Milan High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Milan, TN)

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PROP!-ECY qcom-DJ Again the scene changed, this time to one of horror. On the aory field of bettle I saw General H. H. Peex leading his men, facing death with them brevely not sitting back from the scene om conflict and directina their actiozs. sack behind the lines I beheld an awiul scene, My old friend Mertha Poindexter who had held my.hend as I lay dying of spring fever was oeing equally conscling to our soldier boys as a nurse in the ermy hospital. who could resist such an opportunity to view from above old M. H. S.. School was out and I run in on e faculty meeting. was it n faculty eeeting or merely some oi LHCSU 1938 Seniors loefing in the orfice? The Superintendent is Ray Munnina. He is dearly loved by all the pupils becuuse he cannot reprimend those who ure no worse then he wus ten yeers ago. Other teachers ere Nancy Alexander, teacher of public school music, Geraldine Moore, Letin teacher, Ruth Veughn, instructer in the commercinl department, Willie Annu Teylor, teacher of English, und Catherine Manning, Home economics teacher. Some ms5netic force culled me to the Sterrick building in Memphis. A sign on the door of e eighth floor office ennounced thut Byron Haynes, Architect was out. I welxed on down the hell und 51unCed into the office of L. M. Rdmer, Attorney. Sitting in a stately munner before his desk teking down in precise shorthund whet he dicteted wus his stenogrepher, Mhrthu Rhodes. While in Memphis I visited u nisnt club long enough to hear Dcrris Cogdell accompanied by the orchestra of that muster of rhythmn Ben Denney sing one of the populur songs of the dey end to observe the presence of Louise Mills, still c spinster end her escort, Harry Fuchs. , I was werned thst my time wus limited so I hasten- ed ucross the country to Hot Springs, Arkunsus, to view briefly because here my visionury power wus tuxen the work of Dr. Dorothy D. Wheeler in the hespitel there us she lebored to restore to health those ef the Class of '38 who had fallen by the wayside. Q Harguret Fly. I

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f K5 SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the cluss of 1938, in forty-five individual and sepurute parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education in full possession or u crammed mind, well-truined memory, end elmest superhuman under- standing, do make und publish this, our lest will and testament, hereby revoking und making void all former wills or promises by ue at any time heretofore made, or maybe curelessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour. As to such estdte ns it has pleused the futes and our strong hsnds end brulns to win for us, we do dis- pcse of the seme ns follows: We give und bequeeth to the deur fuculty, who have been our instructors in ull the wisdom of egos, u sweet und unbroken SUCCoS8ieh of restful nights und pence' ful dreams. They have ell done their duty, und verily, new shell they heve their well-snrned rewerd. To the Junior girls we give end bequeath ull such boys us were not ubls to keep puce with such brilliant girls as cols pose the majority of our cless, trusting that the Junior girls muybe uble to hold firmly to them und ssfely steer them next yeer through the gates of commencement. We desire that they may not share in the humilution that hes been ours ut not being able tv Nhold our msn foldsn--as the women of the world would put it. . To the Junior Class as e whole we bestow .ur Senior dignity. Huy they uphold it forever with all seriousness and gravity endeuvoring to realize its vust importance in spite of their nuturul light- mindedness und irresponsibility. To the Freshmen Class thst is to be--any over- looked ouds of gum we muy hsve left adhering to the underside of desks, benisters, liurury SohtB or any likely or unlikely places. We have sometimes had to