McComb High School - Momento Yearbook (McComb, OH)

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Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty, in the Village of McComb, County of Hancock, State of Ohio, having been adjudged sound and unsound of mind and memory, and desiring to dispose of our possessions both valuable and otherwise, in a manner legal and illegal, so hereby make and declare this our last will and testament in form and manner as follows: To the entire school we leave the example we have set as excellent scholars and blameless students. To the Juniors we bequeath our International Relation textbooks, providing they hold a bonfire early next fall, using these instead of firewood. To the Sophomores, we bequeath our good looks, our charming manners, our superlative grades, and our triumphant exit as the most popular class that ever entered the halls of dear M. H. S. Also, we will to them our noontime etiquette in the halls which we know has been of the most highly respected. To the Freshman, we do bequeath our intelligence, our good behavior, and ability to carve desks. ' To Mr. Neiderhiser we bequeath all the hours in which we caught up on our sleep during speech class. To Mr. Parrett we bequeath our attentiveness in Business Economic Problems class, so he can use it as an example for next year's students. To Miss England we bequeath our ability to arrive places on time. To Miss Schutzburg we bequeath all our excess vitamins and calories. To Mr. Henderson we will all the mice, crows, and sparrows that the Ag. boys caught to win the past hunt, for Johnny Jr., to keep as pets. To Mr. Daniel we will all our geometric knowledge so he may have another County Winner next year. To Miss Moyer We will a portion of tact, courtesy, and ability to make friends and to keep them. To Mr. Winter, we hereby will all our latest jokes and thrilling stories so he may have something new to tell to next year's classes instead of civil war stories. To Mr. Webb, we bequeath our dignity, our good discipline, and our secret way to skip assemblies. I, Ed Kersh, do hereby will my seat in the assembly where I take my afternoon nap the third period to Helen, Lanker, providing she is wide awake for Speech class. I, Peg Gorby, do hereby bequeath all the muscle used in playing my trombone to June Springer. I, Frances Basil, do hereby will the other half of the front seat of our car to anyone who would like to ride around with Donald and me. I, Ruth Carney, do hereby will my devotion to the Nose-All to each and every member of next year-'s staff. I, Roxie Adams, do will my ability to get along well with Mr. Daniel to all future Math classes. I, Jim Peneton, do will all my freshman heart.interests to Gage Aukerman to protect for me during the next three years. I, Lucille Morrison, do hereby will my cheerfulness and friendly personality to Ruth Bartlebaugh. Fifteen

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Prophecy Dean Ewing is a millionaire poet. He lives in a beautiful mansion in Hawaii but says the scenery keeps him from his work, so he plans to move to the desert. Nelson Weeks is a window washer on the skyscrapers of New York hotels. He says next he's going to try Hag pole standing. Eddie Kersh has a ranch out west. He is a very prosperous bachelor, and spends his time out on the lone prairie writing novels on ranch life. He said he would rather train a bucking bull any day than a stubborn woman. Junior Sharinghouse is married to a beautiful glamour girl whom he met on his recent trip to Hollywood. He is trying to get her mind on the farm fwhere they are residingj by making her feed his pigs. Junior Latta is married too. He is an office worker and spends his money on bars of soap which he carves into toys to sell to children. Doyle Byal is teaching football and basketball at Yale. His team lost the first five years and now is said to be winning every game. His time is spent on his team but his mind on the women. Dick Rinehart who studied to play for the opera is now director of the greatest swing band in the country. Says Riney I'm just a jitterbug at Heart. Charles Moore- is head of the G-Man Department. He was shot in the leg by an escaping bandit and it had to be amputated. Although he has a wooden leg his work is just as satisfactory as it was when he started. Keith Scheele is an insurance man and is trying to sell fire insurance to all jail birds who are sentenced to death. Clara Belle Mitchell teaches little children in a kindergarden in McComb. It is the first kindergarden McComb has ever had. When she sends her pupils on to school they almost know as much as the teacher--thanks to Clara Belle. Lucille Morrison is President of a Reducing Club. The members must be less than 5 feet tall and weigh less than a hundred. Since Lucille was the smallest, she was unanimously elected President. Her formula to keep small is unknown. Margaret Gorby spends her time running a bakery. She is said to bake the best cookies on this side of New York. Mary Emma Rader is a great Scientist. She studies the stars. She first realized how beautiful they were, when she was disappointed in love and has studied them ever since. Imogene Foltz is a fortune teller at Palm Beach summer resort. She tells the people she is a French woman and makes more money. She expects to save enough money to keep herself in old age. She says she's going to be an old maid. Fourteen

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Class Will I, Virgil McDougle, do will my ability to keep away from women and out of dark corners to Neil Curtis, knowing that he needs it badly. I, Ruth Morrison, do hereby will my love for music to Gage Shreve. I, Joy Keeler, do will my love for guitars, yodeling and cowboy music to Donald Shafer, providing he is willing to play at chapel every Friday as the students march in. I, Kathleen Brown do hereby will all my modesty and quiet manners to Edna Poe. I, Nelson Weeks, do hereby will my position at the golf course to Janet White, knowing that the patronage will increase immensely. I, Helen Deerwester, do bequeath my love for Kentuckians and my love for hillbilly music to Evelyn Martin, knowing how much she will appreciate it. I, Mary Emma Rader, do hereby bequeath my ability to get all information first handed and for reporting all the latest to La Donna Hamby, providing she doesn't reveal my secret way for finding out these items. I, Dick Rinehart, do hereby will my ability to play a piano to Abbey Johnson, knowing that Abbey will make a second Paderewski. I, Imogene Foltz, do hereby will my late hours and love for a good time to Melvin Mercer, hoping Melvin can still have as much pep on the morning after as I have had. I, Charles Moore, do hereby will my militaristic interests, my catalogue of guns, and my uniform to Chester Wedge, knowing what a powerful Guardsman he will make. I, Clara Belle Mitchell, do hereby will my ability to give readings and to write speeches to Dorothy Mae Harris. I, Edith Roether, do hereby will my originality, my speech making ability, and my giggle to Dwight La Rue. I, Doyle Byal, do hereby bequeath my ability to argue on either side of any question to Anna Belle Foltz to aid her in future years. I, Dean Ewing, do hereby will my slow and easy going ways to Eleanor White. I, Dorothy Wise, do hereby bequeath my tinkling little laugh to Kermit Farthing. I, Junior Sharinghouse, do hereby bequeath my way with women and my fatal attraction to Melvin Ewing. I, Keith Scheele, do hereby will my wit and humor and my basketball record to my brother. I, Bernice Ramsey, do hereby bequeath that certain something to next year's freshmen girls, hoping they may have as happy and successful a high school career as I have had'. I, Junior Latta, do will my late arrivals in the morning and at noon to Johnny McCamey, Bob Shafer, and Lester Grose, hoping that they can set a new record. In witness whereof, we set our hands and seals, on this day, the tenth of May in the year one thousand nine hundred forty. SIGNED: Senior Class of 1940 Gene Mackey Rowena Rader Sixteen