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Senior Class Wills We, the Seniors of Cortland High School of the Class of '51, being free from all hallucinations and unforesaid visions do will and bequeath the following herein mentioned: We, the Seniors, bequeath to our most highly efficient faculty, for all their tireless efforts with us, our former successes in school, we also hope, for the benefit of the faculty, the oncoming Seniors live up to their name Dignified more than we did. We bequeath to our less educated friends, namely the Juniors, our seats in the back of the assembly and all the books we leave behind. We bequeath to the Sophomores our ability to maintain a regular attendance and we also will to you our ability to get along with all the faculty. We bequeath to the Freshmen all of the chewing gum, chalk, pencil stubs, waste paper, buckshot, pens, thumb tacks and everything else that is to be found in or about our seats. Individual Class Wills I, Bill Bell, will my cute personality to Joan Robertson. I, Velma Burns, will my busy brain and body to Charolette Von Hoene, l, Jewell Corn, will my false teeth to Richard Meadows. I, Francis Melloncamp, will my height to Donnie Baird. I, Chester Rust, will my ability to get along with Mrs. Hall to Hooker . I, Irnogene Grant, will my teeth to Floyd Browning and ONE TONI permanent to Marvin Flinn. I, Shirley Kreinhagen, will my activeness to Linda Bottoroff, and my smile and one- half of my brillant brain to Laretha Hehman. I, Coleen Fleetwood, will my long, curly hair to Helen Naffe. I, Joe Wineinger, will my wavy hair and bowlegged walk to Charlie Neihause, I, Bill Prewitt, will my keys to the Old Blue Goose to Carl Nelson. I, Sonny Hendershot, will all my -------- English to anyone who will take it, I, Lester Kuehn, will my ability to pick an eighth grade girl friend to Ronnie Baurle I, Gene Punk Fleetwood, will my Hot ! temper to Joe Grant. I, Louie Fleetwood, will my ability to get my lessons to Martha Abell, I, Walter Darlage, will my bashfulness toward women to Marvin Flinn, I, Delores Kloste rman, will my ability to get along with Miss Quebbeman in Physical Education Class to Carolyn Bell, and my ability to get cheerleader to Corrina Allman. I, Mary Lee White, will my good grades to Donny Ray. 15
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some time and finally said good-bye. We asked Sonny to play on a certain date our senior song in an arrangement done by the Seniors of '51, We drove to Cortland and found Francis Mellencamp out in the field. He stop ped and told us to go the the house and that he would be in later. After supper Bill and I, Francis, his wife, Betty, and his son talked about the past. Francis had in- herited the farm two years before and was coming along just fine. We asked him about some of the other classmates but he didn't give us much inforrnation. He told us Delores lKostyl Klosterman lived in Tampa, Florida with her husband, Roland Rebber, and two children, The next day we started on our way toward Florida. When we got there sev- eral days later, we were greeted by Kosty's two children who were trying to see how many oranges they could throw. After the orange throwing, the little boy got a good spanking from his mother as a prize for throwing the most oranges. Kosty and her husband lived near the beach where he owns a large fruit farm. While we were there, we enjoyed a lot of good eating and fun with the orange throwing Rebbers. In two more days we were on the road again traveling toward Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Jewell Corn was holding her own i.n the Navy Department. She took the afternoon off and took us to her home whe re we found her husband, Max, busy getting dinner. Jewell had been in Philadelphia six years and during that time she had gotten married and settled down in a good town. We told her we had visited many of the other classmates. Bill and I stayed that night and the next morning, but in the afternoon we shoved off again. We drove all night, the next day we drove into New York City. After driving a while, we came to a building which read, Club 51 , It was a swanky place, but we went in anyway. On the stage we saw a girl dancing and singing and much to our surprise we recognized her as one of our classmates, who was none other than Shirley Krienhagen, now Mrs. Joe Wineinger. She came over as soon as she saw us and invited us to go to the back part of the building and have supper with Imogene and Howardie Von Dissen and Joe Wineinger. We all got together and sang songs and talked over our schooldays. That night we were given a special show by Shirley and Imogene, Howardie runs the Club 5 ' and Joe was really a hell driver but spent most of his time on the road. Joe and Shirley had one child while lrnogene and Howardie had two. Shirley's girl and ln'1ogene's boys gave Bill and me a show they called the Thing , Shirley and lrnogene both hope the children will make a career of dancing and singing. We stayed there several days and looked over New York City, but had to take off agai.n, because our month was far spent. After saying good-bye, we lit out for Columbus, Ohio where Velma Burns was a secretary in her husband's business. Velma and her husband, Jim, showed us a good time. However, we soon had to say good-bye. From Columbus we took off for Wisconsin. We noticed a big sign on a barn that read Walter Darlage and Son's Dairy Farm . We stopped in and found that he has twin boys and one daughter. Walter had a large farm and milked many cows. His wife, Dorothy, was a very charming womang she was from Madison, Wisconsin, where Walter had met her. We stayed there for two days and then started on our way for Nebraska. We found Mary Lee White, now Mrs. Donald Thomas, teaching in a large high school. Don had employment with an insurance company. We spent several days with them and then started on our journey homeward. After several days we arrived home safe and sound and received a very warm welcome from the ladies. By Lester Kuehn 14 h
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