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The Pro*s and Con^s of CHHS Life
Vol. XXXIV, No. 6
Chapel Hill Hig-h School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Friday, December 8, 1961
Curriculum Study Begun
By Citizens’ Committee
Juniors Present Musical Tonight
When recent graduates of
CHHS are polled by way of let
ter soon, they will be asked to
comment on which phases of
their high school studies they
liked and on which ones they
thought cculd be improved.
The survey, conducted by
Chapel Hill’s Citizens’ Commit
tee, which serves in an advisory
capacity to the town school
board, is part of a preliminary
study of the high school’s cur
riculum.
Ralph Howard is chairman of
the sub-committee which is
handling the study, and Mrs.
Clifton Kreps serves as vice-
chairman.
The first report of the com
mittee’s findings is due to be
submitted in May, at which time
plans for a more extensive study
will be made.
According to Dr. Herbert
Reichert, chairman of the Citi
zens’ Committee, the preliminary
study is being made mainly to
determine just what areas the
later survey will involve. Phases
which may be studied by the
committee include extra-curri
cular activities and a study of
the uses of television in the class
rooms.
The study, similar to the one
made in the junior high school
several years ago, will involve
both CHHS and Lincoln High
School. -HH
Vietnamese Girl Adopted
In place of the penny-a-day
drive for a needy family which
CHHS conducted between
Thanksgiving and Christmas last
year, the student body has decid
ed to adopt a foreign child as its
Christmas project this year.
The Student Council sponsor
ed program calls for students to
raise a total of $180 for the sup
port of a Vietnamese girl. The
SCA picked both the sex and na
tionally of the orphan, who
was adopted through the Foster
Parents’ Plan,
Give Daily
__ Students are asked to give
three cents a day, or 54 cents in
all, which will go to buy food,
clothes, school supplies, and pro
vide some spending money for
the child
A student, or group of stu
dents, will be appointed to handle
the correspondence with the girl.
Carlie Looney is in charge of col
lecting the money.
“The adoption is only for one
Passing Views
French students interrup
ting class for 20 minutes to listen
to a chimp being sent up in a
rocket .... Bob Maddry fright
ening girls with a raccoon tail . . .
Mayte Cantarino wearing shoes
that squeak when she walks ....
Ralph Pendergraph wondering
where his orphan is after paying
54 cents for her .... Claudia
Mize stepping over imaginary
hurdles in the hall. , . Mr«. Horn
explaining to her algebra class,
“The closest you can come to the
concept of infinity is to look at
(he leaves in my front yard.”
year,” explained SCA president
George Costello; therefore, CH
HS will not necessarily adopt a
child in years to come. -BJ
CHHS’s singing juniors will unveil the junior play tonight at
8:30 in the high school auditorium. The first musical comedy to be
presented in the history of the school, The Singing Freshmen by
Ken Bennett presents a colorful picture of life in the “Roaring
Twenties.”
Yaleanova, the “typical” college where the play is set, has on
its campus such atypical characters as Gordon, a guitar-playing
country boy, portrayed by Wally Shytle; and Zinita, the visiting
foreign princess, depicted by Tone Lunaas.
Tone, incidentally, is particularly well-suited for the part.
Spending a year away from her native Norway to study in this
country, she has the required foreign accent.
Jock Lauterer plays Papa Luigi, at whose eating place much
of the action takes place, and Henry Turlington provides comic
relief in his role as “stuttering
Sam”.
Co-ed Ann Cleaveland and
college boys George Thompson
and Charles Jennings also take
major roles in the production.
Toni Dorfman, Cindy Kouns,
Gordon Ryan, Skip Hudson, and
David Little will appear as other
‘PRINCESS’ TONE Lunaas gazes wondrously at Yalenova stu
dents Wally Shytle (1.) and George Thomson.
The ‘Prcconian’ Goes to Writing Class
New Course Experimental, Informal
Creative writing, an experi
mental course which has been
introduced into the high school
curriculum for the first time
this year, is an informal class
made up of ten students and
one teacher.
They sit in a semi-circle that
is often askew, and they read
and discuss manuscripts which
have been submitted by the
class for criticism.
The teacher is just finishing
a story.
“Good night! We'll see you,"
I yelled back. “Real soon.’’ J
waved in the dark and kept
waving until the car turned out
of the driveway.
“Boy, I was right with him
all the way through that story! ”
“It’s such clean writing—no
frills—almost like Hemingway.”
"When is he going to bring
in the third chapter?” (The
story is actually chapter 2 of
a novelette which one of the
students is writing.)
“It doesn’t seem to have much
connection with the first chap
ter, though.”
“I imagine that the student
will construct the plot on two
different tracks which will meet
as the plot develops. Is that
right?”
The author nods, grinning
slightly, but worrying that the
other three chapters will not be
as well received as the first two
have been.
“We are really we.althy with
manuscripts today. Here is an
other, written in imitation of
the Japanese Haiku. I’ll put it
on the board.”
Cold, hlue-moi'ninged lake,
Sophs Initiate
First Pep Club
A Sophomore Pep Club, chair
maned by Nancy Saunders, has
been organized to support the
sophomore basketball team.
The club’s main function will
be to publicize the sophomore
games with posters and announ
cements. A schedule of the games
will also be posted.
Concert Given
Christmas carols from around
the world will be featured at the
annual Christmas concert given
by the CHHS chorus and Junior
High Girls Glee Club on Sunday,
December 14 at 4:00 P.M. in the
high school auditorium.
The concert, which will last an
hour, will also include more pop
ular carols, as well as solos by
Judy Gesell, Bobby Neville, Tim
Rogers, and Maa'ffea Vincent.
Gifts Are Current Home Ec Projects
Red and green are the predominant colors in
the home economics room as students, under the
direction of Mrs. Marie Summers, work on various
projects which they will give as Christmas presents
this year.
- One of the most popular items is a pair of
bedroom slippers made from face cloths. Carolyn
Mishoe, Judy Gesell, and Linda Snipes are making
these colorful “skuffs”.
Judy Riggsbee's Yuletide pillowcase is decorat
ed with red and green symbols of the season, and
brand new mumus will be found under Ceci Put
man’s and Claudia Beal’s trees this year.
Wynne Carter’s aunt will receive a set of
handmade place mats this Christmas, and Merle
Smith’s brother will get a toy box decorated with
candycanes and Santas.
A felt stocking case made by Vicki Lebar and a
jewelry case sewn by Joan Bowman are on dis
play in the home ec room. Sue Marlow and Donna
Hewett have made sfbffed Raggedy Ann dolls
which are also on display.
HOME EC students (1. to r.) Flora Jane
Hawk, Gloria Pardin, Joan Bowman, and Anne
Bowen make Christmas s:ifts.
Sprinkled with diamonds and
stars
Making friends with stins.
The poem is read, but there
is silence. “Well?” Silence.
“What do you think of it?”
More silence. The teacher waits.
Finally, “I like it.”
“Why?” A shoulder shrugs
“(Good image . . . right 5-7-5
syllable arrangement . . . knock
off the ed—moiminged is hard to
say . . . diamonds ought to be
changed . . .”
“Would the author like to
comment?”
She who has worn a telling
smile for some time says only,
“It was fun and easy to write.”
college students.
Richard Ellington as the dean,
Johnny Gouger as a robber, and
Dwight McAllister as Zinita’s
advisor round out the cast.
Music instructor Mrs. Beverly
Culbreath and dramatics coach
Mrs. King Kouns are directing
the production. “The play is very
colorful, and rather unusual
since it’s a musical and not just
straight drama,” said Mrs. Cul
breath. “Rehearsal is coming
along nicely.”
Admission is 75 cents for
adults and 50 cents for students.
-HH/AW
Dances Alike?
Hearing a teen-age twister
complain of blistered feet,
W.M. Pugh, who prints the
PROCONIAN, was reminded
of an earlier dance craze.
“I was lying on my bunk in
the barracks one day about 40
years ago when this fellow
ame in and started talking
about this new dance. ‘You’ve
^ot to go down and see it,’
he said.
“Then he started describing
it, and I just couldn’t believe
him. But I went down any
way, and there it was — the
shimmey I”
Mr. Pugh shook his head,
sighing, “And now they’ve got
the twist.”
DE Club Plans Bannuet
Last Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.
in the high school cafeteria, the
Distributive Education Club held
its annual Bosses’ Banquet.
Mrs. Helen Allen, Chapel Hill
School Board member, opened
the meeting with the invoca-
Jon. Then the club members,
vho include every student from
the distributive education class
es, and their bosses were served
a dinner featuring stuffed pork
chops.
Hardee Welcomes
Johnny Hardee, president of
CHHS DE Club, welcomed the
guests and introduced the guest
speaker, William Slattery, edu
cator and state DE Club spon
sor, who spoke about local,
state, and national DE clubs.
—TS
TB Could Hit Students
You are a CHHSer. You know
that you cannot assume that you
are healthy because “you feel
all right.” You know that some
diseases which can desti’oy the
pattern of your life give no
warning. Tuberculosis, the most
deadly of all infectious diseases,
may give no hint until there is
little chance of recovery.
You realize that you may be
one of 100,000 Americans who
have TB, but who are ignorant
of that fact (150,000 are aware
of having the disease). Or you
One way in which CHHSers
may help to fight the spread of
TB and to find a cure for the
dread disease is to buy Christmas
Seals. In co-operation with the
annual drive, which nets the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association
some $1.5 million each year, the
Proconian is putting a seal on
each copy of this issue.
JUDY SIMMONS poses for a quick, painless chest ;
District Health Department.
-ray at the
fear that in the next 5 years,
you may be one of 250,000 who
are expected to develop TB. So
what do you do?
If you are over 15, you make
an annual trip to the Mobile X-
Ray Unit at the District Health
Department on Old Fraternity
Row for a free chest x-ray. Or
you make an appointment with
your family physician for that
painless exam.
But although the lungs are
most commonly affected, you
also know that tubercule bacilli,
which cause TB, may attack
other parts of the body. So you
ask your doctor for a tuberculin
skin test, which consists of an
injection of a harmless product
of TB germs.
You hope for a negative reac
tion, which indicates that your
body is free of TB germs. But
if a positive reaction occurs, you
don’t despair, for the germs
which are present may be inac
tive. Again, x-rays indicate
whether the germs are active.
If you are safe from TB, you
know that there are still other
safe guards against those bacilli
which you contact in the air ex
haled by an active tubercular
or which remain on his utensils
which you handle.
You eat a well-balanced diet,
you get plenty of sleep, you
wash your hands before meals.
And you buy Christmas seals
which support research to help
those 250,000 people who per
haps did not protect themselves
against TB as well as you did.—
AW