Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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1944 GREEN LIGHTS Howard Williams President Jimmy Lanier Vice-President Eleanor Brown Secretary Jack Brown Treasurer VL JUNIOR CLASS Helen Ruth Adams Earline Allen Fenner Allen Helen Allen Vivian Allen Mattie L. Barber Fred Lee Blank: Joyce Briley Hubert Brown Ernest Cahoon Harry Carter James Collins Dorothy Conw: Therman Dail Louise Deaver Dick Flye Virginia Gaylord Mary Ann Harris Arline Hawkins Rachel Hawkins ,1

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© 1944 GREEN LIGHTS ★ ★ PREVARICATOR Having completed all the projects for their various classes, the Seniors are now loafing around school with nothing to do. Mr. Rose has an- nounced that, since the students have done such good work, school will be closed two weeks early. Already he has signed a contract to have the doors and windows bolted for the summer. So it looks as if the boys and girls will have to spend their spare time for the next three months elsewhere. Miss Usrey absolutely refuses to give a final exam to any of her classes. Says she, I think nine months is too long for students to be expected to remember algebra and geometry. Miss Greene heartily agrees with her. When Elizabeth Kittrell and Knott Proctor ' s new solid geometry textbook comes off the press, all disagreement will be ironed out. It is based on the theory that pupils must be shown examples of solid figures before they can grasp the mean- in- of the numerous theorems of the subject. A special feature of the book is a list of places where such figures may be found; for example, the trylon and perisphere at the site of the 1939 New York World ' s Fair, the pyramids in Egypt, and Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. Billy Denton has formed a company to get up English assignments for those less gifted in that art than himself. His motto is: I can do anything Miss Lewis can dish out. Good grades guaranteed. His first customers were Peggy Rose Smith, Hen- nie Ruth Whichard, and Mary Anne Duncan. Mattie Harris Mayo introduced a bill in the Student Council outlawing any person holding more than one office at a time. President Ralph Fleming ruled the motion out of order, but Harper Darden objected, suggesting that the mat- ter be referred to the judicial committee. At chairman Susanne Kilgo ' s request Mattie Harris agreed to meet with the committee as an ex- officio member. At a recent teachers ' meeting a motion to for- bid tests on Mondays and Fridays was unani- mously passed. Mr. Dowd stated that the rule would be strictly enforced and any faculty mem- ber caught disobeying it will be expelled from school. A recent announcement from the office asked all students to use the underground railway to Bis- sett ' s when going to and from lunch. In this way less time will be consumed enroute, and every- one will have a longer period for socializing. Neill Posey and Bernard West have a garage where they sell ration-free gasoline, which Neill distills in the physics laboratory under Mr. Robin- son ' s supervision. All the engine repair work is done by Bernard, a master mechanic. Sara Frances Williams, Peggy Mitchell, Betsy Hellen, and Margaret Clark have been given special permission to skip school whenever Green- ville High School servicemen get leaves. Mr. Rose considers the practice an excellent morale booster for the boys as well as for the girls. Mrs. Herring has finally been made to see that no one can open a book very wide in one night. From now on all books may be kept out for an indefinite length of time. Many students have complained about the war- time plastic ash trays now being used throughout the building. The criticism is that they have no place for cigars or pipes. There is a move under foot now to discontinue smoking entirely if better ash trays aren ' t furnished soon. When Coach Bo Farley left he promised to be on the lookout for baseball teams in Europe that could give the Phantoms some competition. It was thought that perhaps Mr. Hitler might scrape up an all-European team in a last desperate ef- fort to win one more history-making victory be- fore passing out of the picture. The latest word from the Government is that Greenville High School has done far more than its share in the war effort. This is bad for several reasons. First of all, it discourages other schools and gives their students an inferiority complex. Second, it creates too large surplus of scrap paper and metals in the warehouses and too great a treasury surplus. But most important is the fact that it does not leave our students enough time and money for the pursuit of their own happiness. Fourteen

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1944 GREEN LIGHTS Dorothy Henderson Thelma Howard Stephen Humbles Virginia Hunning YvETTE Johnson Francis Jordan Amos Legette Jane Massey Phil Moore Phyllis Moore Stuart Murphy Edith Nesbit Claude Plyler Elizabeth Ricks Marie Rouse Haywood Sellers Lou Smith Carlton Taylor Marian Taylor Nancy Taylor Frances Tucker Gladys Tyndall Herbert Waldrop Grace Ward Olivia Waters David Whichard Mary A. Whichard Charles Whiteford Harold Williams Lillian Wooten Kathryn Youngblood Donald Whitehurst Not Pictured Arleta Cox Ed McLawhorn Nancy Moye Helen Piver Mary Snedeker