HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Hanry
VOLUME xxxm
SENIOR HIGH SC^IOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. FEB. ZZ, 1957
NUMBER 10
School Will Conduct Science Fair
In Gymnasium Balcony Next Month
"gHS will conduct its third an
nual Science Pair March 21-22 in
the balcony of the boys’ gym.
Thursday, March 21, will be the
day for setting up projects and
judging them. Students will set up
their projects during the day and
the judges will evaluate the proj
ects that night.
During Friday, March 22, stu
dents and the public will be in
vited to visit the fair. Students
probably will tour the fair during
the day, and the general public
will probably be invited that night.
Engineers to Help
The Junior Engineers Club has
volunteered its services to Mrs.
Kate Everhart, chairman of the
fair. They will likely be in charge
of seciuing guides and will aid in
the setting up of the fair. This
involves such things as arranging
to obtain electric power for all
projects requring it. Also water
and gas will have to be trans
ported into the balcony of the gym
in some imnner.
Los Condes, a Senior High serv
ice club, has also offered its serv
ices in connection with the fair.
Something which should make
this year’s fair special is the plans
for televising the fair. If things
go as planned, the fair will be
shown over WUNC-TV, the educa
tional station of the University
of North Carolina. Time for the
broadcast is tentatively scheduled
for 8 to 9 Friday night.
TO Borrow Tables
Tables will be secured from
various schools and brought to
Senior. They will be set up so
that there is a row of tables along
the wall of the gym balcony, and
a row of tables along the railing.
According to the regulations of
the North Carolina Science Fairs,
projects will have a maximum size
of three feet by four feet. All
biology and chemistry students are
required to enter a project in the
fair.
There will be three winners each
in the biology and physical science
divisions, making a total of six
blue-ribbon winners. As of yet,
the number of other winners has
not been announced.
Chosen for their,, outstanding
traits of scholarship, leadership,
service, and character, 30 new
members from the Senior and
Junior Classes have been induct
ed into TorchMght. They are front
row, left to right, Jean M;edearis,
Katherine Polk, Meyressa Hughes,
Lynn McGregor, Mary Lou Hut
ton, Pollyann Young, Peggy Sink,
Laura Pearce, Kay Wood, Ann
Butler, Prissy Wyrick, and Add
Penfield. On the second row in
the same order are Sandra Hold-
emess, Connie Coltrane, Jane Par
kins, Jane Lynch, Judy Shallant,
Kay Weston, Linda Myers, and
Henry Flynt. In the rear left to
right are Jey Deifell, Edgar Sock-
well, Joe Bowles, A1 Hattaway,
Larry Brown, Wallace Williams,
Cecil Litle, Alec Decker Joe
Hensley, and Jim Phillips.
Below is pictured Torchlight
member Allen Thomas as he
"taps” two fellow classmen into
the honor society. On the left he
has asked Wallace Williams, jun
ior to "follow me”, and on the
right he is waiting to bring Alec
Decker, senior, to the stage.
Torchlight Inducts 30 New Members
Into Local Chapter In Spring Tapping
Torchlight, GHS chapter of the National Honor Society, con
ducted its annual spring tapping Wednesday, February 13,
in the auditorium, during which time 18 seniors and 12 jun
iors were inducted.
New members, chosen for their accomplishments along the
lines of scholarship, leadership, service, and character, were
Joe Bowles, Ann Butler, Larry Brown, and Alec Decker from
the Senior Class.
Parkins Represents GHS
At World Affairs Meeting
Jane Parkins, senior, represent
ed GHS in Chapel Hill February
14 at the Seventh Annual Confer
ence on World Affairs arranged
by the University of North Caro
lina Extension Division.
Approximately 350 delegates
representing women’s organiza
tions, high schools, and student
exchange programs throughout the
state, were present at the confer
ence which carried out the theme
“Toward a World at Peace."
The morning session was opened
with a talk about the conference
theme by the Honorable Edith
Green, member of Congress from
Oregon.
After lunch, the group split up
into five discussion groups and met
again to report on their individual
subjects.
Dr. Bernard Boyd, who is a
James A. Gray professor of Bibli
cal Literature at the University of
North Carolina, closed the session
with a talk about "A Moral Foun
dation for International Politics.”
Dr. Boyd raised the point that
“peace will not come through
hatred, but through miderstanding
and love,” and he expressed the
belief that “nations will cease
fighting among themselves when
they all face a common enemy,
such as a disease powerful enough
to require the cooperation of all
nations.”
Other delegates from Greensboro
were Beth Sellers, Bessemer, and
Mrs. J. R. Chrismon, Mrs. Augus
tus Byers, and Mrs. C. B. Cul-
breth, Greensboro Woman’s Club
representatives.
0
Schedule For Elections
Disclosed To Students
Election Day, at which time stu
dent government officers for the
1957-58 school year will be chosen,
has been set for April 12, accord
ing to James Spence, Senior Class
president and chairman of the
elections committee.
March 29—^Deadline for applica
tion for office
April 1—Meeting of candidates
and managers
April 2—Presentation of candi
dates
April 4—Home room primary
April 8—^Meeting of Convention
Delegates
April 9—Convention
April 10—Registration
April 11—^Registration
April 12—Voting
May 1—Installation of officers
Assembly Program
May Day Committee
Headed By Merriman
Bill O’Brien, Student Council
president, has recently appointed
Camille Merriman, council mem
ber, to serve as chairman of the
1957 May Day committee.
Serving with Camille are Jim
Phillips and Susan Brooks, sen
iors; Wallace Williams, jimior;
and Carol Eichorn, sophomore.
Mrs. Jean Newman, May Day ad
viser, and Mrs. Eleanor Lambert,
dance adviser, are working with
the committee membeis.
The committee will meet again
soon to choose the decorations,
programs, and props committee
chairmen who will come from
those seniors who signed the list
passed ai'cund to the senior home
rooms, and also from other council
members.
The theme of this year’s May
Day will be kept secret until the
day of the program, but, according
to Camille, many more boys will
be needed this year. It will also
be necessary to select students to
lead the dances other than the
minuet, to be done by the May
Court, and the Maypole Dance,
which the girls’ physical education
classes will do.
The committee of coimcil mem
bers will order the flowers for the
girls in the May ooiirt.
Also from semester eight were
Henry Flynt, A1 Hattaway, Joe
Hensley, Mary Lou Hutton, and
Cecil Little. Jane Lynch, Linda
Myers, Jane Parkins, and Jim
Prissy Wyrick Chosen
Slate Treasurer of JCL
Prissy Wyrick, junior, was elect
ed state treasurer at the sixth
State Jiinior Classical League Con
vention in Chapel Hill, Saturday,
February 9, when over 33 clubs
were represented by more than
1200 JCL members. Prissy was the
only candidate for treasurer and
was unanimously elected.
She is actually the second per
son from Senior to hold an office
in the state convention, paddy Sue
Wall served as vice-president in
1954 and during the following
year was elected president.
Prissy is vice-president of the
local chapter at Senior and has
served as vice-president of her
Sophomore and Jimior Classes.
Greensboro was represented by
60 Latin students accompanied by
Miss Mildred Maddox and Mrs.
Mary Madlln, Latin teachers from
Senior. Twenty-two students from
Aycock were guests at the conven
tion.
Dr. Ullman,. a central figure in
the American Classical League,
which is the parent organization of
the National Junior Classical
League,' was the sponsorer of the
convention. Dr. Ullman is a resi
dent of North Carolina and father
of the North Carolina Junior
Classical League. He is also the
author of the Latin books which
are used at Senior High School.
The convention met in Memorial
Hall at the University of North
Carolina. Many students present
at that convention will attend the
National Convention in Colorado
this summer.
Phillips were among those chosen.
Completing the senior list were
Katherine Polk, Judy Shallant,
Kay Weston, Kay Wood, and Pol-
iyann Young.
Among the 12 juniors to be re
ceived into the honor society were
Connie Coltrane, Jey Deifell, San
dra Holderness, and Meyressa
Hughes. Lynn McGregor, Jean
Medearis, Laura Pearce, and Add
Penfield were also recognized as
inductees. Completing the roll of
new members were Peggy Sink,
Edgar Sockwell, Wallace Williams,
and Prissy Wyrick.
Candlelight Service
The traditional service, conduct
ed in the auditorium by candle
light, was presided over by Jean
Ogburn, president. The advanced
gii'ls’ glee club, accompanied by
Nancy Hewett, pianist, and Jan
Phillips and Janice Thompson,
violinists, provided the music, Ave
Maria.
Speeches summarizing the four
basic qualities necessary for mem
bership were given by Jane Mc
Lennan for scholarship; Rick Ad-
erhold, leadership; Elwood Hart
man, service; and Maranell Pear
sall, character.
Now Has 55 Members
Torchlight now has 55 members.
To be eligible for the organization
one must maintain a 90 average
and be elected by his classmates,
the faculty, Torchlight members,
and a special committee.
The next project for the Torch
light group will be the Torchlight
Talent Show to be given March 12.
Rick Aderhold is in charg of this
program and has a committee of
Torchlight members to assist in its
preparation.
Last year only 26 new members
were inducted in the spring tap
ping. This time there was an ad
dition of one senior over the 17
chosen last year and three more
juniors than before. The juniors
inducted in 19956 -were Doug Al
bright, David Craig, Libby Gar
vin, Buck Hoyle, Nancy Lambeth,
Camille Merriman, Jean Ogbum,
Karl Ray (who is now attending
Indian Springs School for Boys
in Alabama), and James Spence.