Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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MRS. BILLIE LEE Secretary Tile R. O. T. C. Department at Phillips encouraged and trained young men in the development of their military education. The boys learned military graces and die duties of a service man. LT. COL. EUGENE D. SKAGGS R.O.T.C., DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVE TRAINING DEPARTMENTS The Distributive Education and Industrial Cooperative Training Department provided job training for high school students. Mr. Minz and Mr. Sud-deth also helped to locate jobs for students. MR. HERBERT HINZ - Auburn University; B. S. degree: Subject -Distributive Education; Sponsor of DECA Phillips Cliapter MR. SUDDETH - University of Alabama; Subject - Industrial Cooperative Training; Sponsor of I.C.T. Club. 26

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OF OUR NATIVE LANGUAGE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE MRS. KATHRYN THOMPSON - University of Alabama; B. S. degree; Subjects - English and History. An important part of each student's course this year was English, as it is every year. The teachers who were engaged in the process of instructing students in the usage of standard English and developing in them an appreciation of American and English literature were Miss Frances Finley, Miss Charlotte Hodges, Mrs. Dorothy Rice, Mrs. Kay Thompson, Miss Margaret Spain, Miss Virginia Praytor, Mr. Houston Kennedy, and Miss Pat Martin. MISS FRANCES FINLEY - Head of the English Department; Huntingdon College, University of Chicago, Peabody College, Columbia University; Subject - English; Chairman of the Faculty Clubs Committee. MISS PAT MARTIN - Birmingham -Southern College; B. A. degree; Subjects - English and Journalism: Sponsor of Newspaper and Annual, and G. O. Publications and Publicity Committee

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THE LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT WHICH GAVE US A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER NATIONS The language department offered tliree foreign languages for the students with the desire to speak in another tongue. Miss Virginia Praytor, who also taught English, taugiit all the Latin classes. Students who took French or Spanish were instructed by Mrs. Leslie Ainsworth. MISS VIRGINIA PRAYTOR - Birmingham-Southern College, Vanderbilt University; Degrees - A. B. and M. A. ; Subjects - Latin, English; Sponsor of Junior Classical League and Promoters MRS. LESLIE AINSWORTH - Birmingham-Southern College, University of North Carolina; A. B. and M. A. degrees; Subjects - French and Spanish; Sponsor of Le Cercle Francais THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT WHICH ENCOURAGED DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DOMESTIC INTERESTS MRS. BARBARA POSNER Alabama College, University of Alabama; Degrees - B.S. and M. A.; Subjects - Home Economics and Social Studies; Sponsor of Student Council Girls interested in learning how to be better homemakers were aided by the advice of Mrs. Barbara Posner, who taught foods, and Mrs. Teresa Whitfield, who taught clothing and homemaking. MRS. TERESA WHITFIELD - Alabama College, University of Tennessee; Degree - B. S.; Subjects - Clothing and Homemaking; Sponsor of Mnemosynean Literary Society 27