Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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Charles 11 igginbo tham Student Council 4 Football Manager I, 2 Louise Hill Eileen Hinkle Y Teens I, 2, 3, 4 Modern Miss 4 Lester Hudnall D. O. P. 4 Alice Ingram Voice Class 4 Glee Club 1. 2, 3, 4 A Capella Choir 3. 4 Library Club 2, 3, 4 Modern Miss 3, 4 All County Choir 3, 4 All State Choir 4 Y Teens 3. 4 Biology Club 2, 3, 4 G. A. A. 2 Jack Ingram Band I, 2, 3. 4 Voice 4 Virginia Holley Or vie Jordan Modem Miss Club 4 Library Club 3, 4 Y Teens 4 Voice Class 4 Bill Kautz Vice-President Senior Class Visual Education 3, 4 Masquers 4 Thespians 4 B sketbail 3 Class Tournaments I, 2. 3 Science Club 1 lunior Dramatic Club 1 Soft Ball 1. 2 Norma Lea Kersey Quill and Scroll 3, 4 Masquers 3, 4 Thespians 3, 4 Jr. Red Cross 3 Nation?! H nor Society 3. 4 Band I, 2, 3. 4 All County Band 3 Glee Club 1 Wildcat Staff 4 Risketball 1 Biology Club 2, 3 Page Eighteen

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 Well-well, Nancy Ellis and Bill Bailes, they were al- ways such a loving couple. They now own and operate a large hay farm in Ohio, and the little ‘BALES’ (of hay that is) are really gaining fast.” “Now there’s Bill Mottesheard—he always dressed so nice and looked so neat even at the end of a school day. And you couldn’t guess what Bill Is doing now—yes, that's right, he’s a model in Nitro’s own Army and Navy Store. And in his spare time he helps Bennie Martin, manager of the store, with the trade. Jane and Alice smile as their eyes rest on three sweet girls, Eleanor Casto, Betty Jo Painter, and Janet Burford. “These three have married their Sissonville Indians and have decided to promote better teams for the future. One has decided on raising a football team, one a basket- ball team, and the other a squad of cheerleaders. So far they have a pretty good start. ’ The two that really surprised me,” remarked Jane, “Were the Cook twins, Harold and Howard. These l oys were always so quiet in class and now they are the only twin 'Hog Callers’ known in the history of the United States. They are with the ‘Catch-All-Circus’ under the direction of Tom Simms. It seems that their business is a thriving one.” “Ray Dudding, Ottis Coodall, and James Harris have made the sports headlines. They are players on the pro team ‘The Triple M’ (mighty muscle men). Yes, these boys were always having a time playing ping-pong against one another so they have changed the game a little so they could nlay together. They have been de- feated only once ancf that was by the undefeated ‘Triple Threatening Toughnecks’ which consists of Barbara Stull, Juanita King and Eileen Hinkle.” “Louise Hill and Billie Christian, two rather quiet but industrious girls, now have a beauty salon in Wolfe Pen Hollow. Their slogan is ‘If we can’t fix you nobody can!!’ The girls say they would really make good money if it weren’t for the fact that ‘Doc Wolfe (he owns most of the property around there) charges so much for the use of a walk to get into the salon. You remember ‘Doc’, he always liked easy money, and this seems the easiest way possible to make it. “And there’s poor Betty Eskew. After seven years in ‘Walla-Walla for the murder of an old heart throb from Morris Harvey, Betty finally bribed the caretaker Edna Angeli to bring her jumping beans for dinner one day so that she might jump through the window from the 13th floor so as to end her misery and shame.” “Walter Magaw is an engineer on the New York-to- London non-stop run rocket boat, which travels 1,000 miles an hour. Walter always did go in for fast things.” “Don McCrew, the oversized human (?) stands behind a bar day and night. As a great lawyer, he is working on the famous case ‘Who Stole President’s James Com- stock’s Beer Mug?’ Feeble-minded James after one drink, never knows where anything goes to. After a year’s hard work on the case. Bob ‘Patrick Henry’ Harris con- fessed the crime and returned the beer mug to Presi- dent Comstock.” “John Lynch is now a salesman for the ‘Fulla-Bull’ brush company. He sells brushes to the girls who want to give the boys the ‘brush-off’.” “Bill ‘Dashhound’ Gibson is a big politician now. He is going around politicking’ for county dog catcher. “Lester Iludnall decided to go to mechanical school, lust to show how much his education has helped him, he now tightens nuts (bolts) on motorcycles at Grover’s Service Station.” Our musically inclined Clarence Burdette, who always did such a good job of playing first chair trombone in the Nitro band, is now playing second ‘shoe-horn’ in Bob Comstock’s shoe store. It is said that Bob is going bank- rupt as Clarence is ‘blowing’ the customers away.” “Charles Draper is doing his daily dozen as a bouncer at a high class night club. Charlie always did have plenty of ‘pitch’ didn’t he?” “Charles H. Boggess has been doing a lot of research work for the Buck Rogers Space Ship Corp. He received the ‘Nowbell’ prize for the most effort made and least results achieved.” Charlie Raynes, a certain lady’s man, is now a great Hollywood star. He got his start as the voice for the ‘Lifebuoy Foghorn Co.’, and has now been promoted to ‘sound effects’ man.” “Good-hearted Sue Osborne has just recently found the only known home for stray cats. She has as mem- bers on her staff of helpers Sue Alexander and Jane Marshall. Sue is chief cook, while Jane sees that the cats have their daily baths and exercise.” “Christina Mattox and Betty Criner, two pals in high school, are really very busy now. Christina spends all of her time taking care of little ‘sweet Williams’ (not flowers either!) and Betty Lee has a couple of ‘nit-Witst’ to occupy nearly all of her time.” “Doris Gibson and Argeatha Snodgrass met with a terrible experience. One day they went down to the pier and rented a boat to go fishing. About half-way out in the river the boat sprang a leak and while they were struggling to keep the boat aloft, they noticed a large black ship on the horizon. This ship was owned by none other than Captain Gene ‘Robinson Crusoe’ Bur- dette and his man Bob ‘Friday’ Cook, who are wanted for piracy on the high seas. They whisked these maids off to sea and the last account of them they were being auctioned off as slave girls in Cairo, Egypt. “Sigh, there’s Bob Cavender’s picture. He always was a handsome brute! Seems he’s just signed a contract with Raymond Turley’s movie company and is the star of ‘Frankinstein’s Brother’, their latest chiller-diller.” “Eileen Howard now owns and operates a one-table pool room, you see this is just a start and right now she has Detective David Turner on a very miserable care and business can’t go on until the case has been solved. Eileen has a large sign on the door that says, ‘Closed Shop’ or ‘Who Took the Pool Table?’ During this slack in business Eileen collects hat checks on the express bus from Charleston to Nitro.” “Oh, my rheumatism,” said Alice Jane. “Why, there’s ‘Tonsi’ Ferrarfs picture. Wasn’t it a shame that such a mystery is connected with her? You know it seemed she always had a big interest in Winfield. She finally hooked a man and settled down there. But one day as she and some of her little ‘Tonsi’s’ were out in a large field pickin’ daisies, a large gust of wind came along and blew her away. The poor little, frail thing was ‘Gone w th the Wind!’ ” “Well,” said Jane, “now that we have found out where and what all our classmates are doing, we had better go to the depot and see what time the next freight train is scheduled to leave so that we won’t miss it.” Thus the two girls closed the weather-beaten and worn yearbook and the Kanawha Valley Leader, and with dirty faces that were now streaked with tears and their hearts filled with renewed memories of the seniors of ’49, they moped on into the depot and out of sight. Page Seventeen

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Juanita King Glee Club 1. 3 G. A. A. 2, 3, 4 Basketball 1. 2, 3 All Countv Chorus 4 All State Chorus 4 Voice Class 4 Bill Lamb Football I. 2 Basketball 1. 2, 3 Clara Bell Lanham Modem Miss Club Library Club Evelyn Layne Glee Club 1, 3 A Cappella Choir 3 Basketball 1, 3, 4 Y Teens 3, 4 D. O. P. 4 Alma Leadman Biology Club 2 Voice Class 4 Ambrose Love joy Football 3. 4 Varsity N” 4 Softball 2 March McCoy Science Club 1 I). O. P. 3 Wildcat Staff 4 Don McGrew Walter Macaw Jane Marshall Jr. Dramatic Club 1 Masquers 4 Visual Education 2, 3, 4 Glee Club 1. 2, 3. 4 A Cappella Choir 3, 4 Art Club 1 National Honor Society 3, 4 G. A. A. I, 2, 3, 4 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Volleyball 1, 2 Softball 1. 2 Pag0 SinPtsan