Oak Hill High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Virgilina, VA)

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Class Prophecy Your Nose Knows When your fortune phrenologists read, They felt all the bumps on your head - Which was tiresome and made you so weary That the happiest fortune seemed dreary. By cards, by handwriting, or trances, You may learn of your next circumstances. But I have a new method astounding. That is very old system confounding. Did you know that the shape of your noses Your minds and your future discloses? just to prove that my powers are ample I shall give you a wonderful sample. I glance thus at your faces all glowing, And straightway your future l'm knowing. Ere many years Beth will be A solemn Doctor of Philosophy, And in a manner haughty shall expound Her wisdom and her theories profound. Dorothy, a girl of charm and grace, Whose virtues are reflected in her face Will live in peace and plenty all her life, A housekeeper de luxe and happy wife. Ray, always up in the air, Who loves to take chances and perils to dare, Will very soon be a world-famed aviator, As noted as Lindbergh, perhaps even greater. Our friend, Mary Lou, has a very small voice, But great big emotions and diction quite choic So she'll be a radio crooner some day, And sob all her troubles in either away. A plumber working overtime, With charges huge and nerve sublime, Albert's future plain I see, A very wealthy man he'll be. Not fond, herself, of overwork, She can't endure that others shirk So Barbara Ann will run with glee A great Employment Agency. 9 Junior likes to speculate And takes his fun in tempting fate, So he'll become the reckless joker. A very lucky Wall Street broker. - -'if ll 23 - 6

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and forty-nine, on the eve of graduation do hereby make this our last will and testament. To you, the incoming Freshman Class, we leave all our optimism and self-assurance and the patience to do your work through the four years of high school life. We also leave you Honor it is one of the fundamental principles of life. To you, Sophomores, our sister class, we bequeath our studious qualities and our Courage- mental and moral courage as well as physical courage. Juniors, we leave you all our privileges, our intellectual attainments, and the happiness and hopes of a Senior. We also leave you ambition to live a life of worthy purpose and accomplish- lllellt. To you, the faculty and officers of administration, we bequeath our ories we have of our years in high school and for the efforts you have as a class and as individuals. To you also we leave our patience, to be senior classes. gratitude for the mem- made to help us, both used on the incoming training from the care- And to you, Alma Mater, goes om' loyalty and the gratitude for our free thoughtlessness of our freshman year to the more appreciative attitude of today. Junior Eakes leaves his ability to play basketball to Ryland Harris. To Ruby Parham, Peggy leaves her joy in playing and her ability to play basketball. Barbara Ann bequeaths her height to Evelyn Blackwell. Mary Lou bequeaths her blond hair to Adell Blackwell. Mary Faulkner bequeaths her dignity to Eunice Royster. Lizzie bequeaths her personality to Edna Hart. Albert leaves his know-all attitude to Burley Adcock. Nancy bequeaths her ability to get on the good side of teachers to Emma Hart. Frances bequeaths her talents to Lucille Nelson. Beth bequeaths her ability as official mischief-maker to Clara Duncan. Violette bequeaths her good behavior in class to Beth Iones. Ray bequeaths his honor as best-dressed boy Laddie Clark. Dorothy bequeaths her ability to get married to Gracie Williamson. Ursula bequeaths her popularity to Ruth Norwood. Caroline bequeaths her ambition to Gertrude Yancey. Sig-:med on this the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand, nine hundred forty-nine, A. D., at Oak ill High School, Virgilina, Virginia. Mary Faulkner Wilkinson -- Testator. Senior Superlatives Most Studious - Prettiest Girl - Most Handsome Boy Best Dressed ----- - - - Best Athlete -- - Frances Hart Ray Royster Mary Lou Young R. L. Eakes, Ir. Barbara Ann Smart Ray Royster Peggy Wood R. L. Eakes, Ir. Most Popular -- Biggest Eater ----- Biggest Flirt ----- Most Dignified - Ursula Frazier R. L. Eakes, Ir. Nancy Wood Albert Vaughan Nancy Wood Albert Vaughan Mary F. Wilkinson R. L. Eakes, Ir. Silliest --- Ursula Frazier Quietest --- Mary Lou Young Ray Royster Albert Vaughan Best Personality Lizzie Yancey Most Humorous --- Beth Royster R. L. Eakes, Ir. R. L. Eakes, Ir. Best Sport --- Caroline Cannady Cutest --- Ursula Frazier Albert Vaughan Ray Royster - 'lit 10 lik-- Best-all-around Friendliest ---- Violette Blackwell Dorothy I. Harris

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Her fertile brain and ready wit Proclaim at once the job she'd fit. Mary Faulkner will write the perfect story, Thus covering herself with glory. She argues morning, noon, and night, And wins if she be wrong or rightg So Elizabeth will be, of course, A lawyer, criminal and divorce. Ursula will be an artist who Will mural decorations do, And be as well a portrait painter Who'1l make poor Rembrandt's glory fainter Young Frances has great ambitiong She'll be a wily politician, To Congress by admirers sent, And next perhaps be President. With gestures wide and voice intense, At speaking pieces she's immense, And so Nancy upon the stage Will soon become the nation's rage. With her good taste in decoration, The leading florist of the nation Will be our own Caroline From our Class of '49, Soon we shall see upon the stage A new actress who is all the rage, Violette it will be - just you look She can act the plays of any book. Now Peggy will teach Physical Education In one of the biggest colleges of the nation, Her basketball training at Oak Hill Will help her increase her skill. I hope this very generous sample Has proved to you my my powers are ample, And that the outline of your noses. Your future honestly discloses. Pr ophet- - -Elizabeth Yancey -46+ 12 li'-