Wheeling High School - Record Yearbook (Wheeling, WV)

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Famuluar ouse Our eelmg By Susan Chew Our school years here may be recalled By bevues of sound and noise A nouse that brungs back to our munds Good tumes wuth gurls and boys The sound of rattling plates ond trays At lunch time every noon The laughter un the hugh grey halls Hopes that the bell rung soon e scratch of penculs pens and chalk e scrape of chaurs on floors e sharp shrull bells to sugnal all e trampling feet to doors e rung of cheers from happy mouths or top notch teams sprung and tall The clank of lockers thud of books And now we re going from thus school We ll leave thus nouse behund But we cannot forget these sounds Famullar to our mund By Shirley Jackson On the hulls and un the valleys Of the state we love so well We can look wuth untold pleasure On cu story l wull ell Ol cu school un whuch we labored Hopung sometume by and by To be reckoned wuth the fauthful Who were taught un Wheelung Hugh Its a school where all are welcome And there s taught wuth tender care All the fundamental knowledge That wull take us anywhere There prepared to face the problems On the land and onthe sea Guvung help to other natuans L ts salute all our Instructors As they worked wuth you and me And prepared us for lufe s IOUFDEQ When we leave un 53 E'l110l'lES By Sandro Worthan These l have known at Wheelung Hugh School Teachers whose guudance has pulled me through Kuds some gay some gloomy all fruendly Marchung bands on football fuelds Bouncmg cheerleaders and rnasculune players The strong bond of fruendly ruvalry Donut rolls and whute Bucks clean and dusty Junior vaudevulles Sophomore assemblies Senior plays Then when l least wanted ut graduatuon Wuth uts mernorues The Old Gold and Blue The class song My cap and gown My last prom These l have known at Wheelung Hugh School And these l have loved Three wonderful hectuc years at the grandest school un the Valley 25 Hugh I P ' 1 Q H . . . ' . 1 V Th ' , , , ' , Th A , ' ' , Th , ' ' , Th ' . ' . Th ' , F - f ' - f The rush when good friends coll. Who, like us, want to be free. I

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istor of Class of IQ53 SOPHOMORES It seems on impossibly long time ago that we were sopho- mores, but the fact remains that we were. Our first glimpse of WHS was on Freshman day, but we became real sopho- mores at our first rally, when asked to give the Wheeling locomotive by ourselves. Football was our first main occupation. Many a little 5ophamore's throat was raw after a game, but we kept an cheering and the season ended with five wins, four losses. ln January we chose officers and sponsors: Bob Pritchard, president, Carol Schmidt, vice-president, Harry Van Dyne, sec- retary 'reasurer Miss Jessie Cunningham and Mr C E Irvine sponsors During second semester we had our sophomore assembly and showed what talent we had The Football dance was our first high school dance was followed by the GAC Dance th Saddle Club Dance and the Coronation Ball The basketball team chalked up eight wins twelve losses Our own Sally Huntsman and Linda Bennett were chosen cheer leaders and Carol Schm dt was elected vice president of the Student Council JUNIORS As rumors we elected Ross Franck president Mary Nalt vice pres dent and Betty Smith secretary treasurer Our football team ended the season with four wins two ties and four losses At the annual football banquet Harry Van Dyne was named Gold captain for the following year e trad tional football dance was also held at the season s close Prolects for earning money started with a magaz ne sale After the sale was over we could boast of selling more maga z nes than any other class In the past seven drives Mary Ann Fragale was high salesman Our Chrxstmas month was marked with two concerts by the choruses and the band We also had in assembly an espe cually outstanding play Why the Chimes Rang by the new Drama Club After Christmas we really got down to work as we readled the Junior Class vaudeville The show had four main acts a play folk dancing the rumor girls chorus and the YMCA circus plus specialty numbers We presented it February 28 and 29 Basketball season closed with nine wins and twelve losses ln March ten lunlors were admitted to the National Hanar Society we had two favorite dances the Saddle Club and the GAC and a big honor came when the Lnnsly Military Institute chose our malorettes best in the valley Junior malorettes to receive trophles were Sallv Palmer Connie Johnston and Maude Stevens Another highlight was the Coronation Ball an April 26 when the May Queen was crowned A rumor home room 328 won the boys intramural basket ball championship An event especially for lunlors was City County Day an which twelve rumors participated in a tour of city installa tions Student Council elections came May l and Carol Schmidt was elected president Jay Keefer ludge and Hugh Yoho mar sha Another event especially for luniors was Junior Class Day About one hundred flfty of us participated Our class officers held top labs as we took over Stlfel s department store on May 10 Also connected with the day was the style show held In assembly the poster contest and the daily radio pro grams we had for one week At the end of the year came a pleasure that we had worked so hard for the Junior Senior Prom at the Pine Room SENIORS ln the fall of '52 we had mixed home rooms for the first time. We chose our officers: Ross Franck, president, Rudy Rossi, vice-president, Patti Mathews, secretary, Jay Keefer, treasurer, Mary Lisik, program chairman. On September 30 our first class rings arrived and we felt like honest-to-goodness scniors. On October 8 four seniors took part in our Junior Town Meeting. Jerry Amos and Sandra Warthan were speakers with Dorothy Kitson and Marleen Howard as alternates. Along in October we had a special Senior Class Dance for the whole school Our football team was runner up for the OVAC champion ship and chalked up six wins two losses and one te The twenty two depart ng senior members were honored at the Football dance on November 22 The Saddle Club made ts annual dance on December T3 a Christmas formal this time Early an the new year we chose our announcements and graduation preparations began In February and March we sold greeting cards for funds for the yearbook and did ex ceptlonally well Our wrestling team brought us a new honor when it won the state championship During lent the class sponsored a service every Wednes day as we had sponsored a Thanksgiving assembly The DAR award for the best citizen was won by Carol Schmidt The National Honor Society again held initiation and ad mitted seventeen seniors We had an exciting basketball season with ten wins and eight losses as six lettermen played their last games The GAC held its dance an March 28 at the Windsor Hotel The class play Take Care of My Little Glrl was given March 27 Dorothy Lynn Bob Pappa and Earl Duke Stoetzer played leading roles lt was a hard choice but we finally chose the fairest of the fair to be our May Queen She was crowned at the Coronation Ball Senior Class Day was a highlight in our year as we made our formal goodbyes to the school The Prom was held again at the Pine Room and was a whirl of gowns and music Then on May 27 we received that long sought for diploma and left Wheeling High School with wonderful memories of three wonderful years 'NN' -J jf f 'S' iqrx if,-f'aX c ,Mfr di JM f 7114 ,I 1 XX O px ffgyozx 1- ' . 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