Orient High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Orient, IA)

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CLASS WILL We the Semor Class of 1948 cxty of Orzent bemng of sound mmd and memory do hereby w1ll and bequeath to the jumors the two rows of desks near the wlndows, provlded they follow the example that we have made to keep them neat and free of all marks and gum as we have done thelr PEIIIIISSIOH to turn the wastebaskets and throw the erasers D hereby make pubhsh and declare th1s to be our last w1ll and testament, hereby revoklng any wzlls heretofore made by us do w1ll and bequeath the following after our absence I Paul1ne Bathurst do w1ll and bequeath the followmg to La DOHDQRCPPIIHECT and Kenneth Leeps, my typ1ng ab1l1ty to the party of the hrst part and good posture to the party of the second I Robert Buchanan do w1ll and bequeath my smolung hab1ts to Robert Standley pro vxdmg he smokes my usual two packages a day I Norma Kluber do w1ll and bequeath my followlng to Margaret Hamline and Lucxlle Vandewater my pleasmg personal1ty to the party of the flrst part and my long ha1r to the party of the second part and also Luc1lle I hope you w1ll remember to use my red rmse s1nce It glves such a pretty color I Dlck Wallace do w1ll and bequeath my Romeo charms to jack Stewart and don t forget to put on that speclal lxquld that all the g1rls go for I Wmston Klngery do w1ll and bequeath my poetlc ab1l1ty to james Buchanan prov1d1ng they rlme l1ke mxne do spec1al way of putt1ng up my ha1r to Katheryn Lamb Qjust four curls I Melba Cavmess do w1ll and bequeath my pretended bashfulness to Ray We1ss I thmk It w1ll be of some help zn w1nn1ng your one and only I, janet Dxcker son do w1ll and bequeath my f01IOW1Dg to joan Strong and Ed L1lly my good conduct provldlng you w1ll share lt between you I Wanda Weed do w1ll and bequeath my underhanded shots ln basketball to Lola Camp bell and don t forget to use my tr1ck plays I Lewxs McCla1n do w1ll and bequeath my love for school to Hugh Swoyer and my wmnmg smlle to George B1rd I Phylhs Wxlhams do w1ll and bequeath my peaches and cream complex1on to Gwyneth Carson I Edythe Gustason do w1ll and bequeath my pos1t1on as manager of the g1rls basket ball team to Regerua Chadw1ck and my long f1ngerna1ls to Vera Dunn I Beverly W1ll1ams do w1ll and bequeath my beauuful black ha1r to Donna I..1ttrell if she w1ll rnalntaln my regular hablts of puttlng lt up I Mary Green do w1ll and bequeath my ab1l1ty to ptterbug whenever I hear a hot tune to Becky Lambx and also my freckles , . ' . . , . . , S . . 0 ' n O , . , . . . 1 , . . . - , , . . . . . , n , q l , . . , . . . . . . I, Helen Stutt do will and bequeath my soprano voice to Mildred Wallace, and also my o u 4 . c ., , . , . . 0 . , . . . , , . . , . , . . . , . . , i . . . . - ' . . , . . . . , , , . . . ..

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto subscrlbed our names and fxxed our seal rn th1s hrst day of March Nlneteen Hundred and forty e1ght QSEALI Slgned sealed publxshed and declared as and for hxs last wxll and testament by Or1ent Semor Class the above named testators 1n the presence of us who at their request and the presence of them and of each other have subscrxbed our names hereto as wxtnesses on the day and year last aforesald Wltnesses CLASS HIS TOR Y Once upon a tune ln the year 1936 twenty seven frlghtened lzttle squ1rts entered the b1g house to begm thexr way on the long road of educatlon I..1ttle d1d they know how short It really was compared to the great span of open road whlch hes ahead Wzth all the ups and downs seventeen of us made the grade They were Robert Buchanan Eugene Buckzruller Paul Clark jr Melvxn Fulton james Hartrnan Harold Klnkennon Edward Melsenhelmer Robert Me1senhe1mer LEWIS McCla1n Margaret Eblen Mary Lou Green Paulxne Bathurst Melba Caviness Edythe Gustason Sally Mlller Helen Stutt and Mary jo Vernon Our lnstruc tors were Mr Vernon M1ss Long, and Mr Clark ln 1937 we declded to take a gander at the second floor By chmbmg what we thought teacher Mzss K1nyon we buxlt a play house and made llfe szze furmture for lt We also trled to learn to do a llttle arltlunetlc We had two other teachers who made th1s grade a success They were Mr Vernon and Mlss Flnley By loslng some classmates and gaxnlng others we advanced forward Those who were added to our bunch were jerold Gordon Earl Vande water, Billle Steel Margaret jean Kuhns and Llllxan Purdy Those who left were Robert Garrett Jerold Gordon and Robert Meisenheimer Nlneteen thlrty elght found us back on the flrst floor agaxn Our mstructors were Mr Vernon Mr Stewart Mlss I-Iolxnes Miss H lmes taught us to wrxte and to rnultlply Charles Evans moved 1nto our happy throng this year and Margaret Eblen moved away Here we were gomg up agaln In 1939, we were ln the fourth grade Wxth the help of our teachers Mlss Mltchell Miss Moore and Mr Vernon we took up a lot of new subjects We also took IH some new classmates who were joan Frederick Wanda Weed, Wlnston Kxngery and Richard Wallace Those who dropped out were Edward Melsenhelmer and Eugene Buckmiller We decided we would stay on the seconf floor thls year and enter fifth grade Thls was ln the year 1940 Some others decided they would Jom us in our journey too They were Ivan Musmaker Bill Bakerink and Donme Hazen But two of these declded they would leave and travel with other classmates Bill Bakerink and Ivan Musmaker were the ones to do thu We had four lery good xnstructors, Mxss Caryl M155 Hglmes M155 Mgore and Mr Sav111g Step by step maybe we can go down this road of hfe By 1941 we were . l I I I . . . , - I . , , , I 1 1 1 o ll 1 li , - ,.. . , , 'I . I I . I . I I ' I I . . I I I - I 1 I I ' ' , 1 ll II . 1 1 was an endless amount of stairs we reached the second grade. With the help of our piient I I ' l . 1 ll ll , .- . ' . . ' , . , O . , . U 0 . . O I . . I l ' I D ' I , V I ' , 1 , 1 ' 1 .