DuPont High School - DuPontian Yearbook (Belle, WV)

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8. Best sports: Dixie Hamilton Junior Payne 9. Most athletic: Ralph Cooke Claudia Johnson lO. Most likely to succeed: Dana White Bill Hastings l l. Happiest: Ruby Young Curtis Yates l2. Most original: Curtis Yates Elnora Belcher l3. Most loyal: Frank Youell Lucille Wayland l4. Best dancers: Eva Young Bill Clower

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Most dignified: Lucille Wayland Robert Huff Best looking: Doris Dever Bill Clower Biggest flirts: Ruby Young Junior Payne Most dramatic: Jessie Hayzlett Curtis Yates Most popular: Lucille Wayland Bill Clower Most studious: Dana White Tommy Liddle Wittiest: Eva Young Curtis Yates

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SENIGR YE R HELEN CAINCROSS The doors of the new Du Pont High School were opened to admit students on September l8, l939. A short time later the class known as the Seniors elected officers for the year. Garland Jarvis was elected President, Lucille Wayland, Vice President, and Dana White, Secretary and Treasurer. Cn November 27, Lucille Wayland represented Du Pont High School in a beauty pageant held in Charleston. All students that entered the literary contest held at Montgomery were Seniors. Dana White took first place in the debate contest and Tommy Liddle won first place in extemporaneous speaking. Lucille Wayland won second place in the oration contest. Jayne Wagoner took third place in the poetry reading contest. The Seniors held their class party April 9. It was given by Doyle Check at his home in Belle. Everyone had a grand time. After this party, the month of May kept the Seniors very busy getting ready for the Senior play, A Ready-Made Family, the Junior-Senior prom, the Commencement Sermon, Class Night and Commencement. The Senior play was given May 3, in the high school auditorium. The date of the annual Junior-Senior prom was May l8. On Sunday evening, May 26, the annual Sermon will be delivered by Rev. J. E. Wayland in the auditorium. Monday evening, May 27, the Seniors will give their Class Night exercises in the high school auditorium with a very interesting program arranged. Instead of having a valedictorian and salutatorian, we decided to name the ten per cent of the class having the highest grades as honor students. They are as follows: Lucille Wayland, Theresa Gatens, Lyda Cook, Geraldine Dun- lap, Dana White, Mertie Mae Eren, Jean Parrish and Beulah Taylor. There were others who averaged ninety per cent or more. To close the Senior year the class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty, May 28, seventy-nine Seniors will receive diplomas from Du Pont High School. We, the Seniors of Du Pont High School, appreciate the good guidance our principal, Mr. Childers, has given us. He always has a smile for everyone, and we all feel free to ask his advice on any school problem. We thank you, Mr. Childers, and we hope you will be with our school for many years to come.