Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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Below — Mr. H. M. McManaway, director of guidance and dean of boys, clarifies college re- quirements for Senior Paul Lombard; Upper right — Members of Mrs. Pinncll’s Core class prepare a poster on recreation; Lower right— Miss Elizabeth Mayers, pioneer in vocational teaching, gives individual attention to pupils. During the years since 1926 numerous and frequent changes at Murphy have adapted the school to an ever-changing philosophy of education and have kept it adjusted to community needs. Re- cent developments include a program of guidance, to aid students faced with personality problems or choices of colleges and college courses; a Common learnings program, which has strengthened the link between the school and the community; a new .vocational unit, resulting from the incorporation of Semmes Tech; and an Adult and Veteran Division, which may one day expand into a community college. THAT DREAM’S COME MOHIAN 8

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DREAM WAS BORN It was Friday afternoon in April, 1926. The eighteen hundred boys and girls at Barton had been dismissed at noon. But the ninety-year-old building, stately and beautiful behind its high picket fence, was far from quiet. Dozens of students hurried here and there, collecting books, tablets, hats, and other personal belongings. Vans were already at doorways loading furniture and equipment ready at the noon dismissal. Teachers and students were on the move. Tomorrow it would be literally ‘Farewell, OKI Barton.’ Barton, for nearly a century the capstone of Mobile's public school system, would no longer be the capstone. Monday morning classes would meet on the usual schedule, but they would meet in the new million-dollar building on Carlin Street. Monday morning it would be ‘Hail, Mobile High School. Thus wrote Mr. Frank L. Grove, principal of the new high school, to Superintendent S. S. Murphy on April 13, 1926. Anti thus a dream was born—a dream which in its original sense was to come true, yet a dream which was to grow as the community grew; a dream which was to foster still other dreams; a dream from which was to emerge one of the largest and best high schools in the South; a dream which is alive today, for— “The dream goes on forever —only the dreamers die— past reason’s last endeavor, belief’s last ecstasy . . . MOII I AS 7

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The Adult and Veteran Division provides instruction for any adult whose edu- cation has been interrupted or for any foreigner desiring courses in English and Americanization. The sewing class pictured below is only one of many classes offered by the evening school. Others are art, photography, metal working, jour- nalism, etiquette, and basket weaving.