Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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THE TAU, 1922 and Rose. 1 saw them all four again the next day and they didn ' t seem to be minus any hair, so 1 suppose the others have decided to accept their defeats without any show of struggle. I wanted to name the cutest girl, but Edwin said he thought it would create a good feeling between the classes if we left that honor to the Junior Class, and as Robert and C. B. so thoroughly agreed with him I gave in, in spite of opposition. Since Virginia couldn ' t have it for the cutest she graciously accepted the cnltllemcnls, best dancer. Some say Rose didn ' t like it — I can ' t imagine why. The whole school elected Margaret Cone for the most dignified, so there was no way of getting around it. I ' ll have to give it to her. Many see, but few know and yet all know that Margaret Cone ' s dignity can ' t hold a candle to that of Lois and Elizabeth (a dignity born of the Four Hundred). When it comes to dignity, they ' ve really got ' em. Margaret Cone also was voted the most stylish. Now I want everybody to remember that all that took place before anyone saw Pudgy in the Senior Play. She and Tommy took the cake that night (what Peter didn ' t eat). Novella, Eva and Lillian are our star typewriting and shorthand students. They have made such progress that Miss Huggins is terribly afraid of losing her job in favor of one of them. Those three have had such a battle over who is the best that to settle the dispute we all decided in favor of Miriam. Speaking of teachers for next year, we are glad to announce two assistants in the French Department: Mile. Olivia Moye and Mile. Gladys Hicks. The school is indeed fortunate in securing such connoisseurs of the life and language of the French people. The facull;y have secretly asked Stella and Maude to fail on some subject so they can remain on the basketball team next year. Their height has made them the idol of the basketball fans. They have no fear of any team they may meet and they have it all over ' Belhaven ' s center. Except for the egotistical qualities of individuals herein described, 1922 is a fine bunch of folks, the best ever graduated from old G. H. S., n ' est-ce pas? We have always known our lessons well — 1 much better than the teachers thought, because we were often afraid it might look as if we were showing . N j off arid we are such an unassuming bunch. But I must tell you where we shine. We have suddenly H discovered that we are all natural born actors and actresses. Did you see All On Account of PoUy? They said it was pretty good, but that isn ' t a circumstance to what we are going to do later on. When i ' i ' Edwin becomes President and I his Secretary of State and all the others fit in ' .o their proper places of I prominence, we are going to lurn ihh old world upside down! I ' i joE Move, Phoolosopher. Page lwen( )-nine

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THE TAU, 19 22 Pkoolosopky ii si RE people usually chosen for a certain job because of their peculiar fitness for that par- ticular job? When a person is chosen by an august body of thirty-lwo Seniors for any job, however humble, is it in order for him to feel duly flattered. You say it is? Well, maybe so. But I contend that the dul,y flatteredness automatically modifies itself according to the kind of job. As I consider the title of the job assigned me (particularly the first syllable) I feel duly flattered all right, but the emphasis is on the duly, cer- tainly not the flattered. So please let it be understood that I am duly flattered rather than duly flaltered by this Phool job that has been assigned me by my unworthy classmates. Do you get me? All right! Having been elected to this job I shall endeavor to show my readers the degree to which I am flattered by telling them the hard, boiled-down truth about my classmates. If any of the latter want to get wrathy, we can settle it later when we all meet at the bug house (which, by the way, will probably be in the near future if we can judge b y the conglomeration of H O polygons, amo francais. General Joffre at Bunker Hill, and the recipe for making angel ' s food cake, vrhich turns out to be po man ' s pudding, which conglomeration is battling for supremacy in our poor, overcrowded craniums. To resume: if any Senior wishes to get revenge for any statement in this article let him seek it by battering thei walls of his own temple for ever being so nearsighted as to elect to any position, big or little, such a poor boob as yours truly. ' Null sed in the way of apologies (none will be made later). On September 8, 1918, one hundred sixty-eight feet trod the path of wisdom that led to the Freshman classroom of Greenville High School. Speaking of feet, Mary Gaskill ' s and Aleene ' s stood out before ail the others. I am not sure whether it was due to the size or ' whether they wore wooden soles — at any rate, they always kept us from getting the prize in a marching contest. At the present writing there are fewer feet in the class than there were then, but there are consid- erably more square feet because of rapid growth. There are also plenty of square heads (a la block, I suppose), but the owners of these are too numerous to enumerate. But 1 am forgetting again; we were speaking of feet. Many of the aforementioned pedal extremities have wandered off the path of knowl- edge into the byways and hedges of matrimony, money-making and other similar speculations. But not more than half of the deserters are millionaires by now and that helps to console those who have remained to the bitter end. If they could have planned to suit themselves, practically all the class would be married except Marietta, our man-hater, and Frank, the most timid boy in school. Why, Marietta hates the boys so that if she starts up to see Lois she goes all the wa,y down Fifth Street to Five Points and by the Post Office and up Greenville Heights to Lois ' . And Frank, poor fellow, often has to cut by the Training School on his way to church because on that first corner there is often congregated a bunch of girls. Now, Dick Williams is just the opposite — a lion among ladies. He is all but late many a morning because he goes out of his way just to get up with the girls. Bernice, Margaret, Annie Mae, and Frances have been such problems for us all in the matter of being noisy and rowdy. We have advised them to emulate the example of perfect silence and dignity set them by Aleene, Virginia and Jeanette, but our efforts have been futile. The beauties in our class were hard to decide upon. Now, whether I mean they were lacking, or that there was so much competition, is a matter of moment, but better settled in the courts, so judgment must be deferred. At an,y rate, no less- than twelve girls and even two of the boys (sh! — Howard and Robert), as soon as they learned that I was to decide upon the statistics, came to me privately and tried to bribe me to declare them the most beautiful. I lost sleep over the matter for several nights and finally decided to dispose of most of the candidates and divide the honor between Blanche, Deanie Boone, Anna Page imenty-eighl

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THE TAU, 19 22 Propkecy There took place at the Greenville High School on the night of May 31, 1922, an event long to be remembered. The largest class up to that time in the historj ' of the school was presented with diplomas. No one put much thought on the future except as far as the next year, because all but one had decided to go on to college and then take up some vocation which they would be fitted for while there. Since that time much progress has been made by the world in all lines, especially in that of electricity. This is the year of 1942, which is an exponent of the electrical age. There has just been a new invention perfected, the vida-phone, which is to he used in connection with the radia-phone; that is, making one able to see something at the trans- mitting station as well as to hear. The inventor is no other than one of the graduates of the 1922 Senior Class, Howard Moye, master of technicalities, especially proficient with electricity, having progressed rapidly in his special field since leaving high school. The Senior Class of 1942 is making a special effort to get all of the Class of 1922 together, and those that can not be present are to let the committee getting up the affair know so they can be provided with a vida-phone, the compliments of the inventor. The chief attraction is to be the first woman to deliver the commencement address, an accom- plished lawyer whose services it has been hard to secure. She was at the time busy with an international lawsuit, having for her chief opposition Mary Gaskill Flanagan, another prominent lawyer having an immense practice. But after much correspondence the speaker of the occasion was setded to be Miriam, the president of our 1 922 class. There are some other attractions held by some to be even more attractive: The duet of Margaret Cone Tucker and Jimmy Barber, both members of Grand Opera, who have achieved much success in the world of music since last seen by their old classmates. The selection they are going to render is their newest and most popular Victor record attain- ment, the words originated by Jimmy and the music composed by Margaret Cone. Another of the drawing cards is Jeanette Whedmore ' s appearance in person to give a selection of her own composition on the violin, having made a special trip from Europe for the occa- sion. The accompaniment in both cases is to be played by Frances Smith, a very accom- plished pianist. The program is to be actuated in the new larger auditorium which had to be built on account of so great an influx of population which had come to work in the factory of Howard, which he had built in Greenville in preference to any other place. The program started at eight o ' clock, opening with a song by the Glee Cub, under the directorship of Stella Whichard, who very ably filled her position, and fine music was given. The next thing was a prayer by Wyatt Brown, the minister secured for the occasion. Then followed the speech by Miriam, filled with sagacious advice and delivered ' ■ ' Page ih ' irl ■I