Nitro High School - Nitronian Yearbook (Nitro, WV)

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.J 3 CjjGLze 3nto printing of $4 bills, but Janet Watson, the new Dagmar, didn’t like the picture of her that he put on them. Donna Cook and Helen Baldridge have grown tired of being quiet. They went to college where they made excellent cheerleaders. Anne Hoffman is better known as West Virginia’s “Pistol Packin’ Mamma.” She was experimenting with Papa’s shot gun when it went off. Millard Cook settled down with his little “Angell” and is now raising little dev . . . Oops, children. Gweneth Shahan is now a famous author of mys- teries. Her latest being, “Who Stole The Hinges Off The Hen House Door?” Sue Murrock has finally found her true love and they’ve just settled down in their new brick home. Dora Montgomery didn’t wait long to become Mrs. Grandin. They are living in Norfolk, Virginia, where Milt is stationed with the U. S. Navy. James Perks took over Harry James’ place play- ing the trumpet. For his debut he played, “Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be In Carolina.” Everyone wished he was. Carolyn Hayes is still working at McDonald’s Grocery. Says she likes it now that they have a nice- looking manager. Johnny Morris is now a private detective. He is looking into the case of the “Missing Link” between man and ape. Faye Basham, who was always tops, won na- tionwide fame a few years ago. She was crowned ‘Miss America of 1960.” Robert Taylor and Steve Tyson are now promi- nent businessmen in Nitro. They jointly own the chain of Kroger Stores. Donald and Raymond Westfall teamed up and now own private steamboat lines. They operate along the Kanawha River. Each time they pass Nitro, they blow a salute to the ’ole town. Leonard Casto and Clifford Godbey, noted dentists, won fame with the remarkable jobs they have pulled. Their glum dispositions are due to the, fact that they are always looking down in the mouth. Gary Ragle became a mortician. Hev found busi- ness very, very dead. Consequently, he looked something more exciting and is noW rig tSS fSP 'sales for ghost ships. Dana Johnston has made Nitro v him. After beginning with the Charlestoi has finally worked up to the Boston Rec Ronald Bass and Kenneth Asbury ite they were always up in the ajr any{ when they’re gonna land? Mary Powell is still an office work dr at Cox’s. She has already married three of their tnafiagers and is now looking for the fourth. It was a double wedding for Ma . and Clyde Harris, Maxine Payne and Kenny West in the year 1953 and they are living very peacefully in Nitro. Kenneth Turner is now working at an Atomic Plant. We always knew he had a sign-tific brain. Bob Murphy decided to try his luck at Vasser. He is now a professor of fashions and has dated every gal qn the campus. Sonny Wallace has become the Champion stock car driver. His speed has already reached 200 m. p. h. See you—m eaven?—Sonny. fries L hori'land Jerry Lamb decided to make the Navy. They were stationed in France the last typoft. Must be those French bathing beau- over 'fnerq Wade Null became an engineer on the New York Central. He gdt so excited on his first run, that he took the wrong track at Sattes and hasn’t been heard of since. . —x ns out-did himself in trying to defend 'ho was up for the charges of having six wives—all at once. During the investigation, it was discovered that Lewis also had one too many and now they are both serving terms. Keith Priddy, Lee Wyant and Bill Criner are known as the falcons. When they drive their car, people can’t decide whether it is an airplane flying low or the boys hitting the high spots. Patty Hill is now manager of what is left of Mon- santo. The great disaster occurred when Darrell Don- aldson thought he had completed one of his great ex- periments. Everything went BOOM! Patricia Lyons is secretary to Eisenhower and has maintained the job since 1952. Pat says she likes her job, but it isn’t like being with her friends back in high school. Helena Simmons is the owner of a lady’s shop and sells everything from foundations to chimney tops. Carole Trainer and Verdella Gibson have long married their Bill and Jack and are just content be- ing housewives. Jimmy Westfall and the former “Ginny” King are so-o proud of their two sets of twins. Both sets have cute freckles and red hair! Wonder who they look like? Talma Lemon, now famous actress, just completed the play, “Disaster Strikes Only Once.” Talma was the disaster and she struck the hero. Marilyn Dent thought about becoming a physical education teacher. She miscalculated a little; moved south, married, and is busy enough training six boys of her own. Richard Lanham has finally bought Holman’s and is doing a very lively business—gives away a free car every month. Carol Gill and Lillian Johnson are having their ups and downs. Their two oldest children are com- peting for the title of the National Typing Champion. Agatha Michael is quietly residing in Nitro, rais- ing her five little “Wolfes” and taking care of her den. Shirley Dolin now owns and operates a beauty parlor in Nitro and does a rip-roarin’ business. Her motto being, “The Worse They Come The Better I Like Them!” Donna Meadows had high hopes of becoming an- other Florence Nightingale and would have made it, too, but after graduating from training she did what’s natural. Fell in love, married, and is residing quietly on the outskirts of town. Bettye Gaylor decided to attend college and she became one of the ten most famous women in the world. She has taken Eleanor Roosevelt’s place and it is rumored that she may be the next president. And last, but not least, the old water tank standing on 21st Street Hill is illuminated by a flash of lightning. Yes, it is still there—“Seniors ’52.” Every year the same group retouch it to keep it a living memory to all. His task completed, the ghost vanishes to rest at last in peace. 27

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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

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