Volume 76 No. 3
Grimsley High School
801 Westover Tirrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Mayor-elect looks toward future
By Regina Sechter
Staff Writer
With Mayor-elect Keith Holliday,
a Democrat, arriving on the scene
as of December 7, 1999, teens in
Greensboro have an opportunity to
have their voices and opinions on
issues listened to and taken seri
ously.
As a graduate of Grimlsey Senior
High School and a father of a son
who graduated from Grimsley as
well, Holliday certainly walks to the
beat of a Whirlie drummer. Before
October 15, 1999, when Grimsley
took a sweet victory over their arch
rival Page High School, the last time
they had been successful in defeat
ing Page was the year that the
mayor-elect graduated.
When Holliday attended
Grimsley, most of his social activi
ties revolved around school. “We
never missed a football game, or a
basketball game for that matter, and
there were at least five or six dances
per year. The administration was
very high on making the school ac
cessible to teens during the day, af
ter school and at night as well. This
really made the school customer
friendly,” says Holliday.
On the issue of teens and their
community, Holliday strongly favors
having the voices of Greensboro
youth heard. Holliday was con
cerned that there is no committee or
platform that allows for open dia
logue on not necessarily teen-re
lated problems but issues. Holliday
says, “We focus too much on the
‘problem teen’ and not enough on
the bored teen.” When the Mayor-
elect was young, Holliday said that
kids had hangouts like the drive-in
movie theater where they all met
without alcohol or drugs and just
had a good time. He said that this
kept kids off the streets, and that it
would be great if teens in Greens
boro had something similar. Holliday
feels that teens need positive places
to spend their time socializing rather
than out driving around and possi
bly getting into trouble. Holliday
says, “Greensboro needs a place
where teens can go that is organized,
drug free, but at the same time, cool.
A place where you don’t feel bad
about being there. A place where
parents would feel safe about allow
ing their teens to go.”
“If I could change anything in
the school system, it would be that
we could have neighborhood
schools that were racially balanced.
It would probably be the single best
thing for our school system. I wish
it was a broad and equal school
system,” Holliday says.
Although the position of Mayor
in Greensboro has no real power in
the public education field, Holliday
says he plans on being a front liner
for changes within the system.
Holliday said, “There are vast
problems in the field of public
education. I am strongly, strongly,
in favor of a bond referendum to
build new schools. It is so long over
due. Although the city has nothing
to do with the issue of public
education, I plan on advocating that
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Mayor-elect and Grimsley alumnus Keith Holliday stands with sophomore Regina Sechter at City Hall.
With his strong views on education and teen issues, he will bring many positive changes to Greensboro.
"Anything Goes" leaves
audience humming a tune
love lives, their secrets, their desires.
By Enrnia Burgin
Reporter
Over 150 people attended the open-
ing night of “Anything Goes,”
Grimsley Playmasters’ 1999 offering
of their annual musical extravaganza.
Memorable songs, such as “Friend
ship,” “You’re the Top,” and, of course,
“Anything Goes” will stay with the
ater patrons long after the elaborate
set comes down.
Junior John Kemodle, senior Vivian
Kemp, and junior Sarah Coates played
the lead roles in this fun musical about
a cruise ship and its travelers—their
Coates’s Reno Sweeney served as a
sexy mentor and confidante to Billy
Crocker, played by Kemodle. Crocker
was creative, taking on many dis
guises, as he sang and joked his way
into Hope Harcourt’s heart (played by
Kemp). Many of Kemodle’s lines re
quired that he speak in a variety of
accents and voices, from old lady to
Chinaman, to the stuffy “George Ber
nard Shaw.’ ’ Senior David DeWeese
played the naive and lovable Sir
Evelyn “Evie” Oakleigh who had
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Block scheduling looms for county schools
By Regina Sechter
Staff Writer
No senior lunch, 90 minute long
classes, and a schedule that’s way
too confusing. When speaking
about block scheduling, these state
ments seem to be fairly common.
Rumor has it that in 2001, Grimsley
High School will implement “block.”
Experience has shown that people
can’t always believe what they hear
and that statement has been proven
with the Block Scheduling rumor.
No, block is not coming to
Grimsley. However, a reorganized
that’s precisely why Grimsley is a
part of a task force that discusses
the issue.
Block scheduling comes in many
fonns. An example of one type of
this schedule genre is that students
would take four classes per day for
90 minutes each. Then, after the first
semester, students would take four
completely different classes. Some
block programs operate where one
takes four classes per day (90 min
utes each). Every other day students
would be taking a different set of
classes.
So, Grimsley is not going to use
changes that need to be made. Mrs.
Jane Teague, Grimsley’s principal
said, “No one knows for sure what’s
going to happen with the schedule,
if anything at all. What we do know
is that not alt schools have equal
opportunities, and that is a real prob
lem."
The problem to which Mrs.
Teague refers is that right now all 14
high schools within Guilford County
are operating on completely different
schedules. This difference is making
things really difficult for those stu
dents who have transferred and
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