Bland High School - Echo Yearbook (Bland, VA)

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St ■ £- S ' s ' LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the graduating class of Bland High School, ii year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-six, do hereby bequeatl following items to those who are less fortunate than us, in this, our will. Collectively, the Senior Class wills the following: To the school, we leave our impression on the sand of time with the hope that the class of 1 956 will never be forgotten in the annuals of Bland High School. To the faculty, we leave all the startling information and amazing knowledge with which we have supplied them on our examination papers from time to time. We know that much which we have imparted to them in this way has been entirely new to them and would throw much fnew light on many familiar line of thought throughout the entire world, even outside the halls and walls of B. H. S. To the Juniors, we leave all the old chewing gum stuck on the bottom of the desks in the Senior room. To the Sophomore s , we give our abundant store of knowledge , pounded into our thick skulls by the poor old faculty. To the Freshmen, we will the privileges and hardship it takes to be- come Seniors. Individually, we make the following personal bequests of the things we have held most dear throughout our high school days: I, Jean Melvin, will my love for Hollybrook to Yvonne Durham. I, Billy Muncy , will my ability to ring the outside bell to Billy Strock. I, Gary Walker, will my ability to use flashlights to Jimbo Muncy. I, Margaret Tickle, will my giggling ways to Thelma Wilson. I, Doug Sarver, will my ability to get out on Saturday night to Billy Dehart. I, Jimmy Dehart, will my ability to drive and Dallas Midkiff to Dewey Conley. We, Mildred Wolfe and Shelby Ramsey, will our seats in the Senior room to Nancy Tate and Mona Scott. We, Ruby Wilson and Phyllis Melvin, will our ability to catch boy- friends to Joyce Puckett and Sue Muncy. I, Danny Bird, will my never failing ability to have good luck with the family car on date night to anybody that wants to and pity the person that gets it. 4

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ADM Helen P. Hardy James O. Morehead Victor R. Gilly NISTRATION Virginia Brown Marjorie Blankenship Dow Davis Dorothy Wadsworth Annie Dunn Eliza Gordon Ralph Reynolds Rosa Bird Claude Stowers Marie Groseclose Lena Burton Virginia Stafford Mozelle Peery Georgie Mustard Myrtle Stuart Ethel Billips 3

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Steward Stafford, will my flashy shirts to Dan Wiley. f e , Barbara Wright and Dona Wright, will our good times on the bus to Bobby Newberry and Edwin Beamer. Eula Hooker, will my ability to have fun to Carty Shannon. Billy Atkinson, will my aggravating ways to Jackie Wayne Mustard. Lewis Tickle , will Rosy to anyone who wants her . Carolyn Morehead, will my ability to pick on people without being detected to Vera. Lene Tickle. Eleanor Bird, will my height to Henry Howard Newberry. Jimmy Strouse , will my ability to study to David Morehead . L. B . T ownley , will my letter - writing ability to Kenneth Hall. Doug Gordon, will my love for Bland to Sherman T ownley. Tommy Harden, will my white hair , to Douglas Ramsey. Wilmer Havens , will my dignified ways to Phillip Stowers. Dexter T ownley, will my independent ways to D . B . Waddle. W ayne Me Peak, will my name Dumpy to Joyce Six. Elwood Cash, will my temper to Pauline King. Faye Davis , will my title yellow rose of Little Creek to Eleanor Hamblin. Maxine Conley , will my curly hair to Barbara Elizabeth W right. Ar thu r W right, will my title do less to David Strader . Pauline Melvin, will all my nicknames to Janie Chewning. Charle s Kirby, will the remainder of my two weeks to L. S . Lam- bert fe, Carolyn Bird and Nancy Kitts , will our athletic ways to Nancy Tate and Ann Hardy. I, J ohnny Atwell, will my ignorance to Barry McPeak. I, Nancy F rancis , will my artistic ability to Billy Ramsey. I, Barbara McPeak, will my ability to stick bobby pins in a receptacle to Margaret Miller . Anything else that the Senior Class has had possession of, will be left for the use of Principal , teacher s , and students in future years . Eleanor Louise Bird Witne sses: Elwood Cash Stewart Stafford 5