Come to the Monongah High Alumni Reunion in Sarasota Feb. 6, 2015

The 3^rd annual Monongah High Alumni Reunion/Sarasota will happen at noon Friday,

Feb. 6, 2015. If you live in Florida or will be vacationing there Feb. 6, 2015, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com to let him know you think you can make it.

Bill Meredith, Class of 1957, who lives in Sarasota, Florida and summers in Buckeye Lake, Ohio, explains in his email:

Hello To All,

Since we had to cancel  our annual get-together last December, due to my surgery, John Olesky and I vowed to try again this coming winter.  In fact, we have already come up with a date.

The reunion will be  at the Meredith home in Sarasota on Friday, February 6, 2015, starting at noon.  We hope that by starting to plan things early, we can get several more people to attend.  

I'm sure there are several dozen Monongah HS alums living in Florida.  I am only aware of a few, so we need help.  If you know of anyone, young, old or in between, who have a Monongah connection, spread the word.  They are welcome to attend.  

As always, John will publicize the event on his Monongah HS Blog.

We will be in touch with more details later, but since you now have a date, please plan on attending.

Have a wonderful summer.

Bill Meredith---Class of 1957

Bill and wife Roleta, a Clarksburg Washington Irving graduate, hosted the 2012 and 2013 Monongah High Alumni/Sarasota Reunions at their home adjacent to a golf course (of course; it's Florida) at 3201 Charles MacDonald Drive.

A third reunion was lined up for December 2013 but Bill's medical problem interfered.

Attending the January 2013 MHS Reunion in Sarasota were Bob Arnett, Class of 1957, & Barb Enoch Arnett, Class of 1960, who live in Scherr, West Virginia, but were vacationing in Florida; Lloyd Schell, Class of 1957, who lives in Pompano Beach, Florida; Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958, and husband Len, who live in Elkins and Fort Myers Beach, Florida, and show up in Mountaineer Field in the same Section 107 where I sit with my sister, Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955, of Riveville; Sandy Weils Shaffer Cook, Class of 1959, and husband Bob, who live in Fort Myers, Florida; Joe Martin, Class of 1957, and wife Arlene Kitchen, who live on Treasure Island, Florida; Bill and Roleta, the hosts; and John Olesky, Class of 1950, and Paula.

If you show up, you’re in for hours of cheerful chatting about the joys of Monongah High and life ever since. Mark Feb. 6, 2015 on your calendar. If you'll be in the area Feb. 6, 2015, let me know.

More about this later.

Paula and I will be staying in The Villages, Florida from January through March of 2015, except for heading down to Siesta Key and Sarasota Feb. 5-9 to take in the Monongah High Alumni Reunion at the Meredith home and the Greek Festival at St. Barbara's Church in Sarasota, where they have the best lamb shanks in the world, even better than what I ate in Athens, Greece.

So if you're near The Villages in January through March 2015, call me at (330) 388-4466 and we'll have a mini-Monongah meeting there, too.