Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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Mary Jo Hudnall is an actress for the Children’s Theater. I believe her last play was “Disaster Strikes Only Once.” Jo was Disaster ana she struck the hero. Dennis Lyons is a football star at sonic university out west. He wanted to be a cowboy so he combines his work. Robert Lewis wasn’t satisfied with being an uncle to a set of twins, f 1c is papa to two sets. Marceline Jefferies was late so often for school that she decided to go into the alarm clock business. Everyone says she is quite successful. James Jefferies has a taxi company now on Manilla Creek. The Wall’s Taxi Company nas every other territory covered. Audria Workman became an actress. She is playing opposite Orville Westfall in What A Catastrophe”, or It Shouldn’t Happen To Pedro.” Martha Williams became an artist for Walt Disney. She helps him draw his Merry Melody comic books. Willard Hess is coaching a basketball team. He can’t decide which to coach, the boys or the girls. Masel Rutherford and Freed Cooke are co-owners of the Nitro Theatre. Olin Pryor has his own business of buying and selling ’42 Ply mouths. He has no trouble buying them but little luck in selling them. Rcba Martin and Rcba King have opened a Charm Shop in Sattes. They have charmed everything from snakes to men. Loretta Halley is the owner of Ladies Shop and sells everything from “foundations to chimney tops.” Mildred Baldwin and Bill arc married. Now she has little Bills and Mildreds hanging on her apron strings. Guess who is now managing a group of prize fighters? Vada Hill. Now a greater number of boys are going out for the sport. Rosalie Snyder, f ay Lloyd, and Ruth Ann Null have formed a “Lonely I learts Club.” Wonder who is on the other end of the wire. Dottie Collins is married. She is raising her family to be a basketball team. Basil Pauley joined the Army. He says if there is an- other war he wants to be in it. Virginia Turley became a representative for the “Lonely Hearts Club convention in Chicago. She is liking her work better than she thought she would. Betty Silman is a tobacco auctioneer. A tobacco raiser her her reading a poem in English so he decided she was well qualified. Betty Lou Hudnall is secretary for the President of the United States. She said she likes her job but it wasn’t like being with her old friends in high school. Cortillis Burford is a telephone operator. Someone said that she was going to be fired because she made too many long distance calls to her boyfriend. Russel and Pearl Farley are married. They have twins now. “Double Trouble.” Jim McKee has taken Red Skelton’s place on the radio. He is married to his vocalist. When Joyce Burchett graduated, she went to Toledo to be with her father and mother. She is a bookkeeper in some large firm. Alma Silman and Junior married and moved. No one seems to know much about them. Jo Ann Ice went to Hawaii for a vacation and never returned. She says she likes the sunshine there. Verjcan Jividen worked so long as a telephone operator she is now manager of the Person to Person Telephone Company. John Knight became a boiler tender on a steamboat on the Ohio River. You should see John with that brown skin. I suppose Max Gibson takes it from his father but wasn’t satisfied running his dad’s store. He had to have one of his own. Tohnny Goodall has taken Kennv Baker’s place on the radio. Everyone thought he would be the second Frankie. Byron Jones has traded his little red truck off for a station wagon to haul the little Joneses in. Donald Bowling has now taken Fred Scott’s place on the radio. Every day he sings “Take me back to Tyler Moun- tain.” Charlotte Hayes is now owner, dish washer, and pie baker at what used to be Clara’s Kitchen. James Buckalew is an insurance salesman. The com- pany president said he wished he had known James existed. He would have hired him long ago. Jo Ann Payne has been experimenting. She now has a pill called Paynless Pills”, but she cannot get anyone that will take it. Bill Craddock is a real estate broker. 1 le can find anyone an apartment or a house, everyone but his mother-in-law. She stays at Bill’s. Rex Mathenv is a butler for the President. He is a “boot black” on the sidelines. The city holds no charms for Dempsey Barnette. He has his own farm now, somewhere on Red f louse Ridge. Orville Westfall has gone into the business of trying to make a kind of medicine that makes people taller. So far, no luck. Norma Johnston has a job in New Jersey, milking cows. Now the clouds are closing. The view is changing. I sec nothing. All is gone until we gaze into the crystal ball again. Page Scvctitcen

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 Ja (e 4re the Seniors of 48 I, Madam Curez, will now prophesy the future of the seniors of Nitro high school, if you will kindly gaze into the crystal ball. Ah! I sec, the clouds arc parting and what comes into view? 1 see Delphine Cook as a beautician after she finished training for it. She has her own shop on Pumpkin Knob.” Clinton Foster was in the all-state band in high school. Now he is in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Ruth Harmon marrier a six-footer and they arc raising two boys on law b x ks. They want one to become Presi- dent some day. Duward Angcll is a private detective. I Ic is looking into the case on the Missing Link” between man and ape. Genevieve Wandling became a Wave and Sammy is a sailor. Who could be happier than these two! Genevieve Walker is a model for some society depart- ment store in New York. Jane Tucker wanted to become a physical education teacher at Greenbrier Military School. She miscalculated a little. She’s married and raising boys of her own. Paul Tincher has his own trucking business and is etting along fine, having had experience working for is dad. Harold Null became a preacher and has a little church out on Tyler Mountain. Look at the congregation. See how interested they arc. There 1 sec a magazine. Well, well. Look who the editor is, Willajean Scott. Let’s see, the magazine is about what you should and should not do. Norma Jean Hanson has finally learned to roller skate. I sec her on the floor as champion roller skater of all times. William Crosier is a trapper. He seems to be catching everything, including women. A blonde is in the trap now. Edric Martin is a lion tamer. In addition to her lion taming she does a good job taming men. John Ridenour is a drum major in a large college. Says he likes it, but he likes the majorettes better. John Magoun went on a large expedition to Headless Valley. The last message from John was an SOS. I Ic hasn’t been heard from since. Patricia Woodell is a basketball star. Wee! did you see that beautiful shot she just made? Ruth Drake married Ward Gandce. Ruth likes little red headed girls but she likes little bald headed boys, too. Barbara Pitchford and Patricia Agee have grown tired of being quiet all these years so they have gone to college and are very good cheerleaders there. Junior Briscoe likes bow ties so well he has gone into a business of his own. Says he can wear them seven days a week now. Marie Hanna is still working at Newberry’s. Says she is doing fine now since they have a nice looking manager. Page Sixteen Jimmy Skaggs and his orchestra are playing in a night club in Hollywood; Mike Coates accompanies him, taking the place of Frank Sinatra. He can’t sing as well as Frankie but he can break as many hearts. June K. Boggess is a very good housewife. Even though it’s hard to get up to get her hubbv’s breakfast, she likes it. Norma Larabee has found the road to happiness at last. (Being Willard’s wife, of course.) James Fraser said he always wanted to see the White House. His wishes have at last come true. He is janitor there. Donald Thacker has become chemist at what used to be Ohio-Apex. Ohia-Apex doesn’t exist any more. Donald finished his great experiment. Fred Anderson is postmaster of the Nitro post office and people are complaining about his new modern system. Ruth Ann Fowler was going to be a nurse, but she married Fred instead. Fred had to have someone to take care of him. Donald King recently married. Says it isn’t right to be king and not have a queen. Carl Summers became an eye specialist, but now he is a heart specialist. Jo Ann O’Dell is an office worker at Cox’s Department Store. She has married three managers and now Cox’s are looking for another one. Dot Chapman helped Stanley edit the annual. She’s still helping him, though at home now and not in the office. Brooks Brubaker played so many junior parts in plays that he got disgusted and went to Hollywood to become a great lover, but he’s still plaving Randolph in “A Date With Judy ' Bcttv Leadman has started a chewing gum factory of her own. She wants to be sure she has enough! Glenna Jeffers has gone to Flatwoods to live. It isn’t that she likes Flatwoods, but she likes her reason for living there — Tommy Carder, her husband-. Robert I larmon is known as “The Falcon”. When he drives his car, people can’t decide whether it is an airplane flving low or Robert hitting the hig spots and skimming over the low. Justine Stickler is private secretary for Mr. Dice at Mon- santo. He is thinking about sending her to the Texas plant. Lloyd Phelps is taking the place of Senator Ford on “Can You Top This?” He got a medal for being champion Joke Teller of 1950. Rav Burdette had his old Ford in Holman’s Garage so often he had paid enough to buy the place. He decided it would be cheaper to buy them out and do his own work. Earl Guinn became a chemical engineer. Monsfuito decided he was too good for them so they sent him to Wales to work there. Betty Ann Hudnall wanted to raise four boys but bad luck was hers. She hasn’t found her dream man yet.

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Charlotte Mayes Vada Hill G. A. A. 1,2.3 Library Club 3 Masquers 3, 4 Basketball I. 2. 3. 4 Vollcvball I, 2, 3, 4 Softball I. 2. 3. 4 Elizabeth Ann I Iudnall National Honor Society 4 Mary Jo Hudnall Y-Teens 3. 4 Student Council 4 (i. A. A. 2. 3. 4 Masquers 3, 4 Softball 3 Basketball 1. 2. 3. 4 Volleyball 3 Library Club 3 Glee Club 4 Bi Sci 3 Jo Ann Ice Glee Club 4 James Jefferies Spy Glass Staff 3 Microscope Staff 3, 4 Hi Y 3 School Bov Patrol 1, 2, 3, 4 Wildcat Staff 4 Model Airplane Club 1 Art Club I Betty Lou Hudnall National Honor Society 3, 4 Stanley Hudnall School Bov Patrol 1, 2, 3, 4 Hi Y 3 Model Airplane Club I Band 4 Wildcat Staff 4 Spy Glass Staff 3 Quill and Scroll 3, 4 Masquers 4 Microscope Staff 3 Glenna Jeffers G. A. A. 2. 3, 4 Y Teens 2 Spy Glass Staff 3 Basketball 2, 3. 4 Volleyball 2 Softball 2 Mahceline Jeffries G. A. A. 2, 3 Masquers 3, 4 Y Teens 2. 3, 4 Glee Club 1, 2 Basketball 2, 3, 4 Volleyball 2 fage Eighteen