Marengo High School - Tiger Yearbook (Marengo, IA)

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Senior Class Will In the Hope of Success, Umhuml City of Marengo, County of Iowa, State of Iowa, U. S. A.: We, the Class of 1926, being of sound mind and memory, real- izing that we must soon pass from these spacious, tho' widely scattered, halls of learning, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and rendering void all former wills or promises by us issued, as the idle wish of the hour or as the prattle of the mere children we must have been at that time. And first we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and wellwishers, our superintendent and his all-wise and ever-competent faculty, who have been our guardians for so long, only asking, as the last injunction of the dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the pomp and dignity that our meritland our patience in waiting all these months for the completion of the Carson High School, must certainly have deserved. As to such estate, as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and keen minds to win for us, we do dispose of the same as follows: ITEM: We give and bequeath to the faculty, who have been our in- structors in the wisdom of the ages, a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams. Four years with us has been a hard strain on them, for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions difficult to manage. But they have all done their duty and now shall they have their well-earned reward. ITEM z We do give and bequeath to our superintendent, Mr. Shipton. our sincere affection. In an attempt at partial payment for all that he has done for us, we make over to him, here and now, a heavy mortgage on our future in the great Unknown beyond. ITEM: We give and bequeath to the Board of Education our sincere gratitude for procuring for us even such halls of torture as these large halls and undertaking par'ors for this our last year in High School. ITEM: We give and bequeath to the Class of 1927 the hearse, over

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Claude Noaker who is at present working on a perpetual motion ma- chine in open defiance of the opinion of the contemporary scientists, one of whom is Emmett Kelly. Present reports are that he seems to be accomplishing satisfactory results. There are also Virginia- Swain and Harriet Brown. Virginia is an assistant in the Home Economics De- partment at the State University of Iowa, while Harriet, who always fairly Hgobbled up mathematics is teaching it, in Belle Plaine. Really I always thought she would. But not all of our class chose such serious professions, for there are Donna Ady and Pauline Andrews, who owmn and operate the cutest little tea room in Denver. It is one of those charming little rambling cottages nestled in a thickly wooded hollow just around a bend in the road-one which has proved especially popular with tourists. But the person who surprised me most was Dorothy Royal, who is an in- structor of aesthetic dancing in Carolyn Putnam Crawford s Studio. As I sat there dreaming, my memory carried me back to my last visit to the Perkins Hospital, where I met Sadie Kuch in a regulation nurse's uniform which surely was becoming. She told me where the rest of our former classmates were. Adeline Meeks, she told me, is teaching the Fairview school just south of town. Flossie Schoetke is now a suc- cessful court reporter in Polk county, while Gail Bogear is stenographer in a lawyer's office there. Homer Patterson, she told me, owns a movie theatre somewhere in the West but she didn't know just Where, while Ora Stockton is the owner of a large ranch in Montana. I am won-- dering which he likes the better now, a car or good old Dobbin. But it surely was a surprise to find out where Charles Fels was! a student in Germany! there fitting himself for a professorship in this country. Good luck Charles! What a class that was'-all of them successful in their chosen work. Each year it seems dearer but farther removed. What a rare joy it would be if we might all meet again, if only for a brief reunion? But as that was impossible I cast aside my dreams and awoke from mv reverie with a start. The room was growing chilly. The dying em- bers were sending up feeble sparks, while outside the wind was still keeping up its lonely vigil. -KATHERINE MACLENNAN.

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which we suffered with all the dead facts and gruesome details of U. S. History under Miss Benner's supervision. May they have no need for it save for purposes of initiation until of sheer age it shall disintegrate. ITEM: We give and bequeath to the Class of 1930, the fire truck. We feel it to be a suitable plaything for freshmen, as it should have a ten- dency to fire their ambitions, to make them worthy to be our successors. ITEM: . The following may seem but trifling bequests, but we hope they may be accepted, not as worthless things cast aside because we can no longer use them, but as valuable assets to those who may receive them. First, to the football team of next year, the ability of Kenneth Rundall. We couldn't get Ora Stockton to surrender his. Second, to Fern Dickinson, Claire Myers' gift of gab. Third, to the first applicant for the same, Claude Noaker's ability to get Mr. Owen off the lesson. Come early and avoid the rush. Fourth, to Ed Steffa, a little discretion to be used frequently, es- pecially when attempting to vamp the faculty or the alumnae. Fifth, to some benighted Freshman, anybody who will accept it as it is yet unclaimed, Mildred Dutcher's ailments. CMay the poor Freshie survive as well as Milly hasj Sixth, to Carl Seckel, Kenneth McCoy's very great self-esteem. Seventh, To Edith McKusker, Norma Rumple's musical gifts. Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. ITEM: The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates, to which we do declare the Class of 1927 the real and rightful successors: First, our Senior dignity. May they uphold it forever, with all seriousness and gravity, endeavoring to realize its vast importance, in spite of their natural light-mindedness and irresponsibility. Second, the boys who have not been able to keep pace with such brilliant girls as constitute the majority of our class, trusting that the Junior girls may be able to hold firmly to them and to steer them suc- cessfully, next year, thru the gates of Commencement.