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

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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

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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.

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,ago Tuventyffnlir SENIORS WALDON WADSWORTH: Waldon is an earnest fan of F. H. Sfs own symphony of brass, the band. Automobile driving, buzzing the streets of our fair city at whofknowsfwhat an hour, is another love of his. gh? scientific and athletic clubs both claim him-chemistry and basket' a . P IRENE CHARKCANDY: Renie's favorite sport is golf. Her dream man is Alan Ladd but next to him she likes C. A. P, She is a member of the Aeronautics Club. In her Sophomore year she was a member of the Athletic Club, Girl Reserves, and Junior Red Cross and ini her Junior year Spelling Club and Junior Red Cross. JEAN DAVIS: Jean wants to make some man a good wife but right now she says there are not enough men and too many women, Blondie likes blue, basketball, and of course, Van Johnson. Commercial Club, TrifHifY, and Student Government are her activities. MILDRED HALL: English teachers are the bane of Mildred's life. Could it be mutual? Sleep gathers up the raveled sleeve of care, said Shakespeare, to which Mildred adds, Amen. Athletics, TrifHifY. GEORGE GEREAU: George says he's pessimistic for he hates women and wants to be a bachelor. The exception to the rule is Paulette Goddard. Also he listens avidly to the Andrew Sisters, prefers Deep Purple to all other songs. KATHERINE OLIVERIO: Katherine spends her time listening to the radio and jitterbugging, preferably to the Oldie Dark Town Strutters Ball. She abhors feminine conceit. Collecting jewelry is a time taker' upper and hobby. Girls Athletics and Red Cross. JOAN HARTLEY: If you want to make a hit with Joan just mention Clark Gable and she'll be your lifelong friend. She hates Hitler fwho doesn't?j and spends her spare time sleeping. Her activities include Girl Reserves and Girls Athletic Clubs, ANN SHARP: Sharpie, otherwise known as k'The brain offers her wise analysis of the faults of men and women. Women talk too much, and men look too much. Walking takes up part of her spare time. The other part is spent in worrying. Maple Leaves and Thespians are her activities. ROSE MARIE CLAYBOUR: Rosie is one of those rare creatures who likes history, She also favors blue, reading, swimming and 'Cary Grant. She is a jitterbug and gets groovy when she hears Harry James' rendition of Dance with a Dolly. JUANITA PATTON: Juanita says gloomily that everything is wrong with with men and women. A jitterbug, she likes Always and Guy Lombardo's orchestra. When she isn't sewing, Juanita is collecting knickf knacks. Her nicknames range from To To on one end to Sun on the other, with L'Peggy in the middle. MARY LOU CLARK: Mary Lou likes pink, basketball, Sonny Tufts, and Typing. Sammy Kaye, and Together make her starry eyed. Mary Lou's very pleasant hobby is loaling. Her activities are TrifHifY and Girl Reserves. MARY FRANCES RIZZO: The people who look at the world through pink glasses can label Mary Frances as one of their kind-she has no pet hate, no criticism of men or women and no fears of getting hooked into spinsterhood. She likes bowling, swimming, skating, Xavier Cugat, Collecting photos, Tyrone Power, Girl Reserves, Red Cross.