Trivia Questions
Answer: Melvin McClain
Answer: Charles Mann
Answer: Coach Buster Brown
Answer: I knew that Robert Howery was retired Air Force but did not know that Charles Brooks was retired USAF CIV as an environmental specialist.
Trivia #39 - How many members of the Future Nurses became nurses?
Answer: Anne Supler who was a nurse who specialized it taking care of patients with colostomies
Answer: The answer was Lucille Bird, Jack Johnson and Louise Gentry. Ed Wiley, who attended Concord after his military time remember Mr. Johnson and had a class taught by Mrs. Bird. He also had a class taught by our own Roger Bailey.
Answer: Mercer School was the site of East River High School and was built in 1912, the name was later changed to Princeton High School and moved to the Straley Ave. location where we attended the 9th grade.
Answer: I think maybe that first year (9th grade) we were a little overcome and just did not observe quite as much. In the 1956 annual Kelly Shutt is pictured as the assistant principal. I though he taught the algebra class that I had that year, maybe he did both. He was not with us when we moved to the new school, that is the year his wife started in the home education dept.
Answer: Shirley Barrett Anderson is the aunt of Judy Ellison Moulder
Trivia #33 - What member of our class was Miss
Answer: Kathy McManaway Epperly
Trivia #32 - There were a couple of places on
Answer: Did you remember the places mentioned in the question last week. Quite a few of you did, Suzy-Q was the answer most of you gave. If you remember there was a room at the back of the "small building" with a juke box and a lot of us went there to dance. The other place was the Ritz, it was on Mercer St. across for Leggett's and was owned by a city policeman (I think). It had a big room that we entered by a side entrance, booths we could sit in and a juke box. Not sure how long it was there but I do remember it. Some named the Tiger Den, I think that might have been closed about the same time we started to high school, remember it but do not think I was ever there.
Trivia #31 - Who in our class was a scientist for NASA and was chief of the division that dealt with material science experiments on manned space flights?
Answer: Lewis Lacy. Lewis lives in Texas now and is planning to attend the reunion.
Answer: From the class of 1959 the answer was Wanda Hughes, mother of Marilyn. From the class of 1958 it was Melvin McClain (ok, I know, he was the principal not a teacher) father of Steve McClain. The last one, class of 1956 was probably a little harder and required a little thought, the answer was Lucille Bird, mother of Charles Bird (a senior in 1956 and cousin of Anne Hundley).
Answers:
Tennis Ball - Mickey Belcher there is a story behind that name, I do not know the story but hope to find out.
Shep Cat - Lacy Shepherd from the annual "Last Will and Testament"
Utley - ME My middle name is Utley - a family name from Pennsylvania - someone found out in the 11th grade and started calling me Utley
Supie - Anne Supler
Shag - Marie Shaughnessy
Hot Rod - Rod Thorn
Tay - Wayne Taylor
Tank - Charles Thompson
Ambrose - Eddie Allen - again from the annual
Sticks - Ronnie Six - again from the annual and had to do with the three wearing white sports coats and black ties for their "band" in the Sr. Class Show
Answer: David "Clarkie" Higginbotham who was hit and killed by a drunk driver while on duty as a Washington, DC police officer on December 7, 1963.
Answer:Our 10th reunion was held at the Dinner Bell in Princeton on the Oakvale Road and the picture was taken across the road on the bank. The 20th and 30th were taken at the Holiday Inn, a short distance away from the Dinner Bell on the Oakvale Road. Both buildings have been torn down and Lowe's, Chili's and a bank now occupy that space. Our 35th was at Pipestem. The 40th and 45th were at "The Club", the old Elks building and it has now been closed. All of the reunion pictures are posted on our website and some have the names with them.
Answer Pending...
Answer: Nicknames for the teachers, I am sure we all had our own names for some of the teachers. One e-mailed that they always called Miss Kane the "old battle ax", I always hear her called Killer Kane and quite a few sent that name in. Another nickname was Bugs for Miss Carpenter. I still call Coach Brown "Coach" when I see him (every week in church) because he coached most of the sports at the high school when we were there.
Answer: A number of years ago Princeton High School started an Academic Hall of Fame (it was started in all high schools I think). The criteria for becoming a member is not only academic achievements but service to Princeton and the high school. Rod Thorn was the first of our class to inducted and I am not sure what year that was. The year Gail Rector retired she was inducted, Gail spent most of her teaching career at PHS. The last of our class to be inducted was Ron Bailey a couple of years ago. Ron through his foundation (Bailey Family Foundation) has been giving scholarships to PHS for over 10 years and about 5 years ago included the 3 other high schools and 2 colleges in his program. I have not counted the number of pictures on the wall at the high school but I do believe our class has the most members.
Answer: 3, 1948 (Bob Coker even sent me the list of players on that team), 1979 and 1981. I attended the game in 1981 with my sons. We went upstate to Morgantown when we were juniors and lost the first game. The next year we lost to Beckley in the regional.
Trivia #21 - How many members of the Future Teachers of America became teachers? How many teachers are in our class? Can you name them?
Answer: The ones from the picture were Wayne Taylor(was a college professor), Alwlida Phelps Stephenson, Marilyn Hughes Remonko*, Dorothy Belcher Deeb, Patti Booker Askew, Marsha Bowling Hunt and Brenda Gillespie Husemann. Other members of our class who became teachers are: Roger Bailey*, Ron Bailey*, Mickey Belcher, Joyce Brock Henthorn, Carmen Charbonneau Dees, Janet Eggleston*, John Harvey*, Peggy Prentice Howery, Patty Lockley Giampocaro, Kathy McManaway Epperly*, James Parks*, Gail Rector, and Mason Worrell. The ones with the * after them taught on the college level. If I have left anyone out please let me know.
Answer: The answer was Ann Hundley, most of us who knew her were not aware that she had taken clown training.
Answer: The tallest person in our class is Mickey Belcher, who is 6' 7'' inches tall. Mickey stated that he was close to if not a little taller than Rod Thorn in high school and grew several inches after graduation. Mickey retired from Princeton High School and is still active in the Gideon's and sings in the choir at First United Methodist Church in Princeton.
Trivia #18 - There is at least one lawyer in our class, he later became a judge. Can you name him?
Answer: Edwin Wiley was a local lawyer for a number of years before he became a Family Court Judge, retiring this past year.
Our ministers are: Ronnie Rumburg, Larry Repass, Dana Hambrick, Gary Fowler and for several years Richard Stephenson server as a supply minister for the Methodist Church. In one e-mail Keith Farley (passed away last year) was also named as a minister.






#16 - What three members of our class are teachers who taught at Princeton High School?
Answer: Gail Rector (spent most of her teaching career at PHS), Mickey Belcher (was there quite a few years) both of them retired from PHS and Alwilda Phelps Stephenson who taught there in the late 70's and early 80's.
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Answer: I feel sure with the question last week, the first thought was Bonnie and Connie Roberts, our twins. There were 7 more sets of siblings in our class: Larry and Lillian King, Gary and Gay Davis, Buddy and Jane Gooch, Richard and Neva Godfrey, Richard and John Flanigan, Carl and Shirley Donley and Marvin and Barbara Ayers.
Answer: Queen Patti Booker Askew with escort Mark Whittaker, Maid of Honor Brenda Gillespie Husemann with escort Rod Thorn and Senior Attendant Mary Jane Jackson Rorrer with escort Ron Thomason. Patti sent an e-mail about the memories it brought back. Ron Thomason remembered all of the rain we had that day and the mud bowl the game was played in.
Answers: The couples were: Patti Booker and Paul Askew, Geraldine Smith and John Coles, the late Arbutus Gillespie and Gary Davis, Becky Meador and Gary Fowler, Alwilda Phelps and Richard Stephenson and the couple that married after the 35th reunion, Peggy Prentice and Robert Howery. I also received the answer of Gypsy Shumate and Fred Blankenship and Gerri Johnson and Ronnie Courtney. As far as we know all of the couples are still married.
Answers: Dale Bailey was Ron Bailey's uncle, Oscar Dishner is the uncle of Henry Stovall and Wilma Bowling is Fred Bowing’s aunt.
Answer: Bailey...Bernard, Dale, Mary Louise, Roger, Ronnie, and on the last page of our pictures Delores.