Estes Park High School - Whispering Pine Yearbook (Estes Park, CO)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the Senior Class, being of sound mind, memory, and body, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, in manner and form as follows: First : To the entire Estes Park High School we leave the right to life, love, and pursuit of knowledge. Second: To the beloved faculty we leave what bits of wisdom and philosophy we have betrayed from time to time to be kept and used to the betterment of their minds and the minds of the students we leave behind. Third : To the .Junior ('lass we will the high and mighty name of Seniors, our seats in Study Hall, our books, and our dignity and poise to be used and treasured by them, their heirs, and their assigns forever. Fourth : To the Sophomore Class we will our notebooks, notes, and even more important, our ability to dance, take part in social affairs, and carry on love affairs successfully. Fifth: To the Freshman Class we will any scraps of paper, bits of pencils, old gum, etc., they may find around the school. Also we will them the privilege of asking us for advice at any time. Sixth: The following may seem but trifling bequests, but we, the members of the Senior Class, hope and trust they will be accepted gratefully and pridefully. 1. Donald Dev wills his amazing intellect to Donald Sanborn. 2. To Edith Caswell, Ruth Hurt wills the extreme right side of the seat in the dump truck. Helen Thorne wills her slim figure to Warren Hurd. 4. Lee Wright wills his ability to tap dance to Warren Caldwell. 5. Mary Lucille Griffith wills her ability to giggle to George Watson. 6. To Jack Stith, Mary Turner wills her long legs. 7. Elizabeth Schlapfer wills her plumpness to Jean McIntyre. 8. Glenn Jackson wills his pipe to Mr. Andrews. 9. Carl Jeffries, Bob Rivers, and Glenn Jackson will their ability to drive to Harold Boag. 10. Bob Rivers wills his ability to ski to Jack Ryan. 11. Hattie Stirling wills her ability to keep her dates straight to Joyce Sawdey. 12. Naomi Stith wills her ability to be true to one fellow to Garry Harris. 13. Phyllis Andrews wills her affections for Harvey Hurt to Darlene Carmack. In Witness Whereof we affix our name and best wishes. Attest: Helen Thorne. THE SENIOR CLASS.

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 THE SENIOR CLASS HISTORY The audience, consisting of Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, sits snickering while the first scene of the picture commences. As the picture begins we find a large class, which is: Hob Rivers, La Verne Miller, Carl Jeffries, Mary Turner, Mary Lucille Griffith, Elizabeth Schlapfer, Naomi Stith, Mary Gertrude Alsup, Millie Lofgren, Oma Men it. Hattie Stirling. Bill Winkle. Fern Carlson. Kenneth Daubin, and Lester Jessie, idling the hours away. Mr. Humphrey, the class sponsor, and Mary Lucille Griffith, the class president, don t seem to be able to do much with this giggling, green class; so we pass to the second sceife. The second scene is somewhat like the first, but Millie Lofgren. Kenneth Daubin. Lester Jessie, and Bill Winkle have left the uprising class, while Ruth Hurt, Orda Swan, Margaret Boothroyd, Donald Dev, and Howard Stogil have joined it. The class so far has seemed to be an unambitious class, for under the sponsorship of Miss Haynes with Bob Rivers as president, the class again leads an uneventful year. The third scene does look more hopeful. This year finds Howard Stogil, Orda Swan, Fern Carlson and Oma Merrit gone. Helen Thorne joins the class in this year and proves to be a student with quite a quantity of brains. Mary Turner, the class president, Mary Lucille Griffith the vice-president, and La Verne Miller the secretary and treasurer have much work to do under the sponsorship of Miss Winifred Karr, for the class is having many activities in this memorable year. The class this year gives several bridge benefits and parties, the most successful of them being the Junior Progressive Dinner. The class as a whole works hard to make the banquet a success. Their hopes are fulfilled, for the Junior-Senior Banquet of 19115 is one of the best ever given in the history of the school. A play, “Sound Your Horn,” is put over with a bang, all the students doing very well in their parts. The Juniors also have a kid day, in which all the class dresses in little children's clothes and act silly all day. The fourth scene is one of most importance. Now as the scene begins the class is composed of high-and-inight.v Seniors and this time they are smiling down upon the underclassmen. Many eventful things happen in this outstanding year, with Miss Karr again as the class sponsor and Helen Thorne as class president working hard to make a success of everything that the class will undertake. Mary Lucille Griffith again receives the honor of being the vice-president and Hattie Stirling is elected as the secretary and treasurer. Three new members join the class: Phyllis Andrews, Glenn Jackson, and Lee Wright, making a class of thirteen — eight girls and five boys. The class gives a successful play, “Who Wouldn't Be Crazy.” A Freshman Day is started by the Seniors of thirty-six which is somewhat like an initiation. Class day is held with the whole school as an audience, and the class will, prophecy, and history are read. During the last weeks of school the class is busy with many activities, Sneak Day. Junior-Senior Prom. Baccalaureate, and Commencement. Everyone receives his diploma and the final scene ends, leaving the class looking at the great future which now lies ahead of them. —Naomi Stith and Hattie Stirling.

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 PROPHECY While studying styles in Europe, I was pleased to receive an invitation from Mr. Caldwell of Estes Park High School, which was dated April 24, 1942. 1 wondered where 1 had heard of April 24. Oh, yes. that was the date we had set for our Senior play back in the year '36. This invitation was to a re-union of the Senior Class of 1936. Enclosed was a letter telling what had happened to the thirteen graduates of '36. After explaining his point the letter read thus: “We are happy to announce that we have, at last, located the former Naomi Stith. You know in High School she and a boy named George Peek were madly in love. Well, they were married in 1936, but were divorced within three months. Then Naomi completely disappeared. We have just located her in a little town called High Way, Indiana, where she is a hotel manager. Of course you know the former Until Hurt is now married and is still traveling with her husband in the dump truck. They have two children. Junior and Mary Lucille. She named her girl after her old pal Mary Lucille Griffith, who was formerly the head waitress at the Nifty Lunch in Estes Park. She is now in Washington on business. We have caught up with one Carl Jeffries who had such talent in the musical line at school. He is now street cleaner at 12th and Broadway in Denver. Carl is married, of course, and to Mary Katherine Turner. We all thought she would make the Metropolitan Opera stage, but after her part in the operetta “Windmills of Holland’’ she completely forgot her music. Hattie Stirling, now married to a New York broker, whom she worked for in Estes Park for four years after her graduation, will fly to Estes Park in her private plane. Her husband will not accompany her because In- will have to tend their mansion and servants while Hattie is in Estes Park. Remember vour manner’s and make a good impression. Lee Wright, who entertained us all with his tap dancing, is now a farmer in the sugar beet country. When he won the $25.00 in a limerick contest we thought lie might possibly be a poet, but sugar beets seem to be more profitable. Of course Helen Thorne made a great success of her marriage. She and her husband are now living in Denver and often visit in Estes Park. They have one child, Arlene, who is now three months old. Elizabeth Schlapfer, who had such a time in Chemistry, has taken a Chemistry-Physics course at Greeley State Teachers, and is now teaching at Ber-fhoud. We can all see now that her pretense to hate Berthoud when playing basketball was just a bluff. We found that Glenn Jackson went to California for his health after he had graduated in ’36. He is now Dean of Men in a small college there in Hollywood. Bob Rivers, who loved to ski. is the boy with a future who made good. He is now in Switzerland and is giving skiing lessons for a living. The last Mary Lucille heard of him he was desperately in love with an Italian girl who is taking lessons from him. Donald Dey. who was studying to be an accountant, is now a bookkeeper at the Better Bank and Trust Company of New York. —Phyllis Andrews