HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
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VOLUME XXXV
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO N. C., JUNE 1, 1959
NUMBEiR 15
Commencement Ends Hish School Days For Seniors
DR. JOHN R. REDHEAD
School Will (onlinue
Accelerated Courses
The Senior High program of ac
celerated courses will be continued
next year, according to principal
A. P. Routh.
There may be a few minor
changes in the system, especially
in the selection of the students
who take part in the courses.
In accordance with the trend to
a demand for an increasing num
ber of advanced subjects, the
course in third year Latin will be
continued next year and third year
courses in French and Spanish
will be started.
Along with the standard courses
of study the usual courses of ad
vanced math will be offered—
trigonometry, college algebra, and
solid geometry. The courses of
Shakespeare and Creative Writing
will be offered in the English De
partment.
According to Mr. Routh there
has not been sufficient opportun
ity for an evaluation of the ac
celerated program thus fat.
Members of the Class of 1959
bring their school careers Ic an
end at the Commencement Exer
cises, which are to be conducted
Thursday night, June 4, in the
Boys’ Gym.
Dr. Kenneth Goodson, pastor
of the First Methodist Church of
Charlotte and former pastor of
the West Market Street Meth
odist Church of Greensboro, will
speak at the graduation exercises.
Also during the program, the 1959
Class Valedictorian and Salutor-
ian will be recognized as will the
Best-All-Round boy and girl.
Baccalaureate
Dr. Redhead, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, gave the
Baccalaureate Sermon yesterday
with the GHS Choir supplying the
music for the occasion. Members
of the Class wore caps and gowns
as they will in the Commence
ment Exercises.
The two-hour long Awards Day
was conducted Tuesday, May 19.
The Woman’s College Alumnae
House was the site of the Senior
Tea, Wednesday, May 20 from
4:30-6:00. Last Thursday the Sen
ior Class presented the annual
Class Day, which was followed by
the beginning of the exams for
the Seniors and the Prom.
COLLEGE ATTENDANCE
Even though they have been
busy making arrangements to leave
high school, the Seniors have not
neglected arrangements to enter
college. More GHS students made
applications to Woman’s College
than to any other university. Sev
enty-three applied there and the
University of North Carolina ran
a close second with sixty-three
applications. Five applications
were received from Senior to the
TI.N.C. Nursing School, whereas
only one student applied to the
Duke University Nursing School.
Twenty-one GHSers hope to be
accepted to attend Wake Forest
next year and thirty-nine wish ad
mittance to Duke. North Carolina
State is only four applicatiins
ahead of Davidson’s eighteen.
Guilford College has received
twenty. East Caroline and Salem
both are considering twelve ap
plications from GHS. Appalachian,
High Point College, and Brevard
have each gotten seven requests
for admission. Greensbiro College,
with nine applications, is one ap
plication behind Meredith.
Randolph-Macon
Randolph Macon and Mars Hill
have both received six applica
tions, while Hollins and M.I.T.
have both been sent only four.
Campbell College is holding the
applications of five GHS students
and Catawba has four. Three stu
dents have made applications to
each of these schools: Georgia
Tech. Flora McDonald, Furman,
V/estern Carolina, and Oberlin.
Wellesley, Swathmore, Lee’s
McRae, and Wheaton have each
received two application blanks
from Senior High, as have Agnes
Scott. Southern Methodist, Hamp
den-Sidney, and West Liberty
College. The University of Vir
ginia is also debating over two
applications as is Wingate. The
Watts School of Nursing has got
ten two requests for admission.
Two Senior High students also
have applied to Memorial Hospi
tal Nursing School, King’s Busi
ness College, University of
Georgia. Brenau. Saint Mary’s and
Peace College.
Only one application has been
turned in to each of the following
schools from the graduating class
at Senior: Gardner Webb. Univer
sity of South Carolina, Queens
College, Citadel. Harvard. William
and Mary, Asbury, Center College
Continned on Page Six
DR. KENNETH GOODSON
Senior High Graduates Win
College Scholarship Awards
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
SENIORS
Friday, May 29
8:45-10:15
10:30-12:00
First Period
Second Period
Monday, .June 1 . . .
8:45-10:15
10:30-12:00
Third Period
Fourth or Fifth Period
Tuesday, June 2 .
8:45-10:15
10:30-12:30
Sixth Period
Seventh Period
Wednesday, June 3 .
8:45-10:15
Make-up or
re-examination
Thiu-sday, June 4
8:00 P. M.
Graduation
UNDERCLASSMEN
Monday, June 1 . .
1:00- 2:30
First Period
Tuesday. June 2 . .
8:45-10:15
10:30-12:00
Sixth Period
Seventh Period
Wednesday, June 3
8:45-10:15
10:30-12:00
Third Period
Fourth or Fifth Period
Thursday, June 4 .
8:45-10:15
Second Period
10:'30-12:00
Make-up or
re-examination
About 34 Senior High seniors
will be wholly or partly financing
their higher education next year
with scholarship awards, accord
ing to information compiled by
the guidance center.
I’he big winners are Fred Wed-
ler, chosen for a $5,000 John M.
Morehead Scholarship to the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and
Tommy Tuttle with a National
Merit Scholarship of undisclosed
amount to be used at Davidson
College.
Hankin’s Scholarship
Senior Class president David
Liner has won a George Foster
Hankins Scholarship worth $2,000
at Wake Forest College. Student
body president Jerry Robertson
has been awarded a $1,600 Mar
vin B. Smith Scholarship at the
University of North Carolina.
Relle Moore has been selected
as an alternate for a Naval ROTC
Scholarship worth $7,000 at Duke
University.
Ann Adams has received $2,000
towards study at the University of
North Carolina School of Nursing
from Burlington Industries, while
Marie Blakeley has been named
winner of a complete Alice Kelly
Scholarship at Watts Hospital
School of Nursing, Durham.
Duke Grants
Several seniors have received
renewable grants frim Duke Uni
versity: $800 for Susan Caviness,
$350 for Frances Howard, $300 for
Betsy Glynn, Eric Schweistris,
and Clyde Wilson, and $200 for
Frank Starmer. Susan, in addi
tion, has now a $200 per year re
newable award at Woman’s Col
lege.
John Stevenson has a $300 re
newable scholarship at Wake For
est and Danny Hurst a similar
$200 award. Brenda Blake has won
a Coker College Alumnae Scholar
ship valued at $800 over four
years.
Michael George has been award
ed a University of North Carolina
merit schsolarfjhip -of $150 per
year for the first place paper
in the State Physics Examination.
In the scholarships given an
nually to Senior High students
only, Mary Gene Biddy, Anne
Bourne, Bob Dorsett, David Pat
rick, and Judy Weaver were named
winners of the five $200 Sears
Scholarships, while Margaret
Lester received the $200 Torch
light Scholarship, and Dianne
Pfaff the $300 Junior Jaycees (Los
Condesl Scholarship.
Mary “Gene” also has a $150
renewable Roxie King Scholarship
to Woman’s College, as does Ging
er Parker. Judy, in addition, has
been awarded $120 per year for
four years at Meredith College in
a J. T. J. Battle Scholarship.
Pat Hutchins has a freshman
honorary scholarship of $200 at
Meredith College, and Lila Wolff
has won a $300 scholarship at St.
Mary’s Junior College, renewable
for the second year.
Mary Elaine Staunton has been
awarded a scholarship by the
Ladies’ Medical Auxilary worth
$100 per year for three years
study in the field of nursing,
while Hay Lois Apple has a
$100 grant from the National Sec
retaries Association. Judy Britt
has a $300 award at Brevard Col
lege, renewable for the second
year.
Music Scholarship
Becky Chambers has been
named winner of a Samuel Good
man Vocal Scholarship for use
in any higher education in music,
while Sandra Coe has been award
ed a $270 renewable music scho
larship at Woman’s Cillege.
Two Seniors have achieved full
athletic scholarships. Barry Mor
gan to North Carolina State Col
lege and Bill Hinshaw to The
Citadel.
Several seniors are still in the
running in scholarships compe
titions in which the winners have
not yet been named.
Miss Mary Blackmon
Receives Book Honor
Most of us do not realize until long after our school days
the important influences some of our daily classroom teachers
are exerting upon our future lives and careers.
Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon is well known to most Senior
High students as the friendly, energetic lady who runs the
guidance center, handles the voluminous senior college appli
cations, and teaches history-with-a-zing.
A proof of the lasting and subtle influences she has had
On students already gone into the world became evident re
cently when Greensboro author and GHS alumnus Burke
Havis dedicated his most recent book, TO APPOMATTOX to
among others. Mary Ellen Blackmon . . . Teacher of history.”
FRED WEDLER
Morehead Winner
TOMMY TUTTLE
National Merit Award
JERRY ROBINSON
U. N. C. Scholarship
DAVE LINER
Wake Forest Grant
-ANN ADAMS
Nursing Scholarship
RELLE MOORE
Naval ROTC Alternate