Grimsiey’s Homecoming
Features School Spirit
Why is Carl so flustered^ he didn’t win
To The Students
Ed. Note—Because of the Su
perlatives this information is be
ing published quite late. We are
printing it to pay tribute to ali
the people who made this a fine
homecoming.
Grimsiey’s homecoming was
held on the weekend of Oct. 31,
this year at which time we bat
tled Smith High School. The dance
was held on Saturday, November
1.
This year’s Homecoming was to
honor Grimsiey’s Alumni by show
ing school spirit. Individual in
vitations were sent to those in
the classes of ’68 and ’69.
The week before Homecoming
was designatde as “Spirit Week’.
Each day stood for something
special. Monday was designated to
scholarship, Tuesday to School
Beautiful, Wednesday to Student
Government, Thursday to Sports
and Friday to Service.
"^Monday, special honor roll stu
dents names were posted on the
bulletin board in the main hall.
An assembly on America the
Beautiful was presented Tuesday.
Wednesday, an open student coun
cil meeting was iield after school.
Thursday the pictures of the
Homecoming Court and the Senior
Varsity players were posted. Fri
day an array of Homecoming pro.j-
ects was set up on Grimsiey’s
front lawn. Also Junior and Sen
iors voted on their choice for
Homecoming Queen and runner-
up.
The Homecoming Queen was
Debbie Clendenin, our head cheer-
ieader! She was escorted by Carl
McNeil. Gary Clemmons was chos
en as runner-up.
Other members of the court
were: Robin Fuller, Sue Self, Mari
Frierson, Patsy Colchamiro, Carol
Pleasants, Karen Culbreath, Evy
Schenk, Susin Newlin, Diane Hor-
nig, Kristen Cress, Diane Nichols,
Judy Cole, Cilia Noell, Allison
Albright, Susan Coleman, April
About The Newspaper what s Kabaia
There seems to be a general
)pinion about this newspaper and
jspecially the front page that “It
itinks”.
I would like to say a few things
ibout the front page so that may-
ie we can make some improve-
nents. First of all it is not a
‘news’’ page, it is an “olds” page.
When I get a story, you do not
read it until a week later at
oast. For example take the story
ibout the band concert. The band
played on Wednesday night Nov.
). The story was written up but
the first day I could turn it in
;o be made into copy was Mon-
iay Nov. 10. Lay-out was not done
rntil Wednesday, Nov. 12 and you
received it on Monday Nov. 17.
So one can see it takes at least
a week and most of the time even
more.
There is nothing >ve can do
about this problem on the produc
tion side because the printer needs
this much time to prepare a paper.
But there is something that can
be done so that stories will not
be so old. In news writing three
types of stories are written, the
advance, the on-the-spot and the
follow up. You read mostly the
follow up. If we are informed of
activities two weeks in advance
you could read about what is going
to happen that week not what
happened two weeks ago. To this
our staff must be informed. It
is up to ciubs, organizations, stu
dent council and Y.R.C. to notify
ue of your activities. We will
write up the stories if we are told
in time and if given enough in
formation.
Another problem is the lack of
information we are being able to
obtain. HIGH LIFE meets during
seventh period so we only have
one hour of school time to work in
each day. This is why we try to
get interviews and pictures dur
ing this period, at break and after
school. Our staff is limited but
we can write enough to fill a
page. If it is good or bad depends
on how many articles we get there
by elimimating the weaker ones.
This can- pnly be done if more
news can be obtained from the
students at G.H.S.
Some suggestions have been
made and they are up for con
sideration. The best is to have a
“Hot Line” type column about
what students are interested in.
This would pertain not just to
Grimsley but anything students
would submit questions on. They
can be submitted to me, my staff
or taken to room 410, the HIGH
LIFE room.
I also have a few suggestions
to organizations around school.
The student council should sub
mit an agenda, a record of min
utes, a student council report and
any questions from the suggestion
box to HIGH LIFE. Some one
should be appointed to do this
from council or HIGH LIFE.
Y.R.C. should tell us about their
dances at least two weeks in ad
vance. I am willing to bet more
students would like to know some
thing about combos that play at
the dances, also if any special
ideas such as T.W.I.R.P. are con
nected with an upcoming dance.
Service clubs should tell us
about what they are doing that
is not routine. An example would
be the Key Club directory. We
could publish facts about it, and
when to expect it.
Other organizations (such as
special interest clubs) should con
tact us for stories on themselves.
Information on them is practically
nil and they might turn out to
interest more students than the
ones in the organizations.
To the people who have coop
erated thus far I would like to
say thank you. I hope they con
tinue helping us and others to be
gin helping us.
I hope now you have an un
derstanding about some of our
problems in publishing HIGH
LIFE. Also the opinion of “It
stinks” can be changed with a
little help.
David Gaynor
News Editor
A literary magazine called KA-
BALA is being started by the
6th period creative writing class.
Included in KABALA will be
short stories, poems, reviews of
books and movies, drawings and
anything else literary that stu
dents want to contribute. The
literary writings are gotten from
the student body and the creative
writing class students. Students
of the creative writing class will
be split into special groups of cer
tain category to judge the literai-y
content. For example there will
be a group of students to decide
which poems will be put in the
magazine and so on with each
category.
KABALA is a chance for every
one to show their creativity. It
is a chance to let one’s self be
understood through his creative
ability. Many students have often
expressed the opinion that they
do not have an opportunity to
present original ideas. This is a
challenge for these people to ex
press their feelings. This maga
zine represents a challenge to all
students and will be a means
to express his talent.
For anyone wishing to contrib
ute to KABALA there will be a
psychedelic box in the main hall
way to put their work in.
Strickland, Nancy Robertson, Sher-
ron Westmoreland, Siizanne Wil
liams, Cyd Payne, Pam Ricketts,
Cindy Huffling, Suzie Levy, Laura
Beaman and Barbie Lowe.
Our half-time theme was Hallo
ween. The Marching Band flanked
the court and played “Spookie”
as the, court was being presented.
Then Frye Hunter, last year’s
president, presented Margrat
Shelton, last year’s queen. Next
the runner up and queen were
announced. Spooks then roamed
free throwing candy.
The theme of the dance was
“Spookie”. The Occasions provid
ed the entertainment. The walls
were decorated in Halloween
scenes. It lasted from 8 to 11:30
p.m. and was sponsored by the
Student Council.
N.E.A. WEEK CELEBRATED
AT G.H.S.
J. C.L. Meeting
Held
On Wednesday, October 29, the
Junior Classical League held its
annual Initiaiton ceremony. All
old and new members met in the
band room for the meeting.
Jack Knight presided as high
priest. Kevin Butler was the spirit
of first year Latin; Da. id Carpen
ter, spirit of second year Latin:
Cynda Crawford, spirit of third
year Latin; and Susan Decker was
the spitr of fourth year Latin.
Music was provided by the
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Last week was National Educa
tion Week. It was sponsored na
tionally by the National Educa
tion Association. Observance of
the week at Grimsley was spon
sored by the Future Teachers of
America. At Grimsley, the week
was sponsored by the Future
Teachers.
During the week, there ^ere
talks each day over the loud
speaker system. The speakers
were Becky Daniel, president of
FTA, Betty Black, treasurer, Su
san Austin, and Shirley Lawson.
The lirls spoke about citizens in
government, about business and
industry, about parents and teach
ers. and about students.
The assembly Tuesday was
sponsored by Grimsiey’s FTA. Dr.
Lois V. Edinger was the guest
speaker. Her topic was “Better
Education”. Dr. Edinger is a past
president of NEA.
Wednesday was visitation day.
On that day representatives from
the City Council and the School
Administration Office, and friends
Y.R.C. PLANNING
SEVERAL DANCES
The YRC is planning several in
teresting activities for the up
coming weeks and months. On
November 14 the YRC sponsored
a Christmas Seal Benefit Dance
with the proceeds going to that
cause. The people who come to
the dance are requested to bring
toys for a project in December.
The following week YRC mem
bers started to work on their
float for the Christmas parade.
December 13 they will sponsor
a party for the under-privileged
children of the Smith Home. This
is the reason for the toy collec
tion at the Christmas Seal Bene
fit Dance.
On December 19 or 20 they
will sponsor a semi-formal Holi
day Dance, if it is successful and
the student wants it, they will
hold a Mid-Winter in January.
An alternate if the Mid-Winter is
not held will be a Psych Dance
in January. Last, but not least
for February they will sponsor
the Twery Dance.
of the school were guests at a
luncheon held in the Grimsley
cafeteria. FTA members served at
the luncheon.
The purpose of National Educa
tion Week is to promote the in
terests of education. The purpose
of education according to a
pamphlet put out by the National
Education Association, is to pro
vide techniques for sorting out,
and using facts "being dissemi
nated hourly” and to develop self
respect in students.
“Better Education” was the
theme of National Education
Week this year. The week is al
ways that week in which Novem
ber 11 falls.
The Grimsley chapter of the
Future Teachers of America is
the first in the state. It is called
the Benjamin Lee Smith chapter.
Miss Causey and Miss Mitchell are
the faculty advisors.
Concert Given
The Fall Concert of the Grims
ley High School bands was pre
sented Wednesday night, Novem
ber 5, 1969.
Under the direction of Edgar
Rooker, the concert band pre
sented these numbers. They were
Concert March—^Kingsgate by Ger
ald Hartley, Suite for Band by
Charles Smith and Masque com
posed by W. Francis McBeth.
The Symphony Band imder the
direction of Herbert Hazelman
played a program consisting of
five numbers. They began with
Overture to a Fanfare by Harry
Sosnik. Then a piece that came
from a television arrangement
called Down to the Sea in Ships
by Robert Bennett. Five clarinets
were then featured in Carl Maria
von Weber’s Concertine for Clari
net. The soloists were Peggy
Craig, Becky Daniel, Robbie Mims,
Janice Poore and Chich Tucker.
The program was concluded with
Three Dance Episodes from
“Spartacus” and Charles Ives var
iations on “America”.
The bands will now begin work
on music for the New Music Clinic
to be held in Grimsiey’s Audi
torium. Also individuals will be
preparing for try-outs to the All-
State band.