Colebrook Academy - Clipper Yearbook (Colebrook, NH)

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CLASS WML We, the senior class of Colebrook Academy, in the said town of Colebrook, county of Coos and state of New Hampshire of the United States of America located in the Right Universe, being of sound mind and memory but mindful of the uncertainties of fate, do make this our last will and testament: FIRST: We, the boys of the senior class, do will and bequeath to the incoming senior boys the faint hope that they at least might gain the majority in class meetings. COur boys were always outnumbered 9-6.5 SECOND: I, Daniel Hebert, do will and bequeath to Claude McKeage my new and utterly different outgrown hair cut. CGlamouous, is it not, girls?l ' QHIRD: I, Richard Annis, do will and bequeath my ability to study and get high marks to Dean Delong. CWe understand Dean has a hard struggle to pass four of his subjects.D UCUHTH: We, the Nthree absurdities,U as named by Mr. Hounsell, alias the three Graces, Gay, Brilliance and Mirth--Jean Walker, Barbara Jarnett,and Gloria Arno, do will and bequeath to any other freak trio who is unwise enough to accept, our stupendous colossal ability. CThis incledes being late, having a good time in general, and driving Miss Avei' frantic.l TIFTH: We, the senior class, do will and bequeath to the present junim, class the empty candy box hoping,you will make greater profits than we did. . SIXTH: I, Parker A. Hix, Jr., do will and bequeath my unfailing devo- fion and affection for the Vancore family, to Donald Haynes. fDespite all wanderings of the eyes, Parker has remained t-rruell .wg URVENTH: I, Everdean Bean, do will and bequeath to Alice Pierce, my -uiot,always ladylike giggle. KI trust this will not lead you astray 2 the English class, Alice.J . QIGHTH: I, Robert Cross, do will and bequeath my black glossy waves and curls to any pour souls with lank hair. KCleo Delong and John austin are two of the many such sufferers.J NINTH: I, Jean Walker, the undefeated holder of the title, nSweater Girl of C. A. '45H, do will and bequeath my long-cherished hard-won title to Kathleen Noyes. CJean says, nFight for my title, Kathleen.HD TENTH: I, Nathalie Whitehill, do will and bequeath to any lonely girls my interest in the Army. CStand in line, girls, no crowding.D I ELLVENTH: I, Jeannette Bunnell, do will and bequeath my quiet, likeable personality to Winifred Placey. fThis should lead you on the path of goodness, winnie.J A TWEIPTH: I, Edith Fellows, do will and bequeath to Earl Bunnell my abiitty to argue. ,KI understand Earl has already started on such a campaign, espically when shorthand assignments are due.J A -53-

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I had always known Jean was a Nchampion of never dreamed that she would one day sit in the head many when A test I . the women,n but I had White House. The next day I visited the city hospital. nurse. She said that her famous laugh had a difficult situation. Of course, she had Q Gildersleve came in for an operation, but he had given up t e con- after he heard her. Everdean Bean was the carried her through had a little com etitidn ..As I passed one of the hospital rooms, I noticed Sherb Heath. He told me that he was better known as Bulldog Drumond II. He was the one who discovered why the Nazis stuck out their hands when they said, nHef Hitler.n He said that they were afraid some one was going to strike them, and they had their hands up ready to ward off the blow. . ,Next I saw Bernadine Davis, who told me that she was Parker's iecretary. They decided between them who would be admitted to heaven ' and who wouldnft. She said she didn't know where Hitler and Tojo went, for neither Heaven nor the other place down the hill would let them in. -I As the next day was Sunday, I went to church. Rev. Bernard Prizzell preached a very lovely sermon, nwhat Not To Do in School.n He dertainly had enough practice in high school. After the sermon I asked him where Nathalie, now , fQ '-NOn the corner Frizzy, and all the little Frizzells were living of Broad and Steel Strect,N he said: but all I found at home were Willimina, Uinifred, William, Warren, Walter, and Wesley. They said their mother was out shopping for weenies. . On my way back way to her office. They do a wonderful her all-male office As I was going to the gate I met Edith Fellows. She was on her Edith is head of the Fellows Automatic Typewriters. business. All the schools on Earth have Edith and staff print their school papers. out the gate, I remembered that I hadn't seen Daniel anywhere around. I asked Parker where he was, and Parker said that as he and Daniel had been walking up the road to Heaven, the Devil 'mme out with his shotgun and lured Daniel away. Parker hadn't seen ide nor hair of Daniel since, but he suspected very strongly that daniel was tending the gate over the hill. y At last I decided that it was time to come down to Earth, so I oede the gate keeper goodbye and started home. But first I walked over the hill to see if I could see Daniel and say, WHe1loP to him before I left, but it got so 'he heat very much. .On arriving at buying my ticket to hot I had to turn back. I wondered if Dan minded the airport, I didn't have so much difficulty in Earth as I'd had in getting one to Heaven. What a let-down it was to return, after having spent a week up there! Jeannette Bunnell '45 F. Landry: Certain kinds of foods help prevent crickets and beri beri. Q51-

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mHIRTEENTK: We, the commercial students, Edith Fellows, Bernadine Davis and Arlene Forbes, do will and bequeath all empty desks as a parking place for extra books and belongings to the present junior commercial students. FOURTEENTH: I, Arlene Forbes, do will and bequeath to Keith Haynes my stature. CIt must be painful to go to classes and be so small that the teachers can't even see you present--or does it have its convenient side, too?X FIFTHTEENTH: I, Bernadine Davis, do will and bequeath my artistic ability to Charlotte Kenny. SIXTEEUTH: I, Sherburn Heath, do will and bequeath my physique to Dick Brackett. CNow, you should be able to get around in tight spots, Dick.7 SEVENTEENTH: I, Barbara Barnett do will and bequeath my control of manpower, or should I say menpower, to be distributed among the girls. CI believe this includes a number of pen pals also J LIGHTEENTH: I, Nathalie Whitehill, do will and bequeath my glamorous iovie star makeup, especially the dard glasses, to Ruth Rosi. CNow on late nights Ruth may slip home ineognito.D IINETEENTH: I, Bernard Frizzell, do will and bequeath my ingenious method of putting off assignments and the ability to get away with it, to Iaggie Johnson. QParker is another such renowned expert on English assignments, especially graduation essay. But eonfidentially,Reggie, they do have to be written eventually.J fWENTIETH: I, Gloria Arno, do will and bequeath jitterbug lessons to anyone desiring to lose weight. CLook what it did for meij WWENTY-FIRST: I, Everdean Bean, do will and bequeath to Barbara Ramsay the time to stop and comb my hair by the reflection in the glass of the girls' entrance to the Academy. II understand Barbara gets up in time, but what happens between 7:50 and 8:5O?J MWENTY-SECOND: We, the senior class do will and bequeath to the junior ilass our ability to keep quiet and not disturb Miss Avery.' fwe, I fean have not been entirely successful in that.J In witness whereof we,the class of Nineteen Hundred Forty-three, the testators above named, have hereunto subscribed our names, and affixed our seal, this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord, One Thou- sand Nine Hundred Forty-three. Class of 1943 Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the above class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty-three, as and for our Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names, at their request, do witnesses thereunto, in the flfdgmlf presence of said testators and of each other.