Swannanoa School Scoops Prepared by the Students of Swannanoa Schools FROM ONE TO EIGHT I 6 B-1 Honor Roll James Moyers, Jerry Bridges, Barbara Norman, Geneva Brother ton, Louise Burch, Elizabeth Hall, Norma Ann Stephenson, Loretta Lewis, Louella Dillingham, Mar lene Pyatte, Jeanette Burleson, Billy Morgan. 6 B-2 — Limericks In our English class we have been studying about Limericks. Everyone in our class had to write two Limericks. Some were very funny. We had two very good ones that were written by Patsy Travis and Delores Cream. Here they are: There was once a girl named Pat. And she was very, very fat. One day as she wrote, There came a goat, She tasted so bad he spat. By Delores Cream Once there was a girl named Delores. Who always wanted a divorce. She liked the man For he was a pan. For him, she sang a chorus. By Patsy Travis 7 B-1 Grade Laughs Cecil McMahan in health read this sentence: “The Villi contains tiny blood vessels called Capill aires.” He called Capillaires cater pillars. Roy Robinson says his appendicfs is three feet long (he meant 3 inches). A wise statement: Knowledge is power when wisely used. A wise old opposite tale spelled and read backwards (is same) by John Jordan: “Rats live on no evil star.” 7 B-3 The "Read" Magazine We thoroughly enjoy our “Read” magazine. It is a small booklet which we receive every two weeks. It features news, tra vel, science, fiction, people, sports, and humor. (This week our magazine has many interesting facts about Christmas. Everyone is hard at work on his Christmas Contract. We are | including some of our favorite Christmas carols, stories, poems and pictures. We are sure we will have some very attractive and in teresting booklets when they are completed. We are busy making an inter esting summary in Health. Our teacher, Mrs. Hipp, has asked each pupil to list the foods he eats for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week. We are to compare the foods with those given in our text book as a means of knowing if we have an adequately balanced and protective diet. We are also comparing our school lunches ! with the combination of foods given in our text. We are pleased to know our cafeteria gives us well-balanced meals. By Wyona Howie and Robert Hughes Nothing New Here The following teachers reported no news for the week: Mrs. Porter, r Mrs. Dorothy Freeman, Mrs. Stan ton, Mrs. Henson, Mrs. F. Mc Kinney, Miss Gregg, Miss Buck ner, Mrs. Penland, Mrs. Hampton, Miss Stephenson, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. O. McKinney, Mrs. Russell, Miss Dillingham. Mrs. Herrington, Miss Watkins, Miss Miller, Miss Shu ford, Mr. Walden, Miss Glass, Mrs. O’Barr, Mr. Shaver, Mrs Sawyer, Mrs. Bryan and Mrs. Moser. Beta Club Meets The Beta club met on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 1:30 in Mrs. Freeman’s room. After calling the meeting to order, the president called for the minutes of the last meeting and the treasurer’s report. The names of the people who owe dues were read. When new business was called for Joyce Stuart read the constitution of the proposed Music club which is to be a project of the Beta club. The club voted to sponsor the Music club as the project for this year. The meet ing was adjourned to practice a chapel program for the induction of new members, which was to be given on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The Beta club met again on Wednesday for the purpose of hearing a visiting speaker who had been unable to attend the meeting on Tuesday. The Rev. Mr. Talbot from the Swannanoa Pres byterian church was our speaker. He was born in China and has spent many years there as a miss ionary. He sang a Christmas carol and the twenty-third psalm in Chinese. He demonstrated the use of chop sticks and showed many interesting things, such as hymn books, a Chinese Bible, Chinese shoes and many Chinese figures. Everyone enjoyed the program. By Betty Creasman BUSES ARE IMPORTANT The larger majority of school kids going to Swannanoa High school use school buses as trans portation. Little is thought of the buses but they play a large part in the book learning here. We have five buses with three of these being driven by high school seniors. Charles Fender 31, Laurel Allen 2, Kenneth Davidson 27. The other buses are driven by older men, Mr. Stevens and Mr. Burnette. These buses travel in a mark from the Mountain Orphanage, Azalea, Shope Creek, Buckeye; from this they cover a large area. These buses travel an average of 170 miles daily, making the total approximately 31,000 miles yearly. These buses use approximately 60 quarts of oil and 2600 gallons of gasoline, which makes the buses expensive as well as important. All bus loads come to about j 700 daily and 126,000 yearly. j WANT-ADS SELI_Phone 4101 UNITED FORCES PLAN The United Forces for Education will present to the 1953 General Assembly of North Carolina the following program: Class size: A class size of 30 pupils per teacher, based on aver age daily attendance, and the re duction to 25 pupils per teacher '• as soon as possible. 1 Salaries: A salary schedule of : $2,600 to $4,100 for A certificated teachers, as a minimum, based on present conditions with commen surate increases in salaries of i other school personnel. The salary schedule for A certificated teach ers shall be based on not more than 12 increments. Attendance: Sufficient funds to employ an adequate number of properly qualified attendance en forcement personnel. Supplies: Appropriations not only to meet increased costs of current expense items but also to provide additional required ser vices and supplies (such as im proved janitor and maid services, clerical aid for schools and more instructional materials). Buildings: Capital outlay funds by bond issue to complete the present school building program, these funds to be distributed on the basis of need and ability to provide. This program needs your sup port-better schools make better ' communities. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS We thought some of the students would like to have the teachers’ addresses to send them Christmas cards. Faith White, 106 Kensington road, Greensboro, N. C. Mrs. i Mary Freeman, Swannanoa, N. C. i Mrs. Laura M. Hamed, Box 77, ’ Skyland, N. C. Nancy Wrenn, i Wendover, Southern Pines, N. c! ' Torn Hornaday, Box 459, Shelby^ i N. C. Y. L. Medlin, 19 Craig Cir cle, Oteen, N. C. Mrs. Betty Wade i T-5 Beverly Apts., Asheville, R ! C. Mrs. H. O. Weeman, 34 Wind- - ior Road, Asheville, N. C. Mr. E. I V. Howell, Grovemont, Swannanoa ! N. C. Squaws Show Improvement J Everyone seems to think the < girls are improving a great deal j md they are. For the last few 1 veeks Mr. Shaver, our coach, has t seen drilling the guards and for- i vards until they were so tired ( hey couldn’t walk a straight line. Our team has come a long way ind learned a lot since the first ] )f the season, but they can and 1 ivill be better. < Although we have been losing 1 sy a high tally, we hope to 1 vin the rest of our games this r season. But if we don’t we can : jlways say we tried. 1 I’m sure I can say this for my self and everyone else on the i earn, that if we can’t win, we can 1 >e good sports about losing; and i think good sportsmanship is the i nost important part of any game, s By Nancy Jones s t I OPEN THE DOOR TO FINER READING VALUES! This newspaper offers America's finest magazines. 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So far Mrs. Sawyer’s room and Mrs. Wade’s room are the highest. On Monday, Dec. 7, a drawing was held in the auditorium. Fif teen dollars were to be given away, but no one was lucky. All the teachers brought in their reg isters which were mixed together and Mr. Medlin drew one register at the time from them and pointed his finger to one of the names in the register. The lucky names were: Elementary, Charles Craig from Mrs. Stanton; High school, Curtis Hall from Miss Wrenn. Then they were both combined and Wanda Gallion was the one picked. The money wasn’t given away because they could not answer the following question: “Have you sold at least 2 maga zines?” The answer was no from all three. This money will be car ried over until the next drawing. The drive ended on Monday the 15th. Down The Hall Senior Superlatives The senior class met Wednesday and elected the superlatives by the one having the largest number of votes. It was a close race and hard to decide who to vote for, but the class feels they made a wise choice in selecting the following: Most athletic, Doris Peek, Ken neth Davidson. Best looking, Betty Smith, Bobby Slagle. Wittest, Mary Moody, Jim Fender. Most likely to succeed, Barbara Vanover, Jim Stroupe. Most dependable, Barb ara Clark, Jim Ward. Best per sonality, Rebecca Lewis, Harold Allen. Most popular, Imogene Cody, Jack Hunter. Most friendly, Shirley Lewis, Sidney Bass. Most intellectual, Joyce Weatherly, Laurel Allen. Most talented, Ruby Allen, Bud Matthews. Most orig inal, Eva Nell Ledford, Donald Cant. 1th Grade News mu iicta ct guuu re presentation on the boys’ basket ball team. They are as follows: Orren Bell, Don Luckadoo, Dean Wilkerson, Jack Allen, Floyd Waldrup and Walter McCraw. There is only one girl from the 11th grade on the girls’ team and that is Betty Creasman. The junior class had a square lance at the new Swannanoa Club bouse last Saturday night and is planning to have more there at i later date. The money from the iquare dances goes to the junior ;enior banquet. So please support he entertainments we give because we can really put the money to j good cause. Music for this Christmas dance was furnished by the String bearters. By Jo Mary Mclnturff Ninth Grade News Boys and girls of the ninth grade are getting into the spirit af Christmas. One section has al ready drawn names and the other will draw Friday. We think this ill is a lot of fun. Christmas holidays will soon be aere so that we may join in all he hustle and excitement. We are all glad that our six weeks tests are over so we can start relaxing again. By Betty Woody Dramatics Class Plays The Dramatics class of Swan lanoa High school has 13 mem bers. With the help of Mr. Medlin hey have obtained a great deal, rhey will present their first plays n chapel Dec. 19. One of the plays s “Baby’s Christmas Dinner.” The :haracters are: Mrs. Brown, Eva 'Jell Ledford; Susie, Doris Peek; Joctor Dosem, Donald Gant; Mrs. Josem, the nurse, Ruby Allen, rhe second play is the “Christmas -’ropo.sal” and the characters are: \bbie Spriggins, Barbara Clark; Slsie Spriggins. Imogene Cody; Jscar, Jim Stroupe; Squire Jo Irenn, Bobby Slagle. Class Activities Here are some of the things hat are going on in the classes it S.H.S.: Biology, worms; Alge ira, Parenthese within Parenlhe es; Civics, Federal Government; English IV, Conjugation of verbs; American History, Constitution of J. S.; French, read it, write it, peak it; Office Practice, Filing; leneral Business, Insurance; Typ ig II, letters; Home Economics 1, housing. Library Science Class There are seven persons taking .ibrary Science this year. They re: Barbara Clark, Rebecca iewis, Ruby Harrison, Joyce hope, Jim Stroupe, Bobby Gregg nd Bobby Slagle. We work an verage of two hours per day, hecking books in and out. Last week we rebound 60 books ■hich were in very poor condi on. We check out approximately 5 books per day. A variety of 1,837 books are vailable for the students to hoose from. We all enjoy taking .ibrary Science under the diree ion of Y. L. Medlin, librarian. Class Officers Here is a list of the class of icers: 9 B-l: president, Wayne Mahaf ey; vice president, Harold Bur 72 Students Have Perfect Records Listed below is a list of names of 72 high school students who have not missed a day in the first three scljpol months: Betty Woody, Susie Saunooke, Eleanor Robinson, Barbara Har vey, Wanda Gallion, Jean Adams. Carolyn Adams, Johnny Vess, Ted Creasman, Cline Callahan, Boyce Bartlett, Evan Powell, Walter Rainwater, Bobby Rogers, Tommy Stevens, Ray Suttles, James Vess, Dean Wilkerson, David Young, Mary Jo Cooke, Betty Creasman, Phyllis Hutchens, Carolyn Porter, Mary Ellen Simms, Peggy Yow, Kenneth Davidson, Charles Fender, Ariel Young, Jeanette Banks, Doris Peek, Charles Byas, Roy Suttles, Willie Mae Church, Don ald Gant, Junior Phillips. Barbara Clark, Marvin Byas. Sonia Burle son, Jean Byas, Sylvia Hunt. Nancy Jones, Kathleen Magnant, Annie Louise Morgan, Shirley Mc Kinney, Phyllis Pyatt, Carolyn Woods, Beverly Cragg, Peggy Ed monds, Barbara Harding, Jack quiline McMahan, Betty Reynolds, Ina Smith, Albert Harper, Allen Messer, Johnny Mills, Earl Pruitt, Larry Rhymer, Jacksie Allen, Jo Ann Allen, Sondra Ballard, Marg aret Breedlove, Joyce Ledbetter, Carolyn Luckadoo, Gwenivere Nan ney, Clara Pickens, Ann Shaver, Duane Bogan, Richard Campfield, Johnny Fox, Jack Ward, Dorothy Burnette and Mildred Clark. rell; secretary, Jimmy McMahan; treasurer, Johnny Mills. 9 B-2: president, Robert Pruett; vice president, Wade Talbot; secre tary,-treasurer, Bruce Hensley. 10 B-l: president, Martha Ma haffey; vice president, Jack Ward; secretary-treasurer, Dottie Burn ette. 10 B-2: president, Bobby Towe; vice president, George Astley; secretary - treasurer, Willie Davis. llfh grade: president, Dean Wilkerson; vice president, Jack Allen; secretary, Mary Ellen Sims; treasurer, John Brown. 12th grade: president, Barbara Vanover; vice president, Donald Gant; secretary, Junior Phillips; treasurer, Jim StrouD. GOSSIP 1— What’s this I hear about David Y. and his experience with the salt in the lunchroom and “The Cider Gang?” 2— Everywhere you go around S.H.S. you see K. D. and C. P. Are they going steady? 3— Now that the bonfires are over, what’s happened to B R and B. C.? ..mil.. ** Hen. Happened 10 w. k. and his OLD girl friend? Looks like J. M. got in the way. 5—Well, boys, did you pay Mrs Freeman for that Apple Cider? Mae Martin III Mae Martin, a girl in the senior class, has been in the hospital. She is at home now recovering rapidly. It is the wish of all the students that she will soon be back at school. Student Council The Student Council is selling school pennants. These pennants would make very nice Christmas presents. If you would like to buy one, see one of the members of the Student Council. The officers of the Student Council, president Jim Stroupe, vice president Phyllis Hutchins, secretary - treasurer Peggy Ed monds acted as host to the Mon treat choir which gave a program of Christmas music at the school Thursday, Dec. 11. DID YOU KNOW? —That Mr. Hornaday went to W.C.T.C.? —We get 16 days for Christ mas? —That there are 39 seniors in the senior class? —Mr. Shaver is our new basket ball coach? —Barbara Spivey and Sara Dill ingham were in the hospital? —Betty Lou Smith is re-en gaged? —That Jim Stroupe played in the Optimist Bowl? —That Mr. Howell has been our principal for over 25 years? —Miss Wrenn was Duke May Queen? —Mr. Hornaday isn’t marned? Our Special Brake Inspection Brake inspection is more than "business" with us. It's a RESPONSIBILITY to this community. That's why we take meticulous care with inspection and adjustments. DO YOUR part. Drive up! Joe Porclier’s Garage Phone 6641 Swannanoa, N. 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