Torchlight Insreases Ranks
With 24 New Members
Seldom seen, hut usually heard by the exiting assembly audiences, are the congratula
tions of old and new members of Torchlight at the end of the tapping ceremony. HIGH
LIFE reveals the true activity of the triumphant moment. All of the members do not real
ly like to pose for pictures.
In its spring tapping, the Torch
light Honor Society inducted 24
members of the junior and senior
classes to complete its member
ship fop the 1964-65 school year.
Those chosen were Steve Adair,
Barbara Allen, Roger Arhart, Su
san Boatner, Paula Breger, Bar
bara Britton, Marianne Buie, Steve
Cumbie, Beccy Dinkle, Dorie Eld-
ridge. Judy Ellstrom, and Susan
Lashley.
Mary Ann Maddox, John Mc-
Nairy, Dean Morgan, Carol Nuss-
baum. Bill Parker, Henry Perry,
Bruce Petty, Kathy Pierce, Sharon
Rogers. Cindy Speas, Jane Turpin,
and Tim Weikel complete the
roster of new members.
Each of the inductees was se
lected by a vote of the faculty
which based their election upon
each individual’s contribution to
the school and community through
leadership, scholarship, character,
and service
All of the new Torchlight mem
bers will help complete the work
on the annual Talent Show which
is scheduled for presentation in
the assembly on March 23.
The first tryouts for the show
were held on March 10 with a
second day for auditions slated on
Mach 18. Following the accept
ance of the acts, rehearsals will
be held before the final presen
tation.
First prize in the Talent Show
will be $10. while the act taking
second place will be awarded
$5. A panel of judges from out
side the school will be selected
to determine the winners. An
example of the talent exhibited
in the annual show is its last
year's winner, Nancy Rhoades,
who has gone beyond this to wii|
other honors.
Tickets to the show can be
purchased from all Torchlight
members for 25c. The proceeds
from the sales will be used to
pay for the $200 scholarship
which if annually presented to
some deserving senior.
In its other project, the tutor
ing service, Torchlight members
are aiding 130 students who need
assistance with their studies. Car
ol Bowen, president of Torch
light, stated the feelings of the
group as hoping that “it has made
a significant difference in these
students scholastically”.
VOLUME XLI
GRIMSLEY SENIOR HIGH, GRE ENSBORO, N. C., MAR. 15, 1965
NUMBER 10
Duke Hosts Science Symposium
Duke University, site of the 1965 North Carolina Junior Science and Humanitarian Symposi
um, will play host to four GHS students March 28-30 in a three day science conference.
Hardin Matthews, Kathy Pearce, Janice Rone, and Johnny Sparrow have been selected to
represent GHS at the Science Symposium. Mr. A. Monroe Snider, chemistry teacher, will be
the faculty representative accompanying the group.
Approximately 160 North Carolina high school sophomore and junior students along with
forty accompanying science teachers will attend the symposium.
Invitations are extended to a
Grimes Reconsiders Offer
Of Morehead Scholarship
At the fifteenth presentation of Morehead Scholarships,
David Grimes was awarded one of the 67 grants of $5800 to
study four years at the University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill.
Preceding the awards ceremony on March 1 was a weekend
of intense tension as all of the nominees for the scholarships
gathered in Chapel Hill for their personal interviews, the
final step in determining the recipients of the awards.
Each Morehead scholar was pre^
sented his award on the basis
of outstanding merit as reflected
in academic ability and attain
ment, character, leadership, am
bition, imselfish service and phys
ical vigor, without consideration
list of schools by the North Caro
lina Academy of Science. Those
delegates selected to attend the
symposium are chosen by the
Academy on the basis of the stu
dents individual merit.
“Research in Progress, Science
in the Making,” the theme of the
symp(^ium, reflects the two ma
jor aspects; lectxires on contem
porary science by outstanding sci
entist and visits to research lab
oratories.
Delegates will take field trips
by bus to scientific and research
projects and laboratories. There,
they will tour the facilities and
hear explanations by research
workers and take part in small
informal discussions.
The diversified program will be
led by professional scientist. Fea
tured parts include lectures by
student scientists and eminent re
search scientists along with ses
sions in which career opportuni-
tie in science will be discussed
by the students with aid from sci
entists on all levels.
Outstanding high school stu
dents. chosen by the North Caro
lina Academy of Science, will pre
sent papers concerning their
achievements in various fields of
science.
The delegates to the symposium
who will be receiving an all ex
penses paid trip, will make The
Jack Tar Hotel in Durham their
headquarters. From this location
they will meet other North Caro
lina students who are interested
in science.
Originating in 1958, the North
Carolina Junior Science and Hu
manitarian Symposium seeks to
find talented young people and
to encourage the development of
their scientific interests and abil
ities.
Duke University, the U.S. Army
Research Office at Durham, the
North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, and the North
Continued on Page Five
Phillips Elected Chairman;
yCCA Congress Convenes
At the first National Congress
of Youth Councils on Civic Af
fairs, Vick Phillips, a senior at
Page High School, was elected to
the national board of directors
as one of the two representatives
from the Southern district.
After Vick’s election to the
national board he was also chosen
to be its chairman. Plans initiat
ing a national association and es
tablishing a committee to begin
the work for that project high
lighted the business session of
the meeting.
Aim of Organization
The three-day convention sought
Liability Insurance
Rates To Be Cut
In New Program
To reduce liability insurance
rates for boys under 25 years of
age, Hemper Insurance Company
is selecting paticipants for an ex
perimental group, whose function
will be to give a representative
evaluation of driving attitudes for
boys in this age group.
This Young Driver Education
Test has been developed to identi
fy the better than average young
driver. Any youth who achieves
the qualifying score on the test
will be eligible for a 10% reduc
tion on insurance rates under the
Hemper plan.
The only time that this will be
given is on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in the Woodward Building, on
Bishop Street. Each boy who pays
the higher insurance rates is in
vited to try the test and perhaps
save some of his own or his par
ents money.
to organize all separate Youth
Councils into one national orga
nization. the aim of which is to
“promote an interest, study, and
participation in all civic affairs
affecting the Youth of America;
to offer a medium for the ex
change of mutual problems and
programs; to meet and effectively
deal with the problems of school
drop-outs, youth employment, vo
cational problems, youth offend
ers, and other youth and commun
ity problems.”
A bill is now before Congress
to incorporate the Y.C.C.A., there
by making it a non-profit organi
zation capable of receiving grants
of money from interested groups
and individuals. The name of the
association will be the Youth
Council on Civic Affairs and will
be officially referred to as the
Y.C.C.A.
History of Y.C.C.A,
Youth Councils began simultan
eously in many sections of the
country to try to deal with young
people. Each Council adopted the
plans and procedures which best
met the problems of their part of
the country.
Regardless of the fact that the
procedures were different, each
council amazingly adopted the
polocy of “Peer Psychology” or
the principle of youth working
with youth. Each council recog
nized that teen-agers are far bet
ter equipped to work with other
teen-agers than are adults too far
removed from teen-age life.
Until the convention, each of
the Youth Councils had func
tioned alone, unaware of the oth
er Councils arising all over the
country.
Youth Jury Marks Recognition
In January 1964. the Youth
Council on Civic Affairs, inc., of
Jacksonville, Florida, having be
come familiar with many Youth
Councils throughout the nation
because of the nationwide public
ity of their Youth Jury program,
called a meeting of all the exist
ing Youth Councils.
The representatives to this First
Annual Seminar realized the need
for a National Association to “aid
in communication among existing
Youth Councils and to help other
Youth Councils get started” with
out wasting so much time on the
“trial and error” methods pre
viously used.
A National Affairs Committee
Continued on Page Six
of need.
The considerations which placed
David among the 67 award win
ners also impressed the office of
admission at Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In an application which David
submitted earlier this year, he
requested financial aid in meet
ing his educational expenses. On
the same day of the Morehead
announcement, he was notified in
a telegram that Harvard would
provide the necessary aid “to
meet our estimate of your need.”
Along with, the news of the
grant from Harvard came a sum
mation of their feelings about
David which fotmd him “excep
tionally well qualified personally
and academically for Harvard.”
Deciding on the school which
to enroll became a simple matter
then, because of Harvard’s noti
fication and exceptional com
ments.
David notified the Morehead
Foundation of his wish to decline
the scholarship. Even though he
will forfeit monetary reward, Da
vid will still maintain the honor
Continued on Page Five
School Beautiful Drive Starts,
Goals Set, Assembly Planned
School Beautiful action has
shifted into first gear according
to Lari Powell and Tim Weikel,
co-chairmen, with an assembly
planned for this week and Satur
day workdays already organized
through May 1.
The School Beautiful assembly
this week will feature Mr. Eugene
Gulledge whose son, Keith, was
Senior class president and School
Beautiful chairman in 1963.
This year, the biggest goals set
for the beautification of Grims-
ley’s grounds include resoiling
and reseeding the front lawn,
adding new shrubery, planting a
hedge around the parking lot and
at the top of the girl’s athletic
field, and above all, envolving
every single Whirlie in the an
nual campaign.
The Interact Club plans to land
scape near the school sign at the
comer of Benjamin Parkway and
Westover Terrace, while the Key
Club will add shrubs to the area
around the Whirlie stadium sign.
In addition to the obvious im
provement that the judges will be
looking for on May 1—the gen
eral beauty of GHS—there are
five additional points unbeknO'Wn
to most students. These include
total student participation at
work days, the presence of gum
clogging the water fountains, coke
bottles lying around the campus,
cigarette butts littering each
square inch o-f the area, and the
monthly “spot-checking” of indi
vidual student lockers.
What’s the purpose of it all?
“To build civic pride in the stV
dents,” says Lari, “and we need
everyone’s support in the improve
ment of THEIR school!”