Petersburg High School - Petro Schola Yearbook (Petersburg, WV)

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JUNIOR PLAY Early in the year the Juniors presented the play “ by Jay Tobias with the following cast of characters: Nora Malone, Cook at the Elliott home Officer Tim McGrill, Nora’s sweetheart Mrs. Fanny Farnham, Per ry’s Aunt by Mar riag’e ! Larry Elliott, young business man Ted Hartley, his oldtime college pal........ Vivian Smythe-Kersey, Larry’s fiancee' ' ' Uncle Aleck Twiggs, in charge of Charlie Charlie Hopps, Larry’s ward............... Mrs. Caroline Smythe-Kersey, Vivian’s mother .’ Mortimer Smythe-Kersey, Vivian’s brother. Prompter................. Here Comes Charlie” Mary Jane Hedrick ......Norris Dolly . . . .Mary K. Dolly .........Andy Boor ........Steve Roby . .Margaret Secrist ......Paul Yokum ......Ellen C rum , . Jeannette Weese ......George Ours , . . . Eleanor Sites bov Lh11 04!: young broker, thinking he is becoming guardian of a small fwi . he has taken a girl to raise, seventeen and pretty. Charlotte iS called Charlie, hence the error. Why the jolt? Well, Larrv is en- gaged to the imperious Vivian Smythe-Kersey and is further henridden by a snobbish aunt Charlie arrives from Arkansas accompanied by Uncle Aleck Twiggs hke herself a true product of the Ozarks. Humor develops from the social blunders of the new arrivals especially when Aunt FannyP Farnham fntnr«mined !°wfke °£Cle AlGCk earn his b°ard and keeP tries'to turn him into a social butler. To save Larry embarrassment, the pair depart only to return after some months. Oh, so different. Charlie is barely recognizable UncrerAlecketoor’hathe 8dl0ri°US Charlotte who flutters all masculine hearts, uncle Aleck, too, has undergone an amazing change.

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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY 1 JT3 ♦i The National Honor Society is a national organization with the present headquarters in Washington, D. C. Petersburg High cchool added a local chapter in 1939 and received a charter, No. 1972. Since the date of organization over 100 students have been inducted into the local chapter. The emblem of the society is the keystone bear ing the torch and the first letter of the four key words of the organization. Those four words are referred to as the four qualities that one must possess in order to gain admittance into the society. The words are: Leadership, Scholarship, Character and Service. Students are selected from the Junior and Senior Classes. Those that have a two point average or better become candidates and are voted on by the entire faculty. If passed the candidates are initiated into the local chapter in a special assembly exercise before the entire student body. The local chapter has for its special project this year the selection of an honor roll from every class at the end of each six week period. The names of those selected are posted in a special honor roll casein the hall of the main building. This same case also has the National Honor Roll for Petersburg High School displayed above the school’s honor roll. The officers of the local or- ganization are as follows: President, Arlyn Arnold; Vice-President, Helen Ours; Secretary and Treasurer, Patsy Kline; Messenger, Oley Kline, Sponsor, Lloyd N. Snyder; members, Cary Breathed, Uldene Mongold, Margaret ecrist, Bonnie Yokum, Virginia Berg, George Ours, David Feaster and Eleanor Layton.

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THE VIKING LOG Two separate classes worked together to publish the students’ news- paper, The Viking Log. Eight members o£ the staff from last year teamed with twenty members of the present Journalism class to issue six papers printed by commercial printers and six extra editions which were mimeo- graphed at the school. This year The Viking Log was entered in the West Virginia University newspaper contest for school newspapers. This is the first time Petersburg has entered the contest for many years. A rating had not been received when this report was written. By printing twelve editions of the paper the class set a record for editions in one year. Last school year only nine editions were printed. Front row; Left to right, Mary Jane Hedrick, Jo Ann Mowry, Uldene Mon- gold, Margaret Secrist, Ina Alt, Jeanette Weese, Betty Rexrode. Second row: Sally Moomau, Dolores Rexrode, Jean Likens, Virginia Bill, Betty Jean Lahman, Dorothy Lewis, Clement Clower, Sponsor. Back row: Grant Stump, Roy Vance, Glenn Hanlin, Charles Secrist, Arlyn Arnold, Edward May, Delro Mongold. Camera Shy: Mary G. Dolly, Norris Dolly, Eleanor Layton, Dale Michael, Winnie Mae Shanholtz, Paul Yokum, Arthur Kessel, Ray Nesselrodte.