John D Bassett High School - Timber Tints Yearbook (Bassett, VA)

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8. John Snead and Jimmy Craig give and bequeath to Ralph Ingram and Ellery White all their secrets in mastering the arts of baseball and basket ball. 9. Alton Purdy gives and bequeaths to Mildred Helms and Eva Young his immense knowledge in questions pertaining to history. 10. Lorine Eggleston gives and bequeaths to Lucy Stone and Virginia Belle Franklin her Seni or dignity. 11. Celia Shanker gives and bequeaths to Dorothy Hamlin and Reva Shelton her spelling book and chewing gum. 12. Wasena Wright gives and bequeaths to Nellie Moran and Hope Leftwich his debating abilities and his bluff. 13. Juanita Williams, Evelyn Snead, and Hazel Hundley give and bequeath to Jason Giles their musical gifts. “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” 14. Frances Martin gives and bequeaths to Minnie Helms and Mildred Franklin her cheerful disposition. 15. Paul Hollandsworth gives and bequeaths to Howard White his charming personality. 16. John Helms gives and bequeaths to June Stone and Estelle Prillaman his southern accent and his vast knowledge of horseflesh. 17. Odessa Turner gives and bequeaths to Edna Joyce and Annie Bowles her ability to express much through silence. 18. Robert Carter gives and bequeaths to Virginia Grogan and Irene Walker his golfing talents and his friendliness to every one. 19. Hazel Stone gives and bequeaths to Melvin Stone her enormous appetite for peanuts. 20. Elmead Turner gives and bequeaths to Alack Little his almost super- human understanding. 21. Inez Craig gives and bequeaths to Codell Jones her leadership of the Literary Society. Also, all low and unsatisfactory deportment grades acquired by her during the past year. All the rest, residue, and remainder of the property of the Senior Class we hereby bequeath to the Student Body. We hereby constitute and appoint Air. Hoover sole executor of this, our last will and testament. Given under our hand and seal this seventeenth day of Alay, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven. Class of 1937, Bassf.tt High School (Seal) R. P. Scott (Seal)

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Last Will and Testament W E, THE Class of 1937, in twenty-four individual and distinct parts, pre- paring to pass out of this sphere of education with a well-trained mind and almost superhuman understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time heretofore made. As to our estate, as it has pleased the fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us, we do dispose of the same as follows: 1. We give and bequeath to our beloved principal, Mr. E. C. Hoover, our deepest reverence, and our heartiest gratitude. As a partial payment for all the help which he has given us during our long years at Bassett High School, we give to him the privilege to accept for himself, as interest on our great debt, every part of the praise and honor that we may achieve on the great stage of the world, knowing that it is all due to his faithful instructions. 2. We give and bequeath to the dear faculty, who have been our instructors in all the wisdom of the ages, a sweet succession of peaceful and unbroken dreams. No longer need they lie awake at night and worry over the possibility of this one not doing his work, or whether this one will remember the iron-clad rules of English in the preparation of her essay. It has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be hard to handle at all times. 3. We also give and bequeath to our beloved faculty all the amazing and startling information that we have furnished them from time to time on our examination papers. We trust they will feel at liberty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come after us. 4. We give and bequeath to the present Junior Class our seats in classroom and chapel, our Senior dignity, and any stubs of pencils, erasers, or scraps of paper that we may unthinkingly leave behind us in the haste and excitement of gathering up our cherished treasures for the last time. May they feel free to make use of them, and feel, perhaps, that in some mystic way, these things may impart some of our great knowledge to them. The following may seem but trifling bequests, but we hope they may be accepted as valuable assets to those who may receive them: 5. Johnnie Ausburne gives and bequeaths to Maxine Philpott and Marjorie Clark his “gift of gab.” 6. Thelma Brammer and Gray Jarrett give and bequeath to Jesse Williams and Nellie Philpott their executive abilities and their powers to convince Air. Hoover of their unerring judgment. 7. Lorine Shropshire gives and bequeaths to all future class secretaries her difficulties as Senior Class Secretary.

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Prettiest Hazel Hundi.ey Most Attractive Celia Shanker Best All Around Evelyn Snead Most Studious Thelma Brammer Most Popular Evelyn Snead Most Humorous Celia Shanker Most Handsome John Helms Most Attractive Jimmie Craig Best All Around Gray Jarrett Most Studious Elmead Turner Most Popular Robfrt Carter Most Humorous Johnnie Ausburne Senior Mirror