Dear Future Students Of Grady:
May I take this opportunity to welcome you to Grady High School next fall.
I think that we can say that you will be entering a very fine high school
which will give you excellent training if you do your part. As I travel
around the country I find that college admission offices have a fine opinion
of Grady graduates. Last year's graduates have made an unusually fine record
in college.
You need to enter high school with the determination to do the very best that you can. You need to plan to spend from 2 to 3 hours or, homework six days a week while in the eighth grade.
In grades 9 through 12 you will need to spend 3 to 4 hours on homework six days a week. I find that students who do this make A's and B's in their work. I also find that students who always tell their parents that they do not have homework are failing.
However, high school is not all hard work, There are many other activities, such as sports clubs, school dances and work On the school publications.
In conclusion may I wish for You a very happy and profitable high school career.
Sincerely yours,
R. H. Derthick
. . . You get sick in class--
Ask your classroom teacher for a permit to the clinic and see the school
nurse.
. . . You are tardy
Go to the office immediately upon arrival and get a permit to class. You
will need a written excuse.
. . . You are absent
The day upon returning to school, give your homeroom teacher a written excuse
signed by one of your parents.
. . . Fire breaks out In school
Rules which give definite directions for leaving the building are given
to each homeroom. Fire drills are practiced at Grady regularly.
. . . You need to go to the library during a class
Ask your classroom teacher for a library permit.
. . . You have lost or found an article
Ask for the lost article in the office, or turn the found article into
the office.
. . . You want information about the school academic program or have a personal
problem.
Seek the aid of one of the counselors.
. . . You see any acts of dishonor or disgrace pertaining to the school or have ANY knowledge of such events
Contact Mr. Derthick or the Honor Council as soon as possible.
Homeroom--8:45 to 8:56
1st period--9:00 to 9:56
2nd period--10:00 to 10:56
3rd period--11:00 to 12:26
(lunch periods of 30 minutes each come during third period)
4th period--12:30 to 1:26
5th period--1:30 to 2:26
(students with zero period will be dismissed- at this time)
6th period--2:30 to 3:26
Student body co-presidents and officers of all other classes will be elected on May 4. Several voting machines are sent to Grady for use In those elections,
Sub-freshmen will elect for their class officers, president, vice-president, and secretarytreasurer. The class officers of each grade and the school's copresidents make up Grady's student council. Any eighth-grader may run for class office provided he has twenty-five eighth graders' signatures on a petition sheet.
Homeroom presidents wilt be elected in homeroom the beginning of the school year. These presidents are in charge of various business transactions in homeroom, Such as selling tickets to dinners and dances, collecting P.T.A. money, and selling yearbook and newspaper subscriptions. Meetings of homeroom presidents are held regularly.
Physicals and dental certificates should be obtained from the students' own doctors. The school furnishes a physical for students who cannot get one elsewhere, but it Is not complete.
Only In cases of financial hardship can arrangements be made by the school for a dental checkup at a clinic.
"Most students have never had a complete physical and they need one," said Mrs. Virginia G. Irvin, Grady's nurse and head of the clinic. The physical reports are kept on record and referred to In case of excessive absences or consistent low grades of a student.
Mrs. Irvin stressed "the responsibility of parents of eighth graders to make doctor and dentist appointments during summer months rather than disrupt the school year."
Parents Join Grady's P.T.A.
Every year Grady's P.T.A. holds a meeting of the sub-freshmen's parents
and has an introductory program for them. Their parents later join with
the other members of the P.T.A. in regular activities.
One of the most interesting P.T.A. gatherings of the year is the Open House held each semester. This meeting gives the parents a chance to follow their children's schedules and meet their teachers.
For several years Grady has had the largest P.T.A. membership in the city. When the parents join this active organization, they are helping their children to receive many benefits, such as projectors and similar working equipment.
Since students are moving from room to room instead of staying In one room all day, lockers are assigned to them to hold their books and coats. Each student will share a locker with another student from the same homeroom.
The official lock used at Grady is the Dudley combination lock.
If any other lock is used, it will be removed. Locks may be purchased
in homeroom or in Mr. Thomas Walton's room. The price is $1.25 for a new
lock or 75 cents for a used one.
Mr. Walton, who is in charge of locks and lockers, keeps a record of each
lock's serial number and its combination, in case the student forgets his
combination (and it DOES happen!).
The Honor Council, designed to deal with all forms of dishonesty anywhere at school, was voted into effect by Grady students last year.
"At the beginning of this school year, the constitution was put Into effect with the hope that It would never have to be used. This hope has been smashed," said Dan Raiford, co-president of the Honor Council.
The purpose of the Honor Council is to decide whether a person accused of cheating is guilty or not. A student may be accused by any person who has seen him. He Is brought before the court, composed of six seniors, four juniors, and the copresidents. If he pleads guilty he receives a delayed sentence. If he pleads not guilty, witnesses for and against him will be brought in one at a time.
A first offense is punishable by failure of the assignment in question. A second offense results in failure of the course, and a third in a recommendation for expulsion.
"The future of Grady as a leading Atlanta public high school lies in the character and morals of its students," Dan said.