Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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H I - L I F E G. H. S. NINETEEN-NINETEEN Class Will Honorable Faculty and Fellow students of the High School, Nineteen-nineteen, about to die, salutes you! She publishes this before her death so that you may know her will and receive her gifts. F'irst of all—there is a communication to make, startling we admit, but true, nevertheless. Here is our secret! Guard it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on May 18,—doctors whose prognostications were never known to fail. They have announced that on the night of June 27th, nineteen-nineteen must die. At present she complains of a lightness in the head, caused by the encomiums and eulogies received during the past four years and of a heaviness in the heart caused by the thoughts of parting. Owing to these derangements she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but what she thinks she has. she gives to you, meanwhile praying that you may not attribute her liberality to the fact that she can keep her goods no longer. ITEM: We, the Class of Nineteen-nineteen, being about to leave this scholastic sphere, being in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament. As to such estate, as it has pleased the Fates and our own strange arms and active intellect to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, viz.: We give and bequeath to the Faculty restful nights, peaceful dreams and relief from the petitions of 1919. We leave to them also full permission to use, in the education of succeeding classes, the knowledge and startling information that they have gained at whatsoever times we have written either quizzes or examinations. ITEM: We will to the Class of 1920 our Senior privileges. Ah me! too few and well understood to need enumeration. We will also our Senior dignity, thinking that the class will find encouragement in the fact that “dignity increases more easily than it begins.” ITEM: To the neighboring inhabitants we gladly leave the unclassifiable sounds escaping from the auditorium on chorus mornings. ITEM: Donald Slawson bequeathes his ability to entertain the ladies” to Frank Gibson— with this added ability surely Wig can make a winning somewhere. ITEM: Helen Emery bequeathes her ability to talk to Elsie Barnes. ITEM: To Berridge Smith we gently hand over a compound of senior nerve. ITEM: Meroe Coats bequeathes her ability to play .“Smiles” to Doc Hansen. ITEM: Englehard Hansen bequeathes his vocabulary to Paul Synder. ITEM: The Senior Class is forced to leave Howard Fisher to the class of 1920. May they appreciate his heavenly presence as we have! ITEM: Esther Miller leaves her suitors (except Livy) to Mary Manning. However, Mary’s start is pretty good. ITEM: Mildred Nelson bequeathes her dimples to Violet Hansen. ITEM: To Blanche Nielson, Duncan Black beqeauthes his ability as an orator. ITEM: Carl Andreason bequeathes his “self consciousness” to Llewellyn Bowman. ITEM : Helen Cyphers bequeathes her freckles to Pinky Bond. ITEM: Virginia Browne wills her ability to speed to Kenneth Thoms. Perhaps this increased amount of speed will destroy Kenneth’s one arm drive. ITEM: Alta Bowerntan wills her complexion to Mablc Briggs. ITEM: Allen Church bequeathes his leadership in military training to Maj. Reid. With his instruction Allen thinks the Major will be capable of this. ITEM: To the Annual staff of 1920 we bequeath our financial record, clear of a deficit. ITEM: Lastly we leave to the Juniors our course in United States History, during which they will learn that many things, which they knew before, are not so. ITEM: In witness whereof, we, the class of Nineteen-nineteen, the testators, have, to this our will set our hand and seal, this June 27th, Anno Domini, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Nineteen. Page Twenty eight VIRGINIA BROWNE.

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Page Twenty-seven Name Commonly Known As Characteristic Cherished Possession Purpose Always Seen (with) Grctel Le Valley Wink Dem lire Literary Ability An Author Thinking Sarah Miller Kay Quick Green Sweater Teach Sunday School Talking Florence Munson Flossie Angelic Serenity Forgotten Happy Esther Miller Ette Busy Basket Ball Pin To Boss Men At The Post Office Leo Nickerson Nick Serious Her picture Teach Mechanical Drawing On 'Fhe Farm Mildred Nelson Mid Sweet Dimple To Look Pretty Smiling Reeta Peterson Reeta Saintly Knowledge To Be Congenial Olga Olga Peterson Olga Cheerful Winning Ways To Be a Librarian Reeta Merrill Rasmussen Rassy Scrappy Bicycle To Become Famous That’s The Question Helene Rich Tootie Stylish Fraternity Pin To Be a Nurse Pondering Gordon Rettinger Ret Saintly Chemistry Credit To Teach Chemistry Painting Cars Kent Slawson Puff Shiftless Foot Ball “G” Become a Druggist Chewing Gum Edythe Sturgeon Polly Walking Fast Class Ring Congenial Walking Fast Donald Slawson Dod Bold “Emmy” Surgeon Trying To Look Like a Married Man Otto Sorensen Ot Meek Length Not Discovered In His Ford Ethel Sovereign Ethel Studious French Book To Graduate But Not Heard Mildred Sagendorf Saggie Obstinate Reputation Teach Sunday School Arguing Esther Siple Si Amorous Rubbers Matrimony A Smile Lyle Van Dusen I) usey Slow But Sure Pocket Book Stenographer Taking Pictures Ruth VValkow Rut hie Modest Wrist Watch Chorus Girl Crocheting Marion Watson Shorty Quiet Saxon Basket Ball Coach In The Gym.

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