Greenbank High School - Mountain Breeze Yearbook (Greenbank, WV)

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The Greenbank High School Band was organized in the fall of 1944 under the leadership of Miss Anna Margaret Johnson. Due to the shortage of material for making instruments the band was not as large as it would have been otherwise. The charter group consisted of twenty-three members. This year five new membeis joined the band making a total membership of twen- ty-six. Our band played marches and miscellaneous songs at the home basketball and football games. It went to Durbin Grade School on March 1 and participated in an amateur program. The money derived from this program was donated to the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital. The band was also the guest of the Greenbank Home Economics Chapter at its March meeting. This year the band will again play at both the grade and high school graduation exercises. A spring concert is one of the annual events of this group, whose members also compose the glee club. Following the concert a formal party is held by the mem- bers. They also provide music for the Baccalaureate Sermon and Commencement. One of the goals of the Greenbank High School Band is to enter the football season next year dressed in new gold and blue uniforms. The officers elected by the members of the band for this year are: President, Bill Townsend; Vice-President, Ida Gaye Hiner; Secretary-Treasurer, Marian Tracy; and Representative, Virgil B. Harris, Jr. Members are as follows: Blake Breitenhirt, Clarinet; Dorothy Campbell, Cornet; L. E. Campbell, Trumpet; Martha Campbell, Cornet; Betty Ruth Conrad, Clarinet; Bob Eades, Saxophone; Berlin Galford, Percussion; Joel Hannah, Trumpet; Virgil B. Harris, Jr., Bass-horn; Mary Dare Hedrick, Clarinet; Ida Gaye Hiner, Trombone; Eloise Lambert, Clarinet; Reon Lambert, Alto-horn; Sue McElwee, Trombone; Leon- ard Meador, Clarinet; Mildred Miles, Clarinet; Irene Miller, Trombone; Freda Rex- rode, Alto-horn; Loreena Shears, Clarinet; Louise Shears, Trombone; Bonnie Sheets, Saxophone; Roberta Jeanne Sheets, Trumpet; Helen Tracy, Trumpet; Marian Tracy, Flute; Bill Townsend, Trumpet; Theodore Wymer, Percussion.

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The Senior play. “Murder Mansion,” was presented April 23, 24, and 25. Both the cast and the director enjoyed working on this three-act mystery play. The following is a synopsis of the story: When young Cariotta Cramer, through the death of her Uncle Ewing, inherits a lonely old mansion off the coast of Maine, she can hardly wait to get to the man- sion and look it over. So, accompanied by her colored maid, Ophelia, and her Aunt Mimi Spaulding, she arrives at the mansion early one Fall evening. The instant Cariotta and her party are inside of the mansion they are subject to a set of highly mysterious and baffling incidents. By the time they succeed in locating Mary Mar- ley, the housekeeper in charge, they are in a state of near collapse- The house- keeper adds to their fears when she informs them that Carlotta’s Uncle Ewing did not die of natural causes, but that he was murdered. Cariotta and her party pre- pare to leave but they are intercepted by Inspector Hicks of Headquarters. He is with them for a short time and then disappears, the victim of foul play. A strange and exotic woman appears in the form of Madame Marie Ravoli. She insists that she is in contact with the spirit world. A few minutes before the final curtain the mysterious events are cleared up and the play ends happily for everyone. CAST OF CHARACTERS CARLOTTA CRAMER—Who inherits a mansion in Maine..RUTH BEVERAGE OPHELIA SMITH—Her colored maid...............JOLENE McLAUGHLIN MIMI SPAULDING—Carlotta’s Aunt MARIAN TRACT MARY MARLEY—Housekeeper at the mansion.............NAOMI SUTTON MADAME MARIE RAVOLI—A medium who is in touch with the departed ............................ JULIA FISHER FLORA MANNING—Who comes to pay a visit. .... IOLA REXRODE PALMER KEEN—An attractive young man NORMAN SHEETS INSPECTOR BENJAMIN HICKS—A detective who fails to detect..............................NIMMIE RALSTON ALBERT JACKSON—Arrives in a most unexpected manner ROBERT BROWN DR. LIONEL HAMILTON—Head of the Hillsdale Sanitorium ........ JOEL HANNAH

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CL A NIGHT SENIOR TRIBE OF 1946 presents a Heap Big Indian Pow-Wow (To Celebrate Class Night, May 13, 1946) WHO’S WHO Pianist Mary Dare Hedrick Spirit of Greenbank High School Marian Tracy Braves and Squaws Senior Tribe Seniors Heap-Big-Chief-President Nimmie Ralston Chief-Plenty-Big-Mouth Joel Hannah Messenger Jimmy Pritchard Chief-Stealum-Pretty-Squaws Franklin Noel PRISONERS: (Young Girl) ...................... BEULAH DAHMER (Irish Lady) GERTRUDE CALES (Mother) .................. PAULINE DAHMER (Boy Friend) ...................... HAROLD WOODDELL (Son) ............................. NORMAN SHEETS Brave-Writum-Record Stanley Shears (Will) Squaws-W ritum-Past-Deeds— Scalp I—Freshmen ............ SADIE NELSON Scalp II—Sophomore ....... PEGGY WAGNER Scalp III—Junior RUTH BEVERAGE Scalp IV—Senior .......... ELAINE WILFONG (Class History) JULIA FISHER Princess-Makum-Words-Rhyme Ernestine Shinaberry (Poem) Squaw-Give-um-Away Naomi Sutton (Giftorian) Brave-Playum-and-Singum Bill Townsend Squaw-Lookum-Into-Future Iola Rexrode (Prophecy) Little-Chief-Junior-Class-President Hubert Rexrode Tribal Prayer Indians