Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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12. I, Alvv Johenning, do hereby will my pull with “Bosco” to Jim Polk. 13. I, Katharine Lackey, do hereby bequeath my love for animals (Minks) to Kathaleen Quisenberry. 14. I, Virginia Mahanes, do hereby will my ambition as a student to “Dick” Moses. 15. I, Maude Mankey, do hereby leave my attraction for “Poolev” Ruble to Gladys Logan. 16. I, Homer Mateer, do hereby bequeath my position as attorney for the defense of the Seniors before the faculty to Meredith Turner. 17. I, Clyde Radford, do hereby will my numerous suggestions to other members of the class for creating disorder to William Dana Hoyt, Jr. 18. I, Edward Riley, do hereby bequeath my friendship with “Kennie” to Woodson B. Gillock. 19. I, Carl Ruble, do hereby leave my passion for sour pickles to Talmadge Radford. 20. I, Bolling Seay, do hereby bequeath my famous chin whiskers to William Dana Hoyt, Jr. 21. I, Wilson Shaner, do hereby will the “artistic lines” of my figure to Fred Dale. 22. I, Dora Smith, do hereby leave my good nature to Virginia Roop. 23. I, Edward Steidtman, do hereby bequeath my numerous “love affairs” to Jack Varner. 24. I, Goodloe Tinsley, do hereby gladly leave my popularity with Mr. Waddell to anyone who wants it. Clause III 1. We, the Seniors, do hereby leave to the Juniors the restricted member- ship into that powerful and dominating organization, THE BURKE DEBAT- ING SOCIETY, which always reigns supreme. 2. To Miss Elsie L. Lucas and her Battalion, we hereby will the rat-holes, the cobwebs, our fallen arches, and our much delapidated shades. 3. To the Freshmen, we bequeath the sophistication of the “Sophs.” 4. To the in-coming Freshmen of next session, we hereby will the eggs left us by the Easter bunny. Clause IV 1. To the School Board, we do hereby leave the “Goatranch”, otherwise known as our athletic field to be re-leveled, re-surfaced, and completely re- modeled. 2. To John, the janitor, we do hereby bequeath and dedicate the new fur- nace in the future high school. 3. To the overseer of the poor, we do hereby gladly leave the enormous crop of wild onions in our school yard. 4. To the state of Virginia, we do hereby will our income tax and our mar- riage licenses. 5. To the town of Lexington, we do hereby leave this institution of hard- knocks and learnings, the LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. Sealed, Signed, and Approved by the CLASS OF ’27.

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Cfje Hast WiiW anO Ceatament of tf)e Claoo of ’27 W E, C. William Ruble, J. Rolling Seay, and H. Palmer Mateer, of the In- corporated Law Firm of the BURKE DEBATING SOCIETY, have been employed to draw up this last will and final testament of the grand and glorious CLASS OF ’27. Clause I 1. To Professor Harrington Waddell, we leave our shoes, reduced to a state of ruin by constant treading to and from “The Office,” and a periscope with which to view the proceedings in the classrooms “via” the transoms. 2. To Mademoiselle Lucas, we bequeath a manual on “Military Tactics” to be used as a guide in drilling her “Sophs” for their weekly march to the assembly. 3. Upon our beloved Physics Instructor, Professor Kenneth Ashby Thomp- son, we generously bestow 66,000 volts, (amperage not reduced), and a perpet- ual motion machine so that he may retire from “The Boss’s” squad and become a worthy rival of Steinmetz. 4. To Miss Mary Douglas Richeson, we will a bottle of SLOAN’S LINI- MENT to be applied to the aching arms of the victims of her excessive dictations of notes and outlines, and one plug of BROWN MULE chewing tobacco to be given to the class as a substitute for their chewing gum. 5. To Mrs. Tardy, we leave an AUTOMATIC CRANIUM CRACKER to be used only in the fourth year study hall. 6. To Miss May Davidson, we bequeath a 1000 page demerit book with pencil attached, and a steel heel plate for her shoe with which she may impress the Seniors. Clause II 1. I, Elbert Agnor, hereby will my “Mannish Cigarettes” to “Jerry” Strain. 2. I, Elizabeth Bell, do hereby bequeath my “boyish bob” to Levinia Mahanes. 3. I, Eura Bradley, do hereby leave my reputation as a “flapper” to Minnie Moore. 4. I, Frances Campbell, do hereby will my discriminating use of words to Percy Tolley. 5. I, Robert Childress, hereby leave my athletic ability to Reginald Fauber. 6. I, Theodore Craft, do hereby bequeath my dignified classroom manners to “Stomp” Hill. 7. I, Emma Louise Crawford, do hereby will my reputation as a boxer to Templeton Fauber. 8. I, Charles Dillon, do hereby leave my title as “Ace of the Pitching Staff” to James Herbert Agnor. 9. I, Marie Donald, hereby bequeath my “sarcastic line” to Miss Elsie Lucas. 10. I, Madison Dunlap, do hereby will my innocent look to Carl Steidtman. 11. I, Bernardine Fox, do hereby leave my passion for “brass buttons” to Nancy Shaner.

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Junior Class Woodson Gillock, Jim Polk, Minnie Moore, Carrie Johnson, Margaret Higgins, Nancy Sha- ner, Helen Tardy, Annie Bare, Bessie Whitmore, Katie Whitmore. William Engleman, Sadie Bradley, Martha Moore, Medora Ford, Jean Blain, Mary Landis, Alice Beeton, Meredith Turner. Richard Moses, William Hoyt, Lawrence Tyree, Harry Bosserman, William Hill, Malcolm Campbell, Wayne Lee Foltz. junior Class OFFICERS: Meredith Turner President Billy Hoyt Secretary Class of ’28 O NLY three years in High School. Goodness, what a change! Then, timid boys in knee breeches and giggling girls in socks and gingham aprons. (Imagine that!) Now — -glance at them — exactly the same boys and girls, hut how changed. See the sophisticated men of the world care- fully keeping the creases in their long trousers, and the young debutantes care- fully powdering their noses and trying to attract the attention of a passing “Mink.” Bessie Whitmore, our first class president, helped us to get used to our kiddy-cars under Mrs. Tardy. Although we were insignificant little Freshmen, more than half of the chorus came from this class, and eight of our members entered the various literary contests and came out with flying colors. In this [ 18 ]