Mount Airy High School - Airmont Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

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a small window through which James Armfield wills to “Blushing Joe” Tesh lie is to keep his head in the fresh air and so prevent grogginess Paul Surrett wills his soprano voice to Lakey Harkrader. Claude Monday wills the gift of gab to Joe Tesh. Lexter Holvfield wills his agility in Spanish to any Junior that needs it. 1 helma Mayberry wills her modesty to Mildred Wolfe. Robert Jackson wills his unconsciousness to Kenneth Cooke. Homer Beck leaves his poetic ability to Woodrow Thompson. Potts Partridge leaves to James Bray her place on the girls’ basketball team. Mary Lynn Hennis wills her height to Lois Gwyn. (Lois needs it.) Myrtle Adams wills her shortness of stature to Lillian McCoy. Claude Monday leaves his curly hair to Chester Seewald, in order that Chester may throw away his curling irons. Elmo Beasley leaves his artistic ability to James Combs. Ernest Brown leaves his ability to sing to James Bray. (Practice in the warehouse, James; it will sound more natural.) Julia Jeffries wills her quietness to Frances Stewart. William Simpson leaves to James Combs the ghost of argumentation. I.ong may it haunt him! Valeria Jackson, James Creed, and Dorothy Jackson leave to any ten mem¬ bers of the Junior Class their ability as advertising managers. Hugh Sawyer wills his slogan, Necessity heeds no law,” to Irene Roberts. Dot Jackson wills to Clara Belle Welch the breakfasts which she didn’t have time to eat. (That will average about five per week, Clara.) In testimony whereof, we, the said Senior Class, have hereunto set our hand and affixed our seal on this, the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and twent x-nine. THE SENIOR CLASS. William Simpson, Testator. Witnesses: Buffalo Bill Paul Revere Louis XIV Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck I % ft ft w ft aw ft -5A p s x ft m ft ft ft: ft ' JM ft ft i y Vi « ft ft M I i ft aw ft ft ft: ft : 1 it ft: ft ft ft ■ w ft ft ft ft ft ft ft: ft ft: ft i p M SBS m ' m Vt Yt Page twenty-five

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m f I m is ft ft m ¥ I § ft ft ft: ft m ft ft ft ft Vf it ft it ft ft I I ft ft ft it ft it ft it I t it ft M ft ft f ft ft i 8 vi it ft ft ft it ft it ft; it LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT m it ft I i vi it vi it vi IFV. t (C Senior Class of Mount Airy High School, being mindful of and in anticipation of an early, sudden, and violent departure from the midst of out friends and schoolmates, arc desirous of making disposition of some of the treas¬ ures here gained, and being stdl in partial possession of our mental faculties, do hereby make, publish, and declare this our Last Will and Testament, in manner and form as follows: Article I. To assistance, patience, Section I that most noble, august, body, the Faculty, in view of the and kind consideration which they have shown to us, we will and bequeath our appreciation and gratitude which will increase with the years. vast amount of knowledge we Also, to the Freshman Class Saturday school: namely, the Section II Article t. To the Freshman Class we will the have acquired both as a whole and as individuals, we will and bequeath the Senior privileges in the right to attend the school on each one of the thirty-six Saturdays in the school year, and to stay the full time limit of three hours per day. Section III Article I. Every family has a skeleton ip the closet. Our skeleton is the Sophomore Class. They have reached that idiotic stage in school life wherein, bursting with pride, they know, or think that they know, all that is to be known. It seems that neither reason nor intelligence may be crammed through their thick- skulls. To them, therefore, we will many hours of hard work which is to con¬ front them when they awaken from that delusion which once was ours. Also, to them we bequeath the mythical collar buttons and cuff links. Section IV Article t. We take this opportunity to acquaint the Junior Class with the delightful fact that they will, within the next year, come into possession of a great knowledge, a knowledge that many men have gone through life and have never found. That is to say, they will come to know just how much they do not know. By these presents, we will and bequeath unto said Junior Class our dignity, our privileges, and that exalted seat of honor, Room 12 . Also, we burden them with the responsibility of upholding the reputation of M. A. H. S. Article 2 . As further proof of our benevolence, certain individual Seniors hereby bestow upon various individual and unsuspecting Juniors certain prop¬ erties as are herein stated : Bernice Harris wills her modest disposition to Martha Binder. Mary Katherine Booker leaves a boisterous whisper to Rena Pendleton. Arlie Stewart wills to ‘ ' Texas” Satterfield a ‘‘volume control” to he used while conjugating a certain Spanish verb. The High Spots Staff wills Bill Simpson’s position as office boy to Miles Foy. | ft v;f ft ft ft ft m ft ft ft § § ft JM. ft •Se ft ■iff v ft H i 1 ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ’ft W ' ft ft ft: ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ; is ft ft ft y.S ft ft ,v, ► ’ft ft is ft is ft ft ft ft ft ft | I Page twenty-four

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©gfjess® j? s ft Is J T c ft m ft ft fas sj § w i i- ' f ft § y f ft l ’A ft ft ft ft % % - »Av i m JSA; ft vS ft ft vi w ssx I I; I | § i 8 ft ft ft ft ft A § I vl?: ft ft ft ft ft V V Vf. ft ft A l i » fig ft m -ss$ k AAV a v a y-W a A V , SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY The night on which I left New York to attend the reunion of the Seniors of ’29 at Mount Airy, I ate an unusually large supper and went to bed early. Suddenly, I saw the entire Class of ' 29 on a large yacht that was floating lazily along on the Dead Sea. The captain of this ship, the “Mohisco,” was Elmo Beasley. Mrs. Cornelius Astorbilt, a New York society matron, whom I recognized as Virginia Marshall, seemed to he the owner, and she was ente rtain¬ ing the Seniors. There were Professor and Mrs. Raymond Worrell, sitting on the upper deck. •‘Red was talking about his work as a teacher of French at Meredith College. His wife, Hallie Nelson, was listening attentively. Then 1 saw ' Mary Elizabeth Partridge and Lexter Holyfield playing quoits. •‘Pots” was talking about the unpleasant publicity which she had received for being the first woman to swim Lovill’s Creek. Leek joined in with an occas.onal remark about his work as an actor with the Theatre Guild in New York. Mary Katherine Booker and Mary Margaret Hollingsworth were entertaining the others with their antics, and I gathered from their conversation that they are now comediennes on the Keith audevdle Circuit. Frances Booker and Annie Dean, two Chicago debutantes, were discussing their social engagements. I saw Valeria Jackson with her gun. Evidently, she had just returned from a Byrd-hunting expedition. With her was a sober-looking man dressed in a black suit and wearing a clerical collar. I didn’t recognize him as William Simpson until I heard him talking about his success in converting savage African tribes. There was Robert Jackson, salesman par excellence, with a pile of the um¬ brellas which he sells to the natives of the Sahara Desert. Homer Beck was with him trying to rest from his arduous duties as poet laureate at the court of King Rameses XXIX. Someone was arguing so that I could hardly hear myself think. No wonder I couldn ' t. It was James Armfield and Paul Surrett. Jim turns his talents into money bv working as a lawyer, and Paul by waiting on the table at the Blue Ridge Hotel. Annie Thomas and Sarah Brockington were gossiping as they walked slowly by. Annie planned all the meals in the White House last year. Sarah was knit¬ ting her brows over the many problems she has as president of the Woman’s Suf¬ frage Union of America. I wondered what was coming next. Then I saw a couple at the other end of the deck. The man was dressed in overalls and he had a big straw hat under his arm. The fair lady wore a long black skirt and a stiffly-starched white shirt¬ waist. What a sight! Two of M. A. H. S.’s loyal alumni? Impossible! I saw that the hero was Ishmael Davis, now a farmer, 1 suppose, and the heroine, Bernice Harris, on old-maid school teacher. Susie Young, of whose activities as a scientist I had already heard, was modestly telling Ruth Johnson and Freda Webb how she is able to change an onion into an apple. Myrtle Adams ran by crying because her husband’s drug business at Dobson kept him from coming with her. After Susie and Myrtle had left, Ruth engaged a wedding cake from Freda, who specializes in baking this important food. Ruth is going to marry the Prince of Iceland. ft Vi ft ft ft ft ft 1 ft § ft ft ft ft ■Ibs ft, Vi Vi ft -Vi ft Vi Vi ft: W? 45. Vi Vi ft ft ft ft ft Vi ft: Vi ft Vi ft Vi ft’ Vi ft Vi ft ft ft ft ft Vi ft Vi ft ft: ft ft Vi ft ft ft ft ft Vi § I ft w ' A m w ft m Page twenty-six