Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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WHO'S WHO t 17 Most Popular Girl............. Most Popular Boy.............. Most Thoughtful Gentleman.... 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)............. Laziest Girl.................. Laziest Boy................... Biggest Gloom (Girl).......... Biggest Gloom (Boy)........... Prettiest Girl................ Most Handsome Boy............. Biggest Fusser (Girl)......... Biggest Fusaer (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........... ......................Melton, Skaggs ..............................Bricker .......................Tomey, Shank .......................Thorn, Harmon .................Baumgartner, Drake .......................Casto, Raynes .......................Skaggs, Jones ......................Shank, Bricker ....................Smith, Fentress ...................Waldorf, Bricker .......................Drake, O'Dell .....................Powell, Waldorf .......................Jones, Drake ....................Powell, Baldridge ......................Phelps, Oldham .....................Tormey, Waldorf .................Baumgartner, Howard ...................Baldridge, Casto ......................Melton, Patton .......................Casto, Rayne3 ......................Ernest, Skaggs .......................Casto, Drake .......................Thorn, McCoy McCoy and Jividen, Priddy and Smith ......................Skaggs, Null ....................Bricker, Galloway ......................Raynes, Casto ....................Galloway, O'Dell .......................Casto, Raynes .......................Jones, Skaggs ......................Shank, Galloway ......................Harmon, McCoy .......................Estep, Shank ......................Melton, Wolfe ....................Bricker, Galloway

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16 SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of Nitro High School, being in full possession of such mental faculties as we possess or claim to possess, do hereby devise, will, bequeath,and convey our various earthly possessions, and all the dang- les and trimmings belonging to the enfeebled intellects of our successors, the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, etc., to be held by them and cherished 1 till somebody takes them away. It is hereby stated that there must be no loud crying if receivers fail to be pleased with the presents willed them. Signed this twenty-seventh day of May in the year of heavy rains 1944. Now be it witnessed by all readers that the duly recorded wishes of the senior class of 1944 are about to be passed out. Keba Skaggs bequeaths her ability to win friends and influence people to Edra Workman. Mary Anna Harmon conveys her quiet lady-like ways to Lois Spence. Peggy Melton wills her engagement ring to June Lea Cain. Betty Baumgartner wills her ability to fuss to Helen Holly. Vera Smith wills her way of collecting pins and medals to anybody slick enough to get away with it. Agnes Patton leaves her school girl figure to Helen Gillespie. Hazel 0 Dell conveys her pleasant laugh to Emogene Brubaker. Barbara Fentress leaves her clarinet to any dope who wants it. Betty Lyons wills her cheerleading ability to Betty Keffer. Norma Phelps wills her long curly locks to Orita Carney. Phyllis Drake leaves her carrot red hair to Mildred Barnes. Delphine Balles conveys her neatness and timidness to Norma Newland. Lois Fraser wills her pleasing personality to Velda Greathouse. Virginia Carrier leaves her sense of humor to Juanita Buckland. Hazel Frazier wills her pep to Barbara Hoke. Leona Jividen and Dixie McCoy leave their glamor to the Osborne sisters. Anna Mae Oldham wills her largeness to Betty Jane Turley. Betty Ernest loaves her singing ability to Imogens Hayes. Peggy Jones leaves her dark complexion to Carol Cooke. Betty Harrison bequeathes her gloomy looks to Reba Lanham Edna Ruth Rose wills her graceful walk to Crystle Harmon. June Null leaves her ability to blush to any person who wants it. Martha Ernest wills her romantic ways to Marjorie Barrickman. Winnie Putney leaves her bottle of peroxide to Jimmy Sharpe. Elmer Priddy devises his physique to Sandy Santrock. Bob Bricker wills his height to Bob Brick. Kenneth Casto leaves his way with the teachers to Joe Mattox. Kenneth Estep wills his sports writing ability to David Comstock. Lawrence Powell leaves his nimbleness to Jack Hill. Bill 3ritton conveys his freckles to Ruth Drake. Bill Priddy wills his alarm clock to Ruth Craft and hopes she 11 use it to get to school on time. Dick 'Waldorf leaves his basketball and football ability to Tommy Hayes. Bob Tormey leaves his handsomeness to James Ransom. Bob Galloway conveys his neatness to Charles Davis. Leona Phipps devises her printing ability to Bill Sublette. Lorraine Jeffers wills her pancake make-up to Lucille Hill. Lorene Thorn wills her pretty, long eyelashes to Jo Ann Wysong. Bill Raynes leaves his ability to be a nuisance to Billy Kautz. Bill Baldridge leaves his ability to jitterbug to Sandy Carr. In testimony whereof, we hereunto set hands and seal, and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-four. Signed,

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SENIOR NdW e Martha Ernest Mary Buckalew Lorraine Jeffers Peggy Jones Kenneth Casto Betty Harrison Bob Galloway Genevieve Wolfe H obby writing to Clifford collecting cacti collecting pitchers women playing boogie woogie model airplanes collecting odd rocks Am bi t i ot graduate (I) get married find out why girls swoon over Prank Sinatra own an airplane become a good pilot wear a strapless gown be a Powers girl wear a 5 shoe Bob Tormey Bob Bricker Lois Fraser Ann Fraser Lawrence Powell Bill Hayes Betty Baumgartner Charles Ellis Bill Baldridge Bill Britton Bill Raynes Winnie Putney Elmer Priddy Hazel O'Dell Anna May Oldham Vera Smith Mehrel Shank Edith Howard Agnes Patton Virginia Carrier Hazel C. Frazier Norma Phelps Josephine Wyant June Null Barbara Fentress Phyllis Drake Peggy Melton Florence Jividen Delphine Balles Mary Harmon Leona Phipps Dixie McCoy Leona Jividen Juanita Scarberry Glenna Knight Bill Priddy Ray Boggess Kenneth Estep Dick Waldorf Betty Ernest driving wolfing outdoor sports listening to radio doing nothing stamp collecting collecting wish bones girls model airplanes model airplanes reckless driving art photography collecting horses doo-dads photography writing letters collecting bottles taking pictures traveling drawing taking pictures talking about Eugene bowling collecting friends' pictures collecting pocketbooks be a cadet nurse mechanics be a secretary collecting pennants be a Wave cats be a nurse collecting pictures go to college collecting pictures own a Jeep writing letters and ride a motorcycle notes” sewing be a defense worker James Thomas Join the Waves bowling get out of Nitro gardening be a soldier collecting tires drive a Nitro school bus shooting pool own a car collecting poems be a famous singer be successful look like Tarzan be a laboratory technician be a nurse travel around the world Join the navy be a mortician be a conservation agent be an Air Corps pilot be an Air Corps pilot be a 1st Lt. in Air Corps sing with Kay Kyser's band be a good Marine to go over seas work at Krogers be a beautician take picture of Betty Grable un- der favorable conditions be a bookkeeper to go to Met live happily ever after to play piano have ten children be a housewife be a private secretary and marry boss see what corner of Hollywood and Vine is really like learn all the facts about Bill Betty Lyons June Sutherland Reba Skaggs Lewis Burdette Edna Ruth Rose James Young Lorene Thorn writing letters collecting elephants art women picture post-cards farming classical music to graduate (I) work at Krogers be a commercial artist be a Lt. in Air Corps get married be a.Marine be a concert pianist