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White Haven School News

Whitehaven, Tennessee

January, 1923

Vol 1., No. 1

Published by
The Students of White Haven School

The Past Term

Even though we want to make next term better, our last was by no means wasted.

Last year there were organizations for the boys and girls, but this year the Girls' Reserve and Boys' Hi-Y had a definite lan for work and both societies really make their existence worth while.

Delegates from the White Haven Hi-Y attended the conference in Trenton in December. The delegates were Sam Raines, John Guth, Guy Morton, Marion Davis, James McCain and William Elam. They all came back with higher ideals to make their organization larger and stronger. The Girls' Reserves have been supporting a child at the Crippled Children's Hospital. Their work has been much appreciated by the board of that institution.

Both boys and girls meet regularly twice a month. At their last meeting they discussed more extensive plans for the New Year's work.

We have accomplished several other worthwhile things this year. The Pageant of Tennessee History, which was given the night of the Community Fair, was said to have been the best performance given in the county.

We lost the championship in outdoor basketball, which we had held for a number of seasons. Our team is light, but with the assistance of Mr. Grinter and Mr. Tinkler, we hope to win most of the games in the Indoor League.

We have planned to debate Germantown and Capeville [sic] in March. We hope to win these debates. The school as a whole is interested as well as the community. We have been asked to debate Tech High. The debaters who won for us last year have graduated, but we expect their successors to do as well.

Our library has always been a source of pride to us. The Kennedy Book Club recently gave us Our Wonder World and The King-Richardson Story of the Bible. Both sets of books are being very much enjoyed. We intend to add others to the library.

The girls of the Home Economics Department gave a play in December and added to the equipment of that department.

We won the loving cup given in the parade on Armistice Day.

The year therefore has been worth while, but we hope to accomplish more in the months remaining and sustain the reputation of our school.

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Ode To The Tenth Grade

Here's to the Tenth Grade as a whole,
The best one yet, so we are told.

But this one thing full well we know:
We beat the other that was so slow.

There are ten girls in this fine class
And each one is a wonderful lass.

There are Mamie, Lizzie, and blond Mar-ee;
They are the school's best ball players three.

Louise, Olga, Carrie, and Lizabel,
What they will do you never can tell.

Janie with music, Lillian with smiles,
By these charms the whole school beguiles.

Now in this class there are six nice boys
Who to the girls are unending joys.

We want you to know about James McCain -
He is a star in the basketball game.

William Elam and Clarence McKnight
Recite their Caesar with main and might.

Louis, Oscar, and Sam, all three
Cheer everybody with wit, gay and free.

Now from the above you plainly see
The Tenth Grade is all it claims to be.

And that's not all, there's more beside:
We'll reach the top and there abide.

- CATHERINE RICHEY

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Activities of the Ninth Grade

At the first of our new term our class was organized:

Mary Parker, president
Ruby Spalding, vice-president
Charley B. Davis, secretary and treasurer
Taylor Bertchi, sergeant-at-arms.

Even though five members of our grade have dropped out, we still run the First Grade a close second in attendance, having twenty-seen enrolled.

Having a most competent instructress, Miss Mary J. Harwell, in our oral English work, we expect in the future to have many Daniel Websters and Patrick Henrys.

We have some very bright and promising students in our Ninth Grade, even though Mary Parker thinks that Earl Harold, of England, was crowned in an alley.

- RUBY SPALDING

 

The New Year

The dawn of the New Year finds us in the foremost march of time. How good we feel over the fact that we have given to Shelby County her Superintendent of Education for the next four years! We regret to give her up, yet we feel that her ability as an educator should not be limited to our school when the county needs her. She goes into her new work with the high esteem and good wishes of our entire student body.

Mr. Thomas H. Grinter was appointed to succeed her as our principal. Having taught in Shelby County Schools several yards, he comes to us highly recommended. He takes up the work with an experienced hand and we expect good results.

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Society

On Friday evening, December 22, the Girl Reserves entertained with a Christmas party in the library of the school. Games were played an at the end of the evening an ice course was served to the sixty guests present

Miss Robinson, secretary of the Y.W.C.A. addressed the Girl Reserves on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 10.

Lucille Stewart entertained a number of her friends with an informal dancing party at her home on Parkway during the holidays. At the close of the evening refreshments were served to about thirty guests who were present.

The Kennedy Book Club presented "The Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, in the school auditorium on the evening of December 28. A number of people from the neighborhood took part in the production, which was very enjoyable.

Lawrence Powell, editor last year of the White Haven School Journal was home from Vanderbilt for the holidays

Verne Laughter, a former student of White Haven, has returned from Knoxville, where he has been attending the University of Tennessee.

Lydia Raines, a junior at Vanderbilt University, spent Christmas with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. N.F. Raines.

Ralph Rhodes, who is making an enviable record at Washington and Lee, was the guest of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes, for the holidays.

Mary Ballard, also a former student of this school, spent the holidays at home. She is attending Union University at Jackson, Tenn.

Although Ford Taylor has not been a student in White Haven School for the past three years, his friends here will be interested to know that he is a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.

We regret very much that Alberta Hale is out of school on account of illness.

The students of White Haven School will be interested to know that Miss Nina Henderson, of last year's faculty, was married in June to Mr. N.H. Fulton.

The B.Y.P.U. of the White Haven Baptist Church were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Hale during Christmas.

We regret that Orren Pickard and Fred Friend are out of school on account of broken bones.

A surprise birthday party was given Edna Wallace by her friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Storz on Monday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Gill entertained the Epworth League on January first with a New Year's party. PUnch was dispensed throughout the evening to the fifty guest present.

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Parent-Teacher Notes

 

The White Haven Parent-Teacher Association is actively at work. Regular monthly meetings are held in the school library on the third Friday at 3 p.m. The attendance and interest in the meetings is very inspiring. Some of the teachers's are always present, which lends enthusiasm for going forward with their work.

Mrs. Louis Guth, who is chairman of the Playground Committee, plans to install sand piles at an early date.

A lunch room is being maintained by the organization, with Mrs. B.H. Ingram and Miss Lottie Hudson in charge. The average number of hot lunches sold is from a hundred to a hundred twenty-five daily

The chairman of the Membership Committee, Mrs. Jeff Meek, has communicated with a number of mothers who are not members of the Association and has asked them to join.

The Association has had several helpful programs with well-known speakers, including Miss Lula Tunnion, Miss Jessie Kirsh, Mr. O.H. Jones and Dr. J. A. Hughes.

Sixteen members of the P.T.A. attended the luncheon given by the Shelby County Parent-Teacher Council in honor of Miss Powers at the Nineteenth Century Club on January 3. It was worthy of mention that White Haven had the largest representation of any community in the county present at the luncheon.

The Association voted twenty-five dollars for the school library. The order has been sent in and the books will be delivered very soon. These books, together with the books recently purchased by the Kennedy Book Club, represent the expenditure of one hundred sixty dollars on the library this season. We hope to add more.

The next regular meeting will be held on Friday, January 19. Mrs. N. F. Raines, chairman of the Legislative Committee, will have charge of the meeting.

 

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