‘Come On, Whirlies,
Go Get ’Em”
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
'JVelcome To Fighting
G. H. S.r Page 2
VOLUME XIX
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., SEPTEMBER 11, 1942
NIIMBER 1
Anderson, Smallwood,
Paschal, MacFayden,
Peck Named To Staff
High Life Editor Bob Lloyd an
nounced five of the most important
staff positions and the 1042-43 reporto-
I'ial staff this morning.
Mollie Peck, advertising agent of Last
year, was promoted to business man
ager, and will be co-chief of the busi
ness department with Margaret Kind-
ley, who was chosen in the spring as
advertising manager.
Climaxing a year’s work with posi
tions on the staff including those of
ad solicitor and staff photographer, the
editor selected Irwin Smallwood to
take the sports department.
•‘Prominent designer, writer and car
toonist M. 0. Anderson will use his
artistic talents during this year in de
signing pages of print as our make-up
editor.” declared Llo.vd as Anderson
accepted the position this morning.
Paschal Copy Head
Frances Paschal, an outstanding
journalist and creative English student,
received the position of copy editor, a
job which requires hard work and a
thorough knowledge of grammar.
Filling the shoes of Rachael White-
side as feature editor for the following
year will be Sue McFayden, special
honor roll student who was outstand
ing last year in the ci’eative writing
field.
When he announced the five new
staff members. Editor Lloyd declared,
•‘With the staff members just chosen,
we should have one of the finest and
best-trained staffs yet.” Then he con
tinued by announcing the new repoi’to-
rial staff, which includes Mervin Mer
ritt. David Evans. .Tininiy Mann. Har
old Carpenter. Martin Bernstein, Mar
garet Daniel Wilkerson, Bill Andrews.
Ruth Hall and Gene Spencer.
Typists Named
After an early fear that the absence
of the NYA program would leave the
paper without typists, Lloyd revealed
that eight typing students had volun
teered for the necessary jobs of staff
typists. I'hese members include IMau-
rice Tate. -Tack Cook. Dorothy Miller,
Evelyn Huffine. Elizabeth Fulton, Mar
garet Adams, Donald Walker and Bill
Burgess.
After re-naming INIiss Dorothy Mc-
Nairy as financial adviser, the adviser,
Mrs. Olive Betts, and editor reported
that during the next three issues of
this news sheet the rest of the staff
will be ajtpointed. Other - important
positions still to be filled include head
line editor, fashicn editor, proof reader,
circulation manager, cut manager, ex-
-hange director and sports assistants,
jobs which are now being temporarily
handled by mtmbers of the reportorial
staff.
Members of the first year journalism
class will aid the staff in distributing
tlie paper ever.v other Friday and help
ing in the current subscription cam
paign.
New Staff Goes Into Action
1041 Pupils Start Study Here
Under Wartime Conditions
A. S. Procter Resigns;
Taking Over State Job
A. S. Proctor, teacher of dis
tributive education at Senior high,
resigned his position Wednesday to
take over the .job of State Coordi
nator of Distributive Education, T.
Carl Brown, who was inducted into
the service yesterday.
Mr. Proctor will occupy offices
for his new position in Raleigh.
THE NPjW IIIGtH life Statt' members showm above include M. C.
Anderson, makc'-up editor; Frances Paschal, copy editor; Molly Peek,
business manager; Sue McFadyen, feature editor; and Irwin Small
wood, sports editor. (Photo by Flynt Studio.)
High Life Staff To Launch Drive
For Subscriptions Early Monday
•‘You do the subscribin' .‘iiid we’ll do
the deficvil)in'.” will become the motPo
of the High Life staff’ as the.v launch
(he nniinal subscription campaign
early ilonday morning after giving
Sf-iucr’s student.s, new anl old, a
chance to become aciuainted with their
publication fhrou.gh this first free issue.
Bright and earl.v the morning of the
campaign, journalism students will
meet to form ‘‘Flying Scinadrons,”
which will zoom down on each home
room armed with pledged cards to
fight a battle of subscriptions with the
goal of winning 100 per cent. The
pledge cards, as the name implies, are
contracts i)ledging the signer to pay a
fee of oO cents in two installments of
2."> cents each, one in October and the
other in Febrn.-iry, in exchange for the
issues cf High Life which they will
receive every other week thrnughout
the year.
•‘The staff’ of High Life and I wish
to inform all juniors and new students,
who are nnac(inainr('d with this high
scliool journal, that we are striving
and are going to publish a iiaper with
standards high and niuapialed and that
the.v, the new students, cannot go
wrong ill snhscrihing to if, for they
will re'eive an excellent coverage of
all lia-al high news,” stated High Life
editor, Boh Lloyd, Thursday in an
iitic'rview.
■•Vv'e practk';illy guarantee,” he con
tinued, •'that every senior will have his
name mentioned sometime iluring the
M'ar and we plan to menlioii the names
of all juniors through a check-off sys
tem. 'Lhis i.s HOt an attempt to get
names, lint a iilan to cov(U' the inter
ests of each stiidiuit. Also during the
year’s course, more sports, features and
cartoons will be published.”
As teachers repeated instructions and
students chattered aimlessly, 1041 pu
pils of the 10th, 11th and 12th grades
of Senior high registered for 35 sub
jects and 58 courses August 31 and
September L
Students promotcHi to Senior high
from the junior high schools began the
listing of courses August 31 at 3:30
p.m. Rising semesters 7 and 8 fol
lowed them the next day at 0 a.m., and
other students, who included those of
the 12th grade class of 1044 and out
of town students, registered at 1 p.m.
on the same day.
War-Time Tinge
Giving the event a wartime tinge,-
1‘rineipal A. P. Ronth aniioniieed at the
registrations a special advanced emer
gency course which consists of radio,
physics, trigonometry and a sustained
physical program.
A toOil of 45 teachers greeted the
students as they were admitted to
their new home rooms and classes.
Inserting the 12th grade at Senior
high, three home rooms, 2:i, 24. and 27,
enrolled with plans to graduate in
1044, although the program will not be
ccminilsory until 1040.
At the conclusion of the registrations,
Principal Ronth commented that the
event moved swiftly, and he expressed
the hope that all students will be
pleased with their schedules.
Warner Names Hm
Sfudeit (eyncll Head
Election of Junior ollicials of the stn-
d('nt body will be InOd SeptomlMU' 2-i,
according ro Tim Warner, president of
the student bt:dy. The results will he
aiimnnced next day in the vSoptember
2." issue of High Life.
The (leadline for candidates to file
for office will be September 21. An as
sembly will be held September 22 for
nominations of th(‘ candidates and
students will register Septomhtu- 2,3.
Persons wishing to lie clieerleaders
Thacker Leads Final
Special Honor Roll
With an average of over 07 per cent,
not only for the final report period but
for the entire year, Loiii.s Thacker, 301,
led the special honor roll for the last
report period of the 1042 spring term.
Those who were also on the si)ecial
roll according to the list released last
week by A. P. Ronth, principal, were
Lou Ellen Duncan, room 7; Gertrude
Archer, room 10; Sue McFayden, room
14; Wilber Turrentine, room 201 ; .Tohii
Wiley, room 202; and Harold Carpen
ter, room 311.
Regular List Given
Names of students with 00 per cent
averages appearing on the regular
honor roll were Kathryn Ca.ssidy, Betty
Jan(‘ Chesney, Polly ('laihorue, Mar-
gaia^t Ccckman, IV'ggy Covington, C. C.
Fordham. Edwin Gentry, Martha Cur-
Ruit, Nita iNIae Davis. Graham Motfitt.
Bill Montgomery. Eleanor Jlorgan,
Martha Jloriiig, Bf'ttie Paisley, Alleue
Parks, Martha -Vhernath.v, O. II. Alex-
aiidt'r, Marie Allred, M. C, Anderson,
Exi^ Barker, Harriet Battle, Betty
Bell, Connie S:ilios, Norma Sink, ilary
F. Stack. Bobby Lloyd, Helen Massey,
Kathryn ^iIcNairy and Ruth Lo^.-e.
Otlu'rs were B(>fsy Holt, Lynn Hoyt,
Rachel -lohusoii. Martha Fauleoner,
Melva Foster, Alice I'arner, Norman ''’iH l^ke part in try-outs S(‘ptcml)(n*
'Vallace, Tim Warner, Martha Weidler, |
Margaret Willimns, Naomi RahenUamp,
?ilaureeii Hiack, Jlarvin Borum, Caro
lyn Brown and Bill Biu-gess.
Wagner, Perry Selected Officers in Fourth
Annual N. C. Boys* State Convention
Charles Wagner and Ben Perry, two
Grefuisboro Senior high boys, swept to
victories for their respective offices,
.secretary of state and attorney general,
in the elections of state officials, held
at the fourth annual North Carolina
Boys State during the week of August
23. Charles Smith, Alfred Walking-
stick, Tai Young Lee and “Farmer”
Hot Dogs and V/orn Shoes
Feature Victory Vacations
“IR^avens, Mary! I'm baked. Let’s
take a swim.” No-o Mary isn't at the
beach. She is^on one of those Victor.v
bicycle trips out to Hamilton lake or
some other nearby pond.
It seems a great majority of our
students and faculty have had Victory
va(*atioiis this summer. There are no
more of those exciting accounts of
cross contiiunit trips, hut vivid tales of
bicycle trips and joyous hikes are
spreading across the campus. Sue
doesn’t have the slip on Jane anymore
by dating Tom, because Tom's converti
ble rests comfortably in the garage, as
Tom and Mary stroll through some
peaceful park, take a bus to a movie,
or raid the ice-box. while Sue's mother
regrets the inroads made on the choco
late cake that she intemkMi for tomor
row's diimer.
Lucky Tourists
q'hen there are those lucky people
like Miss Mozelle Causey, who made
that long trip to Dunn, N. C.. and Mrs.
Nellie Blackburn, who went all the
way to Philadelphia. Those unhurt by
gasoline and tiro rationing were
••Dinky” Bradford, who roamed South
Carolina all summer, and Katherine
Williams, who spent August in Ten
nessee.
Joe Baker who ran for the other high
state officers, were also successful.
Jn order to stud.v and practice state
gi:veniment, boys from all over the
state Hocked to- Chapel Hill, Sunday,
August 23, and after having a brief
physical ciieck-ui), were assigned to
their dormitories.
Later, after a. hearty supper at the
Carolina inn, tlu'y gathered at G-. rrard
hall to met't and listen to such promi
nent personalities as Albert Coates, di
rector of the institute of government; j
Henry Ingram, North (tarolina Ameri
can Legion coiiiiuander: Mrs. Victor R.
.fohnson, commander of tht^ North Car
olina American lA'gion’s Women aux-
iliarj'; Roy McMillan, former Legion
commander: Dr. I). R. Perry, chair
man of the Boys’ State committee;
Russel] Grumman, director (f extiai-
sions; and Terry Sanford, F. B. 1.
ag. nt. who directed Boys' State activi
ties.
Heavy ftehedule
At this meeting, the Boys' Staters
were given a rough schedule of their
coming jictivities, which was followed
rigorously throughout their stay. The
scluHlule included the following items;
arise at 7:30; calisthenics from 7:45
In 8 :;(): hn'.akfast at 8:20; classes,
0:30 to 1 :00: lunch, 1:30; classes, 2:30
to 4:30; athletics, 4:30 to 0:30; swim
ming, 0 ::10 to 7:15; supper, 7:30; en
tertainment, 8:30.
The organization of a newspaper,
'Thr lioi/.H' SfotCNiiui'n, was very suc
cessful. Thre(‘ Grcanishoro boys. Bob
IJoyd, John Sevier and M. C. Ander
son, together with five other boys and
tlu^ adviser, Cliff Pace, were responsible
I'cr its success.
((Ujviiniicd on Pof/c. Three)
xMiss Sara Mims, head of the English
department, will fill the vacancy creat
ed by Mrs. Estelle L(‘ Gwin, former
head of fhe stiuhait government. Mi‘s.
I-e Gwin is on leave* of abstuice la'causo
f a serious illness.
Warner stated that a plan to amend
tlu* constitution is scheduled for the
council’s early consideration. 'I'his
amendnu'ut would give tin* fratlic chief
a \'oice in sfud: iif government.
Meiitlily Socia's
Plans to hold socials at haist oiic(^
a montii are also under considf'ration.
A few weeks, lu;w(‘ver, are nKpiired to
get these affairs organized and fiinc-
t ioning.
Wariu'r concluded his remarks with
tlu* stat(‘iiient that (he council hoped
to promote school spirit;in general,
make the school as (‘ujoyable and
worthwhile as possible.
29 Out of Town Students
Among New Registrants
East Crang(>, New Jers('y, Jackson
ville, Florida, and M(>mpliis. Tennessee,
an; well repr(‘S('nted at Senior high
Ibis .year, for among the qnai^ter hun-
dr(-d stu(I(‘nts from out-of-town an*
three from these I'ar-flniig plac.s.
From East Orang(', .New J(‘rsey.
coiiu's Janice Rolling. Sally Waddell
;tnd John Scliaj)]) 'ome from Jackson-
vilh', Florida. Ctlier ont-ot’-staters in
clude Jimmie and Marian Hutchinson
of Columbia. S. 
Roanoke, T'irginia, Billy Fr(-**man of
Jackson, 'renness(*e, and Harriet Alice
Clarlc of Menqdiis, 'l*iinessee. Jaipu;-
I’lu* Baf'maii ri rm(*rly resided in Dan-
vilh', ^'irginia.
From Other Points
Fr. ni ofh(*r pi inis conn* .Mildred
K.itbh'en Candle, Winston-Salem; Vir-
I ginia Edwards. Guilford: D(*afon Hur
ley. RandU'inaiu Cl.ara Boom*, (h)lfa.x:
Bobby Clay, Boom*: Doris Mac* King,
High Point : and Mary Louise Simj)-
son. Durham.
0|h(‘r transL'rs are Jack Sharpe*,
Paul Wet)l)(*r of i B insfon - Sal; m : Lois Ritchie, High
Point: Chrisliiu; Sl(‘dg‘, Weldon; Mar-
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