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

Text from Pages 1 - 200 of the 1925 volume:

Drawn by Paul Davisson s “ Though this may be play to You 9 Tis death to Vs PAUL MOORE, Editor-In-Chief CHARLES WISE, Business Manager and THE REST OF THE STAFF F out fi M aple. Lzavzs °f F U(?MtfNT -tlGM Su-IVVL y John A. Cl iki ; Junior, Cla v V . R4UL lt QQP. . — Cc7iT ?fc-'«-CH)er CMflR.LEy VV iy’G Bvi iNc r WrtN iccB. Drawn by Paul Davisson There's a Sponsor we love and he's far above Any other sponsor we know MIIS is no other than Mr. John 1. A. Clark. Jr., who is whole- heartedly hack of our every school interest and is desirous of helping the class named for him gain the best that is offered here in high school. His genial personality makes every Junior love and respect him. lie is our inspiration and our guide.— our “sponsor’ in the truest sense. We hope to make him proud of his class and to make ourselves worthy of his name. It is to him that we. the Junior Class of Fairmont High, dedicate this Maple leaves of 1925. Six Seven A Battle Ground By MILDRED LOLSK SATTKRF1F.L1) '27 Prise poem for “Maple Leaves” v Dear Fairmont High stands on a knoll Where once the Indians fought— ( The Shawnees and the Delawares) ’Twas victory here they sought. The maple tree which stands outside Is full of bullet lead. Which, though we listen now, wide-eyed. Shot many an Indian dead. The campus, which is green today, Then was red with blood, With bullets striking everywhere, With a heavy, leaden thud. Yes, this legend is very sad, But think what it was then. When that hard battle here was fought. Between the redskin men. Instead of Indians battling now, We students brave are fighting To get an education good. Which yet is most exciting. Oh. Faitmont High is noted In history and in lore It holds much secret wealth untold. Which we knew not before. 1 9 £5 Eight “ Cuter to grow in wisdom and depart To serve better thy country and thy kind Nine C’NTCNTv ’ DEDICATION “THE BATTLE GROUND CALENDAR PROLOGUE THE F. H. S. SEAL THE MAPLE LEAVES S I AFF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OUR SUPERINTENDENT OUR PRINCIPAL OUR SECRETARY THE FACULTY THE CLASSES “THE TWO- DEPARTMENTS ATHLETICS LITERARY LEAVES ACTIVITIES ALUMNI SENSE AND NONSENSE BULLETIN BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS EPILOGUE PAGE Sjx Eight Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen N ineteen - Twenty-one Twenty-seven Eighty-six Eighty-nine Ninety-three One Hundred Seventeen One Hundred Twenty-nine One Hundred Forty-seven One Hundred Forty-nine One Hundred Fifty-eight One Hundred Sixty-five One Hundred Ninety _EE 1_EAVEy l-Jf'js l3airi SEPTEM BKK 10 (jCTOBF.R 26 NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER 23 qLGNP q Session begins Sophomore party East Side football game “Clark's Tour around the World” NOVEMBER 28 TO DECEMBER 1 T hanks giving holidays DECEMBER 8 Freshman party DECEMBER 14 Operetta—'In the Garden of the Shah” DECEMBER 20 TO JANUARY 7 Christmas holidays FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 28 FEBRUARY 29 MARCH 7 MARCH IS MARCH 20 MARCH 28 APRIL 4 APRIL 12 APRIL 24 MAY 9 MAY 27 MAY 30 JUNE 2 Junior Dinner Dance ________________ Mardi Gras Monongahela Valley Tournament Marionettes State Tournament The Letter Men's Banquet District Literary Contest The Junior play Slate Literary Contest Dramatic Club play Orchestra Concert Senior Class play Session closes Commencement m Drawn by Paul Damson Eleven Maple I.eaves Muse! () wake once more! hirw rude so e'er tin Thai ventures o'er thy magic maze to stray: O wake once more! though scarce my skill command Some feeble echoing of thine earlier lay: Though harsh and faint and soon to die away. And all unworthy of thy nobler strain, Yet if one heart throb higher at its sway. The wizard note has not been touched in It is the aim of the 1925 “Maple Leaves” staff in this volume to perpetuate the atmos- phere of the actual school life of 1923-24 and to make that atmosphere the setting of our book; to reveal its aims and standards, its dignity and its greatness; to interpret the ideals of our school, its personality, and, at the same time, to express our own; to be a mirror for all sides of school; to record with pen and brush in a happy way the school life and deeds of F. H. S. for this year, whether in books or work or healthful play—all because Swiftly our pleasures glide away. Our hearts recall the distant day. hand vain. •'ill i A Drawn by AVEy g. % s- £eaI t'AROM where did our school seal come ? In ' answering this question we all take our hats off to Mr. Ensel Hawkins, a very popular member of our faculty. In thinking of a worthwhile project for mechanical drawing in the Spring of 1922, Mr. Hawkins decided to work out a seal for Fairmont High School. He began by gathering ideas from commercial stamps and labels on jars. Together with these and literature on the structure of seals, he used this idea for class study for about two weeks. Then he had six boys work out seals from their own original ideas, later drafting them into a best one. All then worked on one. Many worked out clever and attractive sketches but Chalmer Reich had the best. Mr. Hawkins, also worked out a seal of his own idea. Later he sent Chalmers and his own to the engravers, leaving it to their judgment as to which was the better. They chose that of Mr. Hawkins which is the one we have today. Mr. Hawkins then had seals made in blue and white, the school colors, and used them as merit stamps for work in his department. In 1923 Mr. Buckey decided it would be a good idea to adopt for the whole school, using it as a reward for exceptionally excellent written work. This was most appropriate, for the seal in itself with its “torch in the center of “F. H. S. might well mean the light or the intellect of the school and. too, that F. H. S. is a light and service to our community. This seal gives our school a mark of individuality and distinction that few- high schools can boast of. It is to Mr. Hawkins that we owe this. We commend him for starting such a worthwhile, constructive movement and ending it so splendidly. He, as in all his work in Fairmont High School, showed here a broad vision of use- fulness, in designing a seal so artistic and meaningful. In planning this book, the Maple Leaves staff dug into their minds for original ideas as to theme and finance. One autumn afternoon we hit upon the seal as full of possibilities. Here was our color scheme and motif for decorative purposes. And further, in taking the seal as the big idea for our book, we would make it more a part of us, we would bring Mr. Hawkins's idea into more prominence; and we would carry out in a very definite wav our Junior English Work-Shop slogan: The will to work for man. 1 9 £5 Thirteen r i (=3i___e: i__ei we: PAUL MOORE MARGARET MARSHALL VIRGIL CONLEY LEONA PROVIN RALPH Dl’XSMORE FLORA BILLINGHAM PAUL DAVISSON . EDITH LEE HARR IRMA FRANCES PRICE Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Literary Editor Assistant Literary Editor __________ Athletic Editor Assistant Athletic Editor ________________Art Editor Assistant Art Editor A dviser The Staff Fourteen The Staff CHARLES WISE Business Manager HELEN BOGGESS Joke Editor THOMAS HENDERSON Ass’t Business Manager CATHERNE OLIVE HAWLEY Ass’t Joke Editor WILLIAM SANDS Organization Editor SARA MALL Typist SCOTT C. LOWE Assistant Advertising Manager CATHERINE BRETT Advertising Manager IVY I. HUSTEAD Adviser £5 Fifteen “There was never a leaf on bush or tree. For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun. —Loweij.. The Board of Education DR. E. W. HOWARD MRS. W. S. MAYERS MR. R. T. CL’NNINGHAM MRS. M. M. DeBOLT Preside tit Com m is stoner Commissioner Seere ory Sixteen OTIS (i. WILSON. Our Superintendent A Symposium—By the F.f .S. Faculty “Progressive, well informed, sympathetic, thoughtful, exacting, courteous, a true friend—these words give my idea of Mr. Wilson. Deliberate, calm, and dignified. Critical, shrewd, and eagle-eyed. Sympathetic, kind, square as can be, Mr. Wilson's the superintendent for me. “A courteous gentleman—a real student of human nature, always glad to help the other fellow make more of his opportunities. Congenial and a source of inspiration to all with whom he has personal or business relations.” I like Mr. Wilson, he is our boss. He understands us. he never gets cross. Hut his queer little smile and his twinkling eye Sav. ‘Pound fundamentals or surely you die'.” “A man who knows how to plan his work and then work his plan. I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.” “Thorough, polite, diplomatic, keen, a thoroughly intelligent and considerate gentleman.” “Mr. Wilson—an inspiration to my best self. “He believes in his calling as few men do. And works with a tireless hand: A planner, a thinker, and leader too, And best of all A Friend. £5 Seventeen V. K. BCCKKY- . Symposium—By O. Mr. liuckey! O. Mr. liuckey! What do you mean to me? Wait till the end of the semester Then I'll he able to see. —Oi k Prixcipai. Ilii' Seniors of ’24 O. Mr. liuckey! O. Mr. liuckey! What do you mean to me? I find when I shirk. I awake with a jerk And find a pink slip home with Dad-dee. “Mr. Buckey is ideal as a man and as a principal. Me is always willing to help and give his advice, to correct mistakes and deal fairly with every one. In every duty he does what he thinks is best and right for the good; not only of the pupils but of the school. “Mr. Buckey—a wonderful personality. I think he is splendid—couldn't ask for a better principal.” Tactful, kind, not conceited—a good adviser. Mr. Buckey is a true principal. He is a man with a big smile to greet all. He is a friend to all: he tries to help all when he can.” I think of Mr. Buckey. what every one is bound to think—so I’ll say ‘Ditto’. Mr. Buckey has helped F. H. S. to progress and stand apart from other high schools of our state as being one of the best. He has done this by carefully con- sidering the school and himself and therefore each year our school has been bettered. Mr. Buckey! lie is the man Who greets us with a smile. lie heads this school of ours. And wants us here full seven hours. He’s the man who says Yea” or “No” When permission we ask to go. lie sends us slips of pink and yellow That take the life from many a fellow. That’s Mr. Buckey. Our Principal Man! 1 S £5 Eighteen I went down the old passage To your lighted door, Knowing that I should find you there, Kind your swift smile and quickened words, Comfort and welcome there, Guardianship and greeting. As it has always been. As it shall always be.” Miss Sadie Crowl is full-time secretary in Fairmont High School. She has held this position for six years. During this time she has seen over six hundred students graduated from the institution which she serves, and she can count every one of them as her friend. It would be difficult to conceive of an individual who is better fitted for her work and happier in its execution than Miss Crowl. She is always cheerful, optimistic and willing and seems to be best satisfied when doing something to help another. The countless details and duties that she is called upon to render bring her into contact with everyone connected with the high school, and everyone speaks of her in the highest terms for she is the embodiment of all that one could expect from one in her position. She not only does her work in a commendable and faithful manner but at the same time she makes friends and keeps them. Nineteen r i xf= i__e: i___ Little Deeds By TKRESSA R ASS ATI. '24 iT Wt You'd be astonished should you know, Just what a little deed can show, How much a little act might mean, Great, or small, or in between. How many loving friends it makes. How many a slumbering soul awakes. What very sage things it can do, And what very foolish ones too. So. be careful before the deed. By another person is seen. That it may speak the best of you. May join the other deeds so true. Be something noble, something good, A deed so full of Wisdom's food, That others may know you by that bit, As the one who will never quit, 'Till every deed is perfected. Every monument erected. Tw«nty Drawn by Edith Harr “This is no flattery; these are counselors That feelingly persuade me what 1 am.” —Shakespeare. i s £5 Twenty-one The Faculty JEAN HI I.LINGSLEA Fairmont State Normal School. West Virginia. A. H. English Community Civics GOLDA HELLE BOVD I’niversity of Chicago. Ph. H. Latin MYRTLE ELDR1DGK Hattie Creek School of Physical Education Physical Training VERDA MARGARET FARRIS College of Industrial Arts. B. S.—Columbia University. M. A. Vocations . C ivies A. F. EON DAW Howling Green. Kentucky. Business I’niversity. H. C. S. Hookkeeping Business English JENNIE HARSHBARGER Fairmont State Normal School.—West Virginia I’niversity. A. B. Biology B otany ENSEL J. HAWKINS Ohio State Mechanical Drawing RUTH HEINTZELMAN Wellesley College. B. A. School Nurse ESTHER HETHERL1N Illinois Woman’s College. A. B.—University of Illinois. M. A. Librarian ETHEL L. HOI LT Fairmont State Normal School.—West Virginia University. A. B. English Vocations Dramatics MARY HOWARD University of Kentucky. A. B. Public Speaking English M illiner y LENA B. IIUNSAKER Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York Sewing IVY I. HUSTEAD Fairmont State Normal School.—West Virginia University. A. B. Mathematics FRANK A. ICE West Virginia University. B. S. Coaching General Science BENJAMIN I). KAHN Colgate University. B. S. Advanced M at hematics CORA E. KINCADE West Virginia University. A. B. M at hematics 1 9 Twenty-two The Faculty PAULINE KIkK University of Chicago. M. A. Clee Clubs Orchestra ELIZABETH M. KOLKTKA Marshall College.—West Virginia University. A. B. istory EDNA MILLER West Virginia University. B. S. Domestic Science MRS. M. MUSGRAVE Salem College. A. B. English MABEL A. MYERS Pennsylvania State College. A. B. Physics Chemistry IRMA FRANCES PRICE Farmville State Normal School.—George Peabody College for Teachers. B. S. English MYRTLE E. RAMEY University of Mississippi. B. S. Typewriting Commercial Geography LOUISE ROCK Wilson College. A. B. istory Economics Sociology NELL MARIE SCOTT Bowling Green Business University. B. C. S. Shorthand Commercial .ate Penmanship and Spelling GOLDIE DALE SHEETS West Virginia University. M. A English ALICE TIIACKER Wesleyan College. A. B.—University of General Science Maryland Y VON N E I IE N NI B RUN N E West Virginia University. A. B. French S panis h WALTER L. WASMUTH The Stout Institute Sheet Metal Shop .athe tench If'orb GERTRUDE WHARTON School of Applied Arts Art MRS. T. M. ZU M B RUN N EN Fairmont State Normal School.—West Virginia University. A. B. English Twenty-three Twenty-four T wenty-five _e: L_EixwE: y’ “If one has only a little spare time at his disposal, he must use that time for the refreshment of his hidden selves. —Sami'f.i. M(Chord Crotheks. 1 s Twenty- ix Drawn by Paul Datissoti Twenty-seven __e: i__ “But yet success sways with the breath of Heaven; And though thou thinkest that thou knowest sure Thy victory, yet thou canst not surely know; l or we are all, like swimmers in the sea, Poised on the top of a huge wave of fate, Which hangs, uncertain to which side to fall, And whether it will heave us up to land. Or whether it will roll us out to sea. Back out to sea. to the deep waves of death, We know not, and no search will make us know; Only the event will teach us, in its hour. —Arnold. Twcnty- ight r 1 N!= l_e: n v_ DOROTHY BRACKET “Doi” Dorothy is one of the “livest wires” in old F. II. S. There's not one event that Dot” doesn’t participate in and make a success of. Every idea of hers is as original as it is unique. Student Council '20— Skull Klub Play”— Literary Editor Maple Leaves” ’23—“This Is So Sudden —Skull Klub— Silas Marner”—Girl Scouts—Mardi Gras ’23-’24—Literary Editor Hi- Life— President Skull Club—(iirl Scout Patrol Leader— (’lark’s Tour Around the World.” ROBERT H ELM IC K ‘1 Bob ’ Hob’s main ambition is to go through Dartmouth. To this end he has made fine grades and learned to love French. On the other hand, he participates in many plays, is great on hikes, and fierce for Red-headed Gals —Freshies at that! Student Council '23— Silas Marner” '23— Junior Play '24—Auditor Finance Hoard '24—F. II. S. Plavers Club '25—Class Treasurer ’23-’24— Ili-Y. VIRGINIA EL ETCH K R '-Jinny Virginia can always be depended on especially among the Girl Scouts with whom she is a leader. Jinny is a good fun-loving sport, and her per- sonality is unusually charming. From Virginia’s work for Maple Leaves” last year, we know that she has talent and we realize because of her ambi- tions and her attitude in school, that she has a will. Skull Klub—Cheer Pops— Miss Cherry Blos- snm —County Fair—Mardi (iras—Literary Editor Maple Leaves '23. JOSEPH BROWN Joe Joe is full of humor and is one of the biggest teases in the senior class. His humor promotes his good fellowship making him popular with all and an invaluable friend to those who know him intimately. Ifi-Y—Mardi Gras '23. RUTH HARR Rut hie Ruth has that goddess-like gift of laughter that goes with a cheerful disposition, but that's not all to Ruth, not by a long shot. She’s active in Camp Fire. Blue Triangle, literary and scholastic circles, as well as being a very charming person. Blue Triangle 20-’22—Camp Eire '20-’24— “Peggy Malone —“Miss Fearless and Company.” 1 S f® £5 ------ yynoy ------ T wenty-nine _E AV ALMA KOP1 Alma! A happy-go-lucky type, a good student and liked by everyone. For last year’s ‘'Maple Leaves she was voted the most popular girl in F. H. S. (Some honor, we think) and yet just as modest as can be. Marry should be proud. JACKSON NUTTER “Jack” Jack is one of our outstanding sheiks, the tall lean kind with dark hair, sleeked back and his suits always the latest. He is noted as one of the cleanest and neatest boys throughout Fairmont High. His studies don’t worry him much; he gets along fairly well in them, but my, what a student he could be if he would try. “Pirates of Penzance '23—“Silas Marner — In the Harden of the Shah ’23—Hi-Y—Glee Club—Tennis Club. ELIZABETH BLACK “Lizzie' Elizabeth is one of our best seniors, because of her reliance, earnest endeavor, interest, and faith- fulness in any work. She always plans more than she can do and then does it. Every thing she strives for is got by pluck and earnest effort not by bluff. The Rivals ’20—“Mr. Hob '22—Assistant Editor of “Maple Leaves ’22- 23—President Hlue Triangle ’23-’24—Players Club ’23-’24—Skull Klub ’24. WILLIAM WORLEY Bill This big. tow-headed Swede has his foot in everything. He participates freely in all athletic and social activities, and is deservedly popular be- cause of his many genial traits. On the back of his sweat shirt he has inscribed “The Little Sneak of Edgeway.” At Farmington: Class Cartoonist—Stunt Night —Cheer Leader. At Fairmont : Football ’23-'24—Hi-Y. MARY ROM I NO Mary is a quiet, unassuming girl, whom few students know. She has a pleasant smile and is known to be a jolly friend to close associates. Her excellent grades arc proof that she is a very conscientious worker. And when a responsibility is placed upon her. she always measures up to a most gratifying standard. Glee Club—Typing awards. 1 9 C5 Thirty r i F= i____e: i____ HERNICE LEE ARNETT “Bern” What F. II. S. will Ik without ‘'Bern” we won’t try to any. She is very popular and makes friends asily. As a cheer-leader she can’t be excelled. She is a good sport and fairly bubbles with pep. She is Moody” quite often, gets Lafferty” some- times. and frequently likes chocolate e “Claire.” Vice President Blue Triangle—Skull Club— Captain Junior and Senior Basket Ball Team— Cheer Pops '23-’24—Cheer-leader '22- 2 4—Sport Kditor Maple Leaves” ’23—Mardi (iras ’23-’24— Girl Scout Play. CHARLES HOI LT War Horse ' Charles Hoult! Who says he’s not an athlete and that his heart is not in the right place? lie’s the kind of a boy that tries out for all branches of athletics and does his best in each. Football '22-22— Come Out of the Kitchen”- Mardi Gras ’23—President of Student Council '24 —Captain of Track ’24—Assistant Kditor of Hi- I.ife ’24—Commissioner of Finance ’24—Squad and Manager of Basket Ball '24—Vice President of Hi-Y ’24. LOUISE RITCHIE It is a rare treat to find as good looking and popular girl as Louise. Blue Triangle—Lieutenant Girl Scouts— Her First Assignment”—Mardi (iras—County Fair— Junior Cabaret—The Toy Shop”— Memories”— Dramatic Club. JAY H. PIERCE Jay is one of the talented members of the senior class. This clever Terpsichorean artist not only delights the high school students but is enjoying an enviable reputation among the admirers of the light fantastic generally. Miss Cherry Blossom ’22—Basket Ball—Base- ball—T. N. T.— Clark's Tour Around the World” — In the Garden of the Shah”—Dramatic Club. VIRGINIA M. EISELE “Ginny” Ginny” quietly came to school one day and since her stay has gained much wisdom but in return for it she has given much of her sweetness to us. Virginia’s greatest hobby, and at the same time her favorite dish, is dates served in all styles. Blue Triangle—Skull Klub—Players Club— Mardi Gras ’23-'24— Come Out of the Kitchen” — This Is So Sudden —Society Editor Hi-Life 23-’24. ■ s m Thirty-one MAP AVEy y r MARY PROMANCE Mary is a real student, energetic, ambitious, per- severing. never satisfied with anything short of her best. It is safe to predict a brilliant future for her. She is a favorite with her fellow class- mates and an all around good sport. KDWIN HOCGH “Ignorance “Ed”, our new cheer-leader, has fallen into his line and is holding up his side of the section in great shape. He is “Abe” Lincoln’s style. We hope he will be as great as his lanky predecessor. k. O. S.—Ili-Y—Mardi-Ciras ’2.1—Cheer Leader 23-’2 4. ANNA BRACKEN “Nan” This unassuming, conscientious lass is very quiet Hut Anna takes life—in high school—as it comes and makes a thorough job of everything. Although Anna is not out much, she takes an interest in athletics and helps to give our class and school a high scholastic standing. MI LFORD COLLINS Mumps “Mumps” is about our smallest senior boy. He is a quiet, little chap and to everyone that knows him he is a real friend. Not an outstanding star in his studies but a conscientious hard worker, al- ways getting a good grade. LORAINK HAWKINS What is the color of her hair? Oh yes. tis auburn or maybe Titian” and pretty, too. We never hear much of her but she honors F. II. S. every chance she gets. And does she make a good artist’s model? The art class thinks she does. e.5 Thirty-two CATHERINE BROBST Great oaks from little acorns grow. ' This is true as true can be of Catherine. If she's not studying, she is often cooking for which latter she is famous. She does not give too much attention to one phase of life but finds time to be charming and kind in educational, spiritual, and recreational work. Blue Triangle—Skull Klub—Girl Scouts— Senior Basket Ball Team—“The Toy Shop —Girl Scout Play '22. GEORGE NKY George is doing his best to help us realize our ambition of making F. II. S. the best high school in the state. His work ranks with the first. He has a knack of knowing just what to say at the right time and just how to work out a difficult problem. He is digging a deep foundation for high achievements. “Come Out of the Kitchen -- Kditor-in-chief Hi-Life ’23-'24—Players Club 23-'24—Scieme Club. BEATRICE OSGOOD Bea Bea is a leader here, there, and everywhere. We take off our hat to her! The Senior Class owes its success mainly to her executive ability. The Mardi Gras and many other activities owe their success mainly to her cleverm s and versatility. The whole school pays her homage. President of Skull Klub '22-’23—Student Council '23—Hi-I.ife Staff ’23-’24—“Come Out of the Kitchen — Silas Marner”—Mardi Gras ’23- 24 —Girl Scout Play 22- 23. ROBERT CLAYTON Bob Bob is the motorcycle king of F. 11. S. Almost everything that has an engine in it. he has and drives. He doesn’t take an active part in athletics but he backs every team in school. Not a worry- in the world has he now. and we prophesy none for to-“Morrow. PAULINE MORROW “Polly” Of course it is a gift but Pauline is capable of expressing herself on any occasion. Her destination has already been planned—she is going to have Clay by the tons. Scrooge's Christmas”—Blue Triangle—Glee Club. 1 9 15 Thirty-three I.Ol'ISK HOORD Louise hides behind her quietness and modesty, general intelligence, kindness, gentleness, per- severance, and courtesy. This blonde always has a charming smile for everyone. Her thoughts are her chief companions, and she is true to her work, her words, her friends. Shinnston High School: Secretary Freshman Class—Secretary Music Club— Yanki San.” KENNETH MKRRIFIELD Kenneth comes to us from the wilds of Bellevue, lie formerly attended Kivesville High and wears one of its class rings. He makes very good grades and we wish we had more like him—even though he does seem to be woman proof. JOSEPHINE SHAFER Sweet, kind, and unassuming! The more we know Josephine the better we like her. She appears formal at no time although she possesses plenty of dignity. She has a natural taste for good reading and talent in cooking. GEORGE GANTZ “Six” (ieorge is a senior who is not only dependable to the '’nth” degree but is also very likeable and courteous. He is a studious and ambitious boy. These with other fine traits spell success for him. RFTH I R1 SCII KOX M audit Kuth says she likes to come to school but her favorite pastime is sleeping. As a result, she haunts the office and is usually seen carrying a yellow slip. 1 9 £5 Thirty-four K THKRINK YOST Kate Katherine is one of the best little songstresses we have ever had. Her voice, as well as her remarkably fine work, has gained her many honors. Who's going to win, Bernard or Jay? HARRY NKPTCNK Little Nep Harry is one of these fellows that gets real joy from school. When sitting next to him in class, about the first thing he says is. ‘'Have you heard this one?” Then out comes a joke and the vic- tims sometimes have to leave the room. With all his jesting, he is a fine boy. The Kopp”. though, has an eye on him. and he. unwilling to be caught napping, has two eyes on the “Kopp”. FLORENCE HARDEN Flossie Flossie” is one of the girls who can always be depended upon. She is everybody’s friend, and is always in for a good time, especially at camp. Camp Fire—“Peggy Malone”— Miss Fearless and Company”—Mardi (iras ’23—(ilee Club. PERCY HENRY Percy is tall and lanky and has dark hair. He is a good student and does his bit for F. 11. S. by playing first violin in the orchestra. He is very quiet but has an appreciative sense of humor. ENA CALDARA With sparkling eyes and nimble feet. As an entertainer Ena can’t be beat. Kna has many things to look forward to in the next few years. A career on the stage, a chautauqua entertainer, a dancer—all interesting dream castles”. 1 9 £5 Thirty-five HKLKN MANLKV Although Helen is exceedingly quiet, she is al- ways ready to be of service. Her competent work in typing has made her very valuable to the commer- cial department. Typing Certificate '24. GRACK SIMPSON “Jane A love for domestic affairs has she. The qualities for a good wife to be. Grace is also quiet and very studious. She is sure to make her mark in the world. Silas I.u m i '2 1 '22 — Mardi (iras 22- 22— Medal and Certificate in typing ’22-‘23—Lunch room assistant. DORIS CARR Doris is destined to lie a great domestic and commercial success. The first, because of her daintiness, ability at trimming and making hats and clothes, and her talent in cooking ; the latter, because she is a friend to all. unselfish, yet with a clear understanding of when she is getting all due her. Blue Triangle '21- 22—Skull Kluh '22—Lunch room assistant. PAULINE Nl'ZIM Polly' Here is one of our smallest girls—small but mighty. Pauline is like most people of her build —brimming over with fun and good nature. Her friends are many. Blue Triangle. EDNA SHORT “Shorty” Kdna is one of the most brilliant students in our school having the highest percentage in the senior class at the end of the first semester. Some day this little Short” girl is going to surprise the world by being one of the best Shorthand teacher? anywhere. At Klvins, Missouri: Captain basket ball team Freshman year. At Fairmont : Short story in Maple Leaves 23 —Typing Certificate ’24. 1 9 £5 Thirly-� ix e l_ e a e MARION McWHORTKR Marion is a quiet, unassuming girl and a good worker. Kveryone likes her for she is always willing to help students less gifted. The senior class has good cause to he proud of this conscien- tious student. Rl'TIl BALLAH Ruth seems to choose her friends outside of Fair- mont High hut we like her just the same. She is very stylish and always looks attractive. When out in company, she is ever agreeable and is an excep- tionally good dancer. “Miss Cherry Blossom '22—Mardi (iras '23. SALLJK IWTTKRSON A good old fashioned girl is the girl for me” could well be said of Sallie Patterson. Sallie is not old fashioned in the sense of being slow but she is kind, conscientious and pleasing to all alike. She tries to make the most of her opportunities. In a quiet unboastful way. she is a help to the school and her class and is noted for her trustworthiness. (ilee Club—Orchestra. HKLKN WILSON Helen is very business-like in all her work. She is a quirk thinker but not quick tempered. She is small of stature but has a big heart. She de- lights to tease others and politely laughs when she is teased, at no time holding a grudge against anyone. She has a kind disposition, is courteous, quiet ( ??). and makes steady friends rapidly. Silas I.apham —Typing Certificate ‘24. DOROTHY FISH HR Dot Dorothy is the studious lass Of the famous Senior Class A very good grade She has always made Thus never failing to pass. “Dot is not only a fine student but an all around girl who is interested in all phases of high school activities and music, in which she stars particularly. Blue Triangle. Thirty «even MAP i_e: DOROTHY KKKSE Dorothy can certainly tickle the keys” to the greatest possible advantage, and she is always will- ing to oblige. If it were not for these admirable traits, how would Hi-Life” ever get to press on time ? Blue Triangle '23—Typing Certificate '24—lli- l.ife Typist '24. H. LKLAND OGDKN “Bo Leland is a fine, clean fellow, very quiet and plain. He is considered one of the best students in school. He takes no great active part in athletics but is a loyal backer of F. H. S. and her activities. Track ’22 — Student Council '23 — Mardi (iras 23. MARY MARGARET DICKENS “Midget” Midget” is one of our quiet girls who lives at Belleview. Although she is very quiet, her smile wins her many friends. The good grades she makes singles her out in many classes as an un- usually successful student. Blue Triangle—Typing Certificate. PATSY FORTE Patsy shines in all he does, which is much. Be- sides both music and literary accomplishments, he is one of our track stars. Orchestra—Stunt Club— Clark's Tour Around the World” '23—Mardi Gras—Track '23. LUCILLE NUZ17M “Lue” Lue” is very popular, especially with our foot- ball captain. Perhaps that is a clue for John’s good playing. She is in for a good time and always on the job—that is. all but Sunday nights. Girl Scouts—Secretary Blue Triangle £5 Thirty-eight MAP AVEy (iKNK CARPENTER (!« nr is one of our smallest seniors, also one of our busiest. She goes about her work in such a free-will way that it is soon finished. Her out- standing trait is her thoughtfulness of others. Camp Fire—Blue Triangle—Orchestra—Literary Contest '24—“Peggy Malone —“Miss Fearless and Company ' GILBERT MARTIN Gilbert hails from Watson! He seems very quiet but it does not interfere with his popularity. He has convictions and stands up for them. M A R V SPRINGER “Merry” One of the most studious girls in the senior class is Mary Springer. She is well liked by everyone because she is so kind and thoughtful. Her spark- ling blue eyes suggest her tricky ways. We predict a brilliant future for this pretty young miss. C H A R L E s N ICO DEM IS “Sic” “Nic hails from Kdgemont and is one of F. II. S.'s most staunch followers. He is always whole- heartedly back of every athletic movement. And when a fellow is in a tight place, he can always rely on “Nic as his friend. Come Out of the Kitchen —Hi-Y—“Pirates of Penzance —The Mountain I.ions—F. H.S. Players Club—Mardi Gras. EVELYN CHARLETON Eve Evelyn is one of those quiet girls who never stops till her task is well done. She has a kind, winning way which has won her many friends. Her chief weakness is East Side. Thiity-nin« i_e: a IRKNK GRAI FIUS I'nfortunately Irene’s true worth is not known by all. but those who do know her. find that she is a real student and makes exceptionally good grades. Reliable, trust-worthy, and ambitious are other epithets that make us know Irene better. She is a three-year student and a talented musician. (; I K KIN JOHN SC) N Happy'' Happy has a way all his own and has it on ’em all for looks. A button on his overcoat is a useless article since he never uses it. but lets his coat Hare after him. Seemingly books do not enter his artistic mind and make-up; but he is famous for his posters and set a high art editor standard in ‘‘.Maple Leaves last year. Art Editor Hi-Life ’23—Art Editor Maple Leaves '24. JESSIE MAK HALL Jessie Mae Hall is one of our students who possesses a charming personality, backed by stability and a desire to please her friends whom she selects with much care. Even in keeping a record of her school work, Jessie is accurate and exact and thus pleases her teachers. On any sub- ject. she is agreeable and interesting. To give a summary of her traits—she is sweet and kind— “A friend to all. an enemy towards none. SAMUEL B. ISEMAN. Jr. “Sam” “Sam is a good fellow with an unusual ability to make friends with the teachers. We shall miss his stories and jokes which helped to make the day go right. We hope he will be as well liked as he goes on through life as he is in school. THELMA SATTERFIELD Thelma always appears neat and graceful and her quiet manners are characteristic. Her faithful work has made her a star in shorthand and an ex- pert in typing. Blue Triangle—Girl Scouts—Mardi Gras ‘23— £5 Forty _e: i_exxx ExV1 RUTH CHARLTON “Ruthie It was no great surprise to F. If. S. when Kuthie came back to school after the Fast Side and West Side Football game to see her wearing a gold foot- ball. We suppose this means she is the mascot of the team or if not to the whole team, to a part of it. Gym Gen� Revue '23—Mardi (iras ’23. JOSEPH ANWYLL “foe” Joe” always places other people's tasks ahead of his own. Me is the most efficient boy in school when it comes to holding five or six jobs at once. Joe also leads in the non-haircut race with Worley and Moult a close second and third. Secretary-Treasurer Mi-Y ,22-’23-'24—Mardi (iras—“Come Out of the Kitchen” ’22-‘23—Vice- President T. N. T.— In the Garden of the Shah” 23—Sport Kditor Mi-Life 23- 24—Football 23. M A RTH A J K NKI NS ”Marr” Starring in everything is Martha's motto. You can always rely on her. If she sets her mind on anything, she always does it. Martha is a girl of the perpetual smile but she deserves no credit, for who could not be happy with such a devotee as Henry ? Miss Cherry Blossom” 21—“Pirates of Pen- zance” 22—Mardi Gras 24— In the Garden of the Shah” 23—Skull Klub—Girl Scouts. HARRY PETTY Harry's general knowledge and common sense make him popular. This kind youth seems to be fond of things artistic. Marry is unselfish and al- ways shows his friends a good time. Hi-Y—Glee Club—Tennis Club— Pirates of Penzance” 23— In the Garden of the Shah” 23. TKRESSA RASSATI A dainty miss with sparkling eyes and lovely golden hair! Teressa's efficiency at the typewriter has given her the honor of being the champion typist in high school. Her chief ambition is to become an author. Freshman Civics Play 20- 21—Blue Triangle— Best Poem in Maple Leaves” 23—Typing prizes 24. 1 9 Forty-on MAPL e: i EAVEy NAOMI BOOR Naomi is a well-known student, is a good sport, and is always in for a good time. She used to dream of heroes, but now she has gone back to mediaeval days and thinks that “Knights” are the best of all—not armed in coats of mail as of old. but with a Ford. LOIISE HAY MON I) Louise comes from the “Alley” and is an honest- to-goodness friend. She is always ready to help and knows how to keep a secret. She surely can make a piano talk and her supply of clever songs seems endless. “Miss Cherry Blossom”—Mardi Gras 23—Glee Club. RKLAM) TAYLOR Tayc Keland is a girl with an unusual personality. Although very quiet, she has innumerable friends who will miss her when she leaves Fairmont High. She is a wonderful cook and seamstress. We wonder how long she will be single. “Miss Fearless and Company” ’24. JOSEPH IN K LEHMAN ”Jo Josephine is a consistent worker—the kind of person that will faithfully and eagerly carry out responsibility placed upon her. Though a steady worker, she is always eager for good, wholesome fun especially with the scouts and in clubs. We predict that her talent in music will make for her an enviable place in musical circles. Student Council ’23—Science Club—Troop Leader Girl Scouts—“Toy Shop”. MAMIE K AX NOSKI Mamie can successfully combine business along with a good time. Her popularity and her good work are both examples of this. Besides being one of our most attractive senior girls, she is an amateur stenographer who has won several prizes. At Barracksville High School: Basket Ball two years—Vice President Freshman Class—President Sophomore Class. At Fairmont High School: Blue Triangle ’23— Mardi Gras ’23-’24—Camp Fire Girls '24. 1 _P £5 Forty-two ADELAIDE HAWKINS Adelaide is one of our song birds, who took one of the leading parts In the Garden of the Shah”. She also makes a good scholastic record, and is always a willing helper in the office. She can be easily identified by her boyish laugh. Peggy Malone '22— Silas Marner '22— Miss Cherry Blossom” '22— Pirates of Penzance '23—Mardi (iras ’23— In the Garden of the Shah 23- 24—Blue Triangle. 11 ELEN H ALLEY ’’Shorty ‘ Helen’s sterling character and worth show up in the little kindnesses she is constantly doing for others. (iirl Scouts Troop 3—Blue Triangle '21-'22. LENA B. REESE LILLY Bob” I «ena is our prize essay writer, winning the West Virginia Boost prize. She always makes a good showing in literary contests of any sort. Her wavy, brown hair and big. brown eyes make her one of Fairmont High’s most attractive girls. No wonder we lost her so soon. GERTRl DE Kl HN Coon” It is a lucky man who gets this maiden. Ger- trude is sure to make an ideal wife because her love for housework is a close rival to her love for school work. Her chief recreation is riding in a Ford coupe. I RENE CLELLANI) Teeny '•Teeny”; though small physically is a large fac- tor of Fairmont High. She has a great aim in life which is harmonious with her motto: The ‘Ful- ler’ the better. Blue Triangle ’22-’24—Mardi (Iras -'23’24— Girl Scouts ’23—Glee Club ’23-’24. Forty-three MAPI_EI I_EAVEy JOHN CALLA HA N Irish” Irish proved himself an unusually fine foot- ball player, whose grit and determination won many of our games. He is always the center of an admir- ing group which proves his all-around, good-fellow- ship and popularity. Business Manager Maple Leaves '23—Captain Football ’23 ’24—Business Manager Hi-Life ’24— Sleepy Six”. LAI KA STAGGERS Laury The Champion jokester. live-wire, and all-around girl of the senior class! What is there that Laury” doesn’t participate and star in? Her fine work shows her unusual ability to combine business and pleasure. Have you seen her dance? Blue Triangle ’20-’24—Junior Cabaret—“Silas Marner '22—“Come Out of the Kitchen 23— Joke Kditor Maple Leaves 23—Mardi (iras ’23-’24 -Hi-Life Staff '24—Skull Klub— Modesty”— “Clark’s Tour Around the World.” FRANK KOMI NO Jack” “Jack” has been one of the best basket ball play- ers Fairmont High School has ever had. His teamwork and good fellowship go hand-in-hand with his superfine work. Besides this, he is one of our most popular boys both of the Senior class and of the school. Football ’22—Basket Ball ’21-’24—Track '22 ’23—Mardi (iras '23—Letter Men’s Club ’23-’24— Ili-Y ’24. LENA HARTHOLOW Lena is another of our quiet girls who is .onscientious about the ork and is helpful to others. That old saying “Still water runs deep” seems to have been written especially for her. (ilee Club ’22—Certificate for Proficiency in Typewriting. JOK ROSS Joe is an all-around fellow and one of our most popular senior athletes but as a sheik he's also hard to beat. If a good song is wanted, call on Joe; if an honest-to-goodness laugh, get him to impersonate someone. Baseball 22-’23—Captain ’24—Football '22-22 Basket Ball ’23-’24—“The College Widow” '23 —Hi-Y—Assistant Business Manager Hi-Life ’24 —Mardi Gras 23. Forty-four MAP _EXW s VIRGINIA SHL'RTLEFF Ginny If you want to know anything about “Ginny just ask “Bob”. We think he would say. She is interesting to talk with and pleasant to walk with. And we agree, for we find her always in for a good time, and a true, wholesome friend. EMMETT SHOW ALTER If the problems in life are as easy for Emmett as are his studies in school, he won’t have to take dictation or consider worry as a part of his life. Come Out of the Kitchen” '2.1. GRACE GLASSCOCK Grace, another Belleview lassie, is one of our tars in all her work. She is also one of our champion typists. We shall not be surprised if we hear of Grace being the World’s Champion Amateur typist one of these days. Hi-Life typist—Glee Club-—Certificate of Pro- ficiency in Typewriting—Bronze Medal in Type- writing. JAY WESTFALL Jay is often seen but not so often heard, lie does his share along with the rest of ’em and lives up to the creed of small but mighty. GERTRUDE SMITH “Gertie Gertrude is one of the best students in school. Nothing is too much for her to tackle and she al- ways accomplishes her task. Every one will miss Gertrude as she is a friend to all. Christmas Play ’21—Community Civics Play— Public Speaking Contest—Camp Fire— Penny Malone —Mardi Gras ’23- 24— Miss Fearless and Company”—Skull Klub. 1 9 P Forty-five Fairmont High School By TF.RKSSA RASSATI '24 Seniors, this is the very last year. Not one more year can we hope to spend, In the haunts that are to us most dear. Nor perhaps to the same duties 'tend. A few have dropped by the wayside, Thinking to hasten a better day. Saying I think I will not abide. By rules so awf'ly common and ’jay.” Others thro' misfortune slipped away. Why, they scarcely made a visit here! They left—with hopes that some gladder day, Thro' luck, would give them their former cheer. Somehow, they've delayed this faintest dream— To add their name to our roll so long, Mislayed, destroyed, or hidden the dream. Sold it for songs yet to be sung. Another year we shall not return. Unless we have disobeyed the rule That must belong to a place to learn To a land like ours, and a school. Even now, I'm sure you plainly see. That those of us who are really left. Give up tho'ts of returning to thee. Of Fairmont High School, we feel—bereft. “Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough, Kach sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three—parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!” Brownish. Drawn by Paul Daemon Forty-eight I_EAVEy SARA MALL Birthday: August 26. By-word: Saar” •Well I'll � )e jiggered.” Voted: The most original. Hobby: Bookkeeping. “Her fingers shame the ivory keys They dance so light along ; The bloom upon her parted lips Is sweeter than its song.” Penmanship badge '21- 22—Typist “Maple Leaves” '24—“Mice and Men” ’24. RALPH 1)1’NS MORK 'Ditty Birthday: December 9. Voted: Best all-around student. Hobby: Athletics. “Nimble and light of limb. In three elements free. To run. to ride, to swim. Track '22—Football '22-23—Student Council 23- 24—Sport Editor “Maple Leaves '24—Hi-V Business Cabinet—Letter Men's Club—Hi-V. SHIRLEY LAYELY Birthday: July 30. By-word: rate that ? 11 ow do you Voted: The best conversationalist. “Ia;t be my name until I make my name! My deeds will speak. Glee Club—Camp Fire '23- 24—Secretary Junior Class '23. WILEY S. GARRETT Birthday: November 16. By-word: “Pain.” Voted: The l est athlete. I lobby: Open truth. And fiery vehemence of youth ; Forward and frolic glee was there. The will to do. the soul to dare. The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire. Of hasty love, or headlong ire. Football '22-24— Basket Ball '22- 24—Letter Men's Club—Hi-V. MARY BERTHA BECKER Birthday: March 26. Voted: Best all-around student. “Fresh glittering with graces of mind and mien. Her speech was all music; Like moonlight she shone; The envy of many. The glory of one. Clark's Tour Around the World—Literary Contest. 1 9 15 Forty-nine M A KG ARK 1' MARSHALL “Shorty Birthday: April JO. By - word: “Run Along.” Voted: The most versatile. Hobby: Good times. Laughing lips But with a strong and steadfast purpose in her heart. To give with lavish hand to all the world— Camp Fire ’22-'24—Secretary Camp Fire 23— Blue Triangle 22- 24—Skull Klub 23- 24— Associate Editor Hi-Life 23—Clark's Tour Around the World—“Miss Fearless and Company” —Assistant Editor “Maple Leaves.” MEREDITH SMAIL ”WU” Birthday: December 24. By-word: “Are we. I wonder?” Voted: The most courteous. Hobby: Dancing. “His ready speech flowed fair and free. In phrase of gentlest courtesy Vet seemed that tone, and gesture bland. Less used to sue than to command.” SARAH KNIGHT Sally” Birthday: May 15. Voted: The most genial. Hobby: Dancing and swimming. “Forward and frolic glee was there. The will to do. the soul to dare.” “Miss Cherry Blossom ’22—Blue Triangle '22- ‘23—Girl Scout IMay—Mardi (iras 23—“Mice and Men. LAWRENCE PEARSON Pearson” Birthday: August 27. By-word: “That’s no lie.” Voted : The greatest reader. “He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. LUCILLE AHERN Lou” Birthday: October 10. By-word: “Teapot.” Voted: The most gracious. Hobby: Basket Ball. “She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight. And rose wher'er 1 turn’d mine eye. The morning star of memory!” Blue Triangle ’23—Camp Fire 22-'24—“Miss Fearless and Company” '24—“Mice and Men” '24 —Literary Contest 24. £5 Fifty __EI I_EAVEs KLKANOR SMITH Smilis ” birthday: June 13: By-word: “My word. Voted: The best dancer. Hobby: Dancing. Where could be found face daintier? Than her shape From forehead down to foot, perfect; again From foot to forehead exquisitely turned— Miss Cherry Blossom '22—Junior Cabaret '22 Glee Club '22-22—Gym Hem Revue '22— Mice and Men '24. PAUL MOORK Pablo” Birthday: November 2. By-word: Hurray!” Voted: The most versatile. Hobby: Athletics. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world. 'This is a man!’ Student Council—Vice President Class ’22-'22— Hi-Life Staff—Mardi (iras—Hi-V—Track ’23-’24 —Editor Maple Leaves”—Football—Basket Ball -Clark's Tour Around the World—Letter Men's Club— Sleepy Six”— Mice and Men —Kinky- dinks. LORETTA FISH HACK Birthday: May 10. By-word: Good Grief.” Voted: The most energetic. Hobby: Reading. She’s pretty to walk with And witty to talk with And pleasant to think on.” Camp Fire '21 -22—Glee Club—Literary Con- test ’23-’24—Blue Triangle '22—Captain Junior Basket Ball Team ’24 — Patrol Leader Girl Scouts ’24. WILLIAM SI DELL “Si” Birthday: May 10. By-word: Skabach. Voted: The most easy-going. Hobby: One week behind. He was a man. take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again.” Mice and Men” 24—Mardi (iras '24. MARY McATEER Mack Birthday: November 18. By - word: Aw. Gee!” Voted: The slowest. Hobby: Playing the piano. Her voice was ever soft. Gentle and low—an excellent thing in woman.” Typing certificate—High School diploma for writing. 1 9 Fifty-one BETTY TRIPP Slug Birthday: July 14. By-word: ”Oh arc we?” Voted: The most inquisitive. Hobby: Chewing gum. “Her genius is her friendliness.” Girl Scouts ”21. CHARLES WISE Skinny” . Birthday: October 13. By-word: “Thunder.1 Voted: The best sport. Hobby: Fords. “Vet friends, who nearest knew the youth His scorn of wrong, his zeal for truth.” Business Manager “Maple Leaves” 24—Hi-Y ’23 '24--K. O. I). P.—“Kinkydinks”—Science Club ’24—Clark’s Tour Around the World. VIOLET JONES Birthday: September 26. Mackerel.” By-word: “Holy Voted: The most reliable. Hobby: Reading. ’She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone or despise.” Miss Cherry Blossom’”—Blue Triangle. GEORGE DAVIS ' Davy Birthday: March 10. By-word: “Heck.” Voted: The most quiet. Hobby: Baseball. “A goodly youth and worth a goodlier boon!” GWENDOLYN HAAS Given Birthday: December 10. By-word: ‘Tp on it.” Voted: The leanest girl. Hobby: Tennis. “A slight girl, lily pale!” Blue Triangle ’22-’24— Mice and Men”—Gym Pageant. Fifty-two ry xEi_e i_eAX E y1 NORMA KIGKR “Ben” Birthday: October 24. By-word: “Oh! For goodness sake!” Voted: The most musical “For she is wise, if I can judge her And true she is. as she hath proved herself. Orchestra '21-’24. PAUL DAVISSON Davisson Hirthday: October 7. By-word: “Morse Collar. Voted: The best F.nglish student. Hobby: Swimming and hiking. “And wrought All kind of service with a noble ease That graced the lowliest act in doing it.” Art Editor Maple Leaves '24—Hi-Y ’24— Sleepy Six ’23-’24—Science Club '24—Mardi (iras '24—K. O. I). I . '2— Kinkydinks ’23— ('lark’s lour Around the World ’24—“Mice and Men 24. RUTH SOLE “Jtjf” Birthday: May 1. By-word: Ye Gods. Voted: The best disposition. Hobby: Talking on telephone. “Shall show us how divine a thing A woman may be made. Clark’s Tour Around the World. ROBERT KLINE Bob Birthday: May 11. By-word: Fuzzy. Voted: The most polite. “High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Track '23—Football squad '23-’24—State Literary Contest 24— Mice and Men ’24. DOROTHY STKALEY Dot Birthday: April 30. By-word: “Ye Gods Voted: The most helpful. Hobby: Basketball and swimming. All her ways are ways of pleasantness. And all her paths are peace. (ilee Club—Blue Triangle. Fifty-three i_e: av w HELEN UEVENV Hirt Inlay February 22. By-word: Stars.” Voted: The best class spirit. Hobby: Reading. “I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care.” Penmanship certificate—Typing certificate. FLORA BILL1NGHAM Birthday: December 24: By-word: “Gimminy.” Voted: The best debater. Hobby: Swimming and tennis. Where are you going. With your eager face and your fiery grace.” Debating Contest '22—Story-telling Contest '22 -Basket Ball ‘23—‘‘Mice and Men” 24. KSTA EDDY Eddy Birthday: November 2. By-word: “Gosh.” Voted: The best typist. Hobby: Cars. ‘‘He never found the best too good Books were his passion and delight.” Certificate for Proficiency in typewriting. C A TH K RINK B RETT “Trinka ’ Birthday: March 24. By-word: “Heavens.” Voted: The most entertaining. She was active, stirring, all fire— Could not rest, could not tire— To a stone she might have given life.” Girl Scouts—Blue Triangle—Advertising Editor Maple Leaves” 24. ALBERT EZZE “Issie” Birthday: November 19. Voted: The best handwriting. Hobby: Attend- ing athletic games. “A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows—” Fifty-four EAVEv LUCILLE HALL Birthday: March 11. Voted: The slenderest. “Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than nature made her; beauty cost her nothing. Her virtues were so rare. Literary Contest ’22-’23—Basket Ball '24—Camp Eire—Skull Klub—Hi-Life '22—“Miss Fearless and Company —Clark's lour Around the World. WILLIAM FALKENSTINE Hobby Birthday: December 29. By-word: “Darn it. Voted: The highest sense of honor. Hobby Football spectator. “Modest, yet firm as Nature's self. Basketball Team '22—Typewriting Certificate 23. HDITH LKK HARK Slim Birthday: April 11. By - word: “Heck! Voted: The most artistic girl. Hobby: Fating apples. “Her bright hair blown about the serious face.” $5.00 prize for best poster—Blue Triangle ’21- 22 —Camp Fire ’22- 23—Student Council '22— Clark’s Tour around the World—Junior Basket Ball Squad—Assistant Art Editor “Maple Leaves” ’24. ALLISON FRUM Bus” Birthday: September I. By-word: “Oh (iee. Voted: The neatest. Hobby: Flirting. “Whosoever hath a good presence and a good fashion, carries continual letters of recommendation.’’ Clark’s Tour Around the World ’23—Glee Club “In the Garden of the Shah —“Mice and Men” 24. IRENE SHAFER Re e Birthday: November 20.. By-word: “Well! My Golly.” Voted: The most quiet. Hobby: Swimming. “The fair, the chaste, the unexppessive she. Clark's Tour Around the World '23—Glee Club Fifty-five WILMA RKKSK Birthday: September 4. By-word: “Oh boy ! ’ Voted: The best handwriting. Hobby: Athletics, typewriting. For learning hath she an abundance. ( lark’s Tour Around the World '24. 1,01 ISL MOORK Birthday: May 22. By-word: I'p on it? Voted: The most generous. Hobby: Reading. ‘I would be giving and forget the gilt; I would be humble, for 1 know my weakness.” (lirl Scout Play 22- 23. Birthday: July 4. By-word: “(io way. Voted: The smallest boy. “It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words. Birthday: November 10. By - word: Oh crap. Voted: The most timid. Hobby: Reading. Kindness is virtue itself. ANNA HAYHI RST Birthday: November 30. By-word: “ Oh heck! Voted: The most persevering. Hobby: Rating “There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. CHARLKS DIVVENS JOSE PHI N E EA RRELL “Jo” candy. 1 s Fifty-six AV'EZ y’ VIRGINIA KUHN “Nic” Birthday: July 21. Voted: The prettiest eyes. Hobby: Playing the piano. “Is she not passing fair?” DOROTHY HICKMAN ''Homy Duo Birthday: May 14. By - word: “Good gracious.” Voted The most friendly. Hobby: Nature Study. “And her smiles like sunshine dart into many a sunless heart.” Camp hire '22—Camp Fire Play '23. OSCAR FAST Fusty” Birthday: September 18. By-word: “Chrimney god.” Voted: The most timid. Hobby: Cutting Class? “A penny for your thought.” KDITH LEW IS Birthday: July 27. Voted: The most studious. “One doer is worth a hundred dreamers. Certificate for Proficiency in typewriting. MARGARET RIDENOUR Mag9' Birthday: March 5. By-word: “Wait a minute.” Voted: The most unselfish. Hobby: Reading. “They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. 1 9 £5 Flfty-Mven CATHKRINK OLIVE HAWLKV OK” Birthday: July 15. Voted: The sweetest voice. “The honest heart laughed through Those frank eyes of Breton blue.” Camp Fire ’21 — Blue Triangle '21-’22—Skull Klub ’22—Assistant Joke F.ditor of Maple Leaves 24—( lark's Tour Around the World. OLIVER WOOD Woody' Birthday: October 10. By-word: “Hope to tell you.” Voted : The manliest boy. The gentle minds by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners.” Track ’23—Science Club—Stunt Club '23. HETTY EASTMAN “Pet” Birthday: October 9. Voted: The kindest. Ilobby: Swimming. Your eyes are so sharp that you can not only looke through a Millstone, but cleane through the minde.” Miss Cherry Blossom '21. JOHN SHOTTS “Professor Birthday: May 24. By - word: Nothing else but.” Voted : The most persevering. And still a glint of the steel-blue eye Told of a spirit that wouldn't die. MARY PATTERSON Pat” Birthday: May 3. By-word: Heck.” Voted- The biggest gum chewer. Hobby: Hum ming and whistling. The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Clark's Tour Around the World. Fifty-eight AVEy ETHEL NIXON hpish Birthday: March 22. By-word: Well gee whiz!” Voted: The best ““math” student. “A smooth and steadfast mind (ientle thoughts and calm desires.” Secretary of (iirls’ Scout Troop. WILLIAM SANDS “Bill Birthday: March 20. By-word: “Curses.” Voted: I’he cleverest. Hobby: Making teachers’ lives miserable. “llis humor, genial as the noonday sun. (Quickens our pulses like some cordial fine. Organization Kditor “Maple Leaves” ’24— “ .Mice and Men” ’24—Track squad '23. KITH CRUSH Birthday: May 4. By-word: “(iosh.”—“Oh are we ?” Voted: The best athlete. “As merry as the day is long.” Camp Fire ’21-’23—Blue Triangle ’22-’23— Student Council '23—Hi-Life ’23—Basket Ball Team ’23—Certificate and Bronze Medal in Typing. AUBREY TAYLOR “Apples Birthday: September 17. Voted: The most talkative. Hobby: Automobiles. “Laugh and be fat.” Football '21-’24—Stunt Club—letter Men’s Club—Basketball—Track—Mardi (iras ’23—“Why the Chimes Rang —Baseball. EVALYN RIGGS Boots Birthday: September 7. By-word: “Say.” Voted: The most quiet. Hobby: Reading. “The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.” Literary Contest '23-’24—Clark s Tour Around the World ’23. 1 9 £5 Fifty-nine i_e: a EDGAR SOLE Ted” Birthday: December 25. V’oted: The best class spirit. “No wher so besy a man as he ther n'as. An yet he seemed besier than he was.” Baseball '21-’24—Clark’s Tour Around the World—Champion for “Maple I.eaves” advertising -President Junior Class. ROSS SIMPSON Simp Birthday: February 10. By-word: “Are we up?” Voted: The most musical. Hobby: Cars. Like some young cypress, tall, and dark, and straight.” “Sleepy Six”—Mardi (iras ’24—Electrician for “Mice and Men.” IiKLKN BOGGKSS Sunshine Birthday: January 12. By-word: ”Gee Whiz.” Voted: The biggest laugher. Hobby: Talking. “A comrade blithe and full of glee. Who dares to laugh out loud and free.” Literary Contest '21-’22—Skull Klub—Blue Triangle ’22- 23—Junior Girls Basket Ball ’22-’23 (Captain)—Joke Editor “Maple Leaves 24—“Miss Fearless and Company” ’24. SCOTT C. LOWE Scotty Birthday: July 8. By-word: “Gorsh.” Voted: The most ambitious. Hobby: Theater. “His deep-felt sympathy was swift and sure; To sham and falseness a relentless foe.” Mardi (iras '23—Assistant Advertising Editor Maple Leaves 24—Clark's Tour Around the World— Mice and Men. JOHN THOMPSON Voted: The best bluffer. “Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!” ’I .9 15 Sixty ALLAN BITTNER “Bitts” Birthday: October 9. By-word: “Ain't nothin' else but.” Voted: The most eager to please. Hobby: Radio. He sits high in all the people’s hearts. VIRGINIA CL A YT( )N “Ginny” Birthday: February 14. By-word: “Oh, shoot. Voted: The most reliable. Hobby: Reading. “A good temper is like a sunny day. Oymnasium Kxhibition '22-22. ARTHUR SNIDER “Duke” Birthday: August 6. By - word: Lend me some paper. Voted: The laziest. Hobby: Dog catching. Better late than never. DOROTHY WELLS Dotty Birthday: June 27. By-word: Oh goodness gracious!” Voted: The biggest eater. She that hath a merry heart, hath a continual feast. Blue Triangle 23- 24—Girl Scouts '22—Gym Pageant. OLIVER McINTIRE “Mack” Birthday: October 27. By-word: Oh gee. Voted: The best natured. Hobby: Camping— Football. I am aware How many days have been idly spent: How like an arrow the good intent Has fallen short or been turned aside. Ili-Y '23—Stunt Club 22. Sixty-one OLIVK SNVDKR ' Shorty Birthday: October 13. By-word: “Gee whiz! Voted: Most in love. Hobby: Driving a car. “Have I caught my he’venly jewel?” Secretary Student Council '22—Secretary Fresh- man and Sophomore Class—Glee Club '23—Patrol Leader Girl Scouts ‘23. VIRGIL CONLEY Mutt Birthday: June 1. Voted: The best writer (literary.) Hobby: Sports—Reading. The boy with the grave mathematical look, Made believe he had written a wonderful book. Literary Kditor Maple Leaves '24—Clark’s Tour Around the World—Typing Award—“Mice and Men ’24. BLANCHE SHOTTS “Peggy” Birthday: April 29. By-word: “My cow.” Voted: The most thoughtful. Hobby: Going to the movies. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” Blue Triangle— Pirates of Penzance —Glee Club—Clark s Tour Around the World— Mice and Men ’24. JOSE PH C H A N K V “Squire Birthday: January 10. By - word : Scat My—!” Voted: The most studious. Hobby: Mechanic “And when night comes the lamp Lights up his studious forehead and thin hands.” BEATRICE LITTLE Ben Birthday: October 20. By-word Fiddlesticks. “Oh! Voted: The most kind-hearted. Hobby: Making pets of animals and fowls. “Tell me you counsels. 1 will not disclose ’em. I have made strong proof of my constancy.” Sixty-two L_EI A MARTHA HAGAN Bill Birthday: April 23. By - word: You’re funny.” Voted: The most agreeable. Hobby: Fating Hot Dogs. A careless shoe-string, in whose tie 1 see a wild civility— Do more bewitch me. than when art Is too precise in every part.'' rep Society Morgantown High School—Blue Triangle—Junior Basket Ball Team '24. THOM AS H K N1) ERSO N Red Birthday: September 30. By-word: “Son of a (gun) ?’ Voted: The best math student. Hobby: Fords and work. His form accorded with a mind Lively and ardent, frank and kind. Assistant Business Manager Maple Leaves '24 -R. O. D. 1 . '23—Hi-Y '24—Finance Board '24. HAZEL HARR ’’Hazel Dearie Birthday: June 4. By-word: Oh. for goodness sake!” Voted: The prettiest teeth. Hobby: Reading. Maiden of the laughing eyes. Share thy smiles with me! A certificate for Proficiency in Typewriting. RUSSELL DECKER Dollie Birthday: December 23. By-word: Oh bull!’’ Voted: The most gracious. Hobby: Sports. I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. Diarist for Maple Leaves '24. MILDRED McKAIN “Mick” Birthday: August 4. By-word: Oh darn. Voted: The most reserved. Hobby: Art and Music. She that was ever fair and never proud. Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud. Girls’ Glee Club— Pirates of Penzance” '22. Sixty-three r i x(=3 EDITH ROBEY Dimples” Birthday: January 15. By-word: ‘‘Come to think about it. Voted: The best dressed. Hobby: Swimming. The simple grace of Sylvan maid. In speech and gesture, form and face. Clark’s Tour Around the World ‘23—“Mice and Men ‘24. BKNTON DEXTER Birthday: July 30. Voted: The best “line-slinger . Hobby: Dancing and loafing. Broad brows and fair, a fluent hair and fine. SYLYA LYNCH “Sid” Birthday: May 15. By - word: Aw now. Voted: The most eager to please. Hobby: Writing. Broad-minded, higher-souled. there is but one. Literary Essay ’20— Mice and Men ’24. Y ILLIA M K AISK R Speed Birthday: April 11. By - word: Butter Kist Pop-corn. Voted: The most stubborn. Hobby: Writing. For he will never follow anything That other men begin. LEOXORE LOCGH Birthday: November 3. By - word: My cow.” Voted: The most indifferent. It seems to me-—that you are in some brown study. Blue Triangle—Clark’s Tour Around the World. Sixty-four HELEN E. LITTLE “Little” Voted : The most devilish. From the crown of her head to the sole of her foot, she is all mirth.” JAMES ALLARI) jimmy Birthday: September 27. By-word: Holy Jack Rabbits I Voted : The most unselfish. Of life upright Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds. Or thought of vanity. Hi-Y 22-— Football 23- 24—Track Team 23- 24—Stunt Club ’23—Letter Men's Club '23— Mardi (iras '23—Treasurer of Junior Class. ALLENE CANNELL Birthday: January 22. By-word: Oh heck. Voted: The most gentle. Hobby: Music and reading. So gentle, serious, mild, and staid, she surely seems an ideal maid. Gym Exhibition. KMIL HOFI M A N “Longfellow Birthday: February 27. By-word: I hope to tell you. Voted: The tallest. Hobby: Studebakers. There’s never a care For his soul to bear. No trouble to make him fret. Track Team '22— In the Garden of the Shah” —Hi-Y. PEARL CHAMBERS “Peggy” Birthday: March 29. By-word: My cow. Voted: The daintiest. Hobbby: Reading. A face made up Out of no other shop Than what Nature’s white hand sets ope. Mice and Men ’24. 0 £5 Sixty-five % MAP LEONA 1‘ROVIN Ony” Birthday: July 31. By - word: “Oh. my goo’ne s ! Voted: The best student. Hobby: Reading. “I would be friend of all—the foe, the friendless I would look up—and laugh—and love—and lift.” Certificate in typing '24—Card-case for typing— Assistant Literary Kditor 'Maple Leaves ’24. DELBERT SQUIKKS “Tubby” Birthday: July 26. By-word: “Ain't we got fun. Voted: The biggest tease. Hobby: Geometry. “He cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. lli-Y—Science Club. HILDA ABEL Birthday: December 24. By-word: Goodness Sake. “Oh! For Voted: The most conscientious student. Hobby: Flaying the piano. “An earnest, faithful, student of whom it may be said Whatever she doeth. she doeth well. HARRY CALLAHAN Voted: The slowest. Give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you. MARGARET BOYER “Peggy” Birthday: June 1. Voted: The most good humored. “She is a maid of artless grace. Gentle in form and fair of face. “Miss Cherry Blossom —“Pirates of Penzance. Sixty-six NKLLE LAWSON “Sleepy” Voted: The most clever. Ilohhy: Music. Thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain!” Blue Triangle—Literary Editor Maple Leaves'’ '24—Cheer Pops—Skull Klub. GLKNN LAFFKRTY Lafferty Birthday: December 6. By-word: “For Pat’s sake.” Voted: The prettiest eyes. ”IIis ready speech flowed fair and free In phrase of gentlest courtesy.” Football Manager ’23—Science Club—Clark’s Tour Around the World ’24—Mardi (iras ’24. MA RTHA HOUSTON “Martie” Birthday: June 22. By-word: “Great Caesar.” Voted: The most co-operative. Hobby: Reading. “A friend who knows and dares to say. The brave sweet words that cheer the way.” Basket Ball ’22-'23—Blue Triangle ’22-’24. Rl'SSFILL CRAWFORD Bucket ” Birthday: September 15. Voted: The most in love. Hobby: Loafing at the Shanty. “A boy's will is a wind’s will And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.” MILDRED LANHAM “Mil” Birthday: December 26. Voted: The biggest painter and powderer. Hobby: Excitement. ‘‘With open mind She wanders forth her work to find.” Blue Triangle—Clark's Tour Around the World —Girl Scouts. 1 .9 Sixty-seven Sixty-eight Real Juniors B_v SVLVA LYNCH, '25 When a lask is thought of, and then begun. But something else calls and it's left undone It's a Junior who comes along, day after day, And does the work, quietly putting it away. In any ball game of any sort. When some rooting is needed: and also some sport: It's the Juniors, mv friend, who are always on deck. Helping the home teams, yet giving others heck. While in the class room or while on the stage. When Miss Kirk says. We'll sing the 16th page,” it's the Juniors who keep quiet, while the others snigger. Proving to the faculty, which is the bigger. In general, you'll find it's always best. To do the little things along with the rest. And in the end, after the game is o'er You'll be glad you attempted to soar. Sixty-nine Seventy Seventy-one r i AVEy 'And then the whining schoolboy. with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.” —Shakespeare. 1 9 Seventy-two Sophomore Class Colors: Black and Red OFFICERS Frank Reed Pres id ent Virginia Osgood Vice President AdEUNS Ashhv Secretary Kenneth Wright Treasurer CLASS PARTY IN THE GYMNASIUM OCTOBER ADVISERS Miss Harshbarger Miss Hetherlin Miss Houi r Miss KinCADE Miss Koletka Miss Myers Mr. Wasmutii £5 Sev«nty-three l_e: The Sophomore Class Roll Sylvia Abel Evelyn Allard Helen Amos Jane Ana wait Joseph Arcuri Adeline Ashby Juanita Atha Alice Bachman Margaret Bailey John Barnes Clarence Barrett Frances Beer bower Lester Bittner Katherine Boord Lovell Boord Mary Brand Virginia Brooks Ira Brown Ruth Chaney Nellie Clark Harry James Cole Margaret Colebank Mildred Colebank Elbert Collins Helen Cumpston Gladys Davis Harold Davis Mary Davis VVilnalee Davis Albert Dickerson Marjorie Eaton Ralph Eddy Wilbur Eliason Holland Engle Sarah Evans Mary Feather Gertrude Feeny Thomas Fisher Mary Fleming Martha Fletcher Orville Floyd Nicolena Forte Gwendolyn Frantz Morris Funt Ruth Garner Ralph Gilmer Fred Glover Warner Glover Hannah Goedecker Roy Griffith Jean Hall Linn Hamilton William Hammond Darla Harr Virginia Hartley Kenneth Haun Basil Hawkins Clara Hawkins Audrey Hayes Clara Herrington Martha Iletzler John Himelick Paul Hodges Harriet Marie Hoge Helen Holdren Richard Holliday Kathleen Huff William Jobes Wilbur Jones Mary Kerns Robert Kerns Frederick Kisner Brady Knight Wilma Koon Charles Kramer Violet I.eeMasters Lauretta Lewis Lena Lipinski Doris Manley Arthur Mahaffy Helen Mazur Blanche Mazur Kathleen McCray Marion McDowell (iladys McOlvin Lester Merrifield Ned Merrifield Myrel Michie John Miller John Mitchell David Monell Marguerite Morris David Mumford Margaret Murphy Tucker Moroose Clifford Musgrave Anna Nicodemus Virginia Osgood Wilhelmena Parker Arietta Parrish Helen Parrish Hilton Pearson Garnet Poe John Poling Maude Pollock Pauline Pople Robert Powell Harry Randall Zelia Randall Stella Rassati Frank Reed George Reed Julia Reese Lorraine Reich Nellie Richardson Reta Richardson George Riggs Kathleen Rohr Helen Romano John Romigh Joe Romino Alex Ronay Evelyn Satterfield William Schimmel Alice Schoolnic Carmen Securo Ruby Shafer Donald Shields Edward Shroyer Richard Shurtleff Rachel Silver Irene Smith Leila Smith Thelma Snider Grace Sphar Alice Springer Mary E. Staggers Bessie Stalnaker Virginia Tetrick Alex Tchinski Edmund Thompson Richard Thralls Mabel Tonkery Anna Tootsey Patsy 'fork Hilda Truog Dorothy Tutt Gertrude Valentine Junior Valentine (iertrudc Vaughn Jean Walker Frances Watson Ryland White Katherine Wills Florence Wrick Kenneth Wright Raymond Vates Mike Zeoli Carl Zuspan 1 9 Kg) O Seventy-five Sophomore High Lights NAME NICKNAME ACHIEVEMENT Sylvia Abel N “Sunshine” Sophomore Play. Helen Amos .... ....... .....................-“In the Garden of the Shah.” Evalyn Allard “Eddie ....Clark's Tour Around the World; “In the Garden of the Shah” ; Mardi (iras. Alice Bachman Peggy” Literary Contest. Margaret Bailey “Peg” . E. II. S. Basket Ball; Girl Scouts. Katherine Boord “K” Girl Scouts. James Cole .............. “Jim .............Hi-V ; Track Team ‘23. Margaret Colebank Peggy” “In the Carden of the Shah”; “Pirates of Penzance. Mildred Colebank “Milly . -Gym Gem Kevue Gladys Davis ___ Peggy .-Blue Triangle ’23-‘24. Mary Davis “Fatty ____Clark's Tour Around the World. Albert Dickerson -“Murray “In the Garden of the Shah. Ralph M. Eddy ........... “Eddy .........Hi-V; Football '23. Holland Engle —“Deacon” Mardi (iras; Hi-V; Clark's Tour Around the World. Sarah Evans “Sally Skull Klub; Blue Triangle; Girl Scouts. Mary Fleming “Bobby Fairfax” Girl Scout Patrol leader. Nicolena Forte ........— Forte ____.“In the Garden of the Shah.” Morris Funt _____________“Ikey ......... Pirates of Penzance ; Ili-Y ; T. N. T. Ruth Garner ....... .........Sophomore English Play. Fred Glover . Coca Cola King” Hi-V; Football ‘23. Hannah Goedecker ..“Skeeter ___________Basket Ball. Clara Herrington _______“Bobby “In the Garden of the Shah”; Basket Ball. Virginia Hartley ..“Jimmy Blue Triangle; “Pirates of Penzance.” Audrey Hayes “Odd (Farmington Civics Play; Stunt Night. Basil Hawkins .................. Hi-V. John Himelick —“Shark .Dramatic Club; Boy Scouts; Literary Contest; “Why the Chimes Kang.” Harriet Marie Hoge ____“Pat _________Blue Triangle; Girl Scouts; Mardi Gras; Basket Ball. Robert Kerns ........... “Bob Base Ball; Football; Basket Ball. Brady Knight —“Kid” .......Basket Ball; Football; Base Ball; Hi-V; Kibo; Student Council. Wilma Koon ...— Bill” _______Highest average in F. II. S. first semester. Charles Kramer -“Sherlock” ... Why the Chimes Rang. Frederick Kisner .............— Mardi Gras. Violet LeeMasters _____“Vi ____Basket Ball; Girl Scouts. 1 .9 £5 Sev«nty-six Sophomore High Lights NAME NICKNAME ACHIEVEMENT Lauretta Lewis .... Peggy” .....Girl Scouts; Operetta. Kathleen McCray Kitty .....Won Literary Contest and Chamber of Com- merce Prize. Gladys McOlvin Red” Sophomore Play. Marguerite Morris .. Hobby” .....Mardi Gras; Student Council. Tucker Moroose ......... Sparky” _____Football; Base Ball. John Mitchell __ Sleepy” ______________Hi-Y. I avid Mumford Mummy” Pirates of Penzance”; Hi-Y; In the Garden of the Shah.” Anna Nicodemus ......... Nick” ................Tennis Club '23. Virginia Osgood Ginny” Mardi (iras; Toy Shop”; In the Garden of the Shah”; Blue Triangle; Skull Klub; This is so Sudden ; Pirates of Penzance ; Girl Scouts. Helen Parrish Basket Ball; In the Garden of the Shah.” John Poling ..... .. ......... -“Why the Chimes Rang. Robert Powell Bob” Sophomore Play. ella Randall Aleck” .........Freshman Play. Frank Reed . Reedv” Football; President of Class 22- 23. 23- 24. Reta Richardson —...........Freshman Play. Stella I. Rassati.......................... —.Blue Triangle. John Romigh ..........— Romeo” Hi-Y; 23- 24. William Schimmel . Bill” Trainer Football and Basket Ball; T. N. T.; Hi-Y; Kibo. Carmen Securro ... Shorty Base Ball 23. Rachel Silver ....— Ray” Pirates of Penzance.” Richard Shurtleff ______ Dick” Hi-Y; Mardi (iras; Sophomore Play. Bessie Stalnaker ... Elizabeth — Mrs. Santa Claus. Mary Ellen Staggers Mes .........Skull Klub; Girl Scouts; Basket Ball; Blue Triangle; In the Garden of the Shah.” Alex Tchinski ... Zander” Play 23. Edmund C. Thompson Ed _____ Pirates of Penzance” ; Hi-Y; Mardi Gras. In the Garden of the Shah.” Patsy Tork — Pat .....Football; Basket Ball (Capt.). Dorothy Tutt ........... Dot” ______________Girl Scouts; Blue Triangle. Frances Watson — Ban .........Girl Scouts; Blue Triangle. Katherine Willis ------- Kitty Mardi Gras. Florence Wrick ........... Hick” —............Basket Ball. Kenneth Wright ... Izzie Football; Pirates of Penzance”; Hi-Y; Kibo. Seventy-seven Seventy-eight r-i E i_ei i_eian e: True-Blue Students By OGARITE and DELBERT SMITH We cheer for our school Our Fairmont High Our colors are blue and white We're honest I say Both night and day And do what we think is right. We're not the kind That sit behind To watch our school tumble down We jump right up And win the cup With never a tear nor a frown. We try our best With never a jest To honor the school we attend We’ll always be true To the white and blue And Fairmont High commend. Seventy-nine “() wad some Power the giftie ;ie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An foolish notion.” —Burns. 1 9 Eighty Freshman Class OFFICERS William Kirch man President Daniel Rosa Vice President Louis Schoolnk: Secretary and Treasurer CLASS PARTY IN THE GYMNASIUM NOVEMBER ADVISERS Miss Price Miss Rock Miss Scott Miss Tif.nnebrcnne Miss Thacker Mrs. Zumbrcnnen 1 9 £5 Eiflhty-on« Eighty-two MAP I_EAVEy freshman class roll henry ambrose douglas anderson hilda anderson dominirk arcuri ermastine at ha melvin harke dana hart lett Virginia bartlett mary bartoff charles beelcr fleming bennett waiter bennett john bloom tony bulmetto margaret boehm earl boggess dale lx� ggess mary margaret brock lena brown john camphione bet tie carpenter iva carpenter lloyd carroll minnie carwaldo edwin chalfant esther childs edna clelland agnes belle cobun dorothy coll ins michael conaway helen crawford lillian davidson james delligatti margaret del sordo vito del sordo rose delmarco mary denham milton divvens Virginia douglass john downey roy dunsmore james durrett robert dusch mart ha eddy ruth edith ell is george fear james fechter elaine ferrise mary fetty irma fishback leah rtetcher Virginia frischkon vida fay fullick fred gadd mary garde helen glover elf rede grau glenn grimes paul gough mary belle haggerty amy hall harry hall jean hall pauline hall kenneth hamilton margaret linn hamilton mary hamilton opal hamilton mary margaret harden mary crane hartley edna haw kins ruth hay hurst alpheus haymond jean haymond eleanor hayes harper hayes bertha hoffman gatha huffman let ha holdsworth harold hoult james hunsaker william fay hunsaker donald hupp earl jackson florenee jacobs doris johnson wilma jones william julian kathervn kelly charles kemper lucille kendrick irvin kinter billy kirchman john knutti floyd oney ruth oney alma orr frank palotta ernest pflock richard pitzer mary pontis edward poling el Is worth post wanda rassati ruth reed thelma reese ocie riggs mary franees riheldaffer daniel ross tony russo beaulah satterfield harold schimmel louis schoolnic frank seccuro glenn Shackleford ralph shotts edward slepesky evelyn squires mabel stuart staggers charles stalnaker niarion stemple mary stevens harold straight katherine shuttleworth ogarite smith delbert smith albert layman mary lewis mike lorn bardo emma joe lough bobbie lowe molly mahone mary mallanio wayland manley betty maple julius marciano leslie martin Virginia martin joseph martine mary mazur irma mebride jessamine mcdowell lillian meginnis joe meo daniel miller eleanor miller joe monel 1 stuart montgomery jane morgan paul a. morris paul c. morris roy morris edward mumford texie nixon edward nay beatrice nuzum vera taylor elsie thompson paul tibbs ••ugenia troynar thelma wade gans watkins mildred watkins bartlett watson mary whorley Virginia whorley robert wilderman franees wills jack wilmoth helen wilson paul woody mary woof ter wilbur wrasse ruth wychoff beulah zinn thelma zuspan Eighty-three The Freshman Who’s Who J l’DOING from the Freshman achievements, they are “up on it to a considerable degree. They are entering into the school activities in a manner that promises to make their class a real “live wire and a tine influence in the school. The Freshmen are strong in their support of “Hi-Life and “Maple Leaves. An example of this is Miss Price's group which subscribed 100% for “Hi-Life and paid 100% for their pictures in “Maple Leaves. They are making a bid for fame athletically, as well as in other ways, having a strong squad of girls to represent them on the basketball floor and several boys on both the football and basketball squads. The girls on the class squad are: Frmastine Atha, Betty Carpen- ter. Irma Fish back. Mary Whorley, Margaret Linn Ham- ilton. Elaine Ferrise. Alma Orr. Margaret Ruth Boehm, Dorothy Collins. Molly Mahone and Leah Fletcher. The boys who are on the school squad are: William Kirch- man. who is also president of the Freshman class and a member of the football squad: Danny Ross, who is a member of the Letter Men s Club, a member of the foot- ball squad and vice-president of the Freshman class. Wilbur Wrasse, a member of the football squad. Hand in hand with their activities in the athletic field comes the Stunt Club and both the Boy and Girl Scouts. Those belonging to the Stunt Club are: Floyd Oney and Frank Seccuro. while in the Boy Scouts there are: Walter Bennett. Earl Boggess. and Earl Jackson. The freshman girls enrolled in the Girl Scouts are: Jane Morgan. Lillian McGinnis, Marv Stevens, and Man- Belle Haggerty. It is evident that the Freshmen possess musical and dramatic talent as is shown by the fact that Jack Wilmoth. Mary Crane Hartley. Ruth Reed. Mary Belle Haggerty and Vera Taylor belong to the Glee Club, and that Betty Carpenter and Jane Morgan took part in the operetta. Further proof of their abili- ties in this direction is given by Mary Belle Haggerty. Irma McBride, and Alma Orr who were in “In the Garden of the Shah. and by Louis Schoolnic who plays in the orchestra. As a further example of their determination to make tin- most of their high school career, they have enrolled in the Blue Triangle Club: Mary Belle Haggerty. Florence Jacobs. Jane Morgan and Marion Stemple. The representatives of the Fresh- man class in the Student Council are Mary Belle Haggerty and Bartlett Watson. It can readily be seen that with the excellent material that the Freshmen possess and their fine school spirit, we can expect great things from this class in its future three years in Fairmont High. Eighty-five __EE i__ PAUL MOORK The best All-Round Student in Fairmont High School IN harmony with the Staff's aim to popularize the ideals of our school, the advisers suggested that it feature in this volume the best all-round girl and boy. '1 he ' suggestion was whole-heartedly approved; the extra curricular activities of the honor roll students were hunted down. The judges. Mrs. Mayers. Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Buckey decided the winners on the basis of two-thirds for scholarship, and one- third for activities. These two pages announce their decision. Congratulations to both winners! I wonder if Paul is half as proud of this honor as we are of him. An enviable honor too, for his is the highest average of six hundred students. He stands on the top rung with his first honor scholarship and his active part in seven worth while school activities. When the judges' decision of the boy winner was announced to him. his remark, ••Gee. I hate that! speaks his unselfishness. Thoughtful courtesy, true sportsman- ship. a fine sense of honor and justice, and a manliness which is strong yet refined and gentle—these traits just say Paul. In truth “the elements are mixed in him , for he is an all-round student with literary and “math aptitudes, an athlete, a musician, a leader, and a real boy. He is getting much from high school and is also giving much of himself to its best interests: he does big things, yet has time for little things: he is popular with both boys and girls; he is opening up many avenues of interest, enjoyment, and useful- ness: he is cultivating not only “the anointed eye but also the anointed mind and heart. With all sincerity, “Nature might say to all the world, ‘Ihis is a man. £5 Eighty-six DOROTHY BRACKETT The best All-Round Girl Student in Fairmont High School THE ideal student is the boy or girl who realizes the fullest development of mind, heart. b: dv. and social relations. She must lx- studious but not a grind, spiritual but not a fanatic, gracious and charming socially but not a butterfly. She must be a leader in activities of many types, touching school life at all its points, yet never losing sight of its chief aim. scholarship. That girl student in Fairmont High School most nearly approaching this ideal is Dorothy Brackett. Active in extra-curricular interests she has time to go near the top in scholarship. Her activities are widely varied. Her literary talent, which has made her tilerarv editor of “Maple Leaves and of Hi-Life” and has placed her productions in the foremost rank, is marked by the cleverness and originality which distinguish everything she does. Her artistic talent manifests itself in the touches she gives her class work. posters, and favors of a dozen kinds which she makes for school functions. Her dramatic ability is evident from the list of performances in which she has participated. Her initiative has won for her offices in almost every organization in school, and has made her a leader in every undertaking. Yet her capacity for accomplishment is not satisfied by these more delicate activities. Her physical vigor and spirit characteristic of the modern American girl seek an outlet in sports and the girl scout work where again her leadership is evident. Her versatility, as displayed in this array of achievements in addition to her scholarship, makes her outstanding in six hundred. “And still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all she knew.' Eiohty-seven r i F= i__e: Seniors Without Pictures William Ahern Kenneth Parker Paul Alban Fred Reed Keith Ashby George Rosennterkel Glenn Beerbower Gordon Rosennterkel John Burns Erie Sample Charles Burris George Shields Howard Clayton Robert Sloan Robert Crowl Robert Stanley Paul Davis Josephine Boord William Evans Helen DeBolt Horace Gilmer Mary Enoch Al. Ginkel Geneva Fleming Charles Hart Dorothy McDowell William Hawkins Emma Long Evan Hopkins Julia Mason Carl Kneisel Helen Michie Edward Divvens Alice Thompson Myers Nichols Mary Thomas Harold Parker Evelyn Rice Juniors Without Pictures Lonnie Ashby Adelaide Meril Anna Bracken Robert Miller Margaret Bracken Silas Mills James Bradshaw George Moore Sallie Douglass Woodford Moore Jack Hagan Charles Parker Ruby Hamilton Junior Phillips Mike Hando Hughes Reed Ingntan Harr Clark Reed Robert Havhurst Wilma Reese Clyde Leonard Irene Shafer Willis Mattingly Paul Tarleton Charles McBride Henry Thompson Arthur McQueen Eighty-eight Eighty-nine r i f= i__e: i___ “Library Items” By MISS HKTHKRLIN A. General Conduct. 1. No talking, aloud from the minute the library opens until closing time. 2. Perfect quiet even before the bell rings for class, to accommodate the early birds after knowledge. 3. No social gatherings of two or more students in the library without permission. 4. No consultation about work, except with the librarian, or with her permission. 5. No public blasts of announcement without the public being prepared. 6. Santa Claus may have brought you a crate of chewing gum but the waste basket is the only place for that gum in the library. 7. Only intellectual hunger is satisfied in the library. You may devour books but not candy or apples. If it becomes necessary to provide a special table for those needing lunches during study time, that may be done later. 8. Fairmont High School girls are beautiful beyond the power of description. Therefore, vanity cases need not be used in the library. 9. Fairmont High School boys are gentlemen. Therefore, they never have difficulty in peacefully finding a seat. They never bang chairs or wrangle over the “American Hoy”. ID. The library is not a race course with some magazine or choice history reference book the reward for high speed. 11 The two waste baskets in the Library are designed not alone for the chewing gum which gets into the library by mistake. All scraps of paper, big and little belong there. 12. The library is no place to take last night's sleep. 13. Library chairs would have been made with two legs if they were intended to be tilted against the window ledge. 14. Mary Blank expects the Library to furnish everything, from the textbook she forgot, to a needle and thread for sewing on a loose button. An efficient stu- dent brings to the library his own tools. He doesn’t ask for pens, ink, pencils, paper, etc. 15. It is a matter of fine courtesy to return all reference material to the exact spot where it belongs. 16. Fairmont High School students are not acrobats. I)o not expect them to find the book you put on the shelf up side down. 17. Magazines and papers should never be left “wrong side out . 18. You may wish to write a social letter to Auntie. Do it at home, not in the library. 19. If you see a student who fails to observe the common courtesies in your library, show him by example what to do. 20. The bell ringing is not a signal. “Everybody bolt! Our system allows for dignified departure. 21. The librarian does not run truck service from the front door to the Library. Return your own books and have them properly discharged at the desk. 22. The ostrich hides his head and thinks he is hidden. The High School ostrich returns an overdue book to the desk and leaves in haste, thinking his remissness will never be detected. The librarian keeps a list of ostriches. Ninety-two f)r«iu-n by PuuJ Duviuon Ninety-three Locomotive Cheer for Old Fairmont (First Choice) (First Choice) Whistle! Boom! Kay! Fairmont! Rah! Kah! Rah! Rah! Fairmont High School Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Fairmont High School Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Fairmont High School Team! Team! Team! Fight! Fight! Blue and White (Second Choice) Fight! Fight! Blue and white! Fight! Fight! Blue and white! Fight! Fight! Blue and white! Fight. Fairmont ! Fight, Fairmont Fight! Rickety Ax! Wax. Wax! (Third Choice) Rickety ax ! Wax. wax. Rickety ax! Wax. wax. Wow up ; wow up ; wow up ; bang ! Boom-a-lacka! Boom-a-lacka ! Boom-a-lacka! Bang! Chick-a-lacka ! Chick-a-lacka! Chick-a-lacka! Chang! Whix wax! Whix wax! Whix wax! Whee! Fairmont High School! Yes. sir-ee! Cheer for old Fairmont, Fairmont must win; Fight to the finish Never give in Bom ! Bom ! Bom ! You do your best boys. We’ll do the rest. boys. Fight for old F. II. S.! There’s a School That W'c Love (Second Choice) There’s a school that we love And it’s far above, any other school we know. And the students admit they sure make a hit Any place that they may go They are so young, peppy and clever Once you have met them you’ll love them forever If I tell you the name You’ll tell me the same It’s dear old Fairmont High. Cheer, Boys, Cheer (Third Choice) Cheer, boys, cheer Fairmont’s got the ball Cheer, boys, cheer She’s holding like a wall. And when we hit that line There'll be no line at all; There’ll be a touchdown For dear old Fairmont. 1 9 15 Ninety-four AVEy ' i 4 ■ Miss Eldridge The Aim and Spirit of Athletics in Fairmont High School T HE spirit of democracy reigns in athletics in Fairmont High School. It is the aim of the coaches and physical instructor to give every student an oppor- tunity to take part in competitive games, to arouse in each student a keen desire to be physically perfect: to make him understand that a sound body helps promote a sound mind ; to show that success in athletics does not rest entirely upon producing victorious teams, but by winning the loyal support of all by fair open play. In the heart of both rooters and team is school spirit. oung and old forget their few differences and unite to cheer their team to victory. It is school spirit that makes our athletes keep training that they may be able to give their very best for their schixd; that makes them put school spirit before self interest; that makes them put teamwork before individual playing; that makes them prefer defeat (if need be) with clean playing rather than victory with foul playing; that makes them courteous to their opponents; that makes them stand for all that's clean and aboveboard. The entire aim and spirit of Fairmont High School are best expressed perhaps in our favorite school song: Fight to the finish, never give You do your best, boys, We'll do the rest, boys, Fight for old F. FI. S.” in Ninety-five The Polar Bears Robert Crowl Robert Sloan Joe Ross Arthur McQueen Paul Moore Robert Stanley William Worley Myers Nichols Harold Steele Ralph Dunsmore William Schimmel (A ss't Manager) Kenneth Wright Aubrey Taylor John Callahan (Captain) James Spadafore Hrady Knight Robert Kline William Kirchman Glenn Laflfertv (Manager) CAPTAIN CALLAHAN Clean, cool-headed, strong and tall. An athlete who is loved by all. The ability to manage and a leader true, A boy who has the spirit of the white and blue. Danny Ross James Allard Charles Vaughn Frank Reed Wiley Garrett (Captain elect) Patsy 'Fork Meredith Smail Ninety-six JOE ROSS Quarterback “Dominick”, “Salvator” Ross from “Old Country” finished up his high school football carer with a bang! His field generalship was of the very finest. Though he suffered from injuries, he would hit the line with such force that he never failed to gain. WILEY GARRETT (Captain elect) T ackle Garret played the most consistent football of any man on the team. He smashed the opponent's line to pieces and tackled under punts uncomparable. If properly recognized, Wiley should have been on the all-state football team. MYERS NICHOLS T ackle “Ted” made their bones rattle. Often he could be seen breaking through the line and catching the runner before he would get started. The huskiness of “Ted” will be very much missed by the Icemen next year. JOHN CALLAHAN End “Irish” Callahan whose uncanny ability to pull down long passes out of the atmosphere and get down the field under'punts marked him as the all-important man of each game. Such another tip-top player and captain will not be easily found for the coming season. 1 9 Ninety-seven PATSY FORK. Center Patsy stationed at center played a marvelous game. His snapping of the ball was faultless and he knew his signals well. His quick thinking and knack of diag- nosing plays stopped any opponent’s rushes. RALPH DUNSMORK End “Ditty” Dunsmore, after playing with the scrubs part of the season, finally proved his worth and at the end of the year was regarded as the hardest tackier on the squad. Ditty will be with us again next year. BRADY KNIGHT Guard When the team needed pepping up. Brady was always sent in. He added new life to the team and fought like a mad man. If he keeps up this fine work, he will win many games for old Fairmont. HAROLD STEEL Guard “Jack Steel was a wonder man at making a hole in the line and was there when it came to holding his side of the defense. We are sorry “Jack will not be with us next year. 1 9 Ninety-eight ROBERT SLOAN Halfback “Bob” was one of the most dependable substitutes on the team this year. He always started right in fighting and never slackened a bit. This was his first and last season of football at Fairmont. ARTHUR McQUEEN T acklc This big and husky six footer stored up valuable football sense this season. Next year. McQueen will make himself known for he has had two years on the squad and is due to break out with some wonderful football. JAMES ALLARD Tackle and Guard “Jimmy” was a hurricane on wheels. He sent his opponents tumbling right and left, in addition to making their ears ring stingingly. Jimmy has another year with us which will prove a great one in his football history. AUBREY TAYLOR Guard “Tubby was the heavy-weight of the team and a most important asset in the line. He was immovable and when he hit a player, the victim always got up slow' and dizzy. 1 _P £5 Ninety-nine ROBERT STANLEY Halfback and •'nil back Bob did not get out for football until a month had slipped away. Although he was not a first string man he was a valuable substitute, and played in most all the games. “Sister’s ability to break up passes and make fleet end runs will be sadly missed next year. KENNETH W RIGHT End During the whole season no one played better football than “Kenney”. He was quick to round the end and never let a runner get past him. When he hit them, he knocked 'em for a row. Much is expected of Kenney” in the next two years. WILLIAM WORLEY Center and Guard “Big Swede” Worley! A large raw boned, and good natured footballer came out faithfully each day and fought hard for old F. H. S. We are sorry to lose Worley. We are confident he will some day make his mark in football. CHARLES HOULT End and Halfback “War Horse was a valuable player who could relieve either of the ends or any backfield position. He was a hard hitter and one of the scrappiest players on the team. We are sorry that we have to say adieu to “War Horse”. 1 .9 £5 One Hundred __e: i_ei x e: DANIEL ROSS End Danny” Ross could lx- seen on the football field every day with a broad smile and a cooperative spirit. With his tackling instinct and sound football judgment, he will more than star in the next three years for the “Polar Bears”. MEREDITH SMAIL Halfback and Quarterback Wid was always on the job for the scrimmages. He was injured in one, but was back out in uniform a few weeks later. “Wid made his letter this year though he did not play in many games. With his experience, he should develop into a great football player next season. PAUL MOORE Fullback Paul, playing his second year on the squad, came out to practice every day and took punishment from the first team. He made his letter and a gcxxl rep” this season. Much is expected of him next year. ROBERT CROW I. Quarterback “Pep Crowd played his last year for Fairmont High School. He has been playing football three years for us, each year making his letter. Pep was up on it when it came to handling the ball and the team. One Hundred One Football GLIMPSES I RON! THE SIDE LINES Fairmont High School's Football season started on Monday, September 10, with about forty-five candidates who had received uniforms and were put to work the same afternoon at the various grass drills and exercises. As soon as Coach Ice succeeded in getting his men in shape and teaching them the first fundamentals of the game, he then started perfecting the plays and getting his team to work like a machine. Hardly any time was wasted and when the first game came around, every player was raring to go . FAIRVIEW 0—FAIRMONT 44 September 10 Fairmont High School started her football season in high style by downing Fair- view with a score of 44-0. The game was called at 10:00 A.M. on account of the West Virginia Wesleyan game being in the afternoon. Both teams played and fought hard in spite of the hot sun. The game played was one well worth seeing though the Fairview team melted like snow in Hades when our “Polar Bears snapped at them a few times. GRAFTON 0—FAIRMONT 0 October 6 Fairmont High played her hardest fought game of the season when she battled the Grafton High team to a scoreless tie. In this game our “Polar Bears put out more fight and pep than in any other game of the year. The Railroaders’ team was considered one of the strongest teams in the state at the time they clashed with the Blue and White. The previous week Grafton had defeated East Side 27-6. This gave F'airmonters new life and reasons to be proud of their team. Our cheering section was unusually g xxl. It consisted of about one hundred and fifty rooters. Their cheers truly turned the Icemen into football maniacs. We didn't come home with Grafton’s scalp nor did we leave ours at Grafton. In this game Abbott played a whale of a game, running back punts like a real Mercury, at the same time singing “Yes We Have No Bananas Today”. ELKINS 7—FAIRMONT 6 October 12 Defeated but not outplayed!!! Flarly in the first quarter of the game “Sleepy Glenn, all-state fullback of F'.lkins, found a hole in Fairmont's line, and aroused the grand stand by making a seventy yard run for a touchdown. Elkins kicked the goal which resulted in our defeat. Following this, our boys punched the ball up the field with short consecutive drives, scoring a touchdown but not kicking the goal. The last half Elkins played a defensive game holding Fairmont in check, although Spadafore. who was the out- standing star of the game, made threatening gains. When the final whistle blew, it found Fairmont defeated by score of 7-6. The Icemen left the field conscious of playing the better game, though the score stood against them. 1 s £5 One Hundred Two WHEELING 13—FAIRMONT 0 October 20 On Saturday, October 21. Fairmont Hi journeyed north to clash with Wheeling Hi at Wheeling. It was an ideal day for football and both teams showed abundance of pep and spirit. In the first half brilliant playing was demonstrated, though our boys seemed unable to get started. Captain Callahan pulled down some excellent passes that often made the Wheeling lads shiver. He was our best gainer and showed more football than anyone on the field. In the second half Wheeling came back strong and surprised us by a new and baffling offensive. Our Polar Bears held them until the last period when several breaks went against us. The final score was 13-0 in Wheeling’s favor. MANNINGTON 0—FAIRMONT 13 OR 1? October 27 After a week of the hardest work-out that the football team experienced all season, Coach Ice was fully satisfied that his team was ready to meet the Mannington bunch. With blood in their eyes from the Wheeling defeat and previous experiences w ith Mannington our boys entered the game to win or die. From the very beginning the Icemen outplayed the Blakemen in every phase of the game. Spadafore was in extraordinarily good form. He was the star of the game, making a twenty-one yard run for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter Jerry Blake could not stand for his team to take the trimming that they were getting. After accusing the officials several times for unjust officiating, he took his team off the field; forfeiting the game to Fairmont and reducing our team’s score by twelve points. As a result Blake received severe criticism from every one and all athletic rela- tions were cut off between Fairmont High and Mannington High. WASHINGTON-IRVING 0— FAIRMONT 13 November 3 Although four of our regular players were out of the lineup, our boys succeeded in winning easily from the Clarksburg team by two touchdowns. The game was a spectacular one and was featured by brilliant playing from both teams. Clay Hite's “Mud Larks’’ tried doggedly at our line only to meet a stone wall defense and a driving attack that they could not stem. Adding color to the game was the sensational defensive work of Patsy Tork while the outstanding field generalship of Joe Ross swept the W . I. team toward their disaster. SHINNS ION 6— FAIRMONT 27 November 10 The “Polar Bears” uncorked the dope when they won a smashing triumph over Shinnston on their home ground. The game was played on a wet and slippery field preventing the players from showing much speed. Fast Side thought she was doomed for sure when she saw our team smashing through the line that she had failed to break. The Icemen showed abundance of pep and were ‘‘rarin’ to go” all through the game. The work of Abbott and Vaughn proved to be the shining features of the game. One Hundred Three __e: i__e: EAST SIDE 14— FAIRMONT 7 November 16 With s many victories added to her name Fairmont Hi spoiled what would have been a successful season when she allowed East Side to defeat her. The people of Fairmont were somewhat sorrowed by this defeat. There was a number of remarks as to why Fairmont lost the game but very few of them hit the nail on the head. Fairmont had stopped the Spear's shift in previous games, so it was not the shift; it was not the plays that East Side had because only six of their regular plays were used; it was not because of weight or better players; it was not because the boys were afraid of East Side (far be it from that); but it was just because—. The students of F. H. S. exhibited a high brand of school spirit, taking the defeat as only good sportsmen could and gained probably more respect from the townspeople than if Fairmont Hi had won. All men can smile in victory but it takes real men to smile in defeat. W ESTON 0— FAIRMONT 33 November 23 Fairmont High School cut the last notch of the season in her war club by swamping Weston in a shower of touchdowns. The game was played in a cold rain and a sea of mud. nevertheless there was a large number of fans out to cheer F'air- inont on to victory. Many of the boys were playing their last game for the good old “blue and White” and they did their best to leave a good remembrance behind them. All in all Fairmont had a successful season winning five out of eight games making a much better record than last year. Each year we climb a step higher to- ward the state championship. If Frank Ice keeps improving his coaching and his teams soon West Virginia won't be large enough to hold us. THE PONIES Paul Davis Half Delbert Squires __________________________ .. Center Fred Glover ■ „ Thomas Fisher o f Earl Jackson Tackle William Hammond End MyREL Mich IE Quarter Joseph Anwyli. Guard GEbRGE Davis End Ai.i.ison Frum Tackle Russel Crawford Guard Ralph Eddy ffalf The Fairmont Ponies were coached by Ex-Captain Reich, alumnus of F. IPS They played several games throughout the season not losing a game. Although the team was a very light one they played good football making up for their light- ness in speed, fight and trick plays. They handled the ball with lightning swiftness, and charged together like a machine. When the first team was in need of a waking up the Ponies were brought from “over the fence to scrimmage them. Here's where the fun began, for they gave the regulars a run for their money. Some of them had to work to keep from going back “over the fence” with the Ponies. Almost the full line-up of the Ponies will be back next year and if they play as well as they did last year, the whole team will become regulars. L 1 s £5 One Hundred Four One Hundred Five One Hundred Six Boys’ Basket Ball Squad Paul Davis Brady Knight Frank. Romino Patsy Tork, Captain Joe Ross Wiley Garrett Daniel Ross Charles Hoult. Manager W illiam Kirc h m an Robert Stanley John Callahan CAPTAIN TORK Hurrah ! For Tork: he's a good old sport In athletics, with girls and with boys. He plays with his might, and it turns out all right W;ith the score in our favor—Oh Joy! Meredith Smail Paul Moorf. Robert Crowl Frank Ice, Coach 1 9 £5 One Hundred Seven r i E i__e: i__ei we: PATSY TORE. tunning Guard Patsy, a true sportsman and a captain who led his team to victory! Patsy was willing to come to earth with any of them. His fight is what often kept our enemy’s score so low. BRADY KNIGHT Stationary Guard Brady, a g x d natured lad, played possibly the best all-around game of any on the team. (W hen an opponent went down into his territory, he always sent him back on the run). Brady met every biff and adverse decision with a frank “If-you- can-stand-it-I-can smile. FRANK ROM1NO Forward “Jack-’ is the smallest but not the least player on the team. He doubles his small stature by his unexcelled jumping and is quick as lightning to stop, pivot, and shoot. He has twice made all-state honorable mention. JOE ROSS Forward Joe, though not a flashy player, could always be seen in the thickest of the fight. His cool-headedness and marvelous fl x r work netted him baskets in each game. He never had an off-night game or a brilliant one. but always played the same. Joe won’t be back next year much to the loss of Fairmont High. WILEY GARRETT Center Wiley, the clean, mountaineer type, always helped his teammates and was friendly with his opponents until they started roughing it up, then he would prove that he could beat them at their own game. Wiley is a real athlete. One Hundred Eight _e: i_eian e: ’ DANNY ROSS tunning Guard Danny, the smiling player always put his best efforts into the game! This is Danny’s first year on Fairmont Hi's squad and he made his letter. Next year he will be starring in his brother's place. ROBERT STANLEY Guard “Bob” played a peppy game all season. He was a demon at breaking up a team's attack and also managed to ring in a basket once in a while when his team was on the offense. He played a game that won “Ginny's” admiring glance. ROBERT CROWL Forward “Pep passed the ball with much skill and quickness. His ability to shoot was unsurpassed and his hard playing brought him high standing. We regret to say goodbye to “Pep” this year. JOHN CALLAHAN Forward “Irish forgot to report to practice until the season was almost over then he set everything a-fire. His fine spirit made him an important cog in the “Icemen” machine. Callahan's athletic ability will make him a marked man in college. PAUL DAVIS Center This was “Weed’s” first year of basket ball. He stood first on the list of substitutes and played in many of the games. He had great durability and was skillful beyond words. Good-bye “Weed!” One Hundred Nine Basket Ball Review—1924 THE basket ball team of 1924 is one of the best that has ever represented Fair- mont High School. Teamwork was the outstanding feature of this year's squad. This with their splendid “win nr die spirit, speed, and clean living kept them in the race until the final whistle. Too much credit cannot be given coach Frank A. Ice for the brilliant showing of the team. After losing many of last year's valuable players he plunged in, heart and soul, and built up a team we cannot praise too much. The season opened January 11. by defeating the Fairview quintet by a score of 36-13. The game was marked by unusually rough playing on both sides. The game was featured by some of the finest passing on the local floor. The next evening the Blue and White tossers journeyed to Weston and returned with another scalp in their belt. The Icemen displayed fine teamwork from start to finish which resulted in the final score, 21-6. On January 18 the Polar Bears met the Railroaders on the local floor in a wild and exciting game. According to dope Grafton was scheduled to win but after the first quarter, the Blue and Whites snapped into it and fought the game to a finish, winning by the narrow margin of one point. The score stood 12-11. Brady's wonderful guarding and Joe's unusually fine game were responsible in a large measure for the outcome of the game. The Fairmont High squad easily took the measure of the Cameron lads January 19. The shooting of the Blues and Whites was a great improvement over the night before, and the Cameron tossers could do nothing against the local guards. Ross and Garrett starred while Brady continued his fine work as guard. January 23 the Polar Bears met the Shinnston quintet on the local floor, won the game by a score of 32-12 completely spilling the dope. Shinnston was predicted to win. The Icemen however proved their ability by completely outclassing their opponents at all stages of the game. January 26 the Fairmont team journeyed to Clarksburg to meet Clay Hite's Vlud Larks”. This game was featured by close guarding on both sides. The final score stood 14-9. As Clarksburg High is one of Fairmont's ancient rivals, it is a feather in the cap of the Icemen to be able to defeat the Hill-toppers two years in succession. January 27 the Blue and White passers defeated the Morgantown High quintet in a slow game with a score of 19-15. While Morgantown High played a fine game the locals did not display their usual brand of basketball. Brady Knight's guarding was very exceptional while Joe Ross played the outstanding offensive game. The Fairmont High quintet journeyed to Grafton. January 29. to meet Jaspar Colebank's fast five. When the final whistle blew, the F'airmonters had won by the scant margin of one point, the final score being 13-12. The game was hotly contested and from beginning to end furnished thrills for the spectators. February 1, the first of the games to be played with East Side High for the city title was won by the Polar Bears with a 20-19 score. Long before the game started the “gym was packed to capacity. The game was a scrappy affair which One Hundred Ten _e: i_eiax e: kept the spectators on their feet front start to finish. Wiley Garrett showed his true worth in this game and was largely responsible for this victory. The whole team played as one and the game was a fine exhibition of basketball. The return game with F'airview was played February the fourth. It was a fast and somewhat rough game featured by the lightning passwork of the “Polar Bears . Jack Romino and Old Trusty Ross were the high point getters with the final score 38-10 in our favor. The West Monongah five dropped a game to the Icemen February 8, oh the local floor. The game was a fast one but not a very good exhibition of basket ball. (i. rrett played the best game for the locals, doing some fine shooting. The next evening the Icemen scored another victory defeating Hundred, an as vet undefeated team by a score of 21-10. The game was one of the hardest played and fastest ever seen on the local floor. Wiley Garrett was at his best and Joe Ross played a fine game. This game earned the title of the only undefeated team in the state. February 10, the Blue and White team again defended their laurels from the Washington-Irving team. The Icemen had been training hard for this and the Shinnston game to follow and were at topnotch form. After a wonderful game the “Polar Bears” came out the victors with a score of 23-13. The following night the Fairmont High quintet journeyed to Shinnston with a large crowd of followers and after a hard fought battle returned still undefeated with a score of 17-15. February 18, the Icemen were defeated for the first time in the season by the Morgantown quintet, by a single point. We felt so proud of the wonderful showing our team made so far that we did not allow one game to make any impression other than to lxxist and praise our team on to finer work. Ross and Romino played the best while Brady Knight played a sterling game at guard. The second game with the Fast Side was played February 22. on the local floor. The Polar Bears played one of the most wonderful games of their career. All the team was “high as a kite , and although both sides played a defensive game at first, the Blue and White defenders soon ran away with the Meredith Klan taking their measure by a 14-8 score. Joe and Jack were the stars in the offence, with Patsy and Brady showing their true worth at guards. Wiley took and gave, and as a whole played a dandy game. Fairmont High School's record-breaking basket ball team ended their season in a blaze of glory when they defeated the Weston team by a score of 30-8. Ross played the best game while Romino also stood out prominently. One shot of Romino was about the flashiest piece of basket work seen on the local floor. Garrett and Knight also showed good form. Thus closed one of the most brilliant basket ball seasons ever experienced by a Fairmont Basket Ball squad, only one lost and sixteen won! One Hundred Eleven MAP — 1 - AV Girls’ Basket Ball Squad Violet Lee Masters Geneva Fleming Hannah Goedeckkk Margaret Bailey Ermastine Atha, Captain Helen Bocgess Molly Mahone Elaine Ferrise Flora Billingham Mary Whorley Ruth Crush Lucille Hall Myrtle Kldridge. Coach One Hundred Twelve _e: i_eex ee Girls’ Basket Ball Review F'TF'R much difficulty the permission of the Board of Edu- cation was secured for the girls to have a high school basket- ball team. A squad was picked by Miss Kldridge and under her direction training began in earnest. Frmastine Atha was elected captain with Violet Lee Masters, the manager. The first game was scheduled with Fairview. After an un- usually rough game the Fairmont High lassies emerged victors with a 16-8 score. Bernice Arnett was the stellar player for the local team. Good foul shooting and fine fioor work featured the game. February the 25th, the Blue and W hite co-eds journeyed to Barracksville and although the local team did not play up to their usual style, they came out victors by a 15-9 score. Violet Lee Masters played the best game and was the high point player. In one of the closest games played this season the Fairmont High Girls took the measure of the Farmington team by a score of 11-9. The game was close from start to finish and Helen made the basket that brought victory for her team. Margaret Bailey and Geneva Fleming played good games as guards. March 5th. the Fairmont High Girls met the Victory High team on the local floor and won a decisive victory by a score of 17-4. The guarding was especially fine with Boggess and Goe- decker playing the best game at the forward end. March 8th. the Fairmont High sextette journeyed to W'est Monongah and suffered defeat for the first time. Handicapped by a small floor the Blue and White team was unable to display much real basketbal. The final score was 6-12. Lee Masters did the bulk of the scoring. The next night the local team met the Barracksville team on our own floor. After a fine exhibition of basketball Fairmont High won with a score of 18-12, Helen Boggess starring. The last game of the season was played on March 12th, when the Blue and White team met the Rivesville squad. After a hard fight the more experienced Rivesville team was victorious, having a final score of 16-4. Although the schedule was short the Fairmont High team played a good brand of basketball for the first year and left a fine record, winning five games and losing only two. 1 9 £5 One Hundred Thirteen Tournament Talk THK LOCAL TOURNAMENT Of course the main issue of the local tournament held in the Normal School Gym February 29 and March 1, was the basketball games, but you did not get your money's worth if you missed the exciting things that happened on the side lines, especially since Fairmont High was put out in her second game by Morgantown. We made many interesting discoveries and feel that we were not jibbed one bit on the three dollars we paid for our season ticket. We offered a prize to the best all-around gum chewer. Much to our disappointment, we could not award it to anyone be- cause there were so many equally eligible to it. When the games were slow, everyone chewed slowly and as they got peppier jaw speed” increased. This statement holds good for all, so we still have our prize, a twelve-inch long sterling silver tray with grooves along each side for gum parking places. Don't get disheartened, we may offer it again soon. The most peculiar thing that happened was how strangely things disappeared. Shorty” Marshall's hat suddenly took a leave of absence and not until after an untiring search by her friends was it found cuddled up on the floor next to the wall. It was badly bruised and one feather was dislocated, while it had turned brown in place of black. Gloves, pens, and score books also went on frequent strolls. Many new friendships were formed by most everyone, however, many ceased when Elkins beat Morgantown as the temptation was too great for us—wre just had to tell the Morgantowners to hurry on or they'd miss the 4:12 train. Taking all this valuable information and wonderful discoveries into consideration, we feel that the tournament was a “whooping” success. THE BUCKHANNON TOURNAMENT .- Teacher's Idea The Eleventh Annual State Basketball Tournament was by far the biggest and most successful affair of its kind in the history of West Virginia. Seventy high school teams, representing every section of the state, were there with their fighting clothes on eager to capture the many trophies and honors that go to the winning teams of such contests. The attendance was surprisingly large at every session during the three days contest. Elkins, “from just over the hill , had the largest delegation of “rooters”—excepting Buckhannon of course. 1 9 W) 15 One Hundred Fourteen They always do make a good showing from the standpoint of “numbers”. Their cheer-leader, Charles Daniels, “knew his stuff . He was the center of attraction in song and cheer leading. His leadership, pleasing personality, gracefulness, and sportsmanship won the praise and admiration of everyone and won for Klkins High School the beautiful cheering cup, presented by Dr. Cutshall, president of Wesleyan College. Voung Daniels as a cheer-leader compared most favorably with any college cheer-leader that I have ever seen. Fairmont High School made a most creditable showing. Their first victim was the big fast, team from Fairview. The boys from Fairview fought hard to the last but could not make the “riffle”, in company with the Polar Bears. The final score was 29 to 9 Fairmont. Joe Ross was high point man in this game, having caged six field goals and two from the foul line. I have been informed that those fourteen points made Joe high point man in the tournament for any one game. The boys were going like a whirlwind in this contest. On Friday evening the Icemen met and conquered the snappy and accurate shooting aggregation from Sistersville. They fell for the count of 15-12. Joe Ross had his foot injured in this speedy contest which was a great handicap to the progress of the Polar Bears. On Friday night the Icemen met their “Waterloo”— Wheeling. The Ohio County lads were stepping fast and shoot- ing accurately while the Polar Bear quint couldn't get started and were far off in their shooting. The score tells the sad story— Wheeling 19, Fairmont 9. The Buckhannon Hotel was the Rendezvous for Fairmont rooters. Here's where they learned “to be up on it . The cheer- ing of the Fairmonters was “A” No. 1. I heard a number of most favorable comments regarding the splendid leadership of F. H. S.'s cheer-leader, Bernice Arnett, and the splendid cheering and good sportsmanship shown by the entire Fairmont delegation. If Fairmont had had the number of rooters that Elkins had, I think that the cheering cup. which is now at Elkins High School, would be in the trophy case here at Fairmont High School. THE BUCKHANNON TOURNAMENT A Student's Idea Fairmont fans gathered at the B. O. Station at 5:45 Thursday morning, March 13, for the Buckhannon Tournament (The early bird catches the worm). They didn't get the worm but did catch the train. From that time on every minute, every second, was filled with excitement until Sunday morning when they began to leave the city of Buckhannon on special trains. Too many things happened to tell them all but several are worthy of mention. The pass word for the bunch that bunked at the Buckhannon Hotel was, “Up on it”—“Thumbs up”. Our Fairmont High School banner was tacked on the railing above our section. It won much praise as it was the largest, and best looking banner in the tournament. Its career did not end Saturday night after the finals, however, for it then served as a blanket. Many souvenirs of various sizes, shapes, and colors were brought back. One Hundred Fifteen e: an a CAPTAIN HOULT War Horse” Hoult is oui captain of track Working ability he does not lack. What he doesn’t know in .physics or math . He surely makes up on the cinder path. The 1924 Track Prospe ts AS this is written the curtain is just about to go up for the first act of the 1924 track sea- son. The prospects for a real track team this spring appear to be the best in years. Coach Ice has decided to drop baseball and take up track. Fairmont High has not competed in track to a very full extent for the last few years. How- ever. we have a high standing in the High School track circles of West Virginia. We have twice been placed in the State meets, and several records, that stood for a number of years, were made by men from Fairmont High. There were only three letter men last year and two of them graduated leaving with us Stan- ley, the pole vaulter. Most of the material is raw. but faithful and promising. Meets with a number of teams have been scheduled and Fairmont should have a long list of victories before she takes part in the sectional and State meet. One Hundred Sixteen Ont Hundred Seventeen Murder, Riot, and Bloodshed Hy DOROTHY BRACKETT ( ’rise Story of the Senior Class) ELLO CENTRAL, this you? S’y girlie, gimme 1892-R and don’t take a snooze in the meantime. Yeh-h-h. Oh! H'lo curly head, this •— —'you? Yeh-h-h: How ya coinin'? l:h-huh. Naw, that wasn’t me. Well say, I’m coinin' over there at seven bells and a tinkle, see? Yeh-h-h. Aw-rite. Don't forgit. Bye. See ya later.” Bandy banged down the receiver, rose slowly and stretched himself. Donning a diminutive and gay little cake-eater hat at a perilous angle, he closed the street door of his father's shop, and made a whistling exit down the back alley. The tune he whistled resembled vaguely Oh What a Pal Was Mary with gobs of variations. It was a long way home, and Bandy was not an incessant whistler, conse- quently he stopped with a half-hearted squeak. The sound of the only voice in the world was still in his ears, and he found himself reviewing every night he had spent with “her . He strolled along in a warm, rosy dream, and strange, pleasing thrills chased themselves up and down his spine. He imagined all sorts of lovely things—he saw clearly the expression of that mouth those eyes— and the hours to come after 7:30—her hair, glorious masses of auburn softness— white shoulders—some sort of Huffy scarf—blue—scattered lines of a poem about a rose—something sweet as all spring odors blended—. I beg your pardon!” Bandy jumped quickly aside, expecting to see an irate somebody by whom his apology would not be accepted. He came to earth with a jolt, he found the subject of his collision an innocent telephone pole. and. not liking the idea of being laughed at, he turned furiously red, adjusted his hat at a more careless angle, and sauntered off almost too nonchalantly. Ten yards from his home he perceived the over-ailed figure of his small brother, James Minton Biggs, whose 70 pounds of mischief were perched imp- ishly on the gate post. Loudly he heralded Bandy's approach. Hi Band-ee-eee! I know sompin' about you-u-u. Think you're “up on it , don't you? You're late, you're late, you're late, you’re late, see? Ya! I've et. Aw don't look so sour. Ole sour grapes! Sour grapes. Hullygeel! “Aw hold your tongue, 'cha got 'nv sense? I'll mind my business an' you mind your’s, see? ” And Bandy slammed the front door behind him. Ye gods, mother, why’ncha teach that kid a liT discipline—Yells our whole pedgiree all over town. Yee-ee Gods! Mawther! MAWTHER!1 Where in creation are you ? He stamped into the kitchen. Late? He'd say so. Half-past six! And a cold dinner mocking him from the table. “Ye gods! After a feller works all day hard—humph! Mawther!” One Hundred Eighteen __e: i__ No response save a plaintive meow” from the cat. Bandy strode wildly to the front door, Hung it open and stuck a dis- heveled head out. “Jimmee-ee-ee!! C'mere!” “Won’t. Ole sour grapes!’’ Looky here, tha's about enough outa you! Where's everybody?” “Won’t tell.” “Ya will.” Gimme a nickel? Bandy exasperatedly Hipped one in the path. “They've went out to dinner. Left yours on the kitchen table. I've et. You'll have to wash the deeshes! Ya!! ‘Ye gods! Gotta date!” Aw—aw—Bandy's gotta date. Betcha I know who with. Oh cracky! I'm goin' to the store—be back before long! Sour grapes has a date! Bandy beat a furious retreat to the kitchen, gulped down a huge slice of bread and jam, dumped the few plates in the sink, glanced hastily at the clock, and made a jack-knife dive for the stairs. His anger had partly abated in the face of the coming joy. Cheerfully he washed, whistled, and dreamed, at intervals studying his manly profile in the mirror. It must also be confessed that he practiced certain expressions: graceful lifting of the eyebrows, curious and original smiles, solemn winks, and odd little smirks. Satisfied, he went to his room and donned his best brown, bell-bottomed trousers, and white shirt. Having acquired a shining pompadour, he began the inevitable cuff links. He may have been a little nervous or perhaps it is the nature of cuff links, anyway, this one wriggled merrily from his fingers and rolled obligingly under the bureau, with a “ketch as ketch kin attitude. “Ye gods! said Bandy. He carefully knelt and stuck his head under the bureau. He encountered an uncomfortable spider web. which clung to his hair and around his eyes. He rescued the collar button, madly fought the offending web. thereby wrecking his pompadour, and emerged flushed, with a wild look in his eyes. He rose hastily, accompanied by an embarrassing r-r-r-rip; three inches of ragged brown trousers hung limp, the dastardly deed of a broken drawer pull. Ye gods! said Bandy. And not only that. Bandy stamped like a red, red Russian. Bandy raged. Bandy cursed the clock for pointing to 7:25. And Bandy laid his entire remaining wardrobe on the bed: gray tweed, “tux , white flannel, and khaki. Feverishly he chose the tweed. Again he combed his hair, washed his face and donned the gray trousers. Kicking off his brown oxfords, he replaced them with dark gray brogues . The toes, somewhat scuffed, needed polish. Ye gods! said Bandy. He hastened to the bath-room, groped wildly around the dark medicine shelf, and feebly grasped the bottle of polish. Absently he uncorked it. and applied a brushful. simultaneously regarding his pensive eyes in the mirror. 1 s One Hundred Nineteen __e: i__ “Her mouth, like a red. red rose-bud— Eyes like a bluebird s wing. Hair of god's own choosing Cheeks—cheeks—cheeks—. He lowered his head in search for the last line. Alas! His concentrated gaze saw but one thing. The polish had been black! “YE GODS!” said Handy. Madly he tore off the shoe, and vigorously applied the pink and dainty washcloth. Result: Gray washcloth—water proof polish. Handy with all the technique of a pitcher, pitched, not a ball, but the offending shoe, at the clock, which merrily ticked 7:45. and succeeded in scarring the wall three inches to its right. The bottle of polish left its last stains on the bathtub and on Handy’s hands, from whence the combined efforts of soap and water refused to abdicate it. Now’, in case you do not understand, I will explain that it is utterly impossible for a boy to wear brown oxfords and a gray suit when he calls on a girl corresponding to Bandy’s Mary. The startling thought plunged him into despair. The only remaining alibi rested in a second change of clothing, and that he possessed not. The emergency helped him to remember a pair of black oxfords, long discarded in preference to gray. He was undecided as to their whereabouts, but he trusted to his luck and dove into his closet. He emerged shoeless. “Ye gods!” said Handy. Excitedly he peered beneath bed and bureau. Perspiring, he yanked out all the drawers and left their contents in a motley heap on the floor. He tore the papers from his desk, kicked up the carpet, explored all visible parts of the roof, and finally, moist and crimson of countenance, he wrecked the dusty attic. All to no avail. Logically, not to say desperately, he returned to the closet, and this time dragged them forth triumphantly from a dark, dusty corner. “Ye gods! said Handy, and he jerked them on. The fury of the search demanded a third wash, and a clean collar. He changed. At 8:15 sharp, Handy descended the stairs, a marvel of neatness; not a trace of the awful struggle. James had not returned; he reflected grimly that he ought to write a note. He seated himself at the desk and gently kicked the cat from his feet. He dipped his pen in the ink. Dear Mom : I have gone to see Mary. Don't know when I'll be home. Bandy. The cat, disgusted at Bandy’s scorn, and perhaps inquisitive as cats often are, gave a leap for the desk, and precipitated the bottle of ink with undue force directly toward the scandalized Handy’s vest. The effect was as startling as any of Grandma's patch-work quilts. “YE GODS!” moaned Handy. Five minutes later he arrived at a compromise. He donned his hat and departed. “Bliss!” He muttered between clenched teeth. Oh Bliss!” At precisely 8:45 he rang Mary's door-bell. Mary's dad answered. Eh! 'Sat you, Bandy? Come on in. Heh? Heh? Mary? She isn't ready yet. Sit down. Don't care if 1 finish my paper?” “YE GODS!” And Bandy collapsed. F. S. No. 1. Handy used his hands scarcely at all during the evening, but kept them mated suspiciously across his buttoned coat. F. S. No. 2. Handy drowned the cat next day. One Hundred Twenty The Ransom of a Thousand Kings By HAUL DAVISSON (Prize Story of the Junior Class) (Judges: Misses Howard and Hetheri.in and Mr. Buckey) I AM a very old man, and the terrible adventure 1 am about to relate to you happened to me more than seventy years ago. You may not believe it—no one does. I'm telling it just as I experienced it. I was born in 1661, in the city of Bordeaux, on the coast of France. Being educated in a private school, I graduated when I was fifteen years of age. My father had been interested in making plans to come to the “New World , so when 1 arrived home after my graduation. I was greeted by a torn-up house and a very excited family. We were to depart on the “St. Felix the following morning. The voyage was as all voyages of those days. We suffered from extreme cold and almost ran out of food. However, we arrived in the New York harbor about noon on April 9, 1677. Everything was very beautiful there. Spring was coming. The trees were budding, the grass was becoming a wonderful shade of green, and I saw many different birds. The quaint Dutch houses also attracted my attention, with their many colors and odd but attractive carpets of sand. We did not stay in this beautiful place long. The French people were few in the colony, at this time, and we decided to move southwest in search of people of our native land with our habits and characteristics. All the F'rench people who came over on the “St. Felix accompanied us— the whole party numbering about twenty. When we arrived in Virginia, several months later we numbered sixteen, two women, a child, and a man having died on the journey. The people of Jamestown accounted our journey as miraculous for we were attacked only once by Indians. There were six in the party, and we overcame them. Almost a year after we were permanently settled in Jamestown, an explor- ing party was formed under leadership of my father. We started up the James River early one morning heavily stocked with food. arms, and ammuni- tion. We traveled many days now to the north, now to the west, and then across the Alleghany Mountains into the state which is now West Virginia. After this we traveled through the most beautiful country I have ever seen. The forests were the greenest I have ever wandred through; the leisurely creeks and rivers were winding through rolling fields, where countless herds of bison roamed. Low. picturesque hills surrounded us on all sides. This wonderful scenery lasted for several days, and then we stumbled on an Indian warrior lying beside a tiny brook. When we came near him, he did not move, but only rolled his terror filled eyes and murmured incoherent tones. It was evident he had some horrible disease, for he had a fever that was increasing every minute. My father tried to comfort the sufferer, but all One Hundred Twenty-one in vain, for in a few minutes he clutched frantically at his throat and died. We soon left the spot and started north-east. A day later one of our number, who was in the lead, discovered another dead warrior. It was evident he had been dead some time, but we could find no wound or bruise on him. The air continued to grow damper and cooler, and that afternoon we founn two more dead Indians who seemed to have died a natural death. The coming of night brought us to a great morass which stretched away to the north as far as eye could see in the fading light. With night approach- ing, and the air growing damper and musty-like, some of our men began cast- ing apprehensive glances behind them; several suggested turning back. Hut. my father was for crossing the marsh; so early the next morning we started out. We traveled all that day in that horrible place, many times the mud and slime being almost to our waists. Many kinds of the smaller reptiles were visible, while the mosquitoes were constantly flying about us. A terrible stench of decaying grass and stagnant water almost choked us. When we finally came to the other side late that night, we threw ourselves on the ground and slept the sleep of exhaustion. The next morning we were all fagged out, our limbs were stiff and we were covered with mud. Travel that morning was very slow, and we went with extreme precaution, for it seemed that all of us sensed some lurking danger ahead. The forest through which we stalked was very thick, but the strangest part was we saw no living animals or birds, not even the smallest rodent. My father, who was in the lead, stopped suddenly and gazed blankly ahead. The remainder of the force soon caught up with him. and looked in the direction of his gaze. What he saw. not three-hundred feet away, looked to be a gigantic structure, or some huge mass of rock. We proceeded toward it with great care, but one-hundred feet brought us to a dead stop, for there on the ground lay a human skeleton, and not ten feet from it an Indian youth— dead without the sign of a wound on him. A very superstitious member of out party, turned and fled in the direc- tion we had just come. I have never seen or heard of him since. This incident seemed to give father an inspiration and courage, for he started in the direction of the pile. Several lagged back, but the majority followed him. As we neared the spacious clearing around the so-called pile, we were all struck with amazement, for there, right before our eyes st x d a large building. It was made of logs and stone, after the old French chateau style. The open window glared at us like hollow eyes; the place drew us to it like a magnet draws steel, and everything was as silent as a grave. Suddenly the silence was broken by the ghastly call of a crow, the only wildlife we had heard since being in this terrible place. Cautiously we approached the half open door, to our horror we found the sixth dead Indian lying across the threshold. Something like the creeps shot up my back, and my hair felt funny at the roots. Examining the entrance more closely, we saw three gold coins on the floor just inside the door. The warrior over which we stepped had a jeweled necklace grasped tightly in one fist. I will never forget the hideous sight that met our eyes as we entered that awful place. Human skeletons were piled all over the fl x r, while many Indians One Hundred Twenty-two __e: i__ who had not been dead so long were lying around a large box. Our curiosity brought us closer to the box, and we found it to be a massive iron one. One of our number reached out and pulled open the heavy lid. As he did so. I imagined I could hear the grim company about us stir uneasily. This filled me with horror, and I wanted to scream, but fearing the others would think me a craven, I tried to keep my fears to myself. When the box was opened we almost stared our eyes from their sockets; several choked and coughed, while others breathed a hushed, “ah . There before us in the box, in our possession, lay the ransom of a thousand kings. The chest was divided into two compartments, the smaller one being filled to over-flowing with ancient gold coins. The other side contained rings, gems, necklaces and other odd pieces of jewelry. We were so overcome by the wonderment of the thing before us that for a moment no one stirred. Suddenly a man rushed from our midst and buried his arms to his elbows in the precious metal. He grabbed handfuls of the coins and let them trickle through his fingers like a miser. And then he stopped so quickly we fairly jumped. He became rigid all over, his face turned a horrible sallow color. In a moment he was lying on the floor trying to tell us something; in another he was dead. Until now, we had not noticed that another member of our party was lying on the floor, dead. To our amazement and horror we found him to be the one who had opened the grim safe. It was not until now that we were beginning to find it difficult to breathe, and I felt I wanted to lie down, but with the others I rushed outside to pure air. After we were revived my father cut a forked stick from a nearby sapling, and again we entered the gruesome place. Going to the chest, he picked up a beautiful pearl necklace with the prongs, and again went outside. A careful examination of the priceless ornament disclosed hundreds of tiny nettles like thorns, hardly visible to the naked eye. Father hastened to explain that he thought these were the cause of the many skeletons. His theory was that they had some deadly poison on them, and their purpose was to guard the jewels always from all people. Again the whole company hastened into the vast house, eager now to find some new mystery. For some unknown reason I hung back and stayed outdoors. Many torches were lighted and the men started a thorough examination of the place. I could see the glare of many torches on the third floor, and could hear the explorers ransacking everything. While I was waiting for their return, suddenly a terrific crash was heard, and the whole of the roof of the chateau fell in. The walls followed with a terrible booming. I knew no fate could keep the ones in the interior from being killed and I was right. The torches had lighted the ancient logs, and in a moment the whole of the ruin was burning like oil. A sudden dizziness overcame me and 1 wanted to lie down and sleep, but the age old instinct told me that if 1 did I would never awake. I knew the terrible odor of the deadly poison was getting the best of me. How I ever got through the woods and across the hideous swamp I shall never know. Hut when I came to myself. 1 was lying on a soft cot, and a kind faced woman was holding cold cloths on a severe cut on my forehead. When I recovered. I learned her husband had found me some distance from the house, lying beside a large rock where 1 had evidently fallen and struck my head. He carried me to his home where I was nursed back to health. I later learned with great astonishment that I was only fifteen miles from Jamestown. How I ever crossed the mountains and came so far I shall never know. One Hundred Twenty-three The Two Lidas By JUANITA ATHA (Prize Story of the Sophomore Class) ESTLEL) among the hills of West Virginia is a little town called Barracksville. The most of this town is situated in a valley but it has also two very high hills, which are opposite each other. On the very tip top of one of them is a wonderful mansion. This mansion belongs to a rich, young man by the name of Curby. The estate was left him by his mother and father, who are now dead. Young John Robert Curby had been married just two years when a very sad thing happened. One cold winter night he and his wife were sitting by the tire talking. The telephone rang and he was called to the town below on some very important business. Me told his wife he would not be gone very long. But Mr. Curby's business kept him longer than he had expected, and it was very late when he returned, lie decided he would not go to his wife's room for fear of awakening her. so he went to bed and slept soundly until morning. Awaking rather late the next morning, Mr. Curby dressed hurriedly and went to the door of his wife's room. He called her name, which was Lida Lee, but there was no answer. He called again and again but still there was no answer. He turned the knob, the door was not locked as he had expected it to be. He went into the room but his wife was not there. A note lay on the table. It read as follows: Mr. Curby. you will never see your wife again if I can help it: as I will keep her in a very safe and secret place.” The note was written in very ordinary writing. Mr. Curby immediately called the police and told them the story. Several of the police went to the house, but nothing was out of order: everything was as Mr. Curby had left it with the exception of his wife not being there. A search was made of the town, woods, country, and cities. Large rewards were offered, but these were of no value. The whole town was in an uproar, and every one knew of the disappearance of Mr. Curby’s wife. Then one day a letter came to Mr. Curby from a man in another state, saying he had read the description of Mrs. Curby in the paper and thought probably he had seen this same woman, and had found out where she was staying. Mr. Curby went to his place the very next day in hopes that he might find his wife. The man took Mr. Curby to the place where the woman stayed, but upon reaching it he found that it was the wrong person. Mr. Curby was very much disappointed, but he paid the man for his efforts and went back home to live alone. How different it seemed without his wife! Life seemed to have lost all of its glory now. He read all of the newspapers he could get with hopes of One Hundred Twenty-four __e: i_ei xx e: ’ finding out something about Lida Lee. Day after day went by and what a difference there-was in that once happy home. There was never any music heard in the evenings, and the mansion was never lightd up all at once. Sometimes there would be only one faint light and that in Mr. Curby’s library. Mr. Curby had changed also; before his wife had disappeared he was young, handsome, and very popular with young and old alike. Now he seemed to have grown old in one day's time. One cold winter night in the midst of a storm like the one three month's previous, when his wife had so mysteriously gone out of his life. He was startled by the sound of a car coming up the private driveway, but then he happened to remember that one of the servants had asked for the night off and had taken the car, so Mr. Curby decided it must be he returning. There was a knock on the door and the doorbell rang. Was he going to have company on such a night as this? He had been in the library and had taken his coat off; he hastened to put it on again. Then he heard a car go tearing down the driveway. Mr. Curby went to the door and opened it; there on the porch was a basket. He turned on the light in the library and took the basket in and removed the cover. He found a tiny baby that must have been about a month old. It was dressed in very dainty clothes and it had a locket on a long chain around its neck. The locket was of odd shape and was set with diamonds and sapphires. He tried to open the locket thinking there might be a picture inside, but it would not open. Tutting the baby in the care of his housekeeper, he called the detectives and police to see if they could find out whose baby it was. After a few day's work, they gave it up. but both Mr. Curby and the police thought that the baby must belong to a very rich family by its having the beautiful locket and such dainty clothes. Mr. Curby decided to keep the baby as it would be company for him. As it grew older he hired a nurse who gave it the best care possible. The baby did not have a name so he called it Lida in memory of his wife. Ill Several years have passed and there is still no trace of John Robert Curby’s wife. He has grown more and more attached to the baby who is now five years old. Lida loved Mr. Curby very much and thought he was her father. Many times did she ask why her mother never came to see her and where she was. Mr. Curby always told her that perhaps she was dead. As Lida grew older, everyone knew and loved her. When Lida was sixteen she asked her father if she might have a party, he consented so she invited all of her friends. On the night that Lida’s party was to take place every room in the mansion was lighted and decorated. Lida tastily dressed in her very best, was a very beautiful girl. She was seated at the piano and was playing a very pretty piece, when her father entered the room. Her playing reminded him of his wife. He noticed for the first time how much Lida really did resemble One Hundred Twenty-five r i f= i__e: i___ her. Other people had been telling him that she did, but this was the first time he had ever noticed it. Now that the mansion was all lighted up, and the tones of the same piano were heard, the owner of the mansion was growing more like his old self. It seemed like old times and for the hundredth time Mr. Curby was glad that he had kept Lida. IV When Lida was a senior in high school, she had her first beau, Joseph Jackson; he was making a short visit in Harracksville but upon seeing Lida he lengthened his stay indefinitely. Lida liked Joseph very much and they had many fine times together. In the spring Lida graduated from high school with highest honors. Mr. Curby began making preparations to send her abroad to college. Joseph upon hearing these plans suddenly took the same notion. One day while Lida was away at College, Mr. Curby decided to take an automobile trip. He had gone only a few miles out of town, when he saw a person lying in the road straight ahead of him. He brought his car to a stop and jumped out, and there in the road lay a woman, who was unconscious. He carried her to his car and took her to the hospital at Harracksville. The next day Mr. Curby went back to the hospital to see how she was getting along but she was still unconscious. It was then that Mr. Curby had the shock of his life; at one glance he recognized her to be his wife, Lida Lee. He told the doctors and they too remembered her. They worked night and day to save her. but she was very sick. Mr. Curby went to see her every day and stayed as long as the rules of the hospital would allow. At last one day she opened her eyes and, when she saw him. called him by name. From that time on she recovered rapidly, and in a few weeks was able to go home, and how glad she was! V She then told the story of how against her will she had left on the night when her husband had gone to the town. A man had walked into her room with two guns and had ordered her not to make a sound but to come with him. At first she refused: then he told her there were other men in the house who would take her by force. He had pulled her along with him and she had been afraid to make any noise. The man. who had taken her proved to be an old friend of hers who had always been jealous because she would not marry him. So he had compelled her to marry and live with him. Then he had taken her baby away some place. He had told her he took it away because it reminded him of its father. She had hoped the babv might be recognized by the locket, which it was wearing. The locket had been her great, great grand- mother’s and had been handed down from generation to generation. She said the locket was set with diamonds and sapphires. Then she told about the man dying at last, and how she had escaped and started on the road to the city in search of her husband and had fainted on the way. The next day Lida came home from College with Joseph Jackson as her escort. At first sight of Lida. Lida Lee knew that this was her daughter. When she saw the locket she was positive. She opened the secret catch and inside was a picture of her and Mr. Curby. Then Mr. Curbin's joy was complete; he had found his long lost wife, and had a daughter of his own, also a son-in-law to-be, for Joseph Jackson and Lida Curby were to be married very soon. One Hundred Twenty-six __e: i__e: The Mountain Girl By JEAN HALL (Prize Story of the Freshman Class') HIGH up in the mountains of southern West Virginia nestled a little log cabin in which dwelled a man known as Tobe Hamilton, his wife Liza, and daughter Anne. The mountaineer’s homes are very crude and poorly built, most of them consisting of only one room meagerly furnished, but the Hamilton's house had one large room and a lean-to kitchen, and they were looked upon by their neighbors as very prosperous. Anne was a pretty, sunny-natured child, and was very happy in her mountain home, because she had never known anything better. Her father had a still and made moonshine liquor, and she sometimes helped him, for she had never been taught that it was wrong to make and sell intoxicants. Because there were no schools within many miles of their home, Anne did not go to school, and as her parents had no educa- tion they saw no reason why Anne should have book larnin”, as they expressed it. But in spite of this, they loved her in their rough way, and told her many things about nature. She learned to know the birds by their songs, the wild flowers and leaves, and the animals that roamed in the woodland near her home. Once in a long while Anne went with her father and mother, to the village at the foot of the mountains to buy the supplies they needed for the long winter months. On these rare visits Anne would buy a book with her small savings. Her mother had gone to school one winter in the village when she was about Anne's age and had learned the alphabet and a few short words. Thus she wuld help her a little, so Anne worked very hard to learn to read. When she was sixteen, she longed to see the world, as most girls do. She was not dissatisfied, but only curious to know what it was like. Her father was very successful with the still business, and was making plenty of money. The prohibition officers were on his trail, and when they had sufficient evidence, they informed the Federal officers. One day, dressed as surveyors, they went to his home. While supposedly investigating the property and surround- ing territory, they discovered the stills. When the officers arrested her father. Anne was greatly frightened, for she did not understand it all. When she was told why they must take her father away, she could scarcely believe it. for she thought it could not be possible that her dear father had done wrong. One Hundred Twenty-seven M K£= __EI I_ “What will become of us all? she cried. She pleaded earnestly with the officers not to take her father away. Although they felt very sorry for her, they said, “Law is law. and it must be enforced.” Her father was tried and sent to prison, and during the follow- ing winter her mother died, and Anne was left alone. Through her father, with whom Anne had kept in touch, the Federal officer. Mr. Kellison, heard of Anne's sad plight, arranged to bring her to his home in the city, where Mrs. Kellison, having no daughters of her own, gave her a mother's love and care. When asked what she would like most to do, she said to go to school and become a teacher, so that she could some day go back to the mountains and establish a school in the neighborh x d where she had lived. Her wish was granted. She had got a late start, but she learned fast, for she was an apt and earnest pupil. When Harold, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kellison, came home from college for the summer vacation, he was very well pleased with his new foster sister. Time went on. and Anne, having finished the teacher's training course in the State Normal School in Fairmont, the home of her foster parents, announced her intention of returning to her moun- tain home, so that she could arrange for the opening of school in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Kellison honored the spirit of the girl who wanted to give to others what she had lacked in her own childhood, the privilege of an education. They supplied her with funds to build a school-house suited to her needs, and a comfortable little log cabin in which to live, upon the site where her childhood days were spent. The dream of her life had been realized. My story would not be complete if I did not tell you that Harold, having finished his medical course, began looking about for a locality in which to establish himself, and his thoughts wandered to a certain mountainous section of West Virginia where a sweet-faced teacher was giving herself in service to her needy people. Following the call of his heart, he made his way up the trailing mountain pass one spring day, and asked permission to cast his lot with her. So in the late summer, witnessed by her neighbors and friends Mr. and Mrs. Kellison, her father, who had come home a better and wiser man, a simple wedding, befitting the life of the bride, t(x k place in the little mountain chapel which her father had built in memory of his wife, Liza Hamilton, after the expiration of his prison term. There together they worked to bring happiness to the mountain people. One Hundred Twenty-eiflht One Hundred Twenty-nine LLt | 'A UK Student Council, you say? Why, of course, that'-- I the name of the most important organization of the High School.” About eleven or twelve years ago the students who were then of the Fairmont High School, decided it would greatly influence their spirit and make them better contented, if they had some part in the management of the school. This was evidently approved by the teachers, principal, and the School Board, and an organization was formed called “The Student Council”. The only difference between the council now and then is that they had nine members while our council has only eight. The main object of the Council, as were the objects of the Council before us. are to better the morale of the school; to co- operate with the faculty advisers in making the government of the school more democratic; to eliminate the petty organizations and to encourage those that tend to develop the welfare of the school. The members of the Council for 1923-24 are: SENIORS: Charles Hoult, President. Josephine Lehman. JUNIORS: Ruth Crush, Secretary-Treasurer. Ralph Dunsmore. SOPHOMORES: Maude Bollock. Brady Knight. FRESHMAN: Mary Belle Haggerty. Bartlett Watson. The Student Council One Hundred Thirty The Finance Board I FAIRMONT HIGH SCHOOL has a well regulated plan for handling finance. All of the money which comes into the High School regardless of department, class, or organization passes through the hands of the financial secretary who keeps a careful account of all receipts and expenditures by an efficient book- keeping system. The treasurer is appointed by the board of education from the faculty. The principal and the director of athletics constitute the other faculty representatives. The com- mittee of finance is elected by the students from the senior class. The auditor is appointed by the principal from the junior class. The finance board for 1923-24: W. E. Bucksy A. F. Fondaw Frank Ice _______ Charles Hoult Thomas Henderson ______________Principal _____________Treasurer Director of Athletics Committee of Finance Auditor 1 9 One Hundred Thirty-one r i xEt_e: l eian e Hi'Life HI-LIFE, the monthly news-publication of the student body has enjoyed a year so successful that it has more than ful- filled the expectation of even the most ambitious of the staff. The addition of pages to its size, its endorsement by the Fair- mont Business Men's Association, its entrance as second class matter with the postal authorities, and its improvement in a literary way have all been fruits of labor of a very closely co-operating staff of tireless workers striving to go above the high mark set bv the staff of the newspaper last year. I'he monthly is entered again this year in the state-wide contest for high school news publications conducted by the Depart- ment of Journalism of West Virginia University in which it took second place in two classifications last year. Setting before them the goal of making Hi-Life the best paper in the state, the staff has striven untiringly towards this objective all year and although the outcome of this year's contest is undetermined at the present, everyone connected with the paper has high hopes of seeing it judged the best newspaper in the state. Beginning this year's work where last year’s staff left off, the staff’s first triumph was the obtaining of over five-hundred subscrip- tions. The advantage of this circulation was two-fold. First, it meant that more people were reading Hi-Life than ever before and that it was serving a greater field; second, by the attainment of the five-hundred mark in paid circulation gained for the paper, the endorsement of the Business Men’s Association which means that this organization is behind the paper and allows its members to advertise in this organ. The addition of two more pages to the paper was another milestone in this year’s progress, thus allowing the publication of news that had formerly been left out for want of space. This enlargement was made with this year’s third issue of “Hi-Life”. Probably the greatest expression of the progressive attitude of the staff was the successful publication of an extra edition of the paper after the victory of our basketball team over that of the East Side High School in a game which decided the city- championship. The Extra, coming out directly after the game, was well composed and showed that the paper's organization was wide-awake in every way. The success of Hi-Life this year has been due in no small measure to the helpful advice and careful guidance of the faculty- adviser. Mr. Fondaw. This well liked teacher with his pleasant encouragement and his tireless efforts, has been of great assistance to the staff and has sponsored every forward movement that they have made. One Hundred Thirty-two WE BEAT EAST SIDE HI-LIFE One Hundred Thirty-three Hi Y IN I'HK Hi- Club, Fairmont High School possesses an organization of which it should be proud. It is an organization which uses Clean Living, Clean •Speech, Good School Spirit, and Good Fellowship as its standards. The club was organized in 1919, but dropped out of existence in 1920. In 1921, it came back to life and proved that it was a live-wire organization by putting on the state-wide Hi-Y Convention. The present scholastic year found the club boasting of its largest membership. One of the biggest achievements of the club was a joint banquet with the Blue Triangle Club the evening before the East Side-Fairinont game—lots of pep and “Sleepy Six . The Hi-Y holds weekly meetings at the Y. A banquet is held every other week while the Business Cabinet, composed of two members of each class in school and the officers of the club, meet on alternate weeks. The banquets are prepared by members of the cabinet while the club votes on the menu. The club is sponsored by the “Y”, with its Secretary acting as one of the advisers. Mr. Johnson is to be congratulated on the way he has instilled such tine spirit into the club members. The other advisers, Mr. Kahn and I)oc Garrett, have also done their work well and their advice has been very helpful. Membership is open to any boy member of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes, while any freshman, passing in three subjects for the first semester is eligible for membership. The officers are as follows: John R. Callahan______________________________President Charles Hoult Vice President Joseph Anwyll Secretary-Treasurer One Hundred Thirty-four _EE I_EAVEy Blue Triangle Club T HE Blue Triangle Club is one of the most active organiza- tions of Fairmont High School. It is under the supervision of Miss Mildred Jones, of the V. . C. A., and Misses Marie Scott and Myrtle Ramey of the high school faculty. The club has done a great deal this year. Besides the regular meeting held twice a month, it conducted a Charm School which consisted of talks held each week in the high school auditorium on Sportsmanship and Health. One of the most worthwhile events of the year was the Father and Daughter Party held at the V W. C. A., on February P . Following this was the Thuse Banquet, held jointly with the boy's Hi-V Club on February 21, in honor of the championship basketball game of the city. This banquet was marked by its wholesome spirit throughout the evening. The officers of the club are: Elizabeth Black President Bernice Arnett Vice President Lucille Nuzum Secretory Julia Mason ............................ Treasurer One Hundred Thirty-five _e: i__ The KowaunkamishTtonamu Camp Fire Circle Lucille Ahern Minnehaha Helen Boggess IVichewe Gene Carpenter IVikmunhewee Ruth Crush Pamaho Lucille Hall _______________________________________ Chawih Florence Harden Minnetosk.i Kdith Harr Mechasomacoh Ruth Harr Loonier, Dorothy Hickinan Pahukatawa Mamie Kaznoski Mewa Margaret Marshall Wahwahtaysee Gertrude Smith Owahsso Reland Taylor Tawanka Miss Harshbarger, (Guardian) Ilona Since the flashing pen did write last, Our annals on the leaves of maple. We have been a busy circle— Working, playing, helping others. Because we think our state the finest In all working, and in culture, Because all others might not know it. We gathered, placed on exhibition, Manuscripts in prose and verses Written by the men and women Of the state of West Virginia. In the long, warm days of summer We made camp beneath the green trees. Then when harvest moon rode high. We entertained our faculty In old fashioned harvest party. When the hunger moon shone wanly We made festive the wigwam With Saint Valentine's true symbols, Celebrated for the sportsmen (brave). So—in truth we have been busy. Working, playing, helping others. One Hundred Thirty� ix One Hundred Thirty-eeven i___________________ The Camp Fire Play THE Camp Eire Ciirls did themselves up proud January twenty- fifth when they gave the three-act comedy, “Miss Fearless and Co. Every member of the cast was well fitted for her part and the play was quite a success. The play opened in Margaret Henley's living-room. She had just received a letter from her Jack in which he insinuated that girls could not get along without fellows. This made Margaret furious as well as her guests. Bettie, Marion, and Barbara, so they decided to show their gentlemen friends they could get along without them. After many troubles they succeeded in getting all arrange- ments made for camping and rented a camp on Spook Island. While on this island they had many strange visitors and much excitement. As the play ended, the fellows were heard approaching the girls' camp. Helen Boggess as Katie, the maid, was especially good and brought many laughs from the audience. Gertrude Smith was very good in her part of Miss Euphemia and had her nervous fits down perfect. Lucille Hall was fine in her part and even got courage enough to shoot off her revolver in the second act. CAST OK CHARACTERS Katie O’Connor. Miss Henley's Maid iltUN IkKMiKSS Margaret Henley. Heiress ... Lucille Hall Margaret’s (Quests— Barbara l.ivingMnn LUCILLE AlIKkN Bettie Cameron MARGARET MARSHALL Marion Reynolds ........................ FLORENCE HARDEN Miss Kuphemia Addison. Margaret’s Chaperon GERTRUDE Smith MSaS Sarah lane I.o ejo krill ll KK The Silent Sisters— Miss Alias Dorothy Hickman Mias Alibi Reland Taylor Just Lizzie, the Ghost Gene Carpenter 1 9 C5 One Hundred Thirty-eight i. Better. Jchwl JpleiT iJEEk. Ompel Ptdy 3.Ch ipel Pk7Q2 in tP WE- E. ITE.IZ P iy' E.IE.WP WIP “kdLTJ-l v cWUK. HP One Hundred Thirty-nine __e: i__ Orchestra THK Fairmont High School Orchestra started the year with fourteen members: three first violins, two second violins, one mandolin, two clarinets, one saxophone, two cornets, one trombone, drums, and piano. The orchestra has played on numerous occasions during the year, a few of which are: Kiwanis luncheon. Rotary luncheon, Business and Professional Woman's Club, Y. W. C. A.. Woman’s Club New Year's Reception. High School Opera In the Garden of the Shah . Kiwanis Club Christmas Banquet, Civic Department Meeting of Woman's Club, and the Camp Fire play. The orchestra was invited to play for Mr. Sousa and his band at the afternoon concert on November 9. The membership at present is as follows: Percy Henry, first violin Norma Kiger, first violin Eleanor Miller, first violin Louis Schoolnic, second violin David Mumford, second violin Jean Haymond, second violin Patsy Forte, mandolin Charles Beeler, clarinet Joe Romino, clarinet Charles Stalnaker. saxophone Ross Simpson, first cornet Joseph Meo, second cornet Michael Lombardo, trombone Alphonsos Ginkel. drum Josephine Boord, piano The orchestra gave its second annual concert assisted by The Girls’ Glee Club, on May ninth. One Hundred Forty The Girls’ and Boys’ Glee Clubs The Girls' Glee Club started the year with from sixty to seventy per cent of the membership advanced students. At present there are seventy girls in the club, with a very good distribution of voices, thirty first sopranos, twenty-two second sopranos and eighteen altos. Their program has been very full this year. They gave In the Garden of the Shah”, a musical comedy, on the night of December 9; they gave numbers before the student body on several occasions, and the double sextette sang at the January meeting of the Civic Department of the Woman’s Club. They assisted the orchestra in the Annual Orchestra concert on May 9; they gave the “Three Springs”, a cantata, by Paul Bliss, taking twenty-five minutes to render. The Boys’ Glee Club, while usually a small group as compared with the large number of boys in high school, has been very faithful. They assisted the Girls’ Glee Club in giving In the Garden of the Shah”. One Hundred Forty-one The MardhGras THE Senior Class of 1924 presented its second annual Mardi Gras on February 28, with even more success than the pre- vious one. To Beatrice Osgood, whose talent and perseverance seem un- ending, goes most of the praise, for without her skillful leadership this gem could not have been given so successfully. The gymnasium was artistically decorated in black and white crepe-paper and vari-colored balloons. The crowning of Louise Ritchie as the Queen of the Mardi Gras opened the program of which each part was well given and showed the work and preparation that was behind it. Special men- tion should be made of the Russian dance, Gavotte, and the 'Kid'’ Chorus. After the program in the gymnasium, everybody went to the auditorium, decorated in gray and purple, where they were served with the following menu: Chicken salad sandwich, minced ham sandwich, cheese-pimento, hot chocolate, coffee, fruit juice. Mardi Gras Special, chocolate sun- dae, and walnut parfait. Entertainment was provided by the “Sleepy Six orchestra and by Jay Pierce and Franklin Fleming who sang “Sittin' in a Comer . To catch the passers-by in the hall, there were many attractive booths where candy and soft drinks could be had and chances taken. We would pronounce the 1924 Mardi Gras a success from the standpoint of finance and wholesome entertainment. 19 mm One Hundred Forty-two Sleepy Six t C EEPY SIX was first a senior orchestra composed of Bob Stanley, saxu- li phone, John Callahan, drums, and Carl Kneisel, banjo, but knowing the talent in the junior class we decided to make it a more inclusive orchestra. We first adopted Paul Davisson and. after initiating him gave him the name of Sleepy Paderewski . Next we heard Ross Simpson sounding his talent in Miss Kirk's orchestra, and considered him a better jazz player than a classical one. We didn't have to call him Sleepy ; we got his number at his first practice. About this time everything was in confusion. Everyone in the orchestra wanted to play a different piece, so after much arguing, we chose a manager and a leader. A1 Hamilton was tricked into being our leader and Keith Ashby our manager. Just before the Junior Dinner Dance at the Country Club, we added one Moore to our orchestra. Paul Moore. He. with his fog horn, signed a contract to play with us till we kicked him out. but there isn’t any danger of that—Paul's up on it”. John Callahan has a hard time to find drums enough, because any drum that can stand his treatment must be made of cast iron: Carl Kneisel can't keep a head on his banjo: and Bob Stanley always carries a razor in his “Sax” case. Don’t tell me that music soothes the savage soul. During this year we have played for several parties and dances. Some of these are: The Freshman Party; Clark's Tour Around the World; The V. M. C. A. Dorm Dance: K. of P. Dinner; Y. M. C. A. New Year’s Dorm Dinner and Dance; The Junior Dinner Dance; Blue Triangle-Hi-Y Banquet: Mardi Gras; Junior Party; Leap Year Party; Chapel Program. 1 s One Hundred Forty-three r i t=3i__e: i___ Mice and Men THE John A. Clark, Jr., Class of 1925 gave, with great success a coined v entitled “Mice and Men , by Madeline Lucette Rvley, on Eriday evening, April 4. at eight o'clock. The play was well delivered and finely enacted. The audience voted it one of the best ever here. This success was largely due to Miss Howard whose skillful direction and untiring work brought out the best that the cast was capable of. The plot is unusual, being: A middle-aged philosopher, who was once de- feated in love, decided to marry and picks a young foundling girl to raise accord- ing to his own desires. However she falls in love with his scapegrace nephew and thinks his delicately made proposal is meant for his nephew. She accepts and he, seeing his mistake, realizes that the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley”, and gives her to his nephew. (In Order of Appearance) I’eter (Embury's Servant).. Scott C. Lowf. Mrs. Deborah (Embury’s housekeeper) .Catherine Brett Mark Embury (A scientist, scholar, and philosopher) William Sands Roger Goodlake (His friend and neighbor� Russel Crawford Joanna Goodlake (His wife� Eleanor Smith Peggy ( Little Britain ) Flora Billingham Beadle (Of the Foundling Home)....... Thomas Henderson Matron (Of the Foundling Home) Blanche Shotts Captain George Lovell (Embury's nephew) William Sidell Molly (A kitchen maid) Ruth Crush Kit Bamiger (A fiddler and professor of deportment) .Virgil Conlev Sir Harry Trimblestone (A dandy) Allison Frum Foundlings: Lucille Ahern, Lucille Hall. Sara Mall. Edith Harr, l’earl Chambers, Sylva Lynch, Allene Cannell. Flora Billingham and Violet Jones. Guests at the Ball: Loretta Fishback. Gwendolyn Haas. Olive Snyder. Sarah Knight. F.dilh Robey, Margaret Marshall. Paul Moore, Mary McAteer, Russell Decker. James Allard. Wiley Garrett, Scott C. Lowe, Oliver Mclntire. Meredith Smail. Thomas Hender- son. Fldgar Sole, and Robert Kline. The scenery, having been made especially, was very attractive and spectacular, particularly the masquerade-ball scene and the garden scene. The costumes of colonial style were unusually pretty and they made the actors seem like dolls moving in a dream. The acting of Billy Sands as the leading character. Mark Embury, was par- excellence and the part fitted him as if especially made. Flora Billingham portrayed an impish, devilish little vixen, whose humor and fun were tempered only by her supreme acting in her most dramatic sense. Captain George Lovell, played by illiam Sidell. was well portrayed and furnished much love interest. Mention should go to Russel Crawford. F.leanor Smith, and Allison frum for their effective portrayals. One Hundred Forty-five Seventeen THE farewell appearance of the Ur. H. H. Carr class of ’24 was made in Booth Tarkington’s delightful comedy, Seventeen , on May the twenty- eighth. “Seventeen is not an age, it is a disease. In its turbulent bosom the leavings of a boy are at war with the beginnings of a man. In his heart, William Sylvanus Baxter knows all the tortures and delights of love; but he is still sent on the most humiliating errands by his mother, and depends upon his father for the last nickel of spending money. Silly Billy fell in love with Lolo, the Baby-Talk Lady, a vapid if amiable little flirt. To woo her he stole his father's evening clothes. When his wooings became a nuisance to the neighborhood, his mother stole them back, and had them altered to fit the middle-aged form of her husband, thereby keeping William at home in the evening. But when it came to the Baby-Talk Lady’s good-bye dance, not to be present was unendurable. How William Sylvanus again got the dress suit, and how as he was wearing it at the party, the negro servant. Genesis, disclosed the fact that the proud garment was in reality his father's, are some of the elements in this charming comedy of youth. One of the outstanding pieces of acting was that of Mary Margaret Dicken as the irrepressible Jane. Willie’s little sister, and the bane of his existence. Her inquisitiveness and memory for the details of Willie’s business make her a terror to this poor boy. Mary Margaret's interpretation of this child was a rare delight. Another remarkable bit of talent was displayed by Virginia Fletcher in the role of Lola, the Baby-Talk Lady, who set poor Willie’s heart a-fiutter. William Hawkins, who made his debut last year in Come Out of the Kitchen , is the typical “Willie” whose trials create all the fun. His ability in portraying this difficult role did much to make the comedy a success. Others who deserve especial attention for their excellent interpretation of rather difficult roles are: Virginia Eisele as the understanding mother, Mrs. George Baxter; George Ney, as the bewildered and misunderstanding father, Mr. Baxter; Paul Halley as the disgusted and disgruntled Mr. Parcher at whose home the baby-talk Lola is visiting, and Joe Ross in the role of Genesis, the colored man of odd jobs. The altogether delightful young people whose innocent pleasures are so disgusting to their elders were all excellently played by Sallie Patterson. Robert Growl, George Rosenmerkel, William Worley, Naomi Boor. Gordon Rosenmerkel, and Grace Simpson. The cast is as follows: William Sylvanus Baxter William Hawkins Johnnie Watson Robert Growl Mr. Baxter ...... George Nev Joe Bullit George Rosenmerkel George Crooper William Worley Mr. Parcher___________________Paul Halley Wallie Banks Gordon Rosenmerkel Genesis Joe Ross Lola Pratt Virginia Fletcher May Parcher .Sallie Patterson Mrs. Baxter -Virginia Eisele J ane Baxter Mary Margaret Dicken Ethel Boke_____ Naomi Boor Mary Brooks. Grace Simpson One Hundred Forty- ix r i x(=5i___e: i__EAVEy DR. CLYDE HAMLIN NEILL President of the Alumni Association DR. NEILL graduated from the Fairmont High School in the class of 1904, the first class to be graduated under Prof. Joseph Rosier, as principal of the High School. Throughout his years in High School Dr. Neill took an active part in all athletics, playing four years on the football team. In the year of his graduation, 1904, the High School team achieved one of the signal victories of its history in defeating the “University All-Star Team . After graduation from the High School Dr. Neill entered the Dental Depart- ment of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pitts- burgh) where he graduated as Valedictorian of his class in 1907. For one year he served as resident Dentist to the Western Penitentiary under appointment from the Governor of Pennsylvania. He has practiced his profession continuously since that time in Fairmont. In recognition of his professional attainments. Dr. Neill has in succession been made President of the Marion County, The Monongahela alley, and the West Virginia State Dental Societies and is at the present time a member of the House of Delegates to the American Dental Association. During the World War Dr. Neill served as a member of the Medical Advisory Hoard and later volunteered as a private in the Motor 1 ransport Corps which was stationed at Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Neill has for years been prominently identified with many civic and business organizations and is at this time the President of the High School Alumni Association. One Hundred Forty-ee.en Here and There with the Alumni Since 1900 Chesney Ramage—Well known physician in Cook Hospital. Karl McCray—Dentist in this city. Florence Jack—Teacher in Miller School. Margaret Richards—Teacher of Science in Morgantown High School. Jessie Snider—Teacher, eighth grade in Miller School. Art Kerns—Backer of our athletics; works on “ The Times force. Louise Leanard—Teacher in Butcher School. Rufus Yost—First National Bank of Fairmont. Beulah Walker—Domestic Science East Side High School. Joseph Hartley—Assistant Coach. Harvard College. Max Wilson—Cadillac Garage owner; backer of our athletics. Victor Shaw—Lawyer in Fairmont. George Hill—West Virginia University; football. Robert Hawkins—Assistant Coach. West Virginia University. Russell Meredith—Coach at Fast Side High School. Arthur Michie—West Virginia University. Frances Helmick—Teacher in Miss Holliday’s School. Hugh Fox—A backer of Fairmont High athletics. Sam Rock—Penn State University. Sutton Sharp—Ohio State University. Pierre Hill—West Virginia University; athletics. Frances McCray—West Virginia University. Mahlon Henderson—West Virginia University: a math shark. John Helmick—West Virginia University. Alice Brackett—West Virginia University. Thomas Brett—Fairmont State Normal. Norman Mumford—Culver Military Academy. Christine Scott—Maryland College. Joseph Fletcher—West Virginia University. Frances Robey—West Virginia University. William Riheldaffer—Culver Military Academy. Owen Miller—West Virginia University. Margaret Parrish—Third grade teacher in Barnes School. Margaret E. Smith—Goucher College. Katherine Moore—West Virginia University. Carter Jones—West Virginia University. Louise Johnson—West Virginia University; voted prettiest girl in school. Otis Watson—Phillip Fxter Preparatory School. Charles Williamson—Waynesburg College. Dwight Lafferty—Marietta College. Jane Cunningham—Burmingham School, Pennsylvania. Maxine Jenkins—Mt. Vernon Seminary. Ralph Hawkins—Agriculture School in Nebraska. Eugene Holland—West Virginia University. Mildred Linn—West Virginia University. Richard Parrish—West Virginia University. David Lewis—West Virginia University. Beryl Straight—West Virginia University; made Freshman football team. Thomas Wise—West Virginia University. Mabel Koon—West Virginia University. One Hundred Forty-eight Drawn by Paul Davisson 1 S £5 One Hundred Forty-nine £ense and Nonsense “In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm.” —JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Robert Kline: Charles Wise you can’t drive that nail with that tack hammer. Use your head. Miss Kincade: ' Robert, are you prepared, today ? Rbocrt: No-o, I looked at my book and then decided if I worked them 1 wouldn’t hear a lecture today. Helen B. I came home from the party with the biggest fool there. Lucille H. “Why! Did you come home alone ? Adeline A.—(Stumbling on steps): “O Lord!” Jay P.—(Turning around and shaking hands with Adeline) : Why how did you know me? 1st: What kind of a dog is that? 2nd: A police dog. 1st: You’d never know it by looking at him. 2nd:—(Thinking of excuse): Well,— he was trained with the secret police. Ticket Agent: How old are you? Fred Gadd:—(Trying to get in Children Matinee at Virginia Theatre) : I've seen twelve summers. T. A: How long have you been blind? Flora B. “You ought to use stacomb. I hate boys with their hair flying in the air. Red” II. “Don’t worry it will never fly around you. 1st Ditto: I’m going to skip the rest of the afternoon. 2nd Ditto: “Do you need exercise? Miss Price: Ruth Crush, why is the moon spoken of as feminine gender and the sun masculine? Helen Boggess—(From the back of room) : “Oh because the sun’s brighter.” Bob Hayhurst—(In Intermediate Algebra) : “Miss Hustead. would it hurt to carry this down ?” Catherine Olive: “Not unless you carry it too far and get tired. Miss Ramey: “Joe Brown, why don't you study your Commercial Geography? Joe B. 1 studied Physics last night. Miss R. Why don’t you study something besides Physics? Joe B. “Get my lesson in Physics for me will you ? Miss R. Why Joe Brown don’t you know 1 haven’t had any physics for 10 years. In Commercial Geography Miss Ramey asked for big rivers in the United States. Someone named some, then Helen Little said They didn't name the Amazon and the Nile . Miss Rock: Richard, do you have your lesson ? Richard Thralls: No. 1 got my book out but didn’t understand what to do. Miss Rock : That’s the same as putting your book under your pillow at night and trusting to luck that something will soak through. Miss Rock in Kuropean History: All the single Frenchmen came over without their wives. JOKKS FROM THE TEACHER’S WHO'S WHO Miss Price—3rd best looking. The most merciful teacher—There ain’t none such. Mr. Fondaw—the most loved by all the women teachers. The easiest teacher in F. H. S.—“She ain’t been born. The most quiet—They hain’t no such animal in our faculty. JOKKS FROM THE JUNIOR WHO’S WHO Tom Henderson—The biggest painter and powderer. Paul Moore—The best looking boy. Charles Wise—2nd. the most quiet—2nd. the most timid. Margaret Murphy: “Miss Rock, what are you going to do when you don’t know how to spell a word ? Brady Knight: “Then sing it. £5 One Hundred Fifty MAP i_p: a Mi� s W harton in the art room was drawing a picture. Some Boy: “Miss Wharton, what are you draw ing ? Apples” Taylor: “It’s of me. isn’t it?” Miss Wharton—(Holding up a picture of a monkey she was drawing):: “You may judge for yourself. Miss Rock : “How does a man get a place in Parliament ?” Holland Engle: “Why he stands up.” Student taking History test: Miss Rock. I don’t know how to spell a word.” Miss Rock: “If that’s all you don’t know, you’re lucky. Lucille Hall: “Flora, have you a freshy top? (Meaning Freshman Basketball Suit Top). Miss Sheets in English Class: “Morris, tell the plural of appendix.” Morris Funt: “Appendicitis.” (ilover—(Giving report in Modern His- tory) : “That was because Queen Anne died without leaving any hairs.” Aubrey Taylor: “Miss Sheets. Miss Price flunked me on 65 and I’m coming down here and want you to give me a grade of 85 to pass English III. Miss Sheets: “What recommendation have you for being in two of my English classes?” Aubrey: “Well, I’m sure you’ll like me ’cause I have a good disposition.” r I ill Uffl; 1 I C 31 | E! ,, I 1 r- - E Miss Rock in History: “Margaret Mur- phy. stop looking at David Mumford. ou can't think and look at him also.” David Mumford: “Miss Rock, it’s cold in here.” Miss Rock: “I think you have sufficient fat on you to keep you warm. Marion McWhorter was having too much Latin and one night she sat up in bed and yelled out—“utor. fuor. fungor, patior and vestor . It took some time for Mrs. McWhorter to calm Marion down. One day Keith Ashby came to school with a part in the middle of his head. Bernice Arnett saw him and ran to Beatrice Osgood and said. “Why does Keith have a part in the middle of his head?” Beatrice: “He is taking ’Civics’.” Bernice: “What does that do. Beatrice: “He thinks every Block should have a back alley.” The Crankiest teacher— Mr. Buckey used to be but Mr. Kahn is now — (They both have Fords to crank). Miss Hoult: “Joe. what are you doing?” Joe Martine—(Pulling hairs off his coat): “Oh just pulling these hairs off. Miss Hoult: “Well they won’t bite.” Mr. Boggess: “Helen, you’d better not go to school today as you had a very high temperature last night.” Helen: “Oh! Mother I didn’t have a temperature I was just hot. Miss Thacker—Answering telephone in office): “Hello!” (A lot of racket occurs). “Just a minute!” Answer over telephone: “This is Charlie Wise.” Miss Thacker: Why hello Charlie”. (Thinking it was Charles Wise in High School). It happened to be Charlie Wise at the meat market. Leila Smith—(In General Science):” Who invented the Edison talking machine?” When Mr. Johnston was taking the Fresh- man picture. Mr. Hawkins, happening along, said to Charles Wise: “What are you doin’ with all this animal matter out here?” Miss Price—(To Mr. Hawkins who entered her room after school): “Our room is full of smoke. What do you think causes it? Mr. Hawkins: “Fire.” Spasmodic pressure helps to force liquids up the stem. One Hundred Fifty-one “A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men.” Would You Re Surprised to See The Hell view car come on time Miss Rock pass the whole class No noise in Assembly on Thursday morning Miss Ramey not a good sport Miss Koletka say ‘■something Catherine Brett not bluffing The basketball boys wearing their own gold basketballs Jane Ana wait in Biology Martha Hagan without the picture of some “out of town fellow Sally Knight without her hair curled Emil Hoffman in short trousers Mrs. Zumbrunnen not easy-going “Apples Taylor in the hundred yard dash at the State Track meet Miss Hustead unsympathetic Patsy with another girl “Maple Leaves come out March 1. “Hi-Life on time Miss Price not make her work interesting Someone get by with something in Miss Ramey’s class that she did not hear Not to see Wilma Reese and Norma Kiger together Some of our teachers trying to dress like “kids again Scott C. Lowe wearing a dress “Pep Crowl using his head for more than a hat rack Miss Ramey not humming Paul Davisson not doing all his work perfectly Miss Thacker not a good pal Miss Eldridge with high heel shoes Albert Dickerson walking “Kate Brett's Ford running Ross Simpson without a smile Erie Sample playing football All the Juniors agreeing on the same thing The janitor lead chapel Miss Kincade with her hair bobbed Alma without Harry Mr. Fondaw sing in chapel The girls quit using powder and paint Leona Provin when she didn't have her lessons Miss Miller give a banquet to the whole school Wiley Garrett when he wasn’t talking Dorothy Fisher when she forgot to talk about last night's date Miss Price run out of clever ideas Paul Moore “not on the job always Meredith Smail write without his tongue stuck out Miss Howard look otherwise than pretty Mr. Hawkins not help the other fellow Bill Kaiser quiet Beatrice Little a Cheer-Ia ader Holland Engle as Mae Murray in “The French Doll . Miss Harshbarger selfish Miss Farris with a noisy study hall “Red” Henderson not blushing Eleanor Smith without “Sally or “Kate Olive Snyder without “Kenny Hunk Sample “just in from the country Danny Ross not the “Shiek of the Freshies Miss Scott not so popular Mr. Buckey untactful Oliver Mclntire come to class on time Mr. Ice call the boys by their first names All the Junior class at a class meeting No tardy students in the morning Miss Billingslea not attractively dressed Horace Gilmer unprepared “Pep Crowl when his face is dirty The Freshie girls stop trying to get a Senior fellow Bill Worley when he didn’t have some girl’s watch or ring Willis Mattingly playing sheik to some fair damsel Miss Myers get cross Mildred I anham in school two days straight Mary Patterson without chewing gum Betty Tripp in a bathing suit No boys on the corner smoking Julia Mason have her French lesson Mr. Fondaw discourteous Miss Sheet’s face straight The “Sleepy Six” wide-awake Helen Amos not falling down all the time The Blue Ridge orchestra play here again Red Burris pick up his feet Edith Lewis when her hair wasn’t curled Miss Tiennebrunne unkind Guerin Johnston present one whole day Paul Alban mad Allisbn Frum not flirting Miss Crowl frown Evan Hopkins have a little time to spend on other subjects than art 1 9 £5 One Hundred Fifty-two i_e a Harry Petty come to school a week without being late (Jordon Rosenmerkle when he wasn't willing to sing Helen Boggess without chewing gum in her mouth Books returned to the library promptly Helen Cumpston and Alice Bachman when they weren’t together The Orchestra play popular selections Holland Engle sober Lonnie Ashby grow Tom Henderson without his Ford Miss Rock not so little Miss Hoult unthoughtful Miss Hustead unhelpful to you Margaret Marshall six feet tall Mrs. Zumbrunnen in a hurry Mr. Fondaw as woman hater of F. II. S. ■ Red Henderson without Skinny” Wise Wiley Garrett without a Stagger” “Shorty” Marshall before you hear her I,oretta Fishback stop asking questions Sleepy Six” play hymns Flora Billingham succeed in vamping a fellow Virgil Conley wear long trousers Adeline Ashby stop posing Miss Hunsaker untidy Brady Knight have his lessons Wiley Garrett not talking to the girls Mr. Kahn waste time in school Arthur Snider hand a paper in on time The real” Edna Short A day without hearing up on it” Wiley Garrett not a curiosity box Harry Neptune without a Kopp” School house burn down Dancing in the gym Teachers get generous Aubrey Taylor dancing Jay Tierce in his right mind Miss Hetherlin without flowers on her desk Mrs. Musgrave anything but agreeable Aubrey Taylor weigh a hundred pounds Emil Hoffman without his freckles Miss Kirk quit waving her baton Bob Stanley without his hair greased Scott C. Lowe with long trousers Wid and Wiley not rushing the Freshies Ingman Harr put a little kick into his walk A picture of Miss Trice the night of the Junior party George Shields in long pants Gwendolyn Haas get fat Red Henderson not paint and powder Bern” Arnett pepless Jay Tierce not headed for Locust Avenue Miss Boyd give an easy test Mr. Wasmuth making hope chests” for all F. II. S. girls. —WELL WE WOULD! 0' I 'P Uc It „� . X f One Hundred Fifty-three Jt jap Tear in F. H. S. Nr INETEEN hundred and twenty-four will long be remembered as one of the most fateful years in the history of Fairmont High School. It was in that year that the great abduction of the entire enroll- ment of boys took place. Luckily I escaped from the man hunters and am now alive to give you the story of the horror of that year. It was when I entered the front door of the school on January 12. 1924 (the first day of school after the Christmas holidays) that I sensed the fact that something was amiss. There was not a boy to be seen anywhere about the school and as I entered I saw a group of girls composed of Louise Ritchie, Helen Amos, casting longing and hungry looks in my direction. I entered the cloak- room. They sauntered in that direction. I hurriedly made an exit before they had trapped me, however, and started for my first class room which was on the third floor. Just as I reached the top of the first flight of stairs I saw Mary Ellen Staggers coming toward me with the fire of a man hunter in her eye. saying : “Come here, you ! You’ll do better than none! 1 turned and dashed down the stairs with Mary Thomas in hot pursuit. I started to enter the office for protection when the door opened and another mob of the pesky women dashed out in the hope of getting me. I dashed for Miss Kin- cade's room thinking that I would find a sure haven of refuge but I had just reached the end of the hall when I saw the door of her room burst open and I-onnie Ashby rush frantically out. closely followed by another howling mob of skirts of which Miss Kin- cade was the head; I saw my chance for safety now and took it. I entered Miss Kin- cade's room which I knew would be empty as its occupants were pursuing another hope- less victim. Hastily I piled all the furniture the room contained against the door and sank onto the floor in sheer relief and joy at my escape. 1 was congratulating myself too soon how- ever, for the door slowly opened and I saw that my precautions availed me nothing for the door opened outwardly instead of in- wardly as 1 had prepared for. It seemed that I was lost at last after my valiant att«mpt to evade the man hunters, then I rememt ■jred the windows. I went over and looked out one of them ; it seemed a mile to the earth but it seemed to be death to remain in the room so I chose the lesser evil and leaped out just as Margaret Marshall succeeded in getting into the room. I had just hit the ground when another mob of women burst around the corner of the school. I remember leaping to my feet with the shriek of a maniac and then everything was a blank. The next thing that I remember is hearing the doctor say to my mother: “He will be as good as new in a few days, he has over-taxed himself in his school work and on “Maple Leaves” work”— but 1 knew better. V. C. THE ELIMINATION OF WEEKS FRIENDS. Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I come here not to growl and grunt but to protest against a most in- famous and traitorous practice. When we first returned to this delectable dump (on the Ides of September), we were greeted by Mr. Buckey with the suggestion that we have a “settle-down week. We settled! Immediately others seized their chance and forced us to have many and sundry weeks as Better Speech, Cancer. Elimination of Idiots week and many others. Then Miss Kirk rolled over, sighed, and gave us a Week of Song. That was the last straw (more like a bale) ; the poor camel’s back has snapped. We are weak with having weeks. And there is only one solution, for us weaklings— Brothers, let us have a week for the elimina- tion of weeks. W. S. SONG OF THE LATIN STUDENTS The 1 :43 Psalm 1. Miss Boyd is my teacher; I want no other. 2. She maketh me to sit up late at night; she daily draggeth me into room 12. 3. She troubleth my soul, she leadeth me along with the flunkers for her name’s sake. 4. Yea. though I have a shadow of Latin knowledge I fear much evil, for no one is with me. Her red pencil and grade book discomfort me. 5. She maketh out my grades in the presence of excellent pupils. She anointeth her grade book with zeros; my papers run- neth over with red marks. 6. Surely, if I follow Latin all the days of my life; I shall dwell in room 12 forever. 1 9 £5 One Hundred Fifty-four AVE FOR Ql’ICK SERVICE! FIORDS is the worst blessin’ what is. I T’other day Miss Price had to have sumpin’ right away quick. She imme- diately sent in a riot call for “Red’’ Hender- son. Red wuz havin' a lovely time talkin’( ?) to Lou Ahern and was real peeved at bein' disturbed. Howsomever bein’ as Miss Price was puttin’ out grades shortly, he thought the waste of gasoline was for a worthy cause. Hut that’s how it goes with Ford owners. They're mighty fine for a wild and reckless ride in the moonlight if you don’t have engine trouble or a blowout. Russell Decker's ‘nother one of them bums what’s always ridin’ in a Lizzie. When all efforts to locate Red fail, everybody starts scourin’ the neighbor- hood for poor little Russell. Hut then as Charles Wise says “Such is life when one of those pesty teachers starts hot footin’ it on your trail”. It sure is awful to own a “cawh” and be so han-sum and believe me Charles oughta know. F. B. Miss Rock. “What’s your grade. Richard? Richard Thralls: I didn’t get my paper back.” M. R. “You didn't take the test. R. T. “I took the test but I didn't put anything on my paper. Mr. Fondaw: “Hen! What is this syn- thetic gin I’ve heard so much about? Mr. Kahn: “Oh! It’s a beverage which makes you see double and feel single. Somebody said on test paper that the Declaration of Independence means that a man believes in having but one wife. Jay Pierce: “Father says that he wants to see my report card at its best. Hoppy Hopkins: I.et him see it before it is made out. 1 9 £5 One Hundred Fifty-five J augh and the World J aughs With Ton BORROWED BRIGHTNESS Miss Rock : Open the window.” Soph: How’s that?” Miss Rock: Too much—I might lose some of my students.” Little Fred was having trouble with his catechism. Mother, this is too hard. Can’t you give me a Kitty-chism ?” I’m beginning to step out.” said the foot as the shoe weakened. Bob Kline: Your parrot seems to have a rare vocabulary. Was he educated on a ship?” Paul Moore: No, Sis. brought him home from college.” Margaret M. “They say kissing is so dangerous.” Charles W.—(Gamely): Perhaps! But isn’t it grand if you live through it ?’’ Lucille A: Why do trains whistle at night ?” Helen B: To keep up their courage.” Thomas Henderson: You’re so dumb you don't even know your A B C's.” Paul Davisson: That's nothing, they had to burn down the school house to get you out of the first grade.” Frank R : “I'm an electrician. Last night at Jane’s the fuse blew' out. Guess who fixed it? Me!” Bill S: Huh! You’re no electrician. You’re an idiot.” Joe Ross up at Weston to an inmate: And why are you here?” No. 13: Oh. I’m the guy that chased the horse-fly to death. SOME CLASS Give me a ticket to Europe.” What class, please?” Class of ’25. Sir.” THE LATIN VERB Flunco. fluncere. faculty, firens. Mother: Scott C. will be wearing long pants soon.” Father: It won’t be long.” Mother: And why do you always contra- dict me?” TEN BEST WAYS TO FU NK 1. Always disagree with the teachers. 2. Sleep in class, be sure to snore. 3. Drop book, sneeze, cough, etc. 4. Always tell the teacher when he makes a mistake and set him right. 5. Come late to class (always). 6. Ask the teachers up to your house, for things they don’t like to eat. 8. Forget to hand in work. 9. Don’t ever answer the teacher when he asks you something. 10. Don’t go to class at all. —Lehigh. Miss Rock : “Mr. Glover, wake Hilton Pearson who sits next to you.” Glover: What the deuce for? You put him to sleep. Patsy Tork : If a fellow tries to bite me, what shall I do?” Coach Ice: Walk sideways real fast, and make him think there are a whole lot of you.” Kenneth: Last night I dreamt 1 was married to the most beautiful girl in all the world.” Olive: Oh. Kenneth! Were we happy? One Hundred Fifty-six Alma Kopp: “Why do you call your car Paul Revere?” Harry Neptune: On account of its mid- night rides.” She: “What would mother say if she knew that I were out with you?” He: Ask her. She’s over in the corner with my old man.” —Lehigh. Jones: “You said his wife's a brunette? 1 thought he married a blonde.” Smith: “He did. but she dyed.” Little words of wisdom. Little words of bluff, Make the teachers tell us. “Sit down, that’s enough!” —Lehigh. When all my thinks in vain are thunk. When all my winks in vain are wunk. What saves me from an awful flunk? —Lehigh. Henry Thompson Waiter, bring me the William Fare.” Waiter: Pardon. Sir. but you mean the Hill of Fare.” H. T: “Yeah, it’s all the same, only I don't know him well enough to call him Hill.” Caesar conquered all the world. He wanted more, you see. Hut that Yegg” will never know How he conquered me. Danny Ross: “No ‘Hall’ would ever get me.” Patsy Tork : “I bet Alca-hol could!” Henry T. (at movies) : “Can you see all right ?” Martha J: “Just fine!” He: “Is there a draught on vou ?” She: “No.” He: “Is your seat comfortable? She: “Yes.” He: “Well, will you move over and give me that seat?” “O! He's not a bad chap. At any rate he throws himself into any thing he under- takes.” “Then. I wish he'd go and dig a well!” Miss Kldridge(to girls): “Ix ts of girls use dumbbells to get color in their cheeks.” Clara Harrington: “And lots of girls use color in their cheeks to get dumbbells.” How was your speech received in chapel?” asked one of Mr. Huckey’s friends.” “Why they congratulated me heartily. In fact, one of the members came to me and told me when I sat down he said to himself that it was the best thing I had ever done.” Mrs. Mumford: “You ought to be ashamed to be at the foot of your class. David!” David: “Hut it ain’t my fault, Ma. The feller that’s always at the foot is home sick with the measles.” Flap: “Where’s your roommate?” Jacks: “Well, if the ice is as thick as he thinks it is he is skating. It it’s as thin as I think it is he’s swimming.” —Boy's Life. Krle Sample: ”I)o you want to dance?” Laura Staggers: “Oh! I'd love to.” Hunk: “All right, then let’s Jove.” Hats off to the deaf-and-dumb guy. He always has a few good jokes on hand. —Moonshine. George: “Ma. can I go out and play?” Mrs. Shields: 'What? With those holes in your trousers?” George: “Naw. with the kids across the street.” Hern Arnett: “How many subjects are you carrying ?” Jane Ana wait: “Carrying one. and drag- ging five.” He: Je t’adore.” She: “Shut it yourself, you came in last.” £5 One Hundred Fifty-seven mapi_e i_E A ee September “School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.” Monday 10—School started today! Only Juniors and Seniors had to report. Tuesday 11—Freshies and Sophomores report for duty. Wild rush for lockers begins. Wednesday 12—Everybody here. Fifteen minute classes. Had seats assigned for assembly. Thursday 13—Thirty-minute periods. First assembly. All the new teachers intro- duced. Who will be the easiest? No school in the afternoon. Friday 14—Regular forty-five minute periods begin. Think they will be marvelous. Rotary Club gives banquet for Freshman boys. Monday 17—“Every one must have his books not later than tomorrow. How sad these words! Tuesday 18—First Maple Leaves meeting. (Advisers). Wednesday 19—F'ootball fellows practicing hard. Thursday 20—Assembly. Friday 21—Who will be in the lineup tomorrow for our first game? Monday 24—Miss Price RETURNS FROM VIRGINIA. Tuesday 25—Lost Saturday’s game 13-0 Alumni. Hut watch us step. Thursday 27—Health Clown gives talk and performs in Assembly. Have you met Minnie Spinach? Friday 28—Grafton beat East Side 27-7. One month gone—only eight more— the worst is yet to come. October “Ay, thou art welcome. Heaven’s delicious breath When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf.” Monday 1—Blue Monday! Tuesday 2—Miss Price, and Miss Hustead accept the invitation to become “Maple Leaves” advisers. Let’s go Juniors! Wednesday 3—Organization of Dramatic Club under the direction of Miss Riggle. Thursday 4—Address by Mr. Wilson at Chapel. Charles Wise made a “picture announcement. Bern and Edwin Hough elected cheer-leaders. Friday 5—Our rival East Side beat Buckhannon 13-0. Monday 8—Both sides happy. Score Saturday’s game 0-0 Grafton. Tuesday 9—Group meeting for completion of left-over business. Wednesday 10—Another thuse! Learned new songs and yells. Thursday 11—Visit of Mr. Irwin of the Business Convention. Friday 12—Camp Fire Girls give an old fashioned party for faculty. Truck ride home. Monday 15—Junior meeting for the discussion of Junior Benefit. Tuesday 16—Skull Klub Meeting. One Hundred Fifty-eight __e: i__ Wednesday 17—Another Junior Class Meeting. Something in the wind. Thursday 18—First appearance of Hi-Life. It was great. The presentation of Holland Engle in assembly. Friday 19—Freshman girls Party given by Skull Klub. Monday 22—Feel down-hearted over our defeat Saturday, Wheeling 13-0. Tuesday 23—Helen Cumpton’s Hallowe'en Party. Wednesday 24—Regular Maple Leaves Meeting. Thursday 25—Thuse meeting in Gym at 3:16. Friday 26—Everybody study. Teachers’ Round Table. No school after 12:55 Monday 29—First meeting of Sophomore class. All pepped up over Saturday’s game. Beat Mannington even if they did walk off the field. Tuesday 30—Junior Class Meeting. Wednesday 31—Senior Class Meeting. Hallowe'en! Beware! November “The mellow year is hasting to its close; The little birds have almost sung their last. Thursday 1—Assembly speech by Mr. E. S. McCullough. Friday 2—Preparations for the Washington Irving game for the third. Surprise Party! Our Editor-in-chief's birthday! Monday 5—Beat W. I. Saturday. Lucky 13-0. Blue Triangle meeting at Y. W. Tuesday 6—“Courtesy is love's habit.” Wednesday 7—Pass the smelling salts—report cards given out. Thursday 8—Presentation of the five dollar prize to Kathleen McCray for her essay about the Filtration Plant. Sousa's Band in afternoon. Friday 9—Election of officers in the Freshman class. Monday 12—Better School Spirit Week starts. Watch your tongue! Tuesday 13—A short assembly at 12:55 for the completion of plans for the coming game with our old rival. “Thuse at the Gym at 7:30. Wednesday 14—A Thuse meeting at 11:09. Mr. Buckey is “the berries”. Thursday 15—Better School Spirit Program presented by the Skull Klub. Paul Moore's “debut “Maple Leaves announcement brought him notoriety. Friday 16—Censored???—East Side 7 Fairmont 6. Monday 19—“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. We planned a holiday but— Tuesday 20—Practice for the Glee Club Operetta. Wednesday 21—Orders taken for F. H. S. Seal Novelties. Thursday 22—Address by Rev. Jenkins of the Billingslea Memorial Church. Friday 23—“Clark’s Tour Around the World”! Juniors excused from all afternoon classes. Thanks for small blessings! 1 9 On Hundred Fifty-nin __e: i_e: we:_ ’ Monday 26— It's hard to apologize, to begin over, to admit errors, to be unselfish, to take advice, to be considerate, to keep on trying, to think and then act, to profit by mistakes, to forgive and forget, to take a deserved blame—but it always pays.” Tuesday 27—“Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed.” Wednesday 28—Thanksgiving holiday begins! Miss 1’rice and Miss Howard went to The National Council for Teachers of English” at Detroit. Thursday 29— V. J. beat YV. V. U. YY'e sympathize. December “Shine Winter shies! That when each brave day’s work is done, wait in peace from sun to sun. To meet unshamed, through victory icon, Your starry eyes.” Monday 3—See, Winter comes to rule the varied year. Tuesday 4—(Carlyle's Birthday). ‘‘All true work is sacred; in all true work were it but hard labor, there is something of divineness. Wednesday 5—Nelle Lawson, our Literary Editor, moved to Philadelphia. Thursday 6—Beginning of record-breaking advertising campaign for “Maple- Leaves.” Friday 7—Skull Klub have initiations for new members. Miss Koletka almost choked to death. Monday 10—Hurrah! First practice for basketball today. Tuesday 11—“’Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, ‘You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.” Wednesday 12—Advertising campaign ends with 3833.00 for the five teams. F.dgar Sole leading with $104.00. Thursday 13—Mrs. Reese, daughter of Rev. Jenkins sang a group of charming songs, “Shorty” Marshall makes her first announcement in Assembly about Maple Leaves. Glee Club Operetta In the Garden of the Shah.” Pass David Mum ford the dates. Monday 17—First snow of the season! Tuesday 18—Advance sale of Maple Leaves with little Red Maple Leaves Books. Wednesday 19—More “Red Books”. An inspiring talk on Americanism by Mr. O. Conmor. Thursday 20—W. V. U. play Alumni. Friday 21—Assembly with a fine Christmas Program. School out at 3:16. See you next year. One Hundred Sixty __e: i__ January Who can love you January t You are gruff and ugly—very, How you roar I” Monday 7—Hack to the daily grind—. Tuesday 8—Scandal! Rumor whispered that Miss Howard is married! Get ready for first basketball game of the season. IVednesday 9—Old “grads fall before our “hopefuls”. 33-32. Thursday 10—Visit of the Chief Fire Marshall of the State. Friday 11—It looks like championship! Fairmont beat Fairview 38-13. Monday 14—Advance sale of Maple Leaves again resumed for two days. Tuesday 15—Gloom reigns. Semester tests begin. Wednesday 16—Semester Notebooks Kxchange opened today. Come early to avoid the rush. Thursday 17—Height of athletics attained, Coach Ice gives boys their football letters. Many visitors in chapel. MISS Hl'STKAD'S BIRTHDAY. Friday 18—Shivers! Shivers! Fairmont 12-Grafton 11. Monday 21—“Dick Barthelmess in “21 . Snap out of it, fellows. Tuesday 22— Dope-bucket upset—Fairmont 21-Shinnston 12. Wednesday 23—Camera badly crippled. Pictures of Freshman and Sophomore classes taken for Maple Leaves. Friday 25—F’.nd of first semester—only one more—cheer up. Report cards given out. Camp Fire Play a big success. Thanks to Miss Howard. Monday 28—All aboard for second semester—get your ticket. Mr. Buckey an- nounced the honor roll, with Wilma Coon leading the school, having the average of 94.4 per cent. Tuesday 29—MISS PRICF! won F'irst Prize, 5250.00, in The Literary Digest Prize Essay Contest on The Teaching of the Ideal of Service. Miss Farris from Columbia University joined the faculty. Wednesday 30—F'irst classes of art under the instruction of Miss Wharton. Thursday 31—Assembly—Mary Becker read her essay which was judged the best one written in Fairmont High School. One Hundred Sixty-one -T'?rv : .'w:.;, y «: •-■ l,, v W yS Waf’ - «• . • • WVVl -.V - ““] February “White the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers of light.’’ —Bryant. Friday 1—Good work, keep it up. Fairmont 20-Fast Side 19. Monday 4—They did—Fairmont 35-Fairview 19. Tuesday 5—Junior Class Meeting. Wednesday 6—Try-out for Junior Play. Thursday 7—L r. Ernest Yost sang at Chapel. Friday 8—Dinner dance at the Country Club in honor of Mr. Clark. Sleepy Six Orchestra stepped out. Juniors made their debut. Monday 11—First day of real coasting. Watch for the faculty! Tuesday 12—No 12:55 class! Program in honor of Lincoln given by Public Speaking Class. Wednesday 13—Still snowing. Miss Howard ill and unable to be in school. Thursday 14—Skull Klub Cake Sale! “Cut yourself a piece of cake and buy your- self a Valentine.” Friday 15—Going fine—Fairmont 23-Washington Irving 13. Monday 18—It might have been, an undefeated season but—Morgantown 13-Fair- mont 12. Don't give up. boys. We’re still with you. Tuesday 19—Will wonders never cease? Assembly at the 12:55 period for obser- vance of National Song Week. Wednesday 20—Girls have a hard game at Fairview but come out on top. Senior Class Meeting. Thursday 21—Address given by Dr. Guy Cutshall of the West Virginia Wesleyan College. Blue Triangle-Hi-Y banquet at Y. M. C. A. Three cheers for Ira Smith. Friday 22—The SI.50 Edition of “The Literary Digest ! How PRICES do rise! Monday 25—Mr. Buckey in Chicago. A holiday celebration of Friday’s victory. “Ah, why Should life all labor be? Tuesday 26—The morning after the night before. Extra edition of Hi-Life published. Thursday 28—Jazz Orchestra from Blue Ridge at Assembly. “Pep” likes banjos. Hats off to “Bea Osgood. Mardi Gras a whooping success. Friday 29—Monongahela Valley “Tourney”. Fairmont beat Jane Lew in afternoon. 1 9 One Hundred Sixty-two r i xF= L_E: i__ March “Ah, March! We know thou art Kind-hearted spite of ugly looks and threats And out of sight art nursing April’s violets!” —Helen H. Jackson. Monday 3—Mr. Buckey and Miss Hustead ill and unable to be in school. Tuesday 4—Girls beat Victory 17-4. Wednesday 5—Who said Spring? Thursday 6—Chapel Program included school talent. Friday 7—Student Council brought Jean Gros Marionettes to High School. Monday 10—Faculty meeting 3:16. Tuesday 11—MISS PRICK'S BIRTHDAY! Maple Leaves Staff visited Miss Hustead. Wednesday 12—Off for Buckhannon Tournament tomorrow at 6:00 A. M. Thursday 13—Local Literary Contest in the Auditorium. Winners: Extempora- neous speaking—Alice Bachman. Oration—Virginia Kisele. Essay—Mary Becker. Debating—Robert Kline. Prize for each $5.00. We beat Kairview in state tournament. Friday 14—Defeated Sistersville in tournament 29-19. Things look bright. Saturday 15—Charleston State Tournament. Monday 17—Green predominated especially Fr—? Miss Hustead returned and was found on the job in “The Work Shop at 2:31. Tuesday 18—Charles Wise made his first masterpiece—See page 105. Wednesday 19—Billy Sands ill! Junior play up in the air! Thursday 20—Lena B. Reese Lilly, winner of $5.00 prize for her biography of Stonewall Jackson. District Trophy offered by “The West Virginian together with individual basketballs presented at Chapel. Letter Men's Club Dinner! Friday 21—Mrs. Zumbrunnen absent! Junior Tacky Party in honor of Shirley Lavely. Wednesday 26—Sale of tickets for Junior Play. Thursday 27—Paul Davisson’s little nephews tried out their art ability to the horror of all! Jack Abbott sang in assembly. Mr. Buckev's Birthday. Friday 28—Science Club Party. Three cheers for Miss Myers. Virginia Eisele won the Oration in the District Literary Contest. Monday 31—Report cards! A mixture of sadness and gladness! Basketball Issue of “Hi-Life out. “Maple Leaves” off to press! 2:00 A. M. April Fool. 1 9 One Hundred Sixty-three One Hundred Sixty-four __e: i__ One Hundred Sixty-five h l F= l__EI I___EI WEI-V To (})erve Von EAD THE ADVERTISEMENTS. Here you will read where to find the latest ideas and improvements. You surprised at the world of interest and new ideas and shops in Fairmont. Advertisements are daily records of the pro- gress of our city. Let us patronize those who advertise in our annual and bring more progress to them and better advantages to ourselves. Don’t let this annual leave your hands until vou have read everv advertisement; then take ad- J � vantage of it. will be Loyal Friends of F. FI. S. These friends have shown their interest in Fairmont High School by their financial aid. H e appreciate them. HOME FI' RN ITU RE CO. C. H. JENKINS SIMON I). GOODMAN W. G. KELLEY FRANK HALL DR. CARTER S. FLEMING W. E. WATSON MR. MRS. M. W. OGDEN MR. MRS. G. B. MOORE F. R. CL ELL AND W. D. REED H. WEBER SONS CO. H. B. SOLDER DR. ERNEST L. YOST DR. TRAUGH J. CLARK MILLER RICHARD'S R EST A URANT DR. J. E. OFFNER JOSEPH A. ANWYLL GUY G. CAMPBELL W. C. KLINE ERNEST SHERWOOD KATHLEEN A. COURTNEY M. L. BROWN E. F. HENDERSON MARTIN’S CASH GROCERY (). CORN I ELIO UNION DENTISTS GRACE I). COBUN MR. AND MRS. FORTNEY TONY TODESCO LEWIS C. KNIGHT MR. A. M. DAVISSON MRS. A. M. DAVISSON HASSON HASSON NICK GEORGE S. GOTOS MARIE W. POLING ARTHUR H. LYNCH N. I. COMUNTZIS DR. CHARLES L. PARKS GEORGE P. TUCKER S. G. MOYER MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. SUTTON C. R. HOULT DALE SQUIRES FRED L. JOE DORINGER C. ROY MANLEY C. M. RITCHIE FELIX W. GARRETT MICHAEL POWELL One Hundred Sixty-six One Hundred Sixty-seven Compliments of Hammond Fire Brick Co. )n« Hundred SUly-nlne MAPL lAVEy Compliments of C. D. Robinson Albert M. Robinson Robert F. Robinson Compliments of W. E. Johnston OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER for -JhCaple J eaves One Hundred Seventy one Dealers In AUTO ACCESSORIES, TIRES, INDIAN MOTORCYCLES, and BICYCLES A New Comfort For Mother and Baby Takes care of the baby on motor trips Price, SI0.00 TIRES We Are Distributors For HOOD and SKBRING TIRES Indian Motorcycles On Our Pay-As-You-Ride Plan Delivered. Ready-To-Ride Price STAGGS 26 Jackson Street Fairmont, W. Va. One Hundred Seventy-three Compliments of The Owens Bottle Company Compliments of A Loyal Alumnus ofF. H. S. FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Now A State Teacher’s College Offers Courses Leading to the A. B. Degree in Education A FACULTY OF SPECIALISTS High School Graduates in Fairmont Have Unusual Advantages in this State College Call on the President or Write for Information Compliments of R. W. Fimple Contractor A. E. Jackson High Class Plumbing 208 Jackson Street Phone 327-R 1 9 £5 One Hundred Seventy-fi CLARK COAL AND COKE COMPANY Miners and Shippers of GAS, STEAM AND DOMESTIC COAL Fairmont, W. Va. HARRY B. COAL COMPANY Miners and Shippers of SUPERIOR STEAM AND GAS COAL Fairmont, W. Va. SALVATORE COAL COMPANY Miners and Shippers of GAS, STEAM AND DOMESTIC COAL Fairmont. W. Va. 1_E A VE Compliments of James D. Ahern Compliments oL A Friend NU-BONE CORSETS Made to Measure—Guaranteed to Fit For Appointment Call 2234 Hand Made Lingerie—Dressmaking Coni flete Line Infants Wear LA VOGUE SHOPPE MRS. F. CUMPSTON, Corsetiere 'A 1 9 £5 On Hundred S v n� -«e«n Commitments °f Jones and Nuzum Architects Commitments of Virginia Tea Room - r GEO. O. PHILLIPS Manager H— n Comfliments of H. H. Mr VESTA Storage Battery Costs Less Per Month of Service n FULLWARD CALLAHAN FAIRMONT HIGHS DRUG STORE Cor. Jackson and Monroe Streets Phone 346-J Fairmont, W. Va. We Blot Out Your Troubles I S |1 Z.5 One Hundred Seventy-eight [ r i xi Blue Ridge Theater Vaudeville Pictures Where Prices Never Change H J. H. Snyder “The Furniture Man” Compliments of Martin Drug Company Out of the High Rent Dis- trict. We Save you the Difference.” Compliments of Central Automobile Corporation Fairmont FORD Dealer 1 S £5 On Hundred S yenty-nit a vei v The Mary Margaret Shop Over the Fairmont Theatre Extends a Very Special Welcome to The F. . .S'. Students 3 Compliments of R. C. Jones Funeral Director FAIRMONT. W. VA. BOOKS - GIFTS Compliments of Coca Cola Bottling Works Compliments of Rollo J. Conley 1 9 £5 One Hundred Eighty Dr. Asa Smith Osteopathic Physician and Eye Specialist OFFICE HOURS 9 to 12 2 to 5 7 to 8:30 Compliments of Charles W. Evans Office. Hall Block FAIRMONT, W. VA. If You Think About Shoe Repairing Think About Us We Know How Fairmont Shoe Hospital Watson Building Phone 1213-J L. TROYNAR R. Lefevre Plate and Window Glass Wind Shield and Auto Body Glass a Specialty % Phone 2223 802 Gaston Ave. One Hundred Elghty-one Before — A fter Nick Cirillo Shoe Repairing Shop 316 Madison Street FAIRMONT, W. VA. If the boys love the girls That's their business. If the girls love the boys That's their business. If you want “hot-dogs” That's our business. City Lunch Room FAIRMONT, VV. VA. Lee R. Nestor Jeweler DIAMONDS Compliments of Troy Laundry Company i s mm V- One Hundred Eighty-two Phone 1436 If you keep Vour EYES Open You will see that it fays to trade with West Virginia Hygrade Market 409 Adams Street FAIRMONT. W. VA. ----------------------1 High Grade Enlargements Fine Photographs The Sterling Studio A N SE L K1S N E R, Pro prietor Phone 885-R Comfliments of Marinello Shop 214 Masonic Temple Telephone 200 Donated by O. S. Toothman 1 9 £5 t Hundred EioMy-three _________________________I Com piimerits of R. Lindsay Cunningham Funeral Director Com fitments of A Friend Cor. Jackson and Monroe Streets FAIRMONT, W. VA. With Very Best Wishes Monongah Glass Co. Nifty Shoe Repairing Dan Zerrillo 505 First Street FAIRMONT, W. VA. It’s economy to have your shoes remade It cuts down old H. C. L. We mend the RI1’ and patch the HOLES Build up the HEELS and save the SOLES. 1 9 £5 One Hundred Eighty four I MAPLE 1 R. 0. D. P. r Compliments of A Friend rji U James Pacifico Extra Quality Meat. Produce, etc. Fresh Stock Every Day Prompt Service We thank you for Your Patronage 107 Maple Avenue Phone 467 Compliments of E. M. Wraase Tailor 19 §m 5 One Hundred Eighty-five 1 e: L_ EA 7E 7rT Compliments of John D. Pozzuto r Compliments of A. P. Jones m The Edla Shop FAIRMONT, W. VA. HURRAH- Can bu J Swim? n ? M o w LEARN TODAY at the Y. M. C. A. 19 mm 5 One Hundred Eighty-tix One Hundred Eighty-seven -JhCap c JjjjtPoes WAS PRODUCED ON THE PRESSES OF ( (5he Jos. Betz (Jo. PRINTERS OF CHARACTER 315-319 Market St., East Liverpool, Ohio £5 One Hundred Eighty-eight __ez Our appreciation IT HAS seemed, this year, as though a spirit of co-operation was in the air. With MISS RAMEY offering the services of her students to assist in the typing; with MISS HARSHBARGER giving her time and skill in taking the faculty pictures: with the five advertising teams, as a whole, doing such excellent work—the individuals deserving special mention are EDGAR SOLE, WILEY GARRETT, and SARAH KNIGHT; with the advance sales teams doing equally as good work; with SHIRLEY LAVELY and RUSSELL DECKER keeping a daily record of school happenings untiringly and efficiently; with the English teachers having their students contri- bute literary material; a very fine spirit has been manifested. To these and to the many others too numerous to mention, we, the 1925 “Maple Leaves’’ staff, wish to express our most sincere appreciation for their aid in making this book the success that we hope for it. —THE 1925 “MAPLE LEAVES” STAFF 1 One Hundred Eighty-nine i_______________ [fSa Cp I iv ue “Maple Leaves Muse, farewell! The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descend ini;: In twilight copse the glowworm lights her spark. Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway. And little reck of the censure sharp, May idly cavil at an idle lay. Xow that the book is finished, Xow that our work is done, We h)pe the htpe—that sincere hope. That it will please everyone. We hope that you will enjoy the book. And read it through and through. And get the thoughts that were meant for you By the work we've tried to do. %Tis you we ve worked for all the year And troubles we've had a-plenty, But the joys we've got from working our plot. Will return to us four-score and twenty. So we are not so sad. for the work we have had, For truly it's been a pleasure. For you we have toiled by the sweat of out brow, For you this is our treasure. 1 9 One Hundred Ninety __e: i_EiAX Ei y’ Maple I.litres last picture is painted and the brushes arc twisted and dried, II'e shall rest, and, faith we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two. Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.” One Hundred Ninety-one PRINTED 8V THE JOS BETZ PRINTING CO. CABT LIVERPOOL. OHIO B