Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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Page Twvnly SENIORS KENNA WILSON: Flash hates conceited students. Betty Grable is his ideal woman and history is his favorite subject. Skating and airplane modeling take up his spare time. Activity: Boys Athletic. LU ELLEN WITT: Louie despises homework and yet her favorite sub' ject is physics. She likes all kinds of sports but prefers basketball and swimming. Lu Ellen has been very active in school activities. She has been a member of Arts and -Crafts, Masque and Gavel, Choral Club, National Honor Society, and Junior Red Cross. RUTH ANN STURM: Ruth Ann consumes time by the bucketfull in messing around . Swimming, golf and collecting miniature pitchers are her ways of consuming even more of that draggy time. As for songs, she hums, Miss You . TrifHi-Y, Spelling and Bridge Club. BILL JARRETT: Spelling, Aeronautics '43, '44, Mike , one of our most handsome smoothies, says his hobby is building models. His favorite band is Spike Jones and the City Slickers , and his pastime wofejmen. His chief objection to women is that there are too many of them! JAMES GROSS: Can you imagine anyone's pastime being working? Jimmy's is-so he sez. And his hobby is coin collecting. Plenty is wrong with all women except Betty Grablevein his estimation. His activities include motion picture and Spelling. RUTIA HALL: Rutia's favorite sport is swimming. That tall, blond snub' nosed boy, Van Johnson, is her screen idol. When she isn't keeping her eye on Van, she is either listening to Harry James or typing, or maybe both. Maple Leaves '44, and TrifHifY are her activities. SARA ANN KNIGHT: Carrots, those long yellow things, are Sally's pet hate. On the dance floor Sally is neither a jitterbug nor a smoothie! she says I'm just me . Her activities include Arts and Crafts, Choral Club, and Junior Red Cross. JOE FERRARI: This ambitious cavefman says that men let women have their way too much. The thing which ruins his disposition is walking to school on a cold morning, But if only he could see Jeanne Crain after getting here bet he wouldn't mind so much. BARBARA ANN CRAIG: Barbara has trouble sleeping. But she doesn't mind for Her Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time. Could they be of Van Johnson? She belonged to TrifHifY and Bridge Clubs as a sophomore: Spelling, Tri'HifY, and Bridge as a Senior. MAXINE MURRAY: This oh, so nice, girl doesn't have any pet hates. She's on friendly terms with all the world. Mac tells us that she adores tennis, jitterbugging, and Sonny Tufts iwell, who doesn't?J Her activities include Girl's Athletic and Spelling Club. RALPH STEELE: Ralph hates all women except Hedy fCaz-bahj Lamarr, so girls you haven't a chance! Besides gorgeous Hedy, Ralph likes blue, Cary Grant, and shows. Don't Fence Me In is his favorite song. A distributive education student, he belongs to Boys Athletics. BARBARA ANN FRIEND: Bobbie comes here from Monongah. Working believe it or not, is her pastime. She hates to try to keep still, like most high school students. Bobbie has two hobbies, One is saving pins. The other is talking to boys. Greer Garson and Dennis Morgan are her cinema idols. Bobbie is one of the few equestriennes of West High.

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SENIORS BOB BROWN: This handsome hazelfeyed senior is what most girls a rugged individual. He spends his time in his brightfblue lognng. His activities include Choral Club, HifY, Letterman's Clul ettyf' term car- x and MARY ANN BAILEY: Da dreamin is a ood time waster. L Til Then Y g E as the Mills Bros. toy with it is her favorite platterg Physics fvi she trying to kid?j is her favored subject. Junior Red Cross, Art Crafts, Maple Leaves, Thespians, and Choral Club are her clubs. MARY ALICE HOLTZWORTH: Having to hurry annoys Tippy, prefers the calm manner of the French, as well as their language, own particular fragment of Star Dust is Van 'iThe Man Joh 'Hippy is a diedfinfthefgroove jitter fan, who jumps to Dorsey g ee. JACK FELTZ: Lightning , our football and basketball ace, says w 'ho is s and who Her nson, with olfmg is his favorite pastime. La Veda is his woman and Bruce Baker is his pet hate-wonder why? He thinks the Strip Polka should head the Hit Parade. Boy's Athletic, Boxing and Wrestling, Lettermen's and Twirlers. JUNIOR O'DELL: Junior and Bonnie are one of those inseparable couples who saunter down halls handfinfhand. Their favorite song is Together and it surely fits the bill. Mr. and Mrs. fHarry James and Betty Grablej are two of Junior's favorites. Student Government, Lettermen's and Military Clubs, BONNIE CHIDESTER: Bonnie obviously has Junior on her mind as evidence, her favorite pastime is thinking of Junior and Junior seems to be her dream man, Arts and Crafts, Choral Club and Twirlers are her school activities. BETTY LOU KNAPP: Sleepy doesn't sigh I want a man: instead she said I want a ladd. Alan Ladd to be exact. But a good fast game of football or swimming will satisfy her. Bridge Club, Thespians, Choral Club and TrifHi-Y have kept her busy during her three years at West High. JACK ROBERT WHITEMAN: Jack has his own ideas as to the ITIOSL dangerous place to be-in front of a woman driver. The professor has aspirations of married life but with a pastime like violin playing, we are wondering. He likes history and collects stamps for a hobby. FRANCES PATTERSON: Frances is one of those who look with horror upon the complicated gyrations of iitterbuggers, in the throes of Harry James' trumpeting. Basketball, collecting stamps and drawing occupy her hours and Alan Ladd. her affections. As for actresses, drawling, Katie Hepburn is best of all, Arts and Crafts, TrifH'Y, National Honor Society. LUCILLE JOHNSON: Star Dust is Lu's favorite ballad, Glenn Miller her favorite solid sender. Dancing, collecting pictures of homes, and playing tennis are on her list of occupations. Conceited people get s uelched q pronto, they are her pet hate. HELEN RUTH SMELL: Ronald seems to be this jitterbug's dream ITAHTI, We don't know whether she means Ronald Colman or Ronald Some' bodyfelse, but he seems to be plenty super, 'cause she says Amen are too good to women. This senior has participated in Girl's Athletic Club, Spelling, and Girl Reserves. BETTY JEAN O'DELL: Betty, a junior, is quite a journalist, a memb er of HighfLife and Maple Leaves. In her sophomore year one of her stories was selected for a publication in Telescope a high school magazine. In addition to Maple Leaves, she is a Girls Athlete, a TrifHifY'er, a Bridge Clubber plus the afore-mentioned HifLife staff. Page Nineteen

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SENIORS MARTHA SWISHER: Marty says that there aren't enough men, but of those she can End she says that Vaughn can put his moccasins in her tepee anytime. Besides trying to learn to swim for the past five years, Martha has been jitrerbugging, bowling, and strangest of all, hunting. RICHARD HARBERT: HifY, Lettermen's. Dick has been one of the mainstays of our football team and will be greatly missed next fall. His hobby is sports, first, last, and always. He has no opinion on women so he must not be interested. BILL ROBY: Bill's pastime is watching the girls, and his hobby is going to to Morgantown-maybe the girls he can watch down there are prettier than our local models. I Dream of You , sings Bill. He plays basketball and dances smoothly and jitteringly. SYLVIA HUTCHINSON: Sylvia is like most of us when she declares that she deplores any eight o'clock class. But she adores dancing, swim' ming, and Robert Walker. Chemistry keeps Sylvia busy. She has been active in Maple Leaves, Masque and Gavel, and Thespians. BETTY JEAN HUNTER: B. J. is a Van Johnson fan. Jitterbugging is preferred to smoothying with Betty Jean. Swimming is the sport of her choice. Arts and Crafts, Masque and Gavel, TrifHifY, Student Government, National Honor Society, and Bridge Club. CAROL JO KEISTER: Our dark eyed Latin beauty adores Van Johnson, the color red, and the song Intermezzo . This Cinderella also collects china slippers but there has been no mention of a dream prince. Arts and Crafts and Choral Club arc her activities. VELMA ELIZABETH HERNDON: Movies are Velma's pastime. She likes to watch both Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunn on the screen. When she isn't at the movies, she is dancing to Harry James' orchestra. Velma hates history, but likes algebra, basketball, and blue. JIM BOYD: There aren't many favorites on Jim's list. Football, the game, and brown, the color, are the only ones he will tell us about. We will just have to guess about the others. RAYMOND BORRELL: Slats thinks there's no such thing as a dream woman, and hopes to be a bachelor. fHoping is about as far as he'll get since the man power shortage is getting more acutej. His hobby and pastime is playing a musical instrument. JO ROMINO: Jo is the ardent jitterffan who moans low over the sweet syncopation of Harry James. Writing for Journalism classes, swimming, and Van Johnson supply her purposes in life, It Had To Be You is the one song that sends her into day dreams. Tri-Hi-Y, Girl Reserves, and HifLife. ELINOR DIXON: One of our new students has really made a lot of friends. Smoothie can be applied in her case as she doesn't go in for jitterbugging. John Payne is an O. K. fellow with her-me too! Tommy Dorsey's records have a spot in her heart. She is a member of Student Government. LUCILLE HENDERSON: Lucille has the unusual pastime of playing a pipe organ. Onions are her pet hate. Lou is a jitterbug, a devotee of the solid sending as opposed dancing. Eating is her hobby. As for color preferences, the luscious shade, fuscia, is the one in her favor. Ravi Page Twenty-one