Richlands High School - Reminiscences Yearbook (Richlands, VA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the senior class of 1938, Richlands High School, as we are about to depart do hereby make our last will and testament. To the school as a whole we leave our high ideals to make R H. S. a better school and our love and respect for the faculty. The members of the class leave individual, bequests as follows: Freddy Tizen wills his ability to get into trouble to Ed McGlothlin. Robert Allison wills his way with the women to Robert Jessee. Dick Olive wills his chemistry book to Porter Shockey at half price Ken Hooker wills his manly physique to Ralph Renn. Houston Kennedy wills his good looks to Charlie Whitaker. Otis Whitaker wills his muscles to Dahnman Shouse. Bill Nuckels wills his quiet nature to Jimmy Deen. Victor Dunford wills his shoe size to Charlie Patton. Walter Padbury wills his superb stature to Andrew Kiser. Buell Pruett wills his classroom love scenes to Thurman Brown. Jack McCall wills Lulu to anyone who can break her of balking. Robert Howell wills his intellect to Mr. Six. Kent Brown wills his interpretations of Mozart to Roger Horton. Robert Lambert wills his excess weight to Eddie Jewell. Nelson Frazier wills his poetic nature to Benny Hale. Boyd Boggess wills his dignity to the Junior Class. John Liddle wills a lock of his red hair to Charles Patton. Edna Altizer wills her quiet nature to Johnny Morgan. Frances Boggess wills her chemistry arguments to anyone who cares Mary Reynolds wills her feud with Miss Boggess to Otis Zeigler. Dismal Fields wills her record as an alluring lover to Mildred Daye. Paulette -Cooke wills her insight on matters pertaining to Cupid to J Mary Jane Buckles wills her popularity to Claudine Robinson. Trula White wills her life to Robert Taylor. Frances Van Dyke wills her ducky 'statue to Nancy Willis. Dorothy Watts wills her funny face to Bill Fields. Thelma Taylor wills her love affairs to Irene Underwood. Neva Meade wills her boy friends to Louise Huddleston. Mary Thomas wills her nail polish to Louise Jackson. Edna Thomas wills her freakishness to Fanny Lou Kennedy. Gussie Pruett wills her giggles to Betty Montgomery. Mary Sue Ringstaff wills her studiousness to Harry O'Quinn. Virginia Sparks wills her sweetness to Mr. Trice. Mae Harmon wills her femininity to all Hymeneally inclined males. ayne Lipford Oma Shrader wills her diamond ring to the guy who gave it to her for a gold band Trula Smith wills her seriousness to the disciple of Socrates and Aristotle. Sally Claypool wills her scientific head to Mildred Wilson. Margaret Smith wills her golden hair to the U. S. Treasury. Mildred McReynolds wills her bashfulness to Roberta Lowe. Johnnie Gillespie wills her class ring to the one who has it most. Mary Shamblin wills her frankness to Christine Smith. Virginia Wilson wills her interest in boys to Virginia Amos. Helen Wilson wills her tonnage to Alma Bales. Anna Mae McCarty wills her gift for gab to the Public Speaking class. . Helen Sparks wills her freckles to Dorothy McGlothlin. Minnie Grimsley wills her drawl to Johnny Hanlcins. Dennis O'Quinn wills his pocket book to Irene Underwood. Virginia Sparks wills her peaceful attitude to Runt Robison. 23

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THE CLASS CALENDAR Spring is the time of all green and growing things, fresh and verdant in their newf ness to all life. What more fitting, then, than that the Freshman, in this green time of his life, should enter school? The March winds and the April showers were very necessary to the building of the shoots of knowledge in the Freshman mind. And so, we so green and fresh in our dewy innocence, received at this time the first seeds of knowledge and felt the first pull of the plow and the cultivator in this spring of our career. But the March winds and the April showers brought forth an abundance of May flowers, and the Summertime came upon us almost before we knew, so delightfully did the one season blend into the other. We found the skies so much bluer and more inspiring, and the sun shone more warmly about us. We had stuck our heads high enough to see nearly as much of it as we imagined we could. We held our heads very high and we kept the stalks that supported them very straight. They were not yet very heavy with their accumulation of wisdom, and so did not droop with the weight. But our flowers were unfolding little by little. We were slowly but surely coming out into the light -of the day. But verily, in school life, even as in Nature, Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither, and the autumn of our days came as soon as we were ready. Very brilliant was our foliage that year, very rich our fruitage, as the little buds of the Freshman year, grown into the flowers of Sophomore development, became the richer, more necessary and more satisfying fruit of autumn. It was indeed the harvest of all our early planting-the reaping of results of all our dreams and hopes and efforts. The glow of our radiant knowledge flushed the whole year with mellowness of sunset splendor. And it brought with it the glad Thanksgiving of November-thankful that we would soon be Seniors and that we had been able to achieve so much. But even this stage passed on into eternityg the fruit was all gathered and stored away in our memories, and with the snows of all the past in hoary wisdom upon our heads, we welcome the approach of Winter. The flowers have long decayed, as we outgrew them, and the seeds of the new life to be were stored away beneath the soil of our understanding, ready, at the call of the coming Spring, to put forth their new shoots and push forth into the new world. Rugged in our young manhood and woman' hood, clad in spotless snow and frost protecting the yet immature germs of developing life from the blighting atmosphere, we stand at the end of our course. 22

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THF, MODEL SENIOR The Senior Boy should have: Freddie Tizen's Personality Dick Olive's Originality Ken Hooker's Physique Jack McCal1's Good Looks Kent Brown's Talent Boyd Boggess' Way with the Women Otis Whitaker's Dignity Walter Padbury's Strength John Liddle's Hair Buell Pruett's Height Victor Dunford's Common Sense Nelson Frazier's Athletic Ability Robert Allison's Shyness Houston Kennedy's Dependability Dennis O'Quinn's Wit Bill Nuckels' Gameness Robert Hovvell's Smile The Senior Girl should have: Johnnie Gillespie's Personality Mary Sue Ringstaff's Originality Dismal Fields' Figure Virginia Wilson's Eyes Mary Reynolds' Looks Mary Thomas' Talent Neva Meade's Way with the Men Mary Jane Buckles' Dignity Thelma Taylor's Strength Margaret Smith's Hair Mary Frances Boggess' Disposition Dorothy Watts' Cuteness Mildred McReynolds' Common Sense Paulette Cooke's Athletic Ability Oma Shrader's Shyness Trula Smith's Dependability Anna Mae McCarty's Wit ' Edna Thomas' Gameness Trula White's Ambition Frances Van Dyke's Versatility Virginia Sparks' Smile Helen Wilson's Politeness Helen Sparks' Femininty Mary Shamblin's Neatness Gussie Pruett's Giggle Mae Harmon's Attitude Minnie Grimsley's Sincerity Sallie Claypool's Courage Edna Altizer's Quietness 24