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Campus Criminals See Page 2 VOLUME XXXIX HIGH LIFE From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry inglis Fletcher Interviewed See Page 3 GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., I'EB. 11, 1963 NUMBER 8 New Service Clubs Begin Activities Grimsley’s Best Citizens from each class were presented in as sembly recently and given their pins. They were: Lawrence Ross and Barbara Howell, seniors; Harry Weatherly and Dee Vaughn, juniors; Don Hanner and Taffi Winston, sophomores. Barbara Howell, a gold star wearer, is a member of the Choir and is an office and guidance as sistant. Lawrence Ross is a mem ber of FTA, JCL, and is on honor roll. Harry Weatherly, manager of the baseball team, is also a char ter member of the recently es tablished Interact boys’ service club. Taffi Winston, a member of Civinettes, is Sophomore Editor of Whirligig. Don Hanner is on the Honor Roll. Dropout: Description of Joe Part One of a Series by Martin Hester (Note: Joe is a hypothetical ease. Generalities made in this report are based on the infor mation found in “School Leav ers,” a report published by the Greensboro City Board of Education.) Joe, the average high school drop-out in Greensboro, is typical of drop-outs across the nation. He is 16 years of age, and leaves school during or before the 10th grade. He is of low average ability, has an I. Q. of between 90-100, and has failed one grade. His highest academic grades are usual ly attained in the fifth and sixth grades, followed by a steady trend toward lower and lower marks. The highest percentage of failing grades are received in the sopho more year, near his withdrawal from school. His grades in Eng lish seem to parallel the total average in all school subjects, a fact which could mean a general deficiency in written comprehen sion. Erratic Attendance Another earmark of the poten tial drop-out is the erratic attend ance kept by the student. A drop out may not miss school for as long as a month, then suddenly be absent, with no explanation, for an extended period. As with grades, absenteeism increases steadily until the day he quits school. Joe pursues a general curricu lum in secondary school, with no emphasis upon vocational courses. This contradicts his explanation upon leaving school, “to work for a living.” He participates in few extra-purricular activities in jun ior high school, even less in sen ior high. He has no feeling of “belonging” in the school, and re lations with teachers are consist ently strained. Difficulties in Job Finding The dissenter has great diffi culty in finding and holding a job. Few drop-outs find skilled or tech nical labor, and most must de pend on their own initiative to find jobs, rather than use their school record as a reference. The great majority of these leavers are forced to seek jobs which have little resemblance to the type of work they had hoped to find. A small percentage of drop-outs enter special schools to learn a skilled or semi-skilled trade. The armed forces offer another es cape from the usually uninterest ing life of a drop-out, with courses in electronics, aeronautics, and en gineering available to members of the service. Advice to Others Joe gives this advice to the school system for encouraging oth ers to stay in school: (1) offer more vocational guidance and counseling; (2) stress the value of education for life and higher employment. Great stress has been placed upon social conditions, the con flict among different social levels, as the cause of premature drop outs. Most teachers indicated that the great majority of students quit because of lack of interest, and not for social or personality problems. The drop-out generally regrets that he has left school, and would like to re-enter. After leaving school, he recognizes the value of classes which teach basic skills, such as the mechanical art courses. Next week: “Case History of a Drop-out.” . o TORCHLIGHT On January 21 the members of Torchlight National Honor So ciety held their annual midwinter initiation party at the home of Pam Burkholder. Mike Andrew, president, presided over the in itiation of seventeen new mem bers. Cynthia Wharton To Run For JCL State Office Cynthia Wharton has been nom inated by the Grimsley chapter of the Junior Classical League as a candidate for the office of the JCL state secretary. The GHS chapter has held every state office at least once, and many have been won twice. The last time a GHS student occupied a state office was in 1960, when Pam Pfaff was state secretary. Prior to her election a law was adopted limiting any school to one candidate every two years, since GHS seemed to dominate the elections. Now the required two year period has passed, and Cynthia is hoping to become an officer on March 16, when the elections are held at Chapel Hill. Cynthia is vice president of the Sophomore Class and this past summer, was a delegate to the JCL national convention, held on the campus of the University of Montana. While there she won third place in the national deriva tives contest. Cynthia was trea surer of JCL at Kiser Junior High School, vice president of the stu dent body, and was a member of the Honor Society. In 1962 she won the American Legion Award. She is patrol lead er of her Girl Scout troop and past president of her Sunday School class at First Baptist Church. While in the ninth grade, Cynthia was named to the city wide Brains Team. She serves at the Cerebral Palsy Hospital and is a volunteer worker at Wesley Long Hospital. Four new girls’ service clubs and one boys’ service club have been organized at Grimsley Senior High School within the past few weeks. In the report of Greensboro’s Citizen Committee on Youth Ac tivities, the need for more service organizations on the high school level was expressed. As a result of this report, six adult service clubs offered to organize and sup port high school clubs. They were the Greensboro Rotary Club, Charity League of Greensboro, Junior Jacettes, Junior Woman’s Club, and O. Henry Woman’s Club. Principal A. P. Routh held a meeting before Christmas of ap proximately 125 girls and 35 boys who were interested in becoming members of the junior clubs. Each student filled out a form in dicating his class and preference of clubs. The adult organizations were then given lists of these who chose their club. Interact The boys’ Interact Club, spon- sered by Rotary, was soon set up with 18 members. “Charter night” was held at Starmount Country Club and was attended by the Greensboro Rotary Club Advisory Committee, the boys and their parents. Here the charter and pins were presented. The faculty advisor of Interact is Mr. Stewart Colson. President is John Stupak; vice president. Bill Her; secretary, Ken Kinney; and treasurer. Bill Rinker. Ste wart Bull, Bennett Boyles, and Dave Atwood are the three club representatives on the Board of Directors. New members will be added in the near future. The Interact Club recently col lected for the March of Dimes and is still making its plans for the remaining school year. It meets every week, alternating between business meeting at school on Wednesday and a dinner meeting at the S&W on Tuesday. Charioteers The Charity League of Greens boro is sponsoring GHS’s Chario teers, who held their first meet ing at the last of January at the home of Advisor, Mrs. E. M. Law rence. Presiding over the meeting was Temporary Chairman, Caro lyn Rich, with Patti Reed acting as temporary recorder. Certain tentative rules were discussed that had been agreed upon by an adult council, repre senting the five new clubs. These verbal rules included a limit of two meetings a month, a point system, and the restriction of girls to one service club. The Charioteers voted to hold a business meeting at 7:30 every sec ond Wednesday at the home of a member, while a dinner meeting would be held every fourth Tues day at 6:30 at the Woman’s Club. At their next meeting, on Feb ruary 13, the Charioteers will be entertained by the Charity League and their charter will be present ed. Two committees have already been established by the new club. The Constitution committee in cludes Nancy Smith and Barbara Jones, seniors; Pat Roos and Pat ti Reed, juniors; and Doris and Virginia Eldridge, sophomores. They will present a constitution to the club for approval within a month. The othe committee, head ed by Betty Pritchard, is deciding upon the design of thee Chario teers’ pin. Members of this com mittee are Gwyn Coble, B. J. Pearce, Mary Rountree, and Fran- cie Ferguson. Money for these pins is being supplied by the Charity League. Besides Mrs. Lawrence, the two other advisors are Mrs. D. V. Continued on Page Six Spring Semester Brings 6 Faculty Additions Mrs. Daphine Stanton, Mrs. Karen Bounds, Mrs. Charles Sharpe, Mrs. Charlotte Jennings, Mr. Lewis Rush, and Mr. Jack Jessup are the six new teachers that were added to Grimsley Sen ior High School’s faculty at the beginning of the second semester. The English Department added Mrs. Daphine Stanton, who has lived in Greensboro and Chicago. She received her BA degree at Meredith College and her Masters Degree in Religious Education at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and has worked two years on her Doctor ate at Northwestern University in Evansville, Illinois. Mrs. Stanton taught Engilsh and Religion at the Greensboro divi sion of Guilford College and phi losophy at Northwestern Univer sity before coming to Senior. Writing and Boating Writing and boating are Mrs. Stanton’s favorite pastimes. She has had magazine articles pub lished, has written stories for children, and has reviewed books for the “Greensboro Daily News.” She and her family spend time on their 19-foot cabin cruiser, which her husband built. Continued on Page Six CHS Bands Preseni MId-WInter Concert Grimsley Senior High School’s Concert and Symphony Bands,, conducted by Mr. Edgar Rooker and Mr. Herbert Hazelman, pre-^ sented a Mid-winter Concert last week in the high school auditor ium. The program opened with the Concert Band playing “Hodak” from “The Fair at Sorochinsk” by Modest Moussorgsky. Follow ing this was Philip Gordon’s “Canticle for Band” and “Con certo Grosso, Opus 6, Number 8” by Arcangelo Corelli. The Concert closed its part of the program with the Overture to “The Impre sario” by Mozart. Symphony Band After an intermission the Sym phony Band played Lawrence Weiner’s “Declamation” and Mr. Hazelman’s “Perpetual Polka on Themes from Auber.” John Phil lip Sousa contributed “King Cot ton March”, and John Barnes Chance, “Incantation and Dance.” An encore, “Carolina Clambake,” was written by Paul Yoder. Money from the sale of tickets to the concert helped pay for the new uniforms. Concert Band Officers Officers of the Concert Band are Bret English, president; Tim Frye, vice president; Brenda Ed wards, secretary; and Almon Fus- sell, treasurer.
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