Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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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)

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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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Page Twenty-four THE SPY GLASS H I -Y CLUB Front row seated, left to right: Charles Marshall, James Cook, Herbart Sibley. Frank Sharp, Robert Edwards, Thomas Gaylor, Donald Graves, Standing, left to right: Edward Sharp, Earl Estep. Ralph Wallace. James Dorman. Charles Shipley and Raymond Frazier. Hl-Y CLUB HISTORY Faculty Sponsor President.......... Vice-President Secy.-Treas. ----------Mr. Reppert -----James Dorman -----Ralph Wallace Charles Shipley February 8, 1938 a group of boys gathered in Room 20. Mr. Reppert says, “We are about to organize a wonderful club which is to stress throughout the school a spirit of ‘Clean Speech, Clean Sports, Clean Scholar- ship, and Clean Living.’ Someone please be- gin the nominations for the president of the club.” At this meeting James Roark was elected president, James Cook, vice-presi- dent, and Herbert Sibley, secretary-treasurer. All of these little black and red pins you see pinned on the students and teachers were sold by the Hi-Y Club. In the time to come they will look upon their pins and recall their happy school days in “dear old Nitro high.” Do you realize if it wasn’t for the Hi-Y club those refreshing soft drinks and that delicious ice cream that you bought at the Basketball Tournament would not have been available and also there would have been no place for you to put your wraps at the Alumni dance. The next time you walk up the main hall look in the trophy case and you will see a grand trophy which is to have the name of the best student athlete of Nitro High School inscribed upon it every year. This trophy was given to the school by the Hi-Y Club. It is not to be forgotten that the Hi-Y club gave the boys’ rest room a coat of black and white paint this year.