Zephyrhills High School - Zephilsco Yearbook (Zephyrhills, FL)

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Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of 1954 of Zephyrhills High School being of sound mind and body, do make, publish, and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament. To Zephyrhills High School, our Alma Mater, we leave the Zephilsco and the lasting memories of the class of 1954, To Coach Clements, our sponsor, we leave the uncivilized Senior Class of 1955, and our thanks and deep appreciation for his help and guidance during our Senior year. To the Junior Class we leave a keg of aspirin and four steel drums of midnight oil that will be needed to publish the 1955 Zephilsco and the duty of prohibiting the entrance of the Juniors to the Senior Homeroom. To the Sophomore Class, we leave our moonshine wishing well and confederate dollars left from our Prom. To the Freshman Class, we will ambition to become dignified seniors like the class of 1954. To the Homeroom Mothers, we leave the concession stand at the football field. I, Bill Turner, will to Billie Jane K 'Lapp my ability to chew gum in class and not get caught. I, Patsy Ryals, will my ability to be 'head Majorette' to Anna Mae Chapman, and my ability to get along with Miss Evans to Linwood Keen. I, Keith Witham, will to Joyner Jadek, my unfailing ability to be five minutes late every day and to Arneta Howard an equally unfailing friendship with my fellow-friend. Tommy. I, Loyd Davis, will my shy, quiet ways to Jerry Braxton and my long black curly hair to Sue Luker. I, Nola Howell, will to Robert Frost my ability to speak Pig Latin. I, Patsy Kline, leave to Bunnie Sue Sibley my loud voice and giggle and my ability to be heard all over. I, Dale Vought, will to Sylvia Hill my ability to enter the Senior Homeroom without knocking and to Darby Witham my position on the football team. I, Tommy Bright, will Harold Daniels my ability to take pictures and to Louis Sellars my ability to get along with my teachers well. I, Dick Braden, leave my reputation as the most bashful boy in the Senior Class to Ernest Peeples, and my shapely, white legs to Shirley Dixon. I, Paula Staples, will my shy sophisticated giggle to Ruth Hughes and my ability to chew gum in English Class and get caught to Craig Miller. I, Dorothy Austin, will to Charles Bellows my vacant desk at the back of Mr. Brantley’s science class. I, Joan Lefler, will to Gloria Hoyle the ability to skip English the entire year. I, Kenneth Keen, will my ability to get along with the girls to Duane Lorenz. I, H. C. Nesbit, will to James Jordon my long curly hair and to Sarah Humphries my ability to make good grades in Miss Evans' math class. 1, Helen Wells, will to Gene Lair my quiet ways and even temper and to Peggy Smith my position on the basket- ball team and my streamline figure. I, Bill Johnson, leave to Donna Daniels my hairy chest and quiet disposition. I, Jake Sapp, will my curly hair and not going steady to Harvy Hutchings. I, George Neukom, will my half of DRAGNET to John Gore. I, Phyllis Geiger, will to Shirley Potter my old worn out majorette boots, and my position on the basketball team to Ruth Aldacosta. I, Harold Hinsz, will to Edward Massey my ability to chew gum and get away with it in Physics. I, Gerald Jackson, will my two front teeth to Amell Canaday. I, Lonnie Whitworth, will my height to Cullen Smith. I, Floyd Cherry, will my ability to go steady to Dewi Barber and my ability to be a good student in Miss Evans' class to Floyd Kersey. I, Beulah Arnold, will Lavinia Lavanio all my bashful ways around boys and my ability to make straight A's in all my classes. I, Bill Baker, will my ability to get in the lunchroom before the bell rings to Cecil McGavern. I, Louis Loysch, will my studious actions in class to Irvin Wheeler. I, Norman Pricher, leave to Monroe Boyette my locker in the football shack. I. Bobby Lou Hormuth, will to Janice Stokes my calm, even temper and soft spoken voice. I, Ira Hill, will to Louise Thomson my ability to sleep in English Class. I, Eddie McClellan, will to Virgil Thomas my towering height, of 6 feet 3 inches. I, Anna Greene, will to Nancy Ely my flirtatious ways and to Eloise Hunt my ability to play first Clarinet in the band. Witness: Pear Shape Signed: THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1954

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Prophecy Phyllis Geiger is happily married to Chief of Staff Locke and has come through her ten years of basic training with flying colors. In the past two years the colors have really been flying because the army adopt- ed chartreuse and purple delta jet jeeps and Phyllis always was a hot rodder with the Slush -O-Matic feed truck. Bill Johnson and Louis Loysch have combined forces for the hottest jive band in the world. Louie uses a combination slide guitar and string trombone with the built in harmonica and Johnson handles the hula dance part of the show. The boys are in great demand all over the world. Tom Bright really made history. For fifty years people have been trying to find a way to get to the moon, but Tom says, that's the old fashioned way. Not very long ago, he turned off his half-pint model airplanes loose with an anchor on the back. He forgot to set the engine timer and it kept right on going, snared the moon, and hauled it back to Tom when the gas ran out. Gerald Jackson has invented skinless, seedless juiceless, treeless, useless oranges to sell to the people who don't like citrus fruit. He says a whole new field of business has opened up and is getting snowed un- der with demand for the fancy delicacies. Jake Sapp, the old Richland Ridge Runner, ” is coaching football at the South Pole. He has a fine team of Penguins who stands a good chance of becoming the World's Champion Penguins Football Players, mainly because they're the only ones. Our ol' Gawja boy, Bill Turner, is prospering (Georgia Style, $5.00 a year), on his 1 2 acre of peanuts on cotton up yonder way in Blakely. He says that he uses slow-growin' peanuts. He has been taking a siesta since he planted them right after graduation and they will be ready to harvest sometime this year if Bill isn't too tired to do it. George Neukom, virtuoso of the gold plated ivories, has come up with a pocket size piano that can be used to entertain yourself while waiting in a dentist's office to have your own ivories gold plated. He says this arrangement has sold one piano so far, and this was to a dentist. H. C. Nesbitis the general manager of the General Managers General Assembly which generally man- ages to keep all general management in a general muddle. Helen Wells, the big brain, is currently occupied as Chief Tester of Electronic brains and Mechanical Minds. She keeps these machines on their toe bolts by asking such intelligent questions as where does your fist go when you open your hand? and How high is up? This last bright bit caused one ofComell Uni- versity's brains to blow its chrome plated li'l ol’ top. Loyd Davis, the Big Time Operator, is still in the big time. He is currently occupied at the crank of Big Ben, but he says he always seems to have time on his hands. Harold Hinsz who goes by the alias of Arch” (because he is in constant need of support) is a genuine (guaranteed) genius (Pat. Pend.) He has now invented a disease to go with some cures that his rival genius Floyd Cherry came up with. The cures weren't good for anything except Cherry's ego, and he says he left that in his other pants. All in all, our little platoon has been very successful in the past ten years. Another ten years and 1 probably wouldn't be able to tell who's who. Yours truly, Keith Witham P. S. In case you're wondering how I happen to know your whereabouts, 1 am the occupant of the third cell to your right, just down the hall. I couldn't take the class of 19M either.

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Most Popular: PAULA STAPLES and DALE VOUGHT Most Likely to Succeed: JOAN LEFLER and DICK BRADEN Most Ambitious: HELEN WELLS and DICK BRADEN S N o e n m I O r t a b I e s Most Flirtatious: Most Studious: PATSY KLINE and DICK BRADEN DOROTHY AUSTIN and BILL BAKER Most Athletic: Best Looking: Cutest: HELEN WELLS and FLOYD CHERRY PAULA STAPLES and BILL JOHNSON PATSY KLINE and DALE VOUGHT