Parkersburg High School - Parhischan Yearbook (Parkersburg, WV)

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GL SQS WILL BIRDIE We, the January Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three, of Parkersburg High School, realizing that our days in afore mentioned school are numbered, being of sound mind and doubtful memory, do hereby, make, declare, and publish this to be our last Will and Testament, disposing of all our earthly and unearthly possessions in the following manner, to-wit: First, we will and bequeath to the Faculty, expecially Mr. Stew- art, Miss Rogers, Miss Kerr, and Miss Anderson our sincere thanks and gratitude for their kind assistance and guidance during our four years' career at P. H. S. To the Senior I's we will our Senior dignity, as well as our seats in assembly, and the privilege of having their way in everything. fElecting Ned Neale for every vacant office, includedj. To the Juniors we leave our regards, to the Sophomores, our intelligence, and to the Freshmen, a beautiful little song entitled, The Wearing of the Green. To anyone who will have them, we do hereby will and bequeath, seventy copies of a much beloved and exceedingly interesting book called Burke's Conciliation With America, with the request that they be handled with reverence, because of the regard we once had for them. Sorrowfully we leave behind Doris Keenan and Tub Fenton, with the hope that they bring as much sunshine and cheer into the next Senior II Home Room as they brought to ours. Ross McHenry leaves his best wishes to be given to the 1923 All- State Football Team, and his popularity to the next football captain. Julia Welch, Frances Kingsley, and Maurice Berein hereby be- queath their sweet dispositions and sense of humor to Miss Peters, who, they allege, for lack of these things once excluded them from the Library, thus forcing them into the auditorium, where they spent a miserable period playing the piano and chewing gum. James Bailey and Bernard Devlin leave their respective heights to anyone in need of them. Roland Hobensack, Julian Murrin, John Hushion, and George Murrin, leave their regrets that they were unable to prolong their stay at P. H. S. so they might play football next season. Dick Biddle leaves to Don Black his long hoarded secret How to Keep the Marcelle Perpetually in One's Hair. . Mary McClung and Paul Reps leave their sympathy to the entire school because it was deprived of hearing them play a saxaphone duet in assembly. Willard Higgins leaves his seventy-five horsepower voice to Paul Bole so that the latter may be heard when he gives his next football speech from the stage. Frances Wise, Joseph Flaherty, and Sylvester Smith, the well- known Henna Trio, leave their famous booklet, The Advantages of Being Auburn Haired to Anita Pifer, Clarence Boso and Paul Murphy. Chester Stephan and Rolla Gainor will their Valentino powers of attraction to Lawrence Mills and Edward Elletson. Virginia Rowe hereby bequeaths her seat in Mr. H. M. Quick's Economic Class to some other fortunate with the hope that said Twenty-Two VAUGHN fortunate will appreciate Mr. Quick's little pleasantries as much as she has. 'Romeo Feeney leaves his histronic powers to Adam Jor- dan and Bernard Thorne with the request that they make use of it in the next Dramatic Club play. Catherine Watson desires to will to Eleanor Fitcher her collec- tion of clever remarks and power of leadership to be exercised on Freak Day, Class Day, and-every day. Miss Watson also leaves her beautiful golden tresses to be auctioned off tothe Freshman girls. Joseph Murphy leaves twelve jars of his famous Freckle Re- mover. which are to be sold and the proceeds used to help purchase a trophy case for the school. . The two Eiizabeths, Ransell and Marsh, will to the school a statue called The Thinker, to be unveiled April 1, 1923. Walter Kramer leaves to Agnes Sams his book, What a Violinist Should Eat, so that she will know exactly what to feed Sam Slater that his musical career will not be endangered. Virginia McKitrick, Eva McDonald, and Mildred Martin bequeath to Gladys Sinclair, Mary Pierce, and Thelma Mullenax their records as speed queens on the typewriter. Gertrude Ruppel, Madge Davis and Theresa Purcell leave to the bobbed-haired damsels of P. H. S. their phamphlet Bobbed Hair and Its Possibilities. Harry Holiday, Robert Hansel and Gale White do will and be- queath their oratorical ability to the future diplomats of this insti- tution, namely. Paul Broida, Ned Neale and David Carmichael. Ruth Holstln and Margaret Smith leave their dreams of bunga- lows and iiower gardens to Beula Stewart and Virginia Swartz. Eugene Knight and Robert Mitchell leave their quiet retiring manners to those reckless, daring young fellows, John Roberts and Russell Bohn. Rachel Knowlton and Elizabeth McCoy will their numerous con- quests to Ruth Kellar and Josephine Carpenter. We do now nominate and appoint Miss Waller and Mr. Knopp, under heavy bond, as executors of our last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and null'fying all former wills by us made. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We, the January Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three, of the Parkersburg High School, of the City of Parkersburg, County of Wood, State of West Virginia, United States of America, do hereunto set our hand and seal, this twenty-sixth day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thou- sand, Nine Hundred and Twenty-three. fSignedJ January Class of 1923. Signed, sealed, published. and declared before us. by the January Class of 1923, as their last Will and Testament, in the presence and hearing of us who have at their last request, and in their presence, and in the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. 'lf fSignedJ MARSHALL OTEY WALKER, CLEMENCEAU, RODOLPH VALENTINO. VENIDA SMITH L I

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HELEN O'BRIEN BewareY I may do something startling yet l Let's Go Club, Home Economics Club, '21- '22, Class Basketball, '19-'20, Chorus, '22, Hockey Team, Girls' Baseball Team. BONA MAYHEW A maiden with bright brown eyes. LOIS SMITH Class Basketball, '19, Progress Literary So- ciety, '21, Let's Go Club, '20-'21-'22, Pres- ident Home Economics Club, '20, Dramatic Club, '22, Forentic Debating Club, '22, Regular Quill Staif, Senior Quill Staff, Travel Club, '21, Dramatic Play, '22, Rooters' Club, '20, Advisory Committee, 22, Chorus, '21, Class Play. JAMES BAILEY WALTER KRAMER Six feet he stood-afraid of naught A smile for every fellow, and two for save woman. . CVCYY girl-H Class J est. Orchestra, '20-'21-'22, Senior Quill StaH', Travel Club, Always Audacious, Literary Society, Rooters' Club, Ze Sics. A A musical wizard. Page 'Twenty-one 'W -1 h

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GLASS R TICDDENJ Qfttllracivce I een Sumceecesrs High By RICHARD H. BIDDLE Fellow classmates and students, members of the faculty and guests. We have arrived at the end of one journey and are about to start on another, longer and harder than the last. For four years our class has labored together for this our graduation, our goal. To- morrow seventy-one strong, we face the world, striving for that higher goal-SUCCESS. Out of this seventy-one how many of us can look ourselves straight in the eye and say, I have been a success in school? Not merely a success from the standpoint of grades alone but from that higher tandpoint-HONESTY! Honesty to ourselves and our possi- bilities! Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors how many of you can ask yourselves that question and answer Yes? I feel safe in saying a very small number. I Why? Simply because you are not studying as hard as you should. Because some of you are picking the easy courses, because you are afraid to undertake the harder ones. You do not see or realize what this means to you in after life. Each of you has reasons of your own which you know only too well. As seniors to-day we realize the mistakes we have made and the neglected opportunities we have let slip by. The result is that today our hearts are filled with regret and we wish we had our four years in P. H. S. before us and not behind us. Not a one of us, I dare say, would do the same as he has done, had he this opportunity again. However, this has been but an experience Hlled with regret, but profitable in its lesson. Those of us who are fortunate enough to receive a college education will profit by the mistakes we have made here. We will be inspired to work harder to make up for our lost opportunities in High School. Those of us who tomorrow face the business and professional world will! be better equipped by the les- sons learned from the experiences we have received here. On the other hand let. us take for an illustration two students- both high school graduates, entering college. One belongs to that small number who can say they have been a success in High School. The other belongs to that larger number who have merely received a diploma. I am sure we are all well acquainted with both students. They come home for their first vacation and we ask them how they like college and how they are getting along. One says he likes it fine and is getting along first rate. The other does not like it and thinks he will quit. Why? Because, he has not profited by his ex- perience and has not laid the foundation while in High School. Little does he seem to realize that without an education he will be con- stantly under a cloud and succeed in life with dufliculty, unless he is a genius. And now, underclassmmen, any person can profit by his own ex- perience, but the successful person, the person who makes a name for himself in the world is the person who profits by the experiences of others. Think of the wonderful opportunities the taxpayers of our community are oifering you! Think of the sacrifices many of your parents are making to give you get an education! Do not wait until you are a senior to realize these things, but profit by our experience, so embrace your opportunities that on your graduation day you can look yourself straight in the eye and say, I have been a success in High School. Twenty-Three