Wheeling High School - Record Yearbook (Wheeling, WV)

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SENIOR CLASS POEM By Helen Chapman We have spennt our childhood Among the lofty peaks of a democracy. The symbol df the Winged eagle Has guided lour stumbling, childish feet throughkwisted paths. Freedom i Has given life+not death to our adventurous youth. y Now we begin to carve a future. We hew that future In the pure marble of opportunity, in granite of hope and of faith. A We inscribe alfuture ambition. Still the firm grip of democracy guides the un- skilled bland, And We are happy. We are happy: Oppression shall not visit us. We are happyg Our children Will walk the paths That We have made, In the wake qf the Winged eagle. 1939 l r l

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1938-39 The senior class, under pretty, energetic, popular Betty Banta, held a distinct honor in being the largest class in the history of Wheeling high school, with 275 students. Highlights of the year were the presen- tation of the senior musical comedy, under the direction of Miss Bertha Marie Dwinnell, the inauguration of one of the WHS's great-A est student governments, the recognition of the school paper in the state HEIQE I WHAT DID contest and the organization of Wheeling high's Debate Club by a group of senior boys. Individual honors were handed Eleanore Gilmore as state reporter of the Home Economics Club, Eleanor Lude- wig as state president of Home Economics Club, Caroline Nestmann, who had the highest average among Wheeling high's senior enrollment of 275 students, and Betty Banta as Wheeling High Schools Best Citizen. All these made this year the greatest in the high school career of the class of 1939.

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f' -15' ' ig it 3, , .ng - ,, ff. EDWARD ABRAHAM, Practical Arts: Home Room Treasurer, 3: . . . MARIAN BERTHA ACKER, Classical: Girls' Glee Club, Secretary, 4: Girl Reserves: Home Economics Club: Student Council: All- Valley High School Chorus: Senior Musical Comedy Cast: . . . HARRY ADAMS, Practical Arts: . . . LULA HAR- RIETT ALEXANDER, General: Home Room President, 2, Secretary, l: Girls' Glee Club: . . , SARA JANE ALLISON, Practical Arts: Ceramics Club . . . LIL- LIAN ANDRICH, General: Ceramics Club . , . KARL E. ARMBRECHT, Prac- tical Arts: Hi-Y Club: Home Room Presi- ent, 3, 4, Treasurer, 2. Vice President, l: Football . . . GLENN T. ARM- STRONG, Bookkeeping . . . PANT WIL- LIAM BALL, JR., General: Student Council . . . BETTY BANTA, Secretar- ial: Class President, 4, Vice President, 3: Student Council, Cabinet, 4, Treasurer, 3:fHoRV Economics Club: Creative Playshop: Allied Youth: Debate Club, Secretary-Treasurer, 4: Best Citizen Among Senior Girls: G. A. C., Student Leader Club: Record Circulation Staff: Ring Tennis Champion, 2, 3, 4: Volley Ball, Champion, 3, 4: Member of All Intramural Teams . 1 . GEORGE BAUMAN, Practical Arts . . . ELSIE DELORIS BERTSCHY, Secre- tarial, Girls' Glee Club: Girl Reserves, Service Chairman, 4: Creative Playshop, Secretary, 4: Allied Youth: Clerk of Stu- dent Court, 4: Home Room Vice Pres- tident, 4: Ollice Assistant, 3, 4 . . . VIOLA MAE BLACK, Bookkeeping: Glee Club: Record Staff: Orchestra: Home Room Secretary, 2, 3: Home Room Presi- dent, 4: G. A. C .... DOLORIS MAY BLAKE, General: Student Council Moni- tor . . . ELEANOR F, BLAZIER, Sec- retarial: Girl Reserves: Ceramics Club, Secretary, 4: Chairman Senior Activities Committee . . . ROBERT C. BLUM Practical Arts: Hi-YC1ub: Ereshmanlioot- ball Squad: Home Room President, l . . . RUSSELL BLUM, Bookkeeping, Clerk of Student Court . . . KATHRYN BONDO, Secretarial: Yearbook Editorial Board: Home Economics Club: Girl Re- serves: Glee Club: Record Staff, Assistant Managing Editor, 4: Assistant News Edi- tor, 4 . . . MILLIE BOOTH, General: Ceramics Club: Home Room Secretary, I : Home Room President, 2: Class Secretary, Z: Basketball . . . BETTIE WARD BOYCE, Bookkeeping: Second Class Hon- ors: Commencement Speaker: Record Staff. Editor-in-Chief, 3, 4, Yearbook Editorial Board: Home Economics Club: Saddle Club, Secretary-Treasurer, 3, 4: Student Council, Cabinet, 2: G. A, C.: Home Room President, 1: Record Gold Key Award.