Among this gathering of 1981 Fairmont State biology majors were two Monongah High graduates, Anthony “T.J.” Saverino and Gary Morris, in the final graduation class of 1979. The next year, Monongah joined Fairview, Barrackville and Mannington into the North Marion consolidation. Farmington was added later.

T.J. came by his biology interests naturally. The original T.J. Savereno, Class of 1948, who lives in Florence, South Carolina with wife Lynette Saverino, is a former Extension Associate at Clemson, where he studied Wildlife Biology after his Fairmont State College and Monongah High days.

The elder T.J. is a son of Tony Frank Savereno, Monongah's mail carrier for many years.  Tony’s siblings were Christine, Orlando (Lundix), Jean, Frances and Mary.  Tony’s mother is Harriet (Hattie) Savereno, who is 90 and lives on Camden Avenue in the house T.J.’s parents moved into in 1950. 

T.J.’s siblings are Linda (Class of 68), who married Fred Moorehead, and an older brother Mark (Class of 70).

Major Tony F. Savereno was US Army Air Corps/US Air Force Reserve in 1943 in San Antonio, Texas.

T.J.'s aunt is the late Frances Savereno Pulice, who married John Pulice from Idamay way before TJ was born in 1961.  T.J.’s sister is Linda Savereno Moorehead, Class of 1968. Frances was a cheerleader at MHS.

Frances' sisters, Jean and Mary, live in Morgantown.