Proposals
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Class Of '70
Dance -- April 25
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 37410 APRIL 21. 1970
NUMBER 17:
Apply For The 1970-1,971
HIGH LIFE Staff
From April 21-28,1970
By Seeing Miss Lovett In Room
410 Or Leaving Your Name In The
HIGH LIFE Room.
The Staff Will Be
Announced In The May 12 Issue Of
HIGH LIFE
FOCUS, A New Concept In
College and Career Planning
A new concept in college and
areer planning has been ,intro-
luced to college bound sopho-
lores and juniors at Grimsley
ligh School.
Developed by the Princeton In-
titute for Educational and Career
tesearch, FOCUS is a continuous
uidance program designed to
lelp students make intelligent de-
isions about their future. The
nstitute was founded by former
dmission directors at Princeton
Tniversity who believe that col-
ege bound students can effective-
y plan their future development
f given proper guidelines and
notivation. Toward this end,
^OCUS supplements the guidance
ounselor’s function by providing
students with a logical, systematic
approach to college and career
choice.
The FOCUS pilot program in
cludes 1,100 schools in its na
tional sample. Students may sub
scribe to this service as early as
sophomore year and can continue
in the FOCUS program until
they finish college. College se
lection is emphasized in the first
planning kits but students are
also introduced to broad career
concepts at that time.
To take career planning out of
the realm of broad generalities
into the area of specific facts a
selected group of major companies
and professional associations have
prepared special reports on their
lunior City Council
Selected For Youth Week
During Youth Week, from
onday, April 27, to Saturday, May
of ths iyear, local youth will
! taking over the city govern-
ent, filling such jobs as Mayor,
ayor Pro Tern, and council mem-
>rs. This is a GYC related ef-
rt, making it possible for in-
rested students to learn more
)out the rigors and responsibil-
es of holding a local govern-
ent office, and to increase inter-
t of the public in the govern-
ent’s affairs. The youth repre-
ntatives for the city posts were
lected following a series of
ree government workshops and
final test. Mayor Jack Elam
loke at the first workshop meet-
g, held on Tuesday, March 31.
peakers at the other two meet-
gs were various city department
;ads and council members,
broughout the workshops they
scussed some of the major prob-
ms encountered in their respec-
ve jobs.
At the last workshop, held on
uesday, April 7, an objective
st was given on various statistic
sheets and pamphlets that had
been distributed earlier. The per
sons with the higher test scores
were given the jobs, and they
make up our Junior City Council
for this year. Appointed were:
Patti Nutt as Mayor, Dick Hun-
gate as Mayor Pro Tern, Van
Travis, John Bain, Larry Ensley,
Steve Lytch, and Rosanne Cleve
land as the five City Council
members, Ronny Jones as the
City Manager, Alan Tinkelton as
the City Attorney, Jacqueline
Prince as the City Clerk, Robert
Kalifon as the Finance Director,
Karen Clark as the Fire Chief,
Edith White as the Park Director,
Kim McGreggor as the Planning
Director, Doug Copeland as the
Police Chief, Fred Williams as
the Public Works Director, Bill
Cummings as the Recreation Di
rector, and John Shields as the
Traffic Engineering Director. Also
appointed were several citizens to
come and present problems before
the city council. There are Stina
Troxler, Steve Harris, Carolyn'
Tyre, Marty Kniereim, and Louise
McCaskill.
Teenage Carnival To Be
Held During Youth Week
career fields. In the field of busi
ness management, Johnson and
Johnson, Montgomery Ward, nad
Procter & Gamble have been chos
en to give the facts an sales,
merchandising and finance as ca
reers. Honeywell, Monsanto, and
U.S. Steel have provided insight
into the potentials science, engi
neering and computers offer.
There is also information on var
ious professions as reported by
the American Medical Associa
tion, the American Bar Associa
tion, and the National -Education
Association. This line of com
munication is maintained via the
quarterly newsletter, FOCUS
FACTS, as the student continues
through college.
FOCUS is financed by partici
pating foundations and corpora
tions. The only expense for this
ongoing service to students is a
motivational charge of $2.00 for
postage, handling, and registra
tion with the Institute. The pro
gram is available through the col
lege counselor or FOCUS repre
sentatives.
More information and applica
tions are available at the Guid
ance Office.
Youth Week this year is from
April 27-May 2. It is during this
week that two outstanding events
will take place. The Junior City
Council Program and the Teen
age Carnival will be the high
lights of youth week. During this
week good programs and activities
that young pople are doing will
be brought out so that the com
munity of Greensboro can see
what the teenagers are doing.
Many churches this week will give
up their pulpits to its youth.
The Junior City Council Pro
gram is proclaimed by the mayor
in recognition of the young peo
ple of Greensboro. Each home
room in each of the four high
schools elected a representative
to participate in the program.
Each of the representatives who
participated were tested on dif
ferent aspects of city govern
ment. Testing included such’
things as the budget of Greens
boro, the ward system, structure
of city government, etc. Students
who are picked from their test
scores will take over the city
government for a day. Each stu
dent will spend the day with his
counterpart of the city govern
ment.
The youth mayor will get an
all expense paid trip to Washing
ton where he will spend a day
and a half with Representative
Richardson Preyer. .He will also
receive a car donated by Chevro
let for one week.
From this program students
are able to get a good look into
city government by actually par
ticipating in the activities of a
city official.
The other big event which will
take place April 30-May 3 is the
Teenage Carnival. It will be held
at K-Mart Shopping Center on
Randleman Road. More clubs are
participating than ever before as
there will be a large number of
booths. A psychedelic light show
is planned for one of the nights
as a special event. Many rides
will be present as always and
-many clowns will be there to add
to the fun. The schedule of the
carnival is the following:
Thursday—5:00-10:00
Friday—4:00-10:00 I
Saturday—10:00-10:00
Sunday—1:00-5:00
Youth Council To Hold
Elections On May 5
Grimsley Students
Advance In Latin Tests
The State Latin Tests are given
April 9 to 29 students. In second
year Latin, Wanda Hall and Joyce
Wagner had their papers sent to
Chapel Hill and in third year,
Meredith Foltz and Pam Stephens.
The State Tests are put out by
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and every field
is included. The school’s princi
pal has to order them.
The finalists will attend lunch
eon in Chapel Hill where the first
and second place winners in
French, Latin, chemistry, etc. will
be announced. The first place
Latin winner will receive a four
year scholarship to UNC-CH.
Taking the tests in voluntary
on the student’s part.
The Greensboro Youth Council
will hold its annual elections on
May fifth to select representa
tives from the Grimsley district.
' As in the past, elections for
council will be held after a period
of informing the general school
body. In April posters, announce-
riients, and' gene^-al information
is made available by Youth Coun
cil and can be obtained by asking
anyone on council. Also sign-up
fornis for election will be placed
in the Guidance office.
The council will again this year
try to elect on an equal basis.
The representatives will be for next
year’s senior and junior classes.
Sophomores will be elected in the
fall from the incoming class.
There will be eight senior boys,
eight senior girls, six junior boys
and six junior girls elected in
May. The people who poll the
most votes in these categories will
be the representatives. Replace
ments of these people, if neces
sary, will come from the next
highest poller on the listi
After a person signs up to run,
he will be asked to attend a
meeting. At this time Youth Coun
cil will be explained to him. They
will be informed how much ^ime
it takes, how GYC is organized
and what kind of benefits that
GYC can offer.
Next year’s council will be or
ganized in a new manner. Recent
ly the by-laws were changed.
Among the most significant
changes was the dropping of grade
requirements for people wanting
to get on and for people on
council. Also next year GYC will
have four vice-chairmen instead
of one. They will be in charge
of most of council’s functions.
The vice-chairmen will be Exec
utive vice-chairman. Vice-chairman
in Charge of Problems, Vice-
chairman in Charge of Projects
and Vice-chairman in Charge of
Communications. The chairman’s
job will be the external repre
sentative. He will literally be the
spokesman to the community.
One can also work wdth the-
council without being a full coun
cil member. A person can become
an associate member. A person,
in this status has all the rights
of full councilmen except voting
privileges in full council. One-
can obtain this status by working;
twenty hours on GYC projects^
National Honor Society
Holds State Convention
On April 10th through 12th,
the North Carolina State National
Honor Society convention was
held at 'Wingate College in Win
gate, N.C.
Robbie Mims, Laura Truitt,
Chip Stam, and Judy LeDuc at
tended the convention along with
Torchlight sponsors. Miss Sara
Mims and Mrs. Mary B. Madlin.
Dr. James N. Carlan spoke Sat
urday on the convention theme,
“The Future, If Any . . .” Dr.
Carlin is professor of religion at
Wingate College.
In keeping with the conven
tion’s emphasis on the future
were workshops on such subjects
as population control, internation
al co-existence, and the future of
the environment. There were six
different workshops in all.
At the banquet Saturday night,,
Robbie Mims, representing Grims
ley, had the honor of responding'
to the toast.