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

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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

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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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page Twnnly-Iwo SENIORS DON HAMILTON: Don is so decided on the subjects that he puts wolfing and Betty Grable down twice each. Hank is the scourge of English teachers, loves football, study hall and White Christmas . Don's a printer and Hi-Y member. LA VEDA STOUT: La Veda has a delightful life ahead. She wants to be an old maid and run a home for bachelors. She frankly thinks men are grand and names favorites to prove it. We might add Tyrone Power. Arts and Crafts, TrifHifY, Spelling, and Girl Reserves. BETTY PEPPER: Betty's favorite subject is math. Well, what do you know, beauty and brains. When she isn't pursuing her pastime, sleep- ing, Betty likes to watch a game of basketball. But from the looks of her, she seems to have had plenty of beauty sleep. Tri-HifY, Band and Maple Leaves '44, are her activities. ROBERT SMITH: Bob is a perfect man. Why? Because he thinks women are perfect. A jitterbug, he likes to jive to the song Rum and Coca Cola. An agreeable fellow he hates nothing and does just any' Qing for a pastime. His activities are Arts and Crafts and the Spelling U . ROBERT TAYLOR: Birch our quiet senior thinks all women are nckle. He got his neat physique from football. When sports aren't on his mind he likes Duke Ellington and You'll Never Know. His activities include Hi-Y, Letterman's Club and Military Club. ERNESTINE JONES: This snappy little majorette thinks Sugar is a swell pastime and is O.K. for a hobby too. 1onesie's pet hate is con' ceited people and her favorite actor is Van johnson. Her activities inf clude Girl's Athletic, Arts and Crafts, Thespians, Maple Leaves, Tri-HifY, Twirlers, junior Red Cross and Hi-Life. MARY LOU CASTEEL: Bubbles CCastile soap, you know, seems to see all sides to a question because she hates women who wear slacks. She likes john Payne or Bette Davis. A smoothie, she loves to glide to Stardust . Besides dancing, Mary Lou likes gnipfgnop Qpingfpong spelled backwardsj, having a good time and bookkeeping. She is a student government representative. JUNIOR WILSON: Oh, Those terrible, nasty, mean, women sighs junior, they're my pet hate of all pet hates. Give me athletics, and the great glorious outdoors. Don't fence me in-Peanuts prefers to hunt. CATHERINE KNIGHT: Catherine loves sleeping, consequently hates get' ting up. Cathy finds nothing at all wrong with either the masculine or feminine special. Fred Waring, Sweet and Lovely and Van johnson would be a perfect combination to her. MARY STUTLER: Mary says she has trouble with that old masculine trait of stubbornness. Reading, letter writing, swimming and tripping the high and wide fantastic interest Mary's leisure hours. English, the scourge of all scourges, is debased as her pet hate. Asked about career women vs. wedding bells, the latter won, Girls Athletics and Girl Reserves. LOIS GRAVES: As for people, I enjoy all-both kinds. Which kinds? Why, people with money and people without, as for dancing, any kind will do, as for life in general, let me dream. TONY ALVARO: Tony frankly admits that women are his favorite pastime but he hates cats. He seems to be contradicting himself. A certain person named Florine is his ideal. Tony sometimes drags himself away from his pastime long enough to play a very good game of golf. His other activities include Military Club, Boy's Athletic and Arts and Crafts.