Stapleton High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Stapleton, GA)

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C CLASS W ILL Individually and collectively, we the Senior Class of 1949 leave Mr. Cook the exclusive right to chew gum in the class room. Walter Rabun wills his ability to spell to Frank Terry. Betty Jean Hadden wills her figure to Jeanette Paul, hoping that it will help her make a success in the career of Modeling. To Mr. Cason, our superintendent, we bequeath the everlasting respect and high esteem of every member of the class with the understanding that he regard this class as the most dutiful and most promising of any that shall ever graduate from the Stapleton High School. Esther Allen wills her quietness to Joanne Arrington, her curly hair to Janelle Usry. Wilma wills her Berry to Ann Johnson to feed her Swan. In recognition of the four years of our High School experience we will to her our sincere wishes for continued happiness in future years with her husband. Thomas Howard wishes to will his handsome looks to Jack Rabun. The Senior Class wants to will their good times at class meet- ings to the Junior Class. June Clark having won distinction among her classmates and friends for dropping her chicken at the Junior-Senior Banquet, wishes the above distinction to mark the Junior year of Barbara Rabun. ' The Senior Class kindly willed Ann Thigpen to Tommie Burke without obligation. Jimmy Sheppard wills his height to Roy McGahee and his beard to Johnnie Peebles. To the undergraduate who is most in danger of not passing next year we bequeath Glynn Hadden's store of information, who wills his love to Milderd Hobbs and his handwriting to Mrs. Kilgore. To the undergraduate needing it most, we give Lloyd Kitchen's supply of language, which will enable the recipient to tell more and say less than any other human being. Maurice McGahee wishes to dedicate his quiet and shy ways to Farris Pendery, his girl friends to his brother Roy, and neatness to J. S. Beasly. ll

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CLASS POEM WE GRAVE AND REVEREND SENIORS We grave and reverend Seniors, Who thought the years so slow We spent in acquisition Of things we had to know, Are filled with wild excitement: At last the goal is won. We gaze in admiration Upon the work we've done. The courses we have taken, The stiff exams we've passed Would indicate intelligence: With wonder we're aghast. The faculty, they tell us, Are equally surprised, For when they found us passing They scarce believed their eyes. Perhaps it was their wisdom That dragged us up to grade, And so we're saying, Thank you, For good advice and aid. How often we have counted The time till holidays, And wished the hours were shorter In education's ways! But now we may discover What old folks say is true: Life's working day is lengthly, And holidays are few. Still armed with high endeavor We'l1 meet fate with a smile And strive with heart undaunted, Remembering the while That life, despite misfortune, ls but adventure gay, And death's a friend that gives us A last long holiday. 10

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To our dear old school building itself, we leave the pc-an-ful quiet caused by our absence and any apple cores, pencil marks, wads of gum or crumpled notes, we may have left behind. We leave the Junior Class our good luck. It made us what we are today and it should satisfy them. In addition to that, all our privileges and rights as Seniors in class room and chapel will revert to them as well as any notebooks, pencils, fountain pens. unfinished lolly-pops, or unfinished business left behind in our hurry. We will let them pay our debts also and they may have any boy or girl that we leave behind in our haste. To our good friends, the Sophomore Class, we leave our patience. lt will be found useful as the only means by which they can endure the Juniors. To the young and unsophisticated Freshman, we leave a map of the school building, so that they will not get lost and roam about in everybody's way. We include book How to Tell The Teachers,' a pamphlet compiled by us after four years of arduous study. We give and bequeath to the teachers our very kindest regards and sincere gratitude for their unfailing kindness and aid. 12