Ripley High School - Echoes Yearbook (Ripley, MS)

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We the Sen1or Class of R1pley H1gh School County of T1ppah and State of M1ss1ss1pp1 1n twenty frve 1nd1v1dual and d1st1nct parts belng about to pass out of th1s sphere of educatlon ln full pos sesslon of a crammed m1nd well tra1ned memory and almost superhuman understandmng do make and publlsh thls our last w1ll and testament hereby revokmg and mak1ng vo1d all former w1l1s or prom1ses by us at anyt1me heretofore made or mayhap carelessly spoken one to the other as the thoughtless w1sh of an 1dle hour And f1rst do we d1rect that our funeral servxces shall be conducted by our frmends and well w1shers our supermtendent and h1s all w1se and ever competent faculty To the faculty we leave To the lowerclassmen we leave what IS left of dear old R1pley H1gh Nyleen and B1lly Dan leave Lorenzo and h1s washwoman the1r ab1l1ty to wr1te notes 1n Mrs Shumaker's class Coleman leaves h1s shy ways rn the good hands of Randle Huddleston Shlrley Boyette leaves to Margle her basketball game To Ruch Ad1rene leaves her ab1l1ty to dr1ve w1thout look1ng Jonye W1tt leaves her Eugene Honker Claudy and Elmer leave thelr talent of brown noslng the teachers to To Tommle Frances Sue leaves power to get someone llke Claudy to smg to her To James Wells Harold leaves h1s gtud1ous ways Patt1 leaves her charm to Kay To the football team of next year we leave the ab1l1ty of Bobby Elllott We couldn't mduce Mo' to leave h1s To the star student of the bookkeep1ng class of next year Johnny Braddock leaves h1s Jolly tunes and rhymes To B1ll1e Jean Lou leaves her he1ght and hopes she uses It W M leaves h1s fhrty nature to Edd Joe and Gene It w1ll take all three of them to take h1s place To Gravy Janle leaves her pol1t1cal d1scuss1ons Faye leaves her black curls to Buddy Ann Harpole bequeathes her secretar1al aptxtudes to Joann To Jamce Anne Shannon leaves her muslcal g1ft Mus1c hath charms to Sooth the savage beast To Lmda Jam1eson and anybody else who needs lt Shelby Jean leaves her bluff Apply early and avold the rush Ruth leaves her extra cred1ts to Joyce so she can flmsh school at the end of the semester Dorothy leaves her new ed1t1on of How to Become Football Queen to V1v1an To Gerald Waldon Sh1rley Stewart leaves her glft of gab And we do hereby constltute and appo1nt Superlntendent J A Bullard sole executor of th1s our last w1l1 and testament In w1tness whereof we the Class of 1954 the testators have to th1s w1ll wr1tten on one sheet of parchment set our hands and seal thxs twenty flrst day of May one thousand nxne hundred and f1fty four Dorothy Stevens Anne Shannon Z 7 Jimmy Ferguson, Jimmy McBride, Gerald and Travis, ' II I '