Thursday, May 25, 1974
The top 10 percent of the Pocahontas County High School Class of 1974 has been selected. They were chosen because of their high grade averages and will be honored on Awards Day.
They will also be the first group of seniors to receive their diplomas in the graduation ceremonies.
PCHS recognizes its top 10 percent at graduation rather than selecting a valedictorian and salutatorian. Four of these students will be speaking at the graduation exercises.
The following students are in order of their academic standing in the senior class.
Gary Crawford, Sarita Lantz, Joyce Gum, Cheryl Oref, Jeanie Hill, Phillip Becker, David Moore, Cheryl Nelson, Sharon Wooddell, Ralph Waugh, Vonnie Cook, and Genny Mitchell.
WALKATHON
Richard Faulknier and Ronnie VanReenen were the first two walkers to arrive in Marlinton Saturday afternoon in the Walkathon. They protested it wasn’t a race, which it wasn’t, and they had started ahead of the others. Mayor Guy Fultz was waiting to greet them. Twenty-eight of 75 entrants finished the 27-mile hike and helped earn over $1,100 for the Exchange Students Fund.
Maggie Gibb, 7, was the youngest entrant in the Walkathon. She walked 18 miles and wanted to finish, but they thought she would be late for the picnic. A student in Mrs. Bryant’s first grade at Green Bank, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Gibb.
PCHS TRACK MEET
The PCHS thinclads placed first in 11 of the 18 events in a quadrangular track meet in Lewisburg last Friday. Four PCHS records were broken and one tied as the Warriors rang up a total of 106 points. Greenbrier West was a distant second with 83 points, followed by Greenbrier East with 49 and Meadow Bridge with 14.
School records were set by John Wilfong in the pole vault by clearing 11’6”; Matt Withers in the long jump with a leap of 19’2”; Ken Wilfong in the two mile run in 11:12.3; the 440-yard relay team of Mark Beverage, Jim Rose, Danny Cain and Matt Withers in 46.0. Gary A. Cassell tied the school record in the 220-yard dash in 24.0 as well as winning the 440-yard dash.
Other first places came in the 880-yard relay with Beverage, Cain, Rose and Withers leading the way; Jim Rose in the discus; the two-mile relay team composed of Richard Akers, Tom Moore, Mike Buzzard and Ken Burgess; the mile relay team with Akers, T. Moore, Dave Moore and Cassell; and Dave Moore remained undefeated in the open 880 yard run.
