Tarboro High School - Tar Bo Rah Yearbook (Tarboro, NC)

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Hast Will anil (Testament State of North Carolina County of Edgecombe Town of Tarboro Article I Announcing: The Class of 1931 of Tarboro High School, being of sound minds, do hereby publish, make known, and certify to all whom it may concern, that this is their last will and testament. Article II To the Classes: To the Juniors, we leave our ingenuity in taking advantage of Senior privileges, our natural gift of singing, along with as many of our caps and gowns as they wish to buy. To the Sophomores, we leave our wonderful skill in school activities, in hope that they may realize the importance of all school functions. To the Freshmen, we leave our class colors, rose and gray-the rose for leadership and dignity, the gray for love and comradeship. Article Ill We bequeath to - Stella Mewborn - Elizabeth Fluck’s flirting ability. Clarence Olschner - Frances Rogerson’s dumbness. Ashby Brown - Winston Gardner ' s perfect physique. Emile Olschner - Ed Lewis’ ability to reform and become teachers’ pet. Hilda Lyles - Della Allsbrook’s natural walk. Libby Lane-Dulcy Andrews’ ability to get into trouble. KatFlyn Roberson - Helen Babcock’s height. James Taylor - Ruth Ballard’s ability to study. Don Gilliam - Reba Bowers’ quietness. Job Savage - Ruth Pender’s ability to play the piano. Virginia Clark - Louise McDowell’s reputation as a teachers’ pet. Mary N. Worsley - Mary Pulley’s giggles. Nancy Hart - Louise Edmondson’s forgetting memory. Emily Ward - Elsie Norman’s red hair. Nina Williams - Martin Lyles’ gocd looks. Eugene Brooks - Vallen Warren’s quiet disposition. Bill Hart — Vann Taylor’s interest in journalism. Wilbur Evans — P ' uth Langley’s ability to write poems. Rufus Worsley - Hal Liles’ ability to bluff the teachers. Gene Simmons — Mary Hoard’s energy. Irene Fulford - Elizabeth Hussey’s supply of tardy and absent excuses. Martha Josey — -Dell Moye’s English grades. Lonnie Wynn - Lillian Johnson’s walking ability. Louise Sykes - Mary Elizabeth Britt’s optimism. Bill Bardin - Mary D. Pittman’s willing spirit. Ruby Mewborn — Mary E. Hagans’ ability to skip school. To Mr. Mahler, Mr. White, and the entire school faculty, we leave an abundant supply of appreciation and deep love that they have inspired in our hearts. To M iss Sheridan, our class teacher, we leave cur most sincere love and appreciation for her interest and hearty cooperation in our class activities. To cur Alma Mater, we leave our loyalty and devotion and our best wishes for a glorious future. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1931. — Jim Simmons, Jr., Testator.

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BalriUrtory ONIGHT is the night when we shall bid farewell to all of our class mates, teachers, and friends. Long have we looked forward to this night which will soon be one of the sweet memories of the past. Tonight we close one chapter of our life, and now we are locking on a new chapter. We leave the hopes and accomplishments of the past and look forward to tlve future. We know that from now on, we shall live a new life and occupy new positions. Through the eleven years of school, we have studied and worked hard to reach our goal. Some have dropped out, but the others have kept together, and tonight is probably the last time we shall be together in school. From cur teachers we have acquired knowledge, which will in later life help us onward to new and higher positions. The lessons that we have learned will give to us the power and self-reliance required to secure the successes which we seek. Whatever of honor and health we may hereafter win in the world, we shall largely owe to our school, which has showed to us the means of success. Let us, then, remember our school with a proud and gratified feeling. To the teachers who have been so kind and helpful to us, we bid farewell, hoping that they will always remember the best side of us and not the worst. Although we haven’t always cooperated with you, we now appre¬ ciate the wisdom and consideration that you have shown to us in your plans. We are grateful for everything that you have done, and these things will always linger in our memories of school. And now, classmates, we must soon separate, never again to unite in the schoolroom. Never again shall we meet as we are now. Our success or failure will be determined by the manner in which we meet our responsi¬ bilities and opportunities of the future. I c n wish nothing higher or happpier for us than that through our lives, in joy and sorrow, in bright sunshine and deepest shadow, there may remain with us the consciousness of duty well performed, of suffering nobly endured, and of life faithfully lived. In the hope of such a future, with many pleasant memories of school days, and with the assurance of an unfailing, affectionate remembrance, I bid you good-by. - Frances Rogerson, Valedictorian. I f SB®

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(HlaBH Prnphfrg M AKE yourself comfortable while 1 dive deeply into this well of knowledge. Since you have already had the spell of the fairy charm cast over you, it will be no trouble for you to follow me as 1 take you over mountain heights and through many earthly visions. You must be very careful not to break the charm of this enchanted land. All must be very happy, or I might miss one name that has fallen into this well cf know l¬ edge. I can see a strange land and strange people; I see that- Winston Gardner is living at Daytona Beach, trying to break the world’s auto speed record, while his wife, Mary Elizabeth Britt, is taking a big fall into society. Our friend, Hal Liles, is in a nearby city, playing rotten baseball, and “he just can’t help it.” Reba Bowers and Dulcy Andrews have opened a very nifty novelty shop in Atlanta. At last, Jim Simmons is president of the United States after many unsuccessful political attempts. And who is his charming First Lady? Why, none other than Ruth Pender, who has as her very efficient secretary Della Allsbrook. Martin Lyles, the screen star of two continents, is vacationing at Coral Gables after the filming of his latest picture, “Farewell, Peggy.” At last, Ruth Langley’s dreams have come true. She has married a millionaire and owns an estate covered with goldfish ponds with little bridges over them. In Paris we find Kathryn Sheffield and Lucy Knight Ruffin as supreme mannequins for the world-renowned designer, Elizabeth Fluck. Ed Lewis, after a very naughty, naughty, naughty youth, is an Episcopal bishop in Pennsylvania. Louise Edmondson is in Russia, selling books cn the improvement of one’s memory. In London, Vann Taylor is the leading chemist, experimenting to his heart’s content. Vallen Warren is his efficient assistant and business manager. 1