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

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT NORTH CAROLINA Chatham County Siler City High School We, the seniors of Siler City High School, realizing our superiority over all other classes of our school and that our school days are numbered, and wishing in so far as possible 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 Rachel Hall leaves her love for singing to “Sis” Jackie. Item II Billy Clapp wills a few of his extra pounds to Jack Boling. Item III Martha White leaves her desire to go to Bonlee to Polly Stone and Julia Dell Blair. Item IV Jack Allred leaves his flirty ways to Herman Kennedy. Item V Frances Elkins wants her quietness to go to Emma Ruth Darden. ( You’ll have to leave off the giggles, Offie. ) Item VI Bobbie Jean Fields leaves her ability to blush to Christine Smith. Item VII Julia Stout transfers her French book (slightly worn) to anyone lucky enough to get it. Item VIII Gyles Buckner wills his timidity to Bobby McLaughlin, who certainly needs it! Item IX Emily and Emma Jean transfer to Lydia their tardy record. ( It’s a good thing you have a car (??) to get you there. Lydia.) Item X Donald White leaves his love of laughing to some “sad sack.” Item XI To Betty Lou goes Mary’s pop-corn machine. Work comes first, love last ( in this case ) . Item XII Bobby Gene Johnson leaves several inches of his height to Robert Emerson in hopes it will enable him to reach the basketball goal. Item XIII Doris Hancock leaves her rare ability to play basketball to the up and coming little Janice Alexander. Item XIV Clyde Williams gives his love for reading to Doug Smith. Item XV Emogene Dixon bequeaths her desire to go to Goldston to Eunice Gilliland. Item XVI Pauline Inglett leaves her habit of asking questions to Dalton Smith. Item XVII Dewey Dowd leaves his height to Ann Straughn. Item XVIII Buddie McLaughlin bequeaths his athletic ability to Sandy Siler. Keep up the good work! Item XIX Nellie Gee wills her title as “Best Dressed Girl” to some lucky lass. Item XX Jean Churchill leaves to Jean Presnell her curly locks on rainy days. 20

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Chicago. And Buddie McLaughlin has finally made good. He’s the head football coach at Illinois, expecting to produce a fine team this year. Marcelene Stanley never quite forgot her days in Oklahoma City, so she went back to run a modern new hotel. Emogene Dixon is there too, running a beauty parlor. Clifton Ward owns a huge stock ranch in Dallas, Texas, supposed to be the largest in the world. Annie Jean Cheek has become a Mrs. whose husband is very successful in the financial world. They live in Kansas City. Frances Elkins is the secretary for a huge business cor- poration in Tulsa. Pauline Inglett went down Florida way, where she is a cigarette girl in one of the night spots of Miami. Betty Rogers is still small, but she gets around in a large way. She’s married to a big business man in Portland, Oregon. She travels every- where. And Mildred Kennedy went with Nancy Langley to be stenog- raphers for a factory in Helena, Montana. I believe I’ll consult the television again. There’s Martha White walk- ing across the campus of University of Tennessee. Maybe she’s on her way to a certain football game. Now what is this I see! Surely it isn’t Ruby Blair sitting on her boss’s knee, diligently practicing her shorthand! Why we always t hought Emily was the flirt of our class. Belle Henderson finally outgrew Pittsboro. She’s at the University of Virginia where she’s nearing completion of an auditor’s course. I see another University--- Michigan. There’s Jean Churchill, a dignified professor of English — and liking it too. Now I see the bright neon signs in front of a picture show. And Julia Stout, of all people, is running it — way out in Wisconsin. Now, what? Nurse Rachel Hall quietly closing the maternity room door of a hospital in St. Louis — with something in her arms. A baby? No, on second glance, I see it’s a doctor! My she’s become really efficient in her endeavor to be a nurse. There’s Emma Jean Dark walking along the street in Chicago. So that’s the reason Buddie got that coaching job. And now I see a perform- ance of Barnum and Bailey’s huge circus. They tell me Betty Lou Burke is one of the star performers and has just been everywhere there is to go that’s interesting. Well, I really believe that’s about all I can see now, so I’ll take it easy the rest of my trip. I’ll just look at the blue sky above me and the outline of the snow-covered ground below. How unusual this Alaska scenery is! Gyles Buckner, Prophet. 19

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Item XXI “Babe” Whitt leaves Janice Alexander Mr. Howard’s teasing. (Don’t let it bother you, Janice! ) Item XXII Ray Smith leaves his “cute” smile with his sister Peggy. Item XXIII Mildred Kennedy wills her typewriter to Margaret Self. ( Good luck, Margaret. ) Item XXIV Clifton Ward leaves his bus to anyone who is “big enough” to handle it. Item XXV Betty Rogers wills Joyce Stalker her twenty-two-inch waistline. Item XXVI George Davis leaves his good looks to any person best suited to inherit them. Item XXVII Betty Lou Burke leaves her desire to go to dances to Virginia Jones. Item XXVIII Annie Jean Cheek wills her tendency to smile to sister Doris. Item XXIX Clara Gilbert leaves her “bangs” to Ada Jo Boren. ( You’ll have to keep ’em trimmed, Ada.) Item XXX Marcelene Stanley leaves her hard work on the annual to some hard working Junior. Which one will it be? Item XXXI Rachel Phillips leaves her silence in Study Hall to her sister Joanne (who certainly needs it, from what I hear). Item XXXII Marsha Moody gives her skill in cheer leading to Ruth Elder. ( You’ll have to try hard to beat her, Ruth. ) Item XXXIII Belle Henderson wills her love for Pittsboro to Jean Wrenn. That is, whenever “he” is there. Item XXXIV Nancy Langley and Ruby Blair leave their stop by the Postoffice each morning to any who think they might get that much mail. Item XXXV Clyde Whitley leaves his ability to work geometry to any poor lad or lass who needs it. Item XXXVI To the Juniors the Seniors leave their carved up desks. (Don’t let Miss Holleman see you carving ’em kids, or you’ll catch it.) Item XXXVII The whole Senior Class leaves to Miss Holleman peace and quiet. ( Don’t spoil it, Juniors.) And now one last word to the Juniors : We, the Seniors, leave to you our general ability to work, our aptitude for leaving, our thirst for knowledge, and our best wishes for a class as good as ours. This the 1st day of May in the year of our Lord, 1948, and the year of our independence. Class of ’48 Twelfth Grade Siler City High School (Seal) Signed, Sealed, Declared, and Published by the twelfth grade, class of ’48, 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. Witnesses : Mrs. B. D. Howard Landis Siler 21 Mary Harris, Testator.