"BE HAPPY-GO WACKY" - 51st Calhoun Alumni Gathering At Arnoldsburg
About 250 former graduates of Calhoun County High School attended the 31st Alumni Reunion in Arnoldsburg, recalling class mottoes from "Onward and Upward" to "Be Happy-Go Wacky."
The group had a meeting recognizing certain classes followed by a luncheon and min-reunions.
Organizers are saying this could be the last reunion with a lack of volunteer support, a number of the longtime supporters have died and others say they are unable to work on the project.
Most of the time was spent reuniting and talking about
school days at the old high school, closed in 1998
Paul Bailey and wife Leah of Tariff WV, he being a graduate of the Class of 1944
Jean Kelley Miller of the class of 1941 and husband Odus
James Bell, longtime Calhoun civic volunteer, of the Class of 1946
CLASS OF 1968 (Front L-R) Karen Lydick Crawford, Connie
Cheesebrew Raber, Sharon Butler Settle, Lola Tucker Butler
(Back L-R) Dennis (Mike) Crawford, Allen Postalwait, Dick
Ullum, Lola Marks Clark, Anna Lou McKee Wilson, Bob Stalnaker,
Loretta Hathaway Propst, Dave Cottrell, Ernest Williams,
Brenda Walker Swisher, Roger Jarvis, Danny Jarvis
CLASS OF 1958 (Front L-R) David Edsel Arnold, Joseph Larry
Francis, Ernest Blair Stone, Jr., Roberta Offutt Wilson,
Dottie Rose Radabaugh, Ronzil Lynch (Back-L to R) Ralph E.
Murphy, Mary Jarvis Parsons, Jackie Betts, Betty Yoak McVaney,
Jack Barnes, JoAnn Propst Stevens (Not shown Oren Ward and Bob Weaver)
Unable to attend at the last minute was Virginia Long Haynes, who fell at O'Hare Airport in Chicago making the trip back, seriously injuring herself, and Alice Haddox Harold and Leota Kight Grimm, who was suffering illnesses.
CLASS OF 1966 (Front L-R) Nancy Roberts Yoak, Genieva
Tingler Glover, Jean Muncy Simers and Vivian Freed Dye
(Back L-R) Bob Yoak, David Crawford and Louise Cox Rose
CLASS OF 1963 (L to R) Diane Yoak, Janet Shartiger
Hastewell, Judy Shock Morton, Walter Cain, Denzil McCumbers