Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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RETROSPECT f t our strongly entrenched places in the hearts of the faculty who have loved us devotedly because—they couldn’t help it. Comfort them in their loss, but don’t imagine you can mangle their hearts as we have done. IV To the vivacious and wise Sophomores, we leave the right to prey upon the Freshmen, out of season and without reason to unceasingly torture them—with the liabilities thereof. V To the Freshmen, our deepest sympathy for the task ahead of them. VI The following valuable personal bequests, freely and fully given, should be treasured as a continual reminder of the abundant and overwhelming generosity of the class and the individuals thereof. We trust these responsibilities will be assumed promptly and will bring important results: 1. To the principal of the school, the unfailing humor of the entire class. We are certain he will need this in dealing with the Seniors who succeed us. 2. To Billy Abbott, we bequeath Mildred Price’s ability to put on a fine complexion. “Save the surface and you save all.” 3. To Ralph Turner, we bequeath Bob Fletcher’s habit of spending two hours of his history—by sitting on the book while he reads yarns. 4. To Eleanor McKinnon is left Pearl White’s ability to “Paddle her own canoe.” Pearl has selected someone to paddle hers for her. 5. To Vivian Wallace, we leave Elizabeth Corley’s sunny smile—it won’t come off. 6. To Carson Steen is given Joe Tillotson’s trick of looking innocent when caught in mischief. 7. To Leslie Parrish, we bestow Jack McIntyre’s fondness for long and impressive sounding words. 8. To Mildred Miller, Edward Brown leaves his natural ability for writing almost anything from a nonsense rhyme to an obituary, hoping it may aid her in winning laurels in the literary world. 9. To Katherine Powe, Edith Renfrow and Florence Elliott because they have so little regard for young men and seem to have decided leanings toward lives of single blessedness, we leave Irene Benjamin’s wiles—perhaps these will turn them from their present inclinations. 10. To Harry Oates, Pink King and Charles Funderburk, who have perpetual worries for fear their hair doesn’t look “just so,” we give Sam Coker’s recipe for same. 11. To Marguerite Benjamin, we will some of Frances Goolsby’s excessive loftiness, hoping it will help Marguerite in jumping center. 1926 Poyc Tire n I if-i ij

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RETROSPECT f The Class Will ESTEEMED COMPANY OF WITNESSES: The Senior Class has felt for sometime that its end was very near; we have felt that school was beginning to disagree with us and that members of the faculty had conspired to accomplish the death of the most astonishingly brilliant class the walls of Hartsville High and the teachers thereof have ever frowned upon. The bitter doses of lessons we have taken with daily regularity have hastened rather than prolonged our class demise, and we know with sorrowful certainty that the hour of our departure is near at hand. Therefore, being so soon to pass from these scenes of educational activity; being in full possession of alert minds and memories that put the most extensive encyclopedias to shame; having faculties keenly sharpened by many contests with flinty instructors, we would publish to you upon this funereal occasion, the last Will and Testament of the Senior Class of 1926. I To our superintendent and the members of our beloved faculty, who look upon our demise with smiles of joy, we bequeath the satisfaction which comes from duty well performed and a peaceful rest from the weary task of making our graduation shrouds. We also leave them a large amount of sympathy for their depressing attempts to pound knowledge into our craniums. In addition we bequeath them our regrets that their work with us was so barren of results. We leave them, but we don t leave them much. II To the school in general, we leave the out-of-the-way nooks where we have been wont to hide—to waste the time we should have spent in studying. The the school library, we leave the collection of volumes setting forth the charms, the escapades, the achievements, and the startling knowledge gleaned from our examination papers. These volumes will be written by the first famous author who offers a good price for so doing. Ill To the Junior Class, as our rightful and worthy successors, we leave (1) our seats, occupy them but do not try to fill them; (2) our Senior dignity, may they uphold it with becoming seriousness, endeavoring to overcome their usual hairbrained and frivolous flippancy; (3) our tendency to make a little knowledge go a long way in the class room; also our ability to throw faculty members off the track when they imagined we were bluffing; (4) our honored positions as models for the school—models of wit, wisdom, charm of manner, excellency of behavior, physical development, and intellectual expansion. May heaven help you to stand up under this strain; (5) lastly, that which gives us the greatest pang to part with— 1926= Tircntfhfive

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RETROSPECT J 12. To Maude West and Margaret McDonald, we leave the combined feats of Mary Parrott and Dora Harrington in goal shooting, provided they make use of same in less than twelve months. 13. To Ruth Seymour, Margaret Johnson and Flossie Grantham, we give Virginia Coker’s editorial ability—it must be used. 14. To Percie Ingram, we gladly give Pauline Burns’ sweet, retiring nature, with the hope that it will in the future keep her out of trouble. 15. To Otto Wilkerson and Baxter Ridge, we leave Carlisle King’s fondness for “dressing up.” 16. To Hartridge Miller and James hide Jordan, we donate the spelling ability of Kathleen King. 17. To Dorothy McDonald, we give all of Annie Lee Cooley’s musical talents which must be used to the same advantage that Annie has used them. 18. To Susan Hicks and Caroline Gillespie, we give Mary Bethune’s quietness and timidity. 19. To Marguerite Miller and Fannie Tyner, Henrietta Gandy’s beautiful wavy hair—on condition that they won’t curl it. 20. To Leslie Graham and J. D. Cook, we gladly donate Leon Pennington’s fondness for doing the “Charleston.” 21. To Tom Ham and Erastus Young, we leave Harold Heustess’ place on the football team. 22. To Sarah Howie and Pennie Rhodes, we give Charles Manship’s habit of making the highest marks in the class. 23. To Doris King and Ruth Polsom and Blanche Goodson, we give the profound studiousness of Bela Johnson. 24. To Edith Newsome, Esther Lee Moore, Mary Stewart and Theo Mixon, we leave the habit belonging to Leo Tyner of speaking only when spoken to. 25. To Ava M. Billingsly and Sarah Parrott, we give Lula Mae Stogner’s quickness, alertness and jumpiness—for use on the basket-ball team next year. 26. To C. T. Miller, Lester Blackwell and Walton Luther, we donate Claire Cottingham’s shy, timid, bashful manner—it gets you there. 27. To Miriam Gandy, Mildred Wheeler and Katherine Morgan, we leave the boisterousness of Travis Lockhart. Any broken pens, stubs of pencils, cast-off note books, parallel reports, mounds of gum we were compelled to stick hastily in out-of-sight spots to avoid faculty detection, and other mementoes, we bestow freely upon the finder. With our last parting breath, we do hereby constitute and appoint the principal, Mr. J. C. Hungerpiller, sole executor of this our last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof, we attach the signatures of the Class of 1926. Joe Tillotson, ’26, Lawyer. 1926 Page Twenty-seven