Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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PATTY WYCKOFF is now Mrs. Bill Nichols and is usually seen taking care of the four little Nichols. Some of the other girls who stop to chat with her on their way home from the grocery store are MRS. PATTY GERARD FRUM and MRS. NORMA JEAN WARD KIRK. It seems that vaudeville is in full swing. There is a show at the local theater starring CARL RIGGS and having a chorus line composed of IRENE REYNOLDS, PATTY NEWBROUGH, EVA JACOBS, ROSALIE HARDING, JUANITA PRATT, and DELPHIA DAVIS. CAROLYN HANNA and LOIS HANNAH are at present producing a Negro minstrel. DOTTY THOMAS, MARY POE, PEGGY REYNOLDS, and MYRLE ASHCRAFT are members of the -Rise and Shine- routine. We haven't seen much of PATTY FLINT, JOANN FITTRO, and MARY GEORGE. It seems that they haven't been heard of since the last semester exam in English. There is grave fear that they did not survive. JAMES WILKES and LAVONSISLER have a company to make rocket planes. The first test-night is made by that famous dare-devil, TONY BELLOTTE. He always wanted to make a trip to the moonl 11 Two of the classmates, ANDREW GOLDSMITH and JOHN PANTHER, are ambassadors to foreign countries. Ambassador Goldsmith is now in France. He -parleys- French quite fluently and is having a wonderful time there, especially with the pretty French girls. Ambassador Panther is in Russia. As he cannot speak Russian and few of the Russians speak English, they have very interesting meetings. PAUL STARKEY, NORMAN STEELE, FRED CHILDERS, and HOWARD ASHCRAFT are the four owners of a commercial air line. Two of the ace pilots are HOWARD GOODWIN and BILL DESIST. The hostesses on the planes are all members of our class, ALICE ASHCRAFT, JOAN FOX, MARGARET RICHARDS, SUE ROGERS, MAXINE NORMAN, and MARLENE PHILLIPS. Some of those gals really keep their pilots on little pink clouds. JAMES BURKHAMMER is now a famous stunt flyer. James was always a quiet boy in school, but now he has developed into a rather daring fellow. It must be the fresh airlM Coming back to Clarksburg, I see that a new college has been built. The President is NATE BAULD. Nate has been in the news quite frequently because he co-edited a new dictionary. That famous self-made genius, Clifton Webb, helped Nate to edit the new Webb-Bauld Dictionary. TOM AN ANIA coaches the football team which is so good that Tommy has decided to play Notre Dame next year. It seems that the women have taken over the city since we graduated. The new city manager is GERALDINE FRESHOUR, and PATTY NUTTER is the Chief of Police. Chief Nutter makes everyone of the patrolmen walk the chalk-line. WANDA WHALEY is the Sheriff of Harrison County. Sheriff Whaley, with her famous six-shooter, -Lazy Susan-, puts tt.ror in the hearts of crooks for miles around. At a recent meeting of the Clarksburg Moose Lodge, the great orator, EDWARD TERNAK, delivered the speech of gratitude on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of forrr - P-csdent Harry S. Truman.

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It so happens that the St. Louis Cardinals have quite a few of the Victory graduates of 52. TOM MERANDI is player coach and is drawing a salary which makes the one received by Stan Musial, that old Cardinal star, look like pocket money. ANDY GARCIA plays third base on the team. Turtle Garcia doesn't have much speed, but his pep and corny jokes keep up the moral of the team. PEE WEE ANDERSON also plays for the Cards and is one of the most colorful players in the game with his steady flow of chatter from behine home plate. Another sports star who made good is JIMMY GAINES, who has taken George Mikan's place in pro basketball. Coaches consider Jimmy a great player because of his ability to stand under the basket and drop the ball in. Victory's own CARMAN ROMANO has also made a great name for himself in the sports world. He is the coach of the Clarksburg Midgets, the greatest pro basketball team ever to set foot on any court. BILL COMPTON, a speed demon and one of the fastest drivers on any track, now owns the Indianapolis Race Track. Bill has changed the name to Compton Speedway. The featured drivers in the races are CLIFFORD NUTTER and DICK CALDWELL. Their cars are especially designed by ROY LAMB and are kept in tip-top condition by JAMES STEWART and TED BARNES. After becoming a success in the field of architecture, DAVE ROBERTS sold his company to SAM OLIVERIO and went into the music profession. Some of the members of his all-girl band are PEARL GRIFFITH, the gem of the band, for whom Dave has a particularly keen eye, DORIS LEE FERNANDEZ, RACHAEL FAZZINI, and CLISTA PATTERSON. The featured vocalist of the band is a pretty miss by the name of JEAN DRUMPUS. DENNY CUNNINGHAM also has his own jazz band. Critics consider his version of Rye Whiskey- the zaniest thing they've heard since Spike Jones recorded Chinese Mule Train . Many of the girls in our class have taken nursing as a career. Among the women in white are GERALDINE WRIGHT, CLOVIS HELDRITH, ANNA COX, WANDA EDDY, VIRGINIA LYNCH, KATHYRN ESTE, LONA BELLE BRYNER, and THELMA TRAUGH. Their ability to administer miracle drugs assured long life to their ageing teachers at Victory. After winning several beauty contest, MARY ANN JULIAN decided to become a nurse and is now kept busy at the Clarksburg Veterans Hospital. JEAN DINGO is a famous psychiatrist in New York City. Two of her most frequent patients are PHILLIP ROSSANO and Groucho Marx. Jean reports that neither Phil or Groucho want any personal check-ups, but they make secret visits to her to find out how the other one can be so crazy. ARTLENE HOUSER, ELINOR BEE, MARILYN HOUSE, MARTHA DRUMMOND, VIRGINIA McFARLIN VIOLET GRANDSTAFF, PHYLLIS TENDA, and WANDA LYNCH are in Washington, D C. , working as private secretaries to the Congressmen from West Virginia. PATTY EAVENSON is a famous skater in the Skaters Revue, and HESTER MARTIN is known to millions as the noted torch singer of the Stork Club. In our class we had some tall girls; most of them have put their height to good use. At present PHYLLIS KNIGHT, JOYCE FLOYD, NINA HARDMAN, and PATTY MORRIS are being seen on the front cover of Life Magazine. They are representing the four seasons. ALICE LASKO is now one of the most famous models in France. Alice was only in Paris a few weeks when she met a tall, dark, and handsome Frenchman. Alice hasn’t stopped singing her praises of France yet!!!

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AUGUSTINE DEFAZIO owns the Sunset Drive-in Theatre. A few weeks ago there was a motion picture at the theatre with BARBARA LOUGH and Dennis Day. They are co-starring in the new musical, We’re from Dublin . JUNIOR GIAQUINTA is a world famous golfer. He has replaced his brother Frank as the captain of the American Golf Team. Some of the golfers who are still trying to swing an iron on his new golf course in NorthCarolina are Ruth Anglin, Helen Xenakis. Dick Young, and Pappy Hess. CHUCK DAVIS has become a dentist. He is now supplying the false teeth for our old teachers. SAM BRUNETTI has taken over his father’s barbershop in North View. You can usually see him cutting the few hairs that Mr. Childers and Mr. Brummage have left and nicking the faces of his former classmates. ERNEST COSTILOW owns the Kew Bee Bread Company and is at present making plenty of dough. MARY MARTHA PERRI is still reading her love letters which have accumulated throughout the years. JOAN MICHAEL is making changes and repairing Peanut Heaven at the Moore’s Opera House as she is now the manager. DONALD TIPPER has fulfilled his life-long ambition to be a coach. He is now at Peeltree Junior High School. With such an expert coaching the Peeltree Peelers, they should have an excellent team. RALPH HOLDER has taken over Ralph Kiner's place as first basemanof the Pittsburgh Pirates, Those faithful Pirate fans finally have something to crow about as the Pirates are in first place at last. In a recent interview Ralph said his biggest thrill is seeing Rosy Rose well, now old and feeble, take out his whistle and yell, Open the window, Aunto Minnie, and throw out the garden hose. JIM CARFORA and EDDIE FULTZ now own a big cattle ranch in the West. Neither of them sells any of his beef-steaks. They have to use them all to satisfy their own appetites. I saw a recent article in the paper the other day that read Layfield Overcome by Fumes.. KENNA LAYFIELD, one of Clarksburg’s foremost citizens, was almost asphyxiated yesterday when he was watching a plumber fix a gas line in his home. Mr. Layfield is recovering now in a local hospital. Doctors say his good condition is due to the quick thinking of PAIGE FURBEE, the chief engineer of the Hope Gas Company. Paige always was rather conscientious in school. JANE MOATS and Paul Wayne Haggerty are in the fur business. Jane gets all the minks that she wants now. That lucky girl I! I NORMA EWART has a ballet studio. Norma wanted to be different, so she decided to teach only young men at the studio. At first none of them were very interested, but Norma didn’t let that get her down. She put pictures of her dancing instructresses outside of the studio. Now they flock there in droves. Incidentally, the pretty tutors are CAROLYN SHORT, TWYLA DODD, NORMA LEE HOLBERT, VIRGINIA LORIA, DOROTHY MARSHALL, and ELEANOR SMALLWOOD.