Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE H. COLEBANK At the beginning of the battle of 1914 1915, it was announced that a new officer was coming into our ranks. The sohliers being very enthusiastic were eager to meet their new leader. This meeting was soon effected and it was at once seen that the new man was one of much experience. Major General G. 11. Colebank was born in Taylor Couiny, West Virginia, where he spent the greater part of his boy- hood days, lie afterwards attended the West Liberty State Normal School and later the West Virginia University. It was then that he began teaching, lie taught four years in the rural schools and from 1900 1904 was teach- er in the Grafton High School. After a two years’ leave of absence for University attendance, he resumed his teaching in (’’rafton for one year. From 1907-1909, he was a teacher in the Mannington High School and in the next year became Princi- pal. In 1911 he accepted a position as Principal of «he Grafton High School where he remained for three years. Hut it was not until on the morning of September 8, 1914 that the crisis of his life came. On this day. he became Major General of the army of the Fairmont High. Since then Major General Colebank has shown himself a man of much ability and the success of the past year is largely accredited to his good leadership.

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 GEORGE H. COLEBANK. MAJOR GENERAL

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WILHELMINA DOROTHEA COCKAYNE English Who are the favorite teachers in the High School. That's easy—Miss Cockayne, for one. The sweetness of her disposition is always evident In her dally relations with the students. An unkind word could not pass her Ups. She never scolds her pupils, and because of the love they bear her, they try to please her in every way. Ever thoughtful of others, she seeks to make light- er the burdens they carry. The Maple Leaves” Staff fully realize that the debt which they owe her for ever ready assist- ance in their work can never be fully repaid. LAURA E. RR1GGS Art True, she is a teacher of art. and draw- ing is her hobby. However, in music, she can bring forth the sigh of the breeze in the trees, the song of the bird, the chirp of the cricket, and the rippling of sweet waters. The world of literature, too. holds a charm for her. K ading both for pleasure and for study has made her an entertaining con- versationalist. She is a woman of varied tal»nts. EDITH MAR1LLA DEAN Domestic Art Miss Dean came to us five years ago as a domestic science ami art teacher. The work of these departments has grown so under her skillful supervision that she can no longer leach both cooking and sewing but must devote her time entirely to the art department. It is Impossible for a student to get angry with Miss Dean, for she has a very remarkable way of winning one's affec- tion. For the opposite sex Miss Dean has a weakness. In the past her return to Fair- mont has been looked upon with some doubt. However, the girls of the F. H. S. are per- fectly willing that she should remain single for some years to come.