VOLUME XLI GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH, GREENSBORO, N.C., OCT. 13, 1964 NUMBER 2
YCCA Sponsors Press Conferences
To Improve Student Interest In World
In cooperation with the Greensboro Jaycees, the Mayor’s Youth Council on Civic Affairs
win sponsor interviews of famous persons by local high school students.
The Jaycees, whose three hundred members represent every fielid of business, politics,
and medicine in the city, will inform the Council whenever they hear of illustrious men and
women planning to visit Greensboro. Co-ordinators from the YCCA and Jaycess will select an
appropriate reporter from each city and county school to participate in a press conference.
There will be a total of about fifteen or sixteen school representatives at each interview.
Co-ordinators will set up the time and location of the interview.
Each reporter will be expected
to do research on the personage
he is interviewing and on the
field of the speaker. In addition the
journalists will be given an in
struction sheet to help them dur
ing the conference and when writ
ing it up afterwards.
Newspaper Coverage
Following the press conference
each reporter will compose an
article from the interviewer. One
copy is to be printed in the stu
dent’s school newspaper. Another
copy will be submitted to the Jay
cees.
After the reports are judged,
the best one will be published in
the “Teen-Age Record” pages of
the “Greensboro Record.” The
Jaycees miay present a cash award
for the year’s best article from
the press conferences.
Purpose of Interviews
The purposes of these interviews
with well-known national figures
are to encourage improvement of
journalism in the city, and, per
haps more important, to stimulate
the interest of local students in
the affairs of the world.
Applications for student report
ers will be available around the
middle or end of October. Appli
cants will indicate in what fields,
such as politics, home economics,
business, or music, their interests
lie. YCCA and Jaycee co-ordina-
tors will keep applications on file
so that they can match reporters
with personages of similar fields
and interests.
Th Mayor’s Youth Council on
Civic Affairs is advised by the
Youth Planning Council and is
sponsored by the Greensboro Parks
and Recreation Department head
ed by Joanne Taylor, Youth Co
ordinator.
New Scolarship
For Photographers
For the first tie in the history
of the Scholastic Photography
Awards, a $1,000 college scholar
ship grant will be awarded to a
high school senior demonstrating
a combination of outstanding
photographic ability and high aca
demic standing and promise. Judg
ing will be based on a portfolio
of twelve examples of the stu
dent’s best photographic work.
All students in grades 7 through
12 are eligible to enter black-and-
white prints, color prints, and
color transparencies. In addition
to the scholarship grant, 263
awards totalling $5,675 will be
awarded for the best work in both
the black-and-white and color
classifications.
As a division of the Scholastic
Art Awards program, the Photog
raphy Awards first give students
in more than 40 regional exhibi
tions across th? country. Gold
achievement keys and certificates
of merit are awarded by regional
sponsors.
The work of national award-
winners will be exhibited in New
York City in the spring, and will
receive further recognition
through a traveling exhibit which
will tour schools across the coun
try.
September 15, the Grimsiey
members of the Mayor’s Youth
Council held a school wide regis
tration. The purpose of the regis
tration was to select various GHS
students to serve on school com
mittees.
Ellen Kay, chairman of the
YCCA’s publicity and special
events committee announced her
assistants as Babs Jones, Kathy
Hutton, and Bryant Holsenbeck.
Babs will serve as the school pub
licity chairman with Kathy and
Brj^ant on the YCCA bulletin
board.
Gail Millians will work with
Diane Mitchell and Anne Walker
on the Youth Week committee.
They will be in charge of Grims-
ley’s participation in this city
wide program to be held in the
spring.
In charge of the coliseum ticket
sales will be Huttie Kent. Places
on the Talent Festival committee
are yet to be filled.
Ken Bell is the school chairman
for “Feedback,” which is the thir
ty minute radio program spon
sored by the Mayor’s Youth Coun
cil. Although formal registration
for his committee has been closed,
a few places have not been filled.
Applications for the Youth Jury
may be obtained from Ruth Petty,
chairman of the Friends of the
Court committee.
Other chairmen include Ellen
Taylor, editor of the “Teen-Age
Record” and Jane Turpin who is
responsible for “US.”
Machine Rules Office
There is a new assistant in the Grimsiey Senior High School
office. This assistant can take on an amount of work that
would normally require the combined efforts of several
teachers doing hours of hard work. With an almost inex*-
haustable supply of information, the new helper can record
endless yards of information without feeling the least bit
tired. Anything that is dictated to the wonder will be taken
down and remembebred perfectly.
The office assistants initials are
Committee Members
Announced By YCCA
EDPM which stands for Electronic
Data Processing Machine. Most
people would probably recognize
its more familiar name of com
puter.
The main purpose in bringing an
EDPM to our school is to help re
lieve teachers of extra work that
takes them away from the class
room. In addition to saving a great
deal of time and effort in compil
ing facts the processing machine
can produce more accurate, legible
facts for planning schedules and
will help keep such general infor
mation as attendance records In
order.
The Electronic Data Processing
Machine is obviously much too
complicated to discuss at any
length, but to understand any
thing about this computer, one
must at least have a definition.
Data processing is the method of
assimulating filing, and sorting of
information. To accomplish this
the computer has four levels of
organization.
“A” character is the smallest
unit of information in a system.
It might be a number, letters or
a symbol.
“A” word consists of one or
more characters treated as a unit.
“A” file is a series of records.
It is broken into units. If the
records are on paper or cards, the
file occupies drawers; if the file
is on magnetic tape reels are used.
The new machine will be used
for such jobs as keeping attend
ance records, and making out re
ports.
For presentation at the annual awards day assembly is a new cup,
tihe John D. Gaddy Trophy for the Best Critical Article. The criteria
for this award include the printing of at least three articles of critical
analysis in a student publication.
New Award To Be Given
For Best Critical Article
John Gaddy will present a cup
to the High Life staff this spring
to be awarded each year to the
best critical writer in the hope of
creating more interest on the part
of the student body.
The recipient of the award does
not necesarily have to be a mem
ber of the newspaper staff or of
the journalism class, as the major
ity of ^the critical writing in the
past and reviews have been done
by outside persons. It is awarded
by a three member committee on
the provision that the recipient
have had at least three critical
Or satire articles to apear in High
Life within a given period of time.
John is a member of the busi
ness staff of High Life and has
been active in writing news, fea
tures, and other types of articles,
his specialty being critical reviews.
The cup wil be awarded to this
year’s winner at the annual recog
nition ceremonies to be held this
spring. The recipient of the award
will have his name and the year
engraved on the cup.
Three New Courses
Added To Curriculum
Courses in food processing, mar
keting, and remedial reading will
be offered at GHS for the first
time.
If a student is planning to go
into work dealing with foods, such
as dietitionary work or waiting on
tables, the food processing course
would be a good preparation.
Taught by Miss Elizabeth Bird,
this course is offered to people
who are 17-18 years of age for
one credit per semester. The
course, besides teaching facts, lets
the student observe for herself
what she learns. Twenty-five hours
are alloted per semester for ob
servation.
The course prepares a girl to
operate efficiently and gives point
ers on looking neat and getting
Si
IX
Orchestra Members
Perform With Symphony
Six members of the Grimsiey or
chestra have been invited to per-
orm with the Grensboro Sympho
ny. Lauren Scott, Susan Henley,
Nancy Coble, Barbara Long, Char-
leen Pyron, and Lynn Labell re
ceived this honor along with two
Page students and one from Smith.
The Grensboro Symphony, di
rected by Mrs. Thomas Cousins,
otherwise contains professionals.
They rehearse once a week in
order to present five concerts a
year. These concerts feature both
classical and contemporary music.
The first concert, September 24,
was a “pops” concert. This was
termed a great success and was
very popular with the many young
people in the audience. February
16, is the second date on the cal
endar for the symphony.
Auditions will be held in Janu
ary for anyone under twenty-five
who wishes to join the Symphony.
Results would be announced in
time to perform February 16, if
the auditioner was successful.
Three orchestra members from
Grimsiey also play in the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Greens
boro Symphonia. Two of these,
members also of the symphony:
are Lauren Scott and Nancy Coble.
The other is Henry Adams, a bass
player.
The UNC-G Symphonia is small
er than the Symphony. It gives
five concerts a year for which
there is no admission charge.
These are presented in the recital
hall of the Music Building at
UNC-G.
The first presentation of the
Symphonia will be Sunday, No
vember 22. Several solos will be
included on the program.
The Grensboro Symphony, UNC-
G Symphonia, and Little Orches
tra are just a few of the many
cultural main stays that Greens
boro is privileged to have. In or
der to retain these, they must be
given full support. The best factor
is that they offer much to all ages.
along well with others. It also
teaches government regulations
and the tactful way of interview
ing for a job.
Miss Elizabeth Bird is one of
the few teachers qualified to teach
this course. She majored in home
economies at the University of
North Carolina and took a dietetic
course for one year at Duke Medi
cal Center. She also worked at the
University of Tennessee in nutri
tion.
Marketing .taught by Mrs. Mar
garet Hadden, is offered to any
junior who expects to enter some
field of distribution. It is a re
quired course for all students whO'
plan to enter the Senior Distribu
tive Education Program.
One credit per semester is given
for this course. The subject mat
ter pertains to the total field of
distribution. This includes adver
tising, displays, sales development,
business communications, and or
ganization for business. Field trips,
creative marketing projects, and
participation in contests such as
job application, advertising, ad
layout and copy writing will be
part of the instruction given in
the course.
Reading, taught by Miss Sue-
Underhill, is a one semester-
course. This course helps the stu
dent learn to comprehend what he
reads. Speed and getting the main
ideas of a paragraph is also prac
ticed in this course. By the end
of the semester students should-
be able to comprehend from 90
to 100% of what they read in one
minute. They should also be able
to read 400 words a minute with
this percent of comprehension.
This course is also the study of
words, their suffixes, and the com
bining of words.