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

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X V--1... i -1 V. DEDICATION MEMORIAM THOMAS c,M11.1E11 JQSEPH ROSIER TJ, HUMPHREYS 0115 G.W1LsoN WE, BU QIQiY 1---.f 11 3

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OUT QF THE 1-IAZY PAST ff - TO THE GLORIOUS FUTURE Memoriam and Dedication 'Q K In memoriam, we, the 1930 junior Class of Fairmont High School, wish to acknowledge and sincerely thank those who have sacrificed and given their lives that our school may rest upon the high crest that it occupies today. Especially prominent in this work was Prof. Thomas C. Miller, the first city superintendent of schools and principal of Fairmont High School, when this school was in the building which now is occupied by The West Virginian and The Times. Mr. Miller died on December 28, 1928. We respectfully and affectionately dedicate this volume to all those who have been influencial in leading our school in secondary education. Outstanding in this matter of advancement have been Mr. T. J. Humphreys, first principal of Fairmont High School in our present building, and Prof. Ioseph Rosier, who served as city superintendent of schools in capable capacity for numerous yearsg and Mr. Otis G. Wilson, incumbent superintendent, and Mr, XV. E. Buckey, present principal, all of whose greatest dreams have been fulfilled in the building of our new educational edifice.

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OUT OF THE HAZY PAST - - TO THE GLORIOUS FUTURE Our School History . ' 6, - Q55 TANDING in the auditorium of the new high school building, a man of my own O C1 d Q 'd- LJCC as HL, age turne to me an .tai . l . You and I appreciate this. For us, it 'Ji 'QM is the fulfillment of a dream, but the boys and girls who come romping in here next season will take it as a matter of course. These young folks are enjoying the harvest, for which we tilled the ground and planted the seed! Thirty years ago, when that man attended Fairmont High, the entire school was housed in a large room in C, E, Smith the building at the corner of Adams and Quincy streets, which is now known as Fraternity Hall. There were, I think, in addition to a cubby hole used by the principal, two other cubby holes used as class rooms. In one of these, Miss Jennie Fleming taught ancient history, and in the other, a knowledge of the language of the Romans was unfolded in clouds of soot, intellectual as well as material. In the main room, where clouds of chalk dust played in the slanting sunbeams from the tall windows, the minds of the young men and young women were broad' ened by perpendicular plunges into the mazes of algebra and higher arithmetic. There was no recreation, no amusement, and little to hope for in the future. Occasionally a youth, feeling a crying need for a stimulant for his sympathetic system, would slip an overshoe in the tall Burnside stove that stood in the south' west corner of the room. If the resulting confusion was particularly odoriferous, events for some days to come would be dated from that overshoe. In those days not very many students served their long and dreary time. Girls stuck better than boys, there having been but sixteen lads to receive diplomas in the six years from 1897 and 1903. In the class of 1896 three hardy lads received the sheepskin. These were Prose' cuting Attorney M. Earle Morgan, Dr. Walter E. Boydston, and Charles E. Way' man. The next year's class, known as the Cryonne Class, contained but one boy, john J. McCool. 'Ninetyfeight was the Spanish War year, and the five girls and two boys who graduated about the time the local guardsmen were leaving for the mobilization camps, called themselves the Patriotic Seven. The class of '99 had twelve girls and four boys. This class had no name, but the following year the Jennie Fleming Class graduated one lone boy and nine vivacious girls. This boy, by the way, was Dr. Chesney M. Ramage. The class of 1901 was nameless. James E. Dowden was the only boy, and of girls there were six. The Mer cer Class of 1902 was unique in that it numbered five boys and one girl. She was Mildred Pickett. Among l the boys was Fred Torrey, the sculptor, and Phil Pitzer, Class Room, 1893 the Mannington banker. Six