Ramsay High School - Rams Horn Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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 SF.NKER. REGINA. “Ginm Ambiturn: To aee all four corner of the WfM, Antvilirs: President French Quit Mis Vice Pre»i-dent French Clab T2;; Marabal Ml. MJ. SKELETON. LAURA. BtonJie Aeth-itUt: Mu»ic Club MO; Sport Club MI. M2: Operetta Ml: Entre Nona M2: Ihnkct M3; Mac-•Ual M3. SMITH. CAROLYN NANCE Ambition: To atrive for tbe beat. SMITH. DAISY l F.AN. Ihtit Ambition: “To be able to out-talk tovaelf A-in itift: International Club Ml; Muralial MO: Gym Captain MO, Ml; Adelphian Club MO. Ml. M2. SMITH. PRESTON, Pm' Ambition: To wander »imlc» ly through life to a definite end. Attkitki; i’renident Seaaion Room MO. Ml: Council MO. Ml: Marshal MO. Ml; Ranker MO. Ml: Sec-retan Aviation f.lub M3; Cheer louder M3: Spurt -manahip Committee M3; Annual Staff M4. TRAMMELL. MARIE ELIZABETH. “W Ambition: To lie a Joumaliat and horiron cluiaer. Aettntia: Mimic Club MO; Girl Keacrve MO; Literary Club Ml M2. UPSIIANV. ROY Ambition: “To graduate. WfflGO. ALLAN. H'imffo Ambition: To find an original one. WOOLVKRTON. WILLIAM H., Billy Ambition} To have no ambition, AcItijUn: Scout Club MO; Science Chib MO; Court ul lidnor 32. 33: MarahnI J3; StMitt nu nihii Committee 'JJ. AAA CULP. MARY HEWITT. HERMAN

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 JONES. ELIZABETH. Kirby Am-tliom: •'The height of my ambition « ix feet two, Aetivititt: Hanker MO; Secretary Session Room MO; Sport Chib '30: International Club 31: Dramatic Club M2; Operetta '30. '31. '32: Literary Club '33. KESSLER. tfANIKL LOUIS. AW Ambition: To co uj» —'n everything. Activities: Vice President Session Room '32: Mar- •hall '33. KESSLER. MARGUERITE I.OU1SK. Margie A• biticn; “To design a design for living. Activities: Martha! 'JO: Secretary Session Room '29. 31: Operetta 29. '30. 31. 'J2: Council '30: President Session Room M2. ‘33: Dramatic Club 31: French tlub 32: Head Marshal 32: Vice-President Session M3. MJ. Honor Society 34. KETCH AM, DORIS JOSEPHINE. Dot Ambition: To strive onward and upward. Aith'itifJ: Marshal 29. MO; Hear! Hanker M3. McGOWKX. WII.UAM II.. Hilly“ Ambition • To have uty hand on the door knob when Opportunity knocks. AilMtifs: Scout Club MO. Ml: Marshal ’30, Ml. 32. M3: International Club MI. M2j Aviation Club M3. MASON. ROIIERT F... ‘ Bob'' Ambition: Ambition lias no rest.” Aetivititt: Council M0. M2. M3: Uslier 30. Ml, M2. M3: Court of Honor ‘JO. Ml: Honor Society M2. MJ: Calunet MJ; Marshal M0. M3; Head Marshal M3. MONTAGUE. MARY CHAKLYE. Bubo Ambition: To mean a much to the world as the Khie on a postage stamp.” Acttrtlici: Marshal ‘29; Broadway Stars 29; Girls Sports Club MO. Ml. MONTGOMERY. MARJORIE JOY. 'MW Ambition: Not m dance the dance of life on someone rise's feet. drfit'itiu: Marshal 29:, French Club 30. Ml; Sapiilionian Literary Society '32: Secretary Session Room 32, '33. MOORE. JANE. Little Bit Ambition: “To wire the moment of excited curiosity. Ac tr.it its: VicePrr idetit Session Room MO; Sport Club M0, Ml: Vice-I’resident Spott Club Ml: Srcretary Session Room M2; Adelnhian Lit-erary Society M2. M3. '34; Annual Staff M4; Invitation Committee M4, MORRIS. EDWARD. Ed Ambition: To do nothing in particular and do it well. Activities; Marshal MO, Ml: Operetta Ml; Scout Club M2. PEERSON. HORACE WALKER. JR. Horse Ambition: “To satisfy all my teachers and tny friends. Activities: President Sc »ton Room '29; Business Manager Highlander M0, Ml: Foothall Ml. J2. M3. KAUCKMAN. FREDERICK. Robic Ambition. To lie a great draftsman. Actnitui: Book Worm Chib 30; Radio Club Ml: Aviation Club Ml. '32.

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PRESIDENTS ADDRESS (JANUARY) Classmates and Friends ok Ramsay High School: Today we arc met in a final session to take our leave of each oilier am! of the institution which, in the course of four important years, has given us both pleasure am! profit, ami has gained from us in return our earnest co-operation am! devout reverence. As a result of its endeavors, we are being sent forth today, not as students who have completed their education but rather as an ambitious yet unselfish group, who conscious of its new importance in life, will strive to uphold the high scholastic reputation already established by Ramsay graduates. ProbaMy the most outstanding significance of our graduation is the parallel between our senior class and our Nation. Four years ago we were both wrapped in darkness: ours the darkness of ignorance ami incx|icrieticc; our Nation’s, the darkness of a hitter crisis. Our first sensations were those of uneasiness and self-consciousness; we were in a fever of uncertainty when suddenly there came to us the realization that co-operation is the essential element of all human endeavor. We worked and strove to attain this virtue and its benefits. Now we arc emerging into the light, ami with confidence and optimism we push forward toward new goals. We find ourselves in the midst of epoch-making decisions of a changing world. Our capable statesmen, under the dominating guidance of our President, have challenged the foundation on which we have lxren building our economic structure and have denounced its principles as inadequate, wasteful, and unworthy of our destiny. During the past few years those leaders in whom the country hail placed the utmost confidence in the management of its finances, liad taken unwarranted risks with their own and the public's resources for the sole purpose of accumulating ast personal fortunes. What immediate legal step could have Ixrcti taken against such ends? None. The obsolete codes used by the judicial departments required that the decisions of a trial l c based on technicalities rather than principles; so the politicians with their artificial prophecies of enduring prosperity eluded the courts on every hand ami stained the country with their debased practices. Through their alliances the country was locked in a conflict of party prejudices, during which time the inefficiency of overlapping departments caused the steady increase of state and federal expenses. In a word, none of the institutions of our national life has escaped the challenge of these times. Business, politics, education, even the courts have been subjected to criticism. The responsibilities set forth by the New Deal require that we adapt ourselves to these new am! varying conditions. In this role of adaptation we must look to education for leadership. Surely in times like these we need not a less, hut a greater emphasis upon education, which Dr. Kiipatrick defines as life itself creatively facing its novelly emerging problems. But if social licttcrmcut is to lie our final achievement, our efforts at education will have to be directed toward all ago at once, instead of the hahitual method of child instruction. The acceleration of political and economic changes has made it absurd to think that any education can ever Ik- completed. One oi the most significant of our social changes is the sudden increase in our leisure time. We must, therefore, seize every opportunity to educate ourselves in the conscious and interested enjoyment of self-expression, if we arc to be trained for the complete living of tomorrow. Fellow classmates, in thr light of all these tremendous social and economic changes which America is facing, my final word to you must l e in the nature of a wish. My wish is that each of 11s individually may attain a vision of the larger life and fit ourselves through a more intelligent discrimination, a broader tolerance, and a more generous sportsmanship to play our part in this inarch of civilization. —John Davis.