Dan River High School - Archway Yearbook (Ringgold, VA)

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The Arehwap for 1936 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT FE, the Senior Class of Dan River High School, feeling that the time of our passing is fast drawing nigh, do hereby become sane and solemn (for the first time in our lives). Being well able to express our desires and wishes in regard to our bequests, we do make and publish our “Last Will and Testament’ in manner and form following, hereby declaring void all wills by us at any time heretofore made. 1. To the school as a whole, faculty and student body, who because of their general dispositions and kindly ways, have always made us love them, are making the tears flow from our hearts, we give and bequeath a large galvanized bucket to catch the tears, and a linen sheet, 90 inches by 72 inches, with which to wipe the aftersaid teary organs. 2. Polly Barker leaves her splendid attention to Lois Neal. 3. Dorothy Bennett leaves her popularity to Beverly Kerns. 4. To Warner Moorefield we leave a statue of ‘‘Lee,’’ while to Paul Dodson we will our kitchen “Bill.” 5. Robertson Bennett and Carolyn Sams leave their jolly dispositions to Mr. Bass. 6. Mary Davis leaves her “baby ways” to Jack Gilbert. 7. ‘Thelma Davis leaves her scholastic ability to Rebecca Waller. 8. Margaret Dodd leaves her “McNichols” to the Junior Class, who will be glad to get her dimes and dollars also. 9. Cornelia Dodson leaves her dignity to Nerine Campbell. 10. Harold Dyer leaves his athletic figure to Everett Wilkerson. mn Lucy Ferguson leaves her athletic ability to Ruth Oakes. 12. Ryland Groff leaves his winning smiles to Melvin Wiles. 13. Gladys Hall leaves her quiet disposition to Ruth Lindsey. 14. Evelyn Harding leaves her ‘Mae West” figure to Rebecca Waller. 15. Willard Jeffries leaves his love for trees (especially Oakes) to Melvin Adams. 16. Helen King leaves her “flapper styles” to Polly Haymes. 17. Helen Mays leaves her kind-hearted disposition to Elreese Terry. 18. Ilah Mills leaves her blonde beauty to Elizabeth Beckner. 19. Bernice Oakes leaves her refinement to Lois Neal.

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The Arecehwayp for 1936 Harold Dyer, a big basketball player with a league team, is getting ready to go to the Olympics; and what do you think? Helen Mays is going with him! Earl Franklin has become quite rich in the tobacco business, and gives the Dan River High School a big bus. At last Margaret Dodd and Bernice Oakes’ dreams have come true, for both of them are married and living in Richmond, Va. Frances Riddle has just finished a library course and is now a librarian in Richmond, Va. Dorothy Bennett, after an extensive travel, has returned to her old home town and has settled down to be an old maid. Mr. Mickel finishes his breathless account with the news of receiving a letter from Robertson Bennett, asking for references. Robertson is sure of securing the position as joke editor of The Literary Digest. After spending an enjoyable hour Mr Mickel, with the aid of his chauffeur, enters the car and speeds away. Arriving home his butler announces that four, on their way to aaaee were very sorry to have missed him, but left cards. Mr. Mickel discovers they were none other than Thelma Davis, Helen W alton, Helen King, and Ruby Wiles. The two occupants of the bungalow continue to discuss their classmates. They recall that Daisy White and Hlah Mills are beauty specialists in New York. As thirty years have passed, just what has become of the dignified Seniors, Alma Walters, Esther Shelton, and Gladys Hall? Ah, yes! They are in Washing- ton, holding governmental positions. Frances Oakes is a nurse at Duke Hospital and is still in love with Willard Jeffries, now a doctor there. After a tender good night the wife rises, walks to the bookcase and replaces a famous novel she has just read. The author being one of her classmates, Carolyn Sams heG De The glowing logs having burned, crumbled and dropped one by one and the embers are growing cold. His wife, Mary Davis, glances at the old grandfather clock and is startled to see that it is 11:30. She reminds her husband, Ryland Groff, of the hour. Ryland taps the ashes from his pipe, yawns and enters the bedroom. ; ey : ‘ lhey had spent an enjoyable evening in the land of happiest memories. NV. JEFFRIES.

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The Arehwap for 1936 20. Frances Oakes leaves her red hair to Katherine Beckner. © 21. Elise Patterson leaves her studious ambition to Nannie Pat Oakes. 22. Frances Riddle leaves her wise-cracking ability to Marjorie Lunsford. 23. ‘To Helen Bennett, Garnett Riddle leaves her slender figure. 24. Esther Shelton leaves her quiet manners to Marie Collie. 25. Rosa Slayton leaves her ability as an actress to Betsy Wells. 26. B.C. Starkey leaves his “flying delight” to Jack Clark. 27. Alma Walters leaves a likeness of herself to Helen Gosney. 28. Helen Walton leaves her love for “Kings” to Mattie Dodson. 29. Clarabel Wells leaves her makeup to “Jenny” Slayton. 30. Daisy White leaves her ability to make friends to Dorothy Young. 31. Billy Wiles wills to Ryland Dodson his “Bing Crosby” voice. 32. +Ruby Wiles leaves her humbleness to Doris Cassida. 33. Margaret Wilkerson leaves her fair complexion to Marvin Motley. 34. Junior Yeatts leaves his presidential powers to C. P. Wells. 35. Earl Franklin leaves his musical talent to Howe Barker. 36. ‘The Home Economics II Class, in deepest sympathy and pity, will un- hesitatingly a dozen bananas each to Warner Moorefield and Jack Clark. 37. ‘The present Senior Class wills to the on-coming one a new wastebasket, hoping that they will make better use of it than we did ours. 38. We, the rest of the Class of °36, leave our duties as Babylonian captives to our humble slaves, the Juniors. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six. Garnet? Rippi , Testator. Signed, sealed, published, and declared by Garnett Riddle, the Testator, as and ‘for the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Six’s “Last Will and Testa- ment” in the presence of us, who, at the request and in her presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. KELLY JUNIOR YEATTS, President, Dorotuy LoutsE BENNETT, Secretary. 20