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

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CALE TDAR September- 5 School opened 15 Sponsor selected 23 Officers elected October- l-15 Curtis and Crowell Magazine campaign 4 Rings, cards, and invitations selected 26 Home-coming game November- l6 Girls' Hi-Y initiation 24-25 Thanksgiving holidays December- 6-16 Popularity contest 10 Dv Club initiation 17-2 Christmas holidays 21 Girls, Hi-Y banquet January- 5 Football banquet 14 Annuals taken to engraver 17-20 Mid-term examinations February- ZS Shakespearean plays, Taming of the Shrew and 'll-lamletv March-- 8 Annual sent to press 17 Junior Class play 23-24 A. E. A. holidays April- 14 Annual Staff banquet- Annuals arrive! 18 Maslcs and Wigs social 28 Senior Class play May- 5 Junior-Senior banquet 6 Educational tour 12 Girls, l-li-Y mother-daughter banquet 16-19 Senior examinations 25 Girls' 1-li-Y tea for Seniors 26 Class Night 26 P. T. A. reception 28 Baccalaureate Sermon 29 Final party 29 Graduation Smyya Left Section: Top Row: Timid Suphs. il? Second Row: Vain aspirations-The patient gentleman of Sullivan's Studio. 'Sk Third Row: Sir Eldridge. Fourth Row: Brunettes and things to do-- lt's always Farish weather. SJ Fifth Row: Variety is the spice of life. if Right Section: Top Row: Topp Tingles-42nd Street ain't got nothing on us --Hot buttered popcorn, 5r:-Cute puppy- Taxi? 'ff Second Row: Blond and red car and smile and -gosh!-Always ready to plunge into things-- Sisters-The Timberlake. ik Third Row: All alone -Well! Well! 1rVell!-Waiting fpatientlyflj 'fi Fourth Row: He does, doesn't he?-All dressed up-Mascot.

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CUR RY Students of history can easily remember the ninth day of September in the year nine- teen hundred twenty-eight, for that day marked the beginning of a voyage that is second only in importance to the sailing in fourteen hundred ninety-two. Up the gang plank clambered one hundred fifty undergraduates of the present Senior Class, all eagerly anticipating their first voyage on the S. S. Education. We were, as one could see at a glance, new in the businessv and needed some one to guide us away from the harbor. Our understanding grammar school teachers came to our assistance and gave us a gentle, but persistent push. As we have sailed further on our voyage, we have realized that we are truly obligated to those who, with such tolerance and patience, taught us the principles that formed a firm foundation for our later years. After six short years of peaceful sailing in calm waters, we thrust out into the more adventurous regions of Junior High School. Here we encountered two entirely new terms rat and cooperation. When we sailed into this institution, the former term served well to subdue those who were proud of their recent promotion. Cooperation, we found, was an act of paying two cents each Friday for the support of a weekly newspaper, The Junior News. Then one day our beloved Professor Givens presented us with diplomas-our certificate of entrance to Decatur Senior High School. The most startling and amazing feature of this new home was the way chapel exercises were conducted. Doc', always employed such big words in making announce- ments that we were ever in a state of confusion. Quite often some Senior would run down the aisle to make a breath-taking announcement about a colossal Hollywood produc- tion to be given in chapel the following day. Miss Brandau was elected sponsor of our Sophomore class and ably guided us through our first year. The Junior Class chose Mr. Kimbrough to lead our junior activities. Included among them were a highly successful magazine campaign, the sale of coupon books, and our pro- duction of 'QMary's Little Lamb. With Miss Pope as captain of our final year at Riverside, we have successfully spon- sored a profitable sale of magazines, two Shakespearean plays, and the all-important Senior Class Play. Miss Odom piloted us into port. The Seven Seas of Opportunity are open to those who would sail further on the S. S. Education. May it be determined by the class of thirty-nine that, as we continue our voyage, we shall pursue with undaunted courage those things that lead to a victorious life. EDITH MAY SCHIMMEL Class Historian. SAILING There is no thrill so great as sailing 'Tis lots of fun-includin' bailing . . . It gives you a feeling both joyous and keen When you pull 'er in close and she starts to lean, The feel of the spray as it beats on your brow From the waves that are cut by the sleeken'd black prow- Seems to wash away cares, futile and vain- And gives us new strength to fight life again! PETE HENDERSON. Page Twenty-seven

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