Linlawn High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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class from Indianapolis that year. In the sophomore year things really began rolling. Some of the boys were regulars on the second team. Our enrollment dronped to 26. Another new member who wasi become a senior entered our class that year. Shewashith Pollitt from Shelbyville. The next year, our junior year, was one of someimp portance. We were finally nuoper-classmen.n Thus meant an active part in varsity athletics, junior play, and junior-senior banquet. In 1945 we became seniors. The senior year is one that you wait on for eleven years, and then it is over before you know it. This is the year that most of us realize for the first time, how valuable TIME reallyis. Every student has said sometime in his school life that he would be glad when it was all over. How true that is in the early stages of the game. But when the month of April comes and we know that in a few weeks we will be gone from Linlawn as students forever, we change mn' minds 0 Commencement brings down the curtain on the first act. The next acts will be the hard ones, but also the best ones ---- -because the first one was spent at school -------in LINLAWN. nAll the world's a stage, . And the men and women merely players.h CLASS WILL We, the Class of 1945 of Linlawn High School, County of Wabash, State of Indiana, being of soundnini and good judgment, and in good spirits, do hereby make, execute and publish this our last will and testament in manner following, and do hereby, by these presents revoke any and all wills by us heretofore made. First, to the high school teachers we leave the Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen, the boys and the girls that will follow us in this grand march of youth. we hope that these teachers will be able to make something of the oncoming classes and have more brilliant records to report than have been made by the Class of 1945. Second, to the Juniors, we leave the honor ofbeing the Class of 1946. May your flag proudly wave over the

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school for the entire year and may you bring many laur- els to this beloved high school. Third, to the Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen we leave all the old relics of bygone days we lm ve me iime worn halls and scarred desksg we leave old love notes between pages of Websters International or the Britan- n ca. Fourth, to all the students of this school the mem- bers of this class will all the best wishes and gaodwlll possible for the days and years to come. We will for each and every student the very best of things in life, suc- cess in school work, success in extra-curricular act- ivities and all the success in life itself. I, Gene Custer, do hereby will and bequeathtn Gor- don Ridenour my ability to get caught by a teacher arery time I do something wrong. I, Eloise Shanafelt, do hereby will and bequeathto Maxine Vandegrlft my seat in the assembly, making it easier for her to enjoy the reading of magazines and talking to all the librarians who come along. I, Helen Kaufman, do hereby will and bequeath to Martha, Ann Spitler my office duties for the coming year. I, Donna Rife, do hereby will and bequeath to Srah Elliott my great knowledge of First Aid so that she will be able to find the proper hammers, mallets, and saws in the senior play--to use on rept1les. I, Richard Lambert, do hereby will and bequeath to Robert Ward my office work so he can bother Mr. Gurt- ner's health class as I have done the past year. I, Gene Custer, do hereby will and bequeath to Kathryn Sailors, first, my tall, slim stature, and sec- ondly, the ability to advance from Junior Secretary to Senior President the same as I did last year. . I, Betty Garrison, do hereby will and bequeath to Chuck Hoover my naturally curly hair so his mother wont make him WAC off his WAVES. I, Emmalou Wilson, do hereby will and bequeath to Ronald Reed my seat in the back of the assembly, so that he may hear and see all of the students and teachers duo are in the room or trying to sneak in from the rear. I, Emmalou Stitz, do hereby will and bequeath to Lawrence Denney, my ability to make fudge and abilitytb be able to tell a joke every night on the school bus.