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VOLUME XXXVI
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., FEB. 22, 1960
NUMBER 9
Homecoming Queen \C^ins May Day Throne
Sue Anne Wrenn Is
SeniorMaid-of-Honor
Betty Tucker, at top, will reign
over May Day festivities with Sue
Anne Wrenn, top row, left, as
senior maid of honor. From left
to right other senior members of
the May Court are, top, Sondra
Childress, Elaine Ellis, Patsy Par
ker; bottom, Wilma Kay Pegg,
Carol Smith, Linda Upchurch.
Ten Senior High Pupils
To Receive Art Awards
Ten Senior High students will
receive Scholastic Art Awards;
four of these ten are Gold Key
winners, and six will receive Cer
tificates of Merit.
The four Gold Key recipients
are two seniors, Kathy Ware and
Jerrie Lynn Pittard, and two
sophomores, Frances Kamenatz
and Katherine Tucker. Jerrie Lynn
is the only one of the four who
has taken two- full years of art
courses offered here at Senior.
Kathy is a second year student,
and Frances and Katherine are
both in their first year. The win
ning pictures of these four will be
sent to New York to be entered in
the national exhibit. The selec
tions will be on exhibit at Elliott
Hall.
Those receiving Certificates of
Merit are sophomores Beverly
Wilkenson and Ed Oliver, junior
George Andreve, and seniors
Kathy Ware, Linda Cooke, and
Jerry Sawers. Linda is a second
year art student, and Jerry is in
his first semester. George is not
enrolled in the art course. The
works of these six people will be
exhibited at WFMY-TV station
and at the Mayfair Restaurant in
Friendly Shopping Center.
The presentation of the Gold
Key Awards will be made Febru
ary 21 at Elliott Hall. This presen
tation is to be filmed and shown
on WFMY-TV Sunday, February
28 at 1:45 p.m.
Pupils Planning To Take College Board
Must Send Applications To Be Eligible
Applications for the next Col
lege Entrance Examinations should
be sent in very soon to be eligible.
The next exam will be given on
Satmday, March 12, at Senior
High School. Exams will be given
on May 21 and August 10 also. In
order to take the March 12 exam,
applications must be filed by Feb
ruary 13, and positively no later
than February 27. A penalty must
be paid between February 13 and
27 for late application. The pen
alty dates for the May 21 and
August 10 exams are April 23 and
July 13. The closing dates for
these exams are May 7 and July
27, respectively.
The tests will be administered
on all test dates in the test cen
ters in Asheville, Charlotte, Ra
leigh, Wilmington, and Winston-
Salem. These test centers are for
the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and
the Achievements also. These
exams are given in the mornings
and afternoons, respectively.
The Achievement Tests are
are given only on certain dates as
specified in the test booklet. They
consist of tests in English Compo-
■' sition, Social Studies, Intermediate
Mathematics, Advanced Mathemat
ics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics,
A Scholastic Art Award winner
Jerrie Lynn Pittard examines
sculpture of an art class student.
Nine Sludenis Attend
World Affairs Parley
Greensboro Junior Woman’s
Club took nine history students
from Senior to the 10th Annual
World Affairs Conference in
Chapel Hill last Thursday, accord
ing to Mrs. Mary Gamble, historj'
teacher.
Bob Dixon, Polly Friend, Rich
ard Haskill, Ann Haralson, Chuck
McDonald, Linda McMillian, Linda
Moser, and Sue Wade, all seniors,
and Phil Pearsall, sophomore, at
tended the all-day meet. Five stu
dents from Page High School were
selected to accompany the nine
from Senior.
The group met here at 8:15 a.m.
last Thursday. Lunch in Chapel
Hill was furnished by Junior Wo
man’s Club. At the conference the
students heard addresses by Ches
ter Bowles, congressman from
Connecticut, and E. E. Schnell-
backer, director of the office of
Trade Promotion for the United
States Department of Commerce.
This year’s theme was “The World
We Have and the World We
Want.”
French, German, Latin, and Span
ish.
In order to know which tests to
take, the student should look up
the requirements of the college
or scholarship for which he is
applying. A student must file an
application accompanied by the
fee if he expects to take any part
of the exam. The application must
be filled out accurately and legibly.
A few weeks before the exam, the
applicant will receive an admis
sion ticket and some gummed
labels. These should be taken to
the test center on the test date.
Individual test scores will be
sent to the colleges listed by the
student within five weeks of the
test. No partial scores will be given
out. The scores of aN tests will
be given.
Griffin, Sarfin Represent
Underclassmen In Court
Homecoming Queen Betty Tuck
er and runner-up Sue Anne Wrenh
have been chosen by the student
body to reign respectively as May
Queen and senior maid-of-honor.
Gloria Griffin will attend the
queen as junior maid-of-honor.
Georgianna Sartin was elected to
the top sophomore court position.
The other six seniors selected
for the May Court are Sondra
Childress, Elaine Ellis, Patsy
Parker, Wilma Kay Pegg, Carol
Smith, and Linda Upchurch.
Remaining juniors are Virginia
Harmon, Martha McKee, Dale
Mauldin, and Anne Starr Minton.
Gloria Cox, Libby McComb,
Carol Roberts, and Carol Sheets,
sophomores, will also be honored
in the festivities.
Queen is Cutest
Queen Betty was selected cutest
on the list of senior superlatives,
while Sue Anne was decided to
have the best personality. Betty
was sophomore maid-of-honor in
1958. Sue Anne was chosen by last
years’ juniors as maid-of-honor.
Sondra, Elaine, Wilma Kay,
Carol, and Linda were all also
elected as senior class superla
tives this fall. Sondra was chosen
friendliest; Elaine, best looking:
Wilma Kay, most talented; Carol,
most popular; and Linda, best
dressed. Patsy is secretary of
Torchlight National Honor Society.
Gloria was sophomore maid-of-
honor in the 1959 May Day.
Georgianna is the only sophomore
varsity cheerleader.
The student council conducted
the balloting for the court. Dickie
Bowen, senior class president, act
ed as student chairman. Mrs. Mary
Alice Moody was faculty adviser.
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Yearbook Sales Total
1200 Copies For Year
WHIRLIGIG sales for the first
and second semesters of this
school year jointly amounted to
approximately 1200, practically
equaling the number of subscrip
tions for the past year.
Of the total number of subscrib
ers, 54 were teachers. There were
only 500 students who did not buy
yearbooks.
According to Miss Virginia
Powell, yearbook adviser, WHIRL-
GIG went to press last Friday.
Dr. Pelham Wilder Speaks
To Students In Joint Meet
Dr. Pelham Wilder, nationally
known cancer researcher, spoke to
the combined Junior Engineers
and the Medical Club meeting,
February 9.
Dr. Wilder spoke mainly on his
nitrogen mustard researches,
which he started for the Army in
World War II, and is now con
tinuing at Duke University as basic
research.
Stereochemistry, which deals
with the arrangement in space of
atoms in a molecule, is very im
portant in his work on nitrogen
mustard, explained Dr. Wilder. In
fact, he teaches a course on the
subject to graduate students at
Duke.
He went on to say that nitrogen
mustard interferes with biologic
ally important cell functions, and
thus it is very valuable in re
search into the working of normal
cells. '
Dr. Wilder mentioned the grow
ing trend in medicine away from
patent prescription to a real un
derstanding of why and how body
chemistry works. To be a success
ful physician, a person must also
be well grounded in chemistry and
vice versa.
A person who cannot express
himself is lost in this modem
world of chemistry and medicine,
and for this reason Dr. Wilder
concluded, “The most important
things you will take in high school
will be English and math.”