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Alma Mater
Dupont with pride, we'll remember you always
Our love for you grows more every year
And with our hearts and minds, we'll never forget
The colors of gold and blue to you we'll be true
And the Alma Mater we sing to you.
The Dupont High Fight Song
Dupont Panthers here's to you, We sing our song of praise, Our gold and blue is proud and true, for this our song we praise, O Fight Dupont Panthers let us fight, Out loyalty's with you, We'll work and cheer for Dupont High, And honor the gold and blue !!!!
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 20
(By Senators Humphreys, Grubb, Walker and Wehrle)
Congratulating DuPont High School football team for winning its second consecutive Class AAA state football championship.
Whereas, In 1992, the DuPont High School football team won its first state AAA championship in the school's history; and
Whereas, In 1993, the DuPont High School football again won the Class AAA state football championship; and
Whereas, The DuPont High School football team ended the 1993 regular season with nine wins and only one loss; and
Whereas, Head coach Dick Whitman and the members of his coaching staff take great pride in leading their team to two consecutive Class AAA state championships for DuPont High School; and
Whereas, The athletic ability of the 1993 DuPont High School football team, coupled with the outstanding sportsmanship of each member of the team, has helped to make winning a reality for DuPont High School; and
Whereas, The DuPont High School football team is supported by the student body, the faculty and the entire community of Belle; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate:
That the DuPont High School football team is hereby congratulated for winning the state Class AAA championship forthe second consecutive year; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to head coach Dick Whitman and J. Patrick Law, principal of DuPont High School.
This is my garter from the 1979 prom.
This is a list of alumni who do not have myspace accounts yet, but they would like to meet everyone and let them know where they are. If you know of anyone that would want to be added to this list, please submit their grad year, name and email address. ..
John P. Elswick - Class of 1991, jonetow@cox.net
Dale Mason- Class of 1978, dkmason@wvabca.com
Lisa (Hicks) Isenhour - Class of 1982, Isenhourlisa@bellsouth.net..
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What were we doing in 1979 and 1980? Dancing of course! Disco was the only dancing in town. Check this out from my 1979 yearbook.
How much are you paying for a gallon of gas to run that big SUV of yours? OK, yeah I admit it, I have two of those gas guzzlers. But check out what we were spending then!
Check out our guys at this year's Belle Town Fair.

left to right: Ronnie Carte '75, Jeff Harrah '78, Rob Ryan '74, Charlie Mays '76 and Jeffrey Lanham '76 - picture taken by Joanna Daniels Lanham '78. See all of her 2009 Belle Town Fair photos on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2009160&id=1397080401


These were are the seniors from the 1978 football team.
These are the seniors and cheerleaders of the 1999 football team who defended our field for the last season of Panther high school football. You are winners and should be proud that you took the school out in fine style!
and this is the field that we valiantly defended until that sad day in 1999.
98/99 band at Universal Studios, Orlando, FL
1968 Belle Little League Champs

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DuPont Junior High
This is DuPont Junior High as it looks today. It closed in 1999 and there doesn't appear to be a plan to tear it down. A former student told me that "Kanawha County refuses to sell the property. They intend to make a gigantic grade school campus on it. They want to combine Mary Ingalls (the only elementary school in Campbell’s Creek), Malden, (Rand has been closed), Belle, Midland Trail and Cedar Grove. Hopefully, they’ll tear down the old school soon though. It really is a shameful mess."
DuPont Junior High Band, class year 1992/1993

Cedar Grove Community School
..This is my section. It shows alot of things that are a big part of my life. I wish I had room for more pictures! Enjoy
These are my good friends "Jigsaw". They are a great band from southwestern PA. They are (left to right) Jeff Kenders, Greg Stewart, Cathy Stewart and Bob "Crafty" Crafton. I am a big fan of their music and their friendship.
This is my dad. He passed away in January, 2004 and I could not be with him when he died and I didn't get to go to his funeral. He was proud of me for being a good student so I thought he might enjoy being in the middle of all of this that I have created for my old school. I hope you're proud Dad!
I am looking for all alumni from DuPont High School, in Belle, West Virginia. Since our school is now gone, this is my tribute to DuPont High School. Please forward this page to all of your friends or family from our school and keep the pictures and the comments coming.
"Recent Deaths
****************************************** News!
Rob Ryan, alumnus of Class of 74, has created a great page for the Class of 74. You can visit it at http://www.freewebs.com/dphs74/
Gloria Ramsey Ballard (1979) has set up a site for husband Denny Ballard (1979), who committed suicide in Tampa, FL, on Feb. 6, 2008. Denny's family is trying to raise awareness about suicide prevention. Visit his site at www.dennyballard.com.. You can also visit his wife Gloria on her space in my friends list and she also has a Facebook page.
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This was our school the last day it opened in June, 1999. It was converted to Dupont Jr. High the following year. This building opened as the new DuPont High School in 1962 when it was built to replace the old building in Dupont City.
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Thomas L. Hammons, 4/10/02
In memory of our former classmates who have passed away before us
Class of 1939

Jetta B. Jones - 2/14/09
Class of 1943

Macie White Jones, 11/7/08Class of 1948
Class of 1949

Nancy Ann Albert Brown, June 20, 2009Class of 1950

Class of 1951
Clarence W. “C.W.” Moore Jr, 5/5/09
Class of 1955
Nancy Jane Hodge Hicks, 3/13/09
Class of 1957
Arthur "Jack" Quinn, passed away during heart surgery in 1986
Class of 1958

James W. "Jim" Sparks , 2/28/09
Class of 1959
Sally Milam Edwards
Class of 1960
Karen Lee Slack, car accident 11/26/64
Class of 1961
Jewell Ann “Judy” Stone
Class of 1962

Penny Garten Monk , 10/28/08 cancer
Thomas Sterling Hatfield, 1/1966
Clarence Allen Mooney, 3/16/1967-Vietnam
Mary Susan Jerrett - 4/1980
Beverly Ann Kelly Coffee, 10/1/81
James M. Tuttle , 12/1985
Herbert Nelson, 12/29/1989
Larry Backus, 11/20/1995
Donald Douglas, 7/28/1999
Clarence Earl Adkins, 3/24/2002
Roger Lee Hancock, 6/12/2002
Fredrick Higginbotham, 8/14/2002
Laurel Ann Frame Moles, 5/14/2003
Lawrence E. Williams Jr., 2003
Norman Hugh Hoover , 1/24/2004
Paul Igo, 3/30/2004
Debroah Jean Otey, 11/2004
Janet Stephens
Class of 1963
Gary Lee Jarrell
Melvin Gore
David Edward Moss
Larry Stevens
Wilma Crowder Hodge, 4/21/2006
Paul Williams
Doug Williams
Tommy White
James Simms
John Spencer
Bobby Morton
Judy Blount
Connie Bostic
Stanley Hancock
Bill Frame
Sandy Durham
Michael Buckholt
Vicki Sneed
Class of 1964
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Danny McNeely - passed away as a result of a car accident. Danny hit a telephone pole in front of the capitol during a snow storm and did not realize the power lines were on his car and when he stepped out he was electrocuted
Veda Waggoner Young, 12/30/07
John Eddy Hodge
Marcia Irving
Barbie Jones
Joyce Marshall
Bobby Sanders
George Steele
Teddy Stone
Frank West
Melba Jean Martin, 5/27/08
Class of 1967
Sandra Kay Morris
Buddy Russell
Class of 1968
David Hunt, heart attack, 3/13/02
Clarence Carter,2003
Class of 1969

Curtis Michael Bonham, 1/22/08
Class of 1970
Jerry Elizabeth Wiley, 5/11/70
Roger Ratliff , 1994
Mary Lee Harrah Flowers, 4/27/2000
Pamela E. Wilson Pichard , 4/3/07

George Fredrick Bearfield , 10/12/08
Class of 1971
Homer D. “Buddy” Bush Jr., 4/10/09
Donald Keith Naylor, 7/9/07
Roger Redman, 11/25/06
Randy Burkhouse
John Zakas , 2001
Class of 1972
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Roger Keith "Hot Rod" Fleshman, 8/5/07
Joan C (Elswick) Moore
Class of 1973

Butch Pauley, 5/9/09
Dewayne Grooms, 6/1/02 ,cancer
Ronald "Zeke" Brooks, 5/1/07
Danny Efaw
Class of 1974

Harry W. “Bomber” Buckley II, 7/22/08
Kathy Jo Light, 4/1987. She was Ms. Kanawha Majorette in 1973.
Larry Ingram
Class of 1975
Kathy Sigman, 2006
Kelly Chapman, 5/10/07
Class of 1976
Richard A. "Turkey" Turner , 9/30/88
Richard Pritchard
Jose Thompson
Robert Ray
Regina Gullian
Bobby Hicks

Robert "Bobby" Ray, drowned at Kanawha Falls 5/77
Class of 1977
David W. "Bull" Durham, June 22, 2009

Peggy Sue Hancock, 4/28/09, cancer

Deborah Ann Megginson, 3/28/07, cancer
Bernard DeWayne Settle, 5/16/96
Steven "Scratches" Higginbotham, 6/14/04
Timothy Balser 1993
Tamara Brown
Jeffrey Brownlow, 2003, Lou Gehrigs Disease
William "Curry" Davis - 1999
David Dodd
Lois Goodwin
Mark Guillergan
Timothy Huddleston --1984-
Hansford Hudnall, 1994, cancer
Patti Johnson Maynor 2002
Bruce McCormick--cancer 1998
Barbara Wise Mullins 1997
Rick Nida--2004
Pamela Proctor Phillips 2007
Joe Plott--2005
Mike Price 1999
Bryant Pritt 2004
Vanessa Ramsey 1990
Class of 1978

Gregory Dee "Mank" Shafer, 6/25/08

Linda Virginia Compton Pennington, 12/29/07

Mark Whitlock, 12/13/07, cancer

James Gregory Dangerfield, 6/21/97

James K. "Jimmy" Whitley, 11/25/98, heart attack
Gary "Peanuts" Meadows, 4/19/87
William "Billy" Carter, 11/4/78
Robin Pauley Sears, 11/9/96
Jeffrey L."Jeff" Nida, 3/22/93
William Richard "Rick" Nalle II, 7/7/89
Diana Woods Wiseman , 6/21/04
Class of 1979

James H. “Jimmy” Buckley, 4/5/09, brain cancer.

Dennis John Ballard, 2/6/08, suicide
Please visit the page that has been set up for the Denny Ballard Foundation at www.dennyballard.com

Dortha "Toy" Johnson, 9/1/98, juvenile diabetes

James Dwayne Seabolt, 10/24/07
Teresa Watson White
Class of 1980

Diana Billanti, 10/5/06, juvenile diabetes.

Monty Hughes, 12/20/85, carbon monoxide poisoning

James "Little Man" Saunders, 12/20/85, carbon monoxide poisoning

Thad Snodgrass - hit by drunk driver as he walked by the school in 1978

Michael Scott "Scotty" Light, murdered 3/01
Walter Tucker
Class of 1981
Ronnie Dewayne Hudnall, 04/26/09
Allen Hammon, 3/4/01, heart attack

David Keenan - passed away from injuries received in a car crash on Route 60 near the DuPont plant

Robby Bess, 7/4/06
Class of 1982
Vincent Tracey Hopkins, 11/24/08

Class of 1983
Kevin DiFabrizio
Jesse "Jack" Clay
Class of 1984
Ernest Peters - stabbed on the tennis courts behind Cedar Grove school
Dewayne "DD" Bess, 1986,car accident
Steve Casdorph
Roger Boggs
Class of 1985
Tiffany Sparks - car accident on homecoming night 1984
Allen Peters - fell at Glasgow pool and died as a result of head injuries
Timothy Gaylor
Michael "Mayo" Landers
Darren Brown, 7/11/02
Susan Richardson

Class of 1986
Michael BoggsClass of 1987

Class of 1988
Amy Baker - struck by a train in 1987 while going to school.
Gary Lee Clark, 11/6/07
Jonathan Lee Marshall, 8/9/08
Class of 1989

Jason Seldon Parsley, 12/15/08, kidney failure, lupus and heart failure.
John Bowles, 11/8/02
Betty Hicks, 7/6/07,Brain Cancer
Tommy Proctor - died in a motorcycle crash in 2/20/86

Kevin Green - passed away in a motorcycle accident April 6, 2008

Class of 1990

Cody Bill Crisp - passed away on April 15, 2009, after a sudden illness.
Adam W. Cordle - 4 wheel accident, 2000
Vaughn Edwards
Andy Meeker - struck by a train, Sept. 24, 2006
Class of 1991
Clint Kozak - passed away Jan. 13, 2007 from injuries in an ATV accident

Bethany Ann Carpenter - passed away 2002

April Johnson- passed away from Cystic Fibrosis in 1991
Kevin Richards - passed away July 18, 2003
Class of 1992

Michael Lee Hancock died April 25, 2009, after being struck by an automobile in the Belle area.
Mark Hackworth - passed away Nov. 2006

Thomas Kevin Spaulding III - was killed in an ambulance wreck, while responding to a call in 1998

Adam Harris - passed away June 2007
Mark Alan Rider
Terri Lee Ratliff - passed away on Nov.9, 2000
Jodi Lynn Hackworth Artis - car accident, Sept. 15, 2007

Class of 1993
Jonathan Hall Moss..killed in a head-on collision January 10, 2009.


Joe Buck Hall - passed away 2007

Rocky A. Hughes-car accident 1993

Allen Campbell - car accident 1993
Tracy Crouse - passed away Oct. 23, 2007.

Class of 1994
Hank Young - passed away 1998
Erika Crews - car accident 1995
William "Bubby" Moore
Tennille Lucas Davis - car accident Jan. 07

Melissa Kidd - passed away 1995

Jeffrey Allen Martin,passed away Aug.7, 2002

Roy "Porky" Jameson - 4 wheeler accident May 25, 2006
Lora Lynn - hit by a train when she was in the 9th grade (1989) at DPHS
Class of 1995

Daniel Lee Dillard, passed away January 8, 2009, after a sudden illness.
Okey Meadows - passed away 2003

Sean Kisamore
Larry Loggins
Class of 1996
Tara Marie Torrey - passed away Oct. 13, 2007

Rebecca Grant - car accident 2002

Jody Johnson - Cystic Fibrosis 2000
Dwayne D. Snyder II - auto accident on June 14, 2008
Class of 1997
Jason Leon Balser (Class of 97?) - passed away Nov. 21, 2008 on US Route 60 at Shrewsbury of injuries due to an automobile accident.

Henry Hearold Minck - passed Nov. 12, 2008 after a short illness.
Amber Bowles (Miller), passed away April 2006

Bobby "BC" Cremeans - passed away Jan. 4, 2007
Keith David Huddleston - passed away Nov. 11, 2007
Class of 1999
Eric Hall - passed away March 19, 2008

Cameron Atkins - passed away June 13, 2003

Joey Efaw - passed away 2002
Matt Lusher - passed away 2004
Aaron Hall - passed away 2005
Jesse Lee Jarvis - killed while riding an ATV near Spangler, WV on July 1, 2007

Jason Chambers - passed away July 6,2007

Cedar Grove High School Memorials
Fred Allen “Pow-Wow” Buckley - Class of 1960 or 1961, passed away Monday, July 28, 2008

Frances Irene Persinger Crowder - Class of 1958, passed away 1997


Michael Nolan - Class of 63, passed away Dec. 15, 2007 of kidney cancer.
Riverside High School Memorials
Andrea Dawn Buchanan - killed in a car crash on Jan. 13, 2009.She would have graduated from Riverside High School in the class of 2010.

Jonathan Andrew Thompson - Class of 2004, passed away Auguest 31, 2008

Joshua "Jedi" Cox - Class of 2000, died before graduation on April 17, 2000
Lance Corporal Adam Johnson Crumpler (US Marine Corps), Riverside Class of 2003 was killed in Iraq on June 18, 2005 while saving the lives of his fellow Marines. He was awarded the Purple Heart

Joshua Creathers - Class of 2001
Joey Elswick - Class of 2000 Riverside High died Sept 06
Josh Tucker, Class of 2004, Riverside High
Matt Humphries - Class of 2006, Riverside High
TJ Elswick, Class of 2004, Riverside High, died March 18, 2005 of leukemia
Chris Smith
Ben Crawford - passed away in 2003
Chris Legg - Class of 2002
Whitney Reid - class of 2004, 2005 or 2006. She was buried the day before she was to be married.
Other students
Tina Marie (Hedricks) Richards - passed away Sunday, Feb 1, 2009, Graduating class is unknown but should be in the 1983 to 1995 class.

Dewey Edward Cottrill, (grad year unknown) age 86 - passed away on Nov. 20, 2008
Anna L. "Trigger" Stanley Davis age 83, grad year unknown, passed away onDec. 6, 2008

Robert David Stone - class year unknown, passed away at Hubbard Hospice House on November 13, 2008

..Edison Clay Kuhn.., 85, of Charleston passed away Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008 DPHS class year unknown
Lavern Taylor - died Feb 11 2008, class year unknown
Matthew R. Drennen - died Feb. 16, 2008, grad year unknown
Eddie Burris - grad yr unknown, died of complications to Parkinson's Disease
James Dwayne Seabolt - graduation year unknown
Brian Stamper - graduation year unknown
Margaret Jane Crowder Teague - graduation year unknown.
Sherry Lynn Jackson - graduation year unknown

Lois Jean Moore Fish - passed away from injuries from a car accident on Oct. 30, 2008

Virginia I. Moles - passed away November 2008, grad year unknown
Faculty
Betty Frame McConihay of East Bank, W.Va., was born August 15, 1925, and grew up in South Charleston, W.Va.
She graduated from South Charleston High School and earned her BA and MA from Marshall University.
She taught math and English in Kanawha County schools (DuPont High)for 33 years and, upon retirement, continued teaching math at West Virginia Institute of Technology for several terms.

William Roy Hoblitzell Jr, 72, of Marmet died January 26, 2009, He was a retired secondary schoolteacher and coach from Kanawha County schools (..Cedar Grove Community School..)

Jean Shaver Smithers, age 91, passed away on Dec. 2, 2008. She was named dance coach of the ..Dupont High School.. Majorette Corps. She led the corps from 1951 to 1967 to many honors at the Daily Mail Majorette Festivals. She was responsible for the selection of “St. Louis Blues March” music, which created a long-standing tradition of pride for the DPHS band and fans.

Barbara Butler Copenhaver passed away on Dec. 7, 2007. Mrs. Copenhaver graduated from Dupont High School (class yr unknown) and Morris Harvey College. She taught in the Kanawha County School System, mainly at Malden Elementary School, for 35 years.


Mrs.Karen Payne - Community Service/Home Economics teacher. She taught at DPHS and Riverside before passing away in 2000 of cancer.

Ms. Carla Johnson - taught at Malden Elementary and Cedar Grove Community. No other information has been submitted.
Marshall Andrew “Andy” Grogg- Riverside and DuPont High Football Coach, passed away in Charlottesville Virginia on Sept 2, 2008
Mrs. Mary Lou Myers - taught at Cedar Grove Community, lived in Glasgow. No other information is known
Susan Greenwald Chaskin,- passed away on, December 30, 2008. Susan taught at Capital, Loudendale, Weberwood, and Glenwood Elementary Schools and Cedar Grove Community School. She substituted at DuPont and Riverside High Schools and was the tennis coach for the high school.
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I am so happy I am alive to say that and that we became good friends.
God has blessed me in so many way!!!
You have brought alot of people back together with this sight and I thank you for all of us.
your friend 4 life
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I found two of are class
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