North Carolina School for the Deaf - Clock Tower Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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CLASS WILL By Paut HEmRIcC E, the class of 1933, of the North Caro- lina School for the Deaf, realizing that our life at the N. C. S. D. will soon be over, do hereby publish and make known this our last will and testament. I. To the Junior Class we bequeath our class room, our desks and all the other furniture found therein. II. To them we also will our hatchet made by our predecessor, John Crutchfield. III. To Edgar Winecoff we will the job of bell ringer, hoping he will make the ancient gong ring out clear and loud. IV. To Harry Walker we leave our artistic water pitcher and caution him to see that the flowers and properly watered daily. V. To Ray Gallimore we leave our beautiful waste basket and warn him to empty it every day promptly at 1:20. VI. Our window pole we leave in the care of Robert Whitehurst, cautioning him to see that the windows are carefully shut after school is over and to consult the thermometer before open- ing them in the morning. VII. To Elma Edwards we leave our bust of Robert E. Lee and it is our earnest desire that she sees that his face is properly powdered and his hair dusted. VIII. To Hattie Thames we will the job of crayon collector. , !X. To Jonie Bishop we will the job of keeping the inkstands clean and full of ink. X. To Kathleen Knox we will our dust-cloth with instructions to see that the desks are care- fully dusted at the opening of school. XI. To Louise Willis we leave the honorable job of eraser collector and distributor. We sol- emnly admonish her to see that all writing left on the slates is duly erased before the sounding of the closing bell. XIT. Our valuable pencil sharpener, we leave to our friend, Muriel Celey, and do caution her to see that it is emptied regularly and kept in good condition for the use of her classmates. We, “The Depression Class”’, in witness thereof do hereby affix our names to this our last will and testament on this the tweny-eighth day of April in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred thirty-three. (Signed) Witnesses: ANNIE McD. Ervin Mary C. Mauzy Roy HENDERSON CHANDLER Epwarp WALTON FARNELL JAcop Joyce FLYNN Paut CoLtumBiA HEMRIC WALLAccE ALFRED KINLAW ALBERT LEE MATHIS JoE WILLIAM RousE