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

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on again, only to be interrupted this time by the announcement of a special homecoming edition of the Gilbert News which Editor, Lowell Gibson, had prepared for his classmates. After we received our complimentary copies, Principal Hatfield suggested that it was time to tour the rest of the building. He- lflllflbfl us to the large recreation room and showed us the many games that Pliysical Education Director, Larry Lester, used to work with his boys. He- then rcinducted us on down the hall, and showed us lovely murals that were painted by Artist, Gail Billups. We peeped into Zeke's band room on our may and then we went to the shop. Here we were shown count- less beautiful objects that Ray Nester, Industrial Arts Instructor, had taught his boys to make. As we came back down the hall, we noticed a familiar-looking figure standing by the trophy case, and who should it be but Bert Lee Cline, admir- ing the trophies that he had helped to win in his high school days. There was one sad note to our reunion. One member of our class could not be with us. That was Bonnie Blankenship, who had been in the Woman's Air Force for the past ten years and was now a lieutenant stationed in Germany. As a tribute to our one absentee member, we all grouped together and sand My Bonnie Is Over the Ocean. Time was growing short and soon we would have to be rushed back to the airport, but one person we must see before we go and that was Phyllis Cline. Phyllis, owner of the town's most exclusive dress and jewelry shop, had been kept so busy all day and evening, working with costumes, arrang- ing flowers, and numerous other tasks that she could always do so well, that we'd hardly had time to speak a word to her, so we must spend a few minutes with her before we depart, but these minutes were short, for we had hardly begun talking, when Dr. Franklin Noe came to us and told us that he would fly us over to the airport in his helicopter that he used to make his medical calls, so two tired but happy people again said good-bye to their former classmates and friends. As the big airliner soared through the night, we still seemed to hear the plaintive melody of Auld Lang Syne. f'4'k ww ik Ig' X N155 ,

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Since we were the only ones who were late, a part of the days festivit- ies were now in progress. We moved on into the spacious auditorium and quietly slipped into a seat unobserved, as the attention of all present was focused upon the breath-taking acrobatic act which was in progress on the stage. Never before had we seen anything quite like it, but we didn't realize that it was a husband and wife team until they returned to a second curtain call and then we recognized them as Opal and Henry Ray Faries. We were about ready to dash backstage and greet them when the cur- tain opened again and we beheld such a great vision of lovliness that we remained glued to our seats. Such breath-taking beauty, such superb poise, such rythmic swaying, as this lovely dancer gave us everything that was new in the modern dance. To us she was our pal, Zella Faye Ellis, but to the world she was the famous lass who only a few weeks be- fore, swam the English Channel. We waved at Zella and wanted very much to run back and offer our congratulations but this time a tall, thin, queer-looking guy came across the stage with a coffee cup in his hand, so we knew right off that it was Foo-Foo , the java drinker of our high school days, who was now Foo-- the Magician , but the things that he pulled out of that coffee cup never saw a Folger's can. As fast as he would pull a rabbit or a chicken out of the cup, here'd come .Terry Hager, grab it up in his arms and carry it off to his meat market. Nothin' slow about that guy! As soon as the entertainment ended, we were summoned to the feast. Such a table of food I've never seen, and there at the head of the table, as master of ceremonies, was one that we remember as the best speaker in class, Ray Bragg, but even with his gift of gab, he didn't have to do any persuasion to get the old gang to break bread together, for if our memory serves us correctly, we were always hungry. Other speeches were given during the dinner by classmates, Charles Matney, principal of Brushy Fork Consolidated School, Mary Pullen, Home Economics Instructor at Justice High School, Doris May, Dean of Girls at Baisden Junior Collegeg and Dorsel -Smith, Professor of Psychology at Glen Alum University. We were delightfully entertained during the dinner hour with a twin-sister act entitled Me and My Shadow by Tina Lou Spence, local policewoman, and her pal, Ellen Totten, matron at the city jail. After dinner, we strolled into the gymnasium, which had been .con- verted into a Winter Wonderland. Icicles hung everywhere, snow lay all over the floor, the windows were covered with frostf but here and there the white stillness was broken by the dark color of an evergreen or a snowbird perched on a window sill. This was our ballroom, a beautiful setting for our homecoming dance. There seated on top of a huge, improvised glacier was Zeke Musick and his Music Masters. We later learned that Zeke was now the band instructor on our Alma Mater, and that he played his trumpet with all his 'heart and soul'. He'd sure come a long way in these ten years, and the old class demanded one encore after another. The dance floor cleared and we knew that some- thing special was coming up. We were rewarded with an acrobatic dance routine, by Louise Thompson and Blonnie Blankenship. At this moment a little excitement occured. Dell Cole, who was Miss Gilbert High of 1954 and who is still a beauty, lost her diamond necklace, but the excite- ment was short-lived as Shirley Collins, F.B.l. woman detected an un- usual sparkle in the snow and found that the necklace had not been stolen as formerly thought, but had fallen from her neck, and lodged in a snow- bank, so the dance was 47

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