Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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MAY 1, 1940 May Day sponsored by the sophomore class. Elizabeth Davisson was crowned queen with Rosalie Duarte as her maid of honor. MAY 3, 1940 Electa Jean Lockhart thinks Jack Beebe is a big brute. He deprived her of studying her English today by hiding her book. MAY 10, 1940 The Junior-Senior Prom is to be held at the Waldo Hotel tonight. Decorations will be carried out in Oriental fashion and the music will be furnished by George Hall and his orchestra. MAY 16, 1940 Move-up Day. The Council met in last assembly and proceeded to dispose of all official business including the filing of historic papers for the benefit of prosterity. The bestowing of the mantle of the Senior responsibility of the junior class, the relinquishment of the key, sole method of acquiring senior privileges, and the bequeathing of senior treasures to all and sundry. Finally the illustrous future was ascertained by the means of a famous crystal gazer. Grand finale was the passing of the Seniors from the Victory scene of action and the advancement of lower classmen to a higher status. The remaining schedule for the coming time is as follows: MAY 17, 1940 Senior Play, “Seventeen” by Booth Tarkington, with such seniors as Lee Toothman, Melba Funk. Jack Hurley, Lucille McBee, Donald Lynch, Margaret Wittman, Leatrice Glaspell, Walter Thompson, Wilma Crim, John Tiano, Charlotte Leuliette, Eugene James, Willis Andre and Jim Lichillo participating. MAY 19, 1940 The Seniors will return again to Victory for the Baccalaureate Sermon, which will be given by S. O. Bond, President of Salem College. MAY 24, 1940 For the first time student participation will be noted in the Commencement program this year. The program will have for its theme “Goals for American Youth.” Student speakers will be: Ruth Hoover, Valedictorian: Lorraine DiSalvo, Salutatory, and Lee Toothman. the president’s address. The invocation will be given by Eugene James and the benediction by Bernice Randolph. ALVAREZ’S GENERAL STORE “A Good Place for Victory Students to Ship” Spelter, W. Va. Telephone 9661-J1 Compliments of FORD’S Cash Market THE CHTATERBOX Meats and Groceries 1542 West Pike Street Birds Eye Frosted Foods Chas. E. Franckle 1540 W. Pike Phone 2703

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JANUARY 27, 1939 Jimmy Xenakis and Vera Monti who have been rather torrid of recent months are having heart trouble. Kenneth Swiger was recently voted the best all-round boy. The junior clasj. is going to contribute $150 to the senior contribution which is to be used for purchasing a motion picture machine and public add! ess system as an all-school project. APRIL 21, 1939 Flash—Junior-Senior prom is scheduled for May 12, I won’t miss that. I am glad we aren’t going to have a banquet this year. Kenneth Swiger. President of the Junior Class aided by John Tiano, end Ma jorie Bell issued the invitation in the form of a skit. APRIL 16, 1939 Six junior chemistry students—Lucille McBee. June Houillett, Juanita Sumpter. Naomi Yeager. Donald Lynch, and Monalee Crutchfield attended the eighth annual Chemistry Day Meet at Glen-ville today. All had a nice visit, even if it did rain dogs and cats all day long. MAY 18, 1939 Move-up day today. Kenneth Swiger received the key and now we can go in and out the front door. SEPTEMBER 10, 1939 Well we are Seniors and some of our most outstanding students are gene, among them Kenneth Swiger, Scott Nelson, Marjorie Bell. We certainly will miss them. SEPTEMBER 12, 1939 Charlotte Leuliette was elected head cheerleader today. Wind-baggy Lee Toothman was elected president cf the Senior class with John Tiano and Lyhle Gillenwater as Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. Rosalie Duarte, Betty Cox, Melba Funk and Mary Capicola are our new band sponsors. We’ll see them September 20 with the band at the Victory-Elkins game. Veri Monti is traveling in Italy at present. She will be home soon, however. OCTOBER 14, 1939 Only 25 seniors made the Honor Roll for the frist six week period. It is the English contract. The Senior council in an unanimous agreement with the senior class appropriated money for payment of a hospital bill for a member of the athletic department—Pete Rome. The Senior class is always willing to help in time of troubles. NOVEMBER 9, 1939 Victory Day with Lee Toothman presiding as principal—can you imagine. But 400 people attended. NOVEMBER 19, 1939 Lucille McBee won first place in a beauty contest held at Salem College. Other girls entering from Victory were Betty Lee Himes, Marian Hughes and Elizabeth Davisson. Pete Rome was presented with a medal for his athletic contributions ta Victory High School by the 11:00 Modem Problem Class. Ralph Ncwl n made the presentation. John •Fudge” Ciriu'lo is known to be one of the finest iefenre linesmen ever to don the orange and black of the Virtory team. NOVEMBER 18, 1939 Victory High School upsets Washington Irving. 21-14. Good old Victory certainly knows how to play football. Lyhle Gillenwater looked rather dreamy in journalism class last week. Maybe Margaret Wittman is a lucky girl. NOVEMBER 24, 1939 Mr. Richard Dyer passed away today. He was a new teacher but everybody liked him and we certainly will miss him for time to come. DECEMBER 14, 1939 John Meranda is recovering at a local hospital, from a severe attack of appendicitis. Good luck John. DECEMBER 15, 1939 The Senior Class is sponsoring the Mistletoe Hop tonight at 8:30 at the Waldo Hotel. The swing will be furnished by Sammy Ellis and his orchestra. DECEMBER 21, 1939 The Seniors will give the annual Holiday Play today. It is “Peace I Give Unto You.” The characters include, Margaret Wittman. Donald Lynch. Jack Hurley. Lee Toothman, and Paul Gillespie. JANUARY 10, 1940 Exams started today. I am so tired of cramming I can’t remember a thing I read. Hope I pass. FEBRUARY 9, 1940 Lucille McBee and Lee Toothman were voted the best all-round students in Victory. Both are seniors. Warder Powell and Jim Mihialiak are gems on the basketball squad. They certainly dazzle the spectators. The Senior Class members have chosen their 1940 commencement announcements. The announcement chosen is triple folding; First fold, featuring school seal in gold; second fold, an etching of he school and third, depicting the announcement. The Senior boys—Mrs. Cresap’s home room, lead in attendance this time with 99.3 per cent average. MARCH 22, 1940 Lee Toothman is the winner of the Third District Oratorical Contest Sponsored by the American Legion. The title of his oration is “The Benefits of Being an American Citizen.” APRIL 1 1940 The Foolish Frolic sponsored by the senior class and the Optic Staff is scheduled for tonight. (HISTORY CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)

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Will In behalf of the class of 1940 of Victory High School, of the city of Clarksburg, Township of Coal, County of Harrison, State of West Virginia of the United States of America, in North America, Western Hemisphere, we are about to bestow cherished gifts and glories, greatly coveted by underclassmen of this senior class who are about to pass out of this sphere of life in full possession of crammed minds, well-trained memories, and gigantic superhuman understanding. We do make and publish this, our last will and testament, revoking and making void all former promises or wills by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, carelessly spoken, one to the other, in an hour of mental aberration. Through very deliberate consideration, we made our decisions as justly, generously and impartially as possible in distributing these cherished gifts unto those whom we thought would make the best possible use of them. In our inventory, due to the unusual stress and duress under which we are laboring we may quite possibly have made some mistake; but such things as we are possessed of, we hereby give into your possession, praying that you will accept them as a sacred trust from those who have gone before. If you are not prepared, one and all, for the unfolding of the fruits of this reverent document, we shall proceed with the distribution of afore-mentioned chattels. We give and bequeath to the dear faculty, some of whom have been here since ancient times and who have been our faithful instructors for the past memoriable three years, a melodious and unbroken succession of restful nights and peaceful dreams. No longer need they lie awake, restless through the long watches of the night to worry over the uncertainty of this lucrative and prodigiously prominent class of 1940. We know that it has been a hard strain on them, for it has been said that we at all times and under all conditions have been difficult to manage. To Miss Bailey, we collectively and individually will our most devoted affection and our tender regards for the egregious and profound education received in this fine institution of learning under her principal-ship. The girls of the senior class leave to the old maids on the faculty their Hollywood glamour in the hopes that it will result in as much success as they have had in landing husbands. We leave, in fee simple, to Victory our undying loyalty and affection because of her undue concern for our welfare, we bequeath to her, bonded stock in any claim that we may make to fame and fortune in the future. Also to the faculty we leave thirteen hogsheads of oil to be used for refilling lamps depleted in the perusal of brilliant manuscripts turned in by this year’s class. To the class of ’41 we leave several gross of variously assorted notes, which reveal the love lorn condition of its members, to be lost at intervals in class rooms, halls and on the walk in front of the building. John Tarantino, John Cirullo, Lee Tooth-man and James Scott, leave to Miss Bailey and Miss Van Horn one barrel each of wooden nickles in exchange for same of new nickles collected from various school funds. To Miss Bailey we leave a pledge, duly signed by each member of the class, to remember certain kind admonitions and to incorporate into our future the ideals of behavior which she has taught us throughout our three years at Victory. Margaret Wittman leaves the race for the heart and love of Harold Lovell to any Junior miss lucky enough to be the Juliet. The Band Sponsors leave all the empty white shoe polish bottles to the chemistry laboratory for use in experiments. Ray Hurley is the recipient of “Buckwheat” Elliot’s magnitudinous voice in singing his theme song, “Riding Down the Canyon” in 9:57 Study Hall. Sam Veltri bestows his remarkable proficiency exhibited in Miss Davis’s 9:57 Modern Problems Class to Manuel Arias, Fred Brand, John Walsh and Robert George If you speak to him personally or to Miss Davis they will give you your gift. We leave to the junior class the intelligence of Louis Diaz, Frankie DeMarko, Richard Hill, Walter Thompson, Wanda Ross, and Elva Vincent. They have not as yet attained full stature, due to so much time spent on intellectual activities. Also, those (HISTORY CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)