State College High School - Maroon and Gray Yearbook (State College, PA)

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14 MAROON AND GRAY 1919 CLASS WILL NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the class of 1919, of State College High School, of the city of State College, State of Pennsyl- vania, U. S. A., being of sound mind and memory, do hereby publish this our last Will and Testament. No doubt some articles we bequeath may seem small, but their actual value can be measured only by the joy, peace, content, misery, amusement, sport, enter- tainment, etc., they afforded certain members of the 1919 Class or the Faculty. Some of these gifts have been our best friends for only a few months, while others were born in our infancy four years ago. (lather near. then, all of you, and receive your bequests from our dying hands with our last wish, namely, that you make the same use of them as we did. We give and bequeath unto the insignificant members of the class of 1920 the row of seats commonly considered the rightful property of the Senior class; the aforesaid seats are to be NEXT to the eastern wall but not AGAINST it. Also all the regal privileges understood to go with the said seats, enumerated below ac- cording to their intrinsic value: First, the “Animalistic Tendencies”, usually thought of by Miss Buckhout to be the property of Ernest Royer, together with the parrot language and similar barn- yard noises. Second, the Physic’s apparatus, broken, lost, confiscated and otherwise dis- qualified, to be utilized in their futile search for the ever-forbidden fruits of that science. Third, to those students of Miss Jones’ hobby, namely, the gentle art of type- writing. the Seniors efficiency of placing the shields on the machines upon the un- expected appearance of the said member of the faculty. Fourth, to the girls of the 1920 class, the privilege of loafing in the library en- joyed by the present Senior girls. Fifth, to the Sophomores and brilliant upper classmen who may be exposed to Caesars’ Commentaries we give this warning: “BEWARE of Miss Buckhout’s long- ing, craving and capricious appetite for the acquirement of an additional volume of the same in English”. Sixth, to all succeeding classes, especially the 1920 class, we give the great re- sponsibility of always keeping the Maroon and Gray up to the high standard to which WE have raised it.

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MAROON AND GRAY 13 again themselves, they looked at each other in amazement. “Well, what will we do?” asked Babs; 1 won’t go home and tell the folks that we weren’t a success”. “Neither will 1”, responded Gerdy. “Something will happen to help us, so let us go to bed and perhaps uncle will feel differently about us tomorrow”. At six thirty the girls appeared at the breakfast table in their garden clothes. Nothing was said about the episode of the night before, so the girls went out with Uncle Joe to the garden plots. At ten thirty he told the girls to go for the mail and perhaps they had better send a card to their parents telling them that they in- tended to come home. “I guess Uncle Joe didn’t change his mind”, said Gerdy, as they walked toward the village post office. “No, and I suppose we may as well go home and face the rebukes of our friends. My, but I hate to do it!” exclaimed Babs. When the girls arrived at the post of- fice they heard excited voices within and also this exclamation, “Hush ! The ghosts are coming”. “Oh, Babs, they know about our fun”, whispered Gerdy. “I won’t go inside”. “I will”, said Babs, walking defiantly to the office window. In a moment she appeared with a letter. “Oh, Gerdy, I’ve got a letter from home”, and Babs hastily tore open the envelope and glanced at the written page, then read aloud as follow's: Dearest Daughter: Father has to make a business trip out west and will be gone for a month. He suggests that we accompany him and take the car. He says that you can get tan- ned driving the car and also get muscle fixing blowouts, so wouldn’t you like to come home? Babs stopped. You were right Gerdy, something did happen”. R. K„ ’19.

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M A RrO ON AND GRAY 15 Seventh, to our dear faculty, for their future use and perusal, all useful bits of knowledge and otherwise with which we may have enlightened them during our four (?) years’ association with fruitful imaginations. We also wish to dispose of the following educational elements: 1. To James Rupp, Ivan Erb’s privilege of paying weekly visits to our school. 2. lo Mary Reno Frear, the privilege of utilizing McDowell’s renowned ob- servation course. .V lo I.uther Krebs, Ellen Hassel’s role as player in chapel. 4. 1 o Joseph Neff, Ross Edmiston s business-like manner of conducting things in general around S. C. H. S. 5. To Ronald Robinson, “King” McDonnell’s talent as a “lady killer”. ( . To Dean Kennedy and Russell Tressler, Helen Woodruff’s ability to read Cicero. 7. To Helen Musser, Ernest Harper’s whimsical laugh. 8. To the 1920 Class, our ability to sing in chapel—may they bring out the same mesmeric harmony that we did. i 9. Io all the boys in S. C. H. S., Dewey Krumrine’s promptness in paying athletic dues. 10. To the lower classes, George Frear’s brains—do not scramble as there is no demand for it. 11. To Cornelius Houtz, Ernest Royer’s duty as monitor and chief adviser to his majesty, W. O. Heckman. 12. To Miss Buckhout, the unique sum of 13 cents to be used for the purchase of Victor Record No. 64360, namely, “In the Gloaming”. This record to be played in the rest room by the aforesaid party continuously from nine to nine fifteen A. M., so she need no longer endure the harmonious harmony of the angel-like voices of future Senior Classes. 13. To Clifton Pearce, Ernest Royer’s privilege to walk all over the building at any time of day or night. 14. To the 1920 Class, our dignity, for their unsophisticated cerebral jelatine would be at a loss as to how to fill our former places without it. In witness whereof, we hereunto set our hand and seal this sixth day of June, in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. The Class of Nineteen Nineteen.