Marlinton High School - Marlintonian Yearbook (Marlinton, WV)

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' Pxofr eccf (coutitiued) - San Francisco is our next destination. We plan to visit Andy McLaughlin who, is a civil engineer, and is building a bridge that will far surpass the Golden Gate Bridge. From San Francisco we follow the Ocean Drive south to Los Angeles, where we shall be greeted by Christine Rimel whose current book, “Wolf in Man’s Clothing,” is a best seller. She has promised to show us around Hollywood so that we may see how our esteemed friends are catching on as stars and starlets. Walking through a gate toward M. G. M.’s studios we see Ephie Adkins with her fiery temper quarrelling over her contract with her producer Samuel Goldwyn. Inside the studio we are greeted by Lucy Thompson, a very efficient receptionist, in an adjoining office we find Mildred Wilfong, who has become a very competent secretary for Bing Crosby. Going out on some of the sets to watch some of the takes we find Bob Kellison the understudy for Boris Karloff and Jackie Sharp a second for Butch Jen¬ kins. Just before leaving California we spy a couple of old prospectors and their pack mules. Drawing closer we recognize them as Sammy Hannah and Harold Miller, who inform us that they have not as yet “struck it rich,” but being enterprising souls they asked us to grubstake them on a new expedition. We are about to turn our faces homeward and we decide to visit the Grand Canyon. While stand¬ ing on the rim of the canyon basking in the splendor of this most magnificent spot of scenic grandeur, w ' e observe an artist busily capturing the beauty and simplicity of the scene before her. It is the fam¬ ous artist of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Ellen Ervine. Somewhere in the wilds of the desert between Grand Canyon and Santa Fe our caravan overtakes Wallace Buzzard and Styrl Sharp driving cattle and singing “Riding Down the Trail to Santa Fe.” We stop off at Oklahoma City for a brief visit with our school teacher friend Twila Smallridge. St. Louis beckens us, where we hope to see two of our classmates. Dempsey Trainer, the owner of a very reliable insurance agency, and Mary Katherine Lovelace who is a waitress in a swanky down¬ town restaurant. Continuing our journey to Cincinnati, we enter the huge Grand Central Station to find Ann Clay Allen at the information desk. She tells us that Lenore McCloud is working as a court reporter in the Cincinnati Municipal Courts. The next stop on our ticket shows Charleston, West Virginia, here we find Nancy Chestnut, super¬ intendent of nurses at Charleston General Hospital, at a flashy corner stand for used cars, we find Clarence Gibson and Eugene Channel as the efficient and prosperous owners. From Charleston we turn north-east to Pittsburg, the city of steel. In one of the huge steel mills we meet our friend Ralph Wiley testing the hot metal. In reply to our inquiry as to how he likes his job, he wipes the perspiration from his brow and comments, “This is a—,” but he never completes his state¬ ment because at this point, another drop of melted steel intended for the test tube connects with his finger and the last we see of him he is headed for a much colder atmosphere. Observing a huge sign which reads, “The Amalgamated Tin and Aluminum Company,” we decided to pay them a visit. Clarence Anderson is president of this firm. He is trying to force the steel mills into bankruptcy. We are now headed for Atlantic City, New Jersey, where we have a reserved seat for the bathing beauty contest. We see Olive Burgess competing for the Miss America title of 1960. By this time we are becoming travel-worn and are anxious to return home, but wait! We were about to miss a visit with one of our old friends—so we climb on board once more. This time to Bos¬ ton, Mass., where we find Hallie Abdella living in one of the aristocratic old mansions there. When we arrived, we find the servants busily preparing a meal of Boston Baked Beans. After this delicious meal, we feel we have the strength to board the train for the last time. So with many happy remembrances of old acquaintances that will linger forever in our memory, we return home, tired and worn, but knowing that has been the most momentous and unforgetable jour-- ney of our lives.

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A caravan of youth set out from Marlinton in the summer of 1949 to tour the United States. They had just reached the fruit of their toil of twelve long years and were ready to step out into ad¬ venture on the great desert of life. As the caravan moved along different ones of the group began to drop out at places along the way which attracted them. Now in the year 1960 we shall retrace the route of that caravan to discover the fortunes which our former comrades have made. Our journey begins in New York where we renew our acquaintance with Hattie Wooddell the assistant editor of the New York Sun. All along Fifth Avenue we see pictures of Doris Spitzer the famous model who is being featured in all the current magazines. We stop into the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street and find Clive Alderman working there as a broker. From Wall Street we go to the docks where we find Jimmy McCarty and Johny Allen working as stevedores loading goods on ships from foreign ports. We have just time to get back to Grand Central Station to buy our tickets. On our way to the train we pass by a figure which seems vaguely familiar, upon close examination it turns out to be Johnny Webb a helpful redcap. Aboard the train everyone is being happily settled by the pretty hostess Anita Dunbrack, she is de¬ lighted to see us and tells us that we have other friends on board, Bruce Galford and his wife Coty Robertson whom we later met in the diner. Our two hour wait in Baltimore gives us time to visit a few places of interest. First we go to Mont¬ gomery Wards Mail Order Department to visit with Raymond Nelson who is head bookkeeper there. For a little relaxation we go to the Hippodrome Theatre where we hear Naomi Carr, a noted singer, and see the beautiful chours girls Betty Clutter, Georgia Barkley and Mary Malcomb. It rushes us to get back to our train but twelve hours later finds us rolling into Detroit. We make an appointment to see John Galford at General Motors Corporation where he is completing designs for a new jet propelled automobile which will be put on the market next year. Walking down by Lake Erie we see a huge yacht which we are told belongs to Jack Vaughan. His skipper is our old friend Robert Varney. Leaving Detroit we head for Chicago where we p lan to visit Aragon, the exclusive night club, where our old friend Kenneth Faulknier and his Hillybilly Band are making this the most popular night spot in Windy City. The cute little red head at the hat check counter is Joyce Nottingham. Tomorrow we will visit the Wrigley Tower where Robert Dilley, the eminent lawyer, and his secretary Mary Lou Perkins greets us and show us around. Our journey now takes us away from the cities to a huge ranch near Omaha where we find Eugene Friel running a combine through one of his six hundred acre wheat fields. Near Cheyenne, Wyoming, we run across Hubert McKenney who has turned into a storybook cow¬ boy. From the huge ranch house in the distance we hear the old familiar strains of “Home on The Range,” warning us that Margaret Irvine is bravely facing the future in true pioneer spirit, as she sings and draws water from the old-fashioned well at the ranch house. We proceed on our journey toward Ogden, Utah. The train stops suddenly on the outskirts of the city—are we to be treated to a train robbery in the good old-fashioned style? ? No, its only Tom Mor¬ rison trying to get the gold spike out of the ties for souvenirs. Our next stop is Salt Lake City, where we find Carl McNeill in the very prosperous business of ex¬ tracting salt from the Great Salt Lakes. Going through Idaho we decide to stop off at Sun Valley for a little sport. As we stand looking over the beautiful mountain scenery we see a streak go by. It is a bird? Is it superman? No, it’s Juanita Howard, practicing for the Olympic skiing championship. Since we are visiting all of the places of interest it would not do to leave out Reno, Nevada. Con¬ trary to the belief that people only come here to get divorces, we encounter Betty Buzzard and Keith Dilley who have come here to say “I Do.”

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Senan NAME AND NICKNAME USUALLY SEEN WITH 1. “SHORTY” ABDELLA 2 . “EPPIE” ADKINS . 3. JUNIOR ALDERMAN 4. “ANNIE” ALLEN, A. ,. 5. “JUGHEAD” ALLEN, J. 6 . “BUB” ANDERSON 7. “SHORTY” BARKLEY 8 . “TINY” BURGESS 9. “BET” BUZZARD, B. 10. “BEAKY” BUZZARD, W 11. “PUNK” CARR . . 12 . “GENE” CHANNELL ... 13. “NUT” CHESTNUT .’ 14. “HIGH POCKETS ’ CLUTTER 15. “DANIEL BOONE” DILLEY, K. 16. “COBB” DILLEY, R.. 17. “TOATS” DUNBRACK 18. “MILLIE” ERVIN .. 19. “MUGHEAD” FAULKNIER 20. “GENE” FRIEL . 21. “BRUSTER” GALFORD, B. 22. “LUCKY” GALFORD, J. 23. “ATHELSTANE” GIBSON 24. “SAM” HANNAH 25. “NITA” HOWARD . 26. “MAGGIE” IRVINE 27. “HUMPY” KELLISON 28. “KITTY” LOVELACE . 29. “SALLY” MALCOMB 30. “JIM” McCARTY 31. “SUSIE” McCLOUD 32. “PEE WEE” McKENNEY . 33. “andy” McLaughlin 34 . “MAC” McNIELL . 35. “HAM” MILLER ..’ 36. “LONE RANGER” MORRISON 37. “BABY” NELSON 38. “PEARL” NOTTINGHAM 39. “PERK” PERKINS 40. “CHRIS” RIMEL 41. “TINY” ROBERTSON 42. “SHEETER” SHARP J 43. “TODDY” SHARP ...ZZ 44. “TWIDDLE” SMALLRIDGE 45. “DOTTY” SPITZER 46. “MINNIE” THOMPSON .. 47. “DEMP” TRAINER . 48. “PEANUT” VARNEY . 49. “BOTTLENECK” VAUGHAN 50. “JONATHAN” WEBB 51. “SLIM” WILEY ... 52. “MILLY” WILFONG 53. “HATTRUDE” WOODDELL . Georgia .... - Betty B and Naomi . Bruce Galford ... . Olive B. . Monk and Butch . . Clive A. . . Hallie A. . Naomi C. . Ephie and Naomi .. . Helen Sharp . . Ephie and Betty .. Sammy and Clarence . Ernestine . . Naomi C. .- Ralph W. . Jack S. Eddie Mary Lou Mildred Maggie .. . Johnny Jack . Ralph Keith . . Clive A. . . “Cobb” . . Sammy . . Eugene . . Bob .. . Mary E. . Jimmy M. . Mary Lou . . Lenore . ... Raymond Styrl .... . Mary Grace . . Tom Morrison Bob Williams . . Porter K. - Herb Morrison . - Katherine Tumblin ... . Jimmy Styrl .. Chris, Hattie Dottie ... Anita Mildred . Hattie, Dottie Joyce . Twila . . “Cobb” . - Jimmy Raymond ... . Coty . Chris, Hattie Joyce . Joyce .. Peggy ... . Harley . Allen Faulknier . Bob McCarty . .... Keith Cobb . Anita Mary Lou Dotty, Chris Joyce WHERE SEEN . Helen’s . . Helen’s . . Marlinton .... . At Home .... . Hoppies . . Pool Room .... . Helen’s Harry Sharp’s . Helen’s ...... . Balcony . . Helen’s . . Pool Room . . Balcony . Anywhere, Anytime . At Home .. .. Nosing Around . Balcony . . Any Place ... . Hoppies . Pool Room ... . Marlinton ... . Pool Room ... . In School ... . Pool Room ... . Movies .. Harry Sharp’s . Pool Room .... ... In the halls .. Harry Sharp’s - Campbelltown Harry Sharp’s Pool Room . .... Anywhere . ... Pool Room . Campbelltown . .... Anywhere . Campbelltown . Helen’s . . Balcony .. . Helen’s . Harry Sharp’s -. ... Pool Room . ... Anyplace . Harry Sharp’s .. - Helen’s .. ... Helen’s .. .... Balcony „. - Minnehaha - Hoppies . - Pool Room .. - Pool Room . Balcony . —- Helen’s ..