Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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SILVER AND BLUE 21 Thirdly to wit: To Miss Warden and Mr. Ford, our class teachers, the sincere ap- preciation of their kindness to the class of 1928. J. D. Smith wills and bequeaths to Claude Rivers his so called feminine characteristics provided he will not let the boys flirt with him. Edith Wyatt wills to Charlotte Reynolds her calculus book, hoping it may be ever a great source of pleas- ure to her. Beatrice Curtiss wills the Privilege of acting the freshman in the sopho- more class to Charlotte Reynolds, or any other sophomore that can take the part, provided she is able to grin as broadly as aforesaid person. Allen Carver wills his athletic ability to Ralph Manly, and to Gran- ville Bridges his candy making art, provided Mr. Cook does not know it. Ruby Peace, the most talkative member of the class, wills the said ability to Ruby Gaines, on this condi- tion that she will not talk too much in Mr. Lee's bible class. Alice Bell wills to Delphia Breed- love her ability to get her beauty sleep during classtime, provided she does not talk in her sleep, and to Mildred Royal the honor of being the lowest down member of the class. Frances Hunter Wills the privilege of being the favorite of all the teach- ers to Amilee Chastain, and her ability in basketball to Ruby Black- welder on condition that they beat the Freshmen at Thanksgiving. Clarence Long wills his ability in commercial work to Edwin Couch, and his proveness to fall in love at first sight to Glynn Driver. Era Bagwell wills her hit with Mr. Spindler to Opal IParish, and her privilege of cutting class to Isabel McCutcheon provided she does not meet the teacher in the hall after- wards. Gertie White wills to Anna Maude Smith the privilege of having her room for Sophomore headquarters provided they can get a good nights sleep after drinking coffee for Sun- day night supper. Elizabeth Adams leaves her privi- lege of asking folks to wait a minute to Lucy Field, and her privilege of walking home from joint programs to Farris King, Ruby Trammel resigns her position of faculty seamstress to Annie Step- henson :provided she finishes Easter dresses by commencement time. Fourthly to wit: We do hereby constitute and ap- point Mr. Skinner sole executor of our last will and testament on this, the thirtieth day of April, Anno Dom- ini, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses: Miss Alice Barnes Fred Case Lucille Stone The Intimate Touch.-When com- pany stays too long, just treat them like members of the family and they'll soon beat it.-Alva Review Courier.

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20 SILVER AND BLUE - Oh! That looks like me, I exclaimed as I saw some one plucking flowers in a tiny garden. Near by was a little white house with a sign- Trammell'5 Flowers for Sale, over the door. Yes, I was picking forget-me-nots for it was the iifteenth anniversary of our graduation and I was planning to send a boquet to each member of the class of '28, A familiar voice aroused me, Ruby, come in out of the rain. Hurriedliy I rushed into my room. Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.-Addison. DEFINING A GENTLEMAN A man who is clean outside and inside, who neither looks up to the rich nor down to the poor, who can lose without squealing and win with- out bragging, who is considerate of women, children and old people! who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat and too sensible to loaf, and who takes his share of the world's goods and lets the other people have theirs. - IF HE DID? An old darky got up one night at a revival meeting and said: Brudders an' sisters, you knows an' I knows dat I ain't been what I oughter been. I'se robbed henroosts an' stole haugs, an' tole lies, an' got drunk, an' slashed folks wi' my razor, an' shot craps, an' cussed an' sworeg but, thank de Laud der's one thing I ain't nebber done, I ain't nebber lost mah religion. Will To whom it may concern: We the class of 1928, about to end this life, in the possession Of well crammed minds and good memories, in order to pass on to the future class our vast accumulation of privi- leges and possessions, do this 30 day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, make and publish, this, our last will and testimony, to wit: As to such possessions as it has pleased the Fates and our own great efforts to win for us, we do dis- pose of the same as follows, here- after: We do hereby will and bequeth to our dear instructors all the new and startling information which they have been so fortunate to gain from our examination fpapers, and any other knowledge received from us. lt's our wish that said information be given to future classes, that they may in some way become as learned as we. Secondly to wit: We, the Sophomore Class, will and bequeth to the class of 1929, all our privileges, hoping that they may get as much enjoyment from them, as we have. It is our special wish that the class of 1929 may be as fortunate as we, in being described as petrified and as sprouting wings. It is our hope that the class of 1929 may come into possession Of some dignity, that they may be such examples to under- classmen as we have been to them.

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i2 SILVER AND BLUE Valediclory Miss Berry, Friends, Faculty, and Students: I have been honored with the privilege of representing our class before you today and I wish to extend to you, in behalf of my fellow classmates our most hearty and sincere welcome. We feel that today is our day. We have striven hard in preparation for this glorious event and now that the time has come we wish to throw aside all worry and care and give ourselves wholly to the enjoyment and the satisfaction of knowing that we have finished one lap of the great race of life. We want you, too, to share our joy as we pause for breath, ere we take up the new and longer race which now stretches forth before us into strange and unknown fields of adventure. We must confess that in our hearts strange pangs of sorrow and regret are mingled with our joy when we pause to consider the full signifi- cance of this occasion. Tomorrow we shall leave our dear Alma Mater, never to enter it again as junior college students. Fond companion- ships will be severed and familiar scenes must be left behind. We are proud of the fact that ours is the first college class to be grad- uated from Berry. We have eagerly watched the growth of our college and we feel that it is our college. We are hoping for and anticipating great things for Berry in the future and to makes us sad to know that we must leave her now. During our stay here at Berry we have caught some thing of the vision and faith of our beloved founder and we know thai it will be the faith and effort on hex part that will place our college on the top. It is our hope that we may apply like faith in our share of life's duties and privileges. To Miss Berry, in behalf of our class I wish to tender our most sin- cere gratitude for the helpful influ- ence in our lives which has resulted from the utter unselfishness exempli- fied in her devotion to this institution and from her wise counsel and sym- pathetic relations with us in the years now closing. Because of the numer- ous affairs which demand her at- tention in carrying on the vision of this great school and because of the great number of students concerned frequent contact between Miss Berry and each individual has been impos- sibleg yet, from the first time that we sat in our beautiful chapel, awed into silent reverence, and listened with tear dimmed eyes to the story of the founding of our school, until the present moment, there is not a one of us but has been made to feel that in her he has had an accessible friend and adviser whose interest in his highest welfare was always deep and vital. She has devoted her life to toil in the interest of others but with her sacrifice comes the rare recompense of the life of ministry, and we can leave with her no higher hope than that she may long continue to be