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The Official Publication of The Raleigh Public Schools
Vol. 2
RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925
No. 17
TEMPE WILLIAMS IS
ELECTED CLASS HEAD
All R. H. S. Freshmen at N. C.
C. W. Pass on Work; Inter
esting News Reports
Tempie Williams, '23, was recently
elected president of the Sophomore
Class for the spring term.
Mary Alice Robertson, '22, took one
of the leading parts in "Suppressed
Desires," one" of three one-act plays
presented February 14 in the college
auditorium. Tempie Williams also
took an important role in "The Knave
of Hearts," one of the others.
Edith Russell, Randolph Hill, Lyda
Studdert, '24, Frances Handy, '23, and
Margaret Handy, '22, were visitors on
the campus last week-end.
Mrs. Alice Robertson was also a visi
tor, having come to see her daughter
in "Suppressed Desires."
Last week was one of excitement on
the campus. The Freshmen were given
society bids. Joyce Cooper, Virginia
Marsh, and Clara Will received Dikean
bids; Katherine Maddry an Adelphian;
Mary HufBnes, Alethian; Louise
Reavis and Frances Gibson, Cornelian.
Initiations will be held Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday of this week.
In the meantime, the campus is en
joying "Fun Week" and is the scene
of many peculiar events.
All of the R. H. S. Freshmen passed
all of their work last semester. The
ones were few and far between,
though.
F. G. G., '24.
Baseball Call
Coach Lazzard has issued a call for
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great American game. All prospective
candidates for the 1925 Raleigh High
School baseball team are asKea to nana
in their names on a slip of paper.
Practice will be started as soon as
practical.
Senior High School
Enrolls For Contest
Latin Department Has 21 Stu
dents to Take Part; Ques-
tions Given on Friday
: The following Senior High students
' have entered the Latin contest, which
' will be held on Friday.
Seniors Talmage Peele, Katherine
Fleming, Elizabeth Cauthen, John
' Henry Highsmith, Laura Mabel Hay
wood, Bessie Sams, Eugenia Riddick,
Susan Tucker, Pullen Belvin, Lillie
Mae Scruggs, Rudolph Walborn, Roger
Way.
1 Juniors Robert Simms, John Har
ris, Marion Plyer, Graham Denton,
Cyrus Edson, Ada Spencer, Mozelle
Poole, Arthur Bridgers, Esther Morris.
The Latin Department and the Uni
versity Extension Division of the Uni
versity of North Carolina are conduct
ing, with the cooperation of participat
ing schools, a contest in Latin for
high school students, participation in
; this contest being open to accredited
i North Carolina public high schools.
Col. Olds Out After Illness
The numerous friends of Col. Fred
Olds will be glad to learn that he has
left the hospital, where he has been
confined on account of his recent at
tack of facial paralysis.
Colonel Olds, better knows as
"Everybody's Friend," was well re
membered during his Illness, especialy
by the. General Assembly, the Grand
Lodge of Masons, State institutions,
' various clubs and societies, and school
children of Raleigh.
Although Colonel Olds has not fully
Recovered it is hoped he will improve
rapidly. Q. P.
SWELL
, Tom: Wanta see sumpin' swell T
Jim: What is it?
Tom: Watch me blow up this balloon.
Mothers and Daughters
Have Helpful Meeting
' ..
Talks by Prominent Women and
High School Girls; Girls'
Glee Club Sings
Mother and daughter night was ob
served by the monthly meeting of the
Senior High Parent-Teacher meeting.
The program was varied enough to
make the meeting enjoyable as well as
helpful to, mothers, daughters ..and
teachers.
The Girls' Glee Club, under the di
rection of Mr. W. A. Potter rendered
two selections, Amaryllis and Honey
Town. Miss Virginia Mitchell gave a
vocal selection, "Let Me Call You
Sweetheart."
Mrs. R. N. Simms, president of the
association, extended a cordial welcome
to the mothers tof the Sophomore girls
who have recently come to the Senior
High School.
In the absence of Mr. Wessinger, sec
retary of the association, Miss Jones
read the minutes of the last meeting.
Reports were made and business dis
cussed. The following were elected on
the nominating committee to elect offi
cers for next year: Miss Eliza Poole,
Mrs. Franklin Sherman, Mrs. Robert
Haywood, and Mrs. W. Briggs.
From the high school daughters
Erin Bloodworth spoke on the work of
the Glee Clubs; Laura Mabel Haywood
on the Morson Literary Society; Mary
Alice Harding, on Girl Reserves, and
Elizabeth Cauthen, on the Relation of
School Organization to the School
room. .
Miss Corinna Mial, of the High
School Faculty, presented the aim and
purpose of the Athletic Association to
the mothers.' Miss McLellan interest
ingly spoke about Girls' Problems, em
phasizing the girls' dress. She urged
the girls to-weareroort clothes to school
to create a cleaner atmosphere and
eventually abolish frivolous clothes.
Miss Janie Trapier briefly spoke on
the Girl Reserve Movement.
Refreshments were served after the
meeting.
Parents and Teachers
Meet At Wiley School
An Interesting Valentine Pro
gram Rendered by the First
Grade Pupils
The Wiley Parent-Teacher's Associa
tion met last Friday afternoon at the
school building.
Mrs. A. F. Kersting presided and
Mrs. Cummings, the first grade teacher,
gave a valentine program. Mrs. T. W.
Blckett talked on "Problems of Child
Welfare and Making the Home Inter
esting for the Children."
The following resolution was passed
by the association:
"Resolved, that the Wiley School
Parent-Teacher's Association respect
fully urge Mr. Srygley and the school
I board to take prompt action in regard
to building of stone retaining wall
around the Wiley School grounds in
order that the plans for grading and
improving the grounds may go for
ward." ALICE JONES.
ROTARY'S ANNIVERSARY -
CELEBRATED MONDAY
The Rotary Club will celebrate its
twentieth anniversary Monday, at its
regular weekly meeting.
When the club was first organized
there was only four members enrolled.
The total membership now is more
than 105,000, distributed among about
1,900 clubs, scattered throughout 28
countries.
The Raleigh club was organized
about eleven years ago.
The Rotarians want to make this
anniversary meeting a hundred per
cent. HELEN MILLER.
SO THAT'S WHY
"What makes your cat so small?"
"I brought him up on condensed
milk."
Whoever renamed Christiana also
has the blessing of the men who write
newspaper headlines. N. Y. H. F.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
APPOINTS DETECTIVES
TO OBSERVE SPEECH
Raleigh High and All the City's
Schools Will Take Part in
"Better Speech Week"
"Better Speech Week" will be spent
by the English Department in a very
interesting way. All pupils who will
are going to make posters, and the
others are going to write themes with
"Good English" as the subject. Miss
Holton is going to appoint several de
tectives from each clas3, who will be
unknown to the class. These detec
tives will take down all the errors in
speech that they hear and the names
of the pupils making them. At the
end of the week these pupils will be
tried in a mock trial before the Eng
lish classes.
Raleigh Schools Have
Four New Playgrounds
Civic Clubs Sponsor Recreation
Work Under Mr. Wood,
Director
Four playgrounds sponsored by
loal civic clubs will be opened on
March 2. These playgrounds will be
the first part of the recreation pro
gram planned by the city and school
board. Mr. C. R. Wood, director of
Physical Training, will be in charge
of these playgrounds. About fifteen
play-leaders have already been se
cured. These play-leaders have had
experience in conducting school re
creations, and also playgrounds.
jjuur vi luese piay-ieauers win De
put in charge of the four play
grounds, which will stay open every
day (except Sunday) from 3:30 p.m.
until dark.
Each playground is sponsored by
a local civic club. The locations of
the playgrounds are as follows:
The Rotary playground will be lo
cated at Centennial School. Facili
ties for football, baseball, basket
ball, tennis, group games, and story
telling. Lions' playground will be located
at Thompson School. Facilities for
athletics and play space for small
children.
Kiwanis playground will be located
at Devereaux meadow. There will
be two ball diamonds and other play
ground games.
Civitan playground will be located
at "red" diamond (State College).
Facilities for baseball, football, and
all playground games.
The Raleigh Recreation Commis
sion is composed of the following:
Supt. H. F. Srygley, chairman; Wiley
Rogers, Wade Lewis, Dr. A. G. Sping
ler, Dr. W. C. Horton, Mrs. F. C
Handy, Mrs. W. T. Bost, Dr. C. C.
Taylor, Miss Elsie Riddick, and E. B.
Crow. John Dughi.
Senior Class Will
Have Year Book
Plans Have Been Made For the
Annual Senior Year Book
to be Issued
Plans for the Year Book for the
Senior Class of 1925 have been com
pleted by the staff and the actual work
on the book is to begin at once. As
soon as all the money has been paid
into the treasury of the business man
ager the students will have their pic
tures taken and sent off to be en
graved.
The Senior Class is very grateful to
Mr. Wade because of his kind offer
to publish or print this book In the
High School shop. This fact alone is
one that is largely responsible for the
possibility of this Year Book.
The editor tells us that the book
will be some improvement over the
one of the class of '24 in that he Is
going to add a few things that the
Twenty-four Cylinders did not have.
The printing is to be done in eight
point type instead of the ten point of
last year.
Eight Girls
Awarded
DURHAM HANDS
RALEIGH A LEMON
Sad Tale of Adverse Fate and
Bad Luck; If You Have
Tears Well!
TWO DURHAM GAMES
CLEANEST OF SEASON
Playing the usual style of game
against Durham, Raleigh High School
quint dropped a second game to their
ancient rivals, February 14. Dur
ham had a decided edge all during
the first half, getting the ball at
every jump. The half ended 20-5.
After the intermission the Raleigh
team came back with more pep. Al
King was substituted, and seemed to
put added pep into the team, and
Raleigh scored only three points less
than Durham during the second half,
scoring 13 points against Durham's
16. The game ended 36-18.
When R. H. S. meets Durham the
team never seems to be able to put
up as strong a battle as against other
teams.
The two Durham games have been
the cleanest games of the season.
R. W.
Junior Journalism
The Junior Journalism Class began
work Monday, February 16. It is
hoped that a great number of pupils
will attend the class " The reason for
havmg-a' Junior" Journalism -Class is
to make it possible that every student
taking Journalism next year will have
experience. The editors of next year
will be selected from this class. All
Sophomores and Juniors are eligible.
DAN LOIS HOOD.
Doctor Alexander
Inspires Teachers
Plans for Work on Curriculum
Made; Period of Twelve
Years Considered
A meeting of all teachers in the
school system was held in the High
School Auditorium on Saturday, at ten
thirty. Mr. Srygley introduced Dr.
Thomas Alexander, of Columbia Uni
versity and Peabody College.
Dr. Alexander gave his plans for a
unique experiment in the Raleigh
schools this to consist in building up
a course of study covering twelve
years' work. Volunteers for extra
work in various lines were asked for
and several teachers volunteered at
once to do this extra work.
Dr. Trabue, of the University of
North Carolina, spoke of the pian and
urged the teachers to put their best
ideas and work into the planning of
this curriculum.
The idea is to build up a course of
study covering work in each depart
ment from the first grade, a kinder
garten, up through the high school,
and to make the entire system a
united or closely connected whole. Dr.
Alexander and Dr. Trabue will assist
in this work.
BIRDS FOUND IN AND
AROUND RALEIGH
For any one interested in the study
of birds this is the very best time of
the year to begin to look for them and
to study them. Now while there are
no leaves on the trees to hide them,
you can see the birds better and learn
to know our birds.
If you start out to look for different
birds now you would probably see
more than a dozen different kinds.
Some of these would be the bluebird,
robin, buzzard, red-headed woodpecker
and others.
Lake Raleigh is a most excellent
place to study bird life.
NANCY MORING.
Have Been
Certificates
Home Economics Department's
Course Under Wake Nurse;
Instruction Interesting
The second-year girls in Home Eco
nomics, as a part of their class work,
took up the course in "Home Hygiene
and Care of Sick." Miss Merriman,
Wake County Nurse, gave the practical
demonstrations while Miss Polk con
ducted the theory part of the course.
It covered the causes and preven
tions of sickness, health and home,
bed and bed-making, appliances and
methods of sick room, feeding sick,
medicine and other remedies, common
emergencies, special care of child con
valescents, chronic and aged.
Nowell Bros, and Briggs Hardware
Company furnished the equipment for
the course, which was greatly appre
ciated. The following received certificates
from the American Red Cross division
in' Atlanta: Lilly Crinkley, Mary Holt
Reams, Mary Oliver Ellington, Edith
Peatross, Dorothy Williams, Katherine
Pittman, Samana Watkins, Virginia
Ratcliffe, Emily Rose Warner.
This is an extract written to Miss
Polk from the Red Cross in Atlanta:
"You no doubt have received the
certificates for your class in Home Hy
giene and Care of Sick. Your exami
nation papers on the whole were very
good and feel you are to be congratu
lated on this piece of work. 1 have
no doubt that the class will profit tre
mendously by this instruction. Your
grading of the papers was entirely.
have gotten a great deal out of the
contract with this intelligent group,
and I hope this is a good beginning for
future work in Home Hygiene and
Care of Sick."
MELBA AUSTIN.
New Backyard Game
At Senior High School
School's Only Recreation Center
Scene of Fun; Tin-Can Alley
Sport Is Popular
Backyard, touch, or tincan foot
ball is gaining in popularity as a
recess sport at Senior High. It was
organized at the first of the year,
but its reign was short, for Mr.
Woods arrived with an indoor base
ball and bat. This game was en
joyed for a while, but several things
tended to break it up. First, the
cover of the ball was knocked off;
tljen, when a tape cover was pro
vided, the ball proved hard enough
to break windows, and at last Louis
Warren knocked it away. The old
football game was revived, and it is
now recognized as the king of the
backyard sports. There is usually
an audience of both boys and girls in
the bleachers and grandstand to
watch the game.
THE CENTURY HAND-BOOK
USEFUL TO JOURNALISTS
The Class in Journalism is going to
make a study in the Century Hand
Book each week. The book is divided
into sections of which one is taken
and special study is made of that sec
tion oh Fridays.
The sentences are corrected and each
pupil writes them in his notebook for
further reference and study. The pur
pose of studying this book is to help
the pupils to write correctly.
Supplies Place of Miss Lamb
In the absence of Miss Lamb, who
has resigned from the teaching staff,
Mrs. George Iseley is substituting for
her.
Mrs. Iseley is a graduate of Salem
College and has had several years
teaching experience, serving as princi
pal of North Wilkesboro School. The
Student wishes to welcome Mrs. Iseley
to the teaching staff on behalf of both
the faculty and the student-body.