Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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l)E CLUB OFFICERS are Lowe, President Smith, Long, Snead, Cocknian, Bulla, Hart. As their first project of the year, the D. E. Club held an open house for their parents and guidance counselors. OFFICERS of first period DE: Marsden, Scoggins, Kiser, Cannon, President Phillips. Memorable events of the fall were the candlelight service for installing the officers, the hanging of the second Sear’s Award - the Three-Star Plaque, and the officer-train¬ ing workshop for all school-sponsored clubs at Senior High and Page. D. E. students win district offices and honors Page 28

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with art media, drafting pencils, lathes and tools With smudged hands and an intent con¬ centration, boys in machine shop learned the secrets of drills, lathes, and presses. They took machines apart, rebuilt them, used them to work with metal. And intricate precision tools or simple machine parts gradually took shape and acquired a burn¬ ished sheen. In wood shop students took shapeless lumber and converted it into polished tables. IABLES begin (above) with a choice of material, plans, careful measurement. Below , one nears com¬ pletion after weeks of tedious but rewarding effort. PROSPECTIVE machinist gets experience and in¬ struction in lathe work. chairs, desks. The boys learned to work slowly and carefully, so that their finished furniture would be as nearly perfect as lov¬ ing care could make it. To many boys, printing was a new world of inks, type styles, and presses. Though offered only during second semester, print¬ ing was as useful to the school as to boys learning a trade — it produced many of the office forms needed here. Page 27

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SECOND PERIOD DE (.LASS seems to be caught in the middle of everything. Spatpil: Slawter, A. Smith, Reavis, Cray, Williams, Long, Harris, Osborne. Staml- mg: Shepherd, Barber, R. Smith, President Masten, Wallace, Criffin, Durham, L. Smith, West, Parker, Thornberry, Clark, Coordinator Mrs. Hadden. Numerous field trips to firms in Greens¬ boro were interesting and enlightening to I). E. Club members. These busy students also found time to win recognition at the Central District Convention: Jerry I. Smith was elected district president; while Barry Cockman became editor-promotion manager and won the Outstanding Student Award. BIG SMILES denote enthusiasm of second period boys Thornberry, Griffin, Slawter, Osborne, Durham. THIRD PERIOD DE — Front row: Penley, President Cockman. Second row: T. Dill. Bulla. Snead, Cling- Smith, Hart, Rainey, Johnson, Thomas, P. Hill, Lowe, man, Long. Mrs. Hadden, Williams, Faircloth. Page 29