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Torchlight Presents Talent Show Torchlight, Grimsley’s chapter of the National Honor Society, presented its annual talent show on Thursday, February 19th in the GHS auditorium. Competition in the show was divided into three categories: individual, group and variety. Ann Smallwood won first place in the individual competition for performing “Toccata" by John La Montaine. Tom Essa, who sang an originally composed song “Broken Chain”, won second place. Lisa Prago and Susan Carter won first place in group competition with a flute Sonata by Telemann. The KLS Trio {Keitk Waters-piano, Lee Anflick- drums, Sam Frazier-bass) won second place, performing “Mile stones” by Miles Davis. Winners in the variety competition were puppeteers Warran Crow, Bonnie Hall, Teresa Hawkins, Laura Lomax, Eric Lowell, Rona Marco, Lisa Morrison, and Kathy Wiazlo. The Puppet Mania was performed to “Ahab the Arab’’ by Ray Stevens. The $370.00 raised in the show will help pay for the first place talent award and serve as scholarship money to aid deserving seniors in their future educational plans. Other participants in the talent show were, in order of appearance: John Hampton and Bruce McCreedy, the One Time Ragtime Band, David Wilson and Marc McCracken, the Debonairs, Tama Marco, Debbie Hawkins, Carey Dail, Donna Welker and Sandy Hampton, Hamilton Lake, Bobbie Moffit, and Sanchez. Students taking part in the show include Bobby Wainer. Master of Ceremonies; Russ White, Stage Manager: Paul Reynolds, Talent and Stage Co-ordinator: and Bryant Cochran and Starrie Markham, stage crew. Vonnie Hendrickson, chairman and director commented that “The show was undoubtedly a success.” Five hundred tickets were sold. “We had a big scare because the act curtain got jammed after the first time it was up", Vonnie continued. Therefore all prop changes had to be made before the audience and all acts had to change their performing areas. But a fantastic stage crew covered greatly and Paul Reynolds filled in spare minutes with comedy acts.” Seniors to Hold Beauty Pageant The Junior and Senior class caucuses are currently working on their class projects. The Sopho more project took place earlier in the year. The Junior class is planning to have a Teachers’ Talent show. The show will be held on April 1 in the Grimsley Auditorium. The show will be made up of over 20 teachers. The talents will range from singing and dancing, to playing the piano and twirling the baton. There will also be several surprise acts in the show. A door decorating contest will be held the week of the talent show, with only junior home rooms participating. The doors will be decorated to advertise the News Briefs Teacher Appreciation Day will be held on Tuesday April 6, and Student Leadership Day, will be held on April 8. On March 13, the Grimsley Liason Club will be holding a Brunswick Stew. The club will be preparing the stew themselves in the Police Club Kitchen. There are purchase tickets available through any Liason Club member. For further information, f'ontact Susan Task. The Symphony Band from Grimsley High has received an invitation to play at the Bicentennial Celebration com memorating the Battle at Guilford Courthouse. This celebration will take place on March 13, at Guilford Battlefield. Grimsley’s Playmasters receiv ed four highly esteemed awards at the Carolina Dramatics Association regional contest in Charlotte, during the weekend of Feb. 28-29. The play entitled “The Cop and the Anthem”, received a rating of excellent, and the play entitled “Fm Herbert", received a Distinguished rating. Also. Casey Spain and Mark McCraken won individual awards for their efforts. Talent Show. A prize will be awarded to the three hofnerooms with the best entries. All juniors will be asked to help in the selling of tickets. Also, anyone interested in helping to write skits for the talent show will be invited to try. The Junior Class is hoping to raise at least $700 from the show. The Senior class project will be the annual Womanless Beauty Pageant. The contest will be held on April 8. Although the Beauty Pageant is still in the planning stages, contestants can now sign up. Any group, or person, wishing to enter someone in the contest, only has to pay a $5.00 entry fee. Those people who are working on the project are: Dave Kennett and Steve Miller: Tickets and Publicity. Sharon Clark is in charge of contestants, Ted Shields is responsible for finding a Master of Ceremonies and Stuart Pirrung is the organizer of the project. The Sophomore class, which held their project this fall, gained closed to $1300 for their efforts in selling candles. Mark McCracken [1] and David Wilson Ir) present WFAG Radio Skit. Volume LV No. 6 Grimsley High School, Greensboro, N.C. 27408 March 12, 1976 GYC Plans Activities As the school year for 1976 winds down to a close, the pace of activities continues to accelerate for the Greensboro Youth Council. The council’s chairman this year has been Bobby Wainer. and a full slate of activities heads the months of March and April. Topping the activities for March will be the Teenage Talent Show, which will be held on March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the War Memorial Auditorium. Heading up this 13th annual event will be Cindy Bolton, with Scott Weaver the Vice-chairman, and the secretary being Andrea Neese. Tickets to this event will be available at the Coliseum Box office in advance: however, special discount coupons are available at all McDonald’s locations in Burlington, Greens boro, and High Point. Adult tickets are $3.00, or $2.00 with coupon, and student tickets are $2.00, or $1.00 with the coupons. The show will feature vocal, instrumental, drama, and variety acts. Over $1000 in prize money will be given out to the contestants, who will come from all over North Carolina. In addition various art, photography, and literary works will be on display in the lobby. Another major event will be sponsored by the Greensboro Youth Council during March, this one at Elliot Hall on the UNC-G campus. The occasion I’m speaking of is the annual City Government Workshop, common ly referred to as the Junior City Council. The sessions will be held on Saturday, March 20 from 9:00-3:30. The morning sessions give to each participant typical examples of the proDiems taceo by City Council. In the afternoon session, each “trainee" will take a small test on the information that has been presented to him. Following the quiz, more lectures will be given by area college students. At the completion of the lectures, the quiz results will be announced, and the top 30 students will become the Junior City Council for 1976. A training period will then be held from March 22 through April 5 in which the members of the Junior City Council will meet with their counterparts in city government and discuss the role which they will serve in the April 13 Junior City Council caucus. Caroline Johnson is the representative from Grimsley to this major happening. Students Probe Concerns The High School Attendance Policy, the use of the school day, next year’s school calendar, and general student concerns, are among the issues presently being examined by committees in the Greensboro schools with Grim sley representatives. Suggestions included in a report compiled by the Commit tee on High School Attendance are the elimination of the rule requiring the deduction of points for unexcused absences, more communication between the Students ponder literary selections at Book Fair. school and the home, and the giving of a prearranged number of cuts to each student. This report has been presented to high school principals for their consideration. They will make proposals for change to the School Board in the near future. As a result of surveys conducted by the Attendance Committee, it has been determined that the majority of parents and teachers favor the present policy, while students tend to favor more freedom and perhaps some sort of non-compulsory attendance. Presently the Senior High Curriculum Committee has a subcommittee examining a pro posal concerning the reinstate ment of more traditional survey courses, to supplement mini courses, made by Elliott Shoenthal with the support of the Student-School Board Action Group. The Grimsley representa tives on the Cirriculum Commit tee are as follows: Caroline Johnson, Eric Miller, Mr. Ballance, Mrs. Coble, Mrs. W. Hall, Miss Tamblyn, and Miss Wales. Examining more general stu dent concerns than the other committees, is the Student-School Board Action Group. One topic under discussion is city-wide volleyball teams for next year. Other ideas discussed include the completion of a football stadium at Dudley High School, the new Career Education Center, and who should get the concession revenue from a football game played at a stadium at neither participating school. Two very important ideas under consideration are: ways to improve degrading publicity about Dudley and Smith High Schools, and the designation of a place for students to gather and socialize. Such a place would be for high school students in Greensboro to gather, buy refreshments, and listen to a band or jukebox. Mr. Lem Cox has suggested that the new pools at Grimsley and Smith be opened only to high school students on Saturday nights in the summer. All that is required for these two ideas to be carried out, is for students to show their interest and concern. Bobbie Smith, Jim Roach, Elliott Shoenthal, and Carol Eddy are the Grimsley students who serve on the Student-School Board Action Group. These people welcome suggestions and commets, and will bring two other concerned students to meetings on reanest. Next year’s school calendar will be chosen at the March meeting of the School Board.
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