Grimsley
High Life
^^B^^^Grimsley Senior High School
Volume LIU, Number 2
'^Grimsley I
801 Westover Terrace imoo
Greensboro, N.C. 27408 Wednesday, September 28, 1983
Survey
Is the Quality of Education
Meeting Students Standards?
By Alise Weinstein and Catherine Musgrove
smaller classes. This coincides with
the longer school year, shorter
Sink The
Pirate
Ship
This is a survey article done by
High. Life based on the students
point of views on the needs of
education. Four students out of
every English class were surveyed.
Do most students feel really
prepared for the Scholastic Ap
titude Test? According to a recent
survey, Grimsley students believe
they are not. The survey indicated
that 55 percent do not feel
prepared. Possibly this response is
due to the fact that 84 of the
students questioned also feel that
the quality of education is not
good as it was ten years ago.
A national controversy on the
rise is over the length of the school
year. Some educators are propos
ing a change from 180 days to 200.
A lengthened year would mean
more indepth coverage of subjects.
They feel this would hopefully
broaden knowledge. An over
whelming 91 percent of students
said they would not like a longer
school year. But the remaining nine
percent said they would opt for a
four day school week instead of
five.
About 84 percent of the students
feel that they would benefit from
weeks, and mare individualized in
struction.
Three out of four students feel
that teachers should be evaluated
by a panel of responsible students
twice a year. A few felt that an
evaluation once a year would be
suffficent.
Sixty percent felt that teachers
should receive merit pay. A majori
ty of the students believed that
teacher tenure is not beneficial to a
students education.
More than half of those surveyed
feel that changing the re
quirements for a foreign language
to three years instead of two is not
to their advantage. But in contrast,
70 percent feel that three years of a
foreign language prepares them
adequately to continue with foreign
language in college.
1‘ne survey seems to indicate the
students surveyed do not feel that
they are getting as good and educa
tion as they should in order to
prepare them to further their
education.
Throwdown —
A Success
By Susan Thaxton
The Touchdown Throwdown
Dance sponsored by the Junior
Class was held September 16 from
10:00 to 1:00. The dance held in the
auxiliary gym followed the
Grimsley-High Point Central foot
ball game.
Boo Baron, a disc jockey from
the radio station, WEAL was weU
received. Tickets were $1.50 before
and $2.00 at the door. Tickets went
on sale Wednesday, September 7.
The dance went over very well
with the help from Junior Class Ad
visor, Mrs. Keefer and Junior Class
President Billy Fuller.
Rod Davis
moves to
the beat
at
touchdown
throwdown.
(Scott Bivenbark
photo)
Pep Board Revives Student Spirit
All students at Grimsley High
School are exposed, in one way or
another, to the announcement or en
dorsement of several athletic
events and other school related
extra-cirricular activities. Respon
sible for the monumental task of in
troducing the schools students to
the schools activities is the
Grimsley Pep Board. “Without pep
board, Grimsley would be dead,”
said Senior Class Pep Board
representative, Elizabeth Freeze.
In the past three years, there has
been a noticeable increase in school
spirit at Grimsley. According to
Pep Board Representatives, the
current senior class packs the most
spirit. “The seniors are always
more experienced in getting involv
ed,” said Tamera Majors, Pep
Board chairperson for the entire
school. Freeze notes that “the cur
rent Junior class exhibits great
amounts of spirit. I don’t know
enough about the sophomores to
form an opinion about them yet.”
News In Brief
Gty Stage Plans
Celebration
By Lisa Freiberg
The fourth annual City Stage
celebration will take place October
1 and 2 in downtown Greensboro.
The downtown block party will
feature a variety of arts.
Featured performers will include
Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band, Bo Thorpe
and His Generation II Orchestra,
Chairmen of the Board, Band of Oz,
Oingo Boingo and the
Spongetones. At least 20 acts will
be new to City State.
I'he craft scene will include a
wide range of items. Some of the ex
hibits will include, basket weaving,
wood carving, pottery, apple but
ter, hide tanning, tinsmithing. The
crafts mentioned are few compared
to the many that are going to be ex
hibited.
Forty-five food vendors will be
serving the crowd of at least
150,000 people. This year their is a
variety of international food in
cluding Chinese, German, French
and Greek.
Honor Society
Torchlight, Grimsley’s chapter of
the National Honor Society, held
its first meeting of the year Tues
day morning, September 14th. The
purpose of the meeting was the
election of officers for the 1983-84
school year. The new officers are:
Michelle Andrews, President;
Michelle Wulforst, Vice President;
Karen Poulos, Secretary and Lezlie
Fort, Treasurer.
The newest members of Tor
chlight were selected ISst Spring
and inducted in May. The selec
tions are not only determined by
academic success, but also by
scholarship, honesty, attitude,
leadership, and service to. the
school and community.
Inductions will be held again in
November and in the Spring.
ROTC
The Grimsley ROTC, now of
ficially in its second year, is now off
to a promising start. With the
uniforms distributed and the ranks
of officers given, the students of
the ROTC look forward to a com
petitive year.
For example, the Color Guard
has been practicing regularly and
with the advantage of having Gret-
chen Johnson, as the new captain,
should give an impressive showing
at different school functions.
In addition, the Orienteering
Team and the Rifle Team will hold
its first meeting of the year this
week. These two teams are also ex
pected to do well in local and state
competitions, especially since
Stuart Forsyth will be trying out
for our Rifle Team. Forsyth, from
Scotland, is placed in the top 100
marksmen in all of Great Britain.
Sophomore Elections
Thirteen Grimsley sophomore
students have expressed an in
terest in running for various class
offices on September 28. Running
for the office of President are Amy
Cass, John Haines, Kathleen
Stewart, and Stacy Tirella. For the
position of Secretary the can
didates are Lisa Adams, Courtney
Haber, Jenny Savage, and Lisa
Zaleon. Cindy Gay and Carrie
Stout are running for sophomore
Pep Board chairman. Candidates
for sophomore Youth Recreation
chairman are Tina Baer, Cindy
Canning, and Lisa Warner.
The filing date for these offices
was September 13 through the 16.
The interested candidates attended
a mandatory meeting on
September 15 and 16. They were
given instructions for campaigning
for their desired office.
By 8:30 Monday morning,
Whirlie Country was filled with at
tractive posters and banners as the
candidates offlcially launched their
campaign. As the day progressed
many students were seen wearing
buttons for various offices.
Playmasters
The Grimsley High School
Playmasters are presently rehears
ing two plays. One is a comedy,
“Blithe Spirit” and the other is a
serious drama, “Chalk Garden.”
The Playmasters are trying to raise
money to buy the materials needed
to build sets. The group is selling
tickets at five dollars a piece.
Warren Goodman, a senior, is
basically in charge of technical ac
tivities such as building sets. If
anyone wishes to help out in the
building of the sets, or be on the
crew of one of these plays, contact
Mr. Zaruba or Warren Goodman.
More male actors are needed this
year.
By Jay Floyd
The current board feels that the
administration could do more to
help school spirit. “You can usually
count the number of teachers who
have dressed up on spirit days on
one hand. It is usually a struggle to
get time for pep rallies. You must
get every little thing approved,”
observe many Pep Club members.
“More involvement on the part of
the faculty,” said Majors, “would
bring more unity between faculty
and students.”
This year’s board is striving for
equal representation to be given to
all sports, rather than the more sen
sational sports such as football and
basketball.
Pep Board is responsible for ban
ners, pep ballios, treats and
gatorade for athletes, representa
tion at all home games, ribbons,
balloons, programs, spirit days,
and other school related events. All
students are enouraged to give pep
board a try. Everyone is invited to
attend any or all meetings.
Students React
“Inhumane,” “barbaric,” and
“an unjust act,” were some of the
replies of Grimsley students, when
asked about the Korean plane that
' was shot down by the Soviet Union
September first,_
Other replies from students were:
“Russia should receive more than a
slap on the wrist from the U.N.”
“Uncalled for,”
“I think the Russians should
own-up to it.”
“I think Reagan did the right
thing.”
Whiriies Make
‘USA Today’
The following quote was taken
from the September 8 issue of USA
Today concerning Grimsleys vic
tory over Burlington Williams held
on September 2, 1983.
“Greensboro Grimsley’s 10-0 vic
tory against Burlington Williams
ended the states longest scoring
streak. It was the first time in 84
games that Williams was
scoreless.”