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

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Class Will We, the Class of 1951, in the town of New Bloomfield and the State of Missouri, being in the usual mental condition and in much better temper than usual, do hereby make this, our last will and testament, rendering void and of no avail any former will or wills that may have been previously made by us during any period, or periods, of temporary optimism. We have no specific directions to leave concerning our funeral but we do hope you will come prepared to praise as well as bury us, forgetting the trifling faults that may have been ours, remembering only our manifold and remarkable virtues. We feel that our brilliant record and our unusual achievements will live after us; but not wishing to take any chances we suggest that a tablet on which shall be inscribed our several names and a few of our most astounding deeds be purchased and placed in the auditorium of the school in a position where it will strike the eye of all who enter. And now we open our entries: HARRY BAKER wills his mustache and side- burns to Carl Colter. HOWARD BERRY wills his height and his left hand basket- ball hook to Melvin Moore. JACKIE BOMMEL wills his build to Jerry Drinkard. Watch out, Jerry, don’t get too big. GENEVA CAIN wills her ability to write letters to Polly Yancey. You’ll have to write a lot to keep up with Geneva! MARGARET DOOLING wills her way of transportation to school to Mary Dooling. VELMA HAMPTON wills her natural curly hair to Hattie Bullard. Watch out, Harrie, roll- ing doesn't agree with it. BOB HOLT wills his maniac driving to Jerry Goboney. Watch it, Jerry, that Crosley is very small. VIRGINIA HURLEY wills her ability to get demerits to Mary Lou Yancey. DONALD SWEETEN wills his ability to go with the girls to H. C. Berry. CARL THOMAS wills his ability to get kicked out of class to Roland Meyer. BILLY TRAMMELL wills his ability to get along with the girls to Timmy Suggett. “I’m glad you can get along with them better than I did.”

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HOWARD BERRY is now married to Carrie Baker, his high school sweetheart. He is now a world famous manufacturer of hobby-horses. They live in a New York penthouse. MARGARET DOOJLING, voted Miss Annie Oakley of 1960 is a world famous rifle and pistol shot with Lewis Humphrey’s three-ring circus. GENEVA CAIN wanted to be a home economist but was not able. So, she be- came a truck driver. She drives a big transcontinental from Frisco to Jersey City. ROBERT HOLT, Bob is now a hermit. After making and losing several for- tunes, he retired to a lonely mountain in the Canadian Rockies. There, a wealthy recluse, he spends his time composing symphonies and concertos. VELMA HAMPTON is now married to a college boy and is very happy. They are now living in Wisconsin where he is attending college and is studying to be a conservationist. Velma is working in a dime store trying to make a living while he is in school. VIRGINIA HURLEY: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Autenrieth, the former Miss Virginia Hurley, are now living on their six-hundred acre farm near Tebbetts. They seem to be getting along fine with their cows, pigs, chickens, and children. DONALD SWEETEN: This is a glad day for Donald. He is being released from the State Penitentiary after a nine-year sentence for killing deer on Cedar Creek. CARL THOMAS, who became enormously fat after his twenty-first birthday is still spending his equally enormous bank accounts satisfying his enormous appetite. ' • S' ’ BILLY TRAMMELL is back in his hometown of Guthrie after attending the . •.. • t . New York Baptist Seminary. He is pastor of Dry Fork Church and is a bachelor.

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Besides these enforced gifts, we ieave--not of necessity, but of our own free will--our blessing, tender memories of our pleasant associations together, and our forgiveness for anything that we may not have exactly appreciated in the de- monstrations of the past, and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. All the rest and residue of our property, whatsoever and wheresoever, of what nature, kind, and quality whatsoever it may be, and not herein before disposed of after paying our debts, we give and bequeath to our Superintendent, for his use and to be disposed of for the good of the coming classes as he may see fit. And we do hereby constitute and appoint the said Superintendent sole exe- cutor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we, the class of 1951, set our hands and seal this eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.