Ravenswood High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Ravenswood, WV)

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Calling Car Number 591 Calling Car Number 59! Be on the lookout for 69 young green horn freshmen last seen headed for the RHS campus. Take caution! They are armed and are dangerous. Yes, we were armed, with well sharpened pencils, bright new text books, and plenty of answers for the teachers. We started our first year of high school amidst confusion, but we soon became familiar with our surroundings. We are very proud of our freshman year at RHS. Jean Ann Suck and Doris Jean Suck were majorettes of the senior high band and Sue Somerville was elected Varsity Cheerleader. Joyce McDermott was elected Polio Queen. Sue Somerville won the conservation essay contest and a trip to camp Ceasar. We had for our class sponsors, Mr. Hupp and Mrs. Denning and two new classmates, Vickie Johnson and Smokey Wilson. Returning to our sophomore year at RHS we accepted our new status with pride and distinction. Now we started joining various clubs and taking our natural role as center-stage in school. Pat White and June Suck were selected as majorettes and Joyce McDermott was selected as cheerleader. Becky Fox won the local Voice of Democracy Contest and the Oratorial Division of the Forensic. Jean Ann Suck won the Reading Division of the Forensic. Three letters were awarded to three of our sophomore boys, Smokey Wilson and Joe McCoy for football and Martin Hartley for basketball. To join us in our activities this year were our five new classmates, Ken McDole, Sondra McGavran, Judy Amos, Cindy Champ, and Mary Sawyers. Our class sponsors were Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Jarrett and Mrs, Polk. In 1957 we received our class rings, a year before graduation, as is the tradition of RHS. Serving us as class officers that year were Martin Hartley, President, Joyce McDermott, vice -president, Barbara Fox, secretary, Dane Hannum, treasurer, and Letha Jackson, historian. We staged our three-act comedy play, Finders Creepers which was a huge success, thanks to our sponsor-director Mr. Sullivan and the cast, Stephen Seaman, John Weekley, Diane Chambers, Sue Somerville, Pat White, Dane Hannum, Martin Hartley, Judy Amos, Ken McDole, Becky Fox, Janet Carmichael, Betty Bourgeois, Joe McCoy, our Student Directors Joyce McDermott and Smokey Wilson and all the other committees. We were represented by Betty Bourgeois and David Norman on Know Your State Government Day. Our representatives to Girls' State were: Irene Tregoning, Becky Fox, and Betty Bourgeois. Representing the boys in Boys' State were: James Noll and David Norman. Stephen Sea- man won the local Voice of Democracy Contest. Pat White won second place in the State American Legion Contest. Jean Ann Suck and Ken McDole won the local Forensic Contest. Betty Bourgeois won the state Knights of Pythias Speaking Contest. Football letters were awarded to Dane Hannum and James Bever. Our Junior, Senior Prom was a big success, thanks to the co-operation of our class and class sponsors. We chose as our theme April Romance. This year we added to our class role, Vida Hardt, Darrel Withrow, Irene Tregoning and Gerry Owens. Our senior year found many of us busy leaders of the student body. Becky Fox held the position as President of Student Council with Judy Amos, Pat' White, and Willard Merical homeroom representatives. During both junior and senior years Jean Suck was Drum Majorette, and Joyce McDermott was head cheerleader. Class officers were: Irene Tregoning, President, David Norman vice-president, Barbara Fox, secretary, Helen Sulli- Van, treasurer, and Mary Sawyer, historian. Joyce McDermott and Martin Hartley were crowned Mr. and Mrs. Red Devil. Jean Ann Suck, Vickie John- son, Barbara Fox and Eleanor Sayre were Homecoming Princesses and Larry Barker, Gerry Milhoan, Ken McDole, David Norman, and Stephen Seaman were princes. We presented our senior class play My Little Oscar with Stephan Seaman, John Weekley, Sue Somerville, Carolyn Heasley, Ken McDole, June Suck, Pat White, Martin Hartley, Judy Amos, Vickie Johnson, Irene Tregoning, Vida Hardt, Sondra McGavran, James Noll, and Betty Bourgeois as the cast and Mrs. Jarrett as our director. Joyce McDermott and Betty Bourgeois were Co-Editors of the Nautilus and Becky Fox and Eleanor Sayre were selected as Co-Editors of the School Spirit. Carolyn Estep joined us for our final year at RHS and Joe McCoy made the All-State second team with Smokey Wilson getting honorable mention. Now we face the future. We are confronting a complex world, but whatever may come we realize that we have taken one big step in the right direction. 17

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As I sit here on this small deserted island in the South Pacific, exhausted from a long desperate swim for my survival, a faint memory of the graduating class of '59 at Ravenswood comes to my mind. My gaze shifts over the long monotonous miles of sand. My eye is caught by a shimmer- ing object seemingly hidden in the sand. I gather my strength to crawl to the mysterious ob- ject. Pushing the sand away I find it is a treasure chest. The curiosity in my mind forces me to open the box. In it I find newspapers dated 1979, --how can this be? I just arrived hereg -- or did I? Have I been unconscious on this barren island for twenty years? The headlines of these papers fascinate me. What's this? James Noll Elected President? In smaller lines David Norman the Custodian of the White House. And now as I turn to the society page I see a full page picture of Vickie Johnson. She's having a Mourning tea for the girls of Wilson's Fan Club. On the other page the announcement of the Bridget Bardot and David Smokey Wilson wedding. Who was it that said Smokey would never get ahead? As my eyes glance on down the page Isee that Willard Dick Merical and the former Mary Sawyers are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. In the farm news I read that Tommy Combs and Virgil Walters feed their cows chocolate drops and they now own the only cholcoate milk factory in Jackson County. Bob Pyatt,our school photographer, is still taking pictures, he specializes in bathing beauties and, of course, his favorite is Cindy Champ. Who's that sitting on the sign reading Marine Recruit Station 40 Miles ? Oh, it's just Doris Suck and Barbara Fox trying to get to see Rony and Dick. What's this! 1-2-3 -4-5 -Sounds like two of our old business math students. Why, it's Vida Hardt and Sondra McGaverng they're counting dots on dominoes for a Domino Factory! Another item: Mary Bartlett and Betty Slaven are still advertising Big Bertha's and Sally Ann's for the Ravenette, However they own that place now! Ah! Here's another newspaper and look! ! John Weekley is making his first movie, Golly Gladys, and imagine he got his start in our Junior Play Finders Creepers at Ravenswood High. As I turn the page I see that Becky Fox is pulling her hair out trygng to meet deadlines for the New York Times. That poor girl is still meeting deadlines!?!? I ? Well here's Betty Bourgeois, bless her soul, grey and in a wheelchair, but still making her Saturday trip to WMOV for her program, Storytime. What's this headline? A modern day Rip Van Winkle awakes after 20 years and the Rip Van Winkle is none other than Ken McDole. That poor boy, I'd have thought he would have had his sleep out in high school!!! Now I'll turn to page five and see whafs new in sports. Well . . . here's our own Joe McCoy and Jim Bever playing football for the W, Va, Wildcats, --you see they're so good they're the only ones on the team, and they're sweeping the nation clean!! Look here! ! Dane Hannum, the pride of Mud Sock, and his lovely wife Suzie are leaving for a tour around the world. Hurrah! I Pat White has found a cure for aches and pains. It is Stay in bed 24 hours a day,tied so you won't fall out. Well, here's Pat Ab1eS and Janet Carmichael, --they're still teaching their first grade students. It seems that Gerry Milheen 18