Vol. LVI
Grimsley High School, Greensboro, N.C. 27408
November 24, 1976
G.Y.C.
Toy Drive
Underway
During the Christmas Season
this year, the Greensboro Youth
Council is co-sponsoring a
Christmas Toy Drive in associa
tion with Home Federal Savings
and Loan. The idea is that used
toys are collected, fixed, cleaned,
and distributed to needy children
throughout Greensboro. The
drive, which started Nov. 15,
ends Friday, Dec. 10.
Miles Thompson, co-director of
News Briefs
Grimsley’s Jr. Marine ROTC
Drill Team won the drill
competition in an invitational
tournament in Johnson City,
Tenn. Congratulations!
The Sophomore Pen Sale which
will take place on November 15-22
is the project being done this year
to raise money for next year’s
Junior-Senior Prom.
Diane Clark, President of the
Sophomore Qass, expects all
sophomores to buy and sell at
least one box of pens each. Three
thousand boxes have been
ordered. Each box contains five
pens. They will sell for $1.00 a
box.
As soon as each box is sold,
each sophomore is responsible for
getting the money to their
homeroom president who will in
turn bring the money, or unsold
pens to Mrs. Warren in room 416.
If the pens are lost, the person
selling is responsible for paying
for them.
To promote sales and interest,
a prize will be given to the top
two students who sell the most
boxes.
GYC, said that the idea for the toy
drive was started by Home
Federal in 1973. GYC, along with
the Greensboro Housing Autho
rity, organizes the drive annually.
GYC has a leading role in this
campaign for it is a community
service project for the City of
Greensboro.
The way the project operates is
that second-hand toys, books,
dolls, and bicycles, in fair
condition, are deposited in the toy
chest at any Home Federal
Savings location during banking
hours. The toys are picked up
from the chests regularly by the
City Maintenance Department
and taken to the “toy workshop”,
which is located in the old Belk’s
building downtown. There GYC,
GYC Manpower, school service
clubs, and church groups work
repairing toys and cleaning them
for distribution. Then, the City
Maintenance Dept, hands out the
repaired gifts to deserving
children.
Last year’s drive netted a total
of 30,000 toys, of which 25,000
were given away. This was the
result of over 1,000 manpower
hours. Mr. Thompson stated that,
“The success of this year’s drive
depends on the amount of
advertising given to the project.
Also, anyone interested in
helping with the project should
contact Donna Hough, a junior at
Grimsley, who is chairman of the
toy drive.”
“Windows: Before and After...see page 3”
G.H.S. Installs
New P.A. System
Grimsley will get a new P.A.
system from a $15,000 grant by
the school board. It has replaced
the present system because the
system now can’t have speakers
put into the new buildings on
campus.
Some people may think that the
P.A. system has been put in
because of disiplinary problems.
Both Mr. Glenn and Mr. Gwynn
made it quite clear that the
purpose was to replace an old
faulty system and to provide
Grimsley with a better way of
relaying messages. One example
is, if needed, the system can be
made to go directly from the main
office to one or more rooms.
Another important example of
this, is the fact that if the need
should arise, more speakers can
be added to tbe system’s total of
100 or so.
Among the buildings lacking
speakers in the present system
are the New Science building, the
Home-Economics building, and
the Gym. All of the other
buildings on campus also need
new speakers because the old
system’s faults. This new system
will have an almost unlimited
amount of power and it is
expected to last as long as our
present one has, 30 years, but it
only has a guarantee of one year.
Two systems were strongly
considered for the job, but the
staff at Grimsley decided that the
one picked was the best choice;
since the other system cost
more and had less of what
Grimsley needed.
i asked Mr. Glenn for his
opinion on how long Grimsley has
been in need of a new P.A.
system. He replied, “Ob, about 5
or 6 years.” Most teachers at
Grimsley agree on that point.
Christmas Seal Finalists Compete
High school students from a
ten-county area are invited to
participate in the newly created
Piedmont Forensics Tournament,
sponsored by GYC along with
UNC-G’s department of drama
and speech. The tournament has
been scheduled for Saturday,
December 11, 1976 at the UNC-G
campus in the Graham building
from 8:30-5:30 p.m. “Forensics”
^ is comprehensive in describing
debating, drama, and public
speaking.
During the 1974-75 school year,
after a six month planning phase
in the spring and summer of 1974
the Grimsley Communications
System had begun at Grimsley.
Last year due to other activities
that coincided with the last few
meetings, they were cancelled.
Most students thought that that
was the end of GCS and that it
had died for good. But according
to Mr. Gwynn plans are being
made to start the program again'.
GCS not only provides a way for
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Kathy Moore and Emmy
Neese, seniors representing
Grimsley service clubs, competed
as finalists in the G.Y.C.
sponsored Miss Christmas Seal
Contest held on November 10 at
4:15 p.m. at UNC-G’s Alumnae
House.
These girls joined seven other.
Miss Christmas Seal Finalists
from six Greensboro area high
schools for the judging of Miss
Christmas Seal, 1976. The other
finalists were; Lesa Fonts, and
Lisa Summers, Page; Angela
Adams, Smith; Debbie Yow,
Southern Guilford; Dee Morphis,
Dudley; Carol Cash, High Point
Andrews; and Tammie Knighten
from Ruffin. These nine girls
representing nine sponsoring
clubs were selected from a total of
thirty-three clubs from the seven
high schools involved. (Each girl
became a finalist over other
competing girls and sponsoring
groups by having the most penny
votes collected in her name.)
Each sponsoring club had from
October 18 through October 23 to
collect penny votes for their
representatives.
Kathy Moore, representative of
the Grimsley Jr. Jaycettes was
Kathy Moore, Emmy Neese
voted an amount of money
approximately equal to $640.00,
making her the second-leading
vote receiver. Emmy Neese,
representative from the Jr.
Exchangetttes was voted in
approximately 330,000 penny
votes equal to $330.00, placing
her third in total number of votes.
A second penny vote time
period was held at each high
school from November 1 through
November 9. During that period.
all voting was among the nine
finalists. That vote total was
combined to the original total
collected for each contestant to
give her a final penny vote
standing.
On November 10, at U.N.C.-
G’s Alumnae House, the formal
judging was held for all nine
finalists at the Miss Christmas
Seal Tea. The results of the
formal judging by a board of ten
judges was added to tbe results of
the contestants combined penny
vote to determine the 1976 Miss
Christmas Seal.
The 1976 Miss Christmas Seal
winner’s awards include a
wardrobe, a scholarship, televi
sion appearances, and trips to
fulfill her representative duties.
This year, as in years past Miss
Christmas Seal will represent the
Piedmont Lung Association.
The Miss Christmas Seal
Contest is an annual project of the
Greensboro Youth Council to aid
the Piedmont Lung Association’s
Christmas Seal Campaign.
Last year approxi
mately $3,500.00 went to the
Christmas Seal Drive as a result
of this contest.
Planning
Group
Forms
The Greensboro School Plan
ning Committee was formed this
year to “develop a comprehen
sive educational plan for the next
five years,” according to Dr. Don
Gresso, who is in charge of the
School Planning Committee. This
committee comes under the
Greensboro School Board as an
advisory branch to the board.
A questionnaire will be sent out
to randomly selected fifth through
twelfth grade students, parents,
administrators, and teachers
during the second week of
November. The questionnaire is a
survey of what is being done in
the city school system and what
should be done in the future.
From the results of this survey, a
five year plan concerning the
school system, will be drawn up
and presented to the school
board. The questionnaire is the
current project being undertaken
by School Planning Committee.
Dr. Gresso stated that the
committee would “function as a
link between a school and the
community” and also as a
“recommending group for the
school board, which is a
policy-making group.”
All Greensboro City Schools are
involved in the planning
committee, but only the four
senior high schools and the
optional school send student
representatives to the committee
meetings. The five schools will
each have four representatives.
In the future, the planning
committee will form many SCITS
( Schoo 1 - Co m m un i t y Input
Teams). Each SCIT will handle an
individual problem facing the
entire committee. Every SCIT will
contain at least one student,
teacher, businessman, and an
advisor. There will be as many
SCITS as there are problems to
solve.
School
Beautiful
Begins
School beautiful work days are
being held to keep Grimsley
beautiful enough to win the N.C.
School Beautification Contest.
They will be held frequently
during the year on Saturdays,
from 9.00 - 12:00.
Amanda Stephens, chairperson
of the School Beautiful Board,
said that the first school beautiful
workday went well. With 60
people participating from six
clubs and non-club members.
Among the
clubs attending were: the Key
Club, Jr. Exchangettes, Jr.
Civinettes, Sub Juniors, and the
Charioteers. Amanda added that
participation from clubs was
good, but more people not in
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