Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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Girl Reserves Hold Spring Formal Dance Victorian Girl Reserves sponsored their final and largest event of the year, a spring formal, Friday, May 3, at the Masonic Temple ballroom. The organization, composed of 120 members, danced to the music of Sammy Ellis and his orchestra. The ballroom was decorated with spring flowers on garden trellises and blue and white draping the orchestra booth and dance hall. During the evening a program was presented with Lucille McBee, club president, and Miss Virginia Davis, club adviser, in charge. Martha Lee Reiser succeeded Lucille McBee as president, and Charlene Moine was named vice president. Geraldine Tyler is the new treasurer and Helen Xenakis, secretary. Miss Davis and Miss Marjorie Null, assistant club adviser, received gifts for their excellent advisorship during the past year. Bonna B. Leep presented Lucille with a a gift for her fine leadership during the past two years as president of the club. A corsage was auctioned by Lee Tooth-man and Eugene Coulson was the buyer. Awards were presented by Miss Davis to Bonna B. Leep, Jean Criss, Betty Tooth-man, Ruth Hoover, Betty Lee Himes, Anna Ruth Shreves, Evelyn Sturm, Martha Lee Reiser, Mary Jane Walsh, Wanda McKinney. Virchie McKinney, Margaret Wittman, Helen Xenakis, and Laura Bell Himes. Mary Jane Walsh reigned as queen over the ball and the following were princesses: Evelyn Sturm, Melba Funk, Charlene Moine. Patricia Coleman, Bonna B. Leep, Jean Criss, and Lucille McBee. DAVIS FUNERAL HOME Inc. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 443 W. Pike St.... Phone 196 Clarksburg, W. Va. Thespians to Entertain At Dinner-Dance May 22 Members of the Thespian organization will sponsor their annual banquet and dance in the Marine Room of the Hotel Gore on Wednesday, May 22, under the supervision of Miss Cornelia Ladwig, director. After the banquet initiation services will be held for the new members who are elig-ble to join the troupe. Those who are planning to be initiated are as follows: Robert Smith, Thomas Stuart, Virginia Armstrong, Patricia Coleman, Donald Little and Carl Holcomb. Funeral Home AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 692 515 West Pike Street Clarksburg, W. Va. GENERAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, Inc. FARM MACHINERY 414 North Fourth Street Phone 3198 Clarksburg, W. Va

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Juniors, Seniors Tie In Fifth Honor Roll Of the 703 students enrolled, 114 made the honor roll for the fifth six-weeks period. The juniors and seniors tied for first place by placing thirty-nine members each on the honor list. The sophomores followed with thirty-six. Five students, all girls, made a straight “A” average. They are Lucille McBee, senior; Ida Belle Grimm and Florence Horner, juniors, and Eleanor Whiteman and Mary Boyles, sophomores. The honor list follows; Seniors: Angero Miller. Josephine Nale. Teresa Nash, Bernice Randolph, Julia Rosetta, Flora Scarnati, Louise Spatafore, De-lores Springer, Mary Suarez, Martha Swiger, Mary Jane Walsh. Naomi Yeager, Margaret Wittman, Lucille McBee, Mary Grant, Betty Lee Himes, Ruth Hoover. Wilma Jones, Mary Kantsamparis, Charlotte Leuliette, Electa Jean Lockhart, Wanda Lea Morrison, Ruth Bailey, Jeannette Cirullo, Wilma Crim Monalee Crutchfield, Irene De Bock, Lorraine Di Salvo, Rosalie Duarte, Dale Richards, Lee Toothman, Jules Langlett, Lyhle Gillenwater, James Lichillo, Paul Gillespie, Norman Beebe, Leslie Carpenter, Robert Gerrard and Eugene James. Juniors: Virginia Charles, Flora Phil-lippini, Betty Lee Hart, Ivorine Hammond, Doris Freeman. Ida Belle Grimm, Caroline Koontz, Mary Linch, Victoria Lopez, Antoinette Nardelli, Christine Robey, Florence Horner. Katherine Paris. Betty Smith. Helen Sherman, Evelyn Sturm. Martha Lee Reiser, Kathleen Tiano, Winifred Pope, Carmella Palagino, Esther Simms, Anna Basile, Louise Be Sure About Your Eyes Consult Dr. Virginia Cummings Fifth Floor Union Bank Bldg. Clarksburg Phone 2668 Andre, Ernestine Barnes, Mary McWhirter, Harold Lovell, Louis Loria, Bert Kennedy, Harry Matthew, Rosser James, Bernard Reeder, Joseph Powell, James Southern, William Ward, Rex Bumgardner, Donald Alvarez, Sam Barile, Louise Blanco and James Iaconis. Sophomores: Eula Rose Short, Leona Smith, Helen Snider, Dorothy Spatafore, Madalou Swiger, Geraldine Tyler, Kathleen Willison, Betty Jean Yates, Betty Lee Hoover, Virginia Armstrong. Edna Tresize; Eleanor Whiteman, Mary Virginia Audia, Helen Louise Brown, Nina Merle Bussey, Anna Christafore, Kathryn Cavalle, Patricia Coleman, Margaret Defazio, Betty Lou Haller, Mary Boyles, Luella Freeland, Bernice Hamilton, Esther Lang. Frances Lasko, Mary Zane Lefevre, Frances McKeen, Nina Belle Pratt. Frances Davisson, Eugene Palmer, Savatore Zannino, Charles Cueto, Ralph Frankhouser, Steve Georgifandis, Patrick McCauley and Arnett Lamb. DAVIS LUNCH Good Coffee—Tasty Sandwiches Plate Lunches Cold Soft Drinks, Ice Cream and Tobacco 171 W. Pike Clarksburg, W. Va. Compliments of D. M. DAVIS 917 West Pike Street Phones 3340—1—2

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victory Girls Attend Victory Band Plavs County-wide Play Day A[ Fegtiva] Twelve girls of this school, accompanied by their instructor, Miss Mae McDonald, attended the annual Play Day, held at the Washington Irving stadium, Wednesday, May 8. This affair is held for the purpose of creating a better inter-school relationship and sportmanship. It is composed of girls from junior and senior high schools of Harrison county. Games participated in during the day were ring tennis, volley ball, speed ball, long ball, dodge ball, relay races and stunts. At the conclusion of the day, ribbons were presented to the players of the teams winning first, second and third places. Those who attended from Victory were Neysa Corathers, Tressie Fragale, Pauline Boyce, Dolores Fernandez, Dorothy Spata-fore, Thelma Doolittle, Josephine Diaz, Frances Lasko, Leona Smith, Eleanor Whitman, Frances McKeen, Anna Lee Leuliette, and the instructor, Miss Mae McDonald. HAMMONT HARPER Restaurant “Good Food is Good Health” 228 W. Pike St. Phone 313 Clarksburg, W. Va. For the second consecutive year our school participated in the band festival, along with several other high schools competing for honors at Salem College, West Virginia, on May 8 and 9. Wednesday was devoted to individual contests in which Victory was represented by William Crawford, drum major; Melba Funk, Betty Cox, Mary Capicola, and Rosalie Duarte, sponsors; soloists, Junior Coulson, saxa-phone; Charleen Moine, trumpet; Edward Howell, bass horn; Loretta Morrison, saxa-phone. The princess representing the Victory band was Mary Jnae Walsh. Thursday afternoon the band participated in the parade. A mass concert was held in the evening at the amphitheater with Professor Curtis R. Jansen, of Ohio University in charge. Kenneth Swiger Talks Before Charlestonians Kenneth Swiger, a former member oi the senior class of 1940, now a cadet at Greenbrier Military School, recently addressed members of the Charleston Kiwanis Club on problems of American youth and moral failures, at the civic club’s weekly luncheon in the Daniel Boone Hotel. Last year, Kenneth was assistant editor of the Victory Optic and a leader in school activities. He was also voted the best allround student in the “Who’s Who” poll. Kenneth entered Greenbrier in the fall of last year. HARTLAND PLANING MILL LUMBER AND BUILDERS SUPPLIES 715 West Pike Street Phones 454 and 455