Gibson City High School - Drummer Yearbook (Gibson City, IL)

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THE DRUMMER 1924 The personal bequests, though they may seem trifling, are as follows: Lee Kerchenfaut's freckles and red hair to anybody desiring the same. Chalmer Kerchenfaut's good looks to anybody who needs them. Come early to avoid the rush. Lloyd Sawyer wills his ability to play fullback to Lawrence Vork. Edmund Cameron and Kathryn Fitzhenry bestow their blissful happiness to Helen Wilson and John Heckens. Floyd Troyer leaves his bashfulness around the girls to John Woolley, Claude Nelson gives Judith to no one, but he gives his vocabulary of well chos- en Ui words to any one. Bill Phares gives his high school career and the many colored slips to Edward Prince. Valla Parker's fair complexion and vamping eyes to her Freshman sister, Martha McBride. Violetta Osborn's prospects as a manager of a chain of tea-rooms to Cleona Crowe, Evelyn Dueringer's fondness for talking to the faculty advisor of the Maroon and White to Doris Dever. Grace Dueringer's oratorical ability to Charline Preston. Edith Shellman leaves her ability to resist the winning ways of the male stu- dents of Drummer to Josephine Gilmore. Marion Huston's charming manners and her ability to get to school at the last minute to Alice Leenerman, ior Hazel Ehresman's baby eyes and baby ways to George Gilmore. George Stolz leaves his backwardness and standing with three girls of the Jun- Class to Leslie Bonnen. John Noble's gum chewing habit to anyone who thinks he can chew it as grace- fully as John does. the ent Everett Wright wills his bright and cheerful ways to Bennie Reiners, Lorene Johnson's methods of getting high grades to anybody who cares for same. Margretha Rasmussen wills her position on the Staff and also her musical tal- to Bernice Smith. Dollie Riblet's knowledge of books and other things of this world to Dorothy Zimmerman. Margaret Thorson bequeaths her privilege of getting married before she left school to Pearl Duvall. Julian Johnson's position on the basket ball team to Eugene Whetzel. Arthur Hedlund's immaculate looks to Russell Cornwell. Edythe Koehler's text books to Mildred Erickson for future use, Clarence Conrad's strut to Stanhope Foster. Bernadine Swanson leaves Tubby in care of some innocent Freshman girl. Gay Ella bequeaths her now-you-see-them and now-you-dont dimples to Doris Anderson. the Elmer Stein makes vacant his position as President of the Senior Class so that young men of the coming Senior Class may have something to argue about, Evan Speers' vamping ways to Clyde Ashley. Orris Poplett wills his charming manners to Elmer Bradford. Edna Wright leaves her capturing ways to Edith Gragg. Love Alene Fasking bequeaths her methods of making such bewitchin m'l g s ies to Della Smith, Alfred Bunting's seven league boots to Maurice Cameron. Owen Crowe wills his idea of ia good time to any one who considers himself worthy of the same. ' ' Wilbur Parker's fondness for studying to Hilda Vehrs Howard Pfoff's nicely combed hair and his wonderful hair groom to Orville Rasor Constan H k - ce ec ens gives to her brother John that wonderful habit of getting up and coming to school on time, at least once a week Robert Yoder's ample ability of bluffing and getting by with it to Mildred E i k- son and Frank Hunt. rc There is no one like ber, but there are many imilaiions.-K Logan. 27

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THE DRUMMER 1924 CLASS WILL It has been several years since the members of the class of four and twenty departed from the home which they occupied for four years. When they departed they left no trace of a will and it was often wondered by the brother and sister classes if they had been forgotten by their brother. Perhaps a will had been drawn up and signed, then hidden away in some secret place, If this were true, where was this place? The little brothers had sought and searched in every corner imaginable. All this was, as I have said, several years ago. One day not long ago, when the football team was on the field, one of the boys in his falling, kicked the brick fountain. In doing so, he knocked a brick loose, Out of curiosity, he took the brick out and placed his hand in the side of the foun- tain. In the very bottom lay a large package. Upon removing it from its resting place, it proved to be a large envelope containing many well typed papers and doc- uments. One of these papers proved to be the last will of the class of four and twenty. The will read as follows: WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1924, DRUMMER TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, City of Gibson, County of Ford, andi State of Illinois, being of sound mind, memory and understanding, do make, publish, and declare the following as and for our last will and testamentg that is to say: First, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-Wishers, our superintendent, and his all-wise and ever-capable faculty, who have been our guardians for a long time, only asking, as the last wish of the dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp that our worth, our merits, our attainments, and our positions as Seniors of grave and reverend mien, must certainly have deserved. As to such estate as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us, wel do dispose of the same as follows: We give and bequeath to the faculty, who have been our instructors in all the wisdom of the ages, a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peace- ful dreams. No longer need they lie awake through the long watches of the night. to worry over the uncertainty of whether this one is doing her home work, or that one will have his mathematics in the morning class, or the other one will remem- ber every iron-clad rule of compositionial technique in the preparation of her essay, It has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions hard to manage. But they have done their duty, and, verily, now shall they have their well-earned reward. We give to our beloved faculty all the amazing knowledge and startling infor- mation that we have furnished them from day to day and on our examination papers. We know that much which we have spoken or written to them must have been en- tirely new to them, as well as to the rest of the students, and have thrown much new light on many hitherto familiar lines of thought, throughout the world of science and learning, even outside the halls and class rooms of Drummer. If the faculty see fit, they are allowed the privilege of giving out to the world such of this information as they may think humanity is ready to receive. We trust that they will feel at lib- erty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come after us. This, of course, is left for them to decide. We give and bequeath to the Junior Class all such boys as were not able to keep pace with the brilliant girls that help compose our class, trusting that the Junior girls may be able to hold firmly to them and steer them through the gates of Com- mencement, that they may not share the humiliation that has been ours. Upon the Freshman class that-is-to-be we bestow any overlooked cuds of gum we may have left adhering to the under side of desks, banisters, assembly or class room seats or any other likely or unlikely places. We have sometimes had to rid ourselves of these in too much haste to be able to pick and choose the most desir- able means of disposal, To the Sophomore Class we leave the privilege of going to class every day and reciting with all the brilliancy that they possess. We trust that they, too, will be able to give information to their teachers, as we have done, and, by so doing, help some poor student along the rough and rocky path of life. True eloquence comes from great height.-Dwight McMur1g11. 26

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THE DRUMMER 1924 To Evelyn Jones is left Sarepta. Bane's ability as a good cook. Edna Swallow leaves her merry laugh and carefree ways to Hazel Bitters, John Hatteberg leaves his ticket andi seat on the L. E. W. train to Kelly Hill, Verner Frykman gives his non-skid specs to John Fox for future use. Francis Bryant leaves his seat in English Four to Harold Cameron and he may also obtain Francis' book by asking for it. The book is as good as new. William Barrow leaves his standing among the girls of Drummer to anyone who is able to qualify for the same. Ruth Powell's varied Ways and manners to Ethel Cline. Chester Hickerson's position as yell leader to any one who can stand the fussg his standing with the girls to no one. Cleo Pruitt leaves his sheikish ways and his ability as a natural born, oratorf?J to Wilbur Shilts To our Freshman brother Soupy Paxton is left the struggle of attaining the height of Dwight McMurray, Ramona Phares wills her privilege of attending every basket ball game and all other games to Alice Phillips. ' Gladys Leonard leaves her privilege of cheering for the Bookkeeping team tc Goldie Pruitt. The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the Class of 1925 the real and rightful successors: First, our seats in the assembly and class rooms. May the future Seniors en- deavor to fill them as advantageously, as promptly, and as faithfully as we have done. Our seats in the assembly hall may be taken by whomsoever is able to grab them first, Second, our Senior dignity. May the class of '25 uphold it forever, with all seri- ousness and gravity, endeavoring to realize its vast importance in spite of their natural lightmindedness and irresponsibility. Third, any stubs of pencils, erasers, or scraps of paper that we may leave behind us in the excitement and haste of gathering up our beloved treasures for the last time. May our heirs feel free to use these relics and perhaps derive therefrom our great knowledge. Fourth, next comes the one thing hard for us to part with. To the class of 1925 we leave our places in the hearts and thoughts of our Principal and Teachers. The faculty will love these students, unworthy as we feel they are, even as they have loved usg they will show the same tender kindness and attention that they have bestowed upon us, they will feel the same interest in attempts and successg the same sorrow in failure. We trust that the class of 1925 will appreciate all this as deeply as we have doneg that it may be their most precious possession, although they have many, and the one that we are most loath to hand over to them. Lastly, we bequeath to the leading paper of our city, The Courier , and to the talented editor thereof, all the events of our lives, past, present and to come, with all the wonders. sensations, hair-breadth escapes, glorious attainments, and other deserved or undeserved notoriety and fame with which we may have been, or may' hereafter be associated, trusting that they may furnish plenty of material for news items and some brilliant editorials for ages yet to come, and serve as an inspiration for those younger students who so naturally look to us for example. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at my residence in the City of Gibson, this sixth day of June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. tSea1l GLADYS LEONARD. On this sixth day of June in the year one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-four, Gladys Leonard, the above testator, in our presence and in the presence of each of us, signed and sealed the foregoing instrument and published and declared the same to be the last will and testament, of the Class of 1924, and we thereupon at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, hereunto subscribed our names and residences as attesting witnesses. Glenn M- Kilby, residing at Gibson City, Illinois Louise Lesch, residing at Gibson City, Illinois. 0' silence is golden, she is 24 carat. -Edna Wright. 28