GHS High IQ - A Tradition Of Excellence
Mr. Whisenant, Carl Henry
Greschwind, Mark Goldman, Rick
Covington, Rob Clegg, Beverly
Bryant, and Billy Veham pose after
a tough practice. They plan to carry
on the “tradition of excellence"
that was started in 1970.
By Eddie Drew
Continuing in Grimsley's “tradi
tion of excellence,” the 1983 High
I.Q. team has been practicing for
competition since its first meeting
on October 15.
Five out of thirteen students
have been chosen for this year’s
competition. They are; Carl-Henry
Geschwind, Beverly Bryant, Rob
Clegg, Mark Goldman, and Bill
Vehorn.
Mr. Bert Whisenant has been ad
visor for the GHS High I-Q team
for fourteen years. Whisenant is
noted for having three champion
ship titles from his 1970, 1980 and
last year’s 1982 teams. Most of
Whisenant’s teams have made it to
the finals.
High Life
Wednesday, November 24, 1982
Grimsiey Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
Volume LVII, Number 3
Whisenant expresses confidence
in this year’s team. “It has the
potential to be an extremely strong
team,” he states emphatically.
Much practice is involved for
competition readiness. The, team
spends approximately one to iwo
hours three days a week reading
and studying questions from
previous matches, and listening to
tapes.
Members of the team urge
sophomores and juniors who are in
terested in High I.Q. to attend
meetings. Bryant feels it is educa
tional to attend practice, “It’s good
experience for people wanting to go
out. Especially when you become a
senior and wished you came
before,” she says.
Much frustration and tension oc
curs during practice. Team cep' ion
Geschwind comments, “It really
upsets the balance of mind, but,
hey, it’s fun!”
The preliminary competition,
which narrows the field of forty
regional high schools to the top
eight teams having the most
points, will be held on February 5.
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National Education Week ^
By AHse^ Weinstein
National Education Week has
been celebrated in Greensboro for
as long as many educators can
remember.
This year it was held November 14
through 20, and the theme was “A
Strong Nation Needs Strong
School.”
All of the schools, elementary
through senior high were honored
this week in many ways. Here at
Grimsiey there were many ac
tivities in celebration of education.
Each morning on the intercom
there were special topics discussed
A Lasting Tradition
to promote the theme. On Monday,
the history of Grimsiey High
Sclmol was discussed.and it was
presented by Erik Albright
’Tuesday, TorcHUght, the National
Honor Society was the topic (which
was presented by Mike Moses.)
EAR, Encouragement and Recogni
tion, which is a PTSA conunittee
that recognizes honor roU and
citizenship was the subject on
Wednesday, announced by Kathy
Moran.
Urisson,
' members Michael Fitzgerald, Marvin Garland
and Darius Oakes, helped to carry on the Education Week tradition by
presenting the flags at the opening ceremonies in downtown Greensboro.
(Rob Chesire Photo)
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Campus Happenings
On Thursday information on the
Advanced Placement courses.
was spoken by Reba Morehead
Finally, on Friday, the topic was
the Gifted and Talented Program
'and sophomore Darin Alston made
I the presentation.
In honor of National Education
Week, there was a courtesy lun
cheon on November 18 for some of
the parents who have done
volunteer work in the clinic and the
guidance offices.
Some members of the PTSA
Board, class presidents, and the
student body president were also
invited. The menu for the luncheon
was the regular cafeteria food and
the luncheon began during the ear
ly lunch period and continued
through the late lunch period.
Each year there are many goals
which National Education Week
hopes to attain. This year there
were four major goals: 1. 'to in
crease public understanding and
appreciation of the schools; 2. to en
courage parents to visit their
children’s schools at least once a
year; 3, to secure civic and com
munity support for measures to im
prove the school; and 4. to help
students gain an appreciation of
what schools are doing for them.
Two of the talented painters strive to complete the painting of the Home
Economics building. (Rob Chesire Photo)
Painters
Liven Grimsiey
SSBAG
SSBAG (Student School Board
Action Group) is a city-wide group
of students that was established
seven years ago.
This group consists of eleven (11)
representatives from the Optional
School and the Open High School.
The representatives are: Student
body presidents, class presidents,
student affairs presidents, inner
club council presidents,ROTC
representatives, newspaper
representatives, a student at large
from each school, atheletic
representatives, and bus driver
representatives.
Some of the ideas SSBAG
discusses deal with the Little Four
Basketball Tournament, teacher
evaluation, incorporation of the
ninth grade into the high schools,
and other city school-wide pro
blems. These ideas then are relayed
to the school board and other of
ficials.
Service Clubs
The Service Clubs of GHS have
been active during the first nine
weeks of school. These clubs pro
vide services not only for Grimsiey
but for other schools as well.
There was almost full participa
tion of the clubs in the Homecom
ing Projects. The Junior Jaycettes
received an honorable mention,
while the Civinettes received se
cond place. Claiming the trophy for
first place was the Exchange Club.
Presently some clubs are par
ticipating in other school activities
and are involved in fund raisers.
The Jaycettes were selling Current
products and the Exchangettes are
going to sell pens. A Christmas
Dance will be sponsored by the
Civinettes, and all proceeds will go
to the Association of Retarded
Citizens. The Key Club continues
to sell bumper stickers for $1.00.
By Allen Patterson
Since last Christmas, Greensboro
City School maintenance personnel
have been painting both the inside
and outside of Grimsley’s
buildings.
Since the work began, the Voca
tional Building, the Music
Building, the walkways, the ex
teriors of the gymnasium and
auditorium, the first floor of the
Main Building and the second floor
hall have been completed.
The painting is much needed
because it has been seven years
since the school was painted, ex
cluding the gymnasium and also
several doors around the campus
which have to he painted repeated
ly because of vandalism.
GHS Principal, Dr. Bonny Baur,
respectfully referred to as “Mama”
by the painters is choosing all the
colors to he used in the painting of
Grimsiey. Dr. Baur is sticking to a
basic color scheme of yellow for the
interior of the buildings, which is
attractive and easy to match (in
case of damage). Most of the
originial colors are being kept on
the exteriors of the buildings.
Roger Roof, Jack Way, and J.C.
Westmoreland, crew chief, are the
only painters. They have been
working in conjunction with the
plasterers, who have been filling
holes and cracks in Grimsley’s
buildings.
The basement of the Main
Building is serving as the tem
porary workshop/headquarters for
the painters, who travel from
school to school, year to year, as
painting is needed. It is hoped that
the work at Grimsiey will he com
pleted hy next summer. Then there
will probably be another lengthy
span before any work is done again.
Dr. Baur expresses the hope that
students “wiU respect the work”
that has been done and not try pur
posefully to damage it.