VOLUME XL GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH, GREENSBORO, N. C., JAN. 20, 1964
NUMBER 7
GHS Girls Service Clubs
Discuss Joint Dance
Grimsley Senior High’s girls’
Service clubs are discussing the
possibilities of sponsoring a joint
Valentine Dance.
“Fabulous Five”
Each girls’ service club has de
posited seven dollars toward the
payment for “The Fabulous Five,’’
the instrumental group which is
to play at the dance, when it
agreed to joint-sponsor the event.
“The Fabulous Five’’ is a popular
teen-age combo which has played
before at Grimsley and at other
spots in Greensboro.
Tickets will be sold only to
members of the girls’ service
clubs. The girls are asked to bring
dates, and the tickets will sell for
$1.50 per couple.
Date Set
The tentative date set for the
event is February 15 at the Glen-
The CordovaSi Chip Leslie, Ray, Perry, Dave Nard, Bill wood Community Center. Students
Wagoner rehease foif the March of Dimes Hootenanny to he dressed in school
1. u T to ^ ITT X nr 1 ct± j J.1 ^ I rj- clothes, as there will have already
held Jan. 18 at West Market Street Methodist Church. Kev- formal before the
in Reid was not present when the picture was made. dance.
March Of Dimes Hootenanny To Be Held
At West Market Methodist Church
The first annual March of Dimes Hootenanny will be held Saturday night, January 18, in
the fellowship hall of West Market Street Methodist Church beginning at 8 o’clock. Admission is
50 cents, and this exhibition of folk-singing talent will be open to the public.
The Queen’s Men, Grimsley’s official quartet, and the Buccaneers, a similar group from
Page, will perform at the hootenanny. This will be the Queen’s Men’s debut in this type if pro
gram, whereas the Buccaneers won the state hootenanny competition at a local shopping center
last August.
"Oil ns annearinp
Faculty Nominates Routh
For Principal Of Year
(This article is taken from) an article written by Miss Louise
Smith.)
Mr. A. P. Routh, principal of Grimsley Senior High School,
has been nominated by members of the GHS faculty for the
title of Principal of the year. This is a national award spon
sored by the Craft Educational Services.
When A. P. Routh became principal of GHS in 1934, he had
already earned an A.B. degree from Columbia University. In
addition, he was a classroom; veteran of eight years. As direc
tor and business manager of
'VS' Features Activities
Ot High School Students
other groups appearing
from Grimsley will be the Cor
dovas and the First Two. The
Cordovas became quite popu-
lar last summer entertaining their
audiences with some of their own
creations such as “Triffid Lulla
by’’ and “A Child’s World”.
Villagers
Page will also furnish the Vil
lagers, a group that is comical as
well as being vocally talented. The
Villagers are the originators of
the popular local song “George
A. Grimsley.” The Lantern Bear
ers from Southeast Guilford will
be the other high school group
participating in the hootenanny.
Formerly known as the Oarsmen,
the Southeast group also enter
tained at several hootenannies this
past summer.
The Sandpipers of UNCCH and
the Crescendos from UNC-G will
round out the eight-group sched
ule. The Crescendos, an all-girl
group, have been entertaining for
several years but converted folk
music only last summer.
The event will be sponsored by
the Guilford County Teenage
March of Dimes Committee. All
proceeds will go toward reaching
the goal set by the committee, as
all groups participating in the
hootenanny are donating their
services.
Correction
The young committee will also
sponsor a city-wide collection on
January 25. Service clubs from the
local high schools will participate.
Members of the singing groups
from Grimsley include: Cordovas,
Bill Wagoner, Chip Leslie, Dave
Nard, Ray Perry, Kevin Reid;
Queen’s Men, Jerry Jernigan,
Charles Sherrill, A1 Lineberry, and
Dargan Frierson.
Various groups that are to per
form at the Hootenanny will be
previewed for several weeks on
the WFMY-TV’s teen-age broad
cast “US”.
“US,” a new television show
fort and featuring Greensboro’s
youth, premiered January 9 on
Channel 2 at 5:15 p.m. The pro
gram is to feature some of the
different activities of the high
schools with guests in the studio
from different service clubs and
organizations.
This program indicates that
Dave Wright is trying to make a
comeback after the death of
“Dance Party.” It still has top ten
tunes and features dancing. The
major differences lie in clubs be
ing invited instead of schools and
having short filmstrips of school
activities, all connected with mu
sic, however.
“US” has many humorous spots
that add tremendously to the pro
gram. It is good amusement but
does not offer the informative
bulletins it should and those it
does do not include any details.
athletics he had gained much
insight into the workings of a
high school, and after being
drafted for the non-glorious job
of coaching the “scrub” football
team, his roots were firmly plant
ed.
His ability to get things done
was soon noticed by his boss,
C. W. Phillips, and he became his
right-hand man; for all practical
purposes, he was assistant prin
cipal, although the title was not
created for some years. When
Phillips resigned, the affable,
young red-head was named chief
executive of the school and has
continued in the same position
for nearly thirty years.
In thinking of the qualities
which make him worthy of the
title Principal of the Year, a
teacher who has both agreed and
disagreed with him for many years
remembers, not only his gift for
making master schedules, but oth
er things as well, trivial things,
but important, too. One picture
indelibly etched on the brain is
of a man sneaking in a window
and shinnying up and over a tran
som to retrieve newspaper copy
which had to be in the printer’s
hands within the hour to make
the deadline. In other words, “A
good man and true.”
Public Schools Discuss
Advanced Placement
Greensboro Public Schools are discussing the possibilities of
entering into the Advanced Placement Program.
The Advanced Placement Program is the system of giving
college credit to a subject taken in high school. Three of . its
purposes are to encourage schools to establish college-level
courses for their best students, to provide course descriptions
and examinations based on their courses, and to urge colleges
properly to place and credit
the successful candidates.
The idea for the program is
based on the assumption that
some twelfth grade students can
do college freshman work, and
that achievement should be rec
ognized and rewarded.
The proper execution of the
plan tends to eliminate waste of
time, stimulates desire for
achievement, and encourages
schools and colleges to work to
gether.
Product of CEEB
This nine year program is a
product of the College Entrajice
Examination Board, which is a
non-profit organization.
The examinations for the Ad
vanced Placement Program are on
the college level. Courses offered
are American history, biology, and
Spanish. The examinations are
prepared by a committee of five
teachers, and the Educational
Testing Service. They last for
three hours, and the results are
sent to the college of the stu
dent’s choice. The program has
no formal membership and a
school that wishes to undertake
advanced work does not need to
secure the College Board’s per
mission to do so.
A student is carefully selected
for the program. His parents must
approve of the courses, he must
be a volunteer who is interested,
he must have his teacher’s rec
ommendation, he must have a
good record, and he must be in
good physical and mental health.
Examinations
The examinations in 1964 will
be given the week of May 18 to
May 22 by schools throughout the
country.
The Committee on Advanced
Placement is proud of the fact
that more than one-fourth of our
nation’s colleges and universities
are using the program to place
and credit able young men and
women.
Dale To Be Chosen
For Speech Contest
The 18th annual Voice of De
mocracy-Speech Contest is ‘again
being held this year, however a
definite date has not yet been set.
Any high school student is eligi-
ble.
This year’s contest topic is
“What Should Be the Foreign Pol
icy of the U. S. in 1964?”
The winner of the speech con
test will be awarded the “World
Peace” gold key, and a four day
trip to New York City, the Unit
ed Nations Building, and Washing
ton, D.C. The trip will begin on
April 12 and extend through
April 15, 1964.
The Organization which spon
sors the contest is directed by the
University of N.C. at Chapel Hill.
The purposes of the contest arc:
to stimulate interest and to fur
nish information on the problems
of World Peace. The aim is to
reach not only high school pupils
but through them the masses of
our people, upon whose collective
conjuction, eventual World Peace
hinges.
Past speech topics have been:
“Is World Government the Path
to Peace?,” “What is the Respon
sibility of the U.S. in World Af
fairs?,” “The Achievements and
the Prospects of the U.N.,” and
“The Responsibilities of the UJf,
to World Peace.”
Explanation
Please excuse any discrepan
cies in HIGH LIFE this issue.
These resulted from necessary
postponement in distribution
because of last week’
holidays.
Between East and West
Exchange Student Cites
Examples Of Difference
Grimsley High School recently welcomed Hans-Reiner Trc-
bin of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany as a member of its stu
dent body.
Reiner is here under the sponsorship of GHS’s Interact Club.
A classmate of his in Regensburg, who had been an exchange
student in America, informed him of the Greensboro Rotary
Club’s desire to sponsor a foreign student. Reiner wrote and
sent his grades to the Regens
burg Rotary Club and was se
lected out of three boys.
At an interview January 7
with High Life reporters, Reiner
told of his arrival in New York.
His jet landed about 5 p.m., Jan.
2. He was met by Bill Her, pres
ident of Grimsley’s Interact Club,
Mr. McMillan, Rotary Club advis
or to Interact, and Jurgen Dahm
of Regensburg, a student at Page
High School this year. Said Rei
ner, “In New York we went first
to a Bavarian . . . restaurant . . .
and took a ‘typical Bavarian
meal.’ ” As might be expected,
“No, it wasn’t typical.”
The next day the four went
sightseeing. They saw such land
marks as the Empire State Build
ing and the United Nations. Rei
ner found the sight of so many
skyscrapers “overwhelming” and
“a great experience.” Later in the
day they set out for Greensboro
in Mr. McMillan’s car. “At mid
night we were in Washington. At
midnight we visited the capital.”
They arrived in Greensboro about
6 a.m. Saturday morning.
What were some of Reiner’s
first impressions of Greensboro
and the United States? Greensboro
houses are lower than German
ones. Greensboro has more open
spaces, it has trees between the
houses, and the houses appear
more private. Germany has nar
rower streets, many historical
buildings, and more people in
smaller areas. There are no golf
areas in Regensburg.
Reiner observed that cars are
bigger and more numerous in the
United States. He noticed that
many American families have two
or three cars. “In Germany one
family has one car. If the family
has money she buys not two cars,
but a larger car.” “I see the
Americans don’t like to walk. Hi
Germany it is kind of a sport to
walk on Sundays . . .”
There are eight grades in the
thirteen-year German school sys
tem. The first four grades make up
elementary school. After that,
there are several different Irinds
of high schools, called gymnas-
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