Page Two
High Life
February 27,1967
Letters To The Editor
On Student Conduct
Dear Ekiitor;
Recently in student council a
suggestion was raised concerning
the behavior of a boy and girl,
both Grimsley students.
On the third floor of the main
building there is a couple who in
sist on being wrapped in each oth
er’s arms. According to the anony
mous writer, the two are never
seen without one hanging on to
the other. It was further stated
that the reputation of our school
was at stake due to this behavior
and that something should be
done to stop it.
Actually, there seems to be no
immediate solution to this problem.
Perhaps it is the duty of each stu
dent to see that this kind of thing
is prevented. In the future, I sin
cerely hope that these two lovers
can find a more appropriate place
for romance than the third floor
of the main building.
Respectfully,
Scott Adair
Committee in charge of the
Suggestion Box
Parking Lot: Drag Races
This is a fast generation, the
one of Grimsley High School stu
dents, and this is very evident in
the clothes young people wear,
the things they like to do, and
most especially in the cars and
manner in which they drive every
day.
In past years, the hot car was
one with dual exhausts, or twin
carburetors, but you are now liv
ing in the age of the so-called
“super car,” the seeming-stock au
tomobile with heavy-duty suspen
sion, 400-plus cubic inch engine,
and a speedometer that goes to
one-hundred and fifty miles per
hour and all this is in a car that
probably could run the speedom
eter to 'Its end.
No one is knocking these fast
street machines, because certainly
nothing can match the excitment
and thrill a person gets when
these cars are under full accel
eration. But they do produce a
problem when given to a driver
who doesn’t know the difference
between a dragstrip and his
school’s parking lot. And this is
really getting to be a problem.
Finally, it was decided that some
thing had to be done before one of
the many students who walk across
the local streets gets seriously in
jured. The student council, acting
on a suggestion recently placed in
the suggestion box, asked what
could be done. While at present,
the idea of placing policemen at
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various points about the parking
lot was deemed too expensive, the
council has received the offer of
the traffic squad, that the boys are
willing to doi this job. ^
This action alone should be
warning enough to those students
with hot cars, but of course it
never is. Those few drivers will
go on as if Grimsley is the scene
of daily national championship
drag races until either someone
is hurt, or the lot is filled with
police or both. By then it will be
too late to change their minds.
It would seem that there are
many other quiet spots to go to,
so that a sane person would stay
out of a public parking lot. But far
too many drivers get in their cars
and shift their minds into reverse.
Rosey Views
BY LYNN ROSE
Have you got that run-down
feeling? It is highly possible that
you have been walking through
the GHS parking lot. Many stu
dents have been known to become
quite “tired” after a stroll through
the parking lot. Please watch out
for all pedestrians, especially the
stream of kids coming out of
Brooks.
Recognition: Will It Help?
Bruce Hiatt,
Terry McMahon
Every student at this school is
quick to admit that Grimsley is
surely worthy of national recog
nition; however, they would prob
ably wonder if this praise came on
account of the school beautiful
project
Yet a state-wide magazine has
decided that the GHS litter bags,
made by local women’s clubs, in
connection with the school beautiful
project are indeed unique among
high scools, and thus wiU receive
space in one of their issues. It
would certainly be a great shame
if, after the publicity Grimsley is
gaming because of its Itter cam
paign, the students of the school
lost the school beautiful contest.
For in the final analysis, it will
be the students who win or lose
the contest. No one will be able
to blame the school or the school
beautiful chairmen as both have
done an excellent job in providing
the students with ideas and an
opportunity to help their school
and as the end result, to help
themselves.
Each week something is said at
school in an attempt to focus stu
dent attention on the school beauti
ful project. Jody Turner, coi-chair-
man of school beautiful said that
since Grimsley has already won the
contest four times, all the other
schools are out to get Grimsley.
The average student laughs and
says, “Grimsley’s No. 1, and nobody
can beat us.” But he’s wrong, bo-
cause it’s been proven in every
contest that it is much harder to
say on top than to climb there in
the beginning.
Once Grimsley gets this national
recognition, one can only hope
that it will startle most students
into the belief, and actual truth,
that not only is Grimsley NOT
winning the school beautiful con
test, it is steadily sliding back-
warda And although its very hard
to stay on top, every sports fan
knows that the hardest road to
the top is the one that the once-
great defeated champion must use.
'Pops' Unappreciated
According to Webster’s d’ctfon-
ary, the word “pops” is a shortened
form of the word popular. The
Grimsley orchestra gave a “Pops
Concert” last Tuesday in assembly.
Many hours of practice were need
ed in order for the group to perform
perfectly. Yet, when it was an
nounced that the assembly would
be a recital by our orchestra, a
spontaneous reaction of disapproval
was expressed by many students.
Perhaps GHS students do not
understand what a “Pops Concert”
is. It includes light, entertaining,
musi c. Some p’eces may be popu
lar while others will be romantic.
It is a semi-classical type of music
which may be compared to today’s
Mantovani and his string sounds.
Themes from Broadway shows and
one familiar or ppular movement
of a symphony are often selected
for programs. Frequently today,
“Pops Concerts” are given outdoors.
Audiences come and s’t on the
lawn and listen to the arrangements
of notes. The Boston Pops Orches
tra is most famous today.
If studeiits try to imderstand
music and its expectations, they
can grow and appreciate other arts
instead of negating the creation.
It is totally untrue that our park
ing loft is the city depository for
old soft drink bottles.
The American school system
must have proved too hard for
Ken Birkbeck. I looked up his
telephone number in the Key Club
directory and it has him listed as
an ex-student. He has probably
dropped out to become a meter-
maid at the beach. -
What does the weather man have
againsst our dances? If it had not
have snowed out the Civitan-Jaycees
Key dance, the Showmen were to
appear because of a mistake the
booking agent made in signing the
band that was to regularly appear.
It happens every time.
Speaking of dances, Late Win
ters has been rescheduled again.
This time the date has been moved
up to February 29. Excuse me I
stand corrected. February 29 is
not the date for Late Winters,
but the date for the sophomore I.
Q. tests.
I hope that you enjoyed the first
part of your Easter Vacation during
the snow. It was really sort of sad
to sit inside and watch two days
of our vacation melt away. Actually
the Coke Company is to blame for
the snow that we had. One of their
Fresca commercials got out of
hand.
I hope that the man who built
the Music Building is not the one
who has been contracted to build
the new library building. If every
thing comes out alright the new
library ought to be a welcome
addition to the campus. Besides
containing the library on the first
floor, the building will be the new
location for the GHS swimming
pool. (Old location was on the
third floor of the Science Build
ing). As a project for next year’s
sophomore class each student will
be required to bring a glass of
water from home to fill up the
pool.
With the coming of the new
library the problem of what to do
with the old library comes up. It has
been suggested that the room be
used as the GHS pool room. (Bh-
lards, that is.) Can’t you see it
now. Students get a pass from their
study hall teacher and go shoot a
few racks each. I am just sorry
that I will not be here to enjoy it.