Clay High School - Tiskelwah Yearbook (Clay, WV)

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So Long Old Pals, We Leave to You . . . CLASS WILL We the class of 1949, being of sound mind, disposition and body and hoping that we will really leave Clay High School, do hereby will and bequeath our mmt cherished possessions and characteristics to our friends and future senior classes. ARTICLE I: We wish to leave our very best wishes to the faculty of the said school, and trust that all misunderstandings will soon be forgotten. To Mr. Black we give our very best in everything and may he never forget that we were here: ARTICLE II: To Mrs. Boggess, Mrs. Harris, Mr, Lykins, Mr. King, and Mrs. Eakle, our sponsors, we leave our perfect record of never being able to decide on any one thing as a whole class. To them we also leave room 7 and the library to be filled with the incoming senior class who will never leave a scratch on a desk or table or never leave a magazine out of place. ARTICLE III: To our many friends we leave the individual gifts with the hope that they will know how to use them to the best advantage. JACK SIZEMORE-leave my ability to conduct all senior meetings with a minimum of noise to Tommy Hamrick. NODA TAYLOR-her good looks to Mrs. Bobbitt. MARY THOMAS-her ability to write shorthand to Patsy Summers, DELORIS WALKER-her hula-hula walk to Miss Craig. BUREN JONES-his football uniform to Bill Dodrill and editorship of the Tattler to anyone sucker enough to take it and his body to Miss Craig for disection. CURTIS LEGG-his love-making ability to some who really need it. DENVER LEGG-his smallness to Moocher Mullins. PEARL ADKINS-her tlnyness to Jean Butcher. BEULAH CARTE-her typing to Wilma Jean Cantrell and Chester to Charlene Smith. OLIVE COOK-wills Junior to Emma Hamrick providing she can get him. - MARY DAUGHERTY-her National 'Honor Society Pin to her brother Jimmy. HELEN DAVIS-her ability to play basketball to Janie King. GWENDOLYN DOUGLAS-her ability to please Miss Craig to Jim Daugherty. OLIVER ARBOGAST-his blonde hair to Bobby Walker CARL BROWN-his ability to get chemistry to anyone who needs it. ZANE BROWN-his ability to fail speech to Auddis Gray and his big mouth to Mrs. Jane Harris. JACK CROSS-his crazy actions and queer looks to Charlene Walker. BILLY DAVIS-his ability in typing to Keith Smith. BURLEY DAVIS-his ability to play basketball to someone who needs it. JUNIOR ESTEP-wills to Mrs. Young the privilege of destroying the pin-up calendars in room 17 after May 20. HAROLD FIELD-wills Took Boggs his place in the pool room at noon hours. CARMEL I-'ITZWATER-his world geography book to Mr. Smith because he doesn't have one. DALE FOSTER-my ability to play the guitar and to let the girls alone to Dee Hinkle. RONALD LOVE-his ability to get Chemistry to anyone silly enough to take it next year. NOEL MILLER-his ability to tell jokes to Jackie Burdette. TOMMY MORTON-his ability to torment the girls to Benny Cook. ,.

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CLASS PROPHECY fContinuedD In the midst of the snowy wastes was an igloo: around it many dark, fur-clad chil- dren were playinft Within sat Nell Jean Stone and Marmell O'brion, teacher and mis- sionary to the Eskimos, This cold land chilled even ghostly bones. and so I started southward. on the way I passed over a vast tlmbered region. As I watched, trees began falling, one ofter another. I realized that it must be Lloyd King, the world's fastest lumberiack, at work. The next scene I slipped in on was in a gymnasium. One of the teams playing WGS the House of David. Among the bearded players I recognized Cecil West and Kenneth Scott, who had finally found a. reason for growing a beard. The opposing team was the National Women's Champions. Captain and star player was the well known Helen Davis. Two of the sports writers there to cover the game were Mark Jeffers and Zane Brown, famous for fheir original style of writing, Soon after leavinf' H-9.1, sr-one I came to a huge garage-like building. A sign extending it's arm shove the sfv-ef-f said- Ever Ready Trucking Company-SCh00l Books and SUP' plies our Sneciallty-owned and operated by Vernon Wilmouth, Tommy Morton and Mur- ray McCracken. I now ca.me to an av-an enclosed with a. wire fense and posted with guards. Listening to the talk of by-standers. I heard one say, You know he started out as a coal miner, but one day he found diamonds instead. Now Teddy Grose owns these rich mines. I was becoming bored with humans, and longed for some ghostly companionship. I came at length to a building where I decided to stop for a chat with some fellow spirits. A bright sign read: William Johnson's Undertaking and Ambulance Service. My restless nature told me to wander on, and I came to a famous city-Brooklyn. Hastening down the street in ouest of an escaped convict was a dignified. neatlv uni- formed policeman-Burley Davis. Beside him was his able assistant-Patricia Steorts, Lady Detective. Turning to follow two men who were entering an office building, I heard Bob Sig- rnhn muttering, Here I am, going to an office day after day, and I was .offered Bing Crosby's place in Hollywood. Rondell Love answered, Yes, and I was asked to take Bob Hope's place. The word Hollywood put a thoucht in my mind. and I decided to visit the movie capitol, At one movie studio I saw Clay County's Margaret 0'Brien who had achieved stardom. At another Nina Sams was making a movie with Bud Abbott, where she had taken Costello's place. f 'fllI 'F'4 for these .and other stars were designed and made by Mary Stephenson, Alice Fitzwater. and Norma Friend. People from all parts of the nation were gathered that day to see the Kentucky Derby, so one more spirit dropped in, Favorites among the horses were Senior English of the Delmer Jett stables and the Cecil Mullin's entry. Young Journalism. Among the distinouished persons I saw at the races were Ruth Hathaway, who was still trying to decide 'which man she wants. Another celebrity was Jack Cross, the countrys most eligible playboy, but the most lnelgible bachelor. Nearby was a. dog kennel which I stopped to examine. I saw the owners Byrl Nelson and Richard Williams, standing by a pen talking to a pack of prize winning fox hounds, I had now wandered over much of the world. and my restlessness should have been quieted. But I knew there was one more place I must see. I immediately realized that Clay County had undergone many changes. My attention was first attracted hv a. large. new building on the hill above Clay. An inscription on the front read Clay Mental Institution made necessary hv the '49 high school seniors A sign on an office door read: Oliver Arbogast. superintendent. Throughout the country I saw several new schools. They were different from ones I remembered. for all were eouinned with overstuffed furniture, drapes at the windows, and thick carpets. In the teachers' easy chairs I saw the instivawrs of the changed school system. One souare'leal teacher was Claudia Dawson, Others were Ione Rhodes and Doris Jean Rogers. In contrast to these schools was a. severe, wooden benched one where Charles Walls presided with a hickory switch in his hand, At another building stood 5 long line of children who were waiting for their yearly vaccinations. Inside Gwendolyn Tlouglas and Bet-tv Myers. county health nurses. were getting revenge for the times they had gone through the same ordeal as school children, As I approached the high school I saw something that was strange enough to shock even a ghost. The old. familiar steps which had been mounted so many times were no longer there. In their place was an escalator which Bob Osborne had built to help fu- ture climbers. The building apparently was the same. and I stepped through the doorway for one last visit to Clay High School, The same groups of pictures still lined the halls: under the pictures students still clustered. In the classrooms the faces of the teachers were dim: perhaps I would have recognized them, perhaps not. But even if the faces were unfamiliar, I realized that in memory. as in the memories of the other Clay High '49ers the teacher at the desk at the top of the stains would always be Wllfong. The teacher who patiently coached the seniors in their plays would be Mrs. Harris: the one who worried over the Tattler and Tiskelwah would he Mrs, Voung. I knew that Mrs. Boggess would always be the Home Fc. Teacher. and Mr. King would still stand among his boys in shop, The person I would remember directing the Chorus would be Mrs. Eakle. and Sflndlnl by the library door would always be Mr. Lyklns. I knew. too. that the man passing through the doorway marked Office of the principal would still be Mr. Black. As I turned to leave the high school, I felt much as the 91 seniors had felt many years before. We had known that spring of '49 was to he our last intimate view of Clay High. and we so stopped for one last glance before turning toward another world. 127- lf

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l o Long Old Pals, We Leave to You . . . C L A S S W I L L fcontinuedj CECIL MULLINS-his women to anyone that wants them because he won't need them now. GORDON SAMPLES-his hopscotch uniform to Little Wormdrive Stephenson. ROBERT SIGMAN-his height to Bill Dodrill. FREDDIE TAYLOR-all his girl friends to Mr, Lykins providing he can take care of them. JERRY TURNER-his football uniform to Bud Smith. DON WALKER-his present girl friend and his ability to talk to Do Do Bird. CHARLES WALLS-his drum major uniform to Jennings Nutter. DALE WORKMAN-his very intelligent brain to Mr. Smith. DORIS JEAN ROGERS-her ability to get a boy friend to any girl that doesn't have one yet. NINA SAMS-her ability to miss school half of the time and still keep up with the class to Maxine Naylor. PATRICIA STEORTS-her ability to get Pete Sizemore to Helen Graham, MALISSA SAMS-her National Honor Society pin to Barbara Given. MURRAY McCRACKEN-his ability to do nothing to Kreig King. OLEDA RAMSEY-her ability to stand in the hall to Charlene Smith and her good sportsmanship to Janie King. CLAUDIA DAWSON-her quietness to Charlie Backus. CECIL WEST--nothing to anyone because he wants to take it all with him. RICHARD WILLIAMS-his ability to fox chase to Sonny Hanna. VERNON WILMOUTH-his place in a 48 Ford Truck to Tuck Thorn. SHIRLEY YOUNG-his ability to sell yearbooks to Darrell Murphy. IONE RHODES-her love for reading to Helen Rogers. BYRL NELSON-his ability to box to Teddy Reed. BOB OSBORNE-his easy going ways to Tincy Williams. MORINE FITZWATER-her red hair to Eva Ann Givens. NORMA FRIEND-her shorthand book to anyone that thinks they can break her straight record of D's. WANDA GRIFFITH-her ability to catch a boy friend with a car to Alice Gray and John to Margaret Rogers if she can get him. DORCAS HALL-her place as librarian in Chorus to Charlotte Thomas and Carolyn Hubbard. EMMA HAMRICK--her height to her brother Kent in case he gets on the football or basketball team. AVIS HARDWAY-her ability to wear a diamond to Loretta Cook and Evalina Truman. NELL HATHAWAY- Stephen to Chonita, providing she goes to W. Va, University after him. VESTA LOVING-her ability to keep her voice down to Pat Carte and her American History book to Mrs. Harris. MARY MILLER-her class ring to Bud Smith for fear he never gets one. MARY MORRIS-her ability to be the only mother in the senior class to Emmalea Ram- sey. 1 BETTY MORTON-her privilege to work in the Locker Room sixth period to Jo Ann Cook. 129.-