Journalism I
Edition
HIGH LIFE
Happy
Holidays
Volume XLIX, No. VI
Grbnsley High School
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
December 20, 1974
VICA Begins Year
Of Service In
This District
The Vocational Industrial
Clubs of America are made up
of students enrolled in the
Industrial Cooperative Train
ing program. Under the
direction of Mr. Charles Hill,
there are forty members who
study in class, work after
school, and participate in club
activities.
The officers for this school
year are President, Cheryl
McDowell; Vice-President,
Craig Myrick; Secretary,
Susan McDaniel; Treasurer,
Susan Newbold; Editor, Bill
Lanier,' and Parlimentarian,
Bobby Worth.
As a club, the students have
a service project and a
fund-raising project. For the
service project this year, in
cooperation with GYC and
Home Federal Savings and
Loan Association, they are
having a toy drive to collect
toys for underpriviledged
children. Candles are being
sold as the annual fund-rais
ing project.
In the spring the club plans
to compete on the district level
at the workshop to be held in
Alamance County. If they win
there, they will compete on
the state level at the State
Convention in Winston-Salem
at the Hyatt House.
News Briefs
On November 23 and 24 the
Greensboro BBYO (the Jewish
Organization) came home
from the Winter Cultural
Convention, held in Charlotte,
with over one-half of the 32
awards. The Greensboro AZA
won the most coveted award,
the Spirit Cup.
The next SAT Test will be
given on February 1.
Applications must be turned
in by December 26.
Registration for second
semester will be held from
1:00 to 3:30 Monday, January
13 for seniors. Junior and
sophomore registrations will
be held on Monday, January
20, from 8:30-12:00 for
juniors, and from 1:00-3:30 for
sophomores. The first day of
the second semester will be
Tuesday, January 21.
The wedding bells recently
pealed for a member of
Grimsley’s faculty, Ms. Cathy
Coble, who became Mrs.
Charles Thomas Norwood on
November 27. Congratulations
from the HIGH LIFE staff.
Students who have been
worrying about their exams do
not need to. Exams will not be
held until next year - January
13, 14, 15.
Congratulations to Ginger
Bayliss, second runner-up in
the Junior Miss Pageant.
All-State Band
Tryouts Held
VICA offlicers [I-r] are Bill Lanier, editor; Susan McDaniel,
secretary; Cheryl McDowell, president; Craig Myrick,
vice-president; and Susan Newbould, treasurer.
GYC Donates Christmas
Toys For Children
Home Federal Savings and
Loan Association and the
Greensboro Youth Council are
collecting and repairing toys
for needy children in the
Greensboro area this Christ
mas. Pam Same of Grimsley is
project chairman for the
Christmas toys project.
Collection of the toys, which
began November 4 is carried
on at 11 Home Federal offices.
The toys are transported to
215 E. Washington St., where
they are cleaned, repaired,
sorted, and boxed by 17 local
youth groups. Then the boxed
toys are distributed to needy
children by the Housing
Authority.
In another holiday endea
vor, the Greensboro Beautiful
Committee has united with
GYC on a different city
improvement project, Chris
Evergreen, chaired by Dillon
Robinson of Page.
This project in past years
was to urge citizens to buy
living Christmas trees, which
were to be donated for
planting in barren areas of
Greensboro or planted in the
owner’s yard. Although this is
still its primary purpose, the
project has expanded to
include the chipping of cut
trees. These chips are
returned to citizens requesting
them for yard use. Dates and
locations of the chippers will
be published at a later date.
Other aspects of the project
is a baby tree sale based on
giving a live tree for
Christmas. The sale, chaired
by Fred Byrd^ also of Page,
was scheduled for December 7
but bad weather postponed it
to December 14.
Publicity for the project
included an art contest in
which children under 12
submitted their drawings of
Chris Evergreen to WFMY,
TV’s “Old Rebel’’
On December 7, 1974
Grimsley and other area high
school band students audi
tioned for the All-State Band
at Williams High School in
Burlington, North Carolina.
Grimsley had seventy-two
students participate in the
auditions (more than any other
high school in this district).
Each student was required to
play six major scales and the
chromatic scale, a prepared
solo, and a sight-reading
piece. Two judges reviewed
the student with each judge
having a limit of one hundred
points each. The highest
possible score that could be
attained was two hundred
points.
The All-State Band consists
of two bands, the Workshop
Band and the Concert Band.
The Concert Band is for the
students who excel in the
auditions. The Workshop
Band is for those students who
were not accepted into the
W
•m
«-
Kathy Cole, Greensboro’s
Junior Miss, was selected on
November 31, 1974.
New Plans Are Proposed by Council
The Grimsley Executive
Council, headed by Clif Flynn,
consists of five seniors, five
juniors, and five sophomores.
Their tentative schedule for
the upcoming months is as
follows:
Student Affairs’ Christmas
project was collecting canned
goods from students to help
the Maxwell family with their
10 children. Grimsley’s first
annual Student Government
week will be held the last week
in January. (Student Council
representatives will be coming
to homerooms to explain about
Student Government). Y.R.C.
has a dance planned for
February 14. Auditions for
bands will be after Christmas.
Pep Board thanks everyone for
their support during football
season, and they hope for the
same response during basket
ball season.
Senior Class Caucas Chair
man Bob Howerton has held
several meetings of homeroom
presidents concerning the
class project. The senior
class’s tentative money
making project is to hold
another Womanless Beauty
Pageant. The Junior Class,
headed by Brad Osborne
would like to hold a bazaar in
the spring for their money
making project. Sophomore
Class Chairman Caroline
Johnson and the sophomore
class would like to thank
everyone for their support in
buying tickets to the Exxon
Car Wash for their project.
Student affairs collected
$311 for the Thanksgiving
project, which was to buy the
custodial staff Thanksgiving
dinners.
Concert Band. Each band
accepts seventy-five musi
cians.
The practice of auditions for
the All-State Band originated
in 1960. Prior to this method,
students wjere nominated by
their band directors to
participate. North Carolina is
divided into eight All-State
Band divisions; each has its
own auditions and bands.
Herbert Hazelman, Sym
phony Band Director at
Grimsley, feels that All-State
Band is an excellent learning
experience for each student
who auditions. He believes
that the auditions improve a
student’s ability to play
because he must prepare for
the very difficult audition.
This year’s All-State Band
weekend will be held February
7, 8, and 9 at Asheboro High
School in Asheboro, North
Carolina. Both the Workshop
Band and Concert Band will
perform in concert Sunday,
February 9, 1975 at 3:00 p.m.
Kathy Cole
Is Chosen
Junior Miss
Grimsley’s Kathy Cole was
named Greensboro’s Junior
Miss for 1974 Saturday night,
November 31, at Odell
Auditorium. Miss Cole com
peted with eighteen other girls
and came out the winner. The
only requirement to enter was
that the girls needed a “B”
average or better scholasti
cally.
The judges selected the
eighteen girls from about
seventy participants. They
based their decision on the
following:
1. individual talent
2. scholastic ability
3. physical fitness
4. the interview with the
judges (which counted 35%)
Kathy will compete in the
State Pageant in January and
if she wins there, she will
advance to the national
competition.
Kathy is a member of the
Pep Board and Junior
Jaycettes and was accepted to
the Governor’s School for the
summer session of 1974.
Asked what compelled her to
enter, she replied, “I guess it
was for the scholarship
money,’’ which she will
receive from the Jaycees.