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

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Estelle Prillaman to us confides, She's anxious to get married and decides To answer Yes to the first one who dares To proifer her the honored name he bears. I believe she will and surely can With one sweet smile bewitch a capable man. Mildred Franklin, with cheeks of rose, Came prancing in with beauty to expose. She said, He was such an old model and grew old so fast, But I'll be well rewarded because I'll get a new one at last. Virginia Belle Franklin sent in an order for an economy size, With dimpled cheeks and baby blue eyes. Her order read, This is my first and I may not be fortunate enough to get eleven, I'll treat him divinely because he was sent from heaven. I observed an eccentric and fastidious woman who was immeasurably hard to please She was adorned in a fur coat with large, draping sleeves. She shoved her way to the counter and signed her name as Edna Joyce, I'm sure that she would n-ever be able to pick a suitable husband if she had her choice. Oh, at last, according to my flawless intuition, Ellery White will be an expert beautician. I walked over to see the fashionable coiffeurs she had created And met Arlene Prillaman, who was married and domesticated. Mildred Helms has written a woman's book And into her spacious book store many feminine eyes do look. A handsome price have countless, middle-aged women paid, It was a prize-winning book, How to Keep from Being an Old Maid. The first patron was Eva Young, It seems her first husband had done her wrong. She said, My first husband could get nothing but dregs, But now I want a man who can make golden eggs. I noticed advertisements fiying everywhere, And read of the new sensation that was in the air. June Stone has written a number of books On How Women Can be Good Cooks Without Ruining Their Looks. Sitting in a cream-colored limousine Was the most luxurious sight of which anyone could dream. There was Nellie Philpott, wearing a sable coat and a diamond-studded pin in her hair, For she was the wife of a deceased millionaire. Passing the theater I heard roars and hisses, It was Hope Lcftwich and Dot Hamlin, making their screen debut in 'fLove and Kisses. There was a heart-stirring drama performed on the stage, Featuring Elsie Mitchell and Ruby Seay in Act Your Age. I heard poppings, smackings, crushes and roars, And toward these noises the masses did pour. They were the most savage noises and the most humorous sight I have ever seen, It was Mable Joyce competing for Wrigley's fastest chewing gum queen. What's this, Nellie Moran is going to be a nurse? Well, that's good, I'm sure she might be worse. There's always need for a loving heart and helping hand To care for those whom constant care demands. On the street corner I saw a large, illuminated, neon sign, Virginia Grogan and Reva Shelton's marriage bureau. How you girls will get husbands I think you should know. This sign read, We can get you any husband you want, etc. Q50 and Sol It makes no difference whether you want Larry, Curley or Moe. Riding past the tennis court in a fleeting car, I chanced to see Mack Little in a game with a Wimbledon star. He was not a doctor, preacher and never admitted to take the bar, But he was a tennis player and known as a tennis czar. -MACK LITTLE. - Class Dronhecy

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They told me that I must prophesy, And it should be the work of a sage. But I, a fool more than sage, Will try to reveal your future In our next imaginary age. The Hoto-Hoto scope that reveals your life, Awoke us in a world far remote from evil and strife. 'Tis a thriving metropolitan city, Europa It was to me and all of you, a modern Utopia. I was strolling along on a well-paved street, And one of you I was first to greet. It was Jessie Williams and a gigolo She was trying to let every one know, That she had inherited enough money to get her a beau. She told me that her ambition was to dance and sing, And to marry Jason Giles, who had become His Majesty the King. At the palace His Majesty invited me to sit on his right, And tapped me on the shoulders with his royal sword, Signifying that I had just become a knight. His court jester, Howard White, was quite a clown, He was trying to make the King laugh instead of frown. They invited me to come into the hall, Where Howard was going to teach Jason to pitch a curve ball. His Majesty called for an entertainer to dance and sing. Maxine Philpott was chosen and the subjects' prayers did ring, Their only prayer was, God save the King. And later came in a poor subject, David Flora, Who was a minister and poor to the core. He reached in his pockets and could find nothing but dust, And said, If God wills it, it must be thus. I motored to a distant city to see a world series game, And here I met a ball player who had carved for himself a name. It was Ralph Ingram, who was a catcher for the New York Yanks, He had been voted as the most valuable player in the major ranks. It was the day for the session of Congress and I thought I would attend, There was only one woman taking her place with numbers of men. She was Myrtle Hancock, who was the first woman legislator. Myrtle was working for women's rights and known as The Emancipatorf' A picture was being filmed on a movie set, And in to see it the surging crowd tried to get. I wanted to see the scene and toward the set I was beckoned. There was a love scene being filmed with Melvin Stone playing the leading role and Robert Taylor playing as his second. Through a large hotel window I saw Codell Jones giving herself a toast, And naming the beaux of which she could boast. She was telling of her numerous Hirtations. She said, It wasn't love, they were mild infatuationsf' Passing a stately marble building in the semi-dark I met a small, well-dressed woman whom you know as Marjorie Clark. From many a human heart she had taken a thorn, She was widely known as an authority on advice to the lovelorn. She invited me to come to her office and to meet her guest. In her office were volumes of books to help her in her quest. Violet Richardson wanted to take a love test To find out which of her boy friends she loved best. Then came in a woman, deep in woe, One at this time you would hardly know. She was in love with a traveling salesman and wanted to rush him to a minister Because Minnie Helms was taking no chances on being a spinster. e Class Dronhecy

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'Thirty-Eight, about to die, salutes you! Contrary to the custom in such cases, and loath as are all members of my profession to establish precedents, only at the bequest of my noble client, 'Thirty-Eight, have I called you together, before her death, to hear her will and to receive her gifts. I was persuaded to this action by the unusual circumstance of my client. I dread to tell you, but be calm, the doctor is here, ready to revive all fainting ones, but he cannot attend to many. Here is my secret, keep it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on the seventeenth of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, doctors who have never been known to fail in their prognostications. They have an- nounced that on May the seventeenth, 'Thirty-Eight will die. My client wishes me to state that, owing to the lightness of his head, caused by the gradual swelling during the last four years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs, caused by thoughts of parting and over-feasting, respectively, she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but such as she has she gives to you, praying that you may not believe that it is only because she cannot keep her goods that she is generous. So listen, one and all, while I read the last wishes of the now dying Class of 'Thirty-Eight. VVe, the Class of 'Thirty-Eight, being about to leave this sphere in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. First, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well wishers, the faculty. Only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in the school scale has merited. ITEM: We will and bequeath to the faculty restful nights and peaceful dreams. No longer need they lie awake through the long watches of the night to worry over the uncertainty of whether this one is doing her night work or whether that one will have her math in the morning class. It has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions ditiicult to manage, but they have done their duty well and verily, now shall they have their well-earned reward. ITEM: We will and bequeath to Bassett High School one more restful summer through which she will have time to recuperate from the eight months of strain she has recently been through. ITEM: VVe will and bequeath to our successors, y39, our classroom and assembly seats. In this are included all chewing gum and trash which may be found in or on the seats. ITEM: We give to the Freshmen and Sophomores the following advice, accepting which will send them to glory: Copy '38-learn to work if not to wing development comes sooner through bear- ing failures than success. It isn't fun, but still look at '38 and be encouraged. ITEM: The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the Class of 'Thirty-Nine the real and rightful successors: First, the individuals of 'Thirty-Eight will and bequeath their own personal property, as follows: 1. Marjorie Clark does will and bequeath to junior Giles her unerring ability as President of the Class. l.i':lSt Will and -I-BSti':ll118l1ll