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VOLUME XLIV
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 27 410, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1968
NUMBER 1
Members of executive board meet with landscape designer
to make plans for future projects to beautify GHS.
School Beautiful Requires
Work of All Students
As leaves and grades began to
fall, students of Grimsley are
given another chance to prove
their ability to make good. This
chance is School Beautiful. But
only through team work and co
operation among all students can
it succeed.
School Beautiful is composed of
a general beautification, land
scaping, and clean-upcompetition,
among the Greensboro seinor high
schools during the school year.
During the summer, Rebecca
White, Grimsley’s School Beauti
ful Chairman, met with Mr. Lewis,
the city high school landscape
architect to discuss new land
scaping projects and improve
ments for the present campus.
On Saturday, September 7, the
Executive Board was informed
of its duties and subcommittees
were appointed. The committees
and their chairman’s are:
The students of Grimsley have
great potential and with consci
entious effort should have no
trouble winning the trophy back.
This year Grimsley has already
shown enthusiasm and eagerness
to compete with a record break-
iMg Work Day and 30# student
volunteers. They compined fun.
refreshments, and achievements.
Major emphasis of the contest
PAST
The behavior at the YRC Open
House on September 13, was con
sidered excellent. Also the at
tendance was high. YRC would
like to thank the student body.
Saturday, the 14, approximately
300 students worked on School
Beautiful.
Rate two up for the big “G”.
Homecoming Court Announced
is placed on over-all student par
ticipation. Other areas in which
the contest is judged include,
total school improvement, a scrap
book; and special projects. There
are four Youth Judges, one from
each school participating.
Throughout the school year,
there will be special projects to
emphasize certain parts of the
School Beautiful Contest.
Although Greensboro Youth
Council sponsors Anti - Litter
Week, Christmas decorations, and
America the Beautiful Week,
Grimsley also has a share of orig
inality. This year, committees have
been organized to undertake bold
new ideas. They will provide
teachers with individual parking
spaces, carry out Raiders’ Week
(Stay tuned for there’s more to
come), and most important, they
will cultivate and extend our
campus for a park-area.
Acting as a team the students
of Grimsley can accomplish only
the very best. With whole-hearted
participation and co-operation, the
team CAN be successful under the
guidance of Rebecca White and
Jimmy Palmer and the inspiration
of Skip Holt’s beautiful body,
Grimsley’s School Beautiful Team
is a positive winner—(Won’t you
join?).
(P.S. Sophomores invited too!)
The members, of the 1968
Grimsley Homecoming Court are:
Nancv Bass, Janife Bingham, Pat
ty Bridges, Marie Busch, Debbie
Clemmons, Marcia Cooper, Gibbie
Edwards. Kathy Glenn, Susan
Hill, Kathy Huffj^ Julie Inman,
Laurea Jeanes, Pam King, Martha
Monnett, Lyn Moore, Margaret
Shelton, Cindy Shoemaker, Marti
Venable, Rebecca White, and Car-
lie Zierath.
This year’s court was chosen,
for the first time, by a special
homecoming selection committee.
In the past the student council,
which' sponsors the annual event,
has had each senior member of
the football squad nominate a
senior girl. The selection proced
ure change, which was suggested
by the homecoming committee
and approved by Coach Jamieson
and the student council, came as
part of a general redefinition by
the committee of what the mem
bers of the homecoming court
were intended to represent.
National Honor Society
Elects New Officers
During the class year of 1968-
69 these officers will be serving
for Torchlight. (National Honor
Society).
President—Carolyn Kornegay.
Vice-President—Trish Kellett.
Secretary—Kathryn Jones (Cor
responding) ; Marcia Kennedy
(Recording).
Treasurer—Joan Ray (tempo
rary)
MATURITY
To be able to stick with a job
until it is finished.
To be able to bear an injustice
without wanting to get even.
To be able to carry money with
out spending it.
And to do one’s duty without
being supervised.
Exchange
Student
Hailing from Regensburg, West
Germany, Hans Emmet is known
to most everyone as the German
exchange student. He arrived at
the Greensboro Airport on Friday,
August 30. Hans was welcomed to
the city by the members of the
Interact Club, and is presently
staying in the home of Henry
Her, president of the organiza
tion. Before boarding the plane
for Greensboro, he spent two
hours in New York. He has also
been to several smaller towns
surrounding the area with Mr.
Her, Henry’s father.
“I find the United States very
interesting and wonderful. The
people are very nice at school
ad everywhere else. And I would
like to stay on.” He will be going
back home in March.
Mans added that a comparison
between this country and Germa
ny would be hard to make. “One
reason it is so difficult,” he says,
“is because of the difference in
their sizes.”
To learn more about the states,
the sixteen year-old is taking U.S.
History. Among his other courses
are English, Latin, French, and
Introductory Analysis. “In Ger
many, one must take German,
Latin, English, and French. The
schools there are also very mathe
matical,” Hans explained.
For the most part, the young
German is enjoying his visit, im
mensely, and some day, perhaps,
he might return.
“In the past,” said student body
president Tye Hunter, “the mem
bers of the court were chosen for
school spirit only in the narrow
context of supporting and cheer
ing for the team. The homecom
ing committee, however, believed
that school spirit involves far
more than just team support, and
that enthusiasm shown in YRC,
Pep Board, School Beautiful, and
other service organizations should
deserve equal recognition. The
change in election procedures was
made so that the court might
more fairly represent all aspects
of school spirit among our senior
girls.”
The selection committee includ
ed the senior members of the
student council executive board.
(Tye Hunter, Jim Walters, Mark
Morris, Ralph Voight, and Skip
Holt); interclub council president.
Bill Buckley: Mr. Glenn, Miss
Moodv and Miss Hundley.
The twenty members of the
court were chosen from a list of
all girls in the senior class.
The entire court will be pre
sented to the student body, with
their escorts, at a future assembly.
The student body will vote
for the Homecoming Queen dur
ing homeroom period on October
17-
The homecoming pageant will
be held on Friday night October
Seniors Change
Class Project
For the first time in many
years, Grimsley’s senior class has
a new money-making project, and
hopes are that the new project
will help make this year’s class
the richest ever to graduate and
leave the school a gift. No longer
will seniors be peddling the tra
ditional blue and white ribbons,
this year they’re selling tee-shirts,
and are very happy with the
change. The shirts, which will sell
for two dollars a piece, will be
white with blue trim and will
have an emblem with “GHS” and
the graduating class of the stu
dent. If all goes as senior class
president Mark Morris, and vice-
president David Heinz are hoping,
at least one thousand of the tee-
shirts will be sold at a profit
of seventy-five cents a piece.
The old blue and white ribbons,
however, have not been forsaken.
Heinz, who also serves as presi
dent of the Exchange Club, ar
ranged for the ribbon sales to be
taken over by the Exchange and
Exchangette clubs. For the past
weeks these two clubs have split
the work, along with the profit,
of seeing that spirit-minded
Whirlies have their ribbons.
The reason for the change, as
explained by Heinz, supervisor
of the tee - shirt sales, was
to give the dynamically creative
class of ’69 a new project that
would reflect that originality. 'The
project will also make the class
a lot of money, as well as make
it necessary for the class of '70
to find itself still another project.
The tee-shirts should be on sale
sometime after Monday, Septem
ber 30. The first shipment will
contain a few samples, and stu
dents wishing to buy tee-shirts
will have to make a one , dollar
down payment and pay the bal
ance on arrival of the shirts- from
the factory
18 during the half-time ceremon
ies of the Grimsley-Asheville
game. When the 1968 homecoming
queen is announced, she will be
crowned by student body presi
dent Tye Hunter.
After game, the YRC will spon
sor the traditional Homcoming
dance to honor the queen and her
court.
Another Grimsley homecoming
tradition will return this year
with homecoming displays again
being planned. The displays will ■
be built by service clubs and will
be erected on the front lawn of
the school Friday morning before
the game. The different displays
will be. judged and a prize will be
presented at halftime to the pres
ident of the club with the win
ning display.
New Officers Of Junior
Classical League
These are the new officers of
the Junior Classical League (Lat
in Club) for the 1968-69 term.
President—Bob Jones.
First vice-president—Trish Kel
lett.
Second vice-president—^Martha
Gabriel
Secretary—Rie Davis
Treasurer—Cindy Johnson
Scrapbook Chairman and His
torian—Patti Howell.
Campaign ’68
Campaign ’68 will make a brief
stop at Grimsley this year when
Congressional candidates L. Rich
ardson Preyer and Bill Osteen
come to speak to the GHS student
body during the month of Octo
ber. The two sixth district hope
fuls, whose appearances weri ar
ranged by Mr. Routh, will speak,
to assemblies on October sixth
and thirteenth.
In conjunction with the two
speeches, a preferential election
has been planned to be taken within
the school sometime after the
speeches are given. The poU will
Include the Congressional, presi
dential, and gubernatorial contests
and the results of the balloting
will be announced in High Life
on the Monday before election
day.
Mr. Osteen will speak at the
first of the two assemblies, which
has been planned for first period,
Tuesday, October 8. His speech
will be followed a week later
when Mr, Preyer will be given
his chance with the Whirlies.
Both cendidates have been en
couraged to speak on the issues,
and not deliver the “sermon” that
Grimsley assembly-goers axe so
used to. The candidates have also
agreed to give over half their 20
minute speaking time for “ques
tion and answer” periods
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PRESENT
YRC will have the Whirlibird
in the main hall this year to pub
licize the open houses and other
YRC events. A ticket booth will
also be near the desk in the main
hall for students wishing to pur
chase open house tickets.