Broken Bow High School - Savage Yearbook (Broken Bow, OK)

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- 1 s if l in QE ' il '4 'WhnlulnlliiV V TSM 4 CLASS WILL Town of Broken Bow, County of McCurtain, State of Oklahoma, Month of May, 17th Day, f Year of 1918, A. D. A To those it may concern, and the Broken Bow High School in particular: ' We, the Senior Class of 1918, dubbed Know-Alls by the Freshies, Smart Alecs by the Sophs, and just plain Seniors by the Juniors, taking for granted, and without having ,been examined and given certi- ficates by our respective family doctors, that we are physically well and mentally balanced, on the ground that we are not, at present, in either a hospital and an insane asylum, here proclaim and file on record this, our last will and testament, hoping against hope, that it will bring joy and comfort to many a weary traveller on the road which We have traversed, and declare all later wills and likewise testaments, null and void- - I, Ester Stevens, bequeath to any girl in the Junior Class, expecting, at an early date, to captivate a man, my stock oi' nonsenscial ideas on man-training, in order that, as I do not expect to have an object on vsdiich to practice for quiet awhile yet, my system may be thus early put into practice, and solve the national problem of women- I, Dollie Elledge, bequeath to any ambitious young man in the Sophomore Class, wishing to succeed in life, my voluble ability to con- jugate the verb amo, with all the cadences and intonations of voice which accompany such a magnetic word. I, Ray Green, bequeath to any boy of the Freshman Class, my un- paralleled and excessive talent as a critic, together with my marvelous ability as a song-composer. , I, Laura Roberts, bequeath to any Junior carrying more than four subjects, my unlimited amount of spare time, together with my empty thots and worthless ideas. ' I, Flora Wright, bequeath to any Sophomore, not only my beauti- ful and incomparable voice as a singer, but also my art of managing other people's affairs, with the desire that he will be as great an adept at the business as I was. I, Nan Holcombe, bequeath to any one of the Freshman girls, the secret of my wonderful beauty of face and personality, in the hope that, in future years, some one may notice said young lady, and re- mark: What a Wonderful personality she has! I, Ryan Crenshaw, glady bequeath to any boy in the Sophomore Class, my power as a girl-charmer, and also my unfathomed depth of unsounded learning, unsounded because unreachable, in order that, possibly, some person will, at some future day, sound said learning and I may thus be able to leave behind me foot-prints on the sands of time. I, Dixie Elledge, without the sign of a sigh or a backward glance, to see if he be grateful, bequeath to any student of the Broken Bow High School, my said-to-be unquenchable thirst for arguments of any kind, more especially on Woman's Rights, and my unaccounted for ability to be able to beat Vergil at his own game, that of poetry writ- ing, hoping, believing, trusting, that by these two combined arts, fame will redound on the giver. 5 The will of man is by reason swayed. f illllIIlI1llllllllllIlIIlIIIllllIlllIllIlllllllllllllIlllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'illIllHIIllIllIllIIllllllIIIIIllIIIIIIIlIlIllIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllilllIllllllliilllliiEllllllllEHillIllillillllllllliliiilliililIlililiiilllllllllllIiilllllllllllllllllll xfxfvvvxfxn -20- , ,,-,- -A - -Y

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