Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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CLASS WILL. Honorable Faculty and Friends: Nineteen four about to die salutes you! She publishes this before her death so that you may know her will and receive her gifts. First of all, there is a communication to make, startling we admit, but nevertheless true. Here is our secret! Guard it well! A consultation of doctors was called together on May eighteenth, doctors, whose prognostications were never known to fail. They have announced that on the night of June twenty-third, Nineteen-four must die. At present she complains of a lightness in the head caused by the encomiums and eulogies received during the past four years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs caused by thoughts of parting and overfeasting respectively. Owing to these derangements, she may have been mistaken in her inventory, but what she thinks she has, she gives to you, meanwhile praying that you may not attribute her liber- ality to the fact that she can keep her goods no longer. We, the Class jf Nineteen-four being about to leave this scholastic sphere in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills, by us at any time heretofore made. As a parting favor, we especially beg that our funeral services be carried out with all the pomp and ceremony due to a Class, so distinguished as ours, and occupying such an exalted position. As to such estate, as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong arms and active intellects to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, viz: Item. We give and bequeath to the Faculty restful nights, peaceful dreams and relief from the petitions of 13

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the subject for the evening. In this also, great interest was taken, and the participants certainly did credit to themselves and their worthy instructors. The event, which brought our Junior year to a close, was the reception tendered the Seniors, at the High School. Although the weather was not as favorable as we might desire, a large number of Juniors and Seniors were present and all enjoyed themselves exceedingly. With very bright prospects did we again assemble, but this time as Seniors, under the careful guidance of Miss Fairchild. We seemed to have just settled down nicely to all our duties, little thinking of the great sorrow, which was about to overtake us, when lo! the Angel of Death entered our midst and removed from us, our dear Teacher and Friend, Miss Fairchild. “And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls Will long keep her memory green in our souls.” Shortly before the Christmas vacation, a class meeting was held and the Aurora Board elected. Class pins were also chosen, which are simple but beautiful in design. The first thing that occupied our attention after the holi- days, was how we could better the condition of our Treas- ury. Several plans were submitted but none was thought equal to the one offered by our Principal, Mr. Cook. He had planned for a Concert to be given by the High School Orches- tra and offered us a percentage on all tickets we would dis- pose of. Realizing that this involved very little work com- pared to anything else we might undertake, the proposition was accepted, with the result, that we were greatly helped out of our difficulty. It will not be long now before these sad, glad days of our High School Life will have flown. But the memory of our teachers, our school-mates, and the little pleasures and troubles associated with our life here will ever live in our hearts. 12 Marjory C. Milne.

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Nineteen-four. No more will their regrets include the pain of refusing our humble supplications, and we generously hope that the above mentioned refusals will occasion them no remorse. We leave to them, also, full permission to use, in the education of succeding classes, the knowledge and start- ling information they have gained, at whatsoever times we have written either quizzes or examinations. Item. We give and bequeath to the school, as a whole, our record, established and sustained during the joys and trials of the last four years. We leave it with you, but reserve the privilege of polishing it anew, now and then, as each of our members “scales Fame’s proud heights.” Item. We give and bequeath to our sister-class, that of Nineteen-six, all the wealth of love and blessings she may want. She seems to be able to get everything else without aid. so we will waste no time in giving to one who seems so very able to get. Item. “Tis sweeter to learn from the experience of others, than that others should learn from you.” Therefore to the Freshmen, we give, out of the fulness of our hearts and the depths of our experience, the following advice the accept- ance of which will lead them to glory, “flitch your wagon to a star,” and remember that, “nothing is impossible to industry.” We give them fair warning; numerous difficulties will con- front them, but we have noticed and remarked in them an abundance of the “heroic element” and we think it just to tell them, that we feel assured that one day Immortality will claim them as her own. Item. The subjoined lists will be recognized as entailed estates to which we do declare the Class of Nineteen-five the real and rightful possessors. First, the Senior seats in Chapel. Let the depth of grat- itude for this bequest, be measured by the strength of the chorus in that part of the Assembly Room, in which the above mentioned seats are situated. u