New Bern High School - Bruin Yearbook (New Bern, NC)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT NORTH CAROLINA Craven County New Bern A We, the graduates of New Bern High School of the above state and county. in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred Forty-five, considering our high intellects and enlarging potentialities, do hereby will and bequeath our following blessings, this Last Will and Testament: ARTICLE I To the faculty we bequeath our model conduct, undivided attention, and clever remarks. ARTICLE II To our respected principal, Harry J. MacDonald, we bequeath the staunch blackmark system and the future transfers of Senior Math. ARTICLE III To the Juniors we willingly leave the honors of higher education and Paradise Lost. ARTICLE IV To the unsuspecting Freshmen Cbless their heartsj we will all our knowledge, our high sense of honor, a continuation of all our brilliant ideas, and at least one stick of gum a day. ARTICLE V The following personages make these individual bequests: Helen Aarons and Devora Poliakoff, who think their professions need little of the stuff, generously bestow their gray matter on Ray Potter. Bob Herrington presents his speeches and curls to Frank Fagan. Margaret Hope Smith bequeaths her basketball uniform to anybody who can get in it. Saso Morris wills her giggles to Tincy Guion. Q Curtis Manning reluctantly leaves his specks to Bobby Joyce. Sheldon Crump turns her gift of gab over to Jane Morton. Fetter West woefully leaves his little red truck to Neil Harrison. David Rucker and Herbert Ross bequeath their good conduct records to Harry Jacobs and Joe Nelson. Audrey Bengel and Bob Scott will gladly give their date books to anyone who can add a name. Virginia Boyd bestows her oomph' on Nancy Venters. Catherine Dixon and Duval Grant honor Kitty Ewell and Sonny Quinnelly with their bashfulness. Annette Miller and Janice Epperson bestow their library positions upon Preston Jones and Raymond Maxwell. Bob Rhodes, Archie Piner, George Huffman, and Roland Hill, Inc., will their uniforms to anyone who can re- place them on the squad. Lib Kennedy bestows those lashes to the new majorettes. Betty Jo Shipp leaves her un-rumph to Betty Jo Tomlinson. Jimmy Corey bequeaths his proHle to Charlie Rhodes. L. M. Lancaster, Robert Gaskins, and Ernest Connor, feeling it their duty, have decided to let the other members of the band get in a 64th note. Edwin Lee Thompson bequeaths his cooking ability to Bob Mercer. Mary Grace Taylor sends her innocent looks to Peggy Gillikin. Pattie Tyson wills her stubbornness to Mildred Scurlock. Mary McCoy sadly gives Little Bit Iseley the run of the courts. Jean Kingsley, who wants to do her part by her fellowmen or women, leaves her tom-boyishness to Ann Brothers. Caroline Bunting has finally decided to share her lipstick and mirror with Dotty Brinson. John Thomas bequeaths his pin-ups to Billy Ballenger. Alma Agent, Elizabeth Hill, Bessie Hall, Mildred Boyle, Laura Daniels, and Co. leave their little nest in 12-1 to next year's fortunate Seniors. Pattie Flowers bestows the whole garden to Betty Ann Parsons. Max Bennett wills his motorcycle to Gale Turnbull. Grace Gibson leaves her chestnut locks to Jean Johnson. Betty Jane Lamb bestows all her designs on all the classy lasses in the Sophomore class. Dorothy Frazier reluctantly leaves the Coast Guard to Gladys Boyd. Vaughn Griffin, Dan Smaw, and Exave Lupton present their combined talents to Clinton Harrison. Joe Kelly and Mildred Heath wish Salesmanship on all their friends. Iris Norris, Christine Parsons, Ethel Pittman, and Doris Willis leave their war paint to little Jean. Ruby Game and Hazel Ball bequeath their sweet dispositions to Rosamond Hancock. Billy Jones, Lowell Williams, and Roger Hoggard leave Senior English-period! ' Mary Grace Williams desires that her intellect be equally divided among all needy Sophomores, and may heaven help them. Penelope Cahoon leaves her sunny smile to Betty Pate. Susan Brinson and Lou Ann Gardner leave their humour to Greta Bull and Iola Taylor. Branch McDaniel and Howard Shell at the present find a need for their talents and therefore make no formal bequeaths. This, the Last Will and Testament of the graduating Seniors of forty-five, we entrust to our principal, Harry J. MacDonald, to be enacted to the nth degree. JULIA FISHER, Testator. WITNESSES I Gale Turnbull Raymond Mexwell 18

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OFIVICERS RAYMOND IVIAXWELL President EUNICE PAGE Vice President LAMAR SLEDGE Secretary-Treasurer -ai,' ' ' 1 JUNIOR CLASS Q 'an .. 1' X in sf. 'fy MEMBERS: Greta Bull Frank Fa an P 1 F , g . au unk, Shirley Gober, Minnie Bell Grady, Richard Hardison B. G. Harker. Jr.. Clinton Harrison, Nellie Iseley. Jean Horner, Mildred Jackson. Marie Kelly, Raymond Maxwell, Eunice Paige, Lamar Sledge, Ivey Piner, Ellen Tolley, Gale Turnbull. Robert Wicks, Robert Yudell 19