Monongah High graduate Virginia “Red” Jacobin celebrated her 88^th birthday December 3. She lives in Monongah.

There are more Jacobins than Jack-O’Lanterns on Halloween in Monongah.

Joe Jacobin is Virginia’s son. He lives with wife Juanita Jacobin in South Carolina, where they are Gamecock fans and Joe rides his bike 6 or 7 miles in a day. And gets a lot of beach sand between his toes.

The Jacobins are close friends with Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975, Albany (New York) University deputy athletic director and a Monongah High graduate.

Leo Jacobin, Class of 1959, lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with wife Roberta and works in Denver. Leo is the son of Christine Tropea Jacobin, Class of 1935,  and Leo Jacobin, Class of 1933, who died in 1998. They lived on Bridge Street in Brookdale near the Meredith family.

Christine Marie Tropea was a daughter of Tony and Rose Loss Tropea, who owned the Tropea Grocery on Camden Avenue (U.S. 19).

Her siblings were Helen Tropea Riggs Bieglecki, who married Edmund Bieglecki and lived in Wolverine, Michigan; Vincent Tropea; Marguerite Tropea Matthews, Class of 1926, who married Simon Matthews, and was the mother of Simon Paul Matthews, Jr., Class of 1956; and Virginia Tropea Neri, Class of 1931, who married Peter Neri.

Also:

Stella Jacobin Haley, Class of 1940.

Anne Minnie Jacobin Novelle, Class of 1943.

Joseph Jacobine, Class of 1969.

Lisa Jacobin Manzo, North Marion Class of 1986.

Nephew Anthony Jacobin lives in Winchester, Virginia.

Lisa Neutzel Jacobin lives in Monkton, Maryland.

Niece Lucille Giacubeno lives in Dundalk, Maryland.