GYC Cares!
Youth Coofererice Tomorrow
Tomorrow from noon to 4:00
p.m. GYC will host the Mayor’s
Youth Conference at Elliott Hall
at UNC-G. The youth opinion
poll’s chairman this year is Judy
Marks of Grimsley.
GYC members formed teams,
each of which picked an issue
on which to present the pro and
con sides. Last year 181 students
came to see the exhibits and
vote on the issues, thus bringing
about the construction of several
bike paths.
Two proposals that directly
concern all high school students
are the changing of the senior
high school procedure to the
nine week grading system and al
lowing all students with a “B”
average or higher to have the
option of exempting their exams.
Several statements deal with
student rights. Team six chose
Grimsley Sr. High
Goes Through
Ten-Year Evaluation
Grimsley is currently going
through a ten-year evaluation,
which involves the whole school
and is for Grimsley’s accredida-
tion with the Southern Associa
tion of Secondary Schools and
Colleges.
Grimsley was first accredited
in 1920. This accredidation is
very important to a school be
cause for departments to be
valid they must meet certain
standards. This means that if
Grimsley were not accredited, the
diplomas would be invalid and
therefore not acceptable by col
leges.
The people that will be eval
uating Grimsley are known as
the “visiting committee.” This
committee involves people out
side the Greensboro School Sys
tem who will be coming next
March.
In preparation for meeting
goals and standards, all students
of Grimsley wrote papers in their
class on what they thought
Grimsley’s mission was now and
what it should be. Letters were
also sent home to the parents
for the same purpose—to get
their impression of Grimsley now
and what they would like their
children to get out of it.
All personnel, faculty, and
staff members were each asked
to submit their views. Then,
members of the Philosophy and
Objectives Committee gathered
all the feedback and comprised
consensus statementts. These
statements will then be presented
to the “visiting committee” next
March.
Other committees which assem
ble information are the following
headed up by a Steering Com
mittee: School and Community,
Guidance Services, Educational
Media Center, Art, Trade and
Industrial Education, Philosophy
and Objectives, School Facilities,
Student Activities. Science, Spec
ial Education, Foreign Language,
Music, School Staff and Admin
istration, Industrial Staff, Dis
tributive Education, Mathematics,
Home Economics, Physical Edu
cation, Curriculum, Business Ed
ucation, Driver and Safety Edu
cation, English-Language Arts,
and Social Studies.
All reports will be examined
by the “visiting committee” who
will judge whether Grimsley is
meeting its goals and if Grims
ley should once again receive
accredidation.
as its topic the creation of a
Student Bill of Rights for the
Greensboro City School System.
Discrimination against youths
is being presented as a two part
issue: (1) discrimination in at
titudes and treatment in public
places and (2) discrimination in
hiring practices and wages for
jobs.
Team one’s statement involves
changing the juvenile law per
taining to runaways by lowering
the legal age for leaving to six
teen.
Further, a student union and
coffee house are two of the issues
to be considered. A youth fi
nance service to help with col
lege admission fees and a cen
tral clearinghouse for part-time
employment cf youth are still
other propositions.
The issue team ten chose is
the suggestion that four mem
bers of the Board of Education
be elected and three be appointed
by the City Council every two
years. This is in contrast to the
present system where all mem-
HIGH LIFE
VOLUME XLIX
SEPTEMBER 27, 1974
GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C. 27408
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Sergeant Zales directs the Whirling Boots.
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The Whirling Boots are a per
forming group consisting this
year of 33 girls. The major func
tion of the group is to perform
independently with the Marching
Band or the ROTC Precision
Drill Team during the half-time
for athletic events.
Of the 33 girls, 13 are new
to the group this year. For the
audition the girls were judged
on kicks, basic dance steps that
were put into a routine, form
and poise, and quickness in learn
ing how to pick up steps they
were shown two or three times.
The girls in Whirling Boots last
year taught the new recruits and
Junior Achievement,
A Non-Profit Program
Junior Achievement will start
its 1974-’75 program year the
week of September 30 to October
3.
Junior Achievement is a non
profit organization for high
school age young people. The
program teaches young people the
basics of the .business world
through a “learning by doing”
experience.
Assisted by adult volunteers
from local business and industry,
achievers, as members of J.A.
are called, form their own minia
ture corporations.
Meeting one night a week for
two hours, they do all the things
that a “real” business would do.
They incorporate themselves,
elect officers, make a product or
offer a service, market their
product or service, pay dividends
to their stockholders, pay them
selves wages, salaries, and com
missions, and much more.
Most Junior Achievement com
panies are manufacturing com
panies, meaning that they make
a product and sell It. Some sales
people have sold over two thou
sand dollars worth of their prod
uct in the course of a year. Ev
ery achiever receives a commis
sion for every item he sells.
Some J. A. companies are serv
ice companies. They offer a
service, such as banking or aud
iting other companies’ books. A
very popular service company in
Greensboro is the radio company
which produces a weekly radio
program.
The Greensboro J. A. program
is one of the largest in the state.
Last year over seven hundred
achievers from high schools all
over the county were in the
program.
The J. A. Center is located at
1038 Homeland Avenue, just off
Wendover Avenue after Summit
Avenue, Come by the center any
evening Monday through Thurs
day at 7:00 p.m. The program
director, Betty Nixon, can give
further information about Junior
Achievement.
helped judge them mainly on at
titude.
Members of the Whirling Boots
are issued T-shirts, sweatshirts,
raincoats and gym shorts. Class
meets sixth period in addition to
practicing occasionally after
school with the Marching Band.
Other than dancing, the girls
are taught first aid, personal
beauty are, and work on the
rifle range using the matched
target rifles. Leader of the ROTC
program. Colonel Booker, said,
“We primarily teach leadership
education and self-discipline.”
The “Boots” will start dancing
at the football games on Sep
tember 27. Other events they will
perform at are the basketball
games, Marine-Corp Ball, a pa
rade in Thomasville, and dancing
for the N.C. League Team, the
Redskins. Tania Elian von Mel-
dorf serves as captain this year
under the leadership of Col.
Booker and Sgt. Zales. The 1974-
’75 Whirling Boots are: Tania
Elian Von Meldorf, Vanessa Neal,
Gloria Pinson, Willie Russell,
Natalie Avery, Jill Brownstein,
Annette Cates, Lynn Cauble,
Sharon Clark, Toots Clodfelter,
Faye Hall, Lenora Lindsey, Lin
da Marshall, Meredith Morris,
Annette Onaczynski, Laura Pen-
nywitt, Debra Roberts, Linda
Welker, Caroline Beron, Wendy
Cooke, Diane Doar, Carolyn
Downs, Sharon Evans, Cathleen
Frazer, Karen Gordon, Faithe
Grantham, Wanda Griffin, Leslie
Groome, Margaret Hermanson,
Barbara Me White, Vickie Moyer,
Tammie Oxendine, and Claudia
Shankle.
bers of the Board are appointed.
In addition, a city-wide coordi
nating board that would consist
of the Presidents or other senior
officers of various organizations,
and having student forums in
which students and city officials
would discuss problems are two
suggestions. A third suggestion
concerns itself with Setting up
Pollution Control Centers in
shopping areas for the recycling
of paper, glass, and aluminum
cans.
Two proposals deal with news
papers. The first suggests that
local newspapers should give
balanced coverage to all high
school sports. The other proposal
involves the prohibiting of pub
lishing rape victims’ names in
the paper.
Team twelve chose mercy kill
ing with the patient’s family’s
and a Board of Physicians’ con
sent as its issue.
The Greensboro Youth Council’s
Chairman this year is Steve Abee
of Grimsley. The first and sec
ond vice-chairmen are in order,
Cheryl Mitchell of Smith and
Lorraine Svebemaler of Page.
Bruce Cantrell is the Grims
ley District Director. The Senior
Representative for Grimsley is
Ann Pendergraph, with Pam
Same as the Junior Representa
tive. Sophomore representatives
for the council were not elected
in time for their names to appear
in this issue of HIGH LIFE.
Other activities of the organi
zation include the Carolina Cup
Road Race, Youth Mart, and
“Gap.”
The second largest cycling race
in the South, the Carolina Cup
Roadrace, will be held October
19. GYC must house the forty-
nine Olympic cyclists.
On October 28, the Youth Mart,
a Halloween rummage sale to
help finance service club activi
ties will be held at the GYC
office. Bobby Wainer is the chair
man of this. The sale will be
conducted by the service clubs.
Paul Reynolds and Mike Hy
man head “Gap” this year. The
half hour show is broadcasted on
WCOG radio every Sunday at
9:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to help
GYC. The GYC office is at 501
Yanceyville Road on the second
floor of Farmer’s Curb Market,
across from the War Memorial
Stadium. The GYC office’s phone
number is 373-2174.
NEWS
BRIEFS
Cast members were selected
this week and now all look for
ward to the musical CARNIVAL
coming in mid-November.
November 2 is the test date
for SAT (Scholastic Aptitude
Test), while October 26 is the
date for the PSAT/NMSQT (Pre
liminary Scholastic Aptitude
Test/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test).
HIGH LIFE salutes National
Newspaper Week, which will be
October 6-12. This is an indus
try-wide celebration that pays
tribute to 1770 daily newspapers
and 9000 weeklies. It is designed
to show the importance of the
newspaper in a community role
and will also try to show a link
between personal freedom and a
free press. President Ford and
governors of various states aer
planning proclamations in ob
servance of this celebration.