News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Saturday August 15th 2026
Machine Shop Class is Moving to Roosevelt Next Year
By HOLDEN LARSON, Staff Writer at The Southerner
the alley is honored to continue highlighting news and articles from The Southerner, newspaper of South High School. This article is reprinted with permission.
The machine shop class at South is scheduled to move to Roosevelt for the start of the new school year next fall. It is a class that a lot of students really enjoy, and it can spark interest in many future careers. Moving a machine shop costs a lot of time and money, and many students are disappointed and confused about why the decision was made to move it to Roosevelt.
The district has a plan to create elective centers, or hubs, at different high schools throughout the city. Roosevelt is planned to be the center of manufacturing because they already have automotive, construction, and welding classes, and the machine shop will be the next new addition to their arsenal of manufacturing electives. If a student from South wants to take machining next year, they will have to take a shuttle to Roosevelt for half of the day due to the 2-hour block schedules utilized at Roosevelt.… Read the rest “Machine Shop Class is Moving to Roosevelt Next Year”
Memories of Neil
By MATTIE WONG
My grandfather, Neil Clark, was born in the 1920s in southern Arkansas into a poor farming family. He joined the Army as a young man, scarcely twenty, and fought in WWII. For the longest time, the only thing we knew about Neil in the war was that he had earned a Silver Star, but none of us knew how or why.
The thing is, my grandfather never talked about the war. Not to anyone. Our family pieced together stories over the years, even going to a reunion of his infantry division in Memphis, Tennessee.
There we learned Neil had been instrumental in keeping himself and three other soldiers safe after they had gotten separated from their battalion in France. In trying to return to their battalion, they had stumbled across a camp of German soldiers set up in small depression. Neil spearheaded a plan to shoot over the heads of the Germans from multiple angles, making it seem as if there were far more American soldiers than there were.
Their battalion finally found them, and were able to capture an entire camp of German soldiers without any injuries to either side.… Read the rest “Memories of Neil”
One Family’s Tale: A Gift for Music and Civic Leadership
Chloe Adens, Harriet Morgan Jones, Katie and William Smith, and Lafayette Mason
247th in the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery…
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
Chloe Adens* was the first of four generations of her family to be buried in the Cemetery, and hers was the first recorded burial of an African American in what was referred to at the time as Layman’s Cemetery. She was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania sometime around 1803. In 1790, Pennsylvania passed a law that stated that the child of an enslaved mother was either a free person of color or, in some cases, was an indentured servant until they reached the age of 28. Whether Mrs. Adens began life as a free person of color or as an indentured servant is not known.
She arrived in Minnesota sometime between 1850 and 1860. She had two children: a son, Jacob, who did not come West with her, and a daughter Harriet, who did. Harriet was born around 1832 and would have been in her late teens or early twenties when they moved here.… Read the rest “One Family’s Tale: A Gift for Music and Civic Leadership”
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