Youth Jury Established
By City of Greensboro
According to all indications, Greensboro win have estab
lished its first Youth Jury by the time this article is in print.
An open meeting was to be held February 11 in order to discuss
the type of jury. At this meeting the members of a special com
mittee were presenting their report on the subject and sug
gestions for the application of this system in our municipal
courts system.
Shown above is the official Grimsley High emblem initiated by the Interact Club
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VOLUME XL GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH, GREENSBORO, N. C., FEB. 14, 1964 NUMBER 8
Beautification Committee Plans Cleanup
Of Benjamin-Westover Terrace Corner
Grimsley’s School Beautiful Committee has made big plans for the spring in an attempt to
play up the attractiveness of GHS campus.
The group’s special project for second semester is the cleaning up of the campus area at the
corner of Benjamin Parkway and Westover Terrace. This corner is seen daily by many motor
ists, whose opinion of the school may be lowered by unsightliness on the campus, and traffic
past the corner will increase as Highway 220 is routed down Benjamin Parkway. A sign bear
ing the name “Grimsley Senior High School” will be set up on the corner. Grimsley’s Interact
Club will landscape the area
around the sign.
An important event to look
forward to April 16-17 is a
statewide garden tour, which will
not only visit private homes and
gardens, but will also tour the
Grimsley campus.
Service Clubs Act
Grimsley’s service clubs play a
big part in the beautification of
the campus. In addition to con
tributing $50 or more to the School
Beautiful Fund, each club furnish
es workers. Clubs have been re
sponsible for landscaping and
maintaining the planting boxes in
the grove between the band build
ing and the main building. Shrubs
were provided by the Greensboro
City School Maintenance Depart
ment. Each service club has a
project for the spring. The
Charioteers will do further work
on the large planting box and
will put up a bird bath. Pan
sies will be planted by O. Henry
Juniors, who have already planted
flower bulbs. Seniorettes and Jun
ior Exchangettes will clean up
the area around the steps leading
to the parking lot.
Junior Civitans plan to level
Okefenokee, plant grass, and put
in a gravel walk. The area behind
the science building will be work
ed on by the Key Club. Members
of the Junior Exchange Club will
work on an area between the cafe
teria and Benjamin Parkway.
Grounds around the boys’ gym will
be drained, and the area beautified
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McCall Scores High
Fred McCall, a senior in Mrs. Moody’s homeroom V-64,
recently made exceptionally high scores on his College Board
examinations.
When the College Boards were given in January, Fred spent
six hours on his tests. The tests included three achievement
tests and the Scholastic Aptitude test.
Scores have recently been returned to the school, and al
though it cannot officially be
announced, it is understood
that Fred’s scores were un
usually high. He made two per
fect scores on achievement tests
and two nearly perfect scores on
the rest of the examination.
Although Fred expressed sur
prise at his feat, members of the
Grimsley High School Guidance
staff were not. They all seemed
to expect such high scores from
a student who “applies himself
so well.”
Many other GHS students made
the top brackets with their high
College Board scores.
Exchangettes To Give
latent Show
The Junior Exchangette Service
Club of Grimsley Senior High will
be giving a talent show, February
25th at Starmount Presbyterian
Church.
Joan McNairy is producer-direc
tor, and scout for the show. »
Films Shown To JCD
By Mims And iernigan
In a meeting of the Grimsley
chapter of the Junior Classical
League held February 6, Miss
Mims, head of the GHS English
department, and Jerry Jernigan,
a senior, each discussed his stay
in Rome. Parker Norman, presi
dent, introduced the guest speak
ers after a few brief announce
ments were made.
While Jerry showed slides of
his trip throughout Italy and
Greece, Miss Mims supplemented
his various pictures of Rome with
brief antedotes of her experiences
in “the eternal city” and Flor
ence. Miss Mims also gave a resu
me of her stay in Italy after all
the slides had been shown. Among
the highlights of her tour was a
show called “son et humiere” in
the Roman Forum which was made
very impressive by special light
ing effects. Also brought to the
meeting were two small stones,
one from the Forum and the other
from the Circus.
The Youth Jury, whose ad
visor will presumably be Judge
Enochs, does not determine
the innolence or guilt of anp
defendant. In juvenile trials the
jul-y usually consisting of six
members between the ages of 16
and 19, will act only as “a friend
of the court.” In other words the
jurors are only able to recommend
a sentence to the judge. He may
then either accept, modify, or dis
card thei rdecisions. Although the
jury has no legal power over a
defendant, the psychological ef
fect of teen-agers judging their
peers has been proved in cities
like Jacksonville to be very ef
fective.
Initiated By Club
Greensboro’s Youth Jury wes its
existence to many people; but it
was Grimsley’s Junior Civinettes
who initiated the action to obtain
a Youth Jury. Last fall as a proj
ect, they discussed the possibili
ties of establishing this type of
jury. In order to determine wheth
er their idea could be worked out,
they met in January with the
Mayor’s youth council. Mayor’s
Advisory Council, Civinettes, and
Civitans.
Later in January, several cty
officials were sent to Jacksonville
to observe the city’s Youth Jury.
They were as follows: Joanne
Taylor, Youth co-ordinator; Mr.
Percy Wall, member of the May
or’s Advisory Council and former
judge; Mrs. Coltrane, advisor for
the Grimsley Junior Civinettes;
and Ann Phillips, president of the
Jr. Civinettes. This committee
through their observations com
piled the report which dwelt with
starting a youth jury in Greens
boro.
History of Youth Jury
In August, 1962, the first Youth
Jury in the United States was es
tablished at Jacksonville, Florida.
Six members of this jury sat each
week in judgment of their fellow
teen-agers With Judge John E.
Santora as the advisor since its
beginning, the jury has accom
plished much in restoring respect
for the laws and those who enforce
them. When the city was asked
what proof it could give of the
jury’s usefulness, Jacksonville re
sponded with a statement that Its
juvenile records has diminished
by almost one-half. Other cities
and states which have pioneered
in this new system included Ohio,
Minnesota, South Dakota, and San
Francisco.
Greensboro Improves Jury
Although the philosophy behind
the Youth Jury was a sound and
good idea, many flaws existed in
the Jury. Greensboro has done
more to improve this system than
any other city or state. By alter
ing many of the first’s procecd-
ures, our Youth Jury became one
in which the students who serve
receive both knowledge and a
greater appreciation of the regular
judicial framework.
Many improvements included in
the proposed plan are as follows;
(1) Training in the sentencing
of clases will be given each juror.
(2) Because Greensboro’s Youth
Jury will be composed of two six-
men juries, after the first case is
heard, the first jury may retire,
and deliberate, or ask additional
questions of the defendant.
(3) The Greensboro schedule is
set so that almost all juvenile
cases will be tried within the pre
scribed time. In this way the
Youth Jury will not have to sit
through long hours of trials in
which it is not involved.
These methods enable the stu
dents to reach a more just and
mature decision.
The Greensboro Youth Jury will
operate on the basis of two six-
men jurys per week and two al
ternates. Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday between 3 and 5 p.m. will
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Expansion of Program
Seen For Summer
City manager, George AuU, will propose the expansion of
the Youth Employment Program this year. The proposal is for
Greensboro’s summer Y E P to have full-time jobs included in
the program as well as part time jobs.
First summer members of the program are paid seventy-
five cents per hour. Mr. Aull will also include in' his proposal
that young persons returning as members for the second sum
mer be paid eightv-five cents
per hour. Record Sclects Dalton
recommendation so that it will As Official Photographer
be ready for the City Council
meeting of March 3, 1964.
The program was initiated last
summer. Seventy-seven boys and
girls were chosen from two-hun
dred-sixty-one applicants of rising
tenth, eleventh, and twelfth gra
ders. June graduates were also
accepted. The program was offer
ed so as to provide part-time em
ployment to those who might oth
erwise become dropouts. At the
same time, these seventy-seven
were doing needed work for the
city.
'The cost of the program for a
ten week period with boys and
girls working four hours a day
was approximately eleven thou
sand dollars. These youths worked
as playground helpers, park labor
ers, painters, carpenters, typists,
and other miscellaneous workers.
Several who were not accepted
were referred to other employers.
The department heads were
quite pleased with the co-opera
tion given them by these youths.
A larger number of membership
is expected this year.
Don Dalton
Don Dalton, a junior at Grims
ley High School, has recently been
elected as official photographer
for the “Teen-Age Record,” the
student section which appears in
the “Greensboro Record” every
Tuesday evening.