Beckley Junior High Promotions Set Record With 267 Ninth Graders
Beckley Junior High will promote a record 267 ninth graders in a ceremony at Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium. Principal speaker Rev A H Robinson will address the crowd as President W E Griffiths of the Town district school board reviews the graduates. The class size has grown each year from 145 in 1927 to 267 this year, with many students listed by name to march and receive promotion certificates.
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Beckley Junior High School
Woodrow Wilson High School
W. E. Griffiths
Town District School Board
A. H. Robinson
Methodist Temple
W. R. Fugitt
Mildred Agee
Catherine Aker
Mary Anthony
Sam Antonio
Walter Applegate
Hester Arnold
Ruby Arnold
Don Bailey
Elsie Bailey
Glenna Bailey
Ley
George Ballard
Hilda Barbour
Thelma Barnes
Bonnie Basham
Dorothy Bazzarree
Alice Beard
Alvah Bell
Beulah Bennett
Frederick Bennett
Josephine Bennett
Earl Bibb
William Binderman
Margaret Blake
Margaret Bledsoe
Lois Blevins
Edward Boalt
Dorothy Bostick
Sarah Bostick
Elseva Bowman
Walter Brakefield
Corwin Bragg
Mildred Brewer
Billy Bridge
Margie Brooks
Julia Bruce
Robert Brunk
Fred Bsharah
Ottie Buchannon
Bernard Burdiss
Evelyn Burdiss
Genevieve Burns
Blanche Caffee
Catherine Callahan
John Calloway
Aldo Cipolat
Helen Cline
Frances Coleman
Nellie Gilkerson
Alvin Gravely
Garnett Gravely
Roy Graybeal
Sprague Boy Builds Napoleonic Coach for National Contest
Frank Shutko a Woodrow Wilson High School senior in Sprague is crafting a miniature Napoleon coach for a Fisher Body Company national contest. Teachers say he has spent the equivalent of 62 eight‑hour days on the project, with upholstering and precise fittings still ahead.
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Sprague Boy
Frank Shutko
Woodrow Wilson
Emperor Napoleon
Industrial Arts
Woodrow Wilson High School
Napoleon
Fisher Body Company
John Shutko
Sprague
Austerlis
Waterloo
J. R. Skull
Frank
Mr. Skull
Europe
Notable Names List in Local Notice
William Wood Della Woodram Billy Woods Marjorie Winston Nellie Zemerick Alma Phillips Bill Banks Morris Harvey and Edward Stephens appear in a local notice or obituary fragment listing several individuals. The readable portion presents a roster of names tied to a community event, announcement, or notice without further contextual details.
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William Wood
Della Woodram
Billy Woods
Marjorie Winston
Nellie Zemerick
Alma Phillips
Bill Banks
Morris Harvey
Edward Stephens
High School Senior Aims for University Scholarship Prize
The student works about three hours on school days and eight hours Saturdays in the manual shop. Frank Shutko competes for a four year university scholarship worth 5000 dollars, with cash prizes and trips as backups. Judges decide after the model debuts next July.
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Frank Shutko
Senior Class Goes Picnicing at Lake Shawnee
Almost all of Woodrow Wilson High School's 121 seniors were set to join the annual class picnic to Lake Shawnee near Princeton this afternoon. Three buses and private cars were arranged to transport the group over the 36 mile trip, with a late evening return to Beckley expected.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Lake Shawnee
Princeton
Jean Porter
Beckley
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W. W.H.S. Auditorium
Alice Grear
Frank Greco
John Griges
Eleanor Grubb
Marie Gunter
Marcelles Gwinn
Mildred Gwinn
Leona Hagin
Ruth Hamlett
John Harper
Harry Harrah
Elton Harris
William Harris
Freida Harvey
Harold Harvey
James Harvey
Mary Harvey
Joe Hatfield
Garnet Hawley
Iris Hawley
Tom Hedrick
Earl Hemmings
Lovell Higgins
Dorothy Holdren
May Hollandsworth
Mary Holliday
Mildred Holliday
Earl
June Lilly
Leslie Lilly
Margaret Lilly
Paul Lilly
Nannie Lovell
Mabel Lowe
William Mabe
Ina Maddox
Frances Mallamas
Jack Mann
Eugene Mann
Thelma Martin
Sybile Mason
Helen Mastalski
Philip Mayhew
Ruby McCormick
Clifford McKinney
Thelma McKinney
Catherine McPherson
Ruth McRoberts
Sara Meade
Daniel Meadows
Garnet Meadows
Frank Milano
Faye Miles
Gladys Miller
Hazel Miller
Ariess Mills
Ordie Mills
Frank Mullaney
Austin Neubert
Oscar Nickels
Myrtle Ogle
Mary Olson
Julia Ondo
Russell O'Neal
Mary Pachuta
Kenneth Pack
Bernis Patterson
Ruth Pendleton
Clifford Peters
Vivian Peters
Bobbie Pack
Opal Pittman
Guy Potts
Verney Poore
Tena Puglise
Craig Quesesberry
Ernest Quesenberry
Howard
Edna Skelton
Cleo Smith
Eva Smith
Hulett Smith
Louise Smith
Margaret Smith
Ruth Smith
Ann St. Clair
Emma Steele
Lucille Stephens
Justine Sterne
Ora Stone
Stella Suptie
Adney Sutphin
Olga Taraczkozy
Leo Tenny
Frank Thewes
Irma Thomas
Lucile Thomas
Martha Thomson
Ralph Thompson
Ardath Thompson
Wilson Thompson
John Tindilia
Pohlson
Mary V. Conway
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