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

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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

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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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HINTS FROM THE WISE TO THE OTHERWISE IS COMMENCEMENT at last and we Seniors must go, though our leaving must fill all you Juniors with woe. But cheer up, little dar- lings; there’s comfort in store; harken to our words and you need sorrow no more. To brighten your spirits and banish your care, we will give to you now a right goodly share, of the wisdom we’ve garnered along the hi-way, which we trust in your cranium forever will stay. Now, Phoenix, you’ve endeavored the Juniors to rule, and made them the “peppiest” class in the school. When a bored and indifferent Senior you’ve grown, take Hugh Dargan’s example and let ’em alone. Young James Mozingo likes all of the skirts, and with their tender affections he trifles and flirts. If the way of success and wisdom you would find, turn your back on the girls and learn how to grind. We now must address Miss Margaret McLeod, in whose ear a Byrd is singing quite loud. He’s entirely too changeable and entirely too gay; don’t fool with him longer — just shoo him away. John Brown, we hear you are trying to dance, but on the girls’ toes too often you prance. You are no Veinon Castle, that’s plain to us all; take our advice and stay away from the ball. When Pierce DeWitt from high school did roam, he left pari of his conceit to his brother at home. But, Curtis, ycu’ve conceit enough of your own, so please leave all of your brother’s alone. O fie on you, Dora; a Senior you’d vamp! Altho on your door-steps he doth often encamp, there’s a Senior we know than all Juniors more fair. So let us be Frank — of Mary be-Ware. O William, we hear you lean to the Law: but advise you to walk in the steps of your Pa. Inez is too wise and ambitious, we ween, to ever be willing to call herself Greene. We’ve a lad in our class who’s a pitiful case, all because of the smile on a Junior maid’s face. Now, Fannie, before from high school we part, we insist that you give back to Oscar his heart. Harriet, you gave your photo away to a handsome young Senior one gentle Spring day. Ho-ward you feel to take it again and give to a Junior with a flame-colored mane ? If the news of old St. John’s you would know, and all that is happening to the high and the low; direct your steps to 10-B, we suggest, and J. P. Brunson will do all the rest. Pray, whom do you wink at, Original Red? Is it to a maiden whom you’re plan- ning to wed? Keep it up, we advise, and practice your jig, and soon fair fingers will be caressing your wig. O Ivan, we hear you’re in love with a Baker; but our advice to you is to shake her. Your hand, we’re sure, she will never wait on, as all her affections are centered on Crayton. Now, Annie McCullough, we advise you to scorn your former admirer, the flirta- tious Dick Vaughan. We regret to report he has deserted his class and is trying to go with a Freshman lass. Upstairs, downstairs, East, West, or South, wherever you go, you can hear Crayton’s mouth. Dear little Junior, we think you should know that prattling and wisdom together don’t go. Now, Juniors, we know that you all think it nice for us to give you such splendid advice. O, take heed and use it, we pray, for the sake of St. John’s when we’ve gone away. HAZEL BYRD Twenty Four