Gilbert High School - Roaring Lion Yearbook (Gilbert, WV)

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started to study in earnest and the m membership of the Honor Society. Thi longer divided. All were gathered toge ost industrious boosted the s year the class WSS DO ther un er the motherly Wing of MRS. THELMA HATFIELD. SIMON PERRY was elected class president ANN CLINE vice-presidentg and FLCSSIE HATFIELD, secretary-treasurer DAVID MULKEY was outstan ing on the basketball courts and RICHARD ELLIS and LOUIS RCBINETTE showed signs of developing into future stars. This SCARECROW best play Also this among themselves that it was one of th given at Gilbert High School. A new club, a branch of the Be Gilbert High School this year. Severa Class became members. Juniors belonge which was a great success. The annual year they presented the wid CRREPS and all agreed among ever to be given in Gilber year they gave the Junior-Senior banquet and again agreed ely talked about playg THE themselves that it was the t High School's auditorium. e best banquets ever to be ta Club, was organized at l students from the Junior d to the school boy patrol class party was universally enjoyed. As a whole this Junior year was more successful than any preceding year. In the fall of '48 the group once of their beloved school. This time th happy voices, but they realized it was the happy sounds of an opening day of four new-comers: LOIS WHITED, FRANCES and VILMA CAMPBELL. Two had been lost and LENNIE CLINE. Of the students who entered scho more gathered in the halls ey led the noisy chatter and their last year to join in school. The class gained SCARBERRY, EMILY STEWART, by marriage were: RUBY'DEAN ol in the seventh grade 51 pulled through safely. This class is the largest class ever to be graduated from the high school. Tho' stormy winds may rock That we shall sail upong the ship Tho' billows make us toss and tip So we sink like the stoneg Tho' we are rocked both to Cut on life's chilly brine and fro, S Courageously we'll onward go-- This class of forty-nine. Ten thousand bags of wind may roar And try to sink our shipg And tho they blow us all the more on On this oceanic trip-- They cannot Since we'll That we all Way back in forty nine. 27 make us lower our sails still have that shine hailed at Gilbert High

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QYQSVU gfigfovg The long-awaited and yet much dreaded day in September of 1945 came at last and once more the halls of Gilbert High School were resoun ing with the noisy chatter of students who were back in school after three months vacation. Unnoticed by the rest of the school was a group of shy boys and girls, the seventh grade of '45- '44. There seemed to be consternation on the face of everyone who belonged to this group. While wondering what to do, they were soon hustled into a big room which they learned was called the auditorium. The class was composed of boys and girls. Yet wondering what to do, they were divided into two divisions and each division was given a spon- sor. One sponsor was MRS. THELMA HATFIEID and the other sponsor was MH. JAMES HARLESS who was later replaced by MRS. ETHEL TRENT. Highlight of this school year was the Hallowe'een Carnival. JAMES PEAK and JUNE MANNIN3 were elected king and queen of the carnival. During this year, these boys and girls acted like a bunch of scared jack-rabbits. When asked a question in class, each was afraid to answer even though he thought he knew. But somehow, as seventh graders always do, they finally struggled through the first year. School bells, when they rang the following fall, found that many of these fledglings had become discouraged and had fallen by the wayside. With solemn face, the boys and girls talked in low tones about one of the outstanding members of the class, JAMES PEAK who had been fatally injured when he fell while swinging on a grapevine. New members of the class this year were BENNY GRAVELY and WETZEL CLINE. Class sponsors this year were MRS. THELMA HATFIEID and MBS. MAMIE BROWNING. The year proved very profitable and the eighth grade was so much wiser, or so they thought. The next year brought additions from Glen Alu three of which remain today: JOHN TOTH, CLARENCE NBUDDYW COLLINS, and AUBERT BLACKBURN. That year, these future-geniuses were becoming very wise indeed and much more familiar with the rest of the school. Before realizing it, they found group was starting in the tenth grade those who were missing from the class VIRGINIA VINCENT, and CHARLES CROWDER history of the school, the Sophomore another year gone and the in the fall of '46, Among this year were JUNE MANNING, . For the first time in the Class had to be divided. By this time, these boys and girls who had been timid seventh graders at one time were quite worldy-wise and prided themselves upon the following characteristics: ability to talk, good looks, magnificent personality, and the ability to drive teachers crazy. Three mem- bers of'the class: BOB CLINE, SIM N PERRY, and LENNIE CLINE were taken into the National Honor Society. ANN CLINE was elected to a three year term as cheer-leader. When these boys and girls returned as Juniors in '47, several 26

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