Cobb Memorial School - Reflector Yearbook (Ruffin, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Upon behalf of my client, the class of 1950 of Cobb Memorial High School, I h ave called you together upon this solemn occasion to listen to the Last Will and Testament and to receive a few gifts she has to bestow in her last moments. Listen one and all, while I read this document, as duly drawn up and sworn to. We the class of 1950, in nineteen individual and distinct parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education with a gained knowledge and gloomy memories, give and bequeath to the faculty our love and esteem in appreciation of all thy have done for us. Otis Daniel, Jr. bequeaths his position as half-back on the foot¬ ball team to David Hooker. Mary Alice Rice leaves her quiet ways to Carolyn Watlington. Dewey Poteat and Earl Hodges leave their positions on the baseball team to Richard Martin. Lelia Alice Blackwell bequeaths her scholastic ability to Ruth Reid Ferrell. Richard Walker leaves his flirting ways to Nathan Crumpton. Margaret Hogan and Camilla Walker give their fyping ability to Nancy Hodges. Bobby Brackin bequeaths his sense of humor to Willard Barber. Beatrice Gregory bequeaths her ability to play softball to Mary Frances Chance. Dorothy Jane Layne bequeaths her position on “The Reflector” to Dorothy White. Monroe Seamster and Elizabeth Law bequeath their positions on the Cobb Web to Ella Brackin. Lorene Huskey bequeaths her ability to get men to Dorothy ' Burner and Larvery McKinney. Louise Hutson bequeaths his love for football to Carson Toler. Nancy Payne bequeaths her winning ways with patrolmen to Ruth Crumpton and Eeulah Creasey. Annette Jones bequeaths her former interest in the Navy to Barbara Keatts and Gloria Mustain. Eugene Layne leaves his excess weight and height to Alice Chandler. . T . I Hugh Wright, bequeath my love and esteem for old Number 6 to the county with the hope that they will care for her as tenderly as I have. , , . All the rest and residue of our property whatsoever, of what nature, kind and quality so ever it may be we give and bequeath to our ' beloved principal for his use and benefit absolutely, and to be disposed of for the good of the coming classes as he might see fit. Hugh Wright

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CLASS PROPHECY As I walk into the office of the Four Bells Movie Corporation, 1 see Hugh Wright, owner and sole stockholder, worrying about how he can produce the top picture of 1965 and outrank his rival Earl Hodges. I tell him, “It’s easy, just make a picture of the fabulous class of 1950.” At this, his secretary, Annette Jones, who stands by, efficiently begins to put in a call to Principal Monroe Seamster at Cobb Memorial. Principal Seamster is contacted and arrangements are made for filming the movie on the grounds. Richard Walker, keeper of the keys and head janitor (best paid position in the school) is promptly commissioned to set the building in shape. Camilla Walker, long distance operator of the Bell Telephone Company and Nancy Payne of the Sandtrap Airlines are enlisted in contacting the remainder of the class of “50”. Margaret Hogan and Mary Alice Rice are easily located in their beauty salon in Danville, Virginia. Otis Daniel, Jr. is found to own a large restaurant in a nearby city. Louis Hutson is still working in the cotton mills in Danville. Finally the day arrives for us to return to our high school. Lpon entering the front door we see Lelia Alice Blackwell and ElizaDeth Law, both teachers at the school. Lorene Huskey, who is now married, is seen talking to Eugene Layne, who owns a large farm nearby. Dorothy Jane Layne, a teacher at Yale University is seen talking to beatrice Gregory, the dietition in the school cafeteria. Dewey Poteat is found in the school library reading the latest victories of the New York Yankee Baseball team, on which he is star pitcher. The picture is finally ready for showing and Lee Edsel Mc¬ Kinney offered us the use of his theater for the premier. It is a huge success and who could expect otherwise, just look at its actors and subject. Robert Miles Brackin