Pleasant Garden High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Pleasant Garden, NC)

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Wittiest Melvin Propst—Ethel Coltrane Cutest Randall Simpson—Barbara Samuel Most Dependable Jo Anne Kirkman—Holman Flynn

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-three, of Pleasant Garden High School, in the County of Guilford, the State of North Carolina, being sound in mind and strong in body, and having come to the end of our great high school career, do hereby declare and make this our last will and testament. Article I To Mr. Ayers and the Faculty, we leave the many gray hairs we have caused them to have and our deepest gratitude for their unending efforts to improve our minds. Article II To the buildings and busses, we leave the scars of our use and hope they may endure many more years of service. Article III To the Junior Clctss we leave the responsibility of being Seniors in the year ’53-’54. To the Sophomores and Freshmen, we leave our hopes that they might have as happy and prosperous high school days as we have had. Article IV Individual bequests: Throughout our schooldays, we have accumulated many articles, items, etc., which we feel it would be ungrateful to take with us; therefore, we are bestowing them upon certain members of the underclassmen for their care and use. They are as follows: Roddy Fields leaves his superiority in agriculture to Wayne Reynolds, who he knows will make great strides. Peggy Smith wills her ability to cooperate to Jeanette Fields, knowing that she will keep the good work up. Melvin Propst leaves his unusual ability to take two years of American history under Mr. Ayers to Frankie Plunkett, hoping that he can learn to keep his mouth shut in one year. Lynette Brown wills her ability to whisper, even when talking loud, to her sister, large-larynxed Betty. Kyle Harris wills his mathematical brain to Roy Clay Allred, know¬ ing that he can well use it. Doris Fields leaves the beloved front seat of the mighty bus No. 56, to Sarah Francis Fields, for future use. Bill Kirkman wills his ability to raise cain to Buster McDonald. Sam Boyd wills his second shift job to Bobby Mclnnis and hopes he will make a success at it. Catherine Neece bequeaths her big feet to Gertrude in hopes they will get her somewhere in life. Jimmy Anthony wills his ever increasing headaches and ability to give other people headaches to Doris Causey, hoping that she may eventually become a nurse and be able to get rid of everybody’s. Barbara Samuel wills her ability to make eyes at the boys to Margaret Monnett in hopes that it won ' t get her in trouble. Ben Fields wills bus No. 15 to anyone who can keep it between the ditches. Ethel Ruth Coltrane leaves the good cafeteria lunches to Norma Dunham and hopes that they will put more weight on Norma than they did her. Sandy Monnett wills his ability to get along with the girls and teachers at P.G.H.S. to Judy Coble and hopes she has no trouble with Mr. Ayers. Ruth Ann Marley bequeaths her good grades to Donald Jones. Frank Marion leaves his power to argue in class to anyone brave enough to accept it. Lonie Varner wills her Square Dancing ability to Martha Kirkman. Ray Caudle bequeaths his sports¬ manship to his teammates—whom he left behind. Inez Osborne bequeaths her moody tempera¬ ment to Billie Stubblefield and hopes she will be more successful in overcoming it. Jim Garner wills his last place in lunch line and ability to always get a second or third helping to Judy Coble in hopes that she may get to be six feet three inches tall by next basketball season. Moonveen Cockman wills her ability to draw Spotlight Covers to Viola Jones, hoping she will produce big¬ ger and finer ones. Randall Simpson wills his dimples to David Sillmon. Bootsie Corsbie be¬ queaths her happiness to anyone who might be blue in their coming Senior year. Bob Gamble wills his craziness to Harold Jones and hopes he makes good use of it. Norma Bennett leaves her ability to skip shorthand to Buddy Reddick. Norma Jean Manness wills the use of the office scales to Peggy Sheppard and hopes the results do not disappoint her. J. D. Tilley wills his height to Boyce Cockman in hopes that it will come in handy when dating those tall girls. Patsy Fogle- man wills her talent in music to her sisters, Barbara and Bernice. Bobby Hackett leaves his seat in agriculture to Dalton Bowman. Violet Farlow leaves her silly giggles to Charles Kirkman. Bill Glass wills his ability to lay out of class to Johnny Reynolds. Louise Frye wills her ability to play basketball to Lucy Bowman. Holman Llynn wills his geometry grades to his sister, hoping she will be able ' to improve them. Bobbie Barker wills her sentimental poetry to her sister in hopes she will also like it. Robert Weatherly wills his ability to play a guitar to Josephine Mc- Clintock, hoping that somedav they might have a little ukelele player. Jo Anne Kirkman leaves her dependability to help her fellow classmates to Jane Kirkman. Jackie Voss leaves her position on the Cheerleading Squad to Jane Allred, hoping that by the time she is a Senior, she too, may be captain. And I, Peggy Crvmes, leave a certain Junior, my coming future, hoping that he will take good care of it. We hereby appoint Mr. J. Leroy Dawson, our class adviser, as sole executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we the Senior Class of 1953, do set seal on this, the twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Liftv-three. PEGGY A. CRYMES, Testatrix