HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME XXXIX
GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. MARCH 8, 1963
NUMBER 9
American Bandmasters Visit Here
ABA Convention To Elect
Paul Yoder President
The American Bandmasters As
sociation, which has been holding
its annual convention in Greens-
Doro this week, will elect officers
:or the coming year at its final
business meeting tomorrow morn-
ng at 10:00. The present presi-
lent, Mr. Earl Slocum, will pre
side over the elections to be held
in the Ball Room of the King
Gotten Hotel.
Mr. Slocum is currently the
Jirector of the University of
l^orth Carolina Band. He has held
:hls position since the early 1930’s.
immediately prior to this time,
le was the director of the Greens
boro Senior High School Orches-
ira for approximately four years.
Mr. Slocum left Senior to accept
the position at UNC. He was
elected president of the Associa
tion at the 1962 convention which
was held at Purdue University at
Lafayette, Indiana.
Presidential Tradition
It is the custom of the Associa
tion to elect as president the vice
president of the past year. Be
cause of this tradition, the con
vention will elect Mr. Paul Yoder
president tomorrow morning.
Mr. Yoder was born in North
Dakota and reared in the Mid
west. His father is a former
college professor and his brother
is a general in the United States
Army. After college Mr. Yoder
began bis career in music as a
high school music director. Now,
however, his talents are turned
entirely to the composing and
arranging of music for band. “Mr.
Yoder has probably written more
arrangements for band than any
other living composer,” stated
Mr. Herbert Hazelman, director
of the GHS symphonic band.
Fort Lauderdale Residence
Mr. Yoder and his wife, Rosie,
now reside in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida. The composer does most
of his work in his home where he
keeps regular office hours. Mr.
Yoder is greatly sought after as
a toastmaster and after-dinner
speaker.
'‘President Elect”
Since his election to the ABA
in 1947, Mr. Yoder has served on
various committees, on the Board
of Directors, as vice president and
other capacities in the Association.
He has not missed a convention
Since he was elected.
For the GHS Symphonic Band
and Choir concert which was per
formed in the War Memorial Au
ditorium last night, Mr. Yoder
composed a piece for the band
to play entitled “Carolina Clam
bake.” The piece depicts the folk
music of the Carolinas and is re-
minescent of an old-fashioned
fiddle break-down tune. The com
position is the first to be dedi
cated to this school under the
new name.
School Beautiful Contest
Held By Mayor’s Council
The Greensboro Parks and Rec
reation Committee, in association
with the Mayor’s Youth Council,
is sponsoring a “School Beauti-
iful” contest between the six sen
ior high schools in the city.
The purpose of this contest is
to see which student body can
most beautify and improve the
grounds and buildings of its
school. Judges will visit each
school at the end of each month
and award or take away points on
the basis of improvement. Near
I the end of May a trophy will be
awarded the high school which
has accumulated the most points,
land has been most improved.
At GHS, competition between
Iclasses has been organized to im
prove the appearance of the
;ex;hool. A general committee of
class officers, headed by Keith
IGulledge, coordinates the efforts
of the student body.
Jane Reed heads the senior
Iclass activities, Carol Zimmerman
Is in charge of publicity; John
IHedrick, Senior work days; Nancy
;McNairy, scrapbook and Bennet
'tlBoyles, lead the juniors in their
campaign. Betty Pritchard and
Gwyn Coble are in charge of pub
licity and scrapbook, respectively.
Dave Grimes is sophomore work
chairman. Cynthia Wharton, pub
licity chairman, and Janet Turner,
secretary. Jimmy Wilkins heads
all sophomore activities.
The assistant chairman for the
committee is Penn Holsenbeck.
Irvin Pearce is treasurer, and
Janet Turner acts as general sec
retary. Betty Pritchard heads pub
licity for all three classes. This
committee has already had three
planning meetings. The central
aim of the committee is to clear
the campus of trash and to keep
it clean.
Other suggestions received by
the committee include planting
grass and shrubbery, providing
more trash cans, and constructing
new sidewalks. The campus needs
general drainage, and the parking
lot needs improvement. Internal
improvements include washing
windows, placing coat racks in the
cafeteria and book shelves by the
telephone and in the washrooms.
Each homeroom is responsible for
its appearance.
New Members Tapped
By Honor Society
Grimsley Senior High School’s
chapter of the National Torchlight
Honor Society inducted twenty-
four new members last week.
These new ipembers include
Barbara Howell, Candy Bernard,
Janet Williams, William Norman,
Susan Wagoner, and Sara Ann
Flintom. Other seniors are George
Touchstone, Frank Crothers, Fred
Henderson, Carol Marvin, and
Mary Sessoms. An interesting
sidelight was the fact that Caro
lyn McKenzie, Kat Leavel, and
Sandra Lowe are in the same
home room, sat beside each other
in assembly, and were tapped suc-
cesively. Kay Wharton, Susan
Monroe, and James Powell con
clude the list.
The juniors tapped were Penn
Holsenbeck, Donna Newman,
Keith Guledge, Parker Norman,
Gail Pfaff, Betty Jo Pearce, and
Ann Jamieson.
The Torchlight tapping cere
mony began with devotions by
Carol Zimmerman. Mike Andrew
presided over the program. After
speeches on scholarship, leader
ship, character, and service. Torch
light members went out into the
audience and tapped those se
lected.
Crowded Schedule Greets ABA;
GHS Plays Host To Convention
Beginning this past Wednesday, March 6, the GHS Band
and Choir have been hosts to the American Band Masters
Association for that Organization’s twenty-ninth Annual Con-
pention.
Army's Concert Band
To Perform Concert;
New Music Included
Applications are still being
accepted for the staff
photographer
Tomorrow night at 8:30 the
world-famous United States Army
Band will perform a concert in
the War Memorial Auditorium
here in Greensboro. The concert
will be the closing event of the
American Bandmasters Associa
tion Convention which has been
in session here since Wednesday.
As did the GHS band and choir
last night, the Army Band, under
the direction of Lieutenant Col
onel Hugh Curry, will perform
several original compositions on
its program. Of the pieces to be
performed, three will be directed
by its composer. Captain J. M.
Gayfer of the Royal Canadian
Army. The band’s assistant di
rector, Major Samuel Loboda, will
lead the musicians in his “Pro-
cesion to Delphi.” A former di
rector of the band, Captain
Thomas F. Darcy, Jr., will direct
his composition, “Frosty Sons of
Thunder.”
Tickets for this concert are a-
vailable from members of the
GHS bands and choir for the price
of $1.00.
The first business meeting of
the convention, consisting of mem
bers from all over the United
States and Canada, was opened by
this year’s president, Mr. Earl A.
Slocum of the University of North
Carolina, at two o’clock Wednes
day afternoon at convention head
quarters in the King Cotten Hotel.
That evening, a buffet was served,
ciurtesy of Local 322, American
Federation of Musicians, in the
King Cotten. Immediately follow
ing, the ABA members relaxed
by enjoying a band comprised of
some of their own numbers.
Lenoir Band Concert
The convention began its second
business meeting at 10 o’clock yes
terday morning. In the afternoon,
the convention moved to the audi
torium here at GHS to attend a
concert by the Lenoir High School
Band. The GHS student body was
invited to atend the concert which
began at 1:30. After a tour of the
GHS Music Building and an in
formal concert by the school’s
concert band, the afternoon’s ac
tivities were climaxed by a picnic
supper, prepared by the Grimsley
Bands’ members and tbeir families
at Kiser Junior High School.
At 8 o’clock last night, the GHS
Symphonic Band and Choir per
formed a concert for the Associa
tion and the public at the War
Memorial Auditorium. Included on
the program were five new com
positions: “Declamation,” by Law
rence Weiner; “Meditation for
Concert Band,” by Gunther Schu
ler; “Carolina Clambake,” by
president-elect of the Association
Contbined on Pare Fovr
Bii
, 's’
“School Beautiful” Contest brings immediate results among
GHS students. The first workday was held last Saturday. Stu
dents with rakes and picks cleared the campus of litter and
leaves. Tomorrow a workday will be held for sophomores.
JCL Sophomores Present Play
The sophomore members of the
Grimsley chapter of the Junior
Classical League will present the
whole program at a regular meet
ing next week. The play, “Child
hood of the Gods,” will be given.
Dave Grimes, chairman of the
program, announced that Cynthia
Wharton and Taffi Winston were
responsible for the play. The pro
gram will begin with devotions by
Nancy Coble. Janet Turner will
then give the introduction to the
play. The characters are Jupiter
played by Jerry Chostner, Nep
tune as portrayed by Ken Bell,
Pluto by Joe Montgomery, Juna
played by Candy Sauer, Vesta as
portrayed by Francie Furguson,
and Ceres played by Susan Stans
berry. Laurin Scott is chairman
of costumes committee, Claudia
McGill heads the scenery commit
tee, and Henry Perry is respon
sible for props.
Mary Jane Kellett will lead a
game of bingo in which Latin
words are to be matched with
English meanings. Following the
game, Ken Bell will read a poem
of fractured Latin.
New Requirements Set
By Board of Education
The Greensboro City Board of
Education has made the following
changes in graduation require
ments, as released by P. J.
Weaver, Superintendent of City
Schools.
The number of units required
for graduation has been increased
from seventeen to eighteen by
adding a second unit in social
studies. The requirement now
stipulates two units in social
studies, one of which must be
American History. The second unit
may be acquired in any history
and social studies courses normal
ly offered in grades nine through
twelve.
Two years of physical education
are now required in grades nine
through twelve in order to receive
one unit of credit required for
graduation. The currently re
quired course in health and phys
ical education is a prerequisite
to the second course, which wiU
be strictly physical activity. In
setting up this requirement, the
Board stipulated that Driver Edu
cation should be taught independ
ently of the physical education
curriculum.
These changes in graduation re
quirements will be effective with
the graduating class of 1967, which
is currently in the eighth grade.