Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Olie Elements of Our -Otorij SENIOR’S STORY IN MOODS THE SCHOOL Administration F acuity . Senior Class Junior Class Sophomore Class In the Classroom 24 26 28 35 62 72 82 ACTIVITIES Student Council Publications Music Athletics . Service Clubs Social Clubs . . 96 98 101 116 128 146 156 FEATURES Superlatives Special Days 174 176 .180 ADVERTISEMENTS 189 INDEX 229 The O. Henry Museum in Greens¬ boro is a replica of the local drug¬ store where, as the youthful Wil¬ liam Sydney Porter, O. Henry worked for his uncle. Furnishings and many relies are from the original drugstore. 8

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William Sydney Porter, as O. Henry, became one of Greensboro’s most famous sons. OLe OLeme oj Our 0 L onj T he imagination of 0. Henry, if he were around now, would surely be fired by the rich and provocative story material Senior offers every day, in so many ways. Our school is the setting for countless little dramas . . . some serious, some comic, some ironic, some farcical, some even tragic ... all very important. Whether each character is motivated by ambition, promise of reward or fear of failure, he moves through Senior’s story according to his own desires and abilities. And suspense rises periodically, often apparently out of proportion to the motivation. For more pulses quicken over a football game, a dance, a play or a new boy in school, than all the report cards laid A to F could ever titillate. And once underw , the surging movement, the swift down- Jn to an outcome rarely foreseen, the constant change— jrn September to June. William Sydney Porter mixed Ly-teller O. Henry combined the flless tales, so we try in this 1954 proportion every element of our life at Senior so rich and so rewarding. 7

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SENIOR ' S STORY: ft ' s Full of Action, Alive with Feeling and Purpose. Chapter one, “gullible sophomores” . . . the feeling of great reverence when you first heard the Alma Mater . . . gloomy and anxious about those first exams . . . entranced at the beauty of May Day . . . Chapter two, “carefree juniors” ... no longer green . . . bouyantly you continued to develop the plot of your story . . . and did some serious studying . . . Chapter three, “dignified seniors” . . . uproarous times on the trip to Washington . . . the final words to your story are being written . . . graduation ... a happy ending and perhaps a few sentimental tears. 9