Newspapers / Grimsley High School Student … / Nov. 2, 1962, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Grimsley High School Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Page Two High Life November 2, 1962 Admit and Flunk In a recent article written for the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Laird Bell, chairman of the National Merit Scholar ship Board, told of many problems facing todays’ colleges. “Admit and Flunk” was written to inform both young people and adults of the serious ness of admitting incapable students into America’s large and fast-moving colleges and universities. “It is no kindness to the individual, or benefit to the nation, to offer higher education to one who in all probability will not be able to hold the pace.” It is safe to assume that, generally speaking, a student who graduates from a school the size of Grimsley and a student coming from a small country school would have different educational backgrounds, although both might have the same type grades. This is one of the main reasons for a full-scale search for a new way to qualify students. “The unqualified student is taken in fuU of hope and surely at some sacri fice in money or lost earning power, and then a few months later he will receive the flunk notices.” One reason for this problem is that admissions boards in many colleges will let the stream of students flow by leaving the teachers to cope with the screening of qualified and unqualified students. Junior colleges are rapidly becoming an accepted and necessary means by which young people who wish training beyond the high school level, yet who might not be capable of college work, can further their education. Many states are now fully behind such a program. The point is that in American colleges and universities today there are a grea> number of students on the verge of flunking out either because of slack admissions boards or because the stu dents, themselves, are there only for a good time. “We can perhaps afford to give all our children a pleasant four years’ residence in academic groves; but it would seem more worthwhile to work toward making college a genuine intel lectual experience and a privilege.” COMMENTARY BY BOYCE KENDRICK BACK IN THE OLD DAYS when this school was known as Greensboro Senior High there were a good many small and relatively insignificant situations which were the cause of complaints from many students. With our new name, however, came no improvements of these situa tions. Over at Page High they have a new auditorium building which students and teachers alike agree is just fine. Here at Grimsley, though, both teachers and students find it very sad indeed that an otherwise fine structure like our audi torium is marred by cracking and peel ing plaster which has gone unattended to for many years. Though other rooms at GHS are suffering from this same malady, the room which most visitors see most often should be given priority when it comes to making repairs—if indeed it ever does. ANOTHER SOURCE of minor but re curring irritation is the water fountains —not the ones that work properly but the ones from which only luke-warm water is obtained (mainly because no one ever takes the time to plug them Into the electricity outlet) and those from which NO water is obtained (main- HIGH LIFE Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Grimsley Senior High School Greensboro, N. C. tlNTERNATION]^ Founded by the Class of 1921 Revived by the Spring Journalism Class of 1937 Second Class Postage Paid Greensboro, N. C. Editor Masnaging Editor News Editor — .. Sherry Bundy Mike Ingber . Betty Pritchard Feature Editor Sports Editor . Susan Wagoner Ed Strange Assistant Sports Editor Skip Bostick Copy Editor Pat Patterson Co-Advertising Directors Bill McCormick Nadine Tyft Circulation Manager Donna Merritt Exchange Editor Jane Turpin Photographer Durwood Edwards Business Manager Claudia Robey News Stajf i Beverly Camras Jane Godwin, Sara Ann Lynch, Ruth Petty, Martin Hester Feature Staff Pat Gardner Wanda Coffey, Boyce Kendrick Sports Staff Charlie Perry Brenda Davis Typist Gordon Dohm Adviser Peggy Kirkman WoodUef Financial Adviser A. P. Routh ly because no one ever bothers to fix them). Time and time again service clubs and various other school organizations have offered to make some improve ments in the parking lot, in the stadium, and in other areas of the school but were denied permission to proceed be cause this type of operation was sup posed. to be performed by “Mainte nance.” Net result: no improvement, by the club or by “Maintenance.” ANOTHER POINT to be mentioned in commenting on these various condi tions is the problem presented by each rain that descends upon GHS. The causeway between the Main Building and the Science Building is regularly inundated by each and every shower. One must have consummate alacrity to avoid plunging his erstwhile dry foot into a puddle of cold, dirty water. Gutters for the covering over the walk way would provide an excellent remedy to the problem. Shall we depend upon Maintenance to provide them? FINALLY, THERE ARE TWO outdoor bulletin boards erected by two different service clubs. It has been noticed by great numbers of observant people that neither one of them is kept altogether current by the successors of those club members who originally provided them. It would certainly be interesting to have some up-to-date news of that great rival ry between the Whirlies and the Junior Somethings, as proclaimed by the Junior Somethings’ bulletin board near the entrance to the parking lot. Encyclopedias Out At Florida High School Encyclopedias are given the bum’s rush every September at Melbourn (Florida) High School. Dr, B. Frank Brown, principal, has the school’s encyclopedias removed from the school’s encyclopedias removed from the library shelves every Septem ber when school opens. Along in mid semester, he has them slipped quietly back into place. The reason: because, he says, the en cyclopedia “as an instrument of research even for young children ... is a straw in the wind.” “Perhaps the greatets offense to orig inal research and individual study is the encyclopedia,” Dr, Brown says, “and yet this is the best stocked item in the school libraries . . . “Students throughout the length and breadth of the land copy and paraphrase from encyclopedias hour after monoto nous hour,” he says, “and the practice should be curbed.” NELTHEP} RAIN,nor SNoW.NoR FLOODED 5lDE.WAi-KS‘-'y CHINEE CHUCKLES Hello Fliends, Have been asked by most honol- able editol of schoolee papel to ex plain leason fol column and how come is chinee wlitel in papel of amelican schoolee. Actulee column not wlitten fol eveleebodee to lead. Most people not leadee column any way. Chinee chuckles lealee phonee chinee. Wong Chin lealee sophmole journalism student, is thild yeal as sophmole. Column has much ap peal to most people who lead school papel. Is wlitten fol high class stu dent with low class mind which is fost people at glimslee schoolee. Namee of schoolee makee no dif- felence, is still same old lock of education, fathel of plogless. Still same schoolee as in time of glims lee, onlee change is less glass. StiU same teachel, same bookee, same idea. Now opelating on plan of 1902. Each yeal gladutee fine men and ladee, vellee stupid but velee fine. Most teachel have good fol- tune of using tested method, tested fol foultee yeal. Gualantee to wolk evelee time. Manee teachel, how- evel, velee upset, say school system movee to fast. Is so much change. Is vellee tlue. State movee much too fast, but cannot stop plogless. Now come chinee stolee. Vellee im- poltant tale of fan in countlee fal away. Man have foluteen childlen. Once was twentee childlen, but othel die. They eatee too much. Soon man in white suitee come. Show man pictule of manee people in cal with bigee house and much monee. Is wav of fleedom, savs man in white suitee. Also is place to keepee food so people not eatee too much and die. like six chTdren of man. Man in suitee say if man gettee fleedom, then gettee place to put all extla food. Then people not eat too much and die. But man so busee eatee, have no time fol gettee fleedom. Man in white suitee say no fleedom, no deel. Pool man havee bad ploblem. All people sitee and eatee, soon all die. Latel man come in same clothes as man in countlee. Listen filst to stolee, then showee man how to stop glo- wee so much glain. Fleedom not so impoltamt now. Filst must save all people Horn eatee too much and die. Man bling manee fliend, aE wolkee vellee hald. Soon is no plob lem. People not fatee. But man m white suitee vellee anglee. Hee come and knockee down all stolage place fol extla food. People see food, eatee too much, and is plob lem once mole. Man with ploblem askee fol help. Soon fliends come, fixee ploblem and make big speal. Then man in white suitee, who vellee stupid and makee big mis take put fence alound man and say: no mole fliends. Not onlee is fence, is manee mole men in white suitee leadee to knockee big speal and kick out bad fliends. Men aU ovel wolld thlow lock at house of man in white suitee. Even beak naee window, but in man in suitee own back yald, no bodee allowed to speakee. All must say man in white suitee is alwafs light and al ways do best. All men not say man in white so smalt. Tly to say what they thinkee, but is gleat ploglam of censolship and thleat, also caUee in Amelica black post office. Soon no man can speakee in yald of man in white suitee, and man n white suitee be too stlong. Then aU bee vellee good. Is no ploblem. All men hangee on stling. Must now go to lice paddy—^is maybee mole to come. Your Honoluble Collespondent Wong Chin Council Corner School spirit and scholarship are the two main parts of Grimsley Senior High School. In order to encourage both, the Student Council supports two commit tees: the Pep Board for school spirit, and the Scholastic Committee to en courage better scholastic standards. Part of the work of this committee is to award a plaque each six weeks to the home room in each class with the high est average. Mrs. Walke, the advisor, and chairman Mary Sessomg get the three rooms with the highest average in ratio to the size room, and this room receives the plaque in assembly. It is the hope of the committee to encour age most scholastic interest through competition.
Grimsley High School Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 2, 1962, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75