As you cast your votes in home'
•oom during the second week is
rebruary, you. helped bring Cin-
lerella to life for this year’s May
5ay Festivities, which are tenta-
ively set for May 3rd, the first
Wednesday in May.
Although the exact number of
iris that will be on the court has
lot been stated, it will be made
ip of approximately twenty girls
eceiving the highest number of
otes—ten senior girls, six junior
iris, and four girls in the sopho-
aore class.
A seamstress has been asked to
nake the dresses that will be
/orn by the court, but no cutting
n the dresses will begin until
fter the returns from the elec-
ions.
'^ol. XLVI
Twenty Girls Selected For
May Day*s Gala Festivities
Eecognition goes to our able
1972 May Day Committee, Angie
Dixon, Linda Garrett, and Mary
Mitchell, who have chosen Cin
derella as this year’s theme, and
have already begun the many
hours of careful planning that
will go into a successful May
Day.
The Committee has the follow
ing faculty advisors to thank for
their assistance:
Over-all Mrs. Moody
Sound Mr. Ballance
Script Miss Joyner
Dance Mrs. Lambert
Make-up Miss Causey
Costumes Miss Phillips
Props/Scenery .... Mr. Whitaker
The script, which is to accom
pany the May Day performance of
“Cinderella,” has been written by
Linda Garrett, Angie Dixon, and
Mary Mitchell, with the help of
Miss Joyner, and will be taped
later in Eden, N.C.
The committee also will be
choosing the Cinderella cast from
the student body at large, and
will have cast names by the end
of February.
An enthusiastic response was
shown by the large number of
Grimsley students who signed ap
plications in the guidance office
to help with the scenery, props,
costumes, make-up, dance, pub
licity, and sound.
Concerning May Day, Linda
Garrett says, “We got a late start,
but with all three of us working
on it, I think we can finish in
time.”
Grimsley High School, Greensboiro, N.C. 27410—^February 29, 1972
Thirty-seven faculty absences,
long with extensive illness
mong cafeteria workers, crip-
led Grimsley activities through-
it the week of Jan. 31, accord-
ig to Mr. Jim Ballance. assist-
it principal.
Seniors G-Day
Planned May 31
Graduation, 1972, will be held
1 May 31 in the boys’ gym, ad-
irding to Principal R. L. Glenn,
snow doys do not cause a de-
y in school’s closing.
Intense preparation will be-
n in March when senior class-
ates will begin ordering caps
id gowns. The traditional formal
tire is required to be worn at
I graduations in Greensboro’s
hool system.
“The wearing of the formal
tire is not just an oral rule
the school system,” says Mr.
lenn, “but most parents expect
eir children to wear it.” He
les on to assert that no stu
nt may participate in the serv-
i without formal dress.
The senior class will be in
large of getting their gowns
d making other arrangements
r the 1972 graduation cere-
jnies.
Mr. Glenn has stressed that
aduation cannot be held in the
idium because light evening
owers are plentiful in the lat-
r part of spring.
“If we had graduation planned
[■ the stadium and it rained,
■ would have to make another
aduation set-up in the gym,
lich would be extra cost and
mble,” said Mr. Glenn. “There-
I’e, we see no use for a dual
c-up.”
He goes on to predict a large
m-out at the commencements
remonies.
Faculty absentees, ranging from
one to five days, were out with
illness, jury duty, or observation
in other schools.
In addition, for many cases Mr.
Ballance didn’t learn of a teach
er’s illness until 7:15 a.m. Then,
from a list of available substi
tutes in Greensboro, he arranged
to find substitutes to fill the va
cancies.
Moreover, during this week Mr.
Ballance had a much harder time
getting replacements due to the
competition from other high
schools. The other schools were
short on teachers due to illness.
Often, if a teacher knows he
or she will be absent, he can
choose a replacement. Mr. Bal
lance has regulars, and he tries
to select substitutes who know
about the subject they will teach.
Nevertheless, Mr. Ballance ap
preciates the students’ coopera
tion with the ‘ substitutes.' He
points out that substitutes, who
are called on short notice, earn
only $15 a day and come to help
out. These substitutes also must
teach from hastily prepared les
son plans sent in by the teacher.
He adds, “Students can help by
continuing to cooperate.”
Staff absentees also hampered
the cafeteria. Out of the eight
cafeteria workers, as many as
five were out in one day.
“Some problems that we had
were having to close down the
snack bar and being kept in a
constant rush,” said Mrs. Boswell,
cafeteria manager. “The biggest
problem was having to use paper
plates because there was no one
to wash dishes.”
Mrs. Boswell expressed appre
ciation to students and teachers
for the patience displayed while
the cafeteria was low on workers.
Melvin Will Spea}{ At
ROTC Annual Ball
R.O.T.C. cadets are circling
March 24th on their calendars as
the date selected for the R.O.T.C.
Anniversary Ball to be held at
the Hilton Inn.
The banquet-style formal wear
dinner will be topped off by a
huge birthday cake to celebrate
Grimsley’s R.O.T.C. program’s
fourth year and the 196th year
of the Marine Corps.
Guest speakers will be joined
by Mr. Jim Melvin, mayor of
Greensboro, Dr. House, superin
tendent of schools, and officials
from the Marine Corps. Dance
music by a popular band will be
provided.
Until the ball, life in R.O.T.C.
classes continues as seniors partic
ipate in an advanced first-aid
and cardio-pulmonary resuscita
tion course.
Led by Mr. David Caviness,
training officer for the Guilford
County Emergency Transportation
Service, the course will last
twelve weeks. Its objective is to
instruct cadets in proper proced
ures in caring for the sick and
injured.
Col. Booker, Grimsley’s senior
military instructor, is pleased
with the program and feels it
will be beneficial to the cadets
involved.
While second and third year
cadets are learning first-aid, first
year cadets are learning about
drug abuse. A six-lecture program
is being instructed by city of
ficials and S.B.I. agents.
Between classes, cadets recent
ly sold candy bars to finance a
field trip planned for later on in
the spring.
1972 MAY DAY
Queen: Lisa Zone ,
Senior Maid of Honor: Mimi Martin
Susan Austin
Pam Carlson
Melanie Gibson
Susan Lindsay
SENIOR COURT
Julie Smith
Susan Stephens
Ann Wilson
Carolyn Womack
Junior Maids of Honor: Julie Beck, Sherri Blount
JUNIOR COURT
iva Boler Susan Rankin
Angie Dixon Leigh Sails
Sophomore Maid of Honor: Janice Brown
SOPHOMORE COURT
Lottayne Widemon Terrye Winfree
Service Clubs - What a Rush
No. 9
Jury Duty, Illness, and Observations
Dause Winter Faculty Absentees
Hey, Sophomores! You say
you’ve heen waiting to get into
service clubs? Well, Interclub
Council has been working on the
procedures necessary to give you
that chance.
An informative video tape, seen
in English classes, was prepared
to make club selection easier for
everyone involved. Interested
sophomores should fill out appli
cations in homeroom with club
preferences stated.
After being sent to the clubs
indicated, these forms will be put
into a hat and a supervised
drawing will take place in which
students will be inducted into
clubs.
Newly elected club members
should have been notified by
around the first of March. |
Among its many- other projects.
Interclub Council, working with
individual service clubs and on its
own, collected over $400.00 to be
given to Jodi Thompson, an un
fortunate child in immediate need
of expensive heart surgery.
I.G. also sponsors many “tag
days” in local shopping areas;
and the Sunday afternoon park
ing sweeps Grimsley couldn’t do
without.
The sixteen GHS service club
presidents and Mr Gwynn, who
make up the Interclub Cquncil,
Opening Night March 16
For Junior Class Play
Up the Down Staircase by Bel
Kaufman will be presented as the
Junior Class project on March
16 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium
for 75c per person.
Miss Mozell Causey, director,
along with thirty junior cast)
members, will dramatize this two-
act play. Up the Down Staircase
is a characterization of Sylvia
Barret, a beginning New York
school teacher, and her actions
and reactions towards the stu
dents and faculty.
Sylvia Barret, the main charac
ter, will be portrayed by Buffi
Dame; the principal is Mike Reid.
Other cast members are Debbie
Michaels, John Lewis, Julie Wil
liamson, Jill Vanderfleet, LuAnne
Winfree, Debby Singleton, Law-
son Rankin, Ann Salvin, David
Kalifon, Don Wimbs, Libba Shan-
kle, Carol Wilkins, and Jane
Johnson.
Also cast are Steve Zuckerman,
Katy Friggle, Mike Jacobson, Toni
Gilbert, David Simel, Jill Crater,
Carmen Barlow, Maureen Zurick,
Howard Borum, Ralph Shaw,
Zane Leake, Michelle St. Peter,
Rachel Pickard, Becky Howard,
and Mary White.
Production committees have
been organized.
are not quick to decide how best
to use the $5,00.00 to $600.00
that they plan to spend on this
year’s school project, but they
promise to leave the school with
a pleasant reminder of their pres
ence during the year. Several
ideas have been submitted and
are being discussed, and a plan
should develop in permanent
form soon.
Ken Bradner, president of I.C.,
appeared on the Lee Kinard
Show Feh. 23. Other officers not
appearing are Don West, vice-;
president, and Kirt Rendleman,
secretary.
Whirlie Acfors Compete
Playmaster, Grimsley’s drama
group, led by Miss Causey, is en
tering three oneact plays in the
district contest at Roxboro March
24 and 25 in hopes of winning a
berth in the state contest to be
held in April.
Grimsley’s players will be com
peting with nineteen other groups.
The GHS entries are 'The Mark,
featuring Mary White, Barbara
Sherwood, Tom McCullough, and
Bob Waters; Anastasia, with Bar
bara Sherwood and Robin Staro-
litz; and A Pretty Row of Pretty
Ribbons, with Susan Pearce and
Fleming Bell.
If the plays receei va distin
guished rating, the Grimsley stu
dents will continue on to the state
contest April 14-16. Other Grims
ley students will go to Roxboro
to help with make-up, props, and
sound effects.
Grimsley Controls
All-State Stage Band
Fourteen members of Grims
ley’s band made the newly form
ed All-State Stage Band after try
ing out January 22 at UNC-G,
and on February 20, they joined
the UNC Jazz Lab Band to give
a joint concert at UNC Chapel
Hill.
. All-State Stage Band is made
up of two bands,'and both prac
ticed a day and a half before
giving their concerts. Thirty-foiar
players were selected to make up
the bands. In each one there were
four trombones, four trumpets,
five saxes, and four people play
ing rhythm.
GHS members are Tom Al-
spaugh, Jim Pitts, tenor trom
bone; Andy Walker. Russ Living
ston. bass trombone; Steve Ritter.
Steve Breece. alto-sax; Charlie
White, tenor-sax; Fred Brown,
baritone-sax; Randy Craven. Rob
Jacobs, Tom Rainey, trumpet; Da
vid Herring, Steve Toben, piano;
and Craig Kenny, in his third AU-
State Band this year. bass.