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High Lh^e
May 11, 1956
'*et and preserve the hiatory of our
r 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.
Occupational Hazard
“The more you learn the more you
know; the more you know the more you
forget; the more you forget the less you
know; so why study?” Now that seems rea
sonable—at first glance. Upon closer exami
nation, however, the truth rears its ugly
head. Exams are just a little more than
two weeks away, ajid there is a very cogent
reason or studying; unless, of course, you
are numbered among those exempting two
exams. In view of the fact that the ranks
of the gold star bearers are significantly
thin, we should conscientiously examine
the challenge that studying affords. For
those of you who have never known the
satisfactions accompanying the study of
ancient Latin or trigonometry, select mem
bers of the faculty have provided a list (an
extensive Ust) of do’s and don’t’s (mostly
don’t’s) to start you in the right direction
hen you do get around to initiating your
academic career on the night before your
examinations. The list applies to sopho
mores as well as to juniors and seniors.
A Guide To Method In Your Madness
While Practicing the Ancient Art of Glut
tonous Digestion of Crirricula (cramming):
1. Do get comfortable before you be
gin the ordeal; a, chaise lounge is recom
mended for best results.
2. Do not neglect the rudimentary
conveniences such as television, telephone,
and radio which tend to break the monoto
ny of long study periods.
3. Do seek the advice and counsel of
friends; the aforementioned can easily be
attract^ to the place of study by promises
of a card game between subjects or of a
concert of the latest popular tunes.
44. Do not become confused by the
confusing notes you have been given by
your teachers; these tend to aggravate the
situation. It is best to discard them before
you begin work.
5. Avoid unnecessary repetition by con
centrating only on material covered during
the first weeks of school; your memory of
the latter part of a course should be suffici
ent to insure you a satisfactory grade on
the exam.
6. Do not spend too much time on any
one subject. Excessive reading tends to
cloud the mind.
7. Remember., anything over 70 is
wasted.
Follow these rules and you will not even
have to worry about graduating.
HIGH LIFE
Publisbed Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Chreensboro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded bv the Class
of 1921
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of 1937
Entered as second-class matter March 30,
1940, at the post office at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editors .
Cartoonist
Proofreaders
Nestus Gurley
(Poets Delight)
Randall Jarrell, Woman’s College
English teacher who was recently
named poetry consultant to the Li
brary of Congress, won $100 for a
poem he wrote about Nestus Gur
ley, a senior at Greensboro High
School.
The poem, which won a second
prize from the Virginia Quarterly
Review, is about Nestus Gurley’s
paper route.
Mr. Jarrell first decided to write
a poem about Nestus several years
ago when the present high school
senior delivered the evening paper
to the Jarrell family.
Sometimes waking, sometimes sleeping
Late in the aternoon, or early
In the morn ng, I hear on the lawn,
On the walk, on the lawn, the soft quick
step,
The sound half song, half breath;
a note or two
That with a note or two would be a tune.
It is Nestus Gurley.
It is an old
catch or snatch or tune
In the Dorian mode: the mode of the
horses
Who stand all night in the fields asleep
Or awake, the mode of the cold
Hunter, Orion, wheeling upside-down.
All space and stars, in cater-cornered
Heaven.
When, somewhere under the east,
The great march begins, with birds and
silence;
When, in the day^s first triumph, dawn
Rides over the houses, Nestus Gurley
Selivers to me my lot.
As'the sun sets I hear my daughter say:
“He has four routes and makes a hundred
dollars.”
Sometimes he comes with dogs,
sometimes with children.
Sometimes with dogs and children-
He collects, today.
I hear my daughter say:
“Today Nestus has got on his derby.”
And he says, after a little: “It’s two-
eighty.”
“How could it be two-eighty?”
“Because this month there’re f-ve Sun
days: it’s two-eighty.”
He collects, delivers. Before the first,
least star
Is lost in the paling east; at evening
While the soft, side-lit, gold-leafed day
Lingers to see the stars, the boy Nestus
Delivers to me the Morning Star, the
Evening Star
—Ah no, only the Morning News, the
Evening Record
Of what I have done and what I have
Set down and held against me in the Book
not done
Of Death, on paper yellowing
Already, with one morning’s sun, one
evening’s sun.
Sometimes I only dream him. He brings
then
News of a different momiiig, a judg
ment not of men.
The bombers have turned back over the
Pole,
Having met a star ... I look at that
new year
And, waking, think of our Moravian Star
Not lit yet, and the pure beeswax candle
With its red flame-proofed paper pompom
Not lit yet, and the sweetened
Bun we brought home from the love-
feast, st*(ll not eaten.
And the song the children sang: O Morn^
ing Star—
And at this hour; to the dew-hushed
drums
Of the morning, Nestus Gurley
Marches to me over the lawn; and the
cat Elfie,
Furred like a musk-ox, coon-tailed, gold-
leaf-eyed.
Looks at the paper boy without alarm
But yawns, and stretches, and walks
placidly
Across the lawn to her ladder, climbs it,
and begins to purr.
I let her in
And go out and pick up from the grass
the paper hat
Nestus has folded: this tricorne fit for a
Napoleon
Of our days and inst-tutions, weaving
Baskets, being bather, receiving
Electric shocks, Rauwolfia ... I put it on
—Ah, no, only unfold it:
There is dawn inside; and I say to no one
About—
it is a note or two
That with a note or two would be a—
say to no one
About nothing: “He delivers dawn.”
When I lie coldly
—Lie, that [s, neither with coldness nor
with warmth—
In the darkness that is not lit by nothing,
In the grave that is not lit by anything
Except our hope: the hope
That is not proofed against anything,
but pure
And shining as the first, least star
That is lost to the east on the morning
of Judgment—
May I say, recogni^ng the step
Or tune or breath . . . recognizing the
breath.
May I say, “It is Nestus Gurley.”
Randall Jarrell
Reprinted from The Virginia
Q^rterly Review by permis
sion of the author.
HALL TALES
Jim Martin
Donna Oliver
Diane Schwartz
Dick Robinson
Mary Lou Hutton
Ginger Bass
Mary Wheeler
Betty Adams
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager _
Copy Editor
Feature Editor
Boys’ Sport Editor Add Penfield, Jr.
Sports Reporter Max Snodderly
Girls’ Sports Editor — Mary Jane Seawell
Exchange Editor Nancy Tuttle
Circulation Editor Ann Greeson
Photographers Dan McConnell
Claiborne Cordle
Diana Herman
Paula Tuttle
Linda Harrison, Sue Spence and
Lou Spence
Reporters Judy Shallant
Jane Parkins, Bonnie Adelstein
Frances McCormick, and
Elwood Hartman
Adviser Miss Peggy Ann Joyner
Financial Adviser : Mr. A. P. Routh
By Judy Shallant
The sands of time will really be rol
ling tonight, and by the end of this week
end Myrtle Beach will probably be in
Alaska! Hope everybody has himself
“a ball” and really “raises a bunch!”
’Twas in a restaurant they met,
Romeo and Juliet;
He had no cash to pay the debt
So Rome-owed what Jul>et.
Mr. Luttrell: Give the most important
facts about nitrates.
Caroline Sikes: They”re cheaper than
day rates.
Did ya know?:—Cooper NuU”s band
played at Central School last week.
Those boys are sky-rocketing plaees!
Roy Griffin: Quick, give me a round
trip ticket.
Clerk: Where to?
Roy: Back here, siUy.
Jackie Jones: Have you an opening for
a bright young fellow?
Mr. Racster: Yes, but don’t slam it-
on your way out.
“Hi diddle, diddle, the cat and the
fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.”
Nice goirig, bossy!
Sarah Jo S.tanley: I would like to have
lived in the days of King Arthur.
Bobbie Cook: I don’t know as I would
have cared much about the days, but I
surely would have liked the knights.
A moron called a plumber ’cause his
girlfriend said he was a drip.
Five hundred years ago today
A wilderness was here;
A man with powder in his gun
Went forth to hunt a deer.
But now that things have changed
somewhat
A dear with powder on her nose
Goes forth to hunt a MAN!
A man who has two wives, of course,
Is always caRed a bigamist.
But when he has some three or four
We guess he is a pigamist.
Florida Times-Union
Be seeing ya
Five of 1956 Seniors
Receive Schoiarships
To Colieges in Slate
Five seniors from GHS have
won scholarships from colleges,
four of them from North Caro
lina Colleges and one from Agnes
Scott College in Georgia.
Bob Herford,
vice-president
the student boc'^
at GHS, has Von
a $600 schola: -
ship to the Uni-^
versity of Nort |
Carolina. Thef
award is payable I
in $150 amoimi [
each year for four years.
Eve Purdom, who will attend Ag-
jnes Scott College,
I has won a com-
I petitive scholar-
j; ship for $600 for
I one year. The se-
i lection was based
I on scores on the
I Scholarship Ap-
I titude Test of the
I College Board
test and an autobiography be
tween 750 and 1200 words. She
plans to become either a primary-
grade teacher or a physical thera
pist.
The G.H. Han
kins Scholarship
nas been award
ed to Reggie Bell.
Its value is $1600
and is applied to
Wake Forest Col-^
lege. He entered
into state com
petition at Win-1
ston-Salem last March 12. The
examination consisted of a wi'it-
ten test and an interview.
Angela Butt
phas won a $450
I scholarship t o
iDuke University,
IThis amount is
I for one year and
|[s renewable each
Jyear if the grades
I of the student
I are kept up to
certain standard.
Katherine Leo
nard also has
won a scholai -
ship to Duke Ur -
iversity. Hers
for $600 for her
freshman year
and is also k -
newable if ht i
grades are kept
up.
TO? It’s two iBllss on down that way