Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF 1944 E, the graduating class of 1Q44. being theoretically of sound mind and body, do close our final year with these bequests, hoping that the re- cipients will have a true appreciation of them. To the Sophomore Class we bequeath our fondness for the beau- tiful things of life and our disdain for material considerations. To the Junior class we bequeath our ability to keep order in the Study Hall and our Senior privileges, hoping that they will use them to the best of their very considerable ability. To all those mentioned individually below we leave the following personal bequests, not without many a longing, lingering look as they pass to other hands: Imogen Billings wills her sylph-like figure to the hapless Deon Hogg. Constance Brewer wi lis her capacity for devouring her classmates cheese spreads to Diane Kendall, who also needs the nourishment. Betty Lou Brittenham w ills her date to the Junior Dance to Ruth Madsen. Ann Campbell leaves her ability to keep walkline privileges to Marian Jenner. Jo Ann Curry bequeaths her ability to jitterbug to Mary Hooker. Darcia Dayton wills her big blue eyes to Gale Matheus. Beverly Eklund leaves her ability to stay in her own room after lights out to Ann Fenwick. Patricia Feddersen bequeaths her ears to Dee Arnason to hide her pigtails behind. Louise Goldberg wills her low tones to Helen Mar Edwards in the hope that she will strike a happv medium. Cynthia ( »onyea leaves her proboscis to anyone who will take it; otherwise said article reverts to Cyrano de Bergerac. Antoinette Hannah wills her bottle of Man hand s to Daryl Macon. Marilyn Haskins bequeaths her ability to attend Saturday morning study hall to V irginia Allen. WilM mina Jenkins wills her milk bottles to Marjorie Fisher. Margaret Jean Langabeer leaves her ability to keep a neat notebook to Marsha York. Maril yn Muckey wills the few pounds she lost to Nancy Chase. i rt?i nia Oakley leaves her dark eyebrows to Jane Moffitt. Marian Pi -n r w ills her ability to diet to Marilyn Kleinberg. Elgene Poison bequeaths the position of Senior Corridor Representative to anyone with a strong right arm. Irene Purkey wills her pompous businessmen ' s parts to Janet Langabeer. Barbara Quinn wills her (ironic lethargy to Olive Bell. Elaine Rydell wills her ability to lose her purse to Betti Vaara. Margaret Schafer leaves her gavel to the incoming Senior class president with the suggestion that she treat it gently because of the excessive wear it suffered year. Jean Smith wills her love for cutting hair to Janet Beall so that she may carry on the Senior Corridor Barber Shop. Margaret Snyder bequeaths her ability to blush at the slightest provocation to Zoe Underwood. Mary Ruth Springer leaves her miraculous pills to anyone ill enough to take them. Ann Stickney wills her enormous appetite to Sallv ( ilpin. Vi rginia Webb bequeaths her Varga Girl Calendar to Vonnie Lou Gaul. Signed, sealed, and delivered T) this leventhday l fune, 1944 lUt (5j £3L i [I6|

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CLASS HISTORY Dear Annie: Here we are at the end of our high school years, and ready to be graduated. Before we leave you. we should like to remind you of the story of our class. Our history started when our patriarch. Darcia Dayton, made her debut in the Kindergarten. In the third grade she was joined by Virginia and Margaret Jean, and in the fifth by Patty Billings. Elaine Rydell arrived just in time to take part in our operetta. Little Red Riding Hood, and graduation from the Middle School. Oh. Annie, will you ever forget our tumultuous Freshman corridor, the bewild- ered new girls, and the difficulties in which we consistently found ourselves? That was the year we adopted Bebe. Cinder. Connie. Maggie Snyder, our president, and Ann. For Freshman activities we sold sweets at hockey games and gave the school a grand time at our splash party. The thrill of our Freshman-Sophomore Hop and our first A. A. banquet will never be forgotten. Bebe guided us through our rather uneventful Sophomore year. Three arrivals added interest: Ferdy. Betty Lou, and Elgene. As we were all inclined to be bored and very complacent, little thrilled us except, perhaps, our second Hop. Remember how we felt when we became Upperclassmen? Cinder, our Key girl and president, helped us carry out our many Junior activities. This year brought a record for new faces: Virginia returned; Louise. Margie. Toni. Beverly. Mary Ruth. Barbara. Marilyn, and Marian entered our ranks. The Winter Carnival with its blue and white snow theme was one of our most effective projects. Every- one enjoyed the Junior Prom, made especially notable by its beautiful decorations and expensive orchestra. The Junior Sales and the Junior Journal were a severe strain upon our commercial and literary abilities. By June the class was apparently rather tired. Whatever the reason, our final appearance, in the take-off of Quality Street, was not an outstanding success. Minky. Smitty. Ann Campbell. Marilyn Haskins. Jo Ann. and Virginia Webb shared our Senior year. Maggie Snyder found the Spade under the stage lights in record time, and Margie, as president, directed our not always successful efforts to conduct ourselves as dignified Seniors. Our soft sweaters, the Carnival, the Prom. May Day. with Connie as our lovely Queen, and our play. Letters to Lucerne— each in turn was enjoyed. The final project on which the class worked was our Annual. All the Seniors are very grateful to Mr. Hull, who despite the war and the difficulties it presented, printed The Shield of 1944. And now. Annie, we discover that Commencement is here, and soon for the last t ime as Seniors we shall use our Senior stairs. We hope you will not forget us; as a reminder and a promise we leave this record of our class. The Class of 1044.

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EH mm HISTORY OF THE SEMINARY Copyright. 1954 Chapter LX |N this history of the Seminary, the postgraduate activities of each class have been dealt with only briefly. The Class of 1944. however, seems to merit a complete chapter, both because of the number of its mem- bers and because of their illustrious accomplishments. The material for the following resume has been supplied by Constance Brewer, who has just returned from an extended trip by helicopter from coast to coast. Alighting upon the RCA Building in New York City, she hastened to keep an appointment with Louise Goldberg and Marian Pierce, who are collaborating on a radio program, doubling for Kate Smith and Ma Perkins. At the Waldorf she found Marilyn Muckey. substituting for Elsa Maxwell, in animated conversation with Elgene Poison, our own Ilka Chase. Leaving New York. Constance flew to Washington, to meet Virginia Webb, successor to Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mary Ruth Springer, acclaimed another Clare Booth Luce. Together they went to a reception, where they talked with Barbara Quinn. often mistaken for Brenda Frazier, and Margaret Schafer. now replacing Vera Vague on Bob Hope s show. With them were Irene Purkey. now at your neighborhood theater in That Night in Rio. and Jo Ann Curry, rapidly becoming the nation s movie idol. After the party Constance returned to her hotel and settled down to read Dear Friends and Lonely Hearts. the column written by Patricia Feddersen. Turning on the radio she heard Ann Campbell, mistress of ceremonies on the program Blind Date, whose guests were Ann Stickney. fiery successor to Gracie Fields, and Marilyn Haskins. who has endeared herself to the nation as Minnie Mouse. Jean Smith, or Lady Esther, advocated her beauty preparations during the commercial. Flying across the country to Hollywood. Constance discovered Imogen Billings in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera, drawing warm applause from Margaret Snyder, herself a second Flagstad. Theater bills revealed that Wil- helmina Jenkins is playing Dorothy Lamour s role in The Hurricane with Vir- ginia Oakley, who is replacing Zorina. Also in the movies is Cynthia Gonyea. starring in The St. Louis Woman and the Maid of Ozark, autobiography of Judy Canova. Margaret Jean Langabeer, sensational successor to Cass Daley, and Betty Lou Brittenham. playing the lead in Rlondie, are also in Hollywood. On her way back to her hotel. Constance visited Darcia Dayton, just returned from her post as chemistry professor at Peiping Universit y to lecture in America on Why Molecules Do Not Grow Beards. Elaine Rydell. the Billie Burke of our generation, and Beverly Eklund. as scintillating as ever, have just announced their intentions to forsake Hollywood for London. So seemed to end the saga of the Class of 1944. until a count of names revealed only twenty-six. Reluctantly Constance confessed that the missing member. Antoinette Hannah, always an ardent Communist, has just been apprehended by the F. B. L The Seminary is proud of the Class of 1944. on the whole, and looks forward to a continuation of its successes. I 17]