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High Life
March 17, 1961
School Spirit, Anyone?
HIGH LIFE was talking about school spirit in this space .... and
something happened and—CRASH-—BANG—YIPPEE—^HOORAY the Rey
nold’s game March 3!
The building shook with the sound of horns, gongs, people banging
on trash cans, pots, trash barrels, trash can tops, and the mighty swell
of the human vocal cords.
Although Reynolds out-scored us, we out-yelled them!
Multi-colored confetti was added for a little color. (As if there were
need of anything else!)
GHS students had more spirit at this regular conference game than
they had when they won the State Championships in football and basketball
in the past.
This school spirit is exactly what HIGH LIFE was hoping to see and
will continue to work for.
If the students can show that kind of support when we lose a game,
the roof should go off when we win one.
The basketball team had a greater will to win when it knew it had the
full support of the student body. It was evident to the spectators. Win
ston has one of the best teams in the state but it had to work to beat the
Whirlies on that fateful Friday night.
What About You ?
Overheard in the Halls . . . “Anybody who is anybody runs for Student
Council.”
As election time grows near this statement is heard more and more
through the GHS halls. Do students at GHS run for popularity’s sake alone?
In the past we believe this has been the case.
Will this year be the same?
We sincerely hope not.
Running for a school office requires serious thought. It entails much
responsibility.
To hold such an important position as a school office, a student must
have the sincere desire to serve the school. He must have the ability to lead
well. He must have the imagination and spirit necessary to a leader.
If you have these qualities and a desire to improve the school, run
for an office. GHS NEEDS YOU!
Dear Student Council,
We’re sorry it rained.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
HALL TALES
Skeeter Powell and Wade Farrior re
joicing over passing French grades . . .
David Edwards yelling, “Tippy, I’ll tell
you our combination just one more time!”
... Ed White trying to get his dilapidated
1941 Packard to school . . . Phil Pearsall
skipping cello lesson to indulge in golf
. . . Dianne Lea leaving school 1st period
and heading for Kiser . . .
. . . Ken Taylor protesting, “But Mrs.
Huske, I just don’t understand this prob
lem.” . . . Jenesse Dunn wondering where
Bill has hidden her car. . Hampton McNeill
in the hall dancing with a coat . . . Jimmy
Allen forgetting to put Carol Roberts’
name on the rehearsal list for “Little
Women” . . . Everyone wondering how
come “Bobo” Williams always sells tickets
. . . Ted Usry staring blankly at the dent
in his bird.
Mrs. Madlin warning her third year Latin
students, before they went to a JCL con
vention at Carolina, to behave . . . Linda
Williams serving as a model for Miss Scar
borough’s art class . . .
. . . Wayne Smithwick sitting proudly be
side a stray canine visitor at the orchestra
concert . . . Miss Ida Bell Moore trying
to pound Algebra 3 into her Algebra 4
students . . . G-30’s winning the prize for
collecting the most money in the Heart
Fund Drive—just goes to show you gotta
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of
Greensboro Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
have heart . . . Twink Gaskins leaning
against the radiator waiting for Doug Les
ter .. . Penny Chambers and Howard
Edwards pleading earnestly to the Coke
machine in the gym to “Please, please
take two nickels ...”
By Sandy and Lynne
Fellow students, spring is just around
the corner, and we will lay you a bet that if
the spring bug hasn't bitten you yet it will
in a few weeks. We would like to dedicate
this column to those of us that are already
hearing music in the air and smelling flow-
0PS
DAFF-VNITIONS
Rock Head—A person who is taken for
granite.
Automobile—The invention that stopped
horse stealing.
, Faculty—Persons who help the seniors
run the school.
Synonym—A word you use in place of
the one you can’t spell.
Courtship—The period during which a
girl decides whether or not she can do
better.
Snow—Rain a la mode.
Modern Girl—One who dresses fit to kill
and cooks the same way.
Spring—The season when motorists drain
the anti-freeze out of their cars two weeks
too soon.
Politician—A person who approaches ev
ery subject with an open mouth.
Everyone please see page one hundred
eighty-two.
HOW IS YOUR LATIN?
Seville, dare dago,
Toussin bussis inaro,
Nojo, dem strux
Summit cozin, summit dux.
TRANSLATION:
See Willie, there they go.
Thousand busses in a row,
No Joe, them’s trucks,
Some with cows in, some with ducks.
He walked her to the front door,
She whispered with a sigh,
“I’ll be home tomorrow night ...”
He answered . . . “So will I.”
You can’t kiss a girl unexpectedly—only
before she thinks you will.
Senior’s steadies are Karen Gill and Tom
Brown, and Jeannie Anderson and Joddy
Peer.
♦ SOUND---OFF ♦
tiyERNATIONAp
Founded by the Class
of 1921
Revived by the Spring
Journalism Class
of 1937
Entered as second-class matter March 30,
1940, at the ost office at Greensboro, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Editors Suzanne Kiser
Jo Jane Pitt
Managing Editor Kaye Riley
Feature Editor Ann Barham
Sports Editors Dameron DeShazo
Copy Editor ' Mike Patterson
Copy Desk Sandra Bolyes
Linda Hael, Susan Dixey
Adviser Mrs. Barbara Jinks
Financial Adviser Mr. A. P. Routh
Editor’s Note; HIGH LIFE is pleased that
several students are taking enough interest
in their school and their paper to write
letters expressing their opinions about dif
ferent subjects. Anyone wishing to write
HIGH LIFE will have , his letter printed if
he signs it, and his name will be withheld
on request. The opinions expressed in this
column, however, are not necessarily those
of the HIGH LIFE editorial staff.
Dear Editors:
The student council is concerned about
the “bad publicity” given to it by our HIGH
LIFE because we feel they have been pre
senting a warped and unjust picture of the
council, its attitude, and its work. In order
to tell the students just how their elected
leaders felt about this, a motion was unani
mously and vigorously passed last Tuesday
that the executive board compose a letter
to HIGH LIFE protesting to this coverage
and presenting what we think is a much
fairer picture of the council.
The two specific criticisms of the coxmcil
have been the lack of school spirit shown
by the officers of the council and the way
School Spirit Week was conducted. It
rained every day during that week and
there was hardly a good atmosphere for
building spirit. We could not have the
planned banners outside, streamers on
cars, and bonfire. The lunchroom behavior
campaign, the school spirit committee, ancb
other parts of the week were successful,
but still ojiber ideas such as the essay
contest and blue and white day simply
didn't go over, we believe largely, because
of the lack of publicity given to it by the
council and the school spirit committee,
as HIGH LIFE pointed out. However, the
spirit at the last few games has been the
best Senior bas bad at basketball games in
a long while. We consider this a good in
dication that the School Spirit Week was
a success.
As for the school spirit shown by our
student council officers, we challenge HIGH
LIFE to find seven other students who par
ticipate in more extra-curricular activities,
yell louder at the games, or show more
school spirit in any way. If your president
or your other officers have shown a lack
of initiative because they have assumed
too much responsibility or they have as
sumed a kind for which they are not suited,
no one knows it better than they, and no
one is trying harder than they to adjust
and do their best to represent the GHS stu
dents.
In short, we recognize a large area of
truth in most of what HIGH LIFE has
published about the student council, but
we think they should also show the far
greater number of things the council has
done very well this year: the transfer stu
dent party; the new constitution changes;
the smoothness of the elections; the plans
for the spring elections; the work of the
school-sponsored clubs, suggestion box
committee, and the Homecoming commit
tee; and especially the many efforts by the
student council through the council reports
to get opinions, suggestions ,and help from
the student body.
We feel that HIGH LIFE S articles are
not constructive toward the student coun
cil’s main problem, instilling confidence and
active interest in the student council in the
students. We respect both our paper’s right
and its responsibilities to express its ideas,
but we also think they have a duty to show
the whole picture in any series of articles.
We hope that this article expressing your
student council’s opinion will better bridge
the gap of communication and understand
ing between the student council, HIGH
LIFE, and the students.
Tommy Whiteside,
President of the Student Body
Rodolph Gibbs,
Vice-President
Libby McComb,
Secretary
Cecie Boren,
Treasurer
Janet Rankin,
President of Senior Class,
Sherrill Newnam,
President of Junior Class
Ed Good,
President of Sophomore Class
Dear Editors:
We, as members of Greensboro Senior
High School, wish to express our disappoint
ment over the general conduct of the ma
jority of the school’s students.
If we really had responsible leaders at
GHS, the student council would be doing
a better job, thereby setting an example
for the rest of the student body. If sKhool
officers were elected for the qualities of
leadership and dependability rather than
for beauty, athletic ability, or social pres
tige, we would have leaders who could
do something.
If the student council took school affairs,
the honor code, and school spirit seriously
and if its members believed in and pro
moted them, then perhaps the students
would have enough respect for the student
council to follow it.
What is the good of having an Honor
Code Plaque in every room if it is neither
respected nor obeyed by a majority of stu
dents?
How in the world can Senior High School
be respected by members of other schools
when they see through their actions and
what its students are really like?
For an .example, we can look at the
cheerleaders. At a pep rally held on the
square in the middle of town, they led a
cheer which contained a word that made it
definitely improper to lead anywhere, much
less shouted on the busiest street' in town.
The shocking part of it was that the cheer-,
leaders led it more than once, and more
than any other cheer.
We were thoroughly ashamed to be seen
with the Senior students. Since that time
we have been ashamed for anyone to know
that we even attend Greensboro Senior
High School.
How can you show school spirit toward
a school that you are ashamed of?
(Names withheld by Editors)