HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME XXXV
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 24, 1959
NUMBER 13
StudentBody Elects Smith President
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH STUDENT
OFFICERS, 1959-60
STUDENT BODY OFFICERS
President: Carol Smith
Vice-President: Suzy McNeely
Secretary: Roddy Stout
"^affic Chief : Tootie Blair
Treasurer: Virginia Harmon
Chairman of the Youth Recreation Council:
Janie Leigh Wall
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS
President: Dickie Bowen
Vice-President: Preston Earle
Secretary: Lucinda Clark Treasurer: Lynn Fifield
JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS
President: Janet Rankin
Vice-President: Sam Garren
Secretary: Jess McFarland Treasurer: Sandra Boyles
STUDENT COUNCIL
Senior Class: Sondra Childress, Cricket Conner, Carolyn
Crutchfield, Lee Groome, Patsy Parker, Johnny Sink, Har
riet Thompson.
Junior Class: Suzanne Anderson, Peggy King, Brenda
Meadows, Ann Starr Minton, Dale Neese, Pam Pfaff, Con
nie Waynick, Dianna Wellons, Tommy Whiteside.
YOUTH RECREATION COUNCIL
Senior Class: Carole Clapp, Tommy Clark, Anne Foster,
Ann Glascock, Bill Gibboney, Nina Kennedy, Betty Tucker.
Junior Class: Jeannie Anderson, Karen Gill, Nancy Hel
ton, Martha McKee, Suzanne Mock, Katherine Pledger,
Dickie Weeks, Betty Welch, Phyllis Pledger.
‘Mis5 Guilford’ Entries
To Include GHS Beauties
Contestants announced for the
Third annual Miss Guilford Coun
ty Pageant, planned for May 15,
1959, included two Senior High
School girls—Kay Smith and Car.
olyn Marks.
The contest, sponsored by the
Guilford College Jaycees, has had
two previous winners — Mrs.
Patricia Burke, of 1957, who plac
ed in the top 10 in the North
Caroliro Pageant division, and
Nancy Ellen Hackney Jones who
was the second runner-up in the
1958 North Carolina pageant.
Miss Guilford County will be
selected from a field of 12 contest
ants, who will be judged on three
different divisions — talent, even
ing gown, and bathing suit. Three
minutes will be alloted for talent,
one for bathing siiit competition
and three for evening gown. The
pageant will begin at 8 p. m., and
the winner will be announced that
evening. This is the official pre
liminary contest which preceeds
the Miss North Carolina Pageant
in June of 1959, at Durham, North
Carolina.
Contestants for the pageant
were selected from Greensboro
Senior High School, Page High
School, Guilford High School, Wo
man’s College, Greensboro College
and Guilford College.
The winner will receive a $200
warurobe and a $250 sc>olarship
to the school of her choice.
The two girls have already been
approved by the entree committee
and are making plans for the big
night.
Kay is a member of the choir,
was nominated BEST DRESSED
superlative, and is a member of
the LSP club. Kay was a member
of the Home Coming Court ,and is
a Senior Representative on the
May Day.
Carolyn is the present co-chair-
ma nof the ’59 Class Day .She is
the Managing Editor of HIGH
LIFE and HOMESPUN. She is
secretary of Quill and Scroll and
a member of Torchlight.
Council Comer
By Jerry Robertson
WeU, now that elections are over things are getting back
to normal around the campus. Congratulations to the winners
land the losers! The winners, of course, have their offices,
while the losers have gained much in participation in the
' elections.
Mr. Morrow and his committee surely are doing a fine job
planning May Day. There’s still plenty of room for anyone
who wants to help.
I’m happy to announce that the Duke Ambassadors Dance
: Orchestra will play for our Spring Prom. They are a 16-piece
I orchestra, including a girl vocalist, and are really good. Tick-
1 ets for the Prom will go on sale in about two weeks and may
be purchased from any Student Council member. The price
for admission this year is $.75 per person.
The end of the school year is near, and there are only about
six weeks of school left. Let’s really bear down on those books
1 and make the best of it.
GHS students went to the polls Wednesday, April 15, and elected Carol Smith, present
student body secretary, to the top office of their student government for the school year of
1959-60.
Carol defeated Penny Taliaferro, treasurer of the student body, m the election in which
803 students voted, out of a student body of 1700.
other student body officers will
in which all students voted, nar
rowed down the candidates foi
class offices to two, and eliminat
ed candidates from the council
representative list down to just
double the number of positions to
be filled
be Suzye McNeely, vice-president;
Roddy Stout, secretary; Virginia
Harmon, treasurer; Tootie Blair,
traffic chief; and Janie Leigh
Wall, Youth Recreation Council
chainuM.
They defeated in the respective
ior Class. Other junior officers
will be Sam Garren, vice-presi
dent; Jess McFarland, secretary;,
and Sandra Boyles, treasurer.
Defeated for Junior Class of
fices respectively were Dale Kel
ler, Jerry Craig, Sue Foster and
Above are the Senior High student body officers elected last week: Virginia Harmon, treasurer; Rod
dy Stout, secretary: Tootie Blair, traffic chief, and Janie Leigh Wall, Youth Recreation chairman.
races, Sherry Mullins for vice-
president; Ann Winchester for
secretary; Dennis Saunders for
treasurer; Sammy McNairy for
traffic chief; and Jimbiy Parks for
Youth Recreation Council chair
man.
The president, vice-president,
traffic chief, and recreation chair
man are always rising seniors; the
secretary and treasurer are rising
juniors.
Because no more than two can
didates were announced for any
of the student body offices, the
traditional nominating convention
was not conducted.
Sophomore^, and juniors also
selected four offices for each of
their classes and representatives
to the Student Council and Youth
Recreation Council. Sophomores
elected nine and juniors seven
delegates to each council. Special
elections wiU be conducted for in
coming sbphomores in the fall.
Home room primaries April 8.
Registration was conducted April
13 and 14. Due to an error in the
ballots, the president, secretary
and treasurer of the Senior Class,
and the president and treasurer of
the Junior Class were not chosen
until Thursday, April 16.
Dickie Bowen Elected
President Of Sr. Class
Filling the Senior Class presi
dent’s position will be Dickie
Bowen. Other senior class officers
will be Preston Earle, vice-presi
dent; Lucinda Clark, secretary;
and Lynn Fifield, treasurer. They
defeated Eddie Burton, Anne
Thayer, and Judy Stone.
Elected to the Student Couiici)
by the rising seniors were Sondra
Childress, Cricket Conner, Carolyn
Crutchfield, Lee Groome, Patsy
Parker, Johnny Sink, and Harriet
Thompson.
Janet Rankin will head the Jun-
Dale Mauldin.
Elected to the Student Council
from the rising sophomores were
Suzanne Anderson, Peggy King,
Brenda Meadows, Ann Starr Min
ton, Dale Neese, Pam Pfaff, Con
nie Wasmick, Diana Wellons, and
Tommy Whiteside.
Senior Youth Recreation Coun
cil delegates will be Carole Clapp,
Tommy Clark, Ane Foster, Ann
Glascock, Bill Gibboney, Nina
Kennedy, and Betty Tucker.
Junior Class Youth Recreation
Council representatives chosen
were Jeannie Anderson, Karen
Gill, Nancy Helton, Martha Mc
Kee, Suzanne Mock, Kathryn
Pledger, Phyllis Pledger, Dickie
Weeks, and Betty Welch.
Run-off candidates for senior
Student Council seats defeated
were Pat Adams, Lynn Boyce,
Toni Carter, Jane Hinton, Skip
Continued on Page Seven
Senior Class officers elected last week gather above: vice-president Earle, treasurer Fifield, president
Bowen, and secretary Clark.