Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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VALEDICTORY We who stand here tonight at the meeting between a happy past and an unknown future have reached, not the end. hut the commencement of our lives. What these lives areto be depends in a large measure upon the foundations we have been building for them in our high school years. The journey of life is a road of many windings and turnings. The road seems long, this road of life, but when we glance back over the miles traveled, how pitiably short it seems after all. Tonight we. as a class, reaching the first milestone of the road, pause to look back over the last four years with a strange blending of regret and satisfaction. Ever since we began our studies our eyes have been turned to this hour as the goal of our ambitions. We have worked for it. studied for it. planned for it. and dreamed of it as the realization of our hopes and desires. Now we stand at the gateway, half gladly and half sadly looking backward. I'or four years we have traveled hand in hand along a sheltered way plucking blossoms of learning as they grow close. And what is of even greater importance gathering fruits of purity, nobility, and truth that hereafter must be firmly engraved into every fibre of our hearts. We have been carefully guarded by kind, zealous instructors from every adverse wind of thought and every taint of evil to be met in a world of action just beyond us. It seems well for us who are about to step into the arena of the world's progress to consider something of what our parts in the great battle of life are or ought to be as citizens of the Great Republic and the greatest nation in all the world. Representing before its people the best school of all that covers the land from ocean to ocean. Now that we are ready to start our lives as citizens of our great America may we realize what is expected of us. It is on us. you and I, class mates, that the destiny of our nation depends. Shall we let it fall or continue to carry it on as our forefathers have done? Let us put forth every effort to uphold our standards of honor. Let us strive to so apply ourselves to the task which we choose as to be able to improve so that the generations to follow can claim a still greater honor than we as American citizens. Classmates, let us make the colors of our class and all they stand for but symbolize in its larger sense the principles of our nation and fire us with the zeal to make of ourselves such men and women as the I'nited States as well as lluey-town High School will lie glad to claim as their own. Sorrowfully we separate to go our different ways to live the lives to which we may he called, no longer as class, but individals. We must learn to stand alone for the world demands men and women who make true citizens themselves not dependent upon others. We have stood as class and have made a success of it. It will be harder when we go out alone, out from under the sheltering wing of our teachers who have watched over us during these years of learning. We have accepted what was offered as we knew that it had been first analyzed Ptuje .VtfSYM iVH

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HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS About four years ago we were located in the four corners of the Earth, we were about to be graduated to Bessemer High School from Grammar School. We felt very important on entering this large school as Freshmen, but we soon found that we were ignored by our “Superiors”, known as “Seniors.” We were just beginning to get rid of that frightened feeling that comes to every “rat when conditions at Bessemer became so crowded that we were moved to our beautiful new building at Hueytown— Mueytown High School. When we entered this new building we became the proverbial know-it-all “Sophs . Xo more doubts, no more ucstions. We were now directing unfortunate Freshmen. The other diasses, too. received our friendly help and encouragement. we helped them when they stumbled and supportd them whn they wakened. we advised the faculty, and piloted them through many lengthy discussions, meek and courteous vve were, and though our modesty restrains us. we feel it our duty to hint at our help in sustaining this noble institution, our success, truly has been great. During this two and one half years of our life at Hueytown we have not only seen a change in our classmates, but also in the external life of the school itself. Hueytown High School has grown in two and one half brief years from an enrollment of sixty-six to two hundred fifty-six. As we have grown in numbers so have we grown in many other respects. We have a good library which is still growing, and also have made wonderful strides in athletics: we have acquired prominence with our excuses , probably not so much bv their fitness but rather their originality. Classes have come and gone in the past, and no doubt, in the future classes will rise up to call us blessed as they seek the heights scaled by us. Still unanimous. though modest, we realize that no class will ever reach the glittering prominence of the class of twenty-three. Louise Cunningham, ’23. Page Sixteen

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by them and therefore would be pure and uplifting. The world is not so good to us. We are offered everything and we are to judge for ourselves the right and helpful things, in order to take these and leave the things that might serve as a hinderance to us. fvCt us then go forward with these ideals implanted in our lives that we may master the problems of life, he willing to accept hardships but overcome them so that in the end we can approach it with unfaltering trust. May our work here he so well finished that we may— Like he who wraps the drapery Of his couch about him Lie down to pleasant dreams Classmates, let us take our motto as our guide, Through difficulties to the stars,” if we stick to this we are sure to succeed. It seems that the stars are in the far distance and we know that the road between us and the star we choose for our goal is filled with difficulties. Let us brace ourselves against the hardships and go on through at last reaching the height which we desire. Our school life has been a happy inspring life to each of us. Ever since our Freshman year we have realized we were seeing our happiest days, that the parting hour only too soon would sepaartc our paths for all time. We realize that the most important lessons are not in text books. As we step out of school life into life’s school we are conscious that the hardest lessons are yet to come. To our instructors one and all we say in farewell. We may forget much textbook lore but we shall never forget the tendencies for good that you have developed into our character during our high school days. Often in the time to come our minds will turn back to you and your faithful and patient dealings with us until we shall long to return to the shelter and rest of your council. To H. H. S. we say in parting that we hold in our hearts the greatest admiration for our alma mater that has given to us the foundations of our lives. To— OUR CLASS Here's that site always may he in the rij ht Here's tha ther standards may ever he white Here's that whatever our future may he Steady and fearless God-like may he Our Class. IVum.ixk Ray, 23. Page Iii hteen