Covington High School - Derrick Yearbook (Covington, OK)

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LAST WILL AND TESTWMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF I940--COVINGTON HIGH WE THE SENIOR CLASS or THE CDVINGTON HI, BEING IN THE FULL Pos- SESSION or ALL ouR MENTAL FACULTIES AND HAVING N0 FEAR or ANY0lEfE' ron: OUR EYES, NDT EVEN THE SURERINTENDENTI THE PRINCIPAL AND OTHER TEACHERS, VE D0 HERE-av DEVISE, WILL, EEQUEATH AND CONVEY ouR VAR' IOUS EARTHLY PQSSESSIONSQ AND ALL THE OTHER ARRDRTENANGEE AND HER' EDITAMENTS THEREUNTO BELONGINGQ T0 THE PERSONS HEREINAETER MENTIDN- E09 TO BE BY THEM HELD IN UNDISTURBED POSSESSION THROUGHOUT THEIR UORTAL SPANSQ To THE JUNIDRS, wHo WILL soon BECOME SENlORSg WE BESTOW AU.THE MISTAKESs BLUNDERSA INAccuRAcIEs AND LAPSES or MEMORY COMMITTED BY us DURING THE LAST ExoITING YEAR or ouR MOST EXCITING LIFE. To THE FRESHMEN AND 30PHOMORESp GDLLEGTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLYQ UE CONVEY ouR POWER or SAYING THE WRONG THING IN THE RIGHT PLACEQOR THE RIGHT THING IN THE wRoNG PLACE. JusT HOV THIS IS ACCOUPLISHE D WE ARE NOT PREPARED T0 SAY. EACH ONE WILL NEED T0 WORK THE MATTER ouT FOR HIMSELF OR HERSELFO THERE IS N0 DOUBT THAT Muon BENEFIT 'ILL RESULT.FROU THE EFFORTQ THE PERSONAL BEQUESTS ARE AS FOLLOWS! Bos BAILEY, HIS ORATORICAL POWERS T0 JOEL LEE CLINE5 JACK BRAL- EY, HIS MANLY PHYSIQUE T0 EHERETT HERMANSKIS JAMES CALMERTI HIS ABILITY T0 GET ROMANTIC ON A MINUTES NOTICE T0 STANLEY NIcHoLs: BILLY FYFFE, Has ABILITY T0 GET T0 SCHDOL EVERY DAYIALTHOUGH HE COMES I9 MILESI TO ALVIN NOBLEQ IHC HAS ONLY 7 BLOGKSSKRLIE LEO LE GRANT, HIS ABILITY T0 oo THE MOST AND GET BY WITH IT. T0 J.D. WOOLBRIGNT, WHO DOES THE LEAST AND GETS cAuGHT: LEDNARD LDNGLEY LEAVES HIs EVENING SESSION IN STUDY HALL UITH MAxINE WARD T0 JERRY SEBRANEK AND VERMA JEAN SCHUEERS VINCENT SHIELDSA HIS AN- TIQUATED FDRD T0 THE JUNIORS ron THE AccusToMEo SKIPPING ouT IN THEIR SENIOR YEAR5 UELVIN WYSSMAN, HIS sTuoIous soon LEARNING T0 L. B, CDLLINSS WILUA BARNES. HER BLUE EYES TO ALTA BELL CL- IIE? MARY M. BRECKElRlDGEg HER AMRLE SWING AND SWAY9 ESPECIALLY svAY, T0 JERRY WILLIAMS: MARTHA BRIGHT, HER MOTHER'S TOUCH T0 VIRGINIA SHARRETTS ALBERTA DHABALT, HER COLLECTION or DANCE sT- AMRS T0 MILDRED GDDDARDI LUCILLE MALLDY AND JAMES CALYERTITHEIR MALL DUTY T0 THE HIGH SCHOOL FACULTYS JUNE FlSCHERg HER ABILITY T0 BE NIND AND LENIENT T0 YILLARD BOYCES MONETTE MYERS,HER EASE IN USING INGDNGEIVAELE WORDS T0 UUOUROW NORRISS EDALEEN PHARES, HER EVER'READY WIT T0 RUBY-CLARKQ MAXINE WARD, HER LYRICAL TWITTER T0 ERvIN WYSSMANQ DORIS SHDEMANERI HER LOVELY CHARM T0 MARGARET LONG' LEYS VIRGINIA MCNEAL, HER PHYSICAL ATTRAcTIoN T0 FRANCES WIsEMAN5 JERRY HAwNINs, HER TIME- UASTIIG EFFORTS TO LouIs KROEGERS JERREL DEAN FAUBIONp HER GOLDEN TRESSES T0 MILDRED DALLASF DOROTHA PDWELL, HER ABILITY T0 LOSE aooxs T0 FRED JOHNSONA FOR RESEARCH WORK ll eLAGN-MAIL- IlGo

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CLASS PROPHECY ON THE ADVICE or THE FORTUNE TELLERA I GAZED INTo THE CRYSTAL GLOBE AND TOOK A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE or THE i940 GRADUATESQ MY SURPRISE wAS IMMEASURABLE WHEN I SAw A coURTRooM SCENE WITH MELVIN WYSSMAN AS STATE's ATTORNEY AND VINCENT SHIELDSI WORLD'S GREATEST CRIMINAL LAWYER9 TAKING THE FLODRQ ALTERNATELY ooNvIcTINc AND DE' FENDING BILLY LEE FYFEEI HELD on A CHARGE or STOOLTPIGEONRY. THE JURY FILED oUT AND' UAS ASToNISHEo TO SEE IN THEIR MIUST Sucn MEM' SERS A5 LEoNARo LONGLEYI JUNE FISCHERQ AND JACK BRALEYQ AFTER Two MINUTES or DELIBERATIONT THE JURY RETURNED THE vERoIcT--GUILTY or STO0L'PIGEONRY IN THE FlRST DEGREES UBSERVBNG THE cRowoIEAvINc THE COURTROOMg I SAw MAXCNE WARD LONCLEY wITH Two LITTLE LoNcLEY's HANGING ON HER SKIRT, THE SCENE CHANGED ANo I Now SAW THE INTERIOR or A vERY MooERN AND SELECT BEAUTY SHOPPES HEAD MANAGER wAS UORDTHA POWELLQ HER OPERATORS INCLUDED DORIS SHOEMAKER ANo JERREL DEAN FAUBIOBO MANI- CURIST wAS JERRY LEE HAWKINSQ MONETTE MYERS, THAT MosT EERICIENT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRES. or THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE Co., ENTERED:AND oEMANoEo IMMEDIATE SERVICES AFTER ALL, THIS wAS HER LUNCH HoUR AND SHE MUSTN'T BE LATE GETTQNG BACK T0 WORK. MARTHA BRIGHT, WHOSE HUSBAND OWNS A CHABN or FILLING STAnoNS, ENTEREQ LEISURELY FOR A COMPLETE BEAUTY TREATMENTQ TONIGHT wASHER NIGHT T0 IMPRESS THE SocIALLv PROMSNENT PEOPLE or THE CITY. THIS SCENE FAOED INTo OBLIVION AND I FOUND MYSELF STARINoINTo THE BNTERHOR or THE ROCKETR OCCUPVING A PRIVATE SUITE wAS IVA SMITH ANS HER TRAVEEQNG coMRANIoN, EDALEEN PHARESo Bos BAILEY,ST- ATE SENATORQ WAS IN AN ADJODNING CARg DILICENTLY PREPARINC A S ECH HE WAS T0 cIvE AT A CONVENTIONQ A JOLT INTERRUPTED HIS TREND or THOUGHT AND AT THE SAME TBME SCREAMS AND SHRIEKS WERE HEARD FROM THE PASSENGERS0 THE LBMITED EXPRESS HAD CRASHED INTo THE ROCKET. IMMEDIATELY THE scENE wAS ONE or CONFUSION AND ANXIETYQ IN THE MIDST or THIS HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE APPEARED WILMA BARNES, ACE RE- PORTER ON THE STAR TELEGRAM, HER RHoTocRARHIc ASSISTANT WAS MARY MARGARET BRECKENRIDGEA PATIENTLY AwAITINc THEM WAS THEIR TAXI DRIV' ER, ARLIE LEo LEGRANT. PEACE AT LAST DESCENDED AND I NOW SAW A SWANKY CAFE IN CALI- FORNIAA HEAD WAITRESS WAS ALBERTA DHABALTQ ABOUT 7 BLOCKS Down THE STREET WAS A LITTLE SUBURBAN HOME, WHOSE OCCUPANTS VAS THE FORMER LUcILLE MALLOY AND CHUNNY CALVERT. LIVING AcRosS THE STREETWAS VIRGINIA MCNEAL NORRISQ ABRUPTLY THE GLOBE CRASHED on THEFLOORI AND MY MENTAL PICTURES WERE ELIMINATEoo