Parker High School - La Reata Yearbook (Parker, AZ)

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 la t TVctl eutct eatocnectt ttte (2£o44 f Inasmuch as we feel fhe day gradually approaching when school will be out; and since we realize that on that day our life cycle will terminate, and from that day on we will be social outcasts; that no one will speak a kind word for us; give us a single molecule of water to slake our thirst; nor uplift his hand to protect us from the raging multitude, and lastly, since we are perhaps deserving of the fate: Therefore, we do execute the following document: We the 1949 class of Northern Yuma County Union High School, of the coun- ty of Yuma, the state of Arizona, do hereby make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills, bequeaths, and devices of what- ever nature by us made. FIRST: We give and bequeath to the 1950 Class of Northern Yuma County Union High School, our profound sympathy. SECOND: We give and bequeath to the present Junior Class, all our hot air and one-tenth (I 10) the nerve of the present Senior Class. THIRD: We give and bequeath to the lower classmen, our ability to get out of work. FOURTH: Individual Bequeaths: We hereby bequeath: 1. To Jack Garner, a refrigerator to condense some of his hot air. 2. Bob Gelvin and Donald Foster, a history of old Euclid. 3. To Ray Stephan, the privilege of trying out for geometry teacher next year pro- vided he furnish the necessary nerve. 4. To Marjory Hoover, a flunk in some subject. 5. To Zack Price, the idiotic laugh of Cecil Florence. 6. To all our enemies, the privilege of saying all they like about us after we are out of school. 7. To Melvin Gardner and Ralph Reid, one carload of watermelons and two shot guns. 8. To Mary Nell's beaux, the privilege of coming to school parties on probation. 9. To Bobby Gelvin, two reserved seats at the Parker Theater; one for him and one for Maggie. 10. To two bad boys we know, one pound of arsenic to be divided equally and used internally. 11. To Mr. Hoeft, the long and flowing tresses of Lydia Paddock. 12. To Lyle Murphy, the sweet disposition of Henry Washington. 13. To Janet Wagner, Barbara Wilbanks' much thumbed volume on How to Win a Husband. 14. To Jack La Mar and Pat Talla, Earl Langendorf's thirty volumes on How to Be- come Famous. 15. To Ralph Reid, Pedro Leon's new edition of the High Cost of Loving. 16. To Audrey Thompson, Echo Mae's book on etiquette. 17. To Zack Price, George Lomayesva's ability to play basketball. 18. To Mr. Motes, the balance of our class treasury to be used in buying a pair of rubber-heeled shoes for detective work. We feel sure he will need them in dealing with the classes which are to be our successors. 19. To anybody who needs it, Camie Witzleben's gift of gab. 20. To Jack Price, Henry Washington's bluff. Apply early and avoid the rush. 21. To the football team of next year, the ability of George Lomayesva and Mal- 12

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 7 o4e Section, Row I — Echo Coffey, Henry Washington, Camie Witzleben, Barbara Wilbanks. Row 2 — Norma McCoy, Loretta Stephan, Lida Paddock, Camilo Leon. Row 3 — Dale Cowan, Virginia Burgoz, Earl Langendorf. Row 4 — Cecil Florence. I I

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colm Swick. We couldn't induce Pedro Leon to surrender his. 22. To Betty Robinson, Cecil Florence's ability to think up iron-clad excuses tor ab- sences, also Cecil's ability to take signatures and get away with it. 23. To Mrs. Witzleben, provided she needs it, Earl Langendorf wills his yen for play- ing the slot machines. 24. To Ralph Reid, Dale Cowan bequeaths his role as Casanova of the Campus. 25. To D. D. Burns, Malcolm Swick wills his ability to sleep through every class un- interrupted. 26. To Pat Wilkinson, Loretta Stephan's ability to get her man while still in high school. 27. Cecil Florence also wills his good looks to the one and only, Dorothy Birdwell. 28. To Carmen Aceves, Virginia Burgoz wills her cheery smile. 29. To Norma Hughes, Norma McCoy wills her much used volume on How to Win Friends and Influence People. 30. To Joyce Robinson, Nita Shull wills her carefree manner. Besides these enforced gifts, we leave, not of necessity, but of our own free will, our blessings and tender memories of our pleasant associations together and our forgiveness of anything that we may not have appreciated in the demonstration of the past and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever and we do here- by appoint and constitute the said Principal sole executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness thereof, We, the Class of 1949, the testators, have to this, our last will, written on one sheet of parchment, set our hands and seal this twenty-second day of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. EXECUTOR 13