Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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Page Twenty-two THE SPY GLASS HOME ECONOMICS CLUB First row. left to right: Mae Marshall. Darius Sillman Melba Javins. Mrs. Miller (sponsor). Stella Foley. Dorothy Crist. Isobel Blodgett. Second ;ow, Jeft to right: Mary Inge, Gerry Baker. Elizabeth Walker, Lillian Love, Margaret Jefferis, Frances Harmon. BOOSTER CLUB Front row. left to right: Elizabeth Fowler, Jean Shomo. Frances Gaylor, Carol Wallace. Eleanor Reynolds, Dorothy Eskew. Sue Pickens. Second row. left to right: Paul Harmon, Ruby Ragle, Joe Bill Donegan. Mary Frances Crawford. Vincil Meadows, VirginiaQuinn. Mrs. Houdyschell. Third row, left to right: Charles Simpson, Jack Bailey, Charles Hayes, and Okey Wiley.

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THE SPY GLASS Pa e Twenty-one BAND MEMBERS Bartram. Tommy Bricker, Robert Baumgartner, Betty Arrington. Mary Cole, Mary Comstock, David Cole. Clifford Crewdson. James Drake. Phyllis Eskew. Harold Fentress, Barbara Frazier, Claude Gaylor. Dorothy Galloway. Max Galloway, Bob Hammel. Richard Hayes, Charles Hayes, Eulah Hayes, Beulah Hayes. Dick Hartranft, Mary Hedrick, Carl Hayes. Tommy Hammel. Harold Javins, Melba Krantz. Everett Kautz, Robert Marshall. Charles Matheny, Ronald Miller, Harry Oldham, Earl Pickens, Sue Rimmer. Junior Rutherford. Alberta Sturgeon. Curtis Simpson. Charles Smith, Earl Sanders. Tom Shomo, Jean Spence. Lois Spence, Edna Sibley. Eleanor Santrock. Homer Talbert, Monte Tormey, Mary Tormey, Robert Wiley. Okey Wysong. Joan Woods, Doris HISTORY OF The Nitro high school band was organized for the second consecutive year in Septem- bed, 1938, with Mr. H. B. Leighty as leader. Mr. Leighty is also in charge of the St. Al- bans high school band. At the first class there were 20 enrolled; at the present date it has grown to 50 students. During this year much progress has been made, and many new instruments have been acquired—some belonging to individual stu- dents and others purchased by the school. The school purchased two large bass horns in December, 1938, at a total price of S350.00. The senior class sponsored a show and gave the proceeds toward paying for the horns. The Parent-Teacher Association also con- tributed a considerable sum of money to help pay for the horns. The Parent-Teachers Association is also considering the purchase of a bass drum. The Lions Club, High School Glee Club, various BAND clubs and individuals have also contributed to the band. At the closing of school there are 25 clarinets; 1 flute; 1 piccolo; 2 saxa- phones; 12 cornets and trumpets; 4 trom- bones ; 1 alto horn; 2 baritones, and 4 drums, 2 basses. Much interest and encouragement have been shown and given to the members of the band by the people of Nitro. Next year the band hopes to be able to purchase uniforms. On April twentieth the band and orches- tra combined presented a concert in the school auditorium. A large crowd attended and many commented on the progress made this year. The program 'included the following selec- tions by the band: “Ambition Overture,” “Dutch Choral,” the “Regiment Band March.” The orchestra played “Columbia Overture,” and other selections. Solos and ensembles rounded out the concert program.

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Page Twenty-three THE SPY GLASS SENIOR PLAY First row. left to right: Jewell West. Sara Ryan Lilian Hesson, Dorothy Allison. Eileen Bush. Ruth Ryan. Second row: Edman Toler. Russell Carrier. James Dorman, James Cook. Ronald Smith. SENIOR PLAY STORY “Oh, Professor!,” a three-act farce comedy by Katherine Kavanaugh, is the play to be presented by the senior class on May 12 un- der the direction of Miss Pratt. The play which is as frivolous as confetti at a carnival, is about a light-hearted crowd of characters in an absurd mix-up. The weal- thy Michael Pemberton has tagged Patricia Patterson from one European capital to an- other until he loses track of her. He then re- turns forlornly to America. He, too in turn, is tagged home by Fifi, a determined French beauty, who in French makes a proposal of marriage to Michael. Michael flees from her and runs into Professor Courtwright, who is on his way to substitute for Dr. Aristotle at a girls’ school. The two men decided to swap problems, and Percival returns to the hotel to cope with Fifi. But no sooner does Mich- ael present himself with Percival’s creden- tials, than up bobs Jimmy Anderson who pro- poses to outwit a traffic cop by dressing up as a girl. Then in comes Patricia followed by the tempermental Fifi. The always shocked Miss Frederica tries to make everyone behave properly, but it is as useless as to bring order into a roomful of feathers. As the final cur- tain goes down we see the crowd having an evening of riotous funmaking. (Continued on Page Forty-four) MILESTONES of 1938-'39 Every successful school year sees old meth- ods replaced by new, some of which are des- tined to become permanent, while others will be abandoned. In whatever category they fall, it seems advisable to draw attention to them here so that pupils who succeed us may have an accurate history of important events which date from the memorable year of 1938-39. Future classes will look back to this year as the time the Student Council first met as an organized body, although the Council president was elected in the spring of 1938. It will also be remembered that The Na- tional Honor Society was installed at Nitro High School during the second semester of the year 1938-39. When were the two big bass horns purchas- ed? The answer is, to be sure, about mid- year, 1938-’39. When did the band give its first concert? When did the orchestra make its first ap- pearance? Again the answer is, 1938-’39. When were typewriting, bookkeeping, and shorthand added to the school’s program of studies? When was public speaking taught for the first time? When were seniors first permitted to be graduated without taking (Continued on Page Forty)