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High Life
October 25, 1963
Mrs. Nhu
Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, spoke last week to an audience of about 750 at
North Carolina State in Raleigh.
At the same time, influential leader Ngo Dinh Nhu accused the U. S.
of trying to overthrow the government of his country. He stated that, un
der interrogation, Buddhist monks identified CIA agents (Central Intel
ligence Agency) and other Americans who constantly spurred them to
overthrow the government. Nhu also stated that he did not think the top
levels of the CIA were involved in the conspiracy. He said, “It is incompre
hensible why the CIA, after assaulting the Communists with a strategic
program to decrease their numbers, should suddenly reverse their attitude.
Athough neither of these foreigners have as yet foregone all pleas
antries to the United States, still their rapid criticisms and accusations
of our foreign policy place a seed of doubt in the minds of our friends
around the world. Mrs. Nhu, who recently came to visit the United States,
gave us an opportunity to strike back.
The semi-cool attitude of the U. S. is not overshadowed by Mrs. Nhu’s
burning tongue and temper. America is free and is a sounding board for
a person s thoughts and words, but it does not have to greet criticism with
hospitahty. ®
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
Due to a few errors that ap
peared in the last issue of HIGH
LIFE we would like to make the
following corrections:
. (1) This year our president,
Judy Balderacchi not Gail Weston,
leads our organization not the team.'
(2) We participate in two play-
days. The only other playday be
sides the one held in High Point
is the one held at W. C.
(3) The members of the G.A.A.
serve as officials for the Junior
High playdays throughout the city.
We do not hold these playdays.
We believe that the size of our
organization justifies a qualified
number to have a girls’ picture
representing us rather than a boy.
We would appreciate it if you
would put these corrections in the
next issue of HIGH LIFE.
Thank you,
Barbara Bryson, Sec. of G.A.A.
Judy Balderacchi, Pres.
HIGH LIFE regrets any errors
arising from misinterpretation of
intramural information given to
Associate Sports Editor Paula Main
gy GAA Publicity Chairman Cheryl
Smith.
The girls originaUy scheduled to
appear in the intramural pictures
did not have time to wait for the
photographer.
Etitor
The purpose of an editorial page is
to inform, enlighten, and in some cases
to make the reader laugh If the reader
will look around this page, he will find
certain examples of the preceding
standards.
He will find, just beneath the cartoon,
an article entitled the “S. P. L." This
piece of writing informs. An article of
this sort may or may not critisize. He
will find, in the upper rght hand comer,
a piece called “Once Upun A Time”
which in some cases will make a reader
laugh. In the center of the pag he will
find an editorial . called “The Way of
Education.” Its purpose is to enlighten.
Also in the two lower middle columns
the reader will find a bit of writing. It
has no purpose at all. It is a filler.
HIGH LIFE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students
of Grlmsley Senior High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the
Class of 1921
Revived by the
Spring Journalism
Class of 1937
Second Class Postage Paid
Greensboro, N. C.
Dear Editor:
It has been brought to the at
tention of the Whirlie’s More Gals
Less Yells school spirit board that
several students are not complying
with the MGLY’s new rule: “that
all students wearing blue and white
pinstripe blouses or shirts (with a
loop) stand up at the midway point
of each class and lead the famous
MGLY yeU.” The MGLY fully un
derstands the consequences that
might rain upon those students loy
al to the MGLY’s new ruling, but
remember what must be must be.
The MGLY offers its deepest
sympathy to Ham M., who was ris
ing from his desk to lead the fam
ous yell in a certain Trig class. At
the same time a certain Trig teach
er asked him to stand and give the
functions of a 45 degree angle.
MURDER. May poor ole Ham R.I.P.
The MGLY needs more of these
palant comrades who are more will
ing to yield up their Trig books
than betray the trust of the MGLY.
The MGLY asks only that each
blue and white pinstripe shirt or
blouse wearer (with a loop) do
his share to wreak havoc through
out the classrooms with the MGLY
famous cheer:
We always go to see the game
Featuring the Whirlies and their
fame.
But even more to see a gal
Who’ll do a flip after “Be a Whir-
lie” yell.
Pat Patterson
The S. P. L
The S.P.L. (student parking lot to laymen) has come a long way. Once
it vvas just a small gravel space with lots of bumps and potholes. Now it’s
a big gravel space with lots and lots and lots of bumps and potholes.
A story is told of the perils of the parking lot. John Lajinsky, an aspir
ing student who studied at Senior High in 1953, was heading in the direc-
ton of his car, apparently to go to lunch, when he fell in one of the nu
merous holes that frequent the S.P.L. Although a search party was organ
ized, no body was found and no word heard from John Lajinsky.
He emerged early last year with several thousand handwritten sheets
of paper and a battered piggy back pen. The writing he named Cleopatra,
the movie version now playing at theatres across the nation. However,
his mind was completely gone. After he crawled from the hole he im
mediately started running, refusing to talk to the crowd of reporters
and photographers that had gathered, and bought the entire surplus of
Eckerd automobile stock. Then he went to the nearest poll booth and
voted three times for Richard Nixon, although the ballot was for a local
fire chief election. His latest folly finds him proposing marriage to Chris
tine Keeler, and he announced early last week that he plans to become
the first man on the moon. He got the rocket from hs friendly Texaco
dealer. The poor man obviously needs help. And the reason for his pre
dicament is the jolly old student parking lot. It is actually very cute,
though, with its wrinkles and dimples smiling happily in the dust.
In a heavier mood, however, the student parking lot is a menace to the
safety of everybody at G.H.S. Before school, at lunch, and after school,
confusion and disorder reign as weary students try to get out. The parking
lot is too small. It is not paved. It is not proportioned correctly for easy
parking and leaving. The smaR space provided for the exit of cars is
cramped and intolerably slow.
Clearly, something should be done. We offer no solution, but unless an
answer is found, the hills and guUies of the S.P.L. wiU give the name of
GHS a connotation of sloppiness, unsafeness, and ugliness.
Once Upun A Time Thc ^X^ay of Education
Betty Pritchard
Martin Hester
Editor-in-Chief
MaTiaging Editor
Business Manager John Gaddy
News Editor ...- Jane Turpin
Feature Editor ... Mike Cowhig
Sports Editor Charlie Perry
Photographer Ralph Beaver
Associate Sports Editor Paula Main
Once there was an ancient king
dom. In this kingdom there were
a king and a court jester. The king,
who always needed cheering up,
liked the court jester except for one
thing. He was always making puns.
Everyday, the jester would come
to cheer up the monarch, dance a
bit, and then commence making
puns. After a while the king be
came tired of this form of humor.
In fact, he was furious at the jester,
and sentenced him to be hanged
the following sunrise.
The next morning a large crowd
had gathered to watch the event.
The jester, obviously in good spirits
in spite of his predicament, had
already been blindfolded when a
courier arrived with a message
from the king, “If you will promise
never to make another pun, your
life will be spared,” quoted the
courier. The entertainer nodded
his head and removed his blind
fold. “No noose is good noose,” he
said, and died happily.
At the turn of the century, the educational process in the United States
was set on a level more analogous to existence rather than higher knowl
edge. Emphasis was put largely on the idea that education should be used
as a means of making a living instead of a basis for philosophical pursuits.
The present is a different story. The more man advances as an intel
ligent animal, the more education is needed as a guide to socialogical and
tectoilogical develop>ment. Although great stress is still put on manual
training and occupational readiment, the current trend is swaying to the
more noble cause of the search for truth and the understanding of the
things about us.
■The young people of today are caught in a vortex of hopes and disap
pointments and confusion. The bright clouds of tomorrow are in no way
connected to the tedium and business-like procedure of modem schools.
Many students lose sight of their final purpose in life, self-improvement
to the greatest extent. Perspective of the finer values in life is often mud
died by the complexity of an indvidual’s social and economic problems.
Because of this constant bewilderment on the part of a young man or
woman as to his or her place in the institution, the social aspect of school
has recently become more prevalent in the minds of modern students.
The vvidespread subsistence and and growing importance of social cliques,
in which the measure of a person is in proportion to the clothes he wears
or the car he drives, points to the deterioration of the art of learning as
the overwhelming purpose of the educational system.
Education is the only true definition of advancement. The students of
today, it they are to be the teachers of tomorrow; must educate and there
by advance themselves to the limit of their endurance. If mankind con
tinues to strive to make a better world and to strengthen the cause for
greater enlightenment, education for the sake of education must return
as the dominant part of the school cirriculum.