KIM DAVIDSON-CRADDOCK MAY BE AT 100TH MHS BANQUET . . . WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Kim Davidson-Craddock
May be at 100th MHS Banquet
Kim Davidson-Craddock is hoping to
attend the 100th Monongah High Alumni Banquet on Saturday, May 27,
Memorial Day weekend.
2000 Fairmont State criminal justice
graduate Kim lives in Fairmont with husband Art Craddock, a Canadian.
When Kim told me his original country
of residence and I said “Nothing wrong with that,” Kim responded: “My Mom gave
him the stamp of approval.”
Her mother is the amazing late Sue
Greynolds Davidson, Class of 1955, who was married to Melvin “Whitey” Davidson.
Kim said her father was president of
the Monongah High Alumni Associaton for years. Linda Lopez Gandy, Class of
19??, who lives in Florida with husband Jim Gandy, has been the Alumni
president for decades, including currently.
Sue and Junior Elutrio, Class of 19??,
had legendary dances at many Monongah High
Banquet reunions. I always looked forward to watching them since I am a
guy with two left feet when it comes to dancing.
When Sue was a teenager she would show
up at Coal Hole, the spot out in the country where we could swim, with some of
her girlfriends.
The teen guys went gah-gah over them.
The coal had been dug out of the ground
so deep that we never touched bottom even when we dived or jumped from the
diving board that someone put about 20 to 25 feet above the water on the cliff
between the pond and the road.
Whenever I got poison ivy, which was a
regular occurrence, my mother would tell me to go swimming in Coal Hole because
the sulphur cleared up the poison ivy in a few days! Better than calamine
lotion!
Sue passed away in 2017.
Merlin Davidson is Kim’s uncle and
Whitey’s brother.
Gibbs Davidson is Kim’s brother. She
calls Gibbs “the best brother a girl could have. Oh, what fun we had.”
Katy Materkoski is her niece.
Helen Haun is her sister.
Kim is Mawmaw to her grandchildren.
Kim and Art golf at Pines Country Club
in Morgantown.
As for the
100th Monongah High Alumni Banquet, the oldest high school
reunion in West Virginia history, will be Saturday, May 27 (Memorial Day
weekend) in the Knights of Columbus Hall on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont,
as usual. Cost is $30 per person.
For more
information call forever Alumni Association treasurer Donna Davis at (304)
534-5636 for additional information on how you can make your reservation.
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