Midland City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Midland City, AL)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF l95I We, the Senior Class of 1951, of Midland City High School, realizing that we are leaving our High School days behind to enter an unknown world, do hereby make this our last will and testament. ARTICLE I We, the Seniors of 1951, le ave with friendship and understanding the prized pos- sessions below hoping they will be received in the same spirit in which they are given. ARTICLE II To our Principal and Faculty we leave our sincere appreciation for a job well done. ARTICLE Ill To our Parents for standing behind us throughout our school years, we leave our deepest love. ARTICLE IV MARY OLA KENNEDY leaves to Loretta Taylor her sweet disposition. WILTON WINDHAM leaves his love for all the girls to Hartford Thompson. IOHNNIE MAE YOEMANS le ave s to Martha Nell Thompson and Peggy Walding her witty ways. BOBBY TATE leaves his scholastic ability to Roberft Moring. JOYCE I-IARTZOG leaves to Mary Ivey her height. CHARLES REGISTER leaves his good looks to Jackie King. REBECCA STEELE leaves to Mary Windham and Charlotte Rice her love for shorthand. BILLY REGISTER leaves his ability to stick to one girl to Charles Prince. BETTY ELOISE WOODHAM leaves her name and all that goes with it to Ruth Woodham. I. W. RILEY leaves his love for Bookkeeping to Howard Lee. BOBBY WHATLEY leaves to Bonnie Adkins her title of Miss Midland City. THOMAS GODWIN leaves to Frank Sellers his arguing inclination. DAPHNE WILSON HAWKINSleaves her technique of gettinga husband to Aurecia Jenkins, GELETTE PAYNE leaves to Randall Tice his athletic ability. BETTY LOU MARSHALL leaves her ability to act her age to Janis Ann Reynolds. MICHAEL WOODHAM leaves to Bryan Hill Carlile his singing ability. MARY IDA MYERS leaves her neat appearance to Carol Palmer. CHARLES PATTERSON leaves her ability to talk in Economics to Sara Nell Tidwell. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my h a nd and seal this fourteenth day of December in the year of one thousand nine hundred fifty-one. Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of the Senior Class. DAPHNE WILSON HAWKINS Testatrix

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As I laid me down to sleep last night The dream I had filled me with delight If dreams all do come true ----- Then Seniors I'm glad for you In this dream I did behold Each one's future, which I now unfold. Charles Patterson, behind a desk teaching English, and punishing the pest! Betty Woodham, our business girl, hair rolled without a curl! Betty Lou Marshall, nursing in her friendly way, smooth white pillows all day! Billy Register, husband and POP doing right well on a four horse crop! Mary Ida Myers, a house wife true blue, she sweeps under the beds and MOPS some too! Michael Woodham, in the world goes far, singing on radio as a number one star! Daphne Wilson Hawkins, no need to say, shops for groceries every day! J. W. Riley, a coach we behold, showing the boys how to kick for the goal! H Bobbie Whatley, strikes up a pose and models Fifth Avenue exclusive clothes! About Joyce Hartzog I had dreams galore, she was cooking breakfast at half past four! Mary Ola Kennedy, the wife of a preacher, she makes a lovely Sunday School teacher! Wilton Windham, so quiet slow, showing the cars when to come and go! Johnnie Mae Yoemans, in an office does stay, but has months vacation without any pay! V In this vision I clearly saw, Bobby Tate, a student of law! Gelette Payne, no failure to befall, teaching boys to shoot basketballs! Thomas Godwin, so very high does rate, a gentleman and a senator of the state! I, Rebecca Steele, a Home Economics teacher, showing the girls now to make homemaking cheaper! Charles Register, an odd sort of a plight, he flew around the world on a reckless flight! You'l1 admit this dream could be worse and here I would like to repeat Whittier's verse Of all sad words of tongue and pen The saddest are these 'It might have been' ! Class Prophecy Rebecca Steele

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