HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XXXII
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., JAN. 13, 1936
NUMBER f
East Carolina To Be Host
For All-State Orchestra
During January 27-29
East Carolina College at Green
ville, North Carolina, will be host
for the 1956 North Carolina All-
State High School Orchestra dur
ing January 27, 28, 29.
The orchestra will be composed
of 124 members representing 15
high schools in these communi
ties: Ayden, Charlotte, Concord,
Durham, Greensboro, High Point,
Kannapolis, lUnston, Washington,
Waynesvill'e, and Winston-Salem.
The guest conductor will be Na
than Gottschalk, assistant profes
sor of violin at Oberlin College.
Mr. Gottschalk is a graduate of
Dartmouth College and received
his degree of music from Yale
University. He studied six years
at the JiUUard School of Music in
New York.
The orchestra will play the mu
sic of eight composers who are
Mozart, Dvorak, Dorati, Glure,
Smetana, Corellio, Davenport, and
Bourdor.
The 124 visitors will attend a
concert the first night, given by
the Griller String Quartet, a Col
lege Music Series. Starting on
Friday, January 27, they will first
have a sectional rehearsal follow
ed by a full rehearsal. During the
rest of their stay, they will attend
one other concert, have several
full and sectional rehearsals, and
a banquet will be given in their
honor by the college. On the last
night, there will be a dance for
visiting All-State members and’
students of the Department of
Music.
On January 29, Sunday, the
All-SJ:ate Orchestra will return
home after a free concert for the
public.
Jan. 17 Is Deadline
For Returning of Book
Miss Mildred Herrins:, librarian
of the schoH library, has recently
annouced that all library books
which are now in circulation must
be returned to the library on or
before J^uary 17. There will be
a 25 cent fine tor each day after
the deadline.
Thirteen Seniors To Exempt Two Exams;
One Exam To Be Omitted By 73 Pupils
Seniors Take Tests
For A. B. Duke Grants
On Thursday, January 5, 24
Greensboro High School seniors
^took the Angler B. Duke prelimi
nary examination in the boys’
gymnasiiun.
The examination was completed
by the end of the first period
class. Those making the top grad^
will compete in the regional exam
ination in Winston-Salem for
girls and in Greensboro for boys.
The 50 students of North Carolina
obtaining the highest grades will
then go to the finals at Duke Uni
versity in Durham. There will
be nine winners of the $4000 schol-
ai’ships, six boys and three girls
who will be chosen from North
Carolina.
From Senior High those taking
the test were Barry Frahm, Bob
Herford, John Gardiner, Dick
Robinson, Jerry Danford, Dan
McConnell, David Bescherer, Mike
Powell, Bose Ravenal, Reggie Bell,
Leon Boggs, Bob Guffey. Lisa An
derson, Julia McNairy, Zade Tur
ner, Diane Schwartz, Betsy Mc-
Keel, Sara Toenes, Eve Purdom,
I Katherine Leonard, Martha Wil-
■ liamson, Louise McGee, Ann Cole,
! and Angela Butt.
During the mid-term exam
schedule 13 seniors who are gold
star wearers and who are taking
five major subjects may exempt
two of their subjects while 75 stu
dents from the Junior and Senior
Classes who are gold or silver star
wearers and who take four major
subjects may exempt one examina
tion.
Those seniors exempting two
exams are Reggie Bell. Faye Fu-
Quay, Barry Frahm, Hilda Holt,'
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Seniors who are exempting one
exam are Lisa Anderson, Liwie
Doggett, Jerry Danford, Leon
Boggs, Angela Butt, Laura Adams,
Betty Adams, Gayle Apple, Linda
Barham, Ann Deal, Pat Foster,
Emma Garvin, Phyllis Glynn, Jane
Gravely, John Gardiner, Joanne
Haase, and Diana Harmon.
Others are Janet Harris, How-
Gardiner, Robinson Enter
Morehead Grant Contest
Six Guilford County semi-fin
alists in district competition for
the $5,000 Morehead Scholarships
have been announced by Paul
W. Schuck, Guilford County
chairman of the selection com
mittee.
Chosen' f r o m a
field of 13 appli
cants, John Gar
diner and Dick
Robinson will re
present Greens
boro Senior High
School at the dis
trict finals to be
held in Winston-
Salem during the latter part of
January. Pour additional students
were selected from High Point,
Jamestown, and McLeansville.
Virgil Lusk Hjll, Jr. and Michael
Lee Collins, of High Point, James
Lee Carr of Jamestown, and Nu-
ma Watt Cobb, Jr., of McLeans
ville, complete the list.
The names of 39
Guilford County
applicants who
were not promot
ed to the dis
trict level have
been forwarded
to Ray Arm
strong, director
of admission to
the University of North Carolina.
These will be considered for add
itional scholarships based on fin
ancial need.
The district committee to which
the six students have been recom
mended is composed of 14 count
ies. Pi'om this group of approxi
mately 30 boys, six will be rec
ommended to the Central Com
mittee finals. At this point ap
proximately . 20 scholarships will
be awarded.
The last student from Greens
boro to win the coveted award
was Forbes Ramsey, a 1954 grad
uate.
Eve Purdom Serves
As Newspaper Editor
For Honor Societies
Eve Purdom, senior Torchlight
member, served as editor of “The
North Carolina National Honor:
Society Newspaper,’’ which was
distributed to 68 state schools
last week.
Serving on the writing staff for
the newspaper were Lisa Ander
son, Torchlight president, Diana
Harmon, Louise McGee, Bose
Ravenel, and Dick Robinson, all
Torchlight members. Diana was
responsible for the art work Miss
Sara Mims, Torchlight adviser, as
sisted the staff.
The Greensboro Honor Society
Chapter accepted the responsibil
ity of editing the paper at the
state Honor Society Convention at
Wilmington, North Carolina, last
year.
Questionnaires for information
for the paper were sent to var
ious state high schools. Thirty-
five schools contributed to the 10-
page paper.
Dick and Eve each wrote an edi
torial for the paper. Another was
submitted from Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Eloise Keefer’s advanced
typing class cut the stencils,
which were run off by Mrs. Cor
delia Walke’s office practice class.
The 1956 State Honor Society
Convention will convene in Salis
bury, in the early spring.
Semi-finalists For Merits
To Take College Boards
At Reynolds High School
Tomorrow, January 14, the nine
semi-finalists from Greensboro
High School for the National
Merit Scholarship will go to R. J.
Reynolds High School in Winston-
Salem to take the Scholastic Apt
itude Test of the College Board
Examinations, which is the next
step in competition for these high
awards.
This test consists of vocabulary
and mathematics and lasts for two
hours in the moraing. It is also
required for all students applying
for the Angler B. Duke Scholar
ship and the General Motors
Scholarship. Approximately 26
people from this school will be
taking this test.
On the basis of this test the
finalists for the Merit Scholarship
will be chosen. Five thousand sen
iors in the counti*y are taking the
test for this award, 126 of whom
are from North Carolina.
The nine people from this school
who will take the test in compe
tition for the Merit awards are
David Bescherer, Angela Butt.
Barry Pi’ahm, Betsy McKeel, Julia
McNairy, Katherine Leonard, Eve
Purdom, Diane Schwartz, and
Sara Toenes.
Ftur Junior Rotariani
Affend Local Neel
Junior Rotarians, the four high
school students chosen annually to
represent Greensboro High at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
local Rotary Club during the fall
months, included the student
body president and vice-president,
the Senior Class president and a
representative of the football team.
Meeting with the club during
September was Houston Groome,
student body president. Bob Her
ford, vice-president, attended the
Monday afternoon meetings dur
ing the month of October. Lou
Glascock, Whirlie halfback, was
guest of the organization during
November. During December the
representative was Dick Robinson,
Senior Class president.
The individual visits to Rotary
were preceded by a group meet
ing of the high school representa
tives with members of the- club’s
induction committee .In this meet
ing the structure and aim of Ro
tary International were outlined
an individual and collective ef
fort to serve society.
ard Hinshaw, Ruby Hough, Bar
bara Jessup, Nancy Key, Gail
Kirkman, Katherine Leonard, Dan
McConnell. Loirlse McGee, Betsy
McKeel, Julia McNairy, Mary Ann
McNeely, Jo Ellen O’Brlant, Eve
Purdom, Barbara Riddle, Ann
Roimtree, Diane Schwartz, Vicki
Stewart, Janie Walters, Sara
Toenes, Betty Lou Wiles, Donna
Oliver, and Dick Robinson.
Juniors who may exempt one
6HS' First Semester
Exam Schedule Listed
Exams for the first semester
here at Senior High are sched
uled to begin at 8:45 Friday
morning, January 20, and to
continue through Tuesday, Jan
uary 24. The schedule has been
approved by the department
heads. At 9 on Wednesday, Jan
uary 25, the honor roll students
will r^dst«r for the second se
mester whUe other students will
register on Thursday, January
26. Friday, January 27 begins a
new semester and will be a full
day of school. Book fees will
also be collected that day.
Friday, January 20.
8:45-10:15—1st period exam
10:30-12:00—2nd period exam
Monday, January 23
8:45-10:15—3rd period exam
10:30-12:00—4th or 5th per
iod exam
Tuesday, January 24
8:45-10:15—6th period exam
10:30-12:00—7th period exam
of their exams are Rick Aderhold,
Doug Albright, Elizabeth Antrim,
Larry Brown, Ann Butler, David
Craig, Alec Decker, Stratton Eld-
ridge, Henry Flynt, Hbby Garvin,
Gilbert Frank, Hilda Garrett, Doris
Guill, Bill Hanling, and Hal Has
kins.
Completing the list are A1 Hatt-
away, Elwood Hartman, Buck
Hoyle, Tom Hudgins, Ruth Hunt,
Jack Jessup, Judy Kellett, Ruth
McCullock, Jane McLennan, Jerry
Mann, David Miller, Jerry Oakley,
Jean Ogbtim, Maranell Pearsall,
Katherine Polk, Mai^ie Rose, Judy
Shallant, James Spence, Kay Wes
ton, and Robert Willett.
They have not yet decided which
of their, subjects they will exempt,
but they may exempt any one
they ch?ose.
Wednesday, January 25
9:00—regis^ation of honor
roll students
Thursday, January 26
8:45—seniors register
10:00—juniors register
11:00—sophomores register
Friday, January 27
New semester begins.
Alumni Present Program
To Students tn Assembly
Several students of Greensboro
Senior High’s 1951 and 1954 grad
uating classes presented the as
sembly program Tuesday, January
3, in the school auditorium.
Jack King, a 1954 graduate, who
served as announcer for the pro
gram, performed a monologue on
English and American sports cas-
jters.
I Jerry Smyre, a 1951 graduate,
jand Eddie Robbins, Bill Turner,
I and Stewart Cass, who were mem-
i bers of the 1954 Queens’ Men,
I sang “A Woman,” “The Animals
1 are Coming,” “I Wish I Were Sin-
;gle Again,” “Over the Mountain,”
j “There's .Nothing Like a Dame,”
'and-“Dry Bones.”
j Another 1954 graduate, Mary
'Ann Thomas, sang “Tea For Two,”
. “Bali-hi,” and “With a Song In
jMy Heart.”
I Singing “Sixteen Tons,” “He,”
land “Danny Boy,” was Tommy
McDonald, a member of the 1954
class. »
Hazelman Conducts Band
For Mid -^0(^inter Concert
Under the direction of Herbert
Hazelman, conductor of the GHS
band, the annual mid-winter con
cert of the Greensboro Senior'
High School Band took place
last Thursday evening at 8 p. m.
in the high school auditorium.
’The first half of the progra.m
featured the performance of the
activities band which was directed
by J. R. Still and George Toenes.
Both Still and Toenes are assist
ant band directors and assist Her
bert Hazelman in the leadership
of the band.
The activities band began with
the playing of the “Lustspdel
Overture” written by Keler-Bela,
a Hungarian composer. That was
followed by the “Entrance of the
Peers” from “lolanthe” composed
by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
“Amparito Roca” by Jaime Tex-
idor and “Lights Out,” a march
written by Earl McCay concluded
the performance by the activities
band.
Hazelman conducted the con
cert band during the second half
of the performance which began
with the ballet music from Boro
din’s “Prince Igor.” “The Atlanta
Siut.e,” a new omposition by Don
Gillis, NBC musical director, fol-
low’ed the ballet. “The Atlanta
Suite” is comoosed of two num-
jbers—"Plantation Memories” and
j “Peachtree Promenade.”
1 The closing selection was “The
Golden Rule,” a march by Gold
man, who visited here recently,
and the overture to Wagner’s
‘ T annhauser. ’ ’
Student Council Voles
To Cancel Dance
In an effort to change the at
titudes of the entire student body,
the Student Council, at a meeting
January 4, decided to' devote the
time usually allotted for prepara
tion for the Midwinter’s Dance
to a campaign which 'will promote
better school spirit.
A motion was submitted to the
Student Council, which read: “I
move that we disregard previous
plans for a Midwinter’s Dance
due to the need for more benefi
cial projects for which we are now
making plans.” The motion was
passed by a majority of the coun
cil members. The students serv
ing on the council stressed the
fact that there are more import
ant things to be done for the
school than to have dances. Ac
cording to Houston Groome, the
Student Council president, the
students can begin supporting
their school and improving their
attitudes toward it by attending
the basketball games, and the
Open House which will follow
each game.