THE WI NEWSLETTER 11/06

THE WI NEWSLETTER

Editor: Roleta Smith Meredith

Issue 87

November 2006

THANKSGIVING
submitted by: Judy Daugherty Kimler (WI '59)
jkimler@verizon.net
Suddenly it's upon us. It seems only yesterday that we were back from our summer vacations, and the long weeks of fall seemed to stretch before us almost without end. But now it's practically Thanksgiving, and Christmas is soon to follow.

As Thanksgiving draws near, we are very much aware of the arrangements that must be made for the celebration. Grocery shopping, guests to be invited, travel arrangements to be confirmed, calculations on the cooking of the bird. In just a few days we will sit down to share a Thanksgiving supper. For the sight of all those faces, those wide eyes, those expressions of wonder and delight as the turkey is brought to the table. Later on we all sit down at the table, my family, friends, and me.

After saying Grace, we all pile food on our plates. Everyone is so full; our Thanksgiving dinner was great! I hope your Thanksgiving Day is wonderful to the very end.

"THE JOY OF ENJOYING AND THE FULLNESS OF LIVING
ARE FOUND IN THE HEART THAT IS FILLED WITH THANKSGIVING."

~Helen Steiner Rice~

submitted by: Bill Kaska (VHS '59)
billkaska@earthlink.net

Just read your Sept/06 Letter and can identify the front row /first person on the left. It's me William (Bill) Kaska, Victory/1959, WVU/1963. Currently living in Estero, Fl. for the past 7 years.

I attended the Clarksburg reunion this spring in Sarasota and had a good time. Keep up the good work It's very enjoyable reading.

submitted by: Mary Ellen Campbell Mathers (Unidis HS '61)
bichon@windstream.net

Thanks for changing my email address, I don't want to miss any Newsletters. Thanks for doing such a great job, even though I don't know the students from the Clarksburg schools, I so enjoy reading about happenings and stories with pictures about different places in Clarksburg. It helps with the feelings of keeping in touch with my roots

submitted by: Barbara Sutton Elder (WI '57)
bse57@hotmail.com

I really enjoy the newsletter each month, you guys certainly do a great job. You should have worked for the Columbus Dispatch when you lived here in Ohio.

I am still looking for a WI 1966 yearbook for my sister Jo Ann Herring and will pay for the book and shipping also.

submitted by: Diana Matheny Jones (WI '70)
Diana452@sbcglobal.net

I really enjoy the newsletter and have at times thought of things I could contribute. I graduated from WI in 1970....I worked at the lunch counter at McCroys in Clarksburg. lots of memories, some good some bad, smilessssss

Mention was made about Hite field and the path to there off of Chestnut St.....I lived right by that path on chestnut street and remember the excitement of the football games, all the traffic down chestnut street etc.

I also saw a picture of Jim Alvaro with a Rick Matheny and I am wondering if he might be a relative?

I also do genealogy as a hobby and I am a member of at least a dozen my family genealogy sites and admin on at least 6.......I will be thinking of a submission for your new feature.

This is a picture of me at the Clarksburg library, at David Houchins desk. Actually it is in the old Waldomore......smilesssssss I was there July 11 , 2006.

submitted by: Connie Bailey Casto (WI '59)
castoc@earthlink.net

This was a great newsletter and I do enjoy the pictures of various reunions. Whenever I mention this Newsletter to anyone not from Clarksburg, they find it hard to believe that there are dedicated individuals such as you and Judy, who would take the hours and hours to put this thing together. I would be willing to bet that there are very few communities doing this great service. I join all those who celebrate what you are doing and say THANK YOU!!

Love to all WI buddies,

WIN SCHOLARSHIP QUILT
Sue Selby Moats has received the first 2 great quilt blocks from Carol VanHorn Dean (WI 1958) for the 2007 WIN scholarship quilt. Thanks Carol

Elaine (Zabeau) Nortenman, Notre Dame '62, is the second person to send a 12 ½” quilt square (12" finished) to Sue (Selby) Moats. It is a beautiful tree block in autumn colors. It is so nice to have a graduate of ND join in the fund raiser for the WIN Scholarship.

Some other people have said they are making blocks, but I have not received them yet.

Now we need more of you to help create enough blocks to make a WINning quilt for 2007. Please send your square to Sue by the end of November so the quilt may be completed by 31 December. Thanks!

The theme for the quilt this year is: "Oh, those West Virginia Hills, how majestic and how grand......" Autumn in WV is a beautiful time of year with all of the brilliant colors of the fall foliage. The hard woods in the WV forest make it a beautiful sight with the magnificent colors. In the 2007 quilt we are going to try to capture the feeling of fall in WV. All quilt pieces will be sewn together, a backing put in place and the quilting and borders will be added by Sue Selby Moats. The WIN Scholarship Quilt will be raffled off and all proceeds will go toward the WIN Scholarship which is presented each year to a deserving RCBHS student. Chances for the quilt will be available at the Sarasota Picnic in March 2007 as well as by mail.

Calling all Quilters:
-Please make a 12 ½” block (finishing to 12") of your choice that will convey something you love about Autumn as related to Clarksburg & West Virginia.
-Please use a cream colored background fabric with any autumn colors you choose. Some ideas for a block could be: Bear's Paw; Delectable Mountain; Log Cabin; any leaf or tree block; Hill & Valley; Moon Over the Mountain; The Harrison Block; West VA Lily; West Virginia Star, or another block which relates to Autumn/WV.

A good reference book for block ideas is "The Quilt Book" by Judy Rehmel which has 4000 illustrated & indexed patterns.

-It has been suggested that we do not include photos or other embellishments so that the quilt will be more usable and washable.

Please send your 12 1/2" block (to finish at 12" in the quilt) by 31 November to:

Sue Moats
109 Normandy Drive
Silver Spring MD 20901

Let's raise even more money for the WIN Scholarship for 2007!

OUR SUMMER TRAVELS
submitted by: Roleta G. Meredith (WI '59)
Roleta1@aol.com
Bill and I have taken several trips in our life and I thought I had been every place that I had ever dreamed about but this summer I saw places I never in my wildest dreams thought I would experience. Way back in 1976 we went to Acapulco and I thought that all of my travel dreams had come true. Do you remember “Queen For A Day” in the 1950’s? Well, the Queen was always getting a prize of either a week-end or a week in Acapulco…the presentation was wonderful and this little girl sitting in Clarksburg dreamed of someday going to Acapulco…So when that dream came true in 1976, another dream came to mind as the next accomplishment. Even though Bill and I traveled some after 1976 there was that one dream in my mind that someday I wished to accomplishment. My one dream was someday to see St. Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Italy. What a marvelous display of art and the center of the Catholic religion. That was accomplished in 2001 and again in 2005. My dreams were fulfilled so the rest of my life I figured I would travel anyplace possible and enjoy myself. Boy, oh boy, did we travel this year. In May we left Florida and traveled north---driving through 11 states and driving completely around Lake Erie (into Canada and back passed the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. This was nice due to the fact that we stopped at just about every winery we came across…We were back in Florida the second week of June and stayed here for 2 weeks then we were off to Myrtle Beach for a week with our son, his wife and their 2 youngest daughters in a rented condo on the beach…a wonderful time was had by all. Then poor Bill drove back to Florida via Alabama where we visited a couple days with my brother and then on to play 3 Robert Trent Jones Trail golf courses. Back to Sarasota where spent 2 weeks in the middle of July at home before we flew off to NY then on to England where we toured for 4 days. We saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, saw the War museum, rode the London Eye, rode the double decker buses, the tube (the subway) rode those marvelous English cabs….(due to the congested streets most people there use public transportation and we enjoyed doing that). We saw Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, the Parliament, Harrods --well, you get the idea-we saw everything plus more! We went out to Windsor Castle (saw the changing of the guard there) and took a tour through Queen Elizabeth’s summer home. She was not there, (I think she didn’t expect us!) She was on her yacht off the shores of Scotland due to the heat wave in England. We went to see Stonehenge, believed to be a worship center for the ancients. I didn’t get any feelings that I had been there in a previous life so perhaps I wasn’t a pagan! LOL We went on to Bath, England and visited the lovely city and the ancient Roman baths. This was very interesting. Back to London via the tour bus…(an easy way to get around). In London, we rented a car (DON’T EVER DO THIS!) Those crazy Brits drive on the other side of the road and hide the street signs just about every place imaginable. They have these crazy traffic circles they call “round abouts”---Oh my gosh---you take your life in your own hands every time you enter or leave one of these ---especially if you are a tourist. Here in American one seldom hears someone blow their car horn unless it is in a greeting but people in England people blow their horns….especially when we were in the round abouts--- maybe they were just saying hi! LOL If a married couple can get through this without murdering one another it is a miracle (forget divorce-that is too simple) then I guess they can make it through just about everything. We drove from London to Wales (Bill’s ancestral home-I called it his “father land”) to see where the Meredith’s originated. What a beautiful country! I don’t know why they left there to move to America??? But times back in the mid 1700’s were apparently harder there than here. I do understand why people from the Brecon mountains of Wales would be drawn to the hills of WV. Anyway, we saw the beautiful home town of Brecon (there were less than 5000 residents there and about 100 of them were Meredith’s). We bought a large scarf of the Meredith family tartan plaid for both of our children. We stayed in the beautiful sea side town of Cardiff. From Wales we traveled to Dover, England (check your map-this was a long distance for two people who were barely speaking by this time). We spent the night in Dover and over a lovely meal at a hotel near the bottom of the White Cliffs of Dover we again fell in love. (this after 3 days of yelling and screaming between the driver and the navigator---I guess that is a well healed marriage???). It is a good thing that things between us were a lot better at this point because we had a lot more travel planned before October. In Dover we boarded a cruise ship for a 2 week cruise of the Baltic Ocean. Since I have covered so much already, I will continue this travel log next month.

JACK FREDERICK
submitted by: David Corsini (WI '50)
DLCOR114@aol.com
Just a short note to tell you that Jack Frederick a great teacher at W I died this morning at the Heritage Nursing Home in Bridgeport. I was talking with him on Thur and Sat when I was there they told me he was not good and was sleeping. I will miss seeing him as I am there often visiting Jackie's mother who is there and is 95. He was still pretty sharp and did remember me.

COACH FOLIO REMEMBERED

submitted by: Mike Snyder (WI '57)
mefastwater@yahoo.com
October newsletter sure was a good read. I'm sure quite of few of us remember how tough a back Roy Smith was and his celebrated classmate "Rocket" Ron Chartrand. Big Ten co-champs of l954 under Coach Tony Folio. Coach Folio had a big influence on my life. I was one of his football managers for four years. We rode back home to Stealey together after practice every night in his big black Buick.

Coach Folio and my dad Enoch were the starting guards on the WI football team of 1928. Coach was so tough he earned statewide attention and a scholarship to Duquesne.

He was such a role model for me, as was my dad, that his "tough love" (Coach would have choked on his cigar on that one) approach to dealing with adolescents has served me well in my quarter century as an educator.

He was a real man, who took no crap, and earned the respect of all. He had a soft side that not everyone saw. I remember him crossing himself when we drove past St. John's Catholic church, and the affection in his voice when he talked about his little daughter Tony Lee--maybe I didn't spell it right, sorry.

I just wish Coach were still alive to thank him for the guidance he gave to a youngster who was privileged to trail around in his wake for four years.

"Mikey! Get me the scissors!"

"Yessir, Coach!" And I'd hand them to him and he'd cut of the end of his El Producto or La Polina cigar which he seemed to be chewing most of the time--I never remember him smoking one.

The fire that man had for coaching and teaching young men rubbed off on me and a lot of young kids I have taught in Randolph and Tucker counties, I can truthfully say. My brother Habe was his basketball manager and he would agree, I'm sure. So would a host of other young men and athletes whose lives were shaped by Coach Tony Folio.

Coach was an early Italian-American leader in Clarksburg. I think it would be a great idea if his legacy were honored in some future Italian Heritage Festival.

I will never forget him.

NOTE: From the 1955 Hilltopper’s yearbook:

Compiling a 6-3 record, the blue and gold succeeded in sharing the Big Ten Conference Championship with Shinnston. Time and time again, the toppers entered contests as underdogs and concluded them by making goats of skeptical sportswriters all around the state.

submitted by: Roleta Smith Meredith (WI '59)
Roleta1@aol.com
I never had personal contact with Coach Folio; however, I knew of him through my brother. Believe me, those football players respected him but in a fashion they were scared of him too. I don’t mean to imply that they were physically scared but he was King of their world and carried a lot of weight! One example, I remember that Coach Folio had a curfew time for the players, I don’t remember if this was just for the night before the game or when exactly it was in force. But Coach often would randomly call the house asking to speak to Roy just to be sure he was in the house as he was required to be. One night I remember being instructed by my older brother (Roy) to make sure I answered the phone every time it rang that evening and if Coach Folio called and asked to speak to Roy, I was to tell Coach that Roy was in bed asleep. Yep, my older brother taught me to lie! LOL. I wasn’t afraid of lying to Coach Folio for my brother, I was afraid of my brother if I didn’t lie!

Suggestion---Next month write your memories of Coach Folio …. write to Roleta1@aol.com

BROAD OAKS
submitted by: Don Sager (WI '56)
dks@davtv.com
CHALLENGE
Time is running short for our Broad Oaks people to get their money into the WIN Scholarship by November 15. SOME OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ARE GEARING UP. WRITE THAT CHECK TODAY! Make the check out to Don Sager and mail to:

Don Sager
29 Plymouth Lane,
Bluffton, SC 29909

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you are interested in getting a group together to see if you can raise more money than Don Sager and his Broad Oaks gang, just write to Roleta1@aol.com. Possibly I can help you. Perhaps one of you would like to challenge your neighborhood, maybe one would like to see how much some of the “old” football players can raise, your graduation classmates or past basketball players, how about the band members, summer softball players, cheerleaders, church youth group, anything or anyone, we welcome it all!

All donor’s names will be published in the newsletter.

MY ROMANCE
submitted by: Frank Bush (WI '59)
Frank.Bush@Legacynet.com
My high school romance tale actually starts in Central Jr High and involves three beautiful ladies. As I said this tale starts in Central. While I came from that higher institution of learning in Broad Oaks, Alta Vista, I wasn’t the smartest branch on the tree. There was a lovely young lady in my Central homeroom class. I sent her a note asking for a date; however, I used the masculine spelling instead of the feminine spelling of the name. She accepted my request and never mentioned that spelling mistake. We dated for almost three years until we were freshmen in WI. We were both at the 45th reunion and as everyone was giving each other hugs, she came up and said, “The heck with hugs, I want a kiss from the guy who gave me my first real kiss.” I had no problem obliging, as she is just as lovely today as she was when I first saw her in the 7th grade.

As for the second lady. She went to WI, but almost each weekend her parents took her to visit her father's family in Weston. There weren’t any freeways back then but I got to know each and every curve between Clarksburg and Weston. One cold winter night my car broke down in Jane Lew. When I called home for a ride I heard my grandfather yelling, “By God he got up there by himself, he can get home by himself.” Thankful, my uncle came to get me. However, that relationship didn’t last too much longer.

The third lady I will name. I dropped out of chemistry class and ended up taking world geography. When I walked in the classroom I noticed a beautiful lady named Donna Jo Nutter, class of 61. It didn’t take long for this senior to ask that sophomore out. We dated for over three years and the December after she graduated we got married. She later told me that when we stated dating she told one of her girl friends that this was the man she was going to marry. I guess she let me chase her for those three years until she decided that it was time to let herself be caught. For another eighteen years we loved each other until she died from cancer. Even today, after being married to another lovely lady for 21 years, Donna has a special place in my heart.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Write to me about your high school romance or crush as we called it! Write to: Roleta1@aol.com. By the way, I think I have already confessed about my high school crushes…so come on, tell us. You don’t have to mention names if you don’t want to.

GENEALOGY
submitted by: Ruby Mathews Casto (VHS '47)
recasto@citynet.net
You asked for queries on genealogy. I have been doing genealogy since1970 and there is no end to it.

My query is:
I need help with Philip Mathis/Mathews married abt. 1814 in Harrison County, VA/WV to Elizabeth Nay. His parents were ???? and her parents were William & Sarah ??? Nay. I have one son for them, Benjamin Mathis/Mathews born abt 1815 and married to Rachel Ashcraft. Benjamin and Rachel lived on what is now Rt 18 in an old log cabin built probably about 1750. It was on the hill going down into Lumberport, WV in Eagle District. Rachel was the daughter of John Ashcraft II and Elizabeth Robbins. What I would like to know did Benjamin Mathis/Mathews have any siblings? Benjamin & Rachel Mathis/Mathews were my great grandparents. When I look at records in the Courthouse I have to look at Mathis/Mathews/Matthews. Benjamin & Rachel's son Thomas J. Mathews married to Caroline Davis were my grandparents.

Harrison County has a Genealogical Society and a webpage. I'm not sure how up to date it is as I don't take care of it. We meet the first Friday of every month at 10:00 A.M. on the 2nd floor of the Waldomore, which use to be the old library. http://dttwv01.org/hcgs.

You can use this or not whatever you think is appropriate. Dues are $10.00 a year from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31st and we do four newsletters a year.

We were also able to give two $500.00 scholarships this year.

Harrison County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 387
Clarksburg, WV 26302

SCHOOL SAVINGS BANK BOOKS
submitted by: Marilyn Lightner Kittle (WI '65)
Pamak41371@wmconnect.com
I remember saving quarters each week in my little savings book from the Harrison County Bank, as a student at Mt. Clare Grade & Jr High school. The money was still there when I graduated & when my friend, Rose (Bosley- now McGee) and I decided to go to Laboratory Assistant Training at what is now United Hospital Center, I withdrew my $50 to pay the breakage fee!!! I was so blessed to have saved so much!

I surely do enjoy so many memories being kept alive with this newsletter. Keep up the good work!

submitted by: John Timberlake (WI '48)
JGTimberlake
In WWII we were encouraged to buy savings stamps for a possible War bond. I think I got a $25 bond for $18.75, and then continued contributions. I still have a partially filled book of stamps.

RITZ THEATER REMEMBERED
submitted by: Gary Weiner (WI '60)
cias@iolinc.net
In the ground floor of the Ritz Theater Building was the Ritz News also known as the Clarksburg News. I remember a short, heavyset pleasant gray-haired lady named "Miss Lucy". There was fresh popcorn available as well as magazines and newspapers.

Next door was the Traders Barber Shop. across from each barber chair towards the center was a line of old fashioned oval shaped pedestal sinks for washing hair. There may have been someone to shine shoes but I don't remember. I used to see the barbers putting a burning match near some customers' heads but I don't remember what this was all about.

Next door was the People's Credit Store, started in 1919 by Maurice Klapper and his wife, Goldie Hammersmith Klapper. Goldie had been from New York and she was a cousin to my mother Ethel Bella Spritzer. The Klappers made a match for my mother with Robert Weiner. My mother was later known as Belle Weiner. The room in which Ideal- Sayre was located had been a part of the People's Store. The Klappers lived on Park Boulevard across from the Gulf Station. Murray died in 1954 and Goldie in 1980.

My mother and father died, respectively in 1974 and 1969.

submitted by: Arreta Radcliffe Jaranko (WI '40)
jjaranko@frontiernet.net
I have been catching up on the newsletters as I have been away and I wish I had seen the one about the Ritz. You may not find this information important enough for your newsletter but my dad did the decorative brickwork on the Ritz and many other buildings in Clarksburg. My sister was in 7th grade at the time and as she walked to and from Central Jr. High, she would stop and look up at him working and they would talk a bit. I would not have known this except she told me as she is the oldest of my brothers and me. My dad was a brick mason and did the design work on buildings all over this state and many other states. He went through two or three years of apprenticeship when he was learning his trade and today all that is required is to go to a technical or career school. To do the detailed work that he did requires patience and time and he did such excellent work that contractors and engineers asked for him in particular.When he passed away many of the men he worked with came to pay their respects and they said there would never be another like Jay Radcliffe and that is true. To see all the historic buildings being torn down destroys the work of these men who took such pride in their work and when Clarksburg tore down the old Judge Goff home there by Central Firestation, I sort of gave up on Clarksburg. There was so much history in that house. My grandfather worked for old Judge Goff and when my mother was a little girl she and her sister would run in an out of that house to see their dad and get money for an ice cream cone. Behind that house was the carriage house and that is where Judge Goff's brother, who was a physician, had his office. Well, there is no use saying anything about the fact that today everything has to be "fast" and we suffer the consequences.

Thanks for the newsletter. It keeps us informed about our friends and what Clarksburg has been!

THE MOON SONG
submitted by: Penny Christie Johnson (WI '60)
penem@nc.rr.com
The newsletter just gets better and better...

The Moon Song goes like this:

Oh Mr.Moon, Moon bright and shining Moon
Oh won't you please shine down on me.

Oh Mr. Moon, Moon bright and shining Moon
Hiding behind that tree.
Now all the girls and boys are telling you
To WI they will be true

Oh Mr. Moon, Moon bright and shining Moon
Oh won't you please shine down on,
Talk about your shine on
Please shine down on me.

Old cheerleaders remember all our high school songs LOL

submitted by: Susan Beakes Madia (WI '64)
jsmadia@cox.net
Another great issue. I really look forward to them. We live in Kansas now and believe me I miss the beautiful fall leaves of West Virginia.

The words to the song are,

Mr. Moon, Moon, bright and shiny Moon
Won’t you please shine down on me.

Oh, Mr. Moon, Moon bright and shiny Moon
Hiding behind that tree.
All the boys and girls are telling you.
To W I they will be true.

Oh, Mr. Moon (shine) Moon (shine) bright and shiny Moon
Won’t you please shine down on,
Talk about your shine on,
Please shine down on me.

I used to sing it to my girls when they were little. Actually all the W I songs. Wasn’t that a kinder gentler time. Clarksburg was a great town to grow up in when I was a preteen and teenager. I grew up in Chestnut hills. There weren’t nearly as many of us on the “Hill” as in Stealey and Hartland but we had a great time, esp. in the summer or when the snow fell in the winter. Everyone just met at the top of VanBuren and the sled riding was fabulous! No phones, just went. It was a good life. Thanks for the memories.

SCHOLARSHIP
This month the WIN Scholarship received a donation check from:

Sandra Zickefoose Lindke (WI 1956)
Mary Ann Donato (WI 1956)
Don Sager (WI 1956) in memory of JACK BORROR (RW 1956)

Above were all members of the WI graduating Class of 1956 and they have all donated previously. Thanks so much.

Wish to join us? Just send your check made out to Roleta Meredith/Win Scholarship and mail to:

Roleta Meredith
3201 Charles MacDonald Drive
Sarasota, FL 34240

The 2005 WIN Scholarship of $1,000.00 and was awarded to Briana McQuillan a graduate of RC Byrd HS and who is attending WV Weslyan College.

JIM BROWN WI 1957
submitted by: Bill Meredith (Monongah '57)
billmere@aol.com

I was recently reading the Fall 2006 edition of "Engineering West Virginia" published by the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU. Every year, the College's academies recognize outstanding graduates and others who have had distinguished careers. One of those honored this year by The Academy of Civil Engineers was James E. Brown, BSCE ' 62 and MSCE ' 64. Jim is a 1957 graduate of WI. According to the article, Jim has spent 42 years in the construction industry. He is a director and past president of the Construction Employers Association of North Central West Virginia and the Contractors Association of West Virginia. He joined G.A. Brown and Sons in Fairmont, and directed its operations for 15 years before purchasing the company in 1991. I know all of the WIN readers join me in congratulating Jim on this very prestigious award.

E-MAIL NAMES
submitted by: Roleta Smith Meredith (WI '59)
Roleta1@aol.com
I often wonder how people come up with their email names….Of course you can see from my email address that I didn’t show much imagination but I wanted people to be able to find me and remember my email address. So it works for me. I sit and wonder how some arrive at their addresses as I can not relate their names to their addresses at all. Of all the email addresses in my address book (and there are over 1,300 in it) J is the most popular first letter in email addresses. Those that don’t seem to be so popular are:
I have NO email addresses beginning with O, Q, or Z.
Only ONE email address starts with each of the letters V, X and Y.
There are only TWO that start with the letter U

So if you are ever looking for something different you might check the dictionary and see what you can come up with!

NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES

Annabel Day Davis and Paul A. Davis (WI '57)	padco@bellsouth.net
Sharon Melvin Kinney (WI '64)	sharonymc@citynet.net
Susan Brown Black (WI '57)	susanblack@cfl.rr.com
Carol Bauld Swaney (WI '64) (mother Margaret, was Latin teacher at WI for many years)	bswaneyiii@ma.rr.com
Brian Swaney (WI '64)	bswaneyiii@ma.rr.com
Fred Richard Hall (WI '60)	deflwyr1@suddenlink.net
Chuck Paugh (WI '65)	escape112@aol.com
Sue Fox Griffith (would have graduated in 1953 from WI but family moved to California - she attended WI 1949 to 1952)	kitturah35@yahoo.com
Eliza Swiger Allen (WI '58)	ALizathome@aol.com

CHANGE OF EMAIL ADDRESS

William R. Losh (RW '54)	loshb@earthlink.net
Barbara Moore Losh (WI '63)	loshb@earthlink.net
Joe Trupo (VHS '48)	jtrupo@verizon.net
Linda Humphries Hall (WI '61)	deflwyr1@suddenlink.net
Mary Ellen Campbell Mathers (Unidis '61)	bichon@windstream.net
Diana Matheny Jones (WI '70)	was: treehound@sbcglobal.net is now: diana452@sbcglobal.net

EMAIL CORRECTION
EDITOR’S NOTE: I typed the email address below incorrectly last month:

Francis D. Muscari, Sr. (WI '57) fdmsr1@verizon.net

MAUD YOAK
submitted by: John Timberlake (WI '48)
JGTimberlake@aol.com
Maud Yoak was my English teacher my senior year. I learned Shakespeare. I can still remember many of the 100 lines of Macbeth we had to memorize and recite to her at 8 am mistake free. If you hesitated or stumbled you had to come back another day.

She told us one day that she started teaching at 16. She graduated from school in May, went to teacher’s college that summer and started teaching that fall in the same school from which she had graduated the previous spring. I don't know how accurate that was, but she got her AB from WV Wesleyan and her MA from WVU.

She was one of several interesting teachers I had at WI.

NOTE: I figure that was correct….my father became a teacher and principal after a couple years of college. He taught in a little one room school in Braxton County. He had some boys in the school who were older (and bigger) than he. He drove an old car (well of course it was old, it was back in 1936!) and had to crank it to start it….so he made friends with the 2 big boys by letting them crank and start his car at the end of each school day.

DO YOU REMEMBER?
Do you remember when you were in “grade school” and tickets were offered to the students to go to the high school to attend plays? Write your comments to: Roleta1@aol.com.

SALT RISIN BREAD
submitted by: Carol VH Dean (WI '58)
DBLU2@aol.com

1 medium sliced potato	1/2 teas salt
1/2 teas soda	1/2 teas sugar
1/2 pint warm milk	1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cornmeal

Place in warm place overnight. In the morning, add 1 pint warm milk thickened with flour. Let rise; when well risen, add 2 tablespoons shortening, 3 tablespoons sugar and enough flour to knead well and make into loaves, let rise to top of pans and bake from 45 - 60 minutes in 350o oven.

PRECIOUS CHILD FOR OCTOBER 2006

submitted by: Charlie Burkhammer (WI '59)
CBhammer12@aol.com
I believe the precious child for October is Jim Martin, my classmate from the class of 59. Jim lived on Pike Street, across from the post office, which wasn't too far from my home on Mulberry.

We went to Pierpont and Central together, and after high school, to Potomac State. Jim and his lovely wife Marion were in for the WI picnic in August.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We need pictures. If you have any pictures we can use in the WI Newsletter, please contact Judy Daugherty Kimler, jkimler@verizon.net. Thank you.

PRECIOUS CHILD FOR NOVEMBER 2006

Do you recognize this child? Write your guess to Roleta1@aol.com. I will only use correct guesses.

SPORTS
submitted by: Roleta Smith Meredith (WI '59)
Roleta1@aol.com
Recently I received a copy of a newspaper clipping from Freddie Layman (VHS-46). He provided it but I really wonder if the people from WI are going to believe it? I will print here a portion.

The following was reported in the Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram in 1972.

VICTORY VS. WI IN FOOTBALL THROUGH THE YEARS
Victory holds a 27-16-7 edge in the 50 year series with WI. The last tie came in 1970 at 6-6 and the final win for the Hilltoppers was a 20-14 decision in 1968. The last graduating class at Victory was in 1973.

The results of the series are as follows....

EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to space, I am going to tell you that between 1921 and 1944, WI won 10, lost 12, and tied 1.

VHS	YEAR	WI
40	1945	60
0	1946	19
13	1947	7
0	1948	0
7	1949	7
0	1950	34
6	1951	27
20	1952	12
13	1953	6
0	1954	26
26	1955	0
12	1956	12
53	1957	7
14	1958	0
0	1959	40
20	1960	0
28	1961	7
34	1962	0
32	1963	7
33	1964	6
21	1965	12
45	1966	18
7	1967	0
14	1968	20
36	1969	20
6	1970	6
50	1971	6
62	1972	12

CHUCK YEAGER
submitted by: Sam Iaquinta (WI '57)
samiaq@comcast.net
There are precious few things that'll get me out of bed at 4am, but add an invitation to see General Chuck Yeager speak at the dedication of a statue of his likeness at the "Sound Barrier Park" in the heart of Edwards AFB to the short list. The statue was dedicated in a ceremony at the corner of Rosamond and Yeager Blvd a street named in the General's honor. A dubious honor by Yeager's thinking: They name streets after dead people, he noted during his remarks.

Chuck seemed a little bit humbled by the honor (no, really)! But he also managed to get a few licks in.

"I'm a bit PO'd" he quipped, "watching all these airplanes buzzing around and I'm not flying them". "I'm 83 and I could fly in an F-16 with no problem, but General Bedke doesn't think so." - alluding to the fact that a few years back the Air Force (base commander General Bedke) stopped allowing him to fly test pilot school fighters. His last military flight was a supersonic hop in an F-15 to open the Edwards Air show just a few years back. Yeager was age 79 at the time.

It was a fairly small ceremony, but check out the front row of guests!

Left to right you've got Clay Lacy (record-setting aviator. Clay Lacy's company shoots about every piece of air-to-air film you'll want to see including virtually all airline commercials), Frank Borman (yeah, the flew-around-the-moon Apollo 8 guy), Bob Hoover (greatest pilot ever lived, period), and Baron Hilton (an accomplished aviator, and the next best Hilton to meet after Paris).

Media coverage was very light. There were no more than a half dozen photographers, a few from the Air Force, a couple from the local desert newspapers, and me; so I guess these would qualify as "rare historic photo's", huh?

Yeager ended his speech by joking with Bob Hoover they were getting close to running that last checklist.

When we do, he said, the last item will be: "Man, we had a ball".... and I'll bet they did!

APRIL 2006 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING
At the annual meeting and dinner in April 2006, the Washington Irving/Roosevelt-Wilson/Kelly Miller/Robert C. Byrd Alumni Foundation presented $500 scholarships to twenty-three graduating seniors.

Recipients and donors included Michael Skidmore, the Peggy Minear Young Memorial Scholarship; Carrie Harpold, the Frank Colombo Memorial Scholarship; and Sara Davisson, RCB Boosters Scholarship in honor of the Reverend Scott Holcombe. Four additional Boosters scholarships went to Christopher Audia, Tiffany Mancuso, Nicole Richards, and Tyler Williams. Michael Prieto received the Burnside/Reynolds Scholarship while the R-W Class of 1965 presented two scholarships to Erin Lopez and Lauren Morrison, and R-W 1967 honored Courtney LeFevre. Two scholarships in memory of WI graduate Gregg W. Simpson were presented by his widow Leeanne G. Simpson and his mother Joanne Westfall Tetrick to Colleen King and Richard O’Dell. Clinton Davis received the Clay B. and Virginia Ferguson Hite Memorial Scholarship. Washington Irving’s Class of 1950 presented its scholarship to Andrew Skasik, WI 1955 honored Kayla Lucas, and WI 1971’s scholarship went to Tyler Spear. Memorial scholarships honoring Paul Snider, Dianna Robey Tillman, and Jack Gorby were presented to Mallory Cole, Tyler Tiano, and Carrie Whaley. Kelsi Day received the RCB Faculty Scholarship, and Michael Squires and Emily Logue received the Alumni Foundation Scholarships.

The total amount distributed was $11,500. The foundation hopes to increase its membership and clarify its data base of members. Annual dues are $15, which may be sent to Deborah Frum, Treasurer at One Eagle Way, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301.

OCTOBER 2006 TRIVIA PICTURE
One observant person came up with the correct answer. Hope that now you remember these.

picture submitted by: John Teter (WI '61)

submitted by: Phyllis Alton Nichols (WI '57)
Nmimiphyllis @aol.com
The mystery pictures this month are the figures carved on the Carmichael Auditorium. (at least they look like they are carved in the blocks.) As I saw those figures, I remembered all the great times we had in that auditorium. Our group would all meet and go to the basketball games together to cheer on our WI Hilltoppers. Back then we really cheered, and you were not allowed to Boo when the other team shot foul shots. We had so much fun! After the games, we would go to the Central Restuarant and just hang out, or hop in the car and go to Romano's . Jack Merandi had the Central, and as long as you behaved, you could just hang out and visit. He was good to us. Other times, there were sock hops after the games either at the VFW or the Episcopal Parish Hall. Those were fun too. I also remember the after Prom activities were at the Carmichael too, at least both years that I went. 1956 and 1957.

Thanks for the memories those pictures brought to mind. I want to thank you and Judy for the Newsletter. I have come to look forward to it every month. Good Job!!

NOTE: Our thanks to John Cooper WI 1951 who submitted the plaque pictures in last month's newsletter.

submitted by: John Cooper (WI '51)
Mysto99@aol.com
The Front of the Carmichael Auditorium as it is today...in need of a buyer!

The one figure of the disc- thrower is seen at the left at the top of the bldg. to the right of the telephone pole. Below on street level, is the big door that was the entrance to the walk-way to the top of the basketball floor.

Over the window outside--on the top floor you can read "Auditorium"

On the Top right of the building is the sports-figure plaque of the "runner"

TRIVIA PICTURE FOR NOVEMBER 2006

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WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1957
Dear Classmates:

As you no doubt already know, next year is the fiftieth anniversary of our graduation from the “school on the hill.” Several members of the class attended the annual “Florida Picnic” in Sarasota last March. The subject of a reunion weekend came up and some preliminary plans were made.

The feeling of the group was that it would be a good idea to schedule our reunion for the same weekend as the “WI Picnic” held in Clarksburg in August for the last few years. A good number of our classmates including several from out of town already attend the picnic. Holding both events on the same weekend should help encourage attendance by those who have to travel, would provide an opportunity to meet friends from other classes and give our group some additional time together.

The dates for the reunion will be Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25, 2007.

We plan to hold events on each of those days. The picnic is held mid-day on Saturday.

The purpose of this letter is to let everyone know the dates of the reunion several months in advance. Hopefully, the early notice will allow as many classmates as possible make plans to attend. Since it has been nine years since our last get-together, there are sure to be many address changes to discover. This will take considerable time and help from everyone.

Please send any addresses of classmates that you have. Include regular and/or e-mail addresses.

Send them to any of the following:

J. E. Brown jbrown@gabrown.com or jb1obx@aol.com
c/o G. A. Brown & Son, Inc.
215 Mill Street
Fairmont, WV 26554

There will be more mailings as plans develop. Meanwhile, please let us know your thoughts about the type of events you would prefer and help us locate missing classmates.

We look forward to seeing you at the reunion.

HAIL WASHINGTON IRVING
submitted by: Carol Burnside (WI '52)
crburnside842@verizon.net
Thanks so much for your suggestion to say something about my book "Hail Washington Irving: Eighty-one Years on the Hill", which has been so well received. One reader (a man) told me he actually got a little teary at some parts. I responded that I was also teary when I wrote some of it. I still have copies (32 Garden Circle, Bridgeport, WV 26330) for $12.72 plus $4.00 postage and handling. Good old James and Law also has them or the book is available on Amazon.com (I don’t know their shipping costs.) As I promised in the book, I have donated all proceeds to scholarships ($5,000 to date). The following are from reviews:

From Graffiti March 1997 (a Charleston arts and entertainment publication)

“Carolyn Reynolds Burnside has given … a loving send-off with "Hail Washington Irving". Her memoir of WI … draws heavily on interviews with former students and teachers to create a nostalgically entertaining read. The book is divided into chapters by decade, and Burnside intersperses historical data from the world at large with the stories of 1920s-era principal Orie McConkey, known for tough discipline and the fern in his office that survived almost 60 years, or the purported “sex club” that supposedly sprang up at the school in the 1950s.”

From “Bob’n Along” by Bob Stealey The Clarksburg Telegram September 27, 1996

“ Required Reading for WI Graduates: Mrs. Burnside has done a masterful job of including highlights of such a history and the mention of many great teachers who shaped adolescent minds ... What I think is particularly interesting is the series of responses from certain WI graduates about particular incidents on “The Hill” in which they were involved.”

OBITUARIES
MARK B. FOLIO
Mr. Mark B. Folio, age 88, of 735 East Main Street, Clarksburg, WV, passed away at 7:18 a.m. Thursday, October 5, 2006, at the United Hospital Center following an extended illness.

He was born in Clarksburg, WV, July 28, 1918, a son of the late Salvatore (Sam) Folio and Antoinette Bellotte Folio.

Surviving are his wife of 66 years, Mary Ferrell Folio; two sons and daughters-in-law, Sam and Monica Folio, Lake Tahoe, NV, and J. Roger and Sarah D. Folio, Oakland, MD; two daughters and a son-in-law, Kathleen (Folio) and Tom Berry, Virginia Beach, VA, and Marilyn (Folio) Post, Naples, FL; eight grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and close family relatives, Bernard J. Folio, Lena Romeo and Diana Watne, and several nieces and nephews.

Mr. Folio was also preceded in death by two brothers, David Folio and Lt. Col. Joseph R. Folio, and one sister, Julia Folio Embry.

Mr. Folio was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. He was a graduate of Washington Irving High School, Class of 1936, and had attended Bowling Green University. He was a past member of Knights of Columbus in Clarksburg and the Sons of Italy.

He was a lifelong worker and owner of Folio Brothers Confectionary on Fourth Street, retiring in 1980.

Thanks to the Exponent Telegram for the use of excerpts of their obituary.

MRS. ANN WILSON GARRETT
Mrs. Ann Wilson Garrett, age 73, of East Main Street, Clarksburg, WV, and Maisons-sur-Mer of Myrtle Beach, SC, passed away September 17, 2006, at the Conway Medical Center, Conway, SC (Myrtle Beach) following a courageous battle with ovarian cancer.

She was born in Clarksburg, WV, a daughter of the late Louis Heazelton Wilson and Elinor Elizabeth (Jackie) Hornor Wilson, both Harrison County, WV natives.

Surviving are her husband of forty-one years, Marquis Earl “Mark” Garrett, Sr. (WI 1959), whom she married December 27, 1964; nine children and spouses, Katherine Ann Garrett Kiger and husband, Mike, Huntington, WV, Jeffrey Wilson Garrett Sr., and wife, Sue, Elinor Elizabeth Garrett, and Karen Lynn Garrett Mazza and husband, Albert all of Mooresville, NC, Janet Elise Garrett Babcock and husband, Tim, Huntersville, NC, Marquis Earl “Mark” Garrett, Jr., Clarksburg, WV, Douglas Heazelton Garrett and wife, Jaime, Fairmont, WV, Amy Starling Garrett, Mooresville, NC, and Amanda Wilson Garrett, Myrtle Beach, SC and Clarksburg, WV; six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Sara Wilson Bennett and husband, H.B. “Buck”, Scottsdale, AZ; one brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Thomas Wayne Garrett and wife, Lois, Fairmont, WV; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by one grandson, Ross Wilson Babcock and one brother-in-law, William Charles Garrett.

Mrs. Garrett was a graduate of Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg, WV.

EDWIN JACKSON “JACK” FREDERICK

Edwin Jackson “Jack” Frederick, 92, of Shinnston, passed away on Saturday, October 21, 2006.

He was born April 27, 1914, in Shinnston, the son of the late George and Ina Rogers Frederick.

Mr. Frederick is survived by two nephews, Claude Lawson of Ravenswood, West Virginia, and Thomas H. Prickett of McDonald, Pennsylvania.

In addition to his parents, Jack was preceded by three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Altare, Mrs. Irene Prickett and Mrs. Helen Marie Lawson.

Mr. Frederick was a graduate of Fairmont State University and received his masters degree from West Virginia University. He taught school at Shinnston Junior High School and Washington Irving High in Clarksburg for 42 years. He was a cashier at the Hotel Morton in Atlantic City for 25 years.

Mr. Frederick served our country in the Army Air Corps's Adjutant General Department during Word War II. He was a Sunday school superintendent of the Charles Street Christian Church for over 41 years.

Jack was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Huguenot Society of West Virginia, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, St. Johns Lodge No. 24, American Legion, Harrison County Historical Society and president of the Shinnston Historical Society, and was chairman of the Shinnston Bicentennial.

Friends will be received at the Harmer Funeral Home, Shinnston, on Friday, October 27, 2006, between 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the Harmer Funeral Home on Saturday, October 28, 2006, at 1 p.m., with the Rev. Lynn White officiating. Interment will follow at the Elizabeth Mason Memorial Cemetery, Joetown.

A service of the Harmer Funeral Home, Shinnston, West Virginia.

PENNY L. CAPEHART RASEL
Penny L. Rasel, age 65, of Parkersburg, W.Va., passed away Sunday Oct. 15, 2006 in Clarksburg, W.Va.

She was born Nov. 3, 1940 in Clarksburg, W.Va., a daughter of Betty J. Snider Capehart and the late Glenn A. Capehart. She had worked at Traders Savings and Loan and in recent years worked for the law office of Townsend and Fluharty in Parkersburg, W.Va. She was a member of Duff Street United Methodist Church in Clarksburg and attended Christ United Methodist Church in Parkersburg. She was a 1958 graduate of WI.

In addition to her mother Betty J Snider Capehart, Penny is survived by two sisters, Judy Wamsley and her husband, Gary of Alpharetta, Ga., LeeAnn Folio and her husband Joseph of Clarksburg, W.Va.; a brother, Glenn A. Capehart and his wife, Vicki of Brentwood, Tenn.; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her father she was preceded in death by her husband James Rasel.

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