Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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TOL MIRRCG 1932 ELFIN LANTERNS You and I were children then On the dew-drenebed grass. Looking at the stars overhead. Watching fireflies pass— Fireflies flitting through the air. Elfin lanterns bright, Beckoning us to follow them Through the starlit night. We would like to follow them. Follow to the glen. There we'd find the sprightly elves In the twilight dim. There we’d see a fairy queen In bright gents hedight. In her flowing purple roltc Trimmed with borders bright. After them we followed slow O’er the course they laid: O'er the rocky meadow land To the wooded glade. There we-found no sprightly elves— Only fireflies there; Fireflies flitting aimlessly Through the crystal air. Mildred Jacobs.

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Phillips men UNDERCLASSMEN s the delicate tints oi (lawn spread over the eastern horizon, timid Freshmen with eager faces come to Phillips. Clonds and obscure mist hover before them, and an air of awe and uncertainty is around them. Their destiny is not fixed. When the sun rises, however, and the newness of the dawn wears off. they see with a clearer vision the hill of knowledge they must climb before the sunset. Kven by the unsteady light of early morning, they quickly discern the path which the upperclassmen have made. They need help and encouragement to keep them on the highway as the increasing rays disclose enticing bypaths which may only lead to demerits, unpleasant conferences, and failures. The way is new and mysterious. but they have begun the upward climb. Gradually, the sun grows brighter, and mounts higher into the sky; morning has Come. Freshmen have now become Sophomores. They arc far wiser, and the path of learning is no longer mysterious and obscured with mists. Clearly they sec their course. The Sophs have become dub-members; their session rooms are now represented in the council. They study with more confidence, and know how to tackle their problems. With unclouded vision, the energetic Sophs are looking forward to school letters and— graduation. The stilt has reached it zenith; with strong, direct rays it shines upon the earth. Not a cloud is in the sky; all is bright noon-day. The Sophomores arc now Juniors. Shorn of the timidity of Freshmen and yet unshackled by the sophistication of Seniors, they form the backbone of our school. The Juniors are wcli established in all forms of school activities. Into this noon-day they have crowded many interests, in spite of more difficult scholastic duties. They hold club offices, make the team or cheer it in victory or defeat, and engage in the heat of politics. But the light is strong, the path is clear, and the by-paths are not so confusing as they were in the morning haze. They can almost see the top of the hill now. Ardently they prepare themselves for the places of Seniors. With pride, they look forward to the glorious, flaming sunset—graduation.

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ACTIVITIES