Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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STAFF members aren't slaving all the time! S'l'Al F MEMBERS are kept busy with circulation. proof-reading. and writing copy. Seriiecl: Marks, Sykes, Orrell, standing: Oates, Gardner. ot' ads. Meanwhile associate editors Jane and Sue peeked feverishly on the typewriters try- ing to create more editorials. Carolyn worked harcl thinking ol' gossip W usually harder to stop than start. Game predictions would be underway, with the sports staff - Marie, Bill, llelle, and .lim --- practically playing out each game. Copy editor Genie and the adviser, Mrs. Averett, were going through every waste can. Why 'T For ads, receipts, copy, and maybe even stale sandwiches. Then mass con- tusion once more became orderly progress. Orclerly, that is, until make-up began, and all the thumhtacks were mysteriously in the glue. 'l'here was more to High Life than the actual publication. There were the trip to Chapel Hill, the frantic visits to the printer, the news conference that Geanie, Relle, and Clyde attended at Page. Amid the hustle, hustle, fun, and fury ot' the staf'l s inner sanctumf' the paper went on. BIG FIVE of the High Life staff-sented: Thompson, Snow: stmirlingx Editor Wilson, Davis, Adviser Averett. Page 1 X .. null!

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vw' 'CEP HIGH LIFE STAFF poses for once without paper, son, Thompson, Kennedy, Davis, Snow, Sykes, pencils, or smudged fingers. First row: Golden. Charles, Oates. Third row: Apple, Perry, Gardner. Jones. Marks, Black, Chambers, Spence, Thomas. Moore, Barrier. Edwards. Second row: Neal. Adviser Averett. Wil- lligh Life ferrets our news, keeps GHS informed If any Tuesday or Friday you had happened final bite, then boom-the wheels oi' progress to pass Room I0 about 6:30 p.m.. you'd have turned again. Editor Clyde Wilson was con- been just in time for a snack with the High stantly pondering over copy for the front Life staff. Everyone would be gulping that page but ending with only a vast assortment SPORTS AND BUSINESS editors'-seated: Chambers. Mooreg standing: Spence. Perry, Barrier. Black. Page is

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The deadline looms . . . the 1959 Whirligig is finally complete. Mr. Fleming whisks it away to Charlotte and the cycle begins anew: another Whirligig starts even before the type- writers have a chance to get cool. 1959 wmrligig staff is KEEPING THE TYPEWRITERS humming are thc class editors. Seated: Williams. L. Carter, T. Carterg standing: Pickard, Anderson, Gray. PICTURES and captions keep Photography Editor Coble, Literary Editor Settan and Managing Editor Rottman busy. WORK just seems to pile up for Adviser Powell and Editor Dahlfues. SP Page 20 Editor Dahlfues thinks it would be impos- sible to find a more appropriate title than 'tWhirligig for book or staff. for work on the 1959 Whifrligig began and continued to thc last in a buzzing whirl of activity and con- urred t0 greater effort fusion. The staff began in February, l958, photographing and recording people and events that would make the record complete. Lacy and Tootie captured those priceless moments with Mr. Miller and his trusty flash, but there were many incidents best recorded in words. That's why Beverly and Sherry coaxed so steadily for copy and captions to be turned in. Whirligigfs ninth All-American award in a row was the best of all incentives. We couldnlt let this be the first Whirligig to fall below the high level to which nine other staffs have lifted and maintained it. So every- body kept up the mad paceg and as February 15 drew nearer, writers and typewriters pick-