Clay Battelle High School - Liberanni Yearbook (Blacksville, WV)

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Will of the Class of '50 We, the Class of 1950 of Clay Battelle High School, being in sound mind do will, leave and bequeath the following: To the teachers our fond memories. The Juniors our ability to win the class tournaments. We want the Sophomores to have our friendship. Our happy experiences during our four years at C. B. H. S. to the Freshmen. The eighth grade our quiet ways at all times. We leave our courtesy in the class rooms and in the halls to the seventh grade. Special bequests are as follows: Kathleen Bell gives her position as editor-in-chief of the school paper to Eileen Flu-harty; Joan Cooke thinks that Betty Are-ford could use her dainty hands; Alice Hall bestows her good grades on her brother, David, who needs them; to Sherlene Pyle goes Ann Ammona’s lovely hair; Jane Spitz-nogle bequeaths her height to Lucy Fairfax; Norma Neely’s ability to make pottery goes to Jo Ann Core; Emma Lemley wills her mathematical ability to Helen Jones; Jewell Wise’s becoming smile is offered to Martha Lee I ennant; Jennie Yost wishes her freckles to anyone who wants them; Peggy Lou Yost kindly gives her bashfulness to Martha Six. Pauline Eddy Wright and Bonnie Jean Morris will their ability to skip school and go to the Buckwheat festival at Kingwood to Joan Neely and Jane Williams; Medora Mason leaves her quiet ways to Carolyn Lough; Wilma Merle Thomas thoughtfully wills her middle name to Bobette King as she feels it becomes her; Lorraine Bean receives Claire Strosnider’s ability to get out of class; Carol Tennant would like for Jennie Morris to be true to one boy as she has always been; Bonnie Russell bestows her ability to get along with certain boys from Daybrook to Mary Lou Morris; Betty Jane Harker leaves her long blonde hair to her sister, Patty Harker; Dora West’s ability to be the biggest nothing in school is willed to Eileen Fluharty; Irma Lantz kindly gives all her love for the Waynesburg boys to Rosemary Pyles. Kathryn Cumberledge wills her boy friends to Jeanneine Coburn; Glenda Husk presents her blonde hair to Martha Six; Betty Glover wants Jennings Coburn and James Austin to have her good behavior; Jack Tennant’s ability to skip school is bequeathed to anyone who can get by with it; Richard Jones would like for Johnny Bill Raber to inherit his dancing ability; Flora Mae and Henry Hoffman bestow anything they have to anyone who wants it; Richard Bell’s tall, dark, and handsome ways goes to Shorty Wilson; Glenn Berry wills his red hair to Lloyd Shultz; Kenneth Glover offers his position as captain of the basketball team to Howard Shriver; Terry Owens and Robert Nelson Tennant pass on their skill to miss school to Freddie Wiliams. Donzel Ammons and Scott Tennant present their good grades in English to Marvin Lemley and Bob Ammons; Merle Stull thinks that Franklin Vincent could use his quietness and good behavior in fourth period shop class; Donnie Owen leaves his laziness to his brother, Bobby; Victor Church wills his seat in the front left hand corner of Mrs. White’s room to Bob Ammons; Albert Neely’s quietness in all classes goes to Patty Yost; James Synder bestows his big shoes to Bill Parker so he won’t have to limp around; Elmer Ashburn wills his learning to no one as he's going to take it with him; Davie McCoy would like for Delbert Willard to obtain his tackle position in football; Norma Wilson wills her ability to talk her way out of things to anybody that needs it; Naomi Headley wants Waneda Eddy to have her nickname Slim”; Margie Simpson Rogers and Wanda Jean Varner’s ability to dream in the cafeteria to Lois Shriver and Nancy Clovis; Robert White-hill wills the song River of the Roses to Loretta Pauley providing she sings it often. We hereby appoint Eileen Fluharty and Richard Tuttle to be sole executors of this, our last will and testament. Witness our hand and seal this twenty-six (26th) day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty ( 1950). (Seal) (Signed) The Class of ’50 eighteen

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Senior Class Prophecy As we look into the future at the senior class of 50, We find them doing different things, and some are quite nifty, hirst we find Dick Jones whose hair wasn’t wavy. But who cares? He's an Admiral in the navy. There is Bonnie Russell, modest and shy. She is married to a wealthy guy. Merle Stull, a fine boy we are sure, Now the Secretary of Agriculture. We find Jane Spitznogle saintly and not contrary, Spreading faith as a missionary. I here is Richard Bell, the tall and slim fellow. Making up commercials for Jello. Her name was Emma Lemley when she graduated, It s Mrs. now before her name is stated. There is Elmer Ashburn, who wasn't a snob, In the Navy, just a plain old gob. And we find Norma Wilson: An expert on atomic fission? No, a comedienne on television. Ab Neely is married. His home is gigantic. Because he is a successful mechanic. Irma Lantz lives a quite life As an economic housewife. And now we find pretty Alice Hall As the head nurse at Aspinwall. Groceries, groceries for Kathleen by the score. As manager of a Bell chain store. Next Glenda Husk nothing would stop her I ill she sang in the Metropolitan Opera. Robert Nelson Tennant we find racing cars, Or taking trips to Venus and Mars. As a big game hunter in Africa is Glenn Berry. Is he ever scared? No, Sir! Not very. Back at our high school is Kenneth Glover, Coaching the teams to victory, one after the other. Wrestling in Madison Square Garden is Jim Synder, While Davy McCoy is acting in films of Red Ryder. Terry Owens is our nation's president. He will be a life long resident. Flora Mae Hoffman, says that all in all, She s glad, Henry, her husband, plays pro baseball. Peggy Lou Yost was Autumn Queen Now as Miss America she is seen. Her friend and classmate, Jennie Yost, Acts on Broadway on the East Coast. Victor Church, we might state. As Mr. America, he is great ! ! Wilma Thomas is married and content While her husband pays the rent. Eonnie Morris, the famous dietician Said nursing was her ambition. As Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Donnie Owen makes sentences short. Psychoanalyze Yourself is the name of the book Written by Doctor Joan Cooke. Her assistant is Ann Ammons, a nurse. To help you if you get worse. Ncrma Neely is their secretary. She erases the names of the ones they bury. Bob Whitehill has taken Crosby's place. As a lawyer. Peg Mason states her case. Kathryn Cumberledge is married to a billionaire While Claire Strosnider flies planes through the air. Driving a truck we find Scott Tennant. And Wanda Varner is another Joan Bennett. Another housewife we find Is Margie Rogers and she doesn’t mind. Donzel Ammons preaches a sermon every Sunday morning. And Jack Tennant blows a whistle for a traffic warning. We find, singing songs, Jewell Wise And she is popular with all the guys. Betty Harker we find taking shorthand Also Betty Glover for a business man. As a Du Pont boss we find Carol Tennant While Naomi Headley tells the students she means it. And Pauline Wright as a housewife does her best While writing novels we find Dora West. These things are foretold of the senior class, They hope some of them will come to pass. seventeen

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(I. to r.) Martha Six. Loretta Pauley, Martha Six, Martha Tennant. Miss Shafer. Band group at Washington. D. C., Richard Bell. James Snyder, James Sanders, Edward Cummins, Howard Shriver, Glenn Harker. Bob Copeland. Student Council members in ’43. Jim Phillips. Raymond Moore. Henry Hoffman, Jack D. Tennant. Dave McCoy, Jane Spitznogle. Jack D. Tennant, Thespian Play Cast in ’49, Charles Snider, Jane Cummins. Jim Phillips, Glenda Husk. Emma Lemley, Dora West. Kathleen Bell, Alice Hall. Flora Hoffman. Shirley Parks, Martha Six. Eileen Fluharty, Martha Tennant, Shirlene Pyles, Rosemary Pyles, Bertha Brewer, Carol Lantz, Mary Belle Dean. Betty Bell, Billy Phillips. nineteen