Mason High School - Anchora Yearbook (Mason, MI)

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M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 29 teristics and inalienable personal rights in the following manner: Omar Bartlett wills his love for girls to Nellis Bateman. Ben Barr wills his famous lighting face to Gordon Kennedy. Rex Beaumont wills part of his basketball pants to Otis Clipper to make a new overcoat and the remainder to Red Leseney to make a new pair of sailor pants. Leona Benardin wills her basketball ability to Madeline Cogsdill. Betty Brower wills her ability to lead yells to Paul Cheney. Joe Bullen wills his school-girl complexion to Lynette Beebe. Virginia Burgess wills her surplus avoirdupois to Wilma Cline. Anna Couch wills her temper to Edwin Griffin. Charles Davis wills his ability to make three letters, lead the school in activities and go with six different girls at the same time to Geo. Clinton. Doris Densmore wills her liking for tall basketball players to Dorothy Disenroth. John Dean wills his liking for French to Betty Hill. Helen Doane wills her giggles to Merle Haynes. Don Doolittle wills his basketball ability to Chancey Robinson. Henry Eggers wills his coaching ability to Wayne Campbell. Margaret Eggers wills her love for books to Harold Bell. Beatrice Fanson wills her patience to Verneita Sparling. Fredah Francisco wills her blonde hair to Sarah Bullen. Kathleen Franklin wills her mathematical ability to Helen Disenroth. Helen Gunn wills her manly physique and manners to Beth Housel. Lynn Harkness wills his baseball ability to Ivan Swift. Dorothy Harmon wills her crowning glory to Ida Fanson. Madeline Ireland wills the right to get married to Frances Barkway. Marian Jewett wills her love for study to Donald Haynes. Alice Krantz wills her petite manner to Norine Sawyer. Lee Ketchum wills his vaudeville ability to Paul Clinton. P Margaret Lasenby wills her liking for Freshman athletes to Geraldine almer. Homer Launstein wills his bashfulness to Joe Wilson. Mary Laxton wills the right to roll stockings to Leah Diehl. Robert Loomis wills the first payment on a diamond ring to his red- headed Freshman. Otto Marshall wills his ability as a mechanic to Robert Howery. Elsie Morrison wills the right to wear short skirts to Henrietta Donnohue. Frances Nellis wills her liking for children to Harold Beehler. James Noxon wills his ability to get in the last word with the teachers to Lawrence Oesterle. Philetus Peck wills his collegiate manner to Clifford Smith. Murray Peek wills the right to be chief of police to Tink Gilmore. Fern Smalley wills her liking the boy friends to Rheba Kirby. Don Snyder wills his liking for city girls to James Dart. Richard Titus wills his right to spend five years in high school to Elmer Corbin. Q Thelma Whipp wills her absent-mindedness to Dutch Lamont. Caroline White wills her dramatic ability to Katherine Gibbs. Kenneth White wills his ability to start arguments to George Post. We, the Senior Class of Mason High School, hereby appoint Miss Velva Minty executor of this will. We hereunto set our hand and seal, on this, the 4th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twentylseven, and declare this to be our last will and testament. THE CLASS OF 1927, by John Chapin. Witnesses: D. A. Murray, Nelle Densmore.

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28 M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 Class Will We, the Seniors of Mason High School, 1927, being of sound mind and memory, and being possessed of certain invaluable characteristics and a priceless estate of learning and personal rights, do hereby make our last will and testament to all our faithful followers, on this the 4th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, in the city of Mason, County of Ingham, State of Michigan, with the high intent that they may in time do as great justice to the heights of our position as we have done. To our brother classes we make the following bequests: To the Juniors we will the last row of seats, the privilege of passing out Hrst, the right to take Civics and Economics and any other high priv- ileges and pleasures in which we have taken so much pride and interest during the past year. To the Sophomores we will the right to sell anything they can think of next year. To the Freshmen we will the right to stage a beauty contest in order to establish their supremacy beyond a doubt in the history of the school. To the eighth graders we will the right of having two council mem- bers next year. To the seventh graders we will the privileges of spending the summer exercising their prided ability to run, yell, and otherwise disturb the peace. To our foster fathers and mothers, the teachers, and our uncles, the janitors, we make the following bequests in token of our appreciation and friendship: To Mr. DeMeritt we will the right to become a moving picture director in Hollywood some day. To Mr. Murray we will a gallon of water and a new static machine so that he may practice this summer on some of his vaudeville tricks. To Mr. Bartley we will a modern armored patrol wagon with which to take his boys on field trips. To Mr. Miller we will a large bottle of soothing syrup for use during basketball games with the hope that he will not need it next year. To Miss Wells we will the right to let all the class parties in the build- ing take the new Victrola. To Miss Tyner we will six dozen assorted French textbooks to use on her 12th French class next year. To Miss Minty we will the right to .assume that she has angelic traits so she can part her hair in the middle. To Miss Smith we will the right to bring a mopstick or a rolling pin, or any other handy domestic science instrument, up to the assembly in order to keep discipline. To Miss McCurdy we will our combined knowledge of Latin so she can compile a Latin Encyclopedia. To Miss Elmer we will a new pair of glasses so she will not miss a move in the assembly next year. b To Miss Densmore we will the right to start an account at the Farm- er's Bank. To Miss Brendel we will all the candy she has kept us from eating in the assembly, with the hope that it will not make her ill. To Miss Kreuger we will a new needle for the music-box. To Cordie Hunt we will a dozen new pairs of Keds in return for those he has worn out running errands for us. To Mr. Parks we will the right of some day drawing a well-earned enslon. p To our immediate friends, obedient servants, and faithful followers in Mason High School, we make disposition of our aforesaid invaluable charac-

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30 M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 The Prophecy In 1927 Kenneth White, endowed with experimental ability, devised a revolving sky rocket in which he placed himself and traveled to Mars. We never believed that he would succeed but would be shattered to atoms in the great universe. However, he arrived safely and, having no means to return, worked for twenty years perfecting a super-heterodyne wireless with which he established communication with the earth. He requested that the Hrst message he returned, should tell of each one of the members of the Class of 27l'. The following message was sent: Benjamin Barr is a salesman selling embroidered shirts and hair- ribbons for boys. Charles Davis is conducting a Research Expedition on the Gobi Desert looking for monkey fossils to prove the falseness of his age-old antagonist-Charles Darwin. Frances Nellis is selling Watkins' Products from door to door and her success is very unusual. Helen Doane is a famous movie star. At the climax of her career she returned and established a movie colony at Okemos and is recruiting many of Mason's beauties in the cinema profession. Henry Eggers captured the world's Champion Title from Gene Tunney and he says he could not have done it but for the training he got using his athletic skill in Mason High. Lynn Harkness went to New York and made millions on Wall Street. We always knew Lynn was smart. However, he lost his cold millions soon afterward by paying too much attention to chorus girls. Doris Densmore and Mary Laxton have founded a Charity Home for Siamese twins. Elsie Morrison is a missionary in Africa. It is said her mission schools are full of converts which she has made through her sincere and fervent work in that field. Joe Bullen is the acknowledged successor of Rudolph Valentino and promises to surpass the ex-star in the gentle art of the Spanish dance. Dorothy Harmon studied music abroad and is now teaching in Jackson. Bob Loomis has invented an automatic stretcher where you are not even required to use your arms and legs. John Chapin drives a junk wagon in New York City. He married a garbage man's daughter, but John says she knows a swell dump when she sees it. James Noxon is a radio announcer. Thank heaven! We can turn him on and off as we please. Rex Beaumont is a foreman in a hot air factory daily supplying, through his manly strength, what thousands of others lack. Marian Jewett and Kathleen Franklin are tight rope walkers with Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Thelma Whipp is a vaudeville actress. It is said that stage door