Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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THE GLEAM 3 Senior Class Officers President Harry DeFreese Vice-President Victoria Davis Secretary ...Nell LeCroy Essayist .....Mildred Wilson Historian Janies Campbell Prophet Cecelia Phillips Poet Roland Carmichael Lawyer Lyle Brumbach Statistician Everett Hagler Artist Beatrice Vincent Orator George Friedlob Pianist Nell LeCroy Vocalist Victoria Davis Violinist Virginia Tate

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2 THE GLEAM New Teachers in Ensley High This year the faculty of Ensley High has quite a few new members. They come to us from many different sections of the country. We feel that we are fortunate in having the following new instructors and welcome them most heartily. Mathematics Miss Amy Hankins, A. B., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Miss Florence Williamson, A. B., Breneau. Mr. H. G. Douglass, A. B., Birmingham-Southern. Miss Rosa Mae Warren, A. B., Birmingham-Southern. English Miss Alberta Norwood, A. B., Birmingham-Southern. History Mr. G. W. Floyd, A. B., Potomac University. Science Miss Theresa Hirsch, A. B., University of Nebraska. Mr. J. H. Hawkins, A. B., Birmingham-Southern. Mr. E. E. Erwin, A. B., University of Alabama. Spanish Miss Lila May Cantey, A. B., Birmingham-Southern. Commercial Mrs. G. C. Smith (Miss Stella McMullin), B. C. S., Bowling Green Business University. Music Miss Carrie Vineyard, B. M., Sophie Newcomb. Mr. R. A. Martinson, B. M., MacPhail School of Music. Mr. C. C. Brown, Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Home Economics Miss Charles Aldredge, A. B., Texas State Teachers’ College; B. S., College of Industrial Arts.

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4 THE GLEAM Building Report Last semester before school closed for the summer vacation, the workmen had already begun the task of reconstructing the old building and erecting the new. The noise and din created by many tools and busy hands was as music to our eager ears, for we knew it meant that we were soon to have the fine new addition that has long been promised to Ensley High School. When the fall term began, this September a great change had been made and since that first day there have been many noticeable alterations. My duty is to give a detailed report of progress made since then. On that first day, and for many days after that there was no water supply and no lunch room to furnish the needs of the pupils. The water was soon connected and within two weeks the lunch room was sufficiently completed for us to use. In the new lunch room there are stationary tables and stools arranged to afford greater room for more tables. With the altered lunch room we have an entirely different type of lunch service and paying which enables the official staff to have less assistance and duties are finished more easily and quickly. The next most important thing that we have to learn about is the advance in work being done on the stage in the Auditorium and Assembly room. From the time school started, until the present day the stage has progressed rapidly and grown from a mere lattice work of wierd designs into a platform which we hope will be finished by Christmas. The new stage is much larger than the old one was and will be more conveniently arranged. The auditorium too, has been enlarged and has much larger seating capacity. A great many of the rooms in the old building, including the principal’s office, have been made larger. This is an improvement that has long been needed. The outside walls of the new building have risen from skeleton outlines to solid, substantial brick enclosures. The class rooms are beginning to take a more definite shape, and the halls are daily growing more and more complete. There are a number of little, insignificant differences that few people would notice, and it would take too long to enumerate them. However, I will tell of a few, such as the desks in place of the uncomfortable chairs in our old annex, better known as “The Floating Palace;” the removal of sewing room to the first floor; the renewed heating plant; fresh material in the “Scientific World” on the third floor; private telephones for the head of each department, so that they may communicate with the office or other parts of the building, and many more of which I have not the space to tell you. In a few more months, if everything is favorable, we are hoping to move into the new part of our old home, and I am sure we will all be glad to do so. CAROLYN SPENCER, “26”