Marion High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Marion, VA)

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s E N I O R S MARVIN DAVID WILLIAMS Lifes ' a pleasant institution, let us take it as it comes! ROBERT LEWIS WILLIAMS Youth calls for pleasures. NANCY ARLENE WOLFE And if thou wouldst be happy, learn to please. ROBERT RAYMOND YOUNG Wit is the salt of conversation. POST GRADUATE ROBERT LEWIS STEPHENSON Learning makes a good man better. SUMMER SCHOOL GRADUATES HAYDEN EUGENE GOODMAN ' Be satisfied with life always. HAYDEN CHARLES REEDY Most happy he who is entirely self-reliant. ' HOWARD DWIGHT SLEMP A mon of manners, too. RICHARD LOWELL WILLIAMS Why should he study hard or wrack his brain?

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SHIRLEY JEAN TESTER ' Smiling always ' vith a never fading serenity of countenance. ANNE IRENE THOMAS ' Nor spoke slie one more word than was her need. ELIZABETH ANN THOMPSON She was good-natured and cheerful. GEORGE SPROWLS THOMPSON By confidence, great deeds are done. MARTHA ANN VERNON ' All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful. ELIZABETH ROSE WAYLAND Nothing great enthusiasm. was ever ach ieved without RUTH ANN WEBSTER It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. LOIS KATHLEEN WIDNER Deeds are better things than words. PEGGY ANN WHITE She should be humble, v ' ho would please. MARGARET CAMPBELL WILLIAMS She was a queen of noble nature ' s crown¬ ing. A smile of hers was like on act of grace. s E N I O R S

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Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of 1954, being of sound (?) mind and possessing many qualities, abilities, and assets, which we feel would be useful to those we leave behind, do hereby moke, publish, and declare this our last v ill and testament. To the faculty, we leave our appreciation for their understanding, helpfulness and patience. Martha Buchanan wills her short haircut to Mary Lou Haywood. Glenda Stone wills her tenor sax to any on-coming band member who has the will power to restrain himself from bending it around a tree. Kay Ruth wills her ability to get along with Mr. Mac to B. B. Brrchfield. Chariot Parsons wills her frequent appearance on the absentee blank to next year ' s seniors who need the rest. Janice Arnold wills her locker (with the cartoons) to Phyllis Eblen, sincerely hoping it will expand to hold the annual material more comfortably, Earl Gillespie wills his place at the end of the lunch line to anyone who wonts it. Dale Dixon wills his parking place to anyone who can keep clear of Mr. Mac ' s front fender. Sherman Hall and Raymond Parks will their educated typewriters to anyone who can figure out how they work. Johnny Johnston wills his ability to go steady to Scrapiron Catron. Libby Ann Thompson wills to Harriet Slemp her sewing box with hope that she won ' t wound herself on the contents. Richard Clark wills his position as hall monitor to Charles Hash if he has the patience and a strong right arm. Barbara Moore wills her ability to shelve books (fiction) to Rita White. Louise Genga wills her position as secretary of the senior class to any oncoming senior who likes to run the mimeograph machine. Dorothy Elledge and Betty Lou Naff will their early morning seats in the cafeteria to any industrious government students. Anne Eller wills to Sandra Groseclose the circles under her eyes from working too late on the MARIONETTE. Shirley Naff wills her chess pie in the cafeteria to Isbet Anderson. Carolyn Lambert wills her shortness to Pat McCready. David Prose wills his nickname of Yank to David Scalise. Robert Young wills his ability to get along with Miss Buchanan to Lewis Pugh. Dick Williams will his place in line at the college to Bill Rouse. Bob Reedy leaves his A+ in Physics for all to admire — its ' s the first and last one on record says Mr. Pafford. Connie Stephenson wills her good times on band trips to other band students who will take advantage of them. Edwina Richardson wills to Nancy Dutton her bruises received in basketball. Carrol Murray wills her position on the basketball team to Katherine Simmerman. Frances Snavely leaves her front seat in Mr. MacDonald ' s government class to anyone who has the nerve to take it. Yvonne Kell wills her ability to leave things to the last minute to Phyllis Vernon. Charles Reedy wills his place behind the plow handles in agriculture to Jack Stowers. Ronnie Cox wills his solo chair in band to Bill or Jimmy. (May the best man win!) Shirley Tester and Helen Clark will their ability to annoy Mr. Sturgill in study hall to anyone who wants to be the target of the teacher. Kathleen Widner wills her grades to Mildred and Lorraine Widner. Elaine McKinnon wills her ability to get by without studying to anyone who dares risk it. Kenny Gwyn wills his use of strategy to Ralph Sebastian. George Thompson wills his half back position to his brother, Bill Thompson. Shirley Horne wills her position as majorette to Margaret Eller. Clayborne Gwyn wills his ability to lay out of classes and get caught to Boyd Comer. Patsy Heldreth and Joann Maxey will their ability to slip up in lunch line to Ella Stephenson and Nancy Clyburn. Elizabeth Woyland wills her office as president of the Forsenic Club to next year ' s president, hoping he or she won ' t be such a pest to Miss Greenwood. Charles Fowler wills his love for football to Billy McCarty. Shirley Goodpasture leaves her love for physical education class to all the lazy girls at MHS. Frances Dyson, Hazel Goodson, and Shirley Louthen, the Three Muskateers, will their ability to talk in class to any oncoming seniors who con get away with it. Arlene Wolfe, Peggy Sawyers, and Joanna Jones will their ability to sneak out of class to Freedie Overbay, Joy Greer, and Joan Bowman. Margaret Williams wills her artistic talent to Libby McCarty. John Dority wills his laziness to Carl Waddell. Bob Williams wills his ability to be a 60 minute man to Robert Rash. Peggy Lamie wills her enjoyment of coming to school everyday to Judy Parks. Pauline Gullion wills her ability to sleep in Miss Anderson ' s English class to anyone who has the nerve to try it. Betty Burgess wills her shorthand books to the city dump. Ann Vernon wills her position as center guard on the basketball team to Joann Young. Jenny Jo Pruner wills her position on the annual staff and the gray hairs that go with it to Peggy Jarrett. Mary Lynn Stamper wills to Betty Stamper her seat in government class, so that it may be kept in the family. To Mr. Gillespie, we leave our gratitude for the time, work, and thought he has given us. To Mrs. Dickenson, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Wilkinson, our Senior sponsors, we leave our thanks for their guidance during our Senior year. Witness my hand and seal to this, our Last Will and Testament on this the twenty-second day of March, 1954. Ruth Ann Webster