Monday, April 29, 2019
Deepest sympathy and prayers to the family and friends of Charles”Chuck”Yeager.When he was a physical education teacher and men’s coach of both varsity and junior varsity basketball teams,I was a student at Mirgantown Junior High 1971,1972anx 1973.Coach Yeager along with his female counterpart instructor and coach the Kate Genevieve Sisket along with principal Dr. Louis Hlad instilled abundant school pride in students and team members being the Dragons.Coach Yeager used humor and conversation to know his students individually and endeared his fruendshipbsimultaneously creating lasting life long memories.Greg Wiryz was the men’s basjetball team captain in 1971.The gymnasium had an upper level balcony used by phys ex classesmens and women’s to run practice laps.During those sand years that balcony structurally declined and became unsafe and was prohibited from further usage for safety reasons.If anyone has photos of Coach Yeager, his teams and students of other teachers please post and share.For those fortunate to be there and know Coach Yeager we were indeed lucky and his guidance and training provided many with great memories.Blessings to the Yeager family , Coach Yeager will continue to live in our hearts and memories as we share stories of our times shared with him.