Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Kerry Marbury was Warrick Dunn before there was a Warrick Dunn

Here’s a great story about Monongah High superstar Kerry Marbury in the tribute to the 1976 Seattle Seahawks football team, which included Kerry. It’s no coincidence that Kerry was on the 1968 and 1969 Monongah High teams that won the only back-to-back state titles in Lions history. He’s probably the best football player in Monongah High’s storied 5 state titles history.
The story:

 Profile: Kerry Marbury

By John Antonik
Source: West Virginia University Varsity Club

Kerry Marbury was Warrick Dunn years before there even was a Warrick Dunn.

Tampa Bay's miniature 5-9, 180-pound running back has had five productive seasons in the NFL, topping the 1,000-yard mark twice for the Buccaneers. Dunn became nationally known in college playing for Bobby Bowden at Florida State, where he was the first FSU back ever to rush for 1,000 yards three straight seasons.

Bowden convinced Dunn to become a Seminole in 1992 after a prolific high school career in Baton Rouge, La. His brilliant speed, maneuverability and elusiveness probably reminded the coach of a similar runner he had at West Virginia University in the early 1970s.

That ballcarrier was Kerry Marbury, who grew up in tiny Carolina, W.Va. -- a coal town located not far from Fairmont. As a youngster Marbury was always one of the smallest players on the field. To play Pop Warner football he once had to stuff his stomach with bananas and drink enough water just to make the minimum 76-pound weight.

Marbury would bribe his mother Lizella by doing some work around the house before sneaking off to the football field, where he perfected his game under the watchful eye of Nick Saban, Sr.

By the time he was a junior at Monongah High School in 1968, Marbury had developed an impressive reputation in West Virginia prep football circles. Playing alongside quarterback Nick Saban, Marbury helped Monongah to two consecutive state titles and finished his career with more than 6,000 yards rushing. He once gained 402 yards in a game against Kingwood High.

"I would have to say that Marbury is easily one of the ten best running backs to ever play high school football in West Virginia," said retired Wheeling Intelligencer editor Doug Huff, who today keeps track of national high school records. "He had a lot of ability."

Marbury was recruited by just about every major college in the country but he decided to sign with nearby West Virginia University. Jim Carlen was the coach at the time but Marbury never had the chance to play for Carlen, who left to take the Texas Tech job after the Mountaineers defeated South Carolina, 14-3 in the Peach Bowl.

"I really didn't consider playing anywhere else because I hadn't gone anywhere. I never left the state so I was a little apprehensive about leaving home," said Marbury.

He instead played at West Virginia for Bobby Bowden, Carlen's offensive coordinator who took the job just days after Carlen left.

The running back teamed with Harry "Snake" Blake, Bernie Kirchner and Dave Jadgmann to lead the WVU freshman team to a 3-1 record in 1970. Longtime Mountianeer assistant coach Donnie Young was Marbury's freshman coach that season.

"I always felt that Kerry had more natural God-given ability than any other running back at West Virginia University," said Young, who personally witnessed the school's top five all-time runners Amos Zereoue, Avon Cobourne, Artie Owens, Robert Walker and Robert Alexander.

Marbury weighed 165 pounds at the most, but he possessed world class speed and was once clocked at 9.6 seconds in the 100-yard dash.

"Kerry could go from a standstill to a full sprint quicker than anyone I'd ever seen," said Young.

In 1971 Marbury teamed with Pete Wood in the backfield to give West Virginia a formidable rushing duo. Marbury produced his first 100-yard game against Richmond in the third game of the season, and added a 144-yard effort against William & Mary two weeks later.

Against Temple on Oct. 23, 1971, he had the finest rushing performance in school history. Kerry scored on touchdown runs of three, 83 and four yards and finished the afternoon with 291 yards rushing on just 22 carries. He had 200 yards by halftime and if not for suffering a leg injury that forced him to miss part of the third quarter, he would have easily had more than 300 yards. Some think he might have gotten 400 that day.

Marbury had five runs covering more than 30 yards -- all on trap plays.

"I always felt like I could run the trap well," said Marbury. "If you could get past the line of scrimmage and you had any speed at all you had an opportunity to gain a good deal of yards."

He finished the 1971 season with a team-best 890 yards and a 6.1 average per carry to go along with six touchdowns.

In 1972, Marbury and Blake teamed with Danny Buggs to give West Virginia one of the nation's fastest teams. The Mountaineers were loaded at all of the skill positions and had a quarterback in Bernie Galiffa who could deliver the ball downfield. West Virginia's only weakness on offense was an inexperienced line.

"We didn't have the offensive line that they have today," Marbury admitted. "I think a lot of the success we had was due to our speed. We probably had some of the smallest linemen that I had ever seen play college football."

Marbury again led the Mountaineers with 775 yards rushing and 16 touchdowns despite missing parts of three games with an ankle injury. His 16 rushing TDs ranked second in the country to Ohio State's Harold Henson (20). Marbury produced a season-high 175 yards in a 28-7 victory over Richmond in the second game of the year.

West Virginia earned a bid to face North Carolina State in the 1972 Peach Bowl but the Mountaineers were humiliated, 49-13 by the Wolfpack. Marbury managed 69 yards on 13 carries, but WVU was only able to generate 91 yards on the ground for the game. Marbury missed the team's final regular season game against Syracuse because of a severely sprained ankle and wasn't 100 percent for the bowl game.

"We were expected to win that game and we ended up losing," said Marbury.

Bowden was criticized for his lack of discipline down at Atlanta before the bowl game, so the coach instituted a get-tough approach afterward. Disciplinary suspensions and team meetings followed.

"When we got back he immediately started changing the rules on everything," said Marbury. "I think he may have overreacted a little bit to the loss."

In defense to Bowden, he was a young coach who was still feeling his way around the program. Two years earlier in 1970 his team blew a 35-0 halftime lead at Pitt that ultimately cost WVU a bowl game. In just three short seasons Bowden had developed lofty expectations and fans were demanding more than just winning seasons.

Bowden was a committed Christian and criticism of his team's misbehavior stung him. Therefore he decided to institute more stringent rules and regulations for his players to abide by.

Marbury took exception to one of his friends being kicked off the team, and decided that he no longer wanted to play at West Virginia. His disagreement with Bowden snowballed into something neither party completely comprehended and Marbury decided to skip his senior season and signed a professional contract to play for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.

Marbury was heavily criticized by all of the state's newspapers for his decision to leave. Some reporters referred to him as the state's "most famous drop out."

"I didn't have the foresight to see all of the politics involved in sports, especially at the college level," he says. "I was just going about it like I did when I first started when I was five years old. Gradually I began to see all of the politics and I didn't see where it was all that necessary. When I left I was pretty much blackballed." At the time, the NFL did not accept underclassmen so the CFL was Marbury's only alternative. It proved to be a big mistake.

"It was very confusing for me at the time. If I had known, or had had better guidance, I would have stayed and finished school," he admitted. Injuries limited Marbury to 153 yards on 42 carries in just three games during his rookie season in Canada. A year later with the Ottawa Roughriders in 1974, Marbury had only 94 yards in four games. Though he didn't experience a great deal of success playing in the CFL, his time in Canada was enlightening.

"The people in Canada were fantastic, I thought it was just utopia," he said. "They didn't break it down into African-Canadians or Italian-Canadians, they were all Canadians."

He returned to the United States in 1975 and played briefly with the Birmingham Vulcans of the World Football League before it folded.

"That was awful," Marbury remarked. "My appendix burst during one practice and they made me scrimmage anyway. I almost died because of that."

He was selected by the New England Patriots in the 16th round of the NFL draft the following spring. Because Seattle and Tampa Bay were added to the league that year, Marbury was picked in the expansion draft by the Cleveland Browns. He was cut during training camp. His football career was over at age 24.

"I don't regret it because even if I had played 10 years, you're just a number in the NFL," Marbury said. "The most important thing to me is that people are treated like human beings."

Disappointed and discouraged, Marbury drifted down a path of drug use that eventually led to a short period in prison. It was at that point that he decided to quit blaming others for his problems and make something of his life.

"Being in prison was a result of me not being able to come to terms with everything that was going on in my life," he admitted. "I tended to lean toward drugs and eventually ended up in jail because of it. That was a great experience for me because I was able to determine that I am somebody and there is hope for me."

Once he got out Marbury made the most of his second chance. He returned to West Virginia and received his bachelor's degree in 1990. A year later he earned his master's degree.

Today Marbury is a full-time professor at Fairmont State College, where he is teaching a class in race, gender and sexuality. He has decided to make an example of his life in order to help others avoid making the same mistakes.

"I give them the benefit of studying my life, both the good and the bad to help them make better choices in their life," he said. "This has been self-satisfying for me. I don't leave anything out."

An important part of Marbury's life has been his athletic career. Despite playing just 20 games at WVU, he managed to score 22 touchdowns and rush for 1,665 yards. His 5.6 yards per carry average still ranks among the best in school history.

For many years Marbury harbored ill feelings toward West Virginia University, Bowden, and his assistant coaches. He couldn't bring himself to watch West Virginia games on television and had virtually no contact with anyone from the football program.

His position toward his alma mater has since mellowed.

"I was more excited this year than I have ever been because Rich (Rodriguez) is the coach," Marbury said. "I was so happy because I think Rich made it the good, old-fashioned way. He was not given something. He worked very hard to get to where he's at. I admire that in anybody."

Next March Marbury turns 50. His daughter Trevia has a son Cameron, which provides this grandpa with a great deal of joy. Time has healed some of his wounds -- many of which were self-inflicted.

Marbury also has some unfinished business with Bowden. At some point he would like to see if they could repair their relationship.

"I would like for us to come to terms," he said. "It's sad because I think in the back of my mind I hated him for not talking to me and trying to steer me in the right direction."

Thirty years ago Kerry Marbury was probably ahead of his time. The passing game wasn't quite as sophisticated then and running backs only ran the football, catching very few passes.

For those of you who watched Marbury play at WVU, can you imagine him today catching a screen pass out of the backfield, taking a shovel pass from the wing, or going one-on-one with a linebacker down the middle of the field?

He would be, well, just like Warrick Dunn.


Bonita Lavencheck Waybright identifies some of the 1962 seniors on the MHS lawn


John,
I have identified some of the students in this photo.


Front Row:  left to right #11 Bill McKinney (white shirt, has an arm 
on each knee), #13 Connie Martin Abruzzino (both legs are slanted, I 
think she is Joe Martin's sister), #18 Shirley Minor (maybe) ( has 
large white color on dress), #3 is Dave Vanmeter

Standing (left to right):  #13 Sandra Lipinski Hawkins (wearing black 
vest with hands clasped together), #17
a Mikez girl don't know if her name is Mary Kay or Shirley) she is 
wearing a plaid blouse and is carrying two books).

Hope this is some help. Thanks again for doing all the work you do to 
preserve MHS history and to provide current news with graduates.

Bonita Lavencheck Waybright, Class of 1968
waybright2@comcast.net

What about YOU? Can you identify any of the others. Email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and I'll add their IDs to the photo. Eventually, I'll add the IDs to the photo in the 1962 Monongah High Black Diamond online album yearbook, which you can check out by clicking on https://picasaweb.google.com/115483244393507838338/1962MonongahHighBlackDiamondYearbook



It’s just a wild guess on my part but I’m thinking the most raucous July birthday celebration by a Monongah High graduate will startle the world on July 3. That’s when Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971, puts another notch on her garter.

I suspect her sister, Mary “Kitty” Ahouse Morrison, might join the fun, too. Those two travel the country joyously.

It doesn’t matter that, when Sue isn’t hanging out in Stoney Lonesome, she’s living in Piscataway, New Jersey in the shadow of Rutgers University and Kitty lives in Monongah. Piscataway is where Kitty popped up in 2013 to surprise Sue for her birthday. Stoney Lonesome broke the party sound barrier in 2014.

Kitty, Class of 1968, is a bit of a gadabout herself, from New York City to Key West. Her birthday is Jan. 29. Get ready for another birthday blowout then, too.

Poor Mike Ahouse, a North Marion grad and a mailman living in Monongah, needs a GPS chip in both his sisters to keep track of where they are. 

By the way, since Sue blinked in the photo I used in the montage above, I PhotoShopped Kitty's eyes onto Sue's face. Since they usually see eye to eye, I thought it was appropriate. And just another reminder not to believe any photos you see on the Internet because technology makes it possible to look like something is happening that never happened.

I think Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of 1947, who lives in Thousand Oaks, California, may have less fireworks for her birthday, even though it's July 4th.

And then there’s the guy I see every few months, or so it seems, Bill Meredith, Class of 1957, who will put another notch on his gun July 5.
 
Bill is summering with wife Roleta in their Buckeye Lake, Ohio home, as usual, and winterizes in their Sarasota, Florida home, which has been the sanctuary for the Monongah High Alumni Reunion southern branch for several years.

And, on July 16, Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1975, who gave me my first boy-girl kiss – on the googles of my aviator cap -- when we were about 12 years old, on the sidewalk across the street from Carlot’s Grill and Monongah High, will add a notch to her garter.

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


3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971

4 – Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of 1947

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

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

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

3 – (Agnes) Jean Larry DiLaura, Class of 1950

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

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, Monongah 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

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

7 – Mary Louise Orsini, Class of 1948 (honorary)

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, Class of 1974

14 – Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948

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

 

October


 

7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975

8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class of 1973

9 – Mary Frances Miller Myers, Class of 1951

11 – Felix Colisino, Class of 1947

11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971

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

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

21 – Dorman Keith Beckner, Class of 1942

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

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

 


November


1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

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

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

December


2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

16 – Barbara Sweede, Class of 1956

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

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

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

23 – Jim Fullen

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

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

 

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

11 – Benny C. Morgan, Class of 1948

15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis

15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952

22 – David Haines, Class of 1964

25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959

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

16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class of 1961  

30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse, Class of 1954

 

May


4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers, Class of 1964

5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950

6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956

12 – Arlene Kitchin, main squeeze of Joe Martin, Class of 1957

14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1955

14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957

14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis, Class of 1957

17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of 1970

20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class of 1955

21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948

27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971

28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972

29 – John Woods, Class of 1957

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

7 – Kenneth Kincaid, Class of 1968

8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944

8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of 1970

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

17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954

20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953

23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949

23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class of 1960

23 – Ron Manzo, Monongah grad

23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion grad

 

Monday, June 29, 2015


Manchins dismiss brotherly lawsuit

Dr. John Manchin agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against his brothers, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and Roch Manchin, over a $1.7 million loan that John claimed he made to his brothers decades ago that was never repaid. It involved keeping Mancin Carpet Center afloat.

Each side will pay its own legal fees.

The brothers’ response to the lawsuit by their osteopathic doctor sibling was that they and the family bailed John out of his financial troubles in the 1980s and 1990s and that John is having financial trouble because of a “financially reckless son,” John Manchin III, who controls his father’s economic circumstances.

To read the earlier Monongah High Alumni blog article on the lawsuit in October 2014, click on http://jo4wvu.blogspot.com/search?q=manchin+lawsuit

27th monongah high yearbook free online
The 1962 yearbook,  loaned to me by David Haines, is the 27th Monongah High Black Diamond converted from print version to an online album.

To see the 1962 yearbook, click on https://picasaweb.google.com/115483244393507838338/1962MonongahHighBlackDiamondYearbook

Anyone in the world can see the 27 Monongah yearbooks via the Internet, from 1939 through 1965. I have promises of yearbooks through 1979 (the final graduation class) when I’m ready for them. I’m converting them one at a time because it takes up to 4 weeks to convert one yearbook from the printed version to the online album.

There are 44 online albums with Monongah High alumni in them, including the 27 yearbooks.

Click on or Copy and Paste the next line into your Internet browser’s http destination spot to see the online Monongah High Class of 1939 yearbook 


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Click on or Copy and Paste the next line into your Internet browser’s http destination spot to see the online 2015 version of the Class of 1950 that updates their lives since Monongah High

 


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Click on or Copy and Paste the next line into your Internet browser’s http destination spot to see miscellaneous photos that have appeared in Monongah High Alumni newsletters, mostly recent photos of MHS grads mentioned in 2013 or later newsletters


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Click on or Copy and Paste the next line into your Internet browser’s http destination spot to see the Henry “Dinkle” Martin tribute


Click on or Copy and Paste the next 3 lines into your Internet browser’s http destination spot, one at a time, to see each of the photos of the 3 visits by John Olesky, Class of 1950, to the summer home of Bob Kasper, Class of 1950, on Grand Lake, between Alpena and Rogers City in Michigan


 



Click on or Copy and Paste the next line into your Internet browser’s http destination spot to see photos of the visit by Bob Kasper, Class of 1950, to the home of John Olesky, Class of 1950, in Tallmadge, Ohio and the LSU-WVU game in Mountaineer Field


 

 

Feel free to send emails with details about your life since Monongah High, with photos if possible, to John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com  so that we can share experiences and Monongah High and childhood memories.

 

John Olesky, Class of 1950

newspaper editor, reporter and sportswriter for 43 years; retired in 1996

West Virginia University School of Journalism 1954 graduate

Living in Akron, Ohio suburb of Tallmadge