Waynesfield Goshen High School - Reflections Yearbook (Waynesfield, OH)

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' ' l 7 ' Y -:-:fi A - 1--. Y --M W' ' i ' M' Y . 1, ff2i5Q5'5'El - es , ,, ,,,4 ,, , Wf ' I ' SENIOR CLASS WILL I By MARY PEPPLE N THE NAME of His Majesty, the President of the United States, the Governor of Ohio, and in the name of the awe- stricken President of the Junior class of W. HL S.:- We, the dignified, respected and loyal Seniors, having con- quered the difficulties of high school, about to leave the scenes of our struggles and pleasures, being sound in mind and memory, declare this to be our last will and testament in the words and figures following here to-wit :- I. We hereby bequeath to the Juniors, all History and Civics note books and the witty sayings of the Senior class, and we sin- cerely hope they will profit by them. II. We bequeath to the Sophomores the keeness and mod- esty which has always been a Senior characteristic. III. To the Freshies we glady give the honor of being next year-Sophomores. IV. To our beloved Superintendent we bestow the good luck of the Senior class and complete control over all contests, and may he, with his school of little boys and girls, in after years, be able to -win the state championship. V. To our dignified principal, Miss Beavers, we gladly give the new book entitled Deutschland Uber Alles all over with Dutch. We also sincerely hope that she will prosper in future years and reach the highest point of her determination. VI. To Miss Bailey, our devoted English teacher, we be- queath all the happiness of the entire Senior class. VII. To the person most in need of height, Beaman Musser, we will bestow Ernest McGinnis's and we hope by this addition he will be as tall as Mr. Stoker. VIII. The renowned oratorical ability of Clayton Wood- ward, we bequeath to Walter Copeland, that he may by this over- come his excitement in public. IX. We gratefully bestow upon Dale Douglas, Abigail Van IiI1orn's blushes, hoping that she will win a practical lover by t em. X. We bequeath the talent of our violinists. Helen Geddes and Helen Meeks to Brooks Horn and Harry Burke. We un- doubtedly think they will furnish the music for the high school 32 llegff- . -ilgillfg ---A D so c

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tiful scenery of the rocks and canyons of Colorado, and will journey on to the orange groves in California. Audree Brunson, who, like a true soldier, did not acknow- ledge defeat 'before the battle has specialized in languages, and is now in Cornell University. This is the inscription of her career, People would live for the sheer pleasure of living if all were like Audree. . George Rapp has followed in parental footsteps, and now is quite a scientist in the treating of meats. The last account which the fairy had of Helen Gray and Helen McAdams was, that they were in the far east and had mas- tered the theatrical art, that they were starring their parts in the famous comedy-drama, The Dream That Came True. Leona Morris is a great milliner in South Waynesfield. Helen Geddes is a second Maude Powell. She has such great hypnotic powers when playing her violin that the audience generally sleeps while she plays Picture in your mind s eye Appollos who like the mytho- logical and classical sons of Jupiter were gods of business elo- quence and fine arts and it may aid you 1n mentally grasping the characters known as Leonard McAdams and Clayton Woodward who are Hourishing dealers of a shoe Stflng enterprise in Bing- v1lle Ohio They having acquired their business abilities as financial managers of the Retrospect in the year 1916 The re sults of skillful advertising has never been better illustrated than in this particular instance A When I picked up the last leaf Lo' there was nothing stamp- ed thereon when instantly my mind returned to my classmates at Wayne High and I remembered that Mabel 'Rogers and Abigail Van Horn were always characterized by the zero mark and I immediately went on my Way feeling that these vacant leaves were symbols of them X X X X X -- . - . X X . X X - - X X ' . X X ' ' X X X X X X -f X X - - . - ' - - X X - ' X X - X X X X ' ' X X ' ' X X ' ' X X X X - X X ' X X X X - X X 1 X X X i- ':f , 77 i4i Y ir iAi V lf,

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X x S x S S X S X X S x S X X X S X S X X X X X X X X X X E E s X S S x X if: in future years. XI. The charming personality of Lois Means we bestow up- on Esther Dawson. XII. We bequeath the ability of Helen Gray's hair dressing to Laura Gray and do hereby hope that the Juniors will make use of this talent. XIII. The tee-wee voice of Leona Morris we bestow upon Ada Barnes. XIV. The talent of the pianists of our class we gladly be- queath to Seba Barnes and Flora Bacome, and may they be able to play the accompaniment of our future violinists. XV. We bequeath Denver Stocker's meekness and loving disposition to Harry Burke. XVI. Mae Landis desires her studious tendencies to be be- towed upon I ouisa Bake' XVII Helen McAdams and Thelma Burke desire that their ab1l1ty to rec1te and debate be bestowed upon Edna Crabb and Mildred Sloan XVIII The power of imagination which ha - mal- A. dr - Brunson famous we give to Granville Pepple The Great Orator XIX We bequeath to Dewey May The ability to get wise now possessed by George Rapp XX One person in all is worthy of the athletlc ability now possessed by Leonard McAdams this we bequeath to Don Har ro XXI We gently bequeath Mabel Rogers po tical abi ity to Iucille Means- One most in need XXII To Mr Bogart our Janitor we bequeath all bonds notes and checks found in the seats of the aforesald Sen1ors XXIII John McM1ll1n s strictly tending to his own busl ness we hereby bequeath to Bloom Focht XXIV Lastly and most important we bequeath to Dear Old Wayne H1 all the furnlture looking glasses and all chemistry and physic labratory instruments we have used during our high school work p f th t h y t f d th 9th Y t Y THE SENIOR CLASS h y th t t t W y fi ld M y 19th A D 1916 BLOOM FOCHT MEARLE MAY . . c s n a JC' ,R 0 11 d. W u Q-wc - J ' l an . in X J Q E We nominate and ap oint Miss Mabel Bailey as sole executrix o is. our last will and estament. In testimon hereof. we have a fixe our signatures is 1 da of May, in e ear of our Lord, one thousand. nine hundred and sixteen: This foregoing instrument was signed by the said Senior class, in the presence of eac other and b em declared as their last will and testament and a heir re- quest. we hereunto subscribe our names as attes ing witnesses at a nes e . Ohio, Y -Y ' W if- L , Ev- -. I eil je-, ell