Another reunion by Tom Dean & Ramona Fullen Michalski

There's something about Monongah High that creates lifelong friendships. Tom Dean and Ramona Fullen Michalski are just one example. So is Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971, daughter of Iris Carpenter, and Sue Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971. Doris lives in Piscataway, New Jersey and Sue lives in Charleston, West Virginia, but they manage to wind up together ever since second grade.

And then there's Bob Kasper, Class of 1950, who lives in South Lyon, Michigan and in the summer on Grand Lake in Presque Isle, Michigan, and John Olesky, Class of 1950, who lives in Tallmadge, Ohio. They have been friends since first grade at Sts. Peter & Paul School in Monongah. That covers about 76 years. 

John visits Bob on Grand Lake every summer for golf and talking about their Monongah High days. Bob visits John every autumn in Tallmadge and they go to a Mountaineer game together. This year they will be at the Oct. 4 Kansas game in Mountaineer Field. If you want to join them before or after the game, they'll have a meal in a University Circle restaurant on the hill in Granville, just after you get off the I-79 exit. Call John at (330) 388-4466 if you want to join Bob and John. 

What about YOU? Do you have a lifelong friend from your Monongah High days? Email John at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com with the details and maybe jpeg photos of your reunions and I'll post them on this Monongah High Alumni blog. 

As for Tom Dean, he's back in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and may be headed Ohio way in a few months. Maybe for another visit with Elaine Hewitt Monell, who lives in the Dayton suburb of Riverside, where Tom visited Elaine and husband Raymond "Soak" Monell in 2012 before Soak passed away.