HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XXX
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 16, 1954
NUMBER 14
North Carolina Library Convention
Chooses Betty Sink Club Reporter
GHS junior, Betty Sink, was re-
I cently elected reporter of the
North Carolina High School Li
brary Association at the seventh
annual convention of the organi-
I zation in High Point, North Caro-
I lina, on April 2 and 3.
The two-day convention began
i Friday, April 2, at High Point
Senior High School with the regis
tration of all delegates in the
I school library.
At 2 p. m. the first session was
held in the.school auditorium with
the featured speaker being Mrs.
E, H. Quid, a youth counselor from
Roanoke, Virginia.
Friday evening a banquet was
given at the Hotel Sheraton with
Mr. Richard Walser, professor of
English at State College, as guest
speaker. Mr. Walser was intro
duced by Miss Mildred Herring,
GHS librarian.
All students who attended the
conclave assembled at the hotel
for an informal dance following
the banquet.
Officers for 1954-55 were elected
Saturday at a business meeting at
which time Betty was chosen. The
duties of Betty will be to keep the
Book Club Sponsors
Short Story Contest
Nex^ Tuesday, April 20, is the
deadline for entrants in the O.
Henry Short Story Contest now
being sponsored for seniors by the
local 0. Henry Book Club.
A $25 war bond is being offered
as first prize with a cash award
of $10 to be given to the second
place winner. The winners will be
singled out on Awards Day for
recognition for their outstanding
achievements.
Requirements for the short
stories are that the story must be
the original work of the senior
submitting it, manuscript must be
typed, manuscript must be turned
in to Miss Mims in room 300 or to
the student’s English teacher by
April 20, and that the manuscript
may be any desired length. Stu
dents are being urged, however,
to keep in mind that O. Henry’s
short stories were short, humorous,
and had surprise endings.
state NCHSLA scrapbook.
Official delegates from GHS to
the convention were Barbara
Sharpe and Charles Woods. Terry
Garrison, president of the High
School Library Association of the
Northwestern District; Marcia Felt,
district secretary; and LaReeta
Stanley, member of the housing
committee for the state conven
tion were also convention dele
gates.
Other representatives of the GHS
Library Council attending the con
vention Saturday, April 3, were
Laura Adams, Katherine Leonard,
Tommy Andrews, Marilyn Neer-
man. Rose Wharton, Kaye Ban
ner, John Hoover, and Betty Sink.
May Day Committee
Discloses Plans, Theme
Senior High’s annual May Day
to be held May 5 will have as its
theme American Festivals.
After the May Court procession
al the panaroma of festivals will
start with a general parade. Sen
ior’s own band will play for the
parade.
Entire May Day will be repre
sentative of a whole festival day.
The May Pole dance will be given
near the first, as if the village
children were dancing it in the
morning. Following this there will
be a series of festivals honoring
Queen Gloria Gilmore and her
court. The discovery of America
will be portrayed by an Indian
dance. A Spanish caballero and
senorita will do a dance in honor of
the Orange Festival. As little cot
ton pickers, the girls’ glee club
will act out a Cotton Festival. For
the mountain people of America
a folk dance will be. done. As the
festival day draws to a close
Masquerade Ball will be held. For
the figure at the Ball, the May
Court will dance the minuet.
Mrs. Jean Newman, Miss Mar
gie Gabriel, and Miss Dorothy Me-
Nairy are working on the plans of
the day with Beckie Schweistris
and Bob Cowan as student
chairmen. The student council is
working with Beckie and Bob and
as the need arises more student
committees will be chosen.
Senior High Students
Etect Jordan Proxy
With a turnout of over 1200 stu
dents voting, Jimmy Jordan was
elected, president of the 1954-1955
student body on Friday, April 2.
Sue Simmons will be vice-presi
dent of the student body with Gail
Kirkman as secretary and Dick
Robinson as treasurer. Traffic chief
will be Bob Cowan. Gail and Dick
are rising juniors, while the rest
are members of the 1955 graduat
ing class.
The prospective seniors elected
Rob Pearce as their president.
Paddy Sue Wall will be vice-presi
dent, Rita Boggs, secretary, and
Tip Noe, treasurer. The six Senior
Class council representatives are
Lynn Boren, Margie Boren, Phyl
lis Brooks, Julianna Clark, Susan
Hege, and Kay Wrenn.
Junior Class president will be
John Gardiner. Others are vice-
president, Charles Forbes; secre
tary, Sally Jordan; and treasurer,
Barbara Jessup. While the Senior
Class voted for six female repre
sentatives, the Junior Cla^g will
have only one girl to represent
them, Zade Turner. The six re
maining boys are Eugene and Sam
LeBauer, twins, Wayne Griffin,
Jim Turner, Walker Lockett, and
Bill Williamson.
The officers elected will be in
stalled next month, but won’t be
gin their duties untff next year.
The officers of the school were
voted upon by the entire student
body, while rising seniors only i
voted for their class officers, and i
prospective juniors voted for'
theirs.
Power Behind The Print
Shown above are those who will fill the key position on next year’s
high life staff. Left to right they are Lynn Cochrane, Mary Louise
Shaw, Martha Ann Burnet, and Jimmy Turner.
Key position on next year’s High
Life staff will be filled by Martha
Ann Burnet, who follows Martha
Jester, this year’s editor.
Lynn Cochrane and Jimmy Tur
ner will be associate editors, and
Mary Louise Shaw, business man
ager.
Martha Ann, rising senior, serv
ed on the staff this year as a fea
ture writer and a proofreader. At
Aycock she was editor of the Ay-
cock Life, school newspaper. Mar
tha is also active in speech and
dramatics and serves her home
room as treasurer. She is a mem
ber of the Les Soeurs social club.
. Lynn and Jimmy are both rising
juniors. L^n transferred from
Greenville, South Carolina, where
she was editor of Greenville’s
Junior High Mirror. She has been
a headline and feature writer on
High Life. Also she serves her
home room as secretary.
Jimmy came to GHS from Cen
tral Junior High. He was elected
vice-president of the Sophomore
Class last fall, and next year he
will be a representative to student
council. On High Life this year he
has been a sports writer and news
columnist.
Mary Louise is a rising senior
and will be business manager of
High Life for the second year. She
hails from Gillespie Park where
she too was sports editor of her
school paper, the Gillispian.
Officers Elected
k Spanish Club
Elected president of the newly-
formed Spanish Club on Wednes
day, March 31, in room 313 was
Eugenia Hickerson along with an
additional slate of officers.
Other officers include Henrietta
Reed, membership chairman; Rita
Boggs, program chairman; Betsy
McKeel, social chairman; Mary
Helen Shelburne, secretary; Bill
McCuiston, treasurer; and Mary
Lou Wall, publicity chairman.
The GHS Spanish Club members
attended a meeting of the Wom
an’s College Spanish Club on Wed
nesday, Ajyril 14, in the college
library. Included in the program
were film strips on Spain.
Next Tuesday night, the officers
of the GHS club plan to attend
a business meeting of the Woman’s
College club to observe the pro
cedures of their meetings.
Plans for the next meeting of
the club to be held May 12 were
made at an additional gathering
of the officers. A program for the
meeting is now being planned by
Rita Boggs, program chairman, and
her committee composed of Bar
bara Lindley, Sue McEntire. and
Dawn Barbour
Social plans for the meeting are
being made by the social chairman
Betsy McKeel, and her co-workers,
Beverlv Mitchell. Miranda Godwin
and Mary Lou Wall.
Harriman Conducts
Orchestra In Meeting
Performing in assembly Tuesday
was Senior High’s 75 piece orches
tra. under the direction of Mr
J. Kimball Harriman.
For their first selection they
played the “Herod Overture” by
Henry Hadley, an American com
poser. Amanda McConnell was the
featured soloist in the first move
ment of Mendelssohn’s “Piano Con
certo Number One.” In their third
piece the orchestra changed to a
lighter vein with an arrangement
for strings of “Over the Rainbow”
and “Blue Moon.” As a final num
ber the full orchestra performed
the fourth movement of “From
the New World Symphony” by
Dvorak.
The first and last pieces that
the orchestra played are to be
used in the state contest on April
23.
Ascending the ladder of success are John Gardiner, Rob Pearce, Bob
Cowan, Dick Robinson, Gail Kirkman, Sue Simmons, and Jimmy Jordan,
victors in the recent school elections.
Jimmy Jordan Wins Third Gavel;
Pearce, Gardiner Class Presidents
Taking the gavel ^for the third j gtantly, keeping up with his extra
curricular activities. He is an ex
plorer scout in the Order of the
Arrow, Torchlight, and the Key
Club. Even with this heavy sched
ule, Rob finds a little time left for
his hobbies—golf, basketball and
shop work.
He brings out his talent in the
music world by man-powering a
cornet in his church orchestra and
both the band and the orchestra
at school
consecutive time at Senior is Jim
my Jordan, past president of both i
his Sophomore and Junior Class
es.
Jimmy hails from Proximity
where he was a member of the stu
dent council and editor of the
school paper
An active member in the Sea
Scouts, Jimmy especially enjoys
sailing on High Rock Lake. An
other sport that meets his fancy
is tennis.
Jimmy’s hobby is building model
airplanes. He is interested in en
gineering and plans to go either
to N. C. State or Michigan Insti
tute of Technology to pursue his
career.
Rob Pearce is the boy to take top
executive position of the Senior
Class next September.
This junior is on the move con-
Annual Festival
Appraises Band
At the annual Music-Contest
Festival next Friday night at Wom
an’s College, Senior High’s Con
cert Band will be rated among
other North Carolina bands.
Mr. Herbet Hazelman, director,
will lead the band in “Dunedin,”
a march by Kenneth J. Alford.
“Rienzi” by Richard Wagner, and
another piece which will be chosen
by the judges from the following
pieces; “Ill Guarany” by A. Carlo
Gomez, “Jerico” by Morton Gould
and “An Outdoor Overture” by
Aaron Copland.
Playing class six mifsic, the
band will be rated by three judges.
They are Mr. Glen Cliffe Bai-
num, retired band director at
Northwestern University; Profes
sor Irving Cheyette, head of the
music education program at Syra
cuse University; and Mr. Ronald
Faulkner, who is with the music
department of Mary Washington
College.
Superior, excellent, average
good, and fair
'There are singing waiters and .
whistling carhops but here’s one
— a tootin’ president. Maybe this
isn’t a very dignified introduction
to John Gardiner, president of the
rising Junior Class, but his band
and orchestra activities certainly
prove it true.
He plays as a substitute with the
Winston-Salem Symphony and is
in a small dance band composed
of several GHS boys, who call
themselves the Mellow Tones.
John was student body president
at Lindley Jr., then came to Senior
and was elected to head the Sopho
more Class. He is a member of the
Key Club and is quite a noted
stationery salesman.
John’s plans after graduation are
indefinite. He will either continue
with his music or study at the
University of North Carolina.
Secretary-elect of GHS is Gail
Kirkman. She is a member of the
swimming team, student council,
and president of her home room.
Gail is a sophomore, but she
states, “Everyone works from the
bottom up!” Since coming to Sen
ior, she has consistently made hon
or roll. Third period she received
the citizenship award.
When the heavenly strains of
music echo through the vocational
building, it could be Gail lending
a note or two on her violin. If the
proper time arises, she can bang
on the old ivories. Junior Euterpe
honors her music ability and her
membership. Speaking of clubs, -
every Wednesday night Gail can
be found at the L. S. P.’s meeting.
are the ratings
given. The superior rating has been uv uc iiiisLa«.en as u
given to GHS’s band since partici-1 World’s Champion Handshaker
pating in the festival. f fContinued on Page Six)