Alexander City High School - Echo Yearbook (Alexander City, AL)

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In fact, it is only an inherent modesty that prevents the assertion THAT THE CLASS OF '% IS UNUSUALLY TALENTED AND VERSATILE, FOR IN THIS LAST YEAR THE SENIOR CLASS HAS BEEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES EVEN MORE THAN SENIOR CLASSES USUALLY ARE. NOW A8 WE APPROACH 8RADUATION WE MI6HT SAY: ThATS ALL, THERE ISN’T any more . But this would not be true. These twelve years are merely THE BEGINNING, THE PREPARATION FOR A GREAT EXAMINATION. THE RECORD MADE BY THIS CLASS INDICATES A ROSY FUTURE, BRIGHT WITH PROMISE. THOUGH WE ARE LOATH TO LEAVE THE PAST WITH ALL ITS MEMORIES, THE TIME HAS COME WHEN WE MUST Dip into the future far as human eye can SEE, See the vision of the world and all the Wonder that will be. ---Vivian Harris, Historian. 19

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Class History Thus grew the tales or Wonderland; Thus slowly, one by one. Its quaint events were hauuereo out And now the tale is done. ----- Lewis Carroll When a Senior Class comes face to face with the fact that memories ARE ALL THEY HAVE LEFT OF THEIR SCHOOL DAYS, THEN THEY REALIZE HOW PRECIOUS THESE MEMORIES ARE. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE YOUNG PEOPLE BEEN FONDLY TOLO 8Y OUR ELDERS, YOU ARE PASSING THROUGH THE HAPPIEST STAGE OF YOUR LIFE . OF COURSE AT THOSE TIMES WERE SOMEWHAT SKEPTICAL, BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE REACHED THE CROSSROADS AND LOOK BACK OVER THE PATHS THUS FAR TRAVERSEO» WE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING IN THAT STATEMENT AFTER ALL. WE, THE CLASS OF 193 CAN TRUTHFULLY SAY THAT OUR SCHOOL DAYS HAVE BEEN HAPPY ONES. PERHAPS THE MEMORIES THAT I RECORD WILL SEEM VERY TRIVIAL TO AN OUTSIDER, 8UT I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO ARE MOST CONCERNED WILL SEE THEM AS I DO—THE BRIGHTEST SPOTS IN AN EXCEEDINGLY BRIGHT SPOTLIGHT. The Senior Class or 193k came into existence in the year 1922 when ITS MEMBERS WERE SNATCHED ABRUPTLY FROM babyhood and definitely informed THAT ALL CHILDREN MUST GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. THE FIRST YEAR AND THE SECONO WERE FILLEO WITH THE TASK OF LEARNING TO REA 0 AND WRITE. THE SECONO YEAR WAS NOTABLE FOR THE EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES ANO FOR A HUGE SNOWFALL. During the remaining years of grammar school the class was initiated INTO THE MYSTERIES OF HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ARITHMETIC, GRAMMAR, AND OTHER JUVENILE SUBJECTS. INTERESTING PLAYS ANO OTHER ACTIVITIES KEPT US BUSY. IN THAT FOURTH YEAR WE MOVED INTO THE NEW GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDING. Being a particularly amsitious class, we won most of the contests among THE CLASSES, ONE TROPHY BEING THE INTERESTING, IF NOT BEAUTIFUL, PHOTO OF THE CLASS IN ITS FIFTH YEAR, WHICH NOW ADORNS THE WALLS OF OUR HOME ROOM . IN 1928 WE ENTERED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL THE CLASS HAD 8EC0ME SO LARGE THAT IT WAS OIVIDED INTO TWO SECTIONS. DURING THESE YEARS WE WERE WELL REPRESENTED IN ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES — PARTICULARLY THE BASKETBALL SQUAD AND THE VERSATILE CLUB. It was in Junior three that our real high school life began. That YEAR, OUR TEACHER, Mr. DaWSON, WITHOUT WHOM THE CLASS WOULD SEEM INCOM- PLETE, JOINEO US AND REMAINED WITH US THROUGHOUT OUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. That year the class published the worlds greatest Junior High School newspaper, Cinders , which will always be remembered affectionately by THOSE WHO TOOK PART IN ITS PUBLICATION. In Senior one, our sophomore year, we repaid the freshmen three-fold for the ratting we hao received the previous year. Caesar was the class' special bugaboo that year. The next year we were Juniors. The most memorable events were the elaborate Junior-Senior dance at the country club and the Junior play, WHICH WAS A BIG SUCCESS. ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE JUNIOR YEAR THE CLASS WAS WELL REPRESENTED IN THE SCHOOL WH0?8 Who , CLUBS, COMMITTEES, AND ATHL ET ICS. 18

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Class Will ANO KINSMEN GATHERED FROM MILES AROUND To WHOU IT MAY CONCERN: Be it hereby known to all persons and in all ways whatsoever, that we, the Senior Class of Alexander City High School, being sound in body, and PRACTICALLY SOUND IN MIND, AND POSSESSED OF FAIRLY ADEQUATE MENTAL FAC- ULTIES, DO THIS DAY MAKE THIS, OUR LAST WILL ANO TESTAMENT To the Faculty we leave our undying optimism that the five classes behind US WILL TURN OUT RIGHT IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES. To the Students we bequeath anything that we may have left behind in THE RUSH. WE BEQUEATH SINGLY AS FOLLOWS: I, Homer Carlisle, leave my big feet to Herman Murphy. I, Fannie Adamson, leave some of my intelligence to Katherine Shivers. I, Claude Chappell, endow John Chapman with my staying qualities in the sincere hope that he will last as long at this High School as I have. I, Nell Chappell, bequeath my ability to furnish excitement in A. C. H. S. to Ann Hooo. I, Leon Cohen, bequeath my dignity to Jerry Grimes. I, Julia Coley,'gleefully turn the making of an annual over to Mary Elizabeth Ford. I, James Cotton, leave my musical talent to Price Bailey. I have so MANY OTHER ARTISTIC ABILITIES THAT I DO NOT NEEO THE MUSIC. I, Elizabeth Farmer, leave my naivete to Ruby Smith. I, Carroll Aoamson, leave my bashful shyness to Clark Gable. I, Eugenia Fox, Leave to Eleanor Duke my ability to make the student BODY TREMBLE. I, Harolo Dark, leave my poetic ability to Paul Mi tchell- I, Vivian Harris, bequeath my brilliance and my high graoes to any student that neeos them. I, Lavert Grimes, leave my hair, which I cut off, to I. H. Meacham. I, Phelia Stone Hooo, bequeath my excess energy to Bebe Duncan. I, Earmon Jones,leave anything of mine to anybody that may want it. I, Freoa Horton, in the midst of editing the annual, take time out' to bequeath my presence of mind to Marjorie Abernathy in the hope that she may never again hand herself in the closet and put her clothes to bed. I, Leslie King, do leave my crop of wild oats to the pure and unsul- lied Willie Brooks. 1, Martha Jackson, leave my sweet disposition to Cue Smith. I, Ralph Meigs, leave to Wilmot Brown my knowledge of the shortest paths to Goodwater. I, Clarice Jones, do joyfully give up my job of passing Solid Geom- etry to Frances Dark. !, Sidney Osborn, do bequeath my fighting ability to 0. W. Plasse. I, Laverne Kitchens, leave my great heighth to Ruby Duke for her own PERSONAL USE. i, Terry Phurrough, oo will to Hervert Thomas my ambition and sun- tan. I, Frances Thomas, do give my fetching little giggle to Nellie Lou Allen, so that she may cause as much disturbance in class as I have. I, Jack Porter, leave my curly black hair to Harold Pasley. 20 V