Decatur High School - Golden Memories Yearbook (Decatur, AL)

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CALE DAR 0 September- 6 School Started 14 Sponsor Selected 21 Sale of Football Tags 24 Election of Class Officers and Annual Staff 29 Curtis and Crowell Magazine Campaign Began October- 1 King and Queen Contest Started 4 Rings, Cards, and Invitations Selected 4-12 Election of Who's Who 20 First Order of Rings Went Off 22 Homecoming Parade 25 King and Queen Contest Ended 25 Curtis and Crowell Magazine Campaign Ended 26-1 Sale of Merchandise Coupons November- 12-14 Election of Literary Staff 16 Selection of Colors, Motto, and Flower 18 Faculty Play Gold in The Hills 24-28 Thanksgiving Holidays 29 Girls' Hi-Y Initiation December- 7 D Club Initiation 10 Football Banquet 17-3 Christmas Holidays January- 3 Sale of Annuals Started 4 Annual Went to Engravers 14 Girls, Hi-Y Banquet 18-21 Mid-term Examinations 25 Senior Party February- 1 Price of Annuals Went Up 3-11 Final Work on Annual 11 Senior Play Selected 14 Cast for Play Selected 15 Dead Line for Annuals-Annual Went to Press 22 Masks and Wigs Shakespeare Party 28 Practice for Senior Play Began March- l1 Library Club Banquet 18 Senior Play The Thirteenth Dayi' 18-19 Northern District Hi-Y Conference 24-27 A. E. A. Holidays 31 Senior Party April- 4 Practice for Junior Play Started 7 Annual Staff Banquet-Annuals Arrivel 22 Junior Play 28 Senior Banquet 30 Educational Tour May- 2 Kid Day 6 Junior-Senior Banquet 7 Girls, Hi-Y Mothers' Banquet 12 Officers' Ball at Flower Hill 18-20 Senior Examinations 20 Girls, Hi-Y Banquet 26 Girls' Hi-Y Tea for Seniors 27 Class Night 29 Baccalaureate Sermon 30 Final Party 30 Graduation Page Twenty nine

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'5 X 'K si 1' 0 HI TCDRY In various states during the years 1919, '20, ,21, most of the members-to-be of the Senior Class joined, probably quite lustily, the ranks of toiling humanity upon this earth. About 1926 we entered upon the threshold of a magnificent era which held in store for us many loath- some and enjoyable experiences. For the next few years after learning our A, B, C,'s and other general prin- ciples we just grew, like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy. Upon gaining entrance to grammar school we felt as if we were quite important young men and women. We strove to study hard and above all to please out teachers. After we had passed that bring the teacher an applen stage we entered junior high. All during that first year in junior high we were called rats,' and this made us feel as but infinitesimal bits of human- ity. In 1933 during President Rooseveltis hrst admin- istration, the two schools, Central and Riverside High consolidated and formed Junior and Senior High. After learning about the two calves and cooperation in Mr. Kelley's Civics Class we seemed Br for Senior High. We entered Senior High with somewhat of an in- feriority complex. This feeling was quickly subdued by our good times and companionship during our sopho- more year. The sophomore 'class-, after having been organized under the leadership of Miss Betty Eatman, put over a book drive for the library. We also spon- sored a picture show and held several socials. During our junior year, guided by the inspiring efforts of Miss Aileen Pope, we completed our magazine project with high honors. We also put on an overwhelmingly successful class play entitled uCorrespondence Court- shipf, We saved some money to start us in our senior year. When we entered our senior year we couldn't be- gin to visualize the things that were really in store for us, but we were sure of one thing, have an annual, come what xnayf' We unanimously selected Mrs. W. Brown as our sponsor. To have an annual, we worked industriously on our main project, the magazine cam- paign. Our next undertaking was the sale of coupon books, which proved equally successful. Our senior class play, The Thirteenth Dayw, a thrilling mystery, was one of the best ever and will be remembered by all. We are now drawing nigh to a very important chap- ter of our senior year GRADUATION. We all should pass it calmly and set our minds on one thing and that is always look toward higher standards and bet- ter ideals FRANK TROUP, Historian. SQ, t If . ' A 4 . Page Twenty-eight

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CLASS PRCDPHECY 'QI-Iitch your wagon to a star, said Emerson. In this thought provoking statement, Emerson tells us that to be successful one must be ambitious. With- out ambition, before starting one must step aside as a failure and yield place to one who aspires to higher things. As ambition is the keynote to success so it is the first element of prophecy. Into every child is born the spirit of ambition. The direction in which this eager desire is turned, will most surely point out the future of that child. If one really wants to be something, the chances are greatly in favor of his being it. Ambition, after all, is the true prophecy. The 1938 Senior Class of Decatur Senior High School has, without doubt, been ambitious. Its play and the simple fact that our Annual has been published readily speak of this. It has not, we trust, the consuming ambition of Macbeth or King Midas. Its aspirations are insights to success as were Edison's and Byrdis. Though ambition is in itself a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues, sagely remarked Quintilian, the Roman rhetorician. Our class has accepted and used these virtues, these children of ambition. It has been industrious. It has shown unflagging efforts and activity, persistence and determination. With these habits, like one of Horatio Alger's heroes, it is Bound to Winf' In this class, most of the professions, from law-maker to house-breaker will be represented. Lawyers, tramps, merchants, and ditch-diggers will represent us. The medical profession will gain new members from our ranks. We have the fu- ture architects and aviators, clerical workers, carpenters, and capitalists. Sad to say, leaders in the Army, Navy, and Air Corps in the next war will come from this class. From the time of the Roman soothsayers to our modern weather forecasters, prophecy has been based, not on flighty imaginings, but on hard fact and knowledge based on experience. From past action and present ambition we prophecy that this, the 1938 Senior Class, will be, collectively and individually, the most successful one that ever stepped from the portals of Decatur Senior High into the moving, throbbing tide of humanity known as Life. HENRY DAY, Prophet. Page Thirty