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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME XXXI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., OCTOBER 29, 1954
NUMBER 4
Senior Class Selects Superlatives
Numbering 28 For 1954-1955
Salisbury-GHS Meet In
Second Homecoming Tilt
iimafeur Radio Club
Aids Disaster Areas
Jimmy Jordan, Sue Simmons; Don
Wall, Sue McEntire; Norman Ody-
neic, Janeil Edwards; R. B. Arthur,
Rita Boggs; Donnie DeSanto, Susan
Hege; Glenn Hancock, Julie Red
head; Tony Schiffman, Josie Ward.
Whirligig Drive Begins
Sally Durham, business man
ager, has announced that next
Monday morning collections
for WHIRLIGIG subscriptions
will begin and will continue
through Friday, November 5.
The subscriptions will be
collected by the home room
teachers during the 15-minute
home room period. Books cost
S4.50 and will be delivered in
May.
WHIRLIGIG staff has re
cently announced the appoint
ment of John Doe as assistant
busines manager.
Bill Hanna and Bose Rav-
enel, juniors, have also been
added recently to the business
staff and are now in full swing
selling ads for the publica
tion.
Greensboro’s second annual
Homecoming game with Kay
Wrenn, queen, will be played to
night when the Whirlies play host
to the Salisbury Yellow Jackets.
The Homecpming program will
take "place during the half-time
when Kay escorted by Jimmy Jor
dan, president of the GHS student
body, will be introduced to the
crowd. Also to be presented is Sue
Simmons, vice-president of the
school. She will be escorted by
Charles Woods.
Salisbury will be represented by
Sandro Shaw who will be escorted
by Pete Antoniewicz. Sandra is a
Senior this year and has been in
Salisbury’s Homecoming court sev
eral times. According to the Salis
bury student council, Sandra is
active in school activities at Boy-
den and was recently elected Best
Looking girl.
Pete was elected treasurer of
Boyden’s student body last spring..
He belongs to the Hi-Y, Key Club,
and Varsity Club, and was voted
the Most Sincere boy.
The GHS band, under the direc
tion of Mr. Herbert Hazelman. will
take part in the half-time enter
tainment. The choir, with Miss
Eula Tuttle directing, will also
take part in the program.
During the half-time the spon
sors will be presented. Kay and
Sue, with their escorts, will ride
around the stadium in cars do
nated by Ingram Motor Company.
Jim Womack will present a display
of fireworks.
Returning for the Homecoming
program will be Bill Greene and
Chris Velonis from the class of
1953, and Kelly Maness and
, Frances Strother from the class of
* 1954.
College Day Director
ComplimentsStudents
At College Luncheon
“I was especially proud of the
student hosts, the conduct of the
students, and their seriousness of
purpose in the successful event,”
commented Miss Lucille Browne
who directed the College Day at
GHS on Wednesday, October 20,
held in the balcony of the new
gymnasium.
At this time Juniors and seniors
were excused from either first, sec
ond, or third period to confer with
with their selection of the65 rep
resentatives of colleges all along
the Eastern coast.
After third period the repre
sentatives, student hosts, and a
few members of the GHS faculty
went to the home economics rooms
where they had a luncheon pre
pared by the home economics
classes.
County Schools
At 1:30 students from the county
schools — Colfax, Gibsonville,
Monticello, Nathaniel Greene,
Stokesdale, and Summerfield —
came to the gymnasium to talk
with the college representatives.
Alamance, Bessemer, Guilford,
McLeansville, Pleasant Garden,
Rankin, and Sumner students dis
cussed college plans with the rep
resentatives at 2:15.
Mr. E. P. Pearce, director of
instructional service in the county
schools, handled the plans for
College Day for the county stu
dents. He remarked that the 300
students from these schools were
very grateful to .Senior for its
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after passing several tests.
Puoils On Special Honor Roll Number 84
, . . , Wnvpci Edith Hargrove, far as the number of people on the son; room 303, Ann Rountree;
Students on the special honor
roll for the first report period
numbered 84 from the three
classes.
Seniors were first with 38 peo
ple having the necessary 95 aver
age. Room 317 had seven girls on
the roll. They were Rachel Allen,
Elaine Anderson, Rita Boggs,
Johnnie Boliek, Mary Ann Boone,
Lynn Boren, and Margie Boren.
From 23 were Phyllis Brooks,
Martha Burnet, Joyce Byars, and
Joan Chandler. The one repre
sentative from 200 was Bob Cowan.
In room five were Margie Earl,
Barbara Flynn, Ann Fry, Helena
Frost, and Terry Garrison. Room
14 had Bob Grant, Norma Hanner,
Michael Hayes, Edith Hargrove
Susan Hege, and Eugenia Hicker-
son. Judy Johns and Rachel Kin
caid had the average in room 101.
One Representative
Rooms 8, 301, 100, 20, and 305
had one person each on the roll.
These were Pat Leary, Jerry
Matherly, Betty Sink, Jane Tate,
Ramona Teller. In room 9 Vivian
Morgan and Kay Overstreet were
special honor rollers. Rob Pearce,
James Ray, Julie Redhead, and
Alan Pultz represented room 206.
To complete the 38 Paddy Sue
Wall, D. Ann Welch, and Martjia
Wilkins made it in room 22.
29 Juniors
Juniors were in. the middle as
far as the number of people on the
special honor roll were concerned.
They had 29 on the roll. From room
6 was Linda Barham: room 11,
Reggie Bell, David Bescherer, Leon
Boggs, and Angela Butt; the gym,
Jerry Danford, and Mary Duncan;
room 2, Faye Fuquay and John
Gardiner; room 27, Diana Harmon;
room 25, Ruby Hough, Amy Hutchi
son, and Barbara Jessup.
T’rom room 21, Nancy Key, Kay
Kuykendall, and Katherine Leon
ard; room 315, Mary Ann Mc-
Neeley, Louise McGee, Betsy Mc-
Keel, and Julia McNairy; room
311, Bill Morrison, Horwood Myers
and Jo Ellen O’Briant; room 203,
Eve Purdom, and Richard Robin-
GHS Senior Class elected their 1954 superlatives during the week of October 4-9.
Votes were counted by Miss Lottie Burnsides and the four Senior Class officers: Rob Pearce,
president; Paddy Sue Wall, vice-president; Rita Boggs, secretary; and Tip Noe, treasurer. In
order to give HIGH LIFE exclusive coverage only those five people, plus Miss Peggy Ann
Joyner, HIGH LIFE adviser, knew the identity of the winners until this edition of the paper.
Jimmy Jordan and Sue Simmons were named most popular while chosen as wittiest were
were Don Wall and Sue McEntire.
Most athletic was av.’hrded to Norman Odyniec and Jeneil Edwards. The Seniors voted
R. B. Arthur and Rita Boggs as most courteaus.
Donnie De Santo and Susan Hege were paired as cutest and Glenn Hancock and Julie Red
head as most talented.
The couple voted tne best looking were Tony Schiffman and Josie Ward. Arthur Balderacchi
and Margie Boren were listed as having the best personality.
Listed as most likely to succeed are Bob Cowan and Phyllis Brooks. Jerry Matherly and
Rachel Allen were selected as most intellectual.
Rob Pearce and Martha Ann Burnett were voted most dependable while Alan Pultz and
Paddy Sue Wall were rated friendliest.
The Seniors named Bob Grant and Lynn Boren as sweetest. Charles Woods and Margaret
Lucas completed the list of the Senior superlatives as best dressed.
All members of the class were eligible to vote, using a system whereby ballots with the 14
superlatives were listed. Voters, using time during home room, put down the boy and girl
they thought most suitable for the honor.
After Friday, October 15, the
coastal area of North Carolina was
swept clean by historic Hurricane
Hazel.
Amateur radio operators played
a major part in disaster relief as
well as getting news through for
both public and personal interest.
It was thus that the newly formed
organization, the General Greene
Radio Club, was able to be of
service to the state. This club,
made up of boys here at Senior
High School, operated into the
early hours of the morning getting
messages to and from the disaster
area.
W4DCI, the call letters for the
amateur station, was located in
Richard Jennings’ home. Richard,
a GHS senior, was chief operator
assisted by other club members.
This station was able to get in
contact with W4UWM, the only
“ham” or amateur station operat
ing in Wilmington immediately
after Hazel hit. Most of the gov
ernment messages were handled
by that station.
Activities of the club for that
night were even helpful to the
Greensboro Daily News. Losses in
Rocky Mount were reported by
W4DCI^ and called into the paper
to appear in the Sunday, October
17, edition.
Worried families were relieved
fay the many personal messages
which were relayed by the sta
tion.
The six other members of the
club besides Richard are Tip Noe,
Russel Lyday, a senior at Curry,
Carroll Lupton, Artie Neller, Jerry
Lee, and Max Miller. All members
are requested to have their “ham’
I licenses which are obtained only
son; room 303, Ann Rountree;
room 304, Sara Toenes and Zade
Turner; and room 15, Martha
Yates.
17 Of The 600
A total of 17 of the approxi
mately 600 sophomores achieved
the honor. From 102 was David
Craig; room 12, Doug Albright,
room 202, Larry Brown and Ann
Butler; room 106, Stratton Eld-
ridge and Frank Gilbert; room
307, Libby Garvin; room 204, El-
wood Hartmen; room 309, Jane
Lynch ad Jane McLenno; room
300, Jerry Mann, Camille Merri-
ma'h; room one, Thomas Myers and
Jean Ogburn; room 3, Margie Rose;
Room 103, Libby Smathers; and
room 7, James Spence.
Arthur Balderacchi, Margie Boren;
Bob Cowan, Phyllis Brooks; Jerry
Matherly, Rachel Allen; Rob
Pearce, Martha Ann Burnett; Alan
Pultz, Paddy Sue Wall; Bob Grant,
Lynn Boren; Charles Woods, Mar
garet Lucas.
A. Y. Organization Has
First Otticial Program
Members of Allied Youth met
in the auditorium Tuesday, Oc
tober 19, after the assembly of
that morning to set the date of the
first official meeting of the or
ganization which was set for Tues
day, October 26, at 6 o’clock.
The first meeting was a dutch-
supper at the Mayfair Cafeteria
with a program following.
Donnie DeSanto, president, gave
his initial speech since this was
the first offidial meeting of the
year.
The program consisted of three
speakers. They were Dr. Joe Garri
son, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant; Mr. Her
man Davis, member of the Alco
holic Beverage Control and past
president of the Parent Teachers
Associotion; and Mr. Worth Wil
liams, Educational Director of the
ABC board for Guilford County.
Subscribers Total 1326
Subscribers lo High Life
totaled 1,326 out of the 1,606
students who attend GHS.
Rooms which reached 100 per
cent were Miss Carter’s room
5 with 32 subscribers and Miss
Matthews room 20 reaching
34. Students will pay their 50
cents fee for the first semes
ter subscription starting No
vember 10. The faculty re
ceives complimentary copies of
each issue of High Life.