Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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Senior Will In the City of Orovillc, in the Ccunty of Butte, in the State of California, we, the graduating class of June, 1928, being of sound and discosing mind and acting under no duress, menace, fraud or undue influence of any person whomsoever, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be cur last Will and Testament in the manner, that is to say: First: We do hereby name, constitute and appoint Miss Freida Beik, executrix of this last Will and Testament. Second: We, the aforesaid Senior Class, do hereby make the following bequests: To the Juniors we leave our faculty for provoking Miss Beik, and any detention which may have gone unserved by us. To the Sophomores we leave our habits of punctuality, with the hope that they improve with age. To the Freshmen, we leave the traditional dignity of Seniors, and may they add to it in the coming years! Individually, we bequeath the following: I, Esther Adkins, with a sigh of relief, do leave my ability to play “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” to Dot Herrin. I, Elsie Bates, as a generous gesture, will all my boy friends to Helene Enslow. I, Crystal Baxter, do leave my ability to roll my eyes to Ernestine Graves. I, Bernice Beddoe, bestow upon Mildred Churchman my boisterous disposition. I, Frances Bokmann, with the greatest of pleasure, bequeath a few extra to Dot Uren. I, Mae Boring, will my ability to make an automobile get up the hill in high to Norman Bills. I, Fredda Burt, leave my seat in the Senior Room to Blanche Bateman. I, Ruth Chambers, leave my habits of punctuality to Ben Heirs. I, Chan Chack, will my place on the tennis court to Johnnie Too. I, Chan Wahso, leave all my worn out paint brushes and pencil stubs to Jeanne Bumgarner. I, Marguerite Chase, leave my heart-breaking abilities to Winnifred Fry. I, Margie Coombe, leave my studious nature to Veola Meyer. I, Arleen Dent, having a few to spare, leave a few extra pounds to Peggy McMillen. I, Ernest Dryden, leave my blushing comolex to whomsoever will enjoy it more than I have.

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Fieda Dunbar is girl’s athletic coach in the same school. Harold Strang is also teaching science there. Kenneth Gillispie owns a very modern dairy in the same city. (Here I recalled that he had received some training in that line while in high school.) Arleen Dent has a photography studio in Oakland. Her assistant is Bernice Beddoe. Carol Jacques and Ruth Chambers have a beauty salon in Oak-End. Leland Meisner is their specialist in charge of the permanent waving. William McCutcheon is in Los Angeles, and is a very promising engineer. He has Allen Mace. Frank Hoover, and Allen Grace in his crew. John Gaskins is president of a famous school for young ladies in New York. Rosemary Sadowski is his private secretary. Chan Wahso is studying art in New York, and has as his special model, Lorraine Fry, who is becoming famous as the “Magazine cover girl.” I gasped at her next prophecy. “Ernest Dryden is in San Francisco and is one of the biggest politicians there. (Isn’t it strange how people change? He was such a quiet person in school.) Margaret Gray, Bernice McBride, and Helen Wallace are in the motion picture studios of Hollywood. Helen Salzman is in the studios at New York. She has as her leading man. Guv Thorne. Thelma Moseley is in vaudeville doing a swimming and diving act in a glass tank. Evelyn Edwards is teaching kindergarten in Thermalito. Mary Wall is also teaching there. Margie Coombe is teaching Domestic Science in the new Thermalito High School, and Norbert Halpenny is boys’ athletic coach there. Golda Rosenberg is manager of the new Marysville Elite which her mother has opened. Virginia Rowe and Fredda Burt are salesladies in the shop. Myra Pigg has returned to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where she is teaching English in the high school. Leo Weber has the Packard agency in Chico, and Margaret Martin is his private secretary. Marguerite Chase is the governess of the United States’ Presidents’ grandchildren.” With this, she gathered up the photographs, handed them to me. and indicated that the hearing was over. I departed with a high heart, satisfied with her report, and enthusiastic over the fate held in store for each of my classmates.

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I, Louise Smullin, bestow my daily package oi um upon whomsoever has strength enough to uphold m g-.m-chewing record. I, Christine Snow, bestow my saintly ways upon my brother Tom Snow, in the hope that he will benefit by them. I, Harold Strang, leave my commanding manner and voice to Jack Winters. I, William Sweet, bestow my beard-raising ability upon some unsuspecting Frosh. I, Winnifred I urner, will my pleasing giggle to whomsoever can uphold its dignity. I, Guy Thorne, will my Band Uniform to Donald Roderick, with the understanding that he will fill it as well as I have. I. Kelsey Vail, bestow upon Harold Kister my ability for getting in “dutch” with the Faculty. I, Mary Wall, bestow my petite stature upon Amy Brooks. I, Helen Wallace, bestow my dimples upon Nadine Lawrence. I, M'bel Ward, will my abi’ity to walk when the bus breaks down to Rita Holley. I, Leo Weber, with the greatest of pleasure, bequeath my ability to cut c'ass to Dicky Moore. I, Rosemary Sadowski, will my place in the orchestra to whomsoever desires to fill it. I,Dorothea Meyer, bestow my long locks upon Grace Cronk. I, Thelma Mose'ey, bestow my antness on the baseball diamond to Ruth Dorser. I, Caroline Munson, bequeath my seat in the Honcut bus to whomsoever can hold it down. I, Robert Petersimc, with the best intentions, leave a vacancy in Miss Bower’s Senior English class to Tom Savage. I, Bryce Phillips, with utmost pride, leave a vacancy in the Honor Society to be filled by Ole Johnson. I, Myra Pigg, bestow my southern drawl upon Robert Land. L Earle Yorton, leave my unused seat in Senior room to Bob Grace. I. Laurence Pool, leave my gallant ways with the ladies to Gleeson Powers, with the understanding that he will use them discreetly. I. Lcraine Ring, bestow my “A” in shorthand upon Thelma Walsh. I, Ella Rosenberg, will my orowess on the athletic field to Kathleen Headrick. I, Golda Rosenberg, bequeath my list of worthwhile novels to Dorothy Uren. I, Virginia Rowe, will my knowledge of the culinary art to Edith Lambert. I, Robert Rutherford, with the greatest of pleasure, bequeath my knowledge of hiding places around the O. U. H. S. to Harry Kister. I, Helen Salzman, will my knowledge of Spanish to Gene Ginter. I, Nellie Anne Smith, leave a vacancy in the front seat of a Stude-baker automobile.