Salida High School - Resume Yearbook (Salida, CO)

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Eighteenth: We will all of Ruby Rumsey's best qualities, as few as they may be, to Zene Willingham. I Nineteenth: We leave Pearl Robbins' becoming though rapid gait to Bermce'Groves and Violet Goddard and we know if they will use it thev will arrive on time. ' Twentieth: We bestow Emma Belle Tomney's natural curly hair upon Helen Wilson. Twenty-iirst: We leave Earnest johnson's easy-going disposition to Rolland Rickman. h Twentyisecond: We will Cleo Shirk, Arthur Garrelts' winning way with the ladies and hope that he won't play too much havoc with his gift. Twenty third: We bequeath Dorothy Allan, Agapita Fernandez' quiet, unassuming manner. Twenty-fourth: We will Gladys Skipton's personality to Helen Baird. Twenty-fifth: We leave Margaret Sandberg's good looks to all the junior girls. fDon't crowd, girls.j Twenty-sixth: We will jack Holcomb Norman Parker's interest in scientific research and other difficult subjects, for instance one Rita Lewis. Twenty-seventh: We will Charles Savage's remarkable sense of humor to Ralph Thomson. Twenty-eight: We give Jim Dilley's stunning marcel wave to Frank Bradbury- Twenty-nine: We leave Francis Mahar's great resistance to all tempta- tion, such a bobbing one's hair, to nine-tenths of the junior girls. Thirtieth: We will Lloyd Forde's oratorical ability to james Sheehan and Glenn Newman. Thirty-first: We bequeath Guy Edrnondson's patent pompadour and sheikish charm to Clarence and Vernon Lyons. Thirty-second: We will Marion Protzman's pleasing pliumpness to Beatrice Hanks and Allison Preston. Thirty-third: We bestow Louise Ramey's assortment and line of clever chatter to Genivieve West and hope she will use it sparingly. Thirty-fourth: We bestow Thelma Whitmore's melodious voice upon Elsie McDonald and Bessie Runyan. Thirty-fifth: We will Doris Davidson and Sylvia Willingham Phyllis Goddard's titan hair. Thirty-sixth: VVe will Elaine Miller's pleasant grin and wonderful absorbing ability to Bernice Durett and Muriel Davie.

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1924, being of sound mind and memory and knowing that our stay in our Alma Mater is drawing to a close, do of our own free will, make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testa- ment, hereby revoking all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. First: We give and bequeath Florence Bratton's sunny disposition to Helen Cool. Second: We will Emile Cole's ability and persistence to enter into and successfully defeat anyone in an argument to Harry Pauly. Third: We will Wallace Cole's extraordinary ability to 'slide' to Roy Shirk and Fay Lang, hoping that they may use it to good advantage. Fourth: We bequeath Merlin Hubbard's excess gray matter to Tom Mahoney. Fifth: We will Cecil Bush's record as a heartsmasher to John Kratky and also his skill in several other fields- Sixth: We will Juanita Nigro's steadfastness of purpose to Thelma Jacobs. Seventh: We will John Mohrman's lofty stature to Cecil Giles. Eighth: We bestow Laura Veo's lustrous black hair and eyes fupon Gladys Posselt with the wish that she will use them to her own better- ment. Ninth: We leave Mary Jensen's musical laugh to julia Enliarl. Tenth: We bequeath Mildred Davidson's wealth of golden locks to Ruth Costello as she might tire of her own. Eleventh: We will Margaret Merten's excess avoirdupois to .luanita Hernandez, and hope that this will not burden juanita too heavily. Twelfth: We will half of Lavina Diekman's share of Roy Shirk's heart to Anita Lang, reserving the other half for Lavina, so that she will not revoke this will. Thirteenth: We bestow Ida Miller's great artistic talent on .Xlta Thur- man and hope that she will be the next art editor of Le Resume. Fourteenth: We present Levi Sage with joe Shirk's wit and tempera- mental tendency toward all strenuous effort. Fifteenth: we offer joe Stewart's ingenuity to Myron England and Orville Freeman. Sixteenth: We will Grace King's classic features to VVi1ma Handshy. Seventeenth: We bequeath Margaret Morris' claims on any heart in the school to the juniors, as whole, so that they may proceed to mend whatever broken hearts there may be.

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' Thirty-seventh: We give and bequeath Anna Covey's tremendous and all absorbing interest in basketball to Allison Preston. Thirty-eight: We bestow Edna Gang's great ability as a scholar on Imogene Myers and Bessie Runyan. Thirty-ninth: We bequeath Harold VVilson's temerity to jack Mun- dlein. Fortieth: We will Delores I-leister's secretarial ability to Ethel Frazee. Forty-first: W will and bestow Luella Montgomery's presistent ambi- tion and will to succeed upon all her successors- Forty-second: We will Stuart Smith's stalwart physique to Robert Reardon. Forty-third: We bestow Maxine Goddard's Buster Brown Bob upon that remaining one-tenth of the Junior girls who have not yet fallen to the barber's lure. Forty-fourth: We will and bequeath to all the juniors Harry Hulse's angelic qualities and hope that they will use them with discretion so that their school life will not be monotonous. With this last will and testament we bid our fond farewell to our class- mates, and hope that when we are gone to our various pursuits in life that we shall not altogether be forgotten, as we shall always bear sweet memo- ries of them and of dear Salida High. Ruby Rumsey, '24. Teacher- Can any of you tell me what an epistle is ? Myron England- I can. An epistle is the wife of an apostle. What has a mother in view when she spanks her disobedient child? asked the professor in moral philosophy. And then he couldn't understand why the pupils looked at each other and smiled. . Betty Botter bought some butter But, said she, this butter's bitterg If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter Will make my batter better. So she bought a bit 0' butter Better than the bitter butter And made her bitter batter better. So 'twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter. George Shirk in English: I know an awful lot if I could only think of it. Joe Stewart- If he had known his family was in danger he would not have Heed.