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

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I, Dave Miller, will and bequeath all chalk and erasers that have been thrown in the assembly to any Junior boy who is daring enough. I, Donna Otiker, will and bequeath my ability of being a photographer to Nancy Kinney. I, Betty Postill, will and bequeath my ability to drive Buicks to Jerry Williams I, Donald Runkle, will and bequeath my way with redheads to anyone who can stand them . I, Norma Shambarger, will and bequeath my beautiful singing voice and ability to play the accordian to Bill Yoder. I, Marjorie Snyder, will and bequeath my ability to speak rapidly to Norman Fisher. I, Max Sullivan, will and bequeath my ability as rebounder on our basketball team to Harold Richardson. I, Erma Swayer, will andbequeath my temper to Howard Richardson. I, Marabell Kraning, will and bequeath my bashfulness around boys to Marcia Carpenter. I, Bernita Adkins, will and bequeath my ability as a great clarinet player to Byron Swayer. I, Jim Bacon, will and bequeam my large, bony, frame to Roy See. I, .Terry Bernard, will and bequeath my singing ability to Don Cover. I, Donna Otiker, will and bequeath my ability as secretary of the Senior Class to Carole Benedict. I, Mary Kline, will and bequeath my good fortune in being the first in the Senior Class to receive a diamond ring to Doris Fonts. I, Merna Ault, will and bequeath all my freckles to Claris Ann Guillaume.

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The Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of 1951, being of sound mind and body, do make and ordain this to be our last will and testament in connection with the Jefferson Township High School of Mexico, Indiana. We declare that all of the following articles are our most precious and desirable possessions: We, the Senior Class, will all our seats on the south side of the assembly, which are looked forward to so very much by the oncoming class, to the Junior Class, who, we hope, will be able to fill them as well as we have in the past year. We, the Senior Class, will our ability to act in both farce comedy and dramatic comedy plays to the Sophomore Class. We, the Senior Class, will to the Freshman Class all our luck in advancing I through high school fthey ll need itl. We will and bequeath our abilities, properties and characteristics as follows: To Mr. Miller, we will the right to give what fatherly advice he has left to the next Senior Class. To Mr, Shambarger, we will the right to allow the next bookkeeping class to run down all stairs in order to be first in line for dinner. To Mr. Gaiser, we will the boys of all incoming classes to be trained to play basketball. To Mr. Powell, we will all the drawers in a filing cabinet in which he may hide erasers from the next Senior boys. To Miss Curnutt, we will the ability to drive her big Nash as fast as she can without getting a ticket for speeding. To Miss Fisher, we will the right to watch the person who occupies Bernita Adkins' seat in the front of the assembly. To The Juniors: I, Bernita Adkins, will and bequeath my height to Mary McCutcheon. I, Donna Arnold, will and bequeath my extreme quietness to Mary Katherine Draper. I, Merna Ault, will and bequeath my ability to skate to Maxine Kraning. I, Jim Bacon, will and bequeath my liking of Freshman girls to Ronnie Krieg. I, .Terry Bernard, will and bequeath my beautiful blond hair to Freda Miller. I, Lois Jane Dunnuck, will and bequeath my ability to write long letters every day to Phyllis Butler. l, Mary Kline, will and bequeath my short legs to Bob Romine.

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Class Prophecy One spring evening, as I was on the front lawn of my million dollar mansion near Denver, Indiana, romping with my children, a shiny, new four-door, red, Cadillac convertible, screeched to a halt in the driveway. Imagine my amazement when my old schoolmate and cousin-by-marriage, Marabel Kraning emerged. The date was ten years to the day since we had graduated from dear, old J. T. H. S., May Z, 1951. Jane Dunnuck, she greeted me, I've come to pay you a visit and rest a little. I've just driven through from Reno, and I'm completely exhausted. Wendell, my second husband, you know, sirnply won't come through with more alimony. How can I take in Paris properly on only 310,000 a week? I motioned her to a chair on the veranda and we began confiding all our latest news to one another. I purchased the most beautiful new dress today, I told her, At that new S and S store. Erma Swayer and Norma Shambarger are the proprietoresses. It's a very exclusive woman's shop. This brought to Marabel's mind another old classmate. Merna Ault has now reached the zenith of her ambition. She is a professional skater with her latest husband as co-star. I guess she and her first husband didn't get along too well--it seems he loathed skating. The more we talked, the more we remembered of our former classmates. I told her of the latest Collier's cover girl, Bernita Adkins. The cover story said she is Powers Modeling Agency's star model for French bathing suits. It was practically dark, so I called the children inside. Michael snapped on the television set. Across the waves came the announcer: In this corner, we have Ezzard Charles. And in this corner, we have James Bacon, who is fighting for the championship tonight. Of course, we watched it--for Jim had been in our class, too. He became the new World's Heavyweight Boxing Champiori' in the 13th round with a T. K. O. I told Marabel of my chat with Donna Arnold, whom I had met while touring the western states. Her love of horses had taken her to Texas, where she married a real-for-sure cowboy. While he's riding the range, she writes comic strips for the daily newspapers. As we went on talking, I remembered what I'd recently heard about Max Sullivan. He has a hog farm near Mexico. Each year he drives a new Chevrolet. Then, Marabel thought of Donna Otiker, who was our class photographer. Darling, she cooed, Did you know Donna has her own studio in Hollywood? She is happily married, which is very unusual for Hollywood marriages. Later on, when I asked who her lawyer was, she told me she had employed Marjorie Snyder. She had done a very good job for me whenever I ask her to get my divorces, although it cost me S 10,000 'extra to pull her from her job as D. A. in Courter.