Every year Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, puts a 7½-foot Christmas tree up. Well, as Donna explains, “It’s too heavy for me to bring from the garage” so husband Bill Davis, Class of 1958, gets the heavy-lifting job.

Gushes Donna:

“I still put it up every year. I love it still.”

Donna can handle the wreath, though, because it's only about 20 inches long.

Donna is treasurer of the Monongah High Alumni Association and for decades has been doing a lot of the heavy work of getting MHS alumni to show up for the annual reunions despite dwindling survivors since there have been no Monongah High graduates after the 1979 class, the last before MHS consolidated with other schools into North Marion. 

She’s the one you mail your dinner-dance reservation and check to every year, at her 858 Park Avenue home in Monongah, in the neighborhood of Mount Calvary Cemetery.

By the way, mark Saturday, May 23, 2015 on your calendar. That’s the date for the 2015 Monongah High Alumni reunion at Knights of Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont. The dinner-dance will start at 6:30 p.m. but there’ll be photos taken of the honor classes before that.

If you’re in the Class of 1950 or the Class of 1955, mark Friday, May 22, 2015 on your calendar, too. That’s when the two classes will have a combined dinner at 7 p.m. at the Three Ways Inn in Fairmont.

If you’re coming from out of town and will be staying overnight, the official hotel for the 1950 and 1955 classes will be the Fairfield Inn, 27 Southland Drive in Fairmont, which has 57 rooms and is only 1.2 miles from the Three Ways Inn. 

That way, MHS alumni can interact at the Fairfield, the Three Ways and Knights of Columbus. 

The Fairfield phone, if you make a reservation there, is (304) 367-9150. The Fairfield is only 7/10^th of a mile from Exit 132 of I-79. You get on U.S. 250 south to get there. Fairfield is next to Appleby’s at Middletown Mall.

The Class of 1951 has used the Fairfield/Three Ways Inn combination for years.