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VOLUME XXXVI
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., JAN. 15, 1959
NUMBER 7
Ninety-One Seniors, Thirty-Eight Juniors
List Mid-Term Examinotion Exemptions
Miss Mildred Maddox, chairman
for the mid-term exam exemp
tions, has announced that the total
list shows 91 seniors and 38 jun
iors released from an exam.
Out of 25 exemptions in the
English 8 department, 21 students
have exempted Miss Joyner’s ex
amination. Those seniors are Pat
Adams, Peggy Colmer, Sondra
Childress, Cricket Connor, Thomas
Cribbin, Mary Ann Crocker, Tara
Dinkel, Betsy Eubanks, Lynn Fi-
field, Polly Friend, Lind Kirk-
sey, Susan Moffitt, Patsy Parker,
Jerry Sawers, Larry Sawers, Helen
Stanfield, Judy Stone, Sue Wade,
Ann Waters, Pete Weltner, and
Lynn Westmoreland.
Bill Barrier, Marty Palmer, and
Joyce Payne have chosen Miss
Maddox’s English exam for their
exemption. Chuck McDonald is
the only person who exempted
Mrs. Newman’s test.
There are ten exemptions in the
math department with six of them
being in Miss Moore’s trigonom
etry class. Trig exemptors are
Mary Ann Crocker, Chuck Mc
Donald, Sammy McNairy, Harriet
Thompson, Pete Weltner, and
Marianne Zimmerman. Brenda
Coltrane is exempting geometry
6. She has Mrs. Ledford. Three of
Miss Burnside’s students elimi
nated her exam. Meredith McNeill
and Frank Sloan chose the ad
vanced algebra exam and Bill Wal
ters is exempting geometry 6.
Exempt History
Seven students from Miss
Blackmon’s class lead the list of
24 who have exempted history.
These students are as follows:
Judy Blackmon, Leonna Jones,
Vera LeCraw, Larry Sawers, Judy
Stone, and Anne Waters. Jerry
Sawers exempted History 5 while
the other six exempted History 3.
Mr. Fredrickson has four exemp
tions — Yvonne Kincaid, Burnley
Kinney, Sylvia McClellan, Susan
Moffitt. Nancy Faulconer is the
only student exemption Mrs. Gam
ble’s History 3 exam.
Pat Adams heads the list ex
empting Mrs. Pfaff’s History 3
examination. The other 11 stu
dents are Lynn Bowles, Ruth En
nis, Judy Greene, Sharron Oates,
Marty Palmer, Sherry Rottman,
Boyd Taylor, Ann Thayer, Har
riet Thompson, and Beverly Set-
tan.
The fourteen students who have
exempted chemistry are Priscilla
Caudle, Kay Chandler, Diana
Charles, Peggy Colmer, Libby
Cooke, Jean Ellen Jones, Nina
Kennedy, Kay Lindley, Jeannie
Littlejohn, Sherry Rottman, Ann
Thayer, Marianne Zimmerman,
under Miss Fountain; and Yvonne
Kincaid, Rebecca Markham, under
Mr. Upstill.
French Exemptions
Four of Miss Mitchell’s French
students have eliminated her
exam. Judy Blackmon, Jo Ann
Cannon, Tara Dinkel, and Jewel
Williams exempted French 5. Joyce
Payne is the only senior exempt
ing Spanish. She takes Spanish 5
under Miss Wales. The Latin 5
exemptions wind up the list of
seniors. Priscilla Caudle, Minette
Clarke, Thomas Cribbin, Vera Le
Craw, Sammy McNairy, Patsy
Parker,, Carol Smith, Sue Wade,
and Mary Ann Weber exempted
this exam of Mrs. Madlin’s.
Theme of Midwinter's
Accents 'Mardi Gras'
“Mardi Gras” will be the theme
of the I960 Midwinter’s semi-for
mal dance January 25 in the girls’
gym.
Cricket Connor, senior, is chair
man of the dance which is spon
sored by the Student Council. He
has announced that the Carolinians
will provide the dance music. Jerry
Robertson, 1958-59 GHS student
body president, plays bass for the
combo.
Student Council members and
homeroom volunteers will decorate
the girls’ gym. Cricket’s committee
members are Anne Foster, senior;
Dale Neese, junior; Dick Tontz
sophomore; and Carman Erwin,
senior. Miss Mary Parker, English
teacher, is the adviser for the
group.
Cricket and his colleagues ex-
: pect approximately 300 couples to
1 attend the dance which will begin
I at 9 p.m. and terminate at mid-
1 night. Cricket asks that no flowers
be sent to the girls from their
I dates for this occasion.
Tickets for Midwinter’s may be
I obtained from any Student Coun
cil member. The price for admis
sion per couple is $1.00.
Pat Adams To Attend
White House Meeting
Pat Adams, senior, has been
chosen to attend the White House
Conference on Children and Youth
in March of this year.
Pat, who is now serving as
President of the North Carolina
High School Library Association
and is also past treasurer, was
nominated by the State School Li
brary Advisors, Miss Mary F
Kennon and Miss Cara Paul Bo-
mar. The offical invitation was
received some time before Christ
mas with complete instructions
and an outline of the weeks activi
ties.
The conference with 7,000 par
ticipants, is celebrating its golden
anniversary this year. The Ameri
can Library Association has been
allowed to have 10 participants in
the conference.
The conference is to run through
the last week in March.
Juniors Exempt
The English department leads
the number of exemptions in the
junior class with 13. The others
follow as listed: math, 8; Latin,
7; chemistry 6; Spanish, 3; and
history, 1.
Bob Buchanan and Jean Waters
are exempting Miss Joyner’s En
glish 5 exam. Miss Mims’ test has
been eliminated by Thomas White-
side, Sue Wright, Irene Gulledge,
Donald Grimes, Bill Good, and
Carlton Cann. The other English
5 exemptors are in Miss Nichol
son’s class. They are Ann Win
chester, Shirley Whitman, Patsy
Strickland, Mary Radcliffe, and
Boyd Perry.
The eight math exemptors are
Cherrie Miller, Mary Bradley,
Suzanne Anderson, Barbara Pur-
gason, Anne Star Minton, Holly
Kowal, Adele Freedman, and An
drea Teague. The first three are
students of Mrs. Alton, the next
four study under Miss Burnside, I
and the last one is a student of
Mrs. Roe.
Mac Murray, John Monroe, Dale
Kellar, Sam Garren, Joel Drink-
ard, Sandra Boyles exempted Miss
Fountain’s chemistry exam. The
one history exemptor is Charlie
Thompson. He is in Mrs. Hutton’s
History 5 class. David Meyer ex
empted French 1 under Miss Mit
chell. Miss Mitchell had one other
student who exempted her exam.
Jess McFarland exempted French
3.
There were seven Latin exemp
tors. Virginia Harmon, Allen Mc-
Sween, and Tommy Sloan elimi
nated Miss Maddow’s Latin 3 ex
am, while Sharon Eldridge, Har-
riette Eiler, and Gary Brittenham
exempted the same semester un
der Mrs. Madlin. Pam Pfaff ex
empted Latin 5 under Mrs. Madlin.
Miss Wales had three students to
exempt her Spanish 3 examina
tion. They are Mary Francis Lund,
Jane Coltrane, and Sandra Bar-
gamin.
A student must make honor roll
at least seven times in a row to
exempt an exam. If he is a gold
I star wearer he may exempt two
! exams.
DR. CLAUDE B. BOWEN
Dr. Bowen To Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
Dr. Claud B. Bowen, minister
of the First , Baptist Church of
Greensboro, will conduct the Bac
calaureate service for the 1960
graduating class May 27 in his
church.
Dr. Bowen is the former vice-
president of the Baptist State Con
vention and is a trustee of Camp
bell Junior College, Baptist Hos
pital at Winston-Salem, and
Southeastern Theological Semi
nary. He is also a member of the
Greensboro Rotary Club and is
chaplain for the Fire Department
of Greensboro.
Traveling is Dr. Bowen’s chief
hobby. He has traveled extensively
through Europe and the Holy
Land. He has just recently return
ed from a six-week preaching
mission in Ghana and Nigeria,
West Africa. This trip was spon
sored by the Southern Baptist
Foreign Mission Board in Rich
mond, Virginia.
In the summer of 1958 Dr.
Bowen directed a party thrdugh
Europe and the Holy Land, and
he is now planning to conduct a
tour to the Baptist World Alliance
in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.
Dr. Bowen, who originally hails
from Winona, Mississippi, was the
minister for the Kentucky Student
Pastorates, First Baptist Church
of Opelia, Alabama, and the Cal
vary Baptik Church of Jackson,
Mississippi, before bringing his
family to Greensboro.
Dr. Bowen married Louise Lea-
veil Bowen, who is a alumna of
Blue Mountain College. There are
three children in the family.
Claud Davis Bowen is 20 and at
tends Wake Forest College in
Winston-Salem. Dickie Bowen, 17,
is president of the senior class
here at GHS. The one girl, Carol,
is 12 and a junior high student.
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Playmasters Acquire
Three New Members
New members of the Playmast
ers who were initiated last Mon
day are Carolyn McMasters, Jim
Lowe, both seniors, and Mary
Radcliffe, junior.
The first meeting of the Play-
masters for the semester took
place at the some of- the adviser.
Miss Causey. At this time, the
president, Christina Stewart, set
up committees for the production
of the three-act play, Teen-Age
Dracula. The play is scheduled
for the night of February 25. At
the meeting plans for the contest
plays which are to be entered in
the Drama Festival were made
also.
Sam McNairy To Compete
In Morehead Competition
Shown above, Carol Smith and Cricket Conner lead Midwinter’s
Dance.
' Sammy McNairy, senior, has
won the chance to go on to dis
trict competition for the More-
head Scholarship.
Chosen from 54 Guilford County
applicants, Sammy is one of seven
to go on to district competition
to be held in Winston-Salem the
last of January. From the nine
counties in our district ,six boys
will be chosen to go on to Chapel
Hill where only a few will be
eliminated. The approximately
forty boys to win in Chapel Hill
will then be entitled to the $5,000
John Motley Morehead Scholar
ship.
All Morehead Scholarships are
awarded on ability only. Financial
need is not considered. The four-
year grant will pay the winner’s
full expenses, including spending
money.