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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 irorthless and nromote
the highest interest of stu
dents, teachers, and school.
Hit The Deck!
A long, urgent bell, a sudden shuffling
of feet and desks, a hurried walk towards
the door, crouching by the lockers, and
then a deafening silence. Those w’ords
describe conditions in Senior High School
at approximately 9:45 a. m., Wednesday,
April 27, the date of the first Civil Defense
drill at this high school.
Behind the general good conduct that
was exhibited during .the drill there was
hard work, and a medal should be given to
those who were able to make this student
bodv reali7e the seriousness that lay behind
that long bell. To the leaders of the pro
gram go this paper’s congratulations and
thanks.
The drill was not a tremendous thing in
itself, but it was a start toward the full
preparedness that we should have. Too
many people would rather ignore the shad
ow in which we live, but today is not a time
for blissful ignorance. It is reassuring to
think that there are at least 1600 people
are preparing themselves for the unknown,
in Greensboro who have faced realitv and
It is even more reassuring to know that
there are leaders at school who will not let
us slide along totally unable to face what
someday might be grim reality.
A Cloud Of Dust And
A Hearty . . .
H6igh-ho jalopy! There they go again—the
little boys with the new toys! Yes. there
are those silly little boys from Senior High
enjoying their daily sport of Let’s Raise a
Lot of Dust. It’s played like this: the little
fellows wait impatiently in classes for three
or four hours. Then a starting bell resounds
and the competition is on. 'They scramble to
their cars, step on the backfire distributor,
and in a minute they’re invisible. It seems
that approximately two minutes after that
first bell, a veU of dust descends upon the
boys; a few seconds later there is naught
to be seen but some dusty little toy cars.
The observers who have been quick enough
to don their dust-preventing goggles in time
for the game have stated that, “Little boys
must play, but they should find a sport that
is more considerate of their galleries. ’
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Stnrlents of
Greensboro Senior High School
Greensboro. N. C.
Pminaet* hv the Class
of 1ft21
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of 1937
High Life
May G 1955
Entered as second-class matter March 30,
1940, at the post office at Greensboro, N. C.,
imder the Act of March 3. 1879.
Editor-iU’Chief .....
Assistant Editors .
Martha Ann Burnet
Lynn Cochrane
Donna 01 ver
Business Manager ....
Advertising Manager .
Copy Editor -
Feature Editor
News Editor
Boys’ Sports Editor
Girls' Sports Editor ...
Circulation Manager .
Mary Louise Shaw
Barbara Lindley
Eugenia Hickerson
Diane Schwartz
Dick Robinson
Jerry Farber
Mary Jane Seawell
Pat Frazier
Exchange Editor Sylvia Williard
Photographer Dan McConnell
Rei>orters Joanne Bloom, Barbara
Field, Nancy Johnson, Jim Martin, Virginia
McKinney, Anne Pearce, Hugh Price, Wan
da Slade, Ann Spence.
Adviser
Financiol Adviser
- Miss Peggy Ann Joyner
Mr. A. P. Routh
CLUBLICITY
By Anne Pearce
DDT
During 1955-56 Janie Walters will act
as President of the DDT’s. Ann Roun
tree has been chosen vice-president;
Becky Walters, secretary; Caroline Sikes,
treasurer; and Michael Gardner, social
chairman. These officers were elected
at the April 27 meeting.
Les Soeurs
Jackie Mabie has been elected presi
dent of the Les Seeurs Club. Lisa Ander
son was elected vice-president with
Diana Harmon, treasurer; and Mary El
len Sharpe, secretary. The “sisters” are
making plans for their annual beach
trip in August.
WST
Officers of the WST Club for next
year were elected April 19. Lou Spence
will serve the club as president with
Helen Sharpe, vice-president; Patsy Ray,
secertary; Sue Spence, treasurer; Bobbie
Tice, devotion chairman; Betty Smith,
publicity chairman; and Sydna Hall, pro
ject chairman.
BSC
The BSC CIi:^ is planning a Planta-
Party for May 6. Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Williams will chaperon. The club is also
planning a beach trip to Ocean Drive,
South Carolina, the first week after
school is out.
GRAD GAB
A Greensboro student at Agnes
Scott College in Decatur, Georgia,
Constance Curry, has been aw^d-
ed a Fulbright Scholarship for a
year’s post graduate study in
France. Constance, who graduated
from Senior High in 1951, was
recently elected to the Phi Beta
Kappa Fraternity and is president
of the college student government.
She will attend the University of
Bordeaux.
David Wright, graduate of ’52,
has been elected president of the
senior class at Lenoir Rhyne Col
lege for the 1955-56 school year.
Robert Weinstein has been elect
ed to a frat, he is a graduate of
’54.
Eddie Robbins, a graduate of ’54
has been elected to a music fra
ternity at Elon College.
Helping with the Freshman
dance was Anna Neese Huffine,
graduate of 1954. Kenneth Cates,
graduate of 1954 has arrived at
the U. S. Naval Base at Yokosuak,
Japan for duty with fleet activities.
He is a seaman in the Navy.
Alan Tuttle is in a language
frat at Wake Forest. She is a
graduate of 1954.
Carol Stroud, graduating in 1951
has been elected Secretary-treas
ure of her class at Wake Forest.
Graduating from Kesslu Air
Force Base, Bidox, Mississippi is
Spencer Satterfield, graduate of
’54.
William G. btewart, gi.:duate of
1954, is now serving in the Army
and was stationed at Ft. Carson.
Cuntil his transfer to the atomic
testing grounds at Las Vegas, Ne
vada. He has been in the army
since June 1954.
Marietta Allen, graduate of 1951,
has just been given membership
in the Omicron, Nu, National Hon
or society for home economic stu
dents.
SIGNETS
For their May project the girls are
collecting small bottles with screw-tops
which they will take to the Cerebral
Palsy School. The instructors there will
punch a small hole in the top of the bot
tle for the children to stick their paint
brushes through without spilling the
paint. The Club is also discussing plans
for next year.
ESA
Betty Adams has recently been chosen
to head the ESA’s next year. To aid her
in the-club’s leadership will be the fol
lowing officers, Emma Garvin, vice-presi
dent; Kay Kuykendall, secretary; Put-
sy Dunn, treasurer and Randy Burnett
club representative.
Last Saturday the girls had a tea at
the home of Randy Burnett for rising
sophomores from the junior high schools.
Well, now that the seniors are back
from Washington, GHS is normal again
and graduation is the next big thing on
the schedule ... I won’t predict the
weather, for'the last time I predicted
sunshine, it snowed.
“lover-boy” Younce walked up to a girl
and said, “I’m writing a phone book and
I’d like to include your number.”
Just in case some of you sophomores
are wondering about the glassy-stare in
seniors’ eyes, it’s “graduationitus” . . .
MERCIBEAUCOUP
Here’s a couple of dillies to start this
mess goin’.
Dilly. Dilly.
One last bit of humor (?)...
Do you know why the little ghost was
sad? Because he lost his “ghoul” friend.
That’s all brother . . . see ya.
No, it can’t be! No broken bottles in
the parking lot! No debris, no junk, no
general disorder!
It is true, though. In ©nly one day our
tires have felt the difference. These tires
should send their grateful thanks along
with their owner’s to the members of
the Student Council. Rake and shovel in
hand they attacked the parking lot and
left it in a more parking shape. For mak
ing that area of trees and holes a little
safer all parkers of cars are thankfid-
More thank you’s are in order. The
May Day was a success, as usual, but
this year it seems that more work than
ever was put into it. It is not an easy
job to get a group of students together
to practice, practice, practice. Yet the
advisers to the celebration of May Day
achieved just that, and the work they
must have put into it as clearly ex
hibited. Being a teacher is a full time
job, but when it comes to getting together
a May Day it must seem time and a half.
Belated as these thanks may be, we
would still like to render them to all
members of the Key Club. All too often
clubs going under yie heading of service
organizations slip into purely social ac
tivities, but the Key Club has consistant-
ly done things for the school other than
throwing parties. In particular we are
grateful for the large, framed copies of
the honor code which were placed in each
room by the Club. They should do much
to keep us reminded of the importance
of the code.
Seriously (?) though, the news is out
that Mr. Luttrell is manufacturing love
potent in the chemistry lab and selling it
to the faculty ... it really works doesn’t
it?
HAVE YOU NOTICED ....
How slowly the weeks pass?
That Lawrence McCranie is really a
snow-man?
How the juniors "show^jff” those
new rings?
Counsel
From the
Council
Miss IVKms: “What’s a metaphor,
“A place for cows to graze.”
Margie Boren, chairman of the Senior
Prom committee has announced that
Jimmy Perkins’ Band has been engaged
♦n play at the dance, which is planned
for May 27 from 9 to 12 o’clock in the
Senior High Gymnasium.
The Sun is hot
The water’s cool
Yet all of us
Must slave in school. -
(I honestly, don’t know what I’d do
without these bits of poetic beauty.)
We heard that Bob Covert had
tough time keeping his class ring , .
Pat was determined, wasn’t she . . . ?
Claude Ward: “What happened to
your hand?”
Buddy Watkins: “I was down town get
ting some cigarettes and some clumsy
idiot stepped on my hand.”
and then there’s the time that
The i-heme of the prom will be “Now
is the Hour” and a figure will be pre
sented by the Senior Class officers, home
room presidents, and council represen
tatives. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors
are invited to attend.
There has’ also been some mention of
a Junior High Day this spring. The pur
pose of this occasion would be to give
the rising sophomores a chance to be
come acquainted with Senior High
School.
Principals of the junior high schools
are to be contacted and notified of the
tentative date of May 24 or 25.
May 6 is the date which has been set
for installation of officers and dedica
tions of the Honor Code plaques.