Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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10 THE GLEAM college composed of the presidents of the different classes and the presidents of the different clubs. Alma Almon, ’25 was elected secretary to this club. Membership in the Math. Club at Montevallo is based on a year’s satisfactory work in Mathematics. Ensley High is represented in this club by Mary Bryant of the class of 1924. ----------o--------- Birmingham-Southern Our girls at Birmingham-Southern are winning honors also. Nena Joe Cantrell, ’25, Clara Warren, ’25, and Marion Hurlbert, ’25, have made Le Cercle Francais. The try outs were conducted in French. Clara gave the Life of Joan D’Arc, and Marion sang a French song, Alouette, and Nena Joe gave La Marche Lorraine. Three cheers for the cheer leaders! Thomas Barrett, ’25, has been elected one of the Freshman cheer leaders at Southern. ----------o--------- Birmingham-Southern Our Music Department is not without its share of the honors won by our Alumni. Thomas Barrett and Cecil Folmar of the class of ’25 have been elected to membership in the Birmingham-Southern Glee Club. Cecil also plays in the orchestra and the band at Southern. ----------o--------- University of Michigan Ensley High School is a preparation for life and we are always glad to hear of the honors which come to our students who have left us. The University of Michigan boasts of an enrollment of fourteen thousand. One of the organizations there is the Portia Honorary Literary Society the membership of which is limited to twenty-five. This year there were only four vacancies to be filled. The tryouts were conducted before the entire faculty of the University. Of the three hundred who tried out this year our own Jane Summers was one of the successful four.

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THE GLEAM 9 American Chemical Society Contest For the past two years the American Chemical Society has offered prizes for the best essays on subjects dealing with Chemistry written by the students of the High Schools of the United States. There are six state prizes awarded to the writers of the best essays on six assigned chemical subjects. The state winners are entered in the national contest. The prize for the winner of the national contest, for boys, a four year scholarship to Yale and for girls, a four year scholarship to Vassal . Jane Summers, 1925, won first place in Alabama and later national honors in the 1924-25 contest. Vassal requires every girl to be seventeen years old before entering and as Jane was only fifteen, she had her scholarship transferred from Vassar to the University of Michigan. PAUL MORROW. ’26. -----------o---------- Do Your Best It has oft’ been said by the men of old That the truest hearts are composed of gold, That the truest lips speak the words sincere, That the mutest ears try the best to hear. It has, too, been said, in the years gonq by That the ones who win are the ones who try. That the ones who try live in joy galore, While the ones who cheat live to try no more. Now, the only truth that I’m to reveal Is to live a’right and from Time don’t steal, Make your minutes count, always do your best, And you’ll find yourself far above the rest. C. F. HfLL, ’25. -----------o--------- Montevallo We are proud of the record of our girls at Montevallo. There were more than seventy-five girls who tried for the Dramatic Club and of this number only six succeeded in making the club. The only Freshman in this successful six was our own Catherine Allen who will play the leading part in the Montevallo play to be given in Auburn, Montgomery, and at Judson College. There is a club in Montevallo which features strongly in the life of the

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THE GLEAM 11 I Clubs and Activities Boys’ Civic Club The Boys’ Civic Club was organized Wednesday, October 28, 1925. The following officers were elected: Woodrow Simmons...........................President Carl Lind............................Vice-President Sam Fort .................................Secretary The president appointed the following program committee: J. V. Blevins, Gordon Knight, Roy Varner, and Chester Tate. The subject of study selected for the year was Topics of Interest to Birmingham. The club has many new members and all are interested in making this a successful year. SAM FORT, Secretary. -----------o---------- Hyperian Literary Society Station R-A-T-S broadcasting. Hyperian Literary Society speaking. The Girls’ Freshman Literary Society was organized in February, 1925. It is the youngest girls literary society in school. Last June we reported over ninety members. A large number of these have gone into the upper class societies but we are getting more new members all the time. We reorganized the first of this semester and under the capable direction of our advisers, Miss Warren and Miss Forbes, we are having many splendid meetings. We have a two-fold aim this year, to instill into every member the spirit of co-operation and good sportsmanship and to master the difficult art of speaking before an audience.. The following officers were elected this semester: Virginia Ricks.............................President Edna Snow ............................Vice-President Doris Holmes ..............................Secretary Ellen Giles ...............................Treasurer EDNA SNOW, ’29.