New Bloomfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (New Bloomfield, MO)

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CLASS WILL We, the Class of 1946, in seventeen individual and distinct parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, care- lessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour. As to such estate as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us, we do dispose of the same as follows: Lois Burre wills to Bonnie Schneider her ability to stick to one man. Take care of it, Bonnie, and don’t break too many hearts. Doris Thomas leaves her tall, gangling figure to Harry Sweeten. Betty Hickman bequeaths her extraordinary ability to write love letters to Laura Gray. Guard it carefully, Laura. We don’t want Karl unhappy next year. Dorothy Whyte Ferguson bequeaths her experience in home making to Miss Vaughan’s next year’s home economics class. Claud Reiter wills his masculine handsomeness to J. T. Gathright. Just bleach your hair and widen your shoulders, J. T. Betty Sue McKim leaves her theme song, “Bell Bottom Trousers,’’ to the freshmen of 1945-46. Sing it, kids. Frankie Stokes wills her unexcused absences to Curtis Yancey. Don’t lose any, Curt. Dorothy Schreen wills her famous book, “How to Get Your Man and Hold Him, to Betty Hurley. Take care of it, Betty. We girls may want to borrow it in the future, Nellie Smart bequeaths her love for Andy Cave to Lillian Moore and Betty Bickel. Nellie wants you to take good care of him, girls. Russell Holt has the formula for growing tall. He leaves it to Doyle Thomas, as the girls say that’s all he needs. Claudia Reiter bequeaths her ability to get up at 8:44 and get to school at 8:45 to Anna Ruth Young. Margaret Sparks leaves her bowed legs to the senior girls of next

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Hazel Craighead wills her contagious friendliness to all next year’s poor frightened freshmen. Ruth Weibel leaves her hysterical giggle to Riley Keeling, but for the sake of the school we hope Riley refuses it. Letty Hickman gives, bequeaths, and leaves her instructions on how to catch wolves without an iron trap to Wanda Rich. Peggy Holt leaves her undivided attention in the Merchant Mar- ines to Henrietta Rice. Keep on your toes, Henrietta. It has been said, “They are hard to hold.” Pauline Bratton leaves all the slightly used gum under the 6th seat of the first row in the study hall to the unfortunate fellow that sits there next year. We, the senior girls of this years basketball team, and also our boys, do bequeath our ability to play basketball to Coach Barnard s prodigies of the coming year. Because we like generosity, we give our abilities to play without victories to the next four year s teams. Claud and Claudia Reiter bequeath their ability to get their names mixed to Harry and Carrie Baker. Betty and Letty Hickman leave their ability to look alike to Gale and Dale Nichols, as they think it very funny to fool their boy friends. Beware of the twins. Besides these enforced gifts, we leave--not of necessity, but of our own free will—our blessings, tender memories of our pleasant associations together, and our forgiveness for anything that we may not have exactly appreciated in the demonstrations of the past, and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. And we do hereby constitute and appoint our sponsor. Miss Vau- ghan, sole executor of this our last will and testament. In witness thereof, we, the Class of 1946, the testators, have to this our will, written on one sheet of parchment, set our hands and seal this seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-six.