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High Life
February 25, 1955
The Purpose of High Life Is To
G et and preserve the history of our
school.
H old individuals together under
high' standards.
S eparate the worthwhile from
the worthless and promote
the highest interest of stu
dents, teachers, and school.
Please, Mr. Furnace Man
Is it a torrid jungle? Is it a burning
desert? Is it a steaming tropic isle?—NO—
It’s just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill class
room at GHS.
Outside the wind may blow cold or the
wind may blow warm, but inside it’s always
consistent—always too, too hot.
Picture the troubles of just one intrepid
explorer of this maze known as Senior High
School. She enters a classroom bundled up
to the hilt in an effort to stave off the cold
during her jaunt from the Science Build
ing to the Main. Knowing well the foibles
of any commonplace Senior cubicle, she
peels off as many layers as possible and
settles down to a long winters’ test. The
radiator jingles merrily away, putting all
of its best efforts into a downbeat melody
of warmth. She grows hotter and hotter.
“Let’s see. Who wrote Inferno?” She can’t
think. Her head swims and she wishes she
were. Our example begins to get heataches.
Finally, one brave soul rises to open a win
dow. Ah—cool relief. The radiator is trying
manfully, but the outside temperature out
does all its best efforts. It gets cooler and
cooler and colder and colder and brrrrrrr,
shut the window. Slam— and as the radia
tor triumphantly sounds its battle call, our
heroine resigns herself to her fate and feels
a cold coming on.
And that is just one case history from our
files. There are others still in bed with flu.
As a final word we would like to dedi
cate this song to whoever fills the stokers
so admirably.
“Please, Mr. Furnace Man, Send us
our dream.
Give us a room cool as peaches and
cream!”
Count Our Privileges
In many schools the students never have
the privileges of making any decisions con
cerning their activities. Perhaps we at
Senior take a little too much for granted.
It would have been much ea.sier for the
faculty or principal to decide on the prob
lems having to do with graduation. Instead
Mr. Routh presented the facts and then al
lowed the seniors to vote on whether gradu
ation exercises will be held in the audito
rium or the new gym and whether the
speaker will be a student or an outside
^est. Possibly your choice was not the one
which won the votes, but nevertheless we
all should co-operate with the students and
teachers and try to help in every way pos
sible to make the luncheon, Class Day,
graduation exercises, and the many other
programs pertaining to graduation a big
success.
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Oreensiuiro Senior Hiph School
Greehsboro, N. C.
Founded by the Close
of 1321
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of ism
Entered as second-class matter March 30,
1940, at the post otflce at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Editor-in-chief Martha Ann Burnet
Assistant Editors Lynn Cochrane
Donna Oliver
Business Manager Mary Louise Shaw
Advertising Manager Barbara Lindley
Copy Editor Eugenia Hickerson
Feature Editor Diane Schwartz
News Editor - Dick Robinson
Boys’ Sports Editor - Jerry Farber
Girls’ Sports Editor Alma Ruth O'Briant
Exchange Editor Mary Jane Seawell
Reporters Nancy Johnson, Barbara Fjeld
Virginia McKinney, Joanne Bloom, Ann
Spence, Sylvia Willard, Wanda Slade, Anne
Pearce, Josie Ward. Hugh Price.
*dviser Miss Peggy Ann Joyner
tnancial Adviser - Mr. A. P. Routh
0O»S rHtS.....„..l>OES THIS W£:’R.E THROUGH ?
Counsel
From the
Council
striving to make the right thing popu
lar has been the aim of the Student
Council. In inaugurating the honor pol
icy last year, we set a high moral code
for students to follow. Can we honestly
say that we have all strived to live up to
these ideals, though?
Just as one rotten apple can spoil a
bushel, so. can the thoughtless actions
of a few students endanger the fine repu
tation we’ve worked so hard to gain. We
must keep Senior’s name clean by acting
accordingly.
People judge us by our actions, so
proper conduct at such places as the
movies, basketball games, and assemblies
is important. Not only out of considera
tion for those acting on the stage or
playing ball on the courts but also for the
audience trying to enjoy the performance,
must we practice self-control and com
mon courtesy. It is a sign of poor sports
manship to boo the referee and distract
the opponents at games. We are abusing
our privileges as trustworthy young peo
ple, when we do such things in assembly
to make it necessary for stricter rules to
be enforced. In order to insure more pro
grams in the future, we must play our
past in making them pleasant perform
ances.
Certainly the gambling around school
can do much to hurt Senior’s reputation.
God has given us money to spend wisely
and to increase by fair and earnest
means, not to squander foolishly.
One of the lowest forms of dishonor
is cheating, taking the hard work and
knowledge of another for yourself. It is
fair to no one concerned, and the good
grade gained is honor lost. It is better
to fail a geometry test than to fail in
God’s sight.
Let us strive to improve these faults
with the shining goals of honesty, courte
sy, good citizenship, and high morals.
Like the stars these ideals can never
be fully reached, but at least we have
something to grasp for in hppes of a
better life.
As a student of Greensboro Senior
High School I will strive: —
1. To be honorable in deed and honest
in dealings.
2. To be clean in thought and speech.
3. To respect school property.
4. To be courteous and friendly to
classmates and teachers.
5. To obey school regulations and co
operate with school officials.
6. To foster proper conduct at school
and away froni school.
7. To make full use of all advantages
offered by the school, to improve
and advance myself.
8. To create a warm, friendly, happy
atmosphere to work in.
9. To reverence God at all times.
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
The conduct of Greensboro High School
during assemblies for the past several
weeks has been very embarrassing to
those presenting the programs and to
the faculty. Due to the lack of refine
ment of these few, the honor of our
school has suffered a great blow. It seems
that these few want the attention of
everybody else diverted to themselves.
These few suffer from '*^MuItiplices Im-
pares.” Anyone who can hear must have
certainly realized that the coughing and
whispering which circulated through^
out the auditorium during the devotional
was pretentious and ill-bred. It merely
showed the ignorance, lack of respect
for God and others, lack of home train
ing, and utter disregard for things
sacred to others. Those who started the
nefarious coughing could redeem them
selves in the sight of others and them
selves by japologizing to those who have
suffered from this blow. The greater
majority of the students would never
dishonor themselves to show such lack
of refinement. The few who must have
attention have given the citizens of
Greensboro very bad opinions about
GHS. This behavior must be terminated
if the student body wants more assem
blies.
Jimmy Stevens
Hall Tales
Hello there!
Here’s a poem contributed by B. A.
Sapp.
We struggled through Silas Marner.
With Caesar, and others we take.
At last we finished Hamlet,
But term papers, you take the cake.
If you sophs are wondering about the
haggard look on the otherwise angelic
faces of seniors . • . now you know.
Honestly, ANN DUMARESQ is going
to be rich before she gets out of high
school if she keeps winning prizes for
her speeches . . .
MARVIN LATTA: “Your eyes sparkle,
they’re beautiful ... I see dew in
them.”
MARY RUTH^CARLTON: “That’s not
do you see • • /it’s don't.”
DO YOU KNOW THEM?
Harvey knocks on the door.
Jackie may be at school.
Betty surely isn’t a sapp.
Mary Ellen sure looks sharpe.
Deby is kinda short.
Don climbed the hill.*
Jody likes to hunt.
Marie turned white.
FLASH—
Will whoever borrowed Max Miller’s
“Classic Comic,” please return it; bock
reports are due Friday.
OLD (and I do mean old) ENGLISH
PROVERBS:
One good turn gets most of the covers.
He who laughs last, makes me very
happy . . .
Here’s one for the road ... a car . . .
S’long
Tinion Poll
What do you think of the Honor Code
and its application here at Senior High?
When this question was posed to stu
dents, there were a variety of responses.
As long as the Honor Code is being
emphasized, one can feel a very definite
improvement in the atmosphere at
Senior. Last year when we voted to
accept this code and while it was the
chief topic of conversation, j>eople were
conscious of what it stood for, but after
the novelty wore off, I’m afraid many
of us forgot what we had pledged to do.
By no means do I feel we should do
away with the Honor Code, but just
strwe to keep it fresh on our minds.
If tjje Honor Code helps one student
to be more honorable and more con
siderate, it helps Senior High.
Paddy Wall
I think the Honor Code would help
GHS more if we kept reminding our
selves of its presence and purpose. The
code states the simpler laws that any
one anywhere should try to follow in
living a decent life. I don’t understand
how anyone could say the points of the
code were too hard to carry out. It
certainly should not be a difficult task
to live honorably and to act res4>ect-
fully. It seems to me that each student
would want to keep the good reputation
and high standards our school has
achieved by acting in accordance with
the Honor Code and trying to enforce
it.
Mary Anne Boone
I may be just a lowly sophomore, but
I think r know right from wrong and
know how to reverence God at all times,
including during devotions in assembly.
What would visitors at GHS think if
they could have visited Senior during
assembly a week ago last Tuesday? I’m
afraid that they would have left with
an impression which we would not like
for them to have. Let’s follow the Honor
Code at all times, especially during
assembly. ^
Liz Sutton
I believe that this school or any other
high school should have an Honor Code.
If every statement in this Honor Code
is followed by the students of GHS, it
will make this school a better school to
attend.
GHS has just a few rules and regula
tions, and I think we ought to abide by
them.
1 believe- the Honor Code will work
only one way and that is if each and
evezyc^e agrees to abide with the points
of the Honor Code.
Larry Gill
There is no doubt that the Honor
Code adopted by this school is being
broken from one end to the other and
consequently it is not fulfilling the job
for which it was intended. As far as 1
can see, it never will imless there are
a number of changes made.
Hugh Blair
The Honor Code that we have adopted
is not just a card with a list of things
we can or can’t do; it is an outline of an
ideal that we as a student body are
trying to achieve.
1 believe it is like anything else
worth having, in that it can be success
ful only after a lot of hard work on the
part of everyone interested in school
spirit; so let’s all get behind the Honor
Code and make it work.
Dave Miller
Since establishing the Honor Code at
GHS last year, I have felt that its pur
pose is good. However, I feel that its
meaning has not been enforced or ex
plained fully. It seems to me that with
out carrying out the Honor Code in a
well-conducted manner, that it will be
of no avail to the students of GHS.
Larry McCranie
The little white card that a lot of us
carry in our wallets means more than
just the words written on it. It is our
Senior High’s Honor Code—the code
by which every student should live, not
only for the benefit of those around us
and the school, but for our own gain.
I know I’m just a sophomore, but I
don’t think we have lived up" to the
standards set before us.
There have been times when our
conduct at ball games and school affairs
has not been good, and times, too, when
we have not shown reverence to God.
These things would not leave a nice
impression on a visitor. Tveryone should
realize that the Honor Code can not
do its job unless each and everyone
gets behind and pushes.
SALLY BRUCE.