Mercer High School - Hi Times Yearbook (Mercer, PA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the class of 1930, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, considering the uncertainty of life, and being desirous of settling our worldly affairs while we have strength and capacity, do make this our last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by us heretofore made. And first, the aims, hopes and aspirations to which we have attained, we direct to be inscribed in the hearts and memories of our under classmen and faculty. As to such estate, rights, powers, and privileges as it hath pleased God to intrust us with, we dispose of the same as follows, viz: We do hereby give and bequeath any and all opportunities which we have failed to use to aM under classmen to make use of to the best of their abiMty. We do give and bequeath our seats and desks together with any gum or thumbtacks attached to same and any paper wads, candy wrappers, pencils or stubs of same, which may have been overlooked in our departure unto the Junior class. To the Juniors we leave the golden key of knowledge. May they make the best use of it. We leave to the Sophomores a desire for that knowledge which we have attained. To the Freshmen we will our place and standing of dignity in the eyes of the citizens of the town. John McCalla wiUs his limousine to John Masson. Red” leaves his curls to Katherine Dunlap. “Tub” leaves a little weight and height to Margaret McWilliams provided she does not ask too much. Hill Kohler wills his managing ability to “Murphy” Byers. We feel this gift should be greatly appreciated. Doris McElheny wills her vocal ability to Roberta Patterson. Mary Bell Duncan gives and bequeaths all ambition and studiousness to John Sampson. Avis Armstrong leaves her art of flirtation to Dorothy Ely. Go carefully Dorothy. Harriet Rodgers gives and bequeaths her ability as a pianist to Marguerite Averill. Bill” Huey leaves Edith to Ruth Wylie provided he be handled with care. Julia and Kitty give and bequeath their wide and far-reaching mental ability to Sara Elizabeth Stranahan and Mary Vogan. Craig leaves his knowledge of Physics and Chemistry to Mac” McCartney. Kitty leaves her well-fulfilled daily task of beating the triangle to Helen McLaughry. Dudley Johnson gives and bequeaths all prophetic power and practical jokes together with a higher philosophy of life to Carroll Anderson. We leave our class colors of crimson and gold to any class whom the faculty may deem worthy. We, as a class, regretfully and hesitantly leave our places in the hearts and memories of the teachers unto all under-classmen who aspire to our ideals. And we do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint our Principal sole executor of this our last will and testament. In witness thereof, we the class of 1930, the testators, have to this will set our hands this day of June A. D. one thousand nine hundred and thirty. CLASS OF '30 HELEN RICKARD + Twenty-eitrht

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II 1 - T I M E S + ship will be successful because he will put his foot against his customer’s half opened door and will leave it there until his speech is finished. Twila Jewel wi»l be his wife. Harold North is a puzzle. He tells me he wants to be a steel, worker. According to Palooka everything points toward either the butcher or baker trades, while Rajah Bunga asserts he will be a clown. Astrology asserts him the religious type, a preacher. On the other hand, palmistry shows him to be the pure and simple artistic type. At any rate he will be successful in any line he takes up except business. Pseudonymously Lauretta and Harold Amy will play as comedians in Western hick towns. But talkies come and make them Broadway hits over night in the tragedy. “The Last Days of John Barleycorn.” After a successful career proud actress Lauretta will wed school chum, hard working Homer Huey, and they live happily ever afterward. Farmer Zigo wiM marry nurse Virginia Brown and will enter politics after serving in William Albert’s establishment to gain experience. By means of this he will become mayor of Mercer. William Richardson will be a crooked solicitor and will defend the Great American Pretzel Trust. Harriet Rogers, his stenographer, will become infatuated with him. BiH will fire her. but she will refuse to leave, so he will marry her to get her away from the office. There is fine, fabled, Alger-like success for John Brown. Starting as cub reporter for Mercer’s Gault-edition-live-wire paper he will rise in the ranks until he will become a lobbyist for Kohler’s tariff on tea. Something tells the “Prophet” that Martha Yarian will run a hog ranch in southern California and will do very, very well. Harry Black will capitalize flea circusses. among them “McCalla’s Little Gem” and the “Acrobatic Flea Performing Circus,” Business-like business woman Coreita Crawford, a bull in the stock market, will consent to Harry’s proposal, gives up her career, and the rest is left to your imagination. Helen Thompson is seen in the crystal. She appears to be nursing a tired looking old nag. This undoubtedly means that Helen will run a veterinary shop and hospital for tired working horses. Clara May McLaughry will run a factory for making unbreakable rolling pins. This will prove a great help to the housewife when her hard headed husband comes in a little too late. Doris McElheny and Eva Wilting will dance before Hollywood cameras for many years. Mary Bell Duncan and Julia Richardson will run chiropractic offices. Famed for their skill, they are lotted to help many sufferers of the gout and acute backache. The “Prophet” is unable to find out his own future. Anyone who wants further information send five uncounterfeited greenbacks to the “Prophet”, care of Rajah Bunga, Timbuctoo, R. F. D. No. 389, w'ith postage stamp enclosed. DUDLEY JOHNSON ♦ Tw «ty-«v»u

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H I - T I M E S WHY SOME PUPILS COME TO SCHOOL Harold Amy To Keep Martha H. from the library the first period in the morning. Harry Valler To see that the teachers “get things straight” Avis Armstrong To help the surrounding pupils with their French Kitty Wliieldon To wash boards for Miss McClellan Dudley Johnson To teach Virgil to Miss Munnell Alex Zigo ............................... To keep Chidde Away Harold North To take Skinny to and from school Virginia Brown ........... To set a good example for Martha Huey Bill Kohler To keep the girls from getting a superiority complex Stanley Smith........................To compose poetry for Doris Doris McElheny ... To keep Bill K. from being bored Bill Albert...............................To study Helen of Troy Chickie Rickard To keep up with Paris Lois Schmidt..............................To help educate Huy Mary Bell Duncan To save the day in Virgil Pauline McCoy To draw pictures for the Virgil Notebook Clara May McLaughry To watch for tin gong to lx rung Bill Richardson To show the girls their place Martha Huey......................... To help Bill keep the library Julia Richardson To keep Waid from Commencement (Jnv Ringer ......... ........................To lead the cheers -----------------------------------------------------------------—+ T v »nt -nine