The Charlotte Cats
Are Going To Lose
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
Say, Gang Come
Hear The News
VOLUME xxxn
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., SEPT. 23, 1955
NUMBER 1
Home Room Officers
Voted In For Terms
During Coming Year
Officers were recently elected
for the 15 senior home rooms, 14
junior home rooms, and 22 sopho
more home rooms. These students
will serve in their respective of
fices during this school year.
Senior Officers
From room 6 are Jimmy An
drews, President; Jerry Austin,
Vice-President; Betty Adams, Sec
retary; and Linda Barham, Treas
urer.
Jay Brame, President; Sammy
Bright, Vice-Pfresident; Peggy
Booker, Secretary; David Bescher-
er. Treasurer; and Floyd Brook-
bank, Fire Captain are from room
201B.
Room 201A has Shelba Creed,
President; Sue Denny, Vice-Presi
dent: Brenda Cox, Secretary; Man-
ley Dodson, Treasurer; and Hank
Corbett, Fire Captain, for their
officers.
From the Band Room comes Bill
Franklin, President; Mark Foster,
Vice-President; Ashton Edwards,
Secretary; Chick Forbes, Treasurer;
, and Buddy Edwards, Fire Captain.
Coming from room 2 are Wayne
Griffin, President; Louis Glas
cock, Vice-President; Emma Gar
vin, Secretary; Michael Gardner,
Treasurer; and Pat Haley, Fire
Captain.
John Homey, President; Robert
Hewett, Vice-President; Diana
Harmon, Secretary; Madeleine Hol
ley, Treasurer; and Howard Hin-
shaw. Fire Captain, are from room
11.
From room 24 come John Jes
ter, President; Larry Hoyle, Vice-
President; Ann Hudson, Secretary;
Amy Hutchinson, Treasurer; and
H. L. Hosley, Fire Captain.
Room 25 has Bill Lewey, Presi
dent; Louise MeGee, Vice-Presi
dent; Kay Kuykendall, Secretary;
John Lund, Treasurer; and R. B.
McLennon, Fire Captain, for its
home room officers.
Coming from room 21 are Julia
McNairy, President: Bunny Mar
shall, Vice-President; Mary Ann
McNeely, Secretary; Jimmy Mar
tin, Treasurer; and Eddie Mur-
relle. Fire Captain.
Carolyn Paschall, President;
Charles Pemberton, Vice-Presi-
High Schools Enrollment Reaches 1700 Students
As Conditions Conditions Become More Crowded
Soph Class Elections
Fo Be September 28
Candidates and campaign man
agers for major Sophomore Class
officers met with the election com
mittee in room 208 yesterday af
ternoon to complete details for
presentation and voting next-week.
The chronological election sched
ule was presented to sophomores
by Dick Robinson, chairman of the
elections and president of the
Senior Class during the class as
sembly held on Friday, September
16.
All applications for the offices
of president, vice-president, secre
tary, treasurer, and council repre
sentative were turned in to room
206 yesterday.
The candidates introduced by
their campaign managers will be
presented in a special assembly on
Monday morning, September 26.
allowing registration throughout
Tuesday, September 27, the voters
will go to the polls on Wednes
day.
The Sophomore Class will be
represented by nine people at Stu
dent Council. Representation is
based on one per 75 students. This
is the largest number of council
members any class has ever had.
Enrollment in public schools all over the nation has increased greatly, and Greensboro
Senior High is no exception. An enrollment total of 1700 students was reported by Mrs. Nel
lie Kate Blackburn, dean of students, on September 15. This figure is an all time high and
places GHS the second largest high school in North Carolina. New Hanover High School in Wil
mington claims first place with the largest student body.
(Continued on Page Three)
Senior Class Begins
Annual Ribbon Sales
Senior Class representatives re
sumed the traditional sale of blue
and white ribbons before the first
home game with Raleigh on Sep
tember 9.
Heading the sale are Dick Robin
son and Jim Martin, president and
vice president respectively of their
class. Shirley Smith, secretary,
handles the mechanics of cutting
and pinning the nearly one thous-
ond ribbons each week. The slo
gans are stamped in blue ink by
the Litho Press of Greensboro and
sell for ten cents.
Miss Becky Frazier is the facul
ty adviser assisting in the drive
designed to raise money for Whirl,
igig, the student yearbook.
The enrollment of ureensboro High, a school originally designed
for 1500 students, has swollen to 1750 with the largest Sophomore
Class in its history occup3i'ng 22 home rooms. Pictured above is
part of the enrollment crowd after registration.
Wheel Club Picks Officers
Newly elected officers of the
Wheel Club, composed of Senior
High’s bus drivers, for the year
1955-’56 are Bob Herfojrd, presi
dent; Sidney Oliver, vice-president;
and Buddy Bishop, secretary.
Members of the club have begun
ushering at football games in or
der to help finance their annual
First High Life Free
In accordance with the policy
and tradition of this paper, the
first issue of HIGH LIFE is dis
tributed free of charge to each
student and faculty member of
the student body. -
Staff members will begin the
annual subscription drive some
time next month. Rates will be
50 cents per semester.
picture. Several activities have
been planned for the year. One of
these, the placing of a fire ex
tinguisher on every bus. This proj
ect is being undertaken by the
boys themselves.
The regular bus drivers are
Lofus Neece, Wayne Sandridge,
Grady Tucker, Buddy Bishop,
Jerry Owens, Charlie Wilson, Nor
man Vestal, Richard Murray, Sid
ney Oliver, Melvin Frick, Kent
Carter, Bob Covert, Willard Seg-
gle, Sidney Oliver, Doug Paschal,
and Wesley Schofield.
Substitute drivers are Harold
Caudle, Ronald Sink, James Sea-
gle, Alfred Hill, Paul Amos, Jim
my Barrior, Howard Carr, and Carl
Sauls.
The junior high schools have
contributed mostly to Senior’s
growth with approximately 215 stu
dents from Lindley, 145 from Cen
tral, 130 from Aycock, 90 from
Proximity, and 65 from Gillespie
making the total roughly 685. With
approximately 33 students to a
class, this year’s home room total
is 51—22 sophomore, 14 junior,
and 15 senior home rooms. The
Junior and Senior Classes contain
about 500 students each.
To meet the crowding conditions
and cramped teaching quarters,
rooms 201 and 203, which have
served as study halls in the past
years, have been converted into
four new class rooms. The audio-
visual room, gym and the confer
ence room of the library are also
being used as class rooms. At the
present time all available teach
ing space is being used, but there
is some hope for the future. Plans
are now in the making for a new
music building and home econom
ics building which may relieve the
over-crowded conditions next year.
By adding the 73 members of the
teaching faculty to the enrollment
of students a number is received
which is larger than the number
of seats in the auditorium. At the
present time A. P. Routh, princi
pal, and his staff are working on
a suitable assembly plan for all
classes to meet at one time. The
only way this is possible is for
approximately 150 students to sit
on ihc stage.
As a result of the study hall
rooms being converted, study halls
are now being held in the audi
torium. The students are placed
in every other seat thereby giving
them a place to put their books.
“This system of studying seems to
be working fine due to the excel
lent cD-operation of the students,”
states Mrs. Mabel Pleasants, math
teacher.
GHS^s Faculty Increases With Ten New Members
I
Coming from various places in
side and out of North Carolina
are the 10 new Senior High facul
ty members, who include nine
teachers and a new eafeteria mana
ger.
Mrs. Dorothy Albright, the new
cafeteria manager, is the mother
of Doug Albright, junior. She grad
uated from Oklahoma A&M Col
lege and moved to Greensboro from
Stillwater, Oklahoma, her home
town. Mrs. Albright said, “I am
very pleased with Senior High.”
In the English department there
are Miss Julia Brown and Mrs.
Sara Summers. Miss Brown, who
is a graduate of Greensboro Col
lege, taught at Madison for two
years. Incidentally, she is also a
graduate from Greensboro Senior
High School. Says Miss Brown
about Senior High, “Other than
an increase in students, nothing
has changed.” She has just return
ed after a two-month tour of
Europe which included eight coun
tries. They were England, Hol
land, Belgium, Germany, Austria,
Italy, Switzerland, and France.
Mrs. Summers, a graduate of
High Point College, has also
taught before coming to Senior.
She taught in Summerfield, which
is her home town. Mrs. Summer’s
impression of Senior is the friend
ly faculty and pupils.
Organized School
In the math department there
is Mrs. Hilda McDonald, who did
graduate work at the University
of North Carolina and got married
that summer. She taught school
for 10 years at Guilford High
School. A'fter finishing her grad
uate work, she came back to Guil
ford county and taught at Guilford
College. Mrs. McDonald received
her A.B. degree from East Caro
lina College. “I am very much im
pressed with Senior High,” says
Mrs. McDonald. “It is a well or
ganized and good school.”
Mrs. Mary Gamble, who gradu
ated at Summerfield High School
before coming to Senior, teaches
history. Mrs. Gamble says, “I think
Senior High is a wonderful
school!”
After a year of student teaching
at Senior last year, Miss Helen
Turlington is now teaching biolo
gy. Her hometown is Jacksonville,
North Carolina, but she attended
Greensboro College. Says Miss
Turlingon of her impression of
Senior, “The students are very
nice and friendly. I am enjoying
teaching here very much.”
A graduate of WCUNC, Mrs. Ana
Miller, who was recently married,
is the new Spanish teacher. She
came to Greensboro from Havana,
Cuba.
Favorably Impressed
Mr. Joe Still atended Emory,
Henry C., George Peabody, Duke
University, and the University of
Michigan. He has instructed bands
at Knoxville, Tennessee; Bristol,
Tennessee; Asheboro, and Burling
ton. Knoxville is his hometown.
“I am very favorably impressed
and I am looking forward to the
work here,” says Mr. Still.
From the commercial department
came Miss Ann Moore and Miss
Ellen Lensing. Miss Moore gradu
ated from Woman’s College and
taught at Wilson, North Carolina
before coming to Senior.
Fuss ond Feathers
Miss Lensing grew up in Two
Rivers, Wisconsin and attended
Whitewater State College and the
University of Wisconsin. She has
taught at Wisconsin, Illinois and
Eastern State High School. Miss
Lensing is particularly impressed
by the smooth operation of Senior
High, which seems to be accomp
lished with such a minimum of
“fuss and feathers.” “Why am I in
North Carolina?” she asked, then
immediately answered, “Because I
hate winters that start in October
and last through April”
LJHS Teacher Wins
First McNutt Award
Mrs. Herbert Hazelman, seventh
grade English teacher at Lindley
Junior High School, received the
first annual McNutt award at the
General Teacher’s meeting Mon
day, September 5.
Dr. Franklin H. McNutt, pro
fessor at W. C., after whom the
award was named, made the pre
sentation of a chedk for $100 and
a plaque o Mrs. Hazelman. An
i d e n ti c a 1 plaque went to E.
Frank Johnson, principal of Lind
ley Junior High School, to be dis
played permanently at that school.
All Greensboro teachers were
invited by Greensboro Industries
Inc. to submit a plan showing
how they teach the American way
of life in their individual fields.
The central idea came from John
Truslow Adam’s book THE AMER
ICAN EPIC in which he devotes
considerable space to what he calls
“The American Dream”. From this
source, Mr. DeWitt Carroll and
Mr. John Harden, leaders in
Greensboro Industries, enumerated
seven basic freedbms and, as their
counterparts, seven duties which
teachers should follow in teaching
of the American Way of Life.
When asked how she would
spend this .vaward, Mrs Hazelman
said that her first impulse was to
buy a hundred dollars worth of
shoes, but after recovering from
the shock, she will probably buy
saving bonds for the education of
Casey, her two year old son.