Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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S. C. A. COUNCIL The Student Cooperative Association is the newest and largest organization in the high school. Its membership includes every boy and girl in the school. Its council is composed of the president of each organization in the school and a representative from each home room. The main purposes of the S. C. A. are to promote citizenship, cooperation, health, recreation, and self-improvement. It acts as a clearing house for the various organizations. Since its establishment in the fall of this year, it has sponsored the Red Cross and Tuberculosis Campaigns, a campaign to purchase a radio for the school, the Defense Bond and Stamp drive, and an organized effort to save paper, stamps and metal tubes for defense. It has, also, given many and varied assembly programs for the student body. OFFICERS French Slaughter President Henry Clayton Johnson Vice-President Rosalie Kibler Secretary Harriet Green Treasurer Miss Mary Cunningham, Miss Anne Porterfield Sponsors Brown, Sammy Chilton, Robert Comptcn, Dorothy Dodson, Lila Eggborn, Bill Eggborn, Margaret Green, Harriet MEMBERS Hawkins, A. W. Hitt, Thomas Hutchison, Augusta Jameson, Maxwell Jenkins, Hallie Johnson, Henry C. Johnson, Peggy Kibler, Rosalie Norris, Jack Simpson, Bettie Slaughter, French White, Jean Wood, Jean Yancey, Scott Page Twenty-four

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Activities

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Culpeper High School THE PEPERGRAM March 2S. 1942 PURPOSES The Pepergram is pub- lished for the purpose of teaching journalism to the students. It is an avocation to prepare those who are interested in journalism as a voca- tion. The paper is a means by which the students, faculty, and patrons may be kept informed about school events and activ- ities. It is published monthly by a competent editorial and business staff. HISTORY The Pepergram was first founded by Mrs. H. B. Lacy in 1930. Last yen ' the Pepergram won first place in a state con- test of C” class school editions. It has developed inco an interesting and entertaining feature. PEPERGRAM TO BE JUDGED The first three issues of the 1941-42 Peper- gram were sent to the National Scholastic Press Association on January 20, 1942 for criticism. The paper will be rated and returned some time this month. BUSINESS STAFF Mary Campbell Chilton is the Business Manager for the Pepergram. As- sistants are: Peggy Mc- Veigh, Rosalie Kibler, Bob Chilton, Dicky Fur- nival, Cecil Carder, Joe Brown, Katherine White- hurst, Elizabeth Jones, Frances Graves, Walton Loving, Edgar Bushong, Maiy McClary, Mary Petty, Patsy Carder, Au- drey Huffman, Betty Jeffries, Dorothy Kelly, Effie Sours, Margaret Egg- born, Carolyn Eller, Mary Catron, Clara Haw- kins, Hilda Thornhill, Marshall Jenkins, and Beverly Harlow. PEPERGRAM ' S GALA EVENING The December issue stated that the Peper- gram staff would enter- tain the student body at a dance. Well, they did and was it fun! There was plenty of music, food and fun for every- one. We even were enter- tained with selections from our own students. All especially liked Tho- mas Hitt’s arrangement of Begin the Beguine.” When can we have an- other of these parties? QUILL AND SCROLL ORGANIZED A chapter of Quill and Scroll, an international honorary society for high school journalists, has been organized in Cul- peper High School with the approval of Principal R. R. Tolbert and the Student Cooperative As- sociation. The purpose of the society is to encour- age and to reward indi- vidual achievement in journalism. It was estab- lished also to produce a belter high school news- paper and to inspire the staff to greater effort. Miss Mary George Bolen, at the February meeting of the Peper- gram staff, outlined the value of a Quill and Scroll in the school and suggested the foundation of a local chapter. The staff veted unanimously to obtain a charter for our chapter in order that we might organize. All students who have done exceptional work on the Pepergram or Col- onnade are eligible to become members of Quill and Scroll. The qualifi- cations are as follows: 1. Members must be of junior or senior stand- ing. EDITORIAL STAFF The Editor-in-Chief is Bettie Simpson. Her as- sistants are: Faye Clarke Edna Harris, Bobby Pet- erson, Thomas Hitt, Anne Willis, Harriet Green, Ada Newton Nalle, Catherine Palmer, Anne Browning, Edith Apper- son. Roy Hutcherson, Julius Quaintance, Lila Dodson, Augusta Flutch- ison, A. W. Hawkins, Ruth Smith, Peggy John- son, Katherine Yancey, Connie Singers, Evelyn Payne, Elsie Bennett, Betty Thurston, Emily Smith, Robert Hitt, Hen- rietta Berry, Claire Haley, and Bill Edmondson. The advisors are Miss Anna Mae Harris and Miss Mary George Bolen. 2 They must be in the upper third of their class at the time of their election. 3. They must have done superior work in some phase of journalism or creative endeavor. 4. They must be rec- ommended by a faculty adviser. 5. They must be ap- proved by the Executive Secretary of the Societv.