Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Mcuj 27, 1938 GREEN LIGHTS Page Twenty-Seven LIVING ROOM Homemaking Department NURSERY SCHOOL SCENE The Homemaking Department through- out the year has been under the supervision of two George Reed teachers, Miss Jessie Schnopp and Miss Evelyn Rogers. With their leadership the department has come to be recognized as one of the most pro- gressive in the state. In addition to guid- ing the regular projects of the department at school, Misses Schnopp and Rogers have made one hundred twenty-five visita- tions and have carried on a vocational pro- gram in the community. in the home economics apartment on Fourth Street, to which additional furnish- ingj have been added since last year, a large number of girls have lived each week- end this spring. Here, also, have been •given r any parties, dinners and teas. Out ' tanding public appearance of the Home Ec Club was in connection with the Better Homes program early in May. Two special assemblies were devoted to this theme. Distributed at the senior high program sponsored by this group were copies of The Homemaker, a nine- page magazine-newspaper edited by the Home Ec Club. Mary Agnes Deal was editor of the publication and Lucy Nobles assistant. Duiing the year a Better Playground exhibit and HOME ECONOMICS JESSIE SCHNOPP contest was supervised by this department; fifteen play- grounds were entered in the contest. For the second con- secutive year the department undertook a nursery school. This was held at the home management house during the last month of school with eleven nursery children in attendance. INSTRUCTORS EVELYN ROGERS

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Page Twenty-Six GREEN LIGHTS Entre Nous Members May 27, 1938 Under the supervision of Miss Imogene Riddick, adviser, the French Club has completed one of its most successful years. Composed of fifteen students, the group might well be called a dramatics club, for the mem- bers have presented several delightful programs to the student body. Foremost among these was the Christmas program with the dialogue in French. Also dramatiza- tions of short stories have been made at the meetings. Louis Mayo headed the organization this year while Geraldine Taylor acted as secretary. Debate Club The Debate Club, under Mr. T. C. Bryan ' s guidance, has been an active group all year. Outstanding effort of the club was its participation in the State triangular debate contest. Each team representing Greenville High School won its way to Chapel Hill by virtue of victories over Tarboro and Roanoke Rapids Marjorie Sugg and Louis Mayo, negative debaters, advnced to the semi-finals in the state contest. Ruby Grant and Charles Briley composed the affirmative team. Alice Leigh Blow and Janie Eakes were alternates. Fifteen old members and nine new members constitute the personnel of the club.

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Pajje Twenty-Eight GREEN LIGHTS May 21, 1938 7 ■ Eleven journalists, accompanied by Mrs. J. H. Rose, V. M. Mulholland and Tom Wilson, attended the Co- lumbia Scholastic Press Association convention in New York City, March 6-13. Besides winnmg a first-place award for Green Lights, the high school delegates enjoyed the sights of the city for three days before the convention started. In the picture are Louise ' Kilgo, Myra Blount Doris Duval, Mary Belle Robertson, Elizabeth Meadows, Howard Hodges, James Whitfield, William Harris, Allen Taylor and Thornton Ryan. Baxter Clark, not pictured, made the trip also. Quill and Scroll, in- ternational honor so- ciety for high school journalists, which was organized last year in Greenville High, has as its objectives the promotion of the best interests of school and community and the up- holding of the ideals of journalism. The char- ter members of tvhe group now in school are James Whitfield, Thornton Ryan. Eark Helkn, William Harris and Allen Taylor. New members ad- mitted to the club last week are Mary Horne, Mary Belle Robertson, Myra Blount, Marjorie Sugg, Elizabeth Mead- ows, Baxter Glark and Wilton Highsmith.