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HIGH LIFE
VOLUME XLVIII
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL GREENSBORO, N.C. 27410 MAY“-StrW4
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Grimsiey, Dudley
Combine Forces
To Present Play
Tentatively, Grimsley’s Play-
masters, headed by Mr. Parrish,
and Dudley’s Drama Department,
headed by Mr. Seaman, are join
ing forces to host the musical
production entitled CARNIVAL
in mid-November.
The play has approximately 75
parts for anyone who wishes to
audition. Mr. Parrish commented
that such parts as jugglers, mu
sicians, clowns, singers, dancers
and many others are available.
Auditions will be held for two
days here and for two days at
Dudley later in September. All
people making the audition cut
will be called back on the fol
lowing Saturday.
The efforts of both schools to
make CARNIVAL a success is
entitled “Project Domino.” Any
one wishing to obtain further
information should see Mr. Par
rish in room 213.
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Liz Mahoney (standing) leods discusson af Grmsiey Com-
missjication System meeting.
Issues, Displays, Votes
To Highlight Conference
The second Mayor’s Youth Con
ference will be held on Satur
day, September 28 at UNC-G’s
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Stanton Returns
Grimsiey has six new teachers
and two former teachers this
year.
Recovered from an automobile
accident last fall, Mrs. Stanton
is back teaching Writing Work
shop “B” and AP English.
Formerly a student-teacher at
Grimsiey, John Entzi is the new
Marching Band Director and also
helps the brass section. He likes
all music and has already written
two songs for the marching band.
Jane Rhodes, a 1973 graduate
of UNC-G, is teaching Advanced
Composition and the American
in Literature. She enjoys reading
and sailing.
Preparing to teach Ethnic Lit
erature,^ Basic Composition, and
Writing Workshop “A” has kept
Dan Garner busy. He attended
Carolina.
William McKinney will teach
Ecology and People Problems.
He studied biology and zoology
at UNC-G and Carolina. Boating
and scuba diving occupy his
leisure time.
James Wade, who attended
Guilford College and UNC-CH.
is now a career counselor at
Grimsiey. He will help students
choose a vocation and work with
the Co-op program. Mr. Wade
enjoys sports and music
Mrs. Poplin, who taught here
last year, is now Assistant to the
Director of Occupational Educa
tion. Replacing Mrs. Poplin is
Mrs. Terri Coble. Her workload
(math, reading, American Stud
ies, and Occupational Prepara
tion ) has been taken over by
Doug Carter, a graduate of Camp
bell Collee. He also likes read-
in and tennis.
David Osborne is a new foot
ball and track coach. He will
also instruct drivers’ education
during the school day. A gradu
ate of Bridgewater College in
Virginia, he enjoys gardening.
In addition to teaching at
Grimsiey, Miss Maddox is now
conducting Latin classes also at
Kiser and Aycock.
Not returning to Grimsiey this
year are Mrs. Boyles, Mrs. Dick
inson, Mr. Lonon, Mr. Mayes,
Miss Amy Moore, and Mrs. Spill
man.
Communication System
Breaks Down Barriers
Elliot University Center from
noon until 4:00 p.m.
This conference promises to
be an unusual one with dele
gates having a different assign
ment than the usual speaking and
voting. The delegates will be di
vided into teams of six. Each
team must decide on an issue that
it feels is important to the 8,000
senior high students of Greens
boro; then they must make a
survey question that is related
to the issue that can be placed
with all the other questions of
the other teams. This will form
a ballot on which all senior high
students may vote on September
28.
The team will then make a
display about its issue so the
voters may review it before they
mark their ballots to cast their
votes. The results of each team’s
work with each issue voted on
will be decided by the Greens
boro high school student. Each
youth in this age bracket is in
vited to vote. He will be register
ed at his school’s table in Elliot
Center and receive the ballot.
This will list about 25 questions
that the teams have composed.
Then the student may tour to
review the display area, mark
his ballot, and cast his vote. On
any of the questions the person
will be able to agree or disagree
with the team’s statements.
The results of the voting will
be tabulated for city use, so the
more people that vote, the more
acurate the result will be for
future reference.
On September 23 posters will
be placed in the high schools
showing the ballot for voting on
the 28.
To encourage more youth to
come, a Mayor’s Youth Confer-
ense Trophy will be presented to
the senior high school with the
highest percentage of its student
body registering and voting. The
trophy will be awarded to the
school at the Awards Banquet,
also to be held on September 28.
Grimsley’s Communication Sys
tem is a newly formed program
just being put into operation
this fall. Its purpose is primar
ily to break down the barriers
of communication along all lev
els. By doing this, the program
also helps to aid in decision
making by giving the students
and teachers a chance to work
together.
The Communication System is
a total school project. It hopes
to break down groups into small
er groups. This arrangement has
already been accomplished on the
faculty’s part during this summer.
They are now divided into ten
groups with two leaders for each
group. These two leaders of all
the groups from the “teachers’
hub” and work as a sort of cap
tain for the groups.
Some 180 students are already
involved in Grimsley’s Communi
cation System. These students
came as volunteers this summer
for a week of Leadership Work-
Many Renovallons
To Be Made Across
Grimsiey's Campus
The noise Grimsiey students
are hearing will soon result in
many improvements across the
campus.
The school store has moved
across the hall to Room 102 to
provide more room for the Guid
ance Center which is going to
be reconstructed. The new Guid
ance Center will have a different
floor plan, air-conditioning, car
pet, and a conference room to be
used for special services. The
counselors will be moving their
belongings on the stage during
the renovations.
On July 8 construction started
on the eight composition tennis
courts which will be ready for
use in a couple of weeks. During
the day these courts will be used
by gym classes from Grimsiey
and any other schools that wish
to use them. The courts will be
for public use at night unless
otherwise posted.
The new science bulding is
finally underway to be completed
in eleven months. It will be one-
story, complete with air-condi
tioning, carpet, a greenhouse, and
all of the latest equipment. It
will be located parallel and be
hind the present science build
ing.
New stadium lights, a paved
bus parking lot, a new floor in
the cafeteria kitchen, and new
marching band uniforms add to
the changes being made at GHS
this year.
New teachers include defl.' to right) Mr. William McKinney,
Mrs. Penny Stanton, AAjr. James Wade, Mrs. Jane Rhodes, and
Mr. Dan Garner.
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shop, which taught them just
what the program is and how it
works.
Now. two of these students will
join with one faculty member
and form a “leadership team.’'
This “leadership team” will then
head the community, which will
be a cross-section of students.
Hopefully, between fifteen and
eighteen students will be in each
community.
During the summer also a poll
was taken among the volunteer
students to see what were the
most needed topics for communi
ties to discuss. These communi
ties will then meet and de
bate. trying to decide what di
rection they should take in cor
recting the problem.
Exactly how Grimsley’s Com
munication System will be carried
out is still not entirely decided.
The program is set up to have
one-hour meetings (maybe longer
as it developes) of the whole
school. A definite agenda will
be set up and each community
will be heard from and their
views on the given topic.
The whole idea of this program
came about from a course some
of the Grimsiey teachers took
last year. The course taught them
how to communicate more ef
fectively, and they worked on
implementing its ideas at Grims
iey. This Communication System
is sometimes referred to as Glass-
er since the course the teachers
took was a Glasser Seminar; how
ever, the Grimsiey Communica
tion System is unique only to
Grimsiey and is how trying to
improve communications among
all in our high school.
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NEWS
BRIEFS
The GYC will begin selling
‘The Entertainer” (a coupon book
for restaurants) in September.
HIGH LIFE welcomes back
Mrs. Stanton, English teacher. t0(
the faculty after her recupera
tion from a car accident last
fall.
During Mrs. Lackey’s visit to
Europe, Mrs. Murphy will be
teaching her history classes.
HIGH LIFE is also happy to
have Mr. Gwynn, Assistant Prin
cipal for Student Affairs, back
in school after his recent surgery,
Mrs. Dodd has been replacing
Mrs. Wilson in her English class
es. Mrs. Wilson is now under a
doctor’s care and will have an
operation in the near future.
HIGH LIFE also welcomes back
to the faculty Mrs. Pam Dalton,
math teacher, after successful
surgery last spring.
If any GHS student from past
yeans has noticed anything
strange around school, he will
be happy to discover that it ig
only a SOPHOMORE.