Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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T H E M IRRO K (Hand Me) DOWNS 24 Since the whistle is about to blow ending the fourth and final quarter, we, the undersigned players on the winning team, do pass these breaks or penalties, which ever they may be deemed by the referee, on to an up-and-coming second string. These gifts are to be guarded by those upon whom they are bestowed until their final score is made. The “toss-ups are as follows: Mary Jo Chambers bestows her beautiful soprano voice upon Jack Crowe. David Newman wills his rank in R. O. T. C. to James Smith. Mary Anne Atkinson hands her red locks down to Alto Townsend and Billy Satterwhite, as we think red hair will be becoming to them for a change. Jane Harper consigns her admiration of the Boys’ Glee Club to Jean McCarty. Bill Wall endows Jeanette Estes with his ability to sell War Stamps and shortchange people. Margaret Moore bequeaths her task of checking the roll in study hall to Laura Acton. Frank Chappelle bestows his ability to brown-nose” to anybody eager to graduate in four years. Helen Cox wills her ability to get a ring, third finger, left hand, to Jane Roy. David Staff donates priority on his saddle shoes and plaid shoe strings to Jean Musgrove. ‘Toady Smith leaves her brain child. Junior, and his taking ways to anybody who has the patience to get him out of trouble. Robert Linn desires that his poetic genius be given to Mack Allison. Dorothy Tyrrell consigns her pigtaiLs to Baby Sister Norris. Carney Dobbs takes great pleasure in bestowing his various and sundry club pins upon the girl of the moment. Louise Harrison hands her bright red sweater down to Betty Carol Logan. Kyle Eliott wills his photogenic qualities to John Lanier. Evelyn Hood gives priority on her front seats in all her classes to Barbara McAdory. Billy Drenncn bequeaths his blue tie with the puppy dogs on it to anybody in Miss Gatchell's history class who forgets to wear one. June Frost desires that all the knowledge she has learned in the last four years be given to Evelyn Campbell. John Carden leaves his ability to win friends and influence teachers to Nanette Wood. Jack Keith gives his gift of gab to Doris Lovett. Elizabeth Hedgecoth bestows three rubber bands and one aluminum hair curler upon Loretta Graves. Malcolm Tanner wills his effervescent personality to Walter Byars. Margaret Adams consigns her collection of bracelets to Gloria Goodall. Stumpy Watson leaves his No. 10 shoes for little Sidney Norwood. Joe Lynch endows Ralph Tapscott with his amazing ability to answer questions in history. Marion Snow bequeaths her love of Auburn and of the Pi K A’s to Barbara Houser. B. W. McNair refuses to will anything, but he will auction his Hamlet test paper off to the highest bidder.

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T II E M I R R O R 23 Between the Halves The first half of the game is over. Here we sit in the grandstand of life awaiting the last half. Will it hold college, business, war—what? As with all games, no one knows the outcome until the final score. Now between halves we find ourselves watching the parade of events that have marched before us while we sat here in the high school section. Far back, just coming on the field, we see a big event—Mr. Stough’s following Mr. Going as Head Coach” at Phillips. Next we notice our first campaign speeches in auditorium which were so different from anything that we had encountered before. Along with these comes the thought of all the times we laughed at the clownings of George Harper and John A. Reynolds. We remember the fiery eloquence of Herbert Kieswetter, which thrilled us so. Next comes the pep squad which made us await the next football game with much eagerness to see their new performance. Next we hear that song which our own Mrs. Wulffaert wrote. We Love America and, last in this line, the mighty mite, Roy Johnson. Coming closer we find that Phillips won the City Basketball Championship and along at the same time appears the music festival cup. Weren't we proud! Next comes the change to a commission government at Phillips, and soon after, the senior play in which we were amused by Walter Bibby. Next, Skidmore Logan was elected the most valuable player. Well he deserved it. Just in front of the parade of past events we notice the Phillips girls knitting for the British War Relief. A pall of sorrow covers the next event—the death of Miss Chase. Next comes As You Like It , which was presented after school in our auditorium by Shakespearean actors. December 7, 1941—A date which has altered many of our plans and may change our entire lives—dominates the approaching group. Then December 8, when we all assembled in both auditoriums to listen to the President's Declaration of War. Just going off the field we notice air raid wardens, evidence of Phillips' preparedness. Wallace Cohen follows, with his stirring oratorical power which took him high in the oratorical contest. Next come the impressive Thanksgiving and Christmas Programs presented by our speech choir and glee clubs. What is that I see at the end of the field? A large groom, a small bride; why, it's Coach Walker and Mrs. Walker, nee Flautt! So ends the parade of events. Soon the team will take the field for the last half in the great game of life. May each player acquit himself well, even though it may not be granted to him to carry the ball over for the winning touchdown. —Dorothy Tyrrell.

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T H E M I H K O H 25 Joel Gochenour tosses his crew cut up to Tommy Noe. Wilma Dean Mayton will gladly give her beloved (?) bottom locker to Odessa Flowers. Gordy Germany, Robert Baker, and Hubert Cates will their long-standing friendship to Axel Bolvig and Billy Ward. Aleck Gulas bestows his beautiful R. O. T. C. saber (with the dull edge) on Tommy Parks. Impy” Shook hands down her ability to knit in class without, being caught to Suzanne Beall. Now the whistle has blown, ending the game. May those upon whom these gifts have been bestowed win through to be All-Americans. —Margaret Bay less. When Moon and Stars Shine Again While the moon duskily casts her glow On the troubled scene below. A lustrous star gleams on high— Black velvet and gold star in the sky. Beauty, magic, in poignant delight, Comes to star-dusted, moon-lighted night. Can there be a free man on land or sea Who does not believe the star's augury? Then suddenly I turn in wild dismay. Fearing disaster from gold-streaming ray; A well-lighted dome means bombs from the sky. A night in a tunnel—and a low-wailing cry. When planes with venom their fires spit, And on moon-hallowed cottage make perilous hit. The craze-driven pilot laughs with glee At the fiendish sights the morrow will see. As frenzy and terror hold pitiless reign, Thousands mourn the wounded and slain— A well-lighted night—no horror worse Than beauty disfigured and made a curse. But I know firmly and feel full deep That free men can halt destruction’s sweep By each exerting the free man’s right To wage a strong, victorious fight— And win so surely that each future year Will hold wide peace without tremor or fear; Then moon and gold star with radiant light Will again bring beauty to the night. Helen Cox.