Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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CLASS POEM In the gentle twilight shadows. In the years that arc to come. When our minds are free from troubles. Memory will gently call us home. Back to our dear old high school days. To those days when we were free. Prom the cares and many trials. That await us on life’s sea. Each dear year will pass before us, Slowly, sweetly, at our call. But the days when we were Seniors. Were the dearest of them all. Teachers dear, in memory linger. They hair helped us to prepare, Por this life of sin and struggle. By their kind and loving care. “Climb though the rocks be rugged. It will win for us a name. If this our motto zee will follow. We will reach the heights of fame. When on this sea of life we re sailing, ’Mid the storms of sin and strife. We'll be strong and brave and loyal. As we were in high school life. Then at last when Cod shall call us. And wc reach the golden shore. May there be no one missing In the Class of 24. Nineteen Atrngsv Caldwell, 24.

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HISTORY OF SENIOR CLASS In nineteen hundred and twenty we were conscripted from all parts of the earth, to Bessemer High School, where we began our high school work. We eagerly and earnestly toiled with the unfamiliar subjects, though timid and backward we were. By the twenty-fifth of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-one we had grown so large that Bessemer High was entirely too small for us. We were then transferred to our beautiful new building, “Huey town High School. I fere we went to work with such vim that we overwhelmed the new faculty with surprise. This we kept up until the term expired, then we disbanded for the long looked for vacation. n a beautiful morning in nineteen hundred and twentv-onc, we assembled again in H. H. S. a happy Kami of forty “know it all Sophs. W ith only a few changes in the faculty we soon got hack to our duties. About this time a football team was Organized, in which the “Sophs played a great part as right half hack, and left guard. As for the baskeilwill team, the star forward and guard were sophomores, yet we could not convince our superiors that we knew it all. But bravely we continued the term and rushed out on the third day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two for another happy vacation victorious over our second year's work. The following year we gathered together at old faithful H. 11. S. cheerful, yet our class had slightly decreased. W’e immediately took up our work over which we had to fight failure. But co-operativclv we worked for the unknown end of our Junior year. We were so enthused and busy that we hardly realized when school closed for third vacation, to which we went with a laughing heart and smiling face, thankful for the steady faculty who had piloted us over the rough places. As the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, dawned uj oii a happy hand of thirty-eight dignified Seniors, we gladly resumed our work. To the football team we contributed five of the varsity team, one who successfully led them through the season. “Captain McLain. We also claim the four presidents of the literary societies. We sadly state that some of our members unconsciously fell into the clutches of matrimony, while a few others deemed it impossible to continue the year. Yet we have the faithful twenty and five. “Now classmates as we part in sadness. May we have this thought of gladness. That the path that was polished by the class of twenty and four. Will shine forever more.” Myrtle Anthony, ’24. High! ecu

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PROPHECY The trilx to which I belong, have all followed the call of the clouds and mists, and it also falls to my lot, to be a clairvoyant. I have been wandering all over the world, and as I see the class of '2-1 assembled here tonight for a picnic —1 pause in my wanderings to look into the future of each. As 1 look in the globe it is cloudy. It gradually clears up and I see a store; as it grows clearer I see liar I on and Allene—clerking together. I guess they must have acquired the habit while in high school, and habits certainly will tell on you. As this scene fades away I see a great Ixmd in Xew York, getting read} for its nightly performance. The; director. Bruce, is to be commended for his brilliant career in music. The next scene is that of a school house. I see a dark-haired lady teacher enter. Why it is our Clarice, one of the most brilliant scholars of '24. Into this scene glides one which seems very strange. I see numbers of beautifully dressed girls. They are holding a beauty contest in Atlantic City. As they pass up and down lietween the judges. I especially notice one dark-haired girl. Why it is Louise, and as the judge announces Louise as the winner. I see the judge is Carl. Well. Father Time works wonders, doesn’t he? 1 see a tiny bungalow surrounded with pretty flowers and shrubbery. 1 see some one in the back yard feeding the chickens. As the mist clears away I see Verla and her husband. As this scene fades away. I see Rickwood Park. They are having their annual football game between Auburn and Centre. There surrounded by young men in uniform, I see Harley Richey. By his faithful playing while in high school and college he has won for himself the position of coach at Auburn. Next I see many people gathered around a platform. 1 wait impatiently until I see the speaker mount. Why that is Bessie Hardy, and from her speech. I find she is campaigning the country in behalf of Ruby Morris, who is now running for governor. I see that the great habit of talking which Bessie acquired while in high school has brought her great success in life. 1 see a beautiful brick dwelling house, and on the ix rch sits Myra and some young man. Oh, 1 see. Myra has made a great success of the “Masons work. I see a bargain counter in Joe Kosenbush's store. How strange I should see this. Well, if there isn't Clyde Goodwin and a young lady. Oh, 1 see he is buying his wife a dress. This is a surprise to me, as Clide was always such a staunch believer in Man’s rights. Twenty