Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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The Mirror MIS WORLD AROUND The darkness floats around him: It clings about his face— All the downy bits of darkness Are floating in from space. The tiny fluffy feathers Of the night shut in his cry; The soft descending stillness Makes him feel that he will die. He cannot sec the heavens, Nor can he see their light; The shadowy film of darkness Shuts out from him all sight. He cannot breathe the pulseless air, Empty of tone and sound, For the dusky folds of evening Have wrapped his world around. Mnrtjnret Sessions [6]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) Impressions Rain .................................................. Margaret Baugh Snow . Dick Scott Sleet Robert Currie A Spring Day .... .................................. Marguerite Fairley Moonlight on Red Mountain Ann Bradford Daisies by the Fence .................................. Harry Lipson Sunlight on the Wall.........................................Carl Bastien Experiments in Verse You Err Who Say That from This Earthly Sphere Dick Feeder Heart’s Desire ..................................... Elouise Peck Meadow Land ......................................... Vera Garrison Red Rose Katherine Bridges Chapel Bell ...................................... ..........41ice Huey Amazons’ Queen Mary Wells Ode I, Book I—Horace (Translation) .................... Cecelia Abrahams Appreciations Sara Henderson Hay Du Bose Heyward Class Poem: All in One Sarah Shepard ......Bill Clark Margaret Sessions

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The Mirror president's MESSAGE I he graduating class of 1936 are issuing this book lest we forget our happy years in Phillips High School. It is pleasant to recall the Freshman curiosity and amazement in those thrilling days of assembling and of acquainting ourselves with new and interesting friends. YVe recall our Sopohomorc year of participation and of actually achieving what we had thought during our Freshman year was impossible. Athletics, arts, and other activities arc deeply impressed on our minds. We remember how greatly self-reliance and dependability were stressed during our Junior year; how we entered into the political life of Phillips, becoming council members, marshals, campaign speakers, and even candidates for student offices. How vividly our Senior experiences remain with us! Again we see the excellent Senior Play, the colorful opera “Carmen.” ns likewise we remember the dread mid-term examinations. All of us feel indebted to teachers for their assistance and to students for their Cooperation in making this book possible. To our alma mater, Phillips, we arc grateful for practice in working together and for cherished friendships. And now, classmates, as we turn through these pages, let us remember our class motto, “Non progredi est regredi”—“not to progress i to retreat. Having progressed this far, let us not turn back, but go forward to heights. With brave hearts and courageous spirits let us advance. Having overcome obstacles, may we enter new fie.ds with success and continued happiness. Frank Fede [71