HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME XXXI
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 25, 1955
NUMBER 11
School-Wide Voting Planned For April 1
With elections the big affair at
present, the contenders for the
office of president of the student
body are shown above. Bill Frank
lin, John Gardiner, and Houston
Groeme are the three juniors com
peting for that office. The out
come will be determined April 1
when all students go to the polls
to decide who will govern Senior
in 1955-56. At the right is one of
the skc|s performed at the assem
bly introducing the candidates.
Home room primaries took place
yesterday.
Pater Aa,ariei Fire, ^gy Qgy
On Grass, As Traditional
Columbia Scholastic Press
Association announced that
HIGH LIFE received a first
place rating for schools of
1,500 or more students at the
annual Columbia Scholastic
Press Association which met
in New York, March 10-12.
The contest was sponsored
by Columbia University and
the papers were judged by a
board consisting of 30 school
press specialists.
Content, makeup, and head
lines, were the bases of the
judging.
Traditional May Day at Senior
High will remain an outdoor festi
val as a result of student balloting
held on Monday, March 14. The
decision rendered in favor of the
lawn ceremonies was carried eight
to five.
A special ballot was considered
necessary when some objections
were raised concerning the site
by students and faculty advisers
who had worked with May Day
.05 Per Cent Of 1650 Average 95;
Seniors Top Special Roll With 33
Out of Senior’s student body of
approximately 1650, .05 per cent
of the students attained an aver
age of 95 or higher and were plac
ed on the special honor roll for
the first six weeks’ period of the
second semester.
The seniors led the other class-
men with 33 securing the required
average. Juniors followed with 32,
and the Sophomore Class had 19
placed on the special honor roll.
Seniors were Rachel Allen, Rita
Boggs, Johnnie Bolick, Margie
Boren, Phyllis Brooks, Joyce Byars,
Jewel Carter, Dava Cashwell, Bob
Cowan, Taylor Doggett, Sally Dur
ham, Margie Earl, Barbara Flynn,
Anne Fry, Terry Garrison, Bob
Grant, Edith Hargrove, and Eu
genia Hickerson.
Other seniors who secured the
required average are Judy Johns,
Rachel Kincaid, Pat Leary, Bar
bara Lindley, Jerry Matherly,
James Ray, Julie Redhead, Joanne
Saleeby, Wanda Slade, Celia Jo
Strader, Jane Tate, Kay Stewart,
Frances Thompson, Paddy Sue
Wall, and Martha Wilkins.
Juniors placed on the special
honor roll are Betty Adams, Laura
Adams, Lisa Anderson, Linda Bar
ham, Reggie Bell, Leon Boggs, An
gela Butt, Jerry Danford, Faye
Fuguay, John Gardiner, Emma
Garvin, Phyllis Glynn, Diana Har
mon, and Howard Hinshaw.
Also from the Junior Class mak
ing special honor roll are Ruby
Hough, Amy Hutchinson, Barbara
Jessup, Kay Kuykendall, Katherine
Leonard, Louise McGee, Mary Ann
McNeely, Jo Ellen O’Briant, Don
na Oliver, Barbara Riddle, Dick
Robinson, Eve Purdom, Diane
Schwartz, Nancy Stout, Virginia
Timberlake, Sara Toenes, Zade
Turner, and Martha Yates.
The 19 sophomores making the
95 average are Elizabeth Antrim,
Larry Brown, David Craig, Alec
Dekker, Stratton Eldridge, Henry
Flynt, Gilbert Frank, Libby Gar
vin, Jerry Hocutt, Buck Hoyle,
Tom Hudgins, Jane Lynch, Ruth
McCulloch, Jane McLennan, Jerry
Mann, Thomas Myers, Jean Og-
burn, Margie Rose, and James
Spence.
5HS Key Club Chapter
Flies To Columbia, S. C.
Six members of GHS’s Key Club
journey to the Hotel Wade Hamp
ton in Columbia, South Carolina,
today via Eastern Airlines for the
ninth annual Carolina District
Convention.
Doug Albright, David Wible,
John Jester, Manley Dodson, Louis
Glascock, and Donnie DeSanto,
along with six members of the
Curry chapter, were elected at a
recent supper meeting to repre
sent Greensboro for the week-end.
The convention, held last year
in Winston-Salem, will last through
Sunday.
Greensboro's group will nomi
nate one of its members as lieu
tenant governor of the district.
The local club is also vieing for
Greensboro as possible location
for next year’s convention.
plans in past years.
Proponents of the new plan
which would co-ordinate the elect
ed May court with the annual sen
ior prom stated several reasons for
their position. Paramount was the
belief that volunteers for support
ing roles in the pageant would be
as difficult to obtain as in previous
years. Others were the weather
consideration and the fact that
GHS is the only AAA school in
North Carolina retaining the cus
tom. Approximately 303 students
indicated on the ballot by signing
their names that they would be
available for assisting in the pro
duction.
“Old guard” supporters of May
Day felt the outdoor setting and
the convenience for parents and
Continued On Page Three
All Contenders For School Offices
Introduced In March 15 Assembly
April 1 will be the date for the
election of the 1955-56 school offi
cers and to acquaint the student of
GHS with the platforms and the
objectives of the students seeking
an office, the March 15 assembly
was devoted to the presentation
of candidates.
Approximately 118 rising juniors
and seniors are seeking offices in
next year’s Junior and Senior
Classes. Those students who are
chosen on April 1 will be the lead
ers in the Student Co-operative As
sociation for next year. Miss Doro
thy McNairy is the adviser of the
Student Council.
Convention
Plans have already been made
for the eliminating convention to
be held on March 29. Two dele
gates, a speaking delegate and con
sulting delegate, from each home
room were elected on March 16
to represent the views of their
home room at the first delegate
meeting held on March 21 and the
second delegate meeting held on
Former Teacher
Add
ressss
Group
Jaycees To Conduct
Teen-Age Road-e^o
April 6 is the date that has been
set for the interested students to
take the examination for the Teen-
Age Driving Road-e-o that the
Greensboro Junior Chamber of
Commerce is to conduct.
The Road-e-o will consist of a
written examination and a skill
test involving driving through pre
scribed exercises such as parking,
smooth stopping, precision driving,
and others.
Mr. L. W. Anderson, assistant
principal, will administer the test
for all entries in room 203 at 3:30,
April 6.
The local winner in this National
Jaycee contest will be eligible to
compete in the state Road-e-o in
Winston-Salem. State winners com
pete for $3,000 in scholarships in
a national contest July 25-29 in
Washington, D. C.
The purpose for the contest is
to give local youths a chance to
prove that some of America’s best
drivers are teen-agers. To be eligi
ble one must be a student under
twenty years of age who has a
driving license or permit and not
have been charged with any mov
ing traffic violations in the past
si^, months.
Mr. Alvis Proctor, a former Dis
tributive Education co-ordinator at
Senior High, spoke to the D.E.
classes here last Friday.
Now with the Production Infor
mation Board of DuPont Corpora
tion, Mr. Probtor gave a flannel
beard lecture oh synthetic fibers
—nylon, orlo'n, and dacron.
Introducing the speaker in the
second period class was Hallie
Chandler and in the third period,
Jerry Varner.
Several guests were invited for
the speech. There were represent
atives from the D.O. Department,
a chemistry class, and students
from the Home Economics De
partment. In addition to the
guests, three student teachers from
Woman’s College attended—^Misses
Velma Thomas, Peggy Oliver, and
Barbara Blue.
Since leaving Senior High, Mr.
Proctor has been acting state D.E.
supervisor and a D.E. co-ordinator
in Texas.
March 24. The purpose of the con
vention is to eliminate all but two
candidates for each major school
office. Students who are running
for an office and campaign mana
gers of the office seekers are not
allowed to be delegates in the con
vention.
Council President
Bill Franklin, John Gardiner,
and Houston Groome are the three ,
candidates running for the office
of Student Council President.
Vieing for the office of vice-
president of the Student Council
are Lisa Anderson, Nestus Gurley,
and Bob Herford, all from the ris
ing Senior Class. Candidates for
the office of school secretary are
Maxine Callisher, Jean Ogburn,
and Elizabeth Sutton, from the
rising Junior Class.
Mary Lou Hutton, Tom Hudgins,
and Jack Jessup are the candidate^
for the position of school treasurer.
Running for the office of traffic
chief -are David Wibble, Manley
Dodson, and Charles Pemberton.
John Horney and Dick Robinson
are the candidates for the Senior
Class qffice of president. Junior
Class presidential candidates are
Alec Decker, Bill O’Brien, and
James Spence.
Senior Veep
These students running for the
office of Senior Class vice-presi
dent are Jay Brame, Jim Everitt,
Emma Garvin, Jim Martin, Shelly
Morgenstern, and- Horwood Myers.
Candidates biding for the position
of Junior Class vice-president are
Judie Bittinger, Davis Bowen. Lib
by Garvin, Dorothy Mattox, David
Miller, Becky Ozment, and Robert
Willett
Shirley Smith and Sally Jordan
are candidates for the office of
Senior Class secretary. Betty Ker-
nodle, Jerry Mann, Camille Merri-
man, Maranell Pearsall, Carroll
Walker, and Pat Williamson are
vieing for the position of secre
tary to the Junior Class of ’56.
Robert Hewett, Barbara Jessup,
and Bill Kellam are the rising
seniors who have entered their
names in the Senior Class race for
treasurer. David Craig, Billie Jes
sup, Jane McLennan, Susan Mar-
. tens, and Tommy Myers are in the
! (Continued on Page Five)
Bosses^ Banquet Termed
Successful By Employer
“As always the Bosses’ Banquet
was a complete success,” was how
Mr. A. E. Rummans, an employer
of Sears Roebuck and Co., summed
up the twelfth annual Employer-
Employee Banquet given by the
Diversified Occupations-Distribu-
tive Education Clubs on Tuesday
night, March 16 at the Masonic
Temple.
After Pat Pegram sang the
Lord’s Prayer as the invocation,
Jerry Varner, the master of cere
monies for the affair, welcomed
the bo^es and then, on behalf of
the employers’, Miss June Crock
ett of Jefferson Standard respond
ed.
The guests, mainly officials of
the Greensboro School System,
were introduced by Jerry immed
iately after the dinner.
Highlights of. the year’s work
were reported upon by Albert
Phillips, Barbara Moorefield, and
Barbara Harris, representing D.O.
trades, D.O. office practice, and
D.E., respectively. Albert gave part
of the history of D.O. which was
started by an act of Congress in
1936.
In her speech on D.O. office
practice, Barbara gave one of their
slogans, “We give a day’s work
for a day’s pay,” and told how
the 50 people taking D.O. office
trades were selected.
Barbara Harris stated that peo
ple often asked the difference be
tween a student taking D.E. and a
person merely working a part-time
job schedule. She explained, “A
D.E.’er is a more conscientious
and cheerful worker.”
A part of the 128 students en
rolled in D.O. and D.E. presented
a program of entertainment. “We
Look For Work” was sung by a
group of girls to the tune of “Old
Black Joe.”
Next Marilyn Swinson did a
take-off on “Dragnet — Office
Style” with her eventual sentence
being two years of hard labor in
D.O.
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Depp May 31 Speaker
Mr. A. P. Routh, principal,
has announced that Dr. Mark
Depp from Winston-Salem,
pastor of the Centenary Meth
odist Church, will be the
speaker at the Senior Class’
graduation on Tuesday, May
31.
In connection with gradua
tion, seniors recently chose
to hold the ceremonies in the
Senior High Schol Stadium
with the mew gym as an alter
nate in case of rain. The class
cast 394 votes with 224 for the
stadium, 122 for the gymnas
ium, and 48 for the auditor
ium. It is planned that all the
graduates and spectators will
sit on the east side of the
stadium.