Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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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.

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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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12 THE GLEAM Delphian Debating Society Station D. D. S. broadcasting a snappy little program from Ensley High School at Ensley, Alabama, about the Delphian Debating Society. All right. Hold on tight. Here we go. We started off the semester with a bang, electing the following officers: Hurley Upchurch, President; Archie Mays, Vice-President; Robert Carlton, Secretary; Augustine Aloia, Treasurer; Joe Barrett, Chaplain, and Richard Watkins, Marshal. With this group of boys as officers we are looking forward to a very successful year. Although we are only twenty-five in number we are “The Six Hundred” in spirit and willingness to work. This concludes our little frolic for tonight from station D. D. S. at Ensley, Alabama. Station D. D. S. signing off. Good night. ROBERT CARLTON, ’27. -----------o---------- Argonian Literary Society S-s-s Boom! Yea! Argonians! The best literary society in Ensley High School! We think so and if you do not believe me well— Some Thursday when you are not so busy drop by room 204 and watch the girls go in to Literary Society. They are the most earnest, hardworking, happy and best looking girls in school. Come inside and see what is going on. This year we are studying “Foreign Countries and Their Customs” and it is a most interesting study. We have “been” to Holland, Turkey, and Spain already and expect to visit Russia, Denmark, Italy, Japan and many other countries before the year is over. The Literary Society is offering a prize for the best essay on “Why Visit Europe,” and many girls are working hard for this prize. One of the big things the Argonians are working on this year is a new Traffic Plan, which, when under way will greatly benefit the school. We are looking forward to a wonderful year in Literary Society. Under the leadership of Miss Boehmer and Miss Norwood Pm sure we will succeed in living up to our motto, “Make ye the world a bit more beautiful and better because ye have lived in it.” BEATRICE SMILEY, ’26.