Humes High School - Senior Herald Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

Page 25 text:

LAST WILL M TESTAMENT gl P We, the class of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-four, A. D., of l-lumes High School, of Memphis, Shelby Cunty, Tennessee, being in the sanest minds to be expected of seniors, in order to leave you more fully endowed with the things that are worth while, to provide for the separated lovers, and to do all we can to keep you from missing us too much, do will and bequeath and bestow the following to the stated members of the beloved faculty and the mentioned ones of the student bodyg l To Mr. D. M. Hilliard, our principal, we will anti bequeath all of our personalty and realty wherever it is situated in the building, and the fervent wish that the Class of '45 will be as superior a specie as we are. ll To Miss Eleanor Richmond and Miss Annie M. Prescott, we grant the responsibility of keeping track of wayward seniors. We also leave with them our sincere and heartfelt sympathy. Ill To Miss lennie Allensworth, l2-l home room teacher, we leave the hope that at least half of next year's l2-l will show up on time in the morning. To Miss Gertrude Geraghty, the l2-2's simply wish to say that they will leave. They also wish to say that they hope the month of May will see the end of her headache which they have caused. Since the l2-3 class had to leave Miss Elizabeth McCain in the middle of the year, they will to leer their sincere regret at having to leave, and hope that next year's l2-3 will also be the best senior home- room. The 12-4 homeroom leaves cr collection to be used by Mr. lones to purchase a new de-Luxe spring It cushion. They hope this will make it more comfortable for him to remember his '44 class. To Miss Mildred Scrivener the l2-5's leave the fervent wish that in future years she may have just as many senior class celebrities and a few less senior class scatter-brains. IV limmy Young leaves all the hot air he has been blowing off these past few years to heat the school during the coal shortage next winter. Charles Fite leaves his hall hand-holding to some other love struck sucker who can get by with being late to all his classes. Mary Emma Kelley leaves her band uniform to the next person skinny enough to wear it. lack Slater and Douglas Grimes leave the first four seats on the second row of the north side of the balcony to Robert Schaedle and Monte Smith for use during the show. Oscar Buchanan and Russell Dawson refuse to leave their swoon girls! looks to anybody. They expect to take over when Sinatra retires. Betty Rooney will leave the book she is writing, entitled l-low to Win and lnfluence All Men , to little sister Ioan who is following in her footsteps. Rosalie Bozof and Lois Barcus leave their giggles to Frances Butler and Frances Baruchman. Cordie Hughes and lane Powers leave their unto death friendship to Sylvia Shiffman and Sylvia Wolf. Smilin' lack Kaplan leaves that certain intangible something that enables him to get by with murder with the teachers to Donald Kauerz. Ollie Mae Billings, Ruby Graham, Louise Taylor, and Mary Christine Bogue bequeath their business training upon Virginia Lineberger, Page Twenty-Three

Page 24 text:

SENICDR CLASS HISTCDRY The class of '44. lust another graduating class. Although this is not the first class to graduate during this world conflict, it is the first real war class. For several reasons it can be called that. First, its number has been decreased greatly, second, every boy and many girls are planning to go into the United States Service, a number of boys have already been drafted from the classroom. Here is a class that has gone through all the years of school together. They've looked forward to the parties, dances, class-days, and what goes to make up a senior school year in normal times. But, just when these dreams were about to be realized, the call to war took many members of the class. lt also took away many of the things that have always symbolized a senior year. The purpose of the class was turned from one of personal desires and likes, and turned toward one of unified purpose to do its part individually and collectively, to get the war over, and to get the old world straightened out, so that the boys and girls could step into a peaceful and promis- ing future. The class of '44 is really two classes in one. ln lune of '43 twenty members of this class began their senior year, by taking the first half of the work at Tech High in the summer school. This summer session was conducted to enable the boys going to war to obtain their diplomas before leavingg the class gradu- ated at the half-way mark in Ianuary '44. All the boys in the class expect to be drafted im- mediately, some have already gone, some have pass- ed the Army Specialized Test, and may go to college -courtesy Uncle Sam. The other members of the class began their year in September, and graduated at the regular time in May, l944. Two members of the class are foreign born, Leah Rosenberg, in Wyshkow, Poland, and Herman Kap- lan, in Lithuania. X srl , gl' N I4 - f ' ,J 5 SNSE1 X ei T Page Twenty-Two

Page 26 text:

I. D. Brooks bestows his gift for double talk upon Verdie Brown. Iolida Alsup leaves her perfectly groomed hair to Goldie Brown, on the condition that she pay close attention to Mrs. Nichols. Myrtle Levitch, Marilyn Davis, and Margie Tate leave their cosmetology licenses to all girls now com- pleting their second year of the course. Ierome Adler leaves his publicity hogging to Monte Smith. KEd. note: My sympathy to next year's Staffl. Manuel Brown and Iesse Zellner leave their pin- up girls to adorn Ralph Shankman's locker. Ruth and Verna Mae Bartee, Sylvia and Helen Tenenbaum will their sister teams to Hildred and Mildred Mimms. Iulia Greer, George Bagwell, and Cornelia Alex- ander leave their glee clubbing to Peggy Gassaway. Cecil Riggin and lack Williams will their genius to somebody, but since none can ever hope to measure up to them, they'll just have to keep it. Ioyce Bailey, Norma Breeden, Martha Reitz, Ioyce Williams, and Norma Lewis leave their hall flirtations to Mary Richartz, Rosemary Hines, and Geneva Ford. Herman LaVelle wills all the nickels he collected from perpetually tardy 12-l's to support the school next year. Freda Iolly bequeaths all her debate material to Leslie Inman, who already has it anyway. loyce Nicholas and Beverley Brown finally leave their sixth period speech class seats to all other third termers. lames Price, Eugene Turner, Eugene Anton, and Lawrence Roberts bestow their agreeable and like- able dispositions upon Ioe Tanner and Robert Finn George Sanidas leaves to George Hutchinson this quotation, George is always right! Ieanette Wagerman, Leah Rosenberg, and Earline Wright leave their good standing with the teachers to Rosa Paller, Nick Speros, and Betty Burke. Clif Milton and Tilford Flowers leave their foot- ball successes to Ierry Crook and Louis Williams, Shirley Bacigalupo and Annette Feldman leave their Navy following to Sonya Rosenberg. Doris Reed and Florence Kline leave all the sul- phuric and nitric acids to Forrest Hettinger, and hope that there will be two other conscientous girls next year to keep him from destroying the lab. Frances Nixon and Dorothy Shook leave their name Shorty to Tiny Poor who will also be a senior next year. Betty lean Houston CBlondei leaves her name to anyone else who cares to have it. Louise Robertson and Betty lane Smith leave their ability to put up with each other to Rubye Couch and Walter Underwood. Maxine Scott, Nancy Freedman and lean Temple leave their seats in the science classes to the next person who thinkshe can pass. Clarence Walker and Christine Dozier leave to any juniors who are lucky enough, the privilege to going over Ann Pulliam's house every day for lunch. -Q Gilbert Austin and Iohn loyce leave their gay and vivacious personalities to George Billingsley and Franklin Bruch. Margaret Simi and Matilda Saperstein leave their geniality to Miriam Levine and Mary Ruth Shelby. Rosemary Robinson, Sunshine Stowers, and Bettye Wray will their seats in the office practice room to Bettye Burson, Dorothy Shankman, and lane Ferber, with the stipulation that they don't spend all their spare time in there. Dorothy Mulhollen leaves her gorgeous wardrobe and color combinations to loyce Perkins and Doris Steed. Margaret Allen and Kathryn Edwards will their angelic personalities to Sue Katherine Rollins and Charlotte Patterson. Robert Williams leaves his Mother Goose verse: Little lack Horner sat in a corner Eating his Christmas pie. I-le put in his thumb and pulled out a plumb And said, Ch what a good boy am I! to Thomas MacKenzie. Buford Pinner, Gloria Saller, Billy Bradshaw, and Nathan Blockman leave their wings and halos to Naomi Moore. Martha Watts, Gladys Belch and Shirley Walker leave their unassuming ways to Shirley Margolin, and Peggy Yandell. Nona Minor, Betty Diviney, and Marcella Carmen leave their love of school, and the knowledge that they have there acquired to Kathleen Nolen. Iuanelle Davis and Bessie Alexander leave to the eleventh grade girls that take their table in the lunch room, the poor table-if still there. Betty Iean,l-louston CBrunetteh leaves the care and watering of Miss Robinsons flowers to some other slap-happy senior-with the request that she buy a sprinkler. Earl Pardon leaves that gorgeous hunk of hair to Teddy Petrovsky. Imogene Ramseger and Ann Carlton leave all the pots and pans they messed up in Commercial Foods to be washed by Ieannette Curie and lean Hudson. Dorothy Crawford leaves that come hither look to Peggy Yandell. Helen Iennings leaves her bookkeeping worries to all future bookkeeping classes. lt's enough for all of them. Herman Kaplan wills his debating genius to any- one else who has the brains, voice, and will power to handle it. Fredia Katz leaves her violin, together with less- ons to Morris Shore, provided he retains the proper scholarly attitude. LaVerne Evensky and Lorraine Shippman leave their transcription worries to Audrey Brown and Betty Sue Wildes. Floyd Wright leaves his nose for news , and we mean all kinds, too, to Frankie Wilder. R. L. Houston and Russell Brooks bequeath all their cinema offers to Iames Edminston. Esther Wainman leaves the surplus from her five years of hard work to all future seventh graders who want to have a good time loafing their senior year, and get by with it. Page Twenty-Four