Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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29 Typing Students Given Pins, Awards For their ability in typing, twenty-nine students of Miss Marjorie Null’s typing classes were given awards in the class assembly yesterday, May 16. Alvera Lucian and Martha Swiger, seniors, received gold pins for typing sixty words per minute. Ruth Bailey, Paul Morrison, Robert Gerrard, Stanley Norman and Eugene Palmer was awarded silver pins for reaching the fifty mark. Other students awarded bronze pins for forty words a minute, are: Jo Ann Layman. Sara Lucente, Flora Fillipino, Katherine Pa-rise, Elaine Iaquinta, Ivorine Hammond, Janice Powell, Angeline Lopez, Sara Bellotte, Maxine Gerrard, Dorothy Barker. Victoria Lopez. Joe Capicola. Don Nicholson, Clayce , Gerrard, Mike Defazio, Mildred Townsend, I Mary Fernandez, Christine Robey, Mary Summers, Betty Lee Hoover, and Josephine I Diaz. ------------------------------f SENIOR CALENDAR May Day Festival May 1 Junior-Senior Prom May 10 Move-Up Day...... May 16 Senior Play May 17 Bacculeaureate Sermon May 19 Commencement May 24 Freak Day ? Sneak Day ? HART Service Station 800 W. Pike St. TEXACO PRODUCTS Exclusive We specialize in car washing Lubrication — Tire repairing WEBER'S Flowers Flowers Telegraphed Everywhere Phones 1677 - 1678 411 W. Main St. Clarksburg HOME COOKED MEALS Let Us Serve You L S. WHITEMAN 1720 Adams Ave. • EAT and ENJOY KEW BEE BREAD SAM LOPEZ General Merchandise Groceries and Meats Sanitary Baking Company 1221 N. 14th and Goff Streets Phone 3520 Phone 3957

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Victory Students Win Leadership Group Honors All Literary Prizes Lucille McBce, Toothman In the Harrison county division of the fifth annual essay contest sponsored by the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, all three prizes were won by Victory students. Florence Horner, a Junior, took the first prize, consisting of $10, and the privilege of entering the state contest. Harry Wallace, a senior, won the $5 second prize, and Mary Frances Zinn, a junior, in third place, received $2.50. These students won their prizes by writing essays of from 500 to 1,000 words on the subject, “The Benefits of Democracy.” WHAT’S YOUR HURRY? Caller: “Wno’t you walk as far as the streetcar with me, Tommy?” Age Seven: “I can’t.” Caller: “Why not?” Age Seven: “ ’Cause we’re goin’ to have dinner as soon as you go.” Two Victory High School seniors, Lucille McBee and Lee Toothman have received recognition from the Danforth Foundation for their outstanding qualities of leadership. Each will receive a certificate which enters them on the I-Dare-You Honor Roll of the Foundation and challenges them to “Dare Greatly, Live Usefully, and Share Freely,” all worthwhile things of life. In addition to the certificate they will also receive a copy of the book, “I Dare You,” written by Mr. William H. Danforth. president of the Foundation. It outlines a working pattern of life for youth who dare to aim at superior accomplishments. The Danforth Foundation was incorporated for educational, charitable, religious and humanitarian purposes to recognize talent for leadership in youth wherever it may appear and to stimulate youth to purposeful living. MADISON MINES Compliments Flowers of Store and Greenhouse Rae Hat Shoppe 512 Milford Street Arcade Bldg. Compliments TAYLOR’S of Barber Shop Manhattan 111 North Fifteenth Street Restaurant NORTHVIEW

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Junior Class Gives Prom for Graduates Approximately 365 students and guests attended the annual Junior-Senior Prom on Friday, May 10, in the American ballroom of the Waldo Hotel. This social event was sponsored by the juniors in honor of the graduating class. The evening’s program was carried out in Japanese style featuring the Senior class colors of silver and rose and the class flower, the pink rose. Decorations were of an oriental fashion with serpentines and lanterns adding to the effect. Upon arriving each guest was presented a party hat in keeping with the oriental mode. The evening’s entertainment consisted of dancing, games, and a floor show furnished by the orchestra. Dancing to the music of George Hall’s orchestra began at 8:30 and continued until 12:00. Among those attending were the seniors, members of the faculty, and their wives or husbands. County Superintendent Arthur V. Upton, and his office staff, the board of education, and the acting hosts, the junior class. Mrs. Ruth Ann Pyle, junior advisor, was chairman of arrangements for the dance. VICTORY. MY ALMA MATER I am a student of Victory High Since the dawn of creation my restless feet have beaten new paths across this state. My uneasy bark has tossed on all seas. My wonderlust was born of the craving for more liberty and a better wage for the sweat of my face. I looked toward Victory High with eyes kindled by the fire of ambition and heart, quickened with new-born hope. I approached its doors with great expectation. I entered with fine hopes. I have shouldered my burden as the Victory student-of-all-work. My brain is woven into the warp and woof of the fabric of your school being. My children shall be your children and your land shell be my land because my sweat and my blood will cement the foundations of the Victory High School of Tomorrow. JAMES SCOTT. LONESOME—THAT’S ALL “Blue Rain” is falling on a “Blue World” today, Changing the “Blue Skies” into grey. They say our “Blue Heaven” will burst like a song But don’t say “Good-bye” “Old Pal,” say “So-Long.” Tjf I Had My Way” we’d be “Faithful Forever” Still “I Only Know” we must end it “Now or Never.” Then it’s just “So Long” “Til We Meet Again,” “Friends” On the “Sunset Trail” “Out Where the Blue Begins,” “Over the Rainbow,” “Where the Mountains Reach the Sea.” We’ll be “Drifting” in our ‘Dreamboat,” “In a Mizz,” just “You and Me.” Whenever “You” get “In the Mood” or just ‘Lost In A Dream” Remember,” Victory when 'You and I Were Seventeen.” MARY F. ZINN. French Club Members Hold Banquet, Dance Members of the French club, under the direction of Mrs. Wanda Martin, held their annual banquet and dance Friday evening, April 26. in the Odd Fellows Hall in Adams-ton. The banquet was conducted entirely in French. Pete Simonette served as toastmaster. At the beginning of the program the group sang France’s national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” after which the president, Evelyn Sturm, introduced the incoming president. Manuel Alvarez. Nestor Dourlet, Jr., was the main speaker of the evening. Miss Lucy M. Bailey, principal, was the honor guest. Chairmen of the committees which made preparations for the banquet were: program. Mary McWhirter: favors, Eleanor Whiteman; decorations. Anna Lee Heaton and Tony Cut-to; tickets, Eugene Caussin; advertising, Florence Horner: entertainment. Louis Bianco: music, Manuel Alvarez; arrangements, Evelyn Sturm; hall, John Lamb. Other members of the club are: Sam Ba-rile, Regina Heaton, Mary Menendez, Ruby Mcore, Eva Picco, Anna Ruth Shreve, Joe Curia. Luella Freeland. Steve Georgiafandis, Ernest Husk, Mary Zane LeFevre, Joe Menendez. Betty Jean Sharpe. Mary Jane Walsh and Nina Fultz.