Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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Musical Successful, Neat, Best Actress Robert Finch r Frances Hoke Good Sport Gardner Campbell RUNNERS-UP Popular, Best Sport Faye Basham Popular Joe Casio Best Athlete Maxine Payne Donald Steele Best Personality Faye Basham Joe Casto Best Dancer Marilyn Dene Gardner Campbell Most Bashful Gweneth Shahan Joe Westfall Most Studious Bettye Gaylor Sam Bass Most Mischievous Ann Hoffman Betsy Morgan Bob Speas Wittiest Margaret Kenworthy Richard Snyder Neatest Marilyn Dent Red Comstock Best Actress. Actoi Carol Trainer Jim Perks Paul Hill Best Looks Marilyn Dent Keith Estep Mannerly Carole Trainer Musical Jessie Blake Popular Marilyn Dent Keith Estep Dancing Dick Slater Most Mannerly Mary Ferrell Paul Hill Sammy Crist Most Likely to Succeed Theresa Karnes Bettye Gaylor Sammy Crist Bashful Joyce Baldridge Most Musical Frances Hoke Ruth Honaker James Hines Richard Snyder Life of Party, Witty, Best Actress Betsy Morgan Life of Party Margaret Gary Ragle Best Sport Betsy Morgan Patty Lyons Keith Estep

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Best Actress Margaret Kenworthy Best Sport, Athletic Mary Jo McDaniel emor Mischievous Witty, Red Comstock Mischievous, Life of Party, Richard Snyder Dancing, Witty Shirley Dolin Athletic, Neat, Success ful Keith Estep Pretty Agatha Michael Pretty, Sue Miller Handsome, Neat, Mannerly, Personality Charles Cooley Best Actor tudious, Bashful Sammy Crist Neale Sands Studious Theresa Karnes

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C (a65 f ropli opriecy It is a stormy night in the year 1972. At one big flash of lightning, there appears a ghostly white figure in a window of the shack that now stands where old NHS used to be. The Spirit of ’52 has come back to haunt the graduates of that year. His memory was shadowed by the death of Bing Crosby, until he learned that our own Bob Finch was named as his successor. Where Bing used to roll them in the aisles, Bob rolls them in the graves. George Persinger who sat on the bench for NHS, recently gave up sports as a career, but he still sits on the bench—as Justice Persinger of the U. S. Supreme Court. Jessie Lou Blake sky-rocketed to fame as a movie star. She and her little daughter, Jennie Lin McKee, just finished co-starring in a movie entitled, “Perfume of Love.” Richard Snyder is a comedian, replacing Red Skel- ton. His specialty is flying through glass doors. It always brings a laugh. John Caldwell, teller of tall tales, has just won contract from TV Station O-M-Y. His new program entitled “That Did It!” His vocalist is the famo Phyllis Wright who has revived that old song, Wanna Play House With You.” We hear she is r ceiving numerous proposals. Mario Lanza now has a new accompanist, none other than our own Ruth Anna Honaker. the rumors circulating, it could be a romanccyWond if Betty, his present wife, has heard about tnis. James Bonnett, devotee of gals gams, president of a large Broadway concern He must ha an iron constitution, for his work neyw tires him hires the chorus girls for his new s)(ow. Frances Hoke finished college and came out Doctor. She and Bill make a perfect team, does her best to cure them while Biriy (who tician) stands by anxiously waiting. . Earl Comstock is custodian of the He always did love money. He now spends h day rolling in the coins. Handsome Charles Cooley turned Navy. He de- cided to make a career of it. Doesn’t get home too much ’cause he has command of one of the world’s largest ships. However, Dolores, who toured the con- tinent looking for true love, finally discovered it was love in her own back yard and she and Charles aren’t doing such a bad job of raising Cooleys. . . . by Bill Dent. Jim Morris took over as Manager as soon as he returned from the Navy. Bill Pauline is working on a new peace treaty be- tween Tyler Mountain and Nitro. His wife is threaten- ing divorce. Clifton Criner, who was always so quiet, gave us all a surprise. He is running a race with Nellie Bailey. Both have just received their seventh divorce, and rumors have it that Nellie is laying a trap for her lawyer, Neale Sands. The ghost just can’t understand why Neale turned lawyer. He was always so good at acting. Wanda Boggess Gibeaut has taken up directing on the side. When she directs, her husband acts. Margaret Kenworthy has just finished buying her seventeenth car in two years. Ask her what hap- pened to the other sixteen and she replies, “Well. I don’t know. I turn on the key, press the starter, give her the gas and WHAM!” Richard Slater is a highway engineer. He has t completed a road between Poca and Nitro which cement inter-town friendship. Mary Jo McDaniel is a traveling saleswoman. She from door to door, but instead of giving a sales she turns three flip-flops and veils “Fight on, ildcats!” Barbara Nichols Hudson has lived a happily mar- ife. At least it was as far as Coach Underwood orfb rned. Four of the football players this year Hudsons and it’s the best team since ’52. LonnidvKilgore is still in school and is still taking fenth grade history. Just his deep affection for Miss Wftited is head of the GCK (meaning, ’em and Keep’m) Date Bureau. Dot just for thi poor girls who can’t seem to hook e is Jiappily married to the one and only h$r life. was manager of the Post Office here y. He let his patriotism get the best of ing a suspiciously ticking package in water made him No. 1-9-5-2 at Moundsville? How was he to know it was an alarm clock insured for a few thou- sand dollars? Sammy Crist is now rightful owner of all drive- ins and the waitresses therein. Not long ago he married one of his lovely waitresses and hopes to be the proud father of a girl, soon. Speaking of Cooleys, Betsy Morgan has a few of her own to show. Her husband, Fred, has taken over as the leading physician of Nitro. Bob Speas just parted company with the United Auto Parts. Says he. “United we stand, without they’ll fall.” Helen Hayes has the Lonely Hearts Corner in the local newspaper. She advises young girls, “How To Win Friends and Influence Young Sailors.” Sue Miller’s plans backfired and instead of be- coming a school teacher, she is giving Nitro its best basketball team since ’52. Keith Estep, plant man- ager at Monsanto, is the proud father. Everytime the team walks out on the floor, Keith says, “Those are my boys!” Johnnie King recently married. Says it isn’t right to be a king and not have a queen. Patricia Martin now resides in Dunbar where her husband, David Salisbury, retains his father’s po- sition as mayor. The ESSO Station at Civic Center is now owned Don “Pappa” Steele finally succeeded in raising an All-American. Mark Stephen, the first of his six, won this great honor last week. Mary Ferrell and Joe Casto are trying to prove they come “Cheaper By The Dozen.” Theresa Karnes is still flying around. First Nitro, then Tyler Mountain, Parkersburg and New York. Wonder where she will eventually land? Since Hop-a-Long Cassidy’s death, the boys and girls are going crazy over “Skip-a-Long Seemore,” better known to his classmates as James Hines. Jane Shamblin, Carol Owsley and Eulah Mc- Laughlin joined the WACS, since they were that way about uniforms. (Wacky) Donald Hudnall was always singing “I Wish I was In the Land of Dixie.” He is! Arlie Dolin is running a night school teaching Latin, the dead language, to ghosts. Gardner Campbell, noted athlete, was carrying the ball for Penn State, but now, (with chain) he is carry- ing it for State Pen. The government didn’t mind his 26