JAY HOLMAN MISSED JULY 17 PARTY. BE AT SEPTEMBER 4 MONONGAH HIGH REUNION WITH HIM

 

Jay Holman, Class of 1971, is a super party organizer, but he had to miss the July 17 whiz-bang J&J&Lions Get-Together in the Monongah Town Hall because he took his wife, Margaret,  a Fairmont West graduate,  to the hospital for tests.

Jay Holman and wife Margaret were married in January 1974 in Fairmont. They have 3 sons, Jay III, Robert and Michael.

Michael was North Carolina’s Career and Technical Educations Teacher of the Year for 2017.  Michael came to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in 2011 as a teacher at East Chapel High School after four years in Granville County Schools.

 

 

Jay III is a Chicago banker and Robert works for the federal government out of Clarksburg.

 

Talent runs deep in the Holman family. Jay’s granddaughter, Joycelin Holman, at Weston’s Robert L. Bland Middle School, was chosen Lewis County Young Writers winner among 7^th/8^th graders.

Joycelin, a regular occupant of the Bland School’s honor role, is the daughter of Robert and Billie Jean Holman of Jane Lew. Joycelin has three siblings – Ava, Austin and Elijah.

 

Jay resides in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. He lived in Carolina during his Monongah High days.

 

Jay was a ground mechanic for the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

It’s hard to keep up with all his career stops but I’ll give it a try.

 

Cox’s Plus 1 Communications in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in  St. Joseph, Missouri working for SuddenLink, professional photographer and sales and leasing consultant for an auto business in Durham, North Carolina.

 

His Class of 1971 gets together more often than any other Monongah High alumni group.

 

One of my main helpers for the J&J&Lions Get-Together was Monongah Councilwoman Susan Staron Sanders, Class of 1971. I told you the 1971s were real go-getters!

 

Jay says he plans to be there for the Saturday, September 4 annual Monongah High Alumni Banquet, the longest continuous high school reunion in West Virginia.

 

You can count on a good showing by the Class of 1971, one of the honor classes along with Class of 1970, Class of 1960 and Class of 1961.

 

John Baranski, Class of 1971, who lives in Worthington, was at the Monongah High Alumni Reunion in Fairmont in both 2017 and 2016.

 

Mark Cochran, Class of 1971, of Shinnston, was at the 2016 MHS Alumni Reunion. So was 1971 grad Linda Foster of Fairmont, who was there with husband and 1971 grad Jim Foster.

 

Other 1971 grads at the 2016 MHS Reunion were Dave Gowers of Martinsburg, Sue Ahouse Schrader, there with sister Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968. Sue and Kitty also attended in 2015.

 

At the 2014 MHS Reunion, Class of 1971’s Doris Carpenter Rogers showed up.

 

Jay Holman was at the 2012 MHS Reunion along with fellow 1971 grads Sue Schrader and Nick Scrivo.

 

1971’s Laurann Allen of Enterprise made it to the 2011 MHS Reunion for the Class of 1971’s 40^th anniversary with fellow 1971 grads Bob Bonasso of Carolina, Joe Craig of Franklin, Tennessee, Gary Domico, Jim Foster, Dan Gowers, Jay Holman, Mark Raddish of Spring Hill, Florida, Kip Riley, Doris Carpenter Rogers, Sue Schrader and Nick Scrivo.

 

John Baransky also attended the 2008 MHS Reunion. So did Sue Schrader and Nick Scrivo.

 

Nick and Doris Carpenter Rogers attended the 2007 MHS Reunion.

 

John Baransky, David Gowers, Sue Schrader and Nick Scrivo showed up again at the 2006 MHS Reunion (1971’s 35^th anniversary).

 

See what I mean about the Class of 1971 being a terrific whoop-de-do class?

 

Join Jay and me at the annual Monongah High Alumni Banquet on Saturday, September 4 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Fairmont.

 

Dinner at 6 p.m. Group photos of the honor classes at 5:30 p.m. at $15 per photo.

 

Stepping Stone will provide the dancing music till 11 p.m. Father and son Ron and Todd Poole have become regular performers at the Monongah High Alumni Banquets.

Mail Reservations by August 26 deadline and a check made out to

Monongah High Alumni Association

 for $30 per person to

Donna Davis  

858 Park Avenue

Monongah, WV

26554-1143

If you have any questions call Donna Davis at (304) 534-5636.

If you see me or Jay come over and chat with and hug us. After all we’re all part of a pride of Lions.