Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Ensley's English Department has thirteen full-time teachers and one part-time teacher under Miss Kathryn Green, the Department Head. We have two accelerated classes. Many graduates have been placed in advanced English classes their first year in college. Our English Department has been recognized as being outstanding by the National Council of Teachers of English. The Council selected one-hundred schools for a special study of high school English programs. From Alabama, Ensley was one of four selected for this study. From 1959 to 1963, Ensley has had winners in the contest sponsored by the council. This year at the state fair, Ensley students won twelve first and second prizes for their literary articles, themes, term papers, poems, essays, and short stories. Mrs. Azoline Large Mrs. Zola Thompson Mrs. Lillie Morris 29

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Miss Kathryn Green Mrs. Anne Bates Gibbons Mrs. Barbara Kirk Mrs. Katherine Carroll Mrs. Evelyn Rubin The English Department owns a replica of the Globe theater to use in connection with the study of Shakespeare. Miss Katherine Yeager Mrs. Vivian Cummings Mrs. Mary Smith Miss Ruby Doyle Mrs. Cleo Hulgan

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During the Presidential campaign of 1964, government and history classes studied the candidates. They evaluated their stands on vital issues and made speeches on the candidates. Attention, although less diversified, was also given to the local and state elections. HISTORY DEPARTMENT The History Department hopes to send students away from Ensley with a beginning awareness of what has been, what is, and what might be. Here it hopes to see that each student finds with pride the country we have and dedicates himself to keeping our country great. We use current events, some films, film strips, records, and special reports along with our adopted texts. Politically minded men, representing both Democrats and Republicans spoke persuasively to classes on the issues of the campaign. 30