Cowan High School - Sachem Iris Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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THE IRIS LAST WILL OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1928 Four years ago, less so many days, our fathers brought forth into this school a Freshman Class, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that Freshmen and Seniors are created equal. We are now engaged in finishing that task, and we do hereby will our possessions, believing ourselves to be of sound mind, excellent judgment and good habits, to the faculty, classes, and to fortunate members of the High School. Attested the 15th day of March, 1928, by Paul Carmichael and Lemma Chalfant. ARTICLE I Item 1. We do hereby will, to the High School as a whole, our good manners. Item 2. Unto our eldest brother, the Junior Class, we gladly will our apartment next to the windows so that they may open them when necessary. Item 3. Unto our second brother, the Sophomore Class, we do hereby will the right to be prosperous as we have been. Item 4. Unto our youngest and greenest brother, the Freshman Class, we bequeath our promptness on book reports. Item 5. We do hereby will to the twin brothers, the seventh and eighth, our opportunity to travel to Muncie. Item 6. Unto our intimate friend and companion, the faculty, we leave permission to make plenty of rules for the assembly. ARTICLE II Item 1. I, Gladys Anderson, leave unto Harriet Leeka my seat in the assembly in front of the best looking boy of the Senior Class. (Othal Knight.) Item 2. Unto that promising sophomore, Ermal LaMar, I, Dorothy Ball, leave my efficiency record of forty words a minute. Item 3. I, Jessie Jeffers, bequeath unto Joseph Ulrich, my greatest treasure, (Mr. Long’s Literature Book.) Item 4. To Corrine Drumm, I, Pauline Painter, leave my ability to keep a steady. Item 5. I. Ila White, gladly will my violin and my place in the or- chestra to Donno Cooper. Item 6. I, Ruth Ross, bequeath my ability as salesman of candy and sandwiches to anyone in the high school who will not abuse the privilege. Item 7. Unto Corrine Drumm, I, Gladys Buchanan, leave my aptitude in getting dates. Item 8. I, Frances Harbaugh, do hereby bequeath to Jeanette Young, my basketball suit and my place as guard. Item 9. Unto Marris Hutchison, I, Lola Bullock, leave my shorthand book. Item 10. I, Dorothy Chalfant, gladly will my complete English, in- cluding Miss Blank, to Lois Oxley. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 1928 SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Page Nineteen k

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THE IRIS I overheard a conversation between Dorothy and a lady whom I soon recognized as Ila White. She had been employed by Edsel Ford as a tutor for his daughter. Roger, one member of your class must have a large family. Who is the lady with so many children? I inquired. That's Lola Bullock, matron at the Orphan's Home at Anderson. She has won the affection of all the children there, and seems to enjoy her work very much.” I’m not surprised to hear that Lola has taken up that sort of work, I said. At this I was interrupted with: “Yes, the young people of Baton Rouge seem very much interested in Latin and are very good students, I heard one voice say. Another voice replied, Oh, are they? Well! You know that's where the national typing contest was held last year. I wrote one hundred-twenty words a minute and never made a mistake. “You did? Were you ever in Europe? You should see the scenes of Gesar's battles. By this time they were quite close to me and I recognized the first speaker as Lela Marsh and the second as Frances Harbaugh. Good evening, Lela, I said. How are you, and what are you doing now? “I am working strenuously for a very good cause. I teach Latin in Baton Rouge and in the summer I travel, trying to arouse more interest in Latin, was her reply. To Frances I said, “I've heard that you are private secretary to the Presi- dent of Kitselman's Fence Factory in Muncie.” “Yes, and she seems to be finding the way to his heart about as fast as she can type, Roger added. Roger said he thought it about time for them to be getting back to their respective stations. I tried to express my joy at having received a visit from them. The feeling of complacency left me for they retreated into the mist from which they had emerged. At that moment I was aroused by my maid who informed me that an airplane had landed in the vacant lot back of our home. I hastened toward the spot and to my surprise there were three members of the class I had heard nothing about. There was Othal Knight, clad in aviator’s clothes, which set off his manly beauty quite properly. With him were Dr. Francis LaMar and his lovely wife, formerly Dorothy Ball. We went around to the porch and I related my singular experience. Dr. LaMar told me this was only a dream but the strange thing about it was that each character was really filling that place in the world. Othal disclosed the fact that he was having reduced rates on the trip from the United States to Europe by air. I pursuaded my guests to remain for the night and when morning came we all departed, the doctor and his wife for New York, and I was taking advantage of the lower rates by going to Europe. ANNIE SHRIVER. Page Eighteen

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ARTICLE III Item 1. I, Lela Marsh, leave my inclination toward athletics to Mary Frances Walburn. Item 2. Unto Virginia Scott, I, Dorothy Kirp, do hereby will my quiet and demure ways. Item 3. I, Roger Ream, do gladly will unto my old friend, Eldon Kirkham, my Wall Street Ways.” Item 4. Unto Ronald Armstrong, I, Othal Knight, bequeath my popu- larity with Junior and Senior girls. Item 5. I, Madonna Finley, sincerely leave my rubber heels to Lemma Chalfant. Item 6. I, Marcus Newton, gladly will that tired feeling to Alfred Pence. Item 7. Free! Carl Oxley wills his stubbornness to anyone who cares to have it. Item 8. To Floyd Nixon, I, Roy Lyons, bequeath my stately height and my liking for basketball. Item 9. I, Francis LaMar, do hereby will to George Bickford that dis- gusting blush. Item 10. I, Lucile Marsh, gladly leave to that beloved Roxie Shockley, my Virgil translation with my rare gift for blundering, along with the epithet, Yes, teacher's pet. Item 11. Unto Mary Jeffers, I, Ina Hayes, do hereby leave my admira- tion for a certain boy. (Arvil Kirkham.) Item 12. I, Mary Johnson, bequeath the remains of my cosmetics to Laura Humbarger. Item 13. Unto Paul Carmichael, I, Virginia Skinner, gladly leave my lovely Senior wardrobe. Item 14. I, Kathleen Null, leave to Arvil Kirkham enough money to take a correspondence course in dancing. ARTICLE IV Item 1. We, the Seniors, do hereby appoint and name Joseph Ulrich and Edgar Nearon as Executors of our Last Will. Item 2. We do request that within seven days of our death our obitu- ary shall be published in the Muncie Star. We also provide a lot in Beech Grove cemetery where our bodies may be laid to rest with due rites and ceremonies. We do now appoint Marris Hutchison to see that a stone hearing a suitable inscription is placed above our resting place. Item 3. In witness thereof we hereunto seal this the 15th day of March, 1928 A.D., class of '28. We have signed as witness hereunto: Paul Carmichael Lemma Chalfant MARY JOHNSON. Page Twenty