Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Second: We leave the task of setting a good example for the younger pupils. This means that you must act a little better than they. While not a hard task for us, we realize that it can prove to be one for our younger followers, the class of 1923. Third: We relinquish all Senior privileges. Now, if the younger pupils attempt to deprive you wrongly of them, speak to your principal: he will tell them that the Seniors come first. To the Sophomoress we leave nothing but our best wishes and thanks, for it is plainly seen that if you keep on doing as you have done for the past two years, this class will rise to illustrious fame, similar to that of Julius Caesar, Pauoleon or the Duke of Wellington. To the Freshmen we will our perseverance. As a token of friendship and remembrance we will the following to the persons named: I, Vada Davis, will my position as school pianist to Elsie Moller. I, Verla Johnston, will my dramatic qualities to Oliver Horn. I, Claudia Parker, will my attitude toward young men to Alice Young. I, Milton Luttrell, will my dignity to Lois Still. I, Beatrice Beckham, will to some needy freshman a part of my knowledge. I, Rowena Hermann, will my hard working qualities to Merwin Moller. I, Raleigh Greene, will my ability to graduate in six years to Barton Stemmier. I, Emily McLeod, will my sunny disposition to Clayton Mast. I, Odis Beckham, will to someone that can acquire it, my knowledge of French. I, Kathryn Warner, will my ratless coiffeur to Bessie Young. To the school and other classmates, we leave the credit of one of the most happy and creditable school years that it has been our privilege to spend. The foregoing is the legal will and testament of the class of 1922, and we do solemnly declare that we published and executed the will by witnesses thereof. We hereunto set our hands and seal this twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1922. Signed, Class of TWENTY-TWO. Witnesses: Claire Keltner, Marguerite Laird, Crawford Annin. Page Eleven

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Our class also decorated the theatre for the Commencement exercises. Now we are Seniors. This year our annual Hallowe’en party was given at Parker’s to initiate a new bam. We all had a very nice time. As I said before, now we are Seniors and our class has been sifted down until there are only ten of us left; Claudia Parker, Rowena Hermann, Milton Luttrell, Vada Davis, Odis Beckham, Verla Johnston, Beatrice Beckham, Raleigh Greene, Kathryn Warner, Emily McLeod. Thanks to our teachers, who have helped us through all our difficulties, we have finished our hard work through High school and are now ready for the next higher step in learning. ---------:o:--------- CLASS WILL Friends and parents, gathered here to witness our departure from this sphere of life, we appoint you as executors of this, our last will and testament, assured that you will see that it is properly carried out. Four long years, we, the Seniors of the Myrtle Point High School have journeyed the rocky paths of knowledge, accumulating goods. During the last four and a half months the class of 1922, considering that it would be wrong to pass into the great hereafter without enriching some of our friends, have appointed me, Rowena Hermann, to make this will. Be it remembered that we, the class of 1922, having at this time full control of all our mental powers, do make this our last will and testament, revoking and annuling all other wills heretofore made by us either by word or in writing. We also order and direct that it is our wish and intention that t'he following articles should be the property of the said classes, to be used by them as they see fit. To the Faculty, as a whole, we leave our best wishes and sincere thanks for their earnest efforts in our behalf. To the gay-hearted Juniors, first we bequeath the old, yet nevertheless precious heirlooms which have been handed down to the incoming Seniors, the seats in the last two rows on the left hand side. Our only request is that they may have as good care as was given by the Class of 1922. Psfe Ten

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CLASS PROPHESY Early this morning while walking in the woods, looking for wild flowers, I met a beautiful stranger. She was dressed in a costume of ancient date; Her hair was gathered into a knot and confined by a golden fillet, and she walked along with a gliding wiovement like unto a dove skimming along on motionless wings just above the surface of the ground. Although her whole being seemed pervaded by some divine influence, yet she looked upon me kindly and I ventured to address her. After a short and interesting conversation, in which she told me she was a descendant of a famous sibyl, she said she would grant me any favor that I might ask, so I at once revealed to her the perplexity into which I had fallen when my classmates selected me to be their prophetess, and entreated her aid in reading for them the book of fate. For a few moments she stood in silence. Then looking suddenly up with a new light on her face she gathered some large oak leaves and seated herself underneath the spreading branches of an oak. She then read from them the prophecies which I repeat to you. Although the events which the leaves recorded are yet ten years in the future the lady seemed to regard them as if they had already happened. “I first see Kathryn,” she said, “engaged in teaching music in her home neighborhood, but thinking to better herself she went to Boston and studied five years at the conservatory. At present she is the leading instructor in that institution and much devoted to her art. “Claudia having finished her course at 0. A. C. went to Europe to study more thoroughly. She visited all of the historical places there and also climbed the Alps. She is particularly interested in the countries of Norway and Sweden, as when she was there she could study as long as she liked, not being interrupted by nightfall. Then she returned to the home of her ancestors, Ireland, where she is now becoming an acknowledged leader in the Woman’s Rights movement. No woman has done as much for the cause as she. Page Twelve