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VOLUME LVIl NUMBER 1 GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N.C. 27408
SEPTEMBER 7,1977
Executive Council
PLANS A NEW YEAR
Comprised of fifteen students,
the Executive Council has a
chairman that comes from the
Senior Class, a Secretary from the
Junior Class, and a Treasurer
from the sophomores.
Each class elects a president,
and one representative for the
Pep Board, YRC and Student
Affairs..
Duties of the Executive Council
Chairman include presiding over
Council meetings and attending
School Board meetings to inform
parents about what the Council is
doing.
Recording minutes for each
meeting and sending an agenda
to the homeroom presidents are
among the duties of the Council
Secretary.
MVC /Urs Student Views
The 1977 Mayor’s Youth
Conference which was held
August ninth through the
eleventh at Elliott University
Center, UNC-G gave Greensboro
high school juniors and seniors
opportunities to express their
opinions and ideas.
The participants in MYC were
able to broaden their knowledge
of the total city through
discussions. Delegates were
Attendance Policy Revised
The attendance policy for the
1977-78 school year has changed
in ways that insure good
attendance and help students
form habits of acceptable
attendance and punctuality.
A student absent more than ten
days in a given semester will not
receive any credit for that class in
which the absences occur. Three
tardies to a class will be treated as
the equivalent of one absence in
computing allowable absences.
Students will not be counted
absent or tardy when participa
ting in school functions. Suspen
sions will count as absences from
all classes missed during the
period of suspension. Six or more
tardies may now result in a
suspension.
Notes are not required when'
students are absent, however,
students who are on campus are
expected to be in class or in study
hall. Students leaving the campus
during the school day must check
out in the attendance office.
It is the teacher’s responsibility
to keep accurate records of
student absences and tardies. All
absences are reported daily to the
school’s attendance office and to
the principal’s office. All tardies
and absences are recorded on the
student’s report card and in the
student’s permanent records.
It is the responsibility of the
student to apply for a waiver. The
student must present verification
acceptable to the principal in
regard to illness, religious
holidays and family emergencies.
Students having eleven or more
absences in any class during the
first nine weeks of a semester will
receive a “W” without a grade if
the student is passing the course
at the time of withdrawal.
Otherwise the student will receive
The Treasurer is in charge of all
funds, and keeps up with what’s
spent.
Activities done through the
homerooms are taken care of by
Class Presidents, who also are
responsible for the class projects.
Reporting to homeroom presi
dents is another part of their job.
The Junior Class Chairman
coordinates the Prom, and the
Senior Class President sees that a
gift is left to the school and that
graduation runs smoothly.
Working with other high
schools. Student Affairs organ
izes Exchange Days. They also
have sent cards to Grimsley
students who are hurt seriously or
sick in the hospital.
exposed to the problems of today
through speeches, seminars,
debates, films . and displays.
Mayor Jim Melvin, City Council,
Greensboro Youth Council and
other interested people from the
community were able to learn just
what the youth thought.
The Conference ended with a
Banquet at which the Mayor
responded to presentation of the
1977 Mayor’s Youth Conference.
an “F”. Students having the
eleventh absence occur in the
second nine weeks will receive an
“F” for the course.
To inform the parents and
students with regard to absences,
each teacher will complete a form
letter which will be mailed to the
parents of each student notifying
them of absences on the 25th
absence, and the 9th absence.
When the student misses a class
eleven days a letter of notification
will be sent to the parents that the
student will not get credit for the
course. An effort will be made by
each classroom teacher to contact
parents by phone upon the 5th
and 9th absence of each
semester. When a student misses
eleven days, the student must (a)
continue in the class on an audit
basis, or (b) drop the class and
enter a study hall. Students under
such arrangements will be
expected to be on campus. If the
student chooses to audit the class,
he must maintain acceptable
behavior or the student will
automatically be placed in a study
hall. If a student’s schedule is
reduced to fewer than three
classes because of an attendance
problem he will be dropped from
school for the remainder of the
semester.
Students who report to schoof
and cut three times from study
hall and/or homeroom may be
suspended. Such a suspension
may jeopardize course credit
when a combination of the days
lost for suspension and other
absences results in an excess of
ten absences. Three tardies to
homeroom and/or study hall will
be treated as the equivalent of
one absence in computing
allowable absences.
Kathyf lanchaTid
The HIGH LIFE staff wishes
the new teachers the best of luck
in their teaching endeavors here
and hopes they will be with us for
some time. There are six new
teachers at Grimsley. Mrs.
Suzanne Devinant is the new
French 1 and 11 teacher w.'ho has
come from Belgium. Mrs. Garcia
is teaching Housing and Home
Furnishings, Clothing and Tex
tiles and assisting with the
kindergarten program. Mrs.
Garcia is a graduate of UNC-G
and has a B.S. in Home
Economics. Mrs. Garcia trans
ferred from Dudley and finds
Grimsley’s campus beautiful with
friendly and conscientious tea
chers. She hopes to have a good
year with devoted Grimsley
students. Ms. Kathy Blanchard is
another new teacher to Grimsley
who teaches Spanish half a day.
Mrs. Jean Artley
has orchestra with Mr. Collin
Scott assisting with orchestra.
Ronnie Mikels
Ronnie Mikels, who is the
new JV Basketball coach and
Varsity Baskethall Assistant,
also teaching ecology.
Fresh out of Guilford College
where he attended on a basketbal
scholarship and majored in P.E.
he is “happy to be at Grimsley.’
Summer Stock Successful
For some, the summer was not
spent basking away in the sun or
splashing around in the pool, but
was a time of practicing,
rehearsing, and finally perfor
ming. The students in summer
stock, which was headed by
Grimsley’s Mr. Parrish, spent
most of their time working on
three plays which were given
throughout the summer. The
three shows were “You’re a Good
Man Charlie Brown’’, “A
Mid-Summer Night’s Dream”,
and “The Curious Savage”.
Summer stock was not limited
to just Grimsley students, but
combined the efforts of pupils
throughout the city. These
dedicated individuals met every
day for five and one half weeks to
be able to perform the three
shows and received one semes
ter’s elective credit for their work.
According to Mary Nichols, one
of the students in summer stock,
the best play presented was “A
Mid-summer Night’s Dream”,
which was held outside. She also
added that their hard work paid
off with the good turnouts and
reactions to the performances.
NEWS BRIEFS
HIGH LIFE representatives,
will be coming to homerooms
selling subscriptions at $2.00 per
year and $1.50 per semester.
Eating in school halls will no
longer be tolerated since member
of the faculty was injured due to
careless littering of the halls.
Anyone wishing to participate
in Student Council may join one of
the committees under Student
Affairs, YRC and Pep Board.
GYC, Greensboro Youth Coun
cil, is open to all Greensboro and
Guilford County youth who are
senior high school age. To get
involved, simply call the GYC
office.
Congratulations to the O Henry
Juniors who won first place in
International Affairs.
Congratulations to Ms. Metz
ger who is now Mrs. Shockley.
Exam Policy
Adopted
Carefully prepared examina
tions or other evaluative type
activities have definite academic
benefits. They enable a student to
demonstrate skills acquired over
a period of time; they provide a
means for realizing relationships
in a body of knowledge that has
been studied; and they provide
experience in test-taking situa
tions that the student will
continue to encounter after high
school.
Therefore, each senior high
school student is to take a
semester examination in each
scheduled subject with one
exception. Seniors are required to
take only two semester examina
tions in the semester in which
they wilt graduate. Seniors will
select the two examinations which
will be most advantageous to
them.
Mew
High life
Edhoruf Policy
HIGH LIFE exists primarily as
a monthly publication for
Grimsley High School with
intentions of informing the
student populace of the many
events taking place in the school
in as informative, interesting, and
accurate a manner as possible.
This newspaper also hopes to
provide an equal voice to all
students through the public
forum for the exchange of ideas
and opinions in the editorial
sections. We, the HIGH LIFE
staff members, reserve as our
privilege to decide what is
newsworthy and fit to print, using
our judgment in concatenation
with that which we have learned
of newsworthy material in our
study and application of journa
lism. Material printed should be
relevant to the school’s interest
patterns, important, and not
displayed in a libelous manner,
verbally attacking any one
person, group, event, or idea.
But, the underlying and most
significant goal that HIGH LIFE
strives for and hopes to achieve is
to provide a working atmosphere
for those students desiring to
pursue careers in all phases of
journalism after graduation from
this institution.
Hank Howard
Editor, HIGH LIFE
Club Review
The fourteenth annual jambo
ree of the Sub-Junior Clubs of
North Carolina was held in
Boone, July 23 and 24.
Representatives from various
clubs were able to share ideas and
see what other clubs were doing.
There were over one hundred
youths that attended the
jamboree, including four students
from Grimsley. Melissa Stephens
and Jennifer Wrenn represented
Charioteers and Genie Doar and
Karen Gorden represented O
Henry Juniors.
The Junior Jamboree of North
Carolina has been held every year
since 1963 in order to strengthen
service clubs with new ideas. The
representatives share projects
they have done and see what
other clubs have done.