Enterprise High School - Encoala Yearbook (Enterprise, AL)

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Senior Class History HE SENIOR CLASS of ’25 is different from the other graduating classes of the C. C. H. S. in many ways, but especially in the number who started together in the first grade in the Grammar School and were promoted yearly. They are nineteen in num- ber as follows: Revel Searcy, Catherine Snellgrove, Minnie Lee Glover, Maecy Ragland, Joanna Rawls, Bela Speigner, Elliot Ellis, Eura Carmichael, Thornton Wright, Bessie Sue Price, Una Yelverton, Velma Watkins, Abraham Perlman, Guy Pouncey, Paul Mc- Ritchie, Fred Logan, Richard Martin, Edna Goodson and Helena Carlisle. We can boast of the greatest in number of any graduating class in the history of the C. C. H. S., and of being the most co-operative in all our ef- forts for the good of our class and school. High school life was not new to us when we entered the eighth grade in 1921, for we had grown accustomed to high school ways while we were in the seventh grade which was located in the high school building during that year. Our class was so large that it had to be divided into two sec- tions. All during the year we were active in social affairs and entertained on many occasions. The Second Section of our grade entertained the First Section at the home of Eura Carmichael. The Sophomores were enter- tained by us at the home of Mrs. Ruby Singleton Miller. Also we enter- tained the Seniors by taking them to Kill Kare Kamp. The scholastic year of 1922 opened and we took the name of Sopho- mores. We were blessed in having our home room teacher of the previous year, Miss Beatrice Hannon, again with us. Football was the main form of athletics this year. On Halloween, which will long be remembered by us, we entertained the Auburn High football team. The most brilliant event of our Sophomore year was the Masquerade Ball, given in honor of our sister class, the Seniors, at the home of Joanna Rawls. When we became Juniors, we put away our “Silly Soph” ways and be- came “Jolly Juniors.” We took an important part in football during the year by contributing several men to the varsity and scrub teams, thereby helping to win the South Alabama championship for our school. On Sep- tember the 30th we entertained the “Wildcats” and the visiting team from Florala, at a banquet. October the 26th we gave Elizabeth McNeal a fare- well party. We regretted to see her leave our class and town. A brilliant occasion in our Junior Year was the George Washington Ball, given in honor of the Seniors at the home of William Sessions. Near the close of our Junior Year there was much competition among the classes over win- ning a Ford car, given away by the Enterprise Auto Company, by obtain- ing votes for the car. Even though the contest closed during the summer

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MAECY RAGLAND The Gods of Fortune gave her everything good, golden hair, a sweet disposi- tion and worlds of friends.” President Class '22: Debator 22: Critic Phi Gama Society '22: Secretary Phi Gama Soci- ety '22: Glee Club '22. '23. '24. '26 : Lo-Z Club 22. '23. '24. '25 ; Secretary Lo-Z Club '24 : Vice President Phi Gama Society '23 : Treasurer Lo-Z Club '26: Music Class '22. '23. '24. '25: Encoala Staff ‘25: Associate Editor Cup O’ Coffee '25: Debator '24 : Writers' Club '25: Pianist Phi Gama Society '22: Secretary Latin Club '25. IDA HUDSON Just a quiet, good girl.” SAM PASCHAL He thought Ruby’s idea of life was right. Captain Foot Im 11 Team '24. '25: Varsity Football '22. '23. '24. 25. LORENZO GUNTER One who would argue with Webster if he were living. Class Football '23; Varsity Football '25. MAE REEVES One who enjoys eating but never loses her good looks.” Basketball '25: Manager Girls' Basketball '25. FANNIE HUDSON The kind of girl we all like. ADAH HELMS “You are a quiet girl. ’iut you have won many friends. Phi Gama Society '25. VELMA WATKINS “A true and sincere friend.” Phi Gama Society '25.

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holidays, the Juniors did not lose interest but worked on until the close. As a reward for our efforts, we won the contest and received a prize of ten dollars for securing the most votes in school. We sold the Ford, thus ob- tained, and the proceeds of the sale were given to the Athletic Association. At last we have become dignified Seniors, after ten years of toil and struggle, joy and sorrow. We are on the last rung on the educational lad- der in the gift of our town and county. The affection of our class has been strong indeed, especially between two of our Seniors, one not desiring any longer to be a Single-ton plighted her troth in a Miller, for better or worse, and now they are one for life. On the morning of September the 5th there assembled in the Senior Class room sixty-nine enthusiastic boys and girls. They were auspicious enough to have with them their guardian of the past year, Miss Erom Grif- fin. The first question to be settled was the officers for the ensuing year. The following were elected: president, Robert Sellers; vice-president, Jo- anna Rawls; secretary, Marguerite Hildreth; treasurer, James Willoughby. Living up to the letter of our motto, “By our efforts we hope to rise,” has been the aim of every member of the class. The scholarship of our class ranks high, fourteen members being excused from all examinations at the end of the first semester and many others being excused from one or more. The deportment, also, is unexcelled by any class previously graduat- ing from our school. Our social functions have been delightful, especially were the follow- ing: the entertainment by the Freshmen with a Halloween party at the home of Evelyn Searcy, the entertainment our class gave the Hartford and C. C. H. S. football teams at the home of Joanna Rawls on November the 21st. Suffice it to say that ours are a lovely, loyal, patriotic, progressive and enthusiastic bunch of students who will graduate from the dear old Coffee County High School with high hopes and fond anticipations of future greatness in whatever course each may take in the battle of life. —HELENA CARLISLE, Class Historian.