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OLUME XLH
GRIMSLEY mGH SCHOOL. GREENSBORO, N. C., MAR 21, 1966
NUMBER 18
GHS Poets Claim Not To Be Quacks;
Liz, Lari, Lindsey Tell Their Stories
By Haiti e Austin
“Poets are ‘quacks’,” is a popular description of those non-prose writers who express them
selves in verse.
The people who make such references either say a poet is a quack because of the very fact
that he writes poetry or because poets have often been physcos or schizophrenics.
However, there are three versificers at GHS whom their classmates just cannot classify as
“quacks,” despite the picture seen opposite.
Lindsay Jones, Liz Morrah, and Lari Powell (notice alliteration) aU have their different
reasons for writing poetry.
Lindsay states, “I write poetry for pleasure and to express my feelings about some subject
that interests or disturbs me.”
Picture credit—Mary Amend
“Quack, Quack, Quack!”
Lari, Lindsay, and Liz said that they were not “quacks”
Of course, no one believed Liz, but we did suspect that there
VOS a ring of truth in the words of the other “two”. The
three told a High Life photographer that they were going
mt into the countryside to get inspired. How did they get
there?? By the little “car” of he kindergarten kids. The
ooor little five year olds think it goes; evidently, the quacks
io too.
Feedback Features Fashions
In Coming March Program
Feedback recently released to
the eagerly awaiting public the
;opics of its exciting shows to
be presented for the next three
Saturdays.
All shows are on Saturdays at
2:30 p.m. on Greensboro Radio
Station WBIG.
Spring fashions will dominate
the show on March 19. Guests
will be girl and boy buyers from
local stores, and four teen-age
x>ys and girls who are opinion
ated about fashions.
Stuart George will be moderat
or. The panelists will discuss
coming fashions and fads and
boys’ opinions of girls’ clothes
and vice versa.
March 26 will feature what Mrs.
iDwiggens calls a “Tune Tackle.’’
It is evidently a contest to ident-
lify tune titles. Three people from
jCurry High will face the earlier
Three Whirlies Finalists
For Duke Scholarships
j
How many students are there
■at Duke? A lot, is the answer,
and none of them are dumb. So,
to be sure, when competition
began for the Angier B. Duke
Scholarships, there was a lot of
it and it was stiff.
Yet, Grimsley’s Linda McCall,
Hardin Matthews, and Doris Rouse,
already set to enter the Univers
ity in the fall of 1966, scrambled
out of the hot Blue Devil fight
with finalist positions.
This is indeed a honor, whe
ther they ultimately receive one
bf the scholarships or not, be
cause of the great number of
applicants.
An Angier B. Duke pays all
expenses for the four years at
Duke University, on the condi
tion that the recipient does not
digress from his studies and de-
cUne in his interest in his educa-
winner of the Smith Page con
test. As to whether there will
be a valuable prize awarded to
the brilliant victors is unknown.
April 2 will star Grimsley’s
Steve Tanger as Chief Moderat
or for a program on spring sports.
His panel will be composed of
adults and teens active in spring
sports; they will discuss spring
sports.
YCCA, a very big part of every
school’s campus life, to be sure,
is the sponsor of Feedback.
“Maybe somebody will have my
poems published someday, and I’ll
be famous (and dead),’’ was Liz’s
reason, different as usual.
“For me, poetry is like the
spout of a tea kettle,’’ states Lari.
“I used to let off steam. M 1
have any emotions, good or bad,
I want them on paper. Yes, and
then I bury them under ten feet
of earth.”
Asked how long it takes her to
write a poem, Lindsay replied that
she has to finish it in one sitting
for which she is trying.
“Oh, about ten minutes,” de
clared Liz, trying to be precise.
Lari said, “I write for myself
in one sitting, but for others 1
rewrite and polish.” She added
modestly, “However, I usually
can’t vn’ite for others.”
When asked what most of their
poems are- concerned with and
their average length, the answers
were all different.
Said Lindsay, “Mostly society.
The poems are usually IS to 20
lines. One such poem is her “One-
Way Street.”
people walking down the street
see many faces they don’t meet
cigarette holders
cluttered minds
bunch o’ mixed-up
dirty swines
walking straight
but with no guide
when they grow up
where will they hide?
Liz seemed to be very sure.
“My poems concern death and
they come in the size of eight
four-line stanzas.”
Lari explained that she usually
uses people or nature to symbolize
a feeling, with nature as her
second favorite subject. Length?
“Short!”
Lindsay states that she has
probably written 35 to 40 poems,
or maybe more. Liz: “I haven’t
the slightest idea.”
Lari also said that she has no
idea how many she has written,
because she “. . . writes mostly
on the backs of tests and book-
covers, so many have been lost.”
Asked if they ever started
Rubin To Run For
Slate J.C.L. Office
Members of the Grimsley Junior
Classical League are planning to
attend the State JCL Convenion
on March 26, at UNC-CH.
Since only one-third of the
club’s membership is allowed to
attend, there will be thirty-three
members representing GHS.
At the convention, members
may participate in contests test
ing their knowledge in deriva
tives and mythology.
One of the most important
events of the day is the election
of state officers. This year, GHS
has a candidate in the elections.
Ann Rubin, secretary of the GHS
chapter, is running for state
secretary of JCL.
Huttie Kent Chosen 1966 May Queen;
To Reign In Courtly World of ^^Camclot^
Elections held in March brought
a fleeting feeling of spring, de
spite the cold March winds. As
girls were nominated for Grinis-
ley’s traditional May Day Court,
visions of the warm day with the
beautiful setting on the front
lawn came to everyone.
Huttie Kent was chosen to be
Queen of the May for Grimsley’s
1966 pageant. Attending her will
he Dee Dee Zane as Senior Maid
of Honor.
Huttie and Dee Dee were chos
en from ten senior girls already
assured a place on the colorful
court .
The other seniors elected are
Becky Ball, Gigi Cooper, Lynnie
Frierson, Corrie Hutton, Margie
Israel, Mary Nelle Smith, Martha
Smith, and Janice Sprinkle.
Junior Maid of Honor will be
Lynn Marshall, with Pam Frazier,
Jane Murray, Nancy Richbourg,
and Martha Stahl as her accom
panying juniors on the court.
Sophomores chose Sue Wyatt
as their Maid of Honor. The
other two sophomores are Buzzy
Westmoreland and Judy Patter,
son.
A lot of hard work is put into
the May Day pageant to make it
beaujtiful and pleasing to the
public.
The theme of this year’s pag
eant switches from the South and
“Magnolia Magic” (last year) and
turns to Merry Olde England and
“Camelot”.
Curtis Weaver and Susan Od-
enwald have taken on the co-
chairmanship of scenery. Joyce
Robinson is in charge of costumes.
Taylor Greene and Paul Allen
will take care of sound. Chairman
Cindy Speas will head up pub
licity.
Taylor^ McNairy Get
Mar€h Youth Awards
Grimsley’s Ellen Taylor and
John McNairy in rendering in
valuable service to their school,
community, and churches, became
Greensboro’s Youths of the Month
for March.
Ellen has helped with almost
every project of GHS and Greens
boro students.
She is president of Grimsley
Junior Eychangettes, and in her
third year of service to the GHS
Student Council. Among her con
tributions to her student govern
ment are th co-chairmanship of
th 1965 May Day and 1966 Honor
Code Chairman.
Last year, Ellen was editor of
the Teen-Age Record. She was
on the 1965 Homecoming Court,
works on Pep Board and at Wes
ley Long Hospital, and is active
at West Market Street Methodist
Church. She was voted “Most
Dependable” by her Senior Class.
Senior Class President McNairy
is vice president of GHS Junior
Civitans and Eastern district It.
governor of the State Civitans.
John was tapped in his junior
year into Torchlight. A member
of the varsity basketball team
and treasurer of West Market
Street Methodist Youth Fellow
ship, he is a Morehead Scholar
ship nominee.
poems and did not finish them,
Lindsay confessed, “Yes, I often
get disgusted with myself,” where
as Liz asserted, “Of course not!”
and Lari laughed, “1 rarely finish
a poem—or anything else!”
Lindsay maintained that her
subjects depend upon her mood.
Liz said that hers do not, and
Lari affirmed that hers do.
Edgar Allan Poe thought that
a poem should not be complex,
and that it should be understood
when it is read. Lindsay disagreed.
“I prefer to both read and write
poems that have to be thought
about and figured out. Poems
should challenge a person’s In
telligence; there is no real ac
complishment unless they do.”
Liz volunteered, “I think most
poets probably didn’t know about
all the symbolism English teach
ers find in their poenis. However,
I do like the kind you figure out,
because I can make up stuff
about them.”
Lari thought that she like both
simple and complex poems. “I
think I write translucent poems,
but sometimes they come out
hard to understand.” An example
of Lari’s poetry, “Green is the
Soul,” is below.
Green is the soul of the tender
youth.
Bud of a blossom fair.
Whose fruit has a flower su
premely sweet.
Whose seeds take a wing in the
air
To sow a thought in another
soul
Once a garden bare.
But because it’s young is able
to grow
The beauty another will share.
Metaphysical poetry is poetry
which contains many contraries,
and has vivid, abrupt speech,
startling images and unexpected
pauses and jerks. It projects the
feeling of a disrupted and con
fused world.
Lindsay says that she prefers
metaphysical poetry to any othen
type, although she enjoys all
kinds. Liz prefers a smooth, flow
ing style.
Lari stated, “I write more of
the old-fashioned style of poetry,
but I enjoy metaphysical too, be
cause it has a rhythm, a pulse
that portrays the tempo of our
world. It’s thought provoking, but
just to relax, give me the old,
smooth verse!”
Liz does not have any favorite
poets, but Lindsay’s are Dylan
Thomas, E. E. Cummings, and
Bob Dylan. Lari said “My fav
orites are Poe and Lindsay . . .
Lindsay Vachel, that is . . . well,
Lindsay Jones, too!”
Liz has attempted one or two
humorous poems but “. . . they’re
usually not very nice.”
About a comeback for poetry,
Liz said “Probably not” and Lari
stated that because “. . . reading
and wTiting poetry takes time and
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