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From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
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VOLUME XXXVI
SENIOR mOH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 7, 1960
NUMBER 10
Student Councii Siates Elections
To Occur Last Week of Month
The voting date for the annual spring elections at Senior High, the election of student
body officers and the officers of the rising junior and senior classes, is scheduled to be some
time in the last week of March, with, according to Miss Mary Furey, student council adviser,
the deadline for the application of candidates reading March 16.
student body offices to be filled f
‘dp
are those of president, vice-presl-1
dent, secretary, treasurer ,traffic
chief, and chairman of the youth
recreation committee. The presi
dent and vice-president must be
members of the rising senior class
while the secretary and treasurer
must be rising juniors. The traffic
chief should also be a member of
next year's senior class. All of the
students elected to these offices
will automatically become mem
bers of the student council.
The duties of these student body
officers are as folows: The presi
dent must preside at all student
council meetings and appoint com
mittees in the council. The vice-
president’s main job is to plan the
assembly programs. The secretary,
besides keeping minutes must pre
pare a written council report to
be sent to each homeroom. The
treasurer handles funds and makes
out the council’s budget. The
traffic chief makes and enforces
rules governing traffic. The chair
man of the youth recreation com
mittee is in charge of open houses
and other social functions.
Class Offices
Junior and senior class offices to
be filled include the office of
president, vice-president, secretary
and treasurer. The presidents of
the two classes will also be taken
into the student council.
Student council members and
youth recreation members will also
be voted upon. One student coun
cil member will be elected for
each 75 members of the rising
junior and senior classes, with
about the same ratio holding true
for the Youth Recreation Com
mittee.
To be eligible for any of the
positions mentioned, a prospective
candidate must have at least an 80
average for his last semester of
Ann Thayer To Reign
Over State Tournament
Anne Thayer, senior, was unan
imously chosen to reign as queen
of the State 4-A Basketball Tour
nament March 9 through 11.
The Senior High varsity basket
ball team screened the candidates
for the throne and unanimously
nominated Anne. Their recom
mendation was approved by the
state tournament; Mr. Smith aBr-
rier. Sports Editor of the Greens
boro Daily News; Mr. Earl HeUen,
Greensboro Record Sports Editor;
Mr. Charlie Harville, WFMY-TV
Sports Director; Mr. Add Penfield,
WBIG Sports Director; and Mr.
Robert Jamieson, Sr., Whirlie
coach.
Anne will present the xunner-
up trophy, winner trophy, and the
individual player awards after the
final tournament game. There will
be two games each night.
Miss AAAA is a member of
Torchlight National Honor Society,
Jimior Civinettes, and the GHS
cheerleading squad'. She has also
been serving as a state officer of
the Junior Classical League and
attends the First Presbyterian
Church. Her parents are Mr. and
Mrs. John E. Sockwell.
The Whirlie cagers will be de
fending the championship as they
won in last year’s title tourney.
Anne is the second tournament
queen—Sheila Sapero was the first
in 1959.
work and a strong desire to serve
the school. A conduct grade of be
low B—will disqualify a candi
date. Members of both the council
and recreation committee must be
willing to work at their jobs dur
ing a seventh period study haU.
These qualifications and the elec
tion procedure will be discussed
at two open council meetings on
March 8 and 9. Dickie Bowen,
Carol Smith, Virginia Harmon,
Suzye McNeely, and Roddy Stout
will act as members of an elections
Science, Math Students
Can Gain College Credit
Students interested in science
and mathmatics have a chance to
gain college credit and receive
pay for their studies this summer.
The National Science Founda
tion will provide tuition-free
training for over 7,000 students of
high ability during the summer of
1960. Some 135 colleges in every
state are offering the special sum
mer courses which are conducted
by their facilities.
Students in the 10th, 11th, and
12th grades with scholastic ability,
interest in science, and completion
of certain high school courses in
science and mathematics are eligi
ble. Admission is determined by
the sponsoring institution.
North Carolina colleges in the
program are Appalachian State
Teachers College and N. C. State.
Interested students should con
tact Mrs. Carol Fountain or Mr.
David Upstill of the science de
partment.
committee, with Miss Mary Furey
and Mrs. Helen Modoy acting as
advisers.
Convention Plans
Plans are being made to hold a
convention if enough candidates
run for office. In order to have a
convention, at least three candi
dates must run for at least three
of the student body offices. If
such is the case, the election pro
cedure will be as follows: First a
primary will be held in which the
names of all the candidates runn
ing for office will be sent to each
homeroom. Then, each room de
cides which one of the three or
more candidates for an office it
favors, and perhaps make a sec
ond choice in case its favorite
candidate falls hopelessly behind.
Two delegates from each room are
then chosen and instructed as to
which candidates to back, giving
each homeroom two votes in the
convention. Then the convention
is held with the entire homerooms
attending. Dickie Bowen, as sen
ior class president, will preside,
and an open tally will be kept on
a blackboard as the convention
proceeds. The home rooms will
vote until all but two candidates
for each office are eliminated, thus
ending the convention. There will
then follow the usual pattern of
registration and the individual
voting on the two candidates. In-
cident^ly, the candidate who first
receives a majority of nomination
ballots at the convention gets his
name placed on the ballot first.
Miss Furey wishes to emphasize
that all campaign speeches, skits,
acts, etc. should be respectably
given.
Left to right above are Sammy McNairy, senior, winner of the
Morehead Scholarship for UNC, and Arthur Springer, the only
GHS finaUst for the Brooks Scholarship for a state schooL
Sam McNairy Is Finalist
In Morehead Competition
Sammy McNairy, GHS senior,
was selected as a Morehead Schol
arship finalist during the district
competition in Winston-Salem, in
which he was a Guilford County
candidiate.
This scholarship will pay all
expenses for a four-year term at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Last year Fred
Wedler, a student at Senior, won
the Morehead Scholarship.
Besides trying out for scholar
ships, Sammy’s schedule includes
many activities. He is a paper
boy for the Greensboro Daily
News and vice president of the
Key Club. During the 1959 school
elections he ran for traffic chief.
Torchlight claims his membership.
ANNE THAYER—MISS AAAA
as does the golf team.
Interviewed By Duke
Sherry Rottman, Carol Smith,
Sammy MsNairy, Larry Sawers,
Jerry Sawers, Church McDonald,
and Ronald Steed were candidates
for the Angier B. Duke Scholar
ship. After these students were
interviewed by Duke University
during the last of February, Sam
my McNairy was selected as a fin
alist.
According to the rules for the
awarding of the Brooks Scholar
ship, a girl and boy to represent
each high school are chosen from
the applicants of that particular
school. These two then enter in
the county-wide competition.
The two students selected form
GHS were Judy Blackmon and
Arthur Springer. After further
testing to eliminate most of the
applicants, Arthur was declared
to be one of the three finalists.
The final decision is to be made
at the conclusion of the tests in
April.
Tests For Juniors
There are also tests available
for the juniors concerning schol
arships. As of last Friday, 157
juniors had signed up for the
first round of the Merit Scholar
ship tests. Two hundred copies of
the tests are available in the
Guidance Center, and the guidance
counselors will continue to register
juniors as long as the tests hold
out.
During the past year’s compe
tition Senior High boasted 27 Mer
it finalists. Many of the Merit
Scholarships pay the full tuition
to the winner’s choice of college.
Continued on Page Three
Playmasten To Enfer
One Act Play Contest
The Playmasters have begun
work on their presentation to be
given at the state-wide One Act
Play Contest.
This contest is to take place in
Chapel Hill, April 27-30. Working
with Miss Mozelle Causey, Play-
masterg’ adiviser, will be Miss
Renee Kenya, practice teacher
from Greensboro College.
The three-act mystery play,
“Teen-Age Dracula” has been
postponed because of iUness and
the weather. The group hopes to
present the play during the first
part of April.