Hamlin High School - Pied Piper Yearbook (Hamlin, WV)

Text from Pages 1 - 98 of the 1949 volume:

I I FORWARD Our yearbook of ’48 and '49 means so much to us this year because it is the end of our golden days spent at old Hamlin High. On the unforgettable night of February twentieth our Alma Mater was completely destroyed by fire-- and along with it, the work that had been done on the Pied Piper. Have another yearbook? The odds were against us! But have you ever worked with students who wanted something so much they were willing to burn the “midnight oil” to obtain it? With that kind of determination, anything can be done. Immediately our editor, Helen Barrett and business manager, Patty Steed assumed the responsibility of re-assembling most of the materials we had had before--and missed lots of evenings which could have been spent in dating and dancing to pound typewriter keys and mount pictures. Our co-editor, Patty Plumley, along with Dot Harmon, Peggy Jarrell and Lois McComas also gave their time to work along with us. We can never express our thanks and appreciation to all of those who have helped us. To: The D. . F. Photo Laboratory of North Carolina for wiring us and saying that all of our school pictures were in the mail and on their way to us. To: Walsworth Brothers, our yearbook company, who assured us that it would be perfectly all right for our yearbook to be late and mailing us materials to work with. To: Miss Mary Alice Scites, a former assistant editor of the Pied Piper, who we had to draft to do our art work. To: Mr. Lovejoy—for-too much to mention here. To: The faculty who have allowed our workers to use their class time for work. Now take a last look at the places where old and young alike had some- thing in common--and still share the memory of happy years spent there. We give you our 1948-’49 Pied Piper to treasure through the coming years. 1 DEDICATION DEDICATION - When dedication time rolled around we decided that our yearbook should be dedicated to someone whose interest was whole-heartedly in Hamlin High School. Our next task was to find this person and after diligent thought and careful consideration we found just the one to fulfill all the needed qualifications. He is a graduate of this school, a graduate of Marshall College, holding an A. B. and an M. A. degree, he has shown great leadership in guiding our school during the past three years, and always when the going got tough his encouraging smile has urged us on. It is with the utmost pride and pleasure that we dedicate the yearbook of ’49 to our friend and principal--Lester Lovejoy. 3 The members of the Senior Class and their sponsors wish to take this means of thanking Mrs. Jackson for the offer of her home as a workshop in order that the yearbook could be compiled again. We realize that to do this Mrs. Jackson took upon herself many extra hours of hard work, not alone on all the mountains of typing, drawing, and supervising the data that went into the book, but also the extra work we caused her in messing up her house. We know that many times she felt a quiver of pain when we thoughtlessly tracked up her brand new rugs, but not one time did she show it. Smiling in that sweet little provocative manner of her own, she worked and willed us to work and the impossible happened. At first it seemed we never could do the job as well again, but we did and we feel our book will speak for itself. For the long and arduous task involved in the work of the past six months, we thank you, Mrs. Jackson, and want you to know that wherever we go, the memory of your unselfishness and your thoughtful kindness will remain ever in our hearts. Will you forgive us for slipping this page over on you, and accept our audacity for doing so in the spirit of appreciation from people who earnestly wish for you all the happiness in the whole wide world. 4 PAULINE A. JACKSON Home Economica VIRGINIA SMITH French - English JAMES K. ROBERTS Physic ! Education Drivers' Education b MARY LEE ELKINS Math-English-History AMELIA HA UGH English OPAL R. JARRETT English - History PATRICIA JOHNSON Physical Education FLO. B. VAN HORN Biology-Algebra GENE1VE KOHLER Social Studies-Music Pictures for the first yearbook of the following faculty members were destroyed and others were not available. LUTHER HUTTON Vocational Agriculture JAMES HARPER Vocational Agriculture ZENA CREMEANS Study Hall CONZA MEATHRELL Chemistry - Math 7 � DOROTHY HARMON . . Pearl '............... Loves 11 Boys......... Class President........ (oLojUI' y p Zajj ' 1Q+4L LOIS Me COMAS “John .... Loves to laugh . Secretary . . . JEAN CARPER Blondie” . Sweet and lovely Vice-President JAY WALDEN JR Pee Wee . . . Likes the girls. . Treasurer . . . . ?Li HVLUlL ! HELEN BARRETT . . . . •Suale Cue ........... Full of Fun............. Editor.................. PATTY PLUMLEY . . . . •Pat”................. Talks of Bill all the time . Our Co-Editor......... 9 PEGGY JARRELL “Piggy Talks all the time CLARK CURRY JR . . “Hon”................ Loves jet propelled cars BILL HAGER......... ••CUt«”............ Has eyes only (or Cleta DOROTHY SPURLOCK ••Dot ............. Slow end easy going Brown Eyes.......... JACKIE LOVEJOY “Gobble ........ Tall-Lanky...... Wears glasses . . . JACKIE LEACH Bugs ........ Argues with guts. MABEL SOW ARDS . . •Mabe ............ Thinking of matrimony 11 DONALD SOW ARDS . . . . Peck ................ Blushes easily ....... Has fun............... DOVETTA PAULEY. . . . ‘Pinky ’............... Likes music.............. Very Inquisitive......... VELVASLONE .......... “Puss’ ............... Hates to go to school . . . Quiet................ OTIS SALMONS............ ■'Stump' ............... Likes a certain little . . . red head ............... CHARLES KIMBLE . . . . •Charlie ............. Very dependable....... Good Guy............... MAXINE PR IDE MORE . . •Mac ................ Mary's best friend.... Very nice............. 12 RAY LOVE JOY Adkins . . . Bashful....... Cuts dimples. . MILDRED THOMPSON . . ............... movies ESTHER SALMONS . . . . “Ec .................. Likes a certain boy . . . . Friendly-Nice......... TROY HUFFMAN Shorty . . . . Good Build .... HERC1LE BARRETT . . . Chick ................ Good football player . . . . Likes boxing........... OPAL GRASS Marie . . . Shuns the boys Very Quiet. . 13 RUTH DAILEY Dailey . Good In sports . Basketball star JANICE McCOMAS Jan .......... Giggle-box...... Wears glasses . . . MILLARD DAILEY Frankenstein . , Likes sports . . . , Big pest......... LOU DEAN McCOMAS . . Mich ............... Likes to sing with Helen. . HELEN SALMONS. Glnny ......... Very talkative . . . Soda Jerker . . . . GROVER BIAS JR......... •Goffer .............. Likes to skip school. . . . Pool Shark .......... CLARA BARRETT . . . . “Sarah”................ Laughs a lot........... Silly.................. fry DAVID BURNS............ •Brain” ............... Smartest boy In class . . . Nice................... DORIS CHANEY........... ’ Jeanie”............. Likes to chew bubble-gum. RAYMOND STEWART. . ” Wert”............... Good friend........... •Mury” . . Swell person Friendly . . GUYN1TH STEWART . . . Peggy” ............... Likes Floyd ........... Likes friends.......... 15 I MARGARET SMITH . . . . Mri. ............... Plana to raise a nice . . . family............... MARY WILLIAMS........... “Swlfty ................ Good in aporta.......... Swell Gal............... MILDRED HUFFMAN . . . •MU ’.................. Collecta jewelry aa well. . aa hearta.............. ERMA LEE CRAFT . . . . “Sue .................. Like� Miaa Kohler...... Very Quiet............. ELLEN REYNOLDS . . . . Toota ................ Shy «Quiet............. Studies Hard........... 6 I SENIOR H ISTO f?Y It was that day in 1937 when Pandora opened her box and let fifty little evils out into the first grade room of Hamlin Grade School. Mrs. Russia Childers, who later changed her name to Clark, could hardly cope with such despicable children. By the end of the year she managed to teach us our A B C’s and sent us on to the second grade with the hopes of being rid of us; we foxed her and had the Board of Education to send her on to the second grade, too. The second grade found us very grown up and ready to go into business for ourselves. Patty Plumley relieved Mary Petrie of her lolli-pop, and Helen Barrett borrowed Joan Wysong's twenty cents without Joan’s permission, of course she payed for it in the end. (The Southern end, that is). At the half of the year we bought Mrs. Childers a one way ticket to Spencer and Mrs. Wilhelm took over. She was so good to us that we hated to go on to the third grade and leave her but, that was before we saw our new teacher. The first few weeks of our third year the girls “swooned over our handsome teacher, Harlan Pennington, while the boys looked on with jealousy, our class decided to become musi- cians so with the help of Helene Griffin we organized a toy band. After several weeks of blowing horns and banging drums we gave a concert which was to determine whether we were to be musicians or not. We weren't! With the toy band on our minds most of the time and Mr. Pen- nington the rest you can see we didn't have much time for books, so we left the third grade not much smarter than we entered, that is, as far as education is concerned we weren’t but we were learning more and more about that little thing called love. Oh! excuse me. I was about to forget one of the most important activities, or should 1 say mind wanders, it was the Operetta, called, “The Sleeping Beauty. This was very exciting and it turned out to be a big success. Thanks to Mrs. Griffin and Leona Adkins. Our fourth year wasn’t so full of school activities but we were up against a problem, our teacher Mrs. Quessenbury had a “handle we couldn't pronounce but she compromised and let us call her “Goosebury. We would have stayed in the fourth grade forever if they hadn’t promoted us just to get rid of us. With our fifth year came a big disappointment we were separated into two classes, one taught by Mary Lee Elkins and the other taught by Mrs. Bruce Walls. Little did Mary Lee know that she would one day be the Junior and Senior Class Sponsor, to these darling little children. The main attraction this year was Berl King. Oh! what a Romeo. In the sixth grade we were still separated, our teachers were Miss Lily Thompson and Miss Erma Linkfield. We had a new experience this year, we changed classes back and forth across the hall from Miss Linkfield to Miss Thompson. This is the year we decided to become artists. Each class made a project of some kind. Miss Linkfield’s class made a small mining town and Miss Thompson’s class made a log fort. Both of these turned out very nicely and also kept us out of mischief. The latter part of this year was spent in getting ready for Junior High. We were very excited about this and very sad, too. for we knew we were growing up and leaving all our childhood memories behind us. We were going to determine what we were to be in life and work toward this through the rest of our school days. We were in the High School building at last, now what were we to do? Which way were we supposed to go? We didn’t know. For the first time in our lives we were beginning to feel that we weren’t so grown up as we had thought we were. It seemed that we weren’t getting to do any of the things that were interesting, it all was for the upper-classes. We couldn’t take typing and Oh! how we wanted to peck on those little machines. We took lots of hard knocks from the upper-classmen but we pulled through and went on to the eighth grade expecting the worst. Our sponsor was Miss Noda Goad. 17 4 The eighth grade showed us many new adventures. We elected Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin this year and our candidates were Mable Sowards and Sammy Lewis. Mrs. Miller and Mr. Lovejoy started the year as our sponsors, but Mr. Lovejoy took up the duties of coach and left Mrs. Fulture to do the honors. This was the year that small courtships sprang up between the male and female members of the class. Some of the girls even played the game of “love 'em and leave 'em, ; we were really learning fast now. Our eighth grade was so much fun that it seemed a shame to go into high school and leave it. “Freshmen, we had a name now. This made us superior to the lower classes and don't think we didn't know it as well as show it. Our class rapidly increased in number as well as stature this year. Our sponsors were, yes, it was Ruby again and Mrs. Galyean as well. We were glad to move one grade higher now for next year we would be called “Sophomores. Romance bloomed in the hearts of most of the students this year. Betty Yeager and Lawrence Barrett found they had something in common, hotdogs. Peggy Jarrell had a crush on Bernard McClure not to mention the way Bernard felt about her. Dot Harmon found her true love on the set of the Senior’s operetta. This was none other than Bobby Crawford. Our candidate for Miss Bobcat was Peggy Jarrell. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Galyean were our sponsors again. We became known as “Ruby’s Angels, a name of which we were proud of, even if we didn’t deserve it. Ruby decided that she would sponsor us through the rest of our school year, that is if she could possibly stand it. Our Junior year, and the happiest year of our school days, we were nearing the end of our dearly beloved high school days. Yes, they were dearly beloved, you don’t realize how much they really mean to you until they are gone. We worked hard for our class and accomplished many things. We presented a three act comedy, “Brides to Burn. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Elkins thought they had a class of actors and actresses but they were disappointed with only amateurs. We gave one of the most beautiful banquets but it was well worth every minute of it. Our candidate for “Miss Bobcat, Lois McComas, won the title. This also helped to add to the joys of our Junior year. As we neared the end of the year we had to make preparations for be- coming a Senior. Our class rings were ordered—maybe we are prejudiced but we think they are prettier than any class ring ever bought for Hamlin High’s graduating students and we wear them with proudness and memories of our school days. With due apologies I’ll say that at long last our Senior year rolled around. The year that gave promise of wonderful things. We were young ladies and gentlemen now. We were in love with love and life. Romance still bloomed among our members. There were hearts aflame and hearts cracked open. There were small secrets and long talks in the old corridors. The sec- ond floor gestapo agents found it hard to cope with the girls intent on capturing some football or basketball hero. Classes suffered when the class rings came in. The oh's and ah's expressing self-gratification at such a beautiful choice could be heard above the clatter of typewriter keys and the scratching of China map making. The usual exchange went on with the usual rolls of tape wound around some boy's ring. Miller and Elkins suddenly took to wearing sweaters--not that we didn't understand that they were trying to show off those lovely ruby pendants the class had given them. An Operetta was planned but due to lack of interest on most of our parts the idea was abandoned. I must be honest and say that several times we were in danger of losing our record of five years, in good deportment. There were times when the halo faded thin and “Ruby's Angels almost became something else. But our guardian angel always brought us through. The first semester came and passed and we started on our last mile of the way. We lost five girls to the bond of matrimony, Mary Petrie, Glennith White, Joan Wysong, Margaret McCallister, and Mildred Hill. We took a tremendous chance on ordering a $50.00 royalty play, a brand new one just off the press. Meet Me In St. Louis. Our plans included many beau- tiful things and then tragedy struck at our hearts and the fire that swept away our building also took with it many of our possessions. The play books burned but we reordered again and gave the play in spite of adversity. Hamlin High School could not burn up. It will live always in our hearts and the cherished memories of the days spent there while we made history will be as pearls in the chain of life. Perhaps I have led you to believe that our Senior year was full of fun but let me reassure you, we had our serious side. Not that we did not like the little superior air of being an important Senior, the small fry’s worship, the good grades, the front seats in assembly, all these help to contribute to our fun but, we worked as no Seniors have ever worked before to carry on the name of Hamlin High School. It isn’t the building that makes the school, it's the students and teachers. 18 _Kea.r Vg _Hear y 2. J rs SENIOR CLASS WILLS being of sound minds and memories, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our las! will and testament, hereby revoking any will or wills heretofore made by us. I, Jay Walden, Jr., better known as Pee Wee being of no mind and little body but big heart do hereby will to Hal Yeager, Jr., my influence with the girls providing he treats them all the same and is with a different one each night. I, Jackie Leach, being of alcoholic soaked mind and run-down body as well as reputation make this effort to will to Jackie Linville my ability to make low grades providing he makes lower than Andrew Adkins which is a very difficult task. 1. Ray (Adkins) Lovejoy being of good mind, badly constructed body and a great way with women do hereby will and bequeath to Felix Porter my badly scorched football uniform. That is if he digs it out of the ruins himself. I, Doris Chaney, being of unsound mind and corny disposition do hereby will to my sister, Patsy Chaney, my American Government book providing she gets along better with the teacher than 1 did. I, Clara June Barrett, being of an unsound mind and quiet disposition do hereby will to Fae Bird my ability to eat candy in Miss Smith's class providing she doesn't get caught. I, Hercile Chick Barrett, consisting of no brains and no bronze do hereby will to Tagem Porter my ability to play pinochle and football for his remaining years in school. We, The Jeepster Club, being of wandering minds and jeepish dispositions do hereby will to The I. E. Club our collection of bullets gathered from all jeep owners in town and all finger- prints on the jeeps; wc will gladly let you claim yours. I, Janice Faye McComas, being of weak mind and tee-hee disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Polly Abbott my old typewrite: provided she can make it spell right, 1 can't. I, Peggy Stewart, being of sound mind and quiet disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Betty Richardson my last name for hers in return. I, Velva Slone, being of sound mind and corny disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Myrtle Lucas my girlish figure providing she goes on a diet as 1 did. 1, Bill Curry, being of a one-track mind (Namely women) and a flirty disposition do make this my last will and testament. If I had anything that was any good 1 would keep it myself, but since I don't there is nothing anyone will get so there will be no quarrels over it. I, Otis Romeo Salmons being of unsound mind and a quiet disposition do hereby will to Adrian Rusk my ability to run forty yards on the football field without hitting a man. I, Mary Stowers, being of sound mind and foolish disposition do hereby will to Alice Stump my ability to ride in a two-tone Packard anytime I want to. I, Vonnie Alice Adkins, having no mind and a very quite disposition, do hereby will and bequeath my ability of singing to Miss Kohler. I, Ellen Reynolds, being of unsound mind and corny disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Rose Marie Bias my good pencil to use for the next years of school. 1, Opal Marie Grass, being of sound mind and noisy disposition do hereby w ill my type- writer to Florence Collins providing she makes as good grades as I did. I, Mildred Thompson, being of unsound mind and a giggly disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Barbara V. aiden my ability to be Miss Kohler's pet. 1, Junior Bias, being of a strong back and alcoholic mind do hereby will and bequeath to Rubin Dillon my ability to make straight A's (with the sides knocked oil). I, Lester Haldren. being of no mind whatsoever and a loud and noisy disposition do herein will to Sam Black my ability to have a well built body and be voted the most handsome box ot Hamlin High School. I, David Burns, being greatly in need of mind and having a poorly fed body do hereby will to Dickie Burns my ability to be teacher's pet. (That's how 1 got «ill of those A's ) 20 I, Maxine Pridemore, being of blank mind and corny disposition do hereby will and be- queath to Kitty Adkins my ability to make my bangs lay down instead of standing straight up. I, Jackie “Curly Lovejoy, being of sound mind, well-built body and good reputation (since 1 have nothing to do with women) do hereby will and bequeath to Jackie Linville my ability to do nothing but dribble and shoot at the basket everytime he gets the ball providing he stays in good shape (like 1 did) and never gets tired in a game. I, Lou Dean McComas, being of sound mind and corny disposition do hereby will and be- queath to Betty Plott, Arbie Wilson provided she gets along with him without quarreling or breaking dates. I, Dovetta Pauley, being of slow mind and giggly disposition do hereby will my singing voice to my sister Corrine providing she wins first place in all the talent shows. I, Donald Sowards, having a one-track mind (for beer) and sweet disposition do hereby make this my last will and testament to Bucky “Fire Ball Dent. I will my little tin canteen which is seen dangling from my pocket at all times. (It doesn’t have water in it either). I, Mary Petrie Williams, being of a brilliant mind and a very shy disposition do hereby will to Joyce Ray my ability to get married before becoming a Senior. I, Raymond Stewart, being of sound mind and a mysterious disposition do hereby will to George Dailey my ability to play pool on school time. I, Lawrence Barrett, being of water soaked mind and apple butter disposition (drippy that is) do hereby will to Felix Porter my said apple butter disposition provided he dates Zena Dillion. I, Helen Salmons, being of a bright brain and giggly disposition do hereby will to my sister Mary my job of soda jerk provided she can jerk jerks as well as sodas. I, Erma Lee Craft, being of a one-sided mind and slow disposition do hereby will to Patty Price my ability to be late everyday in my Senior year. I, Margaret McCallister Smith, being of a one-track mind and corny disposition do hereby will to Doris McCallister my hair, providing she buys me a new wig. I, Mildred Hill Huffman, being of no mind and crazy disposition do hereby will my tooth- brush to Mary Mason and Jerry Elkins providing they take turns with it. I, Millard Dailey, being of no mind and no disposition do hereby will to Bucky Dent my set of brains--he needs them. I, Troy Huffman, do hereby will to my brother, Ray Huffman, my ability to catch squirrels. I, Esther Salmons, being of loud disposition and no brain do hereby will to lmogene Salmons my American Government book providing she has Miss Kohler for a teacher. I, Lois McComas, being of no mind to speak of and quiet disposition do hereby will to my sister, Barbara, my path between Hamlin and New Hamlin provided she gets a companion to walk the long and narrow way with her. I, Helen Barrett, being of apple polisher disposition, (or so they tell me) do hereby will and bequeath to Betty Plott my position as office girl providing she meets the necessary re- quirements. I, Mabel Sowards,-being of quiet mind and sound disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Dicky Burns my majorette uniform providing he learns to twirl the baton better than he did at the Duval ball game. I, Dorothy Harmon, better known as “Pearl, being of a mind that God passed by, and a flirty as well as prissy disposition, after much consideration have decided to will to Betty Plott my nickname “Pearl in return for her last name. I, Peggy Jarrell, better known as “Piggy,”’ being of a sound mind that doesn’t percolate and a talkative disposition do hereby will to Barbara McComas my said talkative disposition and my ability to stay awake at “slumber parties’ provided she lets the other girls sleep a- while and she is able to get around the next day without biting everyone’s head off. I, Dorothy Spurlock, being of slow mind and easy going disposition do hereby will to Mary Hager my title of “Miss Lincoln County' provided she lives up to the name. I, Patty “Applebutter Steed, being of a very shy and backward disposition and no mind to speak of do hereby will my jar of applebutter to Opal R. Jarrett so she may have beautiful self- made red hair like me. I also wili my long eyelashes to Mrs. Jarrett so she can flutter them and catch her man. I, Patricia Plumley (Atkins-I hope), being of no mind whatsoever and an unusually quiet disposition do hereby will and bequeath to my little sister, Sally, my ability to be chosen “girl with cutest figure ' in her Senior class, provided she takes her daily exercises. I, Jean Carper, being of a one-track mind and a lazy disposition do hereby will to Juanita Harmon my ability to be lady-like at all times. (Think you can do it Juanita)? 11 We, Betty Yeager and Ruth Plumley, being of no mind whatsoever and a very giggly disposition do hereby will and bequeath to Miss Kohler our blonde hair, girlish figure and slenderizing clothes providing she doesn’t put them to use as we did. 1, Cleta Moore, being of sound mind, not much body and a pleasing person- ality do hereby will to Betty Plott all my names--Cleta, “Skipper,” “Tuffy, Clementine,” “Snooks,” “Midget,” Moore. 1, Bill Hager, having more brains than I know what to do with but very little brawn, take pleasure in willing to Billy Joe Smith my basketball socks since he won’t have to wash them, they’ll stand alone. I, Ruth Dailey, being of a dead brain and sleepy disposition do hereby will to my brother, George, my ability to hit the basket and also the guard everytime he shoots at the basket. 1, Charles Kimble, being of a mind for future use only and a disposition that wore out from being tardy so many times do hereby will to my sister, Jane, my ability to be in school only two periods every day, five times a week. In witness whereof, we, the Senior Class, the testator, have set our hand nd seal hereto this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. WITNESS v. .(2 Z V3S32 L. t7r P. ____ -jfyf _______ Signed, sealed, published, and declared as, and for our last will and testa- ment by the Senior Class, the above-named testator, the presence of us who, at our request and in the presence of our sponsors and of each other, have subscribed our names hereto as witnesses on the day and year last aforesaid. 22 NAME Dorothy Spurlock - - Lois McComas Patricia Plumley - • Betty Yeager----- Patty Steed ------ Helen Barrett----- Mabel Sowards---- Dorothy Harmon - - Peggy Jarrell----- Jean Carper ------ Jackie Lovejoy--- Jackie Leach----- Bill Curr.y------ Lawrence Barrett - Jay Walden Jr.--- Grover Bias ------ Millard Dailey--- Otis Salmons----- Hercile Barrett - - • Ray Lovejoy------- Bill Hager ------ David Burns------- Lester Hauldren — Donald Sowards — • Raymond Stewart - • Charles Kimble — • Mary Stowers------ Troy Huffman------ Dovetta Pauley--- Ruth Plumley----- Margaret Smith — • Mary Williams---- Maxine Pridemore « Cleta Moore------- Janice McComas - - Clara Barrett---- Doris Chaney----- Mildred Huffman - - Lou Dean McComas Helen Salmons---- Opal Grass-------- Velva Slone------ Peggy Stewart----- Ruth Dailey — - — Esther Salmons — • Mildred Thompson ■ Vonnie Adkins----- Ellen Reynolds - — Erma Lee Craft - - AS Tint J fm0N!ES AMBITION I M-] FUTURE Model---------------- —-----------------Scrub Woman Secretary - - — Fan Dancer Housewife---------------------- Lady Senator Secretary - - Barker Secretary —------------------------------- Ballerina Secretary - - Lady Wrestler Housewife --------------------------------Old Maid Housewife----------------------------------------Bubble Dancer Secretary-------------------------- Torch Singer Housewife - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Loving Mother Coach------------------------------ Junk Dealer Lawyer-------------------------------------- Bartender Pilot---------------------------------------Crimebuster Pilot-------------------------------- Ozark Yodier Pilot - - - - - ---------------------Wine Taster Doctor - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Pool Shark Husband-------------------------------------Gravedigger Hobo---------------------------Telephone Operator Coach----------—---------------------------- Bouncer Taxi Driver--------------------— Champion Typist Marine-------------------------Henpecked Husband Engineer - -- -- — - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Horse Doctor Poultry Man ------------------------- Atom Tester Pilot------ — - ---------------- Garbage Collector Bookkeeper--------------------- Boogie Man Jr. Sailor-------------------------------- W ater Man Beautician---------------------------------- Waitress Sailor — --------------Husband to a South Sea Queen Singer--------------------------------Blues Singer Housewife--------------------------- Mother of ten Housewife--------------------------Mother of twins Loving Mother - - Step-Mother Secretary — — - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Hash Slinger Artist----------------------------------------Housewife Doctor - - Model Housewife----------------------Bubble Gum Blower Housewife —-------------------------------- Designer Housewife ------- — - -- -- -- -- -- - Heart Collector Singer —-----------------------------Dish Washer Singer-------------------------------y -Soda Jerk Teacher------------------------------------------Dancer Lady Detective-----------------------------------Matron Beautician----------------------------------------Sales Lady Teacher--------------------------------------------Army Sergeant Teacher------------------------------------------Loving Wife Teacher ----------------------------- Blues Singer Housewife--------------------------------------Congress Woman Teacher--------------------------- Ten Cent Clerk Housewife---------------------------------------Dancing Teacher Z3 PROPHESY SENIOR CLASS Ladies and gentlemen by a small miracle, the Senior Class has borrowed Charles Yea- ger’s famous jet plane to carry us into the future to see where Ruby's and Mary Lee's Angels will be twenty years from now, and if they are still angels. We have a full gas tank and up we go into the wild blue yonder. Our first stop is-New York-that place of fun and frolic. It is said one can find most any specimen of humanity here. We shall see! ! Ah, here's a modeling agency, let's go in and see if any 01 those so called Angels’ have drifted in here. Well, what’s this we see? The little gal who walked away with the title of 'Miss Lincoln County, way back in 1949. None other than Dot Spurlock, who is now star model sitting on her boss' knee, and we thought she was just bragging when she said she was going to New York. Since we are in New York we may as well drop in some theatres. Wow! What’s all that racket on the stage? Oh! now I see. That famous trio of singers, Helen Salmons, Lou Dean McComas, and Mildred Huffman are trying to convince the stage manager, Jackie Leach, that the song, Beautiful Brown Eyes, is a popular song. Poor Jackie. Let's dash over to Chicago now and see where those yelps and blood curdling screams are coming from. There is a fight raging on the docks at the rate of a mighty gale. It seems Otis Salmons and Charles Kimble have finally realized their life ambition. They are famous detectives of law and order. A small puppy has swiped some sausages from a local store and Otis and Charles have been assigned the dangerous task of bringing the culprit to justice. Hey! What was that object that just whizzed by? There seems to be some smaller objects dangling along behind the thing! I should have known. It's just Junior Walden in his new plane taking his twelve kids out for a joy ride. Junior, does your wife know you are being so care- Chicago is getting too rough for us let's move on to good old West Virginia. 1 notice several of our Seniors have settled in and around the large city of Hamlin. There's our old friend, Jackie Lovejoy, once a big basketball hero. He is working very hard, scrubbing floors in Mr. Lovejoy’s new penthouse. Don't tell anyone but rumors are that Jackie is polishing the apple for his eight children. You see, Mr. Lovejoy is still Principal at Hamlin High School. Wow! Look at that beautiful building. It's the new Hamlin High School. That's not all, the Smith brothers go to school there now. Their pretty mother, Mrs. Margaret Smith sure has done her part in bringing fame to Hamlin High. In a round-about-way, of course. Say! Look at that large advertisement for the Double Bubble Gum Company. Walking behind a hugh bubble is our famous bubble dancer, Peggy Jarrell. Peggy, we thought you were going to be a stenographer. Since we're in Hamlin, let's go around to the Ole Drug Store and jerking sodas and winking at the same time is none other than Mrs. Jack Dot Harmon Plott. Some day she may inherit the joint. Good work, Dot. On to Virginia. Here on the beach of the ocean we see Opal Grass and Clara June Barrett fishing. Someone told them that fish hides were valuable, so they thought since people were successful in selling mink skins they wouldn't have any trouble with their fish trade either. Good Luck, girls! You'll need it. less ? 24 Say there's a big three ring circus here. The signs look as if there is a main attraction on the flying trapeze. Ah. the two main actors are our two old friends. Maxine Pridemore and David Burns. They've sure come a long way from all those A's in school. Way over here on Slaw Street and Lettuce Avenue we see a large cafeteria. This place has co-owners. None other than Pat Plumley Atkins and her hubby. Bill. They don't even have to run to the bank for change like a lot of business places. They have their own private mint in their basement. Not bad if you can get by with it. Up we go again for Washington this time. Mmmmm! There goes two distinguished looking Senators up the front steps of the White House. Boy! Am 1 surprised. I expected to see anyone here but these two. Raymond Stewart and Junior Bias. How did you put that deal over boys ? Now we'll cross the street to see the great lovely dresses in the store window. The tags read. '‘They are designed by the famous Jean Carper. Those frocks are so lovely, let's go in and have a closer look at them. Here comes the Manager now. Say, he looks vaguely familiar. Now 1 know who he is, Lawrence Barrett. 1 can understand how you grew that handsome mus- tache, Lawrence, but where. Oh, where, did you acquire that French accent? As we start journey back to good old U. S. A. I see a small tramp steamer. The captain of this little ship looks like someone 1 used to know. Let’s go down a little closer and get a look-see. No wonder he looked familiar, I would recognize that pipe anywhere. Troy Huffman still smokes that huge machine he calls a pipe. With a contraption like that, the ship doesn't need a steam boiler. Bill Curry has at last let his hobby (cars and girls) get the better of his character. He has invented a car that will carry at least fifteen girls and makes at least one hundred twenty miles per minute. Here's one for your diary, we see our old classmate, Vonnie Adkins Jones zooming down Joy Along Avenue in her T-Model Ford at a high rate of speed, with the twins Johnie and Vonnie bobbing joyfully up and down in the back seat. We find Velva Slone in her study deep in thought, she has a problem. The people of France have decided that she knows more about the French language than they themselves, and have offered her a position teaching their native language. But, then there's the President's chair patiently waiting. How is your Spanish? We are now South of the Border, and just below we see twin ranches; they are called the Circle M and the Circle H. It seems that Rancheroes get together just at sundown around a campfire and strum their guitars. Look! Just outside the campfire sit a tall, handsome senor, and a senorita not so tall, and--yes, we actually saw the senor holding the senorita's hand. Bill Hager and Cleta Moore haven't changed a bit. Flash! Headlines ‘Major General Ruth Dailey and her fifteen man army entertained the whole Russian Army last night and this is the report of the gala session: four hundred soldiers have fractured skulls, seven thousand want a new set of teeth for Christmas, three thousand soldiers were given dishonorable discharges for retreating in the face of an enemy and two hundred soldiers have not regained their consciousness! (Well it's about time Russia became a Peace Loving Nation.) We're in a state called Maine now, probably so named because the main part of Hamlin High School has settled there. Just around the corner Guynith Peggy Stewart owns a nice little beauty shop. Almost all the boys in this vicinity have wavy hair. Isn't that a nice college just ahead! Our classmate Mary Stowers proves the fact that the Senior Class of '49 certainly contained brains. Miss Stowers is the honorable principal. Why not look around before we leave this brain building? Coach Ellen Reynolds is prac- ticing her famed Maine Bobcats, in the gymnasium. (Bobcats--sounds familiar.) Inci- dentally, this team is world-wide known. They have only been beaten by one team, The Hamlin Bobcats. 1 knew that word sounded familiar. Just outside of this city there nestled among flowers and shrubbery, set a group of lovely homes. Let’s ring the bell of this brick one. Well, what next! This bell chimes, I love little Willie, and here to greet us are twins named Willis and Phyllis. This is beyond a doubt the home of Mrs. Mary Petrie Williams. Just down the street Clara June Barrett owns a pet shop--and Oh! dear she specializes in Birds. We didn't say what kind, did we? The Hamlin Hep Cats just scored a touchdown! Hurrah! Hurrah! We won! Who's that yelling her tonsils out? Why, Coach Lois McComas, of course. Incidentally she has developed one of the greatest girls' football clubs in football history. Her team could lick any of youp puny boys' teams, too, I betcha. 25 Maybe it isn’t polite to eavesdrop but let’s look inside this cottage. In the living room we see Ray Lovejoy happily taking apart and putting together a Chevrolet car, no it's a Buick, no— oh! well it must be some kind of a car. But, then enters Mrs. JLovejoy, and we see ourselves retreating down the hall, we hear faintly—now dear, now Betty, 1 can explain. Do you like New York? Right down there in Carnegie Hall, Dovetta Pauley sings, and every night you may see stretchers being carried out bearing swooning young men. The vast studio building in front of us is the paradise of colors where interior decorators do most of their brilliant work. But who’s the boss, why it’s none other than our good friend, Janice McComas. While she is busy dreaming color schemes let’s peep into her memo book. Ah ha, dinner and dancing at the Stork Club with a Mr. Charles Oxley. Hmmm--very interest- ing. Loannnn! No! that wasn’t the Lone Ranger, it was Doris Jean Chaney in her '69 Buick. Doris designs those buttons and bows and frills that go to make-up the wardrobes of our rich ladies. Why Doris' new car even has pleated fenders and a bussel-effect compartment. At least one Senior of 49 was honest. Lester Hauldren is head-bookkeeper in the Bank across the street. Lester didn’t study all that bookkeeping for nothing. (Smile Mrs. Miller smile.) Isn’t this a dignified looking office all done in gold letters. No-let's not read the name, but go inside where we see an attractive dark-haired young woman sitting behind a polished desk. She touches a button on the desk and immediately there appears a tall, handsome young man bearing a notebook. This young man seats himself as near the lady as possible and begins to take notes, strangely enough he seems more intent on determining the color of the lady's eyes than on taking notes. Yes, you've guessed right, it's none other than Miss Helen Barrett and her personal secretary. Lights! Action! Camera! Patricia Steed just crashed Hollywood in her new picture, “Let's All Smile.’ But, Lawrence is waiting patiently outside the studio. Good luck, Patty. We’re right over Madison Square Garden, and what a commotion! The fellow everyone is calling “Champ ' looks familiar. (The Champ sizes up his opponent, dances around the ring, dodges the thrown blows, and then-he lands a blow which rocks the platform, then walks grace- fully to his corner while the referee counts-8-9-10.) Thewinnah! Millard Filmore Dailey! Millard is taken away by his blond manager, Donald Sowards. Donald knows more about boxing than most people know about combing their hair. His days off he roller skates. As we near a cottage by the sea, we catch a glimpse of a little boy being chased by Mrs. Ruth Plumley Looney. We can hear faintly, “Joe Looney Jr. you cannot go fishing.’’ Curves, Curves. We're advertising for Betty Yeager, who says that a perfectly balanced diet is the key to a perfect figure. Betty as you know, devotes her time to the study of Dietics. Mabel Sowards Reyburn is happily married, has an adorable little carrot-haired boy. If you visit Mrs. Reyburn the subject, object, and prepositional phrase will consist of George Jr. Our dear Esther Salmons, due to the Drivers' Education Class, has fallen in love with cars. She owns a huge automobile factory out West. The president of her factory is Mr. Leslie Ashworth. Shhh! We have intercepted a program over our plane radio. The lovely perfected voice of Erma Lee Craft drifts caressingly over the air. Erma is a distinguished opera singer. Mildred Thompson is the owner of a three-ring-circus. You'll like her circus, the characters look so much like some of our dear classmates. “1 11 raise! Who said that? Why, none other than “Chick Barrett, who is now one of the most famous card shark's in “The Last Chance Saloon, some place outside the great Western Plains. He got plenty of practice playing at the old “Bobcat back home. Our gas tank is running low so we'd better hop back to the Twentieth Century. None of Ruby's or Mary Lee's Angels seem to have wound up in those little rooms with iron windows, so we can all heave a sigh of relief and not believe those former prophecies the High School faculty passed on us in that year of 48 and 49. We had tortured them till they probably didn't realize just what they were saying. They sure were a swell faculty and we will forgive them for those things they said and hope with all our hearts they have forgiven us for all those naughty things we did in four hard lived years. 26 $cNa 4 'ifla yich. oj XyOOO AS. 27 JUNIORS BETTY Me CALL ISTER FELIX PORTER GLENNITH PACK AUTHER BURTON MARY HAGER JIMMY BOYERS 29 � Doris J. Barrett Rexal Stowers Tonopah Stowers Robert Sizemore Jackie Linville Delores Wade Lester Rusk Myrtle Lucas Betty Bell Harold Sowards Rena Black Chelcie Adkins Hal Yeager, Jr. P ggy Sponaugle Teddy Garrett Phillis Thompson 30 FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: Jimmy Hager, Jane Kimble, Thomas Wheeler, and Barbara Stowers Mary Smith, Cecil Dean, Rose Marie Bias, and Sylvester Dailey. Rubin Dillon, Anna Lee May, Eddie Ray, and Lorretta Wheeler. Ruth Pauley, Woodrow Dailey, Barbara Hedrick, and Cash Stowers. 31 « FIRST ROW: George Dailey, Pattie Price, Conrad Lambert, and Eula May. SECOND ROW: Roae Bias, Charles Young, Geraldine Bias, and Dennis Yeager. THIRD ROW: Oleva Byrd, Patricia Adains, Dorcas McComas. and Betty Adkins FOURTH ROW: Zena Dillon. 32 ODBERTASHWORTH Vice-President sopHono ?E CLASS Other Officers Not Present When Pictures Were Token LESTER DENT BETTY PLOTT ADRIAN RUSK KITTY ADKINS BERNARD BROWNING MARGARET SWANSON LEE FRANKLIN BARRETT BARBARA MILES BUD SIMONS « FIRST ROW : SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: FIFTH ROW: Ocie Adkins, Polly Abbott, Billy Vickers and Emogene Salmons Gladyce Smith. Clifton Yeager, Sally Plumley, Eugene Lawson. Buster Powell, Jewell Adkins, Junior Linville, Ann Lawson. Juanita Harmon, Billy Joe Smith. Caye Billups. Bobby Cummings. Ronald Brock, Roberta Dailey, Basil Edwards, and Ruby Lovejoy. 34 FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: FIFTH ROW: Noel Robert , Doris Dillon, Wetzel Miller, end Reola Adkins. Ann Yeager, Jackie Reynolds, Phyllis Cartin. and Ava Huffman. Paul Ray Barrett. Ramona Hensley, Yvonne Dailey, Bobby Bird. Junior Graham, Fredith Adkins, Charles Chapman. Eleanor White Lucille White, Betty Richardson, Roy Lee Lambert, and Eula May. 35 I FIRST ROW: Uen Whitten, Merle Reynolds, Jerry Elkins, end Lois Wslden. SECOND ROW: Betty Akins end Evelyn Miller. fo torruajuJU 36 CLAUDE PACK President BILLY JOE WALDEN Secretary MAUD CHRISTIAN Treasurer FRESHMEN M BARBARA WALDEN RAY WHITNEY BETTY JOE LAWSON CHARLES LAWSON CECIL ADKINS DORIS McCALLISTER JIMMY REYNOLDS DOROTHY BRAGG MARY YOUNG JARVIS McCOMAS DELORES LOVE JOY DAVID BUSH RAY MANNON AMY RICHARDSON BETTY LAMBERT OLAF DILLON AVANELLE SIAS REX JpWARDS CHARLES COOPER GOLDA LINVILLE 37 Doris Bell Lenord Stickler Wilms Bell Billy Woodsll Florence Collins Robert Hicks Mildred Thompson Rex Bellomy Creda Pullens Freeman Adkins Fae Bird Rexal Elkins Ruth Price Max Linville Emogene Lawrence Donald Watson Bernice Cummings Donald Keaton Arretta Adkins Junior Keaton Mildred Wiblem Okey Woodall Amy Stratton 38 Betty Jenkions Henry Yeager Barbara Burns Kermit Stowers Edith Johnson Lawrence Linville Maxine Vickers Roy Huffman Jo Simons Lawrence Dailey Garnet Sowards Lenore Cummings Beuford Lawson Joyce Adkins James Ashworth Wandell Courts Yvonne Clark Addis Neal Ruth Nida Noca Adkins Rexal Roberts Norma Dulaney Nello Byrd Vinson Dailey Dallene McComas Jane White Kyle Pridemore 39 FIRST ROW: Lois Tabor, Garland Mount, Delores Roberts, Harry Riley, and Avanelle Dillon. SECOND ROW: Guy Mann on, Ray McComas, Helen Curry, Kelva Lawson, and Harold Hill. THIRD ROW: Johnny Woodall. 40 BOBBY MILLER president EARL SPONAUGLE Vlce-Pr« ident EIGHTH JUANITA REYNOLDS PHIL BURNS DELPH1A LAWSON CLEON RICHARDSON CONRAD ROBERTS JOCIE SALMONS JOE LINVLLLE MARY J. MASON JO ANN PAULEY DON SMITH BETTY MADDEN DENNIS BROWNING FRANKIE CRAFT JOYCE BAYLOCK BOBBY SANSOM MURIEL SPONAUCLE 41 a i i' FIRST ROW: Patsy Chaney, Ralph Black. Mary Elisabeth Roberts and Lavada Lawson. SECOND ROW: Helen Settles and Dorothy Elkins. 42 VERNON CHANEY THELMA BROWNING EUGENE BIAS JEAN OEITZ LOIS STEWART FRED CURRY NELLIE BURNS BILLY HOLTEN DAVID THOMPSON ALICE STUMP HAROLD BAILEY CHARLENE SMITH JEAN SIMONS CHARLES MAYS MILDRED ADKINS JOHN DEITZ FIRST ROW: Buddy Holley. Jack Adkins. David Hutton, and Donald Roberta. SECOND ROW: Norris Powell, and Paul Dudy. FIRST ROW: Left to Right; Pauline Jackson, Co-Sponsor, Patty Plum- ley, Patty Steed, Helen Barrett, Lester Hauldren, Nell Hauldren, Co-Sponsor. SECOND ROW: Glennith Pack, Dorothy Harmon, Betty Yeager, Mary Hager, Cleta Moore, Mabel Sowards, and Loretta Wheeler. LEFT TO RIGHT: Peggy Jarrell, Dorothy Harmon, Betty Yeager, Dorothy Spurlock, Lois McComas, Helen Barrett, Patty Steed, and Patricia Plumley. 46 FIRST ROW: L«ft to Right; Loretta Wheeler. Ruby A. Miller. Sponsor; Helen Barrett. Mary Hager, Peggy Jarrell, Dorothy Harmon, Velva Sloan, and Phyllis Thompson. SECOND ROW: Margaret Smith, Mary Williams, Maxine Pridemore, Dorothy Spurlock, Lois McComas, Patricia Plumley, and Rena Black. THIRD ROW: David Burns and Lawrence Barrett. 47 junior plat THE ADORABLE IMP FIRST ROW: Left to Right; Patty Price, Mary Hager, Glermith Pack, Betty McCalllater, Jane Kimble, and Donald Walker SECOND ROW: Mias Virginia Smith, Sponsor, Hal Teager, Dickie Burns, Zena Cremeans, Sponsor and Lester Rusk. FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: Left to Right; Mary Elkins, Co-Sponsor, Dovetta Pauley, Dorothy Harmon,'Helen Barrett, Sonja Wilhelm, Betty Yeager, Peggy Jarrell. Cl eta Moore, Ruby Miller, Co- Sponsor . Patty Steed, Lois McComas, Lester Hauldren, Patty Plumley, Jay Walden. Bill Curry, Troy Huffman, Mildred Huffman. Bill Hager, Maxine Pride more. LINCOLN COUNTY BAND The first school band in Lincoln County was organized at Hamlin Graded School in 1931 under the direction of Louie Hoff. The following school year the band moved into Hamlin High School, with a membership of twenty-six. It was in 1935 that the first Lincoln County High School Band was organized. There were forty-nine members in this band. The band continued to grow in number and instrumentation until 1942 at which time Mr. Hoff entered the service. There were one hundred fifty members in the band at that time. In 1945 when the band was reorganized there were only five members of the 1942 band left, and now, 1948-’49 there are eighty members in the County High School Band and thirty-five members in the Junior Band. Lincoln County has one of the best instrumentated bands in West Virginia. In the 1947 and 1948 West Virginia Band Festival in Huntington, the county re- ceived Superior ratings and at the Regional festival in Logan in 1948 the band received Superior rating in concert music. Mr. Hoff has been director of the Lincoln County Band since its origin. 49 Here we are at the old’building that looks very familiar to you as it does to us now. Who are we? We're what they call the “Typical Freshman boy and girl ’ and by Freshman, we mean “Freshies, “Green-horns, and anything else the upper-classmen care to call us when we get in their way. Meet us, Delores Ann Lovejoy and David Bush. It’s our eventful day--our first tour so come along and join us. Ah! What is this exciting room where the dignified Seniors are pounding away on some little ole keys ? Looks exciting but Miss Ruby shooed us out-- we’re not due here for another three years. Oh, well! Such is life. But they say she won’t let us play on those little machines anyway. 50 Let's trapse on down the hall past all of those trophies the High School teams in the past have won to another room. Maybe we can get in there. Well, we got in by pleading with Flo B. but only long enough to peer into that complicated looking instrument called a microscope. Cosh, what's that wiggling stuff? It’s water! And they tell us to drink eight glasses of that a day! We’ve decided, hereby, to go on a strickly solid diet. Let's get out of this place for a year of two. Time enough to gaze at all those pickled creatures and carve on fish worms. So-Long, Flo! Say--Another exciting room. Can we come in Miss Meathrell? Not for another year or two? Golly, seems like all the exciting ones are reserved for the upper-classes. Well, we did get to watch them mix some potent chemicals. They must be pretty efficient cause we're still here. 51 What's that car doing whizzing around the first two periods? Let's get a picture of that! Golly, hope I get to this class--especially if that handsome Coach Roberts is still teaching Drivers’ Education. Oh! Oh! Something tells us we’re not supposed to be out here! Here comes Lovejoy with ‘‘That Look” in his eye and off we whizz to the den of horrors-- the office. Please, Mr. Lovejoy, go easy with “Roscoe.” David's really a good boy at heart. Guess we’ll not slip out of school again--even for a good picture. 52 School's out for the day and we followed the gang to the hangout--Bobcat Grill. Bottoms up! Our Freshman year was wonderful and here’s to our Sopho- more life--may it be as happy as the past one! The end? Oh no! This is the end of a perfect day! But—that was yesterday. The following pages tell their own story! And it’s a sad one to the many, many graduates, former students, present students and all the friends of Hamlin High School. Never before had we realize ?how much every nook and corner had meant to us—and how we loved every golden day spent there— 53 MATER HERE’S TO THE HOME OF OUR HAPPIEST DAYS HERE’S TO HAMLIN HIGH. SHE’S DEAR TO OUR MEMORY AND GOOD TO OUR GAZE HERE’S TO HAMLIN HIGH. HERE’S TO OUR COLORS OF GOLDEN AND BLUE HONOR HER FLAG AND BE COMRADES TRUE WARBLE A FEW, SHOUT ALLIEU HERE’S TO HAMLIN HIGH. HERE’S TO OUR SCHOOL AND WE’LL WORK WITH A WILL HERE’S TO HAMLIN HIGH. THO YEARS ROLL BETWEEN US WE’LL HONOR HER STILL HERE'S TO HAMLIN HIGH. AS WE REMEMBER IT IN ITS USEFUL DAYf ' .AjkL v ‘ ' C, ■ V)-' • j .� � tJs ' mil II I mm I ) 54 At $250,000.0 Hamlin High School Burn As It Was Wftien Wrecker Crew Went To Work Equipment Is Lost In a 5-Hour Blaze n SH FOR Sl'KIIAL ELECTION IN APRIL IIRLD C’P BV DK- STKDOIYC mi Thr Hamlin high school hurt tn adjacent gymnasium and all eq m-nt wan? destroyed by Are wtai i c uut early Monday mo aged unchecked Cor about hours KVret estimates placed the lose M ab -4j; 1250.000 Origin of the blare was aimed, but was believed to started la the furnace room. The three-story atom building anc adjuta mg Ottfi-Story gymnasium wen gutted N- hmg was saved. — of the Hamkn volunteer Ore meat a Huntington Are company And the Hurricane Are de- portment were directed at saving a nearby frame structure housing the elementary school. The high school building included right chssroomi, office space and a home economical department. lhleti4 Equipment Destroyed The gymnasium Met year at a cost of and was to have been Sectional J . 27-B Tournament on March 4 and 5. All basketball equipment and football equipment purchased for next year were burned. The football uniforms and other supplies had not been unpacked since received supply companies, Mr. Cr Included in the school loss were two electric ranges sod deoLrtc rs- frtgeratom used In the nomice department. ,t Hratroyed vas cunipW-ted over $30,000 the site of the anee was carried, but “not marty en- ough to replace the building equipment. The three-et � ry main buttling constructed in 1921. at which time Perry yfrketu. W E Tabor and Tom Woodall were members of the Car- roll District Board of Education and D E. Wilkinson was Secretary. At, Uh tune of construction it waa oon oor of the beat high school In this section of the stata. The boddtag w financed by a bond issur m CarfoB Dtttnci, which been fully paid off. Band Internment M Louie Kaff. director of Ltocotfi county bands, said equipment valued at about $4,000 waa destroyed tb blare Included were two baas horse, two bass drums, a pair of pedal tym- pana. 3$ untioma, office equipment. 120 Steel chain and flags The coun- ty-owned equipment was issued to students and kept In their Ion. but that lost bad been left in the bu Uiing following band Saturday, he saplainsd Mr 'remeant said ft was not known yet whether could be saved. Th. y were filed In a fire-proof safe, but K may have beret broken to the three x� Lory faff from office the top floor to the Chester Plotrs, local drugglri, said he discovered smoke coming from the buridmg at about 1:15 A. M. He called a funeral home, which in turn, set off Its ambulance sirens. Howev- er. by the time volunteer fighters reached the scene, flames were leap- ing from the structure from oMmS Huntington Wire Chief Floyd I Crouse said a call was reoerved Huntington at 2:12 A. M for as once. Pumper equipment made the 28-mile run In 35 minutes. The Hurrt- oane fire department equipment ar- rived shortly before that from Hun- tirwtofi. and although the fire had been brought under control from spreading to the grad school buUd- mg by the local volunteer fighters, the urttmgUm and Hurricane equip- ments stood by to case might break out in adjoining buri- ntss and reaidenttal preperttoe. Lincoln Coui r «eh00 Monday night surveyed the r- — the school building which w strayed, and began making range and long range plans for j ing the emergency caused by devastating school fire m section of the state to Replacement of the cost $250.000. School «o, Ms who attended classes to the 88- year old rtrurtnre have beea ar- ranged in four Hi the Masonic Temple, the Odd PM- lows Hall, the mirt House, and the Board of Educatos office. H.gh School and junior high «had classes wfil resume Thursday or Fri- day. Mr. Or emeans said. The county school officaato day night piedkrted It may he sary to float a bond issue of a stantial amount to raise construction of a now Hamttn School to replace the one by fire Monday morning. School Superintendent Taylor T.l Cremsaos said that the Board of Education had planned to submit to the voters in April a pro- posed special lew for the next these years u raise $92.000 per year le finance a school expansion and im- county. However. Monday’� the board needs the ; approximately $250,000 to rea the 28-year old buiklmg which f ed 350 junior and senior high sc puphs. and the bond issue qua may be submitted to the voters. Present legislation pending to members of the West Virgmce H of Delegates and-Senate will j if enacted into law. approx $200.000 for Lincoln County building needs, Mr Cremeans said. The long-range plans thrust upon the Lincoln school system as a re- sult of the fire may take days or weeks to work out. but unmedfcte needs are to be met in a few days. Shift Cage Tourney A sectional baafcetbad tournament, scheduled for the rvmnasnxm here will probably be transferred to Guy- as VaUey High School at Branch- land. The tournament date for Class B teams is March 4-5. As aft! uto- Meet consumed in the fire the w.H go into the Burvtviag the damage, .ntendent reported that the school band, which had reoantiy bees equipped with new uniforms, lost at of its tod uniforms, but ooiy one new one. Six large instruments Iron the band were lost in the blase. Said Harry Steed, head of the Hamlin Volunteer Fire Department: 'Tt was the er had m to the «Hurricane who the elementary school buikhng. Wrecker Ovett A wrecking crew was busy most of the day Monday tearing down th� stoat watts, which were a menace to mm safety of ohfidren at the ool budding which is to I t n _ ; ■ the dedication by the Odd Lodge of Hamlin to 1921, iroved by Mr Loo Smith, a of the local lodge, which ha over to Mr. Creed W 55 56 OUR PRESENT DATE CAMPUS AND MOST OF OUR CLASSROOMS. “YE OLE STUDY HALL” ZENA CREMEANS, TEACHER COURT ROOM ENGLISH 9 MRS. HAUGH, TEACHER BAPTIST CHURCH MATH 9 CONZA MEATHRELL, TEACHER BAPTIST CHURCH FLO B.’S BUGOLOGY CLASS CENTRAL CHURCH 57 HISTORY 11 MRS. JARRETT, TEACHER COURT HOUSE FAMILIAR SITES-STUDENTS ENROUTE TO CLASSES MRS. WOODALL’S CLASSES BASEMENT OF TRINITY CHURCH 58 dii' MRS. JACKSON’S CLASSES CITY COUNCIL ROOM IRS. JACKSON’S HOME ECONOMICS CLASSES OVER LINCOLN GROCERY MRS. ELKINS’ CLASSES FORMER BEDROOM OF THE JURY ENGLISH 12 VIRGINIA SMITH, TEACHER COURT HOUSE 59 J iLTLLAr 61 MISS LINCOLN COUNTY Miss Dorothy Ann Spurlock, Senior of Hamlin High School, was chosen by a board of judges as Miss Lincoln County at the First County-Wide Fair. Seventeen other contestants competed from the three high schools of the county for the title. Miss Spurlock is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Madden. 62 ATHLETICS OTIS SALMONS JACKIE LOVE JOY JACKIE LEACH 64 BILL HAGER HERCILE BARRETT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE HAMLIN HIGH SCHOOL 1948 SEASON September 17 — 46 Buffalo -- 0 October 1 — 6 Winfield — 13 October 8—6 Milton — 19 October 15 — 13 G. V. — 6 October 22 — 32 Fort Gay — 6 October 29 — 6 Madison — 13 November 5 — 52 Duval — 7 November 12 — 6 V ins on — 13 Hamlin 221 Opponent -- 70 Jackie Leach: “What would your father say if he saw you at this time of night?' Jackie Lovejoy: “He’d say, ‘Don’t tell Ma’ ! ’’ Harry Steed: (Discovering his daughter on young Barrett’s lap): Patty!! What does this mean? Patty: “Come back in about fifteen minutes. Dad. I ought to know by then.’’ Pauline Jackson: “And what do two ducks and a cow remind you of?’’ Betty Madden: “Quackers and milk.’’ (Jim Roberts while in Morgantown.) Telephone Operator: “It costs seventy-five cents to talk to Hamlin.’’ Coach: “Can’t you make a special rate for just listening ? I want to call my wife.’’ Mrs. Jarrett: “Willie, what is it when I say ‘I love you, you love, he loves me?” Felix Porter: “That’s one of those triangles where somebody gets shot.’’ 65 JACKIE LOVE JOY “Gobble” JAY WALDEN. JR “Pee Wee” BASKETBALL SCHEDULE HAMLIN HIGH SCHOOL 1948-M9 S N I 0 R December 9 — 37 December 14 — 17 December 27 — 47 January 1 — 34 January 4 — 42 January 7 — 39 January 12 — 42 January 14 — 37 January 15 — 43 January 18 -- 38 January 21 — 35 January 25 — 34 January 27 -- 60 January 28 — 42 February 4 -- 42 F ebruary 8 -- 40 February 10 -- 43 February 12 — 37 February 15 — 47 F ebruary 19 — 46 February 22 -- 43 Fort Gay — 42 Wayne -- 30 Alumni — 30 Logan — 45 Milton — 45 Vinson — 44 Barboursville — 45 Madison — 44 Duval — 38 Pt. Pleasant — 59 Logan — 60 G. V. — 33 Buffalo — 34 Fort Gay — 39 Milton — 45 G. V. — 41 Madison — 45 Duval — 42 V ins on — 52 Ceredo Kenova — 66 Barboursville — 55 B 0 B C A T S 66 FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: Left to Right; Okey Roberts, Henson Browning, Bobby Biss, Adrian Rusk, Otis Salmons, Troy Huffman, Ray Lovejoy, Bill Hager, Jackie Linville, Jay Walden, and Hal Yeager. Jackie Reynolds, Billy Jo Walden, Lester Dent, Bud Simons, Charles Chapman, Dickie Burns. Rexall Stowers, Jackie Leach, Ronald Brock, Jimmy Reynolds, George Dailey, and Jackie Lovejoy. Eugene Lawson, Freeman Adkins, Chelcie Adkins, Billy Jo Smith, Edgar Adkins, Vinson Dailey, Lee Barrett, Bobby Cummings, Bernard Browning, Olaf Dillon, and Millard Dailey. Coach James Roberts, Claude Pack, Okey Woodall, Felix Porter, Odbert Ashworth, George King, Tom Stevens, Clifton Yeager, Jimmy Hager, Wandell Courts, Roy Lambert, and Ray Weaver. FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: Left to Right; Okey Woodall and Claude Pac , Managers. Lester Dent, Bobby Bias, Bill Hager, Jackie Lovejoy, Otis Salmons, Jay Walden, and Ray Weaver. Jackie Linville, Eugene Lawson, Hal Yeager, Bud Simons, George Dailey, Tom Stevens, Adrian Rusk, and Andrew Adkins. James K. Roberts, Coach, Olaf Dillon, Billy Walden, Freeman Adkins, Clifton Yeager, Denail Stowers, Roy Lambert, and Dickie Burns. a 67 FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: FIFTH ROW: L«£t to Right: Claud Peck, Jay Walden, and Okev Woodall. Bobby Bias, Jackie Lovejoy. Troy Huffman. Bill Hager. Ray Lovejoy. Jackie Leach. Otia Salmona. Millard Dailey and Okey Roberta. Coach Jamea Roberta. Ronald Brock. Wandell CourU. Vina on Dailey, Lea ter Dent. Edgar Ad kina, Ruak, George George King. Billy Smith, and Jimmy Reynolda. Bobby Cummings. Olaf Dillon. Jimmy Hager, Jackie Lln- ville. Bernard Browning. Eugene Lawaon, Odbert Aah- worth. Fell Porter, and Jackie Reynolda. Henaon Browning. Tom Stevena. Charlea Chapman. Rexall Stowera, Lee Barrett, and Bud Simona. FIRST ROW; Left to Right; Joyce Ray, Lou Dean McComaa, Helen Salmona, Ruth Dailey, Marie Reynolda. Betty Plott, and Barbara McComaa. SECOND ROW: Mra. Page Johnaon, Teacher; Gerry Elkina, Mary Williama, Sally Plumley, Patty Price, Mildred Huffman. Avonelle Siaa. and Helen Barrett. 68 SCHOOL FUN The Junior-Senior Banquet of Hamlin High School, held in the auditorium in the Spring of '48, had a unique feature--the crowning of a queen and king of the banquet. Miss Mary Alice Scites and Mr. Paul Hayne Smith, members of the Senior Class were chosen by popular vote to be king and queen of the banquet. The attendants were chosen from the Junior and Senior classes. They were: Patty Steed, Margaret McCallister, Ida Isaacs, Nada Rose Hauldren, ana Eva Lee Yeager. Mildred Hill and Lou Dean McComas served as pages. Assisting in the ceremony were Lester Paul Lovejoy and Ellen Gay Jarrell who were crown bearers while Sonja Ann Wilhelm presented the flowers. Miss Alice Reynolds, queen of '47 and Mr. Carl Elkins, King of '47 per- formed the crowning ceremony. JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET 1947-48 70 71 72 AUTOGRAPHS futocjxafilifL 74 ADVERTISING Lincoln National Bank 41 YEARS OF PROVEN SAFETY HAMLIN WEST VIRGINIA Guyan Lumber Co. “THE HOME BUILDERS ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL’S PHONE 7-K-15 WEST HAMLIN WEST VIRGINIA Lincoln Theatre FINE ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL PHONE 115 HAMLIN WEST VIRGINIA Coal River Insurance BILL HOSTETLER, AGENT HAMLIN WEST VIRGINIA SALES SERVICES Lincoln Willy's Co. 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