Unusual Talent Evidenced By Bill Currie at HPHS
Bill Currie, a versatile student at High Point High School, is highlighted for his leadership and achievements. He helped put HPHS on the map through participation in sports reporting, debating, and student activities. Currie led the Pointer to prominence as editor and steered the debating team to district championships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fligh Point High School
Bill Currile
High Point
High Point High School
HPHS
Orterical Society
the Pointer
Last Will and Testament Of High Point Senior Class 1941
The Forty one senior class of High Point Senior High School drafts a playful last will and testament. It bequeaths privileges and school-life traits to juniors and a long list of named successors including monks, editors, dancers, and various students with humorous transfers of titles and gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Senior High School
Dot Chamberlain
Sara Bray
Jimmie Corrigan
Monk” Watkins
George Humphreys
John Haworth
THE
Pointer
Bill Currie
Arnold Koonce
Tierb Flodgin
Nancy Bennett
Allan Hayes
Margie Russell
Winifred Bivens
Jack Mowery
Myrtle Johnson
Carolyn Jones
Mary Lou Bennett
Harold Davis
Fate Sasser
Bobbye Lindsay
Virginia
Stewart Stone
Robert McCall
Byron Grandjean
Harold Womble
Rebekah Conrad
Gloria Ilderton
Dale Farr
Jo Ingram
Joe Fidler
Jack Rochelle
High Point High School Farewell To Carvine
Carvine will leave his hometown to join UNC to study journalism, marking the departure of a favored student athlete. The school laments the loss yet celebrates a bright future in Carolina’s journalism program.
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High Point
Carolina
Carvine
UNC
Newsreel Club Sees Record Season At School
Under sponsor Thomas Baldwin the Newsreel Club reports a successful school year. The group acquired a new 16mm projector and used it to screen over forty educational films and related activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Goldston
Thomas Baldwin
Forty-Eight English Classes Are Taught
English classes in the Senior High School require forty-eight sections taught by ten teachers. The program covers grammar rhetoric composition and vocabulary in first semester with debates reports and leadership tasks. Second semester focuses on English and American literature, with biographies and special reading projects, including a city reading-habits survey of 1,181 homes in High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Newsreel Club Expands Visual Education At High Point
The Newsreel Club at High Point High School sponsored movies on biology typing wood working metal casting sculpture trench and a special The Fighting Marines plus full length films Palooka Mercy Plane Trans Atlantic Merry-Go-Round and news reels. The club handles all school showings and joined the Amateur Cinema League to boost amateur projection and photography education.
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High Point High School
Amateur Cinema League
School grade reorganization plan for 1940 41
The board outlines year by year grade promotions and building plans for 1940 41 and 1941 42. It allows pupils to extend to 12 years for five year credits and details grade housing for white and Negro students, curriculum revisions, and enrollment guidance. Additional info available from principals or the superintendent.
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Board of School Commissioners
Elemntary
Fairview
Leonard Street
William Penn
North Carolina
Oklahoma Patrol Finds One Quarter Cars Defective
Approximately 25 percent of cars inspected by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol are found to be mechanically defective. New York led in state collections for motor fuel taxes with a 1940 total of 70,931,000 dollars.
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The
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
New York
School study compares three daily papers for pupils
Students received a copy of each of three daily papers for a week to study their content. The English department lists teachers including Miss Muriel Bilwinkle, head, and Mrs. Ruth Carter, Mrs. Maude Carter, Mrs. Margaret Gladstone, Miss Ruth Goodman, Miss Bernice Love, Miss Eloise Best, Miss Elizabeth Munroe, Miss Evelyn Ballentine, and Mrs. Florence Bowen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muriel Bilwinkle
Ruth Carter
Maude Carter
Margaret Gladstone
Ruth Goodman
Bernice Love
Eloise Best
Elizabeth Munroe
Evelyn Ballentine
Florence Bowen
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Bud Kivett
David Barker
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Harry Rothrock
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W. O. Webb
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James Hayworth
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Pinkey Hedrick
Jack Preston
Doug Reid
Ansel Snow
Herb Speas
Willard Wilson
Haiti Welborn
Bob Bencini
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Maxie Crowder
Charles Kimsey
Purcell Kimsey
Hale Hardee
Bill Peak
George Nostrand
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Peggy Jane Bryant
Betty Jean Bales
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Marie Lily
Ruby Parker
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