Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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used by the High School girls during the years to come, in hopes that their drug store bills will thereby decrease. I, Etta McLeod, do willingly leave to Alice Curry my reputation of being short of stature. I, Elmer Neely, will to Don Pierce my especial talent as Yell Leader. i, Doris Tyrrell, leave to John Stanley my ability to graduate without going to school. I, Marvel Skeels, will to Edna Olson, after my departure from High School, the privilege of riding in a certain olive drab bug. I, Fred Lorenz, do hereby will to Fred Harlocker my place as a guard in High School basket ball team. I, Nellie Johnson, do hereby leave my sweet temper and ireckles to Margaret Cunningham. I, Gladys Nosier, leave my perfectly good powder puff to be chained to the mirror in the girls cloak room, and used by the public at large. I, Sylvia Neely, will to Carol Rahskopf my power of saying nothing when the moment for silence has arrived. I, Mildred Norton, do hereby bequeath to Lester Bogard my love for the sciences. I, Flossie Lund, leave my grace in tripping the light fantastic to Viola Knife. I, Leland Peart, do hereby will my place in the Hlgn School orchestra to Chauncey Fish. I, Catherine Hersey, bequeath to Hazel Bean my interest in Beaver Hill. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the seal of the Senior Class, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred eighteen. Molly Bruce (Seal) Marian Preston

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We, the Senior Class of 1918, of the Coquille High School, City of Coquille, County of Coos, State of Oregon, realizing the uncertainity of life in this, the crisis of the World War, and the increased danger that will confront us when we will no longer be shielded by the watchful eyes of the faculty, deem it highly expedient that we should make provision for the distribution of our worldly possessions and therefore declare this our last will and testament. To the Juniors we bequeath our supernatural dignity. To the Sophomores we will the privilege of entering into the sacred realms of the office and typewriting room without permission. To the poor misused Freshmen we will our unusual success in obtaining high grades. To the Faculty in appreciation of the kind interest they have shown toward us we leave the quiet which will reign in the study hall as a result of our absence. To Janitor Johnson we gladly leave the real estate which he has swept up from under our desks. I, Maymie DeLong, leave to Beryl Woodruff my coquettish manners and curls. I, Myrtle Neely, do cheerfully bequeath to Irene Kime the extreme honor of being the best avoirdupoised girl in the Senior Class. I, Charles Oerding, do hereby donate to Mr. Douglas my much cherished basket ball suit to be used as a screen on which to flash moving pictures. I, Clara Lund, leave my blonde complexion to be sparingly

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THE SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY. In looking through some of the most important papers the other day I recognized several names, the first one being our past president of the class of 1918. Miss Myrtle Neely, who after having traveled about for some years as a lecturer on Woman’s Rights, returned to Myrtle Point where she established a Young Ladies Seminary of which she is principal. The next I noticed was Miss Etta McLeod, who is now a second Mary Pickford. She made a great name for herself all over the world. She married an English Lord, but not being able to get along with him, has gone to Norway, Oregon, where she has settled on a farm, while her husband is in New York carrying on his business. Miss Maymie DeLong was next in line, she is well known as a great Kindergarten teacher. Here is Miss Gladys Nosier, she has always been noted for her humane acts, she always was bailing somebody out and getting after people for inhuman acts. She has also given several great lectures and because of it has been sent to Liberia as a representative for the United States. Miss Catherine Hersey is also a noted lecturer, although her lectures are of a different type. She is a great Christian Science Lecturer. She is also a great hynotist, palmist and mind reader. Miss Sylvia Neely has turned out much as we expected, as she has tried writing for several of our most prominent papers and important magazines. She is now writing blank verse for the Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Fred Lorenz, whom we expected great things of in the athletics, especially has over done upon that line. He won first honors in athletics at the University of Oregon. He then returned to Powers where he married the daughter of a logger, moving from there to Marshfield where he went into the wholesale dry goods business. Miss Doris Tyrrell, who worked for the County Agriculturist for some time, married a young man from Prosper and moved on to a ranch a few miles below Coquille, Oregon, which is now a very prosperous city of fifty thousand. She is a very