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

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CHARLES HARRY SEEDERS “Harry” “Sull water runs deep.” Class Play °51, °52 Glee Club “49 School Improvement 49, ’50 Basketball °50 GEORGE KAY ELDER “Buzzes” “Makers of words are not makers of grades.” Basketball “49, °50, 51 Glee Club '52 Falashbian Staff '51 Class Play 7°51, 52 School Improvement ‘49, ’50 , 752 DOLLIE CATHERINE BEAM “Dottie” “Sull tongue makes a wise head.” Fortress Staff '52 Glee Club 50, 752 Class Play 52 Handicraft 50 Tri-Hi-Y 49 Operetta 52

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Class History 194041—We are meek and scared little boys and girls as we enter our schoo! life with Miss Martin as our teacher. Our enrollment included Dollie Beam, Anna Bosley, Donald Kenney, James Kenney, Glenn Mille- son, Ruth Rexrode and Harry Seeders. 19414 ’42—Our second year has brought with it some excitement. Our school has burned and we are holding classes in the high school gym- nasium. More excitement prevails when “Bunny” Martin goes down the sliding board and leaves his pants on the top. 1942-43—Third graders, and we are back in a remodeled building with Miss Bolen as our teacher. We get to take turns ringing the school bell and the cloak room has become the paddling place . Hazel Bosley joins us by skipping a grade. 1943- 44—Our fourth year has opened with a bang. Miss Harris is our teacher. We are all thrilled by performing a drill as our contribution to May Day. Joining us this year is Nina Pownall from Wiley Ford and Jack Miller from Springfield. 1944-45—Fifth graders, and we are back in the high school building to stay, with Miss Mawhinnevy as our teacher. Jack Frankland joins us from Keyser and Nina Pownell’s heart starts to flutter. All the girls are carrying big pocketbooks and wearing yarn doll babies on their sweaters. 1945-46—Mrs. Long, our sixth grade teacher, has arranged a half hour gym period and is teaching us to play basketball. Newcomers are Kay Elder and Beverley Shirley from Cumberland. When our teacher went to the office. she locked the door to make sure we would stay in. Upon returning, she found the windows open and her class gone. From our hiding places in the lockers, we heard her tell Mr. Judy we had jumped out the window. We are to be in the May Day Program again this year. 1946’47—Our class has greatly increased. Coming from Patterson’s Creek is Elizabeth Anderson, Doris Long, Richard Lyons, and Wilma Twigg. Short Gap sent us Doris Boher, Gene Ault, Lois Dayton, Bruce Bosley, and Wilda Wyer. Flora Mae Shipman has joined us from Pied- mont. Miss Swecker is our homeroom teacher. We had our first hayride last night and Beverley Shirley and Doris Long got into a fight over Donnie Kenney. Jack Frankland was promised a piece of bubble gum if he got Donnie to go with Doris. 1947-’ 48—-Mr. Keplinger is’our eighth grade homeroom teacher. Our boys were beaten one point in the finals of the District Eighth Grade Tournament by Petersburg. Don Kenney was picked as the best looking boy in the tournament. Miss Swecker took us to Washington, D. C., on the seventeenth of April. 1948- 49—We are now Freshmen and Mrs. Marks is our homeroom teacher. Keyser beat our Junior High team by one point in the Sectional Tournament. Eunice Watts has joined us from Allegany and is stealing Donnie Kenney from all the other girls. 5 1949-’50—Our Sophomore homeroom teacher is Mr. Marker. Louise Kerns is a newcomer from Romney. We will never forget the Thanksgiv- ing Program we presented. We are all going to the Apple Blossom Festi- val in Winchester, Va.. by chartered bus. 1950-51—This is our busiest year of school. We are now Juniors with Mrs. Herriott and Mr. Small as our advisors. Emory Shriver has joined us from Ridgeley. This year we sold beanies, started an annual dance, the “Autumn Ball,” and presented our class play, “It’s a Date.”