Suzanne Stewart
Staff Writer
The Warrior spirit remains a part of the alumni who spent their formative years at Pocahontas County High School. After graduating, alums may leave the county to pursue a career, only to return for family visits or class reunions, but the support for the school remains.
This spirit has remained for many members of the PCHS Class of 1986, so much so that they pulled funding together to replace the school sign directing motorists to the football field.
Class representative Shelly Dean Hartmann said the sign has been in bad shape and she approached her classmates to see if they would be interested in helping the school replace it.
“What inspired us to do this is the old sign looks really, really bad and the old carpentry folks – like Mike Rogers – and others built it when we were in school,” she said. “The school has tried to fix it, but it’s falling apart.”
When Hartmann approached ag teacher Andy Friel about the sign, he suggested not only replacing that sign, but adding another sign near the entrance to Allegheny Mountain Radio for motorists approaching the school from that direction.
Friel also suggested lighting the signs.
The class pulled together $3,000 for the project and presented it to Friel. The plan is for the agriculture students and Jonathan Taylor’s carpentry students to build the two signs.
Hartmann said it’s a great project to show the students how they can help the community with their efforts and how former students are there to help the school, as well.
“We’re trying to show them that by working together, we’re helping the community,” she said.
