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Volume VI
RALEIGH, N..C, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929
Number 15
EL LADRON IS LAST
GRADUATION EVENT
OF SCHOOL YEAR '29
NEW EDITOR OF STUDENT
DR. TUCKER PREACHES
SENIOR CLASS DAY
: EXERCISES MAY 30
Senior Banquet at Sir Walter on
Night May 30; Banks Young .
Permanent President
GOES TO ANNAPOLIS
GRADUATION SERMON
CLASS LARGEST IN
RALEIGH'S HISTORY
'In Quest of Life" Subject of
Talk Made to 178 Seniors
at First Baptist Church
1929 GRADUATION
Original Operetta, Given June 5,
Work of Three Members of
Graduating Class 1929
Comparing favorably ia dramatic
interest, tuneful music, and clever
lyrics with the. best of the operettas
that have been presented at the high
school in times past, productions of
professional writers of musical plays,
"El Ladron," the work of three sen
iors of the Class of 1929 of the Hugh
Morson High School, was presented
in the school auditorium Wednesday,
June 5.
To Earl Williams, who conceived
the idea of the operetta and worked
out the plot and the general produc
tion, taking the part of the leader of
a bandit gang; to Wallace King, com
poser of the music; and to Lula Belle
Highsmith, who wrote the lyrics, was
due largely the success of the play.
Assisting these producers of the
Hugh Morson High School's first
original operetta were a number of
other students who had direction of
the dances, the costuming, staging,
lighting, and advertising, and an able
cast of actors who took their parts
well.
The staging was particularly well
done, and the first scene with its
moon and stars that actually
.twinkled in the background, was re
ceived with applause by the audience.
One of the musical hits of the eve
ning was the quartet composed of
Mary Waring, Louise Correll, Dabney
. Gettel, and Fred Hester in the song,
"Mine at Last." The dances of the
operetta were cleverly done under the
direction of Rex Layton and Cather
ine Harding. Outstanding among
the actors were Fred Hester and Inez
Nichols, who had leading parts. Fred
is quite a "find" for high school dra
matics. , . ,
. The list of characters and board
of directors follow :
-"Cast "or cafacrtfsTTEmnrTergtt
son, Mary Waring; Alice White,
- Louise Correll; Bob Faulks, Dabney
Gettel; Joe Lee, Fred Hester; Mr.
Ferguson, Frank Kuhn; Annabelle
Write, Inez Nichols; Amadeo, the
captain, Earl Williams; Alvaro,
Claude Freeman; Jack, Jonathan
Lane; Savoy, Josephine Snell, and
Father Topete, Maynard Turner.
Directors: Costumes, Ray McKin-
ney and Elinor Kennedy; dances,
Rex Layton and Catherine Harding;
stage scenery, Josephine Snell, Annie
Louise Wilkerson, and Louise Cor
rell; advertising, Pat Abernethy, Lula
Belle Highsmith, Gwennle Crowder,
and Dorothy Merritt; dramatics, Oc-
tavia Bryan; stage director, Alex
Goodman; music, Wallace King; fur
niture, Mulligan Furniture Company;
fixtures, Carolina Power and Light
Company.
Raleigh Student Enters
Contest For Hume Cup
Greensboro 'High Life' Winner
of Cup at U. N. C. for Three
Consecutive Years
The Raleigh Student, published by
the Journalism Class of Hugh Mor
son High School, has entered the
contest sponsored by the University
of North Carolina for the Thomas
Hume Cup. We quote the announce
ment and rules and regulations from
their circular:
"The University Extension Division
of the University of North Carolina
desires to make announcement of the
sixth annual contest in high ichool
Journalism for North Carolina high
schools. These contests are known
as the Hume Cup High School News
paper Contest and the Annual High
School Magazine Contest.
"These annual contests were Inau
gurated on the part of the University
Extension Division in the hope that
through them excellence of attain
ment in the field of high school jour
nalism might be encouraged in the
North Carolina high schools.
"As State-wide contests In debate
and athletics have cumulated a great
endeavor on the part of the North
Carolina high schools in the past fif
teen years, it is believed that these
annual contests In high school jour
nalism will have generally helpful
influence in stimulating the field of
high school journalism and in center
ing attention on high school news
papers and magazines of the State.
"The high school which submits
the magazine adjudged the best will
receive the award of a trophy cup
from the University Extension Divi
sion, and the high school which sub
mits the newspaper adjudged the
Continued on page 3.
STEWART ROBERTSON
STEWART ROBERTSON
NEXT EDITOR STUDENT
Mar. ;aret Boney Associate at
New High School, and Susan
Stoker at II. M. H. S.
Stewart Robertson, associate edi
tor of The Raleigh Student this year,
has been officially announced by Mrs.
Covington as the editor-in-chief of
The Student for next year. Stewart
edited as his trial issue Number 13,
but it brought him none of the bad
luck believed by the superstitious to
go with this numeral. Margaret
Boney, who was also an associate ed
itor this spring, will be associate edi
tor next year and in special charge
at the new high school. Susan
Stoker will be in charge as associate
at Hugh Morson High. Albert Olm-
stead, who was a reporter year be
fore last and sport editor all this
year, will hold that position again on
the new staff. All four are members
of the Quill and Scroll National Hon
or Society for high school journalists,
and have been among the staff's most
dependable and enthusiastic members
this, year Steataxt
ability 'chiefly in , make-up work,
while Margaret Boney is especially
noted for her feature stories and col
umns, having edited the "Just Among
Ourselves" this spring. Susan has
been an all-round star reporter, she
and "Boney" having spent much time
each month in collecting the honor
roll no easy job, either. Albert is
well known for his sport stories and
for the new humorous column which
he originated, "Onions and Orchids."
On the business staff Mary Conway,
who did excellent work this year as
advertising manager, will be the
business manager, with Margaret
Little, noted ad-getter for the an
nual, as her advertising manager.
Mildred Pittman, Elizabeth Web
ster, and Emily Miller, all star re
porters, will each hold some staff
position nex,t year.
Confer Eagle Scout
Award on Wm. Myatt
Medal Presented by His Mother
at Last Court of Honor of
Year on June 1st
The highest award in scouting, the
rank of Eagle Scout, was conferred
on William Myatt, Jr., as the climax
of interest of the Court of Honor of
the Raleigh Council of Boy Scouts,
held Saturday night, June 8, in the
auditorium of Hugh Morson High
School. The bronze medal was pre
sented by the boy's mother.
With a total of forty-five badges and
awards presented to thirty-four scouts
and scoutmasters, it was the greatest
advancement court yet held under the
direction of Scout Executive Hum
phreys. Prior to presenting Scout Myatt
with the highest honor In scouting,
Mr. Humphreys outlined in brief his
advancement in scouting and his
qualities for leadership which he has
demonstrated in school and In Eden
ton Street Methodist Church. Follow
ing the presentation of the model by
Mrs. Myatt, Mr. Myatt had a few
words to say as to how It feels to be
the father of an Eagle Scout.
Scoutmaster Wilfong, of Troop Two,
gave an entertaining stunt with his
troop of trained bees.
George Hunter, inward Parrlsh,
and James Wilder, all of Troop Four,
were presented their tunderfoot pins,
the first rank In scouting. Second
class pins were awarded to the fol
lowing scouts: Russell Utile, Leonard
Dowdee, Norwood Massey and Joseph
Massey, of Troop Four; Milton Kluti,
Jesss Mewborn, Oeorgs Cuthrell, of
Troop Seven; James Hunter, Charles
Swan, James Weathers, Thomas Goad,
Continued on page 8.
"In Quest of Life" was the subject
of the sermon which Dr. J. Powell
Tucker, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, preached Sunday, May 26, to
the graduating class of Hugh Morson
High School.
"Religion," said Dr. Tucker, "is
not a dogmatic utterance nor a sanc
timonious theory of piety, but it is
the great mandate of human experi
ence." Man is imprisoned in the ex
ternal present, and his religion is the
only thing which affords a secret es
cape from the present. - Education
and religion, when equally embraced,
lead to the gift of consciousness of
life.' This is the one and only secret
of the highest and richest develop
ment. Christianized intelligence is
the one and only thing which leads
to the exalted state of being and to
the finding of the noblest and fullest
expression of personality.
All the great civilizations without
Christianity have perished, Dr. Tuck
er pointed out, declaring that the
hope of the world today is the combi
nation of education and Christianity.
Religion and the cultivation of rea
son are not opposed, asserted the
speaker, as he deplored the tendency
of some of the free-thinking cults to
relegate Christianity to the discard
on the theory thai it would not bear
strict scrutiny. It is not a blind
man's venture, but a master-stroke,
to strike the shackles from the brain.
To everything a background of
some sort is necessary. A professor
must have his research; an astrono
mer, his stars; a historian, the shrine
of the ages; and the human soul must
have its religion. A divine intensity
is essential to everything. He par
ticularly emphasized the statement
that "every human life's contribu
tion is woven on the throbbing shut
tles of a dominant motive which im
passions them."
Some people do not succeed, while
others fail because of a difference in
talent; but because of the motlva-
vast researches of knowledge could
offer life nothing better than a bitter
cup of hemlock,"
Granada, which, was built for the
King of Spain at the cost of three
million dollars, did not satisfy for
more than three days. No matter
how great a man's achievements are,
they cannot satisfy if the problem
and purpose 'of his own being are
still unsolved. All the earth's wis
dom cannot trace out the ways of
the human soul.
The closing exercises of a school
are called the commencement, ac
cording to Dr. Tucker, because they
are the beginning of 'the manifesta
tion of what the days spent in high
school are to mean. The question of
what course the graduate Is going to
take "Is on trial at the tribunal of
your own decision, and it calls for a
verdict now! Woe to the youth who
attempts the turning without faith
In God!" Dr. Tucker concluded.
ITS COMPLETE LIFE
TOLD OF ONE
The evolution of one Issue of Thk
Rai.kigii Student Involves many steps
and at least twelve hours of work
on the part of the editor alone and
often more. Topics about which in
formation is to be gathered for the
news stories are first listed by the
editor-in-chief. Events which have
taken place since the last Issue of the
paper and those which may be writ
ten up before the paper goes to press
are the usual items; when there Is
enough space, Important news about
plans for things which are to take
place several weeks later Is written
up. Topics for special feature stories
are usually left to the reporter's own
experience, although special topics
are sometimes assigned. Assign
ments are read In the two journalism
classes about two weeks before the
paper comes out, giving a week for
their completion. The completed
story Is read and carefully corrected
by the editor. The dummy for each
page is then made from the material
which has been handed In. The make
up of the front page must be done
with more care than that of the other
pages, since the head of each story
must have the exact number of let
ters to lit the type of headline re
quired for the position It occupies on
the page. As the page Is supposed
to balance (I. e., since stories which
occupy a corresponding position
should be approximately the same In
length and should have the same
type of headlines), much hard work
Is required from the editor, who does
all the headline writing. The dum
my Is made In order that the printer
may know exactly where each story
The annual class-day exercises of
the graduating class were held, ac
cording to custom, in the school
auditorium on the afternoon of the
Thursday before the graduation exer
cises. Twelve Junior girls carried a
daisy chain, forming an aisle through
which the seniors marched. They
were Margaret Little, Velna Wingate,
Caroline Mann, Sara Clay Paylor,
Margaret Boney, Mabel Sargeant,
Emily Miller, Elizabeth Webster,
Susan Stoker, Eliza Briggs, Virginia
Cox and Mildred Pittman.
Laura White, having next to the
highest scholarship average in the
class, made the salutatory address,
which was rather unusually good be
cause of its originality, The class
poem was read by Lula Belle High-
smith, class poet. Nancy Knott, class
historian, read the history, and Hazel
McDonald, prophet, read the proph
ecy? In the absence of the testator,
Eugene Spivey, Margaret Briggs read
the last will and testament. The
valedictory address by Aglfes Tucker,
holder of the highest scholarship av
erage in the class, concluded the
program.
That night, May 30th, the senior
banquet was held at the Sir Walter
Hotfel.
Friday morning, after the last
chajel exercises of the year, the class
met and elected the following perma
nent class officers: President, Banks
Young; vice-president, Margaret
Briggs; secretary, Agnes Moore;
treasurer, Hubert Crow.
Plans are being made to leave some
permanent . t to the school.
COACH SPURLOCK
I WEDS FOLLIES GIRL
Albert Spurlock, former Lenoir
Rhyne College athlete, and Miss Mere
ditk Howard, one of the 19-year-old
bloj; le Howard twins, featured , in
day, June 3, to Lancaster Pa., and
were married.
Albert Spurlock, of Hickory, has a
number of friends in Raleigh who
will read of his marriage with inter
est and some with surprise. He Is
head football and basketball coach at
the Hugh Morson High School in the
city. He was formerly an all-round
athletic star at Centre College and
Lenoir-Rhyne College, and did post
graduate work at North Carolina
Stpte College. Coach Spurlock and
Miss Howard have been acquainted
for a number- of years, therefore inti
mate friends of the athlete- will not
be surprised at the marriage.
The Howard twins appeared in
Ziegfeld Follies as dancers during
their play here a year ago. Students
of Hugh Morson have expected to hear
of the marriage at any time, especially
since Miss Howard visited at the high
school about a week before the close
of school.
HISTORY IS
ISSUE OF 'STUDENT'
Is to go. When all the copy is in, it
Is given to the linotype operators,
who set up the type. A proof is
taken of this and is copyread by the
editor. Any corrections to be made
are marked and the proof-sheet re
turned. The stories are then put
into their places in the steel form.
When the make-up man has arranged
all the stories with the proper heads,
he locks the form and It Is put on
the press. Eighteen hundred papers
are then printed and delivered to the
students. Sixty are mailed to alumni
and to other school papers with
which The Sti'iik.nt exchanges. There
are approximately thirty-six states,
also Alaska, on the exchange list.
A certain amount of advertising
space must be sold before the first
Htue of the year is printed; most of
this Is sold during the summer by
the adviser and business manager.
Some ads are sold by the reporters
at the first of the year, and some by
the business manager all through the
year. The merchant who takes an
ad must sign up for the exact amount
of space and number of times be
wants his ad In the paper. The week
before the paper comes out the ad
vertising staff must visit all adver
tisers to get the copy for the ads, if
there Is to be a change. After the
paper Is out the bill must be collected
for each ad.
Much time Is spent borrowing cuts
or getting the Proof of some picture
and then making several trips to the
engraver's to have the cut made of
the picture.
On the whole, getting out an Issue
of Tub Btidcnt Is no soft snap.
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THOMAS WARD
READING CLUB PLANS
FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN
Passports, Identification Con
tests, Notebooks of Reports,
and Other Features
By Margaret Breed Strll)
"Summer Time Is Reading Time."
That is the slogan of the Reading
Club of the Children's Department of
the Olivia Raney Library.
Last year 43 children found the
Reading Club a pleasant summer di
version, and as we had decided to
"See America First," they traveled
across the continent and, if very dili
gent, back again. Some of the chil
dren traveled over seven thousand
miles, while others were satisfied just
to go the required three thousand.
We had a large map of the United
States posted in the children's room,
and the little name tags moved across
the map from New York to Boston to
San Francisco or Los Angeles. A
book of non-fiction moved the tag
two hundred miles, and a book of fic
tion one hundred.
After having read twenty books, or
in other words having traveled three
Vnouaana Wi'n'eK fne WiaYeTr"i,ei" 'dm 4
certificates. Those who received them
were Dorothy Price, Vivian Whitley,
Mary Louise Whitley, Eloise Harris,
Paul Sumner, Gertrude Schwartz,
Stokes Yates, and Ellen Kluttz. Mary
Louise Whitley wrote a very interest
ing story about htr trip and the
books she read on the way, so she
was given a book she wanted to keep
for her very own. And some of the
grade children and Junior High
School students wrote essays entitled
"Ten Books I Should Like to Own,
and Why." The prize for the best of
these went to John Raffleld for the
grade school children, and to Doro
thy Eastman for Junior High. Others
who deserve mention for having writ
ten interesting essays were Frances
Farthing, Agnes Blanchard, Marian
Womble. Louise Cox, Franklin Har
ward, Evelyn Watkins, Edna Hines
Bynum, Nora Mills. Virginia Kenne
dy, Anna Hughes Turner, Dorothy
Continued on page 3.
Alumni Urged To Send
News About Themselves
Reorganization of Association To
Take Place Soon New Offi-
cers To Be Chosen
In 1923 the Alumni Association of
the Raleigh High School was organ
ized. It Is earnestly desired by the alum
ni adviser, Mrs. Nina H. Covington,
that a reorganization take place, and
she has asked the editor of The Ra
leigh Student to publish the consti
tution, and also to ask alumni to
send in information about themselves
and other alumni. As soon as possi
ble a meeting will be called and new
officers will be chosen.
At the meeting In 1923 Miss Kit
tie Lee Frazier was chosen presi
dent, and G. W. Owen was chosen
vice-president. The adviser was Mrs.
Nina H. Covington. All Information
In regard to alumni should be sent to
Mrs. Covington.
THOMAS WARD IS
ADMITTED TO THE
NAVAL ACADEMY
Tliomaa Want, Clmw of 1027,
HukH Morwin IIIkU Hchitol, and
honor student at Htate CoI1-r
mt'lved hi appointment to the
1'. 8. Naval A'bmy till
opring. He pnwMHl the exami
nation with flying color, and
will Imve In a few weeks for
Annanolin.
178 Graduates Hear Professor
Arthur Holmes Speak on
"Sight and Insight"
The largest graduating class in the
history of the city of Raleigh crowd
ed the stage of the city auditorium
Friday night, May 31, when 178 boys
and girls of the Hugh Morson High
School received from the Mayor of
Raleigh the diplomas which marked
the successful conclusion of their
four years of work and heard an ad
dress on "Sight and Insight" by Dr.
Arthur Holmes of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Holmes was presented by Dr.
George Cuthrell, pastor of Hillyer
Memorial Christian Church. "You
have in your hands the making of
your own world," Dr. Holmes told
the class, . asserting that science has
corroborated what the poets have
sung, in saying that man makes his
own world. Is it true,' the speaker
questioned in the beginning of his
address, that life is predetermined
by heredity or by environment, or is
it true that education and ideals may
lead one on from goal to goal and
star to star in spite of environment
and heredity? He asserted his belief
that each one has in his own hands
largely the making of his own life,
declaring that the doctrine that what,
a person is depends on his external
environment is altogether untrue.
There is no fixed, external, material
world, for no two people are living
in the same world, or seeing the
same things, said the speaker, giving
a series of striking and amusing il
lustrations showing that things of
the senses are entirely relative. There
is no such thing as temperature out
side of the mind; cooking is good or
bad, sweet or sour or salty according
to the way one likes it. People think
they see things when they do not,
he stated, adding that he wanted to
where they will not believe half they
hear and see, which will make them
more cautious in the things they sa$
and more charitable to the opinions
of other people.
Nothing in the external world Is
fixed or made, and it does not im
press itself on one willy-nilly, for one
may go out and see the things one
wants to see and hear the things one
wants to hear, and have in his power
largely the shaping of his own world
and his own destiny.
Interest of the audience particu
larly centered, in the presentation of
medals and announcements of the
Continued on page 3.
Girl Reserves Give
Seniors Farewell Party
Emily Miller and Gwennie Crow
der Delegates to Girl Reserve
Conference at Rockbrook
The annual Girl Reserve farewell
kid party for the senior members of
the club came off Saturday, June 1,
at 8 p.m. Marion Tatum, alumna
member, won the prize among the
girls for the funniest costume; Emily
Miller, dressed as a boy, won the
corresponding costume prize. The
typical childish games were played
"Farmer In the Dell," "Go In and
Out the Window," "Drop the Hand
kerchief," "Going to Jerusalem," and
"King William." Several relay races
were run. Everyone was called on
for some impromptu stunt. Marlon
Tatum convulsed everyone by her
imitation of a grand opera singer;
Mary Waring and Pat Abernethy did
their famous stunt, with Mary as
Major Ivan Petruskl Sklvah and Pat
as Abdul, the Bul-Hul Emir. Miss
Trapler danced a Jig, and Susan
White sang a new version of "The
Desert Song." Using Mary Harvey
Love as a violin, Virginia Cox
played a successful solo. Leila Poole
and Mary Waring put on a very good
song skit, and Suan Stoker did the
"Pipes of Pan" dunce as it might be
done by a certain Latin and Greek
instructor. Gwennie Crowder gave
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and
"Ha! Ha! Me Beauty." The hit of
the evening was a very brief one-act
play, it might be called, by Frances
Thomas, a c!b adviser; she played
the part of the levers and the stern
father very well, arrylng on all the
conversation by the use of the al
phabet. After Ice-cream cones and sticks of
peppermint candy in lemons were
served, Emily Miller and Gwennie
Crowder were elected as delegates to
the O. R. Conference at Camp Rock
brook, June 18-28.