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

Page 21 text:

Cast Will and Zestament The members of the Senior Class of 1953 in good health and possessed of solid heads do make and execute this our will and testimony before leaving Green Bank High School. We hereby warn any person who may try to break or alter this will that in such case we shall haunt him to the edge of the grave itself and reap vengeance upon him too horrible to describe in words. Our distinguished place in the high school we will to a group known as the Junior Class. We place upon them the responsibility of maintaining the school reputation as well as we have done in the past. To the afore mentioned class we also leave two homerooms to be theirs during the year 1953-54. In addition to the Juniors we leave two class sponsors now residing in Mental Institutions'due to causes beyond our con- trol. Also to you, Juniors, we may bequeath any present Senior who flunks and fails to graduate. To the Sophomores, our sister class, we leave our richest blessing with a sin- cere hope that you will re-establish the school reputation which the present Juniors will doubtless destroy. We also leave to you Sophomores our past records to serve as inspirations to you in your future struggles. To the present Freshmen Class, now past our authority for the first year, we bequeath a measure of dignity that you may properly fill the place of Sophomores. To you also we leave a picture of the class of '53 framed in the hall that you may gaze upon it each day and set for yourself a high idea of becoming such Seniors. To the Faculty of the school, we leave a belated thanks for all you've tried to do for us and if it will help you out any we advise the lower classmen to study a lot harder than we did. Our athletic record we leave to all teams in the future to gaze upon in admiration, our scholastic record we leave to------------, let's just not say any more about it. The beautiful carved initials you will find on the desks in the various classrooms standing for our worthy names we leave to posterity and unborn generations. The old gym we will to Green Bank for the next 40 years feeling certain we'll never get another. The peanut box known as the auditorium we leave to the Dra- matic Department as the best we can offer, if you want more room have outdoor plays. The cracks around the windows we leave to the hoot owls for free and un- hindering passage in and out the rooms. Such incidentals as hall radiators, desk corners, and secluded chairs we leave to the first true love couples who get to them in the fall of '53. To Mr. Harris, we have nothing to leave but we are asking Santa Clause to bring him a new loud speaker system and a bright red wig. To every one concerned in Green Bank High School we leave our blessings and to the high school we leave our sincere hopes for a future success far greater than the past. Signed and witnesses-- SENIOR CLASS OF '53

Page 20 text:

Class Prophecy After being separated for ten years the Class of 1953 have come together today. July 4, 1963, at the new remodeled Green Bank High School for a class re- union. There have been many changes in the Class of 1953, some expected, but other s on the recent standing of the classi herewith give it accurately as I am able to attain it. CHARLES BROCK: has been successful in the chicken business and now is owner and president of the Brock Hatchery of Dunmore, West Virginia. His hens specialize in different colored eggs, ready for Easter, BOB DILL: started to Medicine School and quit; since then has served two prison terms and is on his way to his third term because he likes the free board. Still single and a disgrace to the Dill family. CALVIN GALFORD: ispresident of the Wormhole Lumber Company at Dunmore, West Virginia. BILL GAINER: joined the Morman Church so that he could have all the women he wanted and is now a Missionary in the Belgium Congo. JULIAN GILLISPIE: lives on a large farm in the swamps of Florida where he raises web-footed goats which can swim like ducks. JACK GRAGG: brightest of the class has never amount- ed to anything. Started to college (to be a lawyer) and quit to become a hobo, since then has searched fori Rock Candy Mountain and hasn't worn a pair of socka in nine years. DONALD GROGG: has been a home boy since out of high school, married a girl from Marlinton settled down on the Grogg Farm and has been a good citizen since. DONALD GUM: after eight years in the Army of good conduct, high scholastic ability and many other good qualities is now a P. F.C. DONALD LAMBERT: after getting discnarged from th$ army was m a r r i e d and settled d o w n in Painsville, Ohio where his wife supports him. HAROLD LAMBERT and JULIAN NOTTINGHAM: have a good Moonshining business built u p in this state. They have been pretty good on the prices but have a large company built up in upper Pocohantas County, The moonshine here today is the finest quality. EUGENE NELSON, has broken into the Curry family by way of matrimony. Eugene has made good in the forest- ry field and now is supervisor of Rocky National Park' of Wyoming. He is so interested in forestry that their first child'8 nose looks like a woodpeckers bill. CHARLES RYDER: besides being engaged to Thelma Hoover at the present has announced that he will agair compete for Mr. America of 1964 . JIMMIE RYDER: is a salesman for the Armstrong Heater Company and always prefers female customers for a better demonstration. BUDDY SIMMONS: is now living in Baltimore and married to a girl from New Jersey. He is working for the Glen L. Martin Company. HOWARD SLAVENS: practicing first-aid and usually on himself since Betty is the World Champion Woman Wrestler. IVAN SUTTON: is the still-guard and cleaner for the famous Lambert moonshine company a6 he is a great let down for our class since he has served two prison terms for moonshining. ROBERT WARE: has just won a non-stop talking con- test by talking 93 hours, 45 minutes and 15 seconds without saying anything. BETTY TACY: Mat Queen Betty just won another match at Madison Square Garden to hold the World's Champ- ion Woman Wrestler for four years on the straight. Her husband Howard is her yearning partner. JEAN TAYLOR: was not able to be present nere today but sent a telegram from Raleigh, North Carolina to say that she was sorry that she couldn't attend. She married a wealthy North Carolina cotton grower, and is the mother of one boy and a girl. NAOMI WENGER: has made good in the television world by appearing daily over the Pappy’s Little Darling Show , but first had Rav Lewis Sage whom she married arrested for non-support. DELOR1SE WRIGHT: one of the few class members to remain around the Green Bank District and has married a woodsman from Cass. She has also raised three fine healthy young boys and is still w o r k i n g at the Mower Lumber Company Store. LYLE TAYLOR: is a real citizen of this community and one who was a great help in making this reunion a success by being janitor of G. H.S. and chief judge in the moonshine-drinking contest sponsored by Lam- bert-Nottingham Moonshining Companies. KERTH GUM: hasn't married any girl yet but is now over at the picnic tableaflirting with Elva June Phillips telling her about being a cigar tester for the blue tip Cigar Company. CHARLES BRYANT: is one of the few members of our class to have to depart from life, but he died happy. He went west to California and married a wealthy and beautiful movie star who showed him too fast a life. His last words were, The only thing that I hate to de- part life for is that I won't be able to attend the class reunion. JERRY CRIST: after playing with the West Virginia All-Stars for seven year s, has played with the Ham- lin Globetrotters professional basketball team for two years. His title is Mr. Basketball. BETTY BENNETT: after raising eleven children by the old time method finally made a fortune by inventing nylon diapers. FRANCES BREWSTER: was a sad case indeed, she met tragedy in Baltimore, Md. in 1957 murdered by the noted Black-Scarf Gang. Prior to her death she was a gripy telephone operator for three years in Baltimore. CHARLOTTE CASSELL: was just elected first woman governor of West Virginia by defeating Sam Galford (wealthiest cattleman in West Virginia) by a large majority. Her first act was to jail Sam on an act of spending too much money on his campaign. At last I'll know where Sam is, says Charlotte. JULIA CURRY and LEWIS MACE: will be married in five years after a whirlwind courtship which began in high school back in 1950. They don't believe in short engagements. GLADY SAMPSON: died of starvation in I960 because her relief check of $200 a month would not feed her. JUNIOR VANDEVANDER: proves you can't be awakened on Beauty Rests . He earns a high salary for testing mattresses for the Beauty Rest mattress Company . You couldn't wake him up in school either. THELMA HOOVER: has been married three times and has just gotten back from Reno, after getting her third divorce. She is now engaged to Charles Ryder, a lawy- er who specilizes in divorces for a living. She says ' divorces are cheaper by the dozen. MILDRED LAMBERT: still likes the Wafs , but in- stead is baking waffles for about five children and a husband who receives a monthly relief check. SHIRLEY MURPHY: has just set up her own private detective agency along with her husband, Mr. Hawk- shaw another famous detective who has retired from the F.B.I.. .Shirley has also quit her job as an F. B. I. agent. ELVA JUNE PHILLIPS: is the only girl of the class to attend college and is the English Literature and Latin teacher at G.H.S. for the past three years and played a leading part in making the reunion a success. BONNIE RANKIN: won the 1961 National Talking Con- test at Chicago, the Windy city , and is wearing every- body out talking to them here today. She is now work- ing at a plant in Chicago. IMOGENE SNYDER: is in the hide-tanning business, now married to James Simmons, she tans his hide every Saturday night for coming home drunk. MARGARET JO SLAVENS: due to her small size is now the foremost woman jockey in the world. She recently rode Mud King to victory in the Kentucky Derby. Now that I have given the report on all I must be going home. I'm compelled to hire a car driver now because I have no right hand. In 1955 I put my right arm into a hollow tree to see if there might be a bear inside. There was. Sincerely, George Triplett

Page 22 text:

0U„uT£si jW!TTiESt J“iia r„ Lewi rY Wls Mace most popular charlotte Cassell Ivan Sutton Jerry Crist