Charlotte Technical High School - Technique Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Clara Belle Biggers leaves her money collecting ability” to Thelma Helms and Elizabeth King. Her ability at impromptu speaking she wills to Annie Heintz and Evelyn Horton. Dartha Barefoot leaves her quiet disposition and modest ways to Eloise Marvin. Marie Myers leaves her sweet voice and demure manner to Estelle Short and Loma Wagner. Ernest Mobley wills his fondness for wood working to Howard Nates. He wills his loyalty to his Native State, Georgia, to Estelle Biggers. R. K. Brown, Jr., wills his “argumentative ability to Annie Mae Cooke and Chloie Conder. Frances Alexander wills her sweet and lovable ways to Eddie Lucas and Gertrude Walsh. Luther Carter wills his position as usher at the Broadway Theatre to the boy or girl who best “fits” his uniform. To Mr. Selby we leave our sincere thanks for all he has done for us. We also leave a request that he will continue his custom of singing “the first verse of America’ at every assembly program. To Miss Abernethy we leave the hope that she may some day have a French class with which she can really converse in that difficult language. To Miss Underwood we will all of our perfect typewriting copies with the wish that on next Hallowe’en night she make of them a beautiful bonfire. 1. To Miss Myers we leave our deepest gratitude for easing our many “ills and pains. 2. To Miss Clegg we leave all our knowledge of dates with the hope that she may use them to good advantage. 3. To Miss Kittles we leave our young and foolish ways. 4. To Mr. Hoon we leave our thanks for all of the “gas he has wasted on us. 5. To Miss Russell we will the hope that she may some time have the opportunity of putting into practice for herself the “Science of Cooking which she has so successfully taught us. 6. To Mr. West we leave our sincere wishes for a very successful future. 7. To Mr. Littell we leave a reserve tank for his New Nash so that he may be saved the frequent embarrassment of “giving out of gas while taking his lady friends home. 8. To Miss Ransom we will all our returned English papers, hoping they may be of valuable service to her in the instruction of classes less brilliant than the class of ’29. 9. To Miss Meining, Miss Manship, Miss Kinder, Miss Clary, and Miss McDuffie, who have but recently come among us, we leave the hope that they like Tech High as well as it likes them and that they will all return next year. Lastly, we do appoint as executor of this our last will and testament, our true friend, Mr. F. T. Selby. Done and signed this, twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. (Signed) SENIOR CLASS OF ' 29. Witnesses: George Carpenter, Testator. Will Rogers. Otto Gullickson. Charles Lindberg. [ twenty-four]

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Last Will and Testament of Seniors State of North Carolina County of Mecklenburg W E, the Senior Class of Tech High, of said state and county, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills heretofore ma de by US. We wish our executor, as soon as possible after our departure, to dispose of the following: SECTION I Article i To the class of 1930, we bequeath the privilege of following our most illustrous footsteps and the honor of occupying the front seats in chapel which we, the class of 1929, have just vacated. They also are to come into possession of our intelligence, prosperity, high ideals, dignity, amiable disposition, and good looks. SECTION 11 Article I To various individuals of the Junior Class and Faculty we make these important and generous gifts, trusting that they will be duly appreciated. Nell Dellinger wills her miniature gold football to William Pittman with the hope that he will win a mate for it next year. She wills her executive ability, tact, and good natured disposition to the incoming Senior Class President. Ishmael House leaves his surplus number of A s to Nixon Caldwell. Walter Clark wills his position of school operator to Jack Plummer. Oren Hart wills his ability to get free service in the Auto Shop to his brother, Ernest. Lucile Swaringen wills her adeptness in Shorthand to the Keever Twins, and her reddish curly locks, which signify intelligence, to Mildred Green and Bessie King. Ethel Kerr wills all of her typing awards to Lee Mullis. She wills her “cashier ability to Charles Boyles. James Thompson wills the remaining part of old Faithful to Clarence Rogers, with the condition that he will not make her run over seventy-five miles an hour on rough roads. Mary Orr wills her ever-ready vanity case to Mae Hopkins. Pauline Ross and Mary Broom will their ability to make friends quickly, in a new environment, to Welva Helderman and Nora Morton. Margaret Price ' s surplus avoirdupois is to be divided equally between Lou Barbour and Helen Daniels. Lorena White leaves her harp playing talent to Mae Smith, and her poetical ability to Evelyn Troutman. Evelyn Hurt leaves her oratorical ability to Evelyn Deaton and Beulah Armstrong. Frank Biggers leaves his popularity with the girls to John Cullingford. James Berry wills a patented giggle, which has brought its owner much pleasure as well as embarrassment, to Helen Osborne. Ernest Selvy leaves his big feet to Charles Fisher and hopes that he will leave footprints on the sands of time. [twenty-three]

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UNDER-CLASSES •s [twenty-five]