Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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FOREWORD THE SPACE AGE—a new age—a beginning:—for many ideas—for many people— for many things. In the future perhaps many people will look back and say:— that was the year we shot a rocket to the moon — That was the year we put a man into outer space. For the students of Hueytown High School, 1958-59 will be the year we moved to the new campus — the year we began a new curriculum. In this yearbook the staff of the Retrospect hopes to leave a record of our age: a new curriculum on a new campus. A new campus type school, (Hueytown High School), built in units at a cost of $850,000, is the first of its kind in the Southeast and functions as one of the most recent educational innovations of the decade. The new school, located on a plot of land, 3 1.6 acres in size, serves the largest unincorporated community in Alabama. A census made in 1957 estimated the population of Hueytown at 12,000. The school has an enrollment of over I 100 students and is staffed by 44 faculty members.

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CURRICULUM People are often like icebergs. Only ono-ninth of their personality shows above the surface. Speech explores and helps to bring out the other eight-ninths, which is often the most interesting and worthwhile part of a person's make-up. Ceil Rounsa-ville is pictured here giving one of the many public speeches required in Mrs. Jones' speech classes. to Pictures, easels, still life, flower arrangements. and industrious high school art students make Miss Gunnels' room a bee hive of activity every day. Art students hard at work here are Jane Miles. Joan Jordan. Anne Thompson. Sue Lenning, Barbora Russell, and Jimmy Leslie. Guidance is an important phase of our school program. It gives the students a person to confide in and through the many tests offered it shows them their best capabilities. The guidance counselor helps them to improve their grades and select their choice of a vocation as well as a college. These students pictured are being given one of the many guidance tests offered to help them select their vocation. r ■ i S r Physical education plays a major part in creating a well rounded personality. This year because of our new facilities we were able to expand and intensify our sports program. The boys perform daily workouts and enjoy participating in the various sports offered.

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DEDICATION As an expression of our love and appreciation for many years of devoted teaching and for inspiring in uncounted students a love for science and a zeal for knowledge . . . for all that she has meant to Hueytown High School, we dedicate this 1959 Retrospect to Miss Edith Seisler. [ 9 ]