Versailles High School - Mirror Yearbook (Versailles, MO)

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CLASS WILL Ah, it seems we've reached the end of the road, And a pleasant journey it's been: They say, A'You can't take it with you, So we bequeath this to our friends. Wilford Akin: My ability to win my man and keep himeto Maxine Newkirk. Jim Anderson: My ability to skip study halls without being caught-to Quen- tin Lehman. ' Arletta Barber: My ability to tell jokeseto Ruthellyn Otten. Wilma Barber: My ability to control my temper-to Billy Wilkes. Avis Bellamy: My Hbaby talk -to Barbara Comer, as if she needed it. Dan Burk: What remains of my French-to George Petty. Virginia Burk: Hereby refuse to will Jack to anyone. l'll keep him myself. John Caine: My ability to do the right thing at the wrong time Cand vice versaj -to I. A. Wenger. Glen Carson: My curly hair+to Mr. McDonald. Bernice Cline: My ability to giggle-to Evelyn Aeschbacher. Paul Cline: My formula for wavy hair-to the highest bidder. Cristeen Collins: My dancing ability-to Bill Moss. Don't let it get stale. Paul Cooper: My job as brakeman on Jesse's buseto Leroy Lampton. Altifia Daniels: My ability to get excited over very little-to June Lefever. H. M. Daniels: My track shoes, size ll-to little brother, Grayden, when he grows to them. Jody Devy-My waistline-to Meda Ruth. Nora Maude Dunnaway: My freckles1to Marian Lammert Cthen you can complainl, Ann Earp: My ability to catch my manAto Mary Frances Lujin Cl didn't say keep himj. Owen Lee Gabriel: My boxing ability-to George Hale Hubbard. Robert Garber: My wavy hair-to Vencil Foxworthy. Clarice Gerber: My dimples-to Miss Knoop Cthey might come in handyb. Doris Gerhart: My quiet disposition-to Mary Durham. Florence Goddard: MV place in the orchestra-to Dorothy Jean Kidwell. Clifford Greenway: My spats-to Mr. West to wear on rainy days. Marilyn Hall: My ability to tune my own instrumentsfto Mary Bolinger. Mary Harris: My ability to giggle at anythingfto Miss Williams . Raymond Hawks: My latest book, A'We Modern Romeos ?to the future sen- ior boys. Albert Hendrickson: My Gildersleeve laugh-to Phillip Muennig. Eula Mae Hite: My ability to chatter-to Charlotte Smoyer. Claude Huard: My ability to make high basketball scores-to Andy Calton. ErmaDell Hunter: My weakness for certain blond boy-to Betty Sue Heinemann. Norman Huffman: My typing ability-to anyone taking typing next year. Ruth Kauffman: My pug nose-to anyone who wants it. But please accom- pany application with a handsome plastic surgeon. Jean Kays: My mysterious correspondence from Camp Robinson-to no one. Dean Kays: My ability to have a hilarious time in study hall-to John Smith. Hilma Lee Lampton: My excess knowledge-to the school, to be put in the library for future reference. Roy Leatherman, Jr.: My hunt and peck system in typingfto any who can't learn the right way next year. Alma Lehman: My ability to visit in the library while studying-to Betty Rumans. Ili e Jlirror- -Page fighlferz

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CLASS HISTORY It was on the first Monday of September in l929 that our class had its real beginning. Now in l94l we find there are only nine members of our original class graduating at V. H. S. They are Ann Earp, Norma Jean Nichols, Avis Bellamy, Vera Rumans, Lottie Schmitter, Lillian Stevenson, Gregory McGinnis, Albert Hendrickson, Billy Woodin Williams. Through eight years of elementary training we struggled until at last we reached a long-sought goal-Versailles High School. We started as insignincant freshmen, but looking over our natural fault of greenness, we organized into a class of which there were ninety. With Mrs. Marriott as our sponsor we managed to elude the scorn of upperclassmen. and with the coming of the next year we ascended to the rank of sophomores, In this eventful year we selected Norma Jean Nichols as the outstanding sophomore to attend the Sophomore Pilgrimage at Jefferson City, We were well represented in music and dramatics. and a sophomore basket- ball team won lirst-place trophy at Clarksburg. But even with a year so full as this one we kept looking forward to bigger and better things, which we finally did accomplish in our junior year. Perhaps the greatest thing was the purchase of the curtain for the stage in the gymnasium. To pay for this we sponsored many school dances and a stand at the basketball tournament. The Junior play, New Fires, was a success. with profits totaling S55 to go toward the banquet for the seniors of '39 and '40. Since Hawaii is such an alluring place we chose this type of setting, and the Hawaiian waitresses were the sophomore girls masquerading in grass skirts and leis, Again this year we were well represented in the music departmentg also the athletic department and dramatics. But for the greater part our minds still turned to a farther goalfthe senior class. It was on September 2, 1940, that school opened and we officially received our title of mighty seniors. In this year we perhaps did the biggest things in all our school life. With the Senior carnival we made 3210, enough to finish paying for the curtain. And then we decided to put out an annual, the staff was elected and work progressed. Again this year our class was well represented in extra-curricular activities: music, athletics and dramatics. The Senior play, Headed for Eden, was presented May l. On May l6 the juniors served us a banquet, and at last the great day came. Our commencement was held on May 22 and our high school life is ended. With memories and regrets we say goodbye to V. H. S. Page xewwilewra--1'lz e Mirror

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CLASS WILL Peter Lehman: My ability to sing without opening my mouth-to Billy Hunter. Buddy Love: My assembly entrance and exit speech--to someone with a good memory. Katherine McDaniel: My appeal for spicy stories to Mr. Eloyd. Gregory McGinnis: My curly hairfto some girl who wants curly hair and has to pay for it. Charles Messerli: My extreme height-to Billy Caine. Linda Lou Morris: My seat in the bus-to someone who can hold it down. Norma Jean Nichols: My ability to make four E's-to Donan James. Eileen Nobles: My knowledge of Tiptonwto anyone who will stay off my territory. Stanley Osborn: My bashfulness-to Willa Meyer. Dean Opfer: My entire set of books-to Mr. Earnest, with which to start next year's nrst fire in the furnace. Alden Riley: My ability to write love lettersffto Coach Frantz. Bob Robinson: My physique-to Langston Henderson, to be used in basket- ball next year. Anna Lee Rumans: My diet secret to Betty Nell Stanley. Vera Rumans: My position on the Grapevine Telegraph systemfto Kathryn Ball. Glenn Schafter: Some of my heightvto Wendell Dunn. Lottie Schmitter: My ability to keep long fingernails in typing class-to Annie Laurie Campbell. John Shoemaker: My ability to love 'em and leave 'em-to my little brother Eddie. Shirley Shoemaker: My motto in getting a boy friend-to Betty Lea fwhere there's a will, there's a wayj. Lillian Stevenson: My Hance4to no one fyetfl. Neva Sumner: My high ambitions-to Viola Lehman. Earl Vogt: My slow drawl-to Nadyne Morris. Evelyn Sue Vogt: My writing abilityfto Mr. McDonald, who hasn't gotten out of the printing stage. Kathryn Vogt: My ability to fix my own hair+to Sara May Williams. Letha Wenger Milburn: My ability to get a husband-to Miss Williams. Dortha Mary Wilcox: My wavy hair-to Ella Ruth Lake. Hollice Wilcox: My ability to get my woman-to Phillip Muennig. Kathryn Wilcox: My artistic ability+to Jean Smith. Vera Wood: A few of my excess pounds-to Faye Dunn. Billy Williams: My manly height and dignity CFU-to Jimmy Hagens. Youse guys who read this lovely lore, Must know that weeks of mental toil Vsfere borne, in order to insure That no bequest would make you boil. Attested: COf course. it's just jestedil by power in us vested: RUTH KAUFFMAN. MARILYN HALL. I'nyw 1lfI1P,l'l'?I Tllf' Mirror