Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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w f V HE HEN I consider Life and its feta years— A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun; A call to battle, and the battle done Ere the last echo dies within our ears; A rose choked in the grass; an hour of fears; The gusts that past a darkening shore do beat; The burst of music down an unlistening street,— wonder at the idleness of tears. Ye old, old dead, and ye of yesternight, Chieftains, and bards, and peepers of the sheep, By every cup of sorrow that you had, Loose me from tears, and make me see aright How each hath back what once he stayed to weep: Homer his sight, David his little lad! Mr. Lawler devoted a goodly jxmion of his life to Murphy High School — as teacher of science and biology and chairman of the Science department, as pioneer in visual education both at Murphy and in Mobile County, as general co-ordinator of the complex exaluation program of 1950. Friends at Murphy will long remember Mr. Lawler’s kind face, which wore in later years “the twilight of a grief, but in that grief the star- light of a smile. They will remember the face because they loved the man. • 9 •

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J' MATT .1. LAWLER

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 4 i vi (s fw% t i vi Dr. Raymond G. Wilson PRINCIPAL Memphis State University, B. S., Duke University, M. Ed., Univer- sity of Illinois, Ed. D. As head of Murphy High School I)r. Wilson participates actively in organizations of high school prin- cipals. Currently he is chairman of the Southern Association Commis- sion on Research and Service, the first high school official ever to serve as such. He is also one of the seven-member National Curricu- lum Planning and Development Committee of the National Associa- tion of Secondary School Principals. This year at Murphy was a fairly normal one. The imbalance in enrollment, with the smallest senior class in the history of the school, was due to the transition from an 11-grade to a 12- grade system in Mobile. The “gangster publicity in the fall, unfortunate in many respects, served to draw Murphy closer together and to increase the concern of serious students for the moral well-being of their school. Faculty meetings centered around the theme: “Expanding Approaches to Better Educational Practices. Fields selected for study were audio-visual, guidance, and curriculum. Speakers for the three topics were Dr. James Caldwell, Director of Audio- visual Services at University of Alabama; Juvenile Judge of Mobile County, Mr. Herndon Inge; and Mr. Melvin Hctland, Assistant Superintendent in charge of Curriculum. • 10 •