St Johns High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Darlington, SC)

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(With apologies to Kipling—idea not original) If you can speak and make your speech dramatic Most dramatic..............HAZEL BYRD BLANCHE DENNIS If you can smile when all around is blue Best naturec!..............FRANK CLIFTON HANNAH SUE COKER If all your beauty adoration brings Prettiest..................MARY WARE If you can vamp a man with eyes so tragic Biggest vamp...............BLANCHE DENNIS If you can draw from all a gaze ecstatic Most attractive............BOB LUMIANSKY MARY WARE And study all your lessons daily, too Most studious..............ROLAND TEW ELLEN LYLES And still be neat as if to dine with kings Neatest....................LESESNE WILSON MYRTLE HATCHELL If you can have a host of friends and still be true to each Most popular...............BOB LUMIANSKY MARY WARE If you can accomplish each request with cheerful willingness Most accommodating.........HUGH DARGAN BILLIE KIRVEN If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Laziest....................LESESNE WILSON BLANCHE DENNIS If you can move the crowd with words of magic Best debater...............HAZEL BYRD ELLEN LYLES Twenty-Two

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Susan Woods a dress designer will be And will take up her residence in gay Paree. Winnie Howie will be a song-writer Of great style and wit — “Yes, We Have No Bananas” will be her greatest song hit. Hugh Dargan on the platform will go And give lectures daily over the radio; And, however strange to you it might seem, “The Evil Effects of Chewing Tobacco” will be his theme. Hannah Sue will become a great student of her time, And will win distinction while still in her prime; One book she’ll write of great attraction: “Research Into Fundamental Chemical Reaction.” Jennie Ervin will become an M.D., For an eye, ear, and nose specialist she will be, And the head of the Hospital of Darlington, S. C. Six years hence you’ll see this sign: “Roland Tew in ‘The Kiss Divine’,” For Roland will become, at an early age, A nonchalant shiek of the stage. John Kilgo, always handsome and healthy, When he finishes school will become very wealthy; He, with the aid of some of his workers, Will organize the “Kilgo 20-Ring Circus.” Kilgo’s Circus’ most attractive feature Will be a winsome, graceful little creature, The tight-rope walker, Sarah Dargan by name, Who will wing her way to fortune and fame. Grace Dutton will teach school in the Appalachian Highlands, And later marry the Ambassador from the Fee.jee Islands. Then he’ll take her back home on his trusty old nag, Where she’ll be happy teaching the natives the “Varsity Drag.’ If you don’t like you future, don’t blame it on me: I had nothing to do with it — I’m just a peddler, you see For only the fates have the power to foretell: But I must be going, so to all a Farewell! Twenty-One MARY WARE

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Or furnish all the fun without becoming silly Class clown................FRANK CLIFTON If you can make the teachers think you know it Biggest bluff..............LESESNE WILSON JENNIE ERVIN Or tease the History Class without disaster Wittiest...................FRANK CLIFTON And still be modest as the flowers in May Most modest................ROLAND TEW ELIZABETH CODY And keep your handsome head from swelling tight Handsomest.................LESESNE WILSON If you can think and not make thought your master Most intellectual..........ROLAND TEW BILLIE KIRVEN If you can love your school above all others Most school spirited.......HAZEL BYRD BILLIE KIRVEN If you can be of age and still be childish Class baby.................WILLIE BANKS If you can never fail to perform the tasks assigned you Most dependable............HUGH DARGAN GRACE DUTTON If you can act as any perfect lady or knight Politest...................ALBERT COUCH HANNAH SUE COKER If you have a little bit of each of these, and not too much of any Best all round................HAZEL BYRD BLANCHE DENNIS Then yours a glorious class and each that’s in it; May all your life be beautiful and bright ! Tircnt y-Thrrt