No MHS Alumni Reunion

For first time in 98 years

The longest continuous high school alumni reunion in West Virginia’s streak has come to an end.

Monongah High Alumni Association president Linda Lopez Gandy announced that the 2020 Reunion, which had been postponed from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Linda’s Facebook post:

“The Monongah High School Alumni Officers and Board Members have decided to cancel the Alumni for this year. We will be honoring this year’s and next year’s honored classes at the 2021 Alumni Reunion.

“Hope to see you next year and please stay safe.”

The annual reunion has been held every year since 1922, the year Greta Martin Mike, Class of 1922, who married one of the Mike brothers barbers, arranged the first Monongah High Alumni Reunion.

I think Greta married Jimmy Mike, brother of Mutt Mike. I got many a haircut at their barber shop under the Monongah National Bank in the center of downtown East Monongah.

Greta became a teacher in Worthington.