Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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Dear Diary: -'-7. 3- .9 5.’:. .Fresh.-jen) It is Sopt. 1 ? 3j v;e finslly were beginning our first year in Senior High School vi , ■ t;»e -woil'vrn- of 25 girl.- and 1 boys, .Taking a total of 44 saioe.nts. Naturally this being our first year in high school, we thought v s ere big sJiots, but our class sponsors , lirs. Piccolo and ..iss ithers soon let us know eicactly -..'here we atooc and who was boss. During our freshmen year we hand two honors bestoyed on four members of our class. Lloyd Pu’cnok ;as crovnod king of Florin ton High School and our cheerleaders, frar2 en.e Blake, Nancy Johnson, Jerry Riffle an. Pauline Devart v cr. for b?.st uhs rls?.d r in Senior Kiri-. ;4i ti.e class tournments, which wus really a honor, because there was rea.-.iy r.o-,r. stiff competition. In the class tournments our girls team had quite a successful year but our boys got behind somehow. Any.ray v e had a lot of fun. Another event that was a lot of fun .as our class party and still another was our assembly program but all our first year in high school -as not full of fun and laughter, for during this year we lost one of oui beloved classmates, Charles Devart. Our hearts ached at this loss, but his memory shall abe in each of our hearts forever. 1954-1955 (Sophomore) Dear Diary: T.:e began our second year in Flemington Senior High in Sept. 1954. e soon learned that '«e ould have to be on our toes this year. ’«Ihy . ill , lirs. Talbot and id . J©hn Findley were our class sponsors. Now can you see why . There were 41 blossoming students at the beginning of the year we had lost uhree of our classmates since our freshmen year, but to our regret we lost quite a few of them before our second year of high school was completed. The activities of this year consisted of a Stationary Campain and various other campains to raise money for our trip to ’ ashing«.on, D.C. in our Senior year. Our assemby program as another great activity of they year. It was a great success due to 10055 of the class participting. In it we crowned a queen of the Sophomore Class, this viac the first time for a class to crovm a queen. Another high spot in our activitys was our class partys, we had two this year. One party was given to i’rs. Talbott's home roon, by ilr. Findley's homeroom for winning a contest between the two rooms. Then the whole class had a dance in they gym. In the class tournments our teams wern't beaten to bad but just the same they were beaten. Our cheerleaders, Jerry Firfle, Charlene Blake, Nancy Johnson and Pauline Devart won for best cheerleaders in e„„•; wirrh arain.

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Dear Diary: 1951-1952 (7th Grade) The day has finally arrived, we are 7th graders. In Sept. 1951, we came from north, south, east and west to begin our first year at Flemington Jr. High School, There were 56 students entering into Flemington as 7th graders and (boy did tne 8th graders think we were green), 'jfe wer3 all a little scared at first and inocantly traveled the halls the first fev; days» but after we get acquainted with the faulty, the other students and the building itself that all changed We were very glad to lenru that Vr?n Oardot and. Corbin ware cur class sponsors, hut Mr» Corbin ’-rent into service and Mrs . K-imp .cry: replaced him for a while and then Mi . hwseker replaced Mrs, Kurphoryj ptn-3i.u-ent.ly, but by that time wo wore sc confused in our school wox-k that we c'.idnft know A fron Z‘' about it, but Ur. Swecker soon straightened us out ar.d we got back in tne familiar routine of school work. One big event of the year was our assembly program, which was our first performance in front of a large group. Another highlight of the year was our class party. We had a weiner roast on the Athletis Field. I think that was one night that everone got filled with hotdogs. When time for the inter-class tournments rolled around, we choose black and white for our class colors and Pari hers for our name. In the class tournments both our boys and girls team lost, (I think we needed a few of the players from the 7th grade of 5?). We vren for best cheer- leaders in Jr. High and we were very proud of our three cheerleaders who were Nancy Johnson, Charlene Blake, and Pauline Devart. At the close of our first year at Flemington Jr. High, we were all eagerly waiting for our return when we would be in the 8th grad® . 1952-1953 (8th Grade) Dear Diary: In Sept. 1952, we returned to Flemington to begin our second year in Junior High School., We had 50 students enrolled on our class roll, six less than had started with us on our adventure in the 7th grade. Our sponsors this year were Mrs- Johnson and Mr. Hal Findley.' (boy did we live rough those nine months), but we enjoyed every minute of it especially our class party. One highlight of the year was our assembly program, which wae held in honor of Halloween, Oct, 31« We tried to frighten everyone with our goast and Subline and come to think of it we 'did. In the inter-class tournments, our girls were really soma basketball players. They defeated the ,'th and 10th grade girls, but our boys were defeated the first evening. This year in the tournments our class won fr best cheering section in Jr, High. • — n r' summer vacation and next year we - —“ — n .Senior

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1956-1957 (con't) The first event of our Senior year was the Junior -Senior Banquet held on May A. The Junior Class followed the pattern that originated with our class last year by having the Banquet one night and the prom another. The Banquet was held in the band room, which was beautifully decorat- • with branches of Dogwood and candle light. The speaker for the evening wa; Mr. T. B. Cain, president of the West Virginia Butin s.3 Coales . 1 hu.Ic everyone enjoyed the speaker and the banquet ar.d we all ha l a v.’oreeriul time. Next on our very busy Senior schedule was our annu ‘ 3 trip to Washington D. C. This year due to an efficient amount of funds our class got V spend an extra day in Washington D. C. The extra day added, mere freoitment to tho trip and we could hardly wait for the big day to arrive. Finally May d. was here and at 9:15 in the morning Mrs. Delvera Johnson and Mrs. harry Hayes, chaperones for the girls and Mr. Edward Whitescarver, chaperone for the coys finally got us on the bus that we had chartered and headed for Washington. We arrived in Washington at 5 o'clock the evening of May 8th and be- lieve it or not but we went sightseeing that night. We all had a wonderful time and we saw many interesting and fascinating sites, but on May 12th at 8:00 we were glad to return home. The third high spot on our schedule was the Junior-Senior Prom, everyone was thrilled when May 18 finally rolled around. The gym was beautifully de- corated and the theme was A Evening In Paris . The grand march added a great deal to the prom and Nancy Johnson was chosen queen of the Senior Class and Izetta Kelley was chosen Maid of Honor of the Junior Class. I am sure both the Juniors and Seniors will remember the prom of 1957 for a long time. We are very fortunate this year in having three girls holding the high honors of our class. Our valedictorians are Jacqueline Stewart and Nancy Johnson. Our salutatorian is Phyllis Collins. Congratulations girls, we are proud of you. Winning the citizenship awards were, Lloyd Putzed-winner of the American Legion Citizenship Award for the boys. Nancy John3on-American Legion Citizen ship Award for the girls. Jacqueline Stev art-winner of the V. F. W. citizenship award. It was a sad night. May 26, 1957, when our Senior Sermon finally rolled around. Our speaker for the evening was the Rev. Steyer from Grafton, West Virginia. We all enjoyed bis talk very much. May 28, 1957 our commencement exercises were held. This was indeed a joyful, but ?ad night. The years have gone by rapidly leaving us with only memories of our school daps. In leaving Fleming-ten High School we wish to thank the faculty for their guidance and understanding. Our president, Llcyd Putzek for being our representative and our classmrtss for th 'r cooperation, we shall remember our days at Flemington High Fchoox wita pleasure Shirley Johnson Class Historian