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

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9. David Giles wills and bequeaths to Edith McGhee his ability to lead his class- mates. 10. Eulys Greenall wills and bequeaths to Dorothy Martin and Margaret Canter her seat in Mr. Hoover’s office and all the telephone calls. 11. Robert Hutchinson wills and bequeaths to Mary Elizabeth Wade his witty sayings. 12. Christine Ingram wills and bequeaths to Meryl Greenall and Margaret Craig her place in the Drum and Bugle Corps. 13. Kenneth Jones wills and bequeaths to T. F. Grogan and Harold Mason his ability to pitch a baseball. 14. Mary Kinney wills and bequeaths to Dorothy Wilkerson and Myrtle Spencer her ability to stay on a strict diet and to keep a trim figure. 15. Juanita Leftwich wills and bequeaths to Samuel Flora her scholastic ability. 16. Sadie McCraw wills and bequeaths to Warren McCall her ability to know what CO say at all times. 17. Mary Virginia Morris wills and bequeaths to Charlotte Stringer the excess perfume of the chemistry laboratory. 18. George Philpott wills and bequeaths to Allie Stone his provoking sayings. 19. Dossie Plybon wills and bequeaths to Lessie Mae Shelton and Cornelia Prillaman her ability to keep beautiful hair. 2 0. Frances Prillaman wills and bequeaths to Genevieve Ross her love for other girls’ boy friends. 21. Grace Prillaman wills and bequeaths to Clara Turner and Mildred Johnson her excess cosmetics. 22. Katherine Ramsey wills and bequeaths to Drucilla Turner her love for a butcher boy. 2 3. William Shanker wills and bequeaths to Allison Maye his manly physique. 24. J. T. Williams wills and bequeaths to Jack Helms his love for throwing air- planes. 2 5. Thomas Wiggington wills and bequeaths to Geneva Johnson his liking to give speeches in Engl ish IV. 26. Gladys Vernon wills and bequeaths to Mildred Jarrett the ability to be wise in love. 27. Beatrice Yeaman wills and bequeaths to Agnes Mason her ability to play the piano. Then last comes the thing hardest to part with. To our successors, we leave our thoughts and places in the hearts of our teachers and principal. Besides these enforced gifts, we leave our blessing, tender memories of our associa- tions together, and our forgiveness for anything that we may not have exactly appre- ciated in the happenings of the past, and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. Alma Coleman.

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The Last Will and Testament Upon behalf of my client, the Class of 1939, of Bassett High School, of the City of Bassetts, State of Virginia, U. S. A., I have called you together upon this solemn and serious occasion to listen to her last Will and Testament and to receive from her dying hands the fetv gifts she has to bestow in her last moments. Realizing she has no time left to spend in cultivation of her own virtues, she deems it best to distribute these gifts with her own hands to those friends whose needs they seem best fitted. Owing to the flighty condition of her brain, and the unusual disturbance in its gray matter, she begs me to state for her that she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but what things she thinks she has, she distributes to you, praying that you may keep as a sacred trust from the Class of ’39. Listen, then, one and all, while I read the document as duly drawn up and sworn to. We, the Class of ’39, being about to pass out of this sphere of education in full possession of a crammed mind and well-trained memory, do make and publish this our last Will and Testament. We do dispose of our dear possessions as follows: Item: We will and bequeath to our beloved Prof. E. Carl Hoover, our sincere affec- tion, our deepest remembrance, our heartiest gratitude, and the whole unlimited wealth of our eternal memory. Item: We will and bequeath to the faculty all the amazing knowledge and start- ling information that we have furnished them from time to time in our various exam- ination papers. We know that much which we have imparted to them in this way has been entirely new to them, and would throw much new light on many a familiar line of thought throughout the whole world of science and learning, even outside the halls and walls of B. H. S. Item: We will and bequeath to our under classmates all the thrown eraser marks on the wall and all chewing gum on the bottom of the desks. The individuals dispose of their property as follows: 1. Doris Berry wills and bequeaths to Doris Pegram and Christine Martin her lovely voice. 2. Annie Bowles wills and bequeaths to Irene Brewer and Magdalene Roger her dignity. 3. Rodes Boyd wills and bequeaths to Dewey Draper his handsome mug. 4. Thurman Brammer wills and bequeaths to Bill Berry his love for tangerines. 5. Terrell Clarke wills and bequeaths to Paul Richardson the ability to make up such unheard of white lies. 6. Alma Coleman wills and bequeaths to Anne Ramsey her infectious laugh. 7. Virginia Davis wills and bequeaths to Violette Ferguson some of her height. 8. J. A. Eggleston wills and bequeaths to C. L. Woody his horse” laugh.

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SENIOR MIRROR Prettiest Beatrice Yeaman Best Looking Rodes Boyd Most Popular Virginia Daiis Most Popular David Giles Most Athletic Mary Kinney Most Athletic Kenneth Jones tl II Most Humorous Christine Ingram Most Humorous Willie Shanker Most Dignified Annie Bowles Most Dignified Thurman Brammer Most Studious Juanita Leftwich Most Studious Robert Hutcherson