January 13, 1956
High Life
Page Three
Goose Chase Sends Smith AHenlionAIIShiileiib Greensboro High To Have
To New Orleans Bayous BuHe"" Boar* R^bot To Dish Out Food?
“Come wiz me to ze—^no, not to
ze Cazbah, but to gay New Orleans,
where the roaming English teach
ers play,” voices Miss Louise
Smith, Senior teacher who spent
part of her Christmas vacation
touring the historic old city of
the South.
Miss Smith and a party com
posed of friends and former stu
dents began their jaunt the day
after Christmas. Their mode of
transportation was not via broom,
as some misinformed few seem
to associate with members of the
teaching profession, but was by
a good old American invention,
the motor car.
Naturally, a trip to New Or
leans would have seemed incom
plete had the group not been able
to make stops at places of inter
est on the way to their destina
tion. Atlanta, Georgia, just such
a stop, proved one of the high
spots of the entire vacation. It
was there that Miss Smith be
came intrigued with a foreign im
port store. She poked around
through the miscellaneous import
ed items, but Miss Smith’s in
terest was centered mainly on the
food department (wouldn’t
yours?), and she found herself
wanting to sample the rare deli
cacies, such as biiffalo meat,
snails (doesn’t that make your
mouth water?), rattlesnake steak,
and other gourmet specialties too
gruesome to enumerate. Her ap
petite was qiiickly whetted when
she took a gander at the prices,
however; and “lack of funds
brought a compromise with French
soup.” Refusing to show favori
tism to any one coimtry’s culi
nary efforts, she also partook of
and enjoyed the rich victuals of
Italy.
Lodgings for part of the trip
en route to N. O. were obtained
by “bumming” from various
friends along the way. Pour nights
were spent using this economic
scheme, two in Atlanta and two
in Hattisburg, Georgia.
Once arrived in New Orleans,
the party spent most of their time
in the Old Quarter, succumbing
to the enchantments of the French
City’s romantic atmosphere. In
addition to personal contact with
the city as it is now, visits to the
State Museum enlightened the
tourists on the history of New
Orleans and gave them an op
portunity to see examples of paint
ing and statuary found there.
As was the case in Atlanta, a
good portion of their time in N. O.
was taken up with going to the
many famous 'Vestaurants. Miss
Smith, of course, had “dinner at
Antoine’s,” and paid a visit to
Arnau’s. The Steak Pit held spec
ial fascination for her because
young cows were Impressively
driven out and put over a char
coal blaze to cook—^very few steak
houses provide this particular
service for their patrons. The re-
noun Court of Two Sisters was
the scene for drinking upon one
occasion, and the House of the
Pour Seasons served the same pur
pose at another time. One minor
detail—^the beverage drunk was
tea.
A wild goosechase — and who
doesn’t go chasing after wild
geese?—^led Miss Smith to the
Bayou, where she was hoping to
s^ the Evangeline Oak. Alas and
alack, she saw no ’Vangie Oak,
but her chase was made worth
while with seeing the sim rise
over the Bayou. (Goodby, Jo, me
gotta go to the Bayou.)
A memorable part of the trip
was the viewing of the slave plat
form, where there were visible
signs of the frequentness of their
use during the period of davery
in the South. “It was terrible to
see the worn places that pictured
the procession of human beings
sold into bondage and to know
that the South played such a
large part in this practice.”
With visits to all the major
sights and talks with the native
artists behind them, the trip to
New Orleans remains now only
as a memory for Miss Smith' and
her colleagues, but the memory is
one that will not grow dim quickly.
For the month of January the
beginning Distributive Education |
classes are sponsoring a different i
bulletin board each day in the en- j
trance hall of the Main Building.
“What a good high school citi
zen should resolve to do” is the
topic of all the daily bulletin
boards. Each one begins “good
citizens should resolve ...”
The boards will be changed
either the first or second i>eriod
of the day by the committee
that is working on this, class pro
ject. The group is composed of
Betty Simmons, Sherlon Hepler,
and Sherwood Wilkins, seniors;
and Ellen Cole, Louise Gurkin, and
Jan Gwyn, juniors.
These classes are working with
the Student Council which is
working on a plan to have a
bulletin board contest for the
home rooms. They are doing this
with the hope that if the students
see the facte before their eyes in
stead of only hearing them, it will
make a deeper impression on them.
This may cause them to put more
of the advertised technique into
practice. Mrs. Margaret Hadden,
D.E. co-ordinator, is hoping that
every student will pay attention to
these bulletin boards and will
watch for the daily changes.
Greensboro
Drug Company
FRED B. MAUS
DEWEY FARRELL
230 W. MARKET
DIAL 6147
Siler To Replace Frazier
At the End of Semester
Mrs. Mary Siler will be the re
placement for Mrs. Rebecca Ruck
er, the former Miss Rebecca Fraz
ier, when she gives up her job of
teaching at the end of this semes
ter.
Mrs. Rucker is now teaching
biology for her third year here
at GHS. She is leaving her job to
take on the responsibility of be
ing a housewife. She will be living
at 211 Cornwallis Drive.
Mrs. Siler is from Staley, North
Carolina. She is not a new-comer
since she has taught at Senior
before.
Since the week preceding
Christmas vacation, stud«its have
been wondering about the work
going on in the cafeteria. Every
one was asking everyone else,
“Why is the wall being tom out?
What are they going to build?”
Some of the other questions asked
by curious students were, “Are
they installing a robot to hand
out the food?”, “Could it be that
they’re putting up a special stand
to sell candy and chewing gum?”
Many more questions to this effect
were asked around school, but no
one seemed to know just what was
happening. Now, however, the
solution to the mystery comes to
light, and, rather than keep the
school in suspense any longer,
here is the answer to the $64,000
question.
A new Toledo dishwasher has
been installed in the Senior High
cafeteria. According to Mrs. Al
bright. the Senior High dietician,
the new dishwasher will wash
everything from plates to silver
ware; and it will do the job more
thoroughly than the old dish
washer. It is equipped with one
washer and one rinser, as the old
one was, but it is modem, up-to-
date, and is the very latest thing
in dishwashers.
Also, the newest addition to the
kitchen will wash glasses, some
thing the old dishwasher coiild
not do. Of course, the new dish
washer, will not only wash the
dishes, but sterilize them as well,
a requirement for all dishwashers.
It is quite a bit larger than the
less modern one and can there
fore contain many more dishes.
The new dishwasher was tried
out for the first time January 5
and was reported to be extremely
successful.
OF DIMES
Open Every Night Until 9
SUMMIT SHOPPING
CENTER
Greensboro, N. C.
Marian Lewis
BAKE SHOP
1734 Battleground Avenue
“In the Plaza Shopping
Center”
STOP BY FOR A
QUICK DESSERT
DIAL M014
For Any Special
Requirement
OPEN SUNDAYS
EDMOND’S DRUG STORE
Summit Shopping Center
PHONE 4-1586
Complete Drug Sendee
FOR ART and DRAFTING SUPPLIES
See
Southern Photo Print and Supply Co.
“Everything for the Engineer, Architect, Artist”
RICHARD’S Jewelers
104 S. ELM ST.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
VARIETY THAT’S DIFFERENT
-AT
PECK'S BAKERY
210 South Greene
Phone 2-5400
BURTNER
Furniture Company
312 S. Elm St. Established 1909 900 E. Green St
Greensboro, N. C.
Phone 8417
High Point N. C.
Phone 9861
Kittyhawk
Corp.
1101 Wlllowfarook Drive
Telephone 3-4222
Makers of the
Finest in men's
Cashmere and
Angora hose
50 milUm times a day
at home, at work or on the way
There’s
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ever-fresb and sparkling.
2. A welcome bit
of quick energy...
brings you
back refreshed.
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