Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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26 THE SAGE dent or give as much genuine pleasure to so large a number as a school publication. Whether or not we can all be stars on the athletic field, or win cups in debating contests, all can read, all can support, and many can contribute to the success of The Sage. It is the purpose of the Editors to make this magazine truly representative of the whole school, but we can do that only if the whole school is pleased to help us do it. We want each edition to be better than the one before, and to make it better, we must have material from which to choose. If you do not like the stories and poems and articles and jokes in this number, write some better ones for next time. Give The Sage the same whole-hearted support that you give to every other school activity and The Sage will be a success and will please you. Subscribe now, contribute now, and enjoy later. The story, “Brothers,” by Inna Sadler, won the prize last year that was offered the two Literary Societies of the North Carolina College for the best short story com¬ ing from any High School in the state. A WELCOME To you, the Teachers, we wish to extend a welcome and a sincere hope that you will spend a happy year with us. May those of you who have come to us for the first time this year, find us as loyal and true to our school and faculty as your former pupils. Especially, may the one of your number who has come to us from our allied country find us friendly, and may she love us as well as we already love her. May those of you who have taught us before be as happy to return as we are to have you, and may you be as

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THE SAGE EDITORIAL STAFF Marian Gilmer Editor-in-Cliief ASSOCIATE EDITORS Kenneth Lewis.Literary Department James Hendrix.Athletic Department Wallace Stamey.Humor Department Elsie Coleman.Art and Exchange Department Janice Brown . Organizations $1.00 a Year; 20 Cents a Copy. Shelley Caveness . Business Manager Mabel Alderman .Assistant Business Manager Katherine Wharton VOL.XII DECEMBER NO. 1 EDITORIALS After a lapse of two years, due largely to the high cost of paper and the high tide of patriotism in Greensboro High School during the war, The Sage again makes its appear¬ ance, and again bids for the whole-hearted support that it was accustomed to receive in former years from a loyal and spirited slndent body. In two years the High School has nearly doubled in size, and a publication that once was welcome to two or three hundred students, must now win its way into the good graces of half a thousand. There is no phase of High School activity that can so closely and intimately touch each stu-

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THE SAGE 27 lenient towards us as you have always been. Lastly, may all of you give unto us the grades that you would have us give unto you. To Mr. Price, we wish to extend a welcome also, and may he find us eager and willing to co-operate with him in making a stronger and better High School. Greensboro High has three enthusiastic literary so- cities this year. These organizations are hopeful of doing big things, before long, but this is impossible without your support. Enthusiasm alone, can accomplish little, but true loyalty and help will work wonders. Every student in High School is eligible to membership in one of these societies, and all should be eager to join. Only one hour a week, or at most an hour and a half of your time would be taken up, and think of the benefits derived from society work. Every¬ one admires a forceful, “to-tlie-point” speaker, but the only way to be one is by practice. Join a literary society and watch the fear of hearing your own voice diminish, until it is entirely gone; notice how your hands stop trembling when you play before an audience; see how familiar you become with the rules of parliamentary procedure; see how your appreciation of good literature increases; and finally, watch yourself develop into a well-rounded man or woman, because society work certainly helps this development. The literary societies need you. You need them. Won’t you join?