Alexander Graham High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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ITEM V. Departments many of our school We never seek to ridicule- They all are very eminent. To Latin students, Latin horses To English, lines beginning: Force is- fFrom Burke, the man of argumentj. Th' examples of our famous ways We leave to Hist'ry pupils' praiseg Our days have been magnificent! ITEM VI. We do devise to everyone The right to quibble, or have none Of student law' and government. ITEM VII. Our teachers merit praise compound, With love and gratitude profound, For ceaseless toil in management. LASTLY: Remainder, rest, and residue We do appoint our Dave -to spill, Of all the most belligerent. To execute our final will We leave to sturdy Sellers f Sue J, The contents of this document. Done this eighteenth day of May, 1922. Signed, THE CLASS or 'TWENTY-TWO ABBOT FRASER, Class Lawyer Witnesses: DR. E. H. GARINGER, Foster Father Miss BERTHA DONNELLY, Godmothev- 'le-'!r i INDIVIDUAL WILL The following individual members of the Class of 'Twenty-Two do hereby give and devise to their appropriate successors the characteristics and articles enumerated below: Roberta Walker, to Alice Gibbon: Her wad of gum. Hildren Turner, to Ethel Vaughn: Her giggle.

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CQ? gy li. JI Qllass will city Challotte County Meck And Old North State the best by heck Our school of all the continent We the Class of Twenty Two Oui final Will and Testament Our mind IS cleai oui body sound But death we know doth hover round To heal the dying sacrament ITEM I When we ale gone our wish is this That those of us who ve gone remiss You ll tender keep and diligent ITEM II In custom since the Lord knows when We will our Junior fellow men Our privleges of long descent These ancient myths were once of worth But now alas' they need rebirth Good watchful care and nourishment ITEM III Twere best to give to those who lack QA rhyme for lack by brains I wracklj We therefore seem lntelllgent So to the Soph more boys we give The faultless lives we Seniors live, Most spotless and most excellent The Senior girls their beauty leave, Then' lnnocence, the air they breathe, To Junior maidens impudent. L' 4 ' F . 1 1 'y ' ' - I I : , ' 1 Do make and publish this for you, ' . '7 I 7 , Y , . , . . Y , rc ' 1 xr l , Y ' ' Y , . l ' T ll ,Y ' , . 9 A Q F Our courtesy, our wit, oui teeth, We gladly to the Fresh bequeath, And warn him to be reverent. ITEM IV. To faculty-the lady part- We will our gentle, loving heart For use Cas an experimentj, Because we know they are severe In pinching nose and pulling ear Or other form of punishment.

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Morgan Spier and Augusta Rose, to Billy Harvell and Lemma Shepherd: Their soul-mate devotion. Susie Plummer, to Mary Elizabeth Doggett: Her best all-'round qualities. Robert Dye, to Robert Mitchell: His charms. Lucille Manning, to Elizabeth Mather: Her appealing, heartrending lisp. William Alexander, to Richard Cannon: His Hamlet-toned voice. Minerva McClung, to Wayne Dudley: Her stellar brilliance in physics. John Herbert, to Charles Herbert: His fine journalistic abilities. Maude Haywood, to Jean Crowell: Her rapidity of tongue. Robert Buck, to Hal Carter: His permanent kink. Louisa Duls, to the most worthy one: Her true-blue loyalty. Thurston Kiser, to Carl Purser: His palmolive-pink cheeks. Tallu Crumley, to Sara Hackney: Her virtue of being seen and not heard. Nelson Jones, to Paul Whitlock: His handsome UM . Marie Hagood, to Lillian Johnson: Her languid wiles. Sarah Adelaide Mayer, to some bonehead: Her intellectuality. Paul Carmichael, to Garrett Morehead: His sylph-like figure. Signed: THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS or THE CLASS or 'TWENTY-Two Per ABBOT FRASER-La wyefr Jlmiok FAC LLLTY SOPKO M085 FRESHNAN' M I pl V 1 l I