Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Mr Going. Members of tiii Facclty, ssociates of tiie Senior Class, Friends: Today with these exercises, we are passing a very important milestone on the road to our education. This is a time when wc like to pause and lock hack upon our experiences as friends together at Phillips: it is a time when we must look forward. In looking back we sec that the things which once seemed as mountains of difficulty now look like tiny molehills. There are many of us who remember the moment of decision on the football field when the game depended on immediate action. Others of us will think of the knee-shaking experiences on the Auditorium stage, and all of us will recall the recent and not soon to he forgone 1 ordeals of the final examinations. It is easy in retrospect to smile at the difficulties which we have passed, hut as wc face the future we find ourselves confronted by new difficulties which remind us of the need and value of ottr Class Motto, “Mens acqua in arduis,” “A mind calm in difficulties.” As I look from you. fellow students, to the leaders of the future, I see among you such inventors as Marconi and Edison, who used their talents for the benefit of humanity; such a poet as Burns who. wc learned, had a patriotism founded on something better than prejudice; and such statesmen as Lincoln and Wilson, who saw war with imagination and sought for the sources of peace. If we expect to attain such heights wc must keep our minds calm under difficulties. This is a most unusual time. As Glenn Frank expresses it. “new forces are making this at once a time of threatening insecurity and exciting promise. The challenge is not that of a gloomy world but that of a difficult one. Facing this difficult world, we need calmness. What is calmness? Calmness means patience, the willingness to wait and to understand, but it docs not mean inactivity. Calmness means moral discipline. Wc cannot remain calm unless we banish hate. envy, revenge, and even fear trom our hearts, for. as Virgil says, “Fear shows a degenerate mind. Calmness means mastery—a mastery of ourselves, and a clear understanding cf the world in which wc are to play a part. In mastering ottr selves we will give ourselves faith. We must have faith in ourselves and in O'.ir country. The future wc face is. as I have aid. most unusual. Many of us will not have available the money necessary to continue our formal education, tier shall we easily obtain the job to which we have locked forward ever since entering High School. But ii we keep our minds calm under these difficulties, this period of waiting need not he a period of yawning. Hawthorne spent twelve solitary years in preparing for hi- great work, and Milton gave a quarter of a century toward the creation of his masterpiece. I.ike these two famous men wc can use this waiting period in an active way. Fields cf work arc over-crowded, that is true, but there is always room ior the superior workman: wc can become experts in our line by reading and practicing during our leisure. Wc may even try our skill at writing, for who knows but there are some among us who are fitted for journalistic werk? Think of the cxicting premise of leading public opinion during a period of readjustment! Ho not fancy that this oeriod cf thinking and reading will not be of licnefit. To quote Joy Elmer Morgan. “Behind everything wonderful there are long periods of concentration. The bridge that spans the river, the building that rises in lovely majesty, and the sturdy airplane that sweeps the skies, all have lack of them endless plans anil blueprints.”

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 JANUARY 1933 Hoj.mEs. Harry Wintiirop SUMMER 1932 K RRH, Elizabeth JANUARY 1933 Johnston. Henry Perry OTHER JANUARY GRADUATES Callen. Raymond Richard, Senior Class liee-president Speer, Arthur William, Senior Class .drlist Allbbittox, Helen Pukcu Allen. Crcilui Lillian Axniuuox. Peumr Hansard Alosi. Rosario Bernard .Anmr r.i ov. Mary I»ui c Rack, Robert Beatty, Mary Klkareui RrCKKAM. ClIAlUt M il,rnlM Boom. Bitty Clair Join Jhore Hrkckkvrioce. J. c. BRKXYXALL. CHARLES BoVRI Can meld. Clara Ki izaiikth Cargo, Nina (ikmva Clkack, John IIp.xkv Collins, Maurice Cottkixo Ceockbr. J. Torreyt Culotta, Sadyr Manik Davcm-okt, James McCoy IM an. Thomas Harry I ORRANw CHESTER ClIARlES Fleming. Wen all B. Focitt. CIIaxles William Fokter, Eli« For, Floxuy Gammill, Gr-mca Thomas GniMM, Lillian Philibert CoOWHCH. JkROMK llt'XCAX Crixxaro. Eugknk Stout TIacknAirii, Ckohoc William Harwell. William Aubrey HaYES. RiCHABO XAHY III AM, Orville ('Hum Hickey. Margaret Caroline Holcombe. Velma Lee Hoi.tam. Shirley Rosr. House. James 11 ii.ton Hvciik, Johnny Iaiuis Ireland. Jeanne Jimisov. Robert L. Johnson. James Beniamin Ionrb. Carmen Jordan, Willi Elijah Kendrick, Mary Lucy Kxrciit. Charles Plosakr Krantz, Mollie I.ann ing. Mary Elizabeth I.iciiikxstrik, Mildred Linos , y. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd. Mary Elizabeth LoVEMAR, Jo Matlock, Wilbur Clemex, Jr. Miller. Nell Morrison, Helen Groves Xadlur. Ark Xewtox. Davis Porter Palmer. Robert Pate. Virginia Ray Pcnjiington. Xellie B. P»Arr, Herman Rudolph Porter. James Wallace Pihiimobe. Mary Helen Starlit. Sylvia I.eona Tom i tt. Kuryr Lee Vickers. Kuna Lucilb Ward. Hrvry Harold WKiNTRAun. Rosa Weintbaub. Sadie Wiginoton. Fay Bltzaretm Windham, Anne McXeal Worrell. Jack Viemhng. William Grant

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The difficulties that we a- individuals must face are more immediate, but far more serious arc those we shall face collectively as we attempt to play our part in the affairs of otir distracted nation. Vet even this picture is not without its exciting promise. Of course there have been bank failures, failures in key business concerns, and even the failure of some schools to remain oj en. hut let us not find in these, causes only for discouragement. Let us remember that tearing down the old is the first step of rebuilding. This is a world of adjustments. As our orator has just | ointcd out, there arc changes which must l c made social ly. economically, politically, and educationally. There is a need for a new application of our religion. Formerly men thought of religious and moral matters as strictly personal, hut industrialism has depersonalized society and intellectualism has depersonalized the universe. Under these conditions there is need for new thinking: wisdom and sanity can direct man in his guidance of the spiritual and mechanical world. Perhaps one of the most essential changes needed is a new mastery of the machine. Some people think that machines arc the sole cause of the depression. None of these, however, would go hack to the time when one had to hew logs to build a house, or when a trip across the continent required several months. Time and tabor saving devices have done much for the world and will do much more when people learn to use the time and labor they save. Mr. Hendrick Van Loon said in a recent article. “We are not suffering from an overproduction of material goods on account of machines, but from the underproduction of good, clear, honest thinking Anti now, my class mates, we have come to the time oi parting, but as we have learned from Pros!. “Men work together whether they work together or apart. There is work to be done and. though apart, we shall join hands and spirits in the task. As we do. let us always remember our Class Motto at Phillips—-“Mms ucqua in arduis.” ROSS C. St'KIK. Class President Winners or the Monogram