Durham High School - Messenger Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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924 ,lg I: U3'4fi nE5gEi'1GER L'Qg5 -- 55' A 4 A . L.-. . ' Dedicated to: MRS. AI.1c'11: P. RMIIINSON MISS M.xuc:11c E. HoI.1.ow,xY Miss LILLHQ N. Joxlcs AND MRS. Colcmxlfz C. NV,xm:IcN Beloved supervisor, principals, and teuclwrs all whose faithful service for many years has done much to make Durham Schools. lPage Firzfj

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im, y 313 .tix i 1924 'I -ri-it ' 5.5 Syl A MESSENGER L A L E5 VV ,' ' I - -- . ,-, . Uv171Kiflii, hom it o,.r:1:, v:1. DIJRJ-EAM ilfigfmrxf' LEERARY The Ea'z'z'0r'5 Note Nll now, gentle reader, you will see the book. lVe hope that you will like it. If you praise it, you honor us, and if you criticize it, you honor us-for in both cases we shall know that you have read it. We are here in D. H. S. primarily in pursuit of that elusive, 1ll1lCll-SOllglli-fOl' thing, called Educ-ation. Vile are not professional publishers, and many are the mistakes wc've made, for which we crave your indulgence. All things have a purpose, and the purpose of this book is to give you a true picture and clear idea of high school life. It is not a guide book to the flowery paths of knowledge, it is not a masterpiece of composition, it is not necessarily a message of grave importance to humanity. lt. is ll. H. S. as we have seen it, felt it, lived it. And now it is with inexpressihle joy and rearranging, adding, subtracting, proof- reading, sinothering profanity, and inforniing multitudes of interested friends that the publication will now be out in a few weeks, we mop the perspiration from our brow and present to the waiting public a full measure of the cream of high school lifc as extracted by our pet, patient, irrepressible, unpardonable separator- 1lHE Msssicxuiciz. Special acknowledgnient is made to the c,i011l1ll01'l'lZ1l Design class for the excel- lence of their service. They spaced all the panels, designed and hand colored all the inserts Qthree of these being cut on linoleumj, designed the cover, head piece, cartoons, and cut linoleum blocks of the tail-pieces. The Seniors of this class are Horton Burch, Marvin Ferrell, Clarence Harris, Wziltoii Newsom, Calvin O'ljriant, and Norman Riggsbee. Other members who worked on Tnia lllmssmxorlic until dark many afternoons are Robert Cheatham, Harry Hunter, Thomas Jones, Albert Olljriant, and Garland WCLIN'C1'. NVe also wish to thank Mr. llamsey for the services he rendered the class in making pictures. Also we wish to thank Miss llcrr and all others who helped to make this llliassuxusk a success. lPage Fourj

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ll 92. THE Durham aa Educational Center W as ,,-z N this day of advancement and learning every person has from infancy the right to an education, not like the meager one of old, but of the broader type peculiar to modern times. Whether the life of the world tomorrow is to be a success or a failure depends entirely upon the youths of today, the men and leaders of tomorrow. No Durham lad or lassie can justly say that educational advantages are wanting in our own city. Our educational system, widely known, is of the threefold type-mental, physical and spiritual. Every institution in our community, each endowed with a strong and eflicient faculty, engaged in this important work for the youth of today, develops not the mental side alone, but also the physical and spiritual. These train in whatever channel of life one may wish to pursue. Most of the various schools are mindful of the necessity of physical training: some are equipped with modern, up-to-date gymnasiums where physical training and devel- opment necessary for health are taught and encouraged. Competent athletic directors are employed to supervise and instruct in this work. The spiritual part of education is carefully guarded. Regular devotional chapel exer- cises, in which the whole student body participates, are held in every school. The young folk of the city and suburbs are generally interested and active in the .work and organizations of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.. Ministers of the city churches visit the schools, and by association do all within their power to befriend the students and faculty. Christian workers from other cities and sections appear before the stu- dents and deliver helpful and instructive messages. Those higher institutions of learning in our midst are.: the Durham High School: the West Durham High Schoolg the East Durham High Schoolg the Durham Business Schoolg the Southern Conservatory of Musicg and that still -higher institution of learning, Trinity College. We, the future citizens of Durham, are truly blessed to be surrounded by all these places in which to prepare ourselves for future leadership and our places in life. The people of Durham have not, however, forgotten, the colored youths in their great educational work. The State Normal for colored, one of the largest and best-equipped of its kind in the South, is located in our city. Along with this college are elementary schools for the same, supervised by our own superintendent, Mr. F. M. Martin of the city school system. These schools are indeed creditable ones. With these widespread advantages and iniluences forecasting the development of an ideal type of manhood and womanhood, Durham, although less than a century old, may accomplish untold wonders in the years to come. 1Paye Sitj