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See Story On Sexiest Quartet See Page 3 HIGH LIFE From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry Fill the Stadium- Support the Whirlie ! ! ! VOLUME XXXVII SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., DEC. 2, 1960 NUMBER 5 Winnere on the Hi-Q program are Charles Tate, Irene Gullege, pictured left to right. Sandra Bargamian, and Jim Kropa History Honor Club Adds Eleven Senior Memb ers Eleven seniors were inducted into the History Honor Society at their Iasi meeting, November 15. The new members are Suzanne Anderson, Mary Bradley, Pam Bowden, Celeste Frontis, Tommy Sloan, Kent Morgan, Lois Moser, Adele Freedman, Peggy King, Al len McSw'een, and Ginny Hors- man. To be eligible for admission to the society, one must be at least a second semester junior, must have maintained an average of 90 in all history courses taken at Senior, and must be recommended by one’s history teacher. The six foreign students who were on the assembly panel dis cussion given by the History Hon- (lasses Raise Money; Sell Various Articles The senior, junior, and sopho more classes have been selling various articles to raise money for their class projects. Members of the senior class have been selling ribbons to raise their money. The ribbon commit tee is headed by Jimmy Bullock and Miss Ann Moore, teacher of commercial subjects; subcommit tees headed by Sue Foster, Jerry Craig, Sharon Eldridge, Jean Shaffer, and Roberto Morphis. The ribbons this year have had a va riety of verbs rather than the usual “beat,” The number of rib bons for each game average about 900, with the largest number, 1800 for the Page game and the smallest number, 650, for the Fayetteville game. Miss Peggy Joyner, English teacher, is the class adviser and Janet Rankin is the senior class president. Junior Class This year the juniors sold pea nut butter candy to raise their class money. The candy sold for $1.00 a can, and there were two representatives from each home room to handle the sales. Mrs. Helen Proctor, history teacher, and Mrs. Margie Ledford, math teacher. Were in charge of the sales campaign. or Society were made honorary members of the society. They are Gunilla Rosencrand, from Sweden, attending Woman’s College; Giat Lu Vu, from Viet Nam; Peter and Alan Gordan, from England; Steen Spove, from Denmark; and Geor- getjte Shi Hady, from Jordan. All of these students, with the ex ception of Gunilla, attend Guil ford College. They may attend all meetings of the club and en ter into the club’s activities. At its last meeting, the club had an informal meeting at which they divided into small groups and discussed items of current interest such as the lowering pres tige of the United States, rise of the Republican Party in North I Carolina in the past election, and I views on the worth of the Elec- [ toral College. The club is advised by Mr. Robert Fredrickson and Mrs. Kathleen Pfaff, both of whom are history teachers. 0 Quill And Scroll To Sell Candy For HOMESPUN Quill and Scroll is sponsoring a candy sale of the “World’s Finest Chocolate” for the purpose of fi nancing HOMESPUN, the club literary magazine. The candy sale was scheduled to begin Thursday. November 17, but was postponed due to a delay in the shipping of the candy. During the candy sale, students will be able to buy 1/4 pound of “World’s Finest Chocolate” for for $.50. This year Quill and Scroll plans to publish one large issue of HOMESPUN, which will appear early in the spring. Mrs. Jean Newman, English teacher and club adviser, urges all students inter ested in having their work pub lished in HOMESPUN to turn in their creative writings to her in room 305. All types of writing are welcome and the best selections will appear in HOMESPUN. Quill and Scroll meets the sec ond and fourth Monday of each month, usually at the home of one of its members. Ice Practice Students Plan Christmas Project Plans for a Christmas project were discussed after a dinner meeting of Co-operative Office Practice at the Mayfair Cafeteria November 15. The club decided to “adopt” a family from the Welfare Depart ment and provide them with food, clothes and toys. This is a repe tition of last year’s project. The club and its sponsor, Mrs. Mc- Entire, hope it will become a tra dition. After the meeting, the group met with the Education Commit tee of the National Secretaries Association to discuss office pro cedures and duties of a beginning office worker. The NSA has adopted the Sen ior High club as “Little Sisters”. diaries Tate T op Scorer In Hi-Q TV Quiz Program Charles Tate, senior, came out with highest score honors when a team from GHS competed on the Hi-Q quiz, sponsored by WFMY- TV, Sautrday, November 19. The four high schools of Greensboro; Notre Dame, Page, Curry and Senior, are competing for top scores each Saturday. A panel of four world history stu dents is chosen by history teach ers. This panel is asked questions, scoring 10 points each. The top scoring school will re ceive $50 for their library fund. Senior High’s panel consists of Charles Tate, Irene Gulledge, Jim Kropa and Sandra Bargamian. Senior has scored highest so far with 410 points. That is a lead of 40 points over Notre Dame and Page. The panel is allowed 10 days to Yearbook Orders Climb To 921 During Fall Sale A total of 921 WHIRILIGIGS w'ere. ordered during the annual fall sale which ended November 1. There were 831 students who ordered a yearbook, 48 teachers and 42 other books were ordered to be given to HIGH LIFE, library and others who receive books free. Miss Powell, WHIRILIGIG ad viser, announced that there will be a spring sale, but the price for the book will be raised. Just what the spring price will be has net yet been decided. The members of the staff of WHIRILIGIG under the direction of Virginia Harmon, business manager, have just completed getting ads and sponsorships for the upcoming book. Group pic tures are now in the process of being completed. Martha McKee and Nancy Martin are in charge of the taking of group pictures. The ’61 WHIRILIGIG is sched uled to go to press sometime the beginning of February. read newspaper and briefs, listen to newscasts and absorb other in formation. The panel is not coached at all. 'The questions con sist of international, national, state and local news. Curry will compete Saturday, December 3. That contest will de termine the city-wide winner. Members of FT A Attend Annual Convention At WC Approximately 70 Senior High FTA members attended the State FTA convention at Elliott Hall, WCUNC, Saturday, November 19. As GHS was the host school to about fifteen schools throughout the state. Senior’s FTA presented a skit. The first part of the skit was entitled “For Want of a Teacher” with Janice Matthien playing Jane; Kaye Riley, junior, Jane’s mother; and Dot Latta, junior. Sue. Following this play another skit was presented with Virginia Har mon, senior, as narrator. Girls in the skit represented different eras in education. The first era represented was 1800 with Betti McNairy, junior, playing the teacher. This was followed by 1900 with Judy Hackett, senior; 1920 with Cherry Swaringen, junior; and finally the present day teach er was represented b,v Scottie Kel- 1am, junior. The convention, which was pre sided over by Jess MacFarland, senior, was from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The highlight of the morning session was a sp.eech by Mr. Charlie Phillips, publicity di rector. Other speakers were Dr. Kenneth Howe, Mrs. Phoebe Em mons, state head of FTA, and dean of education. Also during the morning session candidates for the state offices presented their campaign speeches. The voting took place during lunch. The afternoon session was com posed mainly of the GHS skit and the announcement of new state officers. The new state president elected is Linda Boone from West Mecklenburg in Charlotte. Miss Mozelle Causey, dramatics teacher, and Miss Estelle Mitchell, French teacher, are the FTA club advisers of GHS. For December Program Miss Eula Tuttle’s choir is prac ticing for the program December 8, when they will do “Blessed Are They That Mourn” created by Greensboro’s resident composer, John Chance. Performing December 8 with the choir will be Mr. Kimball Ilarriman’s orchestra. The choir will sing in several Christmas programs, including the Christmas pageant and the morn ing services at the First Presby terian Church. Officers of the choir are as fol lows: Jimmy Thompson, presi dent; Jess MacFarland, vice-pres ident; Sandra Marsh, secretary/ Max Thompson, treasurer; and Becky Rountree, accompanist. Twenty girls from the advanced glee club at GHS sang as a church choir on a float sponsored by Southern Life in the Holiday Jubilee Parade, Friday, Novem ber 25. Teachers Monitor Class In Language Lab Installment of the language laboratory was completed, and the lab was ready for use of the French and Spanish students by October 10, 1960. There are 30 booths equipped with tape recorders in the lab oratory. The cost of the project is approximately $14,000. Buttons on the teacher’s desk allow her to tune in and monitor the individ ual students in the class. Jeannie Anderson Leads Discussion At Bible Club “.Applying Christian Principles to Everyday Living” was the topic of a panel discussion led by Jean nie Anderson, senior, at the Bible Club meeting November 8. The panel was composed of four senior girls: Harriet Eiler, Nancy Lambert, Becky Byerly, and Su san Gardiner. A dinner meeting in the May- fair Cafeteria, October 25, fea tured Mr. William Hethcock, for mer curate of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, who spoke on interpretations of the Bible. Pictured here are Virginia Harmon, Kaye Mathien practicing for the FTA skit. Riley, and
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