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High Life
September 23, 1946
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Greensboro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class of (Iintepnational^
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.
EDITORIAE
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Bobbie Jean Shaw Ed Brown
Art Editor Alice McGee
News Editor Martha Truelove
Feature Editor Abe Jones
Sports Editor __ Charles Melvin
Q-irls' Sports Editor Gail Sehaffert
Exchange Editor Donna Martin
Photographers — Frank Klages, Lowell Drieser
Literary Editor David Buckner
Reporters—Mary Reynolds, Gerald Thomas,
Harry Bryant, Sherwood Batchelor, James
Frye, Herbert Jones, Bill Ledford, Paige Ijee,
Donese Newnam, Frances Newton, Betty Jegn
Page, Don Prago, Jimmy Roberts, John Story,
Jack Vining, Joe Johnson.
BUSINESS
Co-Advertising Managers
Peggy Bentley Blake Stallings
Business Manager David Buckner
Circulation Manager George Seay
Typist — Fred Nance
Adviser Mrs. R. John Holland
Financial Adviser A. P. Routh
SEPTEMBER 23, 1946
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The Purpose of High Life Is To
*et and preserve the history
of our school.
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Now SHOW
old individuals together under
high standards.
Separate the worthwhile from the
f worthless and promote the highest
interest of students, teachers,
and school.
Welcome, Sophomores
To all you sophomores and new students
who are entering Senior for the first time this
year, High Life, the faculty and students of
G.H.S. wish to extend to you the heartiest of
welcome. High school has its hardships, as
everyone knows, hut it is our sincere hope
that you will find the next nine months at
Senior as en.joyable as possible. It’s your high
school now as well as ours.
So — the very best of welcome to you.
Back to School
Once again an annual change has come over
hundreds of happy faces. From joy they are
plunged into sorrow, for school has opened
once more. Those happy people who roared
past Senior this summer without a care are
now trudging up the long walks with Latin
verbs ringing in their ears. Perhaps another
hapless individual scans the pages of a small
red volume mumbling, “Les’ see now,
Chancellorsville was fought in 1864 or was it
’62?” These poor unfortunates are greeted
by remonstrances to, “Get to work, now, and
make this a wonderful year.”
After the usual grumbling, the erstwhile
students began to get back into the old
routine. They meet old friends that they
haven’t seen since last May, swap stories
about their vacations, and get their noses back
into their textbooks. Sooji they feel that may
be they can stand another year — and though
no one will admit it — really enjoy it.
A. D. J.
In Explanation of High Life
It has always been the policy of High Life to give to the students of G.H.S.
a paper worthy of one of the best high schools in the South. We feel that our
predecessors have always carried on this tradition, often in the face of difiSculties.
Due to unfortunate circumstances, new difficulties liave arisen this year, which
make it necessary for some changes to be made in our publication. However,
despite all changes, we, the editors, will ti’y to maintain the same high standards
of journalism that High Life has been proud of in past years. The majority of
the staff members are veteran journalists, so it cannot be said that High Life
just hasn’t got the material to put out a good paper.
As juniors and seniors thumb through the first issue, they will find three major
changes. The paper, not the same grade as was used last year, is newsprint, and
every page is somewhat smaller. Also there are more ads than were run last year.
At this time in 1945, High Life’s staff, because of pressing conditions, was
faced with the question of whether or not' to continue publication. This year
conditions have become so that it is no longer up to the staff but rather a question
to be answered by you, the students, by the way you react to necessary changes.
It is up to you to accept the paper as it is and to keep in mind that the whole
nation is going through a crisis and that we too must sacrifice.
Paper mills will in one month cease all operation in the^ manufacture of the
grade which ive have previously.' used and consequently we /have been forced to
turn to regular newsprint type of paper. The columns in this paper are two inches
shorter, resulting in a small reduction of copy.
In explanation of the ads, the price of the printing has risen with the new
conditions instead of having been lowered. We are printing the actual cost of
High life so you can see the necessity of the extra ads. The printers fee amounts
to $155.00, 15% higher than last yeaFs $135.00. Engraving fees usually amoiuit
to 25 or 30 dollars. Photographic materials, lost copy, and miscellaneous items
make the cost of one issue approximately $200.00. As a result we are forced to
run 280 inches of ads at 50 cents per column inch and raise the subscription rate
to 80 cents a year if we expect to break even on each of the 16 issues.
These are the figures! You figure them out!
Co'-Editors: Bobbie Jean Shaw and Ed Bro^vn
Introductions...
We are beginning this year by bringing
into the spotlight four of the younger
generation of Senior high school, the
sophomores.
Bonnie Jean Crawford:
Is : Cute liT ole sophomore.
Has: Big brown eyes and black “sport
sters.”
Likes : Tiny ; ice cream.
Says: “I’l be a monkey’s Uncle.”
Does: Day drea-in.
Eats; Chocolate ice cream.
Listens to : Miss Woo.sley and Tiny.
Seen With : Everybody and ice cream.
Ambition; To graduate.
Gilbert Turner:
Is : Ear's brother.
Wants: girl, car, girl.
Listens to: ’Hot Records.
Favorite song : “Shorty’s Got to Go.”
Does : Shoot pool alia’ time.
Likes: Dill pickles, upside down cake. i
Ambition: To be a professional pool
shark.
Mirvine Squier:
Is: Sophomore.
Does: Loaf.
Likes: Jackie, cokes at “Wilke’s”
Has: Brown eyes.
Wants: Red convertible.
Says: Goll-ee-y.
Thinks : Nothing in pertic.
Seen With: Jane, Nancy.
Listens to: Mr. Huffman .
man.”
Ambition: To go to Duke.
. “Whatta
Donnie Clenunons:
Likes : Chicken Pie and football.
Has: Twin sister and blond (?) hair.
Says: “Good Lord.”
Thinks: About girls sometime (so he
says)
Seen With: Sister and Eddie.
Listens to: Miss Burnside.
Bobby Wills
Is : 5ft. 3 in.
Has: all his teeth.
Likes: Women and banana splits.
Says: Nothing printable.
Does : loaf at drugstore.
Bats: banana splits.
Seen with : John and Richard Clemmons.
Listens to : Miss Worthington.
Ambition : To be 6 ft.
Muriel Register
Is: cheerleader, sophomore.
Has: yellow sweater, green eyes.
Likes: pink ’n blue; cqstle burgers.
Says: “Oh yes, You know it, too.”
Does: “Mess around.”
Wants: To Be Friends with Everybody.
Seen with: Rueneil and the gang.
Listens to: Ella Mae Morse Recordings.
Mmh Doin’s
by
Alice McGee
Hello, Sophomores!
How do you like your new home? Are
you pi-operly awed at the vastness, the
hugeness of GHS? How many times have
you been lost? Have you been knocked
down the “up” stairs by sortie nit-wit
going down, trampled in the mad rush
to the cafeteria, crushed in the jam at
the end doors? My sympathy but the worst
is yet to come.
Wait till everything is all settled down
and the home work really starts coming in.
You’ll want to take yourself out into the
garden and “lay thee down to dee.” But
don’t db it; hang on till exams. Then the
fun begins.
Remember, you’re in high school now
and high school students don’t act like
little babies anymore. They get their home
work in on time and nobody has to re
mind them (ha). When you see that zero
on the grade look opposite your name,
don’t say somebody didn’t warn you.
Gabbing with your neighbor, passing
notes, and laughing at corny jokes right
in the middle of a serious lecture on parti
ciples just doesn’t go. When you hear that
inevitable “Shut up,” don’t deny anything.
Just keep that big mouth closed and look
innocent or out on your ear you’ll go—
with a zero, natcherly.
It’s not so tough though, after you
get into the .swing of things. Several
people have been known to graduate.
You know?
One more thing. Seriously, you should
know that around Senior, studies come
first, extra curricular after that. As our
principal, Mr. Routh, says, “The dog wags
his tail; the tail doesn’t wag the dog.”
•
When told that an executive always sets
a good example Ted Leonard, president of
the senior class, promptly gave up his
desk to a girl and took the teacher’s!
•
An editor had cause to admonish his
son because of the lad’s reluctance to at-
tand sdhool. “You must go every day and
learn to be a good scholar,” said the fond
father, “otherwise you can never be an
editor, you know. What would you do for
instance, if your magazine came out full
of mistakes?”
“Father,” was the reply, “I’d blame it
on the printer.”
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Mother: “Daughter, every time you stay
out so late I get another gray hair.”
Daughter: “Jumping, Mom, you must
have hit the high spotslook at Granny’s
hair.”
•
We leave a good party reluctantly and
get up the next morning even more reluct
antly, wondering what there was about
the party that made us so reluctant to
leave.
•
It’s tough to find, foi* love or money—
Jokes that are clean, and likewise funny.
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Say, gang, we’ve sure got some swell
cheerleaders line dp ufor this year. I
heard Doris Cooper say last year that it
sure was hard to pull a few dheers out
of all those GHS fans, especially when
the team was on the bottom. Now thats’
the very time the Whirlies need a good
boost. They get discouraged, too, so it’s
up to us to support them.
•
Just ask Joe Breedon, Zander Sherrill
or any of the boys how much it means to
hear a good yell right at a rough moment.
Of course, it’s easy enough for us to shake
the grandstand when the ball goes over
for a touch down, but when the ball gets
intercepted, we stai’t feeling low and
sorry for ourselves, forgetting all about
the poor struggling cheerleaders down be
low.
•
Everybody’s agreed that our football
team is the best; now lets make our school
spirit equal to it.
•
Well, I guess I’ve said enough—maybe
too much. Anyway I’ll see all you “cats”
and “chicks” at the Charlotte game.