Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Classwork broadens our horizons ; makes us aware of our roles in the world Five majors? Three study halls? Two lunch periods? Mr. Routh hears rea¬ sons for them all with an open mind. Think of all the weighty knowledge these book- room boys have handled. Mr. Anderson ' s workers distribute the text books at the beginning of each year. The diploma is up there waiting. Looking ahead, past the moment of grasping that tangi¬ ble proof of years spent learning and growing, Senior High Sam” turns also to gaze backward for a moment. He begins to realize the vital part his classroom experiences have played in help¬ ing him step from childhood to maturity. How strange Senior High was after the shel¬ tered security of junior high! Wide halls, rushing hordes, and heavy books were at first overwhelming. Sam, like the other sophomores, felt lost and confused; but student council mem¬ bers explained regulations and showed him the way around. He was in. It didn ' t take him long to know that studying, though not his favorite, must be his chief pas¬ time. He spent hour s searching woods for seemingly extinct biology specimens, only to have Mrs. Blackburn mistake his final diagram of the amoeba for one of the human liver. In algebra quadratic equations turned out to be fun and very stimulating. While in English Silas Marner took him to a strange but very real world, widening his understanding of people. 26

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Parents and teachers go after solution to many student problems Commanders of the P-TA forces are Mrs. J. Dan McConnell, First Vice- President; Mr. H. H. Jordan, President; Mrs. M. B. Bennett, Second Vice-Presi¬ dent and Program Chairman. Raising and supplying funds for a scholar¬ ship, welfare work, Whirligig and other projects for the benefit of students kept this year’s P-TA busy. Being co-sponsor of Col¬ lege Day took a lot of time, effort and money, and these were adequately furnished. With the closing of the Youth Center the P-TA organized afternoon instruction in bridge, dancing and photography. At frequent board meetings and five large group meetings dur¬ ing the year, parents and teachers planned and worked together to help solve as many student problems as possible. P-TA Board members and school leaders enjoy lunch together in the home economics laboratory. They are, around first table, Mrs. T. C. Hoyle, Miss Lucille Browne, Jimmy Jordan, Mr. A. P. Routh. Second table: Mrs. Henry Sikes, Mrs. C. C. Harmon, Mrs. M. B. Bennett, Mrs. K. H. Boydell, Mrs. Richard Dunn, Mrs. J. H. Rountree Standing: Sue Simmons, Mrs. Arthur Burnet, Mrs. Nellie Blackburn, Mr. H. H. Jordan. 25

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Ancient Hebrew? No, it ' s only the more modern heiroglyphics she is learning in shorthand class. Bridging the gap Sophomores learn of the rise, decline, and fall of the Roman Empire in Mrs. Mary Madlin ' s Latin classes. from childhood to maturity ; we grow from comics to classics A book review on Monday ... a report on Benjamin Franklin on Wednesday . . . What would we do without our well-stocked library? 27