VOLUME XLII GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., OCT. 18, 1965
NUMBER 5
Grimsiey’s Pat Cochran To Represent
Greensboro In Miss Teen-age America
At the stroke of 11:00 one Saturday night, some local judges searching for a Miss Teen-age
Greensboro found just the girl in Grimsley’s Pat Cochran!
Thus, on October 23, Pat and her mother will be whisked off on an all-expense paid trip
to Dallas to represent her home town in the Miss Teen-age America contest. To say good-bye
to Pat at the airport wiU be the Grimsiey Marching Band.
First runner-up was from Notre
Dame, second runner-up from
Page, and third and fourth from
Grimsiey and High Point Central.
Judges were Bob Chesson,
WGHP-TV, Linda Blair, current
Miss Greensboro, Dr. Herman
Middleton, dramatics professor at
UNC-G. Lora Strasses, dancer,
and Jack Markhan, WFMY-TV.
For her talent selection Pat
wrote lyrics to the tune of “5’2”;
and sang it and played it on the
piano.
Two other girls from North
Carolina will be journeying to
Dallas. They are the Teen-age
Queens of Winston-Salem and
Charlotte. Miss Teen-age Amer
ica competition is composed of
60 girls.
“I entered for the experience
and to meet the challenge it
would bring and to know new
people!” stated Pat.
“I learned about many differ
ent schools, but of course, Grims
iey is the best!
“I hope I can live up to the
job of representing a typical
American teen-ager.”
All year, as Miss Teen-age
Greensboro, Pat will make per
sonal appearances and will also
be on television and radio. Ano
ther nice aspect is that she can
pick out her own clothes from
Meyer’s. Pat plans to choose a
four-season wardrobe.
o
Sophomore Enthusiasm
Sweeps Campus
“Quick, here they come! Get
ready, get set, go!”
After the Presentation Assem
bly of the candidates for offices
in the Sophomore Class these
wiqirds were frantically uttered
by campaign managers and staff
of each candidate.
“No posters were to be dis
played or handbills given out till
after the assembly”, was an im
portant regulation for the Soph
omore Elections. With this in
mind the students were let out
of the pen to the slaughter of
ribbons and handbills pushed
down their throats.
Perhaps noticed was the fact
that there was allowed only a
certain number of posters for
each deserving candidate. Also,
each candidate was alloted an ex
pense account according to the
offices for which they were run
ning. Even with these limitations
names got around to the unsus
pecting voters.
Where oh where are all of the
posters oh where oh where can
they be? Outside of all the build
ing if their creators smart. They
must not be found inside or off
goes the head or in other words
the name from the ballot.
With all these rules and regu
lations, high spirits still pre
vailed throughout the week. A
sense of fair play surrounded the
entire campaign.
Friday. October 8. was the end.
Then the voters were asked to
make the final choice. Who would
they choose? At approximately
3:10 the same afternoon the an
nouncement was made of the new
Sophomore Class Officers.
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Student Council Sessions
Prove Vivacious, Humorous
By Hallie Austin
“Our trashcans are painted
green, instead of the school col
ors of blue and, white, so that
they can be camouflaged.” This
is just one of the interesting re
ports made in Grimsley’s Student
Council.
Like any great legislative body,
Grimsley’s Council can make quite
a rumble until the president’s
gavel bangs on the desk and calls
them sharply to order.
Also like many a legislative
body which is ignored by the in
different populace it represents,
the GHS Council is apparently
considered unimportant, except at
election time, by many Whirlie
students.
Although Steve Cumbie offered
to let students with seventh per
iod study hall observe and par
ticipate in their own government,
attendance of non-council mem
bers is usually two.
Average Council proceedings
are often spirited and even hu
morous at times. Very definite
ideas are expressed and very oft
en there are disagreements. It is
not at all a group which thinks
and votes the same way on every
issue. The following account of
parts of the October 5 Council is
demonstrative.
After Steve called the meeting
to order and Craig Souza gave
devotions, Bryant Holsenbeck call
ed the roll and spurted off ten
minutes worth of minutes.
Next, Curtis Weaver, seemingly
a handyman, as he is YCCA Re
presentative, Suggestion Box
Chairman, and Constitution Chair
man, made his reports.
From the box came these pleas:
“Scrape the algae off the locker
room walls in the boys’ gym.”
“Build a motorcycle rack with
a roof to protect the bikes from
the rain.”
Nancy Richbourg next staggered
the Council with the report of
the unimaginable balance of
$106.70.
Suggestions for campus im
provement given to Mary Amend
chairman of the School Beautiful
Committee, included the addition
of steps to the tennis courts. .. .
“Williams High School has vol
unteered to come to Greensboro
and erase their WHS marks,” an
nounced Tim Weikel. “I move that
Council members go to Burling
ton and remove the GHS signs!”
YRC chairman Mary Nelle
Smith asked why Student Council
handles Mid-Winters and the
Prom instead of the Youth Coun
cil. The answer of “’Tradition!”
was approved by the loud pop of
Souza’s Bazooka bubble. ,
named.
by Hallie Austin
Tall and lanky, with curly,
brown locks and big, brown eyes
—this is how “Wat” Page looked
as a boy.
Not inclined to participate in
games of cowboys and Indians or
any sports, Walter Page, born
in Cary, would grab a book and
jog to the wood to read and day
dream.
After his mother taught him
how to read and write, Walt
went to a military school at Me-
bane. Along with the other boys
he dressed in the Confederate
gray, and as he marched around,
pictured himself as his hero:
Robert E. Lee.
Social standards at the school
were very definitely defined. Sons
of Confederate generals were at
the top of the rank, and it con
tinued downward as did the mili
tary rank of the boy’s fathers.
However, as Walter’s father had
no military title at all, and as
Papa Page was a Union man,
“Wat” had a hard time making
the “in crowd”!
As most sons of prosperous
Carolina families. Page would
have entered one of the most
arishocratic institutions of the
South—UNC. However, after Re-
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Pat Cochran stands at one end of the Grimsiey campus,
which she represented in the Miss Teen-age Greensboro
contest. Pat will leave Saturday, as Miss Teen-age Greens
boro, to compete in the Miss Teen-age America pageant.
Tom Sawyer To
Come To Grimsiey
W. H. Page Sets High
Standards For J^amesa\e
By Hallie Austin
Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles comparing
the men after whom Grimsiey High and Page High are
construction, Carolina was in
corrupt hands and even closed at
times. Thus, “Wat” journeyed to
the sticks to enter Trinity Col
lege, now Duke.
Here Page tried to make as low
grades as possible. According to
him, a student who received A’s
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Aunt Polly and Tom Sawyer
prepare to battle it out as this
year’s eleventh graders practice
for the annual Junior Class Play.
Enthusiasm dominates behind
the scenes as the Ciass of ’67
shoots for the precedent of pre
senting two performances.
Tom Sawyer makes its premiere
at GHS on Thursday, November
4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Grimsiey
auditorium. Tickets for that per
formance will be $.50 for every
one.
A matinee two days iater on
Saturday, November 6 marks the
second presentation. For this
second parade of stars, admission
wiil be oniy $.25 for children,
$.50 for adults.
A comedy in four acts, Tom
Sawyer requires a cast of twenty
characters.
Aimt Polly will be played by
Barbara Ayers and Tom Sawyer
by Randy Mims. Brace Moreland
stars as Sid Sawyer and Jim
Blackwood as Ben Rogers. Steve
Critz takes his job of making Huck
Finn come to iife and Alfred
Ward portrays Joe Harper.
Becky Thatcher is portrayed
by Nancy Lynch and Muff Potter
by Otis Alexiou. Roger Bernholz
goes on the warpath as Injun Joe
and Paul Levy takes the cases
of Dr. Robinson.
Austin Lybrand pins on the
badge of the Sheriff and Bob
McMillan presides as Judge Thac
ker. Matt Gibson debuts as the
Minister with Cindy Thomas as
his wife.
Ronnie Gallimore and Ramona
Curtis get together as Mr. and
Mrs. Harper. Tom Shore steps
into the shoes of Hooper and the
spotlight finds Sarah Ruffing and
Joe Coleman as Mrs. Thatcher
and Bub Riverson.
Matt , Gibson takes over the
duties of the student directer
and Miss Mozeile Causey is the
Faculty Director. Facuity advisOT
is Mrs. Margy Ledford.
However, the cast members are
not the only hard workers. A
lot of work and responsibility
that often goes unnoticed is as
signed to technical committees
and their chairmen. These com
mittee chairmen have not yet beem
appointed but the committees aie
scenery, costumes, props, make-u5i
programs, and tickets.
Academic Clubs, With New Members,
Make Plans For Coming Year
Grimsley’s academic clubs are
beginning another year with new
ly elected officers, and fresh
projects, propositions, and plans.
Among the numerous Whirlie
academic clubs is the Medical
Club, whose President is Hardin
Matthews, Jim Alexiou, Vice Pres
ident, and Kathy Minton, Secre
tary. Their next meeting will be
a short tour of a hospital.
Science Club President is Jim
Alexiou, Pam Hoyer, Vice Presi
dent, Marsha Lowe, Secretary,
and Mike McLean, Historian. They
hope to take trips to Duke and
Carolina with a variety of speak
ers.
John Pope is President of the
History Honor Society; Vice Pres
ident, Linda McCall, Secretary,
Linda Rouse, and Treasurer, Di
anne Mitchell.
F.’RA.’s President is Anne
Brown, Vice President, Becky
Simpson, Treasurer, Ellen Kay,
and Historian, Huttie Kent. They
will sponsor an assembly on Oct.
20. Dr. Lois Eddinger, the Pres
ident of the National Education
Association, will be speaker.
Jay Pringle is President of the
Debate Club, Janice Younts is
the Secretary, David Rogers is
the Vice President and Treasurer
is Dianne Barth.
Library staff President is Jan
ice Shew, Vice President is Dot-
tie Best, Secretary is Carole B(»-
tic, and Fred Beck is the reporter.
Their main goal is putting up at
tractive bulletin boards.
J. C. L. President is Barbara
Homey, Vice President, Jim Alex-
iuo. Secretary, Anne Rubin, and
Treasurer, Sally Fulkerson. Their
impressive candlelight induction
of new members is next on their
agenda.
Orchestra’s President is G, B.
Sharpe, Vice President, Kathy
Lilburn, and Publicity Chairman
Lari Powell. Parents’ Night will
be October 20.
Orchestra Guilds’ Steve Tan
Pelt and its members usher at
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