Floyd High School - Admiral Yearbook (Floyd, VA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAlVlENT We, the Senior Class, of Floyd High School, County of Floyd, State of Virginia, being in sound mind and body do hereby bequeath to the underclassmen our most valuable possessions as follows: To the Juniors - the responsibilities and pleasures that await you as seniors and the ability to stand up for your rights as a class. To the Sophomores - our mischievousness and business aptitude. Tb the Freshmen - our booksg study them to fill the gap in your life left by our departure. Tb the Eighth Grade - our ability to absorb all studies Cin case English,Science and Math are beyondyourcomprehension.J Tb the Faculty - our grateful thoughts, for everything, and perpetual love. Be it hereby known that all members of the Senior Class leave the following per- sonal and class belongings to the following individuals: Margurite Epperly--her happy-go-lucky disposition to Gertrude Wood. Sylvia Epperly--her basketball suit 0Id Faithful to Christine Sweeney. Ruth Gallimore--her ability to go places and see things to Jane Slusher. Norma Graham--her ability to get and to hold a man to Peggy Trail. Elnora Harman--her fondness for all her classes to Margie Graham. Callie Howell--her too often deserted Chemistry book to Norma Boothe. Mary Alice Hungate--her ability to make the best of everything to Ibra Lee Thomas. Pauline O'Bryan--her ability to get along with boys to Virginia Houchins. Margaret Peters--her graceful giggle to Geneva Smith. Ruth Pauley--her typing ability to Magdalene Martin. Virginia Phillips--her flirting technique to Peggy Epperly. Helen Phillips--to Hazel Slusher the gobs of chewing gum under the desk in room eight. Freeda Ratcliff--her worn-out shorthand book to Ethelda Moran. hbrris Phillips--his ability to say what he thinks anywhere, anytime, to-Lane Winmer. Allen Rakes--his speaking ability to Milton Ogle. Merrill Reed--his quiet ways to Ralph Graham. ' Rufus Reed--his intellectual ability to Ralph Sweeney. V Harry Roberson--his quiet and mannerly ways to George Vaughan. Bobby Thompson--his fondness for reading library books in class to Ralph Cannaday. James Webb--his mischievous smile to Gilbert Lester. Dorothy Akers--her talent in knowing and telling all the up-to-date jokes to Lindell Gardner. Frances Akers--to Peggy Keith her unconcerned attitude about her stature. Marie Barnes--her gracious ways to Nancy Blackwell. Dorothy Boothe--her red-headed ways to Barbara Duncan. Ruth Bowman--her worn-out music book to Lena Pugh. Rose Ellen Boyd--her tender heart and Joving kindness to Helen Dobbins. Curtis Bower--his thread-lhre gym suit to Billy Weddle. James Bower--his dignity and good disposition to Robert Huff. David Bowman--his little but loud technique to Johnny Page. Wallace Dalton--his ability to lead others without noticable effort to the best all .round Junior. A Jabe Hatcher--to Dock Sweeney his ability to speed over the basketball court and the know how in getting along with his teachers. Herman DeHart--his ability to stay out of trouble to Cody Hale Clyde Hylton--his ability to get along with others to Maurice Bower. Curtis Iddings--his jovial nature but not his ambition to Billy Casteel. Arnold Kelly--his practical mind to Silas Gardner. William Earl Mitchell--his never quiet tongue to Ruth Yearout, who can control it. Andrew Nester--his desire for a sailors life to Dwight Scott. Etheleene Reed--to Mary Ruth Hungate the habit of getting to class late. CEspecially home room.l Mary Reed--her ability to make the best of any situation to Opalene Harmon. Mona Slusher--to another poetic girl, Betty Jo Sumner, her writing talent. Marie Spangler--her ability to studying unpteen hours a day to Elizabeth Markle. Susie Sweeney--her delightful pastime, talking to the boys, to Zona Lee Sweeney. Christine Thomas wills her wanting and waiting ability to Janet Clower. lklen Tblbert--her newly found ability to control her temper to her teammate, Betty Sue Heed. This will is to be affective at midnight June 2, 1950, providing each one of us has attained a long awaited goal, a diploma certifying each to be a graduate of Floyd High School.

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CHICAGO ILLINOIS June 2, 1965 Dear classmate of 1950, The Executive Cbnmittee of the Alumni Association of Floyd High School has received replies from the 1950 graduates with large contributions from each for the Memorial Fund. It will be interesting to the class to know that they have so many successful classmates. Letters received brought this in- formation: Huth Gallimore - a beautician who-now has her own exclusive shop, The La Vogue Beauty Salon in New York city. Capt.Curtis Bower - of the U. S. Air Force stationed in Pago Pogo, in the Phillipines. Freeda Ratcliff - personal advisor to the famous Mr. Moneybags in New York city. Merrill Reed - a leading dairy farmer of Floyd County. Norma Graham Hatcher and Jabe Hatcher - happily married and living on Honey- moon Lane. Jabe is now owner of the local Mick or Mack Grocery. Norma is kept busy with the twins. Marie Spangler - world famous chemist known for her discovery of the cousin to a germ. James Bower - a manufacturer of atomic powered automobiles. Helen Tolbert - employed in Halifax, Nova Scotia as publicity agent for the loose 'Em Cb., a reducing pill company. Bobby Thompson - cartoonist. His comic strip Moonshine Hollow is eager- ly awaited by kids fran eight to eighty. Dorothy Akers - a famous TV star and wife of a wealthy business man. David Bowman - owner of the largest dude ranch in Texas, The Rockin' Saddle. Wallace Dalton - just returned from South Africa where he was a missionary and is now touring the country telling of his experiences among the natives. !Elnora-Hannan - art manager of the Markle Advertising Cb. Inc., the largest advertising firm of Floyd. Frances Akers - now Mrs. Posie Weeks. She sponsors the smnner camp for girls at Destiny Bay. Ruth Bowman - interior decorator in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is now de- corating the Dreamers Holiday Tavern. Andrew Nester - a radio technician for the Navy Air Force stationed in Havana, Cuba. Rose Ellen Boyd - world traveler has stopped at Hong Kong for a little rest before cunpleting her seventh trip around the world. Ruth Pauley - after tiring of beauty contest, Ruth has opened her own tourist court at Key West, Florida. Sylvia Epperly - living a life of luxury on the Isle of Pines in the Caribb- ean Sea.