Y -No. 6 ALABAMA SCHOOL JOURNAL IS ALABAMA SCHOOL JOURNAL February, 19x25 i and wood turning shops, 3 shop BIRMINGHAM'S HIGH SCHOOLS ,ge rooms and 2 locker and wash ns, auditorium, stage and balcony, nnasium with folding doors to sep- ate from stage and to divide into 2 ,mall gymnasiums, lunch room and kitchen, 3 girls' locker rooms, 3 boys' locker rooms, 2 girls' shower and dress­ ing rooms, boys' shower room, boys' rest room, girls' rest room, 3 girls' toilets, 3 boys' toilets, 2 teachers' rooms, janitor's room, kitchen helper's room, waiting room and clinic, 3 store rooms, boiler room, coal storage room and fan rooms. The following changes will be made in the present building on ground floor: The study rooms in central section will become classrooms and bookkeeping room; 2 classrooms will become book­ JOHN HERBERT PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM keeping room; typewriting room will be- armory, machine shop and boiler room on the southside with an enrollment of :ome stenography room; bookkeeping in central section to become the lunch 18 pupils. It became a four-year high oom will become typewriting room; on room and kitchen; the lunch room to school in September, 1902. In 1910 it rst floor: 2 classrooms will become 2 become 3 classrooms, girls' toilets and was moved to the Lane Auditorium on udy rooms; science laboratory will he­ rest room; woodshop and turning shop Eighth Avenue. The enrollment in me physics laboratory; on second to become sewing, fitting and small din­ 1910-11 was 201. Courses in cooking, or: physics laboratory will be used for ing room; 2 classrooms on second floor sewing and manual training were added eral science and the ladies' rest room at front of building to become 2 study at this time. In 1915 it moved to the become teachers' room, and mechan- rooms; 3 classrooms on third floor to site at 8th Avenue and 9th Street, where drawing rooms will become rooms become 2 physics and biology labora­ additions were made to the existing ibrarian and conference. tories and science lecture room; chem­ church building, 2 story building and Ensley High School istry room becomes physics laboratory; 14 cottages in 1919 and 1922. The This school serves the entire western 2 typewriting rooms become 2 book­ maximum enrollment of 1302 was section of the city: Ensley, Wylam, keeping rooms. Pratt City, Fairview, Central Park, Ens­ reached in 1923-24. WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM ley Highlands, Shadyside and Owenton. Negro Industrial High School The first unit of new Industrial High It has a present enrollment of 1429 as This school was first organized in School just completed and opened in Following the bond election of last elude equipment or architect's fees, rooms, a physics laboratory will become compared with 246 in 1910-11. The 1899 in one room of the Cameron School September, 1924, was made possible by May, in which the people of Birming­ which are estimated to cost $69,414 and chemistry science room, and the two present building was erected in 1910. ham voted $3,500,000 for their public $20,665, respectively. The completed students activities rooms will become The new unit construction which will schools, plans of the Phillips and Wood­ building will acommodate 3000 pupils, class rooms. soon be started will increase the capaci­ lawn high schools have been revised, the or at present the pupils from both the Woodlawn High School ty of the present building to 1800 when contracts let and work started on the first unit of Phillips High and from the This school serves the entire eastern completed. It will be of fire-resistive new additions. Architects have also Paul Hayne section. section of the city and has an enrollment construction, 3-story brick, stone and been selected and plans are nearing com­ The new addition will contain the fol­ at present of 1278. The school was concrete. \ pletion for the new addition of the Ens­ lowing rooms: 22 classrooms, 2 study opened in the second semester of the ley High School. Messrs. Wm. B. Itt- rooms and 2 large study halls, biology school year 1921-22 with an enrollment The new addition as proposed will ner and D. O. Whilldin are the associ­ laboratory, 2 general science rooms, of 938 pupils. The present unit of the contain the following rooms, 19 class­ ated architects for the Phillips and Ens­ typewriting room and commercial rooms, building has a capacity of 901. The rooms, 4 study rooms, 4 science rooms, ley high schools and Messrs. Wm. B. art room, 2 mechanical drawing rooms, contract was let for the erection of the shorthand room, bookkeeping room, Ittner and H. B. Wheelock are associate music and lecture room, 4 music prac­ new unit on September 19th and work freehand drawing room, mechanical architects for the Woodlawn High tice and 2 auditorium practice rooms, was begun on October 6th. drawing room,- music room, auditorium School. auto and sheet metal, machine, print, and stage enlarged, R. O. T. C. armory, The contracts let for the Woodlawn Phillips High School electric, forge and moulding shops, prep­ 3 woodworking shops, print shop, auto- High School addition amount to $383,- aration and lumber storage, turning and mechanics shop, electrical shop, 2 gym­ This school, which serves the central 007.75 not including equipment or archi­ pattern shop, and woodworking shops nasiums, cooking room, kitchen, 2 in­ ection of the city (nearly 50 per cent tect's fees, which will cost about $72,288 and locker and wash rooms, boys' gym­ structors' rooms, rest room, 5 store f the entire city), is now housed in the and $922, respectively. The completed nasium, lunch room and kitchen, arm­ rooms, 2 locker and shower rooms, jani­ 'rst unit and in the old Paul Hayne building will accommodate 1800 pupils. ory, 2 student activity rooms, boys' tor's room, boiler and coal storage room. tilding on the southside. The total en- The new addition will contain the fol­ locker room, 2 girls' locker rooms, and 4 The following changes are proposed in llment at present is 2 705, about double lowing rooms: 21 classrooms, 3 study lat in 1910-11. Contract was let for instructors' rooms. the present building: The classroom at rooms, lecture room, sewing room, fitting left of entrance to be used for clinic; e new addition on September 19th and The following changes will be made room, chemistry laboratory and lecture irk begun on September 29th, 1924. vocational drawing room to be used for in the present building: One classroom room, 2 general science rooms, mechar' sewing room; the small dressing room, The contracts let for this addition will become a general science room, two cal drawing room, freehand drawing f mechanical drawing room, classroom, aount to $408,587, which do not in- classrooms will become physics science art room, auto-mechanics, print L ENSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM WOODLAWN HIGH STADIUM WILL SEAT 4,200 AND CONTAIN CLASSROOMS, OTHER FEATURES

TO BEDEDICATED J Football Game, Addresses By o Jones, Ramsay And Pageant Will Be The Features

Students of Woodlawn High School and Birmingham public, school offi­ cials will be joined by members of the City Commission and citizens of the community at the dedication of Woodlawn High School Stadium, the first stadium constructed in con­ nection with a city school. Exercises are to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the school auditorium. A football game between Phillips and Woodlawn High Schools will follow. Students of Phillips High and C. J. Going, principal of the school, will participate- in the dedication exercises. Just preceding the game Phillips High will present two flags for the standards at the stadium. These will be raised while the Phil­ Views of the Woodlawn High School Stadium to be erected on a site adjoining'the school, '("he fflans lips and Woodlawn bands play "The were approved by the Board of Education at a recent meeting and construction will begin shortly, it was Star Spangled Banner." said. The design and drawings were made by Vernon J. Douglas, supervisor of manual arts in the public Principal To Preside schools, assisted by students of Woodlawn High mechanical drawing department. Sketches show the N. B. Hendrix, principal of Wood­ stadium as it will appear from the high school side, and from, the football field. It will have a seating lawn High, will preside at the dedi­ capacity of 4,200, and will be 345 feet in length, and two stories high. It will contain eight class rooms, cation exercises, and the Rev. Frank a small auditorium, R. O. T. C. armory, and shower bath and locker rooms for the football teams. These will MacDonald, pastor of the Woodlawn be situated' at each end of the stadium. The building will be erected under the supervision of D. E. Mc­ Baptist Church, will ask the invoca­ Kinley, business manager for the Board of Education, according to present plans. The stadium was made tion. Dr. J. A. Collins, chairman of possible by the agreement of Erskine Ramsay, president of the Board of Education, to match dollar for the citizens committee which raised dollar the amount raised by people of Woodlawn, and the board offered to match this double sum. In this part of the stadium fund, will rep­ way $50,000 is available. resent the community. Mrs. E. P. Triplett, president of the school's Parent-Teacher Association, and Mrs. G. C. Ellis, chairman of the associa­ tion's stadium committee, will speak on behalf of the organization. Erskine Ramsay, president of the WOODLAWN STADIUM TO WOODLAWN STADIUM^ Birmingham Board of Education, whose gift of $25,000 initiated the BE DEDICATED NOV. 30 stadium movement, is on the pro­ gram, as is Commission President Game With Phillips Will Open Jones. Dr. C. B. Glenn, superintend­ ent of city schools, will present Dr. New Playing Field C. A. Brown, associate superintend­ \ //-7-J7 3& ent, and J. C. Going, principal of The first football same to be Phillips High. played in the Woodlawn High Football Contest With Phillips Will Be Pageant To Close Exercises school stadium, will be between The exercises will close with a Woodlawn and Phillips No. 30. pageant by students and alumni of The game originally was sched­ Feature Of School's Formal Program the high school, depicting the history uled for Legion field. and development of the stadium. Fol­ A dedication program to be Woodlawn High School's athletic stadium will be dedicated Nov. lowing this, the assembly will ad­ 30 with the Woodlawn and Phillips High School football game and other journ to the stadium, where Capt. held just before the game is be­ exercises, Principal N. B. Hendrix announced Thursday. Cooper, of Phillips High School ing worked out by Principal N. B. team, will present the two flags on Hendrix. Erskine Ramsay, presi­ The Phillips - Woodlawn contest was scheduled for the Municipal behalf of his team. dent of the board of education and Stadium. The Birmingham Park and The stadium provides classroom donor of the stadium, Will be Recreation Board consented to can­ facilities as well as an athletic field. honored. Rooms under the seats have been cellation. arranged for classrooms, which are The eight classrooms built in • Dedication exercises will begin at 2 already in use. This has materially the stadium are now completed p.m. A program is now being worked relieved the congestion that existed and classes will move in Monday. out by Hendrix. The game will be­ at the school, Mr. Hendrix said. The Woodawn stadium cam­ gin at 2:30. Plan Token Of Appreciation paign was begun in 1927 under The stadium is virtually completed. A token of appreciation for the the leadership of W. M. Kelly, Although the Woodlawn-Phillips game work of N. B. Hendrix, principal of will be the first contest on the field, the Woodlawn High School, and of head of. the history department the space under the grandstand, and faculty athletic sponsor. A its faculty for obtaining the stadium which has been arranged for class­ will be erected by tho school Par­ citizens' committee headed by Dr. rooms, will be occupied In advance of ent-Teacher Association. A resolu­ J. H. Collins raised $12,500 from the same. It Is hoped to move the tion adopted by the association to benefit entertainments and gifts classes which have been occupying this effect was approved at a meet­ and Mr. Ramsay contributed $25,- temporary quarters into the new ing of the Board of Education Fri­ 000. The board of education con­ rooms Monday. day. tributed the remainder. The stadium is the idea of W. M. Text Of Resolution "Red" Kelly, athletic director, who The resolution reads as follows: W6odlawn High school boys broached the plan in 1927. In 1928, "In recognition of the merit of erect­ graded and sodded the ground after considerable discussion In ing the first high school stadium of under the leadership of Vernon Woodlawn, a citizens' committee was its kind in the South; in realization Douglass, supervisor of manual formed with Dr. J. A. Collins chair­ of the enormous task placed upon the training in the city schools. man. Through this committee $12.- principal of our school; in apprecia­ The stadium has a seating ca­ 500 was raised from Woodlawn citi­ tion of his tireless efforts, the care­ pacity of 4,300. zens for the stadium. A like amount ful supervision, and of the sincere in­ was given by the City Board of Edu­ terest in our community shown by cation and Erskine Ramsay donated him and bis teachers, he is resolved $2$25,0005 , making the cost of the sta- that the Board of Education grant lum, exclusive of the grounds, $50,- us the privilege of placing an ap­ 00000. . W propriate token of appreciation with­ in the school grounds to the honor of Mr. Hendrix and the faculty that we may further the spirit of loyalty and love we feel toward the principal and faculty of the school." The resolutions were signed by/ Mrs. G. C. Ellis, Mrs. W. D. Bishor/' Mrs. E. P. Tritlett and. Mrs. P. tf* McGlathery. ' Newjp, The Schoolrooms WOODLAWN STUDENTS ffinWARDED 185 GRADUATE AT DEC ^3, ISSUE ANNUAL AGAIN WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL mage, Scrooge's niece, and ' Archie A beauty contest is being spon­ Yearbook Is Printed For First Time WOODLAWN HIGH sored at, Woodlawn High School by Freeman, a messenger. FOR WOODLAWN the staff of the Woodlog, high school An inter-lub oratorical contest win n Three Years year book. Each club has been in­ be held in the school auditorium Jan. Jr Pt^dt Lofty Purpose And Firm vited to choose a. representative in 3. Representatives of the clubs "The Woodlog," yearbook of the contest. The entire student body which will compete include the fol­ High School Wins Ramsay will vote on the candidates to deter­ lowing: Althean, Eloise McLaurine Woodlawn High School, was to Resolve Are Urged By mine the winner. and Elnora Gammage; Athenian. come from the press today, for the Cup For Year Dorothy DeArman; Vestalian, Marga- j Club representatives have been ret B. Taylor and Martha Parsons; first issue in three years. The Erskine Ramsay cup for ^ ^labaugh In Talk named as follows: Spanish, Alic.3 Woodrow Wilson, James Pelham and Billie Belle Smith leads the sportsmanship in city•Wgh. «ho£ Hazelgrove; Vestalian, Elizabeth Floyd Meshad; Senior Girl Reserves, for 1931-32 was awarded tpWooa- Horton; Althean, Alice Milsteud; beauty section as queen with Julia Doris Session and Dorothv McGlath- lawn high school at graduation ex- "Let some high purpose fill your Lee, Virginia McKenzie: Home Eco­ ery; Blue Triangle. Wilburta Kerr Mae Stacey and Sarah Hoover as nomics, Jimmie D. Pog-je: Girl Re­ hearts and some firm resolve your and Mary Allison Busby; Science. maids. Stful," graduates of Wocdlawn High serves, Louise Liles; Hi-Y, Ann Gra­ Dorothy Caverno and Roger Fletch­ on the athletic fields, in the rootin, ham; Science Club, Imogene Martin; er; Hi-Y. Joe Luckie and Bob King; Dan Murmane is editor-in-chief School were urged in an address by French Club, lone Knight. of the book, dedicated to M; P. sections and on the school ground, Sam Clabaugh at graduation exer-., History, Tom Garner and Alfred Biv said Hill Ferguson, member of tn cises Tuesday night. One hundred Four scenes from .Dickens' "Christ­ ins; Home Economics, Evelyn Sud- Gray, faculty advisor of publica­ deth and Edith Massey; Patrician, judging committee, who award* eighty-five seniors, the largest num­ mas Carol" were presented by the tions. ber in the history of the school, were .Vlthean Club In the school audito­ J. V. Stuart and Wilma Clupper; the cup. Other members of the rium Friday afternoon. Special mu­ Spanish, Alice Hazelgrove; Lee, committee were Dr. Henry M. Ed­ awarded diplomas by Dr. C. B. Glenn, sic was furnished by pupils of Miss Malcolm McRea- and Holcomb Gam- monds and George Fertig. superintendent of Birmingham Claud Dowling. bill. schools. ee^lfaX^alldSsVlrsSne Woodlawn High pupils and faculty The cast was composed of Winston together with all Birmingham schools, Sillimon, as Scrooge; Bob Bennett, MARTIN SW Present of the city board were complimented by Erskine Ram­ Scrooge's nephew; Marvin Bene- Pupils of Martin School expe­ of education. say, president of the Board of Edu­ field, Cratchit; James Mackle, rienced a real thrill Friday afternoon Wednesday is graduation day at cation. Work being done at local Christmas spirit; Myrna Reeves, Sue; when Big Chief Red Fox, of the schools is not surpassed in any city Edgar Tucker, Sam; Tom Garner, Sioux tribe of Indians, spoke in the Fnslev high school where 138 stu dents wmget their diplomas^ At^8 of the country, Mr. Ramsay said. Peter; Margaret Sipley, Mrs. Cratch­ school auditorium. The big chief was In reporting- on financial condi­ it; James Nunnally, Tiny Tim; Oc- bedecked in the war ragalia, reminis­ tavia Sadler, Belinda; Elnora Gam- P'm' &f a^dresf afnWthems"udent : tions, he announced that the schools cent of the pioneer days. had operated within their budget this . 55SSSSSS Kend^on^d1 year, leaving substantially the same amount of surplus as last year. SaI ^tfsteer Her^ ^S 0 H i Unless the one and one-half mills j caXe Horton, essa?i st, will read tax is revot.ed by citizens of Kir- j thee ass essay, "Book W»c»a niingham it will expire in geptembe', Amy Elizabeth Thomas will. -peak 1S34, making it impossible for t IT - ; Woodlawn Honor Students Act As Marshals bn "The Science of Success^ JM schools to operate for a full-lengt raine^ Tingle will sing a solo, The term, Mr. Ramsay said. The president of the board com/ And Make Success Of Preventing Disorder plimented the teaching and adminis AAtt ' clasciass u

MOTTO: SCHOOL COLORS Carpe Diem Gold and White Published by the Students of Woodlawn High School VOL XV (Woodlawn) BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 11, 1938 No. 9 A DAY IN THE TATLER STAFF ADVICE TO THE Southern, Howard LIBRARY COMPLETED By Annie Ruth Venable LINES and BYLINES CANDIDATES Professors Speak In The R. D. Jackson Chapter of the George F. Olvera, recently elected Here's Good Luck and Our Sym­ School Auditorium United Daughters of the Confed­ Editor-in-Chief of the Tatler, an­ by EUGENE NUNNALLY pathy to the candidates for spring eracy presented the library with $25 nounces the following staff for the term elections! The importance of radical think­ which helped pay for the following spring term. ffSffSf r^T^^T^T '»«WS|C"»|«US| ing and orginality was pointed out books: Biography: Adams The Liv­ For you have now risen from the STAFF . . . This year as in the past, we Wednesday, February 3, by Professor ing Jefferson, Keller's Midstream, common plane of an Average Stu­ Asso. Editors Varnell Moor, shall devote this column to current R. S. Poor, professor of geology at McAdoo's The Woodrow Wilsons, dent to that highly honored (?) Eugene Nunnally oddities and "Beliepe It or Nots" as Birmingham-Southern College, in a and Nicolay's Andrew Jackson. Fic­ state of a candidate. You are a Guy Sports Editors Wilson Mauk, we find them in the[daily news. Edi­ speech made before the regular Wed­ tion: Crane's Red Badge of Courage, with a Cause. Your head is lifted Ruble Thomas nesday group. torially speaking, we are interested in high and you try to speak to every­ Downey's Bugles Blow No More, Society Editors Claudia Mann, your opinion of what we write and body. Profesor Poor, a geologist of note, Glasgow's Voice of the People, Gor­ Helen Vance would sincerely value any comments For the last week friends have began his talk by correcting the defi­ don's None Shall Look Back, and Feature Editors Marian Riddle, you care to make. If you wish to been working funny and noble nition of radical as held by many. Johnston's The Long Roll. Litera­ Student Government Editor....Julian make a contribution of any kind, meanings from your name to plaster Explaining that the word radical was ture: Hudson's Humor of the Old Bishop either favorable or adverse, address brazenly on posters for the halls. derived from the Latin word for Deep South. History: Hesseltine's Humor Editor Virginia Farris it to this column and drop it in the Nice people wish you luck with pro­ root, Professor Poor said that a rad­ A History of the South. Alumni-Club Editor....Sarah White Tatler Box. We'd appreciate it. Exchange Editor Katheryn found enthusiam. Others pat your ical was simply a person who got to Three of the preceeding books are Abercrombie weary back but their tones say boring- the root of things. 1937 editions. An interesting feature MISFITS Reporters Jane Allen ly that they wouldn't bother with be­ The speaker pointed out also that of the library will be the new book­ Circus Attraction — Mrs. K--S- Fritz Hartlein, Wallace John­ ing a candidate themselves. More since most of the professions today shelf named for Annie B. Broyles, son, Alex Lacey, Gordon Lewis, j 1 nice people give you dirty looks and were overcrowded, there was a need a member of the Daughters of the Bonnie Minyard, Sam Turner, took her four yea: , old, 2 headed whisper menacingly—"He's got the of persons who could create, with Confederacy. Kenneth McCartney. nephew to see Santa* Claus today. Bighead. Wouldn't even lend me their own imagination and originality Bugles Blow No More is a story Typist Willyce Davis New York Daily Mirrow The staff is composed of members his notebook one day—" jobs for themselves. about Richmond, captiol of the Con­ Maybe this one's right — One of the Journalism Class. Dr. P. P. Burns, Dean and Head federacy, goal of the Union Armies, third of the population are dissatis­ So we thought this group of noble of the English Department of How­ and storm center of the war. For Ushers Elect Etheridge, fied. Their souls jtre filled with misunderstood students should have ard College was speaker at the Thurs­ four years the waves of war lapped desperation in their fight against the a little advice. Of course that is all Whiteside, Sewell, day auditorium period, February 3. the doorsteps of the people of Rich­ high cost of loving. . . you have been given for the last Before Dr. Burns began this talk, he. mond. Mr. Downey, author of this Bishop To Lead Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press week, but-I-pught-to-know candi­ asked the students several questions book, is a realist. He particularly ...A'le lait—A famofs recipe calls dates of past elections really have Members of the Ushers Club on concerning the present problems con­ emphasizes the Civil War with the for soaking the child|cn in milk for some tips. Wednesday, February 1, selected fronting the Birmingham schools. fighting and waiting of people so near an hour if over two? pounds— the "Knee-braces!" says a past candi- officers for the coming semester. The main substance of his speech the front that even the sounds of milk is later used for t|e cream sauce. ' date very profoundly and with a was based on the Greek hero, Ulysses. battle were still in their ears, when Foster Etheridge was selected as Bronx (N. YiHome News wise look of experience. The knees In closing, Dr. Burns read the last the first casualty lists were posted. Head Usher. Assisting him are Capable Defense h For Public of the most experienced speaker will stanza of the poem "Ulysses," by Heustis Whiteside, associate, Toxey sale, Mr. Morgrtthau /offered give way to shake a little while a This story covers four years of Tennyson—" ... to strive, to seek, Sewell, assistant, and Julian Bishop, $250,000,000 worth of* years 2.5% candidate lists his virtues. the war. It begins with Session Night to find, and not to yield." secretary. Mr Harrison sponsors bonds . . . His def J|se will be in­ "Wear a size smaller hat, look and ends with Appomattox. No one Both programs were opened with the club. New members are to be sanity, iij. humble and interested at every per­ book will ever tell the whole story a scripture reading by Margaret voted on at the next meeting. Jamestown (N. Y.)§Lvening Post son," offer others w-ho have com of the war between the North and S^ranuare student. The ^T^jn|hjgj£ijg*daiii

•\ i rt > Alex Lacy Editor Of School iirmingnam Arch 5, I Publication Winning Second n Contest /3>Tu — UNIVERSITY, Ala—"The Mohi- an," yearbook of Murphy High Dear Parents School, Mobile, has for the fourth consecutive year been judged the 'On Our V-ff riranatic and musical best printed annual of any city high Our school t>re: ^_ school in the state, according to an- j nouncement from A. Phillips Bee- reTue larch COj | don, head of the department of jour­ its nalism and adviser of the division O J. Kj i.1 . its arms . of high school publications of the Here is the story modern edu the Ameri University of Alabama extension di­ \ent: [ere is me: or ;rug{ .es it: .chieaei 1 Q vision, sponsors of the contest. their cm ublie sehoci :ho raost "Golden Memories" of Decatur can •people, ;he stcr~ Here in High School again was awarded ; a ire eel lovinf neople first place for annuals printed by democratic institution o: will see what schools in small cities and towns. language. clear, melodic-" •_/• .., -• - - • It received the same rating in last it ldren r: v xnt o year's contest. "The Hi-Lights Re- go od school trie: ael] view" of Sheffield High School won ; At crs. "rood citizens top-ranking among yearbooks that healthy rccc irity, go< :ers • o z nc i; O were mimeographed or litho- -< graphed-typewritten. the Barents of every tudent of Prof. Beedon pointed out in his We sincei ely hcpe that .nt that pO announcement of winners that all ;his beautiful pa three of the first-place annuals Woodlawn high Schccl will see an or/ you were edited by girls. is ever; department of oui school A Second place among city-printed :rn c: yearbooks was won by "The Wood- will enjoy it log," issued by the Woodlawn High School, Birmingham. "The Black : 15 on Warrior" of Tuscaloosa High School There will be three performances: Matinee came in second among small city .llarch IT; Evening performances 8:0-., and town printed yearbooks, and Thursday, . ] aru ^ , "The Westonian," West Blocton Saturday, Tickets are 55 cents ana sens _^ j High School annual, was awarded second place among the duplicated llarch performance14 and 15-. s may le reserved at nana, j and lithographed books. during the ween of the performance -- The Murphy High annual was ed­ price any afternoon ited by Helen Duggar. Business manager of the publication was 3:50 to 5:55 in the oifice Bobby Norton, and Roy Wilkie was the faculty adviser. The -L- -. -i ^ <-\ v- -*- P r\M y\ P "? \ Marjorie Wilder edited Decatur^ prize winner. Billy Duncan was business manager and Miss Ailee>n Pope, faculty adviser. Editor of the Sheffield annual was •president; n detent 3od; Jean Ettman. The business man­ ager was E. B. McCord. Miss Mary Hughes and Miss Myrna Reeves served as advisers for the work. Officials of the runner-up year­ books were: "The Woodlog"—Alex Lacy, ed­ itor; Max Gilmer, business manager; M. P. Gray, faculty adviser. "The Black Warrior"—Mary El len Phifer, editor; J. D. Robertson, •jV C'--:V -... . a"V. . 1 business manager; Miss Rubye Gul ley. faculty adviser. "^ • ^». - - *._ i tt/xnt&u**' ^^ deUl "The Westonian"—George E. Dai ley. editor; Charles Stewart, busi ness manager;. Miss Libby Jeanne Israel, faculty adviser. Loving cups will he-^iven for the CLiAX&Ztr*cusrKJ first-pl^&atrrraals and plagues are to be awarded runner-up'yearbooks THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER—More than 2.000 R. O. T. C. cadets from Birmingham high schools participated Fri­ day night In the annual R. O. T. C. drill contests with Woodlawn High taking major honors These views show the military review and colorful attendant events. 1: Judges were made up or regular army officers. In the tirat row, left to right, are Capt. J. D: Rosenbergcr. Jr., Col. R. M. O'Day, Maj. Victor Lee, Lieut. H. F. Reid, Jr.. and Lieut. Tony Giorlando. In the back row, left to right, are Lieut. E. L. Sykes, Lieut. W. E. Griffith, Lieut. R. L. Hamlett, Lieut. Graham Kirkpatrick and Lieut. R. L. Lawley. 2. Here are the regimental commanders of the schools. Left to right, Col. Douglas Davis, Lieut. Col. James Outlaw, Lieut. Col. Bernard Estes and Lieut. Adj. J. D. Fergueson, 3. Here are three of the several sponsors al the military review. The girls are, left to right, Norma Jo Esslinger, Woodlawn; Ruth Sellers, Ensley. and Barbara Lowells. Phillips. Back row are Lieut. Col. Bernard Esles, Col. Douglas Davis and Maj. LeRoy Jackson, all of the regimental staff. 4. Lieut. Col. Douglas Davis, Ensley High School, is shown receiv­ ing the William Randolph Hearst Trophy given to the small bore rifle team composed of boys from all high schools. 5. Lieut. Col. O'Day is shown here pinning the medal on Pvt. James Smith, Phillips High School, who was named best private. jr./#-*// Woodlawn R. O. T. C. Walks Off With Annual Drill Honors High School 'Soldiers' Of City Highly Praised For Efficiency And Knowledge Of Maneuvers Marching with the precision of an trow wi ten d & tllk*g •••-••.' . Uncle Sam's finest and displaying lice in closed and open order drill. an above-thc-average knowledge of First Lieut. Ernest Nabors, Ensley drill formations, execution and technique, Woodlawn High School High School, was selected to receive stepped away from the remainder the medal for outstanding work of the field in the annual high among officers. Corp. Milton Pan­ school R. O. T. C. drill contests Fri­ ne]!, also of Ensley, received the day night at Legion Field and won high honors in a walk. Gen. Gorgas Post No. 1. American Companies of straight - backed Legion, Medal for the outstanding young would-be soldiers marched non - commissioned officer. _ Pvt. smartly by the reviewing stand, James Smith. Phillips, was named went through the intricacies of best among the privates. closed and open order drill, cales- Could the great Stonewall Jack­ thenics and other military maneu­ son have seen the boys as they vers to make the high school com­ went through their paces he. no petition one of the most heated in doubt, would have considered them recent years. great material for his famed "foot Woodlawn was accorded another cavalry." which made sensational honor when Sergt. O. L. McDaniels marches during the Civil War. won the Bromberg Cup and the Judges for the event were Lieut. Birmingham Reserve Officers Asso­ Col. R. M, O'Day, Mai. Victor Lee, ciation Flag for the best individual Maj. R. C. Hamlette, Capt. ,!. D. Ro­ performance. Pvt. Herman Reed. senbergcr. Jr., Staff Sergt. John Woodlawn, won the medal for the Pcrmc, Sergt. C. E. Villemarettc best exhibition in the manual of and First Lieut. E. L. Sykes and arms. Pvt. Jirrimie McKenzie. Phil­ Second Lieut. R. L Lawley, U. S. lips High School, was second in this Army Air Corps. contest. Col. D. H. Prizer was in charge It was noticeable from the out­ of the drill, assisted by Lieut. W. E. set that this was no ordinary drill Griffith. contest. The youths exhibited a keen knowledge of the drill maneu­ vers and their "esprit de corps" was excellent. From the reviewing stand, when the whole regimen! passed in review, the spectator would have thought a composite group from V. M. I., The Citadel and West Point was passing in re­ view. Regular army officers in the judging group were high in their praise of the manner in which the Officers of the various companies executed their orders and the man­ ner in which under officers carried out orders. Snappy orders and 5nappy execution indicated many i - IcW* QcU4^ - WnM^uj^J X- Want Ad Headquarters—3-2285 THE BIRMINGHAM POST Woodlawn High Honors Alumni In Armed Forces SERVICE FLAG IS PRESENTED

Emblem Given As Tribute! To 500 Former Pupils In Armed Service

Honoring the 500 or more former students of Woodlawn High School I who are now in the armed -service of their country, the auxiliary com­ mittee of the Woodlawn Student, Council yesterday presented a large service flag to the school. Miss Flemma Snidow. teacher of mathe­ matics, is the sponsor of the com­ mittee. In a tribute to the "boys.. wherever they are," Albert Stephens promised them that the members of the student body would be true in the part that they are to play in national defense. Henry Pov,-ell. student body president, presented the flag to Principal Noble B. Hen- drix, who accep' the mime of the school. "Do your work well while you are in school, for that is the best way —Staff Fhoto. for you to prepare yourself to be Shown above is the service flag presented yesterday to Woodlawn High School by a committee of service when it comes your time." of the Student Council in honor of the 500 or more former students who are known to be with the was the advice contained in most fighting forces. Standing by the flag are, left to right: Cadet Capt. Sid Gunter who advanced the of the telegrams and letters which; flag; Principal Noble B. Hendrix who accepted the presentation in the name of the school,^nd Hen­ ry Powell, president of the student body, who made the presentation. Mr. Hendrix read from former stu dents who are with the forces. Mes- sages were read from the following: George W. Jones. Ted Bailey. John A. Steeger, Cassius Thomas. Joe Haley, Julian Whitehead. Charles Hurst. Walter Courson. Henry j Whitehead. Harold Sudduth. E. Joe Drinkard, Judson Bass and Tony Sazera. The flag: contains one gold star in honor of Lawrence Attison. the only known casualty so far anion g the alumni of the school. Jimmy Cherry sounded taps as the name was called. Others taking part in the cere­ mony were: The boys and girls glee clubs, the band. Kathryn Knighton. Porter Landrum. Betty Miller*rm<„.. JT. -BR. rjflvisDavis.. Louis Hardin. and Norman Moon. Ted Bailey served as chairman. •

i •' ' "'.^J*-" " J- ""*' •<• r-«w*» —* rc3-dCU cv- . Woodlawn High Pays Tribute To Former Students Now In War Flag Representing 500 Serving Country Is Presented School At Impressive Ceremony A "500 flag" of blue stars and Wisdom in buyityinn g in* order to one gold star stands on the Wood- preserve our vital resources.' was lawn High School auditorium plat- j urged by Kathryn Knighton. Por- form in tribute to former students ter Landrum, Jr., advised students now in service of their country. to work for physical fitness to en­ Presented Thursday morning at able them to defend their Ameri­ special assembly exercises, the can privileges. service flag, which is flanked by an "We must all save for victory, American flag and a school flag, not only stamps and bonds but is the gift of the auxiliary com­ scrap materials needed to make mittee of the school council. war implements," was the duty em­ Honor guests at the program phasized by Betty Miller. J. B. were mothers and fathers of the Davis asked Woodlawn boys and 500 former Woodlawn boys, repre­ girls to "learn to serve in every sented in the stars of the new flag. way." Opening the impressive cere­ Louise Hardin. pledged high mony was a list of duties for "sol­ school students "to take care of diers at home," presented in brief the things we have," and Norman talks by white-clad council mem­ Moon told the audience, "you and bers. I are part of a great army. Are we the soldiers we expect the boys in uniform to be?" A program of patriotic songs was presented by the Girls Glee Club, the Warblers Club and the Woodlawn Band, and "A Song For American Soldiers" was recited by Albert Stephens. R. O. T. C. heads who presented the flag to Principal Noble Hen­ drix were Cadet Capt. Sidney Gun- ter, Cadet Lt. Col. Charles Tucker and Cadet Maj. William Nail. Student Body President Henry Powell made the presentation 500 BLUE STARS AND ONE IN GOLD—In im­ Principal Noble Hendrix by members of the Stu­ speech, and Principal Hendrix ac­ pressive auditorium ceremonies Thursday, Wood­ dent Auxiliary Council shown above. Auxiliary cepted the flag in behalf of Wood­ lawn High School students of 1942 honored 500 Council members, sponsored by Miss Flemma Sni­ lawn boys in service. dow, are shown with the flag above. Left to right One gold star in the service flag former students of the school who are now on are Porter Landrum, Jr., Kathryn Knighton, Nor­ honors the memory of Lawrence United States war fronts. A service flag, six feet man Moon, Betty Miller, Louise Hardin, J. B. Davis Attison, killed this Spring in a by eight feet and bearing the number "500," formed and Cadet Capt. Sidney Gunter, of the Woodlawn bomber accident in Texas. Telegrams of appreciation for the in blue stars, and one gold star, was presented to R. O. T. C. frag were read by Principal Hen­ drix from the following Woodlawn Whitehead, Joe Haley and Gordon graduates, now in United States McBain. fighting forces: Judson Bass. Tony In addition to the 500, at least Sazera. Claud Slaughter, Ellie Mc- one former Woodlawn instructor is Kain, Charlie Hurst, Walter Cour- serving in the army. Maj. John son, Henry Whitehead, Ted Bailey, J. Martin, former head of the George Jones, Horace McDaniel, school's science department, served Harold Sudderth, Cassius Thomas, j through the long battle on Bataan Joe Drinkard, Jack Steeger, Julian ! in the Phillipines. Nothing has been heard concerning him since 1 the surrender of Corregidor. Sponsors of the student council program were Miss Norma Dickey and Miss Flemma Snidow, Wood­ lawn teachers. THE BIRMINGHAM POST All Other Departmen Flying Fundamentals Stressed Jn New Courses

—Staff Photo. Typical of the thousands of high school boys in the structure of the planes. The miniature in the United States who are this year studying plane seen on the table is an endurance contest the fundamentals of aviation in preparation for model made by Bill Fritsch, a member of the the war needs and the prophesied air age after the class. war are the boys shown above who are taking Other members of the class include: Tom the course at Woodlawn High School. E. D. Tim- English, Jack Martin, Willis Allison, Dean Coates, mons, the teacher, directs their attention to draw­ Oscar Jolley, Joe McCormic, Ray Copley, Frank ings on the blackboard that illustrate features Deerman. Dan Hendon, H. D. Willoughby, and High Schoolers Prepare For New 'Aviation Age9 . /o-3-yz. It is the old rule of "supply and demand," or rather "demand and supply," that is responsible for the new course that has been aded to the curricula of thousands of high schools, colleges, trade schools, and training centers this year. The. realities of the war have shown forcefully the value and the future prominence of the air- ' plane. With such a demand in sight, the schools, charged with the re­ sponsibility of building for the fu­ ture, sensed the situation and re­ arranged subjects and courses to make room for aviation. Now, slow­ ly, surely, gathering strength with every passing day, a great potential army of airmen, who will be able to build, service, or pilot planes, is in the making. But the public has been so accus­ tomed to seeing student aviators around an airport that many per­ sons may wonder just what this massive army of air-conscious stu­ dents can learn in a classroom and without an airplane. It, therefore, may be interesting to look in on one of the classes and thumb through one of the textbooks. Only Seniors Eligible In the Birmingham high schools, the students who are permitted to take the course are selected from the senior class. They must meet certain physical requirements and must have had, or aer now be tak­ ing physics, along with other of the sciencees. The arrangement , at present, allows for only one year of the training; but the textbook used is sufficient for two years, the teachers say. There is a posibility that future classes may start in the junior year, it is said. The course opens with a chapter on the history of aircraft with par­ ticular attention to designs so that the pupils are taught to recognize the many kinds of planes from any direction. That goes for enemy planes as well as friendly ones. A large section of the book is giv­ en to the human factors in flight. The regulations of the Civil Aero­ nautics Administration, the certifi­ cation of pilots and planes, and the limitations of the human body in flying are discussed. Construction Studied Under the title of aerodynamics, the course takes up the more purely scientific matters dealing with fly­ ing. The section given to aircraft en­ gines is divided into two parts: Con­ struction and general principles, and cooling and lubricating systems. As in all of the chapters, the authors of the book do not claim that all is known about airplane engines; but it is their desire that future airmen know the successes and failures that have brought the industry thus far. More than 200 pages of the text­ book are given over to meteorology, dealing with weather, how weather forecasts are made and distributed, and what the efficient airmen does about weather hazards. Then the pupils must study a sec­ tion on communications involving the international Morse Code, the semaphore, and the principles of the radio. In these, he must know how to send and receive messages. , Navigation Stressed The last section of the book has to do with the navigation. The stu­ dents must know how to read charts and the instrument board in rela­ tion to contact with still and moving objects on the land. 'Since we do not have real planes for practice work, there is no in­ tention on our part of turning out pilots," said E. D. Timmons. teacher of the course at Woodlawn High School; "but we are quite sure that we are going to turn out boys who will be well on their way toward get­ ting their wings. If there should be some in the classes who do not. go in the aviation field, they will have received scientific training that will be of value to them in other fields." The courses are given in all of the white high schools in Birmingham, the Parker Negro High School, and in the Paul Hayne night school. 1 ^""• • "" —...'" ""' ' •% Woodlawn Students Noble Hendrix To Assume Finance Five jeeps * Bama Post; Ralph Martin Buying Bonds, Stamps To Be Woodlawn Principal

They financed five jeeps out at Woodlawn High School Tuesday. And this is how it came about. Tuesday, nearest banking day to the anniversary of Pearl. Harbor, was designated by Woodlawn stu­ dents as their "Jeep Day." They set a goal of $1,000, which the Army told them would buy one jeep. When the returns from Tuesday's all-school purchase of War Bonds and .Stamps were counted, it was found that Woodlawn had con­ tributed, not one, but five jeeps to Uncle Sam's Army. Total sale of Bonds and Stamps was $4,452.65, which is more than $6,000 maturity value. Approxi­ mately 2,000' Woodlawn' students Portrait of Dean Hendrix had bought' an 'average of $2 in War Stamps each. f* Presented Woodlawn High Sessfcjp Room-103, Mrs.; Florence Tomlinsbn, teacher, led the school • A portrait of Dean of Students Noble with their total of $1,246. Woodlawn students believe their Hendrix, for seventeen years principal one-day sale set a new record in of the Woodlawn High School, was pre­ city schools for War Bond and sented to the High School and unveiled Stamp purchases. Mrs. Mansfield with fitting ceremonies on the afternoon Jones is in charge of banking and War Stamp purchases at Wood­ of February 15. The portrait was pre­ lawn. j. sented to the school by Mr. Donald PROF. HENDRIX PROF. MARTIN Comer, noted industrialist of Birming­ Prof. Noble Hendrix, principal of Woodlawn High School, is to ham, the gift being made in recognition resign as Woodlawn's head to accept the post of dean of students at of Dean Hendrix's outstanding service Ihe University of Alabama, a new position, Dr. Raymond S. Paty, the in Birmingham education. The portrait university's president, told The Birmingham Post over long-distance was painted by A. L Bairnsfather, dis­ telephone this morning, confirming rumors current throughout the state. Prof. Ralph Martin, now principal of Kennedy School, will succeed tinguished Birmingham artist, who to the principalship at Woodlawn, according to Dr. L. Frazer Banks, city painted the murals in the lobby of Dos- school superintendent. ter Hall. Mr. Comer was ill in a hospital Prof. Hendrix will assume the newly-created deanship to "co­ at the time and the presentation was ordinate student life'' through co-operation with the dean of men and with the dean of women at 'Bama, Dr. Paty explained, as an "overhead" made by Mrs. Ed Parrar, President of official for students. He is famous as a tactful leader of youth. the P.T.A. Dean Hendrix was present Prof. Hendrix has been prominent for years in education, civic and for the exercises as were members of political fields. Woodlawn has prospered^ and grown steadily during his the Board of Education and superinten­ (See Hend; administration, and in athletics. dents of county school systems. , /% He is a former president of the Birmingham Teachers' Assn. . and was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Senate against Sen. James INSUIP'STAX Simpson a year ago. The selection of Professor Hen­ drix is considered by his hundreds MM ASKED of friends to be a significant recog­ nition of his ability and talents, calling him to a much bigger field. OOP LeadeLeaClGPr UTterOffersS | He has a fine record as an educator and as an administrator. THE BIRMINGHAM POST •Other Departments—3-8221' The promotion of Professor Mar­ ng For 10 Per tin to Woodlawn is another big ad­ <• Levy vance of wide significance, educa­ tor's here observe. In a quiet man­ Hauled Down For Its Last Time \ ner, letting his work speak for it­ ck Hope self, he has gained fame year after May 7.—House year as a competent teacher and i B. Norman, in handler of students, a fine execu­ roduced a bill tive, discharging his duties so per cent con- thoroughly that his hosts of friends the price of often referred to him as an educa- 'tor "much too big for his job," a administra- fact shown by his jump from Ken­ to cireum- nedy's principalship to that at Thfe, OPA Woodlawn. i pcrmis- but con- Prof. Martin is a product of the hority to Birmingham school system—having graduated from Central High School ',ake ef- forerunner of Phillips High School. age of He received his A.B. degree at How­ would ard College and his M.A. degree lillion at Peabody College, Nashville. year Since 1917 he has been teaching mil- in Birmingham schools, first as mechanical drawing instructor ati ?as- Central. He then became advisor to to boys in the Paul Hayne section of me Central. ad Since 1926 he has been principal -y hof Kennedy School. From 1936 to 1940, he was principal of both Ken­ nedy and Curry Schools, and, since 1940, he has been principal of both Kennedy and Gate City Schools.

^^H ^^H Pholo For the last time the "old" flag is ceremoniously lowered at Woodlawn High School. Today a new flag, gift of the Kelly Ingram Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary, is flying at the school. Bugler for the ceremony is First Lieut. Joe Hargrove, while Pvt. Malcolm Miller, left, and Col. Ed Akers (right) lower the flag for the last time. The honor guard is: Left to right, Jack McAlister, C. L. Odom, Billy Jarvis. Woodlawn is the only school in Birmingham that has the formal raising and lowering of the colors every day. - r ; —— PAGEANT SHOWS J. E. Helms Leaves *-&% LIFE OF SCHOOL Woodlawn High For Commemorating the 25th anni­ versary Of Woodlawn High School, University Of Texas a playlet in pageant form was pre­ sented last night by students in a All of Woodlawn - - the High j program sponsored by the Wood­ School in particular—has heard the . lawn High School P.-T. A. news that Mr. J. E. Helms, beloved' Northington Vets The pageant told the story of the development of the school in 1922 BBtOn with 700 students, 25 teahcers, and | Helms has been at Woodlawn High Entertained By Dr. O. C. Carmichael as first prin- cinal, to its present scope of activ­ for the past twelve years; and all ities, with students taking the who have known him have loved East Lake Legion Convalescent patients at North­ parts of past principals and board him, and cherished him as a dear members. ington General Hospital in Tusca­ friend and teacher. He is going to Students taking part in the pag­ loosa were entertained December eant which was entitled, "Building the University of Texas, where he 10, when the Walter E. Bare Post a School, Woodlawn High School— will teach college- history and con­ No. 43, American Legion, took a 1922-1947," were Jeanette Gore, tinue his work for a Ph.D. party of players to the Tuscaloosf Martha Ann Griffin. Jesse Blanken- Mr. Helms (James E.) was born institution. ship, Ramona Hatcher, Don Camp­ The "actors" were transported ' bell, Gus Prosch, Roy Howard, In Mississippi, and is a graduate of Moorehead High School and Mis- Tuscaloosa overland with membe Maurice Ausley, Betty Parker, John of the Legion furnishing the nee Holstun, Sam Shannon, Byron j sisslppi College. He has done grad­ sary cars and OPA the extra g? Waites, Julius Jones, George uate work at Duke and at the Uni­ Charles. line. versity of Texas. During his un­ Cigarettes were distributed t' Joy Estey, Dorothy Metzler, Mary dergraduate days, he served as cir­ patients while the stage was ' Nell Willis, Kathryn Ridgell, Betty CHOOL BLAST culation manager and associate Jean Liner, Betty Jo Taylor, Kath­ set In the auditorium for thf ryn Werner, Carolyn Baker, Elea­ manager of the Mississippi Colleg­ ning's program. nor Chigolm, Peggy Israel, Jean- ian, student publication of his col­ Highlight of the evening w nine Roberts, Carolyn Norton, Vir­ INJURES THREE lege. He was a member of a lit­ amateur magic act staged b ginia McDonald, Josephine Bal- erary society, debating team, was an Holman. the youngster wh< done, Joe Barnard, Donald Jones, oratorical contestant, and a mem­ such a tremendous ovation Robert Laney, Betty Jane Evans, Can Of Sodium Explodes In ber of the championship cross-coun­ Jo Ethel Nelson, Joe Bordenca, Jim similar act performed bef Barfield, Murray Alley, Robert Classroom At Wood­ try team of 1935. He graduated Woodlawn Business and C Youngblood, and members of the from college In three years, and sociation dinner, held rec Woodlawn Hrgh School Choir and lawn High was elected secretary-treasurer of the Methodist Church au Warblers Club. the student body during his last The young prestedigator, - Is destined to replace tr Special guest for the occasion Students of chemistry 6 fflass at year at Mississippi. was Noble Hendrix, member of the Mr. Helms has done extensive Blackstone upon his University of Alabama faculty, and Woodlawn High School -know how from the profession. it feels to be "bombed." travelling in and out of the United former principal of Woodlawn High In addition to the ma School for 17 years. At 11 a. m. today a quart, can ol States. Since coming to Woodlawn, he has travelled over thirty thou­ Holman the following pr sodium exploded with terrific con­ enjoyed: cussion, sending fragments ot the sand miles. His trips have included Chicago. Miami, Mexico City, Cuba, Mrs. Sam Nation oper ! metal can all over the room and gram with a song, ace j injuring two students and the and many others. From the beginning of his teach­ the piano by Earl Hel teacher, burning them around Hie by Miss Dickie Bell wit j.face and arms. ing at Woodlawn, Mr. Helms has Ian number, accompf SCHOOL RAISES Joyce .tones, daughter of Mr. and shown intense interest and enthu­ Olga R. Dinken on f Mrs. .!. M."Jones, 7325 Third-av, s. siasm in the students and their Earl Gasset gave, and Fred Slaughter, son of Mr. and work. His influence has been felt Train," a very comic Mrs. J. W. Slaughter, 6011 First- In the excellent pep meetings and also entertained wit) MEMORIAL FUND av, n, were

(.»„ More About- day and the children drink 900 Feeding Children Is Career half-pints and 200 pints of milk daily." Mrs. Lykes, who lives at 829 North 50th Street, relaxes after the day's work by crocheting, her only hobby. She was born at Cardiff, South Wales, and came to the United States with her parents when she was 2 years old. She has lived in Birmingham more than 50 years. Active in church work, she is a charter member- of the West Woodlawn Baptist Church, joining when the church was organized 41 years ago. Mrs. Lykes was left a widow 30 years ago with four small children. A son, three daughters and six grandchildren live here. Working 26 years at one job does not seem unusual to Mrs. Lykes. She was never a person to make changes. "I have lived in the same house 36 years," she said. "And I have two maids at the lunchroom who have been with me 24 years. They uvcr iuc country — cnocoiate aeg^ serts made with Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels! Toll House Cookies — America's favorite —introduced the nation to Semi-Sweet Chocolate. Today Semi-Sweet cookery has expanded to include many different delicious desserts, some using Semi-Sweet in m*sel form— some in melted form — all made with Nestle's IS IT GOOD?—Mrs. Sadie Lykes, dietitian at Woodlawn High Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels. School, tastes a cobbler pie in the school lunchroom to be sure it is Here's one of many —a wonderful just right before serving it to the students. (Staff photo by William Preston) Chocolate Sauce for ice cream, cake.

BY CLARA BURLESON hear people call 'Hello, there, QUICK CHOCOLATE SAUCE Feeding hungry boys and girls Mother Lykes,' and I turn to see has been a career for Mrs. Sadie one of my former boys or girls." HEAT together over hot water 1 Lykes, dietitian at Woodlawn High Mrs. Lykes said she had seen pkg. Nestle's Semi-Sweet School. many a mischievous, unpromising Chocolate Morsels. She has been dietitian at the high boy become a leading citizen and % c. light corn syrup school lunchroom since the school many a plain little girl grow into X was established 26 years ago, and a charming, beautiful woman. ADD A c. milk or light cream was dietitian at Camp Winnataska "Frequently when I am in a busi­ 2 tsp. butter 15 years. ness establishment an important- Vi tsp. vanilla She reluctantly gave up her work looking • executive comes forward until smooth. Makes about at Camp Winnataska four years and says, 'Mother Lykes you may MIX ago, but declares she plans to stay not remember me, but I graduated IVi c. sauce. Use hot or at Woodlawn "as long as I have from Woodlawn High School many cold. the strength." years ago and I remember those "Working with boys and girls After storage, sauce may good lunches you used to serve.'" need thinning with 2 lbs. keeps me young," she said. Mrs. Lykes now supervises the "It has been a wonderful ex­ preparation of between 1,770 and milk, water or cream. perience working with all these 1,800 lunches each school day. Fa-j Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate i§ young people. Wherever I go I vorite foods with the children are meet former Woodlawn student and Spanish rice, Italian spaghetti, at your grocers — in the yellow cel­ Winnataska campers who remem­ meat sandwiches and pies—"always lophane package. Get a package ber me. pies." today. "In stores and on the street I "We serve a crate of lettuce each \ The forty-Niners WoodlawnTo Remember Donald Moore 237 Will Graduate In Commencement Exercises May 30; 7 Veterans, 5 Married Girls Are In Class Woodlawn High School has not forgotten its star track ath­ lete, Donald Moore, who was killed in a traffic accident on April 15. Donald will be graduated posthumously in special services at commencement exercises at 8 p.m. May 30 in the school audi­ torium. Scheduled to receive their diplo- Milner, Dorothy McCutchen, Mari mas are 237 students, one of whom iyn Miller, Kathryn Rldgell and C. is george Irons, the only students w. Drake. with a straight "A" average during Woodlawn High's 1949 graduating his four years of high school. class is the second largest in the George holds honors. school's history. The first class— He was adjudged the "Outstand> the school was opened in February, ing Statesman" of the YMCA 1922—number 31, and was the Youth Legislature smallest. i n Montgomery The largest graduating class, 246 April 24 to 26. members, was the May, 1941, group Woodlawn High This year's class includes seven School Principal veterans: Earl Clarence Morritt, Ralph Martin James C. Carter, George Dewey said that during Lee Jr., Alfred M. Horsley, William the cornmence- C. Rutledge, James Betha and Joe ment program, Smith. the name of Don­ Get Scholarships ald Moore will be Pupils who have received schol­ reaxl and his arships include Murray Alley and diploma displayed Connie Laumer, for debate, Univer­ in front of the sity of Alabama; Howard Betha, graduates. MOORE football player, University of Louis- The boy's parents Mr. and Mrs. ville and Beverly Fant and Betty D. M. Moore, of 3925 Fourth-ave, s, Pittman, Howard College, will obtain the diploma after the Fifty per cent of this year's class sxercises. have definite ideas as to the jobs Other Banking Scholars they'll take after graduation. A In addition to the splendid schol­ small percentage will go on to col­ astic record by young Irons, 11 lege. students achieved "A-minus" grades Although there are no married throughout high school; Peggy senior boy students at Woodlawn, Israel, Joanna Hahamis, Lily Bowie, five girls are married. Lillian Cardwell, Ann Kay Wil­ Their maiden names are Jose­ liams, Jimmy Bellenger, Nancy phine Sommers, Jewel Kilpatrick, Sheila Shaw, Laura Raton and Betty Baggett. Principal Martin, who came to, r the school in 1943, said special ac ' complishments'of the students this WAFM year include winning of the Uni­ versity of Alabama debating tourn­ "BA11IO ALABAMA" ament. Channel 258 Another is that the Boys' Choir 'T and Thursday Program and the Girls' Choir each won the state championship title in com­ "ONIGUX petition at the University. MR. WOODLAWN — George Iron, president of many eid News—CBS Tops In Band school organizations and winner of several scholastic honors, •rvival—<;BS The school also was judged here tra—CBS as having the best band in the is the only one of Woodlawn't 238 graduating seniors to city. And Kathleen O'Connor's finish high school with a straight "A" report. —Music feature article on "Jefferson Coun­ 'ow- CBS ty Anti-Tuberculosis" in the school school press project. sation, a bill which would be broad­ publication, "The Tatler," won a When anyone mentions the er in scope for occupational dis­ Woodlawn senior class of 1949. he eases than the present bill. or she inevitably thinks of George Democracy Theme Irons. Principal Martin said the com­ George's latest conquest was to mencement theme this year is "De­ mocracy." He said a mock trial receive an Exchange Club cup will be staged to see if the seniors award last Wednesday at the are ready to take their place in school. the world. Last week, he was in Rochester, A member of the board of edu­ N. Y.., as one of 22 finalists from cation will present diplomas. 11 states in the sixth annual na­ Senior class officers for 1949 are: tionwide competition for five Johnny Freeman, president; Rich­ Bausch & Lomfo Scinece scholar­ ard Gilliland, vice president; Kath­ ships at the University of Roches­ ryn Ridgell, secretary; Kenneth ter. Howell, treasurer; Lily Jean Bowie Announcement of the five win­ and Dorothy McCutchen, speakers; ners will be made early in June. Doris Bohannon, soloist; Dixie Xan, The following are more or Irons' pianist; Richard Rogers and Jill achievements: session room presi­ Farmer, artists; Jean Bunt, his­ dent, president of the national hon­ torian; Mary Lou McClendon, pre­ or society last Fall, president of senter, and Annette Holland, prop­ the student body this Spring, chair­ het. man of the student court last year Among famous people who were and this year, president of the graduated from Wodlawn High French Club last Spring, president are Gail Patrick, Hollywood movie of the Promoters of Goodwill and star, and Irene Jordan Metropoli­ Understanding, associate editor of tan Opera star. the school's newspaper, "The Tat­ ler," treasurer of the Hi-Y Ushers Club, member of the Euclidean Judge Throws Out Mathatics Honor Society, the Woodlawn Band Society and pres­ Beery Paternity Suit ident of the Junior Citizen Club. Father Is Professor HOLLYWOOD, May 25 (UP film bit player's paternit He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. G. V. Irons, of 8143 Division-av. Dr. against the late actor Irons is the head of the history Beery has been div department at Howard College. He grounds it could not plans to go to medical school at Superior Judge Vanderbilt or Tulane University Kesson yesterdav following graduation from Howard. a motion to s" TH Observers said he was "real skill­ tate as defer ful" at the Spring session of the by Mrs. G YMCA Youth Legislature in Mont­ of her V gomery. George submitted a pro­ Beer posed bill on Workmen's Compen­ fatb<- 7. ' : Woodlawn National Honor Society Steel only drawback— ~g£- /£*&* (fe£r*£<- ^^ Eacr raise School Board This Will Celebrate 25th Anniversary over gra­ It was in 1924 that the National Honor Society 'at Wood­ gym in prospect OK's Additions ta lawn High School received its charter and since that time 850 of its members have been graduated. Those 850 NHS alumnae are invited to attend a recepti6n At Woodlawn which is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their organization's Plans for music and shop ad­ — Woodlawn High ditions at Woodlawn High School 1 founding. The date is April 16 and were approved by the Birming­ the party sa3ne wiU te the gym BY RONALD WEATHERS CHANGE IN DESIGN of the roof ham Board of Education yester­ Mrs Malain Is 'nasiurn at Woodlaw- n High. " was okehed by the board last Fri­ Lillian Cardwell is National Hon­ News sports writer day. A physical education plant simi­ day, thus clearing the way toward Board members also authorized Party Hortess or Society president and other of­ meeting demands of the Federal Schools Superintendent Dr. ficers are Lena Wells, vice presi­ lar to those at West End and Ram­ Security Agency. dent; Jerry Parks, corresponding say High Schools will be erected at Frazer Banks to advertise for bids To Mrs. Osborne secretary; Kathryn Ridgell, record­ Woodlawn High School in the not The plant, to cost between $175,- for the additions. Mrs. Harold J. Osborne of Mem­ 000 and $200,000, is to be located In other business the board re­ ing secretary; John Ed Ramsay, too distant future. That was the where the Woodlawn Elementary ported a burglary loss in schools phis, Tenn. who has been the guest treasurer, and Jean Bunt, Tatler hope of officials at Woodlawn and of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. School lunchroom now stands. Thus of $873.54 from Jan. 1 to May 13 representative. the Board of Education today as it would be adjacent to the present of this year. they awaited the final okeh from varsity football dressing room. The Recommended a change in the Washington. gym would house a basketball district boundaries of West End Right now, steel—or the lack of court, dressing rooms, conference Ramsay and Jones Valley High For $90,600— ^^^^-M^^TL it—is the principal thing that is rooms and coaches' offices. Schools. holding up the project. An okeh Provisions are included in t h e However, Dr. Banks said, it has for allotment of the steel by the plans for extension, that probably been the policy of the board to Federal Security Agency in Wash­ to be a girls' gymnasium in future grant transfers to those students ington would mean that construc­ years. whose parents request it. He also School Board Lets tion of the plant could begin as Realizing the need for expansion said students now attending West soon as possible after July 1. That at Woodlawn, an application for End High School may go on next was the word from Dr. T. M. Keg- steel was submitted last Fall, but year, but due to crowded condi­ ley, of the Board of Education. turned down. tions no student will be accepted j Woodlawn Gym Job Only last week, the board got Currently, the boys' and girls' next year who lives outside of the Birmingham Board of Eduaction yesterday accepted a bid of telephonic assurance from Wash­ gym is located at the rear of the West End school district. $90,600 for expansion of gymnasium facilities at Woodlawn High ington that the steel probably school auditorium. Partitioning School. would be released the third quar­ of the space, the size of a small ter of this year. basketball court, means cramped Contract went to R. L. Pledger. In order to meet requirements for quarters for both boys' and girls' The project calls for floor extension to the gym. a physical obtaining the steel, the board had classes. education classroom, locker and to agree to two things: (1) To use Things are further crowded when shower rooms and restrooms. Easier fabricated trusses that will make the musical or speech department : The total estimated cost is for a flat arched roof and (2) not stages a production, requiring part to erect any permanent seats until of the gym space for rehearsal and $100.000—S35.000 more than the Chi'irrnan No' after the duration of the present actual presentation. President of Jefferr emergency. The latter specifica­ When that happens, physical edu­ state allocation. n^^^^^^^^m tion was asked in order to make Transfer oi S35.000 from unal- *"*& ^^ff cation instructors can only pray for dutts G n gl1 the gymnasium primarily of class­ favorable weather so that classes located funds to the project will * ' : , ' room nature instead of a place for can go outside, or operate in con­ reduce this fund to between S30, *e fppointme- entertainment. fined quarters. . Bowden. „. 000^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and S60.000. Dr. T. M, . Kes_! !^3 - "Faster Sep-' director of research, told the T', board. Marcjn ' Besides additions to the gym Sun<-' In Feud With Ensley— to provide physical education lp classes for boys. 460 permanent balcony seats and 570 folding t downstairs bleachers are expected ( 1 Woodlawn Student Beaten. Near Death to push total seating to between j BY MARTIN WALDRON The feud flared after a baseball Golden said he did not believe any 1200 and 1300. of them had fists hard enough to A 16-year-old high school stu­ game between Woodlawn and Ens­ The board selected Feb. 16 for ley last Friday. dent a man's skull. dent was near death yesterday, the On Friday night, also, students a hearing asked by Hoke Kelly of victim of what police said was a Real Brawl Planned 1500 30th-st, n. Kelly requested had a run-in on the First-av fight between Ensley and Wood­ Detective Golden said a "real Viaduct. that Phillips Head Coach Ernest lawn high school students. brawl, with knives, guns and base­ L. Tucker and Asst. Coach Brax­ The youth. John Robert Bond, ball bats" is planned for this Fri­ Golden said a group of Ensley day night. He said several students boys in an automobile ran a truck- ton Nail be removed because of 5016 Eighth-ter„ s, was struck in load of Woodlawn boys into the failure to win enough football the head early Sunday in a fight in told him of the projected brawl, front of a Central Park drive-in and that he and other authorities curb on the viaduct. , games. restaurant, Detective Cecil Golden are working to stop it. "A fight followed," said Golden. Dr. Then Wrighl told the board said. Golden conferred with Circuit "Three Ensley boys were beaten." Doctors at Jefferson-Hillman Solicitor Emmett Perry, af ormer Golden said the week-end fights he informed Kelly that he "could seemed to have stemmed from an not in good conscience recommend Hospital said Bond had a fractured juvenile court judge, yesterday skull. about the matter. Perry agreed to incident in the Ensley-Woodlawn ihe removal of any teacher for Golden said the Sunday morning meet with school principals and try baseball game last Friday. not winning football games." fight was the continuation of a to put a stop to the fights. The Woodlawn catcher was in­ jured in a collision with the Ensley The board asked one of its feud which has been going on for Several other students were in­ members. Robert C. Arthur, to several weeks between students jured during the past week-end but catcher and had to have nine cheek with the Park and Recrea­ from Woodlawn High and Ensley did not require hospitalization, stitches taken in his mouth. High. young Bond being the only person Woodlawn school authorities STRIKE UP THE BAND—It's not just football that's tion Board about a contract on hurt seriously. said that the Ensley catcher hit in the air these days, and proof is th«se photos taken •1 :;ooooooooo: •7 0 9 Ihe use of Lesion Field by high tSUULSLSLS Bond is a student at Alabama the Woodlawn catcher in the mouth yesterday at Woodlawn High where 90 instruments were 1 School of Trades, but formerly at- with the catcher's mask. Wood­ schools. ^^^_ SURE • • • being polished up and 90 boys and girls of assorted sizes Dr. Wright said that although PI tended Woodlawn. lawn won the game. 70 Detective Golden gave this ver- Woodlawn Principal Ralph Mar­ and shapes were being fitted (?) into 90 uniforms, also of he had read of the contract in BUILDING MATERIALS ^-ROOM house and barn, 30x j sion of Bond's being injured: tin said he did not think the trouble assorted sizes and shapes. In the photo at the left, the newspaper, he received no 'e wrecked. 0000 Wlldwood IN HOSPITAL—John Bond and four Woodlawn stu- started from the baseball game. Bandmaster Gerald A. Smith does his best to help communication from the Park • 00-0000. I dents went to the Central Park Robert Bond. "I asked the boys' advisors about Board. three-line ad got de- ! drive-in about midnight Saturday it," he said. "And they said it def­ Clarinetist Wayne Tucker, 14, find a uniform that will SAore than 15,000 in- to get sandwiches. One student, One of the crowd asked Bond if initely did not, that the trouble fit, while in the background Ernestine Newby, another Dr. Wright said he had sev­ lurself, got the re- he were from Woodlawn. •d last month. 3 dressed in pajamas, did not get out. started a long time ago." clarinetist, who already has found one her size, enjoys eral objections concerning the ' 3 lines, 7 days, Faces 'Flying Wedge' He replied that he was; the Principal Martin said he had her friend's discomfiture. At the right, pint-sized Pat terms of the contract as reported Bond came from the drive-in to youths began to beat him. talked with Solicitor Perry and was in the paper, particularly setting T TOO! ask if the pajama-clad student Golden said Bond had marks on Herrod does her best to give the oversized bass horn'that wanted something to drink with his his head which appeared to have ready to co-operate in any way. a S350 minimum charge per game sandwich. When the youth turned "been made by brass knuckles. Principal Martin suggested that "spit and polish" look. Later she announced she guessed and granting power lo postpone from the automobile, he faced a He said the group of boys who stiff Police Court fines for anyone she'd stick rathe flute she tootled last year. games tn the Park Board. group of boys lined up "in a flying attacked Bond denied hitting him who participates in the fights might [stop them. Tf. wedge." \ with anything but their fists, but THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS A—EIGHT -Av With your neighbors— Omissions by French class make song seem more torrid BY LEO WILLETTE "Band Appreciation Night" willlBand Director Sam Gagliano has [everyone's taste in the hour-and- News staff writer begin at 8 p.m. at the high school J promised a musical menu suiting'a-hali-plus concert. If anything, they've only making folks a little more curious about it. The "they" in this case are knowing-grin members of Wood­ lawn High School's French club. The "it is by Kitt—down-to- Eartha Kitt's Frenchy record of "C'est Ci Bon." In the middle of the torrid- sounding disc there are references to we-don't-know-what .". . All in French. It seemed natural that at the annual banquet of "Les Cercle Francais," that's the club at Woodlawn, a Gaelic iron-curtain might be raised on the musical mysteriousness. But they ain't talking. "Well, it means 'It's so good'." volunteered one of the banquet- ting youngsters Friday night at a downtown cafeteria. That, everyone knows. It's the suspiciously juicy-sounding sec­ tion of the song their non-French speaking cousins can't dope out During a presentation of skits and French numbers, one of the young ladies in the club even sang the number. Joy Hearn, 15-year-old dauga- ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hearn of Roebuck sang, all right, but again, she wasn't talking. This much she did admit: "I left part of it out. After all, the head of the department was there." • I By Summer, or not by Summer—That is August dip. One possible holdup may be Woodlawn's French teacher, the question regarding Homewood's installing the filtering plant, which will be Miss Eva Godbey was reluctant swimming pool and recreation center. City located in the recreation building. The They say that C'est is ci bon—The Gaelic "Juliets" being to discuss the matter. "We've learned the song to sing in class," officials expressed hope that the pool, steel framework of the recreation center , given "French leave" by Bob Murray, 16, of 5336 Fifth- she admitted. i foreground, would be ready for a July or is shown in the background. av, s, (left to right) are: Bebe Harris, 14, of 7821 Fifth- What about the . . ah . . ah , . mixed-up part? av, n; Lyndall Head, 15, of 4342 74th-pl, n, and Gayle "Oh, that's slang, "Miss God-; Martin, 15, of 331 85th-st, n. They are members of bel dispatched. "We don't doj that." I Woodlawn High School's "Le Cercle Francois." (News So the mystery, as far as "Le photo by Leo Willette.) Cercle Francais" is concerned, A "SPRINGT^" remains. This much isn't a secret: One of the high schoolers be­ came slightly sick-to-stomach fol­ lowing the banquet. And guess on what . . . She swears—of all things—it r was the French bread.

Woodlawn High addition by Fall—Shown is the two-story, $282 000 bond and shoo bu.ldmg, an addition to Woodlawn High School. The delta-shaped building wi I be ready for operation by September, school officials say. In addition to accomcdatina _music and manual studies, the building will house several academic classroomT 9 /^- jJL^L 0eA*& - ^ /, &d^ Jtbqfu $>Jrr& - flSpr-tliuir*— EIGHT

THE NEW LOOK—Woodlawn High School students will be moving into this new $283,000 addition when Birmingham public schools open Sept. I. New $283,000 Addition Additions Bo Op Ready At Woodlawn High! All Over City Brick Building And Facilities Just about everywhere you look in the city there's some kind of Provide New Look For Students school construction going on. And it's no wonder because Woodlawn High School students will be conscious of "the new City Board of Education is in the look" when they move into their new $283,000 addition when school midst of a giant building program opens Wednesday. with $1,700,000 already commit­ The addition which is a triangular-shaped brick building will be Lions get uniforms for Woodlawn band— left to right, are: Lion T. D. Hudson, chair­ ted. used for the first time this Fall. Contractors are at work on 11 Woodlawn's Lions Club has turned over to man of the boys and girls committee; It contains two shop rooms, band school additions. the Woodlawn High School band 15 Band Director Gerald Smith; Band Mem­ room, mechanical drawing depart­ the main high school building and All of the funds which will pay ment, girl's music room, orchestra the gymnasium. brand new unifrms, purchased from funds bers Joan Barton of 715 85th-st, s; Sandy room, six small music-practice for these buildings will come out Straub of 5734 Eighth-ct, s, and Garlancj^ It is a two-story brick structure of the $10,500,000 bond issue voted in the club's boys and girls fund. The rooms, six classrooms, restrooms with a completely modern design. by the people of Birmingham last uniforms cost more than $600. Shown, Sheats of 516 Ridge-rd, Roebuck. £' and a small conference room It has central heating and will The new building is Fall. between be lighted entirely with floure- Dr. T. M. Kegley, research di­ scent lamps. rector for the city's schools, also »a There will be a covered passage­ announced that bids for two more «ui way between the new addition and school construction jobs will be ^nace the main part of the high school. advertised Sept. 29. "Our building program is moving along nicely," Dr. Keg­ ley said. "However, we've been held up somewhat in several places by a recent strike by plasterers and cement finishers. The other sad news which the research director had to report was that none of the school con­ struction, which comes out of bond issue money, will be ready for occupancy when the city schools commence classes Sept. 1. "We're hoping that some of jthem will be ready at various times throughout the year," Keg­ ley said.

Kegley added architects are now preparing drawings for six more school "jobs," and that at present they were in the blue­ print stage. Of the 11 schools where construc­ tion is now in progress Kegley figured that they would provide 82 new classrooms, seven new lunchrooms, one new auditorium, I five new combination auditorium- I gymnasiums, four new shops and office space at two schools. j^kcVfr - S

(Sixth in a series of articles of Woodlawn who favored hav­ been condemned and after the giving the history and growth ing the school built at its pres­ fire it was torn down to give of public schools of the Fast- ent site. He was R. H. Kennedy. the school its present play­ Kennedy Principal is Former Teacher cm area.) A. C.' Burns supervised the plan­ ground. The school site contains ning and construction of the or­ 2.95 acres. Having taught literature, 11- |' By Steve Mitchell iginal building, which was of Modern School brary, various home rooms, writ­ Kennedy School originated be­ white sand brick. The first unit Today Kennedy has 13 class­ ing, and serving as head teacher fore Woodlawn became a part of ] had seven rooms with one long rooms in the main buijding and for a number of years, Miss Vera the City of Birmingham. In the j hall. For several years after uses the annex and the audi­ Anderson became principal, of late 1880's, Woodlawn, a town on Kennedy was built, it was de­ torium for classrooms. Their Kennedy School in 1942. pendent upon Woodlawn Ele­ its own, set up a board of edu- ; lunchroom is in the annex also She was born in Prattville and cation and erected Woodlawn mentary for domestic science and is one of the most pressing and manual training classes. received her secondary schooling Elementary School. By 1903 the j things on their improvement list. there. After graduating from area was having growing pains The Board of Education of Bir­ Fifteen regular and four part- Troy State Normal School, she and the Board of Education, mingham enlarged the school in time teachers are in charge of taught four years in Troy. Miss headed by R. A. Clayton, felt 1915 in order to relieve , over­ an enrollment of 500. A recent Anderson then went to the Uni­ that a new school was a neces­ crowded conditions. A four- addition to Kennedy was a mod­ versity of Alabama and received sity. room cottage was built to house ern gym completed in January her B.S. degree after one year of A heated controversy arose the primary grades, Lunchroom of 1953. study.. concerning the location of an service was brought to the school The band and glee club are Her teaching career continued additional school and for more at that time also. One year la­ two special activity groups of in Birmingham where,. s,he l^as than a year the board was un­ ter the first class graduated at which the school is very proud. been since. While teaching at able to reach a decision. Finally Kennedy with 30 receiving di­ Having about 30 members, Ken­ Kennedy she continued her ed- the board divided equally an plomas. W. M. Tehan was the nedy's band combines with a like ucation by attending the Uni­ $11,000 appropriation and erect­ only boy in the first graduating group from Holman and Gibson versity during the Summer ed two new schools. One was class. form the Woodlawn Cadet Band months and has been awarded ; Kennedy School, located at 125 N. 63rd St. Kennedy, located at its present Full Curriculum They participate in programs at her master's degree. site, 120 N. 63rd St., and the School growth was evident in the three schools and take pari Miss Anderson is a member of Miss Vera Anderson other was Gibson. 1923 when Kennedy inaugurated in the Christmas Music Festival the Delta Kappa Gamma, an Named For Alderman a full curriculum for an eight- held each year at the City Au­ educational honorary. She is a Kennedy, built in 1904, was year course of study and later in ditorium. The band is under the member of the Southside. Bap­ INSIDE PARKING For named in honor of an alderman the same year became a platoon direction of Mrs. Gerald Smith. tist Church and has her resi- OUTSIDE PRICES school. Further expansion came The Glee Club is directed by denqe in the Altamont Apart- j Use in 1925 when the first unit of Miss Margaret Ann O'Neill. The ments. National Birmingham the present brick building was school has both a Boys' and Garage constructed. Three years later Girls' Glee Club which combine Elgin Darden was in school Look for "Quick Park" Sign a second unit was added to com­ to present special programs. last week in Columbus, O.. study­ 1813 1st Ave. and Morris Ave. BAKE SHOPPE plete ,the school very much as it Their combined number is about ing air conditioning. Finer Baked Goods is today. In that year, 1928, the 60. VE 3-9122 9149 4th Ave., S. original sand brick building par-_ 4©S=N tially burned. It had previously Kennedy PTA From where I sit... 6y Joe Marsh Partcwav Florist & Nursery Promotes School Advertisement Kennedy School PTA is proud Parking Meters of its membership figures this (JOE E. McKINSTRY) year. They have 526 members Get "Tagged" which gives a high percentage of 9001 First Ave., S. membership. Mrs. William A. Roberson is president, of the Strangers in town last Wednes­ From where I sit, everyone was Phone VE 3-1271 PTA, with Mrs. G. E. Marks serv­ day must have thought we were glad to see Tiny have his "day." ing as membership chairman. crazy—with all the streamers and He sure deserved it. Not that banners and people milling about. In the past the Parent-Teach­ there aren't other citizens in town who deserve a little extra recog­ GREENHOUSES er Assn. has purchased books for KENNEDY SCHOOL BAND—Directed by Mrs. Gerald Smith, the Kennedy band is a part of the The occasion was the retirement Woodlawn Cadet Band along twith Holman and Gibson. Members of the band are, first row. nition, too. Take Andy, who rang 1 Block East of Roebuck the school library, placed equip­ of Tiny Fields—our oldest, big­ the Green Garden Inn. By Volun­ ment on the playgrounds, helped left to right: Douglas Pate, Charles Lynn, Ronnie Watkins, James Arrington, Eddie Vande- gest and most genial cop. He's hurg, Pat Davis, Buddy Wood; second row: Martha Daley, Eddie Rawlinson, Jimmy Headley, tarily co-operating with that Self- Golf Course on in the-school's visual aid pro­ patrolled Main Street since the Regulation Program the Brewing gram and worked in every way Richard Crews, Richard Lanej Harold Holly, Jimmy Newsome, Raymond Rayfield, Guy Lytle; early 20's. Most of the school kids Super Highway third row: Mrs. Gerald Smith director; Jimmy Jackson, John Word, Johnny Tubb, Jackie Ray Industry sponsors, Andy's given possible to promote the school. he once helped cross the highway us a meeting-and-eating place (hat This year they have alloted a Wilson, Michael Wood, Jeanelie Fowler, Sue Butler, Carlos Gonzalez, Larry Wyatt and Jimmy now have children of their own Lou Sparks. (East End News p] oto.) the whole (own can take pride, in portion of their budget to books for him to watch over. . . . always orderly, polished-up for the library, books for the When he set out for his last and attractive. primary grades, magazines for iave returned from a fishing Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Schwab and They are now located at 105 19th MILLS RESTAURANT the library, Summer reading rip. to Biloxi. children moved recently into the Ave., N.W.- day in uniform, every one of our club, colored filmstrips, first-aid community from Plant City, Fla. 40 parking meters had a gift for A Truly Fine Family him . tied to it—some of them supplies, and their largest fund Clyde Franklin, Mr. and-Mrs. JshytUv? Restaurant Sympathy to Mrs. Vera Frank­ too big to wrap, like the TV set. is $300 set aside for the play­ U'thur Franklin attended the Welcome to the community lin in the death of her brother, ground. uneral-of their uncle in Clari­ Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Waites, who ! Marcus Jones 'of Clanton. He No Alcoholic Beverages © 1956 ALABAMA DIViSION-U. S. 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Woodlawn Bank Deaths And Funerals—0<*JuU.~ /&~* School Board Hears Miss Jessica Farnham/* Pleas From Woodlawn Overcrowding Detailed; Allocations Under Retired Art Teacher, Dies Proposed Bond Issue Studied BY LARRY MOBBS //"^3 Miss Jessica Famham, 73, for­ Robert Armstrong, Sterrett. mer head of the art department The Birmingham Board of Education yesterday re-examined at Woodlawn High School, died Funeral will be at 11 a.m. to­ allocations under its proposed $15 million bond issue and heard a morrow at Mount Comfort Ceme­ lO-maa committee urge aid for "grossly overcrowded" Woodlawn yeiterday at a hospital here. High School. Miss Farnham was a retired tery in Alexandria. Bond figures were compiled for C. E. Armstrong, city comptrol- art teacher and painter. She was ler, who is preparing a report born in New Rochelle, N. Y. and for the City Commission on the j ment. Dr. L. Frazer Banks, su- educated at Milwaukee, Wis issue. Even with the Commission perintendent of schools, Downes College, the Lycee Mo- approval, the bond issue would stressed ''auditoriums and gyms Here in Paris, The Art Institute require g. city election. are not for extra-curricular ac­ of Chicago and Howard College. Estimates indicate 150 class­ tivities. Primarily they serve She was supervisor of art rooms are needed to replace un­ as class teaching areas." at a high school in Rochester, desirable facilities.Ill classrooms' Minn, and also assistant super­ visor of art at schools in Colo­ to relieve overcrowding and an-j The issue caUg for 26 lunch. rado Springs and Portland, other 186 rooms required for im- room constnictions, 31 building Ore. mediate growth. site purchases and 23 cases of building renovation. These sug­ While she was head head of Some 13 school auditoriums gestions total $13,725,000. stand to be either remodeled the art department at Woodlawn A $500,000 Contingency fund High School here, exhibits of her or constructed and 23 gymnasi­ ums would get the same treat- would meet rising building costs watercolor work were displayed and emergencies. To consolidate at Auburn, Talladega High business offices now spread out School, Ramsay High School, in three downtown buildings, a Phillips High School, Woodlawn $650,000 school office structure is High and the Montgomery Mu- called for. A $125,000 warehouse suem of Art. addition brings the final figure Miss Farnham was a member to $15 million. of the Art Institute Alumni of The school board continues to! the Southeastern Art Assn., the emphasize this figure reflects! Southern States Art League, The only definite needs of the school Watercolor Society and the Bir­ system to meet a yearly 2300 mingham Teachers Federation. pupil increase in enrollment. The daughter of Dr. Alden Radford Farnham and Mary E. Fr6m 1945 to 1956 there has been; Farnham, she was a communi­ a 17,000 increase in students. cant of The Church of the Ad­ By 1962 an extra half million I vent here. ' dollars would have to be found Survivors include one sister, for teacher salaries for in­ Mrs. Frank Hunro of Marble- struction of the rapidly ex­ head, Miss., two nieces and sev­ panding classrooms. The issue does not call for any funds for eral great nieces and nephews. INDIAN'S PORTRAIT HANGS AT WOODIJAWN Funeral services will be at 4:30 salaries. this afternoon at Johns-Ridout's! . . . "Fading Glories" in school library Chapel with the Rev. John C. Present at yesterday's session Turner officiating. to point out needs at Woodlawn High was a committee headed by Bought in 1922— 4"/^/^. Burial will be at Citronelle, Mrs. Claude t Hearn, the PTA Ala. president. She said "there has been no major renovation or con­ struction at Woodlawn since Woodlawn High site 1945. Because it's so crowded the school is running on emer­ gency session periods. Classes have been cut from 45 minutes to 40 minutes to give instruction to of old Indian painting all students. They even have to "Fading Glories," an oil started the ball rolling by giv­ use the auditorium for a study portrait of an Indian chief, has ing $200 toward the purchase. hall." Other citizens joined in and The group presented a list of been displayed at Woodlawn the students themselves raised 23. items sought to bring Wood­ High School since its purchase money for the painting. lawn 'up to standards." for $2500 in 1922. In i923, Joseph T. Vaughan, The painting was bought now principal at Bush School, "Woodlawn is in the fastest from the artist, Nicholas R. went to Santa Barbara, Calif., [ growing area in town," con- Brewer, who reduced the price where he saw an Indian who I tinued Mrs. Hearn. "You ought from $5000 to enable students reminded him of the chief in to be around in the morning and friends of the school to the painting. He wrote back when 2600 people all converge buy it. at the time that the Indian on the building at one time. identified himself as the In­ This one high school is fed by WOMAN'S CLUB of Bir­ dian in the picture. He gave children from 13 elementary mingham, then called the his name as Chief Young Tur­ schools. Another high school Woman's Club of Woodlawn, key of Turtle, Vaughan said. is desperately needed." A 1953 bond issue included construction of a second east­ ern section high school. Of­ ficials' hope to be able to ac­ cept bids for it "around the first of December." The current proposal lists more money for building of the new secondary school. Combined al­ locations of the two issues would provide for a new million dollar high school in the eastern sec­ tion. A—TWENTY-TWO TH5 BIR.M.!^ Terrific Teens— ^^^ New Woodlawn chief talented President-elect of the Wood­ teaches sophomore English at A w a r d s, he is also an im- being a past president of his lawn High School student Shades Valley High School. portant member of the school's training union. body is an all-A student, a two- Earlier in the. Summer he Winner of practically every track team. attended Boys State and pre­ year letterman in track, a live- scholastic honor at Woodlawn HE PLACED 12th in the sently is enrolled in the typ­ foot four-inch, 16-year-old (National Junior Honor So­ stair in cross country, ran on ing class for beginners at senior. ciety, National Honor Society sprint relay team, ran half Wheeler Business College. He is Charlie Hayes. in Sixth semester and Math mile placing third in the city HIS AMBITION is to re­ CHARLIE'S DAD is Atty. and Speech honor societies) competition and was a mem­ ceive an appointment to either H. C. Hayes, and his Mom Freshman and Harvard Book ber of the Woodlawn team the Naval Academy or West placing third in the city and Point. . . . And to always do fifth in the Dixie Prep Relays. God's will in everything. This terrific teen is inter­ Listening to pop music is Houses Treated ested in the work of his his hobby. •DERNEATH—USING £» church, South Avondale Bap­ The Hayes family, including tist, serving as president of Mrs. Hayes' mother, lives at "OTE or 9 his Sunday School Class and 3933 Fourth-av, s. 'E 45 MTE CONTROL VND ESTIMATES "NG CO. 1332 Anytime

WOODLAWN'S BEST ALL-AROUND SENIOR . . . Jimmie Frank Sudderth, would-be doc f-X Terrific teen— &•&*&*>-£i •¥ * He's best senior at Woodlawn Hi Both the senior class and the student body at Wood­ lawn High School have honored 17-year-old Jimmie Frank Sudderth. The senior class chose him "best all-around senior," ond the student body elected him as their president. He • started his term of office Friday. News stafC photo Pony FaUettA Jimmie will be remembered by readers of the sports CHARLIE HAYES: WOODLAWN PRESI DENT page as a valuable member, a tackle, that is of his ... A letterman in track school's football team. In addition to being a member of the Letter Club, he belongs to the Ushers, trie Student Council and Junior Achievement. Science is his favorite subject. He serves as president .of the Boys' Adviser's office and was a delegate to Boys State. FFor unusual qualities'— This terrific teen's ambition is to be a physician, with pedia­ trics as his specialty. He hopes to take his college work at Vanderbilt. Wood/awn's science department gets Jimmie is skilled enough as an auto mechanic to be em- ' ployed in the Body Shop of White Dairy in the Summer. This is the way he lists his hobbies: Playing football, cook­ ing steaks, baking apple pies and eating, working on cars and national awards, new recognitionThese are all elective courses . collecting rare U. S. coins. ert W. Youngblood, head of Science departments™m,t , in gensen-­ ert W. Youngblood, head of Thes"It ei sar worte alhl electivcallinge attention The only child of the Frank E. Sudderths of 8044 Third-av, s, the school's science depart­ to these conditions," the BTA he is active in the youth organizations of the East Lake Meth* eral, are smarting under na­ "T+ ;<, Wnrth railing tion-wide criticism, but Wood­ ment. Bulletin said, "first, the stu­ odist Church. LORINE ALEXANDER •••§ lawn High's has just been pat­ Principal Martin was asked dents like and elect science ted on the back. by the company to give his courses; second, standards for The sponsors of an honorary "success formula" for publica­ passing are high; third, strict science award program have tion in its "The Education Fo­ discipline is maintained in the praiised Woodlawn for having cus" and in a booklet on the science classes, and fourth, the "unusual qualities not com­ 'science award and scholarship head of the department is on monly found in most seconda­ program. the go furnishing his teachers ry schools." The Birmingham's Teachers' needed aids." Woodlawn 'Woocllog The sponsors, Bausch & Lomb Assn. publication, BTA Bulle­ Optical Co. of Rochester, N. tin, said the most important "WE DO NOT BELIEVE Y., made this statement in a aspect of the praise for Wood­ there is any dearth of talent, X letter to Principal Ralph Mar­ lawn "is not the fact that it in the American boy or girl for tin. Woodlawn was named one happened but rather the cause science, provided the courses Gets B' 'torfcWiPfeature editor; Sand?y Straub of 44 schools that have placed or reason back of the reality." are well taught and the stu­ Woodlawn „High'. . ,s ,.r195o8 Woo«7 dA i foatiirand Patsp editory Bolle: , Sandad managersy ; two or more finalists in the dents are challenged," the Bul­ log, school yearbook, has been and Glenn Jett, photographer. YOUNGBLOOD said, "We awarded the merit score of annual science scholarship have some good science teach­ letin said. Returning for key jobs on competition sponsored by the Youngblood said, "It is diffi­ "B", meaning "good to very this year's annual are Jackie ers, and we get some good pu­ good." by the National School company. pils who have good parents to cult to get enough' teachers Rogers, co-editor; Glenn Jett, and classroom space for the Yearbook Assn. of Columbia, photographer; and Patsy Bolle, encourage them." Missouri. SIX THOUSAND SCHOOLS More than 71 per cent—1729 pupils who want the elective art editor. compete in the program which science." This rating puts the book . Faculty adviser is Miss Mil­ has been in force 14 years. out of 2426--of the Woodlawn generally in the upper half dred Barnard, while Mrs. pupils are enrolled in science He expressed the view that of yearbooks judged bjr this Woodlawn finalists .have been courses, he said. Only gener­ the federal government should Harry Register serves as fea­ Betty Ann Johnsey, 1945; Al­ subsidize scholarships for sci­ national organization. ture adviser. fred Henry Randall, 1945; al science is required and Special commendations were there are classes taking that entists. He said many wonder­ made for art designs, identifi­ Charles Aubrey Preskitt Jr., subject. ful students in his own ds- cation of students, coverage in Going To Meeting 1948, and George Vernon Irons There are 24 classes taking parment are interested in sci­ the awards and honors section, Dennis E. Conniff Jr., edu' Jr., 1949. ence and have the ability, but r The next awards are sched­ biology, 12 in chemistry, six do not have the financial and for general organization of tional director at First uled to be given at Woodlawn in physics and three in ad­ means to go to college. The Woodlog. Church, will attend a *" Jan. 15-16, according to Rob­ vanced science for seniors. Co-editors of the winning Press conference . 15-16, according to HOP- v«»«.c« - entry were Carole Bell and Friday and f Ida Ray Cooley; other heads will discus" on the staff included: Jimmy multi-v--' Rawls, artist; Jackie Rogers, Bib1 assistant editor; Judy Carlisle, , •• .. -y .. . •• i-C, - Wtr THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS /Q-f

WOODLAWN DE STUDENTS EARN WHILE THEY LEARN quire hospital treatment— jfi-S-Sf . . Gloria Hodges mokes "Sale" to Classmate Katherine Watkins as store Man­ *B ager Mike Diccicco and Student Fred Harp watch With cooperation of merchants— 4 c Three high schools offer siudenO '^severely beaten with hall bat distributive education courses TWO OF THE YOUTHS, Dennis may require skin grafts. Bruises Three Woodlawn High School BY DANE HARRIS WHILE IN THIS PROGRAM, Mrs. Meadows said merchants Hopkins, 16, of 7132 Fouth-ct, n, on both boys, they said, pene­ fcoys told'police Friday that they News staff writer they attend regular classroom in­ in the eastern section feel this and Leroy Tucker, 16, of 7129 Di- trated the skin about half an iN^ere severly beaten with a "flat­ Birmingham merchants are struction four periods each day. program is providing them with tened" baseball bat during a vision-av, were treated Friday inch. Two of these periods are con­ night at East End Memorial Hos­ finding a ready answer to their well qualified employes which are V> Jri-W Fraternity initiation. The boys said they believed one need for enthusiastic and capable cerned with regular academic an indispensable part of any busi­ rvN Detectives M. A. Jones C. B. pital for severe bruises o£ the but­ students was injured more se­ courses such as English. The last tocks. sales people through the distribut- ness. Golden said four other days were verely than they. "He was bleed­ tive education program being of­ two periods are devoted to sub­ Attendants said one boy who A big selling point for the pro­ filso beaten during the initiation ing awful," said one. fered in three Birmingham high jects related to the phase in which but had not been located, suffered bursted blood Vessels, gram, she said, is that a high schools. And the students are find­ the student is most interested. DE percentage of the students remain POLICE WERE NOTIFIED ing satisfying careers as well as includes everything from whole­ yesterday of the Thursday night in their field, making it a per­ r financial help. sale and retail selling to adver­ manent career after graduation. beatings after one of the students, tising. ' «te contract?- who was not identified, went to an The students work part-time un­ til they complete their high school At the end of the fourth period, ANOTHER REASON the DE East Lake doctor for treatment. the student goes to his place of Principal Ralph Martin said the training and are then ready to go program is proving to be such a to work full-time as trained, highly employment and works for the re­ success, apparently, is the dili­ social fraternity was not recog­ mainder of the day. '^ponders nized or sponsored by the school qualified personnel. gence with which the coordinators Mrs. Meadows explained that administer it. or Board of Educaiton. "Careers in Retailing Week," students hold regular positions which will be observed this Mrs. Meadows said coordinators "7 ~ :. J The three students described for which they receive regular their "initiation paddle" as a week, is designed to locus at­ wages. The amount they receive not only help students obtain jobs. on baseball bat that had been tention on this program and depends upon their experience teach them related courses and planed off on the sides, leaving what it is doing. and proficiency. counsel them in which courses to 'irst broached about one inch of t hickness. students from Woodlawn. She said salaries range from as take, then maintain close liaison res proposal One boy told officers he had an Phillip ley who are en­ little as $25 pei week to as much with the students' employers to •ers struck inflamed boil on the area where rolled in the (V: educa­ , as -SW) and even-, more in some un-jmak e sure the job as well as the arrests made ie the in- the club members struck him. tion curriculum, will carry u'fi ' if* 5*insta) students' work are : ci hare ta­ "This is one of the worst beat­ tivities throughout the week hon­ lkers. ings I've seen." said Detective oring their merchanl employers' in frat beating Golden. "You can't call this play­ and EelliKg other Sitti ing." the program. Three WoodlawiHigh_ School CAREERS in Retailing Week students were arrested yesterday THE TRI-W MEMBERS beat was initiated by Woodlawn PfW- in connection with a brutal Tri-W them on three occasions during cipal Ralph Martin and DE co­ Fraternity initiation in which sev­ the initiation, the students re­ ordinator Mrs. Jeanette Meadows. en boys suffered severe bruises lated. And the Woodlawn DE depart­ from beatings. First, they were taken to a gro­ ment will sponsor most of the ac­ Seven other Tri-W members cery store parking lot in Wood­ tivities during the week. were arrested Saturday in con­ lawn, then to Avondale Park and There will be programs at meet­ nection with the beatings. They to an area in Huffman. ings of Woodlawn Chamber of are charged with assault and bat­ After they were beaten, they Commerce, East Lake C of C, Roe­ tery with a weapon. said, they were forced to eat buck merchants, Crestwood Civic Jailed yesterday was Jack P. fried grasshoppers, drink vile- Club, Woodlawn High PTA, Wood­ Rich, 16, Of Box 231, Rt. 9. He tasting medicine and received a lawn High Teachers Meetings and was released on $100 bond. Two dousing of motor oil and syrup. there will be open house at the 15-year-old boys were placed In Hopkins and Tucker said they Woodlawn DE cottage Monday Juvenille Home. spent the night together after the night. Students from all three schools The students were arrested af­ iniation and had to sleep on their stomachs. will place placards in (he win­ ter seven youths told police they dows of participating merchants were severely beaten on the but­ as a tribute to these businesses. tocks with a paddle made from a THEY WERE UNABLE to go to Herbert Hinz is the coordinator planed-down baseball bat during a school the next morning, they said, at Phillips and Louis Ebersole Thursday night initiation. but didn't tell their parents. They is coordinator at Ensley High. Six fraternity members did not went to a friend's home and went Mrs. Meadows explained thai participate in the initiation, po­ back to bed. students who express interest in lice said. They went home and told their retailing are given aptitude tests The students will be tried at 1:30 parents that afternoon after it be­ in sales, management and related p.m. Friday in Recorder's Court came unbearable to sit down. phases before being admitted to by Judge Charles Brown A parent waiting at the hos­ the program. They also must have pital commented: "I've known completed the first two years of for four years these things were high school prior to beginning this going on." trainii Officers said it had not been de trmined how many students be longed to the Tri-W Fraternity, but added that "there are less than 20 members." All members will be picked up for questioning, they declared. Woodlawn High Wilt Go Senior Wins Art Award , An abstract painting by a Wood- On Record (Lona Playing) iwn High School senior took the Woodlawn High is going on 70 ~/4> -£ Hallmark Honor Prize for this record . . the long-playing, A£JL region at the National Scholastic: high fidelity type. Art Awards competition in New! Preserving the highlights of York. the school year, the 60-minute The painting, "Abstract int record will be sold to students White with Red," by Andy Daven­ as something of a "talking year­ port, 17, 927 39th-st, n, received book." one of 34 prizes awarded regional It will include such items as winners throughout the country. parts of the annual minstrel, The prize, considered a major stunt nights, choir concerts, art award in the annual teen-age plays and the Birmingham exhibition, carries a $100 cash Christmas Music Festival; cam­ purchase from Hallmark. paign speeches of newly-elected Entered By Teacher officers, and important football Andy's painting was entered in games. the national competition by Mrs. Only two other schools in the Lula Bell Black, Woodlawn art nation are known to have suc­ teacher, after Judges here nomi­ cessfully launched a record pro­ TWICE A WINNER — nated it at the regional exhibition ject such as this, according to Andy Davenport, regional sponsored by Loveman's earlier Eleanor Long, chairman of the winner of a Hallmark this year. record committee for the student Honor Prize in this year's government, which is sponsoring It will be shown through May National Scholastic Art 13 at Scholastic Magazine's 33rd the project. One of these schools Awards competition, holds is in Tallahassee, Fla., and the annual National High School Art a plaque citing him winner other in Illinois. Exhibition in New York. "The record ought to mean a of the same prize in 1959 Davenport also received honor­ when he was a junior at lot to each student interested in THAT'S FOR THE RECORD! — Preserving the. able mention for an entry in the Woodlawn. the activities of Woodlawn . . . highlights of Woodlawn High's school year on a long- j oils division. memories can be re-lived years playing, high fidelity record, which will be sold to He and Julie Holaday, Tusca­ from now," she explains. students as a "talking yearbook," are (left to right), loosa High School, were presented Sales for eighth semester stu­ Eleanor Long, chairman of the record committee; An- ! ucky Sailor art scholarships to the University dents will begin this semester, of Alabama, as was Patti Swaf- with other students purchasing thony Bedsole, president of the Student Body, and . ford, Woodlawn High, to the At­ the album in the Spring. Linda Waldrop, student. ind After lanta Art Institute, Atlanta, Ga. The $1000 profit, which Elea­ Other Area Winners nor estimates the sale of records ^F- Other award winners from Bir­ to net, will be used for school i Swim mingham- i>nd their schools are projects. Cal., May 1 W- Roger Brasher. 13, m e d a I i s I, A contest to find a name for »r, a sailor who transparent water color; and Bert the album will be held soon, Meyer, 14. medalist, opaque wa­ with the winner receiving a free nnnoticed from ter color, of Avondale School. EI- album. 8% hours hB- liene Franks, 16. and Sandra Mur- Andy Davenport, talented art =isel rescued reli, 15, medalists, prints: Linda student and winner of several lucky man Sheppard, 15, medalist, pottery, art awards, is designing the and Hazel Jo Smithco, 15, hon­ cover for the album. The music orable mention, textile design, department's tape recorder will i aboard from Banks High: Wayne Beck, be used to tape events for the Martita, 16, medalist, colored chalk: Jo- record. i in the Ann Cornelius, 15, medalist, oodlawn 'alaeca opaque water color: Jan Johnson, 14, honorable mention, transpar­ oodlawn said ent water color: and Geneal Taps Top '• to Muckleroy, 14, medalist, opaque <\er water color; all from Ramsay MathStudents •ut High. or The Euclidean Matli Honor Bernice Savio, 15, medalist, Woodlawn students Society at Woodlawn High has opaque water color, from West For Honors tapped new members. End High; Sandra Willis, 14, hon­ Newly elected from the fifth orable mention, general design, to participate in Forty-five students at Wood­ semester are Richard Crew, from Ullman High; Tommy Gun- lawn High have been tapped for Barbara Hemphill. Pamela ter, 18, medalist, pottery and hon­ nationwide survey membership in the National Honor Leek, Quitman Liner,' Mary Jo orable mention, collage and pot­ Society. Mummert, Millie Simms, Bar­ tery, Edith Ledbetter, 14, honor­ Woodlawn High School students Among new members is one bara Phillips, Bill Stewart, John able mention, oils, Mary Ann will participate in a 22-city, na­ junior. Linda Caudle. Wells. Horace Wiggs, Sandra Long, 13, medalist, transparent tionwide survey of aptitudes, abili­ Seniors lapped are: .lames Bed- Wilson,'Margaret Winnett, Anne water color: Helen Mullen, 14 ties, interests and activities of sole. Jean Bush, Patsy Colley, Don Cowden and Tommy Ingram. honorable mention, oils; Kay Stan­ high school students next March Harper. Joe Hartline, Barbara Those from the sixth semester ton. 16, Strathmore Award ($50), Theh Birmingham Board of are Katie Ann Holt and Kath­ collage; and Jenine Wilson, 14, Education approved the school's Hosey, Judy Steeley, Nancy Tuck- Bill Bozeman, Andy Davenport, leen Marshall. medalist, linoleum block print, all participation Friday following a New members from the eighth of Woodlawn High. request from Dr. Paul R. Givens, Artie Manes. Raymond . lleaton. ^\Charles Jones, David Long, Jimmy semester are David Fegenbush chairman of the psychology and Fred Richardson. department of Birmingham- „„ - Martin, Doug Nunneiley, Fred ™X4 Richardson. Jack Hohling, Don To be elegible for member­ Southern College aand regional ship in the Euclidean Society, coordinator for the survey, A, Seay, J a m e s Simmons. Pope \ Thrash. Wheeler Vice, Emily a student must be enrolled in dubbed "Project Talent." Ihe math department for five ing various sizes and types of Blair, Catherine Bryant. Dottie Bryant, Peggy Cobb, Janice Dan- semesters, be a person of high ing various sizes aand types of character, have excellent grades schools will participate in the two- Jeral Dean Faulkner, Barbara and have been of some service day survey. y. Jeanne Gregory, Betty Hall, to the department. . It is sponsored by the University Martha James, Sue McCreless, of Pittsburgh. Pat Ohnich, Joan Pace, Snellen Pitts, Janice Robertson, Barbara Roddam, Wanda Sheppard. Nelda Williams. Barbara Wil­ liamson, Joan Wolfe, Arden Wood and Angeline Yeager. Clifford Williams is presidenl o the National Honor Society, while Miss Virgil S. Lamb is sponsoi and chairman of the committee. /^~/frU <^W&- 7% SUNDAY, MAY 22, i960 -ll Q A/ THE BIRMINI With your neighbors— Woodlawn steps up stadium drive BY LOU ISAACSON high school stadium for the east- for the proposed stadium alleys in the Woodlawn shopping area. Both are now being used as ern section of the city. Meanwhile, a local industrialist News staff writer offered to lease main arteries for shoppers. Woodlawn Chamber of Com- Several months ago the Cham­ property to the 4. Request that the city cut nerce today announced its Sum- ber appointed a special committee city in the East back several corners to allow ler program, which will include to work with the Eastern Com­ Birmingham vi­ vehicles to make safe turns epped up efforts to get a new munity Council in securing a site cinity. without running into oncoming The stadium is traffic, and causing traffic de­ now termed a lays. necessity because Hudson said that because of a of the rapid Bible school at the Woodlawn growth of the Methodist Church, the regular1 Eastern section meetings will be transferred to NOTICE of the city. A the banquet room of the Wood­ new field of play ISAACSON lawn fraternal hall. in this section would also relieve the load at Legion Field. 'Cool waters,' thanks ALE AT PUBLIC BID Charles B. Hudson, Chamber to Homewood Lions president, said the organization WHEN YOU HOMEWOO7 will also seek: dents pass through Shade YI—Frame Residence 1. Disposition of 57th-st between Park and stop for a First-av, n, and First-av, s. This water, remember the -rf Church Parsonage) stretch is now being used by the Thirteen member Alabama Power Co., Birmingham Homewood Lions C Transit and the Woodlawn Fire I linn ked for the f Dept. Chamber wants it opened ndseaped They spent one THIS IS OUR LIFE—Fred Miloit (left) and Elea­ to the public to help solve a traffic problem. digging a 330 for nor Long, record yearbook committee chairmen, hold 330 feet of 2-in- 0 copy of their product soon to be presented to Wood­ c Higgins 2. Widening of First-av, s, be donated, so tl lawn's student body. Between them is Andy Daven­ tween 56th and 58th-sts. A por­ could be pre port, award-winning student artist, who designed the Route tion of the road has been widened Just ano* record jacket. -^ ^f^Q^ in front of a service station. This civic pro.i ">n. however, has increased the exist­ active I ing traffic hazard. Chamber mem­ bers say they are still waiting fas' Woodlawn High Makes for Commissioner J. T. Wag­ r,i goner's department to do some to thing. I First Record Yearbook 3. Paving of at least two more nt BY JOE PALMER cil is winding up year-long re­ Alabama's first recorded year­ cording sessions hoping it starts WHS grads book is scheduled for delivery a new trend that will add scope 9 Woodlawn Grads Rank thi* week. to high school annuals. shine in Woodlawn High's student coun- Beginning last Fall, all events High In AU Pre-Engineering characteristic of student life at Woodlawn High graduates rep-.'Mrs. S M. Rivers of 1006 Cahaba- the school were carefully re­ engineering resented nearly 10 per cent of Au- s^ n- corded, so their most important burn University's top 100 pre-en-, .^ was 5 liln'ar-v helper ses- moments could later be edited Nine 1960 graduates of Wood­ . , . ' , , [sion room oiiicer, member of the lawn High School make up al­ ineenng students during the past Junioi. and Natiollal Honor Socie. for inclusion on long-play record most 10 per cent of Auburn Uni­ year. ties and the Ushers Club. His of the year's activities. versity's top 100 pre-engineering I According to Auburn officials, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Excerpts Of Events students for last year. j Woodlawn pupils credit this envi­ Seay, live at 663 Camp-dr. In proper sequence on hi-fi- Auburn officials have credited able record to the Birmingham delity disc, entitled "Highlights this enviable record to Birming­ high school's stress on high aca- A-Tests Declare' in Sound," are excerpts of foot­ ham high school's stress on high jdemic standards. ball games, stunt night, Fall academic standards. j Among the scholastic elite are Past Safe Linv play, Christmas music by Wood­ The nine students, winners oi James Bedsole, Joseph Carroll, WASHINGTON (AP) - lawn's choir, band review, min­ other academic honors and ac­ j Thomas Clements, Robert K. scientist Ralph E. Lapp strel show, and selections from tive in campus activities are: i Falkner, Raymon Heaton, Daniel the opinion Sunday tha' the glee club, Choraliers and JAMES BEDSOLE, son of Mr. J. Hunt, Sydney Keel, Samuel nuclear tests alread Cavaliers. and Mrs. C. T. Bedsole, 690 72nd [Rivers and Don Seay. ceeded the "safe ar j All are 1960 Woodlawn gradu­ fallout danger. The record will not compete St., South. ates. Interviewed on in any way with Woodlawn's JOSEPH CARROLL, son of Mr. i Bedsole, son of Mr. and Mrs. regular annual, a Council repre­ and Mrs. C. D. Carroll, II program, Lapp C. T. Bedsole. lives at 6!)0 72nd-st, according to ' sentative emphasized. St.. North. s. A member of the Woodlawn THOMAS CLEMENTS, son of up over 10 ' "We simply believe hearing varsity football squad, he also I don't knr actual sounds from events we Mr. and Mrs. David R. Clements, participated in track and was a ol enjoyed will help keep our sen­ 7206 Fourth Ave., South. marshal. National Honor Society'jn mv ior year fresh in our memories," ROGERT K. FALKNER,,son of member, Euclidean (math honor level tl explained Eleanor Long, who Mr. and Mrs. K. M .Falkner, 4239 society) and Usher Club member. originated the idea. some Ninth Ave., South. The son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D, Ener Record Narrator RAYMON HEATON, son of Mr. Carroll of 1013 52nd-st, n, Joseph as s Fred M i I i o t, outstanding and Mrs. J H. Heaton Jr., 9243 Carroll was also an Usher Club we speech student, narrates the Brookhurst Drive. member and a Euclidean. He held kit records sequences. various session room offices and Ie DANIEL J. HUNT, son. of Mrs. was active in the French Club, He and a professional techni­ G. T. Pinson and the late John Aviation Club and Apollo (music cian edited the recordings. * Alvin Hunt. His mother lives at club). I! b "It was rougher getting our 8210 Division Ave. A National Honor Society mem­ I tape ready to cut the master SYDNEY KEEL, son of Mr. and ber, Clements also participated in Mrs. J. M. Keel, 820 59th St., 1 record than anything," he com­ the Euclideans, Warblers and I mented. South. Ministrel while at Woodlawn. He The yearbook is the Student SAMUEL RIVERS, son of Mr. lis the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Council's major money making and Mrs. S. M. Rivers, 1006 Ca- |R. Clements, 7206 Fourth-av, s. project this year. haba St., North. j Falkner, enrolled in a college -« Already 500 copies have been DON SEAY, son of Mr. and preparatory course at Woodlawn, sold at $3 each. Mrs. Charles H. Seay, 663 Camp jwas a member of the National Drive. Honor Society, Euclideans and Tennis Club. His parents are Mr.l and Mrs. K. M. Falkner, 4239; Ninth-ay, s. A former member of the Wood­ lawn band, Heaton lives at 9243 Brookhurst-dr with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heaton Jr. He was also a marshal, session room officer and member of the Junior and National Honor Socie­ ties, Science Club and Euclideans. Recipient of an Avondale Mills scholarship, Hunt is the son of Mrs. G. T. Pinson and the late John Alvin Hunt. A resident of 8210 Division-av, he was a mar­ shal, Euclidean and Junior and National Honor Society member. Keel, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Keel, served as session room president while pursuing a college preparatory course at Woodlawn. He resides at 820 59th-st, s. Another college preparatory stu­ dent at Woodlawn, Samuel Rivers, was also active in the Tennis Club. His parents are Mr. and 'U M%£( Junior Colonel Victory ^m • UMiWtWns f'J I' ienc,e -.«,-.- 5 Blone's Greatest Thrill^'^'*1 Randy Hill a senior at^Vbod lawn High School, has won a in BILL NtJNNELLEY —Leon Cochran, Buiord Tuck­ Both teams made it back to Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Post-Herald Sports Writer er. Gene Palmer. Jack Barry Tuscaloosa for the '43 meet. Award Medal. John Blane has coached bas­ and Harry Gilmer—remem­ The brackets paired the win­ Randy, son of Mr. and Mrs. ketball al Woodlawn High bered the loss that stamped ner of Woodlawn's first game P. A. Hill, 5912 Crestwood-cir. is School for more than 36 years. and Clanton's first test in a a member of the Euclidean Hon­ second round affair. or Society, Junior National Hon­ W^'s had a lot of good teams, Woodlawn won its game. or Society, National Honor So­ and a lew that weren't SO good. So did Clanton, and Wood­ ciety, anil the Ushers Club of Four brought state cham­ lawn rejoiced. Woodlawn pionships to Woodlawn. "We were really after them," The Bausch & Lomb Award is Blane has seen good players, Blane said. presented to high school seniors fine teams, exciting games, "We were all thinking about througtitoul the nation who have great: moments. the loss the year before. They shown outstanding work in Ask him to tell of the great­ still had three or four boys who science fields. Recipients of the est, and he'll say without award may compete nationally had helped beat us in '42." for an all-expense paid trip to hesitation! •»• So it was a fired-up Colonel New York and one of the three "It's always great to win." five that tool; the Foster If any game stands out in scholarships to the University of Auditorium floor on a late- Rochester totaling $21,000. the veteran coach's memory, Winter afternoon 18 years ago. though, it's a contest his Jun­ An hour later, revenge was ior Colonels played in the 1943 theirs. state tournament. Woodlawn had won. 42-16.. Woodlawn and Clanton had "We went on to win the State made it to the finals of the championship," Blane con­ 1H42 Slate meet with predomi­ JOHN BLANE tinued, "We beat- Selma, I nantly young teams. think', in the finals. At Woodlawn High- And Clanton had downed the them second best in the State "But the game that gave me I Colonels to win the State cham­ the year before. So did John the most satisfaction was the pionship. Blane. one with Clanton." The starters on the '43 team They were eager for revenge. And it still is, he added. Addition To Gym 8M^ftU-\fe Is Almost Ready KY JAMES BENNETT I freshmen and a total enrollment Completion of a $100,000 addition of some 300 over last year." to the Woodlawn High School | Martin announced that the new men's gym is ex- • . unit would include offices, shower pected this week, rooms, two restrooms, an instruc­ Principal Ralph tion area and locker sections for Martin said last boys' physical education classes. night. "Thic addition has made room "W o r k m e n | for gymnasium seating expansion from the R. L. ; and will add about 8.00 more seals Pledger Con­ for spectators during basketball struction Co. are games and other attractions," he putting finishing (said. The Woodlawn principal ad­ touches on the ded that total seating capacity structure and in­ now would approximate 1300. stalling plumb­ BENNETT Funds for construction of the ad­ ing and electrical dition were drawn from Birming­ systems," he added. ham Board of Education accounts Martin, principal of the East- and from local donations collected side high school since 1943, re­ during the "W-Day" game. The ported that the new gymnasium event was sponsored last March annex represented the first addi­ jointly by Ihe Woodlawn Chamber tion to the school since music of Commerce, Woodlawn Lions and shop rooms were constructed Club and Crestwood Civic Club. about eight years ago. Construction of the new $100,000 "An estimated 2600 students are facility in the rear of Woodlawn expected to enroll at Woodlawn in High School was started in the September," he said, emphasizing Spring of this, year in order to that the figure would probably set complete the project by the Sep­ an all time record for the school. tember school term. "We are expecting more than 700 * * *

HONORED—New members of the Junior National Honor Society at Wood­ lawn High School are {from left, front), Tennie Davis, Carolyn Harris, Janet Con- boy; second row, Michele Dohne, Jacquelynn Jones, Elizabeth Joiner; third row, Martha Best, Donald Parker, Bobby Hoi ley and Jane Cook. Not pictured are Pat Wentzell, Don Kirby and Glynda Peeples. ./&*# &-£-£-£# 13 Woodlawn Students In Honor Society Thirteen Woodlawn High School Glynda Peeples, daughter of Mr. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. students today are proudly wear­ and Mrs. C. L. Peeples, 5025 Harris; and Michele Dohne, ing the badge of the Junior Na­ Eighth-ct, s; Pat Wentzell, 148 tional Honor Society. Rose-dr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. The 13 were named to the or­ 0. G. Wentzell; Don Kirby, son Dohne, 8128 Seventh-av, n. ganization in a special auditorium of Dr. and Mrs. Joe L. Kirby, To be eligible for membership, program at the school. 5600 Eigth-st, s; Jane Cook, 604 students must be in their third, They are: Martha Best, daugh­ 45th-st, s, daughter of Mrs. J. M. fourth, or fifth semester. Third ter of Mrs. Evie Best, 5312 Fifth- Cook; Elizabeth Joiner, daughter semester students must have all av, s; Janet Conboy, 203 Lake-st, of Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Joiner, 531 "A's", fourth semesters are al Trussville, daughter of Mr. and 61st-st, s; Jacquelynn Jones, lowed one "B", and those in the Mrs. F. L. Conboy; Donald Par­ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar fifth may have a maximum of ker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer G. Jones, 820 47th-pl, n; Bobby two "B's". All must show out­ E. Parker, 513 Anne Laura-dr; Holley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. standing qualities of leadership, Tennie Davis, daughter of Mr. and Holley, 717 Martinwood-rd; Caro­ honesty, and service. Final selec­ Mrs. Jess Davis, 213 67th-pl, n; lyn Harris, 4932 Seventh-av, s; tion is made by the faculty. I - 3Vi VJT <6*-Ult «if-f yY>.- •.'/.,

;i;W:*."'.'-'-i ' " ' " Deca" here, will compfte in Kecord < window display contest. ecora enrollment Joe Stanley, who will co%uct devotionals during two days of he conference, will enter a work manual in competition. of 2,600 expected Lonnie Martin and Earl Creel are candidates for office. George Coop is entered in an advertising contest, and Wayne Griffin will at Woodlawn High put a manual into competition. BY DON BROWN cost Is being paid by mnney . Sherry McDowell, "Miss Deca" News staff writer raised by the student council. of Woodlawn and state parliamen­ tarian, is entered in the sales Woodlawn High School will be SUPPLEMENTS to the school handbook will be passed out to demonstration contest, and Bar­ especially dress-up this fall to all students when school opens. bara Frederick, alternate "Miss greet the greatest enrollment It will include thpse highlights Deca" is candidate for state sec­ in Its history. of the fall semester: retary. A sparkling addition to the September: 14, Lee at Mont­ Next month, after the state con­ gymnasium is finished. . . . gomery; 21, Ensley here: 25, ference, members of the Wood­ property of the old grammar first PTA meeting; 28, at Gads­ lawn Chapter will visit eastern school is being cleared for park­ den. area civic clubs to tell about the ing . , . and every desk is be­ October: 4, Ramsay here; Distributive Education program ing refinished. 12, Tuscaloosa: 17,- deadline during "Deca Appreciation for qualifying for student of­ Week." fices 19, West Ends 25, Bes- ; Principal Ralph Martin pre­ Venus is covered by cold dense dicts practically every detail smrmr here; 31, senior elec­ DECA CONTE$TANTS -- Sherry McDowell and will be in order Sept. 4, when tions. Joey Kelly of Woodlawn High School will compete clouds in the upper atmosphere. a predicted 2,600 students re­ November: 1, senior elec­ against distributive education chapter members from port, for registration. tions, 2, Phillips; 8-9, Fall play; over the state at a convention in Montgomery. Constipated 11-17, American Education A student body of that stee Week; 14-15, campaign should make Woodlawn second speeches; 15, Banks; 16, stu- 9 Students largest high school in the stats dpnt elections; 22-23, Thanks­ ONE DO! —next only to Murphy of Mo­ giving holidays. bile. December: 7-8, Birmingham Compete For DOES schools' music festival; 22, ALREADY, at the stately • When t laxiti' Christmas holidays begin. DECA Honor when temporar school at 5620 First Ave., North, h«s you slug?' young men and women are Nine Woodlawn High School dis- "out of sorts," gladly rushing into autumn. tributive education chapter mem­ Dr. Caldwell in good-tas' Coach Johnny Howell is work- bers will compete for state honors does it . . the Woodlawn Colonels at a statewide conference in gentle reli authoriti twice a day, looking nbead to Montgomery this week-end. young a a rough season that begins Sept. Competitions have been sched­ many 1; 14 against Lee High at Mont­ contair uled in a variety of fields of spe­ tract gomery. ' cial interest to the students who one < On the prettier side, both are learning about the business laxa rigr cheer! and majorettes world through part-time jobs we are limbering up daily. while they attend high school. Chapter President Joey Kelly, Registration for any new stu­ IN CONTEST — David named "Mr. Deca" here, will dents other than those coming Swope. from elementary schools will he enter a business manual and job handled Aug. 30-31 at school, by 1 interview program in the state the boys' and girls' advisors. contest. Wound David Swope, alternate "Mr. Full registration, Sept. 4, will begin with a faculty meeting at 8 a.m., Martin said. Regular returning students will start Ummmmmmmm signing up at 10 a.m. Freshmen from elementary schools will register beginning at 1:30 p.m. /auu* ^JA - WevikM^

MARTIN SAID he expects about 750 freshmen and will have II new teachers.. About 200 instructors and stu­ dents alike will be able to park in a new lot near the school, where old Woodlawn elementary stood, The school recently was torn down by the Birmingham Board of Education. The gym addition—inspected Monday — will bring Wood­ lawn's seating capacity to about 1,300. It features new dressing rooms, "skull prac­ tice room," coaches' offices, restrooms, showers and storage areas. DECA SURVEY—Sandra Eddins (left), of the Woodlawn High School Distributive Education Chap­ "For the first time, we've ter, is shown working on a study of customers' shop­ got adequate facilities for physi­ cal education," Martin said. ping habits in the eastern section of Birmingham. San­ dra, president of the group, will enter a state contest Also for Ihe first time in years, Woodlawn's desks will e Woodlawn "High along with her companions, Judy McCarley, club secre­ RECEIVES TOP JIATING— he shined and sanded like new. tary, and Fay Dunn, club histrian. M . The Tattler, rece ived the rating of Faculty member George Gam­ School paper division at the mon and several students have superioc-,K. r in the Class A newspaper been working on them, and the Alabama High School Press Association Journalism Clinic at the University of Alabama recently. Miss 3 Woodlawn Students Leona Skelton (left) is faculty sponsor of the paper, and Patricia Kelly, a Woodlawn Junior, is editor. In DE State Contest chase? Why did you pick this Three Woodlawn High School store? Do you prefer shopping Distributive Education students downtown Birmingham or do will enter into state-wide compe­ you prefer the shopping cen­ tition during the April state ters?" and others. DECA conference. The results of Sandra's survey Sandra Eddins, president of 'will be compared with results of the Woodlawn group, is present­ surveys in a three-state area ly taking a survey of shopping during the convention. habits in the eastern area as Judy McCarley, secretary for her project to be entered in the the Woodlawn group and the contest. state chapter, won the sales Sandra will be at the Eastwood [demonstration contest and will Mall with a group of D. E. sell her wares, "hosiery" to students, whom she trained to customers at the state conven­ work with her next Thursday. tion in Mobile in April. Also, Friday, March 6. Sandra Fay Dunn, club historian, will and her survey team will be at enter her local contest winning the Roebuck Shopping Center merchandise information man­ questioning customers. ual, "Lingerie" in the state con­ Sandra will ask such ques­ test. Fay is also preparing the tions as: "Did you find what chapter of the year report and you wanted in the store? Are the student of the year report you satisfied with your pur for the April convention. fry, June 16, 1964 — PAGE 11 u •:"&&' Woodlawn Distinction A National Academy ot Sciences Band Club report shows that more graduates of Woodlawn High School have earned doctoral degrees since 1957 than Starts Fund graduates of any other high school in Alabama. For Uniforms JUG This, as Principal Ralph Martin she went to ton A total of $10,000 must be in the noted in a letter to Birmingham tition, w School Supt. .Theo Wright, speaks scraped up for 102 new band ing done i well not only to the quality of stu­ uniforms at Woodlawn High in Hi-Y Council ing on Satu dents at Woodlawn and, by reflection, School. Martha Dawkins likes to A total of the good influence of their parents, Heading the drive is the Band * play the piano. She also likes over much oi but also is a testament to the quality been nominated Booster Club that started the to paint the house, clean of instruction at the high school. I campaign three weeks ago, rac- I cepted nominations. . 1 gutters, and even climb trees. Their records as lo. The News congratulates Principal jing $3000 to date. The club will "I guess," she said, "it Martin and the Woodlawn faculty. answers to questionna, offer business firms membership sounds silly, but I love high especially by seconding . The careers of their former students in Band Boosters for a minimum places." ENDS CAREER—Wood: will be studied closely by lend their teaching effort true dis­ of $25, for which the merchant V Maybe that's why she was lawn Principal Ralph Mar- judges. tinction. receives a plaque naming him ' elected national Hi-Y Council tin •—Some of the judges will serve secretary when she went to ' /3/-W 2--G- Y-6J gi» a supporter of Woodlawn's band. '( ham Family membership costs $5. Chicago last year as a North­ tertaint With 60 members raising mon­ east YMCA, representative at the AE. from Woodlawn High. Woodlawn Principal ey, the club has gotten a good Former i response, especially from par- "I think I got elected by will meet with t, the annual break ents. Finance Chairman Earnest the way I say 'yall,'" said Is Giving Up Position Martha. "None of the other ling's and at the lum. C. Moody, 6804 Second-av, s,-. BY LAWRENCE FALK by The Post-Herald. Tri-Hi-Y delegates knew much Woodlawn High School Principal Ralph Martin announced to asks donors to make checks pay- >A Judges Named able to the Woodlawn High \ about saying 'yall' with a his student body yesterday that he was resigning from the po­ Southern accent when they Here are the judges for ti. School Band Booster Club. MISS MARTHA DAWK18VS sition he had held for 22 years so that 'a new captain" could got to Chicago, but they were make better use of the 'modern techniques and devices" of edu­ all saying 'yall' when they Mr. and Mrs. Robert) O. cation which the school will be using in the future. you will give your new leader Dawkins, of 5505 Sixth !Ave. "I have given this matter much thought, study and even the same respect and love that left." : South. hours of prayer." Martin said,[ '— you have shown for me." "God has given me my answer;Prisoned, fined or have our rev- ****** AN HONOR student at While she says she ISkes Martin has been connected every school subject., but an a in clear thoughts that are un­ enue cut off." Woodlawn, Martha says she derstandable to me—to be truth­ He said that "we are caught with the Birmingham School plans to do lots of swimming different way, she wouldn'tlput in a giant web by a sly and System since he attended the ful and honest to your stu­ second grade. Contract let this summer at the Northeast physics or math down asjher dents, to your superiors and to crafty spider, and if we cannot YMCA Branch pool in Roe­ favorites. yourself: resign your position teach the youth about God and He taught at the Paul Hayne buck. She plans to attend the and continue to love, work for lead them to Him when they School from February 1917 un­ KENNY MORGAN for project In addition to being able to University of Alabama (and and trust in God." do not know Him, then the til September of 1926. At that hopes to become a pediatri­ Technically, Mr. Martin said spider will gobble up what he time, he became principal of ... In his memory play a piano, Martha is school chooses." Kennedy School. . chaplain at Woodlawn, and cian. he was retiring. But in order "My first duty is to step At one time during his career, at Woodlawn ;\ has been chosen along with to retire, he said he would have aside," he said, "in stepping Mr. Martin was principal of ir st Morgan Don Corley, as the senior A $15,125 contract has been Natural health ir to resign. He will hold his postaside I hope that our proud ship Kennedy and Curry Schools at "most likely to succeed." the same time. awarded LeMan's Construction at Woodlawn until the end of the:under a new captain may avoid opny goes She likes people and her school year tne ree^s an<* snoa's through the In 1943, when he became Co. by the Birmingham Board church, serving as area citi­ New Hamr use of modern techniques and Woodlawn principal, he was of Education for rehabilitation "I will no longer be with you devices." principal of both Kennedy and to Woodlawn zenship chairman for young the early in person." Martin told the stu­ of Woodlawn High School foot­ wealth He said that he hoped "that Gate City schools. It'll be awards day for people in the North Alabama dents, "but my heart will ball stands. 1 ^Woodlawn High School's 1964 Methodist Conference. SO ' always be with you at Wood­ city championship football The contract includes sand Martha is tht daughter of lawn High School." team at the school Wednesday. blasting and renewing, where He gave as some of the rea­ And perhaps the most prized necessary, structural steel; sand­ sons for his resignation a di­ item to be presented will be blasting and preserving the sur­ rective for four-year physical the first Kenny Morgan Me­ face deck; replacing sidewalks education which would block morial Trophy, emblematic of and painting. students from taking other football supremacy in Bir­ Woodlawn has held classes minor subects without taking up mingham. Fred Sington, donor in rooms under the stands sev­ their only study hall, and the of the trophy, said that the eral years, despite deteriorat­ state requirement of only one award would be made annual­ ing conditions. #ear of science and one of ly in memory of the late city math for high school students to schools athlete director who Board Business Manager Er­ graduate. died last February. nest Graham said today he He also made reference to the Morgan coached at Wood­ hoped to step up work on the Federal Compliance forms by lawn for 14 years before tak­ school's baseball field, with saying that the "state and local; ing over as city schools AD in drier weather approaching. This boards and local officials are! 1959. area adjoins the football field. being forced to comply" with Colonel coach Johnny How­ The school board previously Federal dictates or "be im-. ell also will award letters, and awarded a $2,217 contract to Al­ medalions for participation in lied Chain Link Fence Co. for a the Crippled Children's Clinic chain link fence and backstop game also will be awarded. for the new baseball diamond. Vn^"V^/ 61^ AGt 4 —BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD—Friday, March 12, LLJ hi. ,, N. r system of Jefferson County. It ever to be graduated from the "Words cannot express our for two years for the DE pro­ Wesson r will also be Mr. and Mrs. Mar­ school. gratitude," he began. gram at Wodlawn. She has been for tin's wedding anniversary. "This diploma means more to active in other school programs When the last diploma is giv­ His wife was a teacher at me than any other diploma I've and has earned Honor Roll en out, Martin said he and ever received, even if it did status. Kennedy Elementary School, his wife would start a "second take me 22 years," and the Farlow, also on the honor roll, where he was principal before honeymoon." people he had made laugh many is a two-year DECA member. their marriage 34 years ago. Seniors who have excelled He was assistant treasurer last j n"g Recalling the days when he academically at Woodlawn were year and vice president this etj was a student at Cunningham presented medals. ye$r. He has been employed in Elementary School. Martin said. Those who received medals twe shoe company chains and "I rode the old trolley cars, that:for achievement in six depart - is scheduled to 'take a full-time were open on both ends, to;ments were: Charles Brooks. job as assistant manager after school every day Dusty Wharton, English; James graduation in May. He drove up to the old Paul Calvin Stewart, Mary Sue Let- Hayne High School in a 1914 low, mathematics; Sandra Ford the day he started his Shook. French; Linda Akulick, first teaching job. Spanish; John Scott, Cheryl He was sponsor of the first Reid, history; Michael Haley, Reina White, science; Timothy Bice, Faye Trimble, business •ne education. The banquet was sponsored by the Woodlawn Lions Club. Department, serving in Eu- . , 25 MAKE WOODLAWN HIGH HALL OF FAME fili 5"/"/ -> rope„ . „. „ Dr Cla y. . L-R: Miss Nina Miglionico, Joe Allen Cook, Jimmy Tarrant, Miss Becky Parham widel- y knowrencn ephysicia Younng anids Dr. Robert Youngblood Jr. is a ^Woodlawn High inducts 25 thoracic surgeon, Wilson, N. C. A PLAQUE bearing the 25 names was presented to Princi­ pal Tarrant during the Wood­ lawn High assembly period ^graduates into Hall of Fame Wednesday. BY WALTON LOWRY everyone's mind, many will DR. CARL BORDENCA was Making the presentation was News staff writer recall Col. Rodwell Calhoun one of the first government Joe Allen Cook, student body From sports hero to woman Jr., a World War II hero, with physicists to work in Oak Ridge president, and Becky Parham, missionary doctor, Woodlawn the U. S. Air Force. atomic development. He is now chairman, Hall Of Fame Com­ High has inducted 25 outstand­ Col. Calhoun, a former Birm­ research scientist for the Glidd- mittee. ing graduates into its newly ingham News employe, and son en Co., Jacksonville, Fla. The 25 selected were made established Hall of Fame. of former News Production Dr. Davici Napier is professor by a student and faculty Manager Rod Calhoun, is still in of Religion, Yale University, committee, headed by Mrs. Among those named to the the Air Force, serving as wing and Dr. Frank Trucks, Birming­ Frances McDonald. honor roll were Principal James commander, and stationed in Tarrant. ham, is the school physician. The idea for the Woodlawn Michigan. Col. Calhoun was Gloria Root Savoldi is the High Hall Of Fame came about A former Woodlawn and How­ decorated many times by our author of children's books recently when a survey reveal­ ard College football star, Tar­ government and also by France. published by Harper and Co. ed that the school boasted more rant shares the sports spotlight and Brad Wood is with "Voice PhDs than any other city with Harry Gilmer, Holt Rast ONE OF THE most famous Of America," U. S. State school. and Billy Bancroft, present boys names in Woodlawn High histo­ advisor at the school. ry is Gail Patrick Jackson, Gilmer, now coach of the actress, and producer of the IRMINGHAM POST-HERALD —Thursday, April 14, 1966 — PAGE 29 Perry Mason TV series, she'll professional football Detroit ~7Yt SocietyisTJr. I As a student at West Point, Navy in three sports in a Lions, was a bright passing be remembered by many as Margaret Fitzpatrick, first girl anagement president Earl (Red) Blaik became the single year — football, basket* star at Alabama in the 1940s. Frank Harwood first man to compete against ball and baseball. ever to be president of Wood $<& lawn Rast a state representative . h student bod she Massey College. from Jefferson County, was a ; d * same honor while 6 brilliant defensive end on Ala-'attendin g Howard- Colleg— e bama's Cotton Bowl champions Joe King, TV and radio an­ Pupil Wins of 1942. nouncer, is the "Voice of Col­ BILLY BANCROFT starred in gate" on national TV in New baseball and football at Wood­ York. He was active in speech Contest lawn and Howard College. He circles at Woodlawn and winner also coached the 19-16 Howard of several oratorical contests as • A Woodlawn High School football team which tied Ala­ a high schooler. sophomore won first place in bama. Miss Nina Miglionico, Birm­ the Administrative Management He's probably best remember­ ingham's only woman council Society's annual mathematics ed, however, as the man who member, and former national got the base hit which gave the president of the Business and contest. Birmingham BARONS A 1-0 Professional Women, is Jinger Crouch, taught at Wood- sion over Dizzy Dean and Hous­ among the active politicians. laWn by Miss Lucille Burton,' ton in the 1931 Dixie series. Others include Councilman was awarded a $50 U. S. Billy's son, William H. Ban­ Don Hawkins, State Sen. Foster Savings Bond for a perfect croft Jr., also was honored. Etheredge, and former Bir score. He is consulting physicist for mingham Mayor Arthur J. Second place winner, receiv­ the Heart Research Division Hanes. ing a $25 bond, was John of the Veteran's Administra­ Carroll junior William (Bill) tion Hospital here, and profes­ DR. ALEX McCUTCHEN Ashmore. Bill is taught by sor at the Medical College, presently serves as secretary of Sister Dominica. University of Alabama. the World Council of Churches and makes his home in Nash The contest, held March 12 at Two sisters—Dr. Martha Jor­ Massey College, was entered by dan Gilliland and Mrs. Irene ville. Until forced to evacuate in 1961 by hostilities, he served as 59 students from 10 Jefferson Jordan Coplin—-made (he honor County high schools. Winners roll. a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo for 15 years. were recognized at a banquet DR. GILLILAND has served J-oe David Brown, author of last night at the Bankhead as medical missionary in Africa "Stars In My Crown," now Hotel. and is presently serving at resides in California. Finalists in the competition Mayo Clinic. Joe Blane Jr., in the Diplo­ were Tracy Howell and Carolyn And her sister, Irene, has won matic Corps, is now political Roberson, West End; Sam J. international acclaim for her officer, American Embassy, Chiarella, Minor; Eddie Shouse, unusual voice range — lyric to Yaounde' Cameroun. Phillips; Robert Jasper, Jones mezzo-collatura soprano—with Dr. Stewart Bell, professor at! Valley; and Cheryl Hughes, the Metropolitan Opera. Mt. Holyoke College, is author Woodlawn. With Viet Nam and war on of three French books. Proficiency certificates are to be presented in high school programs to Don Aspray, Ann Daniel, Virgie Florence, Jane Patterson, and David Scar- brough, West End; Linda and Steve Kyzer, Libby McAlister and Doris Schwaigen, Wood­ lawn; Barbara Burkett, Mor­ timer Jordan; Martin Fuller, Jones Valley; Johnnie Glass­ cock, Phillips; Coyette Boykin, Carolyn Hereford, Janice Per­ kins and David Slovensky, Minor. The education committee chairman for the Administrative y, April 11, 1966 ^Le^w-r-it^- "2f rr-r~**

SENIOR SPEECH CONTEST WINNERS RECEIVE THEIR AWARDS . . . From left, Dr. Phillips, Hammond, Wheat, Rainer, Miss Dick

ONE TIME IT PAID OFF FOR THEM TO OPEN THEIR MOUTHS . . . From left, Zeigler, Fineberg, McDaniel, Dr. Dunn and Miss Salet Woodlawn senior takes top 'Youth Views News' honors BY FRANK BRUER Second place winner Mar- Carlisle Park School at Gunters- News staff writer bury Rainer from Selma ville, and Barbara Griffin, Troy A Woodlawn High School sen­ warned Russia still is the Junior High School, most serious threat to the ior Friday nighl talked her way Initpd Stales. He said the Basic subject for Ihe cnnlcst to top honors in The Birming­ Communists' main target is was "Communism and its ham News "Youth Views the the youth of this country. Threat to the Free World.'* News" sppprh contest. "The young people are the Dr. Howard M. Phillips, presi­ Judges named Miss Marie angry ones, the ones who dent of Birmingham-Southern Dirk, daughter of the Rev. Mrs. demand change." College, who presided at the Floyd w. Dick, 8223 Eighth Ave. He attacked U. S. Supreme senior contest, termed the spee­ South, top winner of the nine Court rulings on the Communist ches "a truly superb demonstra­ senior high district finalists in a Party. tion. With our fate in the hands contest held at Birmingham- "Doesn't it seem strange we of these young people, I feel I Southern College. are helping protect the agents can relax." of foreign powers who have She received a full year's Judges for the senior cont­ sworn to destroy us?" he pon est were Dr. T. Earle John­ tuition scholarship to the Uni­ dered. versity of Alabama and a $500 son, head of the Department Wheat, the third place winner, of Speech, University of Ala­ check. said the four aims of the Earlier in the day, Keith bama; James F. Vickery, Communists are to instill in the debate coach in the Depart­ Fineberg of Mountain Brook non-Communist mind the think­ Junior High School, took the top ment of Speech, Auburn Uni­ ing of the party, to form versity, and Jack Haley, head $300 cash award in the junior pressure groups, to meet as division finals held in The of the Department of Speech, many people as possible so the Birmin gham-Southern Col­ Birmingham News Building. party line can be insinuated and The 14-year-old youth is the son lege. to stop man's ambition to want Dr. G. Virgil Nunn. superin­ of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Fineberg, to continue to better himself 3769 River Ridge Circle. tendent of Fairfield City Schools, presided at the junior Other winners in the senior HE CLAIMED moral, spiritu­ division and their awards were: division contest. Judges there al and cultural education are were Dr. Laura F. Wright, head the main defenses against com­ of the Department of Speech, SECOND, MARBUBY Rainer munism. of Albert G. Parrish High Alabama College at Montevallo; Hammond discussed the dif­ Dr. G. Allan Yeomans, head of School, Selma, $250 and a ons- ferences between Plato's Utopi­ year scholarship; third. Terry the Department of Speech, Sam­ an communism and that of Karl ford University, and Dr. John Wheat of Pickens County High Marx. He said both misjudged School, Reform, $100 and a H. Sloan, professor in the human nature by disregarding Department of Speech, Uni­ one-year scholarship; fourth, the individual person. Steve Hammond of Decatur versity of Alabama. High School, $50 and a one-year "Both used humans as you scholarship. and I use pawns in a chess THE CONTEST was the 44th game and did not give a annual one sponsored by The The three other junior divi­ freedom of choice," he said. Birmingham News. It was di­ sion winners were: Miss Dick, the elated first rected by Mrs. Thelma P. Second, Susan Salet, of Apple­ place senior division winner, Young of The News. by Junior High School at Flo said she will enter the Uni­ rence, $200; third, Mike McDan versity of Alabama this sum­ iel of Bibb County High School mer. She will major in speech Centerville, $100; fourth, Alan and minor in political science. Zeigler, Sylacauga High School, She admitted she didn't have $50. to do any acting in her delivery "Since 1946, the Commu­ Friday night. nists have enslaved 7,000 peo­ "I am very interested in ple every hour of every day," combating communism." the Miss Dick said. She said they brown-eyed, brown-haired win have heen highly successful in ner said. "Sometimes I get Europe, dominate SO per cent pretty worked up on it." of Asia and have made in­ Receiving $25 awards and a roads in this hemisphere. one-year s c h o 1 a r s hip were "Today, they are exploiting Harry Brown Jr., Sylacauga our own freedom and warping High School; Ernestine Traf- our judicial system in Ame ford, Montgomery County High rica," she said. School of Ramer; Claudia Kar- The first place winner said rick, Fairhope High School; communism always uses a David Herndon, Emma Sansom three-pronged plan of getting High School at Gadsden and the majority of the population's Martha Sue Williams, Houston support, creating internal di County High School, Columbia. sturbances and military action. IN THE JUNIOR division, $25 "THEY DREW the Cane Cur­ cash awards went to Barbara tain around Cuba in only three Manry, Flomaton High School years," she said. Tom Freeman, Houston County The movement is strongly High, Columbia; Jane Alice underway in this country now, Seale, Akron High; Bill Moss. Miss Dick said. "They are creating internal disturbances, infiltrating the Negro struggle for civil rights, creating riots on school cam­ puses and they are using the freedoms granted by the Bill of Rights to destroy all the free­ doms in America." - y^/Lei iZ &*£**& ~'7nr**i&**>^ BIRMINGHAM ''tf&WJL-sf-ej- stuHt„ -tent' Receives Grant The Birmingham Charter chapter of American Business Vomen's Association has giv- m a grant to Miss-Ann ngram, a first quarter Junior n the School of Education at he University of Tennessee at fnoxville. Honored The grant to Miss Ingram, a Sophomore Edward graduate of Woodlawn High Heath has been tapped the School here, is issued by the outstanding freshman of National Stephen Button the year 1965-66 by the Memorial Educational Fund. National Honor Society at Miss Ingram has previously been on a full tuition scholar­ Woadjawn High Jjchool. ship from the Birmingham The award is given to a Charter chapter. student who has displayed scholarship, character and BEHIND INJURED CLASSMATE willingness to serve to be­ Greg Kelley and Gail Anderson head drive The national ABWA fund come a leader. The son of for Steve Maples, (front) ^tf//^ y. was established in 1952 and makes grants and loans to Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Heath deserving women upon recom­ of 5416 Sixth Court South, mendation by a local chapter. is president of the Nation­ Miss Ingram has done addi­ al Junior Honor Society, tional work with retarded was voted the school's /4^^ children and plans work this sophomore favorite and Summer with children at a GRANT PRESENTATION — Ann Ingram, above is a member of the varsity football and track teams. eacFdrive for special camp. left, receives a full tuition grant from Mrs. William The award was made in Myers, president of the Birmingham Charter chapter, connection with ABWA Natioanl Scholarship Month. American Business Women's Assn. The grant was se­ injured classmate cured through the Natural ABWA's Stephen Bufton Today there's $322.76 in the store on Clairmont Avenue. Memorial Educational Fund. Steve Maples Fund at Wood­ Woodlawn Student Council lawn High School. President Greg Kelley and And all students and friends Vice President Gail Anderson are spearheading the drive to *xr «/»(* of Woodlawn High are busy raise funds to help Steve. this Thanksgiving week trying "We plan to work up a to make things a little bright­ number of promotions to help School^ er for Steve and his family, Steve just as we did for Diane the J. S. Maples, of 711 39th Heath, a senior who suffered colors in St. South. severe burns," said Kelley. A Woodlawn senior, John WHILE KELLEY says the Stephen Maples, was critical­ $322.76 was raised in about ly wounded about a month two days of activity, he says _ School this ago in a home accident. donations are needed from as week. many people as possible. THE BULLET from a .38 Steve Maples will be hospi- Not from a flagstaff — from calibre pistol, which was lalized for many months. He the flowerbeds. thought to be unloaded, struck will never be able fo run and A Student Council commit­ him in the neck. He is para­ play like he once did but it is tee of five, headed by David lyzed from his arm pits down hoped he can regain use of his Olive, has helped to plan, and is now in the Spain arms and hands. Rehabilitation Center. plant and pamper the bed of Kelley says Steve needs all 1,000 golden and white daffo- Active in the youth choir at ihe help he can get. So if you South Avondale Baptist feel you can spare a little for dils. Church, Steve was in the Steve this Thankgiving, mail PART OF A long-range Cavalier's Club for two years the donation to: landscape program assumed and was a member of the The Steve Maples Fund, by the Student Council, the Warbler's Club at the time of Woodlawn High School. The his accident. He was also a fund drive will run through daffodils add color to the fart time employe at a grocery Dec. 15. scene dominated by 13 Yo- . j shino cherry trees. "These are the same varie­ ty as the famous cherry trees in Washington," according to Mrs. Ross Peoples, Student Council adviser. Shrubbery around the school, in spots selected by a \ Banking on Woodlawn landscape artist, helps to President Mickey Murray, left. Cashier Janie Ziegler and beautify the high school. \ Vice President Don Corley are banking on Woodlawn studentstudent s to "They have maintained it, make their Junior Achievement program "interest" everybody. pulled up the weeds, and The banking project, sponsored by Birmingham Trust National. waited anxiously. for the .Bank, js designed to teach students the advantages of systematic daffodils to bloom in the "' saving? As a result, 570 students at Woodlawn earned $390 in school colors of gold and interest lor the six-month period ending April 1. The freshmen, white," said Mrs. Peoples. according to officials, are the best bankers at Woodlawn. "The students are proud of the job," she added. ahr Iitrmtttn.ham •X'fnts Sunday, June 4, 1967

WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL'S CLASS OF '27 "REMEMBERS WHEN" ^S From left: Johnston, Brown, Miss Slaughter Altered shapes, hairlines Class finally holds party, 40 years late BY CHARLES RICHARDSON staged 40 years to the day. Rogers just as on that spring News staff writer Diplomas were awarded to day so long ago: Forty years late but good the group — one of three high "Hail, dear old Woodlawn Colonels yet, Woodlawn's school graduation exercises High, here that day — on the graduating seniors of 1927 "Noble and strong. afternoon of June 3, 1927. held their class party Satur­ "To thee with loyal hearts, day night. And, just like graduation "We raise our song . . ." Their voices were still Gathering older and wiser day, up front came class strong, just like the good old from as far away as Utah, vocalist Walter Passmore and younger days. And if the they put aside the accumulat­ class pianist Elizabeth Scheu- candlelight in the dim ball ed cares of four decades to ing Rogers. So they sang the room reflected a tear or two share once again their sunny old school song — led once no one minded. high school days of the late again by Passmore and Mrs. '20s. And if recognition of chang­ End Window Problems Now ed classmates came hard at times, the memories of those classroom loyalties came easy. Outdated Troublesome For some reason, says class vice president and party-or­ 1 ganizer Maurine Slaughter of Can Be Replaced Easil Birmingham, they never g°t around to a class party back Unique New Replacemei in '27. So Saturday night at Cascade Plunge some 54 of At Low-CosU Gives Horn the 164 class members, along with wives and husbands and even grandchildren, made up for the neglect.

OVER COFFEE and soft drinks at first and over steak still later, they renewed old friendships and reminisced about teachers, sports and hi jinks. Surprisingly, a great many of those who showed up for the reunion or sent word they were missing it with a griev­ ing heart did so from homes still close by. But others, like Francis Johnston, had to span almost 2,000 miles to get here. Johnston, of Ogden, Utah, is a conductor with Union Pacif­ ic Railroad, and his loyalty drew a big round of applause from his old classmates at Saturday night's dinner.

ALTHOUGH SHAPES, hair­ lines and even attitudes were noticeably altered, the grads found much still in common. They all swapped stories of favorite teachers and hard subjects. Some even remembered a bad grade here and there. But the 11 teachers who taught them and were still around Saturday to show up were all forgiven. Miss Slaughter, in the real estate business here, explain­ ed that the gathering was designed from the start to be informal. Chatting as emcee, in lieu of a promise not to speak, was class member Thomas E. Huey Jr., now a Birmingham circuit judge. Originated a year ago, the party plan resulted in direct contact with 107 members of the class. Thirty-six could not be traced. And 21 members, their names framed in black and flanked by a bowl of daisies, were listed as deceas­ ed.

AS PART OF the program, they re-dedicated their 1927 school annual, which was dedicated to then-teacher Gre­ gory Brown. Brown, still hale and hearty in retirement here, was on hand for the dinner. Their first reunion was fit*.. an Wins \r wins 'Tall -07 Sgg-^SKSJ^V"^ v-v < '' ' *•*-*"",« school ^o^n^^^ high "The Tatler*' newspaper won" first place in high school paper contest publications competition at "The Tatler," student news­ the University of Alabama paper at Woodlawn High this week-end. ScjiooJ^ took ""first place lii competition among Class A Murphy High School of papers at the University of Mobile claimed sweepstakes Alabama last weekend. awards with "The Murphy High Times" newspaper and Placed in Class A because1 it "The Mohian" yearbook. has a circulation of 1,000 or more, the newspaper was The awards are made annu­ judged for content, quality of ally at the University of reporting, typography and Alabama Journalism Clinic, sponsored by the University imagination. with the assistance of the Murphy High of Mobile re­ SOME WOODLAWN HIGH STARTERS FROM 1922 Alabama Association of Jour­ ceived the sweepstakes award . . . Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft, left, and Azelle Morris i nalism Directors, the Ala­ for its newspaper, "The Mur­ f bama High School Press phy High Times," and its "Starters" meet— t Assn., and the Alabama Press yearbook, "The Mohian." Assn. Other awards went to John Carroll, Hueyfown, Berry, o Other Jefferson County Banks and Fairfield. Early Woodlawn B schools winning awards were The awards were made at John Carroll High, Hueytown IT the university's annual clinic High, W. A. Berry High, II for high school journalists. Banks High and Fairfield students at reunion Si ai , High. Morris emphasized that he BY FRANCES SPOTSWOOD oi News staff writer was a Woodlawn High starter but not a graduate. "A lot of Woodlawn High School has si us had to drop out and go to come a long way since its work because those were hard e: doors opened to "the Starters" times," he said. Tobm in January, 1922, but many of s Colonel grads those first students were fond­ The starter of the Woodlawn ly recalling Saturday how it High Starters is proud of be­ t oV The Lebane*. used to be. ing one even if he didn't fin­ class Ministers recent., Memories of the old shotgun ish. Morris is even prouder 1 <7 the establishment oi house which served as a that his four children are to gather al petroleum refinei. lunchroom and the split clas­ Woodlawn High School grads. A call has gone out for all permitted its board of u ses, held morning and night, Woodlawn High School star­ tors to import the necessh were shared by former school­ ters (those who were enrolled equipment. I mates who joined in the fourth Union calls in the new school between 833-0259 and 323-8081. annual reunion of Woodlawn Jan. 27 and May 31, 1922) to Serving on committees are High Starters. for hijack | attend a reunion Saturday, George L. Gammon, Leona Unofficial greeter for the Nov. 25. Skelton, Pollie G. Wells, Eli­ gathering at Roebuck Commu­ boycott The Colonel reunion will zabeth S. Rogers, Sara C. nity Center was Azelle Morris, NEW YORK start at 6 p.m. with a dinner Bowie and Elsie C. Campbell. who sparked the idea several A top longshoremen's of- f to follow at 6:30 in the years ago of getting some of ficial Thursday called for a lunchroom. the first Woodlawn students "total air, sea and lanr" together. boycott" of cargo and shi' Chairman Azelle Morris NOTICE!! from countries which r emphasized that the reunion "I had the idea," grinned is not just for the first gradu­ GEM JEWELP Morris, "and I mentioned it to bor or aid plane hijack' ates at the School but all who 2123 lit/ a few people." John Bowers, prr were in attendance at any He wave at Bill and Sam- of the Port of Nc time in the first year at IS NO' mie Bancroft and said, I Coordinating Cour the newly opened school TOT' "Those two helped get the j vice president of "Starters" can make reser­ $.» whole thing started." ; shoremen's Asso vations by mail to either Mr. • r The Bancrofts were among l bled the 7 Morris or Bill Bancroft, now the first students at Woodlawn I Transport Wo' boys adviser at Woodlawn. High. Mrs. Bancroft was Clau- I tion in Land- Mr. Morris' telephones are die Mae Hoover then, but usu­ | such countr ally was called by her | iced. nickname, "Sammie." They graduated together from high I "THE school, went on to the same I prevent college and got married. | servic; Eventually they returned to | trans Woodlawn where Bancroft is 1 on f boy's advisor. I nat "It's a very different now," 1 h< said Bancroft. There was IP nothing but a small classroom building and the old lunchroom when he was a stu­ dent. r M _ lAl

itwi'S...... ^.:..,*.....>...... -,..•..- • ...'** '.. Linain Jtiyan dies on Okinawa Sgt. 1. C. William ' Henry Mrs. Joan Ryan of Orlando; Ryan, 44, who was an ROTC. • four daughters, Linda Ryan, instructor at WoodlawfTHigh" Cynthia Ryan, Sandra Ryan ScRool "eight years, has died and Rebecca Ryan; his par­ on Okinawa. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman The word didn't reach Birmingham until just before Ryan of Booneville; and two his military funeral in Or­ sisters, Mrs. Kathleen Byram lando, Fla., Tuesday. of Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. First reports were that Wanda Hoffman of Ft. Ryan drowned when he fell Benning, Ga. into water during a parachute jump. However, those who

SGT. WILLIAM RYAN

knew him well say that was highly unlikely because of his skill as a master parachutist. They believe he may have suffered a heart attack during A first for Woodlawn the jump. Principal E. E. Moree, left, and Billy Bancroft, boys adviser, like everyone else at Wood­ SGT. RYAN was at Wood­ lawn are mighty proud of this beautificatlon award which hangs in the principal's office. lawn until 1963. Many cadets It tells the world that Woodlawn, to date is the only school to win such an award from the and others who worked with city's commercial division. The award was in recognition of a beautificatlon program at the him called him "Daddy" school. Ryan because of his interest in them and the good advice he gave. They didn't call him "Daddy" in ranks, of course. 0s?7 ^V ^ % Sgt. Ryan was born in Booneville, Miss. He served with the famed 82nd Airborne Division, a spearhead of the Normandy invasion, during World War II. He spent 10 years in the Special Forces before his as­ signment to the Birmingham ROTC program. During his stay at Woodlawn, he coached the Woodlawn rifle team to several state titles. Survivors include his wife,

Woodlawn Student President Steve Doctorchik, Heft, Grounds Chairman David Olive, and1 Vice President Sue Gilbert look over the school's new flag. Sue designed the flag, which will help to promote the "new look" both inside and out at WHS. Sue made bold use of the school colors, green and gold, with large stripes. Whether it's flags, football, scholarship or school spirit, students at WHS say you can't beat Woodlawn.

Woodlawn High winners Bob Scott, left, and Linda Holt really "spoke out for Wood­ lawn" riming; the (Mvitan oratorical nroa^ eliminations at Trussville City Hall. *Scolt captured first place in the boys' division and Linda took second place in the girls' division. Both are standouts in Paul Caudle's speech classes at Wood­ lawn High. .d9ZL£zl£z£t- ®l|p ltrmtttgl?am Nrros Friday, April 19, 1968

WANT A WOODLAWN SLAVE GIRL? ... From left, Williamson, Miss Aurandt, Miss Adamson Woodlawn tasses face auction block \ - Everybod's talking about Twirp Week at Wood- \ lawn! What's Twirp Week? It's a week of spring fun - April 29-May 3— when all those pretty girls are <& . ^auctioned off as slaves for the boys. J* 5 The king of Twirp Week — Lamar Williamson — jwhas just scores of lovely slaves, like Jenesse Aurandt * y^fcnd Nancy Adamson, ready for the auction block. Twirp Week at Woodlawn, in addition to being a lot "ROMANS" ON THE GO—IT'S NATIONAL LATIN WEEK A^. of fun, helps to raise money for the Student Council. ^ . . Sharon Clements, Bill King, Monica Meredith, Jane Ann Weldon, David Dean, Steve Dill, Jane Kirby jSj FOR A GIRL TO be auctioned off, she will have to be caught without a "Twirp Ticket," which costs her 10 cents. On Monday, April 29, the slaves will be auctioned j SHADES OF BEN HUR! THERE'S off. For a whole week, they must do their masters' bidding, like carrying books and doing small .chores. Girls caught without a "Twirp Ticket" will be \A CHARIOT RACE IN WOODLAWN hailed into Twirp Court on Friday, May 3, at Woodlawn BY MARY PATE, News staff writer Just as Rome wasn't built in a day, neither were these Stadium and be sentenced to do some ridiculous chore, chariots. They've been a semester-long, after school project for like ride a tricycle or some such stunt. It might have escaped your attention until now, but this is the students. Materials used have been various—but mostly Tuesday of Twirp Week will be the day of silence. National Latin Week. have consisted of plywood, cardboard and bicycle wheels. Anyone caught talking in the halls will be fined and all J! And just in case you're wondering why a dead language To lend a further note of authenticity, drivers will be the proceeds will go to the Vietnam Gift Committee. rates a nationwide observance, rest assured that Latin in garbed in Roman togas, also self-made. Some of the togas look Woodlawn, of course, is one of the Eastern schools Birmingham is very much alive. suspiciously like sheets, but they do have authentic Roman sponsoring the Big Red One in Vietnam. draping. New officers of Woodlawn's Student Council will be At Woodlawn High School the first year Latin classes have installed on Thursday of Twirp Week and on Friday, •been racing ahead with plans to bring the week to a lively This is the second time around wearing for many of the the old Student Council, headed by Steve Doctorchik

Woodlawner wins Optimist trophy Kerry McDonald, with trophy-u.. , won firs,wt „!«„.place„ nan„Hd na JtlO$10O0 U. S. Savings Bond in thtl e Crest- wood Optimist oratorical contest. Other contestants, from left, James K. Smith (Phillips), John Laskow (Ramsay), Dean Paulin (Phillips), Larry David Duncan (Woodlawn) and Fred Ansley (Ramsay) won $25 U. S. Savings Bonds. Smith placed second and Laskow was third. The orators spoke on: "The Golden Opportunities Of Youth." * fASf 38 — BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD — Thursday, July 18/1968 After 43 years on the job, Loach Blane stores whistle BY JAMES CHISUM difference between a winning News staff wrtler or a losing team. John Blane intends to see "YOU AREN'T going to the leaves turn brown in have a good team with a Maine next fall. bunch of stupid players," he A devotee of automobile declared with considerable trips, he's never seen the conviction. sight So what's he going to do now? "BEFORE, school was al­ "Just as little as my wife ways going on then and I will let me get away with," he couldn't make it," he explain­ said with a grin, predicting ed. she'd make a good foreman of For 43 years, Coach Blane a chain gang. — to identify him as almost One thing for sure, he everyone now does — has added. No fishing. turned up in the fall at "I wouldn't walk out that Woodlawn High School. door to catch a stupid whale," But not this year. He's he said. retiring. what they've done," he said, The coach is one of approx­ 654,000 scatter "but coaches always have 1 imately 500 Alabama teachers At present son seasons they can point to with who are saying, "No more Spanish emigre lessons, no more books, no pride- or view with alarm." tered over more children's dirty looks" After such extensive experi­ Garcia * this spring. ence, Coach Blane's opinion era! is that intelligence makes the T- THEY JOIN about 5,500 who have already retired, accord­ THERE'S THE BOOT—These four Woodlawn High School students check ing to Auburn Bottoms, assist­ the globe for the familiar boot shape of Italy, and the exciting citTis they'll be ant director of the state teacher retirement system. visiting beginning next week. Shown are (from left), Charlene Mathis, Jimmy Barrett, Johnny Holcomb, and Denise Barry. Teachers pay 4 per cent of their total salary into the fund each year, and a state appro­ priation is added to it. Art History Will Come Retired teachers are guar­ anteed a retirement salary of $6 per month for every year they served, up to 25 years— or a formula with such fac­ Alive For Four Students tors as average salary during Perugia, to learn about Itali­ BY JUANITA WEEKLEY their counterparl {.'roup from the past 10 years is used, if it an art and artists from native It's one thing to view work Bradenton, Fla., will have provides a greater amount. professors. of The Masters in museums — classwork in conversation;*! COACH BLANE wants out Italian and art history, plus Parents of the Birming- now. and quite another 1o comb will venture off on week-end hamians are Mr. and Mrs. "I want to get out before their haunts and homelands. excursions to Naples, Pom­ Jack Barry, Mr. and Mrs. some kid comes up and says: peii, the Adriatic Sea, Venice James Mathis, Mr. and Mrs. 'Gee, Coach Blane, you taught Next week a group of Wood­ and to the world's oldest James Barrett and Mr. and my grandfather," he said, lawn High School art students republic of San Marino. Mrs. Veto Holcomb. adding that he's run across will take to the skies to do dozens or perhaps hundreds of just this: make art history Arrangements for the trip sons of former pupils. come alive in its original set­ ting. were made by the American Robert Arthur, now chair­ Institute for Foreign Study. In man of the Birmingham The students: Denise Barry, planning such trips, the insti­ Board of Education, was a Charlene Mathis, Jimmy Bar­ tute strives to give American football star for Coach Blane rett and Johnny Holcomb, will students insight into life and In 1928. Mrs. Era Hyche, now be bound for the University customs of the. countries visit­ secretary to Supt. Raymond for Foreigners in the little ed. For example, the Birming­ Christian, is another former mountain town of Perugia, ham and Bradenton entourage pupil. Italy, where they will spend will take part in the Cortona The coach came to Wood- five weeks studying Italian Beef Steak Festival parade, alwn in 1925, and never had history and art. Accompany­ banquet and folkfest. Too, another job. For the past few ing the foursome will be Mr. they will be swept up in the years he's taught basketball, and Mrs. Rhodes Watkins, famous Palio in Siena, a folk but in 1925 h$ was the school's both of whom have strong festival which has been in total coaching staff. artistic leanings. Mrs. Wat- existence since the Middle HE'S PROUDEST of four kins taught art in Florida Ages. track teams that took the prior lo moving to Birming­ state championship and four ham, and Mr. Watkins is a The students will spend basketball teams that did the recent graduate of Ringling three days in Paris prior to same. School of Art in Sarasota, Fla. taking a train for Florence to "I don't know how regular While in Perugia, the four explore its art treasures. classroom teachers measure i Birmingham students and From Florence, they go to IVMIR emorial hono

PAGE 22 — BIRMIN GHAM POST-HERALD —Wednesday, April 2, 1969 wn Higho veterans BY ELMA BELL students at Woodlawn High Olive, who also serves as Memorial News staff writer School. adult sponsor for the student Veterans Day this year will beautification committeei, the Through their efforts a have extra meaning for maintenance committer in­ muddy courtyard on the cludes Mrs. Jack H. Marsh, IRVING T. y school grounds is being trans­ Mrs. John^Jordan, Mrs. Jim vrt. SLIFKlN formed into a small garden Dalton, Mrs. J. P. Scott, Mrs. f Dedicated ^ ?«r;0IAMOND>l'f«^ dedicated to the memory of W. N. Rowell, Mrs. Joe Kirby, 1 Buy or Sell Diamonds Woodlawn High School gradu­ Mrs. Vent Speaker, Mrs. Frank Wjjodlawn Highjjchpol cere­ diamond CONSULTANT ates who have given their Manville, Mrs. S. G. Nesbitt, monies today will dedicate a "WEST Appraisals lives in patriotic service of Mrs. B. G .Carroll, Mrs. memorial garden on the cam­ >d{. 251-0425 their country. James Pratt, Mrs. Hershel pus to the memory of alumni Norris, Mrs. Henry A. VlTild- Already flagstone Walks who have given their lives in crisscross the area and a smith, and Mrs. James M. three wars. sundial is in its center. A bed Calloway Jr. The dedication speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremonies will be IS of holly bushes lines the wall Mrs. Ross Peeples Jr. Gen. Henry Graham, Wood­ of the school on one side of serves as faculty advisor to i lawn alumnus and comman­ the courtyard and grass is the student council and Janet der of the Alabama Nationa. 1 growing in the four triangles Okin is chairman of the Guard's 30th Armored Divi­ formed by the walks. student beautification commit­ sion. tee. Two trees will be planted in Students thought up the the open ends of the courtyard E. E. Moree, principal at memorial garden idea last and a concrete bench will be Woodlawn High School, ex­ year, and student council of­ placed in e'ach triangle. pressed his pride in the work ficers turned the first spade of Even a small garden takes his students are doing. sil then, according to faculty an amazing amount of Money "In this day of draft card sponsor Mrs. Rebecca Pee­ and the young people have burnings, it is reassuring and ples. accepted checks from the inspiring to see hundreds of "The Memorial Garden has Womans Club of Birmingham, young people engaged in a been a continuing project Woodlawn Central, Just-a- project such as the memorial throughout this year," Mrs. Mere and Crestwood Garden garden," he said. Peeples said. Clubs. The students sought to hon­ Mrs. Lela Brewer has given SELECT YOUR* or the alumni who have lost one concrete bench in memo­ their lives in World War II, ry of her son, Robert Rice the Korean War and the Brewer who was a member of Vietnam War. the class of 1938. All the dead are listed in a On their 'own the students W scrapbook in Woodlawn's li­ have raised money for the brary, Mrs. Peeples said, and garden at their annu?l stunt plaques in the garden enumer­ night, with an extra perfor­ ate the three wars since the school's beginning. WOODLAWN GARDEN—Ceremonies at 10 a.m. mance of the Warbler's show in Woodlawn High School stadium today will dedicate and by voluntary contribu­ The $2,000 for the garden a Memorial Garden on the campus. The student- tions. was raised by voluntary parent project honors the school's military dead of When they learned that a contributions of students and three wars and is marked bv the sun dial pictured $200 cash prize was offered to by performances of the War­ above with students Janet Okin and David Olive. the school having the highest blers — the school's male (Post-Herald photo by Jim Ware). attendance at a crime preven­ chorus that will sing at the tion seminar, the student ceremony today, she said. council, headed by Jim Rober- The Parent-Teachers' Asso­ son went into action rounding ciation at Woodlawn and up their classmates to go. garden clubs throughout the They came home with the city also contributed, accord­ $200. ing to Mrs. Peeples. The PTA, impressed with "The students are thrilled what the students were doing, about the accomplishment," volunteered to furnish main­ she said. tenance of the garden and "They have the mood for other planting the students the garden and catch the have done on the grounds. significance of it." Headed by Mrs. Beccher Mrs. Peeples said the effort has resulted in a pride in the school. The memorial garden is actually the last step in a four-year student project to beautify the school grounds. The garden is not especially large. But plenty of shade and several benches make it a good spot for students to meet. And the brass plaques for each war recall the garden's significance,, „_, , C...MM ^-f* Jefferson schools Woodlawn leads system, but enrollment declining BY THELMA YOUNG, News staff writer When Woodlawn High School opened in 1922, 700 students enrolled but in size, it is now the leading high school in the Birmingham system, with 1,954 students in grades 9 through 12. However, although enrollment has been as high in this school as 2,600 in 1963, it is now slowly decreasing, due mainly to a changing population. Dr. O. C. Carmichael, widely known educator, was Woodlawn's first principal. When Dr. Carmichael left, T. A. Gallup became principal, and the first graduating class of 31 received diplomas, along with graduates of Phillips and Ensley High Schools, all in the Phillips auditorium. i FROM 1923 to 1926, C. G. Bandman was principal of Woodlawn, and it was during this time that the school received its charter for the National Honor Society. Bandman, now retired and living in Philadelphia, was succeeded by Noble V Hendrix, and while he was principal, Woodlaw High, through its graduates in college, twice achieved the highest rating by the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. Ralph Martin came to head Woodlawn in 1943, and during his tenure, the boys' gymnasium and the music building were V • added. Also, after enrollment had reached its peak, and the

1 In 1964 Woodlawn High received the report that since 1957, it had led ail high schools in the state in the number of graduates holding PhD degrees. After 22 years at Woodlawn, Ralph Martin retired in 1965, and was succeeded by John R. Tarrant, but when the new Huffman High, was opened the following year, Tarrant went to head that school. Then E. E. Moree came to Woodlawn as principal in 1967, as the school's seventh, Moree, a native of Missouri, came to the Birm­ ingham system from St. Clair County. He has the AB degree from Howard College (now Samford University), and MA from the University of Ala­ bama. Moree was first a teacher at South East Lake Elementary for four years, then was boys' adviser at Banks High and principal of Robinson Elementary. Eighteen teachers and staff members at Woodlawn High are graduates of this school. They are Mrs. Kathy : Long, Miss Leona Skelton, • Bill Bancroft Mrs. Sara Bowie, Mrs. Polly Wells, Mrs. Bess Jones, Mrs. Velma Hill, E. E. MOREE Mrs. Jean Kirby, Mrs. Jua­ nita Jones, Mrs. Frances McDonald, Miss Janice Wilkerson, Tandy Geralds, Mrs. Bonnie Fuino, Miss Kate Malone, Mrs. Mary Haon, Joe Turner, Miss Marilla Morgan and Mrs. Elsie Campbell.

PAGE 26 — BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD — Wednesday, March 10, 1971 m. 1 0 197' In other action, the board dolph that the city schools Schools will close at the end Education Association conven­ took under consideration a re- , , „ . . , , , .. „ „ _ teach more Negro historv and of the regular day Friday and tion will be in Birmingham quest by the Rev. George Ru- ed building bid OK'dCommunication s Commission, emphasize Negro- studies re-onen March 22 for spring while schools are closed next it was explained. more. holidays. The Alabama week. BY JLILLIAN FOSCUE VANN kitchen at Lincoln, Allen Bart- Spaulding to be instructed as be paid by the center except Members of the Bir­ lett. to the style of architecture building insurance and main­ mingham Board of Education Board member Clyde S. and facilities desired. Dr. tenance. Tuesday approved a bid of Kirby asked that the board Henry Sparks, assistant super­ $186,700 by J. F. Holley hold up authorization to pre­ intendent, said school person­ The school board also ap­ Construction Co. to build a pare preliminary plans on nel will inspect the other proved a bid of $3,587.95 by OurmargarinewiH girlis? physical education build- these projects, saying there schools listed by Kirby to de­ Hewlett-Packard Co., Atlanta, ing at Woodlawn High School." are other schools that needed termine needed repairs and for a counter and converter Tfi£ construction cost, added work — Tuggle, Robinson, improvements. required for the Educational to an architect's fee of $13,100. Scott, Jackson and Pratt Working drawings for the Television Studio. The city's your taste b* ~ equipment for $11,000. and Schools. Barrett School lunchroom ad­ ETV studio has been bor­ contingencies estimated at $3,- New modern school dition were approved and sent rowing a counter and con­ 200, made a total estimated He asked the board to con­ on to the State Department of verter from Jefferson County cosijapproved of $214,000. sider building a completely- Education for approval before because it must use this Tlie school board authorized new, modern school at Spauld­ the project is advertised for equipment to make required preliminary plans to be pre­ ing for the people of South­ bids. regular checks on transmitter pared for seven projects by west Birmingham. "We are Offer accepted frequency for the Federal thejfollowing architects: com­ doing it out East," he said. The school board accepted pleting Banks High, Warren, Other board members ar­ an offer of $59,000, the ap­ Knight and Davis; a playito- gued that the Birmingham praised value for Butler Ele­ tium at Oliver School, Henry school system does not have mentary, closed at the end of Sprjbtt Long; classrooms at money to abandon the present the 1969-70 school year and no Deaths ar Price, Wilmot C. Douglas and Spaulding school plant, but longer needed under the uni­ Associates; additional facili- can only appropriate enough tary school plan. Funer tie|" at Spaulding, Albie Ree­ to enlarge the school with ade­ The board also approved ve^ Smith; complete gym­ quate facilities for the stu­ renting Thomas School Mrs. Mor' nasium and add classrooms at dents expected to attend from property, 3420 Second-av, n, to Graveside Rajfisay High, Warren, Knight a new housing project in the the Vocational Division of the Nena B. V Davis; add two parking area. Alabama State Department of Ga., w' &S with waterproof deck to It was agreed that architect Education for 1971 at $1,000 a Atte' ^administration building of Albie Reeves Smith would month. at -1 Birmingham school sys­ meet with board members be­ The school will be used as a tem Thurston Sumner, and fore he began work on prelim­ skill center with all costs for en^lrge the lunchroom and inary plans for an addition at upkeep, utilities and repairs to Barber halts suspension $ * £VS ¥4- MS-

of Woodlawnjfigh student fcPR ^ 4 1972 $ For the second time in a crime unrelated to school acti­ SR,H week the Birmingham Board vities. Suspended student V5 of Education has been stopped Jefferson County Circuit by court order from suspend­ Judge William C. Barber issu­ ing a student charged with a ed the injunction against the reinstated by judge school board, Birmingham Circuit Judge William C. The other case involved Schools Supt. Raymond Chris­ Barber ordered a Woodlawn William David Wells, a tian and Woodlawn High student at Banks High School, High School student, who had School Principal E. E. Moree who was suspended pending to end the suspension of been suspended from school outcome of the charge against student James W. Armstrong following his arrest on a him. Jr. narcotics charge, returned to class "until his case has been IN THE ORDER Judge Bar­ adjudicated in court." ber said, "The court issues Legal & this edict based upon the In ordering the suspension Public Notices elemental premise . . . that of James W. Armstrong Jr. any person is presumed inno­ lifted until his case has been cent of any criminal act until settled, Judge Barber explain­ ed it is a basic element of the NOTICE OF HEARING ON his guilt has been proved." APPLICATION FOR THEATRE judicial system that any per­ PERMITS An application has been made unde; The petition for injunction son is presumed innocent until Ordinance No. 71-27, as amended, by [' R. C. Cobb, to the Chief of Police of was filed Tuesday by attorney his guilt has been proved in City of Birmingham for the issuance t permit or permits to operate a theatre Massey Relfe on behalf of the court. theatres in the City as follows: Village East I Woodlawn High student and village East Shopping Center Therefore, he said, young Village East II his father, J. W. Armstrong Village East Shopping Center Armstrong should be entitled Notice is hereby given that a Sr. hearing is hereby set at 10:00 • to return to his studies until Monday, April 24, 1972, in Room ' Hall, 710 North 20th Street, Birr The suit said young Arm­ the case against him is Alabama, to consider any evidence offered to the consid- strong was arrested March 24 completed. said application. JACK A. WAR and charged with selling nar­ Deputy Chief, The youth was arrested Acting Chief r cotics (not on Woodlawn High Citv of Birmir premises); that he was sus­ March 24 on a charge of Post-Herald, April 14, 1972. selling narcotics, but the INVITATION TO pended on March 27 for 10 Sealed bids for uniforms charge did not involve the Engineering Department v days and later suspended in­ by F. M. Dyar, City Pi school. 201 Citv Hall, Birmin' definitely pending disposition until 10:00 a.m., Thursdr at which time and pi of the criminal charge. Attorney Massey Relfe, who publicly opened and re Detailed specificatio' represented the boy and his for the clothing destr* Judge Barber last week from the City Pur father, J. W. Armstrong, said auotations should b- enjoined the Birmingham Alabama. in his petition that the boy The City of Bir> School Board, Dr. Christian right to reject am was first suspended on March and to waive any and Banks High Principal S. Sealed bids nr 27 for 10 days, then was City Purchasing W. Ingram in a similar case suspended indefinitely pend­ before 10:00 a. 1972. Bids rec? involving the suspension of ing disposition of the criminal not be conside* F. Banks student William David charge. Pi C Wells. Post-Herald, This was the second time It- in about a week that Judge Sealed encoders • Barber has intervened in be­ Citv Pur Birmingr half of a student who was Mondav place * suspended from school follow- read. Det' ng his arrest on a drug for obt' 'harge. All w ni'» wi •» r »>-^-». TTWfrr™i 111 un»i!- Woodlawn officers ; MjJsJi'fi-t' /tiny H;^ s^*^- frW,V Hi •"•BWW&*. m protest story PAGE C4 BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD, Friday, December 5, 1975 We, the Student Government offi­ cers, speaking on behalf of the student r- body, request a retraction of the recent article naming Woodlawn as the second -0 worst school in the city concerning vio­ lence. It was based on what we feel was < an inadequate survey taken last spring, prior to which a gun was fired toward a r high school principal. This incident probably affected the response of the teachers to the survey. Since the article appeared, we questioned our teachers as to how threatened or unsafe they felt. Their reaction related a sense of securi­ ty. Woodlawn has a tradition of being outstanding in every aspect of school activities. We have excelled in athlet­ ics, participated in the state student I councils, served as president of United Student Councils of Alabama. Another 4- example on December 4: We were the 1/ recipient of the Sportsmanship Trophy as pictured in your Friday edition. All of the 13 city high schools competed for this award. Last year, when the survey was made, we received the Americanism Trophy for being the most outstanding school in Birmingham. We feel it is grossly unfair to be catagorized as one of the worst trouble spots in the city when we are outstanding enough to win awards of this caliber, survey or no sur­ vey Woodlawn is Nol 1 in everything. GIL WESLEY NANETTE WARDY KATHY YATES DEBBIE STEPHENS JOANNA ALLISON RHOIDV.HAINS Sportsmanship was recognized Thursday by the man of the sportsmanship committee, and Karen RANDALL H.RICH Birmingham Civitan Club as Richard Ellicott, club Elrod, head cheerleader at Woodlawn High Student Government Officers, president, presented the Bob Arthur Civitan sport­ Schol, Woodlawn High School smanship trophy to Miss Frieda Hill (center) chair­ DECS 01975 6^ Woodlawn High wins Civitan trophy By Leonard Chamblee mittee and a cheerleader, and Karen spectators that the schools were being Staff Writer Elrod, head cheerleader. judged for the award and immediately Woodlawn High School was awarded Looking on were Gil Wesley, football there was a change in attitude. the second annual Civitan Bob Arthur team captain, and Tandy Gerelds, Harris also took the opportunity to Sportsmanship Trophy at the Birming­ coach. tell of the growth of schoolboy athletics, ham Civitan Club weekly luncheon Richard Bradshaw, chairman of the and sports among girls also, in the past meeting Thursday. club committee planning the award, few years in Birmingham. Richard Ellicott, club president, said the award recipient is chosen on Bob Arthur, for whom the trophy was presented the trophy to Frieda Hill, the basis of a total effort by players, named, served as chairman of the Bir­ chairman of the sportsmanship com­ coaches, school officials and specta­ mingham Board of Education for many tors. years before his death. The Metropolitan High School Foot­ ball Officials Association chooses the recipient from the 14 high schools in the Birmingham school sytem. Wesley, speaking after the award was presented, said it is impossible to have good sportsmanship without God and Jesus Christ. Gerelds said it is important for players and other stu­ dents as well as the fans to understand that there are some things more impor­ tant even than winning the game. Even­ tually, he said, winning will come if sportsmanship is practiced. Bill Harris, city schools athletic director, told of one case where a game went into overtime in an area where school officials were concerned about potential trouble developing. He had the public address announcer remind Thurs., March 3, 1977 ®h* DtTtmnghntn Nfn)0—-3

WRITER RECEIVES AWARD FROM HALL OF FAME STUDENT CHAIRMAN . . . Ronald Weathers; Kenny Mallow Woodlawn High adds MAR 3 1977 three to Hall oi b ame BY GERALDINE MOORE "If we are to move forward in Ala­ fy "Y\ News staff writer bama, the South and the nation, we are Three people were inducted into going to have to be ever mindful that Woodlawn High School's Hall of Fame government will remain strong only to during ceremonies Wednesday. the extent that we are committed to They were Ronald Weathers, Bir­ putting in office people who can and will mingham News sports writer; Vince think for themselves, and people who Gibson, coach at the University of will put society's welfare first." Louisville, Louisville, Ky., and Dr. Joel Hosea, a professor at Princeton Univer­ HE APPEALED to the young people sity. in the audience to use their talents to In order to qualify for the honor, a become capable leaders, to mobilize person must be a graduate of Woodlawn support for society's goals and to show who has been away from the school at the way in using present institutions or least 10 years and whose service in his reshaping them in order to achieve the field of work has received national greatest good for the largest number of attention. people. Gibson and Hosea were unable to re­ "You will provide the leadership of ceive their awards in person. Weathers, the next several decades, and you have who has had three sons graduate from a chance to make things for the country Woodlawn High, and whose wife is a in general a lot better," he said. former assistant librarian there, said in accepting his plaque, "It is a real honor to be recognized in this manner in my own hometown." Anita Bryant's job not in danger, NOTING THAT he has benefited much in life from having had good par­ citrus group says ents, good friends and associates, Weathers advised "those who aspire to LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Anita make it to the top," to try to keep them­ Bryant's $100,000-a-year job promoting selves surrounded with "good" people. Florida orange juice is not jeopardized "It helps a lot," he said. by her rift with the gay-rights com­ State Sen. George McMillan Jr., who munity in Miami, say state citrus offi­ spoke at the occasion, chose for a topic, cials. "The Need for New and Creative Lead­ "It's quite obvious we have no right ership in These United States." to control her private life," says Dan McMillan said there is an unfortu­ Richardson of Vero Beach, chairman of nate tendency among people today to the Florida Citrus Commission. The accept mediocre leadership, and then state agency, however, has not taken an to get contemptuous when things don't official position on the matter, he said. go as they should. Miss Bryant sent to the Dade County He said most people who are really Commission Tuesday petitions with 60,- well qualified to serve, shnn politics. 000 names protesting a county law "They do it because they feel that they prohibiting discrimination against lack political expertise, they have jobs homosexuals in employment and hous­ that don't allow enough time for politi­ ing. cal involvement and they don't like the Officials say it takes signatures of prevailing idea that politicians have to 10,000 registered voters for a referen­ be people who are willing to be 'used/ dum on the issue. The county clerk has especially by special interest groups," 10 days to certify the signatures. McMillan noted. She contends the law provides for an Suggesting that good constituents unhealthy atmosphere in which to raise produce good leaders, McMillan said, children. eiv No riff-raffs allowed to playgames at Woodlawn

By John Cargile the credentials of being a guard for the recently was hired as an assistant Sports Staff Portland Trail Blazers in the National coach at Mississippi State. Arnold has Basketball Association. coached successfully at Birmingham- It might rival New York City play­ Dunn is there, by way of West End Southern for a number of years before grounds, or any pickup basketball High, and the University of Alabama. taking the job in Starkville. "I enjoy game in the ghetto. And, how about Harold Robertson's just coming to watch them play." At Woodlawn High School gym, in credentials? He was the second leading Gene Bartow. Lee Hunt, and Larry the eastern section of Birmingham, scorer in the nation, just behind Free­ Finch from the University of Alabama Wednesday night basketball for high man Williams of Portland State. in Birmingham, pay frequent visits. So school, college, and pro athletes is as Robertson is there, by way of Hayes does CM. Newton, Wimp Sanderson, commonplace as O.J. Simpson running High School and Lincoln University. John Bostick, and Wendell Hudson through an airport, or Pete Rose slid­ He is a junior at Lincoln now, and from the University of Alabama. ing on his belly into second. led the NCAA Division II with a 34.7 Recently, Central Missouri's coach "It's a real bonanza," says Andy points per game average. His team Young, who along with Ronnie Ryan, visited, liked two players and signed reached the semifinals for the national them to a grant-in-aid. They were opens the gym or, Prayer Meeting championship. nights for athletes who have basketball Woodlawn's Roy Pearson and Michael "See the kid in yellow," points Gholson. credentials. Young. "He is just a freshman in high There is no room for riff-raffs (those school at Woodlawn. He doesn't know "It's a bonanza if coaches only knew who think they can play basketball, or all those players out there. He just those who once could, but now. can't). we were here," Young said. knows how to play basketball." "We do it mainly for the high school About 60, mostly black athletes, And, so he does. His name is Michael kids." Ryan said. "It gives them a showed up last night for pickup games Hodge. chance to play against good competi­ that started about 6, and lasted until The program, which started last tion." nearly 10. There is one game after year, and runs during the summer, at­ "There is a lot of talent here," says another. The team that scores 24 points tracts many basketball players from Robertson, who went virtually unno­ first gets to stay on the floor and de­ the city. It's a melting pot. It also ticed when he prepped at Hayes. "The fend their winnings. brings in basketball coaches, too. ^H Photo by Dennis Holt g only way to develop talent is to play You wouldn't call Theodore Roose­ "I come here to see the high school against somebody that is better than Hodge, Robertson, Robinson, Dunn, Ford, and Scott have credentials to play basketball velt Dunn III. a riff-raff. Dunn carries kids," says Murray Arnold, who just you." ble today as I years ago. Tb (promises to eac is willing to j j apply them to I said the orator She added, " spiritual minds become aware i c. good citizen. Wi Birni tion to build a for gradu. We do this bj Pre-cor. privilege to vo include: responsibility ii and by helpii ENSLEY: ~\ justice wherevf school auditorii arise. are Larry Den "A Mature Tom Rogers, vice-, topic of a con tha Ingle, secretary by Bobby Rob< Social activites inc. the class of 31 Banquet at 7 p.m. tot Said Robert Thomas Jefferson; Sen. mind is main] 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. IV careful, planr picnic, noon Wednesday, Ja seeks to leai EXCHANGE CUP WIN­ at the Warrior River. seeking and pr< NER—Diane Etheredge of GLENN: Class Day will be ly." Woodlawn High. 9:45 a.m. tomorrow in the schoo. Roberts, who and Mrs. Robe Gardendale, s person is happ * Woodlawn Scholars He offered mature happir accept illusic \? Share Top Awards about ourselve you want to d Capturing the coveted Exchange major in sociology or education. life's work"; 3 Club Scholarship Cup during yes­ Her many activities which quali­ 4. "Be willing terday's awards presentations at fied Diane for the Exchange Club thing we get Woodlawn High was Diane Ether- Cup include visiting children at "Give of our s> edge, 18, a senior. the Mercy Home, where she plays A note of nc GRADUATION PATTERNS—The white collars of these Woodlawn co-eds Julian Bynum received the with and reads for the children for graduation Bausch-Lomb Science Award for ... in addition to cutting their form a striking pattern against black gowns and mortar boards as the young class poet 1 eighth semester students, while hair. ladies nervously await their diplomas. Woodlawn and other Birmingham high daughter of M Billie Fuller and Reugene Gunn An "A" average student, she is schools graduated almost 2000 seniors in ceremonies across the city yesterday. don Addison, 1 tiedjor the honor among seventh a member of the National Honor (Staff photo by Joe Chapman.), • "To stand a: semester students. Society and winner of the "Out­ and gaze beh Michale Braswell won the French standing Senior" award by th<- !£slow assendar Award, and Jean Bush was named Optimist Clubs of Birmingham ^ plane, ambitic winner of the Speech Award. Julian, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. triumph in sw A. Bynum of 620 Brunson-av, Challenges O Miss Addison Service point letters were given her original gi to the following eighth semester He is president of the Senior Class and Ushers Club, treasurer Diplomas w students for outstanding scholar­ Principal Edw ship, leadership and service Clif­ of the National Honor Society Cited By St JASr ford Williams, Patricia Barnett, chaplin of the Science Club, past chairmai Diane Etheredge and Joan Shoults. vice president of the Junior honor Traditional American free­ 'The space age, automation, "Our generation must under­ WES Society and representative to stand that for a democratic cratic Ext Diane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. doms and 'the challenges of an domestic, and world affairs Today we i Boys' State. automated age served as main make the times in which we society to work, we must con­ set a meeti J. D. Etneredge of 4628 Ninth-ter, sider its actions and reactions the Communis n, plans to attend Birmingham- Billie, daughter of Mrs. Rathe topics for graduation speakers in shall live the most exacting, not, we are Jan. 25 in Bi. rine Brock Fuller of 1520 Milner city high schools yesterday trying and rewarding in human to freedoms. Southern College, where she will "If we allow complacency or Bryan, presid The chairm. cres, has been vice president and afternoon. history." High School's Roy Mayhall, ^ secretary of the Dramatic Club cnarlotte Hill, in a speech the plain 'I don't care' attitude In exercises at eight high to dominate our use of these yesterday at he called the president of the Library Club and schools, 1987 seniors received entitled, "The Time to Start is school audita range for this a member of Tri-Hi-Y, Marshals, Now," co - ordinated the privileges given to us by our diplomas, while top students and forefathers, we are allowing it Bryan, one cratic primary e! National Honor Society, Junior class officers handled speaking students' past education with speakers sele fix qualifications of Honor Society, Eucledian Math future experiences. to be destroyed," she said. chores. Stewart outlined the five free­ commenceme and voters and fix tl Honor Society, Masque and Gavel, Here is the breakdown on pro 'Although we have completed of the "spre; and time of payment Omicron Delta, Debate Team, our studies," she said, "we doms and the responsibilities Communism" grams at each of the schools: each carries — the freedoms of LARRY VANCE fying fees. annual staff, Caroliers, Apollo must not think we have reached States today. A Jefferson-Jackson Da Club and Senior Who's. Who. petition, assembly, press, the peak of our ability. speech and religion. "In order Student a-plate will be held on tht Reugene, son of Reuben R. Gunn ENSLEY We must realize that our preserve our wins of the meeting. U. S. ^ of 9604 Red Lane-dr, Huffman, Wayne Dickerson, president "We will be citizens of tomor­ Christian and lessons have just begun. We row," he concluded, "these free­ ard George Smathers of Florida w has been a laboratory assistant of the graduating senior class of must profit by every day's ty, it is science aw keynote the affair. doms have been given to us, but for three years and a member of Ensley High School, addressed experiencw e and always strive to dedicated and A Woodlawn youth has been trie Audio Visual Committee, Fu­ they have been accompanied by all of us," he,, - his class of some 340 students atjreacn our goals she said. responsibilities. If we accept awarded a National Science lawn High School, received his ture Teachers of America, Utopia the school's gymnasium yester-1 Foundation faculty fellowship to Bachelor of Sicence and Master Science Club arid Apollo Club. study for his doctorate in me­ of Sicence degrees at Auburn chanical engineering at the Uni­ University. He was on the versity of Texas Dean's list six times. Ollie Larry Vance son of Mr, and Mrs. 0. V. Vance of The youth is married to the former Carol Hobbs of Crest- 5404 Seventh Ave., South, will / enter the university in Sep­ wood. They have two children tember. Michael, 7, and Peggy, 4. / Vance's father is a Birming is VANCE, a gradaute of Wood- ham city detective. _ Williamson — make a cer- and Mike Fondren person go POOF! Hello, Dolly — Beverly Davis at Donna West — Make the windows Stunt Night T\ in my car shatter - proof! On the Beach — 1st week in June Carey Martin — Marry Tammy! Getting Straight — Mr. Bancroft long way since David McCallie, Jerry Foster and and Mrs. Franks' office jfammar School days. David Sullivan — (the Band drum­ Snow White — Until air pollution, . age 18, he is a member of mers) Make more paper to mess up that is national Honor Society, Eucli­ the Majorettes' yard. Under the Yum-Yum Tree — At the dean Honor Society, and the Ushers senior picnic. Club. Janice Loggins — Make straight Paint Your Wagon • Charles Ellis' Jerry has two older brothers. He A's in Miss Ford's room. a, and "new" car attends Woodlawn Methodist Church. Donna O'Barr — Why, come back uie subject A Patch of Blue — Something seldom Under favorites, Jerry lists eco­ to Woodlawn, of course! 6nt now, there's seen nomics, Mrs. Bonnie Fuino, food, Led . Her favorite sub- Chuck Dacarrdi — Disappear from Dirty Dozen — Tatler Staff Zepplin. Grand Funk, the late Jimi .nistry and math. Her the school. Kelly's Heroes — People Kelly Hendrix, open-minded people, pur­ ^chers are Coach Bill Bur- Joy Seales — Put a hex on a cer­ Fowler most admires ple, and sleeping. (He just loves to u Miss Renetta Walton. She tain person. Your Cheat'n Heart — Leta Naff sleep!) ..gly dislikes fakey people, and Donna Manning — I'd turn Joe Fancy Pants — New gymnastic suits Jerry's star sign is Aquarius, which people who talk and talk, but don't A Few Dollars More — What we all means he has his eyes set on a high Montalto into a frog. know all the facts." need goal. Although undecided as yet on a Danny Gilley — Try to pass Eco­ Woodstock — Avondale Park Eva's philisophy on life is a good career, he does hope to attend the nomics. I Love My . . . Wife — Jimmy Jones one — "Peace, love, truth, freedom University of Florida. Roy Ledbetter — Turn Connie Sergeant Jack Show — R.O.T.C. and equality—Happiness." The people Jerry most admires Dickenson into a frog. Land of the Giants — Basketball She plans to attend Tuskegee In­ are definitely not the prejudiced, Doris Mayer — Get out of school. Team stitute, but explains that it is only plastic egotistical type. To the con­ Anne Carr — I don't know! War Wagon — Driver's Ed. class a tenative plan. Wherever she goes trary, they are the late President Steve Loggins — Turn my sister in­ Valley of the Dolls — Y.W.C.A. to college, though, she will major in Kennedy, John Lennon, Raquel Out-of-Towners — Transfer students math. She doesn't forsee marriage in Welch, and the greatest man that ever to a Mike Mitchell lovin' frog. Music Man — Mr. Ronchetti her plans for now. She would like to lived, Jesus Christ. Barbara Renda — Bring Steve to Airport — A favorite night place go to college and perhaps discover an Jerry's philosophy on life sums up Woodlawn! Good Morning and Goodbye — Delta important new chemical that would his character, "Do whatever you like, Pete Holley — Be the first person Epsilon's parties help the world. as long as no one else is hurt." to graduate from Law School at the Easy Rider — Ian Ross All in all, Eva is a well-rounded age of 19. Midnight Cowboy — Mike Manville individual, who is known and liked Beverly Prisbus — Go to Connec­ Family Affair — Bafraca family at Woodlawn because of her friendli­ ticut! Diary of a Mad Housewife—Jan ness and interest in other people. Woodlawn Plays John Neel — Change this stinkin' Vines Good Luck Eva, in all your future world! DOUBLE FEATURE: Gone With plans! Host to South Brad Sharpe — Get a Corvette. the Wind and The Graduate — American Visitors Beverly Davis — Have wings to fly The Senior Class (hopefully) MATCHBOX to Colorado. Night Gallery — Friday night at Recently Woodlawn played host to Altamont JUST LIT Steve Dill — Go to Mars. a member of South America students Medical Center — Mrs. Frank's Hal Bearden — Shelia Patterson who were visiting the United States Miss Armstrong — Become healthy, office M Trinu Rice — Jeff Harbison on their summer (It's summer down wealthy and wise. Aristocats — Mr. Parrish Janice Loggins — Mike Mitchell there) vacation. The primary aim of Fantastic Voyage — George Hall- Cathy Drennen — Ronnie Williams the visit was to study our customs man, Steve Tarrant, and John During this interview it was Joy Seales — David Webb and home-life. They accomplished Harris brought out that in Paraguay several Sharon Sorrell — Charlie Boone this by staying with several students The Cross and the Switchblade — American television shows are broad­ BURNING BRIGHTLY for the two weeks they were here. Jim Posey and Paul Bertella cast. The favorites were Bewitched, Billie Hill — Radford Patty They were brought here as part of the This Is Your Life — Woodlawn's Bonanza, and the Fugitive. Their fa­ Terri Harrison — Bmce Hill People to People program, an organi­ yearly flunkees vorite (translated) American movie Brenda Vaughn — Allen Langston zation founded during Eisenhower's Young Lawyers — Student Council is "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Ronnie Battles — Jessica Gilliam presidency to promote friendship and Wild Kingdom — Boys' gym Kid." Brad Sharpe — Beverly Davis understanding between the people of Bold Ones — Those who are brave Laurie Orr — Bobby Weathers North and South America. When they arrived in Florida they walking the hall without and O.K. Connie Dempsey — Lee Waters saw "Love Story" and they all liked The Tatler was fortunate enough The Psychiatrist — Mr. Lea Lloyd Alford — Jane Richmond it. Stella Onieva's favorite American to interview Stella Onieva Juan Rawhide — What guys have after songs are, "It's Impossible" by Perry Fudgie Wallace — Patty Neill Crosa, and Stella Kennedy, all of seeing Mr. Bancroft Como and "Knock Three Times" by Lynn Ray — Tony Davis L'Sunerion, Paraguay. Interns — Biology classes Yvonne Agnew — Eddie Orr Dawn. They also like the Three Love, American Style — Matchbox Stella Onieva, 19, is a student of Brenda Hawkins — Larry Kelly Stooges. Their favorite American Dark Shadows — What you wish Philosophy at the University in Para­ Charles FJlis — Debbie Hardin foods are hamburgers, french fries, there were more of on Friday guay. She comes from a family of Bill Prickett — Jane Schmick (again) milk shakes, vanilla ice cream, and nights nine: three brothers, three sisters, her­ fried chicken. Girls, Girls, Girls — Girls' gym BURNT OUT self, her mother and father. When Double Trouble — Beverly and Bar­ Joyce Covington — Julian Dow asked about her first impression of When asked about the fads that bara Prisbus Gayle Freeman — George Hallman the United States she said, "I like it were "in" in Paraguay now, they said The Last Day — May 31st Marvin Sullivan — Debbie Weston very much, but it's very cold." (after we were able to communicate) that they wear the same kind of An Affair to Remember — Bill Hin- David Gifford — Courtney Kelley Juan (Jose Yggros) Crosa, 20, is a clothes we do (in fact, they buy son and Jeannie Holcombe Shelley Boyer — J. M. Waites student of Economics. He also comes American clothes in Paraguay) but To Kill a Mockingbird — ROTC Sue DeVasure — Mike Cowart from a family of nine, with three the boys aren't allowed to wear their Rifle team Gayle Haynes — Thomas Hill brothers and three sisters. His first hair as long as we do. "In Paraguay," Up the Down Staircase — Freshmen Cindy Burnham — Cope Graves impression of the U.S. is that it is explained Juan, "the police cut your Romeo and Juliet — Skipper Nesbitt a "Great Nation." He stated also that NEVER LIT hair if it gets too long." and Becky Fadely Pam Edwards — Mike Patterson he liked the American girls "very A Farewell to Arms — Getting out Before coming to the U.S. the stu­ Robbie Mannville — Johnny Harris much." of the army dents thought of Americans as "snob­ Mike Watson — Teresa Patterson Stella Kennedy, 19, is a student of Trail of the Hunter — Mr. Thornton by and materialistic." (translation). Rita Long — Jeff Burkett Psychology. She has only one brother and his gun They said that now they were im­ JULIAN DOW??? who, she tells us, was left on their A Fist Full of Dollars — Tanya pressed by the way people went out Sally Bookout — Greg Mayo doorstep when he was about four or Underwood of their way to be friendly. Jim Stubbs — Judy Penn five days old. She also liked America State Fair — A good place to spend Joe Watson — Joyce Covington very much, but says the American This visit proved it is better to vour money Donna Wells — Russell Vest girls are "very, very shy." make friends than to make war. 101 Dalmations — SPOT-ULATION Woodlawn in state competitibli-^ HISTORY - (Con't. from page 1) various other schools all over tb state in Tuscaloosa. The first pupils were 8th grade men graduates of eastern section grammar The oil.. schools and those from Central High Sportsmanship Cup Underwood, j. (now Phillips) through semester 5 Patricia Mayton, Sr., who lived in this section. Since the Woodlawn has always been proud Milam, Sr.; and Treasu. ones in the 6th through 8th semester of its sportsmanship record, winning Couch, Jr. were allowed to choose, this gave the Ramsay Sportsmanship Cup in On the team are — Seniors: Che. Woodlawn no graduating class until '27, '28, '29, '32, '34, '35, and '40. In Henderson, Anne Carr, and Donna June, 1923, when 31 were graduated. 1929, the cup was given in the fall Martin. Juniors are Kathi Sorey, Pat Tht The first clubs formed were Liter­ instead of at Commencement. The Vinson, Denise Hall, and Brooke man, t> ary Societies, the Althean and Ves­ students of Woodlawn were called to Flickenger. Sophomores are Candi with an mtb talian for girls and Lanier and Phil­ the auditorium for an unexpected Allen, Sandy Williams, Lynn Rob- out. "It's hard lips for boys. Out of these clubs grew and unscheduled meeting. Mr. Noble bins, Jan Musso, Lyndsey Ryan, Peg­ of fun!" they say. what we know as student government. Hendrix, the principal, presented gy Wayman, and Laurie Smith. This year the Gym. A group of students got together to Dean Meade of Birmingham-South­ Freshman are Angie Cannon, Janie will present Freshman Auu establish a Boosters Club to "boost ern. This is the speech Dean Meade Pennington, and Christy Hendrix. May, on the 18th. This is just everything in school": scholarship, gave: "I have come here today to The gymnastic team is proud of their activities. During the year, . school spirit, athletics, good order, tell you that the Committee has de­ their blue leotards which were ac­ compete against other teams in ai. and everything that would help their cided that you must kiss the Sports­ quired this year, and every Thursday, area. Each girls does her optional school get started. Mr. Carmichael manship Cup goodbye (silence in the the members of the team wear special routine on various pieces of gym­ thought it was a wonderful idea and auditorium, except for a few disap­ blue and gold pantsuits. nastics equipment. Awards are given appointed a committee of boys and pointed murmurs). For two years you The sponsor of the team is Miss to the first three outstanding gym­ a teacher to work out a plan to use have held the Cup, but the time has Peggy Harrison. The girls are dedi­ nasts. students to help their school develop come when you must kiss the Cup cated to their work and practice gym­ Good Luck to the Girl's Gymnas­ healthily. The session room presidents good-bye (still silence). You have nastics seventh period every day, as tics Team, this year and in the future. formed the Council and Marshals made an outstanding record in were elected to patrol the halls. Art Sportsmanship, but the Committee students began making armbands for has decided that Woodlawn must kiss was formed in 1940 to recognize The Music Department has consist­ the leaders to wear. In December of the Cup good-bye . . . because it is "'Speech in Use." ently been an active part in the his­ leaving to go to the jewelers to be 1923, Bill Bancroft was named stu­ In 1926 the Euclidean Honor So­ tory of Woodlawn High School. Since dent body president. In the fall of engraved for the third consecutive the beginning of Woodlawn there 1929 Maurice Bishop won president year . . . Woodlawn High School." ciety was formed by students excel­ have always been a Boys' and a Girls' in the first student election. At this a roar went up from the audi­ ling in mathematics. Its members are Glee Club. The first Operetta put on ence. "helpers" to those who have diffi­ by the Glee Clubs was Lass of Lime- In 1923 Julia Gustin wrote the culty in math. wick Town, and presented at Phil­ Creed of Woodlawn in her English The first few years at WHS were lips. The Apollo Club was formed by In 1933, the Olympic Honor So­ class. hard and noisy. Only the front of the the Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs to In November, 1923, Woodlawn was building was completed. The first ciety for girls who were leaders in work together on the Operetta that accepted as a member of the South­ years of classes were spent with the physical education was organized. was presented in the spring of every ern Association of High Schools and confusion of hammering and sawing In all, there have been nine Honor year. This was eventually changed to Colleges. in the background. The construction Societies at Woodlawn. The Band the Spring Concert and the band be­ The Tatler is Born workers were building the auditorium Honor Society, organized in 1937, is came a part of the Apollo Club. and lunchroom that everyone yearned one of the most exacting. The newest The first newspaper published at for. October 14, 1924, is the day to honor societies at Woodlawn are the The WHS Marching Band Woodlawn was the Vestalian. It was be remembered — the first program National Junior Honor Society, Latin published by the Vestalian Literary in the new auditorium was presented. Honor Society, and Quill and Scroll The Band has always been a source Club. Hetty Hardin was Editor-in- For the first time the Woodlawn Honor Society. of great pride at Woodlawn, at foot­ ball games, pep rallies, concerts and chief. The paper was such a huge Hymn and the Gold and White (wit- In 1926, the Southern Association parades. It has, on several occasions, success that the need for a monthly ten by Mr. Chester Bandman, the of High Schools and Colleges named represented our school at city and paper became evident. A staff was third principal) were sung. Woodlawn the outstanding school for state band competition. The band selected with Miss Anna Daugherty The lunchroom in the main build­ its size in the South in scholastic was formed in 1923 by students from as sponsor. And, so the Tatler was ing was welcome after the crowded standings. grammar schools who had taken band born, named after the Tatler pub­ cottage that had been used. The In 1929, the constitution of Wood­ music and students from other schools lished by Richard Steels in 1709. His building was now completed as plan­ lawn was adopted. Also in that year who had been in the band. The first paper contained current happenings, ned and the extension on the sides the Ushers Club was organized by band director was Mr. Yale Ellis, editorials, coming events, and coffee­ had new classrooms and room enough Mr. Pat Harrison. In 1930 student who was succeeded by Mr. Gerald house gossip. The Woodlawn students temporarily. But not for long. Mid­ elections were held for the first time Smith. Mr. Smith was succeeded by patterned their paper after this one. term of 1923-24 brought "double ses­ for the Council members and marshal Mr. A. V. Ronchetti under whose di­ Today we still follow many of the sions." It was at this time that the force. rection the band is still superior. traditions set in 1923. idea of a stadium (with classrooms In 1929 came the completion of At the end of the year, the class under it came into existence. another WHS dream — the dedica­ When Mr. Ronchetti first came to of '23 published the first annual. It tion of the stadium. On Thanksgiving Woodlawn in 1964 the band had no was called the Tatler and dedicated Honor Society Organized Day a pageant was given in the audi­ uniforms. They were wearing gold to Miss Sarah F. Ordway, head of the On April 8, 1924, a charter for the torium and a football game was coats, hats, and "cheap, white pants English Department. It was strictly a National Honor Society was granted. played in the stadium between WHS that can be bought for two dollars." senior publication, it had a paper On April 21st eleven students were and Phillips, our arch rival. WHS In his second year he saw to it that back and was printed in the printing notified of election: Mable Turnip- staged an upset by tying Phillips, 6-6. the band had an "authentic" uniform. shop. The first Woodlog was not seed, who became president; Grace WHS won the State Championship The third year he was here the band publised until 1929. Montgomery, Adele Pharo, Martha in the stadium in '36, '38, '40 and bought $10,000 worth of band instru­ In the first spring (1922) football Staton, Agravene Meshad, Bernice were state champs in '42 and '43. ments. practice was begun. In the 1922-23 Eady, Edith Southard, Christine In 1928-29, the Gold and White The Warblers' Premiers season Woodlawn became the "Jun­ Saunders, Margaret Boyer, William Handbook came into being, publish­ ior Colonels" in honor of the famous Snell, and Seay Wildsmith. Mr. ed by the Omicron Delta Honor So­ Out of the Boys' Glee Club grew Centre College "Praying Colonels" Bandman said about the students: ciety. It was financed first from the one of the most well known clubs of because our first coach was Mr. Bill "They had the distinction not only Dramatics funds but later the Pen Woodlawn (later destined to be one James of Centre College. In 1923 he of being the first, but of having won and Ink Club put on the "Gold and of the most famous and most sought was succeeded by "Robin" Hood. the honor without consciously striv­ White Follies" (which, incidentally, after groups in Birmingham), the The first captain was "Potts" Levy. ing for it." later came to be known as Stunt Warblers' Club. At first it was just a Bill Bancroft, captain in 1923, was After this, many other honor so­ Night) to pay for publication. The group of boys taking glee club who considered the powerhouse of the cieties began to form. In 1926 Omi- purpose of the Gold and White has wanted to promote music apprecia­ city. We still cherish the tradition of cron Delta Speech Honor Society always been to preserve the history tion and help in the production of prayer before games, taken from the was established for outstanding and ideals of Woodlawn High School special events at Woodlawn. It wasn't Centre College Colonels. speech students. Masque and Gavel and serve as a guide to new students. (Continued on page 5) J.EJXV Page Five Page Six WC HISTORY OF WOODLAWN - (Continued from page 5) From the years 1930 to the pres­ Back to The Present ent date, we have won titles too nu­ Well, that was our journey through merous to mention. A few are 1932 time. Although we covered a lot of Basketball Championship; 1936-37 TS city and state football championship, ground and a long period of time, we and district and state basketball have only scratched the surface as far championship; 1953 Negative Debate as the history goes. There is much Brownie's Crumble Cavaliers Hit Sour team, state championship and a one more to tell but time and space for­ year scholarship at the University. bids it. The Colonels gained a big win over Note There were many other awards won Jones Valley to the tune of a 45 to 32 Woodlawn's B-team won its third by Woodlawn and by her students. I wish to give the usual thanks to win. Sharp free-throw shooting won in a row when they knocked off the the game for the Colonels as they hit people and publications who have Carroll Cavaliers, 44 to 34. This Mr. Ralph Martin Principal 77%, 20 of 26, to the Brownies 54% brought the Baby Colonels season made this article possible: Miss Kath­ (on 6 of 11). In 1943 Mr. Ralph Martin suc­ record to 7 and 10. David Cantrell erine Robbins and the library staff; Duncan paced the B-team with 15 ceeded Mr. Hendrix as principal. As again led Woodlawn with 20 points, Mrs. Bernice Day; Mr. Joe Turner; points, Willoughby backed him up Duncan scored 7, Johnson had 4, and much as Mr. Hendrix's leaving was Mrs. Doris Simmons. Mrs. Rebecca with 12, Powers scored 8, Overstreet Powers, Alexander and Overstreet regretted, we were lucky to have 4, Alexander and Cantrell had 3 scored 3 a piece. Willoughby had 2, secured as fine a man as Mr. Martin. Peeples, Miss Leona Skelton, Mr. E. each. Copus 1, and Arnold 1. E. Moree, and Mr. A. V. Ronchetti. For twenty-two years Mr. Martin was principal of Woodlawn. During Sources of information were The Season Ends John Carroll Jinxed those years many important things Gold and White Handbook; back The B-team finished out its season were happening. In 1953 the boys' issues of the Tatler; and The History The Frosh played another strong with a win, but their record fell short gym was completed. In 1954 the of Woodlawn High School 1922-1954 ball game February 9, when they of winning at 9 and 12. The Colonels Music-Shop building was completed. knocked off John Carroll 47 to 37. by Miss Sarah F. Ordway. Without defeated Hayes 38-36 in a close win. In 1962 we received new, and much The Colonels led throughout the the help of these, this story could not Duncan scored 12 points to lead game and Coach Mosely emptied the needed, lunchroom equipment. In have been possible. Woodlawn and finished the season bench early. 1963 the site of old Woodlawn Gram­ averaging 9.5 points a game. Cantrell Steve Mosely led Woodlawn's at­ mar School was paved to be used as (11.3) had 9 points, Powers (6.6) tack with 13 points, Kenny Williams extra parking space—also desperately failed to score, and Overstreet (6.2) had 6; Harris scored 5; Woodard, had 3. Byron Willoughby (3.9) needed. A fence was put up to en­ Robbins, Manuel and Dale all scored scored 1, Michael Johnson had 4, for close our football and Softball field. 4; Voltz had 3; Ricks, 2; and Herlong a 3.1 average, and Alexander scored In 1963 the inside of the buildings UTTLE and Baker, 1 each. ®R3[L,™mDD©; 2, for a 2.0 average. Mosely's 7 points were painted. In 1964 we received Shock It To Me gave him a n 8 point average for his word that since 1954, Woodlawn Life is a daily teacher, an instruc­ two games. Copus, who failed to tor of endless shock. We are forced High School had led the high schools to learn about lies and crime and | score, had a 1.5 season average. Revenged on Ensley in the state in the number of gradu­ injustice and hunger and hatred and Woodlawn's B-team played one of war. Newspapers, magazines, radio ates holding Ph.D. degrees. and television programs make sure/ HISTORY - (Con't. from page 4) their strongest games of the season as that we learn these they knocked off rough Ensley, 42 to The beginning of the 1965-66 year Does that mean the good things ir until 1933, the year of the first Min­ life do not exist? 37. The Colonels had fallen previ­ gave us a new principal, Mr. John strel, that the club began to show Of course not. ously to Ensley by 17 points, but forms of what we know today. It was Tarrant, a former student. Under his Man's hopes remain and we learn- this year that the "dreaded machine" came back this time and led the en­ administration an asphalt tract sur­ • For every cheat, thousands ar/ came into being. (For those of you tire contest. honest. rounding the football field was com­ who don't know what the machine is, • For every bully, thousands it is the Warblers secret initiation in- Overstreet led Woodlawn with 16 pleted and the Math and English de­ kind. o the club.) The first sponsor was points, Duncan tossed in 8, Cantrell partments received new labs. • For every coward, thousands tr. John Light, who was succeeded and Powers scored 6 each, Wil­ heroes. Mr. Amos Hudson. Two years loughby had 4, and Alexander 2. • For every enemy, thousands er the job of Warblers' sponsor fell Mr. E. E. Moree Principal friends. the shoulders of Mr. Joe Turner— • For every tear, there are t irmer Warbler. rung. Although the early Tatlers were In 1966 Mr. E. E. Moree suc­ sands of smiles. q interveiw with Mr. Turner re- destroyed by painters using them for ceeded Mr. Tarrant to become Wood­ The list can continue on ai brush cleaners, there is a file of old >.d much about the Warblers lawn's seventh principal. Under his and on. Tatlers dating back as far as 1923. What, then, must we learn? Mr. Turner tells us that the leadership many things have been ac­ and showmanship of the Club There are also newspaper clippings, Only that there is much complished. In '67 the school was known throughout the city and magazines in abundance, and books of world that is rotten; yet, the much more that is good. is destiny would have it). The all kinds: novels, poetry, historic, bi­ completely renovated—inside and out. rs have performed at such ographies, science, etc. Recently All school courses which had formerly And if evil seems to don- acquired is a Micro-Film machine to times, it is not a permanent c is Junior Mis Alabama Pag- received minor credit now receive use for reference, with a comprehen­ For evil must eventually re iss Alabama Pageants, The major credit. In 1968 our basketball fore man's faith in himself litan Opera, and once the sive file of microfilm for student use. fellow human beings. As you can see, we have something team, under the coaching of Mr. Bill appeared at a benefit with That is man's dream, m for everyone. xlfrey. Mr. Turner said that McNair, won district championship. That is the lesson life • spirit and brotherhood of (Continued on page 6) In 1968 the "Colonels" football team. every day. at made the club as special Mr. Bill Burgess coach, won the citv championship and the clinic game. the Dramatic Club pre- ^Jerie hool auditorium with its EDWARDS We finished the year with a }0-l U deer. Until that time the FURNITURE GALLERY record. Added to the faculty was a Now's the time to learn nake yourself heard in Counseling Department, with a coun­ to earn tomorrow. was to . . . make your- 4917 1st Ave., No. selor for each grade level, including Make your mistakes a 592-8213 a boys' and a girls' advisor. for bigger stakes. celebrated our 25th Do your good deed v '. auditorium with a The year 1970 shows us many for each tomorrov Myrna Reeves, en- Take each doubt w School." changes and many new needs. More DON FADELY'S its counterpart. space is one need. Lack of parking brary DRUG STORE A person cannot ; space is evident. The Board of Edu­ always been a 6733 - 1st Ave., No. his fate tomorrr cation has provided for a girls' gym value. It con- Free Pick-up & Delivery Plan each drearr if Annual and 595-1111 but the actual work didn't start until of worth . . . / to our begin- spring of '71. By the fall of 1971, Today, too, wa Woodlawn will have a new girls' gymnasium.

Mid-term brought the loss of a Muffled TS BIG BOY friend as well as a teacher. Our head is this thf football coach, Bill Burgess, an­ "Yes. N nounced that he was leaving to take "Yes. »IT US AT ANY Josie ca another position at another high ing?" 1 FIVE LOCATIONS school. It is also known that Bill Ban­ "Wh EASTWOOD croft, our boys' advisor, plans to make "Tb ROEBUCK this his last year at Woodlawn. Wood­ "TT MIDFIELD lawn will not only be losing a fine boys' advisor but also a "loyal Colo­ nel."