THE WI NEWSLETTER 06/07

THE WI NEWSLETTER

Editor: Roleta Smith Meredith

Issue 94

June 2007

NOTE FROM ROLETA AND JUDY TO OUR READERS:
Your letters and pictures are important to us. We would hate to miss one. Once in awhile we might accidently delete a letter that is thought to be spam. If you would put "WI NEWSLETTER" in the subject line of all correspondence we would really appreciate it.

DAD

We may not shower him with praise
Nor mention his name in song,
And sometimes it seems that we forget
The joy he spreads as he goes along.

But it doesn’t mean that we don’t know
The wonderful role that he has had.
And way down deep in every heart
There’s a place that is just for DAD.....

Author Unknown

JOHN TREVY TIBBS HE SERVED IN WWII

NAMES TO BE DELETED FROM THE NOTIFICATION LIST
For one reason or the other, the following email addresses no longer work for me. If you know these people and they have a new email address, write to them and tell them they are being cut from my notification list. If they wish to stay on the list, have them notify me with their name, school, and class year. I will then add them back in.

Joyce McDonald (WI 1961)   WvJoyce@aol.com or WVJoyce@comcast.net
Patty Rogers Hood (WI 1950)   twopsnpod@msn.com
Richard Waldemar (NY 1969)   touren@xtalwind.net
Scott Miller (WI 1977)   sp330@aol.com
Jim Dumire (RW 1960)   rjrd@charter.net
Phil Smith (WI 1946)   philmarcia@earthlink.net
Philip McIntyre (WI 1948)   PMCINTYRE@ec.rr.com
Betty Marino Blackshire (ND 1962)   mshire1124@verizon.net
Francis McQuillan (ND 1961)   Irond3@yahoo.com
Jane Heaberline Rakestraw (WI 1958)   jhrakes@erols.com
Betty Robinson Childers (WI 1946)   bychas29@verizon.net
Penny Fish Wolverton (WI 1957)   bywolv@webtv.net
Sue Smith Moore (WI 1959)   Smoore5949@verizon.net

SPORTS
submitted by: Joe Charles (Bridgeport ’55)
CharlesBarbjo@aol.com
Just letting you know that I have some news for you.

The new football stadium at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, been named for 2 "boys" from Clarksburg. It is called Knight-Newbrough Field.

Named after Rich Newbrough, Bridgeport (55), and Tuffy Knight, Victory (55). They were both very successful coaches over the past 40 years at the University.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This fall I am hoping all of you sport fans will support a new newsletter section about SPORTS. It will only be as good as you Sports Enthusiasts make it. I am just a fan---I don’t know much about any one sport so it will be up to you.

W.I. CLASSES OF 1952 TO HOLD 55th Reunion
When---August 10, 11 &12, 2007

August 10-- During the afternoon hours, an informal "get-together" will be held at the Bridgeport Hampton Inn. Our host will be Horace Mandeville.

August 10-- At 5:30pm, there will be a picnic at the V.A. Park under the Osborn Shelter. It will be catered. Just bring a sweater in case the evening is cool.

August 11-- We will gather at the Pete Dye Golf Club around 6:30pm. Open Bar and class picture will be taken. Dinner will be served at 7:30pm.

August 12-- Dutch Breakfast/Brunch at 10:30am at the former Jim Reid's (now the FOP) in Nutter Fort.

We are looking forward to a good turnout of our classmates. We extend a welcome to other class grads who would be interested in attending. We do need to have reservations made by August 1. Questions, etc. please contact:

Joanne W Tetrick; fragilegranny34@msn.com (304) 842-0733

Carolyn Burnside; crburnside842@verizon.net (304) 842-0733

A WONDERFUL MOTHER’S DAY STORY
submitted by: Jim Nutter (WI '71)
JLNUTTER@HOTMAIL.COM
A fancy box of candy caught my desire for my Mother's Day gift. Being in the early years of grade school, I had little to no money of my own. However, good neighbors would often have me make a run to the Golf Plaza Grocery Store and do small odd jobs. At the minimum, they would give me a nickel for a Popsicle. Even in the winter time, I consider this proper payment. So in lieu of any treat, I began to save up. When I finally accumulated what seemed to be a large sum of money, I trodden off to Roger's Drug Store. It was the Saturday before Mother's Day and I felt good. Each step towards town produced a jingle from pockets heavy with the weight of my earnings. On the shelf was that beautiful box of candy. I can remember the pride in handing over my hard earned coins to the cashier and telling her that the candy was for my mother. I believe her heart broke just as hard as mine when the count was short, for I had not considered sales tax. Then she informed me that she would pay the difference. I never forgot that kindness. It was the people like her that made growing up in Clarksburg special.

You are invited to the Seventh Annual WI Reunion Picnic in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on Saturday, August 25, 2007, at Veterans (River Bend) Park Osborne Shelter, off Milford St. You can also get to it via the Nutter Fort area by going over Rt 98. The time is 11AM until the last one goes home...whenever that is. The picnic is for anyone who ever attended WI (YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A GRADUATE).

LET'S MAKE THIS A BIG WI REUNION DAY!
Sharyn Cottrill McGahan (WI 1959) is in charge of this picnic. She provides the table settings for you. You will need to bring a covered dish, your own drink, and money to put in the pot to help her cover her expenses. Some people bring a folding lawn chair. Don't forget your cameras!!!

You do not have to make a reservation but she will need to know about how many to expect. It is nice to be surprised but it isn’t nice to be overcome with a large group of people and not have enough supplies. So write to Sharyn at mtmama41@msn.com and tell her you will see her there. Also, let her know if you are willing to come early and help with the picnic --- cover tables, registration, tell people where to put their food, or stay and help clean up, etc.

If anyone needs directions to Veterans Park they can e-mail Sharyn or Judy Daugherty Kimler at jkimler@verizon.net.

If you live out of the area, you might want to make this picnic part of a week long vacation that would include the Italian Heritage Festival in Clarksburg on Labor Day weekend. If you don't have family in the area with which you can stay, you should make motel reservations now.

Some area Motels:

Days Inn      842-7371    Off exit 119 then turn towards Bridgeport
Knights Inn    842-7115   Off Exit 119 then turn towards Bridgeport
Sleep Inn      842-1919    Off Exit 119 then turn towards Bridgeport
Holiday Inn    842-0964 or 842-5411    Off Exit 119 then turn towards Bridgeport
Hampton Inn    842-9300    Exit 121 (Mall Exit - Meadowbrook Road)

NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES

Jim Nutter (WI '71)	JLNUTTER@HOTMAIL.COM
Cecelia Hamric (WI ’51)	cqh223@aol.com
Rusty Sloan (WI '51)	RustySloan@aol.com
Mary Ann Wood (WI ’72)	mwood@insassoc.com
Jerry McMunn (WI '65)	jerry.mcmunn@comcast.net

CHANGE OF EMAIL ADDRESS

Roger Duncan (would have been WI ’57 graduated from high school in Akron)	rog.duncan@embarqmail.com
Bob (WI ’57) and Carolyn Dennison	cdennison46@yahoo.com
Lee DeValliere (WI '47)	bideballiere@peoplepc.com
Ann Brannon Pushkin (WI '52)	apushkin@comcast.net
Ron Harvey (WI ’55)	w4rrh@charter.net
Beverly Morris Hissong (WI '58)	Hissong@EverestKC.net
Judy Phair (WI '56)	jphair9507@suddenlink.net
Janice E. Hall Sorrells McPherson (WI ’65)	was: trykelegs@yahoo.com is now: janmcphrs@aol.com

SHARING MEMORIES
submitted by: Bob Hall (WI '56)
Rhall9171@charter.net
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bob covered a lot of subjects in the following letter. It is so interesting, I hope you will read it. I hope this inspires you to write your memories to the newsletter.

Roleta,
Thanks so much for another great newsletter. I'm glad the 1956 Prom ticket I sent last year was used. It fit right in with all the pictures and notes. I don't see how you get it all done with your busy schedule.

Since I haven't contributed for a while, I thought I would cover several topics:

MAY TRIVIA PICTURE:
It looks like Main Street heading toward Broad Oaks, just below the First Presbyterian Church. If so, it is the Sheraton Inn, where our class had its 25th reunion. There use to be a Kroger's just down the street on the right, and Parson's was across the street. The Sheraton was built after I left Clarksburg.

PROMS:
I have no idea where the 55 prom was held. I was dating Peggy Carruthers (a Soph) at that time and ended up taking Martha Jeffries (a Sr.). I know we must have had a good time because she has always been a blast. We partied after the dance at someone's home rather than a sponsored place like the Carmichael Auditorium. I didn't remember having chaperoned places after the proms!

After reading this month's newsletter, I found out the 56 prom was at the Waldo. I think I took Peggy C. to that one. I'm sure we had a good time. Hopefully, her memories are better than mine! I don't remember ever seeing a formal picture from either of the proms. It wasn't that I was cheap, just always low on cash!

It's hard to believe what a high school prom costs these days. Between the high priced gowns, rental men's wear, limo service, flowers, pre-prom dinner, etc., etc., the current costs probably exceed $50. (Ha)

DRIVE-INS:
I really enjoyed the Frank Kaiser article. It brought back some steamy memories. I can't remember going to any drive-in, in the Clarksburg area, other than the Ellis. Since the Starlight was on the Stealey side of town, I don't think I was ever there, even though, most of my dating was with Stealey girls.

I didn't start driving until the summer between my Jr and Sr years. (mainly because I didn't turn 16 until January my Jr. Year and my older brother and WI Sr. Seemed to get the family car!) I learned to drive and got my license in the family 1949 Plymouth where the clutch slipped if any stress was on it. Remember the stop sign next to WI going up the hill? After stopping and looking both ways the testing officer asked why we weren't going on, and I had to reply the clutch is out, just waiting on it to take off! Dad bought a new automatic V-8 1955 Chevy which was fast and nice. Dad didn't allow me to drive it for a while after I scratched it (racing against Greg Myers on the streets next to WI, headlights off, after a Friday night game and dance. I can say this now that dad and mom are passed on.) Greg's dad had purchased a V8 Packard and they were both fast cars for that time! He stopped with me about 2AM to wake up my parents and let them evaluate the damage! Somehow, most of us survived growing up!

LOVE/CARING:
I totally agree with you about loving people. I love all of my friends that I grew up with (even those that I didn't particularly like back then). They helped make me who I am now and I still like myself. I often wonder how my dates from high school are and if they have had a healthy/rewarding life. I spent a lot of practice time with Martha Marple during my senior year. She played the piano and accompanied me while playing clarinet solos for various events. She didn't make our 50th reunion last summer, I wish she had, but I really cherish the time spent with others.

I think the Clarksburg people are different from our generation from other cities. Even though I didn't know you at WI, and have only seen you one time at the 2005 Sarasota reunion, I still love you for what you do each month in putting out the newsletter. I wouldn't recognize you on the street if we crossed paths (oh maybe, if you had a bull horn in front of your face) but I guess I care for people that care for others, and you definitely show that each month!

One of my earlier girlfriends lived in Salem. Her family and mine went to the same church is Despard. Several Saturdays during my freshman year, I would ride my 3 speed bike from Nutter Fort to Salem to see her! Can you imagine that? I must have been in good physical shape! Just thinking of the dangers now in riding out Route 50 past the Carnation Plant and Lake Floyd to see a gal for 3 or 4 hours is crazy! Especially since I would see her in church the next day! Its just not the same holding a girls hand in church as it is in holding her close to you and kissing. She must have influenced my determination somehow. My wife of 45 years moved to Richmond, Va. after finishing HS (Stonewall Jackson in Charleston) and I would drive the 6 to 10 hours, based on weather conditions, to see her fairly often. I eventually just moved to Richmond rather than fight the old route 60 curves in WV.

MUSIC:
Hank Mayer gave me first chair clarinet as an 85lb freshman. (We did have try-outs/auditions - 15 to 25 people) Can you imagine how the seniors must have felt? He chewed me out all the time for not passing music out correctly or chairs not setup correctly, or cutting up continuously but I loved him dearly. He and the Pitt music dept head, were able to help me in getting a scholarship to Marshall College. I refused because I wanted to go to Morgantown! Auditions for music scholarships at WVU were the Saturday morning after the 1956 senior prom. Needless to say, I didn't do too well. I think I previously wrote about the band practice at the football field and the early morning football games with several of the band guys. Muddy, dirty clothes stood in the lockers and there wasn't time to shower after practice and get to class. PHEW

I also loved the Acappella choir and Ms. Faris. We had a great time performing for various groups. I also miss the 3 others in our quartet that tried to mimic the Four Freshmen and eventually got seriously into Barbershop music. The SPEBSQSA music was written and available whereas, the Four Freshmen music had to be hand written lifting a cartridge off of the turntable or listening many, many times and singing along with an album to get the 4 parts!

Hank discouraged me from a music career to some degree. He worked as the band director, and had some function with bands for the county school system, and also taught private lessons on the side and probably never had a high financial position.

I have encouraged my children to participate in music. Only one has remained active by singing routinely in a mixed quartet, a male quartet, and solos for churches, weddings, etc. I could send you several hours of his work if you are interested! Just kidding.

I have rambled on too long! I'll ramble about other topics in the future. LOL

WORKING DURING SCHOOL
Did you have a job in the evening after school or on the week ends while in high school? Did you work in the summer? Write to the WIN Newsletter--- Roleta1@aol.com and describe your job and tell us about a favorite memory of working.

submitted by: Ron Harvey (WI '55)
w4rrh@charter.net
Attending WI as a Newspaper Boy

My last three years at WI (‘53 - ‘55) was accompanied with having a newspaper route. I was a “paper boy”. My route started from a little store just behind WI and included the following streets and avenues: 5th, High, Clifton, 7th, Irving Place, Horner, 9th and Clifford. Most of these streets were very steep giving one a good workout making deliveries. When school was over for the day, about 3:45, the papers were already there. It took an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes to go around the route.

This was the evening paper called Clarksburg Telegram and it shared the paper on Sunday morning with the Exponent. The cost of a paper per week was thirty five cents and I was fortunate enough to have about 150 customers. My commission was 10 cents per customer per week. A calculator would show that to be $15.00 per week total. That was good money for an after school job in 1955. The paper route provided gas money for the “Crosley” as well as money for dating and other needed expenditures.

Most of the time delivering the papers was un-eventful if it didn’t rain or snow. Since the paperboy folded many of the papers so he could throw them, on a snowy or rainy day when the wind caused the papers to become unfolded, extra time was spent getting them back together. The maximum size of the paper was 55 pages plus the “funnies” (comics). The “funnies” were inserted manually at the paper company before we got the papers. Collecting for the paper was not a fun thing to do, but it was not a hard job since most people paid very well. People would pay by the year, month, or by the week. Monday evening was collection eve and a big ring with cards on it was taken around the route and the date was punched out when payment was made.

I had the pleasure of having a Miss WVA on my route. She was Miriam Reep (1954). In summary, delivering papers after school at WI was very convenient as well as profitable for a high school student.

submitted by: James Alvaro (WI ’56)
jalvaro@aol.com
Well, summer was a special time for me regardless of what I did. I WAS OUT OF SCHOOL !!!!!!!

Before I had a driver’s license I worked jobs that did not require a license. My freshman and sophomore years I worked at Producers Dairy on Monticello Ave. I would get up at 3:00 AM, walk down Monticello Ave. to the dairy. I would load up the milk truck I worked on and then I would help deliver milk until time to go to school. I worked 5 days a week and was making a whopping $3.50 a week. I then moved up to bottle washer inside the dairy and got at big raise to $10.00 a week. I had a good paying job offered working at the North Pole Ice Co. working on the platform selling ice and helping on the ice truck. I would also load trucks for drivers delivering ice to homes and businesses. I also helped deliver the ice which I loved. It kept me in great shape loading those trucks with 300# blocks of ice. We also had to carry 100 # bags of crushed ice into stores as they had no ice making machines in the stores back then. We also delivered as much as a 100# block of ice into the homes. They would notify us on the amount of ice needed at the house by placing a small cardboard in the window with the amount indicated. I would carry the ice through the house and empty the ice box and place the block of ice in the box and then replace the milk, butter, cheese, etc. back in the ice box. Then when I got my drivers license and was in college, during the summer I would drive the ice trucks. I would load 27, 300# blocks of ice on the truck and drive to Grafton and unload the ice in a rail side box which the ice would be picked up by the train and used for refrigeration. I would do this two times a day.

My favorite activity in the summer was spending every evening with several of my buddies. Every evening we headed out to the "Dance Places". I think we hit them all and sometimes we hit two in one night. Some of the places (as I go down memory lane in tears) we went were: Billy's Meadowbrook, (not Billy Meredith's Meadowbrook), Westend Dance Land, Midway Manor, Melody Manor, Willow Beach, Friends Place, LIttle Rock, Green Parrot, places in Morgantown, and even Uniontown, PA. We had a ball following the Prodigals and if no band, then the juke boxes were just fine. Good clean fun is what it was all about.

We did go swimming once in a while in the "crick" by Willow Beach. We called it Bare *ss Beach. Didn't do too much of that because we thought our skin would stain the color of the mud. We didn't have bathing trunks and I think that is where the name of the beach may have come from.

I think most of our teachers had summer jobs but I was not one to look them up to see what they were doing and I am sure after nine months with me they were not exactly wanting to see me in the summer.

Those were some of the great times in my early life. Would I do it again???? Most certainly.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The School Board only paid teachers for 9 months…and the teachers were paid so poorly in WV that teachers had to work in the summer. I know because my parent’s were teachers. Also, believe me when I tell you that most of your teachers would have loved to have seen you in the summer no matter how much trouble you were in school. Most of the teachers loved what they did….most loved kids too.

submitted by: Barbara Warren Williams (WI ’58)
bjwilliams@roverusa.com
I remember working at Grants in the toy department at Christmas time. It was fun helping parents pick out toys for their little ones and it was amazing to see how many toys people would buy. I really enjoyed the job and It was a great experience.

submitted by: Ted Wolfe (WI '74)
Wolfetm95@aol.com
(This isn't all that interesting, but to make it interesting it would have to also be fictional.)

In the summers of my Sophomore and Junior years I worked in the hayfields of the Nathan Goff Estate farms. The first summer my working was cut short when I broke my arm playing baseball. The second year I worked in the hayfields until towards the end of the summer when I got a job at Thorofare (where I worked evenings through my senior year.)

Although most of the hayfields I worked in were on what I think they called the Lower Lowndes Farm out on Davisson Run, I also worked at the Oak Mound Farm some too. Mostly we baled hay and took it to the barns, but sometimes we repaired fence or used scythes to cut weeds along fences.

I didn't go swimming that much once I was in High School, but places I can remember swimming were Hideaway, Watters Smith, and Buffalo Lake.

I don't remember knowing what teachers did in the summer. I guess pretty earlier on I knew they didn't actually live at the school, but when I was in grade school I thought they liked school and couldn't wait for it to start back up. Even back then that probably wasn't so true.

By the time I was in High School, I knew they had things like continuing education, and summer jobs, but it wasn't something I paid all that much attention to.

submitted by: Roleta Smith Meredith (WI ’59)
Roleta1@aol.com
It seems as though I have worked all my life. I baby sat as often as possible while in school. I remember I cleaned and did ironing for a lady one summer. But my first official employment began on June 22,….my 16th birthday when I got a job at Wonder Shoe Store selling ladies shoes. I really didn’t like selling shoes and didn’t really want to work there but I completed the summer job. The following summer I began working at Lerner’s where I sold ladies clothing some but most of the time I worked the cash drawer. This wasn’t a cash register. I had to total, add and subtract figures and return the proper change to the customer when the sale was complete. I guess maybe that is where I honed my skill of counting and spending money… I worked during school on Monday evening and late Friday evenings but during the summer, I worked nearly every day. I worked there about 2 years. I loved the ladies there, we had so much fun together. The last job I held in Clarksburg before moving to Ohio was the summer I worked at Broidas.

BASEBALL / SOFTBALL
We have received several pictures of baseball and softball teams from our readers. We will be using them over the next 3-4 months.

pictures submitted by: Barry Mazza (WI '58)
mutzy007@aol.com
I found these two photo's some months ago. Our pretty much Stealey based Cities Service baseball team. I thought it would be fun for the readers to try to figure out some of the players.

Bench photo: Bizzer Hutson, ? , ? , Jim White, Butterball Hall, the rest ?. Standing Gary Monteith

Standing photo: Front row l-r: Frankie McGahan, ? , Gary Monteith, Coach's kid, Mickey McGowan, ? , Paul ?, Pidge McGahan

Middle row l-r: ? , ? Swats, ?

Back row l-r: Mike Swiger, ? , Bill Swats, Barry Mazza, Mike McGahan, Coach Bill Manley

PERHAPS YOU DIDN’T GET IT!
Those who gave to the WIN Scholarship in May were:

Linda Gimmel, WI Class of 1966,
Nancy Starett, WI Class of 1952,
George Scholl gave in memory of his brother Jerry Scholl from the WI class of 1954.

Got the message?
Write your check to: Roleta Meredith/WIN Scholarship
3201 Charles McDonald Drive
Sarasota, FL 34240

REMEMBER TO DISPLAY THE FLAG ON FLAG DAY
JUNE 14, 2007

THE ONLY FLAG THAT DOESN'T FLY

Between the fields where the flag is planted, there are 9+ miles of flower fields that go all the way to the ocean. The flowers are grown by seed companies. It's a beautiful place, close to Vandenberg AFB. Check out the dimensions of the flag. The Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions, as described in Executive Order #10834. This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars, comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants, with 4-5 flower stems each, for a total of more than 2 million flowers.

SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY
submitted by: Gladys Williams (WI ‘71)
Gwill1004@aol.com
I grew up in Chestnut Hills. Our pool opened in 1958 when I was 5 years old. I started swimming on the swim team when I was 10 years old and swam until I was 18. We didn't have many swimmers, but the ones we had were competitive. The swim team coach I remember we had the longest was Danny Hyre from North View. He and his brother David were both life guards. Girls that swam on the team were Denise Cottrill, Debbie Iaquinta, Cathy Long, Pam Bokey, Jan Canterelli, Elinor Garrett, Anna Williams, Lisa McManus, and myself. Some of the boys were David Beakes, Doug Griffin, Anthony Secret, Kurt Skasik, Randy Cain. I know there were some older ones that I don't remember. These were mostly close to my age. After swim team practice, we would go home for lunch and then back to the pool for the rest of the day. We even spent most evenings there. If not swimming, we played cards or just sat around and talked. It was a great place to grow up. Many friendships were made at that pool. I'm not sure of the exact year it closed, somewhere around late 1980's. I know I used to take my oldest son, Matthew, there to swim when he was young. Because of all the problems with mosquitoes, the pool had to be filled in.

submitted by: Mary Sue Clark Spahr (WI '56)
MSSpahr@aol.com
I just realized that I didn't do much of anything important during my summers when I was a teenager. My sister and I both worked in Joe's Dairy Bar in Broad Oaks and we did some babysitting. Sounds pretty boring, doesn't it? We did not belong to a lake or a country club. Sometimes I spent a week at a church camp or Rainbow camp and that was always a lot of fun. Mostly we just hung out with friends and kicked back until school started again. What a carefree time of life it was. I didn't even realize at the time.

submitted by: Connie Bailey Casto (WI '59)
castoc@earthlink.net
Good afternoon Roleta,
I just finished the Newsletter and it was another excellent production. My summers were spent at Oral Lake. The summer of my senior year, I spent lifeguarding out there from 1-5 and taught swimming lessons in the morning. Jane Stout and I spent many summer days there and when we weren't swimming we were horsebackriding on horses from my family farm on Lake Ridge. Lake Ridge was just above Oral Lake and sometimes we would bring the horse and buggy that we had at the farm, down to the lake. I think I still have an article from YEHUDI SPEAKS about one of those trips. We also spent many winter days ice skating on the lake. Those were happy days in WV.

REMEMBERING A CLASSMATE
submitted by: Joy Gregoire Gilchrist-Stalnaker (WI ’59)
joy1941@frontiernet.net

I don't remember our junior prom, but I remember going to the senior prom with Bill Baber. I don't think we had a picture taken. . .at least I don't have one if we did. I left Clarksburg the week after graduation and did not return to West Virginia to live until 1991. I attended our first class reunion (1969??) and the 25th which was at the Holiday Inn at Bridgeport.

I don't remember seeing Bill at either of these. It was the summer of 1995, maybe, when I next saw Bill. One evening the phone rang. It was Bill. He said there was a class get together that evening at Raymon's and it had already started. I quickly changed clothes (I even remember what I wore) and flew to Clarksburg from Pickle Street which is at the Lewis-Gilmer County line. I had a great time visiting with everyone. I remember that you, Jay Sharp, Janet Long Brosius, Patty Pferdihart Wagner, and, oh my, I see faces but forget names.

I remember you and I discussed genealogy. Shortly after that, Bill started working on his family history too. He would come to the Hacker's Creek genealogy library near Jackson's Mill from time to time. Then, after the library moved to Horner, Bill came down a little more frequently usually coming down with another classmate, Phyllis Fittro Brown. (She and Bill lived in the same neighborhood.) Actually, Bill was at the library just a week or so before he passed away. He also attended the 41st reunion that we had in the off-year.

Bill was a unique individual and a true friend. I shall never forget him.

BROIDAS
submitted by: Bob McCarty (WI ’52)
Rlmccarty3@aol.com
Just a follow-on to your picture & responses for Broida's. My Mother, Ruth McCarty, worked at Broida's as a Sales Lady for 10 years from 1946 to 1956. She left Broida's and Clarksburg in the summer of 1956, right after I graduated from UVA, and moved to Charlotte, NC where she went to work for a very exclusive woman's wear store called Montaldo's. My Dad had died in 1953 & good friends of hers persuaded her to move to Charlotte where she lived until 1966 when she became ill & I brought her to CA. She passed away in 1970.

I'm curious if any of your readers (Broida's customers prior to 1956) remembered her from her years at Broida's. Sorry I wasn't able to make the Clarksburg picnic in Sarasota, FL. with Joe Malone. I understand he had a great time.

When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have
the old man around.

But when I got to be 21,
I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years.

By Mark Twain

MAY 2007 TRIVIA PICTURE

NOTE FROM JUDY: I blacked out the name last month. Here is the original picture.

submitted by: Phyllis Alton Nichols (WI '57)
nmimiphyllis@yahoo.com
Great Newsletter!! I really enjoyed seeing the Prom pictures. The girls gowns were so pretty, and the guys looked so nice and clean-cut. The trivia picture is the Sheraton and I don't remember if it was called the Sheraton Inn or the Sheraton Hotel . It was the most modern hotel in downtown Clarksburg, and after It closed, it was converted into an office building. Right now it is vacant, but there have been rumors of different state or county agencies moving in. The Union National Bank held a few of their Christmas parties there, and it was always decorated beautifully. The Sheraton was the Uptowner before it was the Sheraton

submitted by: Ken McIe (WI ’59)
kenmcie@yahoo.com
EDITOR’S NOTE: I accept this email as correct. You see, Ken left Clarksburg before the hotel was built. He was in Scotland in 1967. He recognized the street and gave us memories of it the way he remembered it.

I believe that the trivia picture for May is a scene of Main Steet looking east. This was the bus route(s) for both Broad Oaks and Industrial. I rode the bus to/from WI every school day ... paying with paper fare coupons ... we would buy a book of 10 coupons. At the bottom of the hill, the A&P Grocery Store would be on the left at the intersection of Monticello and Main Streets ... the aroma freshly ground coffee still lingers ... My sister and I would be pulled by my older brother in a wagon with Mom keeping the brood together on trips to the A&P.

'Nough with ramblings.
Time to shut the door on precious memories ...

Thanks (hope I am right),
CU all in July

submitted by: Ron Harvey (WI '55)
w4rrh@charter.net
The picture appears to be taken on Main Street (old route 50 east) down the hill toward Water and Monticello Streets and then up the hill toward Oak Street.

One of the memories I had in this area was that when you got to the bottom of the hill at Monticello Street you could turn right on Monticello and get to an Ice Cream Stowage Plant where they kept the cooler at -20o F. The stowage room was tall enough you could stand in it. Well, one day a fellow (I think his name was Victor Sperry) and I got ice cream from somewhere. I think it was from that plant. We pushed an ice cream buggy up that far hill and all the way to the Norwood Park. There was something going on inside so we set up outside the gate and sold ice cream. A hard day’s work!

submitted by: Tom Reed (WI ’69)
Reed1951@verizon.net
I believe this is the former Uptowner Inn. I think it opened about 1968 while we were juniors at WI. Also my mom Dorothy Reed worked on the mezzanine at Broidas for many years. I remember my grandfather Thomas Graham taking me with him to deliver the stores packages. I wonder how many remember the bright pink boxes trimmed in black. How great it would be to go back to Clarksburg then. Don’t let this paper die, too much of life at the school on the Hill has already been forgotten.................

submitted by: Steve Griffith (ND ’60)
Sgrif2393@aol.com
The picture is of the Uptowner Inn, which later became The Sheraton. Just beyond you can see the front of the White Top Cab building which might have been a Kroger store back in the late forties or early fifties. The way my mind and memory work these days it is hard to say what it was back then, but that's my memory. Someone can change it.

submitted by: Gladys Williams (WI ’71)
GWill1004@aol.com
That is a picture of the Sheraton Inn on Main St. in Clarksburg. It was used for a government office building until two years ago. They were going to renovate it for Federal offices, but it still remains empty.

submitted by: Randy Moodispaugh (Bridgeport HS ‘59)
moodispaugh@verizon.net
The May 2007 Trivia Photo is the Sheraton Inn on Main Street of Clarksburg. The Sheraton Inn was sold to the State of WV and renamed the John W Davis Building after Clarksburg's famous Presidential Candidate. The State of WV used the building to house State and Service Agencies however because of its declining state of repair these agencies were ask to find other housing and they moved out so that the building could be renovated or replaced. The new or renovated building was to house The Dept. of Health and Human Resources, The Harrison-Clarksburg Health Dept., and some other smaller state entities. However nothing has happened. The building now empty for 3 1/2 years with no plans for anything, the State of WV pays $19,819 each year for utility costs.

submitted by: Rocky Axton (WI '65)
PAMANDROCKY@aol.com
I have several memories of that building. It was originally the Uptowner Inn and later became the Sheraton Inn. During my summers in High School and college I worked part time across the street at Palace Furniture. I wasted many an hour watching the building being constructed. I don't remember the exact dates. It was fascinating to me to watch the construction crane put the building together. As I remember it was sometime during the 1965 - 1967 time period. After returning from the Air Force in 1973 I remember misspending a few evenings in the bar/restaurant. I also remember attending a few social events there in the ballroom.

My most vivid memories are of working in there for several years. Some genius in the Governor Arch Moore administration decided it would be a good idea to revitalize dying downtown areas by moving State Agencies into building such as the Sheraton. Interestingly, many of the agencies simply moved from one building in downtown to another building in downtown. Our agency moved from a building on top of Bridgeport hill. Again, my memory of dates is foggy but I think our agency (Disability Determination Section of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation) moved there in 1989 and stayed approximately 5 - 6 years. The conversion of the hotel to an office building was very poorly executed. I supervised a unit of 10 or so people at the time and they we were separated by a wall. I am still not sure what went on on the other side of that wall at times. The heating and cooling systems frequently malfunctioned, wall coverings peeled off walls, electrical wiring was inadequate and the elevator often malfunctioned.

In the early 2000s we were mercifully moved into the new Federal Building on Pike Street. It is located where The Workingman's Store, Jerry's Auto and Sanitary Hot Dog were once located. It was a much better location and I was able to finish out my illustrious (ha-ha) career in the new building.

At one time the grand plan was to tear the old building down and build a new state office building. That changed to renovating the Sheraton building yet again. I don't think there are any definite plans for it at this time. Oh yes, about the time we moved into the building they changed the name of the building to the John W. Davis building. I don't think there are any tenants in it at this time.

Thanks for your work on the Newsletter. It is always a treat to read and I will take your advice and try to contribute more often.

submitted by: George (Bill) Scholl (WI '52)
georgegin@juno.com
OK, so it has been some time since I wrote to the newsletter. I have no excuse except I have enjoyed FL this year. We just returned on Monday, May 1 after six months there.

I want to say you did another great job on the Clarksburg reunion. I am happy that you won the quilt, but wish it had been me.

The trivia picture for May is looking west on main street from Second street to Monticello Ave. The sign is on what use to be either the "Uptowner" or "Downtowner Inn" If you go back far enough in your mind, you will remember it as a Kroger store.

At the bottom of the hill by Elk Creek on the right was a Pizza place (can't remember the first name) where I met my wife to be. May 11 this year will be our 50th anniversary. Always some good comes from everything.

I will be mailing you my yearly donation for the WIN SCHOLARSHIP in memory of my brother Jerry Scholl WI 54, who passed in May '55.

Will try to do better in writing in the future. No promise.

submitted by: Mary Beth Riddle Sterling (VHS '58)
marybwv@ma.rr.com
I recognize the picture of the old Sheraton Hotel on Main St. in Clarksburg--across the street from the Moose Lodge. I went to my 15th Victory High School (1958) reunion there and had a wonderful time.

submitted by: Frank Bush (WI ’59)
frankbsh@sbcglobal.net
I believe May's trivia picture is the Sheraton Hotel on North Main Street. I think it changed names over time but I remember it as being a Sheraton. The interesting thing to me in the picture is the Hertz building just down the hill from the hotel. I rented a car there for my honeymoon as I was on military leave. The timing of this picture is interesting as just last week I was commenting on how we rent cars and recalled that at the time that I rented the car for $10 a day and 10 cents a mile. Times change but some of the memories remain

submitted by: Frank Martino (WI ’60)
frank@martinogroup.com
The trivia picture is the Downtowner Inn just across from the Moose Club. I used to insure it when Joe Minard and others owned it. I remember that it had a lounge in the lower level and a restaurant on the first level just past the lobby. It was the only hotel in Clarksburg with a pool and was quite successful for a number of years. I belonged to the Columbian Club and we used to have some of our dinner meetings there. The hotel was very accommodating with plenty of parking and good food and in 1982 I hosted a Christmas party there for clients of my insurance agencies and the business customers of my electronic stores. Joe Minard always made sure that everything went well. Later, I think the owners of the hotel made it part of the Sheraton franchise system.

submitted by: Jim Alvaro (WI ’56)
Jalvaro@aol.com
That is the Sheraton Hotel across the street from the ole Palace Furniture on Main Street. We had one of our high school reunions there and the two things I remember most: Bud Collins danced so hard and it was really warm in the hall that the sweat was running off his tie and secondly was Don Sager took what was suppose to be a little afternoon nap and it lasted through the evening and he missed the reunion activities for that evening. I don't remember anything else involving the Sheraton Hotel except those situations. Maybe someone will let us know what is currently going on at that location.

submitted by: Barbara Paugh Patton (WI ‘61)
BAP5555@aol.com
I believe the picture is the old Sheraton Inn. They had a full size pool which is covered up at this time. The building is not being used. There were a lot of dances, benefits, and a lot of conferences held there. So sad to see another hotel closed down

submitted by: Larry O’Grady (Bridgeport ’55)
logrady@cfl.rr.com
Thank you again for another great newsletter.

The view down "Main Street Hill", toward the east is very memorable in several ways. I believe the name of the motel/hotel is the Downtowner and it is where we attended Beverly's '58 class reunion sometime in the mid seventies. The Palace Furniture store was across the street; Dave's Restaurant was at the bottom on the corner by the bridge. The parents of a classmate of mine at Central Junior High owned a dry cleaning place across from Dave's.

Across the bridge on the left corner was the A & P grocery store and my grandparents used to live the opposite direction on Monticello Avenue.

Many times, after my family moved to Bridgeport, I walked down Main Street on my way to the top of the hill ahead to where I could hitch-hike home; yes all hours of the day and night. Probably the most important aspect of the view of the Trivia Picture, personally, is something that I do not have the slightest hint of a memory of. At the top of that hill ahead, Clay Street runs off Main to the right. It was on Clay St., May 22, 1937 that I was born. My Parents rented from a lady by the name of Villianco (sp?), and no, I really don't remember that first second of any of it.

Again, thank you; Bev and I both greatly appreciate all your effort.

submitted by: Ted Wolfe (WI ’74)
Wolfetm95@aol.com
It's the Uptowner Inn, later Sheraton, later empty, later John W. Davis office building. There was an article in the Exponent Telegram this Sunday, I think, about it. The state bought it, but it turns out it is cheaper to rent space around town than it is to use it for state offices. It’s like most of the other big buildings in Clarksburg, waiting for someone to tear it down.

I can remember when it was built in the 60's. It’s the only time I can remember big cranes being used to build something in Clarksburg. My parents took us to eat Sunday dinner there a few times, when it was new, but it has probably spent more time practically empty than it did as a Hotel.

submitted by: Wayne White (WI ’80)
waynepawco@verizon.net
The building is the former Sheraton. It was an hotel and also had government and state offices located there also, It is called the John W Davis building and at present the city of Clarksburg is trying to find a way to put this building back in operation. This is a well build building but will need some upgrading as it has been sitting vacant for a long time...At one time is was a very busy place as to the hotel and government activity. It is located on Main Street across from the Moose lodge.

submitted by: Bill Bowie (WI ’62)
whbowie@mac.com
The trivia pic is of the Uptowner Inn which was the social hub of downtown Clarksburg for many years---- lunches, dinners, reunions, weddings etc. Let me tell you a quick story. I just started working for Hope Gas Company back when the earth's crust was just cooling and was having lunch with my new boss. This was my first day on the job and I wanted to really impress the man who would be in charge of my raises. We sat down and ordered ice tea and chit chatted for awhile and all was well. When the tea came with little lemon wedges on the the side, I proceeded to squeeze the juice into my tea and as luck would have it the juice took an alternative path which happened to be directly into the right eye of the man I was trying to impress. As a young kid trying to be cool with my new boss I new It was over. I was dead meat. You can imagine the rest of the story. He did forgive me however, and I continued to work for the guy for about 12 years. Looking back, I never did make as much as I thought I was worth? That is my fondest memory of the Uptowner Inn. Hope all is well.

submitted by: Kaye Mccall (WI '63)
Grameez6@aol.com
I think the building is the old Sheraton Building which is still there and it is on downhill part of Main St. I can remember going to dances at the hotel that is about all. I can also remember walking up and down that hill for exercise in the evenings with my friends

submitted by: Sharon Kinney (WI '64)
sharonymc@citynet.net
This is a picture of the entrance to the Uptowner Inn, I believe. It brought back memories of many good dinners with friends and family. It was a beautiful restaurant with family atmosphere and great food.

submitted by: Joe Tipper (VHS ’58)
JTIPPER@aol.com
This looks like the Uptowner Inn on Main Street. VHS held their 15th reunion here. By the way, it was our first reunion. I was working at the post office and a member of the reunion committee. We all had a great time and survived.

submitted by: Charles Hugh McClung (VHS '48)
CMclungsr@msn.com
I left WV 57 years ago. This is my guess at the trivia picture. Looks like East Main Street. Could this be the Knights Of Columbus building? Now living in Glendale Az.

submitted by: John Teter (WI '61)
jteter@blamar.com
The TRIVIA PICTURE is taken looking down Main Street from the top of the hill going out of downtown Clarksburg. Palace Furniture would be just to the left of where the picture would have been taken from. On the right is what used to be the Sheraton hotel. It was where the class of 61 held their 10th class reunion. The building that used to house KROGER's can be seen down at the bottom of the hill on the left, which is also now an office complex.

submitted by: Chuck Wilson (WI ’67)
cwilson@aviall.com
This is a picture of the old Uptowner Inn on Main St. The coffee shop was opened all night when the Inn first opened. I work there as a bell boy for a summer. Hogie Carmicheal was the owner. Now I believe it houses Gov. offices. My family and I stayed there for a couple of days during the 1985 flood.

submitted by: Mary Ann Wood (WI ’72)
mwood@insassoc.com
I was so glad to see that picture. My name is Mary Ann Wood - graduated from WI in 1972. Lived on Carr Ave so I walked by the Uptowner almost every single day. I went there for my junior prom! My mother, Barbara Burnside, and my father, Carleton C Wood, Jr, both went to WI. My brother, Buzz Wood graduated in '75 (I think). He passed away last summer - that's how I found the newsletter - someone told me they had seen Buzz's obit and gave me the link.

submitted by: Kay Corathers Connor (WI ’61)
Kay.Connor@gst.com
This is the Sheraton Inn on Main Street. They used to have a great seafood dinner on Friday or Saturday evenings. Also the WI Class of 57 held a dance their for one of their class reunions but I don’t remember the year, seems long ago now. My sister, Peg Corathers Jones and her husband Roger drove in from Michigan to attend the reunion with my husband Tom Connor and myself. The night before the dance we had a cook out at the Allen’s on route 19 So.

submitted by: Gloria J. Shaffer (WI ’58)
mshaffer@ma.rr.com
I think the trivia picture is of the old Sheraton Hotel on Main Street across from Palace Furniture. That sure was a long, long time ago, but I do remember eating there a couple of times.

submitted by: Jim Pulice (WI ‘62)
jpulice@msn.com
The picture is of the former Sheraton Inn. The restaurant was open all night, so many of us who were hitting all the bars back then would usually wind up there for coffee or breakfast . We would have the best “silver dollar pancakes" before heading home ...the place was always packed at the time

submitted by: Jackie Morris Corsini (WI ’49)
JCOR114@aol.com
I think that the building is the old Uptowner Inn on Main Street in Clarksburg. It was the Sheraton and now it is an office building beside the First Presbyterian Church.

TRIVIA PHOTO
submitted by: Fred G. Layman (VHS'46)
FGL46VHS@AOL.COM

Photo of the Sheraton Inn taken from the lower side facing west. It shows the view of all the rooms.
I took it in 2002 because it was supposed to be demolished but then the state gave it a reprieve.
The latest trivia photo is of the building that was built in 1967 and the first occupant was known as The Uptowner Inn. It consisted of 121 rooms, banquet facility, swimming pool, coffee shop and formal dining room. The name was changed in 1974 to Sheraton Inn. A lot of class reunions, wedding receptions, political meetings, retirement dinners, etc: were held in this building. The Sheraton Inn closed in 1989. About two years later the State of WV purchased the building and done some remodeling to suit their new tenants. The name of the building was now known as the John W. Davis Building. Two years ago all the tenants left the premises for new locations. The WV taxpayers are now stuck with paying some utilities and no one is using the building.

TRIVIA PICTURE FOR JUNE 2007

Do you recognize the subject pictured above? Please write your guess and a memory of the location to Roleta1@aol.com.

HIGH SCHOOL PROM
From 1957 to 2007
submitted by: Pat Elder (NDHS '57)
st1pat@aol.com
Notre Dame High School was brand new. We had our prom in our new gymnasium. The band was seated on the stage about four feet above the playing floor. We were all seated around the basketball floor which for this night was our dance floor. I took Roberta Brassine to the prom. As I have told some of you before, I wore black formal pants with a black stripe down the sides and a white sports coat and a black bow tie and a carnation. Some months before, I went to Loar & White and ordered a pair of black formal Bermuda shorts, also with black stripes down the sides. I wore the Bermudas under my long pants. At about 11 pm, I went up on stage and asked the band to play a drum roll for me. I did a mini-strip and dropped my drawers. Everybody loved it except the young chaperoning priest from Ireland who threw me out of my own senior prom!!

After high school I went out of town to college. My date, Roberta went to St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in Clarksburg. She married Lou Palmer from WI '57. After 15 years and 5 children, they divorced. Roberta moved to Raleigh, NC and remained single for 30 years. Meanwhile, my wife Joan and I, have seen Roberta at reunions etc. and have been good friends. Roberta met a very nice guy, Eric Larsan, who had been a widower for two years. We went to Chapel Hill last month to attend their wedding. About two hundred people came from about twelve states to wish them both well. Eric really went all out and it was a beautiful wedding and reception. They even gave us a tour through their brand new home that is ready to move into. That is a great area with UNC, NCSU, Duke and the Research Triangle. Joan and I both really enjoyed our trip. Isn't this a great circle story, from the prom 50 years ago to the wedding. Life is GOOD.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU!
This section is to get us acquainted. Some of you have participated before but last month no one wrote. In this section, we want to hear from you about what you have been doing since graduating from high school. Tell us about your occupation, your family and/or your hobbies. Please writer to Roleta1@aol.com.

This month we feature:

Dick (Rick) Childers, (WI 1957)
RichardandMary21@vverizon.net

It is amazing to see what you have done with the newsletter, a lot of time and hard work involved. I am sure its very much appreciated by all....

A little bit about where I have been and what I have been doing for the past 50 years. After graduating from WI, I immediately went into the Air Force with the intention of serving my country for 4 years, just as any patriotic young man did back in the "Good Ol Days". I traveled all over and 27 years later retired at Langley AFB as Logistics Mgr for Air Combat Command, Civil Engineers. After working at NASA Langley for a year, I went back to my old job as a civilian and worked for another 15 years. Been retired since 2001. My wife's name is Mary and we are raising a grandson, who is now 15. "Can't wait until he is off to college"! We live in Cobbs Creek, VA, which is on the Piankatank River about 1 mi. from the bay. It would be great hearing from some old classmates!

JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER VISIT THIS SITE
submitted by: Diana Shablack Sandy (WI '69)
IcedTeaDee@aol.com
Lance Armstrong Foundation
This link takes you to the Lance Armstrong site and directs you to a letter to send to your legislators. You do not have to sign up for the Lance site, unless you want to. (First enter your Zip Code where requested) . Then scroll below the initial Lance area and put in your info to be sent to your senators and congressmen, their names will come up so you know your letter is going to the right state. The copy of the letter is there to read, which urges your reps to support early detection of ALL cancers.

This is very important!

ANOTHER CLARKSBURG SONG
submitted by: David Grimes (WI '53)
dgrimes@triad.rr.com
I found the piece about Meyer Siegal very interesting. As it turns out, he wrote more than one song about Clarksburg.

Years ago I attended a reunion in Clarksburg and made a fool of myself by standing up in front of everyone and singing the following:

Clarksburg, jewel of the mountain state,
Clarksburg, birthplace of heroes great.
When the band plays Dixie, how my heart thrills.
To me it all means Clarksburg, Jewel of the Hills.
That's where, folks are glad to meet you,
They seem tickled to greet you.
For the rest of my days, I'll be singing the praise of Clarksburg, my home town.

Not only did I make a fool of myself in front of my class mates, but, at gift trade shows, whenever someone from WV showed up, I'd break into my "song and dance". My wife, Joann, is tired of it as I probably have sung it a thousand times to folks who didn't "request it". To which I tell her, "get over it".

WE WHO HAVE GIVEN CAN BE PROUD OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
On May 23, 2007, RC Byrd High School there will be two different WIN scholarships presented for $2,000.00 each. This will help defer some of the costs of the first year of college for 2 graduates and this is all thanks to caring people like you who have given. People who come together with $5.00, $10.00, $25.00, $50.00 or $100.00 and when we put it together, we can make things happen--- it means a lot to a young person and will help them the rest of their life. We are doing this because we know the importance of education for the future. We are doing this because of our past....our appreciation to Clarksburg, our high school and our community. I thank you for joining this passion....It is important to the youth and their future...Hopefully someday they will pass it on to the youth of their future too.

NAMES
Were you named for someone? Do you have an unusual name? Tell us about your name. Write Roleta1@aol.com.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I recently received a note from Rocky Axton and I wrote to ask him if his mother named him Rocky? I haven’t known many men who had the name Rocky and I was curious if some mother had that tiny little baby boy in her arms and said. “Yes, indeed, I am going to name him Rocky?” Rocky answered my question thusly:

My full name is Charles Louis Axton. I was named, in part, for my grandfathers Charles Axton and Charles William Snider. The middle name, Louis, is from my father, Louis William Axton.

A lot of people think I call myself Rocky after the Sylvester Stallone character. My Rocky predates that by many years. I remember as a child that my grandmother Axton called the grandkids by their first and middle names for some reason. There was Dahrie Jean, Peggy Jo, Cheryl Ann and George John, to name just a few of us. I remember that I did not like that for some reason which is lost to time and memory. When I went to first grade at Morgan School Miss Lucy Thomas asked me what my name was and I told her it was Rocky. She knew of my family as I think she had my father as a student. She knew my name from my registration information but she went along with me and from that time on I have gone by the name Rocky. I am not sure but I think I got the name from an obscure Western movie character. That is obscured by time and memory, too. In my 60 years I have been called a lot of things but most people know me as Rocky.

I found your story about the name Roleta to be interesting. I personally know only a few "Rockys" At least one of those has the given name of Rocco. You are the only Roleta I know. I think it is kind of nice to have a name that is a bit unusual.

By the way, as I remember my grandmother continued to call me Charles Louis and I never asked her to change.

CLASS OF 1957
submitted by: Jim Brown (WI '57)
Jb1obx@aol.com
The following is a list of WIHS Graduates of the Class of 1957 for which we have no address - physical or e-mail..

We would appreciate any help we can get in locating them.

Please contact me at Jb1obx@aol.com with any information you might have….Thanks, Jim

PRECIOUS CHILD

submitted by: Steve Limbers (WI '57)
Slimberses@aol.com
That gorgeous mystery kid is Alma Jean Quinaut and I think the picture won second prize in some baby contest. Don Sager, of course, won first prize. (His hair was longer and prettier than Alma Jean's.) I wasn't entered. I never knew why, but Sager always said it was because my parents knew I was ugly. Thanks again for the newsletter, always a fun read.

submitted by: Augie Malfregeot (WI ’56)
admasa@onearrow.net
The "precious child" of May, 2007 WI Newsletter is Alma Jean Quinaut. She does not go topless now as she is in the photo. Alma Jean and Jim Alvaro have the same birth date, January 30, 1939. They were the youngest in our class and that explains a lot of their actions. Don Sager was the winner of the Clarksburg News Baby Contest in 1941, Alma Jean was second and he has not let her forget!

submitted by: Don Sager (Broad Oaks, Alta Vista, CJHS, WI '56, WVU '64)
Dks@davtv.com
The Precious Child is Alma Jean Quinaut (WI-56 ) now known widely as AJ Montgomery of Myrtle Beach S. C. Most of us Broad Oaks guys remember her as that girl with Great Legs who lived on Spring Street. AJ & I used to chat every morning on the City Lines bus as we rode to school. She was somewhat the "girl of my dreams" when we went to Central Jr. but we never had a date. However, she fell in love with someone NOT in WI and the rest is history. She has come down to visit me in the last couple of years and we have played some golf. If she would break down and get a computer, we could better keep her in the loop. I'm sure someone else will tell you about who was #1 when she was in the baby contest and finished #2

NOTE FROM JUDY: Since they all mentioned it, I thought I should provide the proof, that indeed, Alma Jean was #2 and Don was #1. By the way, Don is the one who sent the newspaper article.

PRECIOUS CHILD FOR JUNE 2007

Do you recognize the child pictured above? Write and name the child. Please include a memory if you can. Only correct guesses will be printed. Write to: Roleta1@aol.com, thanks

THE REST OF THE SONG
submitted by: Glenda Gregg Long (WI ’57)
GlendaL26@aol.com
Glenda Gregg, year of 1957, was wondering if you knew the complete ,TAPS verse, since it was not all in the newsletter. Here it is just in case you want it.

DAY IS GONE, GONE THE SUN......
FROM THE LAKES,FROM THE HILLS, FROM THE SKY,
ALL IS WELL. SAFELY REST, GOD IS NIGH.

FADING LIGHT....DIMS THE SIGHT...
AND A STAR ..GEMS THE SKY. GLEAMING BRIGHT...FROM AFAR
DRAWING NIGH FALLS THE NIGHT.
THANKS AND PRAISE, FOR OUR DAYS...
NEATH THE SUN ...NEATH THE STARS....NEATH THE SKY.
AS WE GO ...THIS WE KNOW... GOD IS NIGH.......................
It has an unusual story behind the verse. Thank you for the newsletter each month , I enjoy reading it, and I haven't written any thing for it, because my family was in two places, Parkersburg, and Clarksburg, so I'm kind of in between... Jay Sharp is a cousin, and I come from Gregg, Sandy, Ford, Arenett, Gump, Floyd, Wilson, Barr, and many more!!

IS THAT ME IN THAT PICTURE?
submitted by: Becky Hollandsworth Day (WI '59)
rebeccahday@houston.rr.com
Although you don’t know I do appreciate all you and others who contribute do to keep the stories and updates circulating. I have asked my sister, Donna, who lives in Cape Coral to get connected - she graduated in ’65, I think. Then my brother, John, is building a home close to Cedar Springs and will be moving this summer - leaving WV after 70 years. I was stunned a couple of months ago when I opened up the newsletter one early morning when I couldn’t sleep and scrolled down through it only to see myself staring back at me. I haven’t seen that picture in a long time - and now I know that Marlene has it. It was fun to see the comments made by others - especially Fred’s as we spent 12 years of going to school together and then Karen and I were roommates in college.

I am Director of College Counseling at the Awty International School in Houston - quite an interesting position with students from around the world and going to universities around the world. I do a lot of travel to visit college campus both in and out of the states. Our students complete either the International Baccalaureate Diploma program or the French Baccalaureate program - both being the top high school academic program to complete. I signed on for one more year and never know until it’s time to sign if I will continue - I have signed on for one more year.

I have five grandsons with the oldest one being a freshman in high school. Both of my sons live in the area - Will, the oldest, lives about four blocks away and Brent lives in Galveston. Ours lives are so busy that we have to plan to get together to see each other.

Take care and say hello to all and maybe someday I’ll make it to Florida to the Clarksburg picnic.

REMEMBER YOUR WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY?

JUNE 20, IS WEST VIRGINIA DAY.

PEPPERONI ROLLS
submitted by: Bud Givens (Budman) (WI '69)
budgivens@yahoo.com
Roleta, I just read the latest W.I. newsletter. I was thrilled to see and read all about things C-burg. In particular, I was salivating at the mention of pepperoni rolls. When I was a student at W.I., there was no cafeteria, so we would walk up the hill to a little convenience store and buy a pepperoni roll and a Coke for less than a dollar. At every trip to C-burg, I would treat my family to pizza from Smitty's Pizza (Brunetti) and pepperoni rolls from a bakery on Bridgeport hill. My question for you is if there are any bakeries in Cburg that will package and ship those delectable items to other ports of call? Also, how about the jars of peppers in a red sauce?

I would like the dates of the C-burg reunion in Sarasota Fl. so I can plan to attend. I would also like to invite other W.I. grads vacationing in Fl. to be there.

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you can answer the question about pepperoni rolls, please write to: Roleta1@aol.com. I will put the information in the newsletter.

WE ALL LIKE GOOD FOOD
Thanks to Wayne Winters (HHS 1966-left WI in 1964) wwinters@ix.netcom.com for sending in the following web site where you can find some terrific restaurants to visit when you are in the Clarksburg, Fairmont or Mannington areas.

Try searching for the best Italian restaurants in WVA.

Today 5 results were returned --3 in Clarksburg, 1 in Fairmont, 1 in Mannington

Roadfood
Tasty roadside adventures

You may think the only place for a 72-ounce steak is on the cow. But if you're on the road, hungry for a great regional meal (and a little adventure), let this site be your pre-road-trip appetizer. You'll find all kinds of "non-franchised, sleeves-up food" along American highways, small towns, and city neighborhoods.

Hit the road, Jack

Some body has some 'taste' at roadfood.

RECIPE FOR JUNE 2007
Do you have a recipe you can share with us? Write to Roleta1@aol.com.

Jim Pulice (WI 1962) jpulice@msn.com shared this recipe with us this month.

BROCCOLI & PASTA.
(Call me if there is anything you don't understand.)

Ingredients:
I to 2 heads of Broccoli (stems cut off and crowns cut into bite size pieces)
2 to 3 cloves of Garlic (peeled and cut into 3rd's)
Olive Oil
1lb of Pasta (Penne, Ziti, Masticolli)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Grated Cheese (Parmesan, Romano)
Crushed Red Pepper flakes (optional)

Directions:
In a 4 to 5 quart pan add the broccoli and garlic pieces and cover with enough water to cook the pasta later after the broccoli is removed. Bring the broccoli & garlic to a boil, reduce the temp to medium and cook the broccoli until tender (how you like it).

Remove the broccoli & garlic from the water with a slotted spoon (or fork) and put it in a dish and cover to stay warm. In the same pan of water that was used to cook the broccoli, cook the pasta according to the directions on the box (add more water to the pan if needed).

When the pasta is cooked, drain the pasta, return the pan to the stove, add enough olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan, add the broccoli and garlic to the pan and heat over med-low heat 1 to 2 minutes. Add the pasta to the pan and combine all together (add more olive oil if needed to keep it moist), Add salt & pepper to taste. Heat for a few more minutes to distribute the flavors.

Serve immediately with grated cheese and Italian bread.

This is good as leftovers!

WI PROM PICTURES
submitted by: Mary Ann Baily Donato (WI '56)
mimadonato@yahoo.com

I know the pictures are a month late , but hopefully you can use them.

As people will remember, we could only have our classmates going to our prom so people who were dating others couldn't go with them. Thankfully, friends got together and we all had a wonderful time. As you can see from the pictures, Jim Warren and I went to both our junior and senior proms together, leaving our girl and boy friends at home. Wonder how that would all go over in today's world???

Anyway, the proms were fun and lasted all night. Our junior prom was at the American Legion hall on Pike Street and the senior prom was held at the beautiful Waldo Hotel. After all the festivities, breakfast, etc. we all went home, got our bathing suits and headed for Floyd Lake. Not like today when they head for Bermuda or other far away places. All of our fun revolved around Clarksburg and surrounding towns.

I know that my daughters have always said "we think you had a lot more fun in your high school years than we did". Maybe having to grow up in the 60's had something to do with that. Now we can all thank Judy and Roleta for allowing us to share and remember all the wonderful times we did share in those WEST VIRGINIA HILLS.

Many, many thanks.

OBITUARIES
ROBERT LEWIS ‘BOB’ COFFMAN
BELINGTON - Mr. Robert Lewis “Bob” Coffman, age 83 years, a resident of Laurel Mountain Road, Belington, departed this life May 5, 2007, at the Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Belington.

He was born February 11, 1924, at Clarksburg, a son of the late Robert and Lillian Coffman.

He was united in marriage July 5, 1946, to the former Alma Marie Zinn, who survives at their home.

Mr. Coffman is survived by two sons, Rod Coffman and wife Melissa Staggs of Worthington, OH, David Lewis Coffman and wife Sheryl of Raleigh-Durham, NC; three grandsons, Kevin, Stephen and Mitchell Coffman; and one brother, Charles Edward Coffman of Clearwater, FL.

In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by one brother, Paul Eugene Coffman.

Mr. Coffman was a graduate of Washington Irving High School and WVU.

WILLIAM S. “BILL” COLE
Mr. William S. “Bill” Cole, 88, retired assistant plant manager of Union Carbide Corporation, died Sunday, April 1, 2007 at Maury Regional Hospital.

A native of Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was the son of the late Will H. Cole and Ethel Carpenter Cole. He was a graduate of Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia and served in the U. S. Army during World War II.

He was married November 11, 1939 to the former Maxine Wamsley who preceded him in death November 25, 1985.

Mr. Cole was a communicant of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Neil Clark of Columbia; a son and daughter-in-law, Emory W. and Judy Cole of Columbia; five grandchildren, Kim Cole (Brent) Holt of Culleoka, Darren Cole of Columbia, William Chadwell (Deanna) Clark of Rockvale, Stephen O’Neil (Jill) Clark of Franklin, and John Cole Clark of Nashville; five great-grandchildren, Hayden Holt, Spencer Holt, Carson Cole, Orion Clark, and Kelsey Clark.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Frances Skatula and Barbara Whyte.

MARGARET PAULINE DENNISON
CLARKSBURG - Margaret Pauline Dennison, age 104, of Heritage Nursing Home, passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2007, in the United Hospital Center.

She was born at Davis, WV, on February 27, 1903, the daughter of the late Gabriel J. and Lillie Wheeler Dennison.

She was preceded in death by one sister, D. Louise Dennison, and a sister and brother who died in infancy; and cousin, W.R. Hiney.

She is survived by cousins, James E. Dennison of Canonsburg, PA, John Hiney of Johnstown, and William Hiney of Charleston.

She attended school in Davis, WV, moved to Clarksburg and was a graduate of Washington Irving High School and West Virginia Business College. She was employed as secretary and bookkeeper for the Master Marble Company of Clarksburg, and secretary and treasurer of the Master Glass Company in Bridgeport. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Clarksburg, where she was a former Deacon of the Church and a member of a Circle. She was a member of the Daniel Davisson, Chapter of the D.A.R., Clarksburg Woman’s Club, Stealey Civic and Garden Club, the YWCA, a volunteer at United Hospital Center, and had a lifetime membership in the Auxiliary of the Hospital.

ANN THRUSH
CLARKSBURG - Ann Thrush, MD, died peacefully at home on May 5, 2007. As a physician and clinical professor of radiology at Stanford Medical Center.

Ann dedicated her life to caring for others and teaching young doctors. She loved instructing the radiology residents and won three teaching awards at Stanford.

Ann was born in Clarksburg, W.Va., to Lawrence Thrush, MD, and Lucy Thrush. Ann graduated from West Virginia University Medical School in 1984. She completed a fellowship in neuroradiology at Stanford the following two years. Ann is from a family of doctors. Her father Larry was a physician as are six of her siblings and two of her cousins. Ann was an avid golfer and reader. She will always be remembered as a fiercely independent, kind and generous person.

She is survived by her mother, Lucy, five brothers, two sisters, three cousins, and many nieces and nephews. Special thanks to Dr. Juliet Krall and her staff for their superb and compassionate care. No words can describe our gratitude for the love and support of her dear friends, Richard and Diana Turner.

Donations may be made to Santa Cruz Hospice Organization of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Dr., Scotts Valley, Ca. 95066. A private memorial service will be held in Clarksburg, W.Va., on June 2, 2007. Another memorial service will be held at Stanford Medical Center.

WILLIAM ‘BILL’ DUNCAN
BRIDGEPORT - William Kyle “Bill” Duncan, 79, of Vesta Drive, West Milford, WV, passed away late Monday evening, April 30, 2007, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg following a lengthy battle with lung cancer.

Bill was born December 1, 1928, the son of the late William Hayward Duncan and the late Ruth Ellen Swiger Duncan in Clarksburg, WV. His nervous father delivered him at home on a wintry night when a local doctor was delayed.

He graduated from Washington Irving High School, enlisted in the United States Navy at age 17 before the end of World War II, and also later served in the Korean Conflict, where he was injured.

While in the Navy, Bill served as a Corpsman, rendering medical aid and treatment to wounded members of the United States Marine Corps and the Navy. As the Senior Corpsman during Hurricane Hazel in 1954, he acted as de facto doctor for many sailors badly wounded during the storm: Suturing wounds, treating burns and stabilizing crushing injuries in a ship that pitched and tossed like a cork. Bill recalled the rivets of the ship “screamed and moaned” as the steel twisted. During the hurricane’s violence, “riding it out, at sea” - while being the only sensible option - nearly cost all hands their lives. Indeed, several members of the crew were washed overboard during Hazel and were lost at sea.

Later on, in the capacity of Corpsman, Bill often participated in United States Government experiments and medical studies. He was one of the first to assist in testing a new device to be used for cooking on submarines - an oven using energy waves instead of oil or gas. The same device would later be refined and become known as the microwave oven, which is now found in nearly every American home. During these years, he also volunteered for experiments involving centrifugal force, supplying data to be used in jet aircraft and the space program.

Between enlistments, Bill came home to Clarksburg, and while visiting his grandfather, H.H. Duncan, in his real estate office, looked out the window and saw a beautiful woman walking down the street below. He called his grandfather to the window and pointed to her, saying, “Granddad, do you see that girl? That’s the girl I’m going to marry.” His grandfather asked him who she was, and Bill replied, “I don’t know her name, yet. But I know that’s the one.” Her name was Norma Lee Romine, and indeed he did marry her after a whirlwind six-week romance, on March 28, 1948. Norma was the love of his life and his traveling partner for almost 55 years before her passing on February 21, 2003. Together, they roamed the world and had many wonderful adventures, eventually settling down to domestic life in West Milford, WV.

After Bill’s naval service ended, he worked briefly as a pharmaceutical representative and later took his place in the family real estate business in Clarksburg. He was a well-known Real Estate Agent and broker for Duncan Real Estate and Insurance Company for over 30 years and was widely recognized for his professionalism and integrity. He was the third of four generations who continuously worked in the real estate field. As a member of the oldest real estate company in West Virginia, he was chosen to handle Lord Snowden’s real estate interests in this state. He felt very honored to have been chosen by the Royal House of Windsor to act as an agent on their behalf. Bill was a member of many real estate boards in his lifetime, including a current appointment by the Harrison County Commission. Most recently, he served as a member who authorized the building of the new Recreation Center/4-H Complex on Rt. 19. He attended Salem College, was a member of the VFW, a past member of the American Legion, Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, an admiral in the Cherry River Navy and an honorary graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. He was proud of his Scottish Heritage and was one of the first Charter Members of the Scottish Heritage Society of North Central West Virginia.

As a past mayor of the town of West Milford, he was instrumental in acquiring the old Garden Fresh building and helping the town legally retain it so that it could later be developed into a city building. This was later accomplished under the excellent mayorship of the late Roy Don Smith and the many fine members of the West Milford City Council who served with him. Through their combined efforts, a community center/educational and health center/recreation facility was created that is arguably the finest in the state of West Virginia.

In addition to his parents and precious wife, Bill was preceded in death by one very special brother, Cmdr. Richard Duncan of the Washington, D.C./Maryland area. He leaves to cherish his memory one daughter and son-in-law, Ammie Kathleen “Kathy” Curry and her husband Dr. Steven Curry of Mt. Clare; as well as two much-loved grandsons, John H. Curry IV of Morgantown and William R. Curry of Mt. Clare. He is also survived by one well-loved sister and brother-in-law, Betty J. Duncan Orr and her husband Robert of Bridgeport; one well-loved brother and sister-in-law James H. Duncan and his wife Cassandra, also of Bridgeport; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Edith Duncan of Catonsville, MD; one sister-in-law and her husband, Mrs. Irene Paugh and her husband Howard of West Milford; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, along with several very dear to his heart cousins and close friends.

ALAN L. BASHNETT
Mr. Alan L. Bashnett, Sr., age 57, of 1910 North 20th Street, Clarksburg, WV, passed away at 2:57 p.m. Saturday, May 12, 2007, at his residence. He was born in Clarksburg, WV, January 9, 1950, a son of the late Andrew R. Bashnett and Alene McIntire Bashnett Corley of Mesa, AZ.

In addition to his mother, also surviving are his wife of thirty-five years, Margaret R. Pence Bushnett, whom he married March 6, 1972; one son, Alan L. Bashnett, Jr., Madison, VA; a stepbrother, Allen J. Cody & wife Jacqueline, Clarksburg, WV; a stepsister, Elizabeth Lynch & husband Mike, Mesa, AZ; and two grandsons, Andrew & Brenden Bashnett.

Mr. Bashnett was Methodist by faith and attended the North View United Methodist Church. He was a graduate of the old Victory High School in Clarksburg — Class of 1966. He was retired as a mason/bricklayer and had been employed at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center.

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