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

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Clas s Will fcontinuedj We express a wish that pupils next year may enjoy vacations as much as we have. We found the vacations to be a most enjoyable part of the school year. We advocate the shortening of the school day. The head of the average pupil is not large enough to hold all the knowledge that can be gained in the present long school day. We should either have larger heads or shorter school days. We leave this admission behind us as a warning to those who follow after us: Had we studied harder and labored longer, our sum total of knowledge would have been greater. ' We leave all the stubs from our lead pencils to the sheriff, so that he may have a wood pile on which to work the prisoners. It has been estimated that 103 cords of wood were contained in the pencils we have used this year in our studies. We request that Mr. Shambarger have a printed bulletin distributed to all high school students next year. The bulletin is to contain a list of all of the worthy things that we did while we were in high school. We believe that one of the best ways to impress boys and girls with a desire to become great is to let boys and girls read about about people who are great. That is the reason we think they should read about us. To our teachers, we leave all the happy--at least we hope they are happy--memories of the days when they taught us in classrooms. We hope as they look into their mirrors that they will not see too many gray hairs placed there by worrying about us. I, Nancy Cunningham, will and bequeath my laziness to Janet Allman. I, Patsy Raber, will and bequeath my ability to play my clarinet to Barbara Miller. I, Delores Donaldson, will and bequeath my love for basketball players to Judy Benedict. I, Janet Benedict, will and bequeath my love for guys with Chevrolet cars to Shirley Burrous. I, William D. Miller, will to Fred Carpenter, the right to quit book-A keeping after the first semester. I, Jack L. Holden, will and bequeath my brutishness and manly look to Lanny Clark. I, Oden McClain, will and bequeath my ability to roll marbles in the assembly, provided he doesn't get caught, to Stanley Eikenberry.

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Class Will An lrnpo rtant Document We, the Seniors of the Jefferson Township High School, being of sound mind and reasonably good judgement, realizing that our high school days are about over, and that we are soon to pass through the portals of graduation into the land of alumni, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. After all the expenses of graduation have been met, all outstanding obligations taken care of, and all borrowed articles returned to their right- ful owner, we bequeath to our immediate successors, the Juniors, all the remaining articles in our lockers, dressing rooms, desks, and treasury. To the Juniors, we leave our traditional caps and gowns, in order that they may be properly robed at their commencement. We also leave them our places in the commencement exercises next year. To the Sophomore Class we bequeath all of the fun, hard work, trouble with the faculty, and all of the chances for fame and honors in store for them in the next two years. We should like to offer the Sophomores some advice too. However it is hard to say much to Sophomores--they seem to know most everything there is to know anyway. In fact, we are not certain that we want to claim them as our heirs. We do believe, nevertheless, that the weak and strug- gling Sophomores are in need of our grades, so we leave our grades to them. To the members of the Freshman Class, we leave the seats we have occupied in the classrooms. Some of our class members have written a book called Pitfalls for Freshmen . We advise all Freshmen to read this book if it ever gets off the press. The book covers rather well all the things Freshmen should avoid in order to become dignified Seniors. We are sure that if the Fresh- men will dilligently follow our footsteps they will come to their Senior days the idol of their teachers, and the envy of their schoolmates. A great and beloved poet wrote a poem one time about footprints in the sands of time. We haven't left any footprints in the sands, but we are sure that our smudged finger marks are everywhere. To those who follow us, we leave the task of removing our finger marks.

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Class Will Qcontinuedl I, Jerry Ault, will and bequeath my love for Plymouths and my ability to drive them safely as hot rods, to Stanley Eikenberry.. I, Margaret Shultz, will and bequeath my ability to be the first to get a diamond to Judy Leslie. I, Robert Allman, will and bequeath my ability to go steady to Larry McKinley. I, Beatty Kay Howell, will and bequeath all of my bawling outs in Government for laughing and talking out loud to Barbara Miller. I, Shirley Martin, will and bequeath my ability to get along with teachers to David Smith. I, Byron Howell, will and bequeath my ability to get along with Mrs. Miller in English to Richard Smith. I, Jim Stockdale, will and bequeath my ability to get kicked out of class to Richard Smith. I, Bette Winningham, will and bequeath my privilege of being a Senior and wearing Senior cords to Jerry Staller. I, Alvena Yoder, will and bequeath my ability to go with older boys to Hermaleen Wilson. I, Ardith Arnold, will and bequeath my natural curly hair to Lanny Clark I, Jim Snyder, will and bequeath my ability to learn and mix plays in basketball to Curtis Nutt. I, Bud Overfield, will to Fred Carpenter my ability to get a reserved seat for all basketball games. I, Mary Staller, will and bequeath my bashfulness around boys to Janet Allman and Hermaleen Wilson. I, Enno Schxnidt, will and bequeath my height to Richard Smith. I, Dottie Kline, will and bequeath my blonde hair to Violet Awker.