Ferguson High School - Crest Yearbook (Ferguson, MO)

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I qu g W X 1 1 Q7 if M1 All I lifi ii Senior Will Know ye, one, all, and nobody: That we, Class of Twenty-six, of the Ferguson High School, City of Ferguson, County of St. Louis, State of Nlissouri, United States of America, the Earth. Telephone number 192, being of normal, upright, superb, beautiful, honorable, high, healthy, superior, fine, charming, graceful, unsurpassed, heavenly, exultant, noble, respected, virtuous, and much esteemed mind, and soon to enter the cruel cold world, do hereby and forthwith declare this, our last will and testament. After the payment of all mortgages and I. O. U.'s we bequeath all of our property, material and immaterial, new, old, stolen, or otherwise, thusly: SECTION I. Firstly, we hand down to the under-classmen che school with its furniture: seats, dictionaries, waste-baskets to fill with gum-wrappers, etc., statuary to be placed around at pleasing angles, the blackboards to write on, the chalk to hurl at defense- less students, the coat-rooms wherein to hang your coats and secretly powder your nose, the popular mirrors to the girls for sundry and divers purposes and intents, the sidewalks whereon to walk, the flagpole, the school grounds to litter with paper, and Mr. Griffith to keep you going. Secondly, we present to the high school the article or articles which shall be purchased with the financial results of the Senior play. Thirdly, we bestow on the class of Twenty-seven the guidance and leadership of the high school. Fourthly and lastly, we confer on the high school proper the State of Missouri with its boundless resources, illimirable stretches of beautiful land, large factories, theaters, orphan homes, insane asylums, morgues, poorhouses, jails, grave- yards, etc.-to make a living in. SECTION II. All other manner of property, tacked or intact, beneficient, evil, or indifferent as supervenes: 1. Raymond Holden-An imperturbable and insufferable Dictionary, and adenoidal and pyorrheal Physics Notebook to Bob Cook. 2. Helen Hughes--The Charleston mania to Bessie O'Keefe. 3. Virginia Parsons-Has decided that she has kept her school girl com- plexion long enough and wishes to donate it to jenny Meyer. Seventeen

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I Y- ' ' ' -fy, 1. S A l Sixteen .gawk , lv A C I' ., , - ' 0 --' 4 3 - . I X I lr , AA W 1 If ' - V I , ,www 5 H'-' '35 , Q fi 'ff 'I A ,if M . M. LUCILLE IVIORRIS IVe have no doubt that .flre will reach the Glee Club '23, '24 Literary '24 Baseball '23, '24, '25 F Club '24, '25, '26 Dramatics '26 VIRGINIA PARSONS, Ginny lVfzat would happen if :Ire couldrft la Literary '24 Glee Club '24, '25 Poster Club '26 Dramatics '26 Pep Club '26 AGNES SKILLINGTON, Agn We never knew a more steady and eary ga Glee Club '25, '26 Soccer '25 HF Club '25, '26 Basket ball '26 Baseball '25 fCapt.J Dramatics '26 BETTY TIFFIN goal. ugh? ing permn S1755 ax merry af the day is long. Dramatics '26 Poster Club '26 Glee Club, '23, '24, '25, '26 Literary '24 Pep Club '24, '25, '26 Soccer '26 F Club '26 Miaketa Queen '26

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Qi' agar ? f l l AN I Wah . 4. Grace Magoon--A bottle of hair tonic and mange exterminator to Paul Luehrs. 5. Edgar Behle-Love o' wine, women, and song to Jack Dyer. 6. Aloise Kraeger-A subscription to Modes and Manners, to the high school to be found on the Study Hall desk at any time if no one else is looking at it. 7. Russe Niemeier-wOne Cicero text and accessories to Ray Geiser. 8. Rose Goss-Doctor Peters' ''Get-and-Keep-Thin-Quick-Pills,'' ten cents per hundred, instructions on box to take every ten minutes until a perfect forty-nine is obtained, to Imogene Ramsey. 9. Adelaide Long-Best wishes for many holidays during the next year to under-classmen. 10. Helen Lattimore-Rides in Len's Ford to the girls in general. 11. Lucille Morris-Djer Kiss Compact to be used wherever he wishes to Henry Lix. 12. Lydia Nloehlenbrock-Delight and art in poetry to someone who will appre- ciate it-William Pesell. 13. Helen Stull-Coquettish eyelashes to Augusta Loesing. 14. Geneva Hume-The sirenish sparkle in my eyes to Lavinia Joynson. 15. Juliet Gentry-A prodigious sneeze to Pat Brown. 16. Agnes Skillington-The ability to toss baskets and opponents and to smack baseballs to Lillie Closs. 17. Betty Tiffin-A gallon of the Waters of Lodorei'-Huber Watkins. 18. Dorothy Dean--A corpulent and insalubrious grasshopper to the Biology Class of next year for the purpose of aggravative and projective study. Said Class of Twenty-six knows it would be sad to know that said articles in said will and testament were received by said heirs and heiresses in a sad mannerg there- fore,- said heirs and heiresses must not receive from said Seniors said articles in said sad manner. We do appoint lV1r. Barteau sole boss and executor of this, our last and only will and testament. In witness thereof, we, Class of Twenty-six, set our hands in seal this thirty- second 1323 of May, Anno Domini, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six. SENIOR CLASS, FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL. Eiglhtecn