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

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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

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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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2. David Flora wills and bequeaths to Rodes Boyd his bashfulness. May Rodes use this to the best advantage. 3. Mildred Franklin wills and bequeaths to Eulys Greenall her secret of beautiful hair and at bottle of peroxide. 4. Virginia Belle Franklin gives and bequeaths to Virginia Davis her ability to keep her love affair a secret. 5. Jason Giles wills and bequeaths to Claude Shockley his love for himself. 6. Myrtle Hancock wills and bequeaths to Mary Virginia Morris her ability to know all and tell all. 7. Mabel Joyce wills and bequeaths to Ruby Hylton her ability to primp in school. 8. Mildred Helms wills and bequeaths to Juanita Leftwich her modesty and refinement. 9. Minnie Helms wills and bequeaths to Doris Berry her poetic abilities. ro. Ralph Ingram wills and bequeaths to Kenneth jones his ability as reporter and athlete. 11. Dorothy Hamlin wills and bequeaths to William Shanker her appetite. 12. Virginia Grogan and Edna Joyce will and bequeath to Katherine Ramsey their scholastic abilities. 13. Codell Jones wills and bequeaths to Alma Coleman her Hgift of gab. 14. Hope Leftwich wills and bequeaths to Grace Prillaman her ability to stick to her man. 15. Mack Little wills and bequeaths to Robert Hutcherson all of his Oriental features. 16. Elsie Mitchell and Nellie Moran will and bequeath to Beatrice Yeaman their ability as librarians and reporters. 17. Arlene and Estelle Prillaman will and bequeath to Christine Ingram their ability to use lipstick and rouge. 18. Nellie Philpott wills and bequeaths to Mary Kinney her ability as basket ball center. 19. Maxine Philpott wills to Gladys Vernon all of her excess poundage. 20. Reva Shelton wills and bequeaths to Sadie McCrow her craving for sample cakes. 21. Ruby Seay wills and bequeaths to J. T. Williams her old report cards and wishes him to copy them as nearly correctly as possible. 22. june Stone wills and bequeaths to George Philpott her ability as an assistant on the Annual Stali. 23. Melvin Stone wills and bequeaths to Thurman Brammer the sleekness of his hair. 24. Violet Richardson wills and bequeaths to Annie Bowles her quietness and solitude. 25. Ellery White wills and bequeaths to Dossie Plybon her methods of keeping her love straight. 26. Howard VVhite wills and bequeaths to Terrell Clarke all of his unworked geometry proposi- tions and his seat in detention hall. 27. Eva Young wills and bequeaths to Lucy Stone her ability to sing. 28. Jessie Williams wills and bequeaths to Frances Prillaman her gum-chewing abilities. The Class as a whole wills and bequeaths to the Junior Class their Christmas tree decorations. VVe do hereby constitute and appoint Mr. Hoover sole executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, We, the Class of '38, the testators, have to this our will, written on one sheet of parchment, set our hand and seal this seventeenth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. l.ilSl Will and TeSli:lmel1t