Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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EH Ti (£7 INTRODUCTION It is a pleasant and significant ideal which has associated in this volume the records of an immediately past year with the remembrances of years none long ago. It speaks for a perspective whose stance, taken in the distant past, should carry true to ;t distant future. It fixes upon this particular class a philosophy heyond the merely contemporary. It emphasizes tlvc vague but vital power of a loved and remembered background to illuminate a teeming foreground. Interesting as this book will he now to the members of the class which has composed it, there will come a time in the years which follow when its interest will be tenderer yet, when its pages will bring hack incidents and faces dearly associated with the magic of a youth that will have gone, when its covers will encompass memories made poignant and rich in the long ferment of time. If an astrologer could read the stars tor each member of the class recorded here, what panoramas of happiness and sorrow, success and failure, effort and neglect, gold and dross, he would see! IV.n astrology is a discredited art today. We know that there is written iti the stars for us only what we ourselves put there under our own hand and seal It is the failure who talks of luck and fate. Life may he kinder to some men and women than to otlwrs, hut no out ever really fails who is faithful to every obligation and opportunity the passing years present. In all tin- history of the section to which the members nf this ckis belong and in whose process? they will soon he playing a part, there was m-ver a time when there were more things to he done than today, more experiences to encounter, m rt opportunities to exploit and goals to gain. This is. or will soon Ik , the Golden Age of the South. Fortune, fame, honor, love await the young men and women who set their courses true now to all they have learned, all they believe, all they can see. Iti this conception, the present volume gets an additional significance. It is an inventory of the goods with which life’s business is begun. A year from now, or ten years, or twenty years, there will he some members cf the class who can turn back to these pages with nothing but remorse for golden beginnings that were never adequately followed through, rich inventories that were allowed to rot on the shelves of wasted days. lint there will be other members, happily, who will find in these covers the first story of a start that will not have stopped, the initial record of goods that will have been turned over and over in unceasing processes of service and success. John Temple Graves, II

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SENIOR COMMITTEES RING Eucknk Mav. Chairman Marc.aket Jonhs Ellen Mfhiwfthkr INVITATION William Dknson. Chairman Margaret VVkiiii Susie Fletcher MOTTO JANUARY Waioiits Tavlok, Chairman Elizabeth Markham Marjorie Noqjen JUNE Sarah Minu k, Chairman Thomas Henry REbecca Soon COLORS Martha Jane Ki.ittz. Chairman Eleanor Woodruff IIai. Stric kland Woodrow Wilson. Chairman IU)WARD BrUMMAL Fariss Gamukill FLOWERS 1 KSSIF. Gkwin. Chairman Albert Fairley. Chairman Edwin Lori no Elizabeth Meriwether Luis Chambliss Margaret Peterson