Greenbank High School - Mountain Breeze Yearbook (Greenbank, WV)

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Senior Class Will of 1924 We, the Senior Class of 1924, do hereby make and affirm this, our last will and testament, declaring all previous wills null and void. Section I After due consideration we have unanimously agreed to give and be- queath to our esteemed Faculty cur heartfelt thanks for helping us in our school life to prepare for life’s school. To the members individually we leave the following: Item 1. To Mr. Harwood, our honorable Principal, we will our English IV Classics of King Henry the Fourth: also the ponies” that were used to help make the trip with Caesar through his Gallic wars are hereby left in his care. Item 2. To Mr. Shires we leave a long summer free from Geometry and Algrebra II. The gymnasium is left vacant, too, for his personal use that he might go through the routine of his daily dozen without interruption. Item 3. We give and bequeath to Mr. Schaffner the dictionary (to be found in Room 5 ), to which we have frequently “sped for help in English IV. We, students of French, leave in his care our dictionary of French phrases for his use abroad this summer. Item 4. To Mr. Hedrick we girls leave our cosmetics to cover his fre- quent blushes. We boys leave any cigarette stubs he might have found in his car to his care. Item 5. To Mr. Monroe we gladly sacrifice our Bible examination papers, so that hereafter he may refer to them and thus be confident that he is right in saying just the opposite in his sermons. Item 6. To Miss Moomau we give our entire consent for her to accom- pany Mr. Schaffner abroad this summer. We, with shorn locks, leave her our now useless hairpins, combs, etc. Item 7. To Miss Brown, we girls give and bequeath for her hope chest the first garments we made in Sewing I. We leave her free use of the oil stove on which to cook soup and hot dogs during the rest of her stay at Greenbank. Item 8. To Miss Fulgham we leave Mr. Hedrick’s car to carry her back to Old Virginny, away from these terrible snow flakes. We also arrange for her a special course that she may learn how to write A” on a fellow’s report card. Item. 9. To Mrs. Coon we bequeath every day of the week for music lessons without our dignified (?) presence. We will her, too, all keys, so she can play in any flat. Section II Item 1. To the dear Juniors, our successors, we hereby give and be- queath our numerous (?) rights and privileges that we gained by good be- havior. We leave, too, our class motto, “Labor omnia vincit, the meaning of which we have interpreted and appreciated. Item 2. To the Sophomores, our co-working Adelphians, we will all authority held by us in our literary Society. They are also heirs to our cheei- fulness, serenity, dignity and sagacity. Item 3. To the innocent, unsuspecting Freshies we donate the dunce caps we wore mentally and, no doubt, obviously, when we were Sophomores. Section III Item 1. To Mr. Arbogast, our janitor, we leave for his personal good, all information, important or otherwise, that he might have found in the desks or wastebaskets after a daily, weekly, monthly or semester examination. 18 ’

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The first semester enabled three of our members, Edith Townsend, Willa Nottingham and Mack Brooks, to finish. Ola Doyle quit school. The second semester brought us two members, Joy and Mabel Arbo- gast, and a shock------! The preacher visited our class, uniting in Holy Matrimony Sylvia Riley and Hume Bowles. We were glad to find that Sib was not going to leave us. Our class leads in athletics, as we have one boy and four girls on the varsity basketball teams. Although we have won our goal and are leaving this vear, we shall never forget our happy days and our friends at G. H. S. —C. S., ’24. 17

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Item 2. To our respective truck drivers we give the old shoes that we wore out walking to school. Section IV Item 1. I, Beulah Brill, leave to Edythe McClung my Caesar, with this advice, “Read between the lines. Item. 2. I, Sis, do hereby leave my position of the Lady of (the) Lake to Polly” Dill. Item 3. I, Jack,” do hereby leave my basketball shoes, Mike’s old socks, my bloomers and position on the first team to Mary Katherine Smith. Item 4. I, Mary Phares, leave my love for Chemistry to the Freshman Class. Item 5. I, “Sib” Riley Bowles, leave my love for the other boys to Margaret Wilson. Item 6. I, Effie Moore, leave my glasses, through which my “G's” look like A s,” to the Juniors. Item 7. I, Wilma Slayton, leave my knowledge (?) of our National Progress to Wilson Robertson. Item 8. I, Flora Phillips, leave my desire for bobbed hair to Mary Wooddell. Item 9. I, Joy Belle, leave my long hair to Mr. Harwood, who might use it to advantage as a wig. Item 1 0. I, Thelma Collins, will the hair I have pulled from my head while in deep thought to Mr. Shires. Item 11. I, Mable Arbogast, leave my desire for explanation to Leta McLaughlin. Item 1 2. I, Clyde Cassell, leave the office as President of the Athletic Asso ation to Pauline Hughes. Item 1 3. I, Martha Reitz, will to Fame Schifflette my empty vanity box with explicit directions how to refill. Item 14. I, Edith Townsend, leave to Dolly Hiner my profound knowl- edge of Latin. Item 15. I, Willa Nottingham, leave my best wishes to the girls’ basket- ball team, hoping it will enjoy the fun and success our oast teams have had Item 16. I, Sylvia Taylor, leave my gift of prophesy to Hazel Great- house. Item 1 7. I, Verna Siple, leave my As in Chemistry to Imogene Pr'tchard- Section V In testimony whereof we, the said graduating class, recognized here and abroad as being of sound and disposing mind, do hereby cause this will to be signed and sealed on this, the 7th day of April, A. D.. 1924. —The Senior Class. 1?