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High Life
Vol. LVI, No. 2
Grimsley Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
Thursday, September 24, 1981
Inside:
Fall Sports, p. 4-5
European
Highlights, p. 6
Pep Board Strives For GHS Enthusiasm
The Pep Board held its
first meeting of the school
year on Wednesday, Sep
tember 2. Headed by Becky
Sillmon, this group is re
sponsible for helping to gen
erate school spirit by putting
up banners and signs, spon
soring spirit days, and gen
erally being enthusiastic.
Assistant Principal, Mr.
Jim Ballance, has said that
of all the nineteen years he
has been at Grimsley, he has
never seen more enthusiasm
among the students. Dr.
Bonny Baur, GHS Principal,
has spoken likewise about
school spirit.
Sillmon wants to see stu
dents showing their enthus
iasm by supporting aU school
events, not just athletic con
tests.
The Pep Board is already
planning events for the up
coming football games.
Spirit days, such as “Blue
and White Day,” “Top ’Em
Day,” and, a new one,
“Punk Rock Day,” will offer
students a chance to show
their school spirit.
Traditionally, Grimsley’s
biggest rivalry has been with
Page. But, while Sillmon
stresses, “We will support
(our team) against Page,
Homecoming will be em
phasized.”
In the past, GHS has
received some “bad publi
city” surrounding the Page
game. Sillmon wants stu
dents to show spirit in ways
that are “classy, not tra
shy.”
On the subject of Home
coming, the “big game” for
most schools, Sillmon wapts
to see a “great, great, great
event’.’While many plans are
not finalized, the theme,
“Let The Good Times Roll,”
gives and indication of what
to expect.
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The Fall Sports Program
on Thursday^ September 10,
was another way to generate
school spirit. It gave stu
dents a chance to meet the
teams, coaches, and cheer
leaders, and even to see the
football team run through a
few plays.
For further coverage of
these teams, consult the
sports section of this issue of
HIGH LIFE.
Dr. Baur joins the student body in the singing of the Alma
Mater. (Hamilton Photo)
Interclub Council Meets
Starlette Young, presi
dent of the Civinette service
club, was elected chairper
son of the Interclub Council
at the first meeting held on
Friday, September 9.
Interclub Council is a
group composed of the ser
vice clubs at Grimsley.
Young will be in charge of
club plots and projects, and
will represent the council on
Grimsley’s Executive Coun
cil.
The presidents and their
respective service organiza
tions are as follows: Key
Club, Ronald Spruill;
O’Heniy Juniors, Debbie
Twilley; Serteens, Gordon
Williams; Exchange, Ad
dison Edwards and Rob
Midget; Exchangettes, Kel
ly Walsh; Liason, Beth
Graves; Jaycees, David
Wilkins ; and Jaycettes,
Joannie Kennett.
Sophomores
Vie For
Positions
Led by GHS student body
president, Gary Breece, an
assembly to introduce can
didates for Sophomore Class
officers was held Monday.
Running for the offices
were: President, Jay Floyd,
Warren Lewis, and Karen
Seagraves: Youth Recrea
tion Council Chairperson,
Michele Martorano; Pep
Board, Tamera Majors; and
Secretary/Treasurer, Neca
Davis and Amy Russell.
The positions available
and the responsiblities per
taining to each office are as
follows: The president is
responsible for working with
his or her class advisor con
cerning the class project and
other class business. The
president also presides over
the homeroom president’s
meetings for the Class. The
president pro tempore is not
an elected office but is the
person running for president
with the second highest
number of votes. The Youth
Recreation Council chairper-
^Continued on page 8)
Scorpions Ignore Warning; Ten Receive Suspension
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Tim 'Webster t
Scorpions - not a fighting
group... _
By Marty Leary
Ten Grimsley students
were suspended on Monday,
September 14, after ignoring
an administrational warning
against wearing T-shirts
showing their affiliation with
the organization, the Scor
pions.
GHS principal Dr. Bonny
Baur delivered the warning
on Friday, September 11,
following the reports of
“threats, destruction of
school property, and general
misbehavior” on the part of
the Scorpions. The Scor
pion’s intimidation of some
students was also a factor in
Baur’s decision. Baur admits
that many of the students in
the organization may not
have been involved in the
incidents, but that “they aU
were guilty by association.”
Following the warning on
Friday, Scorpion leader Tim
Webster said that Baur
‘‘didn’t know anything about
oiur organization.” Webster
emphasized that the Scor
pions were not a fighting
group and that anyone fight
ing “would have been
thrown out of the organiza
tion.”
Two female students were
expelled Monday, Septem
ber, 14, after openly protest
ing the suspension of the ten
Scorpions and after making
threats. “They went too
far,” said Baur, citing
threats to her and her family.
The protests and threats
came after several Scorpions
boarded a pick-up truck on
Monday, September 14, en
route to the Optional School.
Perhaps a hundred students
looked on, some supporting
the protestors and chanting
slogans.
Baur said her decision to
suspend the ten Scorpions
was based on a 1969 Su
preme Court ruling, Tinker
versus DesMoines Indepen
dent Community School Dis
trict 21, in which it was
decided that school authori
ties had the right to maintain
control of clothing and in
signia if it poses a threat to
the educational process.
In response to reports of
intimidation and threats by,
the Scorpions, Webster says
he was not involved and had
no knowledge of it. He said
the organization started as a
dance club. “We were trying
to boost Grimsley spirit’ ’
through attendance at pep
rallies and football games.
Baur says that she has the
support of both parents and
students. She says she has
talked to many of the parents
of the suspended students,
and has worked out an
understanding with them.
She also has the “one-hun
dred percent support of the
NAACP and the Human
Relations Commission.”
On Wednesday, Septem
ber* 16, she received the
formal written apology of the
ten suspended Scorpions,
asking that they be re
instated at Grimsley. (These
ten students have been given
the opporturuty to attend
Greensboro’s Optional
School.) Baur says she will
make no change in her
decision at this time, and will
re-admit the students at her
discretion after they have
proven that their desire to
return to Grimsley is
sincere.
At this point Baur says as
far as she is concerned, the
issue is resolved; “it’s over
and done with.”
Because of High Life's prin
ting schedule, any new
developments concerning
this issue would not have
been covered after Sunday,
September 20, 1981.
Dr. Baur t
“It’s over and done with.”