Page Two
High Life
June 2, 1960
I960 Brings .
Action!
Acceleration!
Accompiishment!
As another senior class leaves
Greensboro Senior High, stepping out
into an unsettled world the accom
plishments they have left behind them
set the foundation for the future of
America. The shadow of war, of de
struction,' of hatred, and of mistrust,
has guided their thoughts, but they
have not lingered in hopeless remorse;
rather, they have moved ahead for
their school, community, state, and
country.
1960: This is the year several GHS
students held state offices for various
organizations, such as Future Teach
ers of America, Junior Classical
League, Civitan Club, Student Council
Association, DE and DO clubs, and
Library Association.
Senior’s sports’ record was built
up by conference championship in all
major sports and accelerated records
in the minors. A senior basketball
player was chosen by a leading sports
magazine to be the best in high school
basketball. The Whirhe cagers hon
ored another pretty girl by selectmg
her queen of the 4-A Basketball Tour
nament. GHS contended for the first
time vdth the new high school con
structed in this city. “Good sports
manship” was the cry of all athletic
contests
I960: Three students were hon
ored with a scholarship usually only
presented to one senior. Other stu
dents won similar scholarships never
before awarded to GHS students.
The traditional newspapers and
yearbooks were issued for this year
. . . 1960. Neither, we trust, has been
lacking and both have received the
same top standing known from former
years. The school magazine was pro
duced twice.
1960: Senior’s music groups per
formed throughout the slate and won
good ratings in contending. The tra
ditional quartet consisted of all jun
iors for the first time. All-State or
chestra included more than a mere
few of our students. Because of their
fine records, both the choir and the
band have received an unprecedented
honor—to perform in Florida and Nas
sau this summer.
1960: One outstanding student
will never forget that date, for she was
personnally invited to visit President
Eisenhower in Washington, D. C.
GHS students excelled in speech
contests, state math, physics, language,
college entrance examinations and
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Greensboro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
B'ounded by the Class
(tSOTHimUl of 1921
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of 1937
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Managing Editor
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Copy Editors ...i
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Photographers
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science fairs; Honor Roll lists were
especially long.
Civic clubs worked especially
hard to build the spirit and tradition
of Senior High School. A marble rep-
’lica of the Honor Code was presented
to the school, directories were dis
tributed, special bulletin boards were
set up, and many efforts to beautify
our school grounds were put into ac
tion.
Entered as second-class matter March 30,.
1940, at the ost office at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Cartoonist ..
Sports Staff
I960 was the year that Senior’s
student council opened its doors to all
students by arranging “open council
meetings.”
1960 was the year of an extreme
ly good talent show. May Day, and
Class Day.
This was also the year that the
GHS cheerleading squad was asked to
lead the cheering at the All-Star foot
ball and basketball games this sum
mer.
A campaign for better attention
at assembly programs resulted in let
ters from various guests commending
Greensboro Senior High students.
1960, the year a hard winter of
snow and sleet kept GHS at home,
was the year students were evacuated
to the gymnasium because of bomb
threats. It was also the first year a Civ
il Defense drill was executed to pre
pare students for a major disaster.
But superior to all other trials
and tribulations, 1960 was the year
GHS students took pride in their coun
try and in themselves as American
citizens. They raised their voices
against injustices and had their de
mands met. These acts of participation
in their rights as citizens and students,
while they stemmed from school ac
tivities, did not terminate there. GHS’-
ers attended the Aircade at the War
Memorial Coliseum, entsusiastically
census, gave grave thought to racial
disputes which were bred here in our
disputes whidh were bred here in our
own city, and took an active interest
in the elections of our government
officials.
1960: This is and always will be
a long-remembered date. This was the
beginning of a better GHS, a better
Greensboro, a better United States,
and a better world as the leaders of
tomorrow have taken on the responsi
bilities of capable individuals.
Freedom From?
. even I regained my freedom loith a
sigh."
“Prisoner of Chilian",
George Gordon, Lord Byro’U
Geanie Black
Jean Ellen Jones
Jeanie Deese
Kay Riley, Page Acree
Bill Barrier
BUI Good, James Stratford
Ralph Burroughs
Jo Anne Oliver
Sharron Oates
Norma Jean Brown
Linda Carrigan
Tommy Gardner, Phil Callicut
Dan Conway
Reporters Wade Greeham, Jo Jane Pitt
Suzanne Kiser, Linda Lael, Diane Smither
Ann Barham, Carolee Pruitt, Prank Pat
rick, Janie Leigh Wall
Copyreaders Kathy Greer, Prank McComb
Ann Gibson
Typists Martha Sprinkle, Kathryn Story
Business Staff Henry Poole. Clyde Rudd
Linda Simpson, Sherry King
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By Wade Gresham
Welb this is almost it. The finish. The
end of three, four or five years as the
cases may be. There is an air of excitement
in my blood as I wait for the first wearing
of the caps and go-wns. The question is—
will we break down tradition and conformi
ty and wear madras at graduation?
“Red” Davis and fellow. Mack Gordy, and il
“Mr. Madras,” Charles Robert Atkins III !
with his built-in home work machine named ■
Nancy Rose. ■■
DAFFYNITIONS
Epistle—The wife of an apostle.
District Attorney; “Now tell the jury the I
truth please. Why did you shoot your hus- '
band with a bow and arrow?” j
Defendant: “I didn’t want to wake the ’
children.”
Faith—That quality which enables us to
believe what we know to be true.
Ivy League kiss—A belt in the mouth.
Charlie Atkins: “I don’t drink anything]
stronger than pop.” 
Nancy Faulconer: “Charles doesn’t drink j
anything stronger than pop—and pop >
drinks anythings.” ■
Justifiable homicide
kills her husband.
When a woman
In one of the small towns along the way
going to the beach this article appeared:
Nine professors and one student killed
in a car accident. (Poor chap?)
Dedicated and directed to Mrs. Evelyn
“Sedie” Stanton. (Good alliteration Uh?)
Mrs. Joy B. Averett
AOvtsor ^ p
JPifionokiJ Advisor
This is it! The day I’ve waited for aU
these long months and years. I say long
years, but as I look back they seem so
short—almost painfully short. I am free
now—free, I say, but free from what?
Free from authority? Truthfully I cannot
say that is so, for there is always one Au
thority above all mankind.
Free from work? In my thinking maybe
for the present, yes. But yet anything
worth having is worth working for, and
there is much left for my future to desire.
Ftee from routine? Is not life itself in its
splendor a routine— a ceaseless routine of
setting sun, heartaches, and newborn bab
ies? Pleasure, expectations, and disappoint
ments find their way to humanity year after
year only assuming varying forms.
Free from the enclosure of these walls?
No, I reply, because always, whether in
melancholy or displeasure, a part of my
memory will be locked forever within them.
Free from the people whose lives have
here touched mine? Negative is the only
positive answer, for each life that has
touched mine, even somewhat vaguely, has
left an eternal impression.
As I stand, I wonder—do I even want to
be free? Slowly the tears spill over the
lids of my eyes and fall to the rolled docu
ment clenched in my hand.
“NO!” my diploma says, “this has not
been a part of my existence I wish to set
free, but to impose in my memory — these
days at Greensboro Senior High.”
This is a suggested bit of dialogue for
Tennessee Williams’ next romantic play
about the deep magnolia-laden Southland:
“Sugar, ah think mahty highly of yo’
new evenin’ gown.”
, “Sho’ nuff?”
“It sho does!”
A learned gentleman in the thirties who:
clearly foresaw that a great war was about j
to engulf the world, after consultation j
with several top military men, decided that]
his only secure refuge from the world’s]
insanity lay on some tropical isle, far from '
civilization. !
So in 1939, one week before Germany,
invaded Poland, this wise man fled to his]
chosen idyllic. It was an island called Guad-*
alcanal. j
Notice on the bulletin board of the.
Science Department: i
“We don’t begrudge your taking a little
alcohol, but please return our specimens.”')
Looking for Senior’s Steadies? Try the
two “Bob s”—MacLawhorn and Jones—,
Good by! Thanks for reading the column;
and putting up with all the uncomical'
jokes. Best of luck to all . . . on all your,
future endeavors. 1
Staff
xpresses
Thanks
'i
As the 1959-60 school year draws to a, close, the HIGH LIFE staff would like to
take this opportunity to express sincere thanks to many persons who have helped
make it a medalist publication.
We give deep appreciation to Mr. Robert Pea,rson and the Acme Printing Com
pany who hope diligently' labored over each issue and to the fine people at the
North State Engravers.
To several members of the Greensboro newspapers, especially Mr. Smith Bafr-
rier, Mr. Roy Matherly, Mr. John Cathey, and Mr. Tom Northington, we extend the
hand of gratefulness.
Thanks can never be emphatic enough to the WHIRLIGIG staff, the GHS faculty,
Mr. A. P. Routh, and the student council. We give special thanks, to Mrs. Jesse CoU
trane, Mrs. Eloise Keefer, Mr. Lody Glenn, Miss Jean Wood, and Miss Ruth Scar
borough for their help and co-opera,tlon.
Special appreciation goes from each member of our publication to Mrs. Jay
Averett, our adviser and our friend, who has guided us and advised us in the best
possible manner. To her we dedicate this issue and all that preceeded, it.
.And we thank you, the students of Greensboro Senior High School, for your
consistent support and co-operation. You have played a much larger part in the suc-_
cess of the paper than you will ever realize.
The HIGH LIFE stoiff.