Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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5 Mr. Routh is a good friend. Here he is shown in one of his characteristic posi¬ tions — giving over-the-counter advice to one of the many students who come to him for advice. Ours is a versatile principal— he can cook too. Our principal, Mr. A. 1 . Routh, cannot he surpassed in his business abilities either.

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partment at that time. In 1929 a special day, known as Home-Coming Day, was set aside for all the alumni who so enjoyed returning to Greensboro High School. The next year, representatives from several colleges were invited to attend the first College Day. With 1931 came the first Social Standards Day and the discontinuance of the yearbook. The Reflector. Because of the depres¬ sion, two years later High Life was temporarily discontinued; and the old original Home-Spun, after having won national recognition, succumbed the next fall. High Life was revived in the spring of 1937, while Home-Spun was republished, though modified, for this, its final year. With the spring of 1939 came the crowning of Jean Stafford, our first May Queen. The dramatics association, directed by Miss Lottie Wall, sponsored that and the following ceremony, which was the last before being discontinued during the war years. When our constitution was amended in 1941, we felt that our school was complete except for an organized recreational program. Three rooms were, therefore, set aside specifically for our entertainment; also parties and dances, co-sponsored by the P. T. A. and student council, were scheduled at regular intervals. After World War II, the council revived our May Day. At last, in 1927, the Greensboro Youth Center was established. This gathering place had its inception in the recreation program which had begun at school. At first it was under the direction of Mr, Weddie Huffman. Since it is sponsored by the City, the Center is available to all of Greensboro’s youth. The last class of Greensboro High School ' s first half century heard for the first time our Alma Mater, written by Mr. Herbert Hazelman, the band director, and it saw the installation of a driver’s course. Also, the class of 1950 had efficient Fred Upchurch as editor and patient Mrs. Estelle LeGwin as adviser when they revived our yearbook and changed its name to Whirligig. Thus ended fifty years of obstacles and work, hope, boundless progress, and SUCCESS. Now, this first class of the second half century steps out into the world to take their places among the men and women of America, giving themselves wholeheartedly to the service of their God, their country, and the high ideals of their own Greensboro Senior High School.

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The Faculty Members who have served as many as twenty years are, first row, left to right: Miss Estelle Mitchell, Mrs. Nellie D. Blackburn, Mr. J. Stanley Johnson, and Mrs. Blanche H. Smith. Second Row: Miss Mary Ellen Blackmon, Mr. A. I . Routh, and Miss Ida Belle Moore. It is only fitting that in a book which traces the history of our school’s first half-century we give special recognition to those faculty members who have given long service to our school. Mrs. Nellie D. Blackburn, present adviser of the senior class, has seen more of these developments than any other member of the faculty, this being her twenty-ninth year at G. H. S. There are many who have served for more than a decade, others, for over two. To these we pay tribute. I Irs. Nellie I). Blaeklmrn 15