Ripley High School - Echoes Yearbook (Ripley, MS)

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PIHIPHHIY The Senlor Class recelved th1s very lmportant message from Madame Ruth and her crystal ball The past IS behlnd us and we look to the future and see that Claudy 15 st1ll at the same old task of popp1ng pop corn wlth Johnny Braddock as manager of Carnegle Hall 1n New York We read on and f1nd that Lou has funshed her Phys1cal Educatlon course and IS teachlng at Ole Mlss Harold and Shelby Jean are well known Phys1c1ans and part owners of the Mayo Cl1n1c We also fmnd that Anne Shannon 1S teach1ng her favorlte subject cr1m1nology at Blue Mountaln Ruth and Joe Wayne have a f1ne herd of thoroughbred mules To our great Joy we f1nd that Charles Ernest has f1n1shed college and IS eng1neer1ng the bu1ld1ng of another Golden Gate Brldge Nyleen Dan and the l1ttle FOXIBS are a famous dance team on Broadway Shlrley Stewart 1S l1v1ng xn the Wh1te House w1th B1lly They would appreclate the votes of all thelr former classmates next electlon Jonye W1tt IS a famous wart doctor She had to go lnto the buslness It was cheaper than hav1ng someone else take them off Ad1rene has landed a Job w1th Sears Sn Roebuck modehng h1p boots Elmer has taken over Thad Bell's pos1t1on Dot Stevens has Jo1ned the Metropol1tan Opera and when on tour IS Marguerlte P1azza's su1te mate Bobby Morgan IS a renowned football coach at the Un1vers1ty of Cotton Plant Coleman represented the Umted States 1n the Olymp1c Games thls year Jan1e 1s edltor of the New York T1mes Patt1 and Mar1lyn are now maklng the1r th1rd plcture together W M 1S understudy to Roy Rogers Faye IS conductmng a class ln des1gn1ng 1n Washlngton Bobby El11ott IS servlng h1s f1rst term as Secretary of State Sue Clark IS a Powers' model Shlrley Boyette has Just about g1ven up She 1s st1ll an old ma1d Ann Harpole st1ll carr1es on long wmded conversatlons and gets away w1th It now that she's a telephone operator The message draws to a close These happy years we have spent together w1ll soon be 1n the past We the Senlors wrll not say Goodbye only Farewell unt1l fate br1ngs us together agaln 28 f ' . 1 1 ' 9 1 ' i 1 , . Q . 1 . . . . - . - p . . 0 1 1 Q .

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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 '

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