Kinston High School - Kay Aitch Ess Yearbook (Kinston, NC)

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KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL THE KAYAITCHESS NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT State of North Carolina, County of Lenoir. We, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Four, of the Kinston High School, aforesaid State and county, being sound of mind and in full pos- session of all our faculties, and having reached the desired step, to-wit: Our intellect being broadened and our vision of life considerably widened, realizing that our sojourn here in this memorable High School must soon come to an end, and also that High School quizzes or instruments invoked by that past great terror — the faculty — to perturb and mislead the minds of the young, are of a past age, do make, declare and publish this as our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other wills and testaments made previously by us. All assets, rights and privileges that we have acquired, either by the hand of the fates or by our strong-arm of might, we do now dispose of, in the following way and manner, viz: First: We give and bequeath to the Junior Class of said institution the sole rights and privileges of ruling over the largest tract of our estate, bounded on the east side by East Street, on the west side by a high board fence, on the south side by Lenoir Avenue, and on the north side by Vernon Avenue, which is to be disposed of in like manner to its successors and executors. It is to be distinctly understood that their sole reign over the tract shall in no weiy in- terrupt, hinder or harass the rule of the faculty of the said school, over a build- ing, said building being situated in the center of said tract of real estate; and that in the case of the entrance of snow into our sunny Southland, they shall in no way place obstacles in the form of snowballs, et cetera, in the face or figures of the said faculty while they are departing from or arriving at the said building. Second: We do give and bequeath the above-mentioned faculty of said school the privilege of calling on us — their worthy pupils — for any of that infor- mation and erudition gained by constant use of our ingenuity and perseverance. Third: We do likewise bequeath to the said body politic, viz: The faculty of the said school, the distinct privilege of pointing out to the awed multitudes of a future date the fact that we were once their pupils, and with pleasure to watch each upward step of the personnel of the Class of ' 24. Fourth: We do give and bequeath all the sandwiches, whose crusty sides our baby-teeth were unable to penetrate, to the lunchroom. Amen. Fifth: To the Literary Societies we do hereby give and bequeath the explicit duty of replacing the speakers who make their exit, in due form, this year from the K. H. S. Sixth: We do exhort the various and sundry athletic teams of the said school to raise the Red and Blue from its dusty level and wave it on high. Seventh: To those who are not pursuing elusive erudition further next year by entering college, and who have credited themselves with the sum total of learning possible to be obtained within the walls of the said school — congratu- lations. We do bequeath to them the sole rights and privileges to the various and sundry settees, sofas, et cetera, which the male members of said Class of ' 24 have been too often prone to occupy in lieu of the preparation of Latin, or some other unnecessary and hard reality of school life, during evenings. Thirty

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KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL THE KA YA ITCH ESS N 1 netep:n twenty-four Whether in football, Ijaseball, basketball, track or tennis, the Senior Class of this year has put in the held athletes of irony calibre. Captains, managers and cheer leaders have come from our class. And the fact that the Class of ' 24 this year has furnished memliers for every varsity team, should stand out in bold relief in the history of our school athletics. In the first annual Field Day, which was held last year, our class completely overwhelmed all the other classes, winning every event. However strange it may seem, members of our class are the only ones in our school who have ever been able to win State honors on the field. In forensic activities, the standard has been held high. Last year it was a team from our class that won the Triangular Debate and went to the University of North Carolina for the finals. In the Literary Societies, one of the most prominent activities of the school, we have had more than our jiroportion of representation. We have furnished officers, orators and debaters in abundance. In fact, statistics show that we have furnished two debaters every time all the other classes combined ha e furnished one. Only this spring a Senior was chosen as the best declaimer to represent Kinston High in a State contest. In the world of literature emd writing, a genuine standard h is been main- tained, showing talented ability. In the Class of 1924 one will find holders of the Barrett Hartsfield Medal, Lincoln Essay Medal, W. T. Parrott Health Essay Medal, and others. The Connecting Link, which was begun last year, has flourished and grown in a new style, with members of our class managing and writing for its colunms. It has been an isthmus between the school and the people; a vinculum between the school and its alumni and alumnae; a hyphen between the school and its activities, and a stepping-stone for a better and bigger school. It is today recognized as the best high school paper in North Carolina. It has become the true exponent of the Kinston schools, which is due to an editor-in-chief and a business manager who graduate this year. The Kayaitchess was given birth by the Class of 1924. Feeling the need of an annual, the Senior Class this year undertook the project, and with their own initiative, nursed it until it became a reality. It is a complete picture of school life at Kinston High during the past year. It is something that will cause the students in years to come to live again the brightest and bluest days of their career. It is a valued keep-sake made possible by the Class of 1924. And now that the goal of graduation from Kinston High School has about been reached, we stand upon a new threshold. Reminiscing, we arc hapjiy: contemplating the future, we are happier; for, behold, we are now at the point when life in its fullest can be enjoyed by us. Every morn is a fresh beginning; every day is a world made new. Where the various individual paths will lead to remains a part of the Prophet ' s story. But in making future history, let us cast no shadows on the past, which has been noteworthy in every detail. We want to keep up the process of growth and make progress and development our motto. We owe much to our Alma Mater here, which will always serve as a memorial to whatever fame or fortune we acfpiire in later years. Whether success or failure crowns our eflorts in the future years, Kinston High School will stand out to the Class of 1924 as a guiding-post — a haven of beauty and learning; an institution dedicated to humanity by our patrons. — Historian. Twcnty-N ine

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KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL THE KAYAITCHESS NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR Eighth: To the school-at-large we do surrender, give and bequeath the chance of distinguishing themselves literarily, as several of the members of said class have done, through working for and supporting the school publications with tireless zeal and work. May they come to cherish and protect them in the future as they have cherished and started them in the past. Ninth: l pon the said Junior Class we do place the duty of editing The Connecting Link and the 1925 Kayaitchess. Tenth: Whereas, the Junior Class is a minor by the age of three months, and will not attain the full age of seniority until September, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Four; now, therefore, our will and desire is that Mr. Ray Arm- strong, or his successor, as Principal of the aforesaid school, be and is hereby constituted and appointed guardian of the said Junior Class, to have and to hold the custody of their estate until the said Junior Class arrives at the full age of seniority. Eleventh: We do tender, give and bequeath to each of the single-blessed members of the said faculty of the said school one marriage license blank, and as we tender it we exhort them to find a tender one as a companion, so that theirs may be a propitious change to married life. We do solemnly advise them to do away with old pipes-, bachelor-buttons and other acquirements by instinct during their many years of single-blessedness, which have caused them to congregate and start staying in every evening after making such a change. Twelfth: Our will and desire is that all the residue of our estate, of what- soever nature, and whensoever, wheresoever, and howsoever acquired and not herein disposed of, shall be sold by our executor, or his successor, and the pro- ceeds thereof used in the purchase of an individual life-size portrait of each and every individual of this class, said photograph to be placed in the aforesaid building, at present occupied by the Kinston High School, and we do ask the succeeding principal to employ the use of police force, if necessary, to protect these pictures. Thirteenth: We hereby constitute and appoint our beloved Superintendent as «ur lawful and sole executor, to all intents and purposes, to execute this, our last will and testament, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, hereby employing the services of the scrub faculty (viz: the janitors) to en- force the disposition of our property by him — by physical force, if necessary. Fourteenth: We do give and bequeath this item of our constituted will to the support of that good old superstition that thirteen is an unlucky number. In Witness Whereof, We, the said Class of Nineteen Hundred and 1 Twenty-Four, and the testator, have to this, our last and will and testament, subscribed our title and given and bequeathed our support, this sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-four. [Signed] Class of 1924. — Testator. Thirty-One