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 Continued on Page Four 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.

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