Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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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 ]

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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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FACULTY ADMINISTRATION A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL MR. CHARLES VINES. PRINCIPAL The duties of the principal of Huey-town High School aro many and varied. As chief administrator of the school, his first duty is the organization of tho school and tho delegation of responsibility. Ho holds administrative staff mootings periodically for smooth operation of tho school, as well as holds individual conferences with the teachers. Each problem, as it arises, must be dealt with on its own morits, and this position calls for many oxtra hours of work, which bocomos a labor of love when one really likos tho dutios and responsibilities that being chiof administrator of a large school requires. Greetings: As principal of Hueytown High School, I extend to the faculty, students, and friends of the school my warmest greetings. I count it as one of the great privileges of my life to work with the boys and girls of this institution. It is my sincerest desire that throughout the years our students will capitalize upon every available opportunity and resource at hand to improve themselves as citizens of tomorrow, so that they may render more valuable service to their fellowmen and help build better communities. Today, as never before, there is an urgency for better trained and educated citizens. To this task we dedicate our efforts. The task of administering the school is manifold, including variod. interesting, and challenging situations. It touchos upon the entire educative process of the student. Some of tho more specific duties of Mr. Louis Marty, our Assistant Principal, ombrace the studont's deportmont and carriage throughout tho function of the school day: the constant flow of telephone conversations and conferences with parents concerning attendance and goncral progress; and a persistent effort to solve oach studont's individual problem.