THE WI NEWSLETTER 02/09

THE WI NEWSLETTER

Editor: Roleta Smith Meredith

Issue 114

February 2009

IMPORTANT NOTICE
If you are planning on attending the 9th annual Clarksburg Picnic to be held on March 7th, 2009, please let me know immediately. I am going to be away from my computer from February 13 until Feb 27th and I need to make arrangements for the picnic ahead of schedule. I may not have the opportunity to contact you about the picnic again before it occurs. However, you can call me 941-342-0030 or email me Roleta1@aol.com any time except between the 13th and the 27th…. Thank you.

I will be doing the grocery shopping and the cooking the week before the picnic…I need to know how many will be in attendance as the figure varies each year. One year we had about 200 and another year we had about 130….that makes a big difference in how much food I buy and how much hot dog sauce I make. I don’t want to be wasteful. If you are indeed interested, contact me and I will provide you with directions to the park. We have been holding the picnic at Twin Lakes Park for about 8 years.

At the picnic, some people have reacquainted with old friends, neighbors from childhood, relatives, team mates or opponents. Stories are told and retold. Mark your calendar and plan to attend. The drawing for the WIN Quilt will be done at the picnic. Get your tickets or at the picnic. The cost of the tickets are 6 for $5.00. And in multiples thusly…Write your check for the quilt drawing tickets to: Roleta Meredith/WIN Scholarship and mail to Roleta Meredith 3201 Charles MacDonald Drive Sarasota, Fl 34240.

If you have any craft that you do and you would like to give a sample of your talent to help us earn money for the WIN Scholarship, please contact me---Roleta1@aol.com

For some of you who don’t know about the picnic. We get together at about 11:00 am and start visiting…some who wish to help come around 10:00am. We gather in Sarasota, Florida and have West Virginia style hot dogs with the trimmings. Each family brings a covered dish to share. Each person brings their own drink. Everything else is furnished. I rent a large covered pavilion at the county owned park and thus we are protected from sun or rain. The area is very private and is located beside a nice lake. We gather to visit, eat and visit some more. The party usually lasts until about 4:00PM. Sarasota is only about 3 or 4 hours from any spot in the state which makes it easily available for anyone. People come from several states but most from Florida. Many come for a few days and enjoy Sarasota…most stay at the same hotel and the visiting goes on for several days.

The motel that most everyone stayed at last year was the Country Inn and Suites on Clark Road. All seemed to like it. The people there were very nice. Fred Alvaro spoke with the manager of the motel in January and he reported the following: The room price he negotiated was $129.00 for a room with 2 double beds or a king size bed at Country Inn and Suites. He checked with other area motels and this was the best price. The Country Inn and Suites is clean, modern and about 5 years old. It is located about half a mile from Twin Lakes Park—both are at Exit 205 off of I-75. The manager said to call as soon as possible and ask for the Clarksburg Group Rates. She did emphasize 'as soon as possible'. Do not call the toll-free number. Call the hotel in Sarasota direct at (941) 925-0631

There is also a Hampton Inn (if you prefer Hampton) at the next exit just north of Twin Lakes Park---Exit 207—Bee Ridge Road..

A THANK YOU NOTE WAS RECEIVED
Dear Mrs. Meredith and Newsletter readers:

School is going well, last time grades came out I had nothing below a C. I'm really enjoying Glenville and the whole college experience and I'm enjoying all of my class and my teachers. So thank you for helping me with my money down here in Glenville.

Thanks, Cody Gilmore

And Caroline wrote:

I am writing again to see if you received my email about the WIN Scholarship. I am doing fine and ended up making a 3.5 GPA. I appreciate this so much and it really helps with my college expenses. I just wanted to make sure you received my previous email or if there were any questions. Thanks again

Sincerely,
Caroline Sprenger (LiNEY0342@aol.com)

READERS:

This month I wrote a check and sent it to the West Virginia University Financial Office for $1,500.00 which was the second installment of the WIN Scholarship which was awarded to Caroline Springer a 2008 graduate of R.C. Byrd High School. I also wrote one to Glenville State College Cashiers Office for the same amount to be put into the student account of Cody Gilmore also a 2008 graduate from RC Byrd.

If you would like to help a student at RC Byrd with their education costs please make out your check or money order to: Roleta Meredith c/o WIN Scholarship.

Mail to:
Roleta Meredith
3201 Charles MacDonald Drive
Sarasota, Florida 34240

I thank you and the student receiving the scholarship thanks you too!

HELPING OTHERS
Those who gave generously this month to help others were:

Anna Walsh (WI 1974) She said Thanks for the newsletter. Anna lives in Clarksburg.

Robert Winters (WI 1966) Robert lives in California. He gave a gift to the WIN Scholarship in memory of J.K. Musser III. Thank you that was a very thoughtful thing.

Allen Alvarez (WI 1958) This for the scholarship. Thanks Allen that is 2 months in a row. Allen lives in Dayton Beach, FL.

Dahrie Hayman (WI 1964) Dahrie lives in Ocala, FL. She send a generous check given to the Scholarship in memory of her grandmother, Emma Axton, and her mother, Jean Axton Christiansen, (WI Class of 1937) A gift to go on into the future by helping a child this year.

Babe Bisping Cashman (WI 1956) Babe lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL. She is a loyal fan of the WIN Scholarship.

Sharon (Sherry) Greitzner Dial (WI 1956) Thanks Sherry for being a constant friend of the WIN Scholarship.

Sharon Bee Armstrong (Bristol 1959) Sharon again asks that each reader give at least $1.00 a month or $12.00 a year to the WIN Scholarship as a thank you for the gift of the newsletter that we give to others each month!

If you wish to give a gift to help others…Write a check to :
Roleta Meredith/WIN Scholarship

And mail to:
Roleta Meredith
3201 Charles MacDonald Drive
Sarasota, Florida 34240

Thank you

SIZZLIN’ SUMMER
Right now with the temperatures in many parts of the country being so cold, some people are dreaming of a Sizzlin’ Summer.

The WIN Scholarship quilt this year is Sizzlin’ Summer and is made up of 21 blocks which were pieced together by the ladies who gave generously of their time and talent to help make this project possible. The quilt block makers are: Carolyn Cady, Liz Carder, Barb Charles, Carol Dean, Mary Nophsker, Elaine Norteman, Kitty Sager, Mary Sue Spahr, Lin Stricker and Mary Ann Williams.

This quilt is right now being completed by Sue Selby Moats and will be awarded to the person holding the winning ticket. Below is a picture of the quilt top of the 2009 WIN Scholarship Quilt which has been named Sizzlin’ Summer. It will look like fireworks against the dark night sky. The background is a lovely dark blue.

If you would like to help the WIN Scholarship and possibly win the quilt, you must buy tickets! The quilt will be awarded at the Clarksburg Picnic being held in Sarasota on March 7, 2009. You need not be present to win the quilt. We will ship the quilt to the winner if the winner is not present.

Remember all money given to purchase tickets goes directly to the WIN Scholarship. Write your check to: Roleta Meredith c./o WIN Scholarship.
Mail your check to:
Roleta Meredith
3201 Charles MacDonald Dr.
Sarasota, FL 34240

We will put your name on your ticket stubs for you…along with your phone number. We can either hold your stubs for you or mail them to you. Last year the lucky ticket holders were Judy and Sonny Talkington who live in Clarksburg. Their beautiful quilt was shipped to them.

OLD WORDS
in the wringer
33-1/3s
cellar
curb feelers
fender skirts
fibber McGee's closet
flash bulbs
fountain pen
full as a tick
goulashes
headin' for the barn
hunky dory
icebox
milk man
church key
carbon paper
car hop
drive-in
hot fudge peanut butter flop
percolator
parking brakes
plain (as plowed ground)
pressure cooker
projector
record as in record player
recorder
roller skate key
rumble seat
running board
screen door
shorthand
slide rule
smokehouse
steering knob
tape player
trike as in tricycle
two bits
typewriter---kids want to know where the monitor is located?
washboard

EDITOR’S NOTE: Can you think of more “OLD WORDS”? Write your list to Roleta1@aol.com.

REMEMBER THIS AD?

REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II
submitted by: Frances Tate Barrett (WI '50)
flmom1cat4@roadrunner.com
My graduating class and some just a few years before remember World War II. I had one brother and he went into the Navy about 1942 or 1943. He graduated from WI in 1941. After basic training at Great Lakes Navel Station he was assigned duty on the USS Langley an aircraft carrier that sailed the Pacific Ocean during most of the war. I remember his ship was under the command of Admiral "Bull Hulsey". The letters we received from him were called "V Mail" and most of them were censored. The "V Mail" was a picture of the letter after it was censored and the size was reduced by at least 50% so they were very hard to read. He would write about a lot of Uncles and Aunts that we really didn't have and that gave us an idea where he located in the Pacific. How I wished I had saved some of those. Most of the ships had sister ships and the sister ship to the USS Langley was a battleship and it was blown up. Shortly after that we had to go to a funeral for my cousin in Salem and found out he was on that ship when it was blown up. When my brother was able to come home by train we would go to the B & O Railroad station in Glen Elk to meet him.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Write your memories of WWII to me---please write Roleta1@aol.com.

I DON’T REMEMBER THIS, DO YOU?

WASHINGTON IRVING
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819. He continued to publish regularly—and almost always successfully—throughout his life, and completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death, at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York.

Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was the first American writer to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Francis Jeffrey, and Charles Dickens. As America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession, and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

The above was researched and submitted by: John Teter (WI 1961) JATeter@aol.com

UGH!

4 BOYS IN THE PICTURE

submitted by: Tony Bellotte (WI '57)
Abellotte@aol.com
The four boys pictured are:

David Rosanna (Rosie) Hair Care, Home Remodeling and Rentals
Tony Bellotte (Turtle) Retired Government and Commercial Lockheed Martin Contractor.
Frank Oliverio (Little Frankie) owner of Oliverio's Peppers
Sam Brunett (Orvie) owner of Tomaro's Bakery.

I'll bet Mr. Cubbons (sp), Ms Holland, Eyvon Tennibern, Ms. Nutter, etc. would never believe what they produced from the rowdy group of Glen Elk Boys.

submitted by: Barbara “Beeb” Brunett-DeFazio (WI '35)
Leobeeb@aol.com
David Rosanna, Anthony Bellotte (Turtle), Frankie Oliverio (Little Frankie) and Sam Brunett. What a great picture of my brother. Thank you!

submitted by: Jim Rogers (WI '64)
Jro7696g@aol.com
The photo shop was:

The photo shop you mentioned in the 2009 edition letter was named Gus Photos, owned by Gus Paletta

HELP FIND THESE MISSING CLASSMATES FOR THE REUNION COMMITTEE
Roleta, one of our reunion committee members for our Victory Class of 1954 suggested that I ask you to ask your readers if any of them would happen to know how to contact a couple of our classmates we have been unable to find, both for our 50th reunion and for our upcoming 55th reunion, which is to be July 24, and 25 of this year at Knights of Columbus in Clarksburg.

We have searched unsuccessfully for an address for Charles Beezel and for Shirley Wolfe Riggs. If anybody has an address, phone number, or e-mail address or all of the preceding, for either or both of them, we would appreciate very much if you would contact me, Jackie (Hays) Lafferty, at 304 622 1880 or by e-mail at Grannieof15@aol.com. Or if any of your readers who graduated with us have changed addresses and have not notified us, please do so. Although letters have already been mailed with no plans of further reminders by mail, we do wish to give all interested graduates an opportunity to make plans to be with us.

Thanks again for the great newsletter and all the work you put into it and for your help. Jackie (Hays) Lafferty, Victory High School, Class of 1954 Grannieof15@aol.com.

EDWIN LOWTHER
ONCE PRINCIPAL OF CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Edwin J. Lowther celebrated his 107th birthday on Sunday, January 11, 2009, at Golden Circle Personal Care Home in Stonewood.

Mr. Lowther was an educator in Harrison County for 47 years. He was also a professor at Salem College and later served as principal of Central Junior High School in Clarksburg until his retirement in 1971.

He is a lifetime member of the Salem Seventh Day Baptist Church.

QUARANTINE
submitted by: Frances Tate Barrett (WI '50)
Flmom1cat4@roadrunner.com
The big orange sign on the front porch announced to the world that I had measles. We lived at 133 Euclid Ave. at that time. No one outside the family was allowed in and only those that had to leave to go to work were allowed out. I don't remember if I had measles before the chicken-pox or the other way around. The Health Department put up a sign when I had chicken-pox and of course another one when I had whooping cough. By the time I had mumps in my senior year of high school they weren't putting up signs anymore.

submitted by: Harriett Stout Noel (WI '59)
leonnoel@charter.net
When I had measles, the “bad kind”, we had a sign out front like Jim Alvaro wrote about and rugs at the windows to prevent eye damage from the light. I played with pink wallpaper cleaner for days, making shapes and trying to fill up the time. I loved the smell of that stuff. It probably had something strong in it like the glue “sniffers” of today and that is probably why I would never had passed Mrs. Nutter’s class.

HADACOL
EDITOR’S NOTE: Several people Googled this and sent me the information about Hadacol. If you are interested, you can google any subject!

submitted by: James Martin James (WI '43)
jamesmartinjames@aol.com
During my school years at Central Jr. High and Washington Irving High, I worked as a soda jerk at Central Pharmacy 452 West Pike St. situated next to Ritzy Lunch, between Central Restaurant and Robinson Grand Theater. I am holding an 8oz bottle of Hadacol of which I own 2. I remember selling Hadacol @ $1.25 a bottle, it was advertized to cure most any ailment, but I believed the magic cure was the12% Alcohol content. Manufactured by The LeBLANC Corp. of LaFayette, Louisana.

submitted by: Jim Rogers (WI '64)
Jrog7696@aol.com
I worked at Mercer Drug Store in Clarksburg located at 108 S Third St (just down from Melet's). Hadacol was a vitamin supplement sold to promote everything from relief of pain to being used as a "pep" up. Since it contained between 12% and 14% alcohol, I am sure its popularity was for "drinking" rather than medicinal purposes.

ENJOY THIS JUKEBOX WITH MUSIC FROM 1957
http://hfm3.com/jukebox/jukebox.html
You can actually click on this site, listen to the music while you continue reading the newsletter. The same is true with the sites that Steve Goff puts in his section of music

NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES

Janice (Hall) (Sorrells) McPherson (WI '65)	janmcphrs@aol.com
Nan Norvell LaFleur (WI '57)	jrlnnl@aol.com
Sharon Lough Price (WI '60)	Kenobill@verizon.net
Dave Cobb (WI '65)	dmlcobb@verizon.net
Mary Lue Currey Cobb (WI '64)	dmlcobb@verizon.net
Mary Lou Marshall (Parkersburg '64)	mcatwoman09@aol.com
Lisa Furbee Ford (ND '74)	Vox27@aim.com
Barbara “Beeb” Brunett De-Fazio (WI '35)	LeoBeeb@aol.com

CHANGED EMAIL ADDRESS

Mitch Davis (WI '61)

Mitch@DavisSearch.net

PROUD TO BE A WEST VIRGINIAN
http://westvirginia.topcities.com/WVProud.htm

NEIGHBORHOODS
Please write your memories of Despard/Summit Park and the Downtown or Uptown areas in the MARCH newsletter.

Write to Roleta1@aol.com about either of these areas…

DESPARD/ SUMMIT PARK
DOWNTOWN / UPTOWN (this is a new section added to cover all those who lived in any other part of downtown)

ADAMSTON---------------------------------------------------------NO ONE RESPONDED
ANMOORE (FORMERLY GRASSELLI)---------------------------0 RESPONDED
ARBUTUS PARK---------------------------------------------------------1 RESPONDED
ARLINGTON---------------------------------------------------------------1 RESPONDED
BROAD OAKS--------------------------------------------------------- 25 RESPONDED
BROADWAY--------------------------------------------------------------2 RESPONDED
BRUSHY FORK----------------------------------------------------------1 RESPONDED
CHESTNUT HILLS------------------------------------------------------5 RESPONDED
COLONIAL HEIGHTS (aka THE HILL)----------------------------6 RESPONDED
COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION----------------------------------------1 RESPONDED
DAVISSON RUN -------------------------------------------------------- 2 RESPONDED

Write to Roleta1@aol.com about these areas

DESPARD/ SUMMIT PARK
DOWNTOWN / UPTOWN (this is a new section added to cover all those who lived in any other “TOWNY”)

*EAST END
EAST POINT
EAST VIEW
EDGEWOOD
*GLEN ELK
GLEN FALLS
GOFF PLAZA
HARTLAND
HEFLIN HEIGHTS
HIGHLAND PARK
INDUSTRIAL
KELLY HILL
MONTPELIER (AKA PINNICINICK HILL)
NORTHVIEW
NIXON PLAZA
NORWOOD
NUTTER FORT
PARK PLAZA
POINT COMFORT
STEALEY
STONEWOOD--------------------------------------NO ONE RESPONDED
*WEST END

COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION
submitted by: Harriett Stout Noel (WI '59)
leonnoel@charter.net
It was such fun to take the time to read the newsletter and to REMEMBER! I hope I am responding in the right time frame for the memories of Country Club Addition, I think it was called. My grandparents had a home out by the Country Club since 1903 and my grandfather had the car dealership (I think Dodge, etc.) on Water St. just off Main St. Mother grew up in that house and graduated from WI in about 1929. My grandfather, Harry P. Sturm, was a very unusual man and really didn’t like “people”. He was raised by his father after his mother left, taking his younger brother with him, when my grandfather was 12. I am sure that contributed to his “oddness”. He was very smart and considering he only went to school through the 6th grade, he was remarkably well-read and loved books. He had a hobby of photographing the wildflowers of the Allegheny Mountains and was asked by botanical societies all over the east coast to present his slide shows to them. He became friends with a Dr. Corry (sp.) from WVU and some of his work was given to the university, I believe. Anyway, I loved going to that house filled with the smells of yummy cooking by my grandmother and to talk with my grandfather on the front porch swing. He was an excellent golfer and I still cherish a silver bowl given him for a tournament he won.

My grandparents were friends with Mr. and Mrs. George Coyle who lived up Spring Hill from them. The Coyle’s never had children but I believe they put approx. 27 children through college-one of them was my cousin Nancy Carskadon May. I remember my father saying that when the depression came my grandfather told all his employees the cut he was taking for his salary and he hoped they would consider doing the same. We were told that the Clarksburg Automobile Co. was only one of two auto companies in our state that did not “ go broke” during the depression but I don’t know if that is true. My father’s mother had a boarding house in Clarksburg after my grandfather was killed and a teacher from WI was a boarder there. My father’s brother, Maldon Stout, who was several years older and taught history (I think) at WI, actually taught his brother (my father) in class. We eventually lived with this grandmother and my aunt, Irene Stout, on Maple Ave. until I graduated in 1959.

I loved that area where they lived, not because of the Country Club, but because there was such a feeling of continuity, “life-is-good” there and love. My childhood in Beverly was harder so to come to this special old house was a thrill. When they had to leave in the early 80’s due to age, it was heartbreaking for my grandfather. I believe a Mr. and Mrs. White bought the house for about $25,000.00.

Thank you for letting an old gal reminisce, and cut anything you want out of this. Thank you for doing such a slam-bang job for all of us and see you in July!

P.S. Roleta, our grandson who passed away was nicknamed “Bear”- I loved reading your ditty about your bears.

submitted by: Richard (Ricky) Wilson (WI '61)
wilsonmaple@msn.com
My sisters, Jeanne ('58), Stephanie (Tiffy, '60) and brother Frank ('64/5) are also all WI grads.

Regarding your neighborhoods 'survey,' I'll reminisce with some Country Club memories.

We always thought of Country Club Addition as the peninsula of the West Fork River starting at the Country Club road junction with US 19 just south of town. The first big farm going out the road was the Davissons, Nancy was one of my favorite people. Then WPDX hill, now called Sand Hill. The Sellers were big up there. A good early friend was Cleowana, She had lots of brothers, Jimmy, Paul (later married Nancy Davisson) and a little sister. Also later on the Hammonds moved in, schoolmates Larry and Cecelia. Going out the road two miles brings you to the country club gates, going right takes you down to river road, left goes out along the golf course. The only way in and out in my youth was from US 19. The Mt. Clare bridge at the dam was still an abandoned streetcar trestle.

Before 1949 or so Country Club was served by streetcars running to Weston, one came by below our house every hour and seventeen minutes. City Lines busses picked up that service after 1949 with bus service five times per day, two in the morning, two in evening and one at noon. The Harrison Co. Board of Education provided tickets for students. We needed two tickets per ride instead of the usual single required from "townies." A favorite money or favor generator was selling or giving tickets to town kids. We'd tell the principal who issued them that we'd lost them or something. Obviously you couldn't do this too much.

Most of us were assigned to Towers School. Morgan which was closer must have been full, heh, heh. So we had a lot of fun at the bus terminal waiting for the bus after school. There was even a restaurant there although no one had any money to even go in the place. We could also board busses at other favorite stops such as in front of the Ritz Theater. Many have remarked about the great newsstand there where we could peek at the comics. In the mornings, particularly in high school we were 'dumped out' right in front of Anderson Restaurant and had that great, well remembered walk up the hill. If you walked with a teacher you were "stuck" with polite conversation all the way to WI's door.

Getting back to Towers, when all the town kids, teachers and principal went home to lunch we had the run of the school. Best explorations were in the basement where old furnaces had been abandoned after Central Jr. H.S. provided the heat and 'tours' of the attic. Boy that was spooky, pigeons and all. A favorite noon game (ask Denny Davis) was in the fifth grade cloak room, one of the few with a window where we had a little game called 'insurance.' Kay Carathers and Cleowana were great sports. They were just smarter than we were. So noons were fun after eating our little bag lunches. After lunch beginning in second grade we had the run of the town too. Kids were a lot more self regulating and responsible in those days (yeah, right.) Later "grads" such as my little brother Frankie and Caroline Hornor Ramsey carried on the tradition from the stories I hear.

In all my school years the back of the evening bus was bedlam. Kids would be skinning the cat on the exit bars midway back of the bus. Kids would be fighting, stealing hats, screaming at the top of their lungs.. you name it. If you were really unlucky you would have to sit with a girlfriend, or else. Sherry Sylvester rolled me down the hill tangled up in my coat once for ignoring her. Big kids sat in the back of the bus, first graders in the front. Our favorite driver was Brownie, don't know his real name. About all the boys got kicked off the bus for infractions some time or other. My record was being ejected at Sunnycroft. As Jackie Dawson mentioned in an earlier post, the quickest way home from there was over the hill behind the Harrison Co. Poor Farm and out the abandoned street car tracks. First time I walked home from town on the tracks I was in the fifth grade, went across the wrong railroad trestle (you could see the river between the ties) got home after dark and missed dinner. Denny's older sister Judy loved to get all the kids singing in the back of the bus. We sang rounds, just about everything. Her favorite was "Let me call you Sweetheart," except all the words were changed to something a little more risque, such as "let me call you sweetheart, I'm in love with your automobile." Boy, those were the days.

Living at the club? I've written so much, that's really another story. We had nowhere near the kids nearby that those living in town did. Pick up touch football games were pretty much the after school recreation. George Eason, Nicki and Jamie Stevens, the Horner girls Caroline, Lynn, Frankie, sometimes the Repperts and other visitors pretty much made up the teams. Except for Nicki and Jamie we were pathetic but had lots of fun.

Summer recreation consisted of swimming in the pool or in the West Fork, fishing, playing cards, and roaming the countryside. The club pool seemed to be the place to be, member or guest alike enjoyed just hanging out, lying in the sun, playing cards, eying the competition and the targets. Older sisters had babysitting duty for either younger sisters (no pay) or if they were really lucky, someone else's kids. Sister Jeanne got all the good ones since she was the oldest in our family. Tiffy was a free spirit, friends of everyone. Frankie developed into a gun nut, took my father's old Iver Johnson single shot 12 gauge down to the river, aimed at the first white duck in a line of five, hit the last one and was the proudest hunter ever. My mother was not very happy cleaning that scrawny carcass. But we all said, "mmmm, so good," at dinner. When reaching the age of 16 I was drafted to work at the casket factory in town all summer and on weekends during school so missed all the later 'action.'

"Hikes" we called any walk over, say a mile, and did all the usual fort and tree house building. When I was 13, I picked up Jimmy Sellers paper route; boy, that was a lot of walking for $2.50 a week. The route was subsidized by the Exponent/Telegram since I had 30 to 35 customers spaced out over the whole peninsula. One rough winter Sunday morning I dug into an haystack to wait out the frost until the sun rose for some warmth. Sled riding was just fantastic in the winter. The hill on golf course no. 1 down to the river was several hundred yards. We'd build a bonfire at the top and roast hot dogs. The first skier I ever saw was some doctor with wooden skis, real wire and spring bindings and he could actually turn! Come to think of it we were lucky to get anything to go straight without tumbling, wrecking or flipping from one of our homemade snow jumps. Great times.

Suffice to say, I could go on and on.... stories about my sisters, um hmmm. (grin)

DAVISSON RUN ROAD
submitted by: Frances Tate Barrett (WI "50)
FLmom1cat4@toadrunner.net
We moved from Stealey to Davisson while I was attending WI in my sophomore year. This was my first experience riding a school bus. We moved into an area called Hopewood Heights which was just where you turned onto Davisson Run Rd. off Rt 19. It was named after Hope Natural Gas Co. because most of the people that lived there at that time worked for the gas company.

There was nothing very exciting about the area, it was a long road which consisted of several farms and a church at the end of the road. The school bus went up Davisson Run and then turned around and came back down then turned and went out to the Country Club area before heading back into town to the schools. If I missed the bus before it turned to go to the Country Club area I could always catch it on Rt. 19. Which my parents frowned upon because of the traffic!

As a teenager I was very active in the Davisson Run Baptist Church. Most of us that rode the school bus also attended that church. Every holiday we had some kind of activity at the church to celebrate and we all managed to have a party for our birthdays.

As you can tell life was really exciting during my teenage years living on Davisson Run Road.

submitted by: John Teter (WI '61)
JATeter@aol.com
I never lived on Davisson Run, but my best friend (Bill Post) did as well as did one of my more MEANINGFUL GIRLFRIENDS (Sonny Cork) during my tenure. I used to spend many a weekend at Bill's house and out on the hills and farm areas above his house. I can remember that before Bill got his driver's license and I mine, we would walk from his house to mine and/or vice-versa and it seems like (today) that we could never made that trip in one day. Bill mentioned in one of his earlier E-mails (regarding walking places) that he and John Cork (Sonny's brother) used to walk to football practice from Davisson Run Road to Hite Field. Bill and I had a lot of fun out in the Davisson Run Road area and sometime in the past few years, I actually went up into the driveway to where his house was. The people that were living there at the time either did not see me up in their driveway, or chose just not to say anything, because the house was up a rather steep driveway and above the road. I have tried several times to locate the Cork house, but have not been able to locate it. I think that it must have been torn down and something rebuilt in its place.

I AM CALLING THIS THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
NOW, THIS IS YOUR MONTH TO REPLY!
I SHOULD HEAR FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE!
submitted by: N. Louanna Furbee (WI '55)
louanna100@yahoo.com
Hi Roleta,
Mary Stump Harrell is right - she describes the neighborhood I lived in from 1946 until my second year of college, 1956, on the west corner of East Main and Park Ave. When you originally sent out the neighborhood list, I looked for the neighborhood name, but could find nothing for it.

I have never been sure what it’s name really was. We called it "East Main," but the neighborhood included a lot more than East Main Street from Monticello to the Golf Plaza bridge that divided us from Golf Plaza — certainly all the side streets as far as Pike Street in addition to those Mary mentions that run off the other side of Main. In addition to those Mary mentions, I remember especially Meggs Street that runs between Main and Pike and parallel to them. The Lutheran Church was on the corner of Meggs and Park Ave. Tommy Howes lived on Park until his family moved to Stanley Ave.; the Minnetelis were at the west end of my block, and later sold the house to the George Jackson family but by that time Julia/Pretty was in college. Mary Cain and her sister Peggy and brother Chris lived next door to us and attended Notre Dame. Some years back someone sent me a copy of an article from the Clarksburg paper that featured a history of the houses in the area, and that article called it "Quality Hill," which seems pretty pretentious. Must have been what the developer called it when a lot of those big houses were built in the early 20th century.

It had advantages. We were just a block or two from the Carlyle School and within a comfortable walk to both Central Junior High and Washington Irving. We had a nice alleyway to play in behind our houses, which was good because East Main was Rt. 50 and had a lot of traffic on it. Despite that traffic, one of my fondest memories is of people sitting out on their front porches in the evenings in nice weather and sometimes taking after dinner walks during which they made casual visits to porch-sitting neighbors.

FEBRUARY FAVORITE MUSIC MEMORIES
submitted by: Steve Goff (WI '72)
sgoff53@hotmail.com
I always loved February when I was in high school, especially Valentine's Day. That was my favorite day of the year. On that day, in 1973, '74, '75, and '76, all of the girls at WI would quit their boyfriends and throw themselves at me. By 7 am each Valentine's Day morning, the crowd would start forming in front of my house, as all of the WI cheerleaders and majorettes were waiting outside to escort me down Wilson St., past Ryder's Grocery, to the Irving Place entrance.

It was very hard for me to break so many hearts in just one day, so by my junior year, I just became "easy", and let them all love me. If I could make all of the girls in my high school happy for a day, who was I to crush them when they needed me most.

At first all of the other guys got real mad, but then they just looked at me and were grateful I didn't exercise this power over all of the WI gals, all the time. Even some female teachers left their husbands that day to ......

Whoa! Wait a minute! Roleta can you please send that back? That piece was intended for another publication.”FANTASIES OF GUNKO GUYS”....I'm sorry...please....really....send this back.

Now, where was I... first a little housekeeping. Just so you know, I do my research on these songs, so when I say they were a hit, in a certain year and month, I've checked the charts. Sometimes the person who placed the video on You Tube has another year listed, and this is usually the year a song might have been released. It might later be made a single and then end up charting in the following year, thus the discrepancies.

Also, it's been pointed out that last month the link for Don McLean's, "American Pie" was incorrect. That video; portraying the "real" meaning of the song with clever photos, info, and captions, has been pulled from You Tube. So as a substitute here is Mr. McLean performing the song live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6uEjifqTaI&feature=related

Since February is "love" month, let's set the tone with this Beatle classic, "All You Need is Love", from 1967. Excellent background information alongside the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxTpsIVzzo

THESE TUNES WERE ALL NUMBER ONE IN THE US, IN FEBRUARY OF YEARS PAST...

1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" The Andrew Sisters. I love the asides they toss out, in particular..."ah you vex me, you vex me".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWY4_GyLufI

1948 "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Art Mooney. Wow, put this song together with the one above and you've got an Irish Calypso party. Now that sounds like fun!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSb5IEhyeQw&feature=related

1951 "The Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ek3eCbfqp0

1954 "Oh! My Pa-Pa" Eddie Fisher. This goes out to everybody's father. Griel Goff, Victory High School, Class of '31. The video has some photos of Eddie's wives, Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04seHfYLAA

1957 "Young Love" Sonny James. In a funny bit of chart history, the week after this reached #1, Tab Hunter was in the top spot with his version of the same song. I'm a much bigger fan of this version. The video is a little jumpy but the audio holds steady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vXQX4vP9Q

1959 "Stagger Lee" Lloyd Price. #1 for three weeks. The song is based on a real incident that took place on Christmas Eve in 1895. This video is a very clever portraying of the tale....a winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtmvvarZLwg

1963 "Hey Paula" Paul and Paula. 3 weeks at number one for this song as well. UK TV clip. Two of the least convincing lip synch performances in TV history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8YNqGoL8I

1966 "Lightin' Strikes" Lou Christie. Pittsburgh native Christie was always a favorite of mine. He played the WV Italian Heritage Festival a few years back and was in great voice. Here he performs live on The Midnight Special, a few years after this was a hit, looking more like a rocker, than the clean teen image he had in '66. This is a very good version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6Gw0xx_u4

1968 "Love is Blue" Paul Mauriat. This spent 5 weeks at #1. Excellent stereo quality of a live version, slightly updated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_2qty7GptU

1971 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds. Either a Jackson 5 tribute, or rip-off. The song and dance steps are straight out of the Jackson's play book. And the costumes.... as the video starts, tell me they don't look like 5 Vegas Elvis impersonators doing their steps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96HqPpjI3UY

1973 "Crocodile Rock" Elton John. Italian TV clip, that shows TV hosts are annoying world wide. Takes a few minutes to get through his lame intro, but worth it as they do a solid live version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoasiuygRg8&feature=related

1975 "You're No Good" Linda Ronstadt. Well it can't be all love, candy and roses. Sometimes Valentine's Day serves to remind us of the romantic mistakes we've all made along the way. "If you're bitter and you know it, sing along"... Good live version, nice guitar solo, and her skirt's as short as my memory these days. I like it. The skirt that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9vKWLgZzo

1978 "Stayin' Alive" The Bee Gees. As much as I came to loathe disco, I still have a soft spot for this song. And when it's played over the opening credits of the movie Saturday Night Fever , as it is here, with John Travolta's cocky, funky strut down the street on his way to work, it seems perfect. Music cue at the 40 sec. mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXa8mkPpeY

1981 "9 to 5" Dolly Parton Title song from a very successful movie, I bet we all enjoyed. The video could be subtitled "Dolly in Wonderland". What's with the Disney characters? For once I'll keep all of my Dolly Parton jokes to myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpKAA2VxWY8

And to wrap it up here's another big song about LOVE.

1985 "I Want to Know What Love Is" Foreigner. Live in Antwerp, Belgium in 2002, with full orchestra and choir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LseoI2_bw

NICKNAMES
Daddy.................Dave Kuhl '62
Hoopy.................Dave Walters '61
Dee Dee.............Diane Fisher WI '52
Engine................Johnny Arco Sr. and Johnny Arco Jr. Owners and operators of Red Caboose
Stumpy......(3 CORRECT GUESSES)..........Evan Bice
Fizz............(3 CORRECT GUESSES)........ John Tiano
Fuzzy..................Robert Fazzini WI '58
Lefty...................Anthony Selario WI '56
Sheriff........(3 GUESSES) .........Sheriff Tiano (Everyone knows Sheriff. He was a referee in and around for many years.)
Bones........(2 CORRECT GUESSES)...........Don Wyant WI '64

INTERESTING SITE

One of the most interesting sites I have ever seen. Just put your mouse on a city and the newspaper headlines pop up... Double click and the page gets larger....

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

CHECK OUT THE NOTRE DAME CLASS OF 1958 WEB SITE

This site was created by Boo Beall (NDHS 1958)

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzew42av/notredamehighschoolclassof1958/

RACK YOUR BRAIN
Come on now, think about this! Call up those memories and write to me about one of these subjects for the March newsletter. Write Roleta1@aol.com

We want to hear about your memories of Lillie Mae Bauer write Roleta1@aol.com

High School Basketball…did you play? Did you attend? Were you a cheerleader? Were you in the pep band? Where were the games played that you attended? Write your memories to: Roleta1@aol.com

Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? That was November 22, 1963. Here are a couple replies to help stir your memories: write to Roleta1@aol.com

submitted by: Carol (Gottlieb) Rovinsky (WI '65)
carolcaz@bellsouth.net
I was in Mr. Gudekunst's geometry class (I think) when they announced that President Kennedy was killed. Gudekunst (one of the only teachers to whom I referred without a title (Mr., Mrs., Ms.) expected us to finish our test. I couldn't! I didn't know what to do. I thought the entire world as I knew it was going to change. Call it an overactive imagination or a naive outlook but it was devastating to me. Jerry Mc Mann and I handed in our exams - incomplete - and went to the back of the room to wait for the class to be over.

submitted by: Bill Pinella (WI '65)
pinellab@sonic.net
Quite a memory on the Kennedy death. I can't recall where I was in school when that happened. What I do remember is afterward I was sitting watching TV with my grandfather as they paraded Oswald through the corridor of the Dallas police station. As he appeared on screen, my grandfather said, "Someone ought to shoot that sonofabitch!" At that moment Jack Ruby came out of the shadows and shot him. True story...

WEST VIRGINIA PROUD
This is a very nice website. I hope you enjoy it.

http://westvirginia.topcities.com/WVProud.htm

THIS IS CLEVER
Most towns in WV
You can click on this hyperlink right now and when done, click it off and the newsletter will still be on your screen.

http://yourhometown.org/page58.html

REMEMBERING NICK ALVARO
submitted by: Jim Potter (WI '65)
JPOTTER@DeltaGas.com
Almost every Christmas Eve since I left Clarksburg in 1968 I would call Nick Alvaro to wish him a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This year his daughter had me speak to his wife and she told me of his passing the previous Friday. I wiped a tear from my eye as memories of Nick and his family rushed through my mind.

Nick and his father Tony acted tough and some people were scared of them, but they were really good as gold. In 1960’s when my parents died they took me under their wing. We went to many races together and Nick could always get a ruckus going. He knew most of the race drivers and would tell one that the other was cheating and the other one the same thing. Thus he would have them going at each other then he would step between them and have a good laugh and have them laughing at each other.

Nick and Tony would take most of the people in their shop home for lunch at lunch time. Tony’s wife Josephine would usually have potato soup and Capacole sandwiches ready when the group arrived. Nick was a good race driver but his respect for his parents kept him out of a lot of races. He would plan to go racing and his mother would tell him how dangerous it was and how worried she would be of him racing. This would go on and on and finally he would put off the race to some future time.

Nick and Tony worked on and restored many fine cars. The only Duisenberg I ever had the chance to sit in was in Tony’s shop. All the fastest cars and motorcycles of the 60’s centered around Tony and Nick’s Shop. If you ever needed to have your spirits lifted, their shop was the place to go. They would have you laughing in a short time. Something was always going on.

One memory that I have was one day while I was there, two very large men came in the side door. I didn’t know them. They walked over to me and asked my name. When I gave it to them the one asked the other to write it down, and then went over to another person hanging out in the shop and ask the same question. This went on until they went over to Nick and asked him, he gave them his name and then he stood up and asked them what they were taking names for. The largest of the two said that they were taking the names of everyone in the shop that they could whip. Nick stepped forward and said, “I don’t think you can whip me.” The big guy grabbed the other man and said, “Erase his name!” Everyone in the shop had a laugh. Things like this went on at the shop all the time.

I will miss Nick and hold dear the memories I have of him and his family. They are good people. I know that somewhere Nick is bringing a smile to some one’s face.

COLLECTION
submitted by: Steve Goff (WI '72)
sgoff53@hotmail.com
I loved seeing other alums collections of things they value. Here are a few photos of my 6,000+ record collection. The pictures represent about 80% of my poly-vinyl LPs, as a number are still in boxes in storage.

In one picture you might notice "Elvis" "looking" toward a small case with 6 black, unzipped, but full CD storage albums. I have over 1,500 CDs as well. Not pictured are about 300 45's of various value and special meaning.

Books are also a big part of my life, as you can see from the pics. Some of the books pictured are what I use in doing reference for the tunes I submit to the newsletter each month, though the internet is making that easier and easier without cracking a book spine. We have a number of other full book cases around the house with 3 floor-to-ceiling such cases in our bedroom. Beth (Allen, WI Class of '70) sure loves our books.

Records do furnish a room. One day soon....E-bay here I come.

submitted by: Penny Christie Johnson (WI '60)
penem@nc.rr.com

Thanks for a very interesting issue of the Newsletter...
You receive the Volunteer of the YEARS award to lovingly do this each month...
Several of the guys mentioned Alden Humiston this month. Alden and his sister Margie lived two doors down from us. Miss Taylor lived in between...I just wonder if anyone knows where either one of them are. Margie had the most wonderful collection of Storybook Dolls in white boxes with pink polka dots on them....Anyway would love to get in touch with her if anyone knows where she might be.... Thanks

submitted by: Ron Gilmore (WI '72)
CactusRon@aol.com

Cody will begin his second semester at Glenville Monday January 12th. He worked at Toys R Us over the holidays. They liked him enough to offer work on weekends if he is willing to come home. Thanks again for the help.

I’m glad your newsletter had letters about Miss Nutter - she definitely was a WI legend.

Coach Marra who was not at WI nearly as long was a much loved coach and assistant principal. He kept a lot of the rougher kids in school with his tough love. At one time he had the longest consecutive win streak in the state at Ansted High in the southern part of the state, he came back to WI I believe because of a heart condition. He was just an assistant in several sports at WI. I played freshmen basketball for him and we would have run thru a wall for him.

submitted by: Pat Bacchus Wife of Danny Bacchus (WI '58)

Wonderful newsletter. I am always pleased to read this although I did not go to WI, I knew quite a few of these folks.

Thank you for finding out the name of the pizza shop across for the A&P for me. I spent many an hour in there, but had forgotten the name.

I would like to correct one of your "memories" articles though. The Central Restaurant located at the corner of 6th and Pike was owned by a Mirandi from North View not a Minard. I believe his first name was Jack, am not sure. The reason I am so fairly sure of this, I went to school with his brother Albert at Victory HS and Danny and I spent a lot of time in there after school when I stayed with my aunt on 6th Street. If you want confirmation of this Albert is now living back in Clarksburg and he can confirm this for you.

Thanks again for such a nice newsletter.

submitted by: Ron Gilmore (WI '72)
CactusRon@aol.com
I graduated in 1972. Our basketball team was 19 - 1 in regular season and then got upset in the first game of the sectionals. We were coached by Bob Schneider who was an all state selection at Victory who had a scholarship to WVU but finished at Salem College and was the conference leading scorer and all conference. His son played after me in the mid 70s and was the Player of the Year in the State while playing at WI. His name was Jeff. He played college ball at Virginia Tech and his dad went with him as a coach. Jeff received a tryout with several pro teams. He then became a coach and was an assistant at one time under Tubby Smith. Jeff now is one of the most respected evaluator of basketball talent in America. He conducts big time basketball tournaments all over the country with the best high school players in the country participating. He bases his operations out of Myrtle Beach. I attended a tournament with his father this past summer. All the big time college coaches were there to scout.

submitted by: Sharon Dillmore Smith (WI '58)
Shanangels@comcast.net

Can anyone identify any of the players in this picture from CJHS in 1952 or 1953?

submitted by: Bud Collins (WI '55)
KEMils@aol.com

This is a picture of CJHS basketball team 1949-50. If I remember right, we had a very good team.

1st row: #26 Bob Hart WI '55, #25 Herman Jones, middle with ball - Bud Collins WI '55, #24 Bob Cloussin WI '55, #27 Sam Snyder

Back Row: Ron Chartrand WI '55, Monk Junkins, Ed Westfall WI '55, Carl Hurley, Jim (Doc) Hutson WI '55.

WI-VICTORY FOOTBALL
submitted by: Freddie Layman (VHS '46)
FGL46VHS@aol.com

MY FIRST CAR
submitted by: Fred Alvaro (WI '59)
Falvaro33@aol.com
Our parents never owned a car. With three boys active in sports, we either hitch-hiked, walked or received rides with our friends' parents. I can recall the many times, while playing in Little League, I would walk up Lowndes Hill, over to Chestnut Hills, down to Hartland and across a railroad tressel to the Veterans Hospital baseball field. My first car was a 1950 Ford that I purchased for $50 from Mike Snyder the brother of Habie.

VIRGINIA NUTTER

Picture from 1937 yearbook

submitted by: Fred Alvaro (WI '59)
Falvaro33@aol.com
Miss Nutter was one of those teachers, like Mr. Gudekunst, whom you feared at the time but appreciated later. She was my Latin teacher and I did learn a lot that helped me in later years. By the way, I can still say Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Lord's Prayer in Latin. Also, 'Experientium est mater studiorum' translates to Experience is the mother of learning.

submitted by: Frances Tate Barrett (WI '50)
Flmom1cat4@roadrunner.com
I had Miss Nutter for English and now that I've read the Newsletter I find I'm not the only one who had these thoughts. What is wrong with her feet and is that her real hair? When I would be called up to the board and be standing behind her I would try to look down on the top of her head to see if it was real hair. I never saw her change her hair style. But did you notice she had a beautiful complexion and beautiful teeth? Also she was an excellent English teacher. I wish I would have been lucky enough to have her for Latin.

How many of you remember Mrs. Melody whom I had for Latin. I think she only had two suits which she alternated with different blouses. One suit was a rust color and the other was black. One of the students put cologne on her chair one time, she sat in it and that bleached a spot on the seat of her skirt. That spot stayed there the rest of the year. Evidently she didn't check her clothes or had them cleaned. I sat right by her desk and one time we had a test. Guess where she laid the paper with the test answers on it? Yup, right up on the corner of her desk. It was all I could to keep from peeking at it. Another time she was out of the room for a few minutes so some of the students threw some of her papers from off her desk out the window. When she came back we told her the wind blew them out the window, so she ask for volunteers to go outside and pick up the papers. No problem there, lots of volunteers. Her classroom was on the second floor off the front hallway so some of the papers ended up out in the street. It took a long time for all the students to pick up all the papers! I must have been in her class my senior year as I don't remember her being there only the one year. At this point in my life I admit to nothing and tell no names

EMILY TAYLOR

Picture from 1937 yearbook

submitted by: Arreta Radcliffe Jaranko (WI '40)
jjaranko@frontiernet.net
You suggested letters about Emily Taylor---well, I truly enjoyed her class and thought she was a wonderful person. I had her for English when I was a junior. She provided one memory that has never left me and that is the time she took me to Pittsburgh to see Katherine Hepburn on the stage in "The Philadelphia Story" . On the way there, we were caught in a terrible snowstorm which meant we had to stay overnight with her sister. We went to Isaly's Dairy for lunch and that was a new experience for me, too. And to think that later in my life after meeting the fellow who would be my husband I would learn that his brother was chief ice cream maker there and that I would enjoy their ice cream again and again.

submitted by: Roleta Smith Meredith (WI '59)
Roleta1@aol.com
I had Miss Emily Taylor for 2 years for English. She was a very good teacher…I can still recognize most of the parts of a sentence, can also still do some sentence diagramming…and of course, I remember a lot of the colors of the parts of speech….I can remember being so embarrassed when as a freshman I had to carry my 8 box of primary color Crayons around with me. And heaven forbid if one dropped someplace! Every upper classman would of course have a comment to make. But as we all knew, that was the way of life, when I became an upper classman, I am sure I made comments to the underlings too. But one thing is for sure, Emily could teach, no matter how we hated those crayons! And do you remember memorizing poetry for her class? We had to stand in front of the class and recite the lines….I think we earned so many points per line memorized. Trouble is, as hard as it was for me to memorize, it was that easy for me to forget… the process was memorize, recite and forget by the next day…so what good did that do? Also, those oral book reports! UGH! We had to read so many books from her selected reading list….”Classics”. I am a reader but Miss Taylor taught me to read slowly and look for those little hidden facts because she might ask about it. I remember needing a book and giving the oral book report for credit and I read “Oliver Twist”. I sat in that chair pulled up to the corner of her desk, I told her about the book and then she leafed thru the book and ask me questions….I failed the book report, skimmed it again, failed it again…I was determined, so I re-skimmed and reported the third time…(I certainly wasn’t going to reread that huge book and I wasn’t going to give up after I had read it! The third time was a charm, she passed me. Miss Taylor was my sophomore home room teacher also.. I liked Miss Taylor, she was always a fair teacher. I also think she liked me.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I am amazed that more didn’t respond about Miss Taylor.

CENTRAL RESTAURANT
submitted by: James Martin (WI '43)
jamesmartinjames@aol.com
The Central Restaurant was not owned by Minard Brothers, but Buddy Barile and brother in law Jack Merandi. It was my favorite Home from Home. When they were very busy I was ask to help out by being the cashier.

As to the four young lads in the photo, bottom left looks like Frankie Oliverio who markets OLIVERIO'S ITALIAN STYLE PEPPERS sold in all stores in this area including Krogers and Walmart.

Back to the 4 lads in photo...it was taken in Gus Photo Shop these facts are true as my first trade was a Sodajerk .

OBITUARIES
NANEARL H. (NAN) LOCHBAUM
Lochbaum, Nanearle H. (Nan), age 77, of Farragut, passed away January 6, 2009. She is survived by her loving family; husband, Robert; children, David, Holly and Gary; daughter-in-law, Kimberly; grandchildren, Adam and Nolan. They will sorely miss her. Since moving here in 1975 with her family, Nan made her home in Knoxville. Through her outgoing and friendly personality, she had made many friends who will also undoubtedly miss her. There will be a Celebration of Life at 2 p.m. on Wednesday January 14 in the Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel with Dr. George K. Preston officiating.

Published in:
Knoxville News-Sentinel this Sunday.

Note from: Tom Keenan
tpkeenan@verizon.net
Nan Hammel Lochbaum was a member of the Class of 1949. She married Robert (Bob) Lochbaum, also of the Class of '49, sometime after graduation. They had gone together all through high school and were devoted to each other for over 60 years. You never thought about one without thinking of the other as they were a great couple.

ALBERT CARL MAZZA

CLARKSBURG — Mr. Albert Carl Mazza, age 81, of 608 1/2 Clark Street, Clarksburg, WV, passed away at 5:30 a.m. Monday, January 12, 2009, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg following a very brief Illness.

He was born in Clarksburg, WV, April 20, 1927, a son of the late Frank Salvatore Mazza and Mary Marra Mazza.

Surviving are his wife, Violet Baker Mazza, whom he married December 27, 1952; two sons and daughters-in-law, Albert C. Mazza II and wife Karen, Mooresville, NC, and David R. and Tonia Mazza, Clarksburg, WV; two daughters and sons-in-law, Phyllis J. and Samuel J. Cann, Maple Lake, Bridgeport, WV, and Patricia and Mel Lind, Crescent Springs, KY; three brothers, Frank P. Mazza, Louis D. Mazza and Raymond A. Mazza, all of Clarksburg, WV; eight grandchildren, Sarah Cann, Sammy Cann and his wife Amanda, Rebekah Cann, Julia Cann, Laura Cann, Madison Mazza, Trey Mazza and Christian Mazza; two great-granddaughters, Isabel Gray Cann and Mazza Rae Cann; and several nieces and nephews.

Mr. Mazza was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. He was a graduate of Washington Irving High School — Class of 1945 and a graduate of Salem College — Class of 1953. He was a veteran of World War II, having served his country in the U.S. Army. He was a former member of the Columbian Club in Clarksburg. He had been employed as a carpenter and as an electrician for Frank Mazza and Sons

JERRY O. WYATT
CLARKSBURG — Jerry O. Wyatt, 65, of 1711 Hamill Avenue, Clarksburg, WV, died suddenly Thursday, January 15, 2009.

He was born April 20, 1943, in Clarksburg, WV.

Surviving are his wife, Karen McQuain Wyatt, whom he married June 21, 1963, and his mother, Beulah Shreve Wyatt, both of Clarksburg; one son, Jeremy O. Wyatt and his wife Shawna of Belpre, Ohio; two daughters, Heather Hilliard and her husband Kevin of Clarksburg, and Kelly Kline and her husband Richard of Charles Town, WV.

He also had five beloved grandchildren, Brock and Brooklyn Wyatt of Belpre, OH, Zachary, Quincy and Haley Hilliard of Clarksburg.

He was preceded in death by his father, Harry O. Wyatt.

He graduated from Victory High School in 1962. He was a local business owner for many years, owning and operating Quality Hearing until his retirement in 2000. He was a zealous member of the Clarksburg East congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Anmoore.

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