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February 24, 1956 High Life Page Three Jr. Civitan Club Formed By Group of GHS Boys Greensboro High School’s Jun ior Civitan Club, a service organi zation consisting of 30 boys, is the first junior club of its kind in the surrounding area. Its members, who are chosen fay merit of leadership and schol arship, meet every Wednesday night for dinner meetings at the Ma3^air Cafeteria. The club, which has for its purpose, service to the school, has for its advisers. Dr. K. I. Andreve, a Greensboro orthodontist, and William E. Tay lor, a member of GHS’s faculty. The club has taken on several projects such as selling fruit cakes for the senior club, maintaining the bulletin board in the main hali, selling tickets to athletic events, and is cnsidering publish ing a handMok for the school in the future. Charter members of the club are Reggie Bell, Dave Bescherer, Bob Herford, Robert Hlewett, Larry Hoyle, Bose Ravenel, and Jan Hensley, seniors; Rick Ader- hold, Lee Cory, Chip Durham, Stratton Eldridge, Fred Hitchcock. Paul McGwier, Peyton Neal, Karl Ray, Currie Singetary, Allen Thomas, and Ronnie Buchanan, juniors; Jimmy Eskridge, Edgar : Sockwell, Bob McNairy, Roy Michaux, Larry Wachter, Harry Smith, and Spencer Gaylori sophomores. These members were sent letters inviting them to join when the club was organized in November. Later in January, Ed mund Schenck and Dave Plyler, seniors; Butler Bennett, junior; t and Wallace Williams and Allen ' Andrew, sophomores, were voted into the club. Serving as officers are Bob Herford, president; Karl Ray, vice president; Stratton Eldridge, sec retary; Edgar Sockwell. treasurer; Currie Singletary, sergeant-at- arms; and Jan Hensley, chaplain. Townsend New Aide For School's Library; Replaces Mrs. Ayers If any of you have been won dering who the new ^J/orker in the library is, it’s the new as sistant librarian, Mrs. Stella Town send, filing in for Mrs. Kathryn Ayers who has resigned. This is not Mrs. Townsend’s first job in a high school; she was a librarian at Waynesville High. School for two years. For seven years she was assistant di rector of the Greensboro City School libraries; however, she re signed that job about a year and a half ago to be at home with her children. ^ Mrs. Townsend’s hometown is Boone, and she attended Appa lachian College where she ma jored in social studies and li brary science. “Miss Herring put. me right to work when I got here,” says Mrs. Townsend. “’There’s a lot to be done with term papers beginning. I have to check and pull cards and help students with their term papers.” Next year she plans to leave hbrary work for awhile and re turn to her housekeeping and her children. She has a little girl ! three years old and a little boy | 15 months old. Her husband works i for the GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS. Mrs. Townsend’s main job is as sisting Miss Herring. Besides that, she helps the students find ma terials and attends to the audio visual circulation. February 15, after a dutch sup- oer at the Mayfair Cafeteria, the Distributive Education classes took Dramatic Class Choose Contest One-Act Dramas To Be Enacted At W. C. Selections have been made by the dramatics classes of the one- act plays to be presented at the district dramatics contest at Wom an’s College and at Senior High on March 15. “When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet,” a comedy in one act writ ten by Charles George, will be ! a field triP to Greensboro Daily dramatized by the junior group ' News office in order to learn about of Playmasters. the publication of the morning paper. Joe Herndon, a member of the Distributive Education program, _ , j .L. ^ won the third highest honor in The sophomore dramatists wiU ^o^th Carolina for the Christmas 1 decoration of the window at the 1 Shell service station where he 1 works. This contest was on a busi ness level and not a school level. The juniors and the seniors taking D. E. for the first year are being taught by a student teacher, Miss Mary Anne Sherrill, from Woman’s College. She is studying to be a D.E. co-ordinator. Miss Sherrill is also helping the D. E. Club in its activities. Plans are being made for the 12 annual State Distributive Ed ucation Convention to be March 2 and 3. Officers for the state will be elected at that time. After a full day of activities at Angela Butt Winner Of B. Crocker Prize Angela Butt, a senior at GHS, was the recipient of a pin and an opportunity to enter the state competition when she took top place over 105 Senior High girls in the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of To morrow contest on December 6. The contest was sponsored by General Mills, and "its purpose was to find the homemakers of tomorrow. Upon being notified by Mr. Routh two weeks ago that she had won, the surpAsed Angela commented, “I’ve never even taken any home economics.” Any senior girl from any high school in the United States was permitted to take the test, which consisted of questions about, cook- ing, sewing, and home living in Miss Virginia Powell, Carolyn Whittington, and Martha William-I ^ome economics training was not necessary for qualifica tion. The awards for the state win ners are a $1500 scholarship to any college for any subject and also an education tour to be taken in April of Washington, D. C., Colonial Williamsburg, and Phil adelphia. The national award is $5000. WHIRLIGIG’S deadline has bee n met according to Miss Virginia Powell, publication adviser. The traditional volume, this year 16 pages longer than previous editions, will cost over $6,000 to print. The books should return from the Lassit^ Press in Charlotte dur ing the last week in May. Above are members of WHIRLIGIG staff giving the “dummy” a last check before sending it off to press. From left to right are Judy Schaffer, Ravenel, Jane McLennan, D. E. Classes Take Tour Of Daily Newspaper Plant Susan Glaspell is the writer of “Trifles,” the presentation to be made by the seniors. produce “Grandma Pulls the String” by Edith Barnard Delano and David Carb. These three one-act plays will first be dramatized on March 15, at 8 p. m. in the school auditorium. Then they will be given by the groups at the district dramatics contest at Aycock Auditorium. All other schools in this district will also give plays for the approval r,f the judges. The plays that receive a suf ficiently high rating will be given the “go-signal” for the state con test, which is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the University cf North Caiiolina. NORTH STATE NURSERY Landscape — Gardening ALL TYPES RUSTIC FENCES Greensboro, N. C. Phone 2-3442 the convention, a banquet is to be in the O. Henry Ballroom, March 2. On March 3 the offi cers and winners of contests will be announced and the new offi cers installed. The classes are also making plans for the annual Bosses Ban quet that is to be March 13 at the Masonic Temple. To be pres ent at the banquet will be mem bers of the D. O., D. E., and D. O. trade classes, and a representative of the companies for which the students work. Approximately 300 persons will attend. GLADYS SHOPPE "Sportswear" Banner Building EDMOND’S DRUG STORE Summit Shopping Center PHONE 4-1586 Complete Drug Service SANDWICHES SOFT DRINKS SENIOR HI GROWN SERVICE 1300 WESTOVER TERRACE PICKUP — and — DELIVERY H. F. 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