Hale High School - Pompositticut Yearbook (Stow, MA)

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Virginia Batsford . . Future Florist In m 15 We give and bequeath to the Junior Class our good luck It made us what we are today and it should satisfy them In addition to this we leave all our privileges and rights as Seniors in a classroom as well as any notebooks, pencils, fountain pens unfinished lol lypops or unfinished business including debts contracted while engaged in the business of being a Senior We also bequeath to the Junior Class our well known nerve, which they will need next year and all the examination questions we have been given during the past year We believe that an examination, like history often repeats itself The answers, never owned Item 16 To our good friends, the Sophomore Class, we leave our patience It will be found useful as the only means by which they can endure the Juniors Item I7 To the young and unsophisticated Freshmen we leave a map of the school building, so that they will not get lost and roam about in everybody s way, looking for their class rooms Item I8 To the faculty we hereby give, free from all inheritance, luxury, or income tax, our entire store of knowledge From them it came and to them it should be returned, that others may be benefited by it as we have been Item I9 To the Class of 1950 we leave our beloved mascot, Elijah and hope that you will feed him as faithfully and treat him as lovingly as we have We do hereby constitute and appoint the said Principal sole executor of this, our last will and testament In witness whereof, we, the Class of I949 have to this our will, written on one sheet of parchment set our hand and seal this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty nine Arlene Larsen SENIOR DEGREES I now take great pleasure in presenting the Senior Degrees to my fellow classmates Marjorie Gray Shirley Jensen Arlene Larsen Margaret Lewis Bruce Maclver Douglas Mann Eleanor McColl Willena Peck Ralph Smith Harvey Trefry S.G.C. S.R.R. M.M. B.N.U. A.S.B. H.M.M. S.B.S. W.0.T.G. A.O.T.K. S.B.T. Stow's Gift to Canada Stow's Rambling Rose Motorcycle Madness Blushes Not Unseen Artistic Senior Bachelor History's Man of the Minute Senior Boys' Sweetheart Wearing Of The Green Angel Of The Keyboard Stow's Birdie Tebetts Shirley Jensen in entirely, have long since been mislaid by us, and are not included in this will. O ll ,ll ' F F 24

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CLASS WILL Ladles and Gentlemen, Teachers and Fr1ends We are gathered here on a solemn occasxon and have looked forward to thls moment wlth much happmess Now that xt has arrxved, we w1sh to leave our remalmng possesswns to a chosen few We the graduatlng class of 1949 of Hale I-hgh School Stow, Massachusetts havmg been found sound of mmnd declare th1s our last w1ll and testament and so hereby revoke any and all past promzses Our possessxons whxch we do leave are as follows Item 1 To Mr Hartley our prmcmpal we glve and bequeath a feehng of pr1de 1n any great deeds or noteworthy aclnevements that our future may contam realxzxng that such glorles 1f any owe much to h1s example and counsel Item 2 To Mrs Platt our Englxsh teacher we w1sh to extend our thanks for the tlme she has g1ven us and patlence she has shown us both 1n preparlng for graduatxon and all year 1n Engllsh Class Item 3 To Mrs Ferguson we wlsh to extend our smcere gratltude for helpmg us wlth the class play whxch was a great success Item 4, We leave with Mrs. Fletcher the hope for a larger commercial room where she may 6. . , . . . 7. . . . . . 8. ' ' ' . 9, . . , . . . . . . contmue to train students to become efflclent stenographers Item 5 V1rg1n1a Batsford s abllxty to keep qulet IS left to Dorsey Leard Item Ralph Smxth s love for glrls goes to Francxs Warren Item Marjorle Gray bequeaths her walst measurement to Ruth Stxles Item Douglas Mann s knowledge of slgn language IS left to Betsy Derby Item Hezdl Peck s ablhty to keep out of trouble 1S gxven to Ronny Smlth Item 10 Eleanor McColl s curly han' IS left to Joan Annett Item 11 Harvey Trefry s ab1l1ty to be frxends wlth all Semor gxrls as grven to Dxcky Trumpolt Item 12 Shxrley .Tensen bequeaths her romantlc dreams to Paulme Rasmusson Item 13 Peggy Lewls leaves her glggle to Isabelle Townsend Item 14 Bruce Maclver bequeaths hxs abzlxty to talk back 1n self defense to John Mackey Z3

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