Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Black Masquers Eustace Conway, President Sara Lee Bland, Vice-President Joyce Corbett, Secretary Mary Anne Duncan, Treasurer Jasper Pollard, Sergeant at Arms Mrs. Howard Mims, Advisor ■■■••■.•tlM -- ■ . Mrs. Howard Mims The Black Masquers of Greenville hij;h school arc the honor students in dramatics. This year early grad- uation left the club with only six members to carry on. Installed in Greenville hifth school in 1939 by the Rocky Mount chapter, the local Black Masquers organizti- tion has continuously been an active one. During the year the group sponsored Brother Goose, a three-act comedy. The play proved to be very successful but without the able assistance of ten outstanding drama- teers, who were chosen as Junior Black Masquers, the production would have been impossible. The play was under the direction of Mrs. Howard Mims, advisor. During the past year the dramatics class has pre- sented several public performances. They are as follows: Elmer, a paid performance, We Hold These Truths, contribution to Education Week, and The Creed, u free-will play to further the sale of Easter Seals. Ten Dramateers were chosen by the Black Masquers to be Junior Black Masquers and it was those students who assisted in the production of Brother Goose. Those students were chosen because of their outstanding work in dramatics. The Dramateers assisted the AAUW in bringiiig The Sleeping Beauty to Greenville by Vieing host to the players. Dramateers Joyce Corbett, President Eustace Conway, Treasurer Mary Ann Harris, Secretary Mrs. Howard Mims, Adviser

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Radio Club Ralph Fleming, Charter Member William Keck, Charter Member J. L. Brandt Jimmy Corey Tommy Diener Aeronautics Class Elementary aeronautics, a class organized solely in the interest of the war effort and sponsored by the U. S. Government, was taught for the first time in GHS this year. The class began after the Christmas holidays with an enrollment of twenty-three boys, mostly Juniors and Seniors. At the close of school only sixteen of these lioys answer the daily roll call in Room 17, the remainder having donned uniforms, entered college, or are expecting to ent ' - the armed foices in the immediate future. The class has had several instructors, each teaching a dift ' erent phase of aeronautics. Clyde Carter, now a Navy Chaplain, taught before being inducted into service and Miss Rgrier Barrett, liscened navigation instructor taught for a while. The aeronautic class ajiprociated the cooi)eratioi: of the sergeants stationed at the Marine Airport outside of Greenville.

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Class Prophecy (CENSORED BY LOCKER NO. 41) ' Tis later than you think. In fact it is jubt about ....o ' clock, afternoon, during the year of It was such a day that we left - for ' s main street. And the le z of the day was so amazing that even we are suspicious that we ' re lying. But were putting the jerk before the jump so we ' ll just start with leaving the hotel and going down street. Coming out of a building, that had bars across the windows and with policewomen, Mary Elizabeth Allen, Blanche Cayton, and Ruth Brown, walking around it, who should we see but Earl Denton sneaking out with a black bag under his arm. After all a bank president has to go fishing some time, doesn ' t he? We stopped to talk with him but he had an engagement with Gene Gurganus, who had promised to show him the wind-up that put him on the Big League, in bet-veen fish. So after Junior Leader Frances i Iann ' s troops of WAAC ' s had passed, he departed. Radio reporter Betty Forrest had mentioned a specially good jjreacher giving a sermon on The Gift of Gab and How It Works For You in the Church so we walked over to hear what Mary Elizabeth McDiarmid had to say. While at church we met Virginia Stocks, Helen Ward, Marguerite White, Kathleen Smith, and Elizabeth Tripp, career girls all. Carl Allegood bumped into us coming out of churcii for he was rushing to Carnegie Hall to play his violin in a personal performance. He was a little late becaubt the Opera at the Met had run over a few mmutes anu he couldn ' t just walk out while Jo Gibson was swinning, Ijardon, singing, the famous .... He just stopped long enough to say he hoped h;s accompanisi ' , Pat VValdrop, would entertain the guest until he arrived. The fact that we seemed to be the only former Seniors of GHS not letting us annoy them made little difference as our search for class mates ' s data continued. Marjorie Jackson, Marjorie Johnson, Pearl Saieed, and Mary Frances Smith, secretaries assisting us (still can ' t spell), informed us that there was a rumor to the effect that two former classmates lived cross-town so we hopped on the sub-tram train driven by Jasper Pollard and sped over the town of and, at the suggestion of hostess Frances Heath, tightened our safety belts for a landing. However, we did not find Nell and Hubert at home so, rather than waste the money it took to fly over, we attended Cottage Playhouse and indeed glad were we that we had. For there on the stage in the role of Lady MacBeth was none other tiian Tena Thomas. One of the features of the evening was the informative act during- intermission by the famous line-experts, The Smith Twins, who gave brief instructive skits on what to do on a date, how to meet and keep your date, and how to tell what kind of line the sucker will fall for. As the Cottage Playhouse deals with per- ronal appearances, there were no, comedy or news reels. However, it always introduces famous peoiile. The spot- light was placed on Model Burnie Smith, Dramatist Jimmy Warren, tennis champ Ella Warren, and Ambassador to Paraguay, Helen Thomas. Billy Tucker, man about town, and business man Gene Skinner left the playhouse to attend opening night ;it the Berlin Auction. Ed Rawl, supersalesman, had told them to come early and he would see to it that the got the wardrobe of Goebbels, and the London Bridge, cheap. Bill Taylor was up from World Telegraph ' s home office on business and he stopped us in the street long enough to remind us to be sure to attend Delia Slater ' s School of Southern Accents for Yankees, with a modifier before them. Breatha Reagan and Doris Smith were also instruc- tors in the S of S A for Y. Virginia Simpson, movie star of note, had stopped in to demonstrate the S A form of selling ads. However, without tiie able assist- ance of retired GHo teachers the school would fal: through clear to where Japan was before and v ent in and gave them . . i ..lbion and Max have opened a shop around here somev here. They deal in ready-to-wear egg protectors and st:i,le jokes and their trade name is Stop me if you ' ve heard this one. Hov ever, we haven ' t time to locate Williams and Williford ' s Joke Emporium because it is time to keep our engagement with Richard Carlton and Richard Carter. We arrived in the Private Dinner for Senator:, v rA. as Dick Stokes was seated but we heard Carlton Wilson ' s speech entirely. Strange that they should refer to the high school days when the younger gen- eration was really taught something, when I was goinc; to school. Chief Juijtice Shirley Warner entered at that point and the dinner was turned over to her for a biie announcement concerning the leader of the people ' s party, Billy Wayne Tucker-time. Entering the office of Belt ' s, we were greeted by receptionist Frances Jones, who directed us to vice- president ' s a£:,istant tlarie Whitchurst, who directed us to vice-president Margaret Johnson, who told us that the president was out of town attending the post-war world conference sponsored by Pat Corey and Kirby Allen. Too, the meeting caused Treasurer of the Mint, Henry Andrews, to Ije out of town and with him his private secretary, Edna Mae Cannon. A meeting of the business world of caused a lot of data to be added by yours truly. There were reports on the sales for past years by ' Dorothy Flye, Rachel Brooks, Irma Fleming and Geraldine ' Baker. Sherwood Bullock reported on Ford cars of the future. Virginia Aldridge and Nancy Harris, teachers, reported on students and their business deals. Milton Howara, James Hudson, and Jack Carson ended the series of business talks. Mitchell White passed by on his way to an agency to hire people interested in invisible coal. Helen Kemp, Charlene Moye, Lillian Mozingo, Nell Overton, and Ruby Lee Paul had all just quit to join Ann Hardee ana Edna Munford in the floor show at Pace Bowl, a night club run by Charles Pace. Mitchell mentioned that their motto was Though We ' re the Pace Bowl We Don ' t Leave You Plastered, so we decided to rush right over. We hopped the taxi driven by Margaret Lee Duke and just did miss everything, including death, however, we told her to never mind we really didn ' t want to hit him anywfiy. Arriving at the Bowl, we were greeted by Bouncer Mary Alice Davis, who was tossing Virgil Clark out for parking his sand truck too near the i ' ire exit. Anne Bailey Blank, new double exposure LAKE-ish-bo;,i Movie Queen, entered just before us and was told by Eveiyn Foley, Florence Horton, and Dorothy Mixon, of the United States Marines, that even Commando tactics were of no use to girls in that place tonight. As we were leaving we glanced back m time to see the famous War Stories author Louis DuPree and Sportsman Charles Moye being chased out of the Bowl pursued by twenty- five beautiful blonds and one red-head. Back at . Hotel, Audrey May sighed as she glanced over the blank piece of paper while Cora Redditt toyed with the idle typewriter. Finally one of the giris said, Do you realize out of the entire Senior Class we can ' t find one person to interview for Green Lights? Slowly the other girl answered, Convpliments of J. A, WATSON HILL HORNE DRUGGIST Phone 3243 CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS e Randolph FLORISTS