Click Here  for Some Reunion Ideas
Also, see our  WHS Gift Ideas page for some terrific door prizes
Read a nice reunion poem Here
Links to Reunion Photos are Listed Here

Looking for a place in McDowell County to have dinner with a few of your  high school friends?
Why not try The Elkhorn Inn?


 
LINKS TO WEB SITES FOR PAST & UPCOMING REUNIONS FOR STUDENTS OF
WELCH HIGH SCHOOL

If you're hesitant about attending your upcoming reunion, please take a minute to read this message posted on our Message Board:
"We attended our 50th Class reunion along with the Classes of 54 & 55, at Pipestem in WV last weekend. What a glorious weekend! The weather was gorgeous (warm days and cool nights) and seeing all my old classmates for the first time since 1953 was priceless. I recognized quite a few and surprisingly some recognized me! From our Friday night get-together to the Memorial Service on Sunday morning, everything was perfect thanks to all the hard work of Bob & Anita Martin and their committee members. We had so much fun recalling all the memories from our youth and some sad moments remembering those classmates that have gone on before us. I was so "puffed up" from the weekend, I didn't even mind the rain on the way home on Sunday. If there is any doubt in your mind about attending your class reunion, please go - you won't be disappointed. I will carry the fond memories of this weekend in my heart forever."  Liz (Burton) Drees, Class of  '53
(Liz passed away December 2004)

Click the links for past reunions to view related photos.


Upcoming Reunions:

WHS 70s Reunion
July 17-18, 2015

Click link for more information


Please contact me at dskuja@yahoo.com if you want your upcoming WHS reunion listed here.



Past Reunions:

WHS Class of 1964 50th Anniversary Reunion
(Pipestem, WV -- August 8-10, 2014)


Fabulous Fifties Reunion for WHS Classes of 1950-1960
(Pipestem, WV -- October 11-13, 2013)

Call Ron Thompson at 434-971-3560 for more information


WHS Class of 1962 50th Anniversary Reunion
 (June 1 & 2, 2012)
 
Sensational Sixties Reunion
(July 22-23, 2011)

Kimball Kids Reunion
(July 9-11, 2010)


WHS Class of 1959 Fiftieth Reunion
(September 18-20, 2009)
Contact Carolyn Sharousky Donchatz at donchatzc@bellsouth.net for details


Kimball Kids Reunion
(July 10-12, 2009)

WHS Sassy Classes of the Forties
(October 14-16, 2008)


WHS Class of 1973 35th Anniversary
(October  12, 2008)

WHS Class of 1953 55th Anniversary
(October 3-4, 2008)

WHS Class of 1958 - 50th Anniversary
(September 21-23, 2008)


WHS Class of 1952
(August  22-23, 2008)


Sensational Sixties Reunion

for students of 1960-1969 WHS classes
(August 1-2, 2008)

Kimball Kids Reunion
(July 11, 2008)

Hemphill/Capels Jr. High School Reunion
(June 21, 2008)

WHS 40s Reunion
(October 16-18, 2007)

Fabulous Fifties Reunion
for students of 1955-1960 WHS classes
(October 11-14, 2007)

Kimball Kids Reunion
(July 6-7, 2007)

Hemphill/Capels Jr. High School Reunion
(June 16, 2007) 

WHS Alumni and Friends Picnic

(June 23, 2007)  

WHS Classes of the Forties
(October 19-12, 2006)

WHS Class of 1953
(October 6-8, 2006)

WHS Class of 1952
(September 8-9, 2006)

WHS Class of 1956
(June 23-25, 2006)

Hemphill/Capels Jr. High School Reunion
(June 19, 2006)

Lost in the 50's Reunion
for students of the 1953-1955 WHS classes
(October 21-23, 2005)

WHS Class of 1960
(October 14-16, 2005)

WHS Classes of the Forties
(October 4-6, 2005)

Sensational Sixties
for ALL students who attended WHS in the sixties
(August 19-20, 2005)

Hemphill/Capels Jr. High School Reunion
(June 18, 2005)

WHS 70s Reunion
for students who attended WHS 1968-1978
(June 10-11, 2005)

WHS Class of 1959
(April 29-May 1, 2005)

WHS Classes of the Forties
(October 5-7, 2004)
 

Fabulous Fifties Reunion
for students of 1955-1960 WHS classes
(October 1-3, 2004)
 

WHS Classes of 1949, 1950 and 1951
(September 17-19, 2004)

Hemphill/Capels Jr. High School Reunion
(August 6-8, 2004)
 

All-WHS Alumni Picnic
(July 24, 2004 - for ALL former WHS students)

WHS Class of 1964-- 40th Anniversary
(June 25-26,  2004)

WHS Picnic
for all former WHS students
(August 16, 2003)

Hemphill/Capels Junior High School
for ALL former Hemphill/Capels students
(August 9, 2003)

WHS Class of 1956
(June 20-22, 2003)

Maryland Area WHS Students
(May 21, 2003)

Sensational Sixties
(June 21-22, 2002)

Fabulous Fifties Reunion
(for students of WHS classes from 1955-1960
 October 5-7, 2001)

Cookout for ALL Former WHS Students
(June 23, 2001)

WHS Class of 1969
 (06/17/01 update:  This reunion has been cancelled)

WHS Classes of  '62, '63 & '64
(June 8-9, 2001)

WHS Class of 1956
(June 1-3, 2001)

Cruise for ALL Former WHS Students
(May 21-25, 2001)

 WHS Class of 1955
(October 6-8, 2000)

WHS Class of 1960
(October 13-15, 2000)

WHS Golden Anniversary Reunion
(June 16-18, 2000 for WHS 1949, 1950 & 1951 classes)

WHS 70s Reunion
(for students of WHS classes from 1968-1978
 June 30-July 2, 2000)

WHS Class of 1954
(September 17-19, 1999)

 SENSATIONAL SIXTIES
(July 30-31, 1999)

 WHS Classes of the 1940s
(July 9-11, 1999)


If you wish to have information about your WHS reunion posted on the web, please email me at dskuja@yahoo.com

or call me at 727-207-7117
Don Juan (Collins) Skuja

There is no charge for this service.

Click the Pictures link below to view photographs taken at the  reunions.
 

WHS Alumni Web Site         Pictures


















THE CLASS REUNION

Every five years, as summertime nears, An announcement arrives in the mail, "A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand; Make plans to attend without fail."

I'll never forget the first time we met; We tried so hard to impress.
We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars, And wore our most elegant dress.

It was quite an affair; the whole class was there.
It was held at a fancy hotel.
We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined, And everyone thought it was swell.

The men all conversed about who had been first To achieve great fortune and fame.
Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses And how beautiful were their children.

The homecoming queen, who once had been lean, Now weighed in at one-ninety-six.
The jocks who were there had all lost their hair, And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.

No one had heard about the class nerd Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon; Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain; She married a shipping tycoon.

The boy we'd decreed "most apt to succeed"
Was serving ten years in the pen, While the one voted "least" now was a priest; Just shows you can be wrong now and then.

They awarded a prize to one of the guys Who seemed to have aged the least.
Another was given to the grad who had driven The farthest to attend the feast.

They took a class picture, a curious mixture Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties.
Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini; You never saw so many thighs.

At our next get-together, no one cared whether They impressed their classmates or not.
The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal; By this time we'd all gone to pot.

It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores; We ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans.
Then most of us lay around in the shade, In our comfortable T-shirts and jeans.

By the fortieth year, it was abundantly clear, We were definitely over the hill.
Those who weren't dead had to crawl out of bed, And be home in time for their pill.

And now I can't wait; they've set the date; Our fiftieth is coming, I'm told.
It should be a ball, they've rented a hall At the Shady Rest Home for the old.

Repairs have been made on my hearing aid; My pacemaker's been turned up on high.
My wheelchair's oiled, and my teeth boiled; And I've bought a new wig and glass eye.

I'm feeling quite hearty, and I'm ready to party;.
I'm gonna dance 'til dawn's early light.
It'll be lots of fun; I just hope that there's one Other person who can make it that night.
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