Northfork High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Northfork, WV)

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CLASS HISTORY As we look back to a bright September day in l9hl we see a group of shy little boys and girls taking their first look at the Jpgfffxb place where they would spend most of the next twelve years. Among 4 . ,Iss these were Jane Anderson, Martha Clark, Jean Bell, Joe Morello, .I 4. Polly Hotchie, Joann Pennington, Dolores Perez, Jack Herndon, Billy Cox, and Mary 'Pigtails' Fagio Jean Bell disliked her company at Q--L ' NIHS so she left in the middle of the year for Rolfe While these 11.11, youngsters were looking over Ilorthfork School, others were having 53090 similar experiences at Crumpler, Ashland, McDowell, Rolfe, Algoma, and Keystone In the second grade Billy Cox and Martha Clark, not being able to stand the entrance of Shirley Henderson, Helen Spoloric, Sue Reed, and Sammy Skeen, Fled to Keystone and Coalwood Respectively In the third grade Polly Notchie was drawn to New York by the thought of the gay life it offered and our Jean Bell decided that she liked us after all and returned Sue Reed, who d1dn't think our school was good enough for her, left us at the end of the school year Two long years rolled by with nothing much happening except broken paddles and lots of lessons Then in the fifth grade our wandering Polly, tired of big city life, retarned and Jean Bell changed her mind again and went to Arizona In the sixth grade Julia Flippen, who could not stand Billy Cox at Keystone, came to us for protection In the seventh grade everything was different de were high school Our day, instead of being divided by recesses, broken up into six p riods On the second day everybody got there were so many classrooms Also in the seventh grade we invaded by the gang from up the holler June Bailey, Minnie Bullls, Randolph Burgess, Dolly Cannady, Ronnie Cook, Nancy Lewey, Shirley Lewey, William Cowan, Eugene Furches, Barbara Holloway, Betty Lewellyn, Virginia Mitcham, Helen Monarky Doris Nichols, Katherine Osborne, Roland Roberts, Bobby Seren, Betty Sexton, Melba Snyder, and Verna Stevens Our long lost pals Sue Reed, Jean Bell, and Martha Clark pleaded to be admitted once more into our wonderful institution In the eighth grade it was like an atom bomb exploding when the Crumpler Junior High invaded us Among these were Frankie Boales, Margaret Cochran, Fern Bornett, Betty Craft, Jack East, Dorothy Jones, Junior Jones, Maxine Lambert, Richard Orander, Mary Jane Otey, Dona Sexton, Mack dhitt, and Sue Workman But wait that 1sn't all here comes shy little Bessie Lawless straggling in late a habit she has never broken In the ninth grade we were joined by Jean walker, who thought Nortnfork was better than 4cComss, and Jimmy Hyder, who was so lazy that he was kicked oat of Kimball In the tenth grade it seemed as though we would never recover from the shock of those Keystone kids They were Rochelle Black in junior was lost were Dillon, Margie Flippen, Vester Gravely, Ola Jean Hairfield, Glenn Jones, Carol Will , Carole Mullins, Waudie McPeak, Lebata williams, Shirley Parks, Tom y Rakes, Anita Tapia, Billy Vannoy, Vildred Halghn, Bonnie Harden, Virgie Whaling, and Lardon dilliams Billy Cox decided that re would forgive and forget and came up with the kids t was also in the tenth grade that Jean dalker and June Ballev left for McComas In the eleventh grade everything was about to settle down when Icle Donathan and hannie Linkous, Elkhorn Indians, joined us You can imagine the uproar then! Also Jean Walker after a lot of school changing decided that NHS was best after all and came back to join us Finally the year of all years rolled around and everybody oegan to get impatient and to worry a little bit about their grades we were now those wonderful, dignified Seniors We were joined June Bailey, who wanted to graduate udth her friends, and Tommy Henegar from Whitewood, Virginia with our goal almost completed, we are now twiddling our thumbs impatiently waiting to get that treasured diploma for w ich we have worked so hard for so long Wonder what we'll be twenty years fr m now' L Qlb C L . s 5 I 6 t . A I fl J f I n . n-- 1 x ax ' me I . -- C- -- fu? . Y A fl ' A A rv n. -- - burn, Mary Custis Bower, Shirley Campbell, Maxine Cyphers, Deward Q , . . 5 IL 1 QV, I 1 . ' A 1 ' N W. I A ' . - Irv: . . A by . . 'I

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