Virginia High School - Virginian Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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CLASS WILL We, the graduating class of Virginia High, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-nine, before leaving this institution that has endeavored to prepare us for this long journey into the unknown world, wish to submit our final will and testimony. We have made this will in five sections; they are as follows: Section 1. To the faculty that has worked so faithfully for these many years we leave our best wishes that the classes in years to come will be as good as we of ' 39. Section 2. To the junior class that may follow us we leave our sincere hopes that they will not have as much trouble in their class meetings as we have had in ours. Section 3. To our new principal, Mr. Shelburne, we leave the right to call a meeting of the senior bo ys and ask them not to bother the freshmen. Section 4. To the future classes of Virginia High we leave for their con- sideration this hope: whatever they try to do in the future we hope they will not get caught as we invariably did. Section 5. The various members of the Senior Class of ' 39 wish to make the following special considerations: I, Jim Hagy, do will my football and basket-ball ability to Dee Minnick. We, Tip Polly and Conley Greer, do will to William Henry and Bill Gobble the right to park on the other side of King Gollege. I, Mary E. Hawkins, do will to Anna Ruth Harmon one cake of Palmolive soap so that she may keep that school-boy complexion. I, Lawrence Wade, do will to John Matheny my art of handling Miss Burrow. I, Howard White, do will to Jack Lee my privilege of being chased around by Goach Baker. We, Dorothy Sue Kabler and Virginia Gecil, do will to Ann Brown and Betty Boggs the ability of spoofing Fred Hayes. We, Bobby Bibb and Fain Goodpasture, do will to Frank Goodpasture and Emory Widener the right to tell jokes and then laugh before anyone else has a chance. I, Scott Alderson, leave to anyone who thinks he can take my place the art of hollering to a certain girl on Moore Street every night. I, Keith Venable, do will to Buddy Davis my position as Mr. King ' s Wood- work Assistant. We, Jim Miller and June Pendleton, do will our art of making love in Pen ' s to any juniors who think they can carry on. Page 28

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CLASS PROPHECY (Continued) Misses Corinne Easterly, Dorothy Montgomery, Jean Wolfe, and Mary Elizabeth Hawkins have made the semi-finals in the Twin City dancing Marathon. The winner is to be awarded a medal by President of the Fat Men ' s Club, Carl Pepper. Mr. Sid Thomas has been unanimously elected president of the Old Maids ' Federation. Other officers are vice-president, Buck Holdway — secretary, Donald Carico — treasurer, Conley Greer. Governor George MacReynolds of Virginia has appointed Kill-Me-Dead Winton Kelly as chief state executioner, with Frank Ellis as his assistant. Miss Martha Blackwell, noted Bristol beauty, attempted suicide last night in her hotel room. A note found disclosed the fact that Emmett Fields, charm- ing opera singer, had broken her heart when he entitled his latest song, The One of My Dreams . John Joe McOueen has recently been appointed to the U. S. Supreme Gourt, one of his noted colleagues being William S. Wiley, Jr. Jim Hagy has given up coaching at Pittsburg to settle down to home life with June Pendleton. Mrs. Reginald Randolph, formerly Miss Eloise Hagy, will entertain tomorrow for the newly elected members of the D. A. R.; Misses Margaret Poarch, Mary John Palmer, Spiller McCarty, and Eileen Keesee. The famous Gaut-Hicks-Holt Circus is to appear next week in a benefit per- formance. Outstanding performers will be Jewell Jessee, snake charmer; Mr. Keith Venable, hand crgan man with his dancing bears; Hubert Malone, Mary Elizabeth Simcox, and Gilmer Snapp in their renowned lasso act. . . . A take-off in grand opera, by Miss Audrey McCary, Sarah Crumley, Sue Dunlap and Sally Starke, is being highly advertised. The proceeds will go to the endowment of a home for veterans of the 1939 Senior Class of V. H. S. Page 27

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CLASS WILL (Continued) I, George Warren, do will to Carl Pepper the right to make a lot of noise in Miss Hanson ' s room. We, Virginia King, Virginia Diggers, and Betsy Ross leave our discarded lipstick, left-over rouge, and bobby pins to Nancy Burkett, Charlyne Stergios, and Mayme Gilmer. I, Ed Everette, being of sound mind and bad judgment, do leave to my brother, Don, the privilege cf bluffing Mr. Goble at all times. I, Dan Drinkard, do will to Mr. Goble a private memorandum in which to jot down sayings, original, clever or otherwise, to remind him of what has been used in each class, so that none will be either overworked or slighted. I, Ed Strickland, do will to Charles Stump my ability of loafing around all over school. I, Sydney Thomas, do will to Douglas Tauscher my ability to do as I please. I, John Rogers, do will to William Charles my place on the ' 40 Annual Staff. I, Harry Pippin, do will to Bill Baldwin my ability to get the girl out at all times. We, Harry Leonard, Sam Holt, and Robert Hicks, do will to any Juniors who think they can carry on as we did the opportunity to try. I, Emmett Fields, do will to Bobby Repass my ability to get into trouble. We, Allen Lee and Fred Markwa’ter, leave a challenge to anyone who thinks he can carry on our work for Mr. Wilson. We, F. E. Ellis and Frank English, do will our ability to any Juniors to lay out of school, hoping they get by with it better than we did. I, Virginia Cecil, leave my (cute) bow-legs to Anne Brown, hoping she can jump a rope better than I. I, Paul Harmon, do will to Cris Mitchell the privilege of going to the hills to make love. I, Donald Carico, do will to Frank Markwalter my privilege of sleeping until 8:00 A. M. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 9th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine. Signed Dink Burns, Witnesses: Legator ' 39 Virginian. Clay A. Easterly Jim Hagy Page 29