Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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MUHIAN STAFF MARILYN YOUNG Editor WAYNE SMITH Business Manager CAROL WAITE Art Editor ANNIE LOU WHITE Adviser ROY R. WILKIE Consultant BETTY ELAINE BAKER FRANCES GAYNOR ELIZABETH PANKEY VIRGINIA BYRD JUANITA HARVEY JO ANNE PAYNE ANNE CAIN MARGARET HOPE JOHN PETIT MARY COOK ADELE HORST DORIS REED WILLIAM COSTELLO ELISE HUDSON MARY SEMPLE EULALIE DRAUGHON PAT JACKSON BETTY JOAN SCOTT MARY GENE DUNWODY BOBBIE RUTH McLAURIN STEWART SMITH CORINNE EDWARDS CAROLINE MULLINS JOY TOBLER MAMIE LOU EUBANKS JEAN NOLEN SARAH ANN WATTS 'Associat» member of the .tail was Johnny Neel, who contributed several pictures. Including those used on the title page and the page facing ACTIVITIES. Pdge Six

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THE yyiohian. 1947 Published by Senior Class MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL Mobile. Alabama Pii e Five

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J-oa wojuL W E SPANIARDS have had a strong influence on the history and traditions of Mobile. To begin with, it was one of my adventurous countrymen. Admiral Pineda, who in 1519 discovered Mobile Bay. We failed in our efforts at colonization under Tristan de Luna, and so Mobile was founded by the French in 1711. At the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763. Mobile became an English colony. In 1780 we Spaniards returned under the leader- ship of the youthful Governor Galvez, and our red and yellow flag with the emblems of the castle and lion waved over the city until 1813, when the Amer- icans seized it as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the three decades of our occupation we built Spanish Fort and gave many of the streets Spanish names, such as, St. Emanuel, Conception, Joachim, and St. Michael. And in 1947 we Spaniards are still coming to Mobile—from Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, and other countries to the south. We come to do business, to visit, and even to study at Murphy High School, whose beautiful Spanish Renaissance architecture is yet another sign of the strong Spanish influence in Mobile. (hi Capitan, this braggadocious fellow who struts across the pages of the 1947 MOH1AN, has been adapted from the caricatured Spanish captain of the sixteenth cen- tury Italian popular theater, Commedia dell' Arte.—Art Editor) Page Seven