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To he in the weakest
camp is to he in thAB
strongest school.
The Voice of Lincoln From ihe Printed Tuge
The foundation of every
state is the education
of its youth.
VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER I
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TLTESDAY, NOV. 21, 1961
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Betty Baldwin Crowne
Lincoln Hi 1961
Our Homecoming Extravaganza
On September 29 of this year
the stage was set for the largest
and most extravaganta Home
coming in the history of Lincoln
High School. There was a
beautiful array _ of .^'loats and
decorated cars. These floats and
cars were entered by school or-
gani^tions, class clubs, and pri
vate organizations and busines
ses in the community.
Our lovely homecoming
queen, Miss Betty Baldwin,
reigned over the festivities
was attsmled by Misses Came
Webb, Mary Barbee anb Mai'y
Frances Eubanks.
Miss Judy Baldwin, younger
sister to Betty, reigned as Miss
Junior High. Serving as atten
dants to Miss Junior High were
Miss Andrea Smith and Miss
Lillian Farrington.
To wid the long awaited
event, the “Mightj^ Tigers”
trounced Hamlet before a record
homecoming crowd, by a w-we
of 36-0.
BETTY BALDWIN
Careful planning and un
selfish collaboration brought
about the most sncrpssful and
complimentary Homecoming in
the history of this school.
Thomas N. Bynum
One might say
sen some
)ing on m
chool facility,
Joined
h, as morally and that they will
Student Council
Inctallation Held
^^iaay, Nov. 3
aiy tsiUwarus
The Othello Qub
presents ‘The
Contrite Snirit”
j.. v>rtX4 ctuvraaua . ''j 1 flC \7CtICn-.
Officers of the Student Coun-jzation of the cl-i;. -^dramatic
were formally installed foi is now pia-i^i-ring to pxodu^
eachers have
fferent ones yif heart;
o^’^cofeh and Physi-1==.^
eerman, ou. Mrs.
of our_K»e"
Tench tea^
Mr. E. Montgomery quoted
Mrs L. M. Child in saying:
Grs^tude is the memory of the
therefore forget not to
enjoyed”. Unquote.
Mr. William D. Peerman: “I
enjoy working in a situftior
where the students and faculty
work hand in hand for a com
mon cat.ise”.
Mr. H. 3ur-
--‘'VHP®* Battle, 1
^*’!?to note,"^are graduates of
mcoln High "-School. Inciden-
dly al] of these are college
taduutes o£ North Carohna
oUegc hi Durham, North Caro-
na. ^
The others are Mr. S. D. Car^
jss, graduate of Tuskeeg^^
titute. Mr. E.
Taduate of W^^^'-on-Salem
'eacher’s^-^«^^
School and the
jpecial Education teacher; Mrs.
Daniels, graduate of Howard
Jniversity in Washington, D. C.,
»rt teache.r. It is very in-
;eresting to note that she is the
Eirst Negro in the S juth to teach
art tiirough workshops on the
intergrated basis.
After being intervie^'^
teachers made followmg
^ ^rs. G. Battle;
happy to be a part of the
Lincoln High School commu
nity. I am confident that the stu
dents here at Lincoln have set
News In Brief
The fiiat social of the school
year was held intiie gymtorto
leptember 21st X.illy attended
by the facuiti.^ sid studenvs.
Th> “Tigers” jee well on their
v^-dy for anoths- championship.
All scheduled fimes have been
played and woi.
There were everai new floats
in the Homecoming parade this
year..
son, North Carolina, which
proved so far to be our strongest
opponent.
On Friday, October 20th,
Mother’s was sponsored by
the Homecoming Committee^
Each mother wore the identical
number of her son’s football
jersey.
the year i361-1962, on Friday,
Novem’'•r 3, 1961 in the Lincoln
High School Auditorium a
‘formal assembly”, the insiJla-
tion service was conducted '..ith
dignity and complete serious
ness before the entire Student
Body and faculty.
The purpose of this assembly
was two-fold—^to allow the stu
dents and faculty an opportu
nity to see the Studcut Council
officers as a g.-'iup and to offi
cially install the officers for the
year.
The officers of the Student
Council are as follows; Presi
The Band Boosters Club re-
ceaHy gave k social in the gym-
tori^im. iOT he band.
The Halloween Carnival wis
a hilarious event at Lincola.
Prizes were given to the persons
with the funniest costume.
vOLlOLli ctiw ttD iv/**w* •
dent, Donald Mason; Vice Presi- _
the one act play, “Tiie Contrite
Spirit” Vvv Albert Howse in the
Christmas schHuled
for December 17, 1961.
The cast consists of the fol
lowing John Fikes, as the pros
perous Aaron; Carrie Webb#
Rachel, his strong minded wife;
Earl Geer, their son in love with
Zillah; Zillah, is Christine
Harris; the daughter of a
wealthy inn keeper, and Anna,
the enfeebled wife of the inn
keeper, Caro! J‘an Farrington.
The dramatics clas® was or
ganized Septoiu., 20. 1961, un
der the supervis:-” ' Mrs. M.
dent. Cubic Bragg; Third-Vice
President, Mason; Sec
retary, Mar Jr Cole, .iissistant
Secretary, Jean Suitt; Treasurer,
Robert Edwards; Sergeani-at-
arms. Roland Rogers; Parlia-
The 1961-62 officers elected
are Earl Geer, President; Laura
Burnett, Vice President; Carol
Farrington, Secretary; and
Charlie Pearl Cotton, Assistant
Secreterv.
We, the Senior Class," would
Tik.o to weleome the 95 seventh
grade students to Lincoln High,
and hope that their stay at Lin
coln will be as joyful as ours.
Lincoln played its arch rival
Henderson Institute of Hender-
‘Ihe Lincoln High School PTA
elected Mi. Stone, presi
dent *''T the year 1961-62.
Johnny Perry
mentarian, Greorge Jones;
porter, Carl Edwards.
Re-
P. T. S. k
THE LINCOLN HIOH SCHOOL
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
By COLLINS JONES
♦
NOV. 23-24 Thanksgiving Holidays
NOV. 30 End of Third M^th
DEC. 1 Basketball (Little River at
2 Basketball (Chapel Hill at Little River)
5 P. T. S. A. Meeting
8 Basketball (Hillsboro at Chap^ HiU)
15 BasketbrJl (Merr.ick-Moore at ChEUsI Hill)
20 Basketball (Chapel Hill at SraitMield)
20 School close for Christmae Holidays
Lincoln High Band
Elects New Officers
For The Year
The 1961-62 edition of the
Lincoln High Schoo^l^ Marching
Band started the year^ off with
a high-stepping start. It’s firri
appearance was our Homecom
ing activities. The band partici
pated also in Horton Highs,
Henderson’s and Shaw Univer
sity’s Homecomings.
It is looking forward to par
ticipating in North Carolina Col
lege’s Homecoming Parade,
the Beat Duke and Chapel HUl
(continued on page 2)
(Parents, Teachers, Stud.«its,
Association)
The PTSA of Lincoln High
held its first executive meeting
of the year at the Community
Center, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
The program for the year was
coordinated with ways and
means and the budget among the
(several topics outlined.
At the first regular meeting of
Choral Club News
Participating in the gala
Homecoming events was ex
citing experience for Veia Cor
dal, Ruth Fairrlnglon, WUllam.
Smith and Eugene Lyons who
rode the Choral Club’s beautiful,
green and white float in the pa
rade.
A most gracious letter of
thanks has been received by
Mrs. Harry, our director, from
Rev. Manley followdng our First
Baptist Church service honoring
Mr. William McCauley -Tr., our
beloved teacher of last year.
this year officers were installed, j During
Officers for the year sre:|progra.n on ~ber 8
President, Mr. Clifton Stone;
Vice President, Mr. Clark
Egerton; Secretary, Mr R. L.
Fa-rrington; Treasurer, Mrs.
Cecelia H. Barnes.
Chairmen of Committees ar**-
.(contmued on page 4)
girls’ chrous sang a beautiful
arrangement of “Ave Verum
by Mozar! ?jd was warmly ac-
know!r-c.ged by the audience.
V/ith .®uch a promisirg begin-
.ning v/e are looking tow«r«i a
1 very fruitful year.