Get your reservations in NOW for the
99th Monongah High Alumni Banquet, the longest-running high school
in West Virginia history!
Honor classes this year are Class of
1962 and Class of 1972. I will be there and I’m Class of 1950 so there’s NO
excuse for 1962 and 1972 graduates still alive to NOT show up. I’m 89 and I’ll
be there. Stop by my table to say “Hey!” to me and tell me about YOUR favorite
Monongah High experiences.
The Banquet will be at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 28 at the Knights of Columbus, 1529 Mary Lou Retton Drive in
Fairmont, as it has been for years. Don’t miss it and then groan when you see
photos of Lions having so much fun at the banquet later.
Class of 1962 graduates are Mora Jean
Arnette Smart, Ollie May Brown, Dolores Jean Clayton Downey, Rebecca Marlene
Davis Christopher, Linda Virginia Efaw Bonfantino, Patricia Ann Fleming
Satterfield, Jo Ann Garrett Bowen, Karen Sue Goush Sloboda, Lois Carol Harbert
Moore, Christine Hawkins, Edna Mae Haynes Teixeira, Ina June Kincaid Fullen,
Sandra Sue Lipinski Hawkins, Joan Lupinsky Same, Constance Jean Martin
Abruzzino, Mary Katherine Mikez Loy, Helen Louise Minear, Shirley Ann Minor
Long, Carol Jean Satterfield, Carol Morgan Shupp Tetrick, Rachel Vivian
Stalnaker Sloan, Sara Elizabeth Sturm Blaydes (who lives in Tallmadge, Ohio, as
I do), Donna Lou Watkins, Lenore Jean Wright Moore. Those at the chicks.
The 1962 guys are Joseph Anthony
Amalett, Dennis Basnett, the late Michael Batiste, Gary Wayne Blare, William
Andrew Brown, Denver Duane Browning, Edgar Ray Burley, Robert Thomas Danko,
Donald Fleming, John Fleming, Daniel Lee Fullen, Benjamin Gandy, Edwing
Hardaway, Roy Jackson, George Koski, Joseph McCullough, William McKinney, Robert
Owen Mick, Christy Clyde Morgan, the late Gary William Moyer, Roger Lee
Nesselrette, Donald Frederick Pitman, Paul Shamrock, the late David Shears,
Harley Dean Swiger, Jr., Charles Thomas, David Lee Van Meter, the late Edmund
Ray Vozniak, Jyrld Eugene Whaley, Theodore Williams and Gerald Woods.
The Class of 1972 guys and gals, to
quote Damon Runyon, are June Ann Blair Megna, Rosemarie Chucci Buffkin, Debbie
Conley Boliner, Diana Conner, Brenda Cunningham Moore, Patti DeMary Evans,
Diane Dickens Pethel, Judy Duckworth Campbell, the late Cheryl Esultante, Pearl
Greynolds Eddy, Marlene Hamilton Conner, Sharon Hines Link, Debra Holbrook
Shumate, Marriet Hunter, Bertha Jones Wilson, the late Brenda Knight Stover,
Thea Beth Madden Pierce, Beatrice Murphy Henderson, Ruth Mike (any relation to
the legendary Mike brothers barbers of Monongah?), Susan Mikulski Morgan, Linda
Mills Levelle, Marsha Minnear Christopher, Jane Moore Alasky, Donna Morgan
Snyder, Terri Orsini Saye, the late Debra Rowand Swiger, Nan Sabo Hansen, Greg
Aldridge, Pete Basagic, Robert Batiste, Danny Bissett, Donald Chapman, James
Colanero, Bruce Coleman, John Domico, John Efaw, James “Jack”? Fullen, Terry
Freeman, Steven Garrett (any relation to the late Richard Garrett in my Class
of 1950?), Aaron Justice, Mark Kuhns, Steven Lantz, Kevin McCombs, Curtis Mayo,
Thimothy Miller, Franklin Raddish, Roger Raines, Paul Riggs, Sidney Riggs,
Billy Sailor, Rick Shaver (any connection to 40-year Monongah High secretary
Ida Shaver?), Terry Shilley, John Starr, Kim Thompson, David Westfall (who
Harley motorcycles through life with Marcia Michalski Westfall) and Paul Wood.
I don’t have THAT great a memory. I
just copied off the list that Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, Monongah
High’s de facto historian, gave me years ago.
If Kathern Loss Herndon, Class of
1942, is there on May 28 and YOU are not, shame on you. Kathern is the oldest
to show up, year after year, and I get my hug from her every time, much to MY
delight, and hopefully to Katern’s. My mother’s sister, Gezala Futten Loss,
married Frank Loss and they had a 100-acre farm in Mill Fall that had 4 homes
on it, not just the one I visited as a kid, when I visited Suzanne Barr Loss,
Class of 1948, before Suzanne, daughter of the famous Dr. Barr in Worthington
who delivered darn near every baby in Worthington, passed away.
Hell, Ron Pearse was there in 2021 in
his wheelchair so your excuse for not showing up will seem puny. So was Tom
Dean, Class of 1949, which means he’s older than me. Not many above ground can
make that statement. Show up or be square and be unhappy that you missed the
fun when you see all the photos!
In 2023 the annual Monongah High
Alumni Banquet will be celebrating big-time its ONE HUNDREDTH REUNION!
So, get your reservation in, $30 per
person, check made out to
Monongah High Alumni Association
And mailed to
MHS Alumni Association
c/o Donna L. Davis
858 Park Avenue
Monongah, WV 26554-1143
Everyone should join me in giving a
loud, exuberant “THANK YOU!” shout to Donna, the Alumni treasurer who has been
doing this yeoman work not too long after Grant took Richmond. Every Lion in
the world owes Donna a debt taller than Mount Everest. These things don’t work
unless someone does a lot of work to make it happen.
John Olesky, Class of 1950, who lives
in Tallmadge, Ohio, which shares a border with Akron, Ohio.
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