HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South arid the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XXXIX
GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., APRIL 5, 1963
NUMBER 11
Last Saturday GHS students did much to improve the ap
pearance of the grove. Patty Reed rakes up a pile of leaves
and litter, while Joe Morris, pausing for a rest, gives helpful
suggestions.
Janet Williams Wins
A, B.DukeScholarship
Janet Williams was announced
recently as a winner of the Angier
B. Duke Scholarships. Scholar
ships were awarded to five girls
and 12 boys.
Janet arrived on the Duke Uni
versity campus along with 84
other finalists from North Caro
lina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Grimsley also had two other re
presentatives, Carolyn Zimmer
man and Harry Boyte.
South Gate Dormitory pro
vided a room for Janet and
another finalist. On the first morn
ing at Duke the finalists attended
classes with college students.
Janet visited German, Spanish,
and religion classes and found
them “interesting” and “inform
al.” That afternoon verbal tests
were given. After a dinner the
group heard the Duke Concert
Symphony Orchestra. The next
morning each finalist was inter
viewed by members of the Duke
faculty. They were asked such
questions as “What are you inter
ested in?” “What subjects are
you taking?” and What books do
you read?”
The finalists attended a seminar
in which they diseased C. P.
Snow’s book. Two Cultures and
the Scientific Revolution. They
also heard Mr. George McGhee,
the ambassador to West Germany,
speak on the direction of our
foreign policy.
Janet was impressed with how
friendly the college students were
and how big, but unified, the
campus seemed.
Harry Boyte placed as the first
alternate in the scholarship grants.
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Carnival To Held Tonight
Supper, games, and excitement
will be available to all who come
to the Civinette Carnival tonight,
April 5, from 6:00 to 9:00 in the
Girls’ Gym.
This annual carnival is spon
sored by the Junior Civinettes,
who are busy preparing and ar
ranging long tables of homemade
food, boothes for games, and color,
ful decorations for atmosphere.
Carnival food will include fried
ichicken, potato salad, baked beans,
potato chips, and pickles. Coffee
and soft drinks will also be pro
vided, and desserts include cakes,
brownies, and cookies. Admission
is a dime, with plate suppers
icosting $.50. Desserts will cost an
I additional ten cents, and as many
may be purchased as desired.
iWhole cakes will be on sale, spec-
lially priced.
The gym will be decorated with
balloons, bright streamers, live
Iclowns, and other carnival sur
roundings.
School Beautiful Committee
Adopts Plans For Groves
Ellen Barrier, left, reaches
for a pile of dead leaves and
branches in the corners of the
north grove. Beside her Pat
Roos gathers the trash and
puts it in cans supplied by the
Junior Jaycess. Next Saturday
work will be concentrated on
this grove.
Grimsley Senior High School’s
progress in the city-wide School
Beautiful Contest was noted by
two judges as they surveyed the
campus last week.
The three judges involved in
the contest are non-partisan, sen
ior members of the Jaycee Club
of Greensboro. Each has a certain
amount of landscape knowledge
and is not prejudiced towards
any of the six high schools.
The judges will visit each high
school campus once a week and
will award points on the basis of
appearance and improvement. Of
GHS’s “School Beautiful” cam
paign they have made high com
ments and are very inpressed with
the students’ work.
Some of the improvements in
the appearance of the school
grounds include a general clean-up
of trash and litter and the placing
of three sets of steps from the
girls’ playing field to the parking
lot. Grass has been planted in
many areas, and planted areas
have been bordered by chains.
Chains also prevent students from
cutting corners instead of using
the sidewalks.
Shrubbery has been planted be
side the music building and on
the median in front of the school.
Students have also raked leaves
from beneath bushes and have
placed gravel along the walkway
from the Main Building to the
Vocational Building, widening the
walk. The bus parking lot has
been cleaned; more trash cans
have been placed about the cam
pus; and the desk in the front
hall has been cleaned.
GROVES
One of the major problems fac
ing the committee was the terrible
condition of the groves. Sugges
tions from individual students
and from home rooms involved
the improvement of the drainage
and appearance of these two spots,
undoubtedly the ugliest sights on
campus.
Compiling all ideas, the commit
tee, headed by Keith Gulledge,
drew up plans for several gravel
sidewalks and a smoking area.
Grass would be planted every
where else in the groves.
After much consultation with
Mr J. T. Seawell, head of Greens
boro City Schools Maintenance
Department, and with Mr. R. L.
Glenn, the commitee decided it
would not be best to carry out
these plans. Several reasons were
given: (1) gravel sidewalks are
not permanent; (2) concrete walks
are too expensive; and (3) grass
would not live long in the groves.
$600 PER GROVE
After further consultation with
Mr. Seawell, the commitee pro
duced another plan. Keith esti
mated the average cost of each
grove at $600. In the interest of
time and money, the committee
voted to work to concentrate on
only one grove this year, and
14 GHS Students Nominated To
Attend N.C. Governor's School
Fourteen Grimsley Senior High
School students have been nomi
nated to attend the “Governor’s
School of North Carolina” along
with 55 other students of Greens
boro City Schols and 28 in the
Guilford County Schools.
GHS is represented in the nomi
nations with one student in each
of the five academic fields. These
nominees are Fred McCall for
mathematics; Dee Vaughan,
French; Jane Godwin, history;
Betty Jo Pearce, English; and
Donald Jones, science. Jimmy
Still and Mary Rountree were
nominated in the area of instru
mental music; Alice Crutchfield
and Sara Ann Lynch, in the field
of drama.
Betty Anne Myatt and Pat Roos
were the two GHS students select
ed for choral music. Grimsley
had no representatives in the
dance program but had three
students chosen in the art depart
ment. They are Becky Rees, Bunny
Hartman, and Martha Kistler.
Students from Page nominated
to atend the eight-week summer
school for outstanding young peo
ple are Cheryl Koenig, English;
Barbara Snavely, science; Eliza
beth Ann Wilson, history; Thomas
Harris, mthematics; and Betty
Groat, French. Fourteen Page stu
dents were nominated in the field
of instrumental music; two in the
drama area; and four for choral
music. They have one dance stu
dent and two art students.
Of the 2,000 girls and boys
nominated to the school, only 400
will be selected. These successful
candidates will be announced by
May 10. A total of 160 students
' will be selected in the fine and
performing arts. The remaining
240 rising high school juniors
and seniors will concentrate their
studies in the academic fields in
which they were nominated, Eng
lish, mathematics, science, history,
or French.
Nominees in the art, music,
and drama areas will have audi
tions at Woman’s College at 10:00
on April 6, while dance and choral
candidates will be interviewed at
Wake Forest at 10:00 on April 27.
The entire summer school pro
gram will be completely free ex
cept for transportation to and
from Winston Salem and for small
personal expenses. The school will
be held at Salem College where
all facilities of the college and
academy will be available to the
400 students.
CLUB NEWS
Last Wednesday the Chario
teers held their Annual Spring
Fashion Revue at Starmount
Presbyterian Church
Clothes modeled by the Char-
ioteeers were by Brownhill’s.
The theme of the fashion show
was based on “Seventeen” mag
azine. The Queen’s Men sang,
and door prizes were given.
GHS’s Junior Civitan Club
have donated $120 to the
“School Beautiful” campaign
and have laid a sidewalk from
the Girls’ Gym to the road.
Other projects include donating
two record players to the school
and laying water pipes to the
baseball field so that players
can get water right there.
reserve the other one for next
year. Because the north grove,
the one between the Music Build
ing and the Main Building, is
seen more by visitors and is
closest to the street, the commit
tee voted to begin work on it.
This grove will also lend itself
better to landscaping than the
south grove by the Home Eco
nomics Building.
Considering suggestions by Mr.
Seawell, the committee decided
that gravel would be the answer
to most of the problems pre
sented by the grove.
ROCK GARDEN
This area will be landscaped
on the basis of a rock garden. A
retaining wall will be placed
around the area designated for
the gravel. This area will end at
the sidewalk running from the
north end of the Main Building
to the back road. The ground
from the other side of the walk
to the Music Building will be
planted with grass.
Before the gravel is laid, sev
eral parts of the ground will
have to be leveled or filled in
with dirt Large brick planting
boxes will be built around trees,
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Whirligig Staff Chosen
The new 1963 ’WHIRLIGIG, to
come out in May, was received by
the press last month. Already the
staff is reading the first 130 pages
of proof, printed galleys of the
annual. The Grimsley yearbook
for 13 consecutive years has won
All American ratings, and hopes
are high that a 14th honor will be
bestowed on WHIRLIGIG.
The staff has already organized
and planned the pages and theme
of the 1964 annual, and next
year’s staff includes: Editor, Joyce
Greene; Managing Editor, Marsha
Brady; Photo Editor, Pete Cross;
Business Manager; Linda Dance;
Literary Editor, Francie Fergu
son; Senior Editor, Cathy Williams
and Blair Moore; Junior Editor,
Billy Chambers; Sports Editor,
Eddie Strange.
From left to right, the 1963-1964 staff of Whirligig is Mar
sha Brady, Joyce Green, Pete Cross, Francie Ferguson, and
Linda Dance.
Boyte Is Science Winner
Grimsley Senior High School the synthesis of lichens.
was represented in the regional
science fair contest by six stu
dents; Betty Anne Benbow, Donnie
Sparrow, Mason Banks, Mary
Matthews, Harry Boyte, and Tom
Schumaker.
Harry Boyte’s project showing
the effect of magnetism on bread
mold was selected as a winner
and will be entered in the state
science fair in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
Betty Anne Benbow’s entry
showed the effect of ultraviolet
rays upon penicillin. The artificial
synthesis of food in green
plants was shown in Donie Spar
row’s project. Mason Banks dis
played catalase in digestive
reaction, while Mary Matthews
showed a study of conditioned
reflexes in planaria. Tom Schu-
maker’s project was made to show
This contest was arranged into
four divisions; Senior Biological,
Junior Biological, Senior Physics,
and Junior Physics. All projects
from GHS were entered in the
Senior Biological division.
From each section five winners
were selected. There was also a
special recommendation and honor
able mention in each division. The
five winners in the Senior Bio
logical Area, including Harry
Boyte’s project, will be sent to
Raleigh on April 6, tomorrow.
Mrs. McMahon accompanied the
six representatives and their pro
jects to the Wake Forest gym,
where the judging was held. That
morning lectures were held after
the judging and in the afternoon
the fair was open to the public.
Each participant was given a cer
tificate.