Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Class Will We, the never-to-be-forgotten class of ’3 6, do hereby establish our last will and testament. CLAUSE I To Mr. Waddell, we will a secretary like Miss Elizabeth” for a period of five years. To Mr. Thompson, we leave the stars” of the Junior class. To Miss Sieg, we bequeath another class as helpful (?) as we have been; also one gross of willing candidates for the Senior play. To Miss Moore, we leave a caddy to carry her purse around. To Miss Elliott, we will about twelve copies of Precis.” To Mr. Woodson, we leave a reservation in the Blue Room” at the Hotel Mons. To Miss Hamilton, we bequeath a winter’s diet of her favorite brand of pencils. To Mrs. Tardy, we will a freshman class that has absorbed some knowledge in grammar school. To Mrs. Boykin, we leave a robot to collect overdue fines. To Mr. Harlow, we will a home room composed of the fairer sex. CLAUSE II I, Frances Agnor, will my personality to Roberta Latture. I, Mary Monroe Ainsworth, will my quiet, unobtrusive nature to Betty Fray. I, Helen Anderson, will my love for math to Lois Steidtman. I, John Beatty, will my intelligence (all I can spare) to Mitchell Zimmerman. I, Louise Brown, bequeath my boisterous tone of voice to Helen Engleman. I, Ruth Brown, leave my diminutive stature to Marietta Hart. I, Esten Cooke, do will my geometric tendencies to Rosa Fletcher. I, Liz” Crawford, bequeath my loyalty to the football team (?) to Frances Murray. I, Claude Crist, leave my ways with the wimmin” to Kenneth Brogan. I, Iva Cummings, will my Latin record to anyone worthy of it. I, Bill Davidson, will my berth (y’know a place where you sleep) in Physics class to Aaron Freeman. I, Waynlee Davis, leave my football uniform to Charles Swink and Lurty Straub, jointly, — one of them would be lost in it. I, Mutt” Deaver, will my athletic prowess to Elizabeth Moore. I, Mary Desha, will my love of higher education” to Ann Read. I, Bruce Donald, leave my Hollywood potentialities to Charles Olsen.

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Seniors as Freshmen Raymond Hartbarger, David Teaford, Melvin Miller, Carlisle Fix, John Swink, Tom Kerr, Harold Agnor, Bobby Hutcheson, Waldo Womeldorf. Richard Nuckols, Eugene Engleman, Garland Connor, Lloyd Hall, Richard Fox, Fred Bates, Paul Brown, James O’Connor, Bobby Fox, Harry Brown. Billy Brooks, John Beatty, Curtis Montgomery, Steward Craft, Charles Showalter, Henry Taylor, Ben Young Morris, John D. Furr, Harold Hartbarger. Dickie Irby, Fred Moore, Waynlee Davis, Billy Young, Benny Gillock, Carol Tolley, Edgar Shannon, Francis Radford. Catherine Perry, Helen Irvine, Mary Hutton, Carroll Agnor, Carrie Ayres, Mary Desha, Helen Anderson, Nell Deaver, Esten Cooke, Marie Johnson, Elizabeth Kirk- patrick, Helen Hutton, Marie Irvine. Dorothy Crist, Josephine Ashburne, Louise Brown, Iva Cummings, Frances Agnor, Janetta Smith, Elizabeth Crawford, Mary Gordon Lewis, Julia Bell Quisenberry, Gem Mahanes, Ethel McDaniel, Dorothy Heflin, Mary Monroe Ainsworth. Dorothy Moore, Ethel Fix, Mary Weeks, Marietta Hart, Betty Mayo, Joe Smith, Jack Montgomery, Bessie May Tolley. Bruce Donald, Earl Williams, John Higgins. Not in picture: Charles Rogers, Nancy McCorkle.

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I, Carlisle Fix, bequeath my hole in the ice at Cameron’s pond to any- one who will fall for it. I, Guy Forrester, will my arguments to anyone who wants to take my side. I, Raymond Hartbarger, leave my serious countenance to Robert Sterret. I, Dot” Ffeflin will my executive ability to Nancy Moore. I, Binky” Hutcheson, bequeath my ability to take a joke, (par- ticularly ones about nickels) to anyone who is big enough sucker to get caught. I, Dickie Irby, will my razor blades to Stuart Smith, I never need them. I, Helen Irvine, do leave the library to Myra McCormick. I, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, do leave my bobby” pins to Eleanora Faison. I, Tom Kerr, do will my lop-ears” to Betty Bates. I, Betty Mayo, will my conceit to Mildred Powell. I, Carl Miller, will my old age pension to Francis Radford. I, Curtis Montgomery, leave my Charlie Chaplin” walk to Jimmy Anderson. I, Dorothy Moore, bequeath my effeminate manners to Elizabeth Beatty. I, Earl Morgan, will my neat appearance and southern drawl to the Faison Brothers. I, Nancy McCorkle, bequeath my natural appearance to Merle Armstrong. I, Charles Rogers, will my Tarzan” physique to Billy Young. I, Charles Showalter, will my dependability to Lewis Tyree. I, Janette Smith, do leave my gentle manner to Virginia Couper. I, Henry Taylor, will my pull (?) with Mr. Thompson to anyone who can stand the gaff.” I, David Teaford, will my horn-rimmed specs to Wesley Ruley. I, Izzie” Williamson, will my ability (?) to make puns to anyone courageous enough to assume it. CLAUSE III To the Juniors, we will our Crystal Store. To the Sophomores, we leave our excess dignity to make you bigger and better Seniors. To the Freshmen, we will our untarnished reputation. Keep it clean. To the class of ’40 we don’t will a thing; you were lucky to have escaped us. To Matt, we will a vacuum cleaner for future USE.