Clay High School - Tiskelwah Yearbook (Clay, WV)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHEC Y Every Day Talkf, SONNY'S lecture is entitled The Usefulness of English in Every Day Talk and CLAIR will speak on The Usefulness of Speaking in Every-Day Talk. Time for a commercial. Even on this wonderful program - we have to have - fyou might knowj - commercials. Wait a minute, those girls singing the commercial sound fa- miliar. It's BOBBIE DAVIS, CHESSIE DAWSON, and MARITA TURNER, who sing under the name' of D. D. T. Their singing is also guaranteed to kill all flies and small mosquitos. Here comes the handsome announcer for station identification. Itis KEITH STRICKLAND, who says that This is Television Station CCHS - on the air five days a week - six hours a day. The program resumes and we see a new, modern hospital building. Hurrying up the steps to her busy day's work is the world-famous doctor SHARON JORDAN who is accom- panied by her three efficient nurses CHARLOTTE KING, IMOGENE HOLCOMB, and BETTY MCCRACKEN. SHARON is in competition with ROBERT UNDERWOOD who wants to take her place as world-famous doctor. From here we go to the Globe Theatre where a production is opening with a world premiere. The show is Hamlet and stars TEDDY MYERS who is trying to break JOHN BARRYMORE'S record. His leading lady is RUTH ANN WARD, who is known for her artistic ability. After the main attraction there is a preview of coming features. There's to be a comedy team composed of BILL PIERSON and JANIE MCHENRY. There has to be two of them. When one tells a joke, the other one laughs. The next show is to be a talent scout program emceed by that famous personage DONALD ASBURY. First on the program is the divine crooner who is thrilling the bobby-soxers, JACK DAVIS. Featured next is a barbr shop quartet composed of NEELY MILLER, JERRY NELSON, FRANKIE TRUMAN, and LAWRENCE PARKS. Not to be out done, the girls have a quartet, they are JEAN HAMRIC, MARCENE WILSON, LOIS WHITE, AND THELMA SANDERS. JAMES STOCKWELL, who is featured as The Greatest Lover Since Valentino is surrounded by the lovelies, EVELYN DOUGLAS, KATHLEEN DAVIS, JACKIE DONOHUE, AND DORA I-IANSHAW. These girls are trying out for the leading feminine role in his forthcoming movie. To round up the program BENNY CLONCH, MEEKIN DURHAM, AND DON CANTRELL will present a selection of hillbilly numbers. Working tirelessly on Civil Defense are D. NOTTINGHAM, CHARLES HAMRICK, AND WILLIAM HAMRICK. They are under the direction of JACK CANTRELL and OKEY LEGG. Getting their rocket ship ready for a space trip to the moon are YVONNE HART and MURIEL WHALING who are looking for news for the paper The Inter-Space Tattlcrn, of which they are co-editors. MURIEL will report on the fashions and society news on the moon, while YVONNE will report on the eligibility of any CPD bachelors. Of. course, if they don't find any eligible eligibles,' they won't be exactly disappointed as they couldn't find any among their former classmates. ------zooM----.M CLICK --- fThat's the television set automatically turning itself off.j MURIEL WHALING YVONNE HART 29

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '53 Looking back to September '49 everything about high school seemed so overwhelming and forbidding beside the present status of senior. It seemed that the auditorium was the center of a maze of rooms and almost impossible to find. Finally we were all assembled and managed to elect out of 104 girls and 102 boys our first class officers who were: Muriel Whaling, president, Jerry Butcher, vice president, Bill Pierson, secretary, Yvonne Hart, treas- urer, and Geraldine Triplett, reporter. The two freshmen elected to represent us on the student council were: Ruth VVard and Iames Moorehead. This same year the school board hired two teachers: Ralph Hammond, and Phyllis Hertel. Our first football princess was Wanda Ramsey and basketball princess was joan Fitz- water. Marcella Mullins and Roy Naylor were chosen by the student body to serve on the student council for our next year. The fall of '50 found us up the ladder of education to silly sophomores. The Big Bugsu for this year were: lack Davis, president, jerry Butcher, vice president, jim Carte, secretary, and Charles Blankenship, treasurer. At the beginning of this year there were seven new teachers added to the faculty list. Herbert Shimer, Walter Schoonover, Freeda Davis, Marie Scheff, George Shafer, jean Mearns, and Margaret Cox. Popular Coach Guy Bennett died this year, Mr. Ralph Hammond replaced him as coach and Mr. Herbert Shimer took over the assistant coaching and Paul Minyar came in as social studies teacher in Mr. Shimer's place. Busses No. 17, 19 and 20 were added to school this year. Dorothy Gill was elected basketball princess and Autiove Moore was elected football princess. Taking the honors in executive offices for '51 were: Yvonne Hart, president, Teddy Myers, vice president, Mary Gray, secretary, and Dorothy Gill, treasurer. Harold Proudfoot and V. N. Lambey replaced Charles Barnette and H. E. White as superintendent and assistant superintendent respectively. Bus No. 21 was added to the bus list this year. Principal Parker C. Black accepted the principalship of Keyser High School and Fred E. Smith, former social studies teacher, replaced him here. New faculty members that were added this term were: Rosemary Bower, Naomi Anderson CConturoj, john Hill, Russell Slack, and Hubert Moore. All of these except Mrs. Conturo were former graduates of Clay High. Chosen as class play this year was No Boys Allowed. This was the year we sold miscellaneous articles in order to raise' funds to give the seniors a prom. The sponsors who worked so hard to help make our junior year a success were: Rosa Craig, chairman, VValter Schoonover, Harold Vass, Hubert Moore, and Marie Scheff. Dorothy Gill and Dennis Cox were the juniors chosen to attend the Know Your Statc Government at Charleston. Our class chose Ernestine Hamrick as football princess. Her escort was Dennis Cox. Ann Walker was chosen basketball princess and Dennis Cox as her escort. Last but not least begins our Crowning Yearl' with all its dignity. This year we are bowing out with a class of 61 girls and 57 boys. Officers elected for this year were Dennis Cox, president, james Paxton, vice president, Mar Grav, secreta , Bill Pierson, treasurer, and Ro Na lor, re orter. Y . VY Y Y P New members added to our faculty list were: Mrs. Hazel Reedy Qshearerj, Mrs. Rosalie 31