Good Morning, Class of '64
I can't believe how much I enjoyed seeing these folks, for unexpected and stereotype-disrupting reasons. "Nostalgia" and "the good old days" and other such words and phrases simply don't capture it.
My friend Malcolm, who went to his big five-oh a year ago, said to me afterward, "There's something very spiritual about a high school reunion.
It's about life and death."
(to read more go here:
Surely, I can't look that old!
While sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist, I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name.
Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?
Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Waseca high school.
"Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a Bluejay," he beamed with pride.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1959. Why do you ask?"
"You were in my class!" I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely. Then, that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat ass, gray-haired, decrepit SOB asked,
"What did you teach?"
Once Upon a Time
Robert Goulet - 1964
Program Guide
for the
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964's
50th Class Reunion
The Old Tygarts Valley
High School Building – Mill Creek, WV
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964
50th Class Reunion
August 9-10, 2014
Inside Cover:
Tygarts Valley High School Alma Mater
1.
Close beside the Tygarts waters
Of historic fame
Stands our dear old Alma Mater
Glorious her name.
2.
Nestled in a quiet hamlet,
Neath the azure blue,
Sends she forth her sons and daughters
Loyal, loving, true.
3.
Fondly in our memories resting
Happy gladsome days
Still to thee dear Tygarts valley
Offer we our praise
CHORUS
Lift the chorus
Send it onward
Loud her praises ring
Hail to Thee
Dear Tygarts Valley
Hail all hail we sing
The Old Tygarts Valley High School Building
Page One:
Welcome to the
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964’s
50th Class Reunion
Graduation Date
May 29, 1964
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50th Reunion Date
August 9-10, 2014
Page Two:
TVHS Class of 1964
Principal
R. W. Schoonover
Class Advisers: Robert Bell, Charles Poe, Freda Dumire
William Alexander Margaret Gear Delbert Salisbury
Dariel Arbogast Denny Gibson Linda Scott
Gary Arbogast Elaine Gum Larry See
Kayleen Arbogast Jerry Haddix Mary Shiflett
Randall Arbogast Charlotte Hannah Virginia Shoulders
Delores Armstrong Leon Hardman Sharon Shreve
Jean Barrickman Delbert Harris Peggy Simmons
Diane Bennett Kenneth
Harris Sharon Simmons
Sondra Bennett Sheryl Hawkins Dianne
Smith
Pamela Beverage Benny Hinzman Faye
Smith
Linda Brown Ralph Hogan Frances Snelson
Patty Brown Mary Ellen
Ice John Snelson
Anna Casto Richard Judy Charles Stalnaker
Ray Chaney Faye Kenney Dale Strawder
Brenda Channell Jane Ketterman John Sutton
Franklin Channell Sandra Kiess Robert Swecker
Gary Channell David Knight Gail Tacy, Jr.
Rodney Channell Richard Light Robert Tacy
John Collett Patricia McCauley Robert
Teter
Lloyd Conrad Danny
McCloud Rodger
Wamsley
Bill Cool Paula Pnakovich Fred Ware
George Coussoule Hazel Pritt Judith Ware
Rebecca Cox Glen Rader Newton
Ware
Beverly Currence Leon Rennix Ettie Wegman
Reuben Currence Faye Riggleman Polly Williams
Sharon Fincham Loretta Rosencrance Thomas
Zirkle
William Doner Chris Ritter
William Doner Chris Ritter
Page Three:
Saturday Schedule
(Schedule is Flexible)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Registration and Meet & Greet
4:30pm – 4:35pm Welcome
– Fred Ware, Jr.
4:35pm – 4:45pm
Memorial Program
Glen Rader
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Military Recognition
Book Presentation
Larry See
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Dinner
Blessing, Larry See
6:00pm – 6:30pm Award
Presentations
6:30pm – 7:30pm Auction
7:30pm – 8:00pm Class
Meeting
8:00pm – 9:00pm Social
Hour
Sunday Morning Breakfast
8:00am
C&J’s
Valley Bend, West Virginia
Page Four:
C&J’s
Valley Bend, West Virginia
Page Four:
Tygarts Valley High School
Fight Song
Tygarts Valley, Tygarts Valley
Tygarts Valley High
We have the courage
And the spirit
That will never die
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Red and White Team!
Red and White Team!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight for your royal colors,
Red and White
Fight! Fight!
Page Five:
TVHS Class of 1964
Class Meeting Agenda
1. Appreciation
2. Reminders
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. Dispersal of Funds
5. Website – Facebook
6. Next Get Together
7. Dismissal Prayer - Glen Rader
Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I’ll miss you
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I’ll miss you
until we meet again!
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
Page Six:
Military Veterans
*Bill Alexander - Army
**Randall Arbogast - Army
**Dariel Arbogast - Army
*Ray Chaney - Army
Rodney Channell - Air Force
*John Collett - Army
*Lloyd Conrad – Army, Navy
**Bill Cool - Army, Navy
*George Coussoule - Army
**Jerry Haddix - Army
**Kenneth Harris - Army
**Ralph Hogan - Air Force
*David Knight – Army
David Matthew - Army
**Glen Rader - Army
Leon Rennix - National Guard
**Chris Ritter - Army
**Delbert Salisbury - Army
*Larry See - Army
**John Snelson - Army
**Charles Stalnaker - Army
**Bob Tacy - Army
**Robert Teter - Army
Roger Wamsley - Marines
**Fred Ware - Army
**Newton Ware - Army
**Tom Zirkle - Army
**Vietnam Veteran *Foreign Service
Page Seven:
Deceased Class Members
Randall Warren Arbogast
Shirley Jean Barrickman Zavatsky
Mervin Ray Chaney
Lloyd Conrad
Margaret Gear Steinwuck
Kenneth Lynn Harris
Benny Hinzman
David James Knight
Joyce Faye Riggleman Collier
Loretta Jewell Rosencrance Matthew
Dale Edward Strawder
Polly Ann Williams Channell
Our joys will be greater
Our love will be deeper
Our lives will be fuller
Because we shared your moment
Page Eight:
Our love will be deeper
Our lives will be fuller
Because we shared your moment
Page Eight:
Someday many years from now
We'll sit beside the candles glow
Exchanging tales about our past
And laughing as the memories flow
And when that distant day arrives
I know it will be understood
That friendship is the key to live
And we were friends, and it was good.
Eileen Hehl
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
Author Unknown
Page Nine:
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964
50th Class Reunion
Planning Committee
Gary & Ladonna Arbogast
Gary & Carolyn (Corley) Channell
George Coussoule
Janet (Kittle) McCloud
Judy (Ware) Primavera
Larry See
Bob Tacy
Fred & Patricia (McCauley) Ware
Page Ten:
Back on its golden hinges
the gate of Memory swings,
and my heart goes into the garden
And walks with the olden things.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I am old enough to see how little
I have done in so much time, and
how much I have to do in so little.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
Page Eleven:
The Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964
would like to thank the following
businesses or individuals for their
contributions in making
1964’s 50th Class Reunion
a memorable occasion:
C & J’s Restaurant
Davis Trust Company Bank
Ketterman Creations
Mountain Valley Bank
Nationwide Insurance Company
Rebecca Cox Magee
Rich Tryon
Methinks I see the wanton hours
flee,
and as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
George Villiers
and as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
George Villiers
Page Twelve:
from Those Were the Days
Those were the days, my friend.
We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we choose.
We'd fight and never lose.
We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we choose.
We'd fight and never lose.
For we were young and
sure to have our way.
…Those were the days, oh,
…Those were the days, oh,
yes, those were the days.
Sometimes you don't realize how good the
good old days were until they're
gone.
Author Unknown
Inside Back Cover:
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964
50th Class Reunion
Tygarts Valley Fire Hall
Dailey, West Virginia
Meal Prepared by the Ladies Auxiliary
The Future is something which
everyone
reaches at the rate of sixty
minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
https://www.facebook.com/TVHSclassof64
Back Cover:
Tygarts Valley High School
Class of 1964
50th Class Reunion
August 9-10, 2014
Happy Trails to you
until we meet again.
Happy Trails to you -
keep Smiling until then.
Dale Evans Rogers
Old age is when former classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don't recognize you.
Let's put it this way:
there wouldn't be much point in me attending a
high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd
struggle to raise a quorum.
Clint Eastwood
Celebration - Carolee Clark |
He was a widower and she a widow. They had known each other for a number of years being high school classmates and having attended class reunions over the last 20+ years without fail.
This anniversary of their class the widower and the widow made a foursome with two other singles.
They had a wonderful evening, their spirits high, the widower throwing admiring glances across the table. The widow smiling coyly back at him.
Finally, he picked up courage to ask her,
"Will you marry me?"
After about six seconds of careful consideration,
she answered, "Yes, yes I will!"
The evening ended on a happy note for the widower. But the next morning he was troubled. Did she say "Yes" or did she say "No?" He couldn't remember. Try as he would, he just could not recall. He went over the conversation of the previous evening, but his mind was blank. He remembered asking the question, but for the life of him could not recall her response. With fear and trepidation he picked up the phone and called her.
First, he explained that he couldn't remember as well as he used to. Then he reviewed the past evening. As he gained a little more courage, he then inquired of her, "When I asked if you would marry me,
did you say 'Yes' or did you say 'No?'"
"Why you silly man, I said, 'Yes. Yes I will.'
And I meant it with all my heart."
The widower was delighted. He felt his heart skip a beat.
Then she continued.
"And I am so glad you called because
I couldn't remember who asked me!"
Behind the Scenes
The Evening Before - Decorating
An elderly classmate, very well dressed, hair well groomed, great looking suit, flower in his lapel smelling slightly of a good after shave, presenting a well looked after image, walks into an upscale cocktail lounge.
Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady. The gentleman walks over, sits along side of her, orders a drink, takes a sip, turns to her and says,
"So tell me, do I come here often?"
The Way We Were
Doris Day
Reunion reveals friendship potential that
haven't yet been emerged in the past.
Toba Beta
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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