Monongah High Lions

  CATCHING UP WITH Class of 1962   From left: Nellie Joann Davis Thompson, Pat Fleming Satterfield, Don Pitman, wife and Fairmont West graduate Joan Pitman, Marlene Davis Christopher, Lenore Jean Wright Moore, Sara Sturm and Brady Moore, Lenore’s husband.   A photo of a reunion of the Class of 1962 grads sparked my interest.   In the photo (from left) was Nellie Joann Davis Thompson, Pat Fleming Satterfield, Don Pitman, wife and Fairmont West graduate Joan Pitman, Marlene Davis Christopher, Lenore Jean Wright Moore, Sara Sturm and Brady Moore, Lenore’s husband.   Joann married Don Thompson. She was on the MHS prom committee, in the Junior Red Cross, class treasurer as a junior and class secretary as a senior, in Y Teens and in the MHS fashion show. Pat Fleming Satterfield was in the National Honor Society, on Student Council, prom princess, co-editor with Sandra Lipinski of the 1962 Black Diamond yearbook, drum majorette with the award-winning ...

                                       JEANNETTE IN FRONT OF HOME OF SON, JIM, WITH JIM'S WIFE, RACHELLE                                     JEANNETTE BARR BACZUK ON  SANTA'S LAP AT AN EARLIER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION                                  JEANNETTE IN CLEVELAND BASEBALL CLOTHING                               BIRTHDAY GIRL JEANNETTE WITH A PRESENT                  JEANNETTE WITH SON JIM                           JEANNETTE WITH A HUGE FAN IN THE FAMILY                   ...

                     MITCH VINGLE WITH OWEN  SCHMITT AND LORI                      BERNIE VINGLE AND JOHN OLESKY MEET UP AT MONONGAH'S MOUNT CALVARY CEMETERY CATCHING UP WITH Mitch Vingle has sports blog Mitch Vingle, son of Bernie Vingle, Class of 1955, has a sports blog, The New View with Mitch Vingle for Wheelhouse Creative LLC. Fairmont West and WVU graduate Mitch, once sports with of the Charleston Gazette,   is a son of Bernard Frank “Bernie” Vingle, Class of 1955, was part of the famous musical Vingle family of Monongah, which put the Von Trapp family to shame. Mitch lives in Glen Dale, West Virginia these days. Bernice and I met at Monongah’s Mount Calvary Cemetery several years ago. He was paying respects to Vingle family members there. I was doing my usual “thank you” top with a flower for former Monongah High super math teacher Mary Teacher for the 3...