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Page Two PROCONIAN Thursday, May 31, 1945 PROCONIAN Barbara Cashion Editor-in-Chief Bill Carmichael Associate Editor Rebekah Huggins Business Manager Houston Teague Sports Editor E. C. Smith, Jr. Circulation Manager Harold Cheek Exchange Editor Frances Ellinger Feature Editor Sam Ross Publicity Editor Robert Brooks Staff Photographer Venitah Sanders Entertainment Chairman Miss Manci Advisor V aledictory In this final 1944-1945 issue of the Pro- conian it is quite natural to reminisce, to rec ollect, and to appraise the year’s activities, influences, and achievements. Memories of the session now ending will linger with you al ways. While a valedictory is not usually an evaluation, will you permit its inclusion in this written leave-taking after eight years of happy association with you? Some one has said you go to college for an education which your fellow-students will provide you. In high school, students uncon sciously educate each other in the “give and take” of daily association. Individual and group relationships among high school stu dents tremendously influence their educational progress. Action and reaction from these as sociations create a school’s atmosphere, de velop its esprit de corps, and produce its morale. During this session the process just de scribed has been a very intriguing study. Appreciation of and growth in practical ap plications of democracy have consistently characterized your formal and informal life together. One learns the American Way of Life not by lip service but rather by living experience. You have used chiefly the latter. Moreover, excellence in achievement has evi dently been the criterion of an increasing number of this year’s students. In judging the preceding generalizations, specific reference to aims and the extent of their realization should be helpful. Last Sep tember the school set up at least two major aims: 1. Acceptance of responsibility both for promoting one’s own program of education as well as for supporting that of the entire school as the community’s organized educa tional agency. 2. Achievement of “quality jobs” in all curricular and extra-curricular activities. As Gov. A1 Smith used to say, “Let’s look at the record.” Attendance Student, teacher, and parent cooperation has reduced absences almost fifty per cent. Scholarship A check of the fifth six weeks’ marks in the high school shower percetnages as fol lows: 20% A’s, 30% B’s, 29% C’s, 16% D’s, 5% F’s. However, too many students were not See VALEDICTORY, page J Here it is the last day of school (for us Seniors) and when we think ’bout this being the last Keyhole we will grace (all under classmen can now get out Kleenex). This column is not intended to spread dirt but rather to put down recollections and incidents of 1945. HOW CAN WE EVER FORGET? — Se nior Day . . . Miss Thomas . . . basketball sea son . . . Mr. Honeycutt’s kindness . . . Igs’ amazing retorts . . . Senior Play . . . Bill and Fergie . . . Proconival . . . Sharkey’s fascinat ing ways (Men’s Temptation) . . . Bud’s “What de are you doing here?” . . . Corny . . . Hillife . . . Hayrides (Holy cow!) . . . Fran’s Ouija Board and Rodney . . . San ford . . . Evelyn and Cotton . . . Teague (the same by any other name) . . . Johnny Boy and Freda Lee . . . Dot’s smile and Dot’s suit ors . . . Becca-Period. Which faculty member is always saying?— To the 4th degree! ... I don’t see why they put this in the book . . . Do you have a slip? . . . Telephone, Mr. Honeycutt, you know we can’t excuse that . . . Where’s the rest of the class? . . . Let’s pay attention to the roll call. Seen at the Jr.-Sr.: Ward, in a white suit, looking ever so happy with Helen . . . “This is table number 12 . . . Johnny exclusively Becca’s . . . Pee Wee’s trainees . . . Roast Beef! . . . roses, gardenias, and an orchid . . . Doreen and Jack gliding ’cross the tiles . . . Nita in whirl of white . . . “Night and Day” . . . everybody smiling . . . Huey and Ardie, a cute couple . . . “And it was going to be a full moon!” . . . And through it all the real ization that this was our last time, together. Last Thoughts: Some of CHHS plan to be here this summer. See ya around, we hope.— Wonder what the new principal will be like? We could never have another Mr. and Mrs. Honeycutt.—Hope you kids get the new build ing we’ve waited for so long. How we wish we could have had one. Never let the ole CHHS spirit down. No matter how great your building or your faculty are, you can’t have a good school without ye ole spirit—that in- SILO —“Full of Corn” FINIS After four long years we reached the end of the trail. Next week we go out into the big and cruel world. And so for the last time we sit down to our typewriter to turn out an other column—our last one. Through the past three years we turned out our weekly stint. Eighty-four columns and over a hundred thousand words. New jokes and old jokes, some funny, some clean. The better ones never reached the print, but instead, the censor’s wastepaper basket. And so we leave the fair surroundings of dear old Cone and advance to what we hope to be better and greater heights. (We are thinking of taking up mountain climhing.) We worked hard with all our editors (Cash- ion, Lloyd, Dashiell) and do you blame us? They’re all alike. When they don’t need you, you’re just trash under their feet. But when there’s work to be done on Monday morning —oh, brother, do you have fun. We’ll miss the old job. No more writing jokes about Danziger, Cummins, Huggins and the rest. Just going around leading a peace ful life for a change. We’ll miss the weekly damnings from the Faculty and the Juniors and it won’t be any fun going around not wondering who’ll be the next to knife you in the back. It’s really hard to break away from the old routine and we’re probably starting writing columns in our sleep next fall just from force of habit. Next fall someone else will take over the old job. To them we can only offer our sym pathies and tidings of good luck. To them we leave the following: one rusty and bat tered typewriter, one ream of cheap paper, seven Varga girls, some old chewing gum (to be found on the bottom of our desk, part use of the desk in the back of the English class, the right to put feet on said desk, and many other privileges too numerous or too sugges tive to mention. And now, goodbye. To our friends and to our enemies we bid our grateful thanks for whatever happiness or sorrow you may have brought into our school life. Well, Joe, let’s put the show on the well- known road, whatsa? ANDREWS-HENNINGER Shopping Center for All the Family tangible something that makes our teams click. Well, so long everybody. It’s been swell. Best to you, CHHS. CAROLINA THEATRE SUNDAY and MONDAY “THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN” STARRING JOAN GEORGE FONTAINE BRENT
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