Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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THE GLEAM 7 Alumni Association Organization of the Alumni Association Last year Mr. Pizitz offered to each of the three high schools a prize of one hundred dollars to be awarded to the group of students making the greatest progress in citizenship. Our committee decided to limit the contest to the Literary Societies, the awards to be based on the following points: “prospectus; development within the society; initiation of movements for the advancement of the school.” Until June, 1925, there had been no organization of the Alumni of the Ensley High School. The Shakespearean Literary Society promoted as its contribution to the initiation of movements for the advancement of the school the organization of an Alumni Association. The following officers were elected: President...............................Helen Albert Vice-President.........................Selwyn Smith Secretary-Treasurer....................Clara Warren Only the beginnings have been made. We are looking forward to an active and enthusiastic body of Alumni. -----------o---------- Greetings From the Alumni Greetings from the Alumni! From Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, all parts of Alabama, in fact from all over the United States, messages of love and greetings come from the Alumni to their beloved Alma Mater, Ensley High School. Although our Alumni Association is quite young we hope to make it one of the most effective and most helpful organizations in furthering the better interests of the school. We are watching all the activities at Ensley High with keen interest. We are interested in everything that Ensley High School is doing. We are backing you! We want to do everything in our power to help you. Although many of us are in the college and business world now, still our thoughts are not centered there entirely for in our hearts remain a great big space filled to overflowing with love for dear old Ensley High. HELEN ALBERT, President.

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THE GLEAM 5 Inter-City Operetta During the second week of January there is to be held in Birmingham a conference of the Southern Music Supervisors. To show to these visiting Supervisors just what the Birmingham High Schools are doing in the way of music, an inter-city high school operetta is to be presented before them at the Phillips High School Auditorium. The operetta is a musical comedy, “The Royal Vagabond,” recently released from the professional stage. The group from which the cast was selected consisted of representatives from the three high schools—Woodlawn, Philips and Ensley. These representatives had been chosen by preliminary tryouts in each of the schools. We of Ensley High feel particularly proud that from our four representatives two were cast for leading roles, Victoria Davis is to take the role of Anitza, the leading lady and Alma Shields is to play the part of Princess Ilelina. Victoria has recently shown her ability for leadership in other forms of student activities, while Alma, in one of our own operettas, has proven her ability as an actress. We feel that Ensley's reputation for splendid work is quite safe in such competent hands. AUGUSTA SANDERS, ’26. ----------o---------- Civitan Scholarship in Voice Another honor which has come to a student of the Ensley High School is the scholarship in voice awarded by the Civitan Club. The announcement reads “Civitan Lawrence Metyarde, director of the Ensley Academy of Music, will award two one year scholarships in music, one in voice and the other for the piano, to students demonstrating unusual talent in these branches of art.” Anna Mary Singleton was selected from the twenty-two contestants as the winner of the voice scholarship. The selection rendered in the try out was “Thanks Be to God.” All who have heard Anna Mary sing are certain that this honor was justly awarded. We are looking forward with pleasure to hearing Anna Mary sing her way to fame. MARGUERITE MATLOCK, '26. ----------o---------- Civitan Scholarship in Piano To a student of Ensley High has come a distinct honor. On October 26, from among twenty contestants, Lester Mann was awarded a scholarship by the Civitan Club of Ensley. The scholarship provides for a year of instruction in piano from Mr. Lawrence Meteyarde. The rules of the contest provided that the contestants play selections of their own choosing and that they have a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of music. The selections Lester rendered were Paderewski's “Minuet” and Schumann’s “Strange Lands and Strange People.”

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THE GLEAM 7 Alumni Association Organization of the Alumni Association Last year Mr. Pizitz offered to each of the three high schools a prize of one hundred dollars to be awarded to the group of students making the greatest progress in citizenship. Our committee decided to limit the contest to the Literary Societies, the awards to be based on the following points: “prospectus; development within the society; initiation of movements for the advancement of the school.” Until June, 1925, there had been no organization of the Alumni of the Ensley High School. The Shakespearean Literary Society promoted as its contribution to the initiation of movements for the advancement of the school the organization of an Alumni Association. The following officers were elected: President...............................Helen Albert Vice-President.........................Selwyn Smith Secretary-Treasurer....................Clara Warren Only the beginnings have been made. We are looking forward to an active and enthusiastic body of Alumni. -----------o---------- Greetings From the Alumni Greetings from the Alumni! From Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, all parts of Alabama, in fact from all over the United States, messages of love and greetings come from the Alumni to their beloved Alma Mater, Ensley High School. Although our Alumni Association is quite young we hope to make it one of the most effective and most helpful organizations in furthering the better interests of the school. We are watching all the activities at Ensley High with keen interest. We are interested in everything that Ensley High School is doing. We are backing you! We want to do everything in our power to help you. Although many of us are in the college and business world now, still our thoughts are not centered there entirely for in our hearts remain a great big space filled to overflowing with love for dear old Ensley High. HELEN ALBERT, President.