Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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I, Joyce Shreve Stuart, being of sound mind and body, (I hope), leave to Sue Johnson my position as head drum major, to have to hold, and to cherish. I, Ralph Thrasher, do will to Walter Fultz my ability as a Shakespearian actor. I, Guy Ventura, will my solo chair in the Band to Wayne Kidd. I, Bob Kern, leave my ability to sleep through Macbeth to any junior who can get by with it. I, Patty Wetzel, leave my ability to do so much of nothing to Ruth Hall. I, Ralph Anguilli, upon leaving Victory High School, which I hope I do, will my ability to occupy a seat in all my classes to Donald Criss. I, Barbara Williams, will the big headache of head cheerleader to Charlotte Gains. I, Gus Alastanos, will my ability to date a different girl every night to John Anania. I, Robert Lee Shinn, will my love for automobiles to my nephew Seymour Richard Newbrough. I, Nancy Amsler, will my red hair to Netta Boone. I, Mildred Anderson, will my seat in band class to anyone who can stand the noise. I, Bob Ash, will my position on the Hi-Y basketball team to Russ Miller. I, Mike Audia, will my place at the piano at 12:25 to Robert Byrnes. I, Gerald Bailey, will my ability to play ping pong to Garland Bailey, if he will hold my reputation as a bad player. I, Robert Barnes, will my ability to turn in late work to Eugene Sines. I, Ted Been, will my ability to loaf to any junior boy who can do as good at it as I did. I, Charles Garrett, hereby will my place in journalism class to Arch Glaspell. I, Jimmie Gianettino, leave to Anthony Loria my locker in Time's Square. I, Gordon Bowman, leave my greatest ability for studying to Harry Richards. I, Mary Calafatis, will my naturally curly hair to any Junior who thinks she can manage it through the tangle of her senior year. I, Shirley Currey, will my seat at the back table to any deserving Junior who can get away with murder in D.E. Class. I, Jean Cutlip, will my ability to be at fifty-leven places at one time, to my dear friend, Juanita Mattheny. I, Bob Daugherty, leave to Robert Robertimy ability to amuse Mrs. Morgan, Take good care of him, Mrs. Morgan, he is a good boy. I, Mary Ann DeMicco, will to any junior girl my position as twirler who thinks she can drop the baton as much as I did. I, Carole Drumpus, will my position as Band Majorette to any girl who doesn’t mind freezing to death on those cold, cold days. I, Connie Evangelinos, will my profession as a bubble dancer to George Beezel. I, Etta Jane Ervin, leave to the next senior class a box of thumb tacks so they can get the point. I, Mike Faherty, will to the juniors my knowledge that senior teachers are human; it's their tasks that are inhuman. I, Margaret Ann Haney, will my ability to chew gum to the gum chewing Juniors. I, Teresa Ann Perri, will to my cousin Joe Perri my big beautiful eyes to be used for a good purpose. I, Bob Flanigan, will $5.00 to someone who will need it to pay fines to Miss Van Horn for delayed library books.

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CLASS KILL We, the Senior Class of Victory High School, considering ourselves well acquainted with modern problems and English, knowing that we are the most educated class to leave dear old Victory, make, publish and declare this our last will and testament to be executed in the following order: ARTICLE I —-TO THE FACULTY To our Principal, Mr. J. Edward Powell, we leave our thanks and appreciation for his helpful guidance. To Mrs. Brown, our school secretary, we leave all the slightly used yellow slips to pass out to the students in her following years at Victory. To Mrs. Morgan, we leave...........aren't you glad? To Miss Gray, we leave our hopes that next year’s class will be more understanding and considerate of her efforts in trying to teach modern problems. To Miss Xenakis we leave our sincere thanks for her help in making our junior class play a success. To Mrs. Bell we leave our appreciation for her having made Victory High School nationally known. To Mrs. Martin, we leave our thanks for her helpful guidance. To Mr. Hess we leave our thanks for his accurate tabulations of games. To coaches, Jack Moore and Neil Sappington, we leave our thanks for such a splendid football season and our hopes for a better basketball season. To Mr. Mittong we leave all the bugs we don't take with us. To Mrs. Paine we leave all the pots and pans and hope she gets a bang out of it. To Mrs. Pyle we leave our hopes that someday she will again have a class as intelligent as ours. To Mrs. Dillaman, we the journalism class, leave her our gratitude for making this book possible and for making journalism class loads of fun. ARTICLE II —-TO THE CLASSES To the juniors we leave the front steps and the middle section of the auditorium. To the sophomores we leave this motto If at first you don’t succeed try, try, and try again.” To the classes in general we leave the great Victory Spirit.” ARTICLE III----TO INDIVIDUALS I, Okey Kimberling, leave to Chester Whitehair my ability to walk up the front steps and crawl to the classes. I, Betty Ann Tasker, being of sound mind (supposedly) will my beloved seat in Trig class to any Junior girl brave enough to sign up for it. I, Bob Townsend, will my voice to some member of the A'Cappella Choir. I, Mary Elaine Tate, will my ability to learn the Dagger scene tc anyone who cannot learn it. We, Faye Weekley and Mary Karnis, do, we hope leave dear old Victory. I, Raymond Romain, will my ability to win essay contests to Archie Glaspell. I, Charles Wells, will to my brother Jack Wells my uniforms in football, basketball, and baseball. As three year Captain of the Biology class I, Dale Wheeler, leave the great honor to Ronnie Alonzo and Joe Perri. Good luck boys! I, Beverly Wyckoff, leave my cheerleading position and a bottle of liniment to help stiff joints to Lou Flint.

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I, Anna Mae Fowler, will all my notebooks and papers that have been accumulated in the Fowler family to my dumb sister who has no brain. I, Jerry Robey, leave my newspaper route to Shirley Goodwin. I, Charles Hannah, will my ability to study figures (math that is) to Ted Bow. I, Commie Garcia, being of sound mind and body do hereby leave my special chair in the Public Library to any junior who wants to have it. I, Robert Flint, will my ability to go to sleep in the library without being seen by Miss Van Horn to some lazy junior who does not get enough sleep at night. I, Barbara Gould, will my seat in A'Cappella to anyone who will work for it as hard as I have. I, Jimmy Griffith, will my love for speed to Robert Alton. I, Jo Griffith, leave my seat in shorthand class to Shirly Jenkins. I, Ruth Gulas, leave my sympathy to the poor teachers who will have my brother for the next three years. They'll need it! I, James Hamilton, will my tallness to Hubert Modispaugh. I, Martha Hammond will my position in the library to any junior who may need it. I, Jack Hart, leave my position as chaplain in Hi-Y to John Spadafore. I, Dominick Jerome, leave my ability to barely get through Victory to anyone who can get by with it. I, Don Kopp, leave Tuffy Knight my football jersey. I, Clifford Jones, leave my ability of being a Casanova and to skip class without being missed and still pass to Donald Hefner. I, Vicki Secreto, will my ability to water flowers for Miss Gray, to anyone who gets to school at 7:15 in the morning. I, Eugene Kight, leave my ability to sleep to any junior. I, Cora Ann Reider, will to my sister Kathryn, my screechy clarinet. I, Duane Knight, being of sound mind and body upon leaving Victory leave my evenings at the library to George Smith. I, Claude Amsler, leave to Virgil Palma all my old lunch sacks. I, Robert Knight, will my number tens to Jimmie Kopp providing he can grow into them. I, Norita Kooken Poling, will to Linda Powell my ability to catch a husband in leap year. I, Patty Lamm, leave all my wonderful times at Victory to Phyllis Canfield. Note: This does not include Russ Miller. I, Janet Caussin, will my ability to sing soap operas to La Donne Martin. I, Barbara Lantz, will my ability to get into messes to anyone who can get out of them better than I could. I, Harold Wilhelm, leave my shyness to Sub Defazio. I, Alberta Lawson, will my place at Victory to my brother, Billy. I, David LeFevre, will my get up and go to all the juniors who haven't already got up and gone. I, Barbara Linsbeck, leave my office job to any girl who likes to run up and down the steps. I, Beverly Linsbeck, will to anyone who likes to look at teachers that early in the morning, my job of taking the announcements to every class.