McArthur High School alumni banquet set for June 6 in McArthur
McArthur High School alumni will meet June 6 at Central Elementary, where $20 reservations and graduation years will help organize classmates across generations.
McArthur High School alumni will return to McArthur for their annual banquet on Saturday, June 6, gathering at Central Elementary, 507 Jefferson Avenue, for an event that keeps one of Vinton County’s old school ties active. Each reservation costs $20, and checks or reservation information will go to Betty Jenkins, 227 McGee Lane, Wellston, OH 45692.
Organizers are asking alumni to include their year of graduation with the reservation, a detail that helps sort classmates and line up reunion groups by era. Even in a brief notice, that instruction shows how much of the banquet’s value lies in connection, not just attendance. For many former students, the year on the reply card will do more than identify a class. It will place them back into the McArthur High School story they still share.
The setting also reflects how local school spaces continue to anchor village life. The Vinton County Local School District lists Central Elementary at the same Jefferson Avenue address in McArthur, while Vinton County High School now sits at 63910 U.S. Highway 50 outside the village limits. That shift leaves alumni from the old McArthur High School era gathering around a community-school site rather than the original high school building, but the school identity remains visible in the way former classmates still organize around it.
That network is not small. McArthur High School alumni groups remain active online through alumni directories and social media, including a Facebook group listed at 9.2K members. Class-by-class listings also show more than 80 names tied to McArthur High graduating classes, a sign that the school’s memory is still being maintained by the people who walked its halls.
The banquet notice itself appeared in The Telegram’s May 10 Vinton County roundup, but the larger story is in the turnout it is likely to draw. Alumni banquets like this one do more than fill a room for one night. They help preserve the school’s history, keep classmates linked across generations, and remind McArthur that its old high school still has a living presence in the county’s civic life.
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