Leeds High School - Leeder Yearbook (Leeds, AL)

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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

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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

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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