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

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MA RSHA L HA MILTON, PRESIDENT

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., 1 - i A G' N ' 'dj J J The Alumni Association grows more powerful each year and constitutes a deciding factor in the policies of Fairmont High School. The Association took a part in the Board of Education Bond Issue to build a Senior High and ward schools,l and together with the Kibo Club gave a thuse dance for the basket ball squad and students, and also helped in financ ing the Chicago trip. Where the Members of the Class of 1926 will be found: e FAIRMONT STATE COLLEGE Page 139 Evelyn Allard A - Virginia Brooks Ruth Eleanor Chaney Mary Feather Martha Fletcher I Mary F. Kerns Kathleen McCray Marguerite Morris Anna Nicodemus Maude Pollock Florence Robey Rachel Silver Mary'Ellen Staggers Bessie Stalnaker Virginia Tedrick Frances Watson Joseph Arcurri Holland Engle Warner Glover Roy Griilith Basil Hawkins Robert Powell c George Riggs Richard Shurtleff Patsy Tork Charles Kramer Kent Linger John Mitchell Harry Randall Alexander Roney, Jr. Aubrey Taylor Ryland White :f an it ffl' W lay.,