Akron High School - Torpedo Yearbook (Akron, IA)

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via-vZ'z Art -.1 was ZVAWYV'-5.12 fi. 2,4 TORPEDU LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT XVe, the class of 1024, of the City of Akron, County of Plymouth, and State of Iowa, do make. publish and declare this our last Will and Tes- tament, that is to say: Firstly, l, Alma Anderson, give and bequeath to Toodles johnson, City of Akron, my knowledge of the study of Physics. Secondly, l, Mable lijose, give and demise to Margaret Murphy, City of Akron, my Domestic Science accomplishments. Thirdly, I, lidith -Iohnson, bequeath to .Iunice Nasland, City of Akron, my school girl complexion. lfourthly. l, Donald Cross, give to Darrell johnson. my ability to kid the coach. lfifthly, l, Desia XYallin. give and demise to Veda llucket, City of Akron. my classy style. Sixthly, l, Genevieve Christensen, give and bequeath to Muriel Talbott, City of Akron, my dramatic abilities. Seventhly, l. Bartley Ogden, give and bequeath to lra llammer, City of Akron, one good Ford, no parts missing but the engine. Iiightbly, l, lierald Smith, give and demise to Verle Allen, City of Akron, my latest success, How to Wfin and llold a NVoman. Ninthly, l, Margaret Burke, give and bequeath to Valda lirickson, City of Akron, my affairs of the heart. Tenthly. l, llilda Hoschler, give and bequeath to Viola Maynard, City of Akron, my experiences after 3 A. M. lileventhly, l, Caryl McCorkell, give and bequeath to Uma Ogden, City uf Akron, my powers of keeping a straight face. Twelfthly, l, Richard Klauer, give and demise to Donald XYaterbury, City of Akron, my tendency toward bachelorhood. Thirtecnthly, l, Ruth Brown, give and demise to Bernice Burnett, City of Akron, my Reveries of a Bachelor Maid. Fourteenthly, I. Quigley Fletcher, give and bequeath to Karl Young- strom, City of Akron, my profound imagination. liifteenthly, l, llarold Clark, give and bequeath to Chester Bean, City of Akron, my poetical temperament. Sixteenthly, l, Norman Dahl, give and demise to Robert Brown, City of Akron, my fast business like manner. Seventeenthly, l, 'Iesse Brown, give and bequeath to Fahy Replogle, City of Akron, my llart. Schaffner and Marx form. liighteenthly, l, Bessie Bennett, give and demise to Eleanor Paulson, City of Akron, my imported curls tSouth Sea lslandsj. .?1 .,

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1'A0V f ! f'T 15.4 T ORPE D0 Q PU l LOOKING INTO THE CRYSTAL There appears a slight mistg it gradually grows darker. Something seems to be darting across the sphere. It is everywhere at once. It upsets everything else. Upon looking closer it reveals itself: Donald Cross, ath- letic coach, dictator of sports, Ruble Iowa. Far up the street a resturant, Alma Anderson and Mable Kjose, pro- prietors, home made pastry. Next door is the office of the VVeekly Disturber, Bartley Ogden, editor. Above the office a beauty parlor, Mlle. Desia VVallin, proprietress. Cliart has a real permanent wave.j ln the same building, that terrific brunette stenog, Caryl McCorkle, the terror of many a business man's wife. g A little farther down the street, Gerald Smith, commercial operator. CgSlasher of many a concert.j The scene shifts to a dark overcrowded district of tenement and board- ing houses. Looking into the window of the upper story the living Iidgar Allen Poe sits in the form of Harold Clark, a genius, struggling with his art and five cats CPoe used the family cat for a foot warmerj. This scene fades, Iowa City hoves into view, Richard Klauer has at last realized his life's ambition-college-after patiently teaching for the past fifteen years. Also, Bessie Bennett is a modest principal of one of the city's schools. Bobbed hair intact, Dorothy johnson, fast star in the All State basketball team, now instructor in girl's athletics, University of Iowa. Hilda Hoschler, Iowa City's heart smashing nurse. Bad business except for Dick Hauck, furniture dealer and undertaker. On the beach, a vast expanse of water, Spike Brown and Spuds An- derson, life savers, My Hero, Oh Boys. The Great Out Doors: Peg Burke, foreman on the ranch of Runt Ross, a three powder-puff woman and a two gun man. Back to habitation, Genevieve Christenson has successfully run a coun- try school without the demerit system. Somewhere this side of the Rockiesg Ruth Brown, authoress of the world famous Roughing It on Mars is making coffee over an open fire on the plains of Canada. Pierpont Morgan's bankg Edith Johnson has won, through the co-operation of VV. I.. Conder, world renowned agriculturist, and is depositing the 310,000 cash prize offered by the Department of the Interior for answering the question, Why do you feed beef cattle ? Again the scene shifts backs to little old Akron and what have we here? An addition to the original Dahl store conducted by the honorable Norman, minety stories have made almost a skyscraper. But, listen, Doc Fletcher has made his air castles a reality, he has constructed the City above the Clouds. 1975. -Ruth Brown.

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it .amen it X www Nineteenthly, I, Dorothy johnson, give and demise to Harvey Talyor, City of Akron, my rippling txvhite cappedj laughter. Twentiethly, I, lirnia XN'aterbury, give and bequeath to llerbert Cun- inigham, City of Akron, my sudden inspiration in laboratory work. Twenty-firstly, All the rest and residue of our property, real and person- al, and mixed of which we shall pass out siezed or possessed, we give, de- mise and bequeath to the Akron Public School. Txventy-secondly, NVe hereby nominate and appoint the 1924 Torpedo to be the executor of this will. Twenty-thirdly, We hereby revoke any and all former wills by us made. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal this first day of April, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty- lour. Caryl McCorkell Dorothy johnson Quigley Fletcher Norman Dahl Harold Clark Hilda Hoschler Iidith johnson Bartley Ogden Donald Cross Margaret Burke Desia VVallin Gearld Smith Erma Xkfatefhury Genevieve Christenson Mable Kjose Richard Klauer 16556 Rroxvn Bessie Bennett Ruth Brown Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above class of 1924, and for their last will and testament in the presence of each of us, who in the presence of the class of 1924, at its request and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses: B. L. Troup. Irene M. Coons. Subscribed to and sworn to in my presence, this first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. CSea1j NOTARY PUBLIC SVAWWAL'-E-2r.. ' fl I .4 T 0 R P E D 0 XSWNAC'