Sumner High School - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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spot they were featuring that famous dance team, Doris East and Elroy Dodson, whose sensational feats are the talk of the West, They were Juniors when we were Seniors® Even though I had a most exciting trip I was delighted to get back to the good old U. S. A» I will now give an account of the classmates remaining in the United States® Washington, D C.: Baby sitting is entering the realm of higher education® Joyce Poe has formed the Washington Baby Sitting and Tutoring Service Bureau, Seventy-five mem¬ bers have been enrolled. The bureau 9 s baby sitters, Joyce said, must learn to do everything for a baby, heat bottles, answer childish questions, recite fairy tales and put junior to bed and tuck him in 0 New York: Marcus Short was elected president of the A- malgamated Nut and Bolt Company at a meeting of the company ' s board of directors this afternoon, Mr, Short was previously an assistant in charge of nuts® New York . Miss Edna Perdue author of ’’Bang Went the Guns” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize today for the best Amer¬ ican novel of the year® Cheyenne, Wyo«: A new development in ranching was reached today when reporters interviewed Leonard Farlow at his farm near here® Although Mr, Farlow ' s income is derived from his large dairy, he engages in frog raising as a hobby® He has trained his frogs to jump rope, leap through hoops, sling lariats and even wear miniature cowboy hats. When he first began raising frogs,, Mr, Farlow thought of selling their hind quarters to seafood restaurants. But as the years have passed, he has become so attached to his pets, he allows them to die natural deaths® There ' s something wistful about a frog ' s expression® It gets you ’ says Mr® Farlow, San Francisco: Wayne Hall, who ran away from home to be¬ come a mechanical engineer when he discovered his father want¬ ed him to become a doctor, has devised a tuba that virtually plays itself. The new instrument utilizes hot air from po¬ litical speakers, gossipers, lawyers and others in public life® The air is restored in a reserved tank which weighs but a few ounces and which accompanies the tuba. An electric brain selects the notes that are to be played. Says the in¬ ventor, Remembering the experience of my high school days, I should say that the new instrument will be a boon to those who are supposed to be in two places at the same time® Gladys Perdue Prophetess

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n Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of Sumner High S chool, in the County of Guilford, in the State of North Carolina, on this the twenty-first day of May, ninteen hundred and for¬ ty-eight being of sound mind and generous disposition, do hereby make and publish this our last will and testament Section I Article I To Sumner High School we leave our best wishes that it will become a better school in the future. May one of its greatest projects, that of a gymnasium, be fulfilled in the near future. Ill] Section II Article I To Mr. Smith we leave more help in his surveying, so that the little dog won’t carry off his chain. To Miss Cornette we leave our deepest appreciation for her endless efforts in trying to make us better individuals. We hope that Mrs. York will be as great a success as a housewife as she is a Home Ec. teacher. To Mr. Beason we leave more farm equipment for his workshop. We hope that Miss Hemphill will have someone to get her ice cream next year before the bell rings. We hope that Mr. Lovingood will soon get a bus of his own so he can take the students on more trips. We hope that Mrs. Dansby will soon have a modern, well equipped home of her own located in Knoxville with- her hus¬ band, since she dislikes living in a trailer so much. Dolores Cain leaves her ability to get a man to Myr¬ tle Humble. Marie Gamble wishes to leave Abbie Dee Kirkman to the ninth grade girls. HI