GRIMSLEY SHARING A MERRY CHRISTMAS
BY JAN PETREHN With the Music Department’s pre- Grimsley Senior High School, too.
“Silver bells, silver bells, it’s sentation of the annual Holiday This year’s holiday calendars
Christmas time in the city” ac- Concert last Thursday, December are filled with parties, concerts,
sording to an old favorite tune. 9, the Christmas spirit enveloped drives, hay rides, and the annual
VOLUME XLH GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GRE ENSBORO, N. C., DEC. 13, 1965 NUMBER 12
By Kathy Zimmerman and
Liz Morrah
EDITOR’S NOTE; Such GHS
productions as the Christmas
Pageant this Friday represent a
lot of work not fully realized by
the audience. One group which
has much responsibility is the
make-up committee. Dramatics
students are often drafted for the
job.
Beware! All future dramatics
students should be forewarned
that it is required of all stars-to-
be to apply make-up to a victim
and also to be a victim.
Perhaps most Whirlies think
slapping a lot of grease paint on
somebody and changing them from
an innocent teen-ager to a dying
woman or an old lady is easy. Not
so, for there are eight steps to
be followed and it takes time and
patience to carry them out prop
erly.
One especially needs patience
when Liz keeps trying to bite
your hand while telling you to
hurry so she can go buy lumber
for Junior Achievement.
“Well really, Kathy, it was not
as bad as that. I wouldn’t have
bitten your hand at all if you
hadn’t punched nie in the eye
about twenty times.”
First comes cleansing off the
face. This means taking cold
cream and getting off all the old
grime and junk that has probably
been on the face for a year or
two.
Next is application of the cor
rect color base. Then comes the
application of lights and shadows,
which does not mean black and
(white streaks, Kathy. Rouge is
next and then the eyes are made
up.
We had a few little mishaps
with the eyes, as Fve already
explained. The next two steps are
wrinkles and lipstick Finally
comes powdering down which
takes the shine off the greasy
kids’ stuff on your face.
Now, Liz, having your contact
lens ground into your eye couldn’t
have been as bad as when you
kept mashing my nose in with
your hands. Noses are not to be
used as hand rests! And about
those shadows; they were brown,
not black!
Since Liz has upstaged me by
telling the whole procedure of
make-up, I shall inform you about
the worst stage. That is when Miss
Causey announces that my beauti
ful work of art is all wrong.
One would not believe how
many mistakes can be made, even
when the instructions are in plain
view .The eyebrows are too thick.
GHS Whirling Boots
Set For First Season
Whirling Boots, a newly formed
organization sponsored by the O.
Henry Juniors, made its first
public appearance in the Christ
mas parade on Friday, Novem
ber 26.
Modeled after those in Burling
ton and Winston-Salem, the Whir
ling Boots corp is a drill team
trained by Eleanor Glass, a danc
ing teacher, who is also respons
ible for Burlington’s Whirling
Boots.
According to Susan Lashley,
president of the O. Henry Juniors,
the 28 girls of Whirling Boots
will perform at one of the home
weekend basketball games during
halftime. The pep band will also
perform with the girls.
Christmas pageant.
Seniors Plan Pageant
“A Christmas Carol,” starring
Tom Booth as Uncle Scrooge, will
be presented by the Senior Class
this Friday, December 17 in the
auditorium. (Tomorrow’s Teen-age
Record will feature the annual
GHS pageant.)
Various councils throughout the
school are planning holiday fes
tivities. While Grimsley’s Young
Life group spends the holiday sea
son in Boca Raton, Florida, the
Pouth Recreation Council plans to
hold a party, the second of the
group’s two major Christmas ac
tivities. Three weeks ago the YRC
float won second prize in the non
commercial contest in the “HolU
day Jubilee’ parade.
Campus Life Club will host a
party on December 24 in addition
to a giant rally with other Cam
pus Life Clubs in celebration of
the Christmas season. Plans for a
small Council party were included
on the Student Council agenda
last week.
Academic Groups to Celebrate
Members of Torchlight, the
GHS chapter of the National Hon
or Society, held an inspirational
dinner on December 9. The Span
ish Society also organized a party
for that evening. Thursday, De
cember 16, marks the date for
the History Honor Society’s
Christmas get-together.
Members of FHA, Future Home
makers of America, are currently
stuffing stockings for the resi
dents of a local retirement home.
Service Clubs Sharing
Christmas parties and banquets
highlight the activity calendars of
nearly all GHS service clubs. The
desire to serve others, however,
is also playing an important role
in holiday activities.
Exchangettes, Jr, Jaycettes, Civ-
inettes, Seniorettes, and Charia-
teers are adopting needy families
and planning to furnish them with
clothes, toys, and Christmas din
ners.
The Jr. Civitan Club will con
tinue its support of its foster
child, Lo Lai Sang, who lives in
Hong Kong. This same group of
fellows will provide holiday en
tertainment for residents in a
local retirement home.
Key Club and Interact Club
members will be participating in
Christmas drives as did the Jun
ior Classical League and Jr. Jay-
cette Club. The latter two groups
collected for the TB Fund.
That Christmas spirit is truly a
deep one as is indicated by the
Grimsley Senior High student
body. A time for sharing ... a
Merry Christmas in 1965!
SENIOR (LASS WILL PRESENT ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT AT ASSEMBLY
Applyinfj make-up for Grimsley’s dramatic production takes a lot of time and know-how.
Kathy Zimmerman smooths the base on Liz Morrah’s face before applying the rouge to
her cheeks. Liz turned out to be an old woman, and when Liz did Kathy, Kathy became a
saloon girl.
Make-up For GHS Dramatic Production
is Not Easy Task, Even For Trained
or the base isn’t dark enough, or
the eyes look like big black dots
instead of eyes. It is impossible
to do it right!
(But one must say that Miss
Causey is very understanding for
she realizes that we are all ama
teurs. We really appreciate her
waiting after school until 4:30.
She is certainly got more patience
than Liz. I’ll probably get blood
poisoning from those bites. May
be I should have rabies shots.
I really doubt that those rabies
shots would help your blood pois
oning, Kathy. Anyway, the worst
is yet to come—taking off all that
make-up. Wipe, wipe, wipe! Take
it off, take it off. Just the same,
it was fun getting to be make
up artists even if we did have
spectators with helpful advice and
no experience at all.
Grimsley’s Senior Class of ’66
will present A Christmas Carol
this Friday at third period as
their production for the annual
and traditional Christmas pageant.
Cast of Twenty
The cast boasts twenty charac
ters. Tom Booth will hobble
around as old man Scrooge. Tim
Weikel will be sweet Bob Crachit,
who at first seems headed for
an unhappy Christmas.
David Spence stars as Fred,
Scrooge’s unfortunate nephew. The
two gentlemen soliciters are Har
din Matthews and Steve Tanger.
Amie Magid will float in to
haunt Scrooge as Marley’s ghost.
Steve Adair makes his rather
moldy debut as Christmas Past.
Perry Benbow portrays Christmas
Present (not a Christmas present)
and Joyce Robinson flits about as
Christmas Yet to Come, making
two boy Christmases and one Girl
Christmas.
Art Bulla plays double roles as
a Boy in the Street and also as
Scrooge as a Boy. John Taylor
is another flashback as Scrooge
as a young man.
Witty Steve Sparrow will use
his wit to be a Man on the Street
and Jeff Irvin will be another
Man Down There.
Old Joe is depicted by Art Wil-
liams. and Tiny Tim by Art Bul
la’s little brother, not by Tim
Weikel.
Kathy Howe takes on the ma
tronly role of Mrs. Crachit, and
her children are Martha and Bon
nie, played by Jean McFarland
and Janice Founts, respectively.
Janice Younts becomes a maid
also, and Susan Lashley becomes
Mrs. Dilber. Kathy Hutton is a
bell.
Committee Chairmen
Linda McCall is student director.
Faculty advisors are Mrs. Marietta
Massey and Miss Amy Moore.
Committee Chairmen are as fol
lows; Scenery, Carol Hester;
Props, Dave Alden; Costumes,
Gloria Howard; Make-up, Sally
Fulkerson; Lights and Sounds,
Taylor Green; Programs, Martha
Armstrong; Carolers and Music,
Dianne Mitchell.
Sometimes in the past, members
of the senior class have written
the scripts for the Christmas
Pageant. Last year, Marianne Buie
wrote ‘Christmas Is . . .” However,
John McNairy, Senior Class presi
dent, assigned many of the class’s
best writers to the Class Day
Script Committee and found a de
lightful arangement of Dicken’s
story instead.
GHS Young Life To Join
Page For Christmas Trip
Uniforms for the girls have
just been completed. Each girl
will wear white wool shorts, a
dark blue long-sleeved blouse, a
white sleeveless overblouse with
blue GHS initials on the front,
and tennis shoes.
Because the games will be
played in the boys’ gym, the girls
will wear tennis shoes during the
basketball season. Next year St
the football games, boots will be
worn.
There are eight seniors, ten jun
iors, and ten sophomores who
make up the Whirling Boots.
Whirling Boots later hopes to
become an independent club, but,
for now it will continue to be a
sponsored organization.
-Again this year, Grimsley Young
Life will join with Page in its
annual Christmas trip to Boca
Raton, Florida.
Approximately s e v e n t y-five
Greensboro teen-agers are plan
ning to attend the annual round
up of Young Lifers from across
the Southeast. Other cities to be
represented are Charlotte, Ashe
ville, Knoxville, Atlanta, Jackson
ville, and Orlando.
The group will leave here on
the night of December 26 and
return in time for the Whirlie
basketball contest on New Year’s
Eve.
Accompanying them will be
Greensboro’s two Young Life lead
ers, Dan Komarnicki and Sara
Moores. Also going along to assist
Dan and Sara are Skeeter Powell
and Jim Van Hecke. These two
Carolina Tar Heels were GHS
Young Life presidents in 1962
and 1964, respectively.
The cost this year is a modest
$42. This includes room and board
in Boca Raton and round-trip
transportation on chartered Trail-
way buses.
Each year the trip seems to
gain popularity since those who
have been readily testify to the
great times they have.
TACKLE football
Scheduled activities include wa
ter skiing, yacht rides, and a day
in the Miami-Key Biscayne area.
Also planned is the famous girls
TACKLE football game. Greens
boro’s girls, notorious for their
brutality, will be trying for their
fourth win in as many years.
In the past, students have laud
ed the trip as the greatest week
they had ever had. We are aU
looking forward to this year’s trip.