Marlinton High School - Marlintonian Yearbook (Marlinton, WV)

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Senior Class Carnival This year the Seniors decided to be different. Swerving from ancient traditions of a Senior play, they bowed Spring in with a Carnival decked in all the trimmings. Following the nutty signs made by the Seniors, the more daring found their way up¬ stairs to the auditorium where the feature event of the evening, a minstrel, was held. With Bill Fowler acting as Interlocutor, Mr. Bones (Jim Kirkpatrick) and Sambo (Ev- erette Nottingham) gave the proper, or rather improper answers to everything. Ac¬ cidents are always funny, and when pillow-stuffed Louise Curry said she was losin’ her impatience, she wasn’t wrong about losin’ something. The song and dances of gaily dressed “Cotton Cuties” would have warmed the most frigid masculine heart. Downstairs the gym mushroomed into a temporary “Midway”—with booths on eveiy side. The ever-popular fishing pond and darts drew several of the crowd while others tried their hand at pitching pennies. Madame Lazarra, the gypsy who tells the past, present and future, alias Jane Kincaid, told fortunes from a mystic looking tent of Indian blankets. Mrs. Davis created quite a sensation at the shooting gallery when she scored consecutive “bulls-eyes.” She seemed to have a much quieter study hall, and in hushed tones her students refer to her as “Two-gun Davis,” the terror of the Study Hall. Of course there was a Bingo stand. The reaction to it proved that it is still fiist in the heart of the Carnival goer. As Barker for the Bingo stand, Miss Wiseman found that yelling at her Math, classes had done some good after all for at least she made herself heard above everybody else at the Carnival. So—the Seniors were different. Pleasurably and profitably different. And the Carnival Spirit which reigned for an evening was attested as a leader of the modes of diversion. COMMERCIAL CLUB The purpose of this club is to publish the M. H. S. Review semi-monthly. It is a member of the National Duplicated Exchange Association and was given the State University Journalism Award as a Superior High School Publication. The Review is being sent to approximately forty-five service boys who were stu¬ dents at M. H. S. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . JOHN JOHNSON ASSISTANT LOUISE CURRY BUSINESS MANAGER ALICE HIVELY SPORTS EDITOR STANLEY MOORE FEATURE EDITOR . GRACE WILLIAMS SOCIETY MARGARET McELWEE - DOTTY CLUTTER ART EDITORS JIMMY BARLOW - RAY VIERS CIRCULATION . ELEANOR JOHNSON - HELEN CURRY STENCIL CUTTERS MISS YOUNG - MAUDE SMITH FACULTY SPONSOR . MISS YOUNG MIMEOGRAPH OPERATOR . REED DAVIS

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Class H i s t a r v t One September day in 1939, ninety-six Freshmen, timid and uneasy, entered the portals of MHS, opening for themselves four years of working and playing together. We elected as officers to lead us through the first and most trying year, Charles Smith as President; Dotty Lou Weiford, Vice President; Margaret Smith, Secretary; Boyd Byrd, Treasurer; Margaret Arbogast and Mary Frances Overholt worked up our yelling ability for the pep meetings and class tournament. That year we had the sat¬ isfaction of having the best cheering section at the tournament even if we did not win the cup. We overcame many obstacles, mainly the Sophomores, who tried to give us a scare with their gruesomely-painted initiation. After we had buried the hatchet with these would-be masters of horror, our year proceeded smoothly with Mr. Rich¬ ardson and Miss Berry as our sponsors, and Mr. McNeill as our guiding star. Feeling much more secure and settled, we entered our Sophomore year. Mr. Richardson and Miss Berry took an encore as our group teachers, and Sam Brill and Charles Smith were our President and Vice President, respectively. Louise Curry took over the correspondence, and Maxine Thomas worried over our financial troubles; Margaret Arbogast and M. F. Overholt again handled our cheering. Outstanding in our activities this year was the initiation of the new Freshmen, and so revenge was ours. We again participated in the class tournament and this year we made an out¬ standing showing in the May Festival. Our Junior year proved to be a happy one, with perhaps more hard work, but with more social activity. We had a new principal this year, and new group sponsors— Miss Beard (now Mrs. Powell) and Mr. Davis. We chose as our officers Margaret Smith, President; Simpson Gragg, Vice President; Louise Curry, Secretary; Maxine Thomas, Treasurer; Dotty Lou Weiford, Cheer Leader. In order to raise money for the Junior-Senior banquet we gave a play, “Foot Loose”, which was highly success¬ ful, and finished the year with the banquet in honor of the Seniors. After three years of hard work we were Seniors at last. To keep our class and business affairs running smoothly we selected Sam Brill as President with Vice-Pres¬ ident Simpson Gragg as his right-hand man; Louise Curry did a third term as Secre¬ tary and Hildreth Townsend was Treasurer; Dotty Lou Weiford was our Cheer Lead¬ er. Faced with the big problem of the memory book and raising money for same, we immediately buckled down and started out by having a Thanksgiving dance, followed by one at New Year’s. A movie, sponsored by us, was sandwiched in between the dances and our carnival which we had instead of the conventional class play. The carnival, which went over with a bang, featured the Minstrel which was a big success in its own right. Number one outing for the year was a picnic at Lake Seneca. As we depart from Marlinton High School, armed with our diplomas, we face the world squarely and hopefully. From this day forth we are no longer children, but men and women who will continue to build upon the foundation which we have built while in school.