Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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VIOLET WRIGHT Argonian Literary Society. QuUt, unassuming and reserved. EDGAR KEENON uOf a gentle, timid nature GERTRUDE WILSON She was just the quiet kind Whose natures never vary. Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in January 17

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 EMMA SPURGEON Semi-Annual Debate. 15; Critic of the Thalian Literary Society; Corresponding Secretary of Senior Clans. ‘0 manners gentle,of affections mild. ROBERT RUTLEDGE Farmer Business Manager of The Gleam; Vice-President of Shakespearian Literary Society; Character in Twelfth Sight Here's a bran fellow, a man of pluck. JESSIE TRUCKS Chessie Secretary of Lyric Club; Marshal. Press Reporter of Thalian Literary Society; Press Renorter of Senior Class; Character in David Coppcrficld. At once I'm gladf and sad and mad. And blue and bright and good and bad; My face is always in repose. And what I think, nobody knows 16

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Senior Class History It was lunch time in the Ensley High School on the first day of the fall term of the year 1975. Large crowds of boys and girls were hurrying to their places at the various tables in the lunch-room, but in the rear were a number of girls who attracted the attention of more than one person, not by misbehavior, but by their bright faces and eager eyes. Evidently they were just entering school. They were discussing their problems in the intimate way in which all girls who are close friends do. Some were complaining about the strangeness of the place, but there was one of a bright, sunny disposition who said: “Yes, I know all that. We have the privilege, however, of being here in the very room where our grandfathers and grandmothers of the class of 1917 were so many years ago. It seems that I can almost see them now. All of them had such good times when they were here. 1 have heard my grandmother tell of those times, haven't you? She was answered by smiles from all. and, “Yes, yes; but do tell us more about the things that they really did do.“ “Well,“ she said, settling down with that air peculiar to all storytellers, “I know that they were the finest set of people who ever went to Ensley High School. However, they did not have a larger class than the one of the previous year, for in 1916 there were thirty-three to graduate, while in 1917 there were only thirty. They may have been lacking in numbers, but certainly not in the qualities which count in the making of men and women. The first part of the class enjoyed starting out in their high school life under the guidance of the new principal. Mr. Dimmitt, and those pupils were the first to graduate under his successor, Mr. Banks. Although the class which entered in January, 1913, was the largest to enter the school, nearly half of its members had been lured away by Diana's apples by the end of the first semester. Many of them were not very well pleased with school because of being called 'Rats but when they saw the class of 1913 graduate they began to have the desire to obtain that goal. “The next year brought a large class of boys and girls who were to share the honors of graduation with them. What? Oh. you want to know who were chums? Of course, they did not all go about in a bunch. My grandmother said she always remembered what close friends many of them were. Gladys English, Gertrude, Adel! and Bertha could be seen together at any time. Then there were some girls who always went together. They were Orene, Kathleen, Margaret, Frances and Jessie. I believe you could always see Gladys Kike. Ilulon, Grace, Elnora, Lois and Violet together, and if you did not see Emma and Leland with each other you might know that one or the other was not in school. Hattie and Rebecca were almost inseparable. Annie Laurie, the quiet member of the class, was a friend to all. Among the boys, who were greater friends than Leo, Conrad and Hayes? Of course where one found Norman, Clinton and Henry were there also. Robert was a quiet friend to all. Many 18