Clearwater High School - Aqua Clara Yearbook (Clearwater, FL)

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Last Will and Testament of Class of ’22 $ S S Nous: The Class of ’22 of the Clearwater Sigh School, Pinellas County, Clearwater, Florida, knowing that we are soon to depart from school life, make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by us at any other time : Je: Olivia McKenzie, bequeath my curling irons and prissy walk to Lucille Trott. Je: John Gunn, bequeath the charge of second period study hall to Miss Herrick. Je : Sadie Rawls, bequeath my sweet disposition to Dorothy Brown. Je: Ralph Trott, bequeath my knowledge of Caesar and his Gallic Wars to Palma Hamilton. Je: Laura Thomas, bequeath fifty pounds to Marjorie Lawrence, hoping she will appreciate the same. Je: Edwin Pemberton, bequeath my seat in the choir to Marion Martin. Je : Madeline Lentz, bequeath two feet, seven inches of my height to Christel Clayton. Je: Jamie Nall, bequeath my popularity with the girls to Robert Roden, hoping he will make good use of same. Je: Mildred Gould, bequeath my quietness and good graces to Margaret Hatch. Je: Ethelbert Morton, bequeath my curly hair to Roland Douglass. Je: Mildred Spotts, bequeath my blushes, freckles, and eyelashes to Hilburn Blakely. Je : Hugh McMullen, bequeath my wit to Eldon McMullen. Je: Bertha Springer, bequeath my position as star guard on the basketball team to Rosamond Longfield Smith. Je: Lawrence Ray, bequeath my love (?) for Geometry to E. W. Grenell. Je: Willie Louise McGaughey, bequeath my bobbed hair to Amy Allen. Je: William Smyth, bequeath my place in Miss Huddleson’s heart to Henry Clayton Whitesell. Je : Annie Mae Ferguson, bequeath my ability to teach the Seventh Grade to Jesna Mae Ward. Twenty-nine

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Class of ’22, among them Bertha, who is the proprietor of a large hotel at Atlantic Beach. Hugh married the gii l he courted so assiduously for two years, and haying made a fortune in the cattle business, he is enjoying life with his family at the old place near Clearwater. Bill Smyth is a wireless operator at Cape Cod, in the employ of the government, and is a trusted official. Walcott Wyllie went to sea when he left school and has worked up to the captaincy of a Clyde Line steamer. As to join future, the years will reveal that, and my time is up — farewell!” My eyes rested on the open Physics book, and smiling I leaned back m the chair and said to myself, “Well, even if it was a dream, surelv it was a pleasant one.” —LAWRENCE RAY. Twenty-eight

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Je: Arlos Ogg, bequeath my ability to work mathematics to Charles Nelson. Je: Peg Tucker, bequeath my good (?) deportment to who ever needs it in case of exemption. Je : Maurice Blanton, bequeath my spit curl to Bill Stone. Je: Louise Schenck , bequeath my love for the opposite sex to Rosamond Cox. Je: Walcott Wyllie, bequeath my punctuality ,?) in school to Margaret Mighell. Je: Vida Hudson and Amelia Tucker, beneath our “Amen Corner” in Miss Smith’s class to John Smith and Amy Allen. Je: Preston Bishop, bequeath my love for Physics to Richard Shoemaker. Je: Elna Madson, bequeath my flattery to Louise Aunspaugh. Je: Janie Miller, bequeath my love for Viola McElvien to Paul Campbell, hoping it will never die. Nous: Winnie Kilgore and Preston Bishop, bequeath our fond memories of each other to Minnie Oliver and George Bolton. Je : Candler Coachman, bequeath my D.’s in deportment and ability to get by with the teachers to Lamburth McMullen. Je: Lois Wynkoop, bequeath by “perfect” (?) behavior in school to Bertha Dunn. Nous: The Girls’ Basket Ball team leave all our old shoes, red stockings and dirty middies, also the large (?) mirror in the dressing room to 1923 Basket Ball team. Je: Metta Rousseau, bequeath my position as star forward in basket ball and captain of the team to Elizabeth Cornwell. Je: Janis Humphries, bequeath my ability to fall down and skin my knees during a basket ball practice to Dorothy Grant. Nous: Madeline Lentz, Laura Thomas, Bertha Springer, Willie Lou McGaughey and Ethelbert Morton, bequeath THE Corner Desk in Study Hall, to any one who can crowd as many books into it as we have done. Signed and acknowledged by the Class of ’22, as their Last Will and Testament. Thirty