Vinson High School - Vinsonian Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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Page 44 REUNION OF SENIOR CLASS Betty Kauffman, a telephone operator of the C. and P. Telephone Company. Miss Ioyce Chapman, Znd. Lt. Army Nurse with the U. S. Army. Mr. jack Davis, now in the employment of the R-Kay Studios. Eugene Smith, U. S. Army engineer. Miss Elizabeth Watts, Miss Elma Perdue, and Miss Emogene Tomblin are connected with the F. B. I. Intelligence bureau in Washington, D. C. Miss Eileen Conley, famous dancer from the popular Club Continental. Miss Betty Raymond, Town Cryer reporter. Miss Maudie Coates and her brother, Willard, are now the proprietors of the Arena Gardens. Miss Frances Young and Miss Bessie Steele, bookkeepers for the Huntington Veterinarian Hospital. Miss Vetress Fillinger, an Army Air Hostess. Mr. Sam Bowles and Mr. jack Diamond, famous trapeze artists with the nationwide George Shirley circus. Miss loan Altizer, Miss Esta Smith, and Miss Anna Lee Greene, models for the Model Laundry. Miss lennie Crank, manager of the Teddy Bear Department of Hunt- ington Dry Goods Company. Mr. Richard Miller and Mr. Norris Lewis, now hoboing on the C. and O. Miss julia Thompson, secretary for the Ackerman Lumber Company. Miss Helene Wickline and Miss Betty Midkiff, foreign correspondents for the New York Times. Miss Alice Booton, technical adviser of the Home Loan Organization. IOYCE CHAPMAN.

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REUNION OF SENIOR CLASS OF '42 HELD AT HOTEL PRICHARD Huntington, W. Va., May 13, 1962. A class reunion was held throughout last week by the Vinson High School graduating class of 1942. Peggy Waugh, president of the class, presided over the meeting. Miss Waugh and Miss Bonnie Ellen Hensley, another officer of the class, are now connected with the staff of laboratory technicians of the Mayo clinic in Minnesota. Others who attended the class reunion were: Mrs. William Brammell, formerly Miss lean jackson, who is now throwing rolling pins. Mrs. Lee Buddy Isbell, formerly Miss Mary Frances Waugh, who is also throwing rolling pins. Miss Betty Huff, who in private life is Mrs. lack Davis, found it very hard to get away because of her contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Miss Nellie Black, who is now superintendent of nurses at St. Mary's Hospital. Miss Lucille Peters, who is assistant pianist in Mrs. Atkinson's Hall of Music. Miss Charlene Frazier, a teacher of high mathematics at Vinson High School, who has replaced Mr. Homer Tabor, who is now teaching at the Cimlet Hollow High School of higher learning. Many skilled operators of the Comptometer were present including Miss Maxine Malcolm, Miss june Hopson, and Miss Mary Alice Staley. Mr. Fred Bowe, proprietor of Camden Park. Mr. Charles LeMaster and Mr. Charles White, now professional foot- ball players with the famous Yellow Streak Squad of Skunk Hollow. Edna Iohnston, who is now Mrs. Don Willis and resides in Kenova. Page 43

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY l942 Dear Classmates: As I sit here before the fire day-dreaming, my mind wanders back over my school days. Come with me down the lane of memory to a warm September morning in the year of l93O. On this memorial morning four frightened little girls in gingham quietly slipped into seats in Miss lennie Crum's room. They were Lucille Peters, Mary Alice Staley, lean jackson, and june Hopson. These and five others, who were double-promoted into our class, were the only ones who com- pleted their high school work at Dear Ole' Vinson. Our first five years were uneventful. Then came a great change to our little group. Nellie Black, loyce Chapman, Peggy Waugh, lennie Crank, and Charles LeMaster entered Vinson from other schools. Betty Huff, Betty Lou Raymond, Catherine Frazier, Betty Midkiff, and Helen Wickline were double-promoted into our class. Also at this time, due to a change in mid-semester promotions, Maxine Malcolm, Frances Young, Lydia Mosby, Elma Perdue, and Richard Miller joined the gang We continued on our merry way through the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, We passed from a world of safety and security into a land of wonders-HIGH SCHOOL. On this glad day we find added to our gang Anna Lee C-reene, Edna johnston, Mary Frances Waugh, Elizabeth Watts, Elsie Mae Taylor, Maudie Coates, Bonnie Ellen Hensley, Eileen Conley, Emogene Tomblin, julia Thompson, junior Bowles, Willard Coates, and Fred Bowe. Our sponsors were Mrs. Ward and Mr. Tabor. By the beginning of the tenth grade we were well on our way to glorious high school careers. We had for our sponsors Mr. Tabor and Mr. Shirley. Page 45