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

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Page Twenty-six SENIORS ANNA LEE MOUSER: Surprise! Mousie says she wants to be a spinster, but confidentially, we aren't so sure. She swoons over Night and Day sung by the male quartet, and Van Johnson simply sends her. Her activities include Masque and Gavel, Thespians, Choral Club, National Honor Society, Physical Science, and Bridge Club. BILL DOUGLASS: Bill, a smoothie in more ways than one, won't tell about his pastime. He prefers bachelorhood and sings I'll walk alone as proof. Taking time out from his hobby, women, he conf centrates on Mechanical Drawing and Solid Geometry. His activities include Arts and Crafts, Aeronautics, Boxing and Wrestling, and Military Club. ED BRUBAKER: Bro has become famed for his outstanding participation in football and basketball during the past year. He held the position of captain of the Polar Bears during the '44 football season. He has also been active in Boxing and Wrestling and Letterman's Clubs. Bru's favorite subject is history and his pastimevloafing. JEAN CAROL CUNNINGHAM: Jean Carol can be found in off hours driving a car or spending long hours draped over the telephone in rapt conversation with an unnamed gentleman. The gal has located her dream man but won't divulge said information for the press. A former HifLife scribe, Girls Athletics, and TrifHifY. MARTHA FURMAN: Martha is definitely a Harry James fan. Her hobby is playing the trumpet and me thinks she's very good at it. She hates jealous people, and believes that Men are too conceited and indef pendentf' Her activities include Thespians, Choral Club, Bridge Club, and Band. ANTHONY SPADAFORE: Tony has a horror of crazy girls-but girls in general are his dream women-no specification. He spends hours in making electric motors, and in the chemistry and printing rooms. He is in Printing, Physical Science, Motion Picture, Junior Red Cross, and KL?UB. He is also a representative in Student Government. DAVID VILLERS: Papa is interested in photography and has been a member of the Motion Picture Crew for three years. Also interested in physics, his favorite subject, he has belonged to the Physical Science Club. He helped edit our Maple Leaves last year, ran for president of Student Government in his junior year, and has contributed to the Stage Crew for three years. JOAN HENNEN: Why is the Hennen telephone line always busy? Because Joie's favorite pastime is talking on the telephone? She is very secretive about her dream man, but it definitely isn't Frankie Sinatra. Her activities are Thespians, '43, '44, Choral Club, '42, '43, '44, '45, and Bridge Club, '43. LOUISE ANDERSON: Louise is a ujitterbug' and consequently is crazy about Harry James and the song You'll Never Know . Donald O'Conner is her idea of a real man. Playing the piano, she says, is her favorite pastime. Her clubs include Girl Reserves and Twirlers. SHIRLEY HIRSH: Shirley wearily states that everything is wrong with men and women. But she will perk up at the sight of Alan Ladd and Phyllis Thaxter. She spends the rest of her time listening to and collecting the fastest Tommy Dorsey records. Commercial Club and HifLife are her activities. GAYNELLE McCLUNG: Her pastimes: Reading, walking, swimming, and dancing. Malaguena sends her tumbling up and down the room. Bef sides a samba here and there, Gay likes green and public speaking. Arts and Crafts, Masque and Gavel, HifLife and Motion Picture Crew, JEAN MASSEI: When Frankie Sinatra croons Night and Day, Jean is simply out of this world! She spends her spare time sketching, but jitterbugging is a super substitute. Basketball, the color yellow, Katie Hepburn, and Van Johnson head her list of favorites. Girl's Athletic, Physical Science, and Spelling are included in her activities.

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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

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SENIORS ROBERT MOROOSE: While pursuing his hobby, women, Bob Croons Don't Fence Me In. His other interests include American History, swimming, light brown, and women of course. His school activities are Boy's Athletic and Military Club. CHARLENE COLLIER: Cee belonged to Girl's Athletic in her Sophof more and junior years and belongs to the TrifHifY, Girl Reserves and HifLife Staif this year. She goes for jitterbugging, Van johnson, the color blue, dancing, swimming, skating, Spencer Tracy, Harry james' band, and Journalism. LOUISE SARDELLA: Darling Donald O'Conner rates gardenias with Louise, who places her favored pinfups of his homely physiognomy among her souvenirs . She cuts a carpet to minute shreds in her agony of syncopation. Girl's Athletics. VINCENT OLD: Vincent is a man of the great outdoors who indulges in skating, and football and of the indoors too, who goes to shows to see Gloria de Haven and plays basketball. Military and HifY. DORIS DRAKE: Doms obviously has the ambition of becoming a sales' lady. She lists her course as being mainly Distributive Education and indicates that she likes it too. She too, is one of the legion Harry james fans, and as for her favorite among the emoters of the silver screen Van, Sweet Man Johnson is tops. DOLORES WILLIAMS: Deezie is a traitor to her sex. She hates girls. Deezie croons I'll Walk Alone . She jitterbugs, skates, types and collects novelty pins. Her activities are Thespians, Tri-HifY and Girl Reserves. CLARA STEVENS: Oh, the homework, complains Clara, and finds a host of kindred souls who would prefer spending time at Swing Shanty or Sixth Street to pursuing the fast retreating figure of knowledge. Eating and listening to Sammy Kaye are her time-killers. Girl Reserves. LAURA LEE DONEHEW: Dumbo loves her mailman because he looks like Clark Gable. jealous girls just don't click with her. She was a member of 'Choral Club, Motion Picture, TrifHifY, Spelling, Student Government, Girl Reserves, and junior Red Cross. WILMA JEAN VAN METER: Wilma lets her mind wander to the glorious subiect of sailors, of which she says, 'iMy Dreams are Getting Better All the Time. Writing letters, skating, jitterbugging, ad innnitum, occupy her affections, after sailors. GENEVA HEBB: Oh, them awful laps, says Geneva, giving them the raspberry. Men, too, get a ribbing, they take too much for granted. Now, if the subject is blistering jive notes, she swings her saddlef shoes dementedly in the most solid of swing. CARRIE FLEMING: This is one of the million gals who hate to get up in the morning. But once she gets up she reads and reads. Jeep collects poems, too, a very literary person. She belonged to Girl's Athletic Club in '42. GYPSY FRALEY: Gypsy hates people who get in her way, and men are too conceited according to her. Picture collecting heads her list of hobbies. Her activities include Girl's Athletic Club, and TrifHifY. Page Twenty-seven