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HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
Happy
Saint Patrick's
Day!!
VOLUME XXXVII
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 17, 1961
NUMBER 10
Gloria Griffin To Reign As May Queen
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Chosen to reign over the May
Day fastivities are Martha McKee,
senior maid of honor; and Gloria
Griffin, May Queen.
Election Bulletin!
Facts concerning the 1961
student council elections will be
released March 21.
According to Miss Mary Z.
Fury, student council adviser, a
meeting of the candidates for
school offices has been sched
uled for March 28. A second
meeting is scheduled for March
29. This meeting is for future
candidates for the student coun
cil and for class offices. At
these meetings the present
school officers will explain to
the prospective candidates exact
ly what would be expected of
them, if they should be elected.
April 7 is the date set for
the final deadline for student
applications for the elections.
Sludenf Council
To Study Hew
Point System
The Student Council appointed
a committee to study the effects
of the point system, at its meet
ing March 7, this being one. of
the suggestions given the Council
through the Suggestion Box.
Among other decisions made by
the council was one to write a
letter to the HIGH LIFE staff,
expressing their views concerning
duties to the council.
April 7 was chosen the date
for deadline of applications for
those running for offices next
year. April 25 is to be the pre
sentation day for candidates.
At the meeting, ice cream was
given to those students who sold
the largest number of tickets to
the basketball game.
The 16 girls chosen by the GHS students to be on May Court for
1961 are Donna Lane, sophomore maid of honor; Carol Sheets, Mary
Earle, Linda Blair, and Libby McComb, junior maid of honor. (Row
one) The remaining members are (row 2) Mary Sessoms, Georgianna
Sartin, Jeannie Anderson, Ann Tate, and Anne Starr Minton. From
left to right on row three are Debbie Gunter, Jean Shaffer, Beeky
Rountree, Joanne Oliver, and Dale Mauldin. Not pictured is Virginia
Harmon.
DE/ DO, Co-Op Trades Present
Employer-Employee Banquet
To show appreciation for a
chance in the business world, the
Co-operative, D.E., D.O. trades
and D.O. office practice present
ed the 18th Annual Employer-
Employee Banquet, with the theme
“Nothing Less Than Success.”
Mary Joyne Eubanks, of office
practice was Mistress of Cere
monies. The invocation was given
by Joyce Phillips, also of office
practice.
Dr. Everett Miller, assistant
state superintendent of Public In
struction, gave an address.
Ann Gibson, D.O.-Office prac
tice; Robert Bell, D.O. and Trades;
Fred Phillips, D.E., introduced
the firms attending.
Original entertainment by the
students followed, including “Pis
tol Packing Typist”, a skit about
life at Jefferson Standard writ
ten and acted by Judy Leonard,
office practice; a duet sung by
Janice and Jane Cates, office
practice; “In Desperation,” a pan-
tomine, by Bill Wilson D.E., as
sisted by Robert Bell and Phyllis
Hislory Honor Society
Chooses 19 Members
Nineteen new members were
selected by the History Honor
Society at its last meeting March
7.
Those juniors selected were
Charles Bennett, Pete Bandanella,
Mary Stowe Boyd, Sara Collins,
Chip Crumley, and Don Cunning
ham. Others inducted were Dave
Edwards, Jim Freedman, Bob
Groat, Brenda Hanna, Mary Hart
man, Martha McMakin, Nancy
Martin, and Lucy O’Brien.
The remaining new members
are Dale Stansbury, Cherry Swar-
engin, Camilla Walters, Ed White,
and Nora Wilson.
To he eligible for the society
one must submit a petition, be
at least a second semester junior,
have a 90 average, and have the
recommendation of their teacher.
Pledger of D.O.; “Working Time,”
a duet about duties of Co-op of
fice workers, written and sung
by Dot Kennon and Alice Shep
hard of Office practice; and an
original poem “An Inspiration,”
by Libby Yarber, D.E.
The program ended with the
song, “Twelve Days of School,”
written by Betty Caps, office prac
tice, and Katherine Pledger, D.O,
It was sung by Janice and Jane
Cates, Dorothy Kennon, Alice
Shephard, Delores Wrenn and
Nancy Wright.
All the planning for this
“Bosses’ Banquet” was done by
the steering committee, consist
ed of Cookie Allen, Joyce Euliss,
Ann Gibson, Phyllis Pledger and
Phyllis Hendricks of D.O.-office
practice; Robert Bell, Mike Pope
and John Whytsell of D.O.-Trades;
also, Ronalad Amos, Tommy Lock-
amy, Fred Phillips, and Libby
Yarber of D.E.
Gloria Griffin, senior, will reign
land of Lewis Carroll’s Alice at
Wednesday, May 3, at 5:00.
Other beauty honors have been
Homecoming Queen and Valentine
beauty honors.
Queen Gloria’s maids-of-honor
are Martha McKee, senior, Libby
McComb, junior, and Donna
Lane, sophomore. Martha was
runner-up in the homecoming
court and all three girls were
members of the Valentine Court.
Other senior members of the
court are Debbie Gunter, Becky
Rountree, Jean Shaffer, Virginia
Harmon, Dale Mauldin, Jo Anne
Oliver, Ann Starr Minton, and
Jeannie Anderson. The remaining
court members are juniors Georgi
anna Sartin, Carol Sheets, Linda
Blair, and Ann Tate; sophomores,
Mary Earle and Mary Sessoms.
Carol To Be Alice
Carol Roberts, junior, will play
the title role of Alice, while the
rest of the cast members will be
chosen at some later date.
The script of the pageant was
completed December 1 by Adele
Freedman, Celeste Frontis, Gary
Brittenham, Mike Patterson, and
Sandra Boyles, seniors. Unlike
the scripts of the previous years
this script is written entirely in
verse.
The girls on the May court
chose the colors for their dresses
at a meeting Tuesday, March 7.
Miss Jean Wood, dean of girls,
will help the girls in selection
as queen of the magic wonder-
the annual May Day pageant,
bestowed on Gloria this year.
Queen are two of Gloria’s top
SCIENCE FAIR
The second floor of the Science
building was flooded ■ March 8
with a sudden barrage of brains,
teeth, plants, ants, birds, bugs,
and numerous other animals.
These were the props used by
GHS science students in the an
nual Senior High science fair. The
projects were many and varied.
They ranged from a study of the
brain to the activities of the car
penter ant. There were several
on tropism of plants, some dis
plays of skeletons, and bottles
of brains and hearts. The hall was
filled with the chirps of young
chickens along with the squeaks
of many scampering hamsters.
As in most science fairs, the
frog seemed to hold the seat of
distinction as the most popular
subject. This amphibian went
through everything from hiberna
tion in ozone to being subjected
to nicotine and other chemicals.
Tommy \Vhiteside Wins
Morehead Scholarship
Tommy Whiteside, President of
GHS, was told at 2:00 p.m. Tues
day, March 7, by the trustees of
the University of North Carolina,
that he was a winner of a John
Motley Morehead Scholarship to
the University.
It was only after undergoing
careful screening by five groups
that Tommy was selected. He was
first chosen as a scholarship
candidate jjy members of Senior
High’s faculty. After being inter
viewed by county and district
committees, he went before a
Central Committee to be inter
viewed.
The Central Committee picked
48 students, 25 from North Caro
lina public schools and 23 from
private schools in various parts
of the nation, to he considered
by the Board of Trustees as schol
arship winners.
Tommy was one of the 48.
He was interviewed at 9:00
Monday morning, March 6, by the
Board of ’Trustees, as were the
47 other boys.
The following afternoon Tommy
learned that he, along with all
the others passed by the Central
Committee, was a Morehead Schol
arship winner. They had been
chosen according to their records
at school, recommendations, and,
especially, interviews.
There are “no strings attached”
to the four-year scholarship, Tom
my said. At the beginning of each
semester he will receive $625.
The John Motley Morehead
Scholarship association is the only
one in the world that maintains
an office of counselors whose only
service is to work with and assist
Morehead scholars.
and making their dresses. As
senior maid-of-honor, Martha Mc
Kee is the student chairman of
this particular area of the pageant.
Stout Heads Committee
Mrs. Mary Lea Hamilton and
Mrs. Marjorie Lithgo, English
teachers, are the faculty advisers
for the pageant. Roddy Stout,
senior, is the student head of the
May Day committee. Both stu
dent and faculty directors for the
various sub-committees will be
chosen at a later date.
Baccalaureate And
Graduation Set
Baccalaureate s)ervices for
graduating seniors wiU be given
by Dr. Charles Bowles on Sun
day, May 28, at West Market
Street Methodist Church. The
graduation exercises will be held
in the boys’ gym Friday, June 2.
Three hundred, eighty-five
seniors ordered 11,223 gradua
tion invitations, an average of 29
per student. The number of in
vitations ordered ranged from
two to one himdred.
Students To Participate
In Language Contests
Selected students from the
French and Spanish departments
will participate in the upcoming
language contests during April
and May.
The National French contest
will be given between April 10
and April 15. This contest, spon
sored by the National American
Association for Teachers of
French, consists of two selections,
an oral part and a written part.
Winners of the National French
Contest receive medals; some
schools offer scholarships to win
ners, also.
The State Spanish Contest will
be given on May 3 and the State
French contest on May 5. These
written contests award to the
winner a renewable scholarship
to Woman’s College, Carolina, or
State.
According to Miss Estelle
Mitchell, French instructor, the
students participating in the con
test are chosen on the basis of
their high language grades.
Pictiu-ed here is the recipient of
the Morehead Scholarship from
GHS, Tommy Whiteside.