Traditions
The school's current Alma Mater is set to the tune of the Canadian national anthem, O Canada. The fight song Dear Old Greenville (still used as of the 2000s), was written by former Greenville High School band director Harold A. McDougle. It was sung at the 1957 dedication of the Elm Street campus. Ironically, McDougle also wrote the alma mater of East Carolina University, "Hail to Thy Name So Fair" while a student at East Carolina.
The current name of the yearbook is Reflections, a name that was chosen by yearbook advisor Sylvia Briley around 1986. Prior to that the name was Visa (which appears to have been selected during the 1969-1970 school year, the year of Eppes' consolidation into Rose). From 1957 to 1970, the name of the yearbook was Tau, which had been the name of the Greenville High School yearbook.
Since 1970 (the year of the Eppes consolidation), the name of the student newspaper has been Rampant Lines. Prior to that, the name of the paper was Green Lights, which had also been the name of the Greenville High School paper.
Its main scholarly rival is D. H. Conley High School.
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“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
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