HIGH LIFE
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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 9, 1948
NUMBER 13
At first thought you are probably
well justified in saying that, but
one moment or perhaps two and I
can prove that you have been, many
rimes, through an insane asylum.
But first, let me tell you of a little
trip I once took,
A certain school I once attended
planned a group of tours through a
number of varied and interesting
daces in the state. And when I
;lanced over a list of the different
daces my eye landed and stuck near
Reenactment above of a tj’pical cafeteria scene show's Dick “DeBo”
Elkins posing as Just any unfortunate victim of circumstances.
(Photo by Lowell Dryzer)
Writer As\s Question:
Are Tou Crazy, Too?”
By Don Hardison
"Wonder if you have ever been on a supervised tour through an
insane asylum. Even the mere thought of it isn’t too nice, is it?
But whether you happen to be aware of the fact or not, you have
been through an insane asylum, or at least a very reasonable fac
simile of one. Well, you’re probably saying to yourself by now,
‘ Who does this rube think he is, anyhow? I know darned well
I’ve never been through an insane asylum.
the bottom on the two words, “In
sane Asylum.” Well, I thought, this
sounds rather interesting. So, con
sequently, I signed up with the group
scheduled to make a tour through an
insane asylum.
Came the ill-omened day to depart,
I climbed aboard the specially char
tered bus with the rest of the group
and away we sp^ for the nearby
institution. A few hours on the
sweltering bus and we were there,
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Registration Begins Tuesday
For Trip to Nation’s Capital;
Group Leaves Thurs.^ April 2^
Spring Flans Given
For Loft Activities
Spring dance will be held
tonight at the Loft and will
feature a “New' New Look”
fashion show. The dance will
be free and open to Lofters only.
Next Friday night a bam
dance will be held at the Loft.
Ping pong tournament will be
gin April 16 and will run for
three days. Any Lofter in good
standing is eligible to enter the
tournament, and prizes will be
offered the w'inners.
Carmen Gagliardi, radio and
opera star, is assisting members
of the Loft in organizing and
presenting a teen-age program
to be presented at the Carolina
theater.
Dancing classes are being con
ducted for Lofters on Wednes
day niglits at 6 o’clock by Louis
Felicia of Felicia Studio of
Dance. Barry' Farber has been
elected president of the dance
club. All types of ballroom
dancing are being taught.
Wins First Place Rating
Honor rating of first place was
received by High Life, Greensboro
senior high school newspaper, at the
24th annual convention of the Co
lumbia Scholastic Press association
in New' York city, March 11, 12,
and 18. Representing the paper at
the meeting were Mr. and Mrs, R.
John Holland, George Seay, Betty
Jean Poi>e, Mary Durlaiid Sapp,
Frances New'ton, Jennie. Lee Moser,
and David Buckner.
Smith Releases Honor Roll Totalling 375
Attaining places on the Honor
loll for the fourth six weeks of
he 1947-48 school year were 174
members of the GHS student body:
Qcluded in this group were sixty-
;our seniors, fifty-seven juniors, and
ifty-three sophomores, Mrs. Blaiieb
Smith recently announced.
Seniors
On the honor roll for the senior
rlass are, - from homeroom 202,
VocalGroupsPrepare
To Enter Competition
Entering the State Music contest.
April 20-23, from G. H. S. will be
five groups and two soloists in the
veeal division.
The Girls’ glee club w'ill sing
Spirit Flower” by Campbell-Tipton,
and “Cindy,” an American folk song.
Che mixed chorus w'ill enter “Dark
^'ater” by Will James, and “Hear
)ur Prayer” by Kokylof. “Bless
This House” by Brahe, will be pre-
ented by the mixed quartet con-
isting of Sue Ellen Baxter, Betty
Pearl, Bill Utley, and Hal Sigmon.
The girls’ trio, Betty Pearl, Betty
Costner, and Betty Vausrhn will sing
‘T Waited for the r>ord.” by Men
delssohn. “Mcsquitoe.s,” by Bliss,
will be presented by the boys’ quar
tet. Bill Utley, Larry Lambeth. Lyn
don Sykes, and Eugene Foushee.
In the solo group are Betty Cost-
soprano, who will sing “Take
Joy Home,” by Bassett, and Lyndon
Sykes, baritone, who w'ill sing Han
del’s “Thanks Be to Thee.”
For the presentation of an evening
program to the Junior Woman’s club
in Madison, N. C., the choir and a
•^mall girls' ensemble will make the
trip April 13.
Jimmy Alspaugii, Lawrence Als-
paugh, Dorothy Ballinger, Spencer
Blaylock. June Blumenthal, Joan
Bojd, Betty Brown, and David
Buckner; from room 300, Dot Bur
ton, Carrie Chamberlain, Johnsie
Cranford. Jerry Crawford, and
Glenna DeWitt; from homeroom
307, Doris Duke, Barbara Dunni-
28 Students Make
Special Honor Roll
Twenty-eight students — nine
seniors, 13 juniors, and six
sophomores — made the special
honor roll for the fourth six
weeks period of the school year.
Seniors were: from room 202,
Isabel Armstrong and Andy
Bell; from room 307, Jack
Fields and Elsa Garrity; from
room 203, Bita Goldstein and
Annie Maud Harrington; from
room 14, Zack Piephoff and Bet
ty Pearl; and from room 16,
Bobbie Jean Shaw'.
The 13 jmiiors on the special
honor roll are: from roo^m 3,
Emily Ann Dees; from room 5,
Mildred Hedrick; from room 7,
Bobby Michael and Hope Leon
ard ; from room 8, Dick Painter
and Tommy Payne; from room
100, Betty Jean Pope, Herman
Rierson, Lois Rosecrans, and
Billy Sarles; from room 10, Sid
ney' Smith and Sarah Swain;
and from room 24, Delores VVhis-
onant.
Special honor roll sophomores
are: from room 2, Carole Wil
liams; room 23, Edith Trosper;
room 302, David Bradley; room
311, Alex Pa4>as; and room 313,
Doris Hill and Joan Huggins.
vant. Betty Ferguson, Maxine
Fields. Peggy Ann Fields, Batty
French, Marcia Ann Furnas, Billie
GaUimore, Margaret Galoway, Ber
nice Greenberg; from room 2(>3 were
BettyHendrix, Gilda Hinshaw, Bill
Hooke, Roger Gibbs, Betty Gunter,
Doris Gordon, and Don Hardison •
from room 200 were Anne King.
Betty Kirkman, Thelma Laws, Joyce
Lemons. Martha Jones, David
Knaup, Bill Ledford, and Helen
Latham.
Others seniors were, from rorfm
12, Jane Long, Lacy Lucas, Dot
McCaskey. Bob MePheeters, Tommy
Maguire, H. H. More, Warren Mat
thews, Sylvia May, and Ann Alur-
phy: from room 14, Dickie Neal.
Prances Newton, Coleene Peele, Don
Prago, Brown Patterson, Peggy
Reeves. Sarah Presnell, Nolan Pres-
nell. From room 16 were Mary Dur-
land Sapp, Jean Sink, Nancy Smith,
and Clyde Taylor; and from room
264, Gwen Truitt. Betty Lou Van-
Hook. Pat Wagoner. Marginell
Welker, and Lois Williams.
Juniors
Junior class honor roll meniber^
totaled fifty-seven; they were, from
room 201, Anna Beeson, Be'x-erly
Ba.vlor. and Treva Adams: from
room 3, Robert Carlson^ Par Cav-
son.Beverly Chalk. Richard Clem
mons, Audrey Coleman, and Hasel
Connell: from room 4, Pauline Fou
shee. Becky Fondren. Geraldine
Fletcher. Herbert Falk, and Julia
Ann Doggetf: from room 5, Cai'olyii
Gibson. Helen Greer. Ann Gro^s.
Alice Hardin, Bobbie Johnson, and
Chippie .lohnsou: from room 7,
.Tosephine Langley, Rill Lester, ilar-
garet Lewis. Nancy T.K)wder,
Sharon McQueen, Kay Martin,
Jimmy Miletion. and Elsie Mat
thew's :
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Seventy-Four Students
Are Abte To Make Trip
To See National Shrines
Reservation for the senior class
trip to Washington, D. C., April 28
through May 2, will be accepted by
PrincifVal A. P. Routh in the school
office Tuesday, April 13, beginning
at 7:30 a.m.
74 To IVlake Trip
Two buses w'ith a capacity of 37
passengers each have been chartered
from the Greensboro - Fayetteville
Bus line. In Washington the party
wil stay at the Ambassador hotel
at 14th and K streets,
Mr, Routh has estimated that the
cost of the trip will equal approxi
mately $30. This sum includes the
transportation and hotel fee of
$19.50 required to be "deposited upon
registration, meals, and incidental
expenses, such as entrance into Mt.
Vernon, entrance into the Endless
caverns, and a ticket to the baseball
game Saturday afternoon, May 1,
if the student desires to attend.
Schedule for Trip
Leaving Greensboro from the
Y. M. C, A. on West Market street
at 6:30 Thursday morning, April 28,
the party will eat lunch in Rich
mond, Virginia, at approximately 12
noon. After a visit to George Wash
ington’s home, Mt. Vernon, later in
the afternoon, the group will arrive
in Washington at 6 p.m. and w'ill
be allow'ed to have the reifiainder of
the evening free until 12 midnight,
w'hen each person is required to have
returned to the hotel.
. Friday morning and afternoon
W'ill be consumed by visits to the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Capitol, Supreme Court, Library of
Congress, Mellon Art gallery, Smith
sonian institute, and the Jefferson
memorial. After dinner the group
will visit the amusement park at
Glen Echo for the evening.
Visit White House
On Saturday morning, May 1, the
party will visit the Washington
monument, Lincoln memorial, Ar
lington, Virginia and the heme of
General Robert E. Lee, the ^Miite
House, and the Washington cathe
dral. After lunch many members of
the group have planned to attend
a baseball game, and that night they
will take a boat trip on the Potomac
river.
Leaving Washington for Greens
boro Sunday morning, May 2, the
buses will retxirn through the Blue
Ridge mountains and. Shenandoah
valley of Virginia. After making
stops for the group to visit the End-
les.s caverns at Lnray and the Nat
ural bridge, they W’ill arrive home
at 9 p.m.
Orchesira Planning
For State Festival
Greensboro high -school orchestra
is planning several activities outside
of school as well as preparing for
tbe state music contest to be held
here April 10 to 28.
At Guilford Ccllege Monday the
orchestra will give two perform-
juice.s; one for the college and one
for the high school. Both programs
will be much tbe same as presented
at the school assembly here last
Tuesday. The orchestra will play
first in the mcrnlng for the college,
then go to the. high school where
Ihey will have lunch and then play
later in the afternoon.
* Lyndon Sykes w’ill open the pro
gram by singing the devotional. J.
Kimble Harriman, director of the
orchestra, lias chosen a concert ar
rangement of “Smoke Gets In Yonr
Eyes” to begin the concert, w'ith
Clyde Ritch doing the violin caden
zas and a cornet solo by Bob Ritch.
First and second movements of
Bizet’s “L’Arlesienne’’ suite are next,
followed by a brass quartet arrange-
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ZACK PIEPHOFF
(Photo By Meyer’s Studio)
Zack Piephoff Wins
Duke Scholarship
Zack Piephoff, son of Rev, and
Mrs. Z. T, Piephoff, was recently
awarded the $3,000 ^Angier B. Duke
scholarship for four years.
Zack, along with several other .
Greensboro high school students,
took the first elimination examina
tion sent to the school by the uni
versity. After eliminating some
from each district, Zack, Nancy-
Smith, and Jimmie Aispaugh took
the final examinations it Duke and
were interviewed by faculty mem
bers.
Piephoff also won the $100 Pres
byterian scholarship with his auto
biography and essay on “Why at
tend Church College,” plus an exam
ination grade. Mitchell College, a
Presbyterian school, upon learning
of his $100 award, offered him a
$1,500 scholarship at that college.
Piephoff, a member of the Dra
matics club, played the role of Inner
Willie in the play of that name
w’hich was presented by the club this
year. He is president of his home
room; president of Torchlight, na
tional honor society; vice-president
of the choir, in w’hose operetta he
had the lead; and also vice-president
of the senior class, ^
Band is Preparing
For Music Contest
Next public performance by the
GHS band will be the state music
contest April 28 at WCUNC. At
that time the band will enter the
contest with only two^ other bands
from the entire state, Charlotte
and Tvenior.
District contests, held early in
March, were more strict in judging
this year than in previous years, so
that only ten bands In all, from A,
B, and C classes w’ill enter the state
contest. Charlotte was the only
class A band to pass the district
elimination. Both Greensboro and
Lenior high school bands w’ere given
one ratings in last years state con
test, therefore -were not required to
enter the district contest this year.
Marching, required this year for
the fir.st time of all bands, will be
held the night of the contest in
Memorial Stadium. Admission for
students will be twent.v-five cents.
All bands w'ill do a mass perform
ance of several marches and “The
Star Spangled Banner.”
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