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

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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.

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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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SENIORS ELEANOR SCHWARM: Eleanor, our prima donna chooses Sweet and Lovely from all the songs in the world to be that certain one. Slats eats as a pastime and adores Van Johnson as a passion. National Honor Society, Maple Leaves, Choral Club, Girl Reserves. JACK B. SMITH: Smitty, the Smoochie' is a gentleman, spelled wolf . His favorite subject is women and collecting phone numbers is his hobby. He does have a serious side, even though it is concealed by his sheep's clothing. During his sophomore year he was in Arts and 'Crafts and Aeronautics Clubs, Maple Leaves while a Junior, and Student Government and Physical Science, while a senior. STEWART CROOKS: Stewart hates eight o'clock classes. lf he could take as much time as he wanted to pursue his lazy hobby and pastime, doing nothing, Stewart would be perfectly happy. He likes a fast game of football, or listening to Ted Lewis's Orchestra, BETTY DOUGLAS: Betty despises silly girls and in her opinion men are daring but too critical. She loves to jitterbug. Blonde Betty June has not yet found a dream man. Choral Club, Masque and Gavel, and Arts and Crafts are her activities. JO ANN SMITH: Sings Jo Ann, I Wanna Get Married, and she's a grand bet too, as a housewife, for she cooks and she sews a fine seam. Opinions on men. Some are conceited, some are foolish and one, only one, is grand. Girl Reserves, Choral Club, Arts and Crafts. JOHN HARDING: Oh, How l Hate to Get Up in the Morning may have been written especially for John. He likes the song Rum and Coco1Cola, howling and Girls , Females are his favorite subject al' though his huge complaint is, They talk too much. JOAN PURDY: Joan the philosopher spends her time thinking about things. Men are perfection itself, except that some are bashful faw, geej. Dancing with a hop, skip, and straight into the groove is a major occupation of Joan's. Add vital statistics: She skates, yens for Turban Bey, and jives to James. BETTY CONLEY: Betty's dream man is Boris Karloff. She has night' mares. A girl with plenty of school spirit, she likes blue and white and West Fairmont's band and dislikes East Side. Girls' Athletics, Maple Leaves, Student Government and Twirlers have kept her busy during her three year's stay at West High. MARY ANN ALKIRE: Masque and Gavel, Physical Science, Motion Pic' tures, Tri-Hi-Y, Student Government and Bridge Club have been Mary Annls activities since she entered our school in 1942. Mary Ann doesn't like jitterbugging and her favorite subject is chemistry. JOHN DONALD EVEREST: Donald thinks that getting up early is too grotesque. His favorite sports are tennis, hunting, and shooting. His spare time is spent with his music which he seems to like. Camera Club is included in his activities. BETTY JO MOORE: Betty Jo, one of our cute seniors, loves the radio, dancing and collecting pictures. She plays ping pong and sings over Jon, fmusclesj Hall. s'Making Believe to Guy Lombardo's band takes up the rest of her time. MILDRED POTTER: Chickee's dream man is Perry Como. Yellow, swim- ming, and Lorraine Day are other favorites of Chickee. When she isn't sleeping, she likes to type and we hear that she is pretty good at it, TrifHifY and Junior Red 'Cross are her activities, a., if ,.. A 4 f 'Q v Page Truenly-hue