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SMITHFIELD HIGH TIMES
NEW TEACHERS
This month the High Times concludes
interviews of new teachers with the
two other teachers that we’re proud
to have on our faculty this year: Mr.
Creech and Coach Temple.
Mr. Creech, who teaches Algebra I
and General Math, is from Kenly and
is a graduate of Atlantic Christian
College where he majored in Mathematics.
Without any hesitancy, Mr. Creech^
names fried chicken as his favorite
food. Blue is his favorite color and
he likes modern music. Fall is the
season that means the most to him and
watching television is his favorite
pastime.
Although Coach Temple is from Selma
we can let by-gones be by-gones and
truthfully say that we’re glad to have
him as our assistant coach I Coach
Temple is a graduate of the University
of North Carolina where he carried a
double major of English and Physical
Education. Now he is teaching an
eighth grade class in our Elementary
School in addition to being assistant
high school coach. He enjoys popular
records, and steak ranks foremost as
his favorite food. Black, blue, brown
and red are the colors he likes and
his favorite seasons are spring and
fall. Coach Temple’s favorite pastime?
If^hy athletics, of course I
Next year if we have any new
teachers, you’ll hear about them. Until
then, that's all.
Diana Bess Montgomery
OBSERVATIONS ON A SCHOOL BUS
People in general have different
personalities. On the school bus is
a conglomeration of many different
personalities that sometimes create
problems, Here you will find boys and
girls fighting, shouting, jumping,
throwing spitballs and goodness knows
what else.' Little Johnny beats on
someone’s head with a book. Little
Suzie watches him with admiration in
her eyes as if to say, "My hero."
Little David, too small to be noticed,
sits timidly close to the side of the
bus. Jack, bigger than the other
boys, is bulljring everyone and trying
to uproot some seats. A boy and a
girl, entraced in their first thrill
of puppy love, sit holding hands in the
back seat, away from all the prying
eyes. The clown of the bus giggles
and laughs as he pulls Mary’s pony tail.
Larry sits behind the driver trying
to brown-nose by tattling on everyone
who is doing something he had thought of
but didn’t have the nerve to do. Others
just sit by the windows lost in thought
as they watch the telephone poles. A
girl, older than the rest, gripes about
the shaking and bumping of the bus.
Yes, all personalities are differert,
and the best place to observe these
contrasts is on a school bus.
Sherwood Creech
ROVING REPORTER
This is yom* Roving Reporter sign
ing on. This month I went around and
made a survejr and study of high school
students increasing vocabulary. I ask
ed a couple of students, what they
thought "sinistromanual" meant. Here
are some of the answers I received:
Elsie Pope-"It means you’re a lot durn
smarter than I am I"
Margaret Lee Austin-"Bad Manual"
Mary Ann Britt-"Book of Sins"
Judy Coates-"Heck if I know*.’
Betsy Joiinson-"Does it have anything
to do with old maids?"
Darby-"Senior’s Romance"
Avis-"Someone who is for manual labor."
Sinistromanual actually means left-
handed. So out of the seven students
I asked—all seven were wrong.
Some women take up law as a profession;
others lay it down.
John C, Vivian
Vfhat the younger generation is coming to,
most frequently, is to eat.
•Norman Collie