1959 Class A State Basketball Champions

Athens High School Makes it to the Top for the Third Time

Selected photos from the 1959 Yearbook are shown below. Click here to read the newspaper account from the Beckley Post-Herald and Raleigh Register.

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Front Row, left to right, are Bob Monohan, Jimmy Newberry, Harold McKenzie. Second Row, left to right, Jimmy Pettrey, Vernal Phillips, Charles Perry, Jerry Lambert, Don Martin, Dany Alvis, Jim Abshire, Clifford McClung, Jerry Jones, Eddie Hopkins, Ted Hall. Third Row, left to right, Benny Robertson, Chester Friedl, Bob White, Bobby Thorn, Roger Graham, Jim Monohan, Jimmy Caruth, Warren Yound, Jimmy Hash, Junior Hodges, David White, Wayne Gunter, Frank Alvis, Don Redden, and Perry Hill. Coach Perry Hill, Managers Danny Ray Alvis and Bill Robertson. Captains Roger Graham, Warren Young, and Frankie Alvis. Bob White, Senior, Guard. Frank Alvis, Junior, Forward.
Don Redden, Senior, Guard. Jim Hash, Junior, Forward. Chester Friedl, Junior, Guard. Roger Graham, Senior, Guard. Wayne Gunter, Junior, Forward.
Warren Young, Senior, Center. Action. Semi-Final Score. Action. Posing with the trophey.
Action. Final Score. Action. The coach and team with the trophey. Victory.
Athens High School Victory Parade. Victory dinner with the Sub Debs. Cheerleaders Gay Lew Wooddell, Delores Ford, and Dianne Martin. Cheerleader portraits.