1926 Bessemer High School Yearbook in Jefferson County, Alabama * The Kalista 1926

The KALISTA Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-six 
THE SENIOR CLASS 
The BESSEMER HIGH SCHOOL BESSEMER, ALABAMA
Board of Education T. C. Donald 
C. E. Hawkins 
G. B. Hollingsworth 
G. F, Goodwin 
Mrs. E. L. Huey

There are many who will always 
And to others charming colors 
But old B. H. 5. will ever 
Tho‘ the clouds be black as night 
Hold on high and stand defender 
Of the Purple and the White. 
After four short years of High School 'Mid the scene we love so well. 
With these colors floating o’er us 
It is hard to say farewell 
By our daring and our might. 
work for dear old Bessemer 
And the Purple and the White. 
When the cares of life o’ertake us 
Mingling last our locks with grey. 
Should our dearest hopes betray us 
And our fortunes fall away? 
Still we'll relish care and sadness 
As we sit and think some night 
Of the many days of gladness 
'Neath the Purple and the White. 
CHORUS 
Hail to old Bessemer 
Hail to her colors true 
The Purple and the White forever 
Well be loyal to you.
Classes

Lulu Tiacuk 
"Wulo," “Trx." 
Sec. Tutwiler Literary Society; Senior Commercial Club: Manager of Girl* Basketball 
Team; Treat. Tutwiler L. S. *25, *26; Member 
of Senior Play; Science Club; Vice-Pres. Tutwiler L. S. *25: B. H. S. A. A.; Dumliell Club; wiler L. S. *25; B. H. S. A. A.: Dumb-bell 
Chib; Hub and Kalista Staff. 
Bobbie Sat-SMas 
Science Club; Commercial Club; Latin Club 
*22; Shaw Literary Society. 
Robert Aunt Hoop 
“Kail." "Free." "Mike." 
Pershing Literary Society; Wood Butchers *22. 
*23, *24; Ink Slingers *25; Physics Club *24; 
Chemistry Club *25; Member Cast; Senior 
Class Play; Bone Head Club *25. *26: Commercial Club *25, ‘26; Athletic Association *24. 
•25. 
"fir" 
Member of Beta Gamma Literary Society; 
Treasurer of Senior Commercial Club; Member of Spanish Club; Senior Class Prophet; 
Member of Beta Gamma Literary Society: 
Critic of Beta Gamma 25. *26: Pepn*ter of 
Beta Gamma *25; Vice-President of Class *25; Senior Class Commercial Club: Latin Club; 
Glee Club; Athletic Association *23, *24, *25. *26; 
Stage .Manager of Senior Class Play: Commercial Club *24. *25. *26; Domestic Art and 
Science Club *23. *24; Vanity Basketball Team 
*24. *25. *26; Class Poet

Odessie Aiuteo 
Shaw Literary Society; Domestic Art Club; Senior Commercial Club; Science Club ’22. '2.1, 24; Domestic Science Club; B. H. S. A. A.
"Rusly," "Red." "Redbird" 
Member of Bullard Literary Society; Cast. Senior Class Play; Ink Slingers Club; Wood Butchers: Latin Club; Chemistry Club: Science Club; Commercial Club; Bonehead Club; Basketball Squad; W. W. R.: B. H. & A. A. 
"BUI" 
Shaw Literary Society; Society Basketball '23. '24. *25; Domestic Art Club; Domestic Science Club; Science club *22. 73. 74; Dumb-bell 
Commercial Club; Domestic Club; Society Basketball; Dumb Dorn Club; School Basket ball. 
Tutwiler Literary Society: Latin Club; Senior Commercial Club: Expression Club; Dumb-bell 
Raymond Alvin Taylou 
Vice-President Bullard Literary Society; Base; Senior Class Play; Member of "B” Club: Bonehead Club: Chemistry Club: Member of Athletic Association. 
Member of the Shaw Literary Society; Domestic Art Club; Domestic Science Club; Latin Club; Science dub. 
GacniiEX Hooas
Science Gab; Beta Literary Society. 
Etta Saxubbs 
Member of the Shaw Literary Society; Domestic Art Club; Dominion Science Club; Commercial Club. 

Valedictory 
Members of the Board of Education. Faculty, Classmates, Ladies and Gentlemen: . class of 1926 stand ready to pass out of 
Ulis is a great institution into greater spheres of learning. In departing, we bid farewell to all . ourselves with ideas that we shall meet again—that our will always prevail at alumni associations and recurring commencements. We treasure thoughts of encountering each other in the world of tame—that we will again assemble to fill these balls of learning with our laughter and merriment. But classmates, it a in vain to pretend-with today ends that intimate friendship which through toe years of High School life has been maintained. It will never be the same to us again. The days we have spent together in dear old Bessemer High will become golden memories. 
It is With great reluctance that we bid adieu to our Alma Mater. 
To members of the Board of Education and to our Faculty we return our sincere thanks for your hearty co-operation and untiring efforts, for the sacrifices yon have made and the lessons you have embodied in your teachings. How can we voice our farewell to you, who have taught us that life is not a mere frivolity? As we turn away a slender dagger of regret pierces our heart, when we look back upon the hours we have spent together and recall moments of light-hearted gaiety. We hope that m the wars to come, 
these reminiscences will become sacred memories. 
^Classmates—Let us always remember that “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the current, leads on to fortune." Tonight we are confronting the tides of our lives, the tides of destiny! We might cling to the past were it possible, but life's ceaseless round of changes, its consummation of human energy has carried us to the dividing point— where the brook of school life encounters the mighty river of human experience—whose currents are steadily moving into the great future. Fellow Graduates, as we embark upon this journey of life, filled with its many ups and downs, remember. "That the greatest inventions have not been discovered, the greatest story has not been written, the greatest singer has not sting." We should indeed comfort ourselves with the fact that we are living in the world's greatest age—“The twentieth century." Opportunities as never before are bestowed upon us. The earth has been forced to give up its secrets, the sun has told of the matter of which it is composed. Man's ambition has reached out to touch and con-
verse with the stars. The highway of life blossoms greater now than ever liefore—it beckons □s to come. There are great things we should accomplish. This is the road we must travel But it is not paved all the way. There are ruts and gravel to walk over, precipices and mountains to cross. Where does it lead? it leads to that which we all wish to attain. "Success." But classmates, arc we all willing to pay the price? Arc we ambitious enough to accept tlie challenge of success? Some of us are content to settle where we arc and let the world go on with its intrigues, some of us have cherished ambitions but lack the energy to assert our purpose. If once we get discouraged we lose hope, we turn back, disappointed with life. But there arc a few, a very numbered few, who aim higher, who will breast the storms of destiny, persevere through life's ceaseless struggles and triumphs, endeavoring to go on and on till the goal is reached I Those few, with a great ideal, a firm purpose and unselfish ambition know not defeat, for them, all the experiences of life 
combine to pave the way to further achievement. 
Classmates. We know, that somewhere across our path lies the inevitable shadow, 
what does it matter? This docs not make life ignoble. The responsibilities and oppor for shame rests neither upon position or circumstances, but in our own hands. Although 
we pass through massive gates, it is the commencement of life for us—the commencement of new duties and heavier responsibilities. We are all facing a great crisis! We are all striving to accomplish success and fame. We find we have a great part to play, for, "All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players." What your part may be you 
are not yet aware. But play your part well, be it great or small, and despair will disappear. achieving—.till pursuing. learn to labor and to wait 
In closing. I wish to express, on behalf of the class, our thanks to our many friends for their countless courtesies and endeavors. We appreciate your assistance anil guidance in helping ns lay the first cornerstone of our lives and it is with a commingled spirit oi 
joy and sorrow that we bid you all "farewell 
Fannie Cheuxex I’d.
Senior Class Officers 

*25. '26; Society Deehimcr.*26; Joke Editor of Kalista ‘26; W. W. R. Fraternity; Latin Club; Wilsonian Basketball '26; Z-Bes Club; Cultured Clietnutry Crooks; Secretary of Class '25: R H S A A.
KALISTA 
Valedictory 
Mr. President. Members of the Board of Education. Faculty. Fellow classmates, and friends: 
We, the class of *26 arc assembled here tonight to bid a sad farewell to everything that is most dear to us—and every heart is heavy with the thought of departing from surviving for four long, yet seemingly short years. We must now enter upon the greater field of life which lies stretched out before us; we must cast away our school privileges greater burdens which beset us as we leave the threshold of Bessemer High School so 
dear to us. Our equipment is good, our armour strong, so let us meet our worldly battles dom and culture. Both nature and destiny arc honest. To the victor they grant the spoils. Fellow classmates if you have been true to yourself, if you have taken advantage MY. Griggs, as our Superintendent, you are due the first words of parting. Our association with you as leader and students has been confined to this year, but short as it has been, it has been long enough to teach us to regard you with respect as a scholar, and with affection as a Christian gentleman. We thank you for the benefits derived from your guidance, for your uniform gentlemanly courtesy, for your interest in us and for vour wishes for our future welfare, expressing the hope that you may not be spared in full strength to direct the affairs of our Alma Mater. In the name of the class of ‘26. I bid you farewell. 
Members of the Board of Education, as we feel upon' our hrow the fresh breath of a new life and the widening future, we turn to you with the full confidence that the thoughts that are pressing themselves upon us are your thoughts also. We sincerely thank you that 
Bessemer High School has been kept faithful to its historic antecedents and to tile historic bis first horn, to go out tonight. 
Members of the faculty, you have done for us the greatest service possible in this world, we have never so appreciated as at this hour, A new spirit of mind, a new mode of thought, a new vision of light, these you have given us. and we propose to be worthy of them, we have only to ask vcu. Now as Bessemer High School grows and its field of influence widens, the professionalism of teaching may not divorce the instruction of tile class room from the instruction of daily life. But may the years as they come, make the new High School life, whose precursors we already see. a center at once of intelligence, of illumination and of faith, potent throughout the land. 
Fellow Classmates, the time is now here when we must bid farewell to this lovely world with which we are alt so familiar and begin the journey to the land of a new life. The journey in life is along a road of many windings and turnings. Oftentimes we find it extremely difficult to look either forward or backward—forward, because we can see only such a little way beyond our present position; backward, because of tears blinding our past joys. As we walk it. The road seems long. this road of life:  when we glance lack over the miles traveled, how pitiably short the road is, after all: while here and there. 
KAUSTA
along its path, we sec the gleam of a milestone marking the passing of one more mile. Classmates, tonight we, as a class, reaching the first milestone, pause to look back over the last four years with a strange blending of regret and satisfaction. Ever since we st Stu* studies, oar eyes have been. turned to this hour as the goal of our ambition. We have studied for it, worked for it, planned for it, thought for it, .dreamed of it as fife realization of our hopes' and desires. 
As year after year passed it seemed almost as far off as ever; and yet the bright star in our pathway led us on until at last we stand at the gateway, and half gladly, half sadly, look' backward. For four years we have traveled hand in hand along a sheltered way. plucking blossoms of learning as they grew hand in hand; and, what is of greater importance, gathering also the fruits of purity, nobility, and truth that hereafter must be firmly engrafted into every filler of our natures. 
Wc have been carefully guarded !>>• kind and zealous instructors from every adverse wind of thought and every taint of evil to be met in a world of action just beyond its. Now, our hands unclasp, sorrowfully we separate Io go our different ways, to live the lives to which we shall lie called, ho longer as a class but as individuals. Is it strange, therefore, that we shrink from the parting words, and draw back into the shelter of this peaceful haven, as though fearful of the future? 
Our life at dear old Bessemer High School has been a happy, inspiring life to each and every one of us, a life of fellowship and fraternal intercourse that cemented the class tie, and will, I trust, make,us all look on each other in after years as something nearer, and dearer than mere ordinary friends, Of course, we have had times of depression and anxiety—and our appearances on these important occasions may not have always added materially to our intellectual reputation. Even from our freshman year we have realized that we were seeing our happiest days ; that the parting hour only too soon would separate our paths for all limes. making our future entirely different from the past. We have learned many lessons—some of them well. We should realize that the most important lessons are 
in text books. As we step out of school life into life's school, we should be conscious that the hardest lessons are yet to come. A student entering life's school has been compared to a vessel of war. The vessel knows not to what parts it must go, or by what seas it must sail; So the Modem, In his journey of life, must pass over many unknown difficulties, and surmount many obstacles. Through perilous storms and treacherous calms he must steer his unknown course. No student ever sailed over the same route that another student sailed before him; everyone who starts out in life arches his sail to an untried eye. Like Coleridge's mariner, "lie is the first that ever burst into that lonely sea;" Disappointment and difficulties may encounter us hut that is what helps to form the ladder up which we climb to success. 
Classmates, as we are going into a field white to harvest, we should: go with earnest feeling. Let us not part with any false sentiment, but neither let us underestimate the sacredness of the hour. Ties beyond all measure of value arc being severed forever. They may not concern others hut they are burs. Each life of its bars the interest of every oilier‘life, and the union of such influences is indissoluble forever. The day when these lies were formed has drawn on to evening. The twilight deepens into shadows. Every thought and impulse is a memory mid an anticipation. I think I catch now a glimpse of the long streamers which mark the dawn of a new day. I catch the voice of a louder turmoil. 
Farewell, and as the word- of severance parts us let us go out to our labor resolved to play the part of the scholar and man and woman. 
KAJLISTA! 
Juniors
Semester 4- -A 
CLASS OFFICERS 
Semester 4-33
Semester 4-
ester 3-3A 
Class of 28 
I looks'll into a Crystal
Of my dais of '28. 
I saw a country doctor 
He was my classmate Jim, 
I saw Moody Canterberry 
He was a traveling salesman 
And he was headed for the Sooth. 
I saw a Director's meeting 
I wondered at what I saw, 
Johnie and Horace were there 
And in neither face a flaw. 
The scene changes and 
sec at a glance 
As Ambassador to France. 
Have got what they sought. 
They are happily married 
Just as we thought 
Again the scene changed 
My classmates Archie and Douglas 
As representatives of the law. 
In an Arrow Collar ad 
I saw a boy looking at his reflection. 
It is no other than Foley,, 
The boy with the "School Girl Complexion." In a teacher's meeting I saw 
Elizabeth, Irene. Donnis and Alma are there. 
While my did friend, Lawrence 
The .scene changed again, 
Clifford and WIMa Eugene and Evelyn 
And that left Eugene and Cliff in the lurch. In Bill Marshc's studio I saw 
Flora Lee, Judson and Annie Mae as models. Bill is still trying to draw. 
The scene in the Crystal faded 
Now fate dealt kindly with all. 
We shall reunite at God's last call. 
KAIJSTA
gm Organizations and Activities
21. School opens. 
SEPTEMBER 
23. Dr. G. C. Cates speaks in Chapel. 
2X. First football tap meeting held—Cheer-leader elected. 
Hub Staff chosen. 
OCTOBER 
Football Season Opens. Bessemer 81: Bibb County 0. Purple Tigers defeat Parrish High 32 to 0. 
Coffee High slaughtered by B. H. S. 57 to 0—3 teams play. Big pep meeting held—Business men speak in chapel. Ensley ’24 Champs downed 19 to 0 by Bessemer. 
30. 
Bessemer 27; Phillips 6. 3. P. T. A. meets. 
NOVEMBER 
6. Bessemer defeats Jones Valley 24 to 0. Many stars were injured. 11. Tigers trounce St Bernard Saints. 16 to 0. 
19. Bessemer defeats Ensley in a debate. 
20. Tigers receive first defeat of football season; Tuscaloosa 12: B. H. S. 6. 26. B. H. S. ends football season, Fairfield defeating the crippled tiger team 6 to 0.
JANUARY
boys awarded letters 
Who s Who contest held. 
Tuscaloosa cancels debate with Bessemer. No reason given for withdrawal. Chenoweth medal for Best-AU-Round-Achlete in H. H. S. presented to Luther Ward. 
15. Pershing win the final debate. Wilsonian* first in Declamation. 
Enter Oratorical Contest 
Beta Gamma-Tlltwiler debate. 
Hay "Thant 
Om-iLu Rush 
Masis Hacks 
Miss 'Sharks 
Limin Wasp 
Cech. Wasp, Mvstu Jones Annis Bevan 
 Vesa Gidwin 
Staff 
 Editor - 
Circulation/er 
Sport Edilorr ----Sotial and AlomHi

Senior Class
"STOP THIEF"