Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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Betty Eskew Biology Club 1 Library Club 1, 2 Clec Club I Spy Class St.ilF 3 Wildcat Stall 4 Voice Class 4 Florence Ferrari Cheerleader 1, 2, Head 3, 4 C. A. A. I, 2, Pres. 3, Treas. 4 Best Athlete 2. 3 Basketball 1. 2, 3, 4 Volleyball 1. 2 Ping Pong 1, 2 Softball 2 National Honor Society 4 Visual Education 3, 4 Y-Teens 4 Modern Miss 4 Tumbling I, 2 Student Council 1 Voice Class 4 Wildcat Staff 4 Mary Garnes Wildcat Staff 4 Modern Miss 4 Softball 2 Volleyball I. 2 Basketball 1. 2, 4 All County Chorus 4 Voice Class 4 Bill Gibson football 2. 3 Basketball 2, 3. 4 Student Council 2. 3, 4 Varsity ' V' 2, 3, 4 I). O. P. 4 Ir. Class Prs. 3 Best Citizen 2 Hevalene Gibson Biology Club 1 Art Club I Y Teens, 3, 4 Modern Miss 3, 4 Library Club 4 C. A. A. 4 Basketball 1 Voice Class 4 Orris Goodall Betty Hammond Band 3, 4 Quill and Scroll 3. 4 All County Chorus 4 Wildcat Staff 4 Biology Club 2, 3, 4 Tennis Club 2, 3, 4 Basketball 1 Vo j ley ball 1 Voice 4 Betty Hamhick G. A. A. 1,2,3 Library Club I, 2, 3 Ihis Hamhick Biology Club 3 (dee Club 3. 4 Masquers 3, 4 James Harris Band 1. 2, 3, 4 All County Band 2, 3 Orchestra I, 2, 3 Tennis Club 2, 3, 4 Page Fifteen

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i. Billie Christian Modem Miss 4 Voice Class 4 James Comstock D. O. P. 3, 4 Science Club 1 Robert Comstock Wildcat Staff 4 Spy Glass Staff 3 D. O. P. 3, 4 Football 2, 3 Biology Club 2 Quill and Scroll 4 Int. Basketball 4 Tumbling Team 2 Harold Cook School Boy Patrol 1 D. O. P. 4 Howard Cook Schoolboy Patrol 1 D. O. P. 4 Bob Cook Football 1, 2, 3, 4 Basketball Manager 2, 4 Varsity N” 2, 3. 4 Joan Craddock Band 1. 2, 3, 4 Glee Club 1,2,4 Basketball 1, 2, 3 Vollebayy 1 A Cappella Choir Treas. 3, Vice Pres. 4 G. A. A. 1. 2, 3, 4 School Orchestra 2, 3 All County Chorus 4 All County Band 3 All State Chorus 3, 4 All State Band 3 Biology Club I Jr. Science Club 1 Betty Ciuner G. A. A. 1, 2, 3 Art Club 1 Basketball 1, 2, 3 Volleyball 1, 2 Majorette 3 National Honor Society 4 Visual Education 2, 3 Wildcat Staff 4 Spy Glass Staff 3 Quill and Scroll 3, 4 Glee Club 1. 3 Jr. Science Club 1 D. O. P. 4 Ray Duddinc Voice Class 4 Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Biology Club 3 Orchestra 3 All County Chorus 3, 4 All State Chorus 4 Nancy Ellis Y-Teens 3, Vice Pres. 4 G. A. A. 1, 2, 3, Secy. 4 Glee Club 2, 3, 4 Majorette 3, Head 4 Modem Miss 3. 4 Quill and Scroll 4 A Cappella Choir, Treas. 4 Voice Class 4 Basketball 1, 2, 4 Volleyball 1, 2 Softball 2 Tumbling Team 1 Page Fourteen

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I. Senior Class Prophecy This scene takes place in an old boxcar on the side- tracks behind the Nitro Depot. We see two “used-to-be- belles” of Nitro high school sitting there with a very treasured book in their dirty, rough hands. It is the 1949 Nitro high school annual. These girls, Alice Martin and Jane Ragle, were the ones that had set out to make something of themselves, and they were doing pretty well until they lost all their alimony from their fourth and fifth husbands respectively, in a big gambling game in Reno. The girls’ greatest desire then was to travel, and hopping freights being the only way they could afford, naturally, it was decided upon. So now in the year of 1965, we find them back in Nitro smiling reminiscently as they leaf through the pictures of the seniors of ’49. Alice was saying to Jane, “Weren’t we lucky to bum this Kanawha Valley Leader that has published the where- abouts of our dear classmates?” Jane replied, “We sure were, I see where Ray Morris, dear ole’ bashful Ray is now coach of the Nitro Wildcats. It seems that Ray’s team has just come back from Morgantown after winning the state championship. The shock of it all has sent Ray to Spencer (via ambulance).” Next they see the names of Gene Merket and Helen Hedrick. They are owners of a million dollar night club ;»nd all the profit is theirs as the orchestra is made up of little Merkets. They have a special attraction in which Helen does a bubble dance, but it seems they closed the place up as the crowd got the idea of carrying straight pins. Smoky Stover became head chemist at the Ohio Apex, but right now all the employees are out of work. Smoky was trying out a new experiment and all of a sudden - - BOOM!!! Looking on down the list they see the name of McCoy. Oh! Yes, dear old Gus has become known the world over for his version of “Groundhog.” “Betty Hammond Kirby is now the world’s greatest singer. She is really going places with her Be-Bop sing- ing, but in her spare time she teaches her little be-bops to play drums.” “Dear me,” said Alice to Jane, “Leave it to “Henri” Turley and “Heavy” Gibson to bring disgrace to Nitro high school. They had a business of their own, and were really making good at it until the police became sus- picious of such men as Ambrose Lovejoy, Curtis Sanders. Theodore Turley, and Lowell Wrieht using a back road into the hills of Rockv Fork, and followed them one day -just to find “Henri” and “Heavy” in the basement of their cabin brewing “apple-jack” by the gallons. The girls are now serving a term of ten years in “Sing-Sing.” “Look. said Jane, “Sammy Williams has finally filled his life’s ambition. Just recently he replaced Eddie Arnold on the Checkerboard feed store’s radio program. Bill Witt accompanies him with a guitar. These boys are not expected to be on the air long as it has been an- nounced by their sponsor that in the two weeks this show has been on the store has practically gone bank- rupt. Wonder why? “And do you remember Patty Yates’ love for the transit buses?” JAVell, Patty has changed to boats now, almost anyway.” She is the sole owner of two steam- boats. It was just last week that a passer-by saw Pattv standing so stately in the crow’s nest in one of her boats, yelling, “Throw the anchor, mate-I think it’s time for that transit bus.” Pattv’s first mate is none other than June Silman—these girls have broken all speed records on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers. The boats are called, “Gone with the Wind,” and “The Silver Streak.” “Mary Games and Evelyn Layne, ‘beauties’ of the class of 49 were disappointed in love. They are still very nice spinsters though, and are growing old gracefully on the porch of Grandma Norma’s Poor Farm, which is super- vised by Norma Kersey.” “Eleanor Stephens is now head of the Indianapolis Speedway and is the champion woman driver of America. In her leisure hours she is teaching her little Eleanors and Bills just how to be winners.” Dortha Wandling and Annabelle Turner now own and manage an up and coming skating rink on Tyler Mountain. A special attraction, featured on Saturday nights only, is a cousinly ‘dance-on-skates-team’ Betty and Iris Hamrick. My, how they do cover the floor and sometimes it’s not with their feet.” “Virginia Holley has now skyrocketed to fame in the movies. Her name is now Pansy Petunia. Her latest movie is ‘Perfume of Love.’ She has as her first maid and hairdresser Marilyn Remeelin. CC.wgp “It says here,” said Alice, “That Orvie Jordan and Alma I eadman have just finished a missionary course at Anderson College, and are on their way to India. Let’s hope they meet with more success than what we have.” “And there on the bottom of the page is Jo Ann Gilbert’s picture. Wasn't it a shame the trouble Jo Ann always had trying to hold a man? But now after taking ju-jitsu lessons for a couple of years from James Samples, JoAnn is getting along quite well.” “Oh, Yes!” said Jane, “There's Jean Basham. Poor Jean! She is now working her fingers to the bone to scrape up enough money to put Jack through college. Where Jean used to work for his love, she now works for his education, yes, that’s right-she is an assistant to Charles Higginbotham as window-washer of Nitro high school.” “Alice Ingram and Joan Craddock have gone quite well for themselves; they both sing for the dinner guests at “Harley’s Hang Out. owned by our own Harley Powell. The chief cook of the place is Clara Belle Lanham. Harley says she can really knock you dead, and there is no doubt of that as everytime you go in someone is being carried out. However, some of these cases could lx blamed on the drink-mixer Bill Lamb. Bill is now known for his version of “Kick-a-poo Juice.” Bill says it really has the kick. “Isn’t it a miracle how some people never change?” asked Alice Jane. “Take for instance. Jack Ingram. Poor Jack, he never acted as though he had energy to get from one class to another. And even though jack is now working his way through this busy world, you can guess what kind of job he’d choose. Yes, Jack is a tester for the ‘Rest-Easy’ Mattress Company. “And it was just yesterday,” said Jane, “That we saw that billing as we were coming through Sattes that the nation’s most nerve-wracking Hell-Drivers, featuring ‘Hot-Rod-Harry’ Tidd, ‘Speed-Demon’ Bill Kautz, ‘Fleet- Wing Charlie’ Dent Boggess, and ‘Tear ’Em Up’ Tom Simms, would be in town for a week’s attraction. ‘Hot- Rod-Harry,’ who is manager, says that your money is absolutely guaranteed if not satisfied throughout the act.” Pnu.f Sixteen