Students In The Spotlight
HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Hirthptace of O. Henry
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., SEPT. 18, 1953
NUMBER
13 Teachers Join Faculty
BETTY BELL
JOHNNY CARROLL
Four Greensboro Seniors
Noted For Achievements
Four G. H. S. students have been
recognized in the past weeks for
outstanding work in their respec
tive fields: Forbes Ramsey has ap
peared on a nation-wide television
broadcast: Betty Bell represents the
school in the annual D. A. R. citi
zenship contest; Barbara Massey
received a $1000 national first prize
for oratory; and Johnny Carroll
went to France as an Civil Air
Patrol exchange cadet.
Forbes Ramsey, a senior was se
lected by the local* television sta
tion and school authorities to rep
resent Greensboro on the nation
wide program “Youth Takes the
Stand”. This program concerns the
problems of teenagers, and a panel
composed of high school students
tries to solv© them.
Forbes left Monday by airplane
and arrived in New York that night.
This was an all-expense paid trip
and, he received $50 savings bond
along with an album of Edward R.
Murrow’s recordings of “I Can
Hear It Now.”
Forbes is a member of the de
bating team, Playmasters, Mono
gram and Key Clubs and is presi
dent of the Senior Y.
National Winner
‘‘Highway Safety and How to At
tain It” was the topic which won a
$1000 scholarship for Barbara Mas
sey from the Knights of Pythias.
Barbara won this scholarship to
the school of her choice after com
peting with seven other students
from all parts of the United States
at the national contest in St. Louis,
Missouri.
First High Life Free
In accordance with the pol
icy of the paper, this issue of
High Life is distributed free
of charge to each student and
faculty member in the school.
Staff members will open the
annual subscription drive Mon
day, September 21. Rates will
be 50 cents per semester.
After winning the state compe
tition at Winston-Salem last year,
Barbara entered the regional meet
at Lakeland, Florida on July 4 and
captured top honors there.
This was the first time the
Greensboro Order of Knights of
the Pythias had entered a con
testant in the oratorical meet. Ac
cording to Barbara , the same
speech, with a few modifications,
was used at all three events.
Dramatics Major
Barbara plans to use the scholar
ship at Northwestern University
which is in Evanston, Illinois. She
will major in dramatics.
Miss Mozelle Causey, dramatic
coach, and Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Burke accompanied Barbara on the
St. Louis trip the second week in
August. Mr. Burke is a city coun
cilman and member of the sponsor
ing order.
“Two of the most exciting things
I did were seeing the Yankees play
the Cardinals and taking a trip
down the Mississippi on one of
those four decker boats,” exclaimed
the winner.
One week before the national
contest Barbara was at Girls’ Na
tion in Washington, D. C., where
she was elected Supreme Court
Judge.
Foreign Travel
Johnny Carroll, G. H. S. senior,
traveled over 6000 miles during his
three months vacation.
Johnny left Charlotte July 17 on
board a U. S. Air Force plane en
route to Washington, D. C. In
Washington he met the four boys
from California. Vermont, Michi
gan, and Kentucky with whom he
traveled to France.
Johnny flew from there by way
of the Azores Islands and Frank
fort, Germany to Brussels, Belgium.
After leaving Brussels the quin
tet flew to Paris, where they stayed
five days. While there they visited
the famous Eiffel Tower, the Arc
de Triomphe and even the famous
Moulin Rouge.
(Continued on Puoe Eif/ht)
Tuttle. Madlin Named
New Class Advisors
Miss Eula Tuttle, choir and glee
club director, has accepted the re
sponsibility of adviser to the Senior
Class. Mrs. Dorothy Darnell was
adviser to the class during their
sophomore and junior years.
Newly appointed Sophomore
Class adviser is Mrs. Mary Madlin,
head of the Latin department. She
will remain with the class through
graduation.
Junior Class adviser is Miss Es
telle Mitchell. This is her second
year with this class.
Duties of the clas advier are pri
marily to help the officers of the
respective class undertakes.
X 1
3 Graduate Degrees
Received by Teachers
Three members of the G. H. S.
faculty completed courses for
Master’s Degrees this summer.
Mr. A. B. Racster, Diversified
Occupations co-ordinator, earned
an M. A. at Colorado State Uni
versity in Greely, Colorado. Miss
Edna Nicholson, who is in the
English department here, received
her M. E. from the University of
North Carolina, :md Miss Luclle
Browne, new director of guidance,
earned a graduate certificate in
guidance the.’e.
igh Life Staff
To Attend NCSPt
Members of the HIGH LIFE staff
will attend, the North da r o 1 i n a
Scholastic Press Institute at Chapel
Hill, October 9-10.
Official delegates to the conven
tion are Martha Jester, editor. Cor
delia Goodnight, associate editor,
and Martha Burnet, proofreader.
This, institute is sponsored each
year by the School of Journalism,
the DAILY TARHEEL, and the N.
C. Department of Public Instruc
tion.
Delegates and staff members will
stay at the Carolina Inn. Haryy Syl
vester. novelist, short story writer,
and former foreign editor for the
Voice of America program will
speak at the opening session on
Friday, October 9, at 7:30 p. m.^A
reception and entertainment will
follow the session.
Saturday morning and afternoon
will be devoted to panel discus
sions on the improvement of news
papers and yearbooks.
Meetings which will be held at
10 a. m. on Saturday are Editorial
Writing, Sports Writing, and Year
book Problems and Solutions. Fea
ture Writing and Writing and Sell
ing Ads will be discussed at the 11
a. m. meeting, and Newspaper
Makeup and Yearbook Procedure
at the noon session closing the con
vention.
Mr. Walter Paschall, journalist
,and radio commentator, will speak
at the closing banquet, to be held
at the Carolina Inn, Saturday
night.
Other panel leaders will include
Mr. Weimar Jones, President of
the N. C. Press Association, who
will discuss editorial writing; and
Mr. Charles Lee Smith of Edwards
and Broughton High School in Ra
leigh, who will demonstrate the
planning of a yearbook.
Photos Being Taken
For 53-54 Whirfigig
Student photographs for the
1953-54 Whirligig are now being
taken by the Redmon Studios in
the staff room. !
Junior pictures were begun Wed- j
nesday, September 9 with appoint-1
ments during study halls whenever}
possible. Sophomores were next in j
line, and the photographer will be j
here approximately one more week-
to complete senior pictures. |
Sophomore and junior girls wore!
white or pastel sweaters with
pearls at the neck, and all boys;
were asked to appear in white
shirt, tie, and coat. Senior girls will
have pictures made in whitel
blouses open at the throat. j
According to Bettie Upchurch, i
annual editor, the percentage of i
students who have made appoint
ments is well over that of last year,
and the staff is confident that this
will also affect the sale of books.
Individual appointments have
been made through the h o m e-
rooms, and special problems such
as absences are being handled di
rectly through Miss Virginia Pow
ell, Whirligig adviser.
Activity, club, and miscellaneous
pictures will be taken later in the ^
semester by student photographers
and by Martin’s Studio of Greens
boro. according to Mary Helen
Shelburne, photography editor.
Members of the business staff
will open the sales campaign about
the middle of October. The cost of
the books, as in past years, will be
$4.50 per copy. Barbara Jamieson,
business manager, states that in or
der to meet the budget set up, it
will be necessary to sell 1100 copies
of the Whirligig.
8 Departments Receive Replacements
As Staff Increases to Meet Need
Among the 71 members of Senior High’s teaching staff are
13 new teachers filling positions in printing, home economics,
diversified occupations, chemistry, business education, art,
biology, math, English, vocal music, and library staff. Mrs.
Margaret Malone is again secretary to Mr. Routh.
^ Mr. Edwin G. Cooper, who
Sophomore Election
Calendar
Plans for the sophomore
elections have been completed
by the council committee head
ed by Jimmy Powell. The fol
lowing schedule has been set
up for the election of class
officers, and council represent
atives:
Sept. 16—candidate blanks
issued
Sept. 23—final date for the re
turn of blanks
Sept 28—presentation of can
didates
Sept. 29, 30—registration—be
fore, after school, and at both
lunch periods.
Oct. 1—^voting
Heerman Correspondent
For Greensboro Paper
Marilyn Neerman has recently
been appointed correspondent of
the city schools for the Greens
boro Record.
Circulation and Exchange Editor
of High Life, Marilyn assumes the
work of City School News report
er in addition to her regular school
activities.
Marilyn’s duties as a junior
member of the Record staff con-'
sist of compiling into the daily
article nev/s which is mailed to her
by the elementary and junior high
schools in the greater Greensboro
area. There are approximately 15
schools on the list.
j teaches printing hear at G. H. S.
! comes to us from California where
he did newspaper work. He at
tended Syracuse University and the
Carnegie Institute of Technology
hi Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Cooper’s
hobbies are swimming, newspaper
work, and dramatics.
Our new home economics teach
er, Mrs. Frances Bruce, is a grad
uate of the University of Tennes
see. She also attended Winthrop
College in Rock Hill, S. C. Col
lecting children’s books is her
favorite pastime.
Another new arrival is Mr. A. B.
Racster who teaches Diversified
Occupations. Last year he taught
at Gray High School in Winston-
Salem. His home workshop keeps
him busy during his spare time.
He is a graduate of Eastern Illi
nois State College.
Miss Sarah Yarborough, who is
Txow our chemistry teacher, enjoys
bridge, swimming and golf when
she has time to play. She has
taught in Caswell County.
A graduate of Alabama Polytech
nic Institute is Mrs. Jack T. Hern
don, a new member of our com
mercial department. She has also
spent two years at Huntingdon Col
lege Methodist School.
Mrs. Jeanette B. McArthur, who
teaches art, received her A. B.
.at Greensboro College and her M.
A. at Columbia University. During
her senior year at G. C. she was
president of the Art Club. Greens
boro is her home and she is a
graduate of Senior High.
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Another Senior High graduate
and former Whirlie majorette is
M’ss Rebecca Frazier, new biology
teacher. While attending Greens-
member
According to her schedule, each
school is given a deadline for copy boro College she was
to be printed one day each week, of the orchestra, the student coun-
Office hours for calling in small or cil, and in her junior year she was
late articles are 7 p. m. to 8:30' a member of the May Court,
p. m. Monday through Friday. | Mr. Charles Brinkley, who is
Marilyn succeeds Martha Jester, assisting Miss Herring ift the libra-
present editor of High Life, as cor- ^y- is a graduate of Wake Forest,
respondent. | I- ast year he was the librarian at
Barbara Massey is the reporter School in Ashe-
for Senior High news. In ad-7'^^^’ Particularly
dition to notifying the Record re- by the friendliness of
Dorter when there is a news story, the students. ^
she writes feature stories and hu- ^ new math teacher, Mrs. Vir-
man interest articles. i (Continued on Page EighC)
Philippe Cahen, Parisian guest o'* the Sidnev Cones, is shown above
talking in French with Barbara Brown, third period French 3 student.
Miss Estelle Mitchell is acting as interpreter for the two. Philippe,
who spent three weeks in the U. S. recently, spoke to the classes in
both English and French. He likes best about America “the ice cream”
and could think of no immediate criticisms of the country. “Les mes-
demoiselles sont tres belles,” volunteered the 18-year-old Philippe.
After three more years of school In Paris, he plans to return to Bos
ton, Massachusetts and the Harvard Business School.