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Featuring: The Nall
Sisters: Frances, Annette, and Daisy on Pensacola Beach!
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Corn
at right!!!
Courtesy of Les Beasley
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Frances and Les
Beasley:
Frances, Daisy's
sister, is the Matriarch of the Family. They have four daughters, Belinda,
Debbie, Theresa, and Elaine, and two sons, Mike and Clarke. Clarke
Beasley is the noted Gospel Music Impresario. They have 13 grandchildren and
3 great grandchildren.
Les is the legendary Lead singer and Manager of the
Florida Boys, the
Nation's premier Gospel Music group. Les has been inducted into the
Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
For a spectacular, dazzling FLASH web display visit the Official
Web Site of the Florida Boys and click
on Flash Site. Not only is Les a musical legend but
he is a gentleman of liberal
education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of
personal honor.
Left:
Who's that guy with Les Beasley of the Florida Boys?
Why it's none other than Bill Gaither!!
Gaither
Christmas Taping: See all the Gospel Greats!
Tribute to Glen Payne:
1926-1999. Lead Singer of The Cathedrals.
The Florida Boys
Solid Gospel: Legendary Gospel Quartet.
Tribute to Rex
Nelon: 1932-2000.
WWW.GaitherNet.Com:
Clarke Beasley:
At
left is the Executive Board of the National Quartet Convention. Executive
Director is Clarke Beasley, front row, center. To his left is his Father Les
Beasley President of the Convention and also of the Southern Gospel Music
Association. The NQC is headquartered in
Louisville, Kentucky but sponsors conventions nationwide and in Canada.
Annette and Riley Mixson:
Annette,
also Daisy's sister, lives with her husband Riley in San Diego, California.
Riley is a retired Admiral. In the Navy he held major commands including CO, USS
Midway and Commander, Red Sea
Task Force during Desert Storm. His Flagship, USS John F. Kennedy, may be seen
on the Navy
Links Page. At retirement, he was Director of Air Warfare. Not only is Riley a
hot pilot, outstanding ship handler, and natural leader of men, but he is a gentleman of
liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal
honor. Riley's current main interest is as Executive Director of the
USS Midway Project that is
bringing this great ship home to San Diego, a fitting tribute to the most
decisive
naval battle in history!
Bob Milligan: A
Fulfilled Promise!
Bob Milligan spent 8 years in politics without being a politician. When he was
elected Comptroller of the State of Florida 8 years ago, he vowed to separate
the regulation of the financial industry from the politicians who seek its
campaign contributions. Read how he did it in a
St. Petersburg Times Editorial. Read the
biography of this
retired Marine Lt. General.
Carl
Vuono MHS-52, West Point-1957, and Chief
of Staff, U.S. Army.
JCS May90
The success of Carl Vuono is
best expressed with one statement: He rose to the
position once held by a Uniontown native, General George C. Marshall!!!
Carl Edward Vuono: Biography with
Portrait by Ned Bittinger. Small version shown above.
General Carl E. Vuono:
Collected Works of the Army's Thirty-first Chief of Staff.
General
Colin Powell: Thayer Award Acceptance Speech. Carl was General Powell's
mentor.
For an incisive review of the use of force during the Panama and Iraq Actions, read
The
Commanders by Bob Woodward, the most distinguished investigator reporter of our
time.
MPRI Web Site: Carl
E. Vuono, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Old Wars, New Weapons:
The Lessons From IRAQ!
Operation Desert Shield:
XVIII Airborne Corps Chronology.
Lou Sepe:
MHS-51
Monongahela High School's Man For All Seasons!
Mr. Versatility, Lou
Sepe shown above as Quarterback, Point Guard, and as Banjo
in the School Play "The Man Who Came To Dinner". He also played Third Base and
Minor League Baseball for 5 years. He was the renowned Football and Basketball
Coach at
Monongahela Valley Catholic High School
and Claysville
McGuffey
High
School
for
many years. Lou was the Team Leader of every team on which he played.
He was also an Honors Student. See the
Gallery Page for his teams. See
Lou in Florida.
Lou and his lovely bride Maria are shown at his
MHS-51 50th Reunion.
For BroadBand Users, Lou dedicates
If Ever I
Would Leave You to
Maria .
As a special favor to his fans, Lou has volunteered to MC the next
MonValley Florida Reunion
to be held in Largo Florida on 22 February 2003.
Bella
Maria De Mi Alma Lou is is a gentleman of
liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense
of personal honor.
Captain John and Patty Mileski Allen:
MHS-58/61
Monongahela High School's Blue Angel!
Click for a special page devoted to John and Patty!
Joe Montana Links:
Debbie
Miller's Award-Winning Joe Montana Site: "My Tribute to Joe
Montana,
the NFL's
greatest Quarterback of all time!" - Debbie Miller. This
site is a MUST
for all of Joe's fans. Debbie
links to the Unofficial Joe Montana Fan Club.
Retirement Night:
From San Jose Mercury Center: Click on "A fond farewell".
Super Bowl XXIV: Joe
threw 5 touchdown passes, a new Super Bowl record!
Super Bowl XIX:
He passed for a Super Bowl-record 331 yards
in this game!
San Francisco 49ers: Team Facts
Joe's Place:
Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction: 29 July 2000.
No Ordinary Joe:
A look at Joe's 15-year Professional Career!
Bob and Linda Curcio
Bob Curcio spends much of his time chronicling
the history of his hometown, Monongahela, Pa. He has become particularly adept at scanning
photos for his friends to publish in E-Mails and on Web Site. As an Ex-Marine, he has
become an advocate of honoring his fellow serviceman. The first photo shows
Bob and his lovely wife Linda as they celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary. It lights
up the page! The photo in the middle shows Linda and co-workers from the
McKeesport Daily News with the
original Stanley Cup. The thumbnail photo at right
shows Bob with one of his best friends General Carl Vuono, U.S. Army (Retired).
The photo was taken when the General was Army Chief of Staff. Click
for Bob's Slide Show "There's No Place Like Home".
Deirdre Bair (Delores (Dee)
Bartolotta)
Literary Scholar and Journalist Deirdre Bair (PHD, Columbia
U.) has
written three major biographies that have won national acclaim:
Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and The Secret Life of Anais Nin.
Becket and Anais Nin each gained her a National Book award.
Dee has been a Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, Penn, and Columbia.
She currently is under commission on her fourth biography: Carl G. Jung which
will appear later this year. Following are some related links:
Photo by Jerry Bauer.
Jung: A Biography by
Deirdre Bair
In JUNG: A BIOGRAPHY
(Little, Brown and Company; November 13, 2003) Deirdre Bair - the eminent
scholar who won the National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett -
brings readers the full groundbreaking story of one of the most influential,
controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.
Vincent J. Bartolotta, Jr.
Brother of Deirdre Bair, Vince
is a founding partner of Thorsnes,
Bartolotta, & McGuire Law Firm in San Diego, California.
Vince matriculated at Pitt on a Full Soccer Scholarship.
He was selected as All-American and First-Alternate on the 1968
Olympic Soccer Team and then coached the Freshman Team while at
Pitt Law School. Vince is a Viet Nam Veteran attaining the rank of
Major, USMC. His humanitarian endeavors include: Chairman of
St. Vincent de Paul, Director, American Ireland Fund, and sponsorship
of a clinic in Tijuana.
Read more about Vince Bartolotta and why his peers regard him as one of the Nations's Outstanding Trial Lawyers at his firm's Web Site.
Photo courtesy of
Thorsnes,
Bartolotta, & McGuire.
Betsy Oehrle
Betsy is a Professor of Music at University of Natal, Durban in South Africa.
Shown at left in a contemporary photo, she has the same captivating smile that
charmed her fellow students at MHS. See the below photo taken with one of her
best friends, Marilyn Mitchell. Betsy sends "best regards to all old dear
friends".
Visit the below links to see what she's been doing.
Resume. Albert Schweitzer
has nothing on Betsy!!!
Calling Americans Travelling to South
Africa.
African Projects: Reference in a
Netherlands Paper about UKUSA!
Initiated in 1988, UKUSA is one of
the most successful community arts projects
in South Africa. Find out about NETIEM and Talking Drum!
Jim and Marilyn (Mitchell) Baroffio
MHS
50
Jim
Baroffio is the
Retired President of Chevron, Canada.
He and Marilyn now live in Moraga,
California.
Jim earned a bachelor's degree in geology at The College of Wooster, Ohio, and a
master's degree at Ohio State University. He later earned a doctorate in geology
and a minor in civil engineering at the University of Illinois. In 1999 he and his
wife, the former Marilyn Mitchell, established the
THE JAMES R.
BAROFFIO FUND FOR GEOLOGIC RESEARCH at Jim's alma mater
The College of Wooster of Ohio.
In 1986, Wooster named Jim
Distinguished Alumni of the Year. Ohio State U:
James R.
Baroffio Fellowship.
Ron and Martha (Myers)
Necciai
MHS 50 and
MHS 53
Ron
and Martha Necciai are a Class Act! They live in Monongahela in the summer and
spend the winter on Anna Maria Island off the southwest coast of Florida. Ron
still breaks par golf.
Ron
is a partner in Hays, Necciai & Associates, a hunting and fishing
equipment supplier in Charleroi. In February of 1955 he married his high school
sweetheart, Martha Myers. He was a three-sport star at MHS but it was baseball
that made him a legend as Rocket Ron, a professional baseball pitcher with a
blazing fastball in the upper nineties! Read the links below about his career,
especially the game in which he set a professional baseball pitching record for
strikeouts in one game: 27!!
Ron
Necciai: The Man who struck out everybody!
Blue Ridge Country Network
Remembering Rocket Ron: By Baseball Writer Jerome Holtzman.
Mid MonValley All Sports Hall of
Fame: 1996
Johnny
Dalkowski's Minor League Hall of Fame.
Photo
Gallery.
Ron Necciai's Record
with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
See Ron with his classmates at their 50th Reunion.
See Martha on the Florida Page.
Lee and Barbara (Morris)
McCormick, Charleroi HS-51 and MHS-52.
Lee McCormick, M.D.: Shown with
wife Barbara above,
Lee is a past President of the
Pennsylvania Medical Society and
Medical Director of McCormick Medical Associates, which
has offices in Carrick, Jefferson and Bethel Park in suburban Pittsburgh. The practice consists of 25 family primary care providers
& specialists including a
hospitalist. Lee matriculated at
Washington & Jefferson and earned his M.D. from Pitt. Barbara was
a cheerleader at MHS. At the Senior Prom, she was escorted by Future General Carl Vuono
shown above.
Rich Furiga
New Eagle's
Finest!!!!
Rich and Sam went to Monongahela High School together and also were in the
same Company of the Brigade of Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland. Rich, whose nickname at Navy was Pierre, was very popular
and was the starting Catcher on the Navy Baseball Team. He attended the Navy
PostGraduate Program and won an advanced degree in Petroleum Management. He
retired after a very successful Naval Career and started his second career with the
Department of Energy. He now is one step below a cabinet-level position as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Surfing through the DOE
Web Site is a very interesting experience. Below are some links to get you started:
Dept. Of Energy Home Page: Bill
Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
DOE SPR Home Page: Rich's Home
Page at the DOE Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Remarks to
Congressional Committee: Rich frequently is called to the Hill to discuss
the SPR. This presentation includes
a photo of Rich.
Fossile Energy
Organization: Rich's Organization Chart in the Fossil Energy Division.
DOE Brochure
on SPR: A fascinating guide to the background and operation of
the SPR. The crude oil is stored in salt
caverns the size of New York's WTC.
Statistics
on World Petroleum: Petroleum Information at a glance.
Hank Jordan
Hank was in the same USNA Company with Rich
Furiga and Sam. He served in submarines, retired from the Navy and now has
his own investment counseling business in suburban Baltimore. Hank is an
accomplished pianist, having taught himself to play at an early age. Like Irving
Berlin, who also played by ear, Hank played all music in one of two keys: C:
white keys, or F#, black keys. In his later years, Hank has studied music on his
own and now plays and composes music in all keys. One of his compositions,
"All Things Beautiful And Good", was the favorite hymn of
John Cardinal O'Connor
when he served in the Baltimore Arch-Diocese.
He took it with him to New York and it became the hymn most played at
St.
Patrick's Cathedral. Hank performs regularly at hospitals and hospices
in the Baltimore area. Sometimes he is joined by his daughter, Jennifer, who is
Cantor at Shrine Of The Sacred Heart
and Soloist at
Cathedral of May Our Queen.
Rosary WorkShop.Com:
Click here for Sam's concession after Election
2000: SWING!!
Reggie Thurlow
Reggie Thurlow, shown here with his wife Trish, is a retired Chief
Radioman(SS), USN, who was Sam's shipmate in USS Clamagore (SS 343). After
retiring in 1974, he became an entrepreneur and developed several businesses
before he moved to Crystal River, Florida as President and CEO of
RCR Controls, Inc., specializing in
regulator and recloser control repair. He is also the bestselling author of The
Homeworker's Secret Guide
To Employment. The photo shows them by their plane which they use on
frequent business trips. Trish and Reggie are shown at right with Sam during
their visit to St. Pete Beach to transact a site for the
USS Grenadier (SS 525) reunion in October
2001. Reggie maintains an active lifestyle by competing in Running and
Tri-Athletic Events on Florida's West Coast. Reggie and Sam reminisced about
their Clamagore shipmates especially George (Izzy) Israel, Al Dworsky, George
Brown, Charlie Russell, and Don Stieff (who ended up
in Leavenworth)!