Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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SHAKESPEARE class is captivated by dramatics class’ presentation of “When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet.’’ hand in hand with custom go innovations .. CARD CATALOGUE yields its secrets to persistent searcher.

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RAIN dries last from tlte walkways. One cannot be at Senior long without realizing that distance has its vertical as well as horizontal dimension. After three flights of stairs a person wonders if he really wants to attend class after all. And the after-lunch trek from the parking lot’s far reaches to the science building harries short, puffing sophomores and irritates seniors, who resent a mere bell’s effort to hurry their steps. Yet even complainers take pride in this sprawling campus. Rainy weather transforms the campus into a contusion of muddy walks and puddles. Umbrellas pop open; we jog from building to building complaining, but glad that traffic jams at every door justify tardiness to class. Page 15

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As traditional as the old buildings are the high academic standards and the basic content of the (1 IIS English Curriculum. Senior stniggles over Chaucer’s “Prologue” and term papers, junior agonies over original short stories, sophomore exploration of the worlds of Julius Caesar’s Rome and George Eliot’s Raveloe, plus tough drill with rules of grammar — these have long been fundamental parts of rich courses. Hand in hand with custom go innovations, however; for this year ours was one of five school systems in the United States to offer an NEA-sponsored composition laboratory for interested students. Comprehensive and varied, our history program offered courses embracing Cheops and Mao Tze Tung, Isabella and Kennedy, and utilizing current periodicals, guest speakers, television instruction. FORMER GHS teacher Fredrickson now teaches state¬ wide television history course. our history program .. . is comprehensive and varied .. AN ESSAY seems more interesting if discussed in small groups. Page 17