Page Two
High Life
October 5,1956
''To Be Honorable In Deed and
Honest In Dealings”
Dishonesty has been a disease of mankind
since time immemorial eating at his con
science and destroying his sense of ethics.
From the days of Moses and the Ten Com
mandments down to present times and
modem laws, thievery and cheating have
always been two of society’s biggest prob
lems.
Today in all phases of daily life—politi
cal, business, social, and school, forms of
cheating sitand constantly as reminders
that we humans often forget such codes as
“Thou Shalt not steal.” In school where we
are governed by mles of high principles as
set down in the Honor Code, many students
fail to comprehend the item, “To be hon
orable in deed and honest in dealings.”
Cheat sheets and copied homework assign
ments at times have become so common
that little or no attention is paid to them
by other students. Often popular students,
who have power to sway large groups, by
their silence or smiles seem to stamp ap
proval on such practices.
Whose fault is it that there is copying
during tests or changing of wrong
answers? Is the student entirely to blame?
We must realize an offender of a law is al
ways guilty when he maliciously disobeys
the code. However, it is also true that un
der certain class conditions an atmosphere
for cheating can become extremely inviting.
If teachers and students would work in
mutual cooperation to eliminate dishonest
opportunities and strive daily to practice
the laws of the Honor Code, such practices
would be reduced to the barest minimum.
The slogan, “Let’s make the right thing
popular,” has been used many times in
school campaigns; however, it hits the nail
on the head. By making right things popu
lar our Honor Code and school standards
would stand as beacons of honesty for
others to see.
Each individual student then has as his
own responsibility the task of keeping his
record clean of dishonest deeds. Whether
actual cheating is committed or approval
is inferred by the individual, unethical
practices will soon find our school a breed
ing ground. The Honor Code which is the
product of many people’s ideas—combined,
changed, and reworked—has been our
guide for years. Too much hard work has
been spent oa this code and too many
groups have sacrificed time, effort, and
money to familiarize the students with it for
the code to be ignored. Each of the nine
items in the code must have our whole
hearted support or we will loose the founda
tion of G. H.. S. honor.
HIGH LIFE
PubKsbed Semf-'Monthly by the Students of
GreefMdM»ro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class
of 1921
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Glass
of 1937
Entered as second-oiass matter March 30,
1940, at the poet office at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1S79.
Editx)r-in-Chief
Assistant Editors
Managing Editor ...
Feature Editor
Business Manager
Elwood Hartman
Bonnie Adelstein
Judy Shallant
Frances McCormick
Betty Rose
Advertising Manager .
S»py Editor
. Mary Lou Hutton
. Mary Jane Higgins
Linda Harrison
Boys’ Sports Editor .
Add Penfield, Jr.
Sports’ Staff —- Cooper Null
Max Snodderly
Girls’ Sports Editor Jane Parkins
Exchange Editor Gay Garrison
Girculation Editor Patty Slade
P}iotographers Claiborne Cordle
Bob Hale
Cartoonist — Charles Mills
June Rubin
Proofreaders Sue Barker
Judie Bittinger, Liz Hodges, Sue Hoffman
Adtviser Miss Peggy Ann Joyner
Financial Adtnser Mr. A. P. Routh
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and preserve the history 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.
HERMAN DfDM*T STUDY ENOUGH, SO HE WROTE A NOTE
.UPON HIS CUFF. THEN ON TEST DAY , HE FOUND OUT
-THE HARP WAY , SENIOR HIGH DOESN'T LIKE THAT STUFF,
PARA' PHARSIN'
Student Council proceedings are now
a thing of clear understanding after
the enlightening assembly program last
Tuesday. Even Po’ Soul says, “With
a group of leaders like we have in our
Student’s Council, how can we help
being the best school in the state.” Item
most pleasing .... devotionals before
the business meetings.
Hall
Tales
Judy Brittinger
Brown has a lovely baby girl
The stork left her with a flutter,
Brown named her Oleomargarine
Because he hadn’t any but her!
students and teachers in explanation
of a tedious point. Healthy youngsters
make healthy noises, you say! True,
but there’s a time'and place for every
thing.
COUNCIL
CORNER
Inconsideration is an ominous tone
which comes blasting in the classroom
with the blares of noisy lunch periods
and students roaming down empty halls
during class time, banging locker doors.
Explosions shatter nerves of test-taking
Several students have joined the ranks
of the faculty and are using reserved
parking places popularly knjDiwn as
“for teachers only.” The stadium is
too long a trek for some of our modem
Mouseketeers.
Libby Garvin, chairman, and her
Youth Recreation Committees should
rfdopt for their theme song, “Giddyap,
Giddyap, All Night Ijong.” Midnight oil
has been selling like hotcakes to the
committee members who have gone all
out in making the after-game open
houses a gi'and success.
Hey, Hey! And didn’t we murder Gas
tonia last Friday night? Have yo’all
made reservation on the bus to the
Championship game?
In case you sophomores are wonder
ing about the glassy-stare in the Senior’s
eyes lately, it’s what’s commonly known
as Chaucer-itis. Those lucky enough to
have escaped the disease temporarily
are suffering from the Auto-biography
epidemic! Never mind, sophs, your time
will come—
Speaking of football, (we were, you
know) this was overheard on the bus
on the way to Gastonio—
Bob Brown: Look at that bunch of
cows.
Currie Singletary: Not bunch, herd.
Bob: Heard of what?
Currie: Herd of cows.
Bob: Sure, I’ve heard of cows.
Currie: I mean a cow herd!
Bob: What do I care what a cow
heard? I didn’t say anything wrong—I
just said. Hold it! This sounds like the
place we came in!
Cafeteria lines are long and tirkig,
but most provoking is the “wheel”
whose time is so important that he
breaks in at the head of the line, rather
than waiting his turn like the rest of
the groveling masses. Some folks are
so busy being busy they’ve forgotten
our stomachs growl, too.
After three years of carrying flash
lights to class on rainy days and using
binoculars to see the distant blackboard
while the gloomy clouds of a passing
hurricane stretched overhead at last
we’ve emerged from the “dark ages.”
Beaming new fluorescent light fixtures
adorn the ceiling of our classrooms,
now saving eyesight and easing the
burden of studying.
Alas, alack! A thorn in my side. When
will juniors and seniors realize sopho
more aren’t responsible for all the
mistakes that happen? Let’s stop pass
ing the buck: the underclassmen get
enough ribbing without accepting the
blame for our misconduct, too.
BY BILL O’BRIEN
Some of the major activities with
which the Student Council Ms been de
voting its energy during the last two
weeks include:
l. The Asembly Program “The Stu
dent Council in Action.”
In this asembly the council tided to
acquaint the student body with its or
ganization and policies.
n. The Sophomore Elections.
Over one hundred applications for
office were received and processed by
James Spence, chairman of the elections
committee. Each candidate was pre
sented in a sophomore assembly last
Thursday, and registration and voting
followed on Monday and Tuesday re
spectively.
m. A Lunch-time Recreation Pro
gram.
Ping-Pong, dancing, and other recre
ational activities will soon be available
to the student body after lunch in the
girls’ gym.
rv. Home coming.
Libby Garvin has been selected by the
football team to be the 1956 Home
coming Queen, and Nancy Lambeth will
be the Student Council sponser.
V. Careers Day.
Preliminary plans are being made
for Career Day, which is to be during
the second or third week in November.
VI. Cafeteria.
The problem of students breaking in
line and failing to take back trays and
bottles has been of great craicern to
the council. A special committee has
been appointed to study the situation
and to take necessary action.
As 5^>u can see, we have really had
a busy two weeks, and our only hope
is that you will take advantage and
enjoy these activities as they come
along.
Robert Turner: Hey, you’d better run
and hide.
Peyton Neal: Why so?
Robert: I heard the birds are looking
for crumbs this season!
Mary had a little lamb,
Her father killed it dead
And now it follows her to
school each day
Between two hunks of bread,
(I don’t know what I’d do without these
little gems of poetic beauty).
And there was the little skunk who
gave up going to church ’cause he hated
to sit in the same phew!
And then there’s the conversation over
heard in the front hall—
Sophomore: The laundry made a mis
take and sent me the wrong shirt. The
collar is so tight I can hardly breathe.
Senior: No, that’s your shirt, all right,
but you’ve got your head through a
button-hole.
Now for a new feature of Hall Tales—■
a paragraph devoted to the problems of
you, the students.
My problem is that I don’t have any
dates. Being a perfectly normal girl, I
wonder why. Of course, I do have buck
teeth, and I’m 6’ 4”, weighing a mere 50
pounds. As you can see, I’m quite nor
mal. Do you have any helpful sugges
tions?
Dear Normal,
Your trouble is that you’re just too
much like the average girl. Try being
a little bit different!
Wal, its getting time to stop this
scratching and study my bird calls—
See yo’all a round.
Alumni will be returning, Novem
ber 9 for the Homecoming Game
which will be played against Bur
lington. Pictured in the six scenes
above is a grad of way back going
through the strenuous rigors of
Homecoming. At the end of the
game he is already asleep, left in
the stadium.
ARE YOU THERE?
By Diana Evans
Hee, hee! 'There’s a man in •ur refrig
erator! He knocks. At least I should
think it’s a man, for what else could it
be? He used to knock just once or twice
when the motor started. Then Daddy
fixed him. Now he knocks all the time—
almost. I can picture what he must look
like (from my dreams), short and stout
with a green little face, black glittering
eyes and great huge hammers for fingers.
I can hear him now. I'm going to gel
my hammer and let him out. Hee, hee!
We can always buy another refrigerator.