SHS Holds Induction,
Presents Two Plays
The Spanish Honor Society
inducted 15 members today
during the second period as
sembly.
School Expands
Vocationaf Field
“I hope that our vocational
program can be expanded to
offer a good solid foundation
ih" basic secretarial and voca
tional training,” states Miss
May Marshbanks, high school
principal.
At present the only voca
tional courses offered are
business Engliili, typing, dis
tributive education, and home
economics.
Next year, if school funds
allow, CHHS will maintain a
full-time teacher in industrial
arts and home economics and
two full-time commercial arts
teachers.
DE Remains Inlact
The distributive education
program will remain intact.
Miss Marshbanks hopes to
re-organize business English,
consumer mathematics, and
commercial arts into a com
mercial department which will
probably be located in rooms
which are now used by the
junior high.
2nd Year Course Starls
would also like to start
a second - year commercial
course which will consist of
training in office practices,”
explains Miss Marshbanks.
‘‘CHHS also needs part-time
art, music, and physical edu
cation teachers, but the budg
et for next year has not yet
been approved, and with the
increased enrollment we may
P'ijed all the teacher allotment
for standard courses.”
(photo by Lauterer)
COLD-NATURED pooch dons a scarf as he comes oui of his
heated dog house.
Pooch Has Home With Heat
“The world is going to the
dogs”—or so it’s been said, but
judging from the life of
Paula Sturdivant’s dog Rascal,
that existence wouldn’t be bad.
As winter approached, Ras
cal, or “Rasi’’ as Paula affec
tionately calls him, began to
get cold. To remedy the situa
tion the Sturdivants decided
to build Rasi a heated and
lighted home of his own.
“We ordered the house for
$10,” says Paula. “The ther
mostat, wiring, and miscellany
cost about $15.
“The house is painted green
—to match the shutters of our
house. At the moment there
are a few holes for ventila
tion, but,” she adds laughing
ly, “we’re thinking of putting
in windows.” An old inner-
tube serves as a bed, and Rasi
has his own porch-patio and
two light bulbs.
“The porch-patio is a three-
sided affair attached to the
front of the house. Now there
is a canvas door to the main
living quarters, but before we
installed this, Rasi had many
uninvited guests!”
As yet, Rasi has received no
breakfasts in bed and to
Paula’s knowledge has thrown
no patio cocktail parties, but
still—who will ever again
complain about a night in the
doghouse?!
Passing Views
Randy Ellington playing pool
at Jill Hickey's house with
“vigor” . . . Over a hundred
people absent Friday during
the snow . . . Peter Bream
counting 30 dihedral angles in
Mrs. Sommerfeld's second
period Geometry class . . . Mrs.
Shepard making people apply
for the Aubrey Lee Brooks
Scholarship . . .Len Salmon
making his first snowball . . .
14 sixth graders learning to
type in Mrs. Dennis' room after
school.
PROCONIAN
First - year students are
Michael Beebe, Brent Black-
mer, Andy Johansson, Doug
Johnston, Jill Hickey, Robbie
Hooker, Nixie Miller, Steve
Oakley, Myrt Trageser, Kath
ryn Williams and Linda
"Wright. .
Second-year students are
Joan Archer, Peter Bream,
Anne Chaffin, David Clarke,
Randy Ellington and Anne
Wade.
First - year students must
have an A average to be in
ducted and second-year stu-
rents must have maintained a
B average their second year,
explained Eva Lee Blaine,
president of the Chapel Hill
chapter of the Spanish Honor
Society.
Two Skits Performed
Two skits were performed
by the Spanish Club for enter
tainment. “The Legend of the
Flower Bird” revealed a tragic
story of the Spaniards in Cen
tral America, who sacrificed
small girls in order to prevent
earthquakes. Leslie McCracken
played the part of Xochiquet-
zal, the little girl, while Dan
ny Fitch played the part of
her hero.
The second skit was an ori
ginal script written by Arlene
Macklin, vice-president of the
club, and Mrs. June Basile, ad
viser. The skit illustrated cus
toms of teenagers in different
Spanish-speaking countries.
Salmon and Barreiro Dance
Len Salmon, American Field
Service student from Ecuador,
demonstrated an Ecuadorian
dance. Elvira Barreiro demon
strated a Mexican dance with
Stan Perry.
Kay Marley contributed to
the program by singing an an
cient South American song.
PRO’S AND CON’S OF CHHS LIFE
Vol. XXXV, No. 7
Chapel Hill'High School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Wednesday, February 13, 1963
Sweetheart Ball Is Saturday
(photo by Lauterer)
SWEETHEART CANDIDATES pose in ihe framework of a large heart. Left to
right; Carol Cheek, Sue Tyree, Jane Graham, Linda Dixon, and Kay Marley.
Hearts and flowers, carrying out the tra
ditional theme, will transform the mun
dane high school cafeteria into a roman
tic haven for the annual Sweetheart Ball,
to be held this Saturday night, February
16, from 8-11:45.
Seniors Joan Archer and Carol Cheek,
juniors Kay Marley and Sue Tyree, and
sophomores Linda Dixon and Jane Gra
ham will compete for the title of Sweet
heart of CHHS.
Deedee Whitney, CHHS’s Sweetheart
Queen last year who is now living in
Charlotte, has been invited back to Chapel
Hill to crown her successor at the dance.
Queen Chosen for Personality
Each year the queen, her maid of honor,
and her court are chosen by popular vote
of the student body on the basis of out
standing personality.
Master of ceremonies for the presenta
tion of the candidates for queen and their
escorts will be senior George Thompson.
Dance Semi-Formal
The dance will be semi-formal, as in
past years. Tickets, which went on sale
last week, are 75 cents stag or drag.
Profits will go to help pay for rising print
ing costs of the Proconian, whose staff is
Panel Discusses Problems
Of Teenagers' Social Life
Many of the social problems
of today’s teenagers in Chapel
Hill are the result of little or
no discipline or guidance when
they are of junior high school
age.
This was the concensus ’bf
senior high students Grove
Burnett, Jane Dyer, and
George Thompson and junior
high students Bob Rasmussen,
Linda Cansler, and Stanley
Greenberg—members of a
panel moderated by high
school senior Ann Cleaveland.
The panel’s discussion of
“The Strengths and Weak
nesses of Teenage Social Life
in Chapel Hill” attracted a
large crowd at a meeting of
the Parent-Youth League
Thursday night, January 31, in
the high school auditorium.
Problems Increasing
Smoking, drinking, and sex
ual immorality are on the in
crease in the community, said
the panelists.
The panelists agreed that
parents have both the right
and the responsibility to set
age and time limits on dating
and standards of conduct at
parties, as long as the rules
they impose are not arbitrary.
Open Houses Blamed
Open house parties, which
were described as more or less
traditional in Chapel Hill,
were blamed for much teen
age misconduct.
This custom, stated the
panelists, makes it difficult to
prevent people who have been
drinking from coming to the
party and damaging the host’s
property.
Immoralily Present
Evidently sexual immorality
is not as great in the junior
high as it is in the high
school. “One of the causes of
immorality in our social life,”
stated Grove Burnett, “is lack
of something to do on a date.”
The other panelists agreed.
It was suggested that a place
to go after school and on
weekends with soft drinks and
music for dancing would help
solve this problem.
Both junior and senior high
students agreed that by the
time students reach high
school, smoking is such a firm
ly entrenched practice that
very little can be done about
it.
Jane Dyer added, “They
say let’s go out and get drunk.
I’ve never seen anybody
drinking for any reason other
than to get drunk.”
sponsoring the affair.
Each staff member is work
ing on one or more of the six
committees responsible for
decorations, refreshments,
publicity, tickets, music, and
clean-up.
Mrs. Martha Gill, adviser to
the Proconian, states that “the
combined efforts of the staff
members and the support of
the student body will, I’m
sure, make the Sweetheart Ball
even more successful than our
last project, the Mid-Exam
Dance.”
Two Students See Astronauts
Keeping up with profes
sional newspapers, the Pro
conian sent a reporter to the
press conference with nine
astronauts at the Morehead
Planetarium on January 30.
Carol Jenzano, whose father.
Tony Jenzano, directs the
Planetarium and plans the as
tronauts’ training in Chapel
Hill, extended to Proconian
Editor Melanie Ripperton an
invitation to attend the con
ference.
Bridge Playing Aired
(Editor’s note: In answer to the Proconian’s re
quest, Miss May Marshbanks, high school principal,
explains why she disapproves of bridge playing
during school hours.)
What is the purpose for having a study hall in
your schedule rather than filling your day with six
classes? Anyone who seriously considers this ques
tion and gives an honest answer would reply that it
is to have time for study.
Having pondered these ideas to a logical con
clusion, the answer to the question “Why can’t we
play bridge, or chess, or just loaf during school
hours?” is found in another question: “Who is doing
so well with their school work and is already so
widely read that they have time for such things
between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 3:30 P.M.?”
Time and again the request is made to drop a
subject in order to have more time to give to other
subjects so that one’s grades may be improved. Over
and over parents and teachers are concerned because
certain pupils are not producing in a manner com
parable to their ability.
In most cases the answer is not found in more
time, but more efficient use of the time now avail
able. Indeed, who DOES have time in the school day
for trivial things?
Because of her father’s con
nection in the training pro
gram, Carol has had an op
portunity to meet several of
the original seven astronauts,
including Shepard, Shira, and
Grissholm.
Sense of Humor Evident
“I’m always impressed with
how human they are,’’ re
marked Carol. “Even during
their concentrated training
they maintain their good sense
of humor.”
This sense of humor was
evident at the interview when
Major Frank Borman remark
ed that the “only time we get
cold feet and butterflies in our
stomachs is at press confer
ences.”
Moon Is Destination
The astronauts’ trip to
Chapel Hill was a part of
their initial training which
ended on February 4. At the
Planetarium the men learn
the star patterns so that they
will be able to orient them
selves in space.
The men are now training
for specific flights. According
to Ray Zedekar, plan director,
one of these nine astronauts
may go to the moon by 1967.
In the meantime they under
go strenuous physical and
mental training. The men do
not mind the work, however.
They agree that it is more of
a hobby with them than any
thing else.