Siler City High School - Seniorogue Yearbook (Siler City, NC)

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WILL NORTH CAROIJNA, Chatham County Siler City High Scliool. We, the seniors of Siler City High School, realizing our superiority over all other classes of our school and that our school days are numhered, and wishing in so far as i)0ssible to preserve for our class some of our excellent traits and talents, do make, declare and publish this as our last will and testament. Item I Muriel Jones generously l)e(pieaths her alhlity in apj)lying make-up to .Jane Cresswell. Item II Anne Cresswell leaves her rare ability to ]ilay basketball to the up and coming little Josephine Dorsette. Item III Helen Fogleman wills her “Mae West’’ physitpie to Lois Rrooks. Item IV Harold Teague leaves to Rarker Bell bis wonderful woman-fetcliing curls. Item V Emmie Dark wills a few of her extra })ounds to })etite Ruth .Jones. Item VI Helen Frances Smith bequeaths her red hair to Celestine Brewer. Item VII Nydia Dark leaves several inches of her height to Helen Kennedy to enable her to reach the basketball goal. Item VIII Curtis Budd wills his mischief making ability to Carlyle Dixon (who really needs no more ability). Item IX Doris Fox wills her aptitude for talking, to meek little I.ucy Ellen Jones. Item X Baird Paschal wills his ).)crsonality and poi)ularity to his little brother Don. Item XI Irene Coo})er wills her dancing abilitv to Georgia I.ec Fogleman (who certainlv needs it)! Item XII Thad Ellis generously be(jucaths his boxing ability to Tommy Frazier. Item XIII Hawley Teague becpicaths his wind and notes to Howard Pike, so that Howard may learn to play a bass horn. Item XIV I ' rom Richard Siler comes his job as shoj) foreman of the vocational building to Vaii Andrews. Item XV William Holliday leaves “his way with the women” to B, ashful Welford Goldston. Item XVI Daphne Andrew bequeaths her hue Shorthand ability to Geraldine Phillii)s. Item XVII C. C. Brewer wills “his big blue” Buick to Don Lee Paschal. Maybe Don won ' t have to bum to Liberty anymore. Item XVIII Harold Kennedy leaves his flirty -ways to Robert Hedrick. Item XIX Toar Crotts leaves his ability to work Geometry to hrancis Grimes. Eighteen

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The cloud suddenly turns to Pliiladel])hia where I find Baird Paschal scaling the heights of fame as a prominent memher of the Bar. Charlotte Moody, enjoying the realization of the ambition that she has long cherished — that of being a dietitian in the leading hotel. C. C. Brewer is there too, having obtained the })osition of a banker. Irene Cooper is a famous matli teacber in the school. Harold and Hawley Teague working for Uncle Sam as pilots for the United States Postoftice. Curtis Budd is hailed on the radio as the greatest comedian since the time of Zazu Pitts. The cloud travels toward our home town when it sto})S for a moment in Durham. There I find Nydia Dark leader of the Duke University Band. Mary Lane Siler is dietitian at the Washington-Duke Hotel. Helen Fogleman is head of “A School for Unmarried Ladies,” where one learns the Line Art of Living Alone. Helen Frances Smith is leading clerk in Kress’s store. Flinmie Dark is an etticient teacher at Duke University. Reaching Siler City, I find Walker Brewer a mechanic in the F ' ord Garage. Anna Dixon is Home Flconomics teacher in the Siler City High School. Eugene Fox is soda jerker in Fldward ' s Drug Store. Billy Brady is the owner of the Brady’s Flower Sho]), and Harold Kennedy now owner of the leading Theater in town. Suddenly the cloud breaks and travels swiftly to California where I see Billy Wh ite coining on the air, now as famous as Tommy Dorsey once was. Alice Brady is dress designer for Joan Bennett. Thad Ellis is working on the movie lot as stand in. Richard Siler is a famous jockey on the race track. Ray Sizemore and Banks I ox are running a drug store combined with a dance hall where all the movie stars stop in for drinks and to dance. My vision grows dim. I see, faintly William Honbarger starting on one of his famous tours of lecturing in a political campaign. There is a strong wind. . . . Yes . . . was it my face? Dear, dear to think that I couldn’t find out my fate. The sand lightly slips back into place and I can tell no more. Ob ! for another look into the future. But I guess that my chance is gone. Soft, slipping, silently the sand has disappeared. Gertrude Greene, Prophrf. Seventeen

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Item XX Jack Garvin leaves liis ability as a Sports Writer to Jimmie Goode. Item XXI Clyde Headen wills liis desk to some worthy junior to sleep on. (He hopes they sleep as well as he did.) Item XXII Ervin Budd wills Ids curly liair to Hal Poe. Item XXIII Billy White wills to Winfred Brady his Musical ability. Item XXIV William Honharger leaves to Tom Brady his ability as an actor. Item XXV Marguerite Kennedy leaves to her sister Helen her quiet, modest ways. Item XXVI Dorothy Bray wishes to pass on her wonderful typing ability to Rosalie Siler. Item XXVII Gertrude Greene leaves her vocal talent to any junior who thinks she can talk as much as she did. Item XXVIII Dixie Light leaves her ambition to be a nurse to Faye Poole. Item XXIX Irma Womhle leaves her store of knowledge on every known subject to June Pendergrass. Item XXX Mary Lane Siler transfers her wonderful intellect to P’rancis Grimes. Item XXXI Anna Dixon leaves her knowledge of Geometry to Willis Wrenn. (He’s sure to need it next year.) Item XXXII Martha Brower and Ray Sizemore leave to Glenn Gilmore their combined musical ability. Item XXXIII Edna Ruth Brown leaves her dignity and quietness to Ruth Thomas who certainly needs it! Item XXXIV Walker Brewer directs that his job as a bus driver be given to Nick Dark. Item XXXV Eugene Fox leaves his ability as soda-jerker to John Robbins. Item XXXVI Billy Brady transfers to Don I.ee Paschal his knowledge of French. Item XXXVII Charlotte ISIoody wills her ty[)ing grades to Edith Siler. Item XXXVIII Henry Jordan leaves his bashfulness to Carlyle Dixon. Item XXXIX Alice Brady leaves her talent for drawing and her admiration of Liberty to any lucky lass who wants them. And the whole Senior Class modestly bequeaths to its ardent admirers, the juniors, her general ability to work, her aptitude for lead ing, her thirst for knowledge, and her best wishes for a class as good as ours. This the 1st day of May in the year of our I.ord, 1.939. and the year of onr independence. Class of ’39 PJeventh Grade Siler City High School (Seal) Signed, Sealed, Declared, and Published by the eleventh grade, class of ’39, Siler City High School, to be their last will and testament. In their presence and at their request and in the presence of one another we do hereby affix our names as witnesses thereto. W ITiSTESSES : M rs. B. D. Howard, Mae Marshburn. Nineteen