Be Given
Next Wednesday the Faculty club,
headed by Miss Dorothy McNairy,
will give a tea at Greensboro college
from 5 to 6 o’clock in the Main Hall.
All of the Seniors are invited.
Leading the receiving line will be
Miss McNairy, followed by Principal
A. P. Routh. the Senior class offi
cers, Richard Clemmons, Harry
Bryant, and Margaret Osborne, Sen
ior faculty advisors, the new presi
dent of the school, Kemp Clendenin,
the rising senior class president,
Sheow Fu Seen, and the rising jun
ior class president, Jerry Bryan will
be in that group.
Miss Louise E. Weyl, new presi
dent of the Faculty club, Mrs. Nellie
Blackburn. Miss Sara Mims, and
Miss Ida Belle Moore will iK)ur
punch.
Special music is to be played by
J. Kimball Harriman’s orchestra.
Mrs. Blackburn and Mrs. Blanche
Smith are in chare of the flowers.
Bob Carlson Is
Award Winner
Bob Carlson, 1948-49 president
of the student body, was chosen
by his classmates winner of the
• Civitan Award. Each year mem
bers of the senior class elect
the year’s best citizen; this pro-
rara is sponsored by the Civitan
club.
At a luncheon honoring repre
sentatives from each senior and
junior high school in Guilford
County, the Civitan club present
ed the winners with certificates
of honor.