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VOLUME XLIII
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 27 410, APRIL 1, 1968
NUMBER 20
HIGH LIFE Publication
HIGH LIFE, the student news
paper of Grinasley High School
dnce 1921, will be discontinued
■ollowing the publication of this
ssue.
The decision to abandon the
paper and disband the staff was
made by Marilyle Upchurch, edi-
:or-in-chief; Jean Broadway, man
tling: editor; Franklin Stewart,
pusiness manager; Mrs. Julie Wall,
advisor to the staff; and Principal
P. Routh.
Consultation with the entire
staff stook place to learn their
jpinions and suggestions concern-
ng the idea, before the final de-
;ision was made.
Numerous ' difficulties experi
enced by HIGH LIFE this year
led to the search for a solution
for the problem. In an effort to
salvage the paper, three issues
were omitted from weekly pub
lication. However, these steps
were not as effective as it had
been hoped they would he.
The most pressing problems
have been deep financial diffi
culty; disinterest on the part of
the student body; declining in
terest by the staff, which feels
that its efforts are unnoticed and
unappreciated by students; and
pressures on individuals on the
staff.
All Day Clean-Up Effort
Replaces Regular Work
School Beautiful chairmen, Pat-
:y Harris, Gary McNeil, and Lynn
Moore, have annoi)nced a last
litch effort to step up student
attendance at workdays.
Friday, April 19, there will be
an all day school beautiful work-
lay Instead of the regular school
lay. Attendance will be required.
Each teacher will be assigned
Uudenis Taking Over
Teachers' Parking
Greensboro City Council offic-
als have announced that Grims-
ey teachers will no longer be
allowed to drive their cars to
school, as the parking lot for
itudents has been requisitioned for
an airstrip and students will nec-
assarily be taking over the teach-
:rs’ parking lot.
- .The airstrip will serve as a
anding ■ area for visitors to the
aublic schools and for assembly
speakers. Light one and two en-
fine planes will be allowed to
ise the strip. A tower to control
access to the single runway,
vhich will be circular, will be
juilt in the present ticket house.
Chain link fences are being
arected by the city to protect the
alanes and their passengers from
indents at Grimsley, Kiser, and
Brooks schools.
Under consideration is the re-
noval of the wooded lot between
he present parking lot and West-
iver Terrace and the construc-
ion of a helicopter pad. Funds
or this project would be allo-
sated by the City Council.
Bus service will be provided to
ransport the teachers to and froan
chool. Stops will be made spe-
lifically to get all intown teach-
irs. Any living outside the Greens-
)oro city limits will have to pro-
'ide their own transportation.
Special consideratiO'n concerning
larking spaces will be awarded
hese teachers.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS
Our deepest apolo.^ies to
Debbie Ownbey and Debbie
Taylor for omitting their
names from the announce
ment of members of the
May Court. Both should
have been listed with the
senior members of the
court.
The News Editor
an area of the campus to be re
sponsible for cleaning, raking,
and seeding with grass.
Student Attend ‘Classes’
Students will report to teach
ers during regular class periods
and work on the individual teach
ers’ area. Lunch will be brought
by each student and everyone will
eat on the lawn at noon. No one
will be allowed to leave campus
for lunch.
Intra-school judging will take
place to decide which teacher’s
area is the most improved. Prizes
will be awarded to teachers and
to outstanding student workers.
Shorts, slacks, cut-offs, and
sweatshirts will be acceptable but
all shorts must be knee length.
Each student must bring either a
rake, shovel, hoe, trowel, or trac
tor. The purpose of this day will
be to conduct a final clean-up
before the city-wide school beau
tiful judging.
Work normally assigned for this
special workday will be deferred
until the following Monday. '
Elections Revised
Due to protests from the com
mittee about littering the campus
with posters, banners, ballots,
signs and ribbons, students elec
tions have been cancelled.
Continued on Page Three
Art Department Opens
First Tatoo Parlor
BY TINA DEBS
Grimsley’s Art Department has
announced that a tatoo parlor
will be set up in room 201 be
ginning the first of April.
Mr. Tad Toned, from Hong
Kong, the author of The Illustated
Famous Americans series, will be
the head of the operation. He
has been in the tatoo business
since 1912.
Mr. Toued will teach those
students who wish to learn a
new skill how to tatoo for fun
and profit. This art will provide
a skill for those students who
are unable to go to college. Mr.
Toued will teach the delicate art
of skin puncture without drawing
blood.
For his practicing novices, Mr.
Toued will use vegetable dyes,
which can be removed with Clo^
rox and water. However, for his
own operations, indelible tatoo
dyes will be used.
Financial difficulties were first
a problem when a smaller than
expected number of subscriptions
were signed by students in the
fall. Also, there has been a re
luctance on the part of some
subscribers to pay their subscrip
tion fees. This forced a holding
up of exams and report cards at
piid-term.
Student interest in HIGH LIFE,
which has been North Carolina’s
only weekly high school news
paper for almost three years, has
been disappointingly lacking. The
“Letters to the Editor’’ section
has been noticeably absent from
some issues of the paper. This is
the student channel of communi
cation with the paper but stu
dents have not been interested
enough to communicate. Only two
non-staff members contribute to
HIGH LIFE, a columnist for the
editorial page and one on the
sports page.
Contribution to the paper in
other ways has also fallen. Other
columns, features, book reviews,
and possible newh suggestions
have not been made. Complaints
have been heard concerning news
coverage of certain events, yet
seldom' is any news volunteered
by any students or groups.
Staff interest in printing HIGH
LIFE declined, as was expressed
,.in a -formal., statement, issu.e.d by
the editors. “We feel that no one
benefits from HIGH LIFE’S con
tinued publication. Few even both
er to read it. We are no longer
willing to devote our time (at
least five hours per week) and
energy to pour into an obsolete
institution. It seems that the
need for HIGH LIFE has disap
peared. Therefore, HIGH LIFE is
following suit.”
German Introduced
Into 6HS Schedule
German will be added to
Grimsley’s curriculum next fall.
Two levels will be taught the fol
lowing year, if there isi a demand
for it.
Fraulein Eva, Braun will be
employed to teach the course.
She is a native German and is
coming to the United States for
the express purpose of teaching
German at Grimsley.
Introduction of the course was
first considered last year due to
the enormous demand fpr the
fourth language at GHS. Cur
rently, French, Latin, and Span
ish are taught on four levels each,
and on two levels in the junior
high schools.
The School Board approved the
addition of two years of German
with the possibility of a third
year later if necessary, after a
petition of 1,000 names of stu
dents city-wide range was sent
to them. Courses will be taught
in all city high schools, with
Fraulein Braun traveling around
the city during the day. It is
doubtful, however, if German will
be taught in junior high school
in the forseeable future.
Students interested in this
course should contact their guid
ance counselor for arrangements
to take a special language aptitude
test which all students desiring
to take German must take and
and fail.
Another reason for disco-ntinu-
ing the paper is the breakdown
of HIGH LIFE’S printing press,
which has occupied a comer of
the HIGH LIFE room since the
Science Building was built. Ex
pensive to replace and impossible
to repair, this 40-year-old ma
chine is being sold for scrap
metal. Whatever is received vrill
go to pay off HIGH LIFE’S debts.
A bulletin board available to
students to post news which oth
erwise would have been printed
by HIGH LIFE, will be set up in
the Main Hall. Announcements
to be placed on this board must
be on 814 by 11 typing paper
and typed double-spaced.
The second year journalism
class, which is the course taken
hy the staff, will be continued.
The study will turn from actual
journalism to formal journalism,
using current and past newspapers
as text. History, techniques, pur
poses and results of newspapers
will be studied. Field trips to
the Tass Agency and the New
York Times will be included in
the course of study.
Marilyle stated, “I really hate
to discontinue HIGH LIFE. All
of us sincerely regret that this
unfortunate situation occurred
during our year of publication.”
Seniors See Candlelight
At Graduation Dinner
By Tina Debs and Karen Dudley
Dinner by candlelight will be
given by Mr. and Mrs. A. P.
Routh and Mr. and Mrs. B. L.
Glenn for all graduating seniors
Monday. June 3, at 2 a.m. in the
cafeteria.
Formal attire, tuxedos for boys
and long gowns for girls will be
required of all attending the din
ner. No one wearing tennis shoes
will be admitted. Corsages of
lavender poihsettas will be given
to the girls and boutonnieres of
marigolds will be given to the
boys. The marigolds are sent com
pliments of Senator Everett Dirk-
son (R-Illinois).
The cafeteria staff will prepare
the menu. Paul Masson’s vine
yards in Southern California will
be supplying pink and yellow
champagne. However, no seniors
under 21 will be allowed to par
take of the champagne.
Hors d’oeuvres of caviar on ritz
crackers will be served, along
with the Welehade provided for
seniors under 21. The rest of the
menu will consist of Lobster
Newburg, Vichysoisse, Lasagna,
Filet Mignon, Spinach Souffle,
Pigs Feet, and Sour Dough Bis
cuits. Dessert will include Baked
Hawaii, Rhubarb chiffon pie, and
Cranberries Jubilee.
The cafeteria will be decorated
Zoology Class Grows
Unusual Hemp Plants
Zoology class taught by Mrs.
Mary Jane Grass is using as their
spring class project the cultiva
tion of marijuana plants.
The project has been approved
by the bored of education and
Mrs. Grass. Students helping in
the project will be given special
credit for their work. Consider
able experimentation is planned
for a part of the project.
Mrs. Grass, a new additioin to
the Science Department at Grims
ley, comes from the town of Los
Santllles Dumas, California, has
her Masters’ Degree in lycridic
acid experimentation, and won
the Noble Prize for Sorcery in
1840.
The marijuana project will con
sist of two week periods of ex
perimentation in which the hemp
plants will be planned and culti
vated. Completion of the project
will be announced following final
examination of the students tak
ing part in the experiments.
especially for this occasion by an
interior decorator of the op art
school. Green plastic tablecloths,
purple and white swirled candles
and bright orange crepe paper
will be the leading designs.
Entertainment will be provided
by the Mocksville Salvation Army
Band. The repertoire includes
Continued on Page Three
School Weekr Year
Announced Changed
Change in the length of the
school week and the length of
the school year was announced
recently by Assistant Principal
R. L. Glenn.
Due to a vastly increased
amount of knowledge which must
be absorbed by students before
they will be eligible for gradua
tion the school week will run
from Monday through Saturday,
and the year from August through
May.
Alternatives Discarded
Alternatives to this plan in
cluded extending the day from
8 a.m. until 4 p.m. which was
discarded as too tiring for the
teachers, and adding another year
to regular education, which was
voted dovm because of the em
phasis on speed in today’s society
and the belief that it would in
crease the drop-out rate.
This extension has been tried
in other areas of the country and
has produced satisfactory results,
according to Mr. Glenn. Each
class will meet six times a week
instead of five, and more courses
will be able to finish the text
books in ten months than were
able to do so in nine.
No addition to specific gradua
tion requirements have been re
leased as yet. However, discus
sion is going on. Any changes to
take place will become effective
in 1969-70, when the new school
week and year will take place.
Results Come From Questionnaire
These changes are largely the
result of questionnaires filled out
by all seniors in the state two
weeks ago. Greensboro was se
lected as the experimental city
for North Carolina. If the exten
sion proves successful, it will be
expanded to include the Guilford
County Schools the following
vear. Then all North Carolina
schools will be put on the pro
gram.