DuPont High School - DuPontian Yearbook (Belle, WV)

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1955 WHS gl 6 860' WAKE- Uncle Sam launched the-first atomic-powered submarine . . . The United States called on other nations to join in a plan for sharing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, and the United Nations voted in favor of the proposal . . . United States exploded its second hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, which hurt Japanese fishermen eighty miles from blast site . . . Britain agreed to Egyptian demands to withdraw troops from the Suez Canal area . . . N ation-wide tests of a trial anti-polio vaccine had encourag- ing results . . . Englishman Roger Bannister, a medical student, broke the unconquerable four minute mile . . . Italy and Yugoslavia settled their long-standing dispute by dividing Trieste . . . Vishinsky, Russia's delegate to the United Nations died . . . The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The 88-mile West Virginia Turnpike was opened from Beckley to Charleston. The superhighway, the first in the state, cost 133 million dollars . . . Chuck Yeager, a West Virginian, the first man to break the sound barrier, received the Hamilton Award. He was voted one of the ten outstanding men in 1954 . . . The 1955 state legislature was faced with a deficit budget for the first time in 25 years. Carl Walker, a senior, was elected President of his class for the third consecutive year . . . Miss Bea Abrenica from Honolulu, Hawaii, visiting Miss Nancy Mulligan, gave a very interesting talk to the civic and journal- ism classes, as well as the Student Body, Citizenship Day Friday, Septem- ber 17 . . . For the first time a school supply store was put into operation by the Student Council . . . Career Day, which is designed to help students choose suitable vocations and decide about colleges, was held October 4, with speakers from West Virginia Tech, Bethany College, Morris Harvey College, West Virginia University, Davis and Elkins, Alderson-Broaddus, and Marshall College . . . Larry Stanley was chairman of the chair commit- tee composed of about nine boys . . . Mrs. Folsum Sturm, former math teacher at DuPont High, donated a fifteen dollar check to the school to buy two pink dogwood trees for the campus . . . Peggy Gibson received second place honors in the Miss Fire Prevention beauty contest . . . Eunice Smith was the first senior to make a deposit on the New York trip . . . Rosemary Walker, a sophomore, won a scholarship providing for private training on her violin. She was one of three persons receiving an award given to Kanawha Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra Members by the Charleston Woman's Club . . . Jean Anne Hudnall, Carol Sue Palmer, and Lois Albert represented the DuPont Y-Teens at a conference at Jackson's Mill . . . DuPont's A band members were guest players November 8, at the celebration of the opening of the West Virginia Turnpike . . . Freddie Whitlock and Shiela Reber were crowned Junior Carnival King and Queen . . . DuPont students got an extra day added to their Thanksgiving Va- cation because of their victory over arch enemy Eastbank . . . Max 0'Dell made the second team of Southern Football Team in a poll conducted by the players of the schools of Southern West Virginia . . . Kanawha County Coaches picked an All-County Team on which Paul Boyd was line- backer for the defensive team . . . The cheerleaders displayed new uniforms wiihich included gold sweaters, white blouses, and blue and gold pleated s irts. Thus, we have opened the 1955 DuPontian with some of the events that helped form the theme a Book of Memories ! 4

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SUBSCRIPTION STAFF ADVERTISING STAFF SENIORS Gretchen Border Karen Border Peggy Gibson Kathleen Kennedy Josephine Minnix Carolyn Stephenson Yvonne Watson Patty White Carolyn Jackson J UNIORS Sue Douglas Roberta Fisher Rosalie Greene Cora Sue Hall Barbara Hefiin Charlotte Patton Janet Rice SENIORS Gretchen Border Karen Border Patsy Edwards Peggy Gibson Diane Gray Delmar Igo Kathleen Kennedy Josephine Minnix Archie Snedegar Carolyn Stephenson Carl Walker Janet Ward J UNIORS Bob Day Roberta Fisher Rosalie Greene Barbara Heflin Dian Holland Carrol Parry Jane Price Patricia Stephenson James Thornbury

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At these doors begin cherished memories of school life. Classmates, classes, teachers, and the many activities are among the memories that had their beginnings here. omfemfs DEDICATION ........ ....... .. ............... 6 FACULTY ....... - ......... ...... 7 CLASSES ................ ......... 1 9 ORGANIZATIONS ....... .......... 6 5 ACTIVITIES ...... - ......... 91 ATHLETICS ...... ........ 1 03 ADVERTISING .................. ........ 1 19 ADVERTISER'S INDEX ....... .... . ..144 5