Jefferson Township High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Mexico, IN)

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Senior Class Will Ladies and Gentlemen, Teachers and Friends, Upon the behalf of my client, the Class of 1950, of jefferson Township High School, of the city of Mexico, County of Miami, State of Indiana, I have called you together upon this solemn and serious occasion to listen to their last will and testament, and to receive from their dying hand the few gifts they have to bestow in their last moments. Cut so rapidly loose from life and finding so much to attend to before the end should come upon them and realizing, at the same time, that they have no ' longer any time left to spend in cultivation of their own virtues, they deem it best to distribute them with their own hands to those friends to whose needs they seem best fitted. We hope that they may be accepted, not as worthless things lavishly thrown away because we couldn't use them, but as valuable assets to those who receive them and reminders of the generosity of our free and full bestowal. x FIRST: We bequeath our abilities, properties and characteristics as follows: We, the Seniors, will and bequeath our quietness in Geography Class and all our chewing gum to Mr. Miller. To Miss Fisher, we will and bequeath our ability to learn lines of plays on short notice. To Mr. Powell, we will and bequeath our ability to win ball games in Typing Class. Mr. Young, we will and bequeath our shooting from the side lines at basketball games. To Miss Mast, we will and bequeath our good behavior in English Class. To Mr. Shambarger, who has been our faithful instructor through out our High School course, we bequeath a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams. We are sure that it has been a hard strain on him, for Seniors are said to be, at all times and under all conditions difficult to manage. But he has done his duty, and indeed, now shall he have his well earned reward. SECOND: We, the Seniors of 1950, will to the jefferson Township public school our loyal school spirit, ready response, and hearty co-operation in all things. 12

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1950 High School History On September 1, 1945, twenty-six Freshman entered Mexico High School. This group consisted of ten girls: Wilma Draper, Janice Howell, Jacqueline johnson, Louise johnson, Georgia jordan, Ethel Keyes, Mary Overfield, Lois Shultz, Betty Wright, Myra Williams, and fourteen boys: Johnny Arwood, Kenny Barb er, David Cunningham, Kenneth Dillman, Richard Dillman, Kenneth Fivecoate, Charles Fouts, Tommy Fraling, Don I-leckathorn, Fred Lesley, Elvin Myers, Melvin Myers, Charles Rozell and Donald Staller. Before we were accepted as students of Mexico High School we were initiated by the Sophomores. After getting acquainted with the new students who entered our class we then had a Wiener roast at Louise Johnson's home. This is only one of the good times we had during the Freshman year. During this year Mexico won both basketball and .bas eball champion- ships, in which our Sophomore boys took part. During our junior year we received our class rings and sweaters which we considered as appropriate symbols of our school. In the beginning of the year we lost Don Heckathorn and Norma Shambarger, who had joined us during our Sophormore year, and gained one new student, Flora Barnett. Looking forward to our Senior Trip we started raising money by taking charge of the concessions at the ball games. We then, with the help of Miss Clauda Fisher, presented a play called, Babies Night Out. At the close of our Junior year we gave a reception for the Senior class. We took them to Huntington, Indiana, at the La Fountaine Hotel. Our theme was The 49'ers. We decorated the tables with a covered wagon as the centerpiece, and little gold cups as our place cards. After the banquet we took them to see Blondie In The Dough. We made a good start in our Senior year by organizing one of the most interesting carnivals ever put on at J. T. H. S. Two weeks before the carnival we had each class select a candidate for queen. The girl with the highest number of votes was to be crowned as the carnival queen. Wilmalou Draper of our class was elected queen of the carnival. She received as a prize a beautiful strand ofpearls and a dozen-red roses. After the carnival, we rushed right into the preparation of our Senior play. We chose the play entitled, A Pair of Country Kids. We then had the honor, having four of our boys on the team, which won the Four-Way Tourney. After four years of hard study, we now bid farewell to good old j. T. H. 1 1 .

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We will and bequeath to the junior class our seats in the assembly and classrooms and we hope they will endeavor to fill them as faithfully and as promptly as we have done. We will and bequeath to the Sophomore class any stubs of pencils, erasers, or scraps of paper that we may have left behind us. May they feel ,free to use them and feel, perhaps, that they may, in some mystic way, import some of our great knowledge to them. We will and bequeath to the Freshman class any over looked cuds of gum we may have left adhering to the undersides of desks, banisters, assembly seats or any likely or unlikely places. We have sometimes had to rid ourselves of these in too much haste to be able to pick and choose the most desirable means of disposal. THIRD: The personal will of the individual members of the class of l950 ofj. T. H. S.. I, Kenneth Baber, will and bequeath my way of talking back to teachers to Donna Arnold. I, Flora Barnett, will and bequeath my ability to take a tickling and not get mad to Erma Swayer. I, David Cunningham, will and bequeath my ability to crack jokes in all my classes to Don Runkle. I, Richard Dillman, will and bequeath all my quietness fexcept when around Libby Graftj to Dave Miller. I, Wilmalou Draper, will and bequeath my Geography book and love for Geography to Norma Shambarger. I, Ronald Fishback, will and bequeath my frowning in class to jerry Bernard. I, Charles Fouts, will and bequeath my ability to play basketball to Harold Cassidy. I, janice Howell, will and bequeath my very short hair to Marabel Kraning. I, Jackie johnson, will and bequeath my love of playing a clarinet to Lois Dunnuck. I, Georgia jordan, will and bequeath my ability to play a piano to Mary Kline. , I, Ethel Mae Keyes, will and bequeath my very slow speech to Marjorie Snyder. 13