II F O R E W O R P This hook. THE LEEDER, the first annual to be published by the Leeds High School. Tee submit to the faculty and students for your judgment and approval. IVe hope you tvill accept and keep it as a memoir of the class of 1924. In this volume wc have tried to set forth some of the accomplishments of the year 1923-1924. n e n i c a r i o n to PROF. J. L. A PURS 11'ho through his generous interest and unceasing loyalty to the best interests and welfare of the school, not only of the Seniors but the entire school, we dedicate this volume of THE LEEPER. J. L. Ar ERS, Principal. MOGGIE STONE EOITOR-1N- CHIEF COUNNE MCLAUGHLIN SOCIAL EDI TOR LESTER KENYON ASST.SPORT EDITOR CCCILGRant Curtis urr SPORT EDITOR CARTOON I LEEDER STAFF NEIDA ASST t IFLCYDLAWIEY BUSINESS MANAGER AUBREY AOERS ASST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LOIA HOOVER - Utf E EOITOR T. SOCIAL EOJTOR THE LEEDER FACULTY |as. I.. Auers, Ph.B., LL.B., M.Accts. Principal Jacksonville Normal. Spring 1-ake College, Oskaloosa College. Hamilton College of Law, Wheeler Business College, Peabody College. Miss Mildred I 'oki . B.S.. English. Athens College. X. B. Breland. B.S., Science and Athletics. A. M. College of Mississippi. Howard College Normal. 6Yi v i Miss Camilla Albright. A.B., Math. Athens College. Summer Term Peabody College for Teachers, 1922. THE LEEDER A. E. Page. A.B., History and Civics A. B. Howard College. Student Cniversity of Kentucky. Miss Ruby Simpson . Home Economics Graduate in Home Economics Horence State Xormal School Student Peabody College for Teachers. Mrs. Grace Hudson, B.M.. Piano and Voice B. M. Cumberland Cniversity Con servatory; Courtwright Xormal Training School of Boston. Miss Bernice Lee. Piano Graduate Loulie Compton Scminarv of Birmingliam. Ala. Eight THE LEEDER 09 Mrs. P. I-Yotwv |r.. Junior I. Graduate Jacksonville State Normal. Miss Irene Walker. Junior II. Jacksonville State Normal School. Summer Term Howard College. Mrs. JfKrriE P. Allen. Junior I. Graduate Eighth District Agricultural School. Summer Term I'niver-sity of Alabama. Nine Mrs. Christine Plkoc.i k. Expression Judson College School of Expression THE LEEDER OUR SCHOOL SOXG Hail to thee, Our Alma Mater, May we all be true to thee. Thou hast been to us a pilot As we said on life’s rough sea. Chords Raise your voices, loud and cheerful Sing a song of Orange and Blue May we ever keep thee sacred For we’ll aye to thee he true. 1 lappy school days now are passing Days for us with meaning fraught And we well should heed the lessons In the gladsome school room taught. Keep us ever f thee mindful As we on our journey go May we praise our Alma Mater For thy children love thee so. A. C. A. Ten THE LEEDER Senior Class Officers Hubert Bacuv President Aubrey Aders Vice-President Nelda Roberts Secretary-Treasurer Smith McLaughlin Historian Cecil Grant • . • • Statistician Maggie Stone Prophet Curtis Littleton Poet Xeli.e Carrekkr Creed Raymond 1 1am mett Will Ralph Powers Crumbier COLORS: Purple and White. PLOW HR: Sweet Pea. MOTTO: C limb though the rocks be rugged. Twelve THE LEEDER Jamks Floyd Lawley ‘•Pop The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.” Business Manager The l.eedcr: Franklin Literary Society, L Club, Foot tall ’23. Lot a Jok Hoover They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.” 1 ranklin Literary Society, Chorus C lul . Joke Editor The Leeder. Doris Pauline Elliott I he noblest minds are those of which the noisy world hears least.” Helen Keller Literary Society. Chorus Club ’2d. '24. Ira Webster Deshazo Do not let books interfere with your education.” Helen Keller Literary Society, Football ’23. Thin cc it THE LEEDER Kuna Naomi Dorroucii “Jack” “She is loved for her .smile and her way of speaking gently.” I lelcn Keller Society. Willie Tera Hartsfield Bill” “She is tlie proud possessor of brown eyes and she knows how to use them.” Franklin Literary Society. Chorus Club 1923-'24. Earl Raymoni Ham mett Foots” “Studious, well behaved and ambitious.” Basketball '23. Football ‘23. Aukrey Clarence Adkrs “Skinny” “Pure in heart, humble in spirit, he seeks knowledge and truth.” Vice-President Senior Class ’24. President Helen Keller Society 23. President I. Club ’24. Basket Ball ’22. '23. 24. Foot Ball '24. Assistant Edi-tor-in-Chief The Feeder. Fourteen THE LEEDER Dewell Leon Miller Miller” “A Ik v who does his part and carries all his load. Helen Kellen Literary Society 23. ’24. Overton Nickerson “Nick” In the race of life he will not be behind. Franklin Literary Society. Rufus Cecil Grant IVar horse” “A disposition to win friends where-ever he goes.” Football '2.1. Vice-President L Club, Senior Class Statistician, President Helen Keller Literary Society 24. Student Council 23. 24; Atheltic Editor The Feeder. Hubert S. Bagby “Dad’ High erected thoughts seated in the heart of Courtesy.” President Senior Class. President Franklin Literary Society ’23. 24. L Club; Football 23: Basketball 24. Fifteen THE LEEDER X’elda Katherine Roberts “The true, strong, and sound mind that can embrace equally great things and small.” Secretary-Treasurer Senior Class; Assistant Business Manager The l.eeder. Helen Keller Literary Society, Sponsor 1'oothall Team 23. Daisy Rose Minyard “Quietness and politeness crowns this gentle maid.” Secretary Franklin Literary Society '24: Member Student Council '23. '24. Colinne Emily McLaughlin “A studious pupil, loved by both classmates and faculty.” Social Editor The l.eeder. A. J. Abercrombie “ Sheet er” Every man has his faults and honesty is his.” Vice-President Franklin Literary Society ’24. Sixteen THE LEEDER Smith McLaughlin “Blushing” “The best of Smith that's told lie's as smart as he is bold.” Franklin Literary Society ’23; Senior Class Historian '24. Curtis Littleton “Cotton hie who holds the admiration of all the students especially the girls.” Captain, Football Team ‘23: Senior Class Poet; Cartoonist for The Leeder; President Franklin Literary Society '23; Basketball '23: L Club. Maggie Viola Stone In gentle looks and talents rare Xone surpass and few compare.” Editor-in-Chief The Leeder: President Athletic Association; Franklin Literary Society ’23. '24; Senior Class Prophet . Frank Cooke It it be a gentleman and a smart scholar ye seek, ye have found him.” Franklin Literary Society 24. Snu’iitccn THE LEEDER Ralph Emerson Powers Tubby ne who is known and loved by all Senior Class Grumbler; Helen Keller Literary Sncfetv : L Club 24; Foot ball 22. ’23. A NX A Lou Gkokok To know her is to love her To see her is to smile. Helen Keller Literary Society. Saraii N'elle Carrekkk “Carkus Her docile disposition will surmount every difficulty.” Helen Keller Literary Society '22. 24. I. I). Scott “toots” Full of mirth from h;ad to foot.” Franklin Literary Society '2.5. 24 I’resident Sophomore Class ’21. Maurice Richards uMascot” Eighteen THE LEEDER Senior Class Poem W hy pause in sad meditation And weep o’er memories of the past ? Let’s rejoice in glad exaltation For winning the victory at last. Tis foolish to try to recall The days we’ve already spent. Climb onward for still we might fall Still higher our aim should he bent. But lo, the shadows are falling. And the rays of the sun are low; My task and duties are calling Lest night approaches, 1 go. As the light of the day is disclosing The senior year comes to its end And they both, as if they had chosen. Say. “Farewell, my senior friend.” A'inc I fit’n Curtis Littleton, Class Poet. THE LEEDER President’s Address Honorable Faculty, Classmates, and Friends: Four years ago the present Senior class began its climb towards those heights sublime which every student calls graduation. The way has been an upward way. long and tiresome, but nevertheless, a way of happiness and great meaning. We are more than anxious to express to our friends of the community who have contributed so generously to our welfare and who have made it possible tor us to have at our door such a splendid high school wherein we may prepare ourselves for the manifold duties of life. As we go out from the Leeds High School to play our parts in the great battle of life let us always remember that, “Success Comes to Him Who Tries. We are greatly indebted to our beloved teachers whose untiring efforts in our behalf have so abundantly helped us to win the victory which we now so much enjoy. Classmates, as we go out from our beloved school to mix and mingle with the great world about us. which shall try our very souls, let us remember that, “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Hubdekt Bacby, President. Twenty THE LEEDER Senior Class History One bright September morning back in the good year 1920, the senior class of ?24 started on its crusade to rescue its diplomas in the Holy I-and of Graduation. We had for our commander-in-chief Prof. Aders who has successfully guided us through our four years of high school life. We entered our first high school year with two pupils to each seat, so crowded was the school that year. However, by the second half of the year the new annex to the building was completed which gave us more room. Our proud class lost two members in the sea of matrimony this year. We entered our Sophomore year with a number of new recruits to help us in our conquest for knowledge. During this year three members of the class were decorated for bravery and promoted to the army just ahead, the Junior class. This year we gave up three more of our young ladies to the young men of the town. We entered the Junior year feeling glad and free. As we looked over our proud class we found several new students from St. Clair County, as well as some from Shelby County. We soon forgot our new students and glad feelings and before long fell in love with geometry and other studies. However, we continued to lose our pretty girls in matrimony. Some of our classmates moved away to other schools, but those remaining continued in pursuit of wisdom. We entered the Senior year with six new meml ers and one of our former officers, Mr. Breland, who came back to us from Jefferson County High. Our Senior year has been our happiest, maybe, because we are so near the goal. We are confidently expecting to make the victory complete by the twenty-fifth of May. 1924 Smith McLaughlin . Historian. Tii'cnty-oiie THE LEEDER a wi Senior Class Statistics Fellow Students: To me has fallen the preponderous task of compiling the statistics of this enormous Leeds High School Senior Class of ’24. In trying to find out what a statistician should do 1 am indebted to some of the greatest men of the country, among whom are 32 lawyers. 12 newspaper editors. 21 mechanics. 35 policemen, and five members of this Senior class. 1 found the following definition available: Statistics are conglomerations, compilations of facts: true or untrue, fantastic or otherwise, deflexible or fixed according to the predicament of the students, their active or imaginary qualities, properties or resources. I cannot present every detailed statistic. Should I do that it would take 7 leap years. 13 kilowatt hours, and 52 seconds, exactly half our beloved bachelor. Smith McLaughlin’s age. In our large family there are 24 members. Of this number ten are human: the remainder are gentlemen. The bulk of this class is due largely to having Willie Tera Hartsfield and Ralph Powers among its members. In fact. 1 am sorry to begin with the heavy weights of this enormous class, but I find this the hulk of my task. 1 find the combined weight of the family to 44694.4 grams by Charles’law. By subtracting the weight of Dad” Bagby’s shoes and Smith McLaughlin’s spectacles we have only half of that sum. 1 find the correct height of our family to l c 3241.2 inches. There has never lveen a more beautiful hunch of animals driven together since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. I find 88.4 per cent of them ready to serve as bathing models, 99.2 per cent as black face comedians, and 99.4 per cent have offers of positions as preachers, butlers, street car conductors, and various other positions of honor, all gained by their silly looks. By the theory of evolution you will observe that these Seniors have various wavs of obtaining and keeping their beauty, such as Aubrey Aders hair part. As a whole the bovs use only one gallon and four quarts of olive oil per dav. This costs 98 cents a gallon making a total of $4 334.29 per year which is enough to erect and support a male beauty parlor on each side of Courson’s barl ectie stand. 1 must be on my way as I have so many interesting things to relate about this class. My memory has collapsed with the thought of the next topic. O my. tlie home of grand opera jellies” and flappers. Could we invent a device to unravel the voices of Doris Elliott. Cecil Grant, and Xelda Roberts, we should have pitch high enough to reach the highest aeroplane pilot and lull him to sleep for a month. Twenty-two THE LEEDER During our stay at L. II. S. we have spent 66,242 hours in class. This does not include the time that Nelle Carreker and Frank Cooke have spent in riding the train. We should have spent 42.129 hours in preparation for the classes but the unusual brilliancy of Colinnc Mcl-aughlin and Curtis Littleton reduced that number to 194.248.5 hours. There seems to Ik- quite a diversity of opinion as to which member of the family uses the most shoe polish. Two are presenting their claims to this honor. The slight majority seems to favor A. J. Abercrombie, but the close friends of Overton Xickcrson claim a victory for him. It has been rumored that if the high title of Mathematics Shark fails to fall upon J. I). Scott it will unquestionably descend upon Maggie Stone. I am loath to close these statistics without mentioning the greatest problem ever undertaken by any member of our class, that of Loia Hoover and Anna Lou George in an elTort to find out the economical spirit of our class. You mav obtain the formula from said party. As we part with the old L. 11. S. we shed 5% gallons and 2 tears over, which shows that we love her as much as we do B. A. Higgins hot dog stand and the creek combined. When we leave there will Ik two Juniors and four teachers sorry, leaving the remainder to be glad forever and ever. Ckcii. Grant ’24. Twenty-three THE LEEDER Senior Class Prophecy It is inherent in the human heart to desire to look into the future. Today, fellow students, no doubt many of us are wondering what our future has in store for us. May we not lie guilty of building air castles, for some of us will be doomed to disappointment. One day last October, being tired of studying. I strolled down town to the notorious Higgins’ Mot Dog Stand.” There I ate weiners and hamburgers until I could hardly move. Very soon afterwards, feeling dull. lazy, and sleepy, I left the bunch of girls, went home and to my room. There I lay down upon my lied and was soon fast asleep. Suddenly I was aroused from my sleep by a soft, sweet, musical voice. I saw before me a lieautiful goddess draped in pure white. She informed me that I almost equalled Kip Van Winkle as a sleeper, for I had slept fifteen years. I was ashamed to appear to the beautiful creature, for I did not make a very attractive picture. She told me not to mind for she was accustomed to such sights in Leeds. In her snowy white hand she held a long scroll which proved to l e the record of the class of 1 24. Site very kindly consented to let me read it. as I was very eager to know what all my classmates had been doing since leaving school. I read it over and over with much enthusiasm until I knew it by heart. So today. 1 am able to present to you. fellow classmates, your future achievements. Ira DeShazo has become very important in the industrial world. He invented a machine for boring holes in dough nuts. After hearing Mr. Aders lecture so many times on Rural Economics, Hubert Bagbv decided he would accomplish for the animal industry what Burbank has for Horticulture. He began by experimenting on swine, and has succeeded in producing a breed which is almost entirely bam. Dewell Miller contemplated going to some well known college, but was caught stealing chickens and is now helping to reduce our heatless” days bv digging coal. A few years ago Raymond Hammett invented a fountain pen which would automatically write the answers to any possible examination question, l ie became rich selling them to Leeds High School students. Tubby” Powers has succeeded Dr. N. R. Baker as superintendent of education. Cotton” Littleton is traveling with a large pack on his back. He is determined to make a second Carnegie of himself. So far he has made slow progress disposing of his goods. I fe is still inclined to sleep in the day time. Overton Nickerson has accepted a call as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Birmingham and lias started to work in his new field. Twenty-four THE LEEDER Nelda Rol erts, the leading prinia donna of the season, sings to a packed house at the Metropolitan Theater, New York. Nolle Carreker. starring in “Follies of 1929” accounted for it- return engagement at the Jefferson. Aubrey Aders is coaching football and has thrice the fame of all others in that particular line. Smith Mcl aughlin is in the pill rolling business but his first attempts proved fatal t« the patients. Cecil Grant is director of athletics at Howard College, Birmingham. Mrs. I awrence Allen, formerly Anna Lou George, is now living in Acinar. Daisy M invard is teaching in Woman’s College, Montgomery. J. I). Scott rivals Ben Turpin in slapstick comedies. Frank Cooke has accepted the professorship of foreign languages at Oxford University, England. Floyd I-awley is living on a large farm in Shelby County raising corn for his own benefit. This being the last member of the class, I handed the goddess the scroll and she quickly vanished. I awoke from my very unusual dream and was very happy to find myself still in Leeds High School. Thus you have a part of the record of the class of 24. hethcr their achievements have been what they should. I leave to your own judgment, but 1 sincerely trust that none of you will ever do worse. Maggie Stone 24. Twenty-five THE LEEDER Senior Class Creed W e, the Senior L'lass of 1 24, of lhe Leeds High School, believe in the dignity of labor. Courage is our aim; justice our ideal; and school spirit our guiding star. We believe it our duly to love and ol ey our school laws and to co-operate with the faculty and student council who are responsible for this system of order. The Senior class of 1 24 of Leeds High School believe in a universal education which discovers or reveals the proper function for each individual, and helps him towards it, so he may render to his social surroundings the service of which he is capable. We also l elieve in the practice of reasoning, self guidance, and self control rather than complete obedience. W e are each for a’l and all for each. Sara Xei.lk Cakrkkek. 24. Twenty-six THE LEEDER Senior Class Will WV. the graduating class of the Leeds High School in the year 1924, being of sound mind and disposing memory, present to you our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by this class. First—We will to our beloved Prof. J. L. Aders fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building a new high school. We require him to make an inventory of the said investment each succeeding year and make a report to the witnesses of this will. Second—To Mr. Page, our history teacher, we present a Ik-11 for the purpose of finding him during class periods. We, also, will our gratitude and friendship to him for his pleasant songs during our happy school days. Third—To Miss Ford our promise to use correct English until the year 1900. Fourth To Mr. Breland, our hard working coach, we present a key to the tricks of a senior class; also, a book entitled. “The Prevention of Gray Hairs. Fifth—To Miss Albright, all our powder puffs, rouge, lip sticks, and a magic curling tong which will curl her hair while she works mathematics. Sixth—We will to Miss Simpson a companion to make useful her cooking ability. Seventh—We will and bequeath to the rats” all the old broken paddles; also, tlu privilege of paying high school fees. Eighth—W e will to the coming senior class our chemistry, English, and history honks; also, the room that holds our chewing gum, notes, and candy wrappers. We, the maker of this will and the graduating class of the Leeds High School, wish success and happiness to the student body behind us. May they make useful their inheritance. But yet, we have not bequeathed our best belongings; only tilings which will be soon forgotten. To no one do we will our qualities for they will come before us in judgment in the business world before us. T his document sealed by the Senior class of Leeds High School in the year P 24. in the presence of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Raymond 1 Jam mett. Tuvnty-srrrn THE LEEDER Ambitious Seniors A | oll of the Senior Class by the class secretary shows that each of them has decided on his occupation for life and will educate himself to this end. The dreadful thing about this Senior class is that there is not to he a single farmer in the group. Maybe, however, some of the Senior girls will become farmers’ wives. There is a good prospect now that this will he so. The following list of the Seniors shows what each hopes to he: Cecil Grant Maggie Stone Neldn Roberts Edna Dorrough Raymond 1 fammett A. J. Abercrombie Overton Nickerson Colinne M c I .aughl in Xelle Carreker Ralph Powers Loia Joe Hoover Daisy Minyard W illie T. Hartsfield Anna Lou George Ira DcShazo Smith McLaughlin Aubrey Aders Doris Elliott Frank Cooke Curtis Littleton Hubert Bagby Electrical Engineer School Teacher School Teacher Stenographer Banker Civil Engineer Civil Engineer English Teacher Singer Dentist Teacher Bookkeeper • . Nurse Bookkeeper . Chemist Chemist sit hie tic Coach Stenographer Lawyer Accountant Accountant Twenty-eight THE LEEDER Junior Class Officers I.Of IE Kl 1 1 Kate Cospek Doris Mitchell Fred Scott Lucile Cm axe v - President Vicc-Presiden! . Secretary Hist or inti • . Poet COLORS: Purple and White. CLASS FLOW HR: Lilac. MOTTO : Small in quantity hut large in quality. Thirty THE LEEDER JUNIORS J. 15. Kincaid Member Football Team 23; Franklin Literary Society; L Club; Athletic Association. Lucii.b Chaney Member Helen Keller Literary Society; Home Economics Club; Member Students' Council; Athletic sso ciation. I red Scott Member Helen Keller Literary Society; Athletic Association; Students' Council; Class Historian. Cleg Cosper Member Helen Keller Literary Society; Home Economics Club; Chorus Club; Athletic Association. Louie Kipp Class President; Keller Literary Society; Athletic Association. Myrtle Morgan Member Franklin Literary Society: Home Economics Club; Chorus Club: Athletic ssociation. Thirty-one THE LEEDER John McKei-vey “The cheerful grin will let you in W here the knocker is never known.” Member Franklin Literary Society; tliletic Association. La V er n k DeShazo Member Helen Keller Society; Athletic Association; Home Economics Club. “A happy girl with step as light as summer air.” Quitman Howard Member Basket Ball Team ’24; Helen Keller Literary Society; L Club. “An athlete, a friend to everybody, and a good student.” J )SEPHI XE I IAKTSFIBLD Secretary Keller Society: Secretary Home Economics Club. “A smile in time saves nine.” Irene Hartsfield Member Franklin Society; Home Economics Club; Athletic Association. “Bright, cheerful and studious.” Lester Kenyon ice-President Athletic Association; bootball ’23; Basketball '24; Baseball ’24. “Noble, upright and true.” Thirty-two THE LEEDER Millard Maxwell Member I- Club; Athletic Association ; Football ’23. Kate Cosher Member Franklin Literary Society: Home Economies Club; Class Vice-President. “Her friends, they are many.” Tom Hac.wood Football 23: L Club; Athletic Association; Franklin Literary Society: Basketball 24. “When he will he will.” Doris Mitchell Franklin Literary Society; Athletic Association; Home Econimics Club; Class Secretary. “Her heart is as large as her physique.” Judson Farley Member Athletic Association: Franklin Literary Society. He charms the ladies with his lr oks.“ Emmett Whitmire Helen Keller Society; L Club; Football ‘23. “He mav be depended on even in football.” Thiriy-thrcc @3 THELEEDER g| gi Junior Class History The Junior class of the Leeds High School has been one of the small classes all the way through. While we are small in quantity we hope to make up for it in quality. Though few in numbers we have contributed our part to the school. Two members of the Varsity basketball team, five members of the football team, and our share of the baseball men go to show that the Juniors are there in all school sports. Our class has been noted all along for it “pep” not only in athletics but it has a way of putting “pep” in all school work. Our history is just in the making as we expect to l e the smartest Senior class in the history of the Leeds I Ugh School. We are counting on several recruits to come with us during our Senior year. Altogether, we expert to make history in the future for the L. H. S. Fred Scott. Thirty-four THE LEEDER Junior Class Poem In nineteen hundred twenty-five Our school days will be o’er; When we shall lay the text books down Not to study any more. Just think how long we’ve been in school Nice girls and lx ys we’ve been But happy we shall ever be When all our school clays end. We’ve had to sit up late at night And in the early morning rise; And off to school we’ve had to trot To learn the things that make us wise. But then to bed at six we’ll go And rise at half past eight For we have sworn that ever more W e will not sit up late. Litcilc Chancy. Thirty-five THE LEEDER Junior Class Will We, the members of the Junior ( lass of the Leeds High School, being of sound mind (opinions to the contrary notwithstanding) do here and now make and declare this our l ist W ill and Testament. All former wills and testaments are this day declared by us to l e null and void. We appoint as executors of this Will, those members of the class, who. on account of high ambitions or for other reasons shall choose to return to this school next year. We bequeath to the Sophomores our right to be called the most conceited class in the school. W e bequeath to the Freshmen the great honors and wisdom that belongs to Juniors. To Miss Ford, our privilege of making cat calls out of our windows at any time. To Mr. Breland, the buttons off all our clothes and the surplus monev in our class treasury. To Miss Albright, our copy of “How tn Know What Others Think.” To Mr. Aders, the privilege of instructing our sons and daughters when they become old enough to attend the Leeds High. To the other teachers of the faculty, our half empty bottles of toilet water as well as our gratitude for their long suffering kindness and patience toward our many short comings. In witness whereof, we the Junior Class of 1924 do hereby set our bonds and seals, this the one thousand nine hundred twenty-four. Class of 1924. In the presence of : Doris Mitch el Josephixk I Iartsfield Thirty-six THE LEEDER Sophomore Class Organization Bradley Moore ........ Zelia Nki.ems ........ Vice Sever a h Robinson ....... Macon Aders ......... Evelyn Richards ........ COLORS: Crimson and W hite. CLASS FLOWER: White Rose. MOTTO: The higher we climb the greater the view. President President Secretary Poet Historian Thirty-eight THE LEEDER m m Sophomore Class, Section I 0-A Margaret Bailey-—Franklin Society. Chorus Club; Dramatic Club. The personification of cheerfulness.” Evelyx Richards—Keller Society; Chorus Club; Basketball ’24; Class Historian. Peaceful, quiet and unassuming.’ Zeua Xkeems— Franklin Society; I 'icc-President Class; Basketball And such winning ways.” IIamuel Hass—Franklin Society. His only fault is his all-'round goodness;” Aubrey Cooper—Keller Society; Athletic Association. A good, hard worker is he. Lse-Kl Dokrougii Franklin Society; Basketball Team .{. The proud possessor of good looks.” Hirdie Garrett—Keller Society; Maid of Football Team. She is a lovable class mate. L.vi.i.aok Howard—Helen Keller Society; Athletic Association. A girl worth knowing.” Thirl - ; ;. THE LEEDER Clyde Harris—Keller Society; Athletic Association. “A business man blit not a ladies' man.” Louise Lee—Helen Keller Society; Chorus Club. “Her smile and friendliness are contagious. A. L. Lyle—Keller Society Athletic Association. “A serious minded student. Bradley Moore—Keller Society; Class President. “A conscientious worker and an excellent student. Kxox Riley—Keller Society; Class Cartoonist. “He is wise and deep of thought.’ Madam xf. Sanders—Franklin Society; Athletic Association. “To know her is to love her. I .exie Vaughan—Keller Society “Red-headed but good natured. Virgil Lyle—Franklin Society. “A student who tackles everything with earnestness.’’ W illiam Si i.awx—Franklin Society; Athletic Association. “When he speaks everybody takes notice.” Forty Sophomore Class, Se ion 10-B Macon Aders—Keller Society; ('loss Poet. “Tall, slender, and fair.” Odell Burrs—Keller Society; Basketball ’23. “We are lotting on Odell. Emma Harris—Keller Society; Basketball 23. “Her voice is low, gentle and sweet. Mary Leslie Dorroucii—franklin Society; Basketball '23-24. “If silence were golden she would be a millionaire. Madge Harding—franklin Society; (horns Club. “Sweet, pretty and witty. Claude IIartsfibld—franklin Society; Athletic Association. “Just ask him.” Eugene 11 ayes—franklin Society; Athletic Association. “Always in a good humor. Natie Lee—Keller Society; Basketball. “To thee belong the laurels.” forty-one THE LEEDER ! i . Mcl)ax xal—Franklin Society. A maiden fair. Nolan Powers—Franklin Society. Extremely practical. Severaii Robinson—Franklin Society: Secretary Class. “To know her brings to your realization that you have a good friend. Him. Stone—Franklin Society; L Club; Football Team 23; Basketball; Baseball. Ever ready for a good time although lie passes his work. 1.01s Moore—Keller Society; Basketball Team. Pretty? That's she.’’ VYrvllie T1 iom psox—A cllcr Society; Basketball. “She is so full of j ep That she makes us step. Leroy Dostkr—Franklin Society; Athletic Association. “A good student. I’m Not a Poet Pm certainly not a poet I've never tried to write So. you must s«H n know it Just read what’s here in sight. The rhymes 1 make are funny Knough to make one smile They’ll never get me money This kind is out of style. But some day in the papers You’ll read this stuff of mine And cut a thousand capers And say. “Its simply fine. Macon Adcrs. Farly-ttco THE LEEDER Sophomore Class History We, the members of the Sophomore C lass of tin Leeds High School, have indeed, very much for which to he proud. Our class, collectively, has its faults and is not a favorite with the teachers. Nevertheless, the Leeds High School could not run a single day without its Sophomores. We do not know as much as the Seniors, nor. do we pretend to know as much as the Juniors think they know, but we are striving upward to a higher goal. We are persuaded that when the time comes to close our high school career, our class will have the highest average of any class that lias ever left the clear old L. H .S. Not only has our class grown in an intellectual way, hut also, in numbers. Vs Freshmen we started with twenty-five members. This year we have added eleven making a total of thirty-six in the class. When our Senior year arrives, we hope to still be thirty-six strong. Then, as now, we shall he l ound together by common ambitions, hopes, ideals, and an ever necessary firm loving spirit. I lowever. we expect to giggle enough during vacation time so that we may have leisure for serious study during our Junior and Senior years. As a parting word to the Freshmen, we would encourage you t make the most of the golden opportunities which the Sophomore year offers you. Imitate us wherein we deserve imitation and profit by the mistakes we have often made. Evklyn Richards. ’2( . Forty-three THE LEEDER Sophomore Creed Forgetting the things of the past, whether recitation failures, infringement f regulations, or what not. we press forward in the future, striving to raise the standard of our conduct and school work generally. We shall endeavor to profit by the mistakes of the past. We are resolved that no class in Leeds High shall excel 11s in real honest-to-goodness work. As we move up through the classes we shall ever keep in mind the Sophomor ■ motto: I he higher we climb the better the view. It shall ever he our purpose to contribute all we can towards making our school the best in the state. Then, and then only, shall we he satisfied. Braucey Moore. ‘26. Forty-four THE LEEDER Junior III, Section A CLASS. ROLL Kenneth Withixgtox Riley Stoxf. Byron Nickerson Owen Lawrence Maxine Lee Iyo Miller Ada Mae McI-auc.hlin Ruby McBrier Flora Vaughan Willie Mae DeLoach Gladys Courson Winifred Allen Iuiis Harding Matt Farley David Dorrougii Fi rty-six THE LEEDER Junior III, Sedion B CLASS ROLL Estelle Tate Benjamin Kincaid Myrtle W estbrook Herman Guinn John Powers Velma Parley Ruby McCord Evelyn Lee Lynn McLaughlin Clifford Pruitt Aldridge Bailey Hazel Rurfokd Forty-seven THE LEEDER Junior III, Sedion C CLASS ROLL Roy 11 agwood Joe Lkiinf.r Howard McNeil Borden Wesley Thomas Kipp Roy Spruiell Hubert Elliottt On ZELL T RUSSELL Stanley Brasher Mary George Pauline Coursox Sarah McKelvey Margaret Lem.nek Byron Dorough Forty-eight THE LEEDER Junior III Organization Frank Price ....... Aldridge Bailey Onzelle Trussell Clyde Taylor ....... CLASS FLOWER: Yellow Rose. CLASS MOTTO: Green hut growing. Junior III Hi ory Our days in high school have been too few for us to have made much history. However, we are lieginning to make ourselves felt in the L. H. S. Three more years will give us ample time to prepare ourselves to occupy the Senior’s place with honor. W e boast of fifty-three members, fresh, and ready for any new experience. In this number there is talent for anything the world may ask, ranging all the way from movie stars to professional luxit-hlacks. We are afraid of nothing, not even the Seniors. Nothing is beneath our notice,—not even the Junior I and Junior II students. We expect to profit from association with them all. We ask no more than three future years to labor, grow, and enjoy our work as an undivided class. President Vice-Preside tit Secretary Historian Clyde Taylor '27. Forty-nine THE LEEDER Junior II CLASS ROLL Pauline Burford Margaret Scott Paul Bac;by 'Morris Bumbshell Bobbie Harding Georg elle Jones Louise C ruse Pearl Jones Velma Carr Clarice Whitmire J. D. I -AW LEV Edna Butts Maukixe Rilev Chlorine Dor rough Louise Broom Fulton Abercromhie Iona Broom Josephine Childers Hugh Poe Hazel Dorrough Sessel Cochran Ruth Splawn Harvey Carr Adrian W hitmire Dottie Crumpton Fifty THE LEEDER Junior I CLASS ROLL Minnie Lee Whitfield C11arlotte Elliott Elya George Dorothy Law ley Sarah Harding Gertrude Hayes Una Mae Lee Lozelle Turner Floyd DeLoach M A ROOKIE X KILE MS Vonceil Crawford Earl McBkier Hazel Dawson Biddie Kirkpatrick Simmie Hartsfield Emmie Hartsfield '1'i iomas Bass Grace Moore Theo Moore Elizabeth Robertson Ethel Lawrence Xolan Fulmer W ill]e Edwards Aline Courson Lincoln Robertson Bryant Whitmire Howard Wood Mildred Braswell Lucille Mullins Julia Farley Herbert Lehner K e n n et h Me La ug iilin Martin Harding GwENDOLYN KINCAID R. V. DeShazo Robert Pool Fifty-one THE LEEDER The Future We never know what winds may blow, Nor what a day is bringing. But often times we hear the chimes Of Future’s promise ringing; And, yet, her promise often dies Before her hopes materilize. N et often quite, to our delight. She bears her promised flowers, Whose loveliness blooms but to bless The loneliest of hours, And make more beautiful the day long life's melancholy way. Fair Future, thou are laden now With hope’s so bright and pleasing— But ah, how fast encroaching Past With chilling blast is freezing The high and happy hopes of youth Into the trying facts of truth. When Future dies the Present’s eyes Weep over her a minute. Then drawing near her lonely bier. Shed tears of sorrow in it; Then lengthening Past begins to keep His watches where her ashes sleep. II. Carlisle. Fifty-two THE LEEDER FOOTBALL A PERFECT SEASON Members of the 192.5 football team representing the Leeds High School arc more than proud of being a member of this winning combination. It was the first team ever to represent the high school upon the gridiron. It was left to Coach Breland to produce a team worthy to fight for the school. When he called for candidates to report for practice some thirty odd responded to his call. 'Phe first afternoon was taken up with explaining the rules of the game. Of the number reporting not more than six men had ever played the game. In fact, the material looked very discouraging. The season’s success is tine to Coach Breland. His knowledge of football is not excelled by any high school coach in Alabama. Also his ability to handle the boys is unexcelled. Our first game was with the strong Pell City eleven and the Lecders considered them a dangerous foe. Somebody must have put the Pell City outfit wise that Leeds had a real football team for the Pelletts called off the game. After another hard week's work the Leeders went up against the Mortimer-Jordan team. The Leeders had been coached to always knock a pass down behind the opponent's goal. This happened in this very game at the very beginning of the conflict. The Jordanites proved to Ik no match for the Leeders as the score in this game will show, 37 to 7. Next came the strong Sylacauga Aggies. The Aggies had a real football team as every man on the Leeds team will agree. In this game 1-ester Kenyon of the Leeds High aggregation showed the fans that he could really hit the line in great fashion. Whitmire was holding down the left wing and nobody was crossing his end with any degree of success. Phe Leeders won from the Aggies after a great struggle by the score of 14 to 0. Next came the Jacksonville State Normal School team to battle Leeds for the honors of the afternoon. In this game Pop” Lawley distinguished himself. He had the speed of a “Spark Plug.” He made a race track out of our opponents end. Dad Bagby played a great game, too, against the Nonualites. The score in this game was 14 to 0 in favor of Leeds. Following a week's practice came McAdory High which game Leeds won 21 to 0. Maxwell starred in this game in the backfleld. Fifty-four THE LEEDER Following the McAdory game came Fairfield High. This Fairfield eleven knew how to play football. The Feeders had to extend themselves to the limit to win and then by only two points. In this game several Leeds men were injured and with substitutes playing the important positions it looked like Leeds would lose. But every man had the nevor-say-die spirit. Littleton, one of the best back field men in high school circles, played the game of his life. Skinny Aders, the little quarterback was playing with a broken ankle, and had to Ik relieved by Kenyon at quarter during the later part of the game. Fairfield lost to Leeds bv the score of 14 to 12. Following the Fairfield game the Feeders with their sponsors and a large crowd of supporters journeyed to Anniston to play the Alabama Military Academy. The soldiers were too much for the crippled Feeders and took the game by the big score of 51 to 0. The last game of the season was with the Alliance school. This game was played on Berry Field at Howard College. The Feeders were too much for the Alliance boys. It seemed that every man on the Leeds team was out for a record that afternoon. In this game Skinny Aders showed that his toe was educated to kick the pigskin anywhere he wished it to go just so it went through the goal. Seven times straight he kicked goal alter touch downs. The afternoon’s pastime closed in Leeds' favor by the score of 58 to 12. This marked the close of a great season for the Feeders. The prospect for next season is not bright as most of the best men will graduate, as the Feeds High School has a way of graduating l oys before they get big enough to play football. Cecil Grant ’24. Fifty-fire THE LEEDER Breland Coach lit hails from Mississippi A. M. where he starred in athletics. To him L due the excellent showing of the team of inexperienced boys. Littleton.................................“Cotton Cal'ta in “Cotton” led his team to victory six times out of seven games, lit hits the line like a pile driver and causes his opponents much pain and trouble on both the offense and defense. A great tackier. Lawley...................................‘'Pop Halfback Our diminutive halfback. Swiftness is his long suit. He is sure to gain when his turn comes to carry the pigskin. Kenyon .................................... Khaki Pullback He leads in touchdowns for the season. He is a sure gainer over opponents and is as g«n d fullback as one may find in prep circles. Fifty-six THE LEEDER £io. pVi PovOex-a G VACM Ci Tackle Aubrey Adcrs Quarterback Ernmeii ttxd Adkrs..................................... Skinny” Quarterback “Skinny” is noted for his educated toe. His toe decided two contests of the season. It was his generalship that made the season a success. He is a great broken field runner and an artist at stitT arming opponents. W11 IT m IKK................................“Whit End “ Vhit“ is a great pass receiver. He always hits his man for a loss. He is one of the hardest fighters on the team. Grant......................................“War horse Tackle He held down the difficult | osition of tackle like a veteran. Due to his fighting spirit he well earned the title “Warhorse.” The 24 squad will miss him. Powers.......................................... Tubby (i uard The largest man on the team. I !e is a good guard and on duty at a moment s call. He was in every play and a valuable man on the team. Fifty-seven THE LEEDER Hubcrd n jcv)el HjvII b«vck John Jones bill Slone End End H bn by Cervter Max welt...............................“Mac” End (,ur lightning express. Mac is a sure tackier. He was used at halfback the last of the season. He carries the hall well. J°XBS................................ Johnny End He has the never die spirit and though light he won a birth at left end. He will make the I., II.S. a valuable man for next year. Stone Little Hornet” End Little Hornet is the midget of the team. He always happens to he in the way when an opponent comes his way. We count on him for 74. Hacby......................................“Dad Center Dad is snappy and fast, lie is in the middle of each play. He passes the ball well. He is a stone wall. fifty •eight THE LEEDER Moore.................................... Lanky Guard Lanky was a little late coming out hut lie proved himself a valuable man to the team. He always clowned his man and was always there with the lighting spirit. Kincaid..............................“Night Owl” Tackle He gets his name from keeping late hours. He was on duty every minute of play. No harder lighter can be found than Kincaid. W atch him in 24. Fifty nine ® THELEEDER gj gj Basketball Team Basketball On the evening of December 1. 192.?. we started our first workout on the hasketfxall floor. After two weeks hard practice the first game of the season was played with the Birmingham-Southern College. This was merely a practice affair as the college lx ys were thought out of our class. The score showed otherwise, however, as the high school lads won the practice game hv the score of 24 to 17. The first real game of the season was with the strong Dora quintet. This game was played on the Birmingham Athletic Club floor. In this game as usual Skinny Aders ran wild, shooting them from all angles, while the guarding of Howard and Littleton gave evidence that again Leeds would have a basket hall team which would measure up with most any high school in the state. The score in the Dora game was 52 to 31 in favor of the Lccders. Harbour and Andiews were the stars for Dora. The second game was on the Leeds court and with the Corner High School. Corner came to Leeds unheralded and had the Leeders guessing as to their strength. No sooner had the game started, however, than it was seen that the Corner lx ys were outclassed. The score was one-sided and furnished the fans little entertainment for the afternoon. Leeds won 41 to 7. Bor several days following the Corner game Coach Breland had the Leeds lads practicing on the fine points of the game getting ready tor the District Sixty THE LEEDER Tournament to he in Birmingham. In this tournament only Jwo teams were to qualify to go to the state tournament at Montgomery March 7-8. The first team to be drawn by l-eeds was the strong Mortimer-Jordan team of the Jefferson county system. The games were played on the Y. M. C. A. floor at Birmingham. In the Mortimer-Jordan game the I.eeders seemed at first to he a little excited but soon Skinny Adcrs began to loop them through the liasket and this gave the I.eeders new determination. Soon all the team was going like a machine, the result of which was a splendid victory for the Leeds High by the good margin of 24 to 10. This was our first victory of the tournament. The following day Leeds drew Jones’ Valiev team of Powderly. The Jones Valley lads fought hard all through the game but were up against great odds. Howard and Littleton would not let the Jones Valley forwards get through. So the result was a slaughter for the Powderly boys. The Leeders won by the onesided score of 52 t 2. Already the fans in the tournament began to predict that Leeds would go to the finals because of their fine team work and remarkable shooting ability. The next team to fall before the Leeders was the scrappy little Sayre crowd. This team had been going like a house afire till they drew Leeds. In this game little Johnny Jones showed up so well that he became a fixture on the team for the rest of the season. Me played all over the floor and stuck to his man like a leach. Again. Aders looped them through at will while his team mates covered themselves with glory. Especial mention must he made of Nickerson in this game. I bis youngster played a great game. The next game was to l e with the strong Alliance team. The sport editors of the Birmingham papers had been claiming all the way through that The Leeders would strike their Waterloo in Alliance as the Vines combination was rated among the state’s best. Betting was in favor of Alliance. But the scribes and critics had not had the opportunity to fully size up the strength of the Leeders. They were, therefore, doomed to disappointment. Leeds proved too much for the lliance hoys and they fell before the Leeds’ scoring machine by the score of 28 to 9. It was the excellent work of the Leeds guards in holding the Vines boys in this game that made victory possible for Leeds. This victor) made it possible for Leeds to play the strong Simpson team in the finals. The Inns went into the final game with sore feet and went about the game in a listless way as Skinny Aders was forced to play standing guard on account of blistered feet. The result was a Simpson victory by the score of M to 12. Had the Leeders been physically fit the story would have been different. The result of this tournament was that Leeds and Simpson will go to the state tournament .it Montgomery in March. After resting a few days the Leeders hoarded the Central of Georgia for Auburn to play in the Cotton States’ tournament. The first team to he drawn in the Cotton States’ tournament was the Macon County High of Xotasulga. The Leeds team started off the new tournament in good style by defeating the Xotasulga team by the score of 42 to 21. It began to look like Leeds would play in the finals in this tournament as they had done at Brimingham hut the Auburn High School won over Leeds by one point. The James’ combination was outplayed in the first half, however, the halfway point showing the Leeders to he in the lead by 15 to 9. In the second half the long shots of the James boys soon put them in the lead and Leeds was knocked out of a trophy bv the narrow margin of one point. Here’s hoping that Leeds will have a chance at the Auburn team at Montgomery. Lester Kenyon '25. Sixty-one Girls’ Basketball Team I his is the first session in the history of the Leeds High School that the girls have had a team. Games this year have been confined to class games. Almost daily the teams representing the various classes clash on the girls’ court. I he championship in the school has not been decided at the time this annual is going to press but the girls from Junior III seem to have an edge on the rivals of the other classes. However, one can never tell about a girls game and it might turn out yet that the Sopohomores will win. Next season it is propesed to put a strong girls team to represent the Leeds High and it is sincerely hoped that the girls will bring honors to the school as the lx ys have done in their games. Sixty-two THE LEEDER Baseball The Leeds High School expects to make a good showing in base-ball during its ‘24 season. At the time The Leeder goes to press there is an excellent prospect for a winning team. With Littleton, an old Jefferson County star, to do the pitching and with Cecil Grant to catch we should be there in the old pastime. Xo doubt Leeds will be a regular team in the North Jefferson High School League. Last season Leeds and Fairfield together constituted one team owing to there being too many teams for each one to have a place in the league. PROBABLE LINE-l’P Pitcher........................Littleton McLaughlin Catcher..............................Grant, Maxwell First Rase....................................Harding Second Rase..........................Adeks. Hag wood Third Rase .... Stone. Harding, McLaughlin Short Stop.............................Stone, Esc hex Right Fielder....................Bagby, Dorrough Center Fielder ... .... Kenyon. Howard Left Fielder.....................Nickerson. Stone Sixty-I hr re THE LEEDER Whos Who in Leeds High Most popular boy Most popular girl Hast looking boy Prettiest girl Best-all-round athlete Best all-round student Biggest Bum Smoothest liar run Most popular teacher Cutest girl Homliest boy Laciest boy Cecil Grant Myrtle Morgan John McKelvey Xelda Roberts Aubrey Aders Bradley Moore La Verne DeShazo Pip Howard Estelle 'Pate . Mr. Breland Byrime Garrett Clifford I'rujtt Cotton Littleton Sixty-four HOME ECONOMICS CM B THE LEEDER Home Economics Club Organizations ON2ELL TRUSSELL...............................................President LaVERNE DeSHAZO ... Vice-President JOSEPHINE HARTSFIELD . . . Secretary-Treasurer To bake better bread MOTTO: To make better wives To f et better husbands. COLORS: Pink and Green FLOWER: Pink Carnation. CLASS ROLL AcufT, Glenn Harrell, Evelyn Burford, Hazel Isbell, Julia Burford, Pauline Jones, Georgelle Broom, Louise Jones, Pearl Broom, Iona Lee, Maxine Butts, Edna Lee, Evelyn Butts, Annie Leh ner, M argaret Brasher, Stanley Morgan, Myrtle Carr, Velma Mitchell, Doris Cosper, Cleo McBrier, Daisy Cosper. Katie McCord, Ruby Chancy, Lucilc McLaughlin, Ada Mae Courson, Pauline McKelvey, Sarah Courson, Gladys Osburn, Delaine Cruise, Louise O’Barr, Mabel DeShazo, La Verne Powers, Mary Ruth DeLoach, Willie Mae Riley, Maurine Dorrough, Hazel Splawn, Ruth Dorrough, Chlorine Scott, Margaret Farley, Velma Sanders. Bessie Foster, Lillian Tate, Estelle George, Mary Trussell, Onzell Hartsfield, Josephine Vaughn, Flora Hartsfield, Martha Frank Westbrook, Myrtle Whitmire. C larice Sixty-seven HOME ECONOMICS ROOM THE LEEDER Home Economics Who we ore and what we do. Domestic Science and Domestic Art was introduced into the Leeds High School two years ago. It has proved to Ic one of the most valuable courses for every high school girl. Last year we began with prilimir.an lessons to acquaint ourselves with the equipment and general instructions for working in the kitchen. The real study of food principles soon began, which went from the simpler food materials to the complex combinations. After the study of each food practical lessons followed. 1 his helped us to understand clearly each step in the process. One of the most interesting things to us is the planning anil preparation of meals, from nutritive, economic, and aesthetic standpoints. We try to correlate this with the home problems. We have prepared lunches and sold them for the benefit of our department. sold candy at various times, served lunch to the Jefferson County Board of Education, served the faculty, and sometimes other sections of our class. Our art work deals with the selection of clothing and garment making. Our exhibit last year included garments for the home, anything from a cup-towel to a bill spread. Also, garments for each girl, dresses etc. In our exhibit this year each girl will wear her dress to show what is meant by appropriate dress, style, and color. We have organized a home economics club this year. The object being to study, in a group, the improved methods of cooking, sewing and home planning. Homes of taste is now our ideal. This is our art. and. as in all other arts, “there is no short road to the goal”. Onzell Trussell ’27. Sixty-nine gg gj THELEEDER gj gJ Helen Keller Society I'he Helen Keller Literary Society endeavors to give the best training to be had in literary’ work. Helen Kellers lead in debating and literary work of all kinds, and are continuing to uphold their motto: To Be and Not to Seem. The future holds but good for its members realizing that, Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind”. (first semester) AUBREY ADRES......................................................President NELDA ROBERTS................................................Vice-President JOSEPH IN E HARTSFI ELD...........................................Secretary {second semester) ( EC IL GRANT.....................................................President BRADLEY MOORE................................................Vice-President COLINNE McLAUGHLIN................................................Secretary Seventy THE LEEDER Adcrs, Aubrey Aders, Macon Brasher, Stanley Burford, Hazel Butts. Annie Carreker, Nellie ( Haney, Lucile Cooper, Aubrey ( osper, ( leo DeLoach, Willie Mae DeShazo, La Verne DeShazo, Ira Dorrough, Edna Elliott, Doris Elliott, Hubert Farley, Mathew Farley, Velma Garrett, Birdye George, Anna Lou (.rant, Cecil Hagwood, Roy Harris, Clyde Harris, Emma Hartsfield, Josephine Hammett, Raymond Howard, Callage Howard, Quitman Jones, John Kincaid, Benjamin Kipp, Louie Kenyon, Lester Lee, Evelyn Lee, Louise Helen Keller Society Roll Lee. J. T. Lee, Natie Lehnfer, Joe Lyle, A. L. M( Brier, Ruby MoKelvey, Sarah McLaughlin, Colinne McLaughlin, Ada Mae McNeil. Edward Miller, Dewell Miller, Ivo Moore, Bradley Moore, Lois Nickerson. Byron Powers, John Powers, Ralph Price, Frank Richards, Evelyn Riley, Knox Roberts, Nelda Scott, Fred Tate, Estelle Taylor, Clyde Thompson, Wryllie Vaughn, Lexie Whitmire, Emmett Withington, Kenneth Faculty Advisers: Mr. Aders Mr. Page Miss Simpson Scvnily-one gg gj THELEEDER Jg Franklin Literary Society Fhe Franklin Literary Society is proud of the progress it has made so far in all lines of literary work, with special success in debating when lined up against its Helen Keller rival. The Franklins boast of having the biggest society both in quantity and quality in the school. They promise a far greater membership in the ensuing year. Every new student is invited to become a Franklin and urged to look over the work of any rival organization before coming into our midst. (first semester) CURTIS LITTLETON..............................................President HUBERT BAG BY............................................Vice-President MYRTLE MORGAN.................................................Secretary (second semester) HUBERT BAG BY . A. J. ABERCROMBIE DAISY MINYARI) Seventy-two President I ice- President Secretary THE LEEDER Abercrombie, A. J. Acuff, Glenn Albright, Camilla Allen. Winfried Bagby, Hilbert Bailey., Aldridge Bass, Ha mu el Cooke, Frank C'osper, Katie Courson. Pauline Dorrough, David Dor rough, Lee-el Dorrough, Mary Leslie Doster, LeRoy George, Mary Hargood. Tom Harding. Loins Harding, Madge 1 lartsfield, ( laude Hartsfield, Irene Hartsfield, Willie Tera Hayes, Kugene Hoover, Loia Joe Kincaid, J. B. Kipp, Thomas Lawrence, Owen Lee, Maxine Lee. J. T. Lehner, Margaret Littleton, Curtis Franklin Society Roll Lvle, Virgil McCord, Ruby McDannal, Ida McKelvey, John McLaughlin. Smith Minyard. Daisy Morgan, Myrtle Nelcms, Zelia Nickerson, Overton Powers, Nolan Pruictt, Clifford Robinson, Severah Sanders, Madeline Scott, J. I). Splawn, William Spruiell. Roy Stone, Bill Stone, Maggie Stone, Riley Trusscll, Onzell Vaughan. Flora Wesley, Borden Westbrook, Mvrtle Whitfield. Bill Faculty Advisers: Mr. Breland Miss Albright Miss Ford % Scrciity-thr,'f gj g THELEEDER gj gj L Club Hie L C lub of the Leeds High School is one of the “live wire” clubs in the school. Its membership is made up of all letter men of the school. All the teams of the school, basketball, baseball, football, and track is represented in its membership. C LI B MOTTO: We win ’em all. Lester Kenyon Millard Maxwell Curtis Littleton Cecil Grant Kmmitt Whitmire Bradley Moore Pip Howard J. B. Kincaid CLUB ROLL Aubrey Aders Floyd Lawley Lynn McLaughlin Bill Stone Ralph Powers John Jones Byron Dorrough Hubert Bagby Seventy.four Choral Club The Leeds High Choral Club has been a real live club all the year through. On Wednesday mornings the entire school is serenaded from eight-thirty until recess by the sweet voices of the girls singing do-ra-me: lo-la-lu and many other well known syllables to the tune of the scales from C to F. But. they sing other things too. The club has appeared in several recitals and one operetta during the season, as well as in many less formal affairs. The work this season is just the beginning of still greater things for the club. Next session a large chorus of some hundred voices will do chorus work. Mrs. ('.race Hudson is unexcelled as a director. The students enjoy the work and already some splendid vocal talent has been discovered in the Leeds High. Seventy-five Piano Club I he piano department of the Leeds High School is one of the very interesting departments of the school. The class became so large this year that the instructor, Mrs. (.race Hudson, had to employ an additional teacher in the person of Miss Bernice Lee. A number of piano recitals have been held during i he year which was greatly enjoyed by the public. We are the future musicians of I .ceds. CLASS ROLL Vonccil Crawford Julia Farley C.wendolyn Kincaid Kva Mae Jones Elizabeth Kol ertson Maurine Riley Evelyn Harrell Fulton Abercrombie Edna Butts Mary Ruth Powers Glenn Acuff Annie Butts Margaret Lehner Evelyn Richards Madge Harding David Gardner Srt cut y-six NELDA ROBERTS Voted the Prettiest Girl in the Leeds Itij h School. Sevcntx-sci'cn THE LEEDER Don’t Fool Yourself It’s well enough to dream about The things you’d like to do: But you must wake and get to work To make your dreams come true. The one content to make his grade With work that just gets by, ill find but few to comfort When his grade bids him good-by. Life is like a poker game Some bluff is needed to get by; But if you have the wit and grit The limit is the sky. Two or three hours a day in study spent Is much the surest way To make the teachers acknowledge That you are all O. K. If fortune offered me tin- choice Of all her treassure store I’d take the gift of knowledge And 1 e happy evermore. Lucille Chaney ’25. Seventy-eight Tom Payne—Freshman Tom Payne was a Freshman in Harvard College. He was one of the most popular rats in the whole school and this was the reason why the upper class-men were always hazing poor Tom. It happened one cold, rainy night in Fel:ruary that Tom was called away from the college grounds on important business. After having obtained permission from one of the authorities to leave the grounds he hurried on his way to meet the party with whom he was to transact the business. But fate was not to let him go in safety that night, for. just as he was leaving the grounds, he met two Seniors who immediately stopped him and asked what business he had out at that late hour of the night. (It was 9:30 o’clock then—a late hour for a Freshman to be out). Tom explained that he had some Sevcnty-ninf THE LEEDER important business to attend to and begged to be excused from their presence as lie was in a hurry. After asking several more foolish questions the allowed him to go. but warned him not to stay out after eleven o’clock, promising to give him a good beating if he did. Tom hurried on to attend to his business, while the two boys whom he had just met, and who were eager for some excitement, hurried oiT to tell their pals about it. The result of the conversation was a plan to give, “that popular Freshman ’ as Tom was called, the whipping of his life. Fifteen minutes past eleven and no Tom in sight! The two boys and their pals were waiting for him on the long, concrete bridge which crosses the creek at the foot of the college hill. “Say” cut in a sharp voice from one of the upper classmen. “I believe you two boys are just trying to pull a joke on us about this Freshman’s being out at this time of the night. They all know better than to be out after nine and here it is fifteen minutes past eleven. If 1 knew you were fooling me I might get mad and hurt you, “he growled. But, I tell you we are not joking, for he certainly told us he was going out on business and would be back by eleven . The quarrel came to a halt as a whistle was heard in the direction from which Tom was to come. In a moment a familiar figure to all w ho were crouching close to the side of the bridge, came in sight. It was Tom and no mistake about it. A cry of. “Get the Freshman arose and. before Pom could escape he was hemmed in on all sides. Tom was made to stand with his back to the cement side of the bridge and, was told to remove his coat. He did so; just as the first boy was ready to strike him with the paddle, he saw a chance to escaper. To do this, he must jump lip on the wall of the bridge and run down it a little way. and jump off into the road again and beat his would-be-hazers into his room. Quick as a flash he jumped upon the wall and started to run but, as luck would have it, he missed his footing and fell headlong over the side of the bridge, striking his head on the cement rail as he fell.— The music was playing softly, and a lady dressed in black had just finished singing, “Nearer, My God to Thee . It seemed to Tom as if lie could hear the good preacher, whom he had so often heard in his childhood, saying good things about him. Oh. how lie longed to be back in the world again and live out the life he had so suddenly left. Then the sermon ended and the people that Tom once held so dear passed b to take the last look at him. Near the end of the line came a girl who was weeping bitterly, and Tom immediately recognized her as the girl whom lie had loved more than life, itself. Now Tom longed to sit up in his place and tell her and them that he was not really dead. Slowly the music was growing fainter and the smell of fragrant flowers was taking its place. Then a little ray of light seemed to stream through into I Huh i y THE LEEDER s his eye; he seemed to move his head,—and who was this standing over him smiling? Was it not his mother? But why should she he smiling when only a few minutes before she had stood over him weeping bitterly? He slowly turned his head to the other side of the l cd, only to meet the smiling face of his father and sister, and. yes, there was his sweetheart whom he had also seen weeping only a few minutes ago. “Well, Tom. old boy, it was a close call”—It was his father talking. “Yes, it was a close shave, Dad, but I am just about out of danger now,” Tom managed to gasp. “Dad, sit down and tell me all about it.—just how it happened and everything”. “Wail until morning, my boy, when you feel better and, I am sure you can read all about it in the papers for they will l e full of the story”. The next morning Tom’s Dad brought him the paper. He noticed the headlines which read something like this: “Hazing is Abolished at Harvard Following the Serious Accident of Young Bayne”. Tom read the whole account explaining how he lost his f x ting on the bridge and fell into the water below, striking his head on the cement wall. Sam Hale, one of the boys who attempted to haze him, had played the part of a real hero when he dived into the water below and rescued Tom from almost certain death. “Well,” mused Tom to himself, “it was a close call for me but it certainly helped all the Freshmen and Fresh men-to-be by abolishing the hazing system in old Harvard”. Aubrey Aders. Eighty-one THE LEEDER m a A Reverie I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers And as fast as I dreamed it was coined into numbers: My thoughts ran along in the Senoir class meter I'm sure I never saw any poetry sweeter. The first thought was of Loia, with cheeks that glow Bobbed locks and pretty dimples that show; She was a blushing bride (artistically arrayed) J. I), was the groom—a happy pair they made. Next was aviator Hubert with an intellegent eye Known over the world for one dare-devil fly; And very much to the Seniors’ regret Ira has never received his diploma yet. Cecil proposed to Doris, twas all in vain He told his friends that he would never again. But soon to Wile he lost his big heart And vowed. “Prom her I'll never depart . Dear little Edna to the winds did cast All her love affairs of the past As she and Overton were united in marriage And rolled on their honey-moon in a snow white carriage. Poor Willie Tera for Cotton did wait While he wandered over many a state-And at last found Maggie, his bride And happily they sailed on the matrimonial tide. Messrs. Hammitt. McLaughlin and Cooke All for a charming bride did look. So these Senior maids they did pursue Nelda, Daisy and Anna Lou. Somehow, 1 don't know why I awoke just now with a meaningful sigh Not knowing the fate of the whole Senior class But since that’s all, it will have to pass. Col in tie McLaughlin '24. Eiyhty-tico THE LEEDER A Freshman’s Day in High School 8:30 t ; 9:00 9:00 to 9:40 9:40 to 10:20 10:20 to 10:40 10:40 to 11:00 I 1:00 to 12:00 12:00 to 12:40 12:40 to 1:20 1:20 to 2:40 2:40 to Dark “Outshine the Sun.” Boys and ( '.iris’ Winking ('oiliest ( '.iris win. Perfect peace. Margaret goes to her music. Recess, Play “Flying Dutchman”. Byron Dorrough arrives at school. Roll call of gigglers for matinee. Lunch, Hot Dogs. Dash—pause, stop! ! Girls make Miss Simpson’s trousseau. Boys build her “Love Nest”. Matinee in session, Multiplying, Maxine Lee, Junior III. Better English Week Beginning February IS. Ending February 23. My! What a stir in old L. H. S. Everywhere you go you run right into a comical poster or drawing suggesting, “Down With Bad English’’. The Seniors are given the honor of tagging all the other high school students for the errors in speech they made during the week. Each class was tagged with a different color as follows: Freshmen, green; Sophomore, yellow: Junior, red. Monday February 18. the Freshman class showed their real spirit by giving several yells and songs up-holding C.ood English. Tuesday morning the Sophomores rendered a very humorous program, just a reminder that Good English Week was with us. Friday morning the Junior and Senior classes staged a mock-trial in which Bad English was doomed,—“now henceforth, and forever” in the Leeds High School. Hubert Bagby, president of the Senior class called the presidents of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes respectively, to the stage, shamed and accused them of having so many students in their classes who had wrongly used the English language. After this the tags with their errors were burned, better words supplied, and every one was pleased with the progress made during the week to stamp out Bad English. Eifthty-three THE LEEDER Class Excursions In accordance with an announcement made by the Principal of the Leeds High School last fall the Juniors and Seniors were taken on several excursions to places oY interest in the Birmingham district to study at first hand the process of manufacture of many of the common place things with which we have to do in everyday life. CEMENT PLANT One of the first visits was by the class in Chemistry to the cement plant in Leeds to study the process by which cement is manufactured. It is very strange that the boys and girls living in Leeds did not know how this important article of commerce was made and the plant located, too, right at the door of the high school. Mr. V. A. Withington, former superintendent of this plant took great interest in explaining to the class every step in the process of cement manufacture. He began at the huge quarry of the company’s plant where the crude limestone is taken from the ground and carried to the great crushers in small cars. After crushing it is thence carried in conveyors to huge storage tanks in the bottom of which is a “shoot”. Here it is ground in what is termed a hammer mill. It is then carried through the huge kilns where it is burned. Coming from these kilns it resembles lava. It is cooled by water being poured over it by large hose. Then it is carried to a large “clinker' pile where it is allowed to season. After seasoning it is carried by large cranes into the mills where it is sifted through screens,again,and at the same time mixed with gypsum. Again it is sifted through screens to a dust or powder, put into conveyors and carried to concrete silos where it remains till ready for shipment. From the silos it is carried on a large packing house where it is packed in 95 pound sacks and dropped on an endless chain and carried to the box-cars for shipment. The class extends to the management of the plant its thanks for this instruction. We highly appreciate this courtesy. THE AGE HERALD The next excursion of the class was to the Age-Herald Publishing Company’s plant in Birmingham to study how a large newspaper is made. The class was graciously received by the management and every step in the process of newspaper manufacture was explained including typesetting, news-getting, reporters’ duties, business management, anti distribution of papers after coming from the press. We made a study of the huge presses and the class marvelled at the speed in which the newspaper is turned out. Many thanks for the courtesy of the management of the Age-Herald. WHEELER Bl'SINESS COLLEGE. While on a trip to the Age-Herald plant the classes were invited to visit the Wheeler Business College, “The leading and representative business college of the South . Here the class learned how one really becomes qualified to enter into the business world. First, we visited the bookkeeping department in which real accountants are educated for the business of accounting. We found the courses very thorough and the class was convinced that after studying at Wheeler and receiving a diploma one is beyond doubt qualified to fill any position as an accountant. Next, the classes were taken to the Stenograph ic department in which secretarial, court reporting, and in fact any kind of stenographic work is thoroughly taught. The students came away with a feeling that when through high school several of them will enter the Wheeler Business College for a course in business training. Thanks to Prof. Willard J. Wheeler for his courtesy in carrying us through this excellent school. Eighty-four g @ THELEEDER gj The Seniors S— is for the Senior class of nineteen twenty-four E— is for Edna, No one could love her more. N— is for Nelle, the Cooke Springs’ beauty I — is for Ira. He comes from up near Moody. O— is for Overton, the jelly of the class R— is for Ralph,—step aside to let him pass. C— is for Colinne, Cecil and Cooke L— is for Loia, whose heart Sam took. A— is for Aubrey, the ladies' man. S— is for Stone, Maggie does all she can. S— is for some I had to leave out. There just wasn’t enough letters To bring them out. Nelda Roberts '24. Eighty-five THE LEEDER Songs We Still Love ()ur Senior class, which has never gone wrong, Has sweet smiles and thought it puts in song. The first one is not musical hut rather a chant. Entitled, “The Dying Hobo , and is sung by Dram. Xelda sings in a broken voice that will always quiver, That favorite hymn, “Shall We Gather at the River . Nick sings. Long Lost Mamma (and he's really a shark) While our quiet innocent Skeeter sings “A Kiss In the Dark . The howling tenor that makes you want to go off and cry, Is “Skinny” singing “Let the Rest of the World Do By”. The next favorite, “Somebody's Done Me Wrong . Is Miller’s special, (here's hoping it'll not last long). From the corner of the room comes this dismal plea, From Tubby in. Oh How She Lied to Me . Another up the line makes you wish you were in Vancouver Can You Love Like Loving Sam from Loia Joe Hoover. Blushing sings the song that makes you shiver Take Back Your Heart, I Ordered Liver While from a far corner of the room comes a refrain From Daisy Minyard in that old song “Kiss Me Again Willie Tera sings to herself in an undertone Dee But I Hate to Go Home All Alone Another song that will not be forgotten I’m Missing Mammy’s Kissing. sung by Dot.ton. Then on quiet summer nights we hear the screech owl And your faithful old hound naturally wants to howl. Just remember that Nolle with the guitar plays the tune Red Wing . Nellie Dray , and Swanee River Moon . Then Hammett who is the tallest in our class you see, Sings, Sweet Loving Mamma, Please Come Back to Me . From the youngest in the class we hear this song, By Frank Cooke. The Little Ford Rambled Right Along”. Dorris sings that familiar song. I’m Running Wild . Scott comes next with, I’m Mamma's Angel Child . Maggie. Colinne, and Edna sing, Si’s Been Drinking Cider They may seem rough but they wouldn’t harm a spider. Only about two more and then I’ll be through You’ve Dot to See Mamma Every Night by Anna Lou. And last of all and you wonder what it’ll be But after careful thought remember it is. I Love Me . —Hubert Bagby. liif hty-six THE LEEDER The Japanese Girl One of the feature programs of the C horal Club this year was an operetta entitled, “The Japanese ('.irl by Charles Vincent. The cast of characters was as follows: () Hanu San. a wealthy Japanese girl, Nelda Roberts () Kitu San. her cousin, Willie Tera Harts fie Id. () Kayo San. her cousin, Loia Joe Hoover Nora Twinn, an American girl. Evelyn Richards Dora Twinn, her sister, Margaret Bailey C'haya, Loise Lee Miss Knowall, a governess, Doris Elliott The friends of () Hanu San, Fay MsLaughlin Lucile Mullins, Mildred Brasswell, Hazel Dawson, Ethel Lawrence, Vonceil C rawford, Dorothy Lawley, Louise Lee. Maxine Lee. Chlorine Dorrough, Madge Harding, Evelyn Harrell, Estell Tate, Sarah McKelvey Margaret Lehner, Cteorgelle Jones, Hazel Dorrough, Ruth Splawn. Director, Mrs. ('.race Hudson. School Improvement Association The Leeds High School is greatly indebted to the improvement association for the great work done by this body of men and women for our school. Recently the association has re-plastered the entire inside of the building and has painted the inside of the building making it almost like new. Equipment for the building such as chairs, maps, a program clock, etc., has been supplied by them. But the greatest work of all which has been done by them was the erection of a large manual training building for the boys, costing more than fifteen-hundred dollars. They have also, helped to buy athletic supplies such as football, baseball, and basketball outfits. They now propose to buy playground equipment of the best sort. The association has the thanks of both the faculty and student hotly of the school for this wonderful aid. OFFICERS: MRS. J. WALLACE LEWIS MRS. JUDGE CASON MRS. I. LEVY . lUf hfy-scvcn . President Secretary Treasurer THE LEEDER Library Shower During tlie first week in December the classes of the high school entered into a contest to see which class would secure the greatest collection of books for the library. This was a spirited contest and many valuable contributions to the library were made by students and citizens of the community, insomuch that the library is now up to the standard as required by the Accreditment Committee of the State. Senior Class Play The play to be given by the Senior class this year on or about commencement time is an excellent play and the best talent to be had is to stage the play this year. The title of the play is, “The Path Across the Hill . The characters are as follows: Samuel Crawford, Grandpa,, Robert Post, The Visitor Walter Conrad. Ruth’s brother, I)r. Jimmie Reed, With Ambition Salamander Jones, Zuzu's choice, Mrs. Davis, Grandma Ruth Conrad, Nicknamed Bobby, Flo Gray, Ruth’s cousin, . Lutie, a neighbor. Zuzu, the cook................. . Hubert Bagby . Aubrey Aders . Curtis Littleton Cecil Grant Quitman Howard Maggie Stone . Nelda Roberts Zelia Xclems . Birdye Garrett . La Verne DeShazo May Day Festival On Friday the ninth day of May this year, there is to be a May day festival given by the Leeds High School. Elaborate preparations are already under way to make this the greatest day in the history of the school. The contest to see who is to be the May Day Queen is already under way. The race waxes warmer and warmer. During the day an indoors program will be given and the whole afternoon will be given over to crowning the Queen and to games which are being arranged for now by the coach. Crowds are expected from the surrounding country for miles around. This is always a red letter day in the history of the Leeds High School and looked forward to with eagerness by the students as the day of days. Eighty-eight THE LEEDER Senior II, Some Years Hence As I looked over the group of Senior 11 class I thought we’d all (lock together but—alas This morning while on the campus I tarried Josephine rushed up and said, “Myrtle’s married As we were all mourning the loss of out mate We didn’t dream the others would have the same fate. But today as Lueile passed by she said, “They’ve started Building a house for Khaki . We’re loosing our classmates one by one, For the beauty of the class Irene, is now a nun. No one ever thought Cleo would make a hit But she’s now living in Lineville with Pitt. J. B. and Zelia were both too high temi ered to be Partners; so J. B. is still making good grades in geometry. John McKelvey, the jelly bean didn’t get Nelda,—he’s now Working for Mr. Isaac Green. Katie Cos per, the candy kid is still as poor as ever Since she married Sid who can afford candy, never. Fred Scott, once called the wop surprised us all When he climbed the ladder of success to the top. LaVerne DeShazo, who was thought to be a bum Is now an arithmetic teacher, just watch her do a sum. Lueile and Louie, who in school would always their candy divide Have gone out on the great matrimonial tide. Doris Mitchell. 25. Eighty-nine THE LEEDER IS m Leeds High Alumnae In looking over the roster of the former graduates of the Leeds High School who they are, where they are. and, what they are doing we find that our graduates make an excellent showing in the business and professional world. More than twenty-five of the former graduates since 1014 are teachers of note, scattered over the states from Georgia to Missouri. A number of them are employed in the Jefferson County schools, three of them being in the Leeds school. We find, further, that many of the former graduates have gone to colleges and graduated with honor from some of the great institutions of the country. Among this number we mention Dr. Dyer Farley, now instructor in Tulane I’nivcrsity at New Orleans. Also Dr. Floyd Attaway a noted physician, who also graduated from Tulane Medical College. Among the famous engineers who have gone out from the Leeds High School and later graduated in engineering from some of the best colleges we mention. W in. Withington who is now a famous engineer in the city of New York. Robert Abercrombie, engineer with the Atlas Portland Cement Company. The following statistics are available and from which one may get some idea of the former boys and girls of ours: Married, 20; teachers, 25: music teachers, 1; engineers. 5; doctors, 2; chemists. 1; stenographers, 2; in college now, S; dead, 2. These figures have been taken from the list of graduates since 1914. (Our Draft LOITSK BLAIR (1919) PRATT ADERS (1922) O, give to me that perfect trust That faith and hope in C.od That when this body from the dust Shall turn back to its sod, My soul may live in endless youth W here hope is lost in love and truth. .X in cty THE LEEDER Juniors Entertain Seniors The Junior class of the Leeds High School entertained the Seniors at an elaborate banquet given at the home of I)r. and Mrs. J. I. Mitchell Monday evening March the seventeenth, from eight until eleven o’clock. The color scheme « f green and white, suggestive of St. Patrick's Day was successfully carried out. Small green trees were used as place cards. Louie Kipp, president f the Junior class, acted as toastmaster. Several good speeches by both Juniors and Seniors added to the pleasure of the evening. Good music and good “eats” were features of the occasion. Senior Picnic at Cooke Springs On Friday, April 18. 1924 the Senior class took an all day outing at Cooke Springs where they were graciously entertained by a member of the class. Nellc Carrcker. The girls carried lunch (the kind you like most after a mornings swim or boat ride) and the hoys provided tickets for the girls. I he class left Leeds at 0:30 o’clock on the Southern train and came back about 9:00 o’clock. I he party was chaperoned by Miss Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Breland. The trip was educational to the Science classes, as well as enjoyable, as every kind of water was examined carefully at the many springs. Dinner was served at the hotel at seven o’clock. Stories and music provided entertainment until the train arrived. Football Banquet One of the most interesting numbers on the social calendar for the year was a banquet given in honor of the Leeds football team. 1 his came just after the big game of the season, the game with the Sylacauga Aggies. In fact, the banquet was given on the evening of the day on which the game was played. The only thing to mar the pleasure of the evening was the stiffness of the fellows who had fought till the sweat seemed to be blood to win this game that afternoon. Many interesting talks were made by the citizens as well as by the members of the team praising the boys for the splendid victory. It was really a “pep” meeting. Xinely-one THE LEEDER School of Expression 1. AIMS AND METHODS: The student receives suggestions and advice regarding the simplest habits of her life. Every student is expected to find herself. Students are given such work as to make her impression more adequate and awaken her inner life. This is tested by the simplest expression and conversation. I he school tries to accomplish results by allowing no kind of imitation, but by stimulating and awakening her own creative j owcrs which gives every person personality. 2. TRAINING OF VOICE AND BODY: Every person realizes the necessity of a well trained voice and body. A person may have splendid thoughts but unless they have a pleasing voice and a well poised body, thoughts demand very little attention. In this work we give, therefore, special attention to the training of the voice and body. 3. CREATIVE EXPRESSION: So high a place does individual expression hold that, from the first lesson creative work is insisted upon. Conversation, discussion of problems anti short talks on different topics, public recitals, plays, readings etc., is the order in the classes. Also criticism. This shows a person wherein they have failed to do their best. A pupil must first know, then do, and in doing they can become. Margaret Bailey, ’26. Choral Club We were just settling down to the routine of school life in September, becoming accustomed to our new teachers, looking at them through critical eyes, wondering just what was before us in the year. Our musings and wonder-ings were interrupted by a loud knock on the door. In walked our piano teacher, Mrs. ( race Hudson. After engaging in a long conversation with the teacher she called us to order and asked all the music pupils to meet with her that afternoon. We were full of curiosity as to the purpose of the meeting and so all of us flocked over there. It was there that we organized our Choral Club. We hardly knew the meaning of choral and most certainly we did not know how to start the work. We were on a straight road without knowing which Niiicty-tzvo THE LEEDER way to turn, “babes in the woods as it were. But, we were not long in finding out the meaning of it all. It took long hours of preparation for our first concert in November. There were times when we would grow discouraged after long hours of practice for our director certainly believed in the old addage. “Practice makes perfect”. The audience was very appreciative of our program which was rather an Autum affair with songs pertaining to harvest time. To break the monotony several piano solos were rendered. After our November program we thought we should have a little rest. But no; then came the work for our C hristmas program. This proved harder than before as our teacher had become convinced of our ability after our first success. The program consisted, almost, entirely of Christmas anthems and carols. Our work during the new year was somewhat milder than before. Maybe this was because we were becoming accustomed to the work. Maybe it was in anticipation of the last work we would have, the Commencement program. At any rate the Choral Club of 1.923- 24 has meant much to us all, and we hope to do even bigger and better things the coming year. Evelyn Richards, ’26. Signs of Spring Blooming flowers and sunshine And the birds are singing everywhere Buttercups and violets Send their fragrance through the air Swarming bees and dewdrops On the flowers cling, Crickets by the hearthstone. These are signs of Spring. Robins in the trcetops Singing merrily Skylarks in the meadows And the chickadee Sing a song of greeting Best that they can bring— The little brooks are dancing— These are signs of Spring. Open doors and windows, Now, the south wind blowing, Boxes on the poarches Pretty flowers growing. See the Boston Ivy To the chimneys cling Cpward sends its branches— These are signs of Spring. Aubrey Aders, ’24. Xinety-thrcc THE LEEDER Memories of ’24 Many times when thinking of days gone before Our minds will drop hack to the year '24; And One thought that will always come to us Is. when we failed to study, how our teachers would fuss. We began the day right by singing a song,— Mr. Page would stop us and tell us we were wrong. Then, singing through his nose in a sort of hum, He'd waive his hands and show us how 'twas done. Then back to our rooms we marched very quiet But once in the room it was a free-for-all fight. Until above the noise of Hying books and chalk To the door of our room the teacher would walk. Then into the room would come our English teacher With the ways of a flapper and the looks of a preacher; She lectured and took names and you don't have to guess That half of the class stayed in at recess. Next came Breland and. with his deep bass He managed to keep his class in the highest place. And in laboratory we prepared table salt. Wood alcohol, gunpowder and common liquor malt. Mr. Aders came last with algebra and history And the things he showed us are still a mystery. But, after all, no matter what everyone says We still remember our old high school days. Ralph Powers, '24. Ninety-four THE LEEDER Bradley Moore: “I have traced my ancestry back to an Irish king. Macon Aders: “Sure, what chance has a dead man got to defend himself.” Anna Lou: “Doris, do you believe in phrenology? Doris: No, as an experiment I once went and had my head read and I found there was nothing in it. Zelia: I am afraid it wont fit”, said she as she tried on the ring. Lester: That’s funny, 1 never had any trouble with it before. Miss Albright: Evelyn, what is a circle? “A circle , replied Evelyn, is a round straight line with a hole in the middle . I loved her hard, I loved her well, But she grew cold and distant I thought to love her any more Would be too inconsistent, And I quit. Willie Tera galantly escorted her hostess to the table. May I , she asked, sit on your right hand? No” replied Myrtle. I have to eat with that. You’d better take a chair. Hubert: I heard that Aubrey said that he would trust me with his pocket book. What do you think of that? Ralph: I don’t think there’s anything in it. Louie Kipp: I'm a self made man. Irene: You knocked off work too soon. Ninety-six THE LEEDER Miss Ford: J. I), you must not laugh out loud in the school room. J. I).: I didn’t mean to do it. I was smiling and the smile busted. A hundred years ago today A wilderness was here A man with powder in his gun Went forth to hunt a deer; But now the times have changed Somewhat along a different plan A dear, with powder on her nose does forth to hum a man. Mrs. Fuquay: Yes, I heard a noise and got up and there under the bed I saw a man’s leg. Mr. Page: Mercy, the burglers? Mrs. Fuquay: No, my husbands. He heard the noise too. On days like this I must admit I like my cold bath Warmed a bit. Johnny had been sent home because he needed a bath. His aroma was not exactly delicious. The next day the same dirty little Johnny appeared with this note: Hear Teacher: 1 sent Johnny to school to be learnt not smelt. From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest heights—Carlyle. Do you wish for kindness, be kind. Do you wish for truth, be true W hat you give of yourself, you will find The world will reflect back to you. Bob: She was true to me but her teeth were false. .V inety-sttren THE LEEDER HEARD IN THE LIBRARY: John McKelvey: What time is it? Bobby: I ni a little fast. John McKelvey: Yes, I know; but what time is it? Mr. Page: (lit history) Can anyone tell me what made the tower of Pisa lean? Doris Mitchell: I don’t know, sir. If I did 1 would take some myself. Prof. Aders: After reading my book what do you think of it? Miss Albright: I simply think the covers are too far apart. I know a maiden fair to see Take care! She can both false and friendly be Beware! Beware! Trust her not She is fooling thee. She has two eyes, so soft and brown Take Care! She gives a side-glance and looks down, Beware! Beware! Trust her not, She is fooling thee. And she has hair of a golden hue, Take care! And what she says ,it is not true. Beware! Beware! Trust her not, She is fooling thee. She has a bosom as white as snow. Take care! She knows how much it is best to show Beware! Beware! Trust her not, She is fooling thee. She gives thee a garland woven fair. Take care! It is a fool's-cap for thee to wear Beware! Beware! Trust her not. She is fooling thee. Xinety-eiyltt —Selected THE LEEDER Loia Joe in Chemistry class: What is the difference between pneumonia and ammonia? Mr. Breland: I don’t know. Loia Joe: One comes in bottles and the other in chests. Mary was a sweet young thing Who didn't drink or smoke; There wasn’t a commandment made That Mary ever broke. She was so darn unearthly good That, gosh, 1 wouldn’t be her— But Mary went away to school And now you ought to see her. —Puppet Mr. Page: William, I'm mighty glad to see you in school today. Every time I see you I think of you. Before Exams. 0 Lord of Hosts be with us yet Least we forget, least we forget. After Exams. The Lord of Hosts was with us not ’Cause we forgot, 'cause we forgot. Eve had no Christmas Neither did Adam Didn’t have socks Nobody had 'em. Never got cards Nobody did. Take this and have it On Adam, Old Kid! Census Taker: Have you any brothers? Little Boy: One. C. T.: Does he live here? L. B.: N'aw, he goes to college. ('. T.: Anv sisters? L. B.: One,. C. T.: Does she work? L. B.: Naw, she don't do nothing, neither. Ha! Ha! Ha! You thought This was a jf Little poem Didn't you? A inc-nwe m THE LEEDER m Time Flies (To the Girls) Backward, turn backward, O time in thy flight. Give us a maiden with skirts not so tight; Give us a girl whose charms, many or few, Are not so exposed by so much peek-a-boo. Give us a maiden, no matter what age W ho wont use the street car for a vaudeville stage Give us a girl not so shapely in view; Dress her in skirts that the sun won’t shine through. Then, give us the dances of days long gone by, With plenty of clothes and steps not too high. Oust turkev-trots and buttermilk-glides, The hurdy-gurdy twist and the wiggle-tail slides. Then let us feast our tired optics once more On a genuine woman as sweet as of yore. Yes, Time, please turn backward and grant our request, For God’s richest blessing—but not one undressed. (To the Men) Backward, turn backward, O Time in thy flight. Give us a lad who is yet, and yet bright, Who really is able to sit and converse Without every word being slang or a curse. Give us a lad who respects womankind, W ho has something besides cards and dice on his mind; Whose greatest ambition is not just to fiirt And refer to all women as a Jane or a Skirt. Give us a lad who can be a good fellow, Without drinking Hooch down in somebodys cellar. Yes, Time, please turn backward, and give us again. In place of these, “would-be-sports”, Give us some men. 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