High Life
Volume LVII, Number 7
Grimsley Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
Thursday, March 24, 1983
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Articles,
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Success Acquired By Music Department
Jazz Band
The Jazz Band recently returned
from a successful venture to UNC-
Chapel Hill to participate in a state
jazz contest. Twelve area jazz
bands competed for different
ratings ranging from superior to
average.
Grimsley’s Jazz Band received
two superior ratings. Not only that,,
they placed first among all twelve
jazz bands. Eric Hipp received
recognition for best soloist.
Honor
Students
Screened
By Jay Floyd
AP (Advanced Placement) and
GT (Gifted and Talented) courses
are offered to those somewhat
academically superior students
who may be repeating subject mat
ter injected in the everyday
classroom. Separate criteria are us
ed to select students into these
honorable courses. Both AP and
GT classes are dominated by
carefully screened students labeled
as exceptionally bright.
In order to be accepted into a GT
class, a candidates’ IQ (Intelligence
Quotient) is checked. Achievement
Test scores are submitted, and a
final score is reached by the use of a
point system employed for each
area. If a student reaches a pre
determined score, that student is
considered Gifted and Talented,
and is enrolled, upon request, into
the honors course applied for.
The AP acceptance system
utilizes a point system also, but
uses a slightly different criteria.
Past grades in the area applied for
are reviewed and points are attain
ed. Likewise, points are attained in
areas such as SAT scores, teacher
recommendations, and a specializ
ed test administered to achieve a
better overview of the candidate’s
knowledge in a particular field.
(Continued on Page 3)
By Lisa Earley
GHS Madrigals
Mrs. Force, Adam Golden Burg,
Liz Johnson, Jon Kivett, Stephanie
Williams, Clark Oakes, Evone Har-
tgrove, Joey Elder, Dyane Walker,
and Steve Howard pose after a long
practice. -
The Madrigal Singers, a group of
sixteen specially selected Grimsley
High School students, will attend a
national choral contest in Atlanta’s
Six Flags Over Georgia on April 28
through 30.
They are able to perform a variety
of vocal styles including
Renaissance, classic, and vocal
jazz. They are sometimes required
to choregraph their jazz numbers.
In addition to the contest at Six
Flags, the Madrigals were also
featured on the “P.M. Magazine”
Christmas Special and received a
superior for their performance at
State Contest in February. The
judge (Dr. Barbara Bair, UNC-G)
said that they “performed with the
musical intelligence Of a college
group.”
Many after-school hours are
devoted to perfecting the group’s
sound and performance level. As a
result of this extra work the group
is a very close-knit unit, part of the
reason for their success. “Every
year I think that the next year’s
Madrigal Singers surely could not
top the previous year, but every
year they surpass themselves,”
says Ms. Marta Force, director of
the group. “I’m very proud of
them.”
Madrigal music was the most
popular in England, France, and
PTSA Sponsors
Drinking: Learn To Be Responsible
UNC-G, were Carolyn Brewer and
By Tamera Majors
On February 28, 23 days after
four teenage boys were killed due
to an alcohol related accident,
Grimsley P'TSA felt that there was
a desperate need for an informative
lecture on alcoholism for students,
teachers, and parents. The lecture
was entitled, “Responsible Drink
ing and Responsible Decision Mak
ing,” and the speakers; both from
Pat Carter.
Throughout Mrs. Brewer’s per
suasive speech, she emphasized the
need to face and identify a decision
before making it. “Think about all
the facts and then decide what’s
best for you. Decisions are impor
tant for everyone whether they con
cern drinking or not.” The informa
tion obtained from Brewer was
useful and informative, but it
didn’t seem to be as popular as the
controversial issue, concerning
alcohol, spoken by Pat Carter.
As Alcohol Education Coor
dinator for UNC-G, Carter is an ex
perienced professional on the facts,
fallacies, and effects of alcohol, as
well as knowledgeable on the
responses of teenagers and adults.
(Continued on Page 8)
Make-Up Days Disrupt Break
By Tamera Majors and Jay Floyd
There have been harsh and bitter
feelings toward the decision of the
Greensboro Public School Board
concerning the two days that were
missed due to bad weather. These
tense feelings come from teachers
as well as students.
Many students had previously
made arrangements to be out of
town over the Easter Holidays, as
is an annual tradition of many
Greensboro Citizens. Then, due to
inclement weather, two days were
taken from the vacation period,
making it necessary to remain in
Greensboro for four days, because
the “make-up days” come after
week-end. Students and faculty
have been severely angered by the
School Board’s decision.
The state’s plan of a five-day
allowance for days missed due to
bad weather has been adopted by
the Guilford County School
System, but the Greensboro City
School Board thought it would be
in the best interest of all involved
to reject the plan.
This change in schedule is very
costly. Reservations, which have
been made in various vacation
spots, cannot be altered leaving the
rented rooms empty for at least
four days in order to escape the in
evitable unexcused absences.
Imagine. If one-third of
Grimsley’s population is going to
the beach, and they are forced to re
main in Greensboro for four days,
the following may occur: an
estimated cost of twenty dollars
per person for the four days missed
multiplied by the possible five hun
dred people who are traveling to
the beach, results in a total of ten
thousand dollars wasted. This
waste of money could have been
avoided if the School Board had
voted to adopt the five day
allowance for make up snow days.
Perhaps with persuasion from
teachers, parents, and students the
policy could be accepted and ap
plied in the 1983-84 school year.
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period, a time of lace and frills. The
texts are filled with flowering
phrases of ardor and promise of
love, yet beneath the surface is
often found that the suitors’ pro
mises eu-e “tongue-in-cheek.”
In order to be a Madrigal Singer,
one must audition for Ms. Force.
This year’s Madrigal Singers are
Kim Adams, Karen Covington,
Fran Cahoon, Joey Elder, Adam
Goldenburg, Steve Howard, Jon
Kivett, Evone Hartgrove, Liz
Johnson, Lezlie Fort, Clark Oakes,
Mark Robertson, Collin Scott,
Jeanette Smith, Dyane Walker,
and Stephanie Williams.
News Update
Student Council
Wednesday, March 1, the Stu
dent Council held an important
meeting concerning the “Acts of
God.” The “Acts of God” states
that the first five days of inclement
weather or any other conditions
will not be made up.
As of this day, the County
School System acts upon this law
while Greensboro City School
Board has rejected this proposal.
In conjunction with the Student
Council of Page, headed by Walker
Poole, Erik Albright, Grimsley Stu
dent Body President, is proposing
that the students and their parents
petition the School Board with let
ters and phone calls to the board
members themselves concerning
this subject of make-up days.
Leaflets and petition papers
were distributed throughout
homerooms at Grimsley and Page.
The letters and petition papers
signed by each school’s student
body president will be collected by
other Student Council members as
the week progresses.
High IQ Team Continues Tradition
By Alise Weinstein
Intelligence, practice and results
are the key words in the success of
our 1982-83 High IQ Team. The
team entered this year’s competi
tion seeded number one, and they
hope to defend their champion title
again this year.
The first televised match, which
Grimsley won, was played on
Saturday, February 26 against
Dudley. Even though Dudley was
seeded number eight, the match
score rotated back and forth. The
half time score was 119 to 107 in
favor of Grimsley and the final
score was 245 to 153.
In the semi-final round which
will be held on March 19, Grimsley
will play the Greensboro Day
School. If Grimsley should win that
match, they will go for the cham
pionship on April 4. The other two
remaining teams in the competition
are the North Carolina School of
Math and Science and Winston-
Salem Reynolds.
Mr. Bert Whisenant, the GHS
High IQ coach, said, “I hope our
students at Grimsley know how
much time and effort the team puts
in High IQ competition to repre
sent the school.” He also stated
that they have been practicing and
reviewing since October for this
year’s competition, some since
their sophomore and junior years.
He is also encouraging any in
terested sophomore or junior to
come by Room 404 after school to
practice with the varsity team.
High IQ team practices after school in Mr. Whisenant’s room. (Cheshire
photo)