Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) “the new realism” John Public Laurence W esson Earth Mother George Murray The Professor ... Joe McKinney “Uncle Hob .. Mary Jane Carl An Interview ....... Barbara Ella Reeves The Mimic Mary Jones The Sign Hanger Virginia Scott A Glimpse of Life Pauline Thomas Thoughts Pauline Thomas Vagabond ..................... Pauline Thomas Simplicity Pauline Thomas BIRMINGHAM Open Doors ............................... Mary Elizabeth Me Lester Approach to Birmingham Miney Breckenridge Birmingham Homes ................................ Opal Freeman Music in Birmingham Caroline Winston SENIOR SECTION Officers and Committees President’s Message ...................... ..... .... Homer Haisten Senior Class Poem “Our Creed .... .............Vida Mae Hancock Senior Class Oration “The Challenge ........... Jimmy Obenchain Senior Roster [6]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Phillips Night Nesibe Ha link cl After the Last Whistle Dan Walton Graduation JI art ha Lancaster ()ur Changing Times ... Lucy Estes Good Principles .Must Live .1 art ha Lancaster Tragedy of the Sen Clara Xell Cain Beauty and Order Carlene Bozeman Dispositions Martha Franks Aftermath ... Max Slaughter PHILLIPS LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN VERSE No Escape George Me Brule Eves Eunice Harris My Dreams Eunice Harris A Bov ... Cora Ella Cobb Disenchantment Frances Plain Alphabet of Grades .... Bill Bacon CATS-PETS AND OTHERWISE Pet Cat Surbetli Chandler How the Catfish Came to Be John S ha (field I dle-Five-Minutes A Soul in Torment Donald Knipht Julia Owens [5] A Soul in Torment

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The Mirror PHILLIPS NIGHT Phillips Night ... A light blanket of snow and a biting North wind . . . Enthusiastic visitors brave the climate to hear the auditorium exercises, to see classroom activities, to talk with the teachers One by one, two by two, and sometimes in family groups they come . . . The auditorium is filled with interested parents, with alumni, with faculty members . . . The large clock on the balcony rail nears the hour of eight . . . Mr. DeMaris raises his baton . . . The lively whispers of the audience cease . . . The orchestra opens the exercises of the evening playing colorful selections .... “Carmen and other orchestral classics lend musical richness .... Then welcome—thrice welcome—By Mr. Going in behalf of the school . . . By the president of the student body in behalf of the General Organization . . . By Mrs. Bailey in behalf of the P. T. A. . . . Speakers pay tribute to Dr. Phillips, distinguished founder of the Birmingham educational system . . . Lyric girls, basso boys, musical instruments blend in harmony as happy fathers and mothers sit in an atmosphere of admiration and delight . . . The band, directed by Mr. Mayer, clothed in red and white uniforms, plays spirited numbers . . . The girls, in dark red evening dresses, with shining pearls about their necks, render numbers as pleasing to the ear as are the snowy corsages to the eye . . . Boys with stiff shirts and stout voices sing . . . Enthusiastic applause from the audience . . . The program closes . . . The parents file out of the auditorium to visit the classroom where activities arc in full swing They talk with teachers about the accomplishments of their sons and daughters in Phillips . . . The mutual understanding will live again next Phillips Night. —Nesibe Bahakel AFTER THE LAST WHISTLE (Captain’s Speech a? the Football Banquet. December 3, 1937) Football is truly a great game. I say it is a great game because it allows us to overcome the natural timidity that is in human nature. In football we learn to fear no one and no task. We are given a task to perform; no alibis are in order, and seldom are they given. Sonic people say too much stress is often laid on football. This is true in that often the purpose is distorted. All too often the players arc instilled with only the one idea, “to win.” The game brings much greater reward than of victory. Football serves to imprint in the minds of us. the players, that old saying, “You can’t get something for nothing.’’ Any of you boys, 1 am sure, will agree with me when 1 say you have got “to put out to play the game. We have all seen the “stand arounder” fail where the steady worker succeeded. This game teaches us that we must play by the rules; that if we break the rules we must suffer the punishment. On this occasion which marks the end of high school football for some of us, I think we cannot help but say we have gained much through our participation in the game. We are better able to hold our heads up. square our shoulders, and face life with a good prospect for another victory. [7] —Dan Walton