Is May 31 Commencement Speaker
I>R. BOWEN
William Clyde Friday, president
of the Consolidated University of
North Carolina, has accepted the
invitation of the Class of 1957 to
be graduation speaker at com
mencement ceremonies May 31,
while Dr. Claude Bowen, pastor of
the First Baptist Church here in
Greensboro, will deliver the bac
calaureate sermon the preceding
Sunday.
President Friday, a native of
Virginia, has been associated with
■the University since the end of
the war. He has served as assistant
dean of students, as general ad
ministrator, and in April 1951 he
was appointed assistant to Presi
dent Gordon Gray.
Since March 1956 he has filled
the post of “acting president” of
the University and was officially
named president of its three
branches, Woman’s College, State,
and Chapel Hill, in October of
the same year.
May 8 of this year he will be
inaugimated. His coming to GHS
will then be his first public ap
pearance after the event.
President Friday has attended
several North Carolina schools in-
cludii^ Wake Forest, State Col
lege, and the University at Chapel
Hill. Between his educational
stretches at Wake Forest and State
where he received his B.S. degree
from the textile school. President
Friday also served four years in
the navy.
Dr. Bowen, a Mississippian who
has lived in Greensboro for the
past 10 years, has accepted the
invitation to address the gradua
ting class baccalaureate Sunday.
Dr. Bowen has attained degrees
from Southwestern College in
Memphis, Tennessee, where he re
ceived his B.A. and has also ac
quired a M.A. and Ph.D from the
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary in Louisville, Kentucxj.
During his career with the Bap
tist Church, he has served with
the Baptist Foreign Mission Board
in Richmond, Virginia, as educa
tional secretary, and as pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Ope
lika, Alabama, and Calvary Hos
pital in Winston-Salem and Cone
Memorial Hospital in this city.
He is also trustee of the South
Eastern Baptist Theology Semi
nary at Wake Forest College and
is chaplain of the local Fire De
partment.
PRESIDENT FRIDAY
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the Sou^ and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLDME XXXm
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 6BEE NSBORO, N. C., MARCH 8, 1951
Science Fair Postponed;
New Dates March 28-29
Because of a meeting of the will be directed April 6 at Wake
North Carolina Education Associa
tion which several Senior High
teachers will be attending the
third anual Science Pair has been
postponed from March 21-22 to
March 28-29.
The fair will be conducted as
planned in the balcony of the
gymnasium. Thursday will be the
day for setting up the projects;
Friday the general public will be
invited; and Saturday students
will retrieve their projects.
Senior High will select six win
ners—^three each from the bio
logical and physical divisions.
These six projects will be entered
in the North' Piedmont Pair, which
Merriman Names Pupils
To Help With May Day
Camille Merriman, chairman of
the 1957 May Day committee, has
recently annoimced the names of
students who are to serve with her
for th'is project.
Nancy Lambeth and Buck Hoyle,
seniors, and Marsha Bumpass and
Lois Lynch, juniors, will be
charge of decorations, while Peggy
Sink and Roy Michaux, juniors,
and Libby Garvin, senior, will
supervise the printing of pro
grams.
Other Improvements
Jey Deifell, jimior, andBobby
Teague and Davis Bowen, seniors,
are trying to secure more bleach
ers and a better sound system for
this year’s May Day, which is to
be presented on the front lawn.
Proi» and special equipment
are being gathered by Jean Og-
bum and Bobby Baynes, seniors,
and Pete Banner, sophomore. Jane
Lynch, and l^mn McGregor, will
provide flowers for the girls in the
May Court.
Forty girls will be needed for
parts in the milkmaid dance and
Irish jig. Other dances will in
clude the dance of the maypole,
given by the girls’ pliysical edu
cation classes, and the minuet, to
be presented by the May Court.
Mrs. Eleanor Lambert, girls’ gym
teacher and Diana Evans and
Phyllis Steed, seniors, will super
vise the dances.
May Day Music
Music for the May Day will be
supplied by Joseph R. Still’s sixth
period band.
Pour jesters will be used this
year, and the positions will be
given to two boys and two girls.
Additional parts are open to boys
and girls interested in obtaining I
them. I
Forest College in Winston-Salem
Prom the district fair, five pro
jects will be sent to the state fair.
An entry fee of $20 is required
for a project to be entered
the state fair. This entry fee will
pay the two winners’ way to
California for the national science
fair.
This year ev^ participant
in the GHS fair will receive
merit recognition. Cash prizes or
merchandise prizes are being
gathered for first place winners,
and plans are being made to give
similar prizes to second and third
place winners. Local merchants
are contributing toward a fund
for these prizes.
Judges for the fair will be well
qualified in their chosen fields.
For the physical division there
will be one college physics teach
er, one high school chemistry
teacher, and one Guilford College
chemistry teacher. Except for their
training, the judges for the bio
logical division will follow the
same line.
Because of the change in the
dates of the Science Pair, WUNC-
TV will not televise it as planned.
So far there have been 837 en
try blanks turned in. This is the
largest number for any fair yet.
NUMBER 11
Sink, Facuify Members
Delegates To Convention
Peggy Sink, as state secretary
of the Future Teachers of Ameri
ca, and eight faculty members will
attend the North Carolina Educa
tion Association convention in
Wilmington March 21, 22, and 23
as delegates representing Senior
High.
Besides Miss. Ida Belle Moore,
algebra teacher, and Mrs. Kathryn
B. McEntire, Diversified Occnipa-
tions Office Practice co-ordinator,
who will participate in the pro
gram, the eight official represent
atives are Miss Mary Ellen Black
mon, history instructor, Robert
Fredrickson, history and orchestra
instructor; Miss Estelle Mitchell,
French teacher; Miss Virginia
Powell, WHIRLIGIG instructor;
A. P. Routh, principal; and Miss
Louise Smith, English and Shake
speare teacher.
Music Students Visit GHS
At Annual District Contest
Greensboro Senior High School
is again host to the annual Dis-
trick Music Contest which began
today and will continue through
tomorrow, March 9, according to
J. R. Still, band instructor.
Herbert Hazelman, GHS head
conductor, is district chairman
over the groups wh'o are now in
Greensboro participating in the
two-day event. Choral groui>s are
taking part today, while bands
and orchesti;as are scheduled to
play tomorrow.
Groups participating are grad
ed on a one, two, three, four, five
basis—one indicating that the
band is superior and five showing
that there is a need for improve
ment.
Judges for the instrumental con
test are Robert Barnes of North
Carolina State College; Prank
West, Davidson College; and Har
old Smith, Western Carolina Col
lege. Choral judges are Miss Peggy
Barkesdale, Wilmington High
School; Charles Taylor, High
Point High; and Leroy Rowley,
Gray High, Winston-Salem. Loren
Withers will hear piano players.
Mr. Still stated that this con
test, which has as its purpose im
proving musical groups, has a rep
resentation from Burlington,
Reidsville, Spray, Leakesville,
Asheboro, Randleman, Pleasant
Garden, Tri-City, and Durham.
William David Miller, Robert
Teague, Annette Bailey, Louise
Thomas, and June Rubin, all mem
bers of the GHS band, are acting
as pages for the event.
Sophomore Talent Show Assembly
Has Just Tripping Around’ Theme
“Just Tripping Around” was the
theme of the March 5 talent show
assembly conducted by the Sopho
more Class and advised by Miss
Notie Vay White, and Mrs. Mary
Siler, biology teachers.
Susan Caviness, Sophomore
Sue Ellen Barker, Mary Wallace Clement, and Joyce Mitchell are
**JuBt a Tendin’, fnasin*, and fight in’.”
Class president, together with vice-
president Penn Waldron, who em
ceed the program, and Jane
Spence and Pat Hutchins, sopho
more secretary and treasurer re
spectively, were in charge of the
program, which had as its setting
a railroad station.
Variety of Acts
Allen Barger pantomimed
“Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a
Dixie Melody,” and Robert Ham
lin played a clarinet solo, “Noc
turne in E-flat Major.”
Others in the program included
Sandra Coe, accompanied by Kay
Easterling, singing “Birth of the
Blues,” and Hal Greeson also giv
ing a vocal solo.
Carol Overstreet and Hal Gree
son sang a duet of “Got Along
Without You Before I Met You,”
and Becky Chambers sang “Peo
ple Will Say We’re In Love.” An
instrumental trio composed of
Jerry Robertson, Wally Midkiff,
and Norman Carroll also partici
pated in the program.
Other Talent
Magician Buddy Smith and a
sextet of Brenda Bl^.ke, Jeanne
Davant, Toni Thompson, Barbara
DeVelbis, Emma Jon Potter, and
Rose Tumage also ent^taned.
Presenting piano solos were
Maureen Ferrell and Emma Jon
Potter. Also in the show were The
Mad Lads, a band.
In charge of the stage commit
tee was Mackie Stout, and serving
with him were Bill Sullivan and
Margie Stone. Jane Spence headed
the publicity committee composed
Theme
of Pat Hutchins, Penn Waldron,
and Susan Caviness. In charge of
art was Sheila Sapero, and work
ing with here were Brenda Britt
and Virginia Hawley. Bob Poster
was in charge of sound effects.
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Seniors Purchase Cards,
Invifafions For Graduation
Members of the Senior Class
have placed their orders for
graduation invitations and cards
from Stanley Johnson, manager of
the school store.
Senior home room representa
tives were given samples of the
invitations and cards to show each
senior so that he could choose
the type preferred. The cards
are either engraved or printed.
A student who bus the engraved
cards gets the plate so he can
have more cards made at a later
date. It has been found that more
seniors prefer and order the
printed cards.
The graduation Invitations are
eight cents each and orders rang
ed from just a few to a hundred.
The invitations are expected to
arrive around May 11,
Anyone can buy the cards but
just seniors can buy the invi
tations. Mr. Johnson states, “The
sale got off to a slow start, and
the students will probably be lin
ed up to the gym, gnashing .their
teeth, waiting to get their In
vitations on the last day.’’