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

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1. The Senior seats in the Office, al- though some of the Juniors have had to use them. The seats in the study hall at present are being occupied by Fifty-two, but will soon be vacated. We hope Fifty- three will be as fond of the front row of seats as we have been. Let every member show her gratitude for the gift by being promptly in her seat ench morning. 2. We are in very unusual financial condition, $40.00 in-the-hole. The work, the worry and the glory are now in other hands. 3. We give and bequeath to the Junior Class all such boys as they have, trusting that they may be able to hold firmly to them and steer them firmly next year through the gates of Commencement. The following may seem trifling be- quests, but we hope that they may be ac- cepted, not as worthless things lavishly thrown away because we can no longer keep them, but as valuable assets to those who may receive them, and a continual reminder of the generosity of heart dis- played on our free and full bestowal: 1, Bernice Weilnau, will my ability to get out of class as often as I did to any- one in the Junior Class lucky enough to do it. I, Wilma Uther, will my ability to have such a good time in Washington to Bar- bara Beese and Thalia Shupe. Also my good bookkeeping grades to anyone who needs them. I, Zanne Masey, will my trouble as Class secretary-treasurer to anyone elect- ed to that job, and my typing class trou- bles to Ida Sax. I, John Burley, will my ability to have a good time after my basketball games and my good old Ford, nothing like them, to Don McPeek. I, Clifford Mills, will to JoAnn Stower my ability to get along with Russell, also my Ford to Dorothy Finnen to get back and forth to North Fairfield. I, Leonora Miller, will my ability to keep my head and my soft-spoken manner, to Barbara Keller. I, Myrtle Downing, will my ability to be faithful to Uncle Sam’s boys to Juanita Russ. I, Donald Doerner, will my ability to get along with girls from Andrews to Mike Mcllrath and Bob Ohly. I, Edelle Treon, will my ability to en- joy the evenings as well as the days in Washington to Mabel Morrow and Bev- erly Schnee. I, Lyle Riehm, will my musical ability to Barbara Beese and Richard Gassman, feeling that they need it more than I do. I, Donna Hermes, will to Betty Stoll the ability to get the car only when nec- essary. I, Gordon Waddle, will to Gerald Sei- bcrth the ability to find my way to Berlin Heights and my pitching ability to some Junior boy because they are going to need it. I, Donna Stoll, will to Nancy Riley and Bob Bickley my abiilty to get along with Seniors and Sophomores. I, Bob Koch, will to Richard Smith, my car because it has no rumble seat. I, Pat Russ, will my love for the farm to Darlene Wolverton. I, Louis Stuckey, will my bicycle for Virginia Meyers to get back and forth to North Fairfield. I, Judy Risden, will Marianne Westcott my short hair and my good times in typ- ing class to Marjorie Molnar. I, Glenn Springer, will to Nancy Mel- lon my quiet manner. I, Nancy Sherwood, will my shorthand ability to any Junior who finds he needs it worse than I do. 15