Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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SENIOR CLASS ROLL Margaret Asbury Jesse Johnson Jack Bailey Madeline Kemp Beulah Boggess Dewey King Celesta Boggess Lillian Love Lloyd Boggess Darrell Luikart Ellen Jean Collins Opal Mattox Eugene Collins Dolly McCoy George Cooke Florence O'Dell George Crawford Earl Oldham Mary Frances Crawford Madeline Painter Charlotte Crist Tom Quinn Kenneth Davis Virginia Quinn Charles Dobbins Beulah Raynes Joe Donegan Eleanor Reynolds Dorothy Eskew Clayton Samples Bernard Estep Tom Sanders Elizabeth Fowler Isabelle Santrock Max Galloway Geraldine Shaffer Frances Gaylor Erwin Shipley Calvin Gillispie Jean Shomo Frances Harmon Franceline Showen Charles Hayes Darius Silman Gladys Hayes Charles Simpson Doris Ingram Jack Skelton Randolph Jividcn Leighton Smith Carol Wallace Eleanor Talbert Okey Wiley Mary Bernice Tormey Norma Young John Waldorf ADVISORS Miss Pauline Pratt Mr. Bruce Reppert SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Bang! Crash! Boom! What was that? That was the Freshmen of '39 starting out their next four years with a bang, we really made history. To start things rollin' the class officers for the freshmen were: President. Frances Gaylor: Vice-President. Carol Wallace: Secretary-Treasurer. Elizabeth Fowler and representative of the freshmen in the student council, Jean Shomo. It was during our freshman year that the Boost- ers' Club was organized. In our sophomore year we were still young, gay. and mischievous. Those in charge of our mischievery were: President. Max Galloway: Vice-President. Tom Sanders: Secretary- Treasurer. Mary Frances Crawford: last year's class president represented the sophomores in the student council. The Booster's Club gave a school dance during this year and a good time was had by all. In the junior year we really strutted our stuff. led by: President. Jean Shomo: Vice-Presi- dent. Tom Quinn: Secretary-Treasurer, Mary Frances Crawford. The class rings were or- dered for the following year. To earn money for the junior-senior banquet, dish towels. Christ- mas cards and stationery were sold. Two shows were sponsored. Charlie MacCarthy. The De- tective and The Son of Monte Cristo. Breaking an old custom of going to Charleston for the banquet, we had it right here in our alma mater. Dancing followed the dinner. Max Gal- loway was elected president of the student council for the coming year. At last came the long awaited year. We were now dignified (?) seniors. We elected Dar- ius Silman. President: George Cook. Vice-President: Mary Frances Crawford. Secretary-Treas- urer. and Libby Fowler, representative for the student council. Due to the fact that Max Galloway moved away, Jack Bailey was elected president of the student council. The Dra- matics Club gave their annual play, Leave It To Mother.” Thus ends four years of activities that will never be forgotten. May the succeeding years be just as happy and successful. The Powder Keg 1 C

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CLASS OF '42 JEAN SHOMO—“Jeanie Frost King's Daughter 1 ; Band 1. 2. 3. 4: Orchestra 1. 2, 3: Student Council 1. Secretary-Treasurer 3: Booster's Club 1. President 2: A Cappella Choir 1. 2. 3: Glee Club 1. 2. 3. President 4: Riding Down the Sky” 2: Hiawatha's Child hood 2: Girl Reserves 2. 3. Secretary Treasurer 4: All State Chorus 2. 3: Girls' Athletic Club 3. 4: National Honor Society 3. Vice-President 4; Crotchety Croomey's Christmas 4; Dancing Club 4: All State Orchestra 4; Minstrel 4; Leave It To Mother 4: Dramatic Club 4; Spy Glass Staff 4: Annual Staff 4. JACK BAILEY—'Jackson' Booster's Club 1.2: Varsity N 1. 2. Secretary-Treasurer 3. Vice-President 4; Football 1. 2. 3. 4: Assistant Basket- ball Manager 2: Manager 3. 4: Hi-Y 3. President 4: Spy Glass Staff 3. 4: Student Council President 4: Annual Staff 4; Dancing Club 4. FRANCES GAYLOR—' Guy- President of Class 1 : Student Council 1. 2. 3. Secretary 2: The Frost King's Daughter 1 : All State Chorus 1. 2. 3: Orchestra 1. 2. 3. 4: A Cappella Choir 1. 2. 3: Glee Club 2. 3. 4: “Hi awatha s Childhood 2: “Riding Down the Sky 2: Band 2. 3. 4: Girl Reserves 3. 4: National Honor Society 3. 4: All State Band 3: Leave It to Mother 4: Dancing Club 4; All State Orchestra 4: Dramatics Club 4: Crotchety Croomey’s Christ- mas” 4. SENIOR CLASS PLAY Leave It To Mother hirst rotv. left to right Lillian Love. Eleanor Reynolds. Elizabeth Fowler. Second roiv—Jean Shomo. Darius Silman. Frances Gaylor. and Mary Frances Crawford. Third roiv—Clayton Samples. Charles Hayes. Earl Oldham, and Eugene Collins. 14 The Powder Keg

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CLASS PROPHECY The scene takes place in a living room of a fashionable apartment house. A grey haired, kind faced, grace- ful looking, little, old lady is seated in a rocker. On her knee, looking at a book, sits a little girl who lives down the hall. The year is 1962. the sweet little old lady is Miss Pratt, and the book they arc reviewing is a 1942 annual. As she looks over the names of the one class she thought she could trust she secs Jack Bailey's name at the top. Dear popular Jack. He is now head of the loafers on W.P.A. His sweet, madonna-like wife. Mary Frances, works night shift as a telephone operator to support three extra mouths. (The dog had pups.) Going on down the list she smiles as she saw Dollie McCoy's name. Dollie. 1961's Miss America, has just been chosen 1962 s No. 1 Glamour Girl. She has accepted the leading role in the new motion picture. How Chapped Arc My Hands It is under the direction of Earl Oldham, the multimillionaire and owner of the Golden Gate Bridge. Earl has just finished a picture entitled. Little Joe Rides Again starring Joe Donegan. who is now the Nation's No. 1 Play Boy and this season’s box office hit. Down near the end of the line Miss Pratt s twinkling eyes fall upon the name of Clayton Samples. She smiles reminiscently as she thinks of the tall, handsome boy that is now president of the Samples and Collins Transcon- tinental Airlines. Eugene is a silent partner because he is so busy paying alimony to his seven wives that he hasn't time to look after his business affairs. One of Samples and Collins’ pilots is Charles Simpson, as capable a man as ever flew a crate. One of Simpson’s regular passengers is John Waldorf, who is head coach at U.C.L.A. and assistant coach at Duke. He's really a very busy person especially when the two teams play each other. The next John Henry that her peepers collide with is that of Erwin Shipley—Erwin is now owner of a mil- lion dollar night club in Miami. Florida. Every night Shiplcv. known as Bashful Erwin. gets up on a table top in front of the spectators and docs a dainty clog dance and recites nursery rhymes just to show them he can make a noise. One of Erwin’s chief attractions is the dance team of Beulah Raynes and Calvin Gillispie. My. how they do cover the floor and sometimes it’s not with just their feet! Looking on up the list the aged little woman sees Virginia Quinn’s name. Jenny, who for some years has been working in the women’s prison in Alderson as janitoress. is now running an elevator in the Professional Building in Nitro. Since she is new and can't work the levers very fast, she is called Slow Gin. After resting her eves for a while. Miss Pratt continues on down the list until her bifocals focus on the moni- ker of Skinny Davis. What is Skinny doing now? Oh. yes. he is head of the department that is digging up street car tracks. Since all street car tracks were taken up 15 years ago. you have a good idea of what Skinny is doing. The next person on the list made her smile sadly as she thought of him. Max Ga'loway. past president of the United States. He served three terms and while running for the fourth, was shot, but fortunately recovered. Jean Shomo ran for vice-president during Galloway’s third campaign and was the first woman to ever receive the office. She had to resign when she eloped with the secretary of state’s gardener. Dewey King. Leighton Smith is now secretary of treasury and is making money hand over fist. George Cook is a big business man on Wall street and George Crawford is Ambassador to Canada. The lovely Mrs. Crawford, formerly Norma Phelps, is with him in Ottawa. Pondering a moment as to what became of Randy Jividen. Miss Pratt suddenly recalls reading an article in the Nitro News, which is now a world wide newspaper owned bv Charles Dobbins, about his opening the world's fair at Coon Creek. His main show is the one in which Libbu Fowler, widely known dancer, docs a bubble dance to further the use of soap and water in the little village. Carol Wallace has reopened her sea food restaurant in San Francisco after closing just long enough to obtain her divorce from Dwight Steele, who is now in jail for bigamy. After turning the fire out under the beans Miss Pratt hobbled back to the rocking chair and resumed her seat. She scanned the list and came upon Tom Quinn's name. Tom is now the Archbishoo of Canterbury and his pretty little bishopess. Opal Mattox, is now residing with him in Westminster Abbey with all the little bishops. Tom Sanders is also in fo ei n lands. He is in the French Foreign I.egion with Charles Hayes. They are trying to forget all of the St. Albans girls that nearly drove them hysterical. Looking at the senior pictures. Miss Pratt gazes uoon the countenance of Jack Skelton. Jack is now head of a chain of morgues, operates six funeral homes and on the side he butchers in Kroger's Super Market. She sighs as she sees Eleanor Talbert and Madeltne Painter s fair faces. They are now making their seventh debut and trying to popularize ringside hair-combing again. So far they haven’t met with any success. Bernard Estep never married. He and BiH Hendel are still working over the problem of who gets Peggy Alice. the gav divorcee. Frqncelin Showen is now head of the Indianapolis Spcedwav and champion woman driver of America. fsahol Santrock and Darius Silman are both very nice soinsters and are growing old gracefully on the front porch of Uncle Jess' Poor Farm, which is supervised bv Jesse Johnson. The little old lady laughed out loud as she looked at Mary Bernice Tormey’s picture. Mary has just gotten r«d of her sixth husband and is now planning to retire on the alimony she saved up from her first three husbands. Okey WPey is doing a fine job of announcing over station WACKY for Norma Jane Young, who is giving helpful hints to fortune hunters and gold diggers. Lillian Love, world fam d opera singer and bookwriter. just finished her latest book It’s a Killin’ Me. It’s a gripping mystery that chills your very gizzard. Dons Ingram. Gladys Hayes. Ellen ( olhns. and Charlotte Crist are all swimming stars in Darrell Luikart’i, new aquaucade now showing in Madison Square Garden. The aquacade is directed by Lloyd Boggess. who held (Continued on page 42) 16 The Powder Keg