Ted Nagel, Class of 1954, and his sister, Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949, are Monongah High alumni with July birthdays. Jean, born July 16, lives in Fairmont. Ted, born July 14, moved to Roanoke, Virginia in 1979 and was a snowbird to Micco, Florida for 12 years.

 

Brother Marty Nagel, Class of 1952, is at Wayside Farm Nursing Home in Peninsula, Ohio, near Akron, and “doing well,” Ted reports.

 

Jean is living with her daughter, Jean Marie Dotson, in Fairmont. Jean and her late husband owned C.V. News in Fairmont for decades.

 

Ted lived in Vinton, Virginia till his wife, Faye, passed away. Ted has had reunions with Tom Dean, Class of 1949, who at the time lived in Virginia, in Alta Vista, before moving back to North Carolina; and Deloris Vingle Olender, Class of 1951, in Florida.

 

Jeanie gave me my first boy/girl kiss, on the goggles atop my aviator cap, when we were barely teenagers, on the Camden Avenue sidewalk across the street from Carlot’s Grill. Her judgment improved in later years.

Jeanie also took one for the guy she had a crush on when the late Junior Domico, who later became the Fairmont funeral home mogul, insulted me, as Jeanie saw it. In the ensuing scuffle, Junior drove a stick through Jeanie’s leg. I didn’t witness it and didn’t learn about till decades later.

Jeanie is one smart cookie. The nuns at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Monongah double-promoted her, which is why she is a 1949 MHS grad and I’m Class of 1950. My mother, in her wisdom, refused to let the good Sisters double-promote me, too, because she saw how immature I was. Wise move. I was still too immature when I did graduate from Monongah High at the age of 16.

I was the second-smartest student in my class when Jean was in it. When she got double-promoted to the next class, I became the smarest in my class by default.

 

Mother of the Nagel threesome is the late Helen Soyer Nagel, Class of 1925, whose class included Esther Koon Garrett, East Monongah Grade School teacher by 1931.  

 

Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960, who lives in Lisbon, Ohio, with husband Dan Fleming, was born on July 10. Tom Fleming, Sr. also was in the Class of 1960.

 

Mary was the drum majorette at Monongah High and president of the student council. In Lisbon she plays pickleball, which is a combination of tennis and badminton played on a tennis court and very popular in retirement communities in Florida, where Mary and Dan winterized in Venice.

 

David Gowers, Class of 1971, born July 5, is a Licensed Master Social Worker in Martinsburg. Teresa Bowers is a clinical social worker in Martinsburg. David is a brother-in-law of Monongah High grad Marie B. Huey, a retired cook living in Worthington who grew up in Four States.

 

Catherine Reckart Boyce and Robin Huffman Satterfield, both Class of 1973, were best friends through elementary school and Monongah High. They even celebrate their birthdays only one day apart in July, Catherine on the 20^th and Robin on the 21^st.

 

Robin lives in Fairmont after spending 40 years in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Catherine lives on Willow Road near St. Barbara Memorial Nursing Home in Monongah. 

Debbie Moore O’Dell, Class of 1969, was born July 16 and lives in the Coons Run community. Debbie’s parents were Vera Pearl Moore and Bill Moore.

Debbie worked at both Urban’s Grocery Store in Monongah and the Dairy Kone (1968-69), which Amelia Shenasky Zentz and husband Bruce Zentz built in 1968.

Debbie’s sister, Janet Moore Frazier, Class of 1972, also worked at the Dairy Kone, which provided spending money for a lot of Monongah High students over the years.

If your name is not on this list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com  with your full name, including maiden name, your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.

 

July

1 – Roger Fisher, Monongah High grad

3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971

5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971

5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957

7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion 2005 grad

10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960

14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954

14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978
16 -- Debbie Moore O'Dell, Class of 1969 

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

19 – Arlene Martha Edwards Costelac, Class of 1958

20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class of 1973

21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class of 1973 

16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949

19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972

 

August

1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979

5 – Robert Tennant, Class of 1971

6 – Wauneda Evans, Patty DeMary Evans’ mother-in-law

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

15 – David Kelly, 1980 North Marion grad after 11 years at Thoburn & Monongah High

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

17 – Twins Earnest Hayes & Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965

18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960

18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970

19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964

19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah grad

20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of 1966

20 – Connie Warash, Class of 1975

21 – Robert Howard Edwards, Class of 1959

24 – Sean Patrick Fazio, 2015 North Marion grad

29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950

30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of 1978

30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington grad

 

September

 

1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959

3 – Debra June Knight, Class of 1973

6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico

7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad from Idamay living in Fairmont

8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of 1964 

8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955

13 – Karen Manzo Tennant, Class of 1974

14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954

15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of 1948

17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of 1972

20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970

23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959

24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974

25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of 1948

25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964

26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class of 1948

27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright, Class of 1968

29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of 1959

29 – Pamm Yanero Bragg, Class of 1969

 

October

 

2 – Stanley H. Vance, Class of 1964

7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975

8 – Susan Staron Sanders, Class of 1971

8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class of 1973

11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971

12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny Manzo, Class of 1957

14 – John Prunty, Class of 1949

20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley, Class of 1953

20 – Richard Edwards, Class of 1978

21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County High Class of 1976.

22 – Mike Uram, 1981 North Marion graduate

25 -- Rachel Vivian Stalnaker Sloan, Class of 1962.

26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East graduate living in Carolina

29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956

31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont East graduate who lives in Monongah

31 – Helen McDougal Mudry, Monongah High grad

 

 

November

1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

4 – Roger Harbert, Class of 1960

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

10 – Anthony Pulice, Jr., Class of 1945

13 – Elwood Toll, Class of 1951

14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of 1955

17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion Class of 1985

20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950               

20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of 1950

22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968

23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982

25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955

27 – Roy Foster, Class of 1945

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

December

2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal, Class of 1964

3 – Goldie Mae Martin, Class of 1964

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

5 – Frances Victor Eates, Farmington grad, wife of Larry Dan Eates, Class of 1970

6 – Goldie Basagic Huffman, Class of 1974

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

10 – Richard Weaver, Class of 1957

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

16 – Paula Rossi Wiley, Class of 1976

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

23 – Jim Fullen

25 – Charles Melton, Class of 1973

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

27 – John Yokay III, son of John Yokay, Class of 1953

29 --  Dolores Edwards, Class of 1955

30 – Deborah Prunty Poluck, Class of 1973

 

January 6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of 1940 13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class of 1951 17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of 1949 18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell, Class of 1951 ?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951 18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class of 1954 18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor, husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973 19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957 19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962  22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary 24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974 24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of 1973 29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968   February 1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973 2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad living in Idamay 3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley 3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of 1971 8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living in Bridgeport 9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964 10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of 1960 11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait, Class of 1968 15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975 17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of 1970 18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad 20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960 21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975 24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North Marion 29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class of 1954   March 5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963 5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971 6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of 1961 9 – Richie Basagic, Class of 1975  9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate married to Patty DeMary Evans 15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis 15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952 18 – Nancy Carol Davidson Kantura, Class of 1955 20 – Barbara Melton Earl, Class of 1978 22 – David Haines, Class of 1964 25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959 25 -- David Edwards, Class of 1976. 25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate 28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class of 1952   April   4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of 1954 5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963 9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North Marion 1983 11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942 12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of 1966 14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958 15 – Judy Stewart Monell Razook, Class of 1959 16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class of 1961  18 – Aaron Justice, Jr., Class of 1972 30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse, Class of 1954   May 4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers, Class of 1964 5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950 5 – Louis Poluck, Class of 1973 6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956 12 – Arlene Kitchin, wife of Joe Martin, Class of 1957 14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1953 14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957 14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis, Class of 1957 17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of 1970 17 – Lorraine Hulderman, Class of 1968 20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class of 1955 21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948 22 – Toni Pflock Hennis, Class of 1955 27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971 28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972 29 – John Woods, Class of 1957 29 – Scott Rogers, Class of 1973 30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948    June 1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973 3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad from Monongah; married to Angela 5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary 8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944 8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of 1970 13 – John Melton, Class of 1975 13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North Marion Class of 1982 13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968  14 – Pamela Morrison Bombardiere, Class of 1967 14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class of 1973 14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of 1973 17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of 1979 20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953 22 – Prudence Deane Tetrick Funk, Class of 1960. 23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949 23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class of 1960 23 – Ron Manzo, Class of 1969 23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion grad