1956, 1966 or 1976 MHS grad? Be at 2016 reunion

Monongah High graduation classes of 1956, 1966 and 1976 will be the honor classes for the 2016 MHS Alumni Reunion on Saturday, May 28 at the Knights of Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont.

This will be the 60^th anniversary for the Class of 1956, the 50^th anniversary for the Class of 1966 and the 40^th anniversary for the Class of 1976.

Alumni Association president Linda Lopez Gandy, Class of 1965, put the word out so that those classes and mark the date on their calendar (and Friday, May 27 for the single-class reunions, too) and show up for what might be their last time together as a group.

In my Class of 1950, for example, 24 fellow graduates are deceased and only 21 are still alive.

Since the final Monongah High graduation class was in 1979, before being consolidated into North Marion, the alumni numbers are dwindling. In 2015, only about 125 showed up. It wasn’t that long ago that the attendance was double that.