Cheryl Blevins Brinkley

Wonders Never Cease!

Class of 1977

What I’ve been doing since 1977!

I graduated from Marshall with a BA, and WVU with a Masters in Audiology.  After 12 years in that field I started a sales career and am currently an insurance agent.  After getting married in 1983, my husband and I settled in the eastern Putnam County area and have two grown sons.  Our oldest, Matt is currently a senior Church Music major at Bob Jones      University in Greenville, SC, and has spent the last two summers in Europe with a musical mission team from the school.  John is living at home and working as an apprentice roofer.   Jack is a good old country boy who enjoys hunting, fishing, and bowling and in recent years has taken up golf.

 

I still enjoy music, and have been active in music programs in the church including           orchestra, choir, and handbells.  Most recently, I joined the Charleston Metro Band (similar to the C-K Alumni Band) and get to play the old marches and Dixieland style music for community events.

 

My fondest memories of  high school and living in the C-K communities!

Wow – that’s a tough one to sum up.  I think in general, the “Big Green and White Band” and all that went with it makes most of the memories – the football games, the Detroit and Philadelphia Thanksgiving day parades, Band Follies (I always wanted to be a Honeybee, but I guess Charlie O never knew), Pep band and those awful green corduroy shorts, and on and on. Then there was Mr. Shy’s English class…had to be there.

 

I remember a lot of little things too – like Koop’s hat with the raccoon tail, French fries at George’s, the little truck we liked to buy lunch from, when Gerbil smeared green Vaseline all over himself for masquerade day, Kent’s brief case, the hallowed Chess team (remember the Hobbits, Phillip?), snowball fights with Angel, the PE suits we had to wear in Jr High, and having the first graduation outside. 

 

Community – well, going WAY back, I remember getting candy at Thacker’s variety store and Pack’s in those little brown candy bags – wax lips and pop bottles with colored stuff in them were quite popular.  I miss simple things like that.  I also think it was so neat how the towns supported the school and the band and athletic teams throughout the year. And that nearly everyone went to church, and knew everyone else it seemed.  Drugs were around, but not like today.  You could walk around after dark and not be afraid. We weren’t perfect, but Ceredo-Kenova was a pretty good place to raise a family.  Wonders never cease!