Tom Dean 1^st to mail in MHS Reunion reservation. Where’s yours?

Monongah High Alumni Association’s Donna Davis, who handles the dinner-dance reservations for the Reunions every year, said that Tom Dean, Class of 1949, who lives in Lynch Station, Virginia, is the first to send in his dinner-dance reservation with the check.

Tom Dean

The dinner-dance reservation form is on this blog, so just print it, fill it out, and mail it with your check to

MHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

C/O DONNA L. DAVIS
858 PARK AVENUE
MONONGAH, WV 26554-1143

If you want to re-connect with Tom, his mailing address is

Tom Dean
434 Peninsula Pointe
Lynch Station, VA 24571

And you can be sure that Tom will be found at the home of Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, on Bridge Street Extension up the hill just outside the Monongah town limits.  Every time he’s in Marion County, she shows up to see “Monie,” as he calls her. Tom and Ramona have been friends for 65 years.

Tom gets around.

 

He visits family in North Carolina and at Arlington (not the cemetery, but the town), Virginia. Tom has three sons in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Tom’s daughter, retired Colonel Pam Dean Mitchell, lives in Arlington, Virginia, which is almost 200 miles from Tom’s home in Lynch Station.

Tom has reunions with other former Lions, too.

He visits Elaine Hewitt Monell, Class of 1949, in  Riverside, a Dayton, Ohio suburb, the widow of Raymond “Soak” Monell, Class of 1945.

 

In 2011 Tom had a reunion with Ted Nagle, Class of 1952, and Ted’s wife Faye in Bedford, Virginia. Ted lives in Vinton, Virginia and Micco, Florida. Tom was a classmate of Ted’s sister, Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949, of Fairmont and Ted was a classmate of Tom's late brother, Chub Dean.

The classes of 1956, 1961, 1966 an 1976 will be the honor classes for the 2016 MHS Alumni Reunion on Saturday, May 28 at the Knights of Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont.

The honor class pictures will be taken at 5:30 p.m. at Knights of Columbus on Mary Retton Drive in Fairmont ($15 per photo), the banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. and the dancing to the music of Stepping Stone will begin at 8:30 p.m.

Now that Tom Dean has stepped up the plate, just as he did for Monongah High baseball, what about you? Print the reservation form, fill it out and mail it to Donna Davis.

Only 125 showed up last year. There are no new graduates since 1979 and some have passed away since the 2015 Reunion. It’s up to you to keep this tradition going.

This is the 92^nd reunion. We don’t want it to die out till we get past 100.