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We see Emily in a circus doing a TighT rope walk: Warren has a mule ThaT likes To balk: MarTha Cochran is a nurse: Edwin Brown now drives a hearse: Marcile, her love scenes, on Broadway does rehearse: Wanda's Teaching A, B, C's: Louise SchwarzkopT is haunTing The Help WanTed agencies. Jean DePoy runs a nighT club, The Blue Moon: Alma inTends To Tly To Holland very soon. Olive ediTs a column in THE HERALD on 'How To Dress Your Hair': Eileen draws picTures To illusTraTe whaT we really oughT To wear: Charles is a world Tamous lion Tamer: Ruby Speece runs The 'Pelier CaTe: Reverend ReTz is requesTing ThaT we pray each day: Fannie ReTz, The church organ has learned To play: Eldon is waTer boy Tor good Old NoTre Dame: PoeT Wearly's name is Tound in The Hall oT Fame! BeTTy Barr is busy creaTing new dances: Virginia, in a circus, rides a horse ThaT prancesf' WiTh This The voice began To groan: Then l awoke and Tound l was alone: Thus, all This was iusT a dream, No maTTer how real iT all did seem. Cfclriri VIRGINTA KELLEY We, The Senior class oT l939, being oT sound mind and body and wishing To rid ourselves oT all childish possessions, as we are now grown up, do declare This our lasT will and TesTamenT: RoberT Shadle wills his bench capTaincy To Bill Hawk. Fred Parnell wills his accuracy in baskeT shooT- ing To Warren Emswiller. Russell Pugh wills his women To Harold Johnson. Denzil STorer wills To SrniTTy his abiliTy To wriTe Tlowery noTes. Warren Smelser wills his abiliTy To wink back aT Grace To Dick Henderson. Jeane Wearly wills her Thing To anybody who Thinks he can geT iT. Roger Speece wills his charming Tyrone Power apearance To Herman Beeks. Franklin ReTz and Fannie Wunderbaum will Their romanTic nighTs on The church sTeps To Daniel Markley and Evelyn Richwine. MarTha Williams wills her graceTul carriage To BeTTe J. Sills. Alma Ne-edler wills her abiliTy To Talk all oT The Time To Mildred Johnson. Ruby Speece wills her boldness To Eloise Jordan. BeTTe Sills wills Hoiman To LeveTha Towns. lThaT is, iT she can geT him.l BeTTy Park wills all her boy Triends To Ellen Thorpe. Verle Speece wills his hearT Trouble aTTer a mysTerious aTTack oT Tlu To Eugene Anderson. Tex Underwood wills his misplaced eyebrow To Jackie SmiTh, if he can grow one! Zerellda Whybrew wills To Anna Johnson her Venus Tigure. Jim SholTy wills his school girl complexion To RuTh MaTson. RoberT TranT wills his SanTa Claus suiT lminus The pillowl, To Mr. Morgan, so he won'T have To hunT one nexT year.
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,4 leur., spmr iw ,aff Drowsily l lisTened To spooky Moon Riverl' On a dark and rainy nighT. A clap oT Thunder aTTecTed a Tuse plug, And Turned oTT my lighT. Alone in The dark l began To shiver: While loud sounds oT sTaTic roared on. When iT cleared, insTead oT hearing Moon River, l heard The voice oT one who had gone. l'm The ghosT oT '39, he muTTered: l can Tell you oT The Things you'd Tind Could you buT see your Tormer classmaTes In The year oT '4-9. He shuddered, And Then Talked slowly on, BeTTy Park is noTed Tor her music: RuTh is Teaching parroTs how To speak: Marion Davis is leader OT a band: FaiTh and Gladys operaTe a beauTy salon: Dwane and Paul Take Trips in a big balloon: P On an inTernaTional hookup we hear blues singer, Alice June: Bonnie's TirsT lady oT The land: ' Max Kegerreis has Tun as careTaker oT The CincinnaTi zoo: In CaliTornia, we see BeTTy Jo Evers reclining on The sand: SecreTary oT War, Bob ClemenTs, has millions oT men aT his command Naomi is married To her Elmer now: To Louise SchmidT oT The movies aT This Time we bow: DelighT is wriTing prize-winning books: Jim SholTy is a Trans-ATlanTic Tlyer: KeiTh won a medal as a champion liar: Buy l-lelTon's rockeTs, guaranTeed To go higher: In New York, ArTisT Model Byerly is Tamous Tor her looks: Dick, in CaliTornia, is a deep sea diver: Over The loud speaker, we hear BeTTy Sills' imiTaTion oT Baby Snooks: While G-Man Vlfilson hunTs Tor all Those loose and reckless crooks. KaThleen makes FriTz a preTTy housewiTe: FriTz operaTes a Tilling sTaTion on SouTh Main STreeT: Russel Pugh resolves To be a bachelor The resT oT his liTe: BurneTT GeTz is king oT The Hoboes: l-lelen Coleman is creaTing haTs: Roger invenTed a new Trap Tor caTching raTs: While GeorgeTTe makes The mosT sTunning doormaTs: FlorisT DwighT can Tell us how an orchid grows: Earl, head OT U.S. WeaTher Bureau, knows beTore iT snows, While RoberT Shaclle direcTs successTul Broadway shows. Verle is Tamous as a guiTar player: Lawrence is a well-known mayor: In Texas, Tex is a real cowboy: Carolyn in ATrica is Teaching The naTives The laTesT swing: Denzil, a crooner, is a second Bing: DoroThy is The world's TasTesT TypisT, and ThaT's someThing: lvlarTha Williams, a Tap dancer, is hard To annoy: Bill Racer's quiTe a girl charmer: RoberT TranT is a successTul Tarmer: Zerellda brings her laTesT husband greaT joy: While Sailor GeeTing aT sea yells, Ship Ahoy! -.18..
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Gladys STaTTord wills her blond hair To Gene- vieve Teegarden. Max Wilson wills his pipe To Pop. Papa won'T need iT, so he'lI give iT back. lWe hope.l Eldon Moyer wills To Mr. Morgan The abiliTy To call him by his righT name. lNoT Ermil.l Lawrence Parks wills his physique To Freeman Dennis. Paul SlenTz wills his abiliTy To walk ouT of ArT class wiThouT Miss Anderson's seeing him To Wil- ma CunningTon. Dwane Needler will his monoTone voice To STepin FeTchiT. Q Alice June Williams wills her TlippanT way To Rose NorTon. The SchmidT sisTers will Their abiliTy To make good grades To The Weaver sisTers. Louise Schwarzkopf will her abiliTy To do a Tan dance To Sally Rand. Eileen Green wills To CrysTal WesT a copy OT her laTesT publicaTion The Economics oT a Mar- ried Life. RoberT GeeTing wills his daTes wiTh Jeanne HolcroTT To Sam Wunderbaum. WaTch ouT, Sam! Earl Bell wills The bed he made in Manual Training class To Bob Parks, so he can do some sleeping aT home lnol' schooll. BeTTy Barr wills To Marcine Egley her abiliTy To puT on make-up. Marion Davis wills his quill wiTh Miss AlberTson To Charles Gruver. DeIighT GarreTT wills her daTes wiTh ChesTer CenTer boys To any one who can geT Them. Naomi Kershner wills her diamond and all ThaT iT means To Avis Lee AnThony. DwighT GarreTT wills his abiliTy To play The piano To Eddy Duchin. RuTh ElaTTer wills her ping pong abiliTy To Freddie SmiTh. Helen Coleman wills her skill in Throwing paper wads To Junior Rains. EaiTh Berrier wills her Tew exTra crediTs To John Clark so he can be a senior. lHe'll need Them.l Bonnie BuckmasTer wills her love oT mice To Ghlee Walker. Carolyn CurrenT wills her reckless driving To The SaTeTy Class. Grace Byerly wills her abiliTy To wink aT The eligible young males To Miss Nelson. Emily Clark wills To Harold Mc. her mysTerious engagemenT ring Trom Jimmy: Then Harold won'T have To buy one. BeTTy Jo and Dick will Their double seaTs in every class To Helen Fear and Don Coons. Bob CemenTs wills his argumenTs wiTh Miss Walker To Gerald Wilhems. MarTha Cochran wills her perTecT chemisTry equaTions To The nexT ChemisTry class. Marcile Cook wills her TemperamenTal dispo- siTion To Anna Marie EasTon. Does she need iT? Charles Cunningham wills his good Times wiTh Helen Louise Riggs To his broTher Howard, To keep Them in The Tamily. Jeane DePoy wills her abiliTy To wriTe novels To Clyde Brown. KeiTh Downhour wills his cave-man ways To Bill Chaney. BurneTT GeTz wills his shorThand abiliTy To Miss MorTon. Olive Gibson wills her black Tur coaT To Peggy O'Donnell. Ralph HelTon wills his winning ways wiTh Miss Anderson To Harold SchwarzkopT. GeorgeTTe Hornbaker wills her mischievous ways To Joan Murphy. Wanda Hudson wills her preTTy red blouse To Glendora Clark, To maTch her hair. Max Kegerreis wills his aThleTic build To Gale Spaulding. Virginia Kelley wills To Mr. Dick The seaT she used To occupy in The library. KaThleen Kennedy wills her John Henry To Jeane. Bill Racer wills To James Emshwiller his mascu- line Tigure. Edwin Brown wills his pick of The Teminine gender To Harold Brock. In wiTness ThereoT, we have seT our hands and seal This, The TwenTieTh day oT March, nineTeen hundred ThirTy-nine. -THE SENIOR CLASS OF l939
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