War Public Library Project

    As most of you know, the War Public Library was recently destroyed by fire.  Our classmate there, Teresa Stutso Jewell, has posted a message to the comments page and has received much support from the Alumni groups, but I wanted to make sure this message was in a place where no one would miss it.

The War Public Library needs your support.
    
     If each of us sent only one book that would be over 1100 books!   If we each sent 2 books, that's a library!   Let's make them good ones!   Since they are already receiving books, perhaps the best idea would be to contact Francis Blankenship, the librarian,  and find out what they need (after all, we wouldn't want a library with 104 copies of Moby Dick, even if it is a classic!) 

    Or perhaps you would like to make a more personal contribution. If so, you have the rare opportunity to give something special of yourself to the town of War.  For each of us there's a book with special meaning, a book that changed our thinking and thus  our lives, a book with a message that we would like to share with the world, perhaps a message that would make the world a better place...(and no, I'm not talking about THE  Book...hopefully everyone already has a copy of that one.)  I'm talking about that book that  lifted us above our experience, took us beyond  the moment, carried us to distant places or introduced us to new people or ideas.    Think of it as a message in a bottle that you would like to send to the young people of War.

     If you could recommend ONE book to today's youth, what would it be??? 

    Well, put it in the mail!!

    Or perhaps you would prefer to make a financial contribution. I'm sure the library may need more than just books.  Contact the library at the following address...Francis Blankenship should be able to guide you in your in the most appropriate and useful donation.  I will try to get an email address where she can be contacted and post it here.  Until then we have on the "snail" mail address and phone numbers  listed below.

Here's Teresa message:   

Dear Fellow Owls,
         I have received many e-mails concerning the War Library fire. If you wish to send books, here's the address:

War Public Library
PO Box 68
War, WV.,  24892

304- 875-4618
304- 875-4622

Francis Blankenship is the Librarian there and has been since it first opened. I'm sure the whole community will thank you for the generous gifts. God Bless you all !

                                                                                   Teresa Stutso Jewell

Big Creek Guardian Angels

The Class of 1947

Raj and Nikki Chugha-Washington,DC

Hazel Dixon Lambert-Jacksonville,FL

David Lambert-Jacksonville,FL

John Honaker

David Wheeler

Cecil and Patricia Taylor

Mike and Harriet Massimini

Thetis Langlet

Raymond and Mildred Todd

Mary Maguran

R.W.and Nancy Barton

Patrica Dillon

Bobby and Debbie Brewster

Robert and Melba Shoun

Our thanks to each of you who have contributed and special thanks to Teresa for contacting us about this and to each of the BC grads who are organizing this fund raising effort.  You are Guardian Arc-Angels!

Patsy Payne, Chairperson for BC Project Graduation 2000
Teresa Stutso Jewell, Email contact
Vickie Stutso , of Ameribank of War
Jerry Harmon, principal at the vo-tech. at Tazewell High School
Jerry Wood, the Town Manager of Tazewell

Teresa Stutso Jewell
532 Dogwood Rd. Tazewell
Va. 24651
540-988-4013
540-988-7662

We are :   www.bigcreekowls.org

      Welcome to the  Big Creek High School Alumni website!   This web site is dedicated to improving communications between the former students of Big Creek High School of War, West Virginia and to help organize a unified Alumni Association. 

    For those visitors of are unfamiliar with the location of Big Creek , click here for maps of the McDowell county area or here to go to homepage for War, West Virginia. Click on any area to center the map on that area then use the Zoom controls at the top to zoom in to street level maps for that area.

    Click here for our NEW contents page, an easy way to check all registered names at this site.

   This is a user supported website.   If you would like to make a contribution to help keep this website on the Internet and serving the alumni of Big Creek High School, please send your donation to:

BRENDA STOUT BLAKE
101 McCLUNG STREET
LEWISBURG  WV,   24901
304-645-1212  

    Our thanks to all of you for your support that make this website possible. 

    If you want to check your class listings to see which of your classmates  have signed in click Here.  We have a separate list for each class year and links to each personal profile.  Don't forget to sign-in yourself!

    Check out Homer's new website!  It has lots of picures from the book and movie and information  about  his new books and upcoming book signings. 
    Best wishes to Homer and his wife, Linda. 
The URL is : http://www.homerhickam.com.

    Click here for the pictures from the Class of 1950's 50 Year Reunion.   These were sent in by Martha Broyles Snyder.

    Click here to view the pictures from the class of 1956.  Kay Barnette Reaser sent these in for your viewing.  

For pictures of the Big Creek Alumni Cruise, click here.

    Some "Rocket Boy" fans have created their own site honoring Coalwood.   The URL is  .   Our thanks to Mark Crabtree of Morgantown, WVa.

We have some photos so those far away can briefly return to McDowell county.  I think you will recognize most of these places.    Click here for a short photo tour of OWL country!   We also have posted many of the reunion photos.  You can just click the thumbnail to see an enlarged image.  Front Page made this task very easy and it only took a couple of hours to do all the photos.
Click here for the Photo section.

                                                    ed

UPDATE :       

    Each of you should feel free to respond to our visitors and let them know that we appreciate their kind comments and show them some West Virginia hospitality.  When you enter the home of a West Virginian, you are treated like family and not a visitor. 

    We welcome each of you to our "home"!

    Big Creek High School currently does not have a homepage, so our links to it will connect you to a site maintained by the American Schools Directory which maintains a database of all schools in the US.  The data may not be current at this site.  We will re-establish links with Big Creek as soon as their site is reconstructed.  We plan to offer Big Creek's students space at this website to create and maintain their own pages.  More on this soon.

    Our Guestbook and Comments page have been separated into a 1998, 1999 and 2000 pages.  By splitting the pages by year each section will load faster.    I left links on both pages to reach the older sections. 

         I have added several new forms to the site. 

    First, the Faculty Login form will allow BCHS faculty members to add their information to the Faculty page.  

   Next, a Visitor Comment page.  This will allow non-Owls to comment about this site and Big Creek.  The form will add these to our message page.  Many have requested this addition lately.

  Home Town Owls

    If you are looking for friends, relatives or classmates that may still reside in one of the McDowell County communities, please post your request to the Comments section and specifically mention the community as well as the individual's name and age or graduating class, along with nicknames or maiden names and their last known address, if available.   We have several volunteers from each of the old communities that will try to assist you in locating anyone who still lives in the area.

    I've just added several new additions to the Class Reps page .    If you would like to be a contact for your class follow the link on the Class Reps page. I am working on having this information also posted to the Class Listing by year pages.  More on that later.

     If you have sent your contact information in but don't see it listed on the page, please resend it.  I may have lost it while transferring files to create the new site.  I maintain this site in my spare time (such as it is) and occassionally things don't get updated as fast as we all would like.  Like all websites, this site is constantly under construction, being modified to adapt to the changes inherent with the Internet.  We now have hundreds of Alumni signed in and currently receive about 70 emails per week from Owls who need information modified on their profiles or have questions about how to use this site.

    We are still in the process of locating fellow classmates and posting their information on these pages. If this is your first visit to our site, please click here to login. This form will add your information to our Class Listings and will create your personal profile page. The profiles provide vital information to any old classmates who are trying to locate you.

           Please click the Refresh or Reload button when you load these pages since the content is changing on a daily basis. Bookmark this page and check for updates each time you are online.

Big Creek High School

(as played by the University of Kentucky Wildcats Marching Band)
Our Thanks to Keith Wagner

    There are links to the login form and guest book at the bottom of each page. You may want to browse the Guest Book to find out who has already added their names before the Class lists were available.

  We have also added a Comments Form to allow you to leave messages on our public Message Board.
Click here to leave a message or here to read the messages others have left.