Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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Last We, the Senior Class of the Southeastern State Normal School, situated in the city of Durant, County of Bryan, State of Oklahoma, in the United States of America, being sensible of the uncertainty of life and of the certainty of our exit from the aforesaid school, do hereby make, publish, and declare this our last will and test- ament, hereby revoking any and all former wills and codicles by us made at any time. First: We do hereby bequeath to the first and second year classes the pri- vilege which the Seniors have enjoyed of calling and having class meetings at any hour during the day they may choose to do so; furthermore we wish to leave every- one a grade of eighty per cent in Reading and Orthography. Second: We do hereby bequeath to the Freshmen the privilege of debating in the triangular debate; and we wish to leave to their most worthy president, Mr. Hubert Dees, the oratorical ability of our honorable president, Mr. Cecil Mackin. Third: We do hereby bequeath to the Sophomore class a large fund of good will and friendship. In addition, we wish to bestow upon them a part of the tal- ent in music which is left after the Seniors depart. Fourth: We do hereby bequeath to the Junior class the friendship of the Sophomores. It is our will that they may enjoy some of the thrills of delight we experienced in the History of Education class; some of the love and respect for the practice teachers which we installed in the training school for children; last but not least, we wish to leave for them the privilege and pleasure of pub- lishing “Holisso IX ' Fifth: We do hereby give and bequeath to the critic teachers in Training School a corps cf good natured practice teachers who are willing to work while they enjoy the good programmes in assembly. Sixth: We do hereby bequeath to the training school children our abstracts and themes which we wrote ourselves in the History of Education class in order that they may be preparing for the difficulties we encountered. Furthermore, we wish to give them our ability in controlling our tempers which we developed while teaching them. Seventh: We do hereby bequeath to the student body our zeal and enthu- siasm which we manifested in athletics; and in addition our faithfulness and fond- ness in burning midnight oil. Eighth: We do hereby bequeath to the Biology Department all of the in- sects in our back gardens, all the stray “felis domestica” which pester us, and last of all too “Strongy Locentrotus Drobachiensis.” Ninth: We qo hereby bequeath to the Education Department all the new discoveries in pedagogy we make in our fields of work and the books and pam- phlets we write on the same to be placed in the library. Tenth: We do hereby bequeath to the English Department all the new words we have coined to express the ideas we acquired during our so-journ in Southeast-

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 “One little woman makes me think of another. What has become of Winnie Raines?” H “Tis a sunny ville in Southern Italy. A young woman is sitting out among the flowers of her garden enjoying the invigorating air of a beautiful fall evening. She is now the wife of an Italian Count whom she met while he was an ambassador to the United States. “Umn humh, and where is Pearl Shull?” The little woman stirred the coffee grounds and looked closely. Then she said, I “A concert is being given by a great Hawaiian orchestra. The Star Spangled Banner is being played. The pianist is standing while she plays; she must be an American j although she wears the garb of a Hawaiian. Here my memory failed me and I sat studying. “All right are there any more?” she asked. “Really, Madame, “I said, “there are several more but I can not think of but three. There are first, Dollie Ritchey.” “Not far from here there is a charming little beauty parlor. The proprietor is without doubt as lovely as her beauty parlor. She has become rich on account of the popularity and the excellent standards of her parlor. “Second, Robert Sprague.” “This gentleman was elected, during the year 1925 as President of a society known as the S. P. L. W. F. S. T. (Society for the promotion of Little Work for i School Teachers). He has filled his position with much skill.” “Third, Carrie Head.” “During the time so many soldiers were recovering from wounds, a great French scientists invented a compound which eaten during a voyage on the Atlantic Ocean, would increase a person’s original height about one-fourth. Miss Head took the treatment and on the voyage the young lady came near losing her life twice. Once she fell overboard, and the other she had not gotten use:) to the locking of the boat. She gained the desired height, and is now living happily at 9645 Twenty-third street in this city.” “Well, I never heard of such luck. 1 11 go immediately to see her.” Whereon I left , and to my surprise and wonder Carrie was really taller than | I was. After much rejoicing at seeing each other and relating of our experiences, Carrie proposed that we go to the theatre to see Carman played. A new star was to make her debut, but neither of us knew who it was to be. We arrived too late to see first act, but got there in time for the specialty be- tween acts. The one for the night was a most wonderful toe dancer. Directly 1 Carrie exclaimed. “Well, I wish you would take those glasses and Took who that is.” “I almosj; fainted, because—to by utter amazement it was—Carol Townsend. The curtain was raised for the second act, and the scene was between Carman and Don Jose. This time I said: “Carrie, wish you would look who those actors are.” Oh, I can scarcely believe my eyes. If that isn’t Anna Lee Baxter and Clenn Laffoon.” ; We sent in our cards and dined with Miss Baxter and Mr. Laffoon, after- | wards. During the conversation they both admitted that they got their inspira- tionfor singing at a Junior-Senior party given at the heme of Mr. Brooks who was President of the school during their Senior year. T. R. ’19 N. G. ’20

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1-1 ern Normal School plus all the classic poems and essays which do appear in our Holisso. Eleventh: We do hereby bequeth to the Music Department the duty of mak- ing more proficient musicians out of the coming Seniors. Twelvth: We do hereby bequeath to the Faculty a body of Seniors who are entirely unfamiliar with the aforesaid jokes; for their hard work we leave them all due credit for what we Seniors are and may ever be; for next year’s Holisso we will provide each one of them with a new cut. Thirteenth: We do hereby bequeath to the Southeastern Normal School our love and gratitude for what she done for us; may she in some future date have a more efficient corps of janitors; lastly, we leave to her our volume of the Holisso as a lasting remembrance of our work and lives in this school. A. LINSCHIELD HALLIE MCKINNEY JOSEPH J. MILLER JULIA STOUT Testators. We the undersigned witnesses to the foregoing will of the Senior Class of the Southeastern State Normal have signed our names hereunto, subscribing witnesses in the presence of the testators and at their request, and in the presence of each other. Witness our hands this, the twenty-third day of March, 1919 A. D. SENIORS OF 1919.