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

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LA ST III ILL ana! ' ES'l'AMEN'l' By IRENE MARTIN, BERNICE SAPERSTEIN and ELI WEIL E, THE SENIOR CLASS of Humes High School, City of Memphis, County of Shelby, State of Tennessee, United States of America, Continent of America, Planet Earth, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-eight, being of sound mind UD and body do here- by revoke all former wills made by us, and do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament, which becomes effective at the stroke of twelve midnight, Iune 3, 1948. Article I. To our principal, Dr. D. M. Hilliard, we leave a private filling station, so that the station wagon, like the Boy Scouts, will always be pre- pared. Article II. To Miss Eleanor Richmond we leave a pair of X-Ray glasses, so that she will know exactly who is ill and who isn't. Article III. To Miss Annie Mae Prescott we leave our heartfelt gratitude for the hours she spent laboring over the Senior Class of '48, Article IV. To Miss Iennie Allensworth we leave the hope that some day in the near future the I-Ierald will have a complete sellout. Article V. To Mr. C. C. jones we leave all the ab- sentees of next year's Senior Class, hoping that he will find them as easily as he did us. Article VI. To Miss Mildred Scrivener we leave hap- py visions of Andrew jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, Article VII. To Miss Margaret Thompson we leave a Senior Homeroom next year that will be happy to have a party at Overton Park. Article VIII. The individual members of the Senior Class Wish to distribute their following possessions to their successors, in the following manner: Our handsome president, Kenneth Benderman, be- queaths his beauty to be divided equally among the male members of the Iunior Class. Billy Miller, the Boys' Vice-President, leaves his abil- ity to be a lady-killer to Bobby Lamberth, to add to his list of abilities. Girls' Vice-President, Shirley Moseley, leaves her school girl figure to anyone who thinks she can equal it. Recording Secretary, Eleanor Slaughter, bestows upon Sis Bargiacchi her popularity, providing she keeps it in the good way Eleanor has done. Someone who is brave enough to hold it falls heir to Betty Io. Tucker's pert attitude. Sidney Loskovitz, the Class Treasurer, leaves his walk to Iimmy Yopp, providing she can master it as well as he has. Reporter lim Mack leaves his way with the office to that courageous soul, David Clark. Irene Martin and Bernice Saperstein give their habit of yelling down the hall at each other to Pat Morrison and Virginia Lee Sammons, who have had quite a bit of practice in it. jack Doty leaves his ability to sleep in ROTC to Paul Mathis in hope that Paul can have a gay time at night, too. Eli Weil leaves his wonder at what to leave in the annual to anyone else who doesn't have anything to leave. Verna Williams leaves her tardiness to anyone who tqhigks he would enjoy hearing the devotional in the a . jimmy Henderson and Iohn Davis are left Donald Sharp's drumming talent so that they won't have to be amateurs forever. Forrest jones bestows his knack of climbing and decorating goal posts to next year's Senior Cheer- leaders. Donna johnson leaves her seat in Mr. jones' room to anyone broad enough to fill it. Roy Durell leaves the Key Club to the next president hoping that he can do better. Irene Katsoulis and Sophie Makris leave their his- tory notes to anyone who can decode them. Hal Winfield leaves his father to torture future sci- ence students. Carolyn Reitz leaves her many efforts to snag Mel- ton Bertrand to others with much the same idea. Clarence Cox gives his ability to box to jerry Byars hoping that jerry will never meet Richard Serratt. Sidney Kaufman falls heir to Benjamin Wagerman's gift of gab. john Strauser wishes to take everything with him, especially Betty. Mary Bradley, Virginia Adams, Mavis Rhea, and Mary King leave their gossiping to Mary Ann Lundy and Beulah Durling. Carroll Murrell would like to leave her sweet man- ners and pleasing personality to Peggy Richardson to add to that she already has. Maurice Miner and Bettye Pearson give their ability to skip seventh period to anyone else who can do it as successfully as they have. Gloria Singleton leaves her last hope of making an A in American History to Betty Kile. Billy Smith and Lucille Blaydes Want to leave their lovable ways to anyone who thinks he can get by with what they have. Camille Perry, Betty Ann Clark, and Betty Io Moore bequeath their giggles to anyone who thinks he can accomplish such an amazing feat. Maurice Brandon leaves his place in the Senior Class, whatever it is, to the fellow who thinks he can handle it. A. D. Mims leaves the T. CS I. Club to the girls in cos- metology. Mary Elizabeth Cromwell gives her shy and bashful ways to Ioy Meyers, who might find a use for them. Roger Stanley wills his parking space north of the building to Buddy Barber. Durell Suber bequeaths his red hair to anyone brave enough to stand up under it. Grace Ragsdale and Christine Coble will their abil- ity to argue, pull jokes, and be everyone's friend, to Elaine Hilton and Edna Hines. Betty Iane Allen leaves her place in the trio of Beu- lah, Peggy, and Betty to Ioan Blancett. jean Winter leaves to Ioyce Scott her silly spells in Mr. Iones' seventh period Bookkeeping Class, as if she needs it. PAGE TWENTY -SEVEN

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Carol Walker leaves her ability to talk when not Wanted to Mildred Mathews. Wilbert Crippin would like to leave some weight to all the skinny girls of next year's Senior Class. Betty Ruth Gee leaves the A she made in seventh period study hall to Iune Wolfe-who will need it. Sally Gray, Thelma Crone, and Betty Evans be- queath their hope chests to Betty Wadell and Anne Tanner. Harold Cantor wills his seat in the Honor Study Hall to someone who can keep it hotter than he did. Dempsey Marbut leaves his place in Home Ec. to any other male who likes to cook. Melvin Fleischer confers his place on the football team to anyone who can make All-Memphis in one play. Earl Cunningham wills to the future Student Coun- cil President a calendar of the year's events so that he may know before hand when an auditorium is go- ing to be held. Thelma Bogard, Thelma Iackson, and Iuanita War- dent wish to .leave their ability to carry on a conver- sation without mentioning the subject to any other trio who can talk continuously and never listen. Vivian Russell grants her ability to cook delicious food to anyone who can eat her own cooking and swear it is good. George Stanley bestows his wonderful pitching arm on Iarnes Brackeen. Peyton Branch, Alex Alexander, Eugene Bollinger, and Russell Nodd, the world's four greatest trombo- nists, leave the first four chairs of the Senior band's trombone section to the world's next four greatest trombonists. Henry Schwartz, Frank Russell, and Thomas Perry bequeath their nack for loafing to Iimmy Smith in hope that it will bring him as much happiness as it has brought them. Ann Allnut, the last of the nuts, bestows her speed ability in shorthand to anyone who thinks he can keep up with her. Little Mickey Martin would like to leave, not her height, but her sweetness of nature,-to Ann Kelly. Charles Reyle lost everything and therefore he hasn't anything to leave. Ianet Lewis confers upon Betty Ann Shine a locker to clutter up all by herself. Dorothy Burress wills her peroxide hair to Barbara Sutton or anyone else who can afford peroxide and ammonia. Ann Smith falls heir to Ioann Iones' love troubles although Ann has almost as many now. Sammy Lazerov and Iack Kelly leave' their Damon and Pythias friendship to Damon and Pythias. lo Ann Stubblefield bequeaths her ability to go steady to Betty Lou Tracy. Bill Matirn bestows his art of bumming to Alex Les- lie. He was left this art last year by Wallace Cowan and hopes that Alex can find some worthy person to leave it to next year. Iackie Bilger and Roselyn Strong leave their sweat- ers to anyone else who would like to wear them. Betty Atkins and Fanny Stewart bequeath their po- sitions in the office to two other athletic girls. Roslyn Leevine leaves her ways of maintaining her A standard in conduct to Ioan Harris who already has a good start. Eddie Nuckols falls heir to Percy Wright's finesse. Almeda White and Frances Keith leave their Pep- sodent grins to Ioan Helm and Donna Myers. PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT , Bob Kinkle bequeaths his way with the teacherst?J to anyone else who likes to make up English during shows. . Louis Nodd, Louis Turri, Carl Ray A.llen, lack S. Holt, and Harold Piercey leave their curlilocks to Billy Graham who has quite a few now. Martha Black gives a well-earned box of aspirin to Mr. Roy Coats to cure the many headaches she has caused him. Ed Bussell leaves his title of Metal Shop Terror to Stenis Cane who can carry it quite competently. Bernard Hirsch, Stanley Zellner, Robert Ball, lack D. Holt, and William Smith give their ability to sleep to Roy Crook to make sure that Roy gets a lot of sleep. Iudy Saul leaves the corruption of words to a pair of collops, Gerald Krone and Fay Bussel. Claude Azlin bestows his sparkling personality upon foe Bell. Larry Bell bequeaths his Atlas physique to Gene Murphy to do as he pleases with it. Fleming Chiles and Howard Iohnson leave their ability to get along with members of the opposite sex to Melton Bertrand and Howard True. Gene Burt, Gene DeMarco, Elvin Glaze, and Ioyce Morrow bestow their silence upon Billy Iordan in hope that he will make good use of it in the future. lack Glancy and Tommy Gwaltney give their snow shoes to anyone who lives on the other side of town and would like to get to school some time before lunch when it snows. Walter Hedge gives his questions in Physics to any- one else with a wandering mind. Billy Coleman and Eugene Helbig leave their bowl- ing averages to their colleagues, Walter Helbig and Ray DeShazo. Floyd Iohnson will be doing well to leave. Harry Iones leaves his star position on the B Team to anyone else who lacks a few pounds from being a Doc Blanchard. lack Lampley leaves his knack to sweat the lunch .line to Gerald Proctor who always sweats the line, anyway. Eugene Maddox bequeaths his average attitude to Maurice Petrovsky in hope that he will use it once in awhile. Eddie Manker sadly leaves Doris. Pat May and George Kuss bequeath their inebriat- ing habits to anyone who can stand up tHicl under it. Russell McGroom gives his conversational ability with the faculty to Louis Cooper. Presley Moore who hasn't been here very long hasn't received anything, so he can't leave anything. Abby Dell Oates leaves his name to .all the Smiths in the Senior Class. T Bob Parker leaves his musical ingenuity to Nick Vergos. Ancyle Raburn leaves his color to the Oklahoma lndians who envy him. Raymond Ross wills his weight to Emmett Edwards so that Emmett will be the tallest man in the world. Iames Terry bequeaths his knowledge of records to Billy Ienne. Walter Tomlinson leaves his credit in General Sci- ence to any person who would like to spend four years getting one credit. Ed Williams would like to bequeath all his athletic equipment to Winston Wooten. Archie Wood leaves his ability to speak Yiddish bet- ter than anyone else in Humes to lke Lusky. Philip Wilson wills his scooter troubles to Mousie.