Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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 The Thanksgiving Gleam When the Pilgrims came to our shores and prospered, the gratitude they felt had to be expressed in some concrete way. To them a Thanksgiving Day seemed best, and a Thanksgiving Day they had. Today, we are in the midst of the celebration begun so long ago. What does the season mean to us? Let us look to a Thanksgiving full of praise for all the beauties of a wonderful world, a world at the laying of whose foundations God was present. “He appointed the foundations of the earth. ’ I et us be grateful for all the people in this wonderful world—myriads of them there are, some good and some bad, but all belonging to the marvelous whole of mankind. Let us be thankful for our own little place in this beautiful world and for the few among the millions whom we may know and love. Thanksgiving means most of all. perhaps, the giving of thanks for home, that heavenly place whose very name is the most melodious of all simple words. At a time when the simple joys of home are rarely appreciated, may this Thanksgiving find us conscious of -our blessings. May the season fill us, too, with the determination to do our task well. As in the olden days a gleam of light shone out from a tavern window to light the weary pilgrim’s way. so this issue of “The Gleam —the first from 1923-1924—is intended to light the weary traveler’s journey through the year, making his high school tasks lighter and his way brighter. Just as in that time the gleam of light caused shadows—beautiful shadows, fantastic shadows, so our Gleam will probably cause shadows. We trust they may be beautiful shadows, effective shadows. In the dim past some wise man said: “There is nothing new under the sun.” We, the Gleam Staff, in getting out this issue, have tried to disprove this statement. If we have succeeded, it is to the credit of the students whose response has been so whole-hearted. In giving thanks on the wonderful anniversary of Thanksgiving, let us not forget “The Gleam,” the pride of E. H. S.. and the product always of many hours of happy and willing toil. VIRGINIA AVERYT, '25.