Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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□ THE MIRROR PUBLISHED BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL June. 1Q?1 Birmingham, Ala. BOARD OF EDITORS EDITORS-IN-CHIEF RUTH DEWBERRY LUTHER REYNOLDS HAPPENINGS IN SCHOOL LE XOIR DRYER HIGH ADVERTISING MANAGER FRED CARTER BUSINESS MANAGER EXCHANGES BEN GREEN RUTH TUCKER FICTION HELEN RICHARDS WILLIAM ELLIOTT ETHELRED SKYES EVELYN HELDBNRICH ESSAYS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES LOUISE MELCHER MAE HAMILTON HORTON CLARENCE BERK POETRY MARTIN SMITH CLUBS VIRGINIA DONOVAN WIT AND HUMOR GRAHAM WILLOUGHBY ED HUGENSCHMIDT ATHLETICS RUSSELL SMITH ART LOUISE MONTGOMERY BILLIE DONOVAN LEONE BOWERS ASSISTANTS NED STUBBS JULIAN ALAND CARMELITE JACKSON EUGENE JOHNSTON FLOYD WEED CLARENCE MATH I SON CIRCULATION MANAGER HARRY BRYAN ASSISTANTS RICHARD STOCKHOLM JOSEPH LA SALLE TYPISTS MOLLIS PI EM MARGARET CONRAD The words, “A Diploma. sound as sweet to a Senior as did the lyre to the ears of Apollo. Maybe the under-classmen cannot understand. It’s not the mere slip of paper that's so desired, but it is the enormous amount of energy and the historic duration of time required for obtaining it that causes many a dignified Senior to lose sleep, weight and even mentality. Counting in the grade school years, this said slip of parchment represents exactly 11,550.5 hours spent for educational purposes during the school hours

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alone. Including the time spent staying in for punishment and afternoon sessions. this figure runs up. in my own case, to 789.425.? hours, besides an hour or two thrown in occasionally for regular study. If I had spent all this time working even at the wage of the lowest laborer 1 would have amassed a fortune large enough to buy a comfortable home, a modest automobile, and a loaf of bread. All this have 1 denied myself for this document- On the other hand, this seemingly worthless article represents, also, an untold knowledge of everything, a developed brain and a host of friends. Then, in the consideration of the fact that we do know everything, what corporation can refuse us its presidency with its accompanying gigantic salary whereby we can recuperate our financial condition? What fruit-stand will not gladly yield its proprietorship to us—the great minded? But. finally, in all seriousness, it has been worth time, effort and all. and let us hope that if we ever receive a similar college certificate it will he. at least, as well deserved and appreciated. L. R. OUR NEW CENTRAL” In the memory of twenty-five per cent of the Class of '21 there dwell the sweet recollections of one joyous semester in “Old Central,” and with the other seventy-five per cent there remains only the fleeting vision of one full day in that far famed institution of learning. One day—and on the evening of the opening day of the spring session the great structure was reduced to ruin! The rest of the four years has been completed—and well completed, we may boast—in churches, stores, the old Medical College, and the improvised “annexes.” But as we look back over these many months we can but realize that there must have been a strong force which held us all together under such trying circumstances, nor is it hard to decide who deserves the credit for this successful work of reorganization. We may give it entirely to our faithful principal and sympathetic faculty. All that we may have lost in the burning of our school they have, as amply as was possible, repaid to us. The spirit of Old Central is with us, and we joyfully pass it on to that enviable class—the class which even now must be represented in our ranks as Freshmen, Sophomores, or perhaps Juniors—which on some glorious June day will he the first to be graduated in the auditorium of the new and greater Central. And such a Central as it will he! Even now the ground on which it is to stand is being cleared, an entire block reaching from Sixth to Seventh Avenues, and from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth Streets. The large stone building will be situated in the centre, bounded on all sides by a space of sixty feet. This will insure quiet and, incidentally, add much to, the appearance of our school. Page Twenty