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Youtii Council Organizes Greensboro Teens
Te Greensboro Mayor’s Youth Council on Civic Affairs organizes its plans for the coming
year in one of its bi-monthly meetings.
HIGH LIFE
VOLUME XLI GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH, GREENSBORO, N.C., SEPT. 25, 1964
NUMBER 1
^High Life^ Subscription Campaign
Begins Wite 809^ As New Goal
HIGH LIFE with a record number of subscriptions last year (70% of the student body)
hopes to up its percentage of subsbcriptions to at least 80%. Many news articles and columns
have been initiated in this years edition to entice a larger number of subscribers.
Added to the columns introduced in last years experimental issue, “Tommyrot,” by Martin
Hester, and “Emily Stake’s Etiquette Column,” by Emily Stake, is a, new column known as
“Whirlies Whims and Wrispers.” This brings to light all of the latest grime at Grimsley. Also,
a takeoff on C. A. Paul’s column in the Sunday paper might prove to be effective.
In anticipation of its subscrip
tion drive, the HIGH LIFE staff
drafted members of the art classes
to make posters advertising this
year’s paper. The posters have
been on exhibit in the main halls
of each of the buildinfs since Mon
day of this week.
During the coming week, HIGH
LIFE staff members will be going
around to each homeroom with
subscription cards. Also, cards will
be available for signing during
break and at both of the lunch
periods.
Conserving the basic look and
style of last year's paper, HIGH
LIFE will again strive for perfec
tion in writing, according to Editor
Jane Turpin and Managing Editor,
John Giles. The staff is composed
of numerous individuals, not in
cluded in the masthead (a box on
the editorial page telling of the
editor and his jobs), who do the
writing, typing, circulating, and
other various jobs connected with
putting out a high school paper.
College Level History
Innovation At G H S
Advanced Placement European History, taught by Mrs.
larolyn Smith, room 5, is in the latest addition to the GHS
curriculum.
This college level course, for which sccessfui students can
receive college credit, is one of three such history courses in
the state, and the only one in the city. It was set up by the
College Entrance Examination Board with the approval of
the school board.
'High Life' To Acquire
Classified Ad Section
Beginning with the next issue
of HIGH LIFE, a section of
classified ads will be run as s
regular feature. These ads will
be available to any student oi
other persons who would like tc
place an ad in the paper.
Each ad will have a minimum
of three lines of type at a cost
of 35 cents per three lines. The
person who buys an ad must
pay for the entire space indi
cated.
....Classified ads can be used foi
mar.y purposes, such as adver
tising for services rendered oj
want ads for practically any
thing. Examples are selling ath
letic equipment, finding typists
for term papers and such, and
advertising for any article need
ed by a student.
Students, for tho first time
GHS, can easily advertise their
wants Or what they need to the
rest of the student body.
The class is made up of seniors
selected for their intelligence, in
terest, and achievement in history.
These twenty-four students will,
according to the outline by Mrs.
Smith, have “to read a minimum
of eight books during the year,
write on term paper per semester,
take numbers of essay tests, take
copious notes, and take parts in
discussions.”
European history from the fall
of Rome to 1939 will be covered,
much of it in detail. Three college
texts will be used, as well as ad
ditional sources, reports, term
papers ,and seminars. Each student
is expected to specialize on some
period of Europe’s history.
In May, a there examination will
be administered to the students
and then graded by CEEB in
Princeton, New Jersey. On the
basis of this test, students may
receive credit at college for their
work.
The Advanced Placement Pro
gram was begun by CEEB ten
years ago and has since been very
successful .according to many top
educators. This year at Harvard
University, one third of the fresh
men class has had the Advanced
placement courses in high school
Teen Shows To Begin
before entering the University.
This Winter
Orchestra Director
Local radio and television sta
tions have planned new and varied
programs this year aimed toward
the teen-age interests.
WPET will again present its
“Feedback” program, including in
the format plans for a teen-age
moderator and discussion groups
on pertinent questions affecting
today’s youths featuring adult
guests. This program will occupy
its regular time slot.
WFMY-TV’s “US” teen show
will feature an entirely new for
mat for the 1694-1965 season. With
the emphasis taken off dancing as
the only teen-age pasttime, such
items of interest as satire, talent,
etc., will also be included.
Takes Leave Of Absence
Mr. J. Kimball Harriman, su
pervisor of orchestras in the
Greensboro City Schools and di
rector of the GHS orchestra, has
taken a year’s leave of absence to
accept the position of Visiting As
sociate Professor of Music at the
University of Georgia in Athens,
Georgia.
Mr. Harriman, who has directed
the GHS orchestra for over twen
ty years, left in August to assume
his duties in Athens. His wife and
three children accompanied him.
The supervisor of orchestras
this year is Dr. Malvin Artley, for
merly supervisor in Burlington.
Miss Martha Leonard, former as
sociate conductor, is now directing
the GHS orchestra.
Mayor’s Youth Council
Sets Up Committees
In its second year of existence, the Mayor’s Youth Council
on Civic Affairs of Greensboro has devised a method by virhich
it can involve more of the youth of the city.
September 15, students in aU of the city’s six high schools
were given the opportunity to fill in application blanks for
any of the numerous positions open on the Council. These
positions were created to execute the many new plans and
projects planned by the YCCA for the coming year.
The Council is divided into
seven main committees: “Feed
back,” “US,” Beautification.
Friends o^f the Court, Publicity,
“Teen-age Record,” and Youth
Employment, each concerned with
one phase of the over-all plan of
the Council to organize the youth
of Greensboro. The projects have
already been planned for the 1964-
65 school year.
In the beautification depart
ment, school competition will con
tinue in Operation You-All as in
the past. Each school committee
will be given a kit containing rules
and helpful information. A project
termed “Festival of Lights” has
GHS Youths
Lead YCCA
Dick Levy, formerly of Curry
High School but now a student at
Grimsley High, was chosen by a
majority vote Chairman of the
Mayor’s Youth Council on Civic
Affairs at the first meeting held
in late May.
The rest of the executive board
is composed of Vice-Chairman
Jimmy Wilkins and Recording Sec
retary Miriam Early, both from
Grimsley; Treasurer Marsha Parks
from Dudley; and Project-Publicity
Chairman Ellen Kay; “Teen-Age
Record” Ellen Taylor, “US” Jane
Turpin (all from GHS); Beautifi
cation, Kathy Moore (Page);
“Feedback”, Susie Amici' (Smith);
Friends of the Court, Claudette
Alexander (Smith); and Youth
Employment and Volunteered, Ava
Stout (Page).
The Executive Board members
along with the council members at
large are appointed from each
school by application or by a com
bination of application and elec
tion. A committee composed of the
senior Youth Council members
and a faculty advisor appointed
by the principal of the school se
lects the new members each year.
The council also has a board of
ex-officio members which includes
the student body president of all
represented high schools
The representation from each
school is based upon that school’s
total enrollment in a pre-determin-
ed ratio.
Advised by the Youth Planning
Council, the YCCA is sponsored
by the Parks and Recreation de
partment headed by Youth Coordi
nator Joanne Taylor, who serves
as corresponding secretary and ex-
officio members of the Council.
The Council's relation to the
schools is on a cooperative basis.
The schools are asked to cooperate
in varying degrees in projects in
volving them as a whole. They may
vote to participate in Council
projects or not to participate.
Financial baking comes from do
nations and one fund-raising drive
per year. The money is used for
Youth Council projects, publicity,
and participation in international
Youth Council activities.
COACH BOB
been planned for the holidays in
which a secular Christmas scene
will be constructed in the form of
panels each of the city’s six high
schools being responsible for one
panel. When completed, the sev
eral stories-high scene will be San
ta, his sleigh and reindeer, a
house, and a Christmas tree.
Student Participation
“Feedback” will present an en
tirely new type of show, different
schools being responsible for form
ing each show. Panel discussions
will center around guest speakers
talking on interesting and contro
versial questions which are im
portant to the teen-age population.
Friends of the Court will contin
ue its training sessions for stu
dents who will take part on the
youth jury. The FOTC will spon
sor an essay contest entitled “The
Teen-Ager and His Responsibility
to the Law,” for which a cash
prize will be awarded to the first-
place winner. The committee is
also debating placing case boards
in the main hall of each of the
schools. The boards would serve
as records of all cases convicted
from that school. A green light
will burn on the school board until
after someone from that school is
cnvicted, in which case the red
light will burn for 24 hours after
wards.
Featuring an improved, more in
teresting and organized page, the
“Teen-Age Record” will this year
include features, editorials, can
did shots, and other items of teen
age interest.
New “US”
Operating on an entirely new
time slot to be announced later,
the “US” television show has or
ganized all new and better shows
featuring such items as high
school competition similar to col
lege bowls, a Huntley-Brinkley
system of high school reporters,
special interviews with well-known
personalities, dancing to the top
tunes, and special talent and sa
tire productions.
The drama departments of each
of six city schools will be asked
to plan the satire each week on a
rotation basis.
Youth Employment
September 30 WFMY-TV pre
sents the complete story of Coach
Bob Jamieson, who is now enter
ing his thirtieth year of coaching
at Grimsley. The half-hour pro
gram, beginning at 8:00 p.m. will
feature highlights of his career.
A complete program has been
initiated by the Youth Employ
ment and Volunteers branch of
the YCCA for the purpose of in
forming teen-agers about job open
ings. New part-time jobs and vol
unteer positions are in the process
of being created.
Publicity and Special Events
comprise a major portion of the
Council. A Talent Festival is to be
presented in mid-March in which
talent and special acts will be
gathered from youth from all over
the city. In the spring one week
will be set aside as Youth Week
in recognition of outstanding
Greensboro youths. A Mayor and
City Council will be selected, and
the Youth Week will end with the
annual Teen-Age Carnival to be
held again at Friendly Shopping
Center.
The YCCA will also sponsor a
block of tickets to most of the
Coliseum shows which will be
made available to teens at reduced
rates. These advance tickets will
be sold through a regular booth
set up for that purpose in each of
the schools. This will comprise
the Council’s one money-making
project for the year.