Volume 76 No. 1
Grimsley Hi^ School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
September 29, 1999
Jhe Grimsley Junior ROTC cadets attended a
summer camp held on an Army Installation this
summer in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The
cadets trained, lived, and ate at a military post.
They participated in science and math labs, con
fidence courses, land navigation. First Aid train
ing, survival swimming, and Team Development
and Leadership Reaction Courses. Eight Whirlie
cadets completed the week long summer camp
Ms. Hair and Ms. Lennon are looking for re
sponsible students to commit one day per week
to eat lunch with autistic students during early
or late lunch. The Lunch Buddy Club will meet
monthly after school to share insights. Refresh
ments will be provided. If you are interested in
joining the club, see Ms. Lennon or Mrs. Hait
during either lunch.
iStudent Council will host the 1999 Homecom
ing Dance November 6 at the Cone Balhoom ol
UNCG. Dress is semi-formal.
Weaver ensemble theater groups ETC.. .'00 and
Domino will open their season on Thursday,
October 7 with a Piecemeal at the Weaver Cen
ter. Ten Grimsley students will perform in the
production. Tickets cost $5.00 and will be sold
at the door. Curtain call is at 7:30 pm.
"Tune" magazine featured Grimsley in the Sep
tember issue in an article concerning school safety
across the United States. Officer Robinette
Coach Franks, and various students were
quoted.
Grimsley Playmasters have begun rehearsals for
the annual fall musical. This year "Anything
Goes" will be presented on November 17-20 in
the Grimsley auditorium.
Scheduling crisis frustrates students
By Lauren Marker
Reporter
Overlapping periods, holes in
students’ schedules, and kids be
ing switched in and out of classes.
These are only a few of the sched
uling problems that students, fac
ulty, and administrators at Grimsley
High School have faced in just the
first four weeks of the 1999-2000
school year.
There were many more Physics
students than originally anticipated.
In fact, there were 50 students in
Mr. Griffin’ssixthperiodclass. The
guidance counselors tried to spht
this class up, but there was not an
other teacher available to teach it.
As a result, one of Mr. Griffin’s
Physical Science classes was given
to another teacher, who was brought
in from Page, so that he could fit a
third Physics class into his sched
ule.
“It was quite an experience to
have 50 students in one period, but
we were able to get done what
needed to be done. I’d have to
say, though, that the biggest prob
lem was uprooting the freshmen
and putting them in a class with
another teacher. It certainly af
fected themmore than the Physics
students,” saysMr. Griffin. He and
Mr. Feeney worked witii the new
teacher to showhim everything that
the students had learned so far so
that the freshmen’s transition
would be easier.
. Mrs. White’s French classes
were also affected by the schedul
ing ordeal. HerFrench V class is
only offered at the same time as
band and Journalism. “Schedul
ing singleton classes with no con
flicts is very hard,” says Mrs.
White. In her Honors 'French fV
class, she has an independent
study French in student as well
as an independent study French
V student. “This is very hard on
the students,’’says Mrs. White.
Mrs. Morrison’s EB Twentieth
Century class, which is required
for the IB Diploma, is only offered
at 7:30. This conflicts with stu
dent council and Music Theory,
which is a problem for a few of flie
diploma candidates. “I don’t
mind teaching a 7:30 class, but
there should be another opportu
nity to take it during the day if it
conflicts with so many other
things,” says Mrs. Morrison.
The question looms large in
many students’ minds as to why
aU of these scheduling problems
have occurred. One problem is a
growing student body and a
shortage of teachers.
Teacher allotment is based on
the student enrollment counted
in the spring of the previous year.
However, in the spring itisirrqxK-
sible to predict how many students
will be repeating courses and how
many will be reassigned to Grimsley.
Also, many students tend to change
their minds about taking a specific
course, which confuses the sched
uling process as well.
Classes are overloaded until the
tenth day of school when the final
enrollment is counted for the year.
This is also when the downtown
office decides whether or not
Grimsley will be allotted more teach
ers.
Students are still being moved
in and out of classes because of
the overload of students, and new
teachers are just now being
brought in to even things out.
Continued on
pa^e.
New administrator takes his mark
By Ashley Kelly
Reporter
Numerous educators have been added to
the Grimsley faculty. Among those is our
new assistant principal, Mr.
Jones. With his will to help
students and love for educa
tion, he possesses the charac
teristics of a productive assis
tant principal.
Originally from Hillsborough,
North Carolina, Mr. Jones cites
his grandparents and his father
as being influential people in
his life. Mr. Jones says being
raised by his grandparents
“was like being the only flower
in a sunlit, well-watered garden.
It didn’t matter which way I
grew, but because of the strong
example, I always seemed to
reach the sunhght.”
His father also had a strong
says, “1 had a childhood of unconditional love
and support.”
Mr. Jones attended Orange High School in
Hillsborough and went on to attend Tulane
University in New Orleans, where he received
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Assistant principal Mr. Jones busies himself with the paperwork of his
new position at Grimsley.
impact on his life. He says his father was like
John Wayne to him because of the strong
role he played in his life. Overall, Mr. Jones
his B.S. in Psychology and his B.A. Philoso
phy. He has since enrolled in the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro for two years
to earn his Master’s in Education Administra
tion.
Grimsley is not the first high school in which
Mr. Jones has been an educational figure. In
fact, he has taught science at three high schools
in the past five years. These high
schools include Orange, South
ern Durham, and Broughton.
He has also taught at Long
Creek Elementary School in Char
lotte where he worked with the
orthopedically handicapped chil
dren. According to Mr. Jones,
“It’s a beautiful thing when you
can get people turned on to learn
ing.”
Outside of school, Mr. Jones
enjoys running track and jump
ing hirrdles. He calls himself an
“Olympic hopeful,” but this is an
understatement because he does
not just have a hope, he qualified
to compete in the Olympic trials
in 2000. Along with his enjoy
ment of track, he also says, “I love conversa
tion. I love learning. I love our seasoned citi
zens, and I love young people.”