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VOLUME XLVI
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 27410 — OCT. 12, 1971
NUMBER 2
^71-72 Publications Underway
The staff of the 1972 WHIRLI
GIG returned to Grimsiey this
school year to discover that de
spite last spring’s efforts, there
was still a great amount of work
to be done on the new yearbook.
Staff members, armed with pen
cils and rulers, attacked a myriad
of lay-out sheets and drew and
redrew painstakingly, striving for
more interesting layouts.
Other yearbook people either
tried to think of new ideas for
pictures or began writing copy.
In all kinds of weather, the pho
tographers roamed about campus,
cameras strung around their
necks, in search of interesting
Latin Picnic Forced Indoors (See Story At Right)
National Merit
Semi-Finalists Named
Guidance counselors have been
busy during the first 6 weeks and
have come out with the eight
Grimsiey National Merit Schol
ars. Linda Evans, Cy Johnson,
Jim Mobberly, Pam Powell, Parke
Puterbaugh, Martha Sykes, Wan
da Tatro, and Rebecca Wood
(who came here this year from
East Ragsdale) received the
awards.
All juniors who expect to at
tend college are asked to sign
up in homeroom, October 12-15,
for their PSAT/NMSQT (Pre
liminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/
National Merit Scholarship Qual
ifying Test). These tests will be
given October 23 at 8:30 a.m.
and will end at 11:30 a.m. Be
sides assisting a student to get
into college, these tests also may
make him eligible for scholar
ships from Cone Mills, P. Loril-
lard, and Western Electric (if
his parents work there). National
Achievement Scholarship Pro
gram for Outstanding Negro Stu
dents, and Telluride Summer
Programs.
N. C. State University is hold
ing an open house on Life Sci
ence October 9 at 10:00 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. If a student plans to
attend, he may receive a ticket
to the State-Wake Forest game
for $1.00.
Also at State on October 16
there will be an open house on
Physical Science and Math .
According to Senior Class Ad
visor Mrs. Mary F. Sigmon, this
year’s ribbon sales are off to a
successful start, despite delay in
the early stages of the project
due to uncertainty as to the val-
iditity of the senior class officers.
Approximately 950 ribbons
were sold during the week of the
game against Dudley. Two weeks
prior to this, 80 ribbons left over
from past years were sold.
Senior Class officers Lucky
Anderson, Laurie DeWitt, Kirt
Rendleman, and John Parrett su
pervise the project, which is a
chief source of funds for the class
treasury.
subjects for pictures.
Urged by the co-editors and
advisor. Miss Powell, the staff
settled down to work early in
order to have the book finished
on time.
Staff members include Eileen
McFalls, Martha Tesh, Co-Edi
tors; Victoria Herman, Literary
Editor; Johanna Van Zee, Man
aging Editor; Susan Kelly, Fea
ture Editor; Cindy Drinkard,
Jeanne Bryan, Senior Editors;
Debbie Dawson, Photography Ed
itor; Beverly Leonard, Assistant
Managing Editor; Amry Stout,
Business Manager; Lisa Hutchin-
Latin Banquet
Has A Storm
Hurricane Ginger played havoc
with the informal meeting of
Latin students, old and new,
which was held September 30
at 5:30. Originally scheduled to
be outside, the meeting was in
stead held in room 501 in the
Home Ec. building.
Although it was a Latin meet
ing, the food was strictly “south
ern style’’. Everybody seemed to
enjoy eating the fried chicken,
cup cakes, and cookies while
socializing with the other Latin
students. The meeting was topped
off with a Latin gladiator fight
among the boys.
Miss Maddox, the advisor, and
other members of the club are
planning future meetings at
Christmas and again in the spring.
son. Assistant Photography Edi
tor; Nancy Reynolds, Cindy Helms,
Junior Editors; Mary Kornegay,
Kim Wheeler, Sophomore Editors.
Additional staff members in
clude Barbara Ward, Index Edi
tor; Craig Kinney, Tom Hankins,
Debbie Gutterman, Sports Edi
tors; Matt Irvin, Tim Doss, Pho
tographers; Anne Ferrell, Fac
ulty Editor; Pat Mahaffee, Service
Club Editor; Susan Pharr, in
charge of Faculty Statistics; Ken.
Bradner, Caption Editor; and
Michael Read, Bill Gibson, Tech
nical Advisors.
This year’s HIGH LIFE staff
is brand new, completely inexper
ienced, except for two people who
took journalism in other states
before transferring to Grimsiey.
The five people returning who
were on last year’s staff are Caro
lyn Tyer, Business Manager;
Winthrop Watson and John Par
rett, Co-Editors; Rorin Platt,
News Editor; and Butch Allgood,
Sports Editor.
Financial problems beset every
scholastic newspaper, and HIGH
LIFE is no exception. Ads have
been selling relatively well, but
the main problem that faces the
staff is the low number of sub
scriptions sold so far in the cam
paign.
By October 4, only around 850
students had signed subscription
cards. In a school of approxi
mately 1800 or more, this per
centage is less than 50% sub
scribing.
According to Winthrop Watson,
Co-Editor, “HIGH LIFE can be
bigger and better with two es
Elections Set For This Month
Ribbon Sales Record Success
Ten captains were chosen to
lead teams of five students, all
of which were selected from lists
collected from homeroom. These
lists showed a large number of
students were interested in help
ing out with the project, not only
as salesmen and captains, but as
ribbon cutters and promotional
assistants.
Each salesman is responsible
for at least one homeroom, as
well as selling on his own initia
tive between classes. The large
number of salesmen is expected
to be significant in the success of
the ribbon drive which will last ■
through the football season.
The new plan for student gov
ernment has been set up. The
senior class officers and the sen
ior class representatives to stu
dent council and YRC will re
main the same as those elected
last spring, but there will be
major changes in the rest of the
school’s representatives.
The only student body officers
that will be directly elected into
office by the students themselves
are the Pep Board co-chairmen,
the two secretaries, and the treas
urer.
The Pep Board co-chairmen
must be juniors or seniors, with
a 2.0 grade average. They will be
the highest white and highest
black vote winners.
Student Council will have two
secretaries this year, a recording
secretary and a corresponding sec
retary. Similar to the Pep Board
co-chairmen, the secretaries will
be the black and white students
receiving the largest number of
votes. The candidate with the
most votes over-all will have his
or her choice of duties. The
qualifications for running for sec
retary are a 2.0 grade average
and junior status.
There will be one treasurer
elected by the student body whose
qualifications are the same as
those for secretary.
After the sophomore and jun
ior YRC representatives are elect
ed, they will elect white and
black co-chairmen who must be
a senior and must have at least
a 2.0 grade average.
This year, the moderator will
be the presiding officer of Stu
dent Council. He will be a sen
ior who is elected by Student
Council, not by the student body,
as the presidents have been in
the preceding years.
The presidents of the sopho
more and junior classes will be
the candidates receiving the high
est number of votes with the vice-
presidents being the highest vote
receiving candidate of the op
posite race.
The election for class secre
taries and treasurers will be held
the same way as those same of
fices in the student body elec
tions.
The Student Council represent
atives from the tenth and
eleventh grades will be one-third
white, one-third black, and one-
third at large.
sentials: a good hard-working
staff, and a successful subscription
drive. The first essential is shap
ing up; the second one depends
on the student body.’’
In addition to the members
listed above, the staff includes
the following students. A few
students who are now in driver’s
education will be retuxning to the
staff later. Their names are not
listed here.
Angie Arnold, Carla Ashley,
Ellen Bosher, Hank Bullard, Car
ol Clayton, Jeff Coulter, Wendy
Dawson, Karen Dean, Libby De
Berry, Laurie DeWitt, Sally
Fleisher, John Forrester, Sheila
Gusler, Ruth Kabat, David Kali-
fon, Diane Lynch, Gene Mont
gomery, Bill Perkins, Parke Puter
baugh, Brian Shaw, Scott Sholar,
James Tingin, Lizzie Truitt, Herb
Underwood, Barbara Sherwood,
and Donna Summers.
In addition to the staff mem
bers, many other students not
scheduled into the staff hour
have contributed to the publica
tion of the first two issues.
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News
Briefs
Coach Jamieson, who has been
ill for several weeks, has re
cently returned on a part-time
basis to the campus. Plagued by
setbacks after an appendectomy,
the Athletic Director has re
gained strength enough to attend
school long enough to attempt to
fulfill the many duties of his
position.
The auditorium, long in need
of repairs, is in the process of
being renovated. Until it is com
pleted, there will be no activi
ties allowed inside it. Several
months are estimated as the .time
the auditorium will be out of
commission.
The library has announced the
availability of audio-visual ma
terials (sound-filmstrips, records,
tapes) for students’ use. Students
may look through the materials
shelved in the library (on wall
next to auditorium) and then
may go to the main desk to cheek
out viewers, tape recorders, etc.
Eddie Ross, Cooperative Voca
tional Training reporter for this
year, promises news on this pro
gram’s work-study plans through
out the year.
National Educational Week will
present a series of mini-concerts
during the week of Oct. 24-30 at
Friendly Shopping Center in the
evenings.