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fflGH LIFE
May 27, 1982
^ HIGH LIFE
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A Qass Of Transition
By Leslie Berkelhammer
Thoughts of Whirlie blue filling the Greensboro Coliseum
on June 8 infuse the air not only with excitement and expec
tation, but also with a sense of reflection. In retrospect, the
class of 1982 began much as those which preceeded it - full
of energy and goals but unsure of its direction.
Clearly, we were a class of transition. For many of us, our
entrance to Grimsley was almost averted by the near
passage of a school district rezoning law which would have
required a high percentage of Kiser Junior High School
graduates to be classified as living in the Page area. Our
junior year began the continuing controversy over teacher
cutbacks and budget reductions. Our final year was also
characterized by school board administration policies. In
1981, Grimsley ushered in a new era of enthusiastic leader
ship with the appointment of Dr. Bonny Baur as principal.
We were the first class denied the experience of arena
scheduling. Yet, we were not deprived the aquaintance of a
great man - the retirement of Mr. Robert L. Glenn, GHS
Principal for years, saddened us all. His aura of quiet digni
ty, coupled with his warm smile, became an inspiration to
those who walked the halls of Grimsley Senior High School.
Many a day was brightened by his friendly “hello.” Those
who know Mr. Glenn discovered a man whose life was
Grimsley and who so eagerly wanted to show us how it
could be ours as well.
The class of ’82 has made Grimsley “theirs.” Through the
contributions of many, we haveemergedas one - excelling in
academics, sports, leadership, chorus, drama, publications,
and civic clubs.
Graduation, and the festivities which surround it,
understandably occupy the majority of seniors’ thoughts.
But, graduation is not for seniors only. It is also a time for
juniors and sophomores to re-examine their high school
plans. Ward Lincoln once said, “If you can dream it, you can
achieve it.” Stop dreaming and start achieving. The future
is yours.
Letters To The Editor
Congratulate Seniors For Surviving’
To tbe Editor and the
Graduating Senior Class:
June 8, 1982: for approxi
mately 400 people, an era
will end and life anil begin.
For on Jime 8, Grimsley
Senior High will unload anot
her group of high school
graduates on an unsuspect
ing world. After twelve years
of ciursed, grueling, hard
education, it’s over, “educa
tion,” not life.
'The world wiU absorb our
faceless masses into its so
cial structure—sigh—and ab
sorb millions more. The
world will imabashedly take
on all of Grimsley’s 1982’s—
poHticans, comedians, pro
fessional parfygoers, intel
lectuals, freaks, preps, etc.—
’This is a caU to all those
graduates: Do NOT let the
world as a whole get you
down; remember your re
sponsibility to yourself and
take care of that. The world
is a large place and we are
few; let us endeaver to make
our mark.
School ends. Gone are the
teachers and their narrow
minded classes, the six-hour
drudge of non-sensical infor
mation, and the inedibility of
the thirty-minute lunch.
Gone, too, are friends never
to be seen again, books
never opened and a vague
feeling of “did this really
happen?”
Yes, it did happen, and
though it may seem paltry, it
^ould be required fOT every
graduation senior to receive
not only a diploma, but a
medal.- Yes, a medal to
those who have experienced
public school education and
the edification of learning
nearly nothing. Since we get
no medals or brass bands,
handshakes and a pat on the
back win have to do. Congra
tulate your feUow seniors for
having survived without go
ing totaUy to pieces.
And as one ordeal ends,
another begins. Though it be
token, I wish to congratulate
die entire senior class, me
dals in hand, for a fine piece
of work during this ’81-’82
graduation year. Congratula
tions!
Sincerely,
Um Evins
Class of ’82
Lunch Policy ^
Remains Controversial
To the Editor:
Open campus-closed cam
pus, what is the answer? The
PTSA evidently is vmable to
convey a clear-cut position
on this important issue. This
was demonstrated on May 1C
in the Grimsley auditorium.
A forum held by a panel of
student council members
and a panel of PTSA mem
bers was developed to pre
sent the pros and cons of the
closed lunch proposal.
It was disappointing to
hear the PTSA panel attempt
to articulate their feelings
concerning open lunch. They
contend that open campus
encourages such problems
as drug or alcohol abuse, and
auto accidents, which in
their opinion can be mini
mized by a closed campus.
However, this proposal in
itself wiR generate a basic
(yet presently unanswered)
question regarding the ca
pability of the school facili
ties and staff to accomodate
1500 students during the
lunch hour.
It should be noted that this
forum was initiated by the
PTSA, yet in the total au
dience (estimated at less
than 60) only a handful were
parents and of those few who
attended, not all supported a
closed campus.
Certainly more study of
this issue is necessary before
a meaningful conclusion can
be reached. ,
SiDCCTciy 9
Catherine Musgrove
(A special thanks to David
Tones, next year’s Feature
Editor, for his work on the
feati^e^sectiono£thisissu^
Reagan’s Credibility Questioned
To the Elditor:
Ronald Reagan was pre
sented recently with the
annual Hughes Humanitar
ian Award by the National
(k)nference of Christians and
Jews.
Reagan, who finds it ne
cessary to cut funds to the
hungry, the handicapped.
and the unemployed, was
undoubtedly the only candi
date up for the award.
Reagan may well have some
humanitarian traits, yet how
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews devised,
a way to see through his
outward characteristics and
into his concern for the
IS
people of his country
another question.
Anyone who would rather
support an arms race rather
than the welfare of the
citizens is an interesting
recipient of an award for
humanitarianism.
Sincerely,
Susan Rheaume
Exposing The Clinical Mind
By Marty Leary
There are clinical people in the world.
Perhaps that is not altogether bad, but
clinical people have a tendency to create
smoke-screens with numbers and facts and
logic. For instance, what the clinical person
would call “idealism” is really humanitarian
pragmatism.
Such is the case with the reaction to the
Nuclear Freeze movement beginning to
spread in this country from Europe. It is a
strange - but not altogether unbelievable ~
irony of these times, that those who would
end the madness before it is too late, those
who have the courage to face the enemy and
confront it, are called irrational.
The clinical person is not difficult to iden
tify. He is the one why enjoys using terms
such as “parity” and “nuclear equilibrium.”
It is not unusually to find him defending our
right - as mortal men - to possess in
struments capable of destroying the earth.
Someone once told me that the best deter
rent to war was “unilateral increased
nuclear proliferation.” He reaUy believed
this! The same person once said, in
alleamestness, that Henry David Thoreau
was a Communist. The most depressing part
of the story is that he believes in himself,
believes in his own humanity.
The Nazis believed in themselves. They
were clinical people, too.
1 For What It’s W^orth !
By Barbi Prillaman
-The most commonly used word in human speech is
“Amen.”
-The largest organ in the human body is the skin.
-Australia has ten times more sheep than humans.
-There are no such places as New York City and Mexico Ci
ty. The official names are, respectively. The City of New
York (or just New York) and Mexico, DF (Distrito Federal)
-The oldest inscribed document on record, a clay tablet
dating from Babylonia in 60(X)BC, is a description of the
preparation of beer.
-The English horn is neither English nor a horn. It is a Vien
nese double-reed woodwind instrument.
-Salvador DaU, the famous Spanish painter, was kicked out
of a Madrid art school as a youth.
-The Bolshoi Ballet was founded 200 years ago in an or
phanage; its first performing company was composed of 62
orphans.