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HIGH LIFE From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. ^enry VOLUME XXXVII SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 6, 1961 JCL Members Give Performance Al Kiser Members of the Greensboro Senior High Chapter of the Jun ior Classical League presented an induction service at Kiser Junior High School on Wednesday, Feb ruary 22. Don Grimes, president of JCL, opened the program with a wel come address to the new mem bers. The devotional, “Looking to the Future,” was given by junior, Margaret Cranford, with Pam Pfaff, state secretary of JCL, read ing “The Lord’s Prayer” in Latin. The initiation ritual was car ried out by Don Grimes, who was the high priest, and Don Cun ningham, junior, treasurer of JCL; Vera Leonard, junior, vice presi dent; and Sherry Kellett, junior, secretary of the GHS Chapter. Sammy Pegram, junior, closed the program with the Creed of the Junior Classical League. Member ship cards were then distributed to the new members. 0 NUMBER 9 Whitman To Compete For Secretarial Grant Shirley Whitman'g senior, has been selected by the Senior High Business Department to compete for a scholarship offered by the National Legal Secretaries Associ ation. Her application will be sent with those of the other nominees to be considered for the $500 scholarship. There will be stu dents from all over the country entering the competition. According to Mrs. Cordelia Walke, business instructor, Shir ley was selected on the basis of honor grades, good character, and excellent potential. _ « I ■■iiiaiMfMi'iiflf The beauties chosen by the student body to reign as the Queen of Hearts attendants are sophomores Donna Lane, Mary Earle; juniors Carol Roberts, Libby McComb; and seniors Queen Gloria Griffin, and Martha McKee. Martha is not pictured. Bones McKinney Speaks To Youth of Greensboro Students from the Greensboro high school were challenged to create better local and worldwide human relations by Mr. Horace “Bones” McKinney, Wake Forest basketball coach and minister, during the second annual “Youth Speaks” workshop Saturday, Feb ruary 18, in the Senior High Au ditorium. Mr. McKinney, speaking on “Youth Relations,” told the stu dents from Senior, Page, and Curry that they can help create better human relations by never showing bitterness toward other races. Understand Others “Seek to get along with every one with whom you may come in All-State At East Carolina Rescheduled Past Month Originally scheduled for Jan uary 27-29, the All-State Orches tra and Workshop at East Caro lina College, Greenville, N. C. was rescheduled for February 17-19. The guest conductor was Mr. J. Frederick Muller who is Di rector, Educational Division, of the School and Roth, Inc. music company of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Nicholas Erneston, a member of the Appalachian State Teacher’s College music faculty and director of the college orchestra conduct ed the workshop Orchestra. Auditions for the All-State were judged by Dr. Malvin Artley of Burlington, Mr. Richard South- wick of Raleigh and Mr. J. Kim ball Harriman, director of the Greensboro Senior Orchestra. All auditions were taped for study by Kent Morgan Joins Les Freres Society Kent Morgan, senior ,was in ducted into Les Freres at the weekly meeting of the club on February 13. The club has been doing such service projects as raising $120 for the Heart Fund and clearing land at the YMCA Camp near Burlington. Money earned by the latter project will be used in a service to the school. Other events include swimming with the Philomathians soon, and election of officers on February 20. The election will be conducted by Bill Cannon, president. There will be a dinner meeting on Feb ruary 27 at the Mayfair Cafeteria. the three judges. Of the 55 students selected from Greensboro public schools, 26 are from Senior. Seniors, Anne Starr Minton, Betty Jo Smith, Judy Baber, Annette Anderson, Lynn Bryant, and John Monroe; juniors, Dan Richman, Vera Leon ard, Lin Gerringer, Cherry Swar- ingen, Nora Wilson, Phil Pearsall, Nancy Frick, Betti McNairy; and sophomores, Kay Wharton, Mo- nette Weaver, Judy Parks, Susan Monroe, Barbara Gurley and Jeanne Young were chosen for the All-State Orchestra. Donna Perry, junior, and soph omores, Ann Cantrell, Vickie Sanford, Judy Williams, Ernie Williams and Dick Meador par ticipated in the Workshop. The Workshop is a training orchestra for the All-State and members are eligible for vacancies which might occur in the All-State. 'Two Students Honor Orchestra Dan Richman was selected by the audition committee as the concertmaster of the All-^tate Orchestra and John Monroe was selected as the principal cellist. “We are proud of the high honor they have brought to our school,” says Mr. Harriman. Other activities planned for the orchestra with the original sched ule were carried out the week end of February 17. Informal entertainment, including a ban quet and a dance, were on the Saturday night agenda. The orchestra members from Greensboro traveled by chartered bus and were housed in either private homes in Greenville or dorms at East Carolina. contact,” urged Mr. McKinney. “Those organizations that try to stir up trouble—I have no particu lar one in mind—you could sup press by understanding.” “Above all,” he added, “be yourself and seek to understand yourself. You can never under stand others if you first don’t understand yourself.” Mr. McKinney concluded, “The hope of America is her youth; make this spirit of human rela tionship work like a charm and be concerned about others not only here but around the world.” Students Discuss After Mr. McKinney’s speech, the students met in small groups to discuss points brought out by the coach. “Youth Speaks” was sponsored by the Greensboro Junior Wom an’s Club and the Junior Cham ber of Commence to give teen agers a chance to express their opinions and let them be known to the adults. A student board of directors made up of students from Curry, Page, and Senior planned the workshop. Representatives from Senior were Gray Brittenham and Shirley Truitt, seniors. New Board A new “Youth Speaks” board of directors has been named. The new chairman will be Dave Mc Kinney, a Senior High sophomore, while Mary King, a Page sopho more, will be the co-chairman. The other representatives coming from Senior are Mack Smith, sophomore, and Libby McComb and Lucy O’Brien, juniors. %ieen of Hearts Crown Rests\\/ ithGloriaCriffin Gloria Griffin, senior, as the Queen of Hearts, reigned over the Valentine’s Dance in the girls’ gym, February 17. Plans were made and carried out for the event by the Youth Council and Jeannie Anderson, chairman. Dennis Saunders escorted the lovely Queen to the dance. Mem bers of the Valentine’s Court were Martha McKee, senior, escorted by Dan Howe; Libby McComb, junior, escorted by her brother, Frank McComb; Carol Roberts, junior, escorted by Chick Ayde- lette; Mary Earle, sophomore, es corted by Rea Ferrell; and Donna Lane, sophomore, escorted by John Hedrick. The five attendants and the Queen of Hearts were chosen from 46 finalists, 15 each from the sophomore and junior classes, and 16 from the senior class. The final selection was made by the voting of the student body. Dramatics Class Chooses "Little Women" Next Play “Little Women” was chosen by the Dramatics Class, for their annual spring play March 16 and 18. 1961 in the Senior High Audi torium. Miss Mozelle Causey, adviser, selected the following cast: Twink Gaskins as Jo, Gloria Griffin as Meg, Carol Roberts as Amy, Mar tha McKee as Beth, Barbara Mas- sel as Marmee, Jimmy .Mien as Laurie, Linda Pearman as Aunt March, David Lawrence as Mr. March, and Shirley Johnson as Hannah. Pam Bowden is the student di rector of the play and Lynn Og- burn and Susan Higgins serve as business managers. Nancy Frick is the chairman of the publicity committee, and Sandra Deathridge heads the ticket committee. Chair man for the props committee is Bonnie Beeson. Price for tickets are $.50 for March 18, $.25 for March 16. o Students Rejoice!! Greensboro Senior High Jun ior Civitan Club, in co-opera tion with an anonymous Greens boro firm, scraped the park ing lot Tuesday, February 28. The parking lot will be re surfaced with thirty tons of gravel used to complete the “face-lifting” job. The 14 senior finalists were Ann Winchester, Diana Wellons, Judy Watsbn, Dale Mauldin, Joanne Oliver, Jeannie Anderson, Pam Pfaff, Harriet Eiler, Virginia Harmon, Jean Shaffer, Nancy Lambeth, Joan Clark, Twink Gas kins, and Laura Lyon. The 13 junior candidates, other than the two elected, were Becky Cain, Anne Tate, Carol Sheets, June Carter, Camilla Walters, Barbara Massel, Georgianna Sar- tin, Brenda Maxwell, Janet Harri son, Cecie Boren, Carol Gordon, Billie Wharton,' and Dot Latta. Not including Mary and Donna, the 13 sophomore candidates were Nancy Smith, Ellen Stanley, Betty Hart, Judy Israel, Rusty Watson, Mary Sessoms, Susan Hodges, Nor ma Johnson, Jill Miller, Babs An drew, Cookie Showfety, Sally Jo Welch and Carole Lineberry. Music was furnished by Chuck Watson and his band. 0 Local Station Sponsors Scholastic Art Awards Scholastic Art Awards, an ex hibit that covers North Carolina and part of Virginia, was held Saturday, February 11, at the WFMY-TV studios. One hundred, twenty-five top- rated Gold Key pieces were se lected to be forwarded to New York for national judging after the regional exhibit. More than .300 additional works werfe se lected for the exhibit in Greens boro at Elliott Hall. This exhibit involves tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades students. A jury of six art educators from North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were selected by the local Scholastic Art Awards com mittee. Approximately 2,000 pieces of high school art are expected to be entered. There were 22 dif ferent catagories into which works can be entered. Mrs. H. E. Braswell, local coml mittee chairman and art instruc tor at Greensboro College an nounced the following jurors: Miss Catherine Comfort, art supervisor, Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta, Georgia; Claude Howell, artist and art supervisor, Wilmington College, Wilmington, N. C.; Mrs. Ann Hall Thomas ,art instructor, University of Goergia, Athens, Georgia; Miss Helen Thomas, art instructor, at Woman’s College, Greensboro; Miss Helen C. Rose, Continued on Page Three aa,A .it:,,',.::. The newiy selected Torchlight members are as follows: row 1, Pat Boone, Harriett Eller, Judy Brady, Tommy Sloan, Adele Freedman, Cherrie Miller and Gene Eagle. Row 2, Joel Drinkard, Dale Neese, John Monroe, Suzanne Anderson, Lois Moser, Bob Buchanan, and Caralee Pruitt. Row 3, juniors Barbara Barney, Pete Bondanella, Sherry Kellet, Sherrill Newnam, Cecie Boren, Carol Sheets, and Libby McComb.
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