Vinson High School - Vinsonian Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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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

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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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Pano 46 SENIGR CLASS HISTORY Then came our junior year, opening a land of opportunity to a group of starry-eyed students. This year Elizabeth Kauffman entered Vinson and became our class president. We gave our class play, Pigtails . Mrs. Pifer and Mrs. Nichols, our class sponsors, directed it. Remember? On Febru- ary 22 we gave a dance at St. Cloud's Common which was one of the most colorful events of the year. Our next big occasion was the junior-Senior Prom which was held at the Hotel Governor Cabell. Pictures of this event were featured on the front page of the society section of the l-lerald-Ad- vertiser on the following Sunday morning. This, indeed, was a night that will not be soon forgotten. We entered our Senior year with the hope that we would be the most outstanding group ever to be graduated from Vinson. Esta Smith joined us at this time. Mr. Shirley and Mr. Brumfield, our sponsors, have devoted both time and talent to help us reach our goal. Most of us received our class rings for Christmas which bore our class motto-Respice Finem, which means Onward to the Coal. On April ll our Senior play was given. lt was Seeing Double and was a great success. Chosen as Valedictorian and Salutatorian from our Senior class of i942 were june Hopson as Valedictorian and Charlene Frazier as Salutatorian. May lO to May i5 was Senior's week. Baccalaureate was on Sunday, lvlay IO. Commencement exercises were on May l2 and 38 students re- ceived their diplomas. And so, dear classmates, as we approach the end of our Senior year, let us keep in mind that the past i2 years have only been the foundation on which we build a house-our lives. Let us always remember our motto, Onward to the Coal - be it great or small. IUNE HOPSON.