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High Life
Volume LVII, Number 8
Grimsley Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
Wednesday, April 27, 1983
Guardian Angels. . .Vigilantes?
SKwas Speak At GET SET
By Renee Hicks
“Who are the Guardian Angels?”
“Can anyone join?” “How old do we
have to be?”
These are just a few of the ques
tions that were asked at the recent
Get Set Convocation sponsored by
the Greensboro Board of Education
with funding provided by Burl
ington Industries, Inc., and
Lorillard Corp. It was held on April
12, 1983 at the Aycock Auditorium
at 10:00 a.m.
The guest speakers were Curtis
Shwa and his wife Lisa Evers. The
audience included approximately
800 students from Dudley,
Grimsley, Open High School, Op
tional School, Page, and Smith.
Each school selected six students
to pe '-:cipate in a serninar held
after iunch.
Sliwa began “protecting citizens”
while he was still a manager at a
McDonald’s restaurant in the
Bronx. “Everyone was talking
about the environment, but nobody
was doing anything about it,” Cur
tis recalls. “I decided to do
something about it. ” This was the
beginning of the idea for the Guar
dian Angels.
Thirteen young men -Blacks,
Whites, Hispanic, and Puerto
Ricans-banned together to try to
protect the Bronx from the “Thugs”
who were terrorizing the subways.
The exploits of the “Magnificent
13” spread throughout the Bronx
and attracted many young people.
The surge of new members added a
new dimension and the Angels were
formed.
With the growth of the Guardian
Angels, they were soon labeled as a
vigilante group. Lisa Evers feels
that '■'■.e title is not fitting. “A
vigilante group is one that starts
trouble. We really aren't living up to
the title because we aren’t ^tarting
trouble, we are preventing it,” she
states.
Sliwa and Evers travel frequently
to promote the cause of the Guar
dian Angels.
Allisorniunt, the GET SET coordinator for Page High School, in
troduces Curtis Sliwa and Lisa Evers to the students at Aycock
Auditorium. (Craig Photo)
b Corporal Pimishment
Legitimate Discipline?
Greensboro Mayor John Forbis and GHS ROTC representative Bill
Vehom visit after recent POW/MIA rally held in downtownr^reensboro.
'Craig Photo)
By Jay Floyd and Tamera Majors
“Disciphne is not punishment,”
says Professor Irwin A. Hyman,
from Temple University. Professor
Hyman recently spoke to an
assembly of concerned educators,
parents, and students at
Greensboro College on his
philosophy of the negative aspects
of corporal punishment. By beating
or other forms of physical punish
ment, the student himself is punish
ed, no valuable lessons are taught,
and frequently resentment prevails,
leading to rebellion. Educators need
to learn to “punish the act, not the
child,” says Hyman.
Teachers are not taught properly
to handle the concept of corporal
punishment. There are few teachers
who have been trained in the
somewhat taboo area of juvenile cor
rectional methods. So, where train
ing lacks, the socially accepted norm
takes over. A student will be beaten
just as the teacher or administrator
who administers this “correctional”
maneuver may have been when he
or she attended school.
Discipline training for teachers
should be a requirement in order for
a teacher to become a certified
educator. Disciphne is a method of
educating students on right from
wrong; therefore, when a school
system uses corporal punishment as
a form of “disciphne,” the message
conveyed to the abused student is
that the proper method of correction
is that of physical violence.
Netcs Briefs
By Alise Weinstein
UNC-G Dance Group
“Video Jukebox”, a presentation
of the UNC-G Modern Dance Group
was performed at an assembly on
Wednesday, April 14 in the
Grimsley Auditorium.
The presentation consisted of
many different dances and costume
changes and was choreographed by
Emily Adams and Linda Henley.
The twelve-member dance group
was formed earher this year when
they received a grant from the state
enabhng them to tour.
Band
Approximately 110 Grimsley
band members and ten chaperones
left Greensboro for Washington,
D.C. on April 15.
The band, which included the
symphony and jazz band members,
performed Saturday morning on the
steps of the Capitol.
Besides the performance, the
band had a very full agenda. Among
other activities they went sightsee
ing and saw a Broadway show.
The band returned to Greensboro
Sunday, April 17.
GHS Hi^h LQ.
The Tradition Lives On.
By Ana Rodriguez
Former Principal Honored
Phillips Portrait Presented;
Restored Piano Ebdiibited
The Grimsley High LQ. team out
witted Durham’s North Carolina
School of Science and Math to cap
ture the annual High LQ. Bowl for
the second year in a row. The com
petition, which was held April 4, was
broadcast on WFMY-TV.
The all-senior team of Beverly
Bryant, Mark Goldman, Bill
Vehorn, and captain Carl-Henry
Geschwind led at halftime by 74
points. The final score was
Grimsley, 298; School of Science and
Math, 201. This foursome, along
with teammate Rob Clegg, will
divide the $2,000 prize money even
ly-
To prepare for the contest, the
High LQ. team spent hours practic
ing with file questions and mock
competitions using specific rules
and scoring. The team also found it
helpful for each member to concen
trate on a particular area, such as
current events or biology. Possible
future competitions are still in line
for this year’s winning team.
Mr. Bert Whisenant, Grimsley
team coach, feels that there will be
some amount of pressure on the
1983-84 team to win the third High
LQ. Bowl in a row, and thus retire
the trophy, but that it will be “a
good team.”
Geschwind summed up the vic
tory this way; “Winning the cham
pionship is the feeling that Ralph
Sampson missed.”
By Eddie Drew
A portrait of Mr. Charles Phillips and the restored
piano of the GHS Choral Department were presented
to the student body in an April 20 assembly.
The oil portrait of -’iiillips, Grimsley’s first prin
cipal (known fondly to friends as “Mr. Charlie”), was
painted by Mr. Henry Rood. Rood is noted for painting
the portraits of Mr. A.P. Routh and Mr. R.L. Glenn
which are displayed in the first floor lobby of the main
building. The Phillips portrait will join these.
Members of the Phillips family, former school per
sonnel, and various alumni and community represen
tatives were in attendance to honor “Mr. Charlie.'
The subject of the piano restoration has been an idea
for the past four years. It was Dr. Bonny Baur’s deci
sion to have the piano restored. “The piano is a part of
tradition here at Grimsley,” said the present Grimsley
principal. “It was at the point of either - we let it go or
restore it.”
The piano, worth approximately $2,000 according to
various Greensboro piano retailers at the original sell
ing price in 1930, would cost approximately$10,000 to
replace today. Funds for the $7,300-restoration came
from the Class of 1978 and various donations.
The piano, a nine-foot, 52-year-old Mason and Hamlin
grand, was brought to GHS in 1930 and was used by
Mr. Herbert Hazelman, first band instructor, and by
Ms. Eva Tuttle, the first choir director who was noted
for having the most outstanding high school music
department in the early 1930’s.
Ms. Marta Force, present choral director of GHS,
described the piano as “A beautiful instrument.. .with
a lovely, rich and dark tone which has been enhanced
by the restoration."
The presentations of both the portrait and the piano
served to remind those in attendance of Grimsley’s
rich heritage.
Senior
83
Calendar
May 11
May 17
May 16
CAPS & GOWNS
SENIOR TEA
(Seniors will meet in
Alumni House,
AP TESTING
cafeteria with Dr. Baur
UNC-G, 5-6 PM
to discuss graduation.)
May 27
CLASS DAY/AWARDS CEREMONY
(Wear Caps & Gowns)
PROM
Bryan Park, 8 PM-1 .\M
May 30
May 31
June 2
SENIOR
E.xam
GRADUATION
EXAMS
Makup
Greensboro Coliseum rM