Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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THE TAU, 1922 m ' f Page tTvenly-seven

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Last Will and 1 estament EALIZING that we are about to make our departure into the great un- known, we, the 1922 Senior Class of Greenville High School, do hereby declare the following to be our only original, incomplete, and last will and testament, and that the undersigned, holding the office of attorney of said class, does hereby declare the first party to this document absolutely devoid of wisdom, and physically incapable. To the second parties a majority of these flattering remarks may be addressed also. Therefore, having established a feeling of saneness about the parties concerned, we do hereby bequeath the following: Ariicle I. To all the inhabitants of our honored community we leave the memory of our existence during four long and tortuous years, and the happy memory of our departure. Article II. To the faculty and the superintendent we leave the care and anxiety of graduating the future Senicr classes, hoping that said classes will give less trouble than we did. Article III. To the coming Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors we leave the some- what dim hope that some day they may attain the austere and dignified position of A Senior. Article IV. To the coming Senior Class we leave our most honored room, all the Geometry books in the room, most of the French books, and last but dearest, the Senior privileges. These privileges are far too dear to state on paper, but we will present them to the officers of the class upon personal application. Article V, Section I. To Ella Fleming and Edward Moore we leave the com- passes of Marietta Sugg and Frank Patrick, in the hope that they may never more be engaged in bloody war. Section 2. To Willie Skinner we leave Janie Jackson ' s ability to read Latin. May this earn her a 1 every time. Section 3. To Zeno Brown we leave Dick Williams ' position as best looking in the Senior Class. Section 4. To Sally Jones we leave Joe Moye ' s dancing ability. Section 5. To Julius we leave the Greenville High School. Section 6. To every scholar in school we leave a portion of our knowledge in the hope that they may all graduate with as high honors as we have. Edwin M. Wilkerson, Attorney. Page lXDenly- x

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THE TAU, 19 22 Pkoolosopky ii si RE people usually chosen for a certain job because of their peculiar fitness for that par- ticular job? When a person is chosen by an august body of thirty-lwo Seniors for any job, however humble, is it in order for him to feel duly flattered. You say it is? Well, maybe so. But I contend that the dul,y flatteredness automatically modifies itself according to the kind of job. As I consider the title of the job assigned me (particularly the first syllable) I feel duly flattered all right, but the emphasis is on the duly, cer- tainly not the flattered. So please let it be understood that I am duly flattered rather than duly flaltered by this Phool job that has been assigned me by my unworthy classmates. Do you get me? All right! Having been elected to this job I shall endeavor to show my readers the degree to which I am flattered by telling them the hard, boiled-down truth about my classmates. If any of the latter want to get wrathy, we can settle it later when we all meet at the bug house (which, by the way, will probably be in the near future if we can judge b y the conglomeration of H O polygons, amo francais. General Joffre at Bunker Hill, and the recipe for making angel ' s food cake, vrhich turns out to be po man ' s pudding, which conglomeration is battling for supremacy in our poor, overcrowded craniums. To resume: if any Senior wishes to get revenge for any statement in this article let him seek it by battering thei walls of his own temple for ever being so nearsighted as to elect to any position, big or little, such a poor boob as yours truly. ' Null sed in the way of apologies (none will be made later). On September 8, 1918, one hundred sixty-eight feet trod the path of wisdom that led to the Freshman classroom of Greenville High School. Speaking of feet, Mary Gaskill ' s and Aleene ' s stood out before ail the others. I am not sure whether it was due to the size or ' whether they wore wooden soles — at any rate, they always kept us from getting the prize in a marching contest. At the present writing there are fewer feet in the class than there were then, but there are consid- erably more square feet because of rapid growth. There are also plenty of square heads (a la block, I suppose), but the owners of these are too numerous to enumerate. But 1 am forgetting again; we were speaking of feet. Many of the aforementioned pedal extremities have wandered off the path of knowl- edge into the byways and hedges of matrimony, money-making and other similar speculations. But not more than half of the deserters are millionaires by now and that helps to console those who have remained to the bitter end. If they could have planned to suit themselves, practically all the class would be married except Marietta, our man-hater, and Frank, the most timid boy in school. Why, Marietta hates the boys so that if she starts up to see Lois she goes all the wa,y down Fifth Street to Five Points and by the Post Office and up Greenville Heights to Lois ' . And Frank, poor fellow, often has to cut by the Training School on his way to church because on that first corner there is often congregated a bunch of girls. Now, Dick Williams is just the opposite — a lion among ladies. He is all but late many a morning because he goes out of his way just to get up with the girls. Bernice, Margaret, Annie Mae, and Frances have been such problems for us all in the matter of being noisy and rowdy. We have advised them to emulate the example of perfect silence and dignity set them by Aleene, Virginia and Jeanette, but our efforts have been futile. The beauties in our class were hard to decide upon. Now, whether I mean they were lacking, or that there was so much competition, is a matter of moment, but better settled in the courts, so judgment must be deferred. At an,y rate, no less- than twelve girls and even two of the boys (sh! — Howard and Robert), as soon as they learned that I was to decide upon the statistics, came to me privately and tried to bribe me to declare them the most beautiful. I lost sleep over the matter for several nights and finally decided to dispose of most of the candidates and divide the honor between Blanche, Deanie Boone, Anna Page imenty-eighl