Marlinton High School - Marlintonian Yearbook (Marlinton, WV)

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MOCCASIN PRINTS' 0F THE CfflfF7'.4lN.S' 0F '48 We Freshmen began our war dance in the fall of '44 Then Unlearned Sreenhornsn was the title score. All through our lives initiation still goes, Black faces, long handles were the style. Boys had long earrings dangling from their nose With toasted ears that really made you smile. Our class suddenly became the -. Sophomores We now had ideals to live for, Our elders placed a feather in our hair Q The next few years would quickly pass, But lessons took our undivided care We soon were to become the Junior Class. Bright rings and a Ready-Made Family were our meat Later on we gave the Seniors a real treat With a banquet to send them on their way We all know that with the peace pipe we too, Would leave our council fire and go our Way Then all of our treaties would be new. We, the busy Seniors, will never, never surrender Minx From Missouri and Commencement, but remember The departure of our maidens and our braves All our friends, Mr. Moore, the Faculty and M. H. S. Are memories to cherish to our graves M. H. S. gives forth a How as it receives other guests.

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THE NOTC STICK THER than a full moon rising over the distant mountain, a bright campfire was the only light visible in the darkness. Around the campfire a bent figure is doing an odd dance to the beat of the tom-tom, and gathered about him are the squaws and braves about to de- part from their home ground to the land of smoke. A wise and efficient sqaw, Mar- garet Ann Coyner is at the head of the tribe now, and is telling her followers that a great deal is to be done this year and that it will take a lot of work. They agree heartily and elect Samuel Callison to as- sist her, and Opal Gay to continue keeping the scroll. They a1'e upper tribesmeng now they call themselves Juniors. the vast future. It is in their l10n01' thatn' the odd little yvitch doctor is doing his age By this time the onlookers around the old dance of Farewell, There is a pot of fire have almost completely lost them- brew on the fire, the contents of which are selves in the scenes of their past. A smile bubbling rapidly asthe fire crackles. The crosses their faces as in the visions they grotesque dancer is chanting a melancholy , see themselves receiving the Loving cup air which sounds like a strain from Auld at the annual tribal war, impersonating the Lang Sync. Suddenly out of the bubbling whiterace in a drama they called A Ready pot appears an apparitign in smoke that is Made Family, and then feasting with the Strangely familiar to those present. They Senior tribe at a banquet of nuts and see 9, large band of youthful warriors fruits. After the feast the two opposing entering 9, Wigwam over which is a sign tribes are seen smoking the pipe of peace reading High School. The headbands and burying the long active hatchet. V worn by the group are inscribed with the name of 'Ch-2 tribe, HFfeSnfnen'H The group With a sputter of the brew the smoke breaks into 3 War dance led by Sam Cam' X curls into the final apparition They see Son with Rex White following dose behind , themselves bearing the banner on which is and Margaret Ann Coyner recordingfhe written the coveted title of Seniors, happenings' This is the traditional imma' Their chieftain now is Buddy Meadows but tion ceremony, carried out in the oddest.of he is Seen being called away and the assis- fesnien- Evefyone is Wearing his Walnpamt tant Loris Galford again taking the high and most elaborate head geai'S- seat of honor, Rxe White and Samuel Cal- lison are doing the deciphering with the The vision ei'ieingeS Si0WiY and the Same charcoal and birch bark. A great deal of group is seen, smaller in numbef,Pe1'i12PS, l activity is being carried out in the final but not lacking in PeP and energy' Tnis scene. To one side of the class artists are time they are Seemingly Stnfiing the Wnd busy at weaving into a tapestry the names forces of nature for LOI'iS Galfvrd is fe' of those who have excelled in one war or lflting to them the legends handed f1'0nf1 i another during the past four years. For the old ones about the 1110011 and the Stars- high grades they weave the names of Edith Loris is assisted by 3 big bfewe, he Friei Davis and Loris Galford. For outstanding and Opal Gay has taken Over the .len of N ability in sports they weave Ira Friel, writing Pietnfe Words OH the birch bark Buddy Meadows, James Clark and Arthur scroll. The group seems to realize thiS yeai' y Crawford. After a series of scenes in that unity is an important factor for suc- X A which the tribe feasts with the Junior cess, because in the tribal banner under ' i tribe, picnic together and receive their dis- their new titles of S0ph0m0l'eS is Written missals they return to their wigwams to A C1255 Divided Against Itself Cannot I peaceful slumber in preparation for the Stand. I new adventures to begin with the dawn. , 1 Haunting strains of the Song of Farewell The cauldron smokes and bubbles and ill linger in the darkness, and they fade into still another scene takes form in the blue L X, , Silence- ,SNUL fi - ,M xii QW f' 'gn' X V x.,-f Hit-if il 'ii' f f f., , W i h wx.. 6 f xi Q5 'X s NJ J-,hllfL.,, s if 5' M

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Smoke Signals... HE GOVERNMENT, headed by Loris Galford saw fit fifteen years previ- ous to remove our tribe of ifpink-skins t0 the utmost peak of the Lone Tree Knob. a result of experiments conducted by Dickie Gibson in which he proved U57 as a body. to be a menace to the ar1'CS which he needs to torture the next Demo- cratic President to resignation. In order to get to the secluded village one must climb for inches up the steep cliffs of the mountain, On the way y0u are likely to see a thread of smoke rising from one of the three scattered hermitages occupied by stray tribesmen who choose to live thus. Dink Moses, Bobby McElwee and Bobby Meadows are those Who isolat- gd themselves when Margaret Anne, Anna, and Harriet in a fit of Panic fsrigglesl fell over a cliff. Every Indian establishment, as you know, must have a totem pole - and the one in this village is quite unusual and extraordinarily majestic in appearance. Upon closer observation we find that it is none other than Ira Friel standing erect with arms c1'ossed. Near the totem pole lalias lraj is the newly constructed fby Marvin Ratliff's Construction Co.J outdoor gymnasium, Buster is busy building up the basketball team - His latest accom- plishment is having taught the five to shoot a shrunken head fJosephine Sag'e's, to be ,pi-lift, I l X er K 0 r'. exactj into a crow's nest from their perch atop a totem pole. Rex White who is on the team is getting to be an expert on in- terference but just won't shoot a basket. Qlmagine his Jo's cranium proper in a ciow's nest - Horrorsly Every community's essential is a school lmuch to the regret of somej, and in this particular one we find John Showalter as prirwipal, Gloria teaching how to send smoke signals in shorthand, and Don Akers a course in Driver Education fdriv- ing nails, that isj. Danny Scott is dem- onstrating bow 'n' arrow-ology for hunt- ing mice. Don Hannah has taken over Mr. Ven- Recnan's school bus and is pulling in a little wampum by driving sightseers around Lone Tree Knob. Last week, at the com- mand of Arthur Crawford, Norman Auld- ridge mixed a chemistry experiment in his teepeetory resulting' in an explosion of blue-pink flame. Since then the remain- der of the tribe have worshipped them as iire-gods-fAuldridge be praised!!j The publishing' house on the corner of Tomahawk Circle, which is run by Ul- dine Hively and Faye Morrison, is busy publishing Jewell Baxter's latest book of Grassipes - teaching the squaws how to make use of daisy petals and milkweed floss. Barbara Harper and Naomi Friel seem-to be having a heated argument out- side of the building as to who gets the first M N X1 S QQ i x fi f rel if. re X i i W i Y ,,,.,iilff4v,,g ' 5' 1