Page Two
High Life
April 2, 1954
From Afar
As graduation time nears, the thoughts
of every senior turn to that all-important
j ./m tmd that a person whom only
two people from this school have even
heard has been invited to be the main speak
er.
When an outsider who knows not even
one student here plans a graduation speech,
he naturally comes up with something theo
retical and vague, having little or nothing
to do with the personal lives and aspirations
of seniors at GHS.
Why, then, must we always have an out-
of-towner imported? Are there not those
civic leaders in Greensboro capable and in
spiring enough to give seniors advice and
guidence in preparing their way in life?
As It Should Be
For three years the Torchlight Talent
Show winners, the Queen’s Men, have at
tempted the final end which they achieved
in their performance on March 23 in the
school auditorium.
Since they were sophomores, they have
tried for the top prize, but the first time
they didn’t even qualify for the program.
As juniors they met with better success as
they were awarded honorable mention.
Singing at various civic clubs and parties
has been a part of their regular activity,
and many program offers have been turned
down because of the vast demand.
With the winning of this year’s Torch
light award, the quartet consummated two
years as the favorite performers at GHS.
Their rendition of “Dry Bones” has been
added to every senior’s list of things to re
member, and it is meet and right that theirs
was the first name on the judges’ ballot.
Granted, there was other excellent talent
on the program and the judges’ decision
must have been difficult, but when the sit
uation is objectively analyzed, the tried and
true, the oldest and best, are the Queen’s
Men.
Copy
Right
“ONCE UPON A DORKEL’^
Mrs. Newman’s senior English classes
recently turned out some satires. Don’t
forget that satire is getting a laugh
at the expense of others. The following
is a political satire. Can you find the
hidden meanings? If you can’t, just have
fun reading it the way Elmer Fudd
would.
DWIGHT THE DRAGON KILLER
? democracy in action and both participants appear to be friendly! Julie
Redhead casting her vote, and Sue Simmons, deciding who is to be her candidate,
are rivals for the office of vice-presiCenl.
You Are Needed
Plan now to do something for your com
munity in order that everyone in your
community may live in a more fire safe
city. Beautification of the city of Greens
boro is one of the aims of this campaign.
Fire Prevention is another very important
phase of this, “Clean Up, Plant Up” Cam
paign.
If we are to be the good citizens we want
to be, then everyone will take an active
part in this our largest and most concen
trated clean up camp.aign Greensboro has
ever known.
We can make our city a place of beauty
and, at the same time rid ourselves
of many fire hazards which have
been just waiting for a chance to
cause ^rouble.
When we do our cleaning this
spring, let’s let the trash depart
ment carry away, our trash and
troubles. Burning of trash and rub
bish has caused your Fire Depart
ment to make many hundreds of
calls each year. You can help put a
stop to these useless fire calls. If
you must burn, do your burning.in
a wire container or some other safe
ty device.
DO YOUR CLEANING THE SAFE
WAY. Pass the word along to your
parents and help them clean up in
a safe way.
Everyone Is Important. Let’s
guard ourselves and our neighbors
against fire.
More Than Four
Turn Of Event;
HIGH LIFE
ruhliKheil Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Greensboro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class
of 1021
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of 1037
By JIMMY TURNER
Have you read Senator Joseph Mc-
Carthy’is latesit book—“I the Jury?”
Everyone remembers McCarthy for his
previous bestseller—“Me, the People.’’
Radicals who have been shouting “re
cession depression,’’ have jumped the
gun. Salaides are higher on the average
than last year, living cost has dropped
slightly, and the stock market closed
last week at its highest point in 25 years.
From a comparatively quiet Senate
race come faint murmurs of what may
develop into a tight campaign after all.
N. C. Senator Alton Lennon’s headquar
ters accused Kerr Scott of using state
funds, while governor, to build paved
roads all around his farm.
Someone is always sounding off
about our precious freedom and the
blood and thunder battles which our
forebears fought to obtain. Speeches
and essay contests offer prizes and
scholarships to the students giving
the most convincing discourses on
these topics.
Few people stop to think about
the privileges and rights which are
obtained on a leyel. Ringing speech
es could well be made on the free
doms here at GHS—freedom to at
tend assemblies according to the dic
tates of belief or choice, and the
freedom to choose and enter a vari
ety of extra-curricular activities.
All these battles have been fought
in the not-too-distant past by cham
pions from both the student body
and the faculty. To drive a car to
school and park it on the grounds,
to be able to buy a yearbook which
provides a pictorial memory of the
past year, to leave school and earn
money part of the day, to plan and
carry out assemblies with topics
which the students choose, and a
multitude of others which are sel
dom counted as freedoms at all, but
only taken for granted, have been
fought for and won and are now
provided for the students at GHS.
Examine the organization and
management of other schools of this
size in North Carolina, and talk to
their students. Then come home and
be proud of what we have. Keep
striving to be worthy of it.
There once lived a mighty knight,
named Dwight. He was the bravest and
most courageous of all the knights. His
people loved him and praised his great
fighting tactics. He kept them free from
the dragons of the far away lands. He
was truly a hero in every respect.
One day, a most ferocious dragon
appeared in the land, and the king
called for Dwight. Dwight accepted the
job of ridding the country of this terrible
dragon. He went out and met the dragon,
and in one of the bloodiest and hardest
fights of his career he slew it.
When he returned to the chief city
of his land, the people acclaimed him
as their leader, who would always pro
tect them from any danger.
Now Dwight was quite a fighter, so all
the people thought, and they understood
when he had problems with all the
clerks in the castle—after all, Dwight
was a fighter, not a clerk.
Then one day, while a great crowd
of people were watching, Dwight was
walking around in the yard of his castle,
when suddenly, he halted as if frozen
by fright. The people were greatly sur
prised and tried to see what had had
this terrible effect on their great fighter.
They couldn’t imagine why Dwight re
fused to move or fight. Then they saw
the cause of his trouble was a slimy
snake in the grass. The people waited,
watched, and wondered—would Dwight
fight?
Wallace Freemon
Fiction And Fact
Back in 1940 an orchestra composed
of traffic squad members performed
for each meeting of the group.
“Go to school night’’ was held in ’48
for the parents to get a sample of what
happens to the youngun’s during the
hours when they’re not underfoot. They
followed the schedules of the students,
except the periods were nine minutes
instead of 55.
Sixty-two seniors visited the capital
city back in ’38. They went in private
cars and were dtcompanied by parents
and teachers.
Erwin Smallwood, present sports writ
er for the Daily News, was editor and
sports editor of HIGH LIFE in 1944
Homecoming day for GHS alumni was
held on January 1, 1939. A chapel pro
gram opened the day and a procession
at the O. Henry Hotel, at six, closed
it.
Graduation was held in mid-January
in 1938. Approximately 70 people were
graduated with full honors and cere
monies of the June ceremony
The Creative English Classes held
their Spring sessions on the lawn back
in ’38. However, they were industrious
enough to present a program for the
O. Henry Writers Club.
Entered ns second-class matter March 30,
1040, at the post otllce at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Barbara Hutton and Porfirio Rubirosa
have decided that their divorce will not
be a quickie even though the marriage
was.
School
Pigeon
By Alma Swiason ‘
Editor-in-chief Martha Jester
Associate Editor Cordelia Goodnight
Managing Editor Fritz Apple
Business 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 Exchange 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
Some time ago the Atomic Energy
Commission announced it had set off
a thermonuclear hydrogen explosion as
a test of its power. On March 1 another
was set off and it surprised even the
scientists. They had set their instru
ments and made calculation according
to the results of the first test. The first
one was a dud and when the second
weapon went off delivering its full
power, it amazed everyone.
What next?—The A. E. C. plans to
detonate a device with force of about
50 million tons of TNT. or 2400 Hiro
shima A-bombs, or four times more
powerful than the one -which just con
taminated 16,500 pounds of fish and 23
crewmen at a distance of 71 miles on
March 1.
APRIL FOOL FOOL’INS
There will be a week’s holiday after
Easter for everyone to catch up on
his beach trips . . . Everyone with an
average of 50 or more will automatically
be exempt from exams . . . HIGH LIFE
has a new slogan: It ain’t necessarily
so, but We’ll print it. . . From now until
school’s out, everyone will have two hours
for lunch . . . There will be three as
semblies a week for the last months
of school.. .Waddell Solomon has agreed
to keep quiet. (We don’t know for how
long) . . . There will be no more home
work . . The classrooms are going to
be re-painted—turkey red!
Junior Maid of Honor . . Ken Clarke,
Junior Court . . . Dave Scurlock ...
Arthur Balderacchi . . Dick Grove
. . . Frank Jones . . ! Ronny King. I
Sophomore Maid of Honor . . Don
Douglas. ‘ j
Sophomore Court . . . Forrest Ferrell
Bob Herford . . . Bill Higgins . . John
Stone . . . Robert Weavil
Bob Strandberg I
Fred Gurkin
Mike Temko I
Lody Glenn.
BIG, BAD AND BEAUTIFUL( or so they
think)
According to an announcement by the
U. S. S. R., East Germany is now free
of Soviet ties and is a sovereign state.
As a further gesture of their sincerity
about setting East Germany free, the
Russians will leave the Soviet Army
there “to keep the peace.”
Since April 1 is the time for everyone
to surpress the wildest desire of his
heart, we thought we’d take advantage
of the occasion and have an April Fool’s
May Court . . .
Queen . . . Chester Woods
Senior Maid of Honor . . Charlie
Highfill
Senior Court . . . Wayne Wyrick . . .
Dick Yow . . . Sammy Walker . . Phil
Crockett . . . Harvey Ward.
Court Jesters . .
. . . Burdett Shope.
May Pole Dancers
. . . Robert Roth .
. . . Cecil Rogers.
Ballet Director . .
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
What made Sandra Kimbro change
her mind?
WHO IS IT?
Jim Peebles h^s his eye on? (Did
someone say Frankie?)
Grady Tucker was seen at the Center
Theater with last Saturday night?
Burt Ozment rides to school each
morning?
Judy Levine goes to see each week
end?
DAFFYNITION:
School skipping—Raising the Routh. !
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