Atelier [1916] . nterest is shown, especiallyin basket-ball. The girls and boys each have a team and although they have wonfew games they have done unusually well. The Glee Club is another organization worth note. The pupils have triedto make it a success and under the management of Miss Vera Idol it has proveda success. The Boys Literary Society, the Lincoln Literary Society, has also been asuccess. It has developed the gift of the boys to express their own ideas in sucha way as they show their hearer that they know what they are talking about, thusmaking the boy develop into the man that he
Atelier [1916] . nterest is shown, especiallyin basket-ball. The girls and boys each have a team and although they have wonfew games they have done unusually well. The Glee Club is another organization worth note. The pupils have triedto make it a success and under the management of Miss Vera Idol it has proveda success. The Boys Literary Society, the Lincoln Literary Society, has also been asuccess. It has developed the gift of the boys to express their own ideas in sucha way as they show their hearer that they know what they are talking about, thusmaking the boy develop into the man that he should be. The Athenian Literary Society, the girls society, was just organized thisyear, but has grown rapidly and surprisingly, and in a few more years it will beone of the finest in this State. Thus it may be clearly seen that though the schools of High Point do notcome quite up to the required number of units to enter college, in other respectsthey are up with and surpassing other High Schools. —Bessie Tate. 14 ®ljorntoell ||apne£, S>upt of Iktjoote THORNWELL HAYNES was born in South Carolina just after the CivilWar. He was educated at Wofford College where he received his A. Later he attended Vanderbilt University where he received hisMasters degree. In 1900 he was appointed American Consul in France by Presi-dent McKinley. He resided at Rouen for five years at the end of which time hewas appointed to the important post at Vladivostock. The Russo-Japanese Warprevented his assuming duties there and he was transferred to Nanking, remaining in China two years Mr. Haynes was promoted as Consul Generalto Singapore, the seventh largest shipping port in the world. There he remainedfor two years. On account of the deleterious climate in Singnapore his family wasforced to return to America. Discontented with this enforced separation returned to America to take up his left off profession, that of education. After having spent two years in South
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