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High Life
March 27, I953
Postscript to a Ballot
As I place an “X” by your name, Dear
Candidate, I make not only a mark with a
stubby pencil, but I am pouring onto that
sheet of paper covered with names, my
hopes, my expectations, promises, and
pledges. As I give you my precious vote, I
expect you not necessarily to win, but to up
hold the principles and policies of this
school whether you be leader or follower.
I expect you to serve, not as a model execu
tive, but as a warm personality who will con
sider the good of all before making de
cisions, who will consult his fellow students
before proposing projects, who will never
be hidden from his school by a cloud of
self-glory, who will step back to recognize,
his followers, who will stand forth to lead
his school in spirit and in deed.
Dear Candidate, as I check your name, I
expect not weak promises of better and
more glorified school projects. I wish only
that you give your time and talent to find
ing those programs which will enrich, en
tertain, and promote mature attitudes in
my beloved school. I expect you to seek out
among the throng those ideas that will bring
credit to this student body. I can only hope
that you will not refuse any suggestion that
will mean a change in student government,
for alterations sometimes mean a better fit.
Neither do I expect you to overthrow this
present basic system in an attempt to “save
it from destruction.”
As a part of student government I expect
you to work with others for a common good,
forgetting petty Jealousies, social positions,
and little minds in an attempt to make this
government body one that works effec
tively, not socially. There are those quali
ties I naturally expect, for if you have not
loyalty, a willingness to serve, leadership,
and cooperation, you do not deserve a place
on this ticket of democracy.
And as I mark an “X” by your name, I
do so expecting to follow where you lead,
for I have given you my future to mold and
mend, and I know full well that cooperation
is the measuring cup of a successful govern
ment. But I expect you to hold that future
as a sacred trust, for once you lose my con
fidence, you and Senior High School are
nothing.
Who Bids You Adieu?
A memorable day in the life of every
typical high school student approaches as
plans fall smoothly into place for activities
centered around May 28, graduation day.
Yes, it will be typical in all but one re
spect — no valedictorian and salutatorian
will address the expectant, proud guests of
the Greensboro Senior High School’s Senior
Class of 1953. No scholastically outstanding
senior will greet and express a measure of
appreciation to proud parents, and no such
student will bid them farewell with a clear,
hopeful picture of what he and his class
mates expect of life.
Tradition alone is reason and cause
enough for the presentation of the valedic
tory and salutatory addresses. But further,
to those two students who have through tire
less effort achieved a goal few attain be-
mGH LIFE
Piihlisliod Semi-Moiithly by the Students of
(iireensboro Senior High School
(ireensboro, N. C.
Your Opinion
by Duncan ’n’ Osborne
One of the most controversial sub-
jects at this time of year is the ques
tion of graduation in the stadium or
the auditorium. Here is a cross-sec
tion of opinions from a few mem'.
bers of the Senior Class.
I everyone is like me, they have more
• ILLbU ***“ relatives who want to
see them graduate. Since I’m in no hurry
to graduate, I wouldn't mind waiting two
or three days for it to clear up. Been
waiting twelve long years.
Becky Featherstone.
WILL THEY BALANCE?
flHOBNAriOWAO
Founded by the Class
ot 1021
Itevived by the Spring
•Tournalisin Class
of 1037
Entered as second-class matter March 30,
1010, at the post odice at Greensboro, N. C.,
under ilip Act of March 3, 1870.
Editor-in-chief Martha Moore
Associate Editor Martha Jester
Feature Editors Joan Osborne
Lois Duncan
Sports Editors Fred Marshall
Don Williamson
Girls’ Sports Editors ..... . . Joanne Gourley
Cordelia Goodnight
E.rchaupe Editor Patsy Eways
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Proofreaders Jane Zager, Barbara Still
Make-Up Editor Marilyn Neerman
Reporters Dick Frank, Don Morrison
Alfred Williams, Dan Haley
Adviser Miss Paula R. Abernethy
Financial Adviser Mr. A. P. Routh
longs the opportunity, the privilege,
the respect, the honor of addressing
the ones who have helped them as
students and who will work with
them as adults. More than mere
sudden announcement and applause
is rightfully their partial reward.
These two have earned a place for
their names and contributions to the
graduating exercises of their class.
Just as they have won honor as they
have contributed to the glory of
their school. It is not that we resent
adult speakers; we only wish stu
dents to have a major part in their
ceremonies.
Could we make room on the pro
gram for them?
Attention, Homerooms!
Each six weeks it falls your duty
and pleasure to select from among
your group the two students, boy
and girl, whom you consider deserv
ing enough to be in the running as
best citizens of your class. But some
times in the confusion and den of
homeroom activities, this Job is neg
lected and your teachers make that
decision alone.
But it is your voice that makes
the selection to the citizenship honor
roll a truly meaningful experience.
You may not have the last voice in
voting, but you do have the oppor
tunity to prepare the ballot. Make
an effort to take time out during
homeroom period to select candi
dates by student vote.
Easter Eggs To .. .
. . . the winners of the Torchlight
Talent Show for giving us some
thing really unusual in the field of
entertainment and to those other
contestants who shared the healthy
feeling of friendly competition.
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“The Last Vocal Quartet” and ac
companist for adding many laughs
and much spirit to this student body
by being good sports. (And pretty
good vocalists, too.)
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Miss Tuttle’s music groups for
going themselves and their school
proud at the State Vocal Contest.
Rotten Eggs to .. .
The persons who bombarded the
stage with scraps of metal at the
evening performances of the one-
act plays.
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Homerooms that never attempt to
arrange attractive bulletin boards.
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Letterwriters who don’t use school
stationery.
In Sympathy
The students of Senior High
School wish to express their deep,
heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Grace
Alton on the sudden loss of her hus
band, Mr. Jack Alton.
I would prefer the auditorium because
I think it seems more personal to have
something like a graduation exercise
given on the inside Instead of in the
open,
Margaret Neese,
Alphabet Soup
A-thletic—Bob Jackson.
B-ashful—Gary Sheffield.
C-ute—Rabbit Freemon.
D-opey—Ben Nita Black.
E-nergetic—Tommy Kirkman.
F-riendly—Jimmy Jones.
G-iggles—Fran Hosley.
H-appy—Gail Glascock.
I-nteresting—Bill Walke.
^ J-olly—Marion Holley.
K-ind—Elliott Hole.
L-ittle—Ann Fry.
M-erry—Don Wall.
N-ice—Mary Henri Arthur.
O-riginal—Charles Hutton.
P-retty—Shirley Barbee.
Q-uiet—Margot Hammond.
R-edhead—Iris Starr.
S-nowed—Dickie Chalk.
T-alkative—Gloria Gilmore.
U-gh—Exams.
V-ivacious—Peggy Welch.
W-itty—Betty Carson.
X-erophilous—Look it up!
Y-awning—Sleepy Students.
Z-ero—(Hour) 8:30.
Solemn Last Words
“Yeh, sure. Mother. I’ll be care
ful!”
Those were Susie’s last flippant
words as she left for school. Yet on
the way in the family’s powerful,
impressive, and hard-to-stop car,
she frightened three children by
failing to stop at a traffic signal,
enraged the driver of a T-model
by failing to give a hand signal,
and almost struck two dogs and a
cat.
So nobody was hurt, you say. So
what’s the beef? Just this, those
habits of safety and courtesy that
Susie displayed may become em
bedded in her personality unless
they are corrected. And some day
Susie may not miss a child on her
way to school. Sure, Susie was care
ful, but with her own life, not the
others.
We congratulate the local order
of Demolay for encouraging this
student body to correct and form
good habits of safety by issuing
voluntary safe driving pledges. A
driver’s solemn word can often pre
vent tragedies better than any law
of the land.
Paraslapics
Chemistry note: Sulfuric acid has
the same effect on nylons as splin
tered desks have—ruins them.
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If the present draperies in the
auditorium are not repaired soon,
the curtain may fall on the final per
formance of the season.
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Not even an A on a biology test
can warm the rain-soaked shoes
and cold feet on a drippy day.
Study hall is becoming a course
in self-restraint ;it’s such a personal
I prefer the stadium. Then you
wouldn’t have to limit the number of
guests the students could invite. The
weather wouldn’t affect the exercises
because you could wait a day or two
and that would never hurt a thing. It
will be better out in the stadium for it
is air-conditioned.
G. W. Ferguson.
I would prefer to graduate in the
auditorium because bad weather might
make it impossible to graduate in the
stadium.
Ralph Durham.
I would prefer to have commence
ment exercises in the stadium. This
would enable many more people to come
and see the exercises. The stadium makes
a much prettier place also.
Branch Crawford.
I prefer to have it in the auditorium
because it would then make no differ
ence what the weather decided to do.
Jeanette Oliver.
I prefer to have the graduation exer
cises in the stadium. More people could
come; it would be more comfortable for
everyone, and the service would be
prettier.
Mary Ruth Mitchell.
I choose the auditorium because at
that time of the year the weather is so
unpredictable.
Geraldine Payne.
I’d like to see this year’s graduation
held in the stadium, so there would be
room for everyone’s friends and relatives
to witness the ceremony.
Sue Dryzer.
I think now that I prefer to hold
graduation exercises, in the auditorium.
For the past two years I have wanted
the seniors to hold it in the stadium be
cause I have attended some held out
doors, but now that I am a senior, I see
that it would be the wisest thing to have
it in the auditorium. The stadium offers
so many problems we cannot de^
with as yet — mainly the weather and
the poor accoustics. I would be very
happy to see the graduation held in the
new gym, though. At least the class of
1954 will have that honor.
Chris Velonis.
I would much prefer having our grad
uation exercises in the stadium because
it would provide the room necessary to
seat the people we invite. It would also
lessen the embarrassment of saying.
“You can’t really come, there isn’t room,
but I’ll apprediate the gift!”
Rusty Craddock
victory to resist temptation to sock
the pest who throws spit balls and
rocks the aisles with cute remarks
while you’re trying to learn geom
etry theorems.
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It’s such a clean feeling to know
that there’s little mud slinging in an
election campaign that one doesnt
mind flying saucers and popping
balloons.