Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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 Whe RETROSPECT 1925 J Class History In the fall of nineteen hundred and twenty-one eighty timid, shrinking boys and girls came trembling and tiptoeing up the High School steps, jumping at the slightest sound. What a trial the beginning was. We were confronted with things entirely different from what we had been accustomed. But we eagerly and earnestly toiled with the unfamiliar subjects and when the exams were called we were all excited to the highest pitch, wondering if we were going to pass. Somehow throughout it all we all survived. In nineteen hundred and twenty-two we returned to the H. H. S. as proud sophomores with a different feeling. We were happy knowing that we could no longer be termed rats.” We realized that we had a hard year's work before us. so we started the year right. We furnished several men for the football and baseball teams. During this term some of our members fell by the wayside, some fell into the clutches of matrimony. Death claimed one (Mavis Vines). At the end of the year only forty-seven passed from the Sophomore to the Junior Class. The following fall we returned to school to fill the places of the ones who had gone before us. It was in the Junior class that we took an active part in the affairs of our school. Of the eleven football players the Junior class furnished nine. We furnished four of the Societies' debaters, the presidents of the boy’s Society came from our class, and as members of the staff for the Annual we furnished the Assistant Editor, Sport Editor. Art Editor, Treasurer, and Assistant Business Manager. After the school term closed we anxiously awaited the arrival of the next school year when we could take our place as dignified Seniors. At the beginning of this, our last year, we came forty in number. Three fell by the wayside, one moved to another school and Adelaide Owens passed to the great beyond in the most promising time of her life, leaving thirty-five. From this number we furnished nine football players, one who successfully led them through the season, Captain Salters, and presidents for all the Literary Societies. Many things have we borne together and our hearts are filled with sorrow, for we know that our places in the great school of life and we shall never come again to old H. H. S. as in the happy days gone by. .Voir, Hear Classmates, let us be Faithful, loyal, firm anti true. Year by year, the ages through Cut it in Heaven ire meet.. Leonard Huey Twenty two

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 6K0 RETROSPECT 1925 Salutatory Classmates and Friends :- We have now reached the destination which we have been looking forward to for many years. We have spent many years of study preparing for it. The road which we have traveled has had many pleasant and happy turns and a few hills that took a great deal of study to make them, but by the fostering care of our wise and earnest teachers we have reached this eventful time. This event will always be remembered and after our youthful age has dwindled into manhood and womanhood, the greatest pleasure in life will be the memories of the happy days spent together in this institution. As I glance back over these years of travel. I realize that these years have not been spent in vain, because we have ideas impressed in our lives that will remain forever, and, as we go out into this great world to take our place we will find that we have perseverance and strength to overcome all obstacles of life. Fathers and mothers, we. the class of '25, extend to you a cordial welcome wishing you to join with us in enjoying one of the most eventful and joyous times in our lives. It was your love and sacrifice that made it possible for us to reach this destiny. It was through your love and sacrifice that we have reached this destiny which will enable us to go through life with fewer difficulties. Members of the Faculty, to you we extend a hearty welcome to take a part with us in this eventful and joyous time. It was your aim to weave into our characters certain ideas and principles as we passed along this road. This you have done and very soon we shall go forth to stamp them upon the world. It is by your love for better citizens and characters that these ideas have been given us. Dear classmates, the time is now at hand when it is necessary for us as a class, to part; but let us learn to fill our places in life honorably, loyally and truthfully and no matter where we go or what we do let us always carry with us the spirit of old H. H. S. May our lives always be filled with happiness and success, as Longfellow says: “Lives of great turn all remind as If-V can make our lives sublime .hid. departing, leave behind as Footsteps on the sand of time Let as then. he up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait.'' Leonard Huey. Tterntyonc

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 r 57 e RETROSPECT 1925 Senior Class Poem When from this institution we depart. There will be a longing in our hearts. For the place where we once strived To win honor from the class of “’25.” Hueytown, old Hueytown Hi. We love you, yes. we love you. And this old familiar spot shall be Like a lighthouse to a sailor on a stormy sea. In years to come and go. The class of “’25” shall show The many things they were taught And the education they had sought. And with the education we possess. Must not weaken underneath the strain But prove to the world this one thing, That the class of “’25” was not in vain. Many of our friends shall fade away. But them all. we expect to meet some happy day And in that land so bright and fair Every senior is expected to he there. On the sea of life many hardships we shall meet But the class of “’25” shall never know defeat And may they all the right path take And some day meet at the golden gate. Oscar bcnsmorc, 2o Twntythret