Fort Ashby High School - Fortress Yearbook (Fort Ashby, WV)

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CLASS HISTORY In September 1933, three of the present seniors, Ella Mae Marker, Gene Welch, and Loy Lou Welch, meekly enrolled in Miss Etta Dunn's First Grade at the little white schoolhouse of Fort Ashby. The Second Grade Teacher, Miss Elizabeth Stemple, found the little group had grown to four, as Elaine Kimble, who had attended Davis in the first grade, joined them. But the class hadn't stopped growing yet, for Dale Beam, having attended one and one half years at Dan's Run, united with the others that year. : Swiftly go the years. The third grade still under the direction of Miss Stemple greeted Hazel Lewis who had attended the first and second @rade at Davis. The fourth graders found themselves with a new teacher, Miss Virginia Bolen. The clas¢ was very sorry that Elaine Kimble went to Fountain School the first half of the fourth grade, but she returned for the second half. The fifth grade under the direction of Miss Sarah Siple ran smoothly. Miss Juanita Roby prepared her sixth Grade pupils to enter Junior High School, When the doors swung open in September 1939, seventh graders were very plentiful. Mr. vernon Ellifritz, home room teacher, and Mr. R. R. Lowe, Principal, looked puzzled and after a hurried consultation, proceeded to di- vide the class into two sections; Mr. Ellifritz taking one sectional and Mr. Lowe the other. Violet Baldwin, having spent the first-half of the first Srade at the Abe School, the second-half of the first Grade, the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth Grades at Patterson's Creek, joined us. Norma Long, Clifford Kern, Calvin Davis, Marian Long, and Winton Hersh- berger, who had spent all their Elementary School days at Patterson's Creek, were received into the class. Also hailing from Patterson's Creek was Cleora Parrish, who having at- tended the first Grade inclusive at Patterson's Creek, fifth 6rade at Penn- Sylvania: » and sixth grade at Patterson's Creek, added her petite self to our class. Quietly making his way through the door at the same time was Wilbur Dohrman, who had spent the first grade and two six weeks periods of the sec- ond grade at Patterson's Creek, and the rema the third and fourth Brades at » Md. His fifth and sixth years Sreek with his old gang. Delores Starliper, afte r attending the first-half of the first year at Martinsburg, W. Va., the second-half of the first Grade, the second and third grades were Spent at Pennsylvania Avenue School. Not being able to resist, she spent her fourth, fifth and sixth Grades at Patterson's Creek, from which school she came to unite with us in the seventh Grade. Coming from Short Gap at the same time were Junior Powell, Jimmy Whit- acre, Lola Spencer, Zena Mae Brinkman, and Irene Blauch. Junior Powell spent the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth years at Short Gap before skipping the sixth grade and coming to Fort Ashby. Jimmy Whitacre was trained his first, second, and third Srades at Short His fourth grade work was done at Pennsylvania “Averme School, but he returned to Short Gap School for the fifth and sixth grades. Lola Spencer and Zena Brinkman, who had attended the first grade at Fairveiw, and the second to sixth grades inclusive at Short Gap School, were welcomed at Fort Ashby. ; Irene Blauch, spending her first to sixth grades inclusive at Short Gap School, united with all the others to make up our large seventh @rade. second half of the seventh Grade we found a new face in our It seems as though George Moyers, who had finished the first through the fifth grades at Petersburg, W. Va-., skipping the Sixth grade joined the seventh grade at Maysville before deciding to come to us.