Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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2 2 Fifth: To the Faculty, we bequeath all the credits which we have earned and deshe that same shall be equally distributed in token of our love. Sixth: To Miss Green, we bequeath all our short stories in the hope that at some time she may see fit to publish them in book form. Seventh: To Mr. Thacker, we bequeath all our I. O. U.’s, in the hope that he will be better able to take care of them than we. Eighth: To E. E. Rademacher, we bequeath all our lost chords provided that he shall find them. Fuithermore, we make the following individual bequests: I, Loiothy Eeasley, leave what is left of the piano to anyone who is unfortunate enough to occupy my position next year. We, Howard Hulbert and Raymond O’Brien, bequeath our winning ways and “he-vamp” manners to Thomas Brown and Herman Luken. I, Amos M. Pinkerton, authorize the blue-eyed peach blossoms to gentlv reliexe me ol my four years of Latin, not more than seven years from the first of next July. We, Dorothea Nobbe, Viola Briegel and Evelyn Rashaw, offer our exalted positions as Seniors to the three noisiest girls in the Junior Class. I, Katherine Shoemaker, will put on sale, through the executrix of this instrument, my ability to ingratiate myself with all teachers. Proceeds will go to buy a soup tureen for the Domestic Science Department. K Rcj burn Smith, direct that my ability to get by the faculty, be ti ansferred to Wib Schroeder, who, in turn, is to leave it to whom he chooses. I, Charles Frederick, better known as “Tottee” or “Doc,” bequeath my various offices and managerships to anyone who wants to utilize his spare time and miss class occasionally. I, Gib Kettelkamp, pass my position as Captain of the Basket Ball Team, to next season s captain, one good pair of shoes and one knee guard included. I, Lillian A. Woltmann, commend my pet Marcelle waves unto the keeping of Winifred Tharp. I, Worcester Green, in addition to my tenorical echoes, bestow upon the student body, together with Tottie F., the system of quarterly exams, proved by us in open debate to be the only logical one for N. T. H. S. I, Chick Biakenhoff, bequeath my ability to stage a successful box social to “John D.” Randles. OLD NOKOMIS

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2 2 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF 1922, N. T. H. S. N. T. H. S. Whereas, believing ourselves to be of sound mind and in possession of all our faculties, and, looking to the day when we shall cease to exist as a class, and, furthermore, wishing to inculcate our admirable precepts into the minds of future Seniors and make them forever parties with us in our follies, we hereby diaw up the following codicil, making bequests severally and collectively as follows: First: To the Junior Class, we bequeath the inter-class tournament, our experience in matters of finance and policy, our orations, and the opportunity of graduating from N. T. H. S. in the near future which also confers the privilege of being “It.” Second: To the Sophomore Class, we bqueath the sum of $1,000 to be held in trust for them until such a time as the executrix of this will shall declare them as wise as we. Third: To the Freshman Class, we bequeath all the rulers in our desks in the hope that the same may be of material aid to them when initiating next year’s Freshmen. Fourth: To next year’s Freshman Class, we bequeath all our ponies, answer-books, notes and cleverness in the hope that they may be used to elude the questions and scoldings of the Faculty. OLD NOKOMIS

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2 2 Furthermore, I, Fritz Evans, offer my position on the Senior B. B. Team to anyone who can fill my shoes, only one foot to a shoe. And, I, Lorina Buel, give to Alice Mansfield, without compensation my favorite typewriting eraser. We, Gertrude Green and Margaret Daly, leave two hard-to-fill vacancies in the first Soprano Section, H. S. Choi us. I, Burr Powers, bestow my positions as editor and publisher of “Old Nokomis,’’ and that of H. S. critic upon “Congo” Kravanya. Best Wishes included. I, Gladys Larrick, do hereby present my knowledge of class politics to Alfred McCaslin. I, Stanley Willis, recommend that numerous “billet deaux” in my possession be bound in book form for the edification of future students. I, George Grimes, leave all the good grades I could have made to Tubby Durdy. George Frederick gets all that Tubby cannot use. I, Ruth Stevenson, pass my irrepressible giggle to Irene Cannon. We, Jesse O’Brien and Grace Jones, present our old Teachers' Examinations Questions, bound in book form, to the School Library. I, John Groogan, leave my speeches on the Irish question reverberating through the various classrooms. I also leave my oration to next year’s Seniors. I, Ruth Frederick, bequeath my ability to pound an Underwood to Jennie Ronchetti, on condition that she does not write over 140 words a minute, one of my (shorthand) records. The above testament shall be forever binding and conclusive upon all parties concerned except infants and “non compos rnentio,” who become parties to it, upon removal of their respective disabilities. In conclusion, we appoint Hilda Nantkes as executrix and if in any way she fails to carry out the injunctions contained in the above instrument, she must keep it a secret. In witness thereof, we have hereunto subscribed our name and affixed our seal, this last day in the Fourth year of Victory. SENIOR CLASS ’22. = 0 LD NOKOMIS