DuPont High School - DuPontian Yearbook (Belle, WV)

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Now and years to come you will probably be talking about this teacher or that one. Wondering now, then realizing later why we thought they were so strict. Remember all the nicknames you gave to each one. Some were even passed down from year to year. f C2 lf Ns..

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gn Qedica H012 M. T. HAMRICK We, the graduating Class of 1955, dedicate this edition of the DuPontian with fondest memories to our favorite cheerleader, Mr. M. T. Hamrick. Mr. Hamrick has been a member of the DuPont faculty since 1946. Besides increasing the students knowledge of world history, Hick was also junior high coach until his retirement in 1953. He not only is well known for his coaching ability, but also for his leadership of our favorite school songs and cheers in pep assemblies. In dedicating this annual we wish to express our appre- ciation for the years of untiring loyalty and devotion given to DuPont. 6

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Gfdnziizisfrafive ersomze I am assuming that the desire of the staff of the DUPONTIAN is to present a simple record of our high school life for the past year, iather than a crowning effort in the realm of art or literature. Starting this note, I was a bit dubious of the theme- MEMORIES. After all, a yearbook is more a pictorial recollection of the recent present. And if some one or two of you, in gazing at these pages, slowly-turned, shall pause betimes and smile and sigh, remembering sun- drenched noon strolls around the building, quiet chats in the library, the bustle of the halls on a rainy day, those dim, sweet mo- ments caught with someone between acts of the Senior play--then it may be not in vain that you have chosen the theme MEMORIES for this book. It is my hope that your yearbook will have an appeal to a group of people, other than your fellow students. For pupils it will be a life-long reminder of never-to-be-for- gotten days, to the other group, their par- ents and friends, it is a most excellent ex- ample of visual advertising for our school. This is the exact, the faithful, though in- complete, representation of life at DuPont high school. Daily, nearly eleven hundred individuals, pour into, over, and out of this ivy-less institution. Merely attempting to baby sit with this goodly number would be a sore chore. And, although to some of our older readers, many of the depicted scenes may need expert interpretation to prove this relation to the 3 R's, we have un- bound faith that as students, and actors in these plays, it will be easy to translate the relation to learning at the present and judg- ment for the future. For you who are creating incidents today -football games, band festivals, Junior Prom, dates, class plays, Follies, locker ro- mances, Carnival, A Honor Roll-all these, are to gather more color and larger values as the years flow over this DuPontian-with truly green envy I bow to you. Certainly, you have chosen well the theme-MEMORIES!! MR. E. F. GARRITY, Principal of DuPont High School