Central Hi School High Points Celebrate Teacher Week and Elections
Last week at Central High School students honored teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week with flowers apples pencils and devotions. The Student Council and Future Teachers of America sponsor annual events. Trip Sizemore was elected state vice president of the National Honor Society at the state convention where the royal club scrapbook placed third. Miss Maxalynn Mourane, NHS advisor, was named president of the American Association of University Women and leads a field workshop in Pennsylvania. Junior Senior Prom themed Carousel is planned for Friday at 8 p.m. in the cafeteria. Library Week featured a bulletin board contest by the Library Club. David Kiel was installed as next year student council president with Johnnie Whicker as VP and Debby Wall as secretary.
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Central
Future Teachers of America
Student Council
Trip Sizemore
National Honor Society
Trip
Maxalynn Mourane
N. HS
American Assn
Mourane
Pennsylvania
David Kiel
Next Years
Ronnie Taylor
David
Johnnie Whicker
Debby Wall
Thomasville High Prom Highlights Honor Seniors And Weeklong Plans
The Junior Senior Prom featured an ocean liner theme signaling graduation soon. Senior Week activities were outlined by Senior Class president Bobby Powell with colors, Parent's Day, service, talent show, and a Rotary banquet. TSHS athletes were honored at Booster's Club night with awards for lineman wrestler and MVPs, plus civic guests listed.
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TSHS
Vic Bubas
Vaughn Daganhart
Buck
Bobby Powell
Bob Dillinger
Geraldin Beshears
Robert Yoats
Jerry Peace
William Penn Notebook Celebrates Library Week Activities
The Pennoteers enjoy National Library Week with book browsing and fund raising for the Penn Echo. Johnsie advances in state oratorical contest for a 1000 dollar scholarship while a senior Walker oratorical contest offers 150 dollars. The dramatic club performs Raisin in the Sun and the band plans a spring concert. May 17 24 and 29 bring awards and commencement events with Rev M W Collier and Dr Kenneth E Howe as speakers.
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Penn Echo
Cal Elk
Johnsie
Greensboro
Dramatic Club
Penn
M. W. Collier
Charlotte
Kenneth E. Howe
Woman's College of the University of North Carlina
Penniies
Finch Field Neglected As Thomasville Lacks Baseball Team
Thomasville’s Finch Field sits decayed with sagging stands and rotten flooring. The city has no active team since the Hi Toms left, making repairs estimated at 15 000 dollars unlikely without public funding. Only a Negro league team from High Point uses the field occasionally for 35 dollars a day.
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Thomasville
Finch Field
High Point
Doak Finch
Cuban refugees find welcome in High Point after escape
Armando Guerra his wife Aldelfa and their 18 month old son Armandito fled Cuba March 20 after facing mandatory militia work. They rode a 21 foot boat with 21 others across the Florida Straits landing in Key West then moved to Miami and finally High Point where Armando quickly found work at Burlington Industries.
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
Armando Guerra
Aldelfa
Armandito
Armando
Florida Straits
United States
Alderla
Key West
Miami
High Point
Burlington Industries
W. Green St
Cuba
Grand Ole Opry Helps Nashville Symphony in Benefit Night
The Grand Ole Opry and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra joined for a benefit performance led by conductor Harry Newstone. Roy Acuff Faron Young and the Wills brothers performed with humor while the audience clapped along, and Newstone surprised both groups in disguise on stage. The invitation for the symphony to return as Opry guests was extended and under consideration by the symphony board.
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Nashville, Tenn
Grand Ole Opry
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Harry Newstone
Opry
The
Symphony
Roy Acuff
Faron Young
Wills Brothers
Newstone
Acuff
Bill Graham's Daughter Is Married
Virginia Graham 18 daughter of evangelist Billy Graham wed Stephen Tchividjian 23 son of a Swiss financier in a private civil ceremony in Montreux Switzerland. Montreux City Registrar Jean Pierre Schneider officiated as a prelude to a religious ceremony set for May 8. Billy Graham and Ava Tchividjian witnessed. The couple met when Tchividjian helped organize a European crusade.
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Montreux
Switzerland
Virginia Graham
Billy Graham
Stephen Tchividjian
Jean- Pierre Schneider
Ava Tchividjian
Tchividjian
Thelder Tchividjian
Graham
Also Mentioned on This Page
Library Club
High Corner
Marshal
Carol Little
Toni Veach
Joyce Sink
Peggy Dorety
Ronald Todd
Tommy Earnhardt
Margaret Allmond
John Burton
Brenda Beck
Janice Hines
Lyle Smith
Ronnie Adams
Aaron Clinard
Central District of
North
Aaron
Fred Potts
Rotary
Frankie Sedberry
Lions
Jim Little
William Penn
Um. Penn
Hotos Dick Swaim
Havana
Aldefla
America
Dick Swaim
Aids Symphony
Bill Graham
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