Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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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.

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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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I see that a carnival has come to town. It is at Norwood Park. There are big crowds every night as people are anxious to see the Death-Defying Trio composed of BILL REEVES, BOB KENNY and EUGENE STREETS. They ride around the walls of a cylinder on motorcycles. Most of the more timid ladies listen to a certain fast-talking lady, JOANN TRUSLER. Miss Trusler is talking on the subject, How to Get a Man . I guess that she is pretty well versed in that certain topic, or she wouldn't be there. NINA and JEAN MOORE are also in the carnival. They are known as the Phiz Kids , and they guarantee to answer any questions which they are asked. One lady asked them what most little girls wanted to do when they got as big as their mother. Nina answered promptly, Most little girls know exactly what they are going to do when they get as big as mother—diet. JEAN HYMAN and FRANCES BAILEY are noted artists. Last year they were in Europe to paint Princess Margaret Rose's four little boys. The Princess, as unpredictable as ever, married a sun-tanned millionaire from Florida. Those English just can't resist us Americans. PHYLLIS TOMES is married and has six children. She says that they are all book-worms and admits that they don't take after her. Said Phyllis, Looking back over my high school days, I feel my heart begin to soften. If only time hadn't passed so fast, and I had passed more often. JOANN PICCOLO and BEVERLY WOLFE work in an orphanage. They always were sweet and gentle, but some of the children try their patience, especially three little boys who like to play cowboys and Indians. Joann and Beverly don't mind being the Indians, but who likes to be scalped in addition. STEVE KOVACH is a Royal Canadian Mountie. JEAN ANN CORK and JOYCE BULLOUGH recently went to Canada to learn to ski, and they met Steve, who tried to teach them how to ride a horse. With all the riding and skiing, neither girl has sat down for a week. RONDEL DUNCAN owns the William Tell Archery School. Two of his pupils are CATHERINE LOPEZ and PAULINE MILLER, Rondel likes to make like William Tell and practice on the gals once in awhile. They don't mind the feel of Cupid's arrows, but one of Ronnie's is a different story. JOHN PROPST is one of the ten best dressed men in America since Mr. Truman can no longer compete. Because Johnny has the good looks to go along with it, he is idolized by the bobbysox-ers of the nation. JIMMY PUKEY has a shoe shine stand. GEORGEAN KOURPAS and DOROTHY FARNSWORTH stand outside on the sidewalk and attract the customers by singing that old song, -Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy . KENT RIGGS is in Alaska. He often goes there to hunt. Kent says that he likes everything about Alaska except the custom of rubbing noses when you want to kiss your girl goodnight. NANCY BOW is physical education teacher at Adamston. When Nancy went to school there, they didn’t have any physical education for girls, and Nancy decided to do something about it. MAXINE BOOTH teaches Fencing at Summit Park. When all of those girls get together at Victory, they will be able to twist the boys around their little fingers.