Monongah High Lions

  180 coming to MHS Banquet! Time almost up for you to make reservation!     I was getting ready to post another article about the 100 th Monongah High Alumni Banquet May 27 but Jay Holman beat me to it so I’ll let his post be the article.   Only addition I’ll make to what Jay wrote. While current Alumni Board will not longer be handling more reunions, Brenda Mills, Class of 1970, and Roseann Orwig, Class of 1969,  said they will take over for 2024.   By Jay Holman, Class of 1971   MONONGAH — The 100th annual, and possibly final, Monongah High Dinner and Dance will be held on May 27.   The Monongah Alumni Association, believed to be the oldest high school alumni association in West Virginia, will host the event at the Knights of Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont.   Class pictures will be taken at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Live music will be performed by father, son and grandson trio “Step...

  129 or more coming to 100 th Monongah High Alumni Banquet That’ll be DOUBLE the number that showed up last year! Donna Davis has 129 reservations for 100 th annual Monongah High Alumni Banquet. It has all the makings of a chance to see a lot of your former classmates and current friends if YOU make YOUR reservation! Only 72 showed up in 2022 for the special 100 th gathering will be much more impressive and more fun. I’ll be there with Joan, my non-Lion guest from Maryland, my sister, Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955, who lives in Rivesville, and Jackie’s daughter, Renee, a pharmacist at WVU Medicine in Morgantown. Join us! Print up and mail in your reservation with $30 per person attending or just call Donna Davis directly at (304) 534-5636 or, if you live in Marion County, stop by her Monongah house at 858 Park Avenue near the Mount Calgary Cemetery. Linda Lopez Gandy, Monongah Alumni Association president, added this reminder: "Remember the registration c...

                                        Donna Davis  Time running short for 100 th MHS Banquet reservations!!!   Monongah High Alumni Association treasurer Donna Davis, who has handled the annual MHS Banquet reservations and admission payments for years, reminds everyone that you need to notify her no later than May 22, when she will call the caterer with the head count for the 100 th Monongah High Alumni Banquet at the Knights of Columbus on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont.   Donna posted: “If you plan to attend send your reservation or drop them off at my house. If you want a commerative coffee cup or tumbler for the 100th year let me know. Hope to see you all there.” If you’re in Marion County you can drop off your reservation and payment ($30 per person) at Donna’s house, 858 Park Avenue, Monongah. If you mail the reservation and payment ($30 per perso...

 

Among the 66 people who have told me they are coming to the 100 th Monongah High Alumni Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 27 (Memorial Day Weekend) at the Knights of Columbus building on Mary Lou Retton Drive in Fairmont will be Sabrina Haught, Class of 1964, who will be giving the invocation. Sabrina married Richard Haught, pastor at TLC (Tender Loving Care?) Ministries for 17 years. Sabrina is retired from Dept of Homeland Security Marion County 911. She spent 31 years at HSMC and with fire departments and police agencies, including the final 5 years as part of the management team who handled public relations and advertising.   There are plenty of Haughts in Monongah High history.   Starting with the legendary late Gary Haught, whose sister is Tammy Haught Vandergrift, Class of 1977, of Frankfurt, Kentucky.   She went by Tama Haught when she was at Monongah High. She attended the 40-year reunion of her class at the 2017 Monongah High Alumni Banquet. Tammy was an accou...

  I am trying to compile a list of Lions who definitely will be coming to the 100th Monongah High Alumni Banquet on Saturday, MaY 27.  If your name is NOT on the list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com or post on John Olesky Facebook page. List your graduation year. And full name of your guest, if any, and graduation year IF he or she is a Monongah High graduate. It's the 100th Banquet of the longest-running high school reunion in West Virginia history so we want as many people as possible to show up. I'll be there.  Look me up: John Olesky, Class of 1950. I have a frame with 2,500 revolving photographs, including more than a thousand with faces of Lions in the photos. Stop by and see if you're in some of them. Let's make this the greatest MHS reunion since Greta Martin Mike's first reunion 1922! Be there or be square.  I will be taking and posting photos of everyone there that I can get to come to my table, too, for a June article on this blog. I have 43 names...