WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF'40, BEING POSSESSED OF SOUND MIND AND HAVING THE CAPABILITY OF MENTAL EXERCISE, DO HEREBY MAKE THIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, AS FOLLOWS:


FIRST, WE BEQUEATH THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ALL, OUR GOOD NAME, OUR CHARACTER, AND OUR REPUTATION TO THE JUNIORS. WE CONJURE THE INSCRIPTIONS TO PRESERVE AND GUARD THIS LEGACY, AND KEEP THEIR HEARTS RIGHT TOWARDS IT.

SECOND, WE DO HEREBY RELINQUISH UPON THEM ALL CLASSROOMS, SCATS, AND PICTURES AND OTHER DECORATIONS, INCLUDING ALL PAPER-WADS, GUM-BALLS, AND THE LIKE.

WE ARE INFORMED THAT MR. BARKER WILL SPONSOR THE CLASS NEXT YEAR, AND WE SINCERELY TRUST THAT HE WILL TREAT THEM AS WELL AS HE HAS TREATED US.

WAYNE COLE DOES GIVE UNTO ROBERT STOVALL HIS HIGH HARMONICA.

JOE HARTSOE GRANTS UNTO MAURICE CUDD AND ANDREW SONGER HIS QUIET DISPOSITION.

MARGERIE NOBLE WISHES TO LEAVE LUDENE SLATTON HER EXTRA (?)CAWS (NOT RIBBONS EITHER).

KATHRYN RAMSEY LEAVES TO FAYE McDUFFEY A BOOK ON HOW TO HAVE A CHARMING PERSONALITY.

VIOLET EVANS HAS WISELY DECIDED TO BEQUEATH HER TIMIDITY TO BARBARA LOONEY.

LEVON JORDAN LEAVES HIS ABILITY TO CAPTURE THE HEARTS OF THE JUNIOR HI GIRLS TO JAMES PRITCHETT.

ETHEL GARDNER LEAVES HER ABILITY TO GIGGLE TO JAN??LAM GARNER AND OLEN? CUDD.

GENEVIEVE THOMAS HAS FILLED SEVERAL RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS THIS YEAR AND, DECIDING TO REST, LEAVES UNTO THE MEMBERS OF THE JUNIOR CLASS TO DISPOSE OF IT AS THEY SEE FIT.

DOYLE LETBETTER BESTOWS HIS LOVE OF INACTIVITY UPON DOYLE YOPP.

JO LETBETTER LEAVES HER BASKET BALL ABILITY TO JUANITA JENKINS AND MILDRED CORNELISON.

LOGAN ATRIP LEAVES HIS VOCAL FACILITIES (WHICH HE HAS PLENTY OF) TO CLEO HESS?.

REX McHANEY LEAVES HIS ARTISTIC ABILITY TO "BING" YOPP.

THEODORE BREWER LEAVES HIS ABILITY TO GET ALONG WITH THE GIRLS TO T. M. VANGILDER.

J.G. SANDERS LEAVES HIS JOB AS JANITOR TO DONALD CUPPLES.

HAROLD FAHR LEAVES HIS STUDIOUS ABILITY TO C. L. OWENS AND MARCELLE McBRIDE.

MILDRED MORTEN WISHES TO LEAVE TO GENEVA MAY HER VIVACIOUS PERSONALITY.

VELMA MAE FIELDER LEAVES HER SLOGAN: "POPULARITY IS NOT ALL THERE IS TO LIFE" TO MILDRED STEPHENS.

NEWELL MAXWELL ________PERMISSION TO SHANNON MOORE TO US HIS EXPRESSION "NOW THAT WASN'T ME, MR. HARRISON."

HERSHEL NOWELL CONTEMPLATES JOINING WILD WEST CIRCUS SIDESHOW, AND WISHES TO LEAVE UNTO ROBERT PEERCE HIS QUIET DISPOSITION.

TO CAMILA JONES, LOWELL HARVEY DESIRES TO LEAVE HIS HANDWRITING. WHEN LOWELL ENTERS COLLEGE NEXT YEAR HE WILL HAVE TO ADOPT A NEW STYLE OF HANDWRITING OR INVENT A CODE FOR DECIPHERING HIS OWN.

J.E. BRIDGES HEREUNTO WILLS HIS CURLY GOLDEN LOCKS TO VIRGINIA TURBERVILLE.

MABEL POPPE LEAVES TO BURTICE MOON, ALMANCE VANGILDER, JOAN POSTON, AND ANY NEWCOMERS HER RECIPE FOR KEEPING THAT SCHOOL GIRL COMPLEXION.

THOMAS COX LEAVES HIS DRAMATIC ABILITY TO NCOLA VESTAL.

IN TESTIMONY THEREOF, WE HERETO SET OUR HAND ON THIS TWELFTH DAY OF MARCH, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY. IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR GOOD FRIENDS.

THE ANNUAL STAFF AND ATTESTS THE

SAME AT OUR REQUEST