This picture shows the teachers’ parking lot, an area to be
cleaned up and beautified by the school Beautiful Commit
tee's main project for this year’s competition. TKe committee
chairmen requested the help of the entire student body in
the work, saying that they could not do all the work alone.
TWIRP Day Events
include Open House
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GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 27 410, FEB. 5, 1968
Teachers’ Parking Lot
Cleaned For Project
Photo Credit—Howard Ratsch
TWIRP Day, this year to be ob
served on February 16, will be
climaxed by an Open Ho.use in
the girls’ gym after a basketball
game against Burlington’s Wil
liams High School in Grimsley’s
gym.
Standing for the words The Wo
man Is Requested to Pay, TWIRP
has become an annual custom at
GHS. Included in the observance
besides the girls carrying books,
opening doors, and sharpening
pencils for the boys, an all girl
Traffic Squad will be chosen by
the present Traffic Squad, and a
TWIlP Court.
Mike Hassell, GHS traffic chief,
is in charge of the girls’ squad.
Girls selected for this duty will
dress in suitable outfits such as
metal helmets, cowboy guns and
jackets. They will patrol the halls
and be allowed t© leave class two
minutes early and enter late, just
as the regular squad does.
Court Nominated
Girls on Student Council and
the Youth Recreation Committee
(YRC) which is sponsoring
TWIRP Day, will each nominate
a boy for the TWIRP Court. Baby
pictures of each nominee will be
placed on the bulletin board in
the main hall.
Containers, numbered to corre
spond with the pictures will be
placed in the hall near the pic
tures and available for voting all
day Friday. Students will vote for
a TWIRP King by placing pennies
in the jars. No names will ap
pear on either the jars or the
pictures, which will be put up
February 14 or 15.
“Involve Everybody”
“We want to involve everybody
n this TWIRP Day,” Cookie Reed,
FRC chairman declared, “It’s not
air for the same people to do
jverything all the time.”
The TWIRP Court, to be pre
sented at the Open House along
vith the announcement of the
Vinner of the TWIRP King con
est, as a take-off on Homecoming
lourt.
Preparations for the Open
House and all-day activities be
gan January 31. The ' Steps of
Rhythm will play at the Open
House. Admission will be $1.00.
“We know it’s (TWIRP Day)
going to be ridiculous,” Cookie
said. “It’s supposed to be and we
want everybody to have a, good
time. We have put a lot of work
into the planning, and we hope
students will appreciate that, too.”
School Beautiful’s big clean-up
project for this year’s annual
competition will be the teacher’s
parking lot, which is located be
hind the Science Building and
the cafeteria.
Committee chairmen Patti Har
ris, Gary McNeill, and Lynn
Moore have made plans to clear
out the dead undergrowth in the
wooded areas which extend down
to Benjamin Parkway, and to
plant foliage on the banks which
are currently bare. Bushes, flow
ers and trees will be planted in
the area.
Help Needed
“We need the help of the en
tire student body,” Gary stated.
“We can’t do all this work by
ourselves.”
“So far participation has been
poor,” Lynn said. “If we win the
competition, the whole school will
want to take the credit. If we
lose, which is more likely, the
committee will take all the
blame.”
The chairmen requested that
students come out for workdays,
saying that a tremendous amount
of work must be done to accom
plish this project. Boys are need
ed to help chop down dead trees
and to haul them away.
Cans Found
Lynn reported that in addition
to the usual rusted empties, “two
cans of unopened beer were found
in the woods during the last work
day. And there may be more.”
Smith High School was in first
place at the last judging. “They’re
really out to win the trophy this
year,” Lynn commented. Page is
second, and Grimsley is last.
Participation Counts
Both of these schools’ student
GHS Student Makes
Perfect SAT Score
North Carolina’s first student
to make 1600, a perfect score, on
the Scholastic Aptitude Test is
Larry Reid, senior.
A significant rise in Larry’s
scores occurred. Overall, his score
rose from 1442 in July to 1600
in December. Mathematical score
improved from 744 to 800; the
Queens' Men Perform
At Surveyors' Reception
Singing for a reception at a
convention of the North Carolina
Society of Land Surveyors Feb
ruary 16 will be Grimley’s
Queen’s Men.
The statewide gathering will oc
cur at the Statler-Hllton Inn in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Selections to be performed will
Include Tell Old Bill, a melody of
When Johnny Comes Marching
Home Again and Black is the
Color of My True Love’s Hair,
It Was A Very Good Year, Seek,
and Farewell My Tani. Many of
these songs have been arranged
by the Queen’s Men themselves.
Members of the group are Ray
Mendenhall. John Penland, Bill
Waterstradt, and Steve Wilson.
Steve’s father, a surveyor is head
of the committee for entertain
ment for the convention. He chose
the Queen’s Men to sing for the
Friday night reception.
verbal score went up 132 points
from 668 to 800.
Larry has applied for admission
at Duke University, North Caro
lina State University at Raleigh,
and the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill, with Duke
as his first choice. At present,
he intends to major in math.
He commented on the fact that
the first time he took his College
Boards, he studied from College
Board review books. The second
time, however, he did not review
at all.
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Photo Credit Howard Ratsch
North Carolina’s first high
school student to make 1600
on SAP’s is a GHS student,
Larry Reid.
bodies are participating as a
whole in the work days. “They
have enthusiasm, and are inter
ested in winning,” Gary said.
“Obviously we do not care.”
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Hamann Nominated
For Scholarship
Grimsley High School’s nominee
for the Katherine Smith Reynolds
Scholarship at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro is
Mary Sue Hamann.
A girl is nominated from every
high school in each of the twelve
districts of North Carolina. Twelve
scholarships are awarded through
out the state.
Scholastic achievement, educa
tional goals and desirable person
ality characteristics are considera
tions for selection for this schol
arship, which is comparable to the
John 'Motley Morehead Scholar
ship for boys at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sponsored by the Reynolds
Foundation, the scholarship is for
$1400 a year to cover tuition,
room and board, and books. Re
newal for succeeding years de
pends on the good grades made
by the student.
Collage Presented
To Remind Students
Of Child's Accident
Broken glass bottles glued to a
piece of board as a collage, and
two sacks of beer cans and more
broken bottles constitute a tribute
to Grimsley’s careless and sloppy
students by the father of a victim
of a broken bottle.
The Reverend W. Scott Root
presented the “trophy” to the
student body with an explanatory
note after his son Ben leaped
over a bush and landed on a
broken bottle neck, Friday, Jan
uary 19-
The note reads as follows; “This
collage is presented to Grimsley
High School in honor of students
who throw bottles, which gener
ally break, onto the grounds about
the school where small children
walk and run and jump on their
way back and forth to Brooks
School.
“'The artist is the father of one
such child who on Friday, Jan
uary 19, did run and jump and
land in a spot which had a brok
en bottle neck set just right.
“The artist’s son had 80 stitches
in his leg, four days in the hos
pital and several months of limp
ing ahead for such a jump. ’The
materials for this collage were all
obtained along with another sack
full, from the area close by the
accident.”
Mr. A. P. Routh, principal, sent
a letter to the artist stating that
he was “very sorry” about the
accident and that he had placed
the collage in the bnlletin board
case in the main hall where stu
dents would see it.
He further commented on the
practice of people throwing down
bottles just “to watch them
break,” and said that he hoped
as a result of the accident and
Mr. Root’s presentation of the
callage, students would no longer
throw down bottles on the school
grounds.
WHIRLPOOL Editors
Strive For New Goai
Editor’s note: Editor-in-Chief
Pete Lux and Editors Jane Tesh
and Craig Pyron of WHIRLPOOL
wrote this article to the student
body. '
For the first time in several
years, the students of GHS are
presented with a different sort of
challenge. It is the responsibility
of th,e entire student body, not
just of the staff, to make 'WHIRL
POOL a success this year.
Achieving this goal involves the
same school spirit that prompts
the sale of basketball tickets or
Whirlie stickers. However, two ad
ditional requirements are also im
portant: a respect for learning
and a respect for the talent of
fellow students.
Ideas Should Develop
Education is not simply the dull
routine of homework and school
schedule. The ability to develop
new ideas from old facts is what
makes learning a creative art;
writing is a way of expressing
these ideas.
The people who write for
WHIRLPOOL have original
thoughts or a style all their own.
They should be applauded because
they have the desire and the
courage to place their talent be
fore the entire student body.
Participation Opportunity
In Athletics, only a few are
able to participate on the team;
however, the rest of the school
supports them by buying tickets
and cheering at the games. In
WHIRLPOOL, only a few will
submit material; the others can
participate by buying it. The
price is only 50c—less than a foot
ball ticket—and it can be kept,
like a yearbook, for the years to
come.
Tradition Established
We will publish this year, and
we will make' it a tradition at
Grimsley. The HOMESPUN lite
rary magazine existed at GHS for
over 20 years before it was dis
continued in 1962. This school
needs a way of communicating
original ideas.
WHIRLPOOL is simply one as
pect of a growing desire for in
dividual thought and action. If
we can make it a success this
year, both it and Grimsley will
grow stronger in the coming
years.
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Librarians Take Annual
Inventory of Materials
Beginning a week before exams
and extending through the semes
ter break until last week, the
library at Grimsley has been
closed for inventory.
Miss Mildred Herring and Mrs.
June Bleakley, librarians, and
their student staff have been
working not only during school
but after school and on week
ends and snowdays to account for
all the books, magazines and rec
ords in the library.
The inventory of almost 15,000
books has been made easier this
year due to a school administra
tion policy concerning overdue
books and fines. Permission to
take midterm examinations was
withheld from those students with
an obligation to clear up with the
library.
Currently, approximately one
half dozen people have books or
owe money in fines or damages
while the usual number would be,
according to Miss Herring, “at
least 30 or 40.”