Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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• • Senior • • We, tin members of the Senior Class of 1951, not wishing to take everything with us, do solemnly will, lx queath and leave the following items: Joe Knotts leaves his height to Dick Adlington. Marilyn Miller wills her place in solid geometry to a bov. She says it’s no place for a female. Patty Pop” leaves her long hair in care of Mary Jo Foley. Bessie Manlier leaves Miss Jeran frantic. What will happen to the library? Pattv Jaco bequeaths her absence excuses to Shirley Brown. Carolyn Anderson leaves all her extra-curricular activities to Sylvia Waggoner. Think s1h ’11 find time for them all? Barbara Williams leaves Dick. She’d stay if she could. Eli .alx th Summers trades her text books for a cook book as she leaves to join her husband. Chris” leaves most of her antics to Wilma Kirby, but keens a few for herself. Don Willis wills a new wastebasket to Mr. Faulkner. The old one is all stuck up with gum. Ellen Gainer leaves, and her friends will have to walk to school. Don Smith wills his brain to the biology class, so they can really lcam. Martha Clayton wills her go xl grades to everyone who needs them. Nola Snay wills her arguments to Bettv Hawkins, hoping she ll win some of them. Leo Bradford bequeaths his car to Mr. Curie. No one could spe d in it. Mickey Snyder wills her tardiness to someone else who can get by with it. Elaine Woodyard leaves “Dobbie” to keep up the the family name. Dorsev Weaver wills his pereptual g xxl humor to Rav Gray. As a senior he’ll need it. Diane Sweet leaves her temper somewhere in the halls of G.H.S. Be careful, everybody. Since there’s no one big enough to take Mac’s voice, he takes it with him. Charlotte Smith bequeaths her dimples to Peggy Kiger. Now Peggy has two sets. Ruth Poling wills the commercial club to another hard working girl. Patty Burnside leaves Brooks, but slie’s not willing him to anyone. Jack Headley and David Hoffman will their jokes to Staley White. Oh no! Loretta Carpenter bequeaths the peroxide tliat was willed to her to Margie Hargett. Dorothy Blackman leaves all her good times to Joy Cuppett. Jack Bennett wfills all the poster work to Doris Hildreth. That’s a dirtv trick. Betty Frey bequeaths Shirley to the teacher, hoping they’ll teach her a lot. Alice Vevon leaves her cheerleading limp. She worked herself up into a case of rheumatism. Bill Turoczv leaves his wise cracks to Mrs. Yost. He hopes she'll like them better if she sees them more often. Pattv Utt takes her flirting with her. She intends to keep right on using it. Jem Zinn and James Zorik leave their back seats in alphabetically arranged classrooms to Jcx Zorik. Ray Williams bequeaths his sociology grades to next year’s seniors. Maybe they’ll be satisfied. Kenny Sturms has to leave Shirley, but he’ll still see her once in a while. Jiggs Stevenski wills his place on the basketball team to Pete Isner. Katie Moats w ills her gvm squad to Suzanne Lawson. That jxx r squad! Dick Poe leaves his athletic ability to Travis Swiger. Get to work, Travis. Evelyn Watkins lx qucaths love to her many friends. Chick Bennett wins his locker to Brooks Bartlett. Watch out, there’s a lx ar trap in it. Bobby Duckworth and Kenny Shingleton will the Parkview bus to Donnie Kirby. Ellen Cochran isn’t leaving anv thing. Should she? Nobodv ever left anything to her. Edsel Poe leaves his habitual hunting sickness and gunsickness to anyone who needs it. Dolores Norris wills her basketball ability to Jean Sapp. Jim Isner wills his red shirt to Mr. Haan. Jim Xewbrough leaves his persuasiveness to anyone who gets kicked out of the library. Larry Simmons ) equeaths his lxx ks to charity, lie doesn’t want to see them again. Phyllis Culp wills her popularitv to Dorothy Lobis. Eileen Brown leaves her curly blond hair to Shirley Bumgardner. Bobby Brvan leaves his g x d spirits to Macbeth. Macbeth could probably use them. Phyllis Burnside leaves the majorettes to work out their drills without )x r. Bus” Brown wills his study hall to Mr. Culp. Maylx he’ll like it bettor. Glenna Defibaugh is taking her beautiful fur coat with her. Dam it. Josephine Coffman wills as many embarrasing moments to Mr. Faulkner as he gave her. Fred Gough wills the F.F.A. to some other hard working fanner. Peggy Haislip leaves her bright smile to all who frown. Paul Davis leaves early. He has to catch his bus. Mary Marquess leaves all the Re-Echo headaches to some other hard worker. Norma Heaton wills her quiet smile to Ruth Williams. Bob Hoskinson leaves Macbeth to next year’s English class. Bud Kennedy caught his coat tail in the d x r in an effort to lx first out. Bobby Keyser wills his curly hair to Benny Mays. Wilma Miller wills luck to next year’s seniors. Bernice Luzadder leaves to join Dan. Martha Kemple wills tlx Tri-Hi-Y presidency to anyone who can stand it. Bob Kiger leaves all. Period. Charles Little leaves with a little more than he brought in. Cordell Luckev wills his fun to some other Lucky” fellow. Jerry McProuty leaves a shiny penny to the one who can answer his questions. Jean Luckev leaves her friendliness to some grouchy person. Barbara Devers wills theme writing to someone who always has plenty of ideas. Phyllis Rogers came in like a lion and leaves like a lamb. Alan Shriver wills his (perpetual motion?) machine to those who benefit by it. Bettv Moore and Betty Morgan leave, but they still have their friendship. (Continued on page 31) 28

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• • • Senior Pronh ropheMjj • • Like the tliree witches in Macbeth we know a lot about witchcraft and scorcey ami have looked into the future to see what the students of G.H.S. will be doing in 1961. Joe Knotts grew so tall he reached heaven without having to die first. Patty Utt is running a very successful lonely hearts club. The future held great opportunities for Catherine Moats, who’s singing commercials over W.M.M.N. Carolyn Anderson left college her junior year to move to California. Jo Ann Mouscr seems to be seeing red. After all, with all those kids around the house! James Zorik and Jerry Zinn are co-managers of Bartlett’s Funeral Home. Use their convenient lay-away plan. Cold storage at extra prices. Paul Davis can say “I object all he pleases now. He’s judge in the U. S. Supreme Court. Glenna Defibaugh is still trving to make “Satan” behave like an angel. Jimmy Isner took Mr. Soles’ place at G.H.S. He’s doing a pretty good job. Don Smith and Alan Shriver have ended up next to Einstein in the Hall of Fame. General Richard Poe has taken McArthur's place as commander of tin forces in the Far East. Elizabeth Stcmple Summers took her diploma in one hand and her husband in the other. We've just received a radio report from McAvoy on Mars. He was blown there while experimenting in physics class. Pat Poppolardo now makes $15,000 a year in New York, modeling (bathing suits)! Norma Heaton and Betty Frey are having a hot time— we won’t say where. When Red Skelton quit, David Hoffman rushed straight to Hollywood. Now Ik gets paid for his “corny jokes '. Bud Kennedy is passing his life awav in a filling station. Jerrv McProuty (Dr. P.D.Q.) has gone on the air with his Mental Bankrupt program and is discouraging millions. Jackie Bennett and Nancy Chrislip are starring in “Romeo and Juliet” now playing on Broadway. Irene Scranage is secretary to Mr. Soles, who manages the Manos Theater. Martha Clayton died of sh x k. In her last semester in college, she made a B”. Delores Norris’s house is full of little animals—little “heavers”. Diane Sweet married a love and now has a lot of little dears. Don Willis and Chick Bennett quit professional basketball to manufacturer yo-yos. William Turoczy got his name changed from “Turoczy” to “Fitzjum”. He can’t spell that either. Laura Mosser poses for the “after” faces in the toothpaste adds. Dolores Jenkins left home because the cleaning business was getting to be a little too pressing. Bessie Manlier took Miss Jeran’s place as librarian in CHS. Mary Marquess got so fat she’s competing against Flora, the fat girl, for the world's title. Leo Bradford. M.D., has become a specialist—all women patients. Jim Newbrough is still at G.H.S. The stage crew couldn’t get along without him. Barbara Williams sang on the radio. (Until her mother wanted to dust it and made her get off). Elaine Woodyard jumped in when Mr. Hasclden retired and took his place teaching bookkeeping . And she swore she’d never step foot in high school again after she graduated!! Robert Duckworth got Congress to change the calendar. Now everv year is leap year. Patty and Phyllis Burnside committed a double suicide. They were told Toni doesn’t take girls with natural curly hair. Marie Westennan died after breaking a bottle of shellac. She had a wonderful finish. Bobbv Bryan is a barber in a cocktail bar. He shaves the ice. Edsel Poe became a preacher and died baptizing his mother-in-law. Jean Luckev isn’t Luckey any longer. She got married. Marilvn Miller married an electrician and died of a shock. Larry Simmons is making crooked dough. He works in a pretzel factory. Ruth Poling is a bubble dancer in a pin factory. Need I say more?? Mary Edith and Mary Evalea both have moved far away from Grafton. They were tired of getting their names mixed up. Charlotte Smith is a prized museum piece. Everyone has to pav to see her cute dimples. Evelyn Watkins owns a glue factory. Don’t let the works get “gummed up”. Myrtle Lough moved out West and married a cowboy with 5.000 cattle. There’s no “beefing” about that. Loretta Carpenter has written an etiquette lxx k that outdoes Emilv Post. Helen Roach accidentally took some bug poison and ex-terminated herself. Cordell Luckey has to know all the answers now, he took Mr. Anthony’s place on the radio. RoIxTt Hoskinson and Bobbv Lambert are the best loved referees Grafton has ever had. Old G.H.S. hasn't lost a game since thev started. Think we’d better keep them? Charles Little is still that Little fellow. Well, maybe he doesn’t want to change his name. Ruth McCoy and Barbara Devere looked so pretty as waitresses that a talent scout noticed them and took tlu m to Hollyw(xxl where they've got a good job. They’re still waitresses. Ronald McWilliams and Jimmy Corrothers are in the cigarette manufacturing business. Does vour cigarette taste different lately? Betty Moore is singing on the radio. Her theme song is “Moore or Less”. Mostly Moore. Robert Keyser became the favorite pin-up of the WACS. Rav Williams built himself a rest home because he didn't get enough sleep while he was in school. Mice Vevon gave up everything else to accomplish her ambition. She got married. Tommv McCue engineers a locomotive. Now he can whistle at all the prettv girls and get paid for it. Kenneth Sturms joined the navy and disappeared while his ship was passing one of the South Sea islands. Peggy Haislip is playing professional basketball. Her average is 30.2 points a game. You boys better get going or she'll get ahead of vou. Phvllis Culp became a dress designer. She thought the French styles w'ere too ooh-la-la! Josephine Coffman and Ellen Cochran became teachers and are now putting up with the same old stuff. Won’t pupils ever change ? 39