Thanks to our partner, the Greensboro History Museum, additional issues of the student newspaper from the former Greensboro High School, High Life, are now available on DigitalNC. Newly available issues cover the years 1923-1926, 1937-1941, 1957, and 1976-1978. The paper features information from the high school, now Grimsley High School, and the surrounding Greensboro community.
As a school newspaper, written by students and for students, High Life focuses on its students’ activities. Seniors are featured each May, and several of these special issues include “Last Will and Testament” sections where those leaving the school “give” things to the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. For example, “Bill Hancock is to receive Ed McDowell’s dramatic trend,” and “R. D. Apple reluctantly relinquishes his long-held position on the mound to Hampton Shuping.”
Greensboro High School Seniors of 1938, May 31, 1938
The students’ comic traditions continue in some of the articles included throughout the paper.
One student published an account of having the measles:
“Home With Measles or How Did I Get in This Fix?,” May 30, 1941
Decades later, an unnamed student announced her addiction to the television network HBO:
“Girl Is HBO Addict,” May 25, 1978
To see more from the Greensboro High School student newspaper, click here. To learn more about the Greensboro History Museum, visit their website or their DigitalNC partner page.
