Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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1920—Extended curriculum and increased enrollment force commissioners to take steps toward planning a new building. 1924—School Bond Issue passed. 1926— School moved from Barton Acade- my to new Mobile High School lo- cation on Carlin Street. 1927— School renamed in honor of Mr. S. S. Murphy, late superintendent of schools of Mobile County. 1930—Four hundred and thirty Seniors graduated. 1940—Five hundred and seventy-two Sen- iors graduated. Murphy High School, built in 1926, is composed of nine build- ings of Spanish Renaissance type of architecture. From the front may be seen the Academic or Main Building, Arts Building, Audi- torium, Cafeteria, and the Physical Education units. In the rear are the Mathmetics Building, Language Building, Manual Train- ing Shops, and the Biology Building. There are approximately eighty-five classrooms and four study halls. There are one hun- dred and fifteen teachers with five members of the office force and five librarians. Murphy High is situated on Carlin Street and covers thirty acres. It was built at a cost exceeding one million dollars. 1$

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a n ° y To make any statement concerning Murphy institutions and ideals would be but to reiterate what already has been so well expressed in picture by the Great Seal of the school. If ever one has noticed closely, in the center is the Murphy student with the whole world spread out before him. Occu- pied in his studies, he is in a surrounding of education which is being consummated in character. Indeed, it is watched over by Truth, who stands at the Murphian’s right shedding the light of consistency and advance with her mirror. The Earth, with all its thriving activity, opens wider with each passing day to give the Murphian his education and his cul- ture. Moreover, to these two are added the element which teaches the Murphian his duty to mankind and to himself. Embodied in the Constitution of the school are many of the fundamentals for which Murphy was erected. . . To insure good government, to maintain the standards of . . . honor . . . and to encourage the practice of good citizenship . . These are something of what is bound up in the realization of cre- ativeness and the broadening of knowledge and insight and the heightening of character—good government that is con- spicuously democratic, honor essential to the age, good citi- zenship which is the reflection of years—all an integral part of Murphy life. It is, further, multifarious. In fact, the variety is sur- prising. Thanks not only to a widely diversified curriculum but also to many different extra curricular activities which add to the genuine enjoyment and satisfaction of the Mur- phian, there is hardly a place where talent may not be used advantageously, and it is for just such things that Murphy is known and loved. Properly used, Murphy education stands unsurpassed for a constructive element. As a natural result of all the effort and concentration in the great school which Murphy is today—though much ca- pacity remains for improvement—there must come an event- ual triumph to the Murphian, and, to be sure, to his left there is Victory, holding over the Murphian’s head the laurel of an ideal, its visionary power emanating for the being of his life.

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 lP [ a a i n On this page are shown four of the most picturesque scenes on our campus, at top left the front of the Arts Building and lower left a back view of our beautiful campus in the springtime. Above is the north en- trance to the Main Building on which is seen unusual scroll work. The final picture depicts a campus rendezvous. 17