Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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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.

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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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Murphy s twenty-ruth year—like any other year —was crowded with special events. To wit, Elinor Best and Phyllis Dunn, secretary and treasurer of AASC, smile at the breezy “Hop In sign that Transportation Chairman Bill I-ayficld has provided for Council jitneys ... In the Mohian assembly Sheik F. Lee Bridgewater (C»ordon Tructcl) and Flappers (Evelyn Raby and Norma Hall) pantomime a 1926 basketball game . . . The school turns out en masse for a field assembly—in the fall for a pep rally; in the spring for the twenty-fifth anniversary party, at which June Quinlivan is crowned “Miss Murphy 1951.” MOHIAN 10 ■