Senior Class Selects Superlatives
As Outstanding Senior Classmates
Members of the class of 1958
elected their 28 superlatives in
home room voting Thursday,
November 7.
The results have been kept
secret until now in order that
High Life might break the
story for the fourth straight
year.
Voted most popular were Roy
Michaux, Senior Class President,
and Sandra Holderness, president
of the student body; Butch Bailey
and Ellen Watson received the title
of wittiest.
Seniors designated as most athletic
were Dave Albaugh and Prissy Wy-
rick, while most courteous seniors
were Wallace Williams and Laura
Pearce
Tommy Kitzmiller and Anne Wil-
son were selected cutest in the
class of 1958, and David Garrison
and Janice Stanley were named
most talented. .
Best looking seniors' Roger Eng
lish and Marsha Bumpass were so
voted by their classmates.
Twins Jim and Lynn McGregor
were paired as -the seniors with the
best personality, and Jey Deifell
and Peggy Sink were chosen most
likely to succeed.
The class selected Max Snodderly
and Meyressa Hughes as most in
tellectual, while Edgar Sockwell
and Jean Medearis were awarded
the title of most dependable.
Friendliest seniors were Tommy
Glascock and Janet Coble, and Lar
ry Wachter and lOtty White were
cited as sweetest. Best dressed in
the Senior Class were Bill Goode
and Betsy Stevens.
The 1958 WHIRLIGIG will fea
ture these outstanding students, and
the Class Day activities in the
spring will be a part of their sched
ule.
White
HIGH LIFE
J. McGregor L. McGregor
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
Social Clubs Consider
Formation Of Council
VOLUME XXXIV
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., NOV. 15, 1957
NUMBER 5
Organized along the lines of
an inter-fratemity council, an
inter-club council made up of
Greensboro Senior High School
boys’ and girls’ social dubs is
being seriously considered by the
GHS clubs in the wake of a re
cent city-wide discussion about
club activities ^d their value.
A representative group of club
officers is drawing up a consti
tution which will have to be rati
fied by the individual clubs be
fore they will be admitted as
members of the new club organi
zation.
The inter-dub council will co
ordinate joint activities such as
fund drives.
Directors Choose Cast of Pageant;
Christmas Carol'To Be Produced
This year’s Christmas. pageant,
“The Christmas Carol,” will be
presented December 18 by the
Senior Class to the student body
in two assemblies.
The cast selected after tryouts
October 30, is as folows: Portray
ing Scooge is George Murphy;
Bob Cratchit, Bruce Johnson;
Fred, David Garrison; First Gen-
State FT A Elects Sapero
Vice-President of Group
Senior High’s Benjamin Lee
Smith Chapter of Future Teach-
Industrialists Visit School;
Senior Has Half Holiday
A. P. Routh, principal of Senior
High School, announced that to
day, Friday, November 16, would
be set aside as a school-industry
visitation day for the purpose of
promoting ”A better community
through understanding among Ui-
dustry, its employees, and the pub
lic.”
Last Monady, November 11, the
Piedmont Associated Industry,
consisting of merchants from
Greensboro, High Point, James
town, and Thomasville, honored
faculty members from Greensboro
Public Schools with a banquet at
the Plantation Supper Club.
The schedule for today’s pro
gram will be gin atl 0:30, when
GHS will become host to approxi
mately 25 industrialists. At 12
noon the student body will be dis
missed, and at 12:15 Miss Jeanne
Wood, Faculty Club president, will
be toastmistress at a luncheon
honoring the business men. Fol
lowing the luncheon the teachers
will be the guests of the mer
chants for a tour of their indus
tries.
ers of America was represented at
the annual state meeting at Duke
University Saturday, November 2,
when Sheila Sapero, junior, was
elected state vice-president of the
group.
Representing Senior High were
Peggy Sink, who served as state
secretary last year, and Janet
Coble, president of Senior High’s
FTA, along with Brenda Alvis,
Denny Broadhurst, Dolly Culp,
Jeanne Davant, Angie Davis, Bren
da Gibson, Judy Lea, Jean Me
dearis, Dot Michael, Carolyn Or-
rell, Sheila Sai>ero, Ann Shadoin,
Sandra Sharpe, Jeannie Sikes, Be
linda Smith. Carole Smithers, and
Lila Wolff, all juniors and semors.
They were accompanied to Duke
by several of the girls’ mothers.
Monday, November 10, at 5:30
p. m., on WFMY-TV, Janet Coble
presented a program on “Teach-
.Ing as a Career.”
In commoration of American
Education Week, Thursday, Nov
ember 14, was set aside as Nation
al Teachers Day. Thursday morn
ing Janet Coble gave a short talk
in tribute of the' teachers at Sen
ior High, and the members pre
sented each teacher with home
made can^.
Sandra Holdemess, Dolly Culp,
and Jo Banner, seniors are in
charge of the various committees!
for FTA this year. i
tleman Solicitor, Carey Sloan;
Newsboy, Raymond Spaulding;
Marley’s Ghost, Bill Schneider;
Ghost of Christmas Past, John
Stanton; Ghost of Christmas
Pi'esent, George Critz and Ghost
of Christmas yet to come is Peg
gy Earle.
Playing the part of Scooge as
a boy is Raymond Spaulding,
with Jan, his sister played by Ann
Wilson. Scooge as a young man is
Norman Crutchfield; Belle, Kitty
White. Mrs. Cratchit, Deanne
Wagoner; Martha Cratchit. Judy
Lea; Bonnie Cratchit, Carol
Smlther; Bobbie Cratchit, Carol
Miller dressed as a boy; Second
man in the street, Bill Johnston:
Mrs. Dilber, Liz Hodges and as
Old Joe, the Ragpicker is Steve
Bemholz.
Jo Banner is acting as the maid,
adth Raymond Spaulding as the
boy in the street. The urchins
1958 6ra(iuates of GHS
Eligible For Scholarship
GHS students who expect to
graduate in 1958 are eligible for
the Geoi^e Foster Hankins Scho
larship to Wake Forest College.
The scholarship program, which
was begun in 1955, can provide
up to $4,500 towards the four year
college education of a winner.
Need, ability, and personality are
prime considerations.
Applications may be obtained by
writing to the college. They must
be filled out and returned by De
cember 14. The Hankins Scholar
ship was awarded last year to
Reggie Bell, a GHS student of the
class of 1956. Preference is given
to Davidson Coimty students.
Application blanks, while the
supply lasts, are available for the
Aubrey Lee Brooks Scholarship,
providing money for an education
at one of the three branches of
the University of North Carolina.
Continued on Page Eight
are Linda Pultz, Bonnie Sykes,
Evelyn Byrd, Carol Wimbish and
Pat Ellis; the Carollers, Janet
Coble, Betsy Stevens, Angelyn
Stokes, Judy Snyder, Pat Jerome,
Joan Edwards, and Margaret Un
derwood; passersby, Magie Fish-
bume, Bill Owen, Linda Pultz, and
Denny Broadhurst. Ghosts ac
companying Marleys Ghost are Kit
Cooper, Bobbie Cook, and Brenda
Alvis. Ghosts preceding Ghost of
Christmas Present are Mary Hen
derson, Meyressa Hughes, and
Magie Fishburne; Ghosts accom
panying Christmas Yet To Come,
Lois Lynch, Ann Wolff, and Linda
Cashwell.
AH pMlicipan/ts in the play and
members of the committees are
Seniors. Chairman of the cos
tume committee, Barbara Harris,
has Kay Wicker, Betty Harrell,
Continued on Page Seven
GHS's Los Condos
Has Displays, Ushers
For Service Projects
Los Condes, a GHS.service club,
has been sponsoring an “Athlete
of the Week” display in the front
hall of the Main Building and pro
viding ushers for the school’s '
home games; Paul Tobin, presi
dent of the club, has announced.
Los Condes has also been par
ticipating for the last month in
inter-club athletics on Sunday
afternoons and is working with
GHS’s three other service clubs
to form an Inter-Club Council.
The purpose of the coixncil is to
co-ordinate the efforts of the
service clubs.
Members of the chib and their
dates entertained themselves at.
a hayride November 2. The host
was Jim McCormick, junjor.
The club has a special project
to be announced soon, Paul said.
Key Clubbers Sponsoring
Projects To Boost Spirit
GHS’s Key Club, in its tenth
year of service to Senior High,
has been engaging in a nufnber
of varied projects in the last
weeks.
Two projects concerned primar
ily with the raising of school
spirit have been part of the club’s
activities. The first was a bon
fire, Thursday night, October 31.
the night before the Whirlies were
to have played High Point. A
large crowd attended the bonfire
date of the Key Club’s biggest
annual project. That day the mem
bers distributed over 1900 copies
of the 132 page Student Direc
tory, which contained the names,
addresses, and telephone num
bers of all students and faculty
members. 'This was the ninth year
that the Key Club has put out
this valuable publication. The di
rectory came after two months
work soliciting advertising, proof
reading, and setting up the book.
for which George Bradham was • Buddy Rives was the wheelhorse
the chairman.
Secondly, the club has been
selling license plates with the
slogan “Go Whirlies” emblazoned
on them. They have set a goal
of 500. Wellford Lineweaver is
the chairman of this project. Pro
ceeds go toward the Second An
nual Key Club Service Scholar
ship.
November 7 was the culmination the club.
behind the directory.
Several members of the club
distributed posters in shopping
centers and other stores for the
upcoming concerts of the North
Carolina Symphony.
A parents night in conjunction
with the Curry and Bessemer Key
Club v/ill provide the program
for the November 20 meeting of