Poquoson High School - Islander / York Chronicle Yearbook (Poquoson, VA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT As we, the Senior Class of ' 43 leave Poquoson High School, we make, publish, and declare this, our last will and testament revoking all former wills made by us at any other time, time. To Mr. Thomas, our Principal, we leave our appreciation for his guidance throughout the years. To Miss Richardson, our Sponsor, we leave our thanks for her help and co-operation in making this edition possible. To the entire Faculty of Poquoson High School we leave our sincere appreciation for their guidance in all our undertakings. To Miss Richardson, our home-room teacher, we leave our gratitude for her interest in our behalf. C. A. Turner III leaves his position as President of the Senior Class of ' 43 to anyone the class of ' 44 elects. Nell Clarke leaves her appreciation of stage shows to Virginia Jewell. Sherman Baker leaves his way with women to Robert Riley. Jerry Freeman leaves his width and length to Boyce Wornom. Ruth Virginia Hopkins leaves her interest in men to Janet Weston. Kenneth Brown leaves his interest in Roses to anyone in the Junior Class who can beat his time. Wallie Gene White will not leave his love of Chicken to anyone. Ray Rollins leaves his extra inches to Clyde Russell Smith. Ella Moore and Betty Belvin leave their chemical ability to Rose Marie Carmines and Elbert Keziah. Gerald Patesel wills his love of Literature Class to Gerald Smoot. Billy Childrey leaves his bashfulness to Jimmie Lee and Bennie Foster Bray. Mary Jack Evans and Beulah Carmines leave their interest in basketball to Anna Lou Johnson and Betty Jean Quinn. Charline Forrest does not leave her love of White things to anybody. Sara Margaret Carmines leaves her winning smile and sunny disposition to Anne Forrest. Clyde Thomas Moore leaves his job as Bus-driver to anyone in the Junior Class who deserves it. Rosemilla and Elaine Robertson will their harmonious voices to Dolly Messick and Nancy Huggette. Wayne Campbell leaves his love of music to Jack Forrest. Ann Wilson Mayer will not leave her love of the name Charles to anyone. Louise Evans leaves her love of Khaki to Dale Forrest. Dorothy Lindsay leaves her good nature to Frances Mills. Olive Mills and Margaret Lee Insley leave their winning personalities to Rose Marie DeAiba and Ida Ruth Wainwright. Frances Burcher leaves her studiousness to Betty Marie Amory. Esther Faye Huggette and Doris Moore will their quietness to Mary Card and Audrey Wood. Frank Lee Forest leaves his love of school to James Clifton Forrest. Roland Rollins leaves his love of football to Ben Quinn. Charles Meadows wills his love of English Grammar to William Asa Forrest. Edith Insley and Pauline Cross leave their kind dispositions to Coretta Moore and Emma Jean Montgomery. Norman Moore leaves her commercial ability to Mary Avis Rollins. Vista Freeman leaves her love of Latin to Nell Carmines. Clemmie Allgood leaves her blondness to Jacqueline Wilson. Garland Ironmonger leaves a goodly portion of his intelligence to Richard Diggs. Cecil Moore leaves his love of Julius Caesar to Doris Taylor. Irene Taylor leaves her willingness and ability to Gracie Mae Forrest. Anna Parker leaves her friendliness to Helen Loper. Annabelle Lanahan leaves her quiet ways to Grace Thomas. Joe Messick leaves his oratorical ability to Frank Taylor Carmines. Elsie White leaves her W. A. A. C. hat to the Junior whom it fits. Julia Spencer and James Harrell leave their sincerity to Dorothy Ferguson and James McHugh. And I, Harry Lee Holloway, Jr. leave best wishes for success to the next testator or testatrix. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal this 7th day of June, in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-three. SENIOR CLASS OF ' 43 By Harry Lee Holloway, Jr. Twenty-Three

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WALLIE GENE WHITE Messick, Va. GENERAL Humoro is, infantile — and ' wet ' ! BETHENY ANNE WILSON Jeffs, Va. GENERAL Cute, unusual — and little ! HISTORY CLASS OF ' 43 Eighty-one of us, eager to enter upon our high school career, timidly, yet with all the confidence of Freshman, entered our door of higher learning on September 7, 1939. How well we remember that day! We knew That first year we learned that friendships formed in high school are lasting and valuable. And we learned another lesson — a real one — namely, that we didn ' t know so much as we thought we did! Ah, memories! How well we recall the day we discovered that we didn ' t even know how to walk in the halls! And who did those upper-classmen think they were. Just wait until next year. Jane Moore, as President, with the help of Vice-President Olive Mills, Secretary, Frank Lee Forrest, and Treasurer, Audrey Forrest led us through that first year wisely and well. And then, on September 5, 1940, we were Sophomores — sixty-six of us. We were worldly — wise — and important. Led by Henry Gary Bradshaw, President, Jerry Freeman, Vice-President, and William Alfred Carmines, Secretary-Treasurer, that year was full of interesting events. We, as Sophomores, were privileged to engage in more extra-curricular activities, and the prospect of being Juniors in a little while loomed big and bright. September 4, 1941 was a big day in the lives of 57 people as we Juniors , proud as peacocks, strutted boldly back and forth, knowing that the Seniors didn ' t have much on us. Our only regret was that some of our Gang had dropped from our number since we started together in ' 39. Yet, something new had been added. This year our leaders were Joseph Messick, Nell Clarke, Vice-President, and Jerry Freeman, Secretary-Treasurer. At last! September 10, 1942. Could it be possible? SENIORS!! Boy! What envious glances those little Freshmen were giving us. How well we could remember the time when we were in their shoes. This last year has been interesting — and fun. Oh, of course we ' ve wished a thousand times that it would soon be over and we ' d be graduates — but honestly, now that we are near its close, we hate to say goodbye . There are so many memories. That first day we were honored by hearing Mr. Thomas say at the close of Assembly, The Seniors will leave first . And the day we ordered class rings and calling cards, and selected invitations. Ups and downs — We ' ve had ' em this year — but we ' ve come through 46 strong, having started out with 50. We regret the loss of Mary Wade, Ashley Eledge, John Lemuel Forrest, and Ethel Mae Brown, who left us during the year. As we, the graduating class of ' 43, go out these walls into a world at war, we trust that we shall take with us the armor which we have molded for ourselves here at P. H. S. We do not say goodbye as we leave now, but au Revoir , realizing that our lives here shall ever be an open book. C. A. TURNER, III Twenty-Two

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WHEN WE WERE SENIORS 1 — Most Outstanding: Nell and C. A.; 2 — Most Popular: Olive and Ken; 3— —Most Bashful: Ruth and Billy; 4 — Biggest Eaters: Jerry and Rosemillia; 5 — Biggest Feet: Wallie and Ella; 6- — Most Original: C. A. and Irene; 7- — Most Athletic: Wallie and Chieken ; 8— —Most Polite: Ray and Sara Margaret; 9— -Most School Spirited: Harry Lee and Nell; 10 — Biggest Pests: Sherman and Nell. Twenty-Four