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

Page 21 text:

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.

Page 20 text:

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

Page 22 text:

SENIORS DALE VAN HORN: Dale likes sports and is a jitterbug, is an ardent Harry james fan. Doc wants to become a bachelor because, he says, women are Hcklef' As a junior he was editor of Maple Leaves and belonged to Masque and Gavel, Student Government, and Camera Clvaiba Tpis year he is a member of Student Government and Masque all HV? . BARBARA REX: Babs is gloomy on the subject of men-everything is wrong with them, she groans sadly, Now on the subject of Helmut Dantine-ah-that's different. Favorites: Qlj men, Q21 archery, and Q31 swimming. Maple Leaves, Thespians, Choral Club and HifLife. CAMILLE IO ROMINO: Men, says she, are wonderful, marvelous, perfect, depending on who they are. Letter writing, swimming, collecting photos, and while away the hours. TrifHifY, Bridge Club, and HifLife, THOMAS ARNETT: Dubby, better known as Dubbyfand-Patsy, says happily Life is just a bowl of cherries. I don't hate anything. Easy to please he likes all actors and actresses. His dream woman is one who won't argue or talk too much, Besides Patsy, he likes brown, basketball. CARL SPEHNJAK: Carl spends his precious leisure hours in what he fondly calls my Chrysler. Model airplanes are the hobby of Speeny, a technical student. Speeny says that women have a terrible tendency of getting the wrong idea. Printing, Arts and Crafts, Aeronautics and KL?UB. MARY BERRY: Collecting pictures of favorite people is a pastime of Mary's, with the subject-Walter, and the object-much fun. Conceited men irk her, basketball is a sport of all sports. Mary must have ambitions of joining the hard world of business-heaven will protect the working goil. MARGARET TAYLOR: Peggy is another one of these persistent Van johnson fans. Sammy Kay's arrangement of 'Tll Walk Alone . Shows are her favorite pastime with volleyball and American history coming in second, She has been a member of Girl Reserves for two years. GIFFORD BLEVINS: Gifford likes gold Q14 caret or otherwisej and who doesn't. When he isn't watching a football game, he likes to putter around the wood shop. But, amid all these likes stands Gifford's one dislike-English. His activities are Printing Club and Wood Shop. SAMUEL JANES, JR.: Boy's Athletic. Sam, one of our womenfhating seniors says his pastime is working. He also spends a great deal of time driving a black Ford. His hobby is wood working and favorite sport basketball. MARIE FRANKMAN: Myrt, not the telephone operator, dislikes snobs. But Van johnson and Margaret O'Brien are rated high on her hit parade. She likes blue and chemistry and spends her spare time swim' ming. When she isn't paddling around, she listens to Tony Sauro's Orchestra. Her activities are 'Choral Club and Thespians. VELMA ZAMPEDRO: Val, surprising as it seems, actually wants to be a spinster. Maybe if she could have her favorite actor, Van johnson, she would change her mind. Frankie Carle's orchestra and k'Together together sound like heaven to her, blue, sleeping, basketball are her other favorites. ROSIE ROSS: Rosie is a devotee of the bicyclefbuiltfforftwo school of perambulating. Getting up in the morning and the prospect of spinsterf hood are abhorrent to her. Bing Crosby's songs via the air waves are Rosie's best way of wasting precious minutes. jitterbugging a la james is superb stuff, in addition Girl's Athletics and Spelling. Page Twenty-three