McAdory High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (McCalla, AL)

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1926 THE YELLOW JACKET 1926 (I lass Ufistor? Four Years ago. one night, weak and ueary Thinking, thinking as walked the floor.’ And there came strangers tapping. Some one gently rapping, rapping at mv door. Who should it be but a gang of boys and girls, fourteen in number, who had completed grammar school at various places and were now on their way to enter as freshmen at McAdorv High. They said they needed another member in order to have a lively bunch and solicited my membership. Of course, I was delighted and was immediately initiated. The first year we were very shy but having been taught how to conduct our meek selves we were not so timid and began to lay a foundation for future life. We became so wise by the end of the year you could see brilliancy in every face. We were very ably guided this first year by Professor B. E. Lee. as principal. After a very happy vacation, we entered in September as Sophomores. This year with thirteen in number, having lost John Harmon an aspirer of electrfcity rather than a student. Professor H. H. King was principal during our second year. Another September brought us back as Juniors feeling as if we were about to take our places as dignified Seniors, only one hundred and eighty days more. During these days we had as principal Professor R. R. McAdorv whom we had already learned to love while a former teacher. This year the following new pupils joined our band: Lael Miller. Phillips High School: Lorene Caffee, Edna Killian, Rubye Herring, Olan Holdsenback, W. A. Money. Louise Martin, and J. E. Reaves, of Woodstock High School. We lost Percy Parsons, who went to work. Jennie Pickens, and Irene Howton. who were fortunate enough to become Mrs. J. F. Reaves also left to enter Pickens County High School. We now numbered only seventeen. The biggest event of this year was the banquet given at the close of school in honor of the Senior Class. We reappeared as Seniors in September. '25. fewer in number than as Freshmen. These Seniors have faced courage and determination as never before but with the help of our able principal. Professot R. R. McAdory. and our faithful teachers, we stand tonight ready to receive our diplomas and to bid our dear old Alma Mater goodbye, wishing for her. all the success that any high school may enjoy. John Harmon, ’26. Ttrtnty-fottr

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1926 THE YELLOW JACKET 1926 president’s .Address Honorable Faculty, Classmates, and Friends:- We are gathered here as the graduating class of 1926 which will probably be the last time we will all be together on another occasion of this kind. We have been together for four long, yet short, years, in high school as students and classmates, struggling with arid mastering our work and we are now here to receive our reward. We have been together through pleasant, stormy and uncertain days and have shared our troubles, trials, disappointments and joys, which has drawn us close together in a cherished and happy bond of friendship and love for one another. This makes it hard for us to part and will cause a sigh or a tear when we shall look back over our high school days and think how happy and profitable they were spent and fully realize that we will never have the opportunity of going over them again. Though we miss our classmates who have dropped out from year to year yet we are proud for our own perseverance. We appreciate each other and Tmd joy in memory and hope for the future. The future suggests something different for each one of us. Some of us. no doubt, will take up the more sized tools of life and others an apprenticeship in the most thorough of all schools. Some will grow by filling what seems to be small places at home but the best work of our nation. We are as different pieces that go into the structure of a bridge that spans the great stream of life. At this time particularly while in our youthful and carefree days we are prone to think only of sunny skies and summer weather. While we appreciate and enjoy cloudless days, let us not forget that we owe ourselves, our fellow man. and our God. the care and protection of our health and strength. In fact, one can do nothing for us without our own intellectual alertness and earnest efforts to improve and use for his services those powers with which God has endowed us. Labor, love and faith will make for us a moral equipment upon which we can depend through a life of service. Y ;e as individuals and as a class owe a debt of appreciation, love, gratitude, honor and loyalty to our parents, our faculty, our school and our friends for the) have labored, sacrificed, encouraged and provided for us the necessities which have enabled us to be here tonight, one of the happiest occasions of our whole lives. Fellow classmates, it is impossible for me to express in words my feeling of appreciation and gratitude to you for electing me as president of your class. 11 has been a great pleasure and I shall always feel it a very distinct honor. Your help and kindness, your hearty co-operation and loyalty' have been greatly appreciated while serv ing you as president. Clyde Bailey. Class President. 26. Tarrnt 4hree

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1926 THE YELLOW JACKET 1926 Salutatory Ladies and Gentlemen: The Class of Twenty-six extends to you a most cordial welcome. We have reached that goal toward which we have been striving for four long years, yet. in a way. short years. We must now enter upon a broader field of life which lies before us; we must cast away our high school pleasures only to hold them within our memories and assume those graver burdens which beset us as we leave high school. Our equipment is good, our armor strong, so let us meet our future battles with courage and determination, remembering that a nation looks to her schools for brainy men and women. The time has now come when it is necessary for us. dear classmates, to part: but we can defy those circumstances to arise which can weaken those ties of friendship so deafly formed during our high school days. May confidence and truth abide with us forever. During the exercises tonight I bid you listen to our representatives as they project before us the various pictures of our high school life, as they prophesy into the distant future. To such scenes we again bid one and all a welcome. Louise Martin. Saluiahrian, '26. Valedictory Mr. President and Fellow Students:- It has devolved upon me as a member of the Senior Class of 1926 to give expression to a few thoughts appropriate to this occasion. I do so with a keen appreciation of the relations we have so long sustained with each other, with the faculty of this high school, and the world of affairs into which we are about to enter. ' A world with which we are henceforth to mingle not knowing what is before us. but hoping in the ardor of young manhood for the best. Fellow Students, we have been companions for four years four years to some of us. of diligent application to our studies, four years of light and shade to all of us,—four years of social fellowship and pleasant recreation, four years of mental and physical improvement. We have sympathized with each in trouble and sorrow: have lightened each other's hearts in time of sadness and have enjoyed high school life in each other’s society. We go hence with our diplomas, which the world looks upon as the keys that are to unlock the doors of science, art. literature, theology, physics, and merchandise for us: and open the avenues of wealth and honor to us. We go hence as we are. to the battle of life. What success we shall have, what victories we may win. the future alone can tell: but we go forth with strong hope Twenty-foe