Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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SENIOR CUSS WILL- We, the Senior Class of Nitro High, being in possession of such mental faculties as we dare claim, do hereby will, bequeath, leave, or Just plain give our eccentric successors, the Juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, all that we do own or claim to own for them to keep or throw away as they see fit. There will be no refunds or consolation gifts tp those who receive the various articles willed them. Signed this twenty-fourth day of May in the year of the great man- shortage, One Thousand Nine Hundred Forty-five. Let it be witnessed by all readers that possessions of the Senior Class of f45 are about to be passed out. Evelyn Null bequeaths her height to LaDeema Montgomery. Jean Mullins bequeaths her muscles to Betty Quinn. Mary Lou Reinacher wills her basketball ability to Lonnie Mae Allen. Anna Mary Crewdson leaves her sweet innocence to Dixie Tinney. Naomi Lyons leaves her dancing ability to Mary Zee Raynes. Frenchie Estep leaves her gold-digging to Barbara Hoke. Juanita Buckland leaves a Hill with a claim on it. Tommy Hayes wills his phisque to Paul Jones. Edythe Kelly bequeaths her well-groomed hair to Mary Shamblin. Marjorie Barrickman leaves her ability to get get looking, dark-hair- ed men to Virginia Hendel. Helen Gillispie leaves her girlish figure to Maxine Hudnall. Winona Stover leaves her face-making ability to Joyce Westfalll. Bob Brick bequeaths his big, brown eyes to Donald Miller. Hulynn Collins will3 his dark complexion to Jim McKee. Charles Davis wills his speech making ability to JoAnn Wysong. Lois Spence leaves her gift of gab to Dorothy Ann Gaylor. Bill Allen leaves his quietness to Everett Louis Krantz. Thomas Morris bequeaths his uncurled lock to Junior Rimmer. Harold Escue leaves his ready blush to Orita Carney. Wilma Pryor bequeaths her size 4 shoes to any one who can get in them. Betty Turley wills her warm personality to Jane Marshall. Eloise Turley bequeaths her giggle to June Lea Cain. Reta Matheny leaves her fickleness to Bob Higginbotham. Eulah Bailey wills her complexion to Nell Jean Donegan. Marjorie Martin leaves her punctuality to Ivy Wyant. Gene Loring bequeaths his football ability to Bill Priddy. Harry King Miller wills his safe and sane driving to the reckless Miss Bennett. Jim Sharpe leaves no regrets. Walter Showen bequeaths his stature to Dick Hutchinson. Dorothy Lewis wills her shoe-shining ability to Gordon Trainer. Lois Osborne bequeaths her soda-jerking to Ruth Drake. Edra Workman wills her grey slacks to Margaret Coney. Wayne Lamb leaves his technique to Ward Gandee. Betty ates bequeaths her ability as a good student to Alvin Stevens. Lavania Workman wills her long wavy hair to Mickey Mattox. Eugene Cook leaves his nickname to Cookie Loring. Velda Greathouse wills her grace and poise to Sissy Putney. Helen Halley bequeaths her typing book to any dope who wants it. Reba Lanham wills her ability to do the right thing at the wrong time to Bill West. Verdeen Duff leaves her repugnant nature to Jerry Davenpprt. Crystle Harmon bequeaths her love for white” to Dolores Drake. Elizabeth Harmon wills her friend-making ability to Donald Kerr. Betty Keffer bequeaths her blonde hair to Jo Ann Payne. Charles Jones leaves his Ipana smile to Carl Hedrick. Betty Woods bequeaths her old flame to Op l Lewis. Imogene Hayes leaves her laugh to Joan Hudnall. Lucille Hill Gibson wills her cheerleading ability to Doris Gibson. (Continued on Page 38)

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. CLASS The time is several years after the graduation of 45. Several of our school mates have wandered off in the country mostly in no man’s land We will start now and try to tell you where most of them are and what they are doing. Betty Lou Tinsley is a very successful housewife. She saves time to write her husband in the service. Lois Spence is known from coast to coast as the world’s number one opera singer. Betty Jane Turley is now employed by WCHS. She is the second Judy Garland. Jean Mullins finally married the butcher boy. She has quite a task keeping his aprons and caps in a good starchy stage. Winona Stover is one of the best girl pilots in the United States. She travels from New York to San Francisco once a month. I wonder what the special attraction is. Mary Lou Reinacher is now working in Washington as one of the govern- ment gals. She always dreamed of being the president’s wife. May the door of success fling wide to admit her. Betty Woods, Nitro’s number one heart breaker, now carries the title of Sweetheart of the Navy. I wonder if Captain Cook had anything to do with that. Reba Lanham now has her own radio program over station PHEW. Her pro- gram is We, the Morons.” Eloise Turley is now down in Texas recovering from wounds she received while serving overseas with the Waves. Junior Showen took Roy Acuff’s place on the radio. He sings ”Let me Take Away Your Morning Blues” every morning at 5:30. Len Bailey lives on a farm out west. He is trying to raise a starch- less potato for potato lovers who have to watch their weight. Joe Mattox entered a very striving business after he was honorably discharged from the Navy. He is trying to find the temper that people lose. He owns his own chemistry room. Isabelle Saunders owns a hat designing shop in New York. What she doesn’t put on hats these days isn’t worth speaking of, but as she says. ”They sell.” 9 Edra Workman, wno has spent most of her time pining and waiting for thj long lost Wayne Lamb, is now his blushing bride. Dorothy Lewis has recently hit the top. She is ’’Miss Sweater Girl of ’ 55. Helen Halley’s ambition was to have a family. It turned out tc be a rather profitable. She is editor of Parent’s Magazine and writes many in- teresting articles for the Ladies’ Home Journal and Better Homes and Gar- dens. ---------------------- Norma Newland joined the Waacs. Strictly by misfortune she was stuck with the cavalry and had to be satisfied. After the war she wrote a book entitled Six Months in the Saddle. Crystle Harmon is running the ’White Funeral Home. The sign above the door says, ’’Quick, efficient service and money-back quarrantee.” (Continued on Page 39)

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16 SENIOR • Hulynn Collins walking to get married Gene Loring modeling airplanes and boats be a minister Edythe Kelley collecting photographs to be a commercial teacher Reba Lanham collecting poems travel Thomas Morris working on radios to be a radio technician Dorothy Lewis dancing travel Naomi Lyons dancing to be chief telephone operator Marjorie Martin dancing to be an English teacher Reta Matheny eating to graduate Harry King Miller hunting be a pilot Jean Mullins courtin marry a butcher boy Evelyn Null playing the piano be a secretary Lois Osborne dancing be a wave Norma Newland dogs be a dress designer Jim Sharpe necking be a hot pilot Wilma Pryor keeping house be a beautician Mary Reinacher collecting souvenirs be a secretary Lois Spence collecting souvenirs be an opera singer Winona Stover reading travel Betty Turley collecting pictures of movie stars be a nurse Walter Showen swimming travel Eloise Turley eating work in a defense plant Betty Woods collecting bottles travel Edra Workman eating marry Tee Tat Mathes Lavania Workman eating get married Wayne Lamb hunting stay single Betty Yates collecting foreign money be a cadet nurse Eulah Bailey collecting photos get out of Nitro Helen Gillispie writing letters to graduate Velda Greathouse horseback riding be a scientist David Comstock women to get married Lucille H. Gibson riding a motorcycle be a good housewife Elizabeth Harmon rollerskating get away from it all Emogene Brubaker snapshots land in Kentucky Bill Allen motor biking make a better one Helen Halley writing to Farley have a family Juanita Boggess writing letters go south Isabelle Saunders collecting snapshots be a beautician Crystle Harmon writing poetry be a mortician u. Harold Escue sleeping be a great lover Juanita Buckland music to have an ambition Marjorie Barrickman making a hope chest be a minister’s wife Anna Mary Crewdson music be a nurse Frenchie Estep gold digging marry a rich old man and love him to death Charles Davis shooting pool live an easy life and never work • Bob Brick eating and sleeping be an admiral Verdeen Duff writing letters go to Pearl Harbor Tommy Hayes shooting pool Join the Navy Ralph Edwards sleeping be a general Betty Lou Tinsley taking in movies be a secretary and have a good looking boss Charles Jones sleeping find a faster way to get to Charleston Eugene Cooke sleeping Join the Navy Imogene Hayes art be a torch singer Dick Crewdson Navy be an admiral