Milan High School - Light Yearbook (Milan, OH)

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CLASS WILL • • • Mr. Superintendent, Friends, Teachers, Fellow Classmates: The Class of 1952, about to die, salutes you! Contrary to the custom in such cases, and loath as are all members of my con- servative profession to establish prece- dents, only at the request of my noble client, Fifty-two, have I called you to- gether, before her death, to hear her will and to receive her gifts. I was persuaded to this action by the unusual circumstances of my client. I dread to tell you, but be calm, the doctor is here ready to revive all fainting ones, but he can’t attend too many. Here is my secret. Keep it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on Friday, May 16, 1952, doctors never known to fail in their prognostica- tions. They have announced that on Thursday, May twenty-ninth, the Class of Fifty-two must pass on. Had I known what a commotion you’d raise, and how badly you would feel, the Superintendent could not have dragged this secret from me. My client wishes me to state that, owing to a lightness in the head, caused by its gradual swelling dur- ing the last four years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs, caused by thoughts of parting and over-feasting, re- spectively, she may be mistaken in her inventory, but such as she thinks she has, she gives to you, praying that you may not believe that it is only because she can not keep her goods that she is generous. We, the Class of Fifty-two, being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. And first we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-wishers, the faculty, only enjoin- ing that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in the high school has merited. As to such estate as it has pleased the fates our own strong arms to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows: Item: We give and bequeath to the faculty, restful nights and peaceful dreams. We promise them a rest from Fifty-two’s posters. No more will we be called to bend our haughty knee, no more will they be pained to refuse. It has been hard to have our fondest wishes thwart- ed: it must have been harder for them to refuse so fair a pleader. They have done their duty, and they have their reward. But oh! how much easier had it been for them and for us if they had said “Yes,” especially to a Junior play. Fifty-two has always been modest and retiring and she does not now want to appear prominent. Item: We give and bequeath to the Junior Class the following advice, accept- ing that which leads them to glory: learn to work if not to win; development comes sooner through bearing failures than suc- cesses. It isn’t fun, but still, look at Fifty- two and be encouraged. Item: The subjoined list will be rec- ognized as entailed estates to which we do declare the Class of Fifty-three the real and rightful successors: 14