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2 live in Arizona
2 live in California
1 lives in Delaware
11 live in Florida
1 lives in Idaho
2 live in Illinois
2 live in Indiana
1 lives in Kentucky
2 live in Louisiana
3 live in Maryland
2 live in Massachusetts
1 lives in Michigan
1 lives in Minnesota
3 live in Missouri
1 lives in New Hampshire
1 lives in New Mexico
2 live in New York
2 live in North Carolina
8 live in Ohio
1 lives in Oregon
5 live in Pennsylvania
5 live in South Carolina
1 lives in Tennessee
3 live in Texas
8 live in Virginia
42 live in West Virginia
10 location unknown

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Welcome to the Charelston Catholic High Class Of 1968 web site.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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CCHS CLass of 1968 50th Year Reunion

REUNION ACTIVITIES
• FRIDAY, JULY 13, 6 -10 P.M.
Dinner & Drinks (Dutch treat)
Paterno’s at the Park
601 Morris Street
Charleston, WV
This popular Charleston restaurant is located within Power Park, home of the West Virginia Power minor league baseball team. Paterno’s is owned by Charleston Catholic graduate Mary Jo Femia Paterno and her husband Andy and managed by CCHS graduate Nikki Paterno Kurten (thanks to Bobbi Femia Ward for making this happen). We have reserved the covered patio portion of the restaurant. If you arrive in town in the afternoon, please join us for dinner at 6:00 p.m. If you arrive during the evening, drop by and join us for drinks. We will be there until the restaurant closes at 10 p.m. (Parking is available across Morris Street).

• SATURDAY, JULY 14
3:30 p.m. Tour of CCHS
5:30 Mass at Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral (newly remodeled)
6:30 Memorial Tribute to deceased members of the Class of ‘68 (park across from the Co-Cathedral) Felix Ferrise is working on the tribute and would like any ideas you might have for the ceremony and any additional names of departed classmates)
7-10 Dinner - “A Taste of Charleston,” Reminiscing & Music – “The Commons” at CCHS (facility located in a new portion of the school)

• SUNDAY, JULY 15
8 – 10 a.m. Join your classmates for a Dutch Treat breakfast at The Four Points by Sheraton, 600 Kanawha Boulevard to wish those traveling a Safe Journey Home.

Note: We are still working on the cost per person to cover the catered dinner, beer and 
wine, etc. Our hope is $50 person. We will be back with you soon.

HOTEL
A block of rooms has been reserved for the nights of Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14 at The Four Points by Sheraton (304-344-4092) (formerly The Holiday Inn Charleston House) under the name CCHS Class of ‘68. Our special room rate is $99 per night (regular rate is $149) plus tax and complimentary parking. The hotel is located at 600 Kanawha Boulevard East in downtown Charleston, a short five block walk from Charleston Catholic. The block of rooms is available until 5 p.m. on June 13. After that date, you are on your own for accommodations. 


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Wednesday December 15, 2010
Cielensky left his mark at Charleston Catholic
by From staff reports

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There have not been many - if any - men in the Kanawha Valley with a longer connection to local high school athletics than Joe Cielensky.
Cielensky, who coached thousands of area athletes in more than four decades then spent another 36 years as a football and basketball official died Tuesday in Charleston. The Nemacolin, Pa., native was 76.
Cielensky coached football, basketball, baseball, tennis and swimming
at Charleston Catholic High, and also served as the Irish athletic director.
"I can't say enough about Joe, to be honest with you," said the retired Frank Scagnelli, 67, who succeeded Cielensky as Catholic's boys basketball coach in 1974-75. "I came there at 1968 at CC, and he was he was assistant football and boys basketball coach. Everything I learned, I learned from Joe.
"After my second or third year, I became his assistant on basketball. Joe was just a super guy to work for. I was really surprised he allowed me to do as much as he did. He allowed me to learn. He let me make my own mistakes. He didn't try to sit on me. When I made a mistake, he told me what I did.
"He did not have an ego. He wasn't threatened by me. I was in awe of him because of the way he handled it. He was a disciplined coach. He loved basketball, but he was a football man."
Cielensky came to Catholic after graduation at Morris Harvey College, where Cielensky was invited to tryout by famed Coach Eddie King after leading his Cumberland Township high school team in Carmichaels, Pa., to back-to-back unbeaten seasons.
Cielensky played football and basketball in college. He was a quarterback on some of MHC's last teams before the school dropped the sport after the 1956 season. He was part of the 1954 Golden Eagle team that lost the final Cigar Bowl to host Tampa.
Cielensky, hired at Catholic in the summer of 1958, became only the second assistant football coach in CCHS history. He was an assistant to Mickey McDade when Catholic's football team ran through three consecutive undefeated seasons (1962, '63, '64). He succeeded McDade and coached the Irish to a 21-21 record from 1970-73.
In his last season at the school (1973-74), Cielensky guided the Irish to state Catholic championships in both football and basketball. He took CCHS to five state Catholic titles in basketball, including four in a row.
In nine seasons, Cielensky's Irish hoop teams were 117-94.

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Former Charleston Catholic basketball Coach Joe Cielensky had a record of 117-94 during his nine seasons with the Irish.
"There was no question he was something else," Scagnelli said of Cielensky. "There's no question if it hadn't been for him I wouldn't have accomplished what I accomplished in basketball. The biggest thing I learned was discipline was for myself and my team.

"People don't understand, he took me in and took me in the right way. He gave me a chance. He gave me the opportunity to scout. Sometimes I went with him when he officiated and watched the other teams play.

"I went to Clarksburg Notre Dame and scouted them, he trusted me, trusted my judgment. You don't see that anymore. I don't know if you see the trust anymore. He was the head coach, I knew that, he knew that, everybody knew that, but he let me do my thing and become involved so that I could learn. I just appreciated him so much."

After 16 years, Cielensky left Catholic in '74 for St. Albans High, succeeding Sam LeRose as football coach. The Red Dragons were 20-20 in Cielensky's four seasons.

He then changed ranks, moving to Clendenin Junior High, where Cielensky, at various times, coached football, girls basketball and track and field until his retirement in 1999.

He officiated high school football and basketball and college football over 36 years, and was a member of the Kanawha Valley Football Officials Association and the Southern Board of Basketball Officials.

In 1999, Cielensky was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the West VirginiaAthletic Directors Association. More than 30 of his Charleston Catholic athletes went on to play major college sports.

Cielensky is survived by his wife, Shirley and three daughters, two sisters and seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A funeral service for Cielensky will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart co-Cathedral, with burial in mount Olivet Cemetery in Charleston. Visitation is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. Friday at Snodgrass Funeral Home in South Charleston.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Charleston Catholic High School, 1033 Virginia St., Charleston 25301.

Obituary: Harvey Samuel Davis III
Harvey Samuel Davis, III, passed away after a long illness on November 15, 2010.

He is preceded in death by his father, Harvey G. Davis, Jr.

He is survived by his beloved mother; Mary Lee Davis, sisters; Mary Jane Menefee, Julie Ann Billie, Helen Jean Goffauy and Agnes Clare Davis. Also survived by his daughter; Amoret McClung and two grandsons; Devin McClung and Jacob McClung, and ex-wife; Donna E. Davis.

The Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 19, 2010, at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Co. Cathedral with Monsignor Edward P. Sadie officiating. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 18, 2010, at Barlow Bonsall Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, send donations to Kanawha Hospice Care 1606 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston, WV 25312 or Sacred Heart Garden Club, call Diane Kimble at 304-346-3854.

You may send your condolences to the family at www.barlowbonsall.com

Barlow Bonsall Funeral Home has been entrusted to handle the arrangements

The Charleston Catholic High School Class of 1968 40th reunion was a great success.

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You'll find many classmates there already.