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V^OLUME XLVIII
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL GREENSBORO, N.C. 27410 .DECEMBER 21, 1973
NUMBER 5
New Torchlight Members from left to right ore: (bock row) Susan Overton, Newell High-
smith, Rick Blinkhorn, Mike Shaver, Randy Kaplan, Jim Osborne, Susan Stallone, Kay Shoff-
ner, David Peace. (Front row) Susan Darnell, Pat Chappell, Carolyn Jack, Jeon Kreis, Dotty Har
dee, Charlesanna Daily, Jane Selders, Liz Elkins, Jane Martinelli, Tricia Crouch.
Twenty New Members
Inducted In Torchlight
The Torchlight Chapter of the
National Honor Society inducted
20 seniors in its fall ceremony on
Thursday, November 15, at 7:30
p.m. in the Grimsley Media Cen
ter. These new members are as
follows: Steve Black. Rick Blyink-
hom. Pat Chappell, Tricia Crouch,
Charlesanna Daily, Susan Darnell.
Liz Elkins. Dotty Hardd. Newell
Highsmith, Carolyn Jack, Randy
Kaplan. Jean Kreis. Jane Martin
elli. Jim Osborne, Susan Overton,
David Pearce. Jane Selders, Mike
Shaver. Kay Shoffner. and Susan
Stallone.
Faculty advisors for the organi
zation are Miss Amy Moore and
Mrs. Gayle Manahan.
NMSC Recosnizes Grimsley Students
Two worthy national scholar-
hip programs recently announced
that ten Grimsley seniors won
letters of commendation and an
other an achievement scholarship.
One sponsor was the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation,
who named 38,000 commended
itudents throughout the United"
States. Grimsley students involv
ed in this commendation were
Kurt Beron, Charlesanna Daily,
Robert Eaons, Michael Fetney,
Mancy Fulton, Carolyn Jack, John
McCartney, James Osborne, David
Pearce, and Andrew Spencer —
all among the upper 2 percent
of those expected to graduate
from high school in 1974. These
itudents are ranked high but are
below the 15,000 Semifinalists an
nounced earlier. According to Mr.
Edward C. Smith, President of
NMSC, “The high standing of
commended students in the Merit
Program competition shows that
they have great promise of con
tinued success in college . . .”
Another branch of the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation is
called the National Achievement
Scholarship Program which has
as one of its goals set to help
colleges locate talented black
students, according to Mr. L. C.
McMillan, NMSC Vice-President
for the Achievement Program.
DeRome Dunn won this award
at Grimsley, placing him among
the 28,000 black students who
won awards valued at $8.3 mil
lion.
Some 350 of the students named
will win Achievement Scholar
ships in the spring. At least 225
of the awards to be made in
1974 will be National Achieve
ment $1,000 Scholarships that will
provide a single payment of
$1,000 to the winner next fall.
after he enrolls in a regionally
accredited U.S. college. About
125 Achievement Scholarships will
be four-year renewable awards
in 1974, ranging in Value from
$100 per year to $1,500 per year,
$400 to $6,000 for the four col
lege years.
This candlelighting ceremony
opened with a welcome from
President Steve Toben, who em
phasized that the Society stressed
these four cardinal qualities —
character, scholarship, leadership,
and service. In order to be con
sidered for membership, a student
must have a 3.4 scholastic aver
age and be selected by members
of the faculty.
Life Of A Reporter:
No Fun And Games
Success Found In
Thanksgiving Project
The annual Thanksgiving proj
ect held by the Grimsley Student
Council was a huge success this
i^ear.
Student Council collected mon
ey from homerooms for six days.
This money was used to buy food
EXAM SCHEDULE
Tuesday, January 8
1:45-3:15 6th period
Wednesday, January 9
8:45-10:15 1st period
10:30-12:00 2nd period
Thursday, January 10
8:45-10:15 3rd period
10:30-12:00, 4th or 5th period
Friday, January 11
8:45-10:15 7th period
10:30-12:00 Make-up..
Senior Registration is Wed-
lesday at 1:30.
Junior Registration is Thurs-
iay at 1:30.
Sophomore Registration is
Friday at 10:30.
Semester break is Monday
ind Tuesday, Jan. 14 and Jan.
.5.
First day of classes for the
lecond semester is Wednesday,
ran. 16.
for custodians who help on the
school staff.
The money collected was about
a $200 increase over the collec
tions of the past year. The total
amounted was nearly $400.
A committee, made up of coun
cil representatives, Shawn Wilson.
June Ann Smith, Jay Weather
man, David Kennett, Danny El
kins, Carol Shelton, Jenny Shimer,
Frankie Patrick, Judy Marks,
Linda Essa, and Suzanne Lasek,
along with Mr. Glenn visited a
Bestway food store to buy the
food for the workers.
A box of food was given to
persons for their Thanksgiving
dinner. This box included turkey,
sugar, flour, potatoes, stuffing,
rice, rolls, celery, grits, fruitcake,
cranberry sauce, black eyed peas
and green peas.
A prize of assorted doughnuts
and milk was given to the home
rooms that gave the most money.
The winners were senior class
No. 204; junior class No. 406 and'
sophomore class No. 700.
Cards also went to the workers
who received the food. Remember,
all Student Council meetings are
open to those students wanting to
attend.
“Don’t go into newspaper work
unless you really want to,” That
was the word Mr. Bill Lee re
ceived while attending journalism
school at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Lee,
a reporter for the GREENSBORO
DAILY NEWS, and ex-sports re
porter for HIGH LIFE, spoke on
the subject in front of Mrs. Enis’
sixth period journalism class on
Thursday, November 8.
He started the discussion by
mentioning some of the negative
aspects of a career in newswriting,
“My hours were 5:00 p.m. to 2:00
a.m. when I first went into news
writing,” Mr. Lee stated. “Also,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays were
my days off, which didn’t give
me much time for socializing.”
The speaker then mentioned
deadline pressures as another un
pleasantry to cope with, saying
that the rush involved with writ
ing an article for the newspaper
often can be quite a strain.
In an attempt to prove his point,
Mr. Lee said he believed that the
life expectancy of newspapermen
is, on the average, less than that
of the overall population.
Another negative point which
Mr. Lee stressed was the salary
aspect of his job, pointing out
that most people with campara-
ble arts and sciences degrees
earn more money than the av
erage newspaperman. But, he
added, “The situation is getting
somewhat better.”
On the positive side, the speak
er stated that one of the most
advantageous features of a career
in journalism is the ability of
the reporter to meet interesting
people. Mr. Lee commented that
he once spent a week with Gov
ernor Holshouser and has met
Joseph Heller, author of the
prize-winning novel. Catch 22, as
well as television newsman, Dan
Next, Edwina Ledwell talked
about the Charter of the Grims
ley Chapter, which is the oldest
National Honor Society in North
Carolina. It was issued to Greens
boro Senior High School on No
vember 1, 1922—^numbered 73 out
of the approximately 15,000
branches throughout the United
States.
Then new members received
their official membership cards
while the Girls’ Madrigals, under
the direction of Miss Marta Force,
played a medley of soft back
ground music. Miss Lois Lann,
member of the Grimsley Choir,
accompanied by Mr. James Smith,
a member of the UNC-G Chorale,^
performed a solo entitled “A
Prayer of St. Richard of Chiches
ter” by L. J. White during the
program, also.
During the candlelighting cere
mony, first Steve Toben lit the
candle representing knowledge and
from it the following National
Honor Society members lit other
candles symbolizing other quali
ties: Peter Byrd, scholarship;, Su
san Kel?enberger, service; Rich
Llewellyn, leadership; Alan Irvin,
character. Short speeches were
presented by these members.
The National Honor Society
wishes to thank the following peo
ple for helping to make this in
duction successful; Mrs. Llewellyn,
Mrs. Irvin, Mrs. Clendenin, and
Mrs. Toben for assisting with the
Rather and Roger Mudd, among . refreshments, Mrs. Evans for typ-
others.
Another reason why Mr. Lee
favors a journalistic career, he
stated, is because “I find it ex
citing.” He elaborated by citing
the first manned landing on the
moon in 1960 as one of his great
est thrills. Mr. Lee explained that
the thought of receiving the
news of such tremendous events
on the teletype as it was hap
pening was exciting. He also
knew about the resignation of
Vice-President Agnew before any
one else did to cite another ex
ample.
Another aspect of journalism
which the speaker stressed as
being valuable was that news
paper work is an excellent outlet
for creativity. He commented that
while straight news stories leave
very little room for this, features
are an excellent outlet. He added
that being able to exercise crea
tivity in feature stories “compen
sates for deadline pressure.”
After Mr. Lee finished the text
of his speech, he engaged in a
question and answer period with
the students, in which he talked
about his paper in general and
his own experience in the field.
During the course of these
questions, he mentioned the great
strides made in the move toward
automation. He stated that in
approximately four months the
DAILY NEWS would be receiving
a machine called a scanner, which
can add words, punctuation marks,
etc. automatically, thus greatly
saving time on a job previously
done manually with the use of a
pencil. He also added that the
paper is now equipped entirely
Contiimed On Page Nine
ing the programs, and the ap
proximately 120 people present.
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Chris Evergreen
Project Promotes
Sale Of Live Trees
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One of the Greensboro Youth
Council’s December projects is
“Chris Evergreen,” which is the
promotion and sale of live Christ
mas trees.
Chris Evergreen is a civic im
provement campaign of the GYG
and the Greensboro Beautiful
Committee to add beauty to bar
ren areas of Greensboro and to
combat air pollution. In promot
ing “Chris Evergreen,” there have
been appearances on television
and ads on different radio shows.
The four-year old project has
progerssed from selling 300 trees
the first year to the sale of 3000
trees last year.
“Give A Tree” was the kickoff
for the campaign and was held
at First Citizens Bank on Battle
ground, December 1. Living baby
long-leaf pines were sold to pro
mote the idea of giving trees as
gifts over the Christmas holidays.
Living trees and details of the
project are available at local
Christmas tree lots. After the
season is over, you can plant the
trees in your back yard or donate
them to the city to plant. The
project is chaired by Belinda
Polk, a junior at Grimsley, so if
you have any questions, ask her.