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Page Two High Life March 5, 1954 Spring Sports Fever Both the spirit and enthusiasm which were shown during the basketball season are still lingering in the high school air. The shouts and the tension are even now a part of the local atmosphere. With the opening games of America’s favorite sport on the way, it should be in conceivable that this team won’t receive the same ardent support as did the fall and winter contestants. The baseball nine play good ball, and the sport is truly a thrilling one. Any team plays better if it has the cheers of real live fans. Track and tennis are two other sports coming up, and while the bleachers are not so comfortable for net fans, both con tests are great spectator sports. Swimming begins to come into its own in the spring months, and the gallery always gets a good show. Support the spring athletic program with your attendance and cheers, and keep school spirit at its all-time high! Wheels Of Progress Did you know that the school bus drivers of North Carolina are very unusual? A re cent issue of Reader’s Digest reveals the fact that Old North State is the only state in the Union to employ only students as bus drivers. All other states have adult drivers. They wouldn’t think of trusting their children to the teen-age driver, but things are be ginning to change. After excellent records established by our state drivers in the last few years, other states are now gradually turning the driving jobs over to the stu dents. Now one-third of Alabama’s drivers are students. Early morning and most of the evening hours are spent by some 6,800 North Caro lina student drivers transferring more than 465,000 students to and from school in re turn for a nominal salary. Wheel Club members of GHS, we, the students, salute you. On The Job The efficiency of the squads recently is greatly appreciated by both the students and faculty. Though it is often troublesome to turn left when you want to go straight, traffic flows more smoothly, and everyone gets where he is going on time. Every student realizes that regulations are necessary in a community the size of GHS; and for courteous enforcement of these, Mr. Darnell, faculty adviser. Bill Turner, chief, and the patrol squad are to be commended. HIGH LIFE Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Greensboro Senior High School Greensboro, N. C. Founded by tlie Class of 1921 Revived by the Spring Journnlism Class of 1!»37 Kntered as second-class matter March 30, 1940, at the post olllce at Greensboro, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Editor-in-Chief Martha Jester Associate Editor ... Cordelia Goodnight Managing Editor Fritz Apple Busmess Manager Mary Louise Shaw Feature Editor Nancy McGlamery News Editor Dick Frank Society Editor Alma Swinson Girls’ Sport Editor Harriett Perkins Boys’ Sports Writers David Fry Dick Robinson Jimmy Turner Loyd Pugh Exchange Editor Marilyn Neerman Assistant Exchaiige Editor .... Miranda Godwin Photographers Bob Johnson George Makely Caption Editor Deane Darnell Circulation Manager Marilyn Neerman Copy Editor Mary Ellen Kaelin Proofreaders Martha Burnet Dale Pearce Eugenia Hickerson Headline Writers Lynn Cochrane Martha Burnet Art Editor Walter Wright Adviser Miss Paula R. Abernethy Financial Adviser Mr. A. P. Routh ARE whrt T'» fts -r -XK .SPeHTflTHRJ \/^fC X ■think. ^ Congratulations! To the juniors and seniors who were tapped into Torchlight this week we offer our heartiest con gratulations. This is an honor to ward which every enterprising high school student strives, and of which anyone can well be proud. In a school the size of GHS it is doubly an honor to be selected by classmates and teachers from the top students of the class on all four counts: scholarship, leadership, ser vice, and character. To have been a member of National Honor Society is a mark of distinction wherever you go. You are indicative of the caliber of students at GHS, and we are a - ways glad for you to be our repre sentatives. On Display On display in the William Sydney Pearl Memorial ’Trophy Room in the field house are many new outstand ing sports’ trophies. The trophies consist of the beau tiful trophy given in 1949 by Mexico City when they played GHS here, the 1953 State Champion Boys’ Swimming Trophy, and many cham pion girls’ swimming trophies. Also in the cases are many outstanding trophies for baseball, basketball, and football. The second place wrestling trophy of last year can be found there along with many big occasion game balls. There are some 65 medals, and many shields and ribbons of Barba ra Jamieson’s, along with the girls’ swimming trophies. The trophy room will be open for your visit each afternoon after 3:30. Turn Of Events By JIMMY TURNER General Mohammed Naguib was rein stated as Premier of Egypt shortly after being thrown out. Although he is very popular there with the people, he will not have as much power as before. Senator JosepTi McCarthy con tinues to star in his roll as head of the imaginary Association For Character Assassination and Ob literation of Personal Dignity. With all the publicity and headlines McCarthy has been getting one wonders what will come of them. There has been some speculation that he is building his name so that by 1960 his name will be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Then he would be a prominent presidential candidate that year. Last week President Eisenhower broke a porcelain cap off a front tooth: Immediately the wire serv ices began confusing the news, and one even reported that the President was dead. For the time being Italy’s government al troubles seem settled since tough Ma rio Scelba became Premier. He has al ready earned the dislike of the Com munist party by stopping several of their nationwide protest strikes. Tinion Poll by Marilyn Neerman The time has come for us seniors to begin deciding about our life’s work. Some are dubious, while others have definitely decided. Here are a few sug gestions which may help you to make up your mind. I have two vocations in mind, but T haven’t chosen one yet. I plan to become either a high school math teacher or a director of religious education. I have the same two reasons for choosing these two professions. I think I would like working with young people, and I like math and religion. Nancy Schlag Next fall I am entering State College to study architectural engineering for five years. A five year term is more than I had planned on, but if there has to be an extra year, it must be very im portant. As soon as I was sure I was going to State, I dropped Spanish and started looking for Miss Moore. On passing solid geomery I will have everything State wants except grades. I advise the sophomores to take my example as a warning. You had better get to work, because these three years are really short. If you are around in six years, look me up, and I might be able to help you in your architectural needs. Hal McNeely I plan to attend the Salvation Army Training College in Atlanta, Georgia, in order to be able to better understand the needs of others and to be able to render my help to the underprivileged. Sylvia Collins Copy .... .... Right STANCE DOIN’S It was one afternoon back about fod der pullin’ time, when me and Fido, that’s my dog, was walkin’ through this little patch of woods. Well, we hadn’t been walkin’ long when we come up on a crowd of folks a standing all around this little hill and on down this long stretch of grass. I thought that maybe there was a fight a goin’ on, so I pushed my way on in a little bit closer so that I could find out who it was that was in the scrap. Well, what I seen weren’t no fight, but some kindly of strange doin’s. There was these four fellows all dressed up in some short breeches, loud shirts, and brograns with nails cornin’ through the bottoms. Well, directly one of ’em stepped up on the little hill, stuck a stob in the ground, sat an egg up on it, and hollered “fore.” I looked again, and I’ll swear to my soul I don’t believe I seen but one. Anyway, he took a long wooden stick and knocked that thing clear out of sight. After the others had done the same, evehything cut loose. The folks ran down the field, and they commenced to have an Easter egg hunt right there. Finally these little colored boys, carrying great ole long leather sacks, found the eggs. Well, they kept on a hittin’ them eggs until they got them all in this tiny little hole. They done the same thing all afernoon long, and, as far as I could see, they didn’t get nowhere. Them fellows will just have to learn to let the chickens hatch their eggs by a settin’ on ’em, in stead of trying to beat the covers off with a stick! Kelly Maness Grad Gab By Martha Burnet Spring, love, cupid—it must be the I season. As proof, Barbara Beavers was I married to Lt. Bill Chapman, a Pennsyl-1 vanian. The occasion was like Old Home | Week. DeArmon Hunter, ’52 from Duke I University, Gordon Battle and John Col-[ son, ’50 from U. N. C., and John Irving, | ’51, were ushers. Vearle Whittington, ’53, has had quite I an honor bestowed upon him at Mars I Hill College. He was initiated into the | “Honorary Club.” GHS has graduates from the top to the I bottom. Tate Picket, ’53, has joined the! air force, and Jere Woltz, ’52, is in the| marines. In 1934 Toby Ledbetter graduated from! Senior. I wonder if he ever thought then I that he would some day be printing I HIGH LIFE? Surely he would have avoid-f ed it if he did! This is rather obviously short. I must | be lazy, or maybe it’s spring fever. THE SCHOOL PIGEON tf By Alma Swinson School Pigeon By Alma Swi'ison ' It’s a bird, it’s a plane, NO, it’s Sylvia Collins as she tears into the parking lot with about 25 girls hanging out the back of her red (and I do mean RED) truck . . . SYLVIA KIMBRO: I know the name of the capitol of North Carolina. BOB BLANCHARD: Really- SYLVIA: No, Raleigh! IT’LL NEVER HAPPEN . . . MARILYN FRYE said, “I hate boys.” PADDY SUE WALL became a drama coach. PATSY TRAUGHBER said, “I love school.” KENNETH CATES lost his school spir it. Mr. ROUTH said, “School will be dis missed at ten o’clock.” CAROLYN WHITE failed English. MISS CARTER said, “No homework for tonight.” NORMAN ODYNIEC got “caught.” BERT SMITH became a typing teacher. 100 YEARS AGO Grandma had a fella Who had a timid heart When they sat together. They sat this far apart. 100 YEARS LATER When daughter’s chick does call, He greets her with a kiss; And when they sit together Theysitupcloselikethis. Everyone is glad to see BOOTSIE FOWLER and ALLEN FRY together again. After all, what would GHS’s choir be without your duets? SEEING IS BELIEVING . . . BUTCH STROTHER went to have herl fortune told; and boy, was she scared! I When the man held out his hand for his I money, the dumb thing shook hands with I him . . . (Don’t worry, Frances, every-[ one can’t be smart.) DAFFYNITIONS . . . Drip: A guy you can hear but can’t| turn off. Teen-ager: When gals begin to powder,| and guys begin to puff. DIG THOSE CRAZY MIXED UP KIDS| Mary shout Mary holler Mary Call Kay see ghost Kay scared Kay White Dick sit down Tack in chair Dick “Yow” Ann not explode Ann not puncture Ann Pearce David not shoes David not ties David Sox Raoula not Beethoven Raoula not Chopin Raoula Bach Gayle not peach Gayle not plum Gayle Apple
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