Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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WHO'S WHO « Most Popular Girl Most Popular Boy. Most Thoughtful Gentlemen.... Most Lady Like............... Biggest Bluffer (Girl)....... Biggest Bluffer (Boy)........ Most Likely to Succeed (Girl) Most Likely to Succeed (Boy). Best Dancer (Girl)........... Best Dancer (Boy)............ Lazlet Girl.................. Lazlet Boy................... Biggest Gloom (Girl)......... Biggest Gloom (Boy).......... Prettist Girl................ Most Handsome Boy............ Biggest Fusser (Girl)........ Biggest Fusser (Boy)......... Most Talkative (Girl)........ Most Talkative (Boy)......... School Baby.................. Talks Most, Says Least....... Most Unusual................. Seen Most Together........... Typical Senior (Girl)........ Typical Senior (Boy)......... Senior Nuisance.............. Greatest Social Light........ Biggest Windjammer........... Best Student (Girl).......... Best Student (Boy)........... Quietest Girl................ Quietest Boy................. Best All Around (Girl)....... Best All Around (Boy)........ .....Susie Loring .....Jim Crewdson .....Jim Crewdson .....Susie Loring •Margie Hartranft ......Bill Staton .....Susie Loring .....Jim Crewdson ......Ruth Martin .......Bob Priddy ..Margaret Martin ......Donald Carr .....Beulah Hayes ......Donald Carr Berta Jane Wysong .....Jim Crewdson .......Reva Davis .......Dick Hayes •Margaret Boggess .......Bob Priddy ......Edna Spence ......Bill Staton ....Peggy Lawless .......Hayes Twins ..... Garnet Pauley .........Jim Fowler ........Bob Priddy .......Norman Bush ........Bob Priddy ,.....Susie Loring ......Jim Crewdson .....Helen Osborne .......Dick Howard ......Susie Loring .....Clyde Willard

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SENIOR CLASS WILL 15 We, the Senior Class of NItro High School, being In full possession of such mental facilities as we possess or claim to posses, do hereby devise, «ill, bequeath, and convey our various earthly possessions, to the enfeebled intellects of our successors, the Juniors, bopaoiuor©a, i eshaen, etc. Susie Loring bequeathes her smallness to 11 Joe 3ird. Beulah Hayes leaves her squeaky voice to Sonia Angell. Dick Hayes leaves Peggy Melton, but mind you, to no boy. Reva Davis leaves her chewing gum to the faculty. Edna Spence leaves her height to Bob Bricker. Patsy Walker bequeathes her gift of gab to Mary Anna Harmon. Margaret Martin leaves her height to June Lee Cain. Ruth Martin wills her pep” to Ruth Craft. Berta Jane Wysong leaves her quiet, ladylike ways to Peggy Melton. Audrey Stover leaves her broomstick skirts to Miss Hart. Margie Hartranft leaves her quick temper to Reba Skaggs. Robert Dorman leaves his ability to smoke cigars to Merle Shank. Bob Priddy leaves his cheerleading ability to Bob Higginbotham. John Marshall and James Fowler leaves, to anyone who wants it, their abil- ity to get St. Albans girls. Helen Osborne leaves her quiet, sweet disposition to Betty Buirgartner. Doris Woods leaves her nervousness during speech hour to Carl Chapman. Margaret Boggess leaves her bookkeeping ability to anyone who wants it be- cause heaven knows she doesn t ant it. Jim Crewdson leaves his pleasing personality to Cordell Lemon. Donald Carr leaves his ability to get mad and stay that way to James Ran- som. Norman Bush leaves hl3 ability to write sport pieces to Bob Galloway. Bill Staton leaves his physique and good looks to Billy Priddy. Clyde Willard leaves his football and basketball ability to John Garriet. Edith Fowler leaves her poetic ability to Lcis Spence. Geraldine Drake leaves her lovely red hair to Nell Jean Donegan. Josephine Collins leaves her shortness to Norma Brick. Sulah Hayes leaves her beauty to Oneda Hill. Wanda Carrier leaves her ability to get along with her classmates to Elmer Priddy. Peggy Lawless leaves her neatness to Mike Coates. Nora Mae Hayes leaves her winsome smile to Miss Dunbar. Arlene King leaves her graceful walk to Max Watson. Willie Osborne leaves her pleasing personality to Billy Hayes. Margaret Cook wills her ability to win friends to Rex Mullins. Maxine Wyant leaves Robert Melton but to no girls. So hands offl Dick Howard leaves his gloomy looks to Everette Krantz. Ashford Stiff leaves his managers job to any poor guy who wants it. George Magoun wills his curly locks to Bob Galloway. To whom it may concern the above will will be fulfilled on May twenty- eighth in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three. In testimony whereof, we hereunto set hands and seal, and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament. Signed,

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SENIOR CHARACTERISTICS NAME NOTED FOR AMBITION Peggy Lawless Neatness Margaret Cook Red lips Margaret Martin Laziness Margaret Boggess Giggling Margie Kartranft Curly hair Edith Fowler Artistic ability Arlene King Writing letters Berta Jane Wysong Good looks Joe Collins Shortness Maxine Wyant Blushing Wanda Carrier Brown eyes Audrey Stover Meanness Willie Osborne Bash Ail Helen Osborne Quietness Gerldine Drake Red hair Reva Davis Primping Nora Mae Kayes Chewing gum Patsy Walker Big mouth Eulah Hayes Energy Beulah Hayes Pleasant voice Edna Spence Shortness Susie Loring Kindness Doris Woods Speeches Garnett Pauley Bragging Ruth Martin Tallness Dick Hayes Big mouth Dick Howard quietness Bob Dorman Dark complection Norman Bush Mountain fever Donald Carr Laziness Clyde Willard Basketball ability John Marshall Good looks Jimmy Fowler Pleasing smile Bob Priddy Smart remarks Ashford Stiff quietness George Magoun Brown eyes James Crewdson Intelligence 3111 Staton Wise-cracks Sail east of the sun and west of the moon To travel Join the Waacs Work in defense factory Own a convertible Sing in a night club Take a ride In Bob Dorman’s coupe Go to Georgia iiousewife To get Flea To meet Red Skelton Win a jitter-bug contest To be a glamour girl To look like Veronica Lake Travel in South America To graduate A telephone operator To live In Poca To get her man President of Belle Telephone Com- pany To grow taller Be a G-Woman To marry architect To marry a soldier To dance with Fred Astaire Join the Navy Play pro-football Become president of U. S. A. To marry Vera Lou To have a girl To graduate Become a bookkeeper Live in St. Albans Go to college Join the Navy Join the Army To have red hair To marry a rich widow and love her to death CRAZY GAZIN1 (Continued from Page 14) Jimmie Crewdson continued his heart specializing even after high school. He made millions preparing special diets for the overweight, living off the fat of the land. Garnett Pauley (Mata Hari) was serving coffee(l) to the boys at the canteen In Georgia. She wanted to serve her country in a different way so she joined up. From what she didn’t tell me about her work, I supposed it to be the secret service. Bob Priddy, naturally, oecame a social worker. After his first campaign against our local menaces, he was elected president of the S. P. D. P. o. (Society for the Prevention of Dancing in Public or on the Sky.) Doris Woods took over Artie Shaw’s place playing the clarinet. Before her debut she practiced I Wish I was in Dixie and the neighbors wish she were. She Artie give it up. (Continued to page 33)