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Morrisons Cove High School Grads Recall What School Had to Offer

The girls hugged and cried while the boys laughed and punched each others shoulders as pomp and circumstances played for the last time at the Morrisons Cove High School.

The year was 1960 and the commencement ceremony held the usual milestone significance for the 96 students, but was even more poignant because the brownstone school, just outside Martinsburg, was set to be moth balled.

Barry “Butch” Rhodes was a member of that class 62 years ago, a long time, for this 81 year old Martinsburg man.

But the memory holds on to lots of little things.

The yearbook was titled “Whispering Pi...

 

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