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P.O. Box 517, Weirton, WV 26062

Volume 2, Issue 10

Upcoming Events:

November 27, 2010Weirton 2010 ChristmasParade - Starts at 11:30

Biography of Robert Ha-worth detailed in Oct. 2009WAMCC Newsletter. See itat www.weirtonmuseum.com

Museum Officers:Elected 7-7-10

October 26, 2010

President

Dennis R. Jones

Vice President

Pamela Makricosta

Vice President

Despina Melonas

Treasurer

Paul B. Zuros

Secretary

Kim Salter

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3393 Main StreetWeirton, WV 26062

Editor: Dennis Jones

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WAMCC’s Art Exhibition a Huge Success

Website:

www.weirtonmuseum.com

WAMCC’s 2nd Annual Robert Haworth Art Exhibi-tion was held on October 16, 2010, at the Mary H.Weir Public Library. The museum’s art committeefeatures one of Mr. Haworth’s art students each yearand the works of Anthony Sellitti were selected forthis year’s event. Mr. Sellitti was born in Gallo, Italyin 1921 and immigrated to the United States, wherehe joined his parents at the age of 12. His familysettled in the steel town of Weirton, where his award-winning talent came to light in the classroom of ArtInstructor Robert Haworth. After his service in theNavy during WWII, he began a building constructioncareer in Weirton, creating many beautiful facilitiesfor businesses, homes, and churches. He retired af-ter 45 years in the construction business, and his ar-tistic talents blossomed as he pursued his boyhoodpassion of painting. For information on art teacherRobert Haworth, see our October 2009 newsletter at:www. weirtonmuseum.com/WAMCC2009October.pdf

Pictured Above: Dr. Raymond S. Greco (WAMCC Art Committee Chairman) showing thepaintings of Anthony Sellitti, to little Rebekah Skolny and her mother Jodi. Dr. Greco wasvery pleased with the turnout for this 2nd Annual Robert Haworth Art Exhibition.

Anthony Sellitti Paintings Featured

Anthony Sellitti 1921 - 2001Enjoying Retirement

Photo by Pamela Makricosta

Photo contributed by Louise Sellitti

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Scenes from the 2nd Annual Haworth Art Exhibition

Carol Village, another student of Mr. Haworth, is shown with two of her paintings. Carolis Chairperson of the Art Dept. of the Weirton Woman’s Club GFWC. Their groupgraciously provided refreshments for the Art Exhibit.

Marge and Victor Greco enjoyed being there for the exhibit. Victor also providedsamples of his early artwork.

Madonna High student Sneha Gupta is shown with some of her creative artwork. Apainting by Madonna’s Natalie Rees is shown at the left.

Weir High Art student Nathan Skinner is shown looking at the sketch he submit-ted for the exhibit. Weir High’s new Art Teacher, Natalie Zago, is shown on theright, while her sister Ashley is on the left.

Several Madonna High School students submitted samples of yarn art. MadonnaHigh School’s Art Teacher is Mary Evkovich. In background, Russell Wickham islooking at the books and calendars in the museum gift shop.

Left to Right: Kalpana Gupta, Dr. Sucheta “Dolly” Luthra, Sneha Gupta (ArtStudent), and Dr. Junginder Luthra at the 2nd Annual Haworth Art Exhibit.Kalpana is the wife of Dr. Sanjay Gupta of Weirton/Steubenville, and Sneha istheir daughter.

Photo by Dennis Jones





Photo by Kim Salter



Louise, widow of Anthony Sellitti, and Angelo Semenick watch Gary Ozenbaugh, son of Louise, take aphotograph. Angelo originated the idea to restore the Weirton Steel Employee Honor Roll and workedwith Anthony Sellitti and others to bring the Honor Roll back.

Whitey Pawlowski and Pat Evano admire a painting by Mitchell Sagan, another of Haworth’s students.

WAMCC Secretary Kim Salter (seated) is shown minding the Museum Gift Shop along with Leah Shirer(right), while Korky Greco, son of Dr. Ray Greco, browses thru Michael Nogay’s book, Every Home aFort, Every Man A Warrior.

Artist George “Jeff” Boocks and his son Jeffrey Boocks

Herman Capito proudly shows the masterpiece he created in 1932,while a 4th grade student of Mr. Haworth at Edgewood School.



Photo by Kim Salter




Connie Thompson, Rita Wickham, and Jennie Ralston (former teacher) are standing infront of the scrapbook display of Anthony Sellitti.

Left to Right: Pam Makricosta (WAMCC Vice President), Penny Mourat,John Pandelios (WAMCC Board), Elma Pandelios (former teacher at WeirHigh) and Angie Angelos (WAMCC Art Committee)

Paul Zuros (WAMCC Treasurer) is shown with Angie Angelos and Jim Fenskeof the WAMCC Art Committee. Paul helped with items in the museum giftshop during the event. Angie served as one of the greeters for the event.


Harry Ameredes, last year’s featured artist, was happy to bring some of his favorite woodcreations for display at this year’s exhibit. To read more about Harry and his artwork see last

year’s October newsletter at: www. weirtonmuseum.com/WAMCC2009October.pdf

Victor Greco is shown with Sam Greco (son of Dr. Ray Greco), and DebbieGreco Catton (daughter of Dr. Greco).

Madeline Greco, wife of Dr. Ray Greco, is shown with her son Korky (left) and daughterDebbie Greco Catton (right).

Photo by Kim Salter

Photo by Kim Salter




Photo by Kim Salter



Over 300 people attended this year’s Art Exhibit and everyone had an enjoyable time(see commentary below).

Dr. Greco has a good laugh with Theresa Sabol (left), and Connie Thompson (right).Theresa is the sister of artists John and William Zdinak.

Airlant Champion of 1956

Pictured Above: Joe DiAngelis with his 1956 Airlant ChampionsTrophy and a plaque that features a 1974 Weirton Daily Times articleabout Weirton’s first grade school including teacher Glenn Jordan andhis uncles and dad, who were students there.Pictured at Right: Joe DiAngelis and Chief Bill Brennen (right)receiving the 1956 Airlant Champions Award.

On October 11, Joe DiAngelis of Weirton do-nated a plaque featuring a 1974 Weirton DailyTimes news article about Weirton’s first gradeschool, where his father and uncles attended.Joe also donated the Airlant Champions Boxingtrophy he received, while serving for the U. S.Navy. Joe was champion of his featherweightclass of all the aircraft carriers and bases. Thephoto below shows Joe receiving the trophy in1956. He served on the USS Hornet CVA 12

and USS Lake Cham-plain CVA 39. Mr.DiAngelis speakshighly of WAMCCand its efforts to pre-serve our area’s his-tory and culture. Weencourage all arearesidents to lend theirold photos to bescanned at WAMCCso they will be pre-served for future gen-erations.

Commentary about the Art ShowAll the attendees appeared to really have enjoyed them-selves at this year’s art exhibition. The Weirton Area Mu-seum and the community are most grateful for the op-portunity to show these examples of our local talent. Wethank the Mary H. Weir Public Library and its staff forallowing us to use their activity room for this event. Wethank Dr. Ray Greco, the WAMCC Art Committee, andthe Art Dept. of Weirton Woman’s Club GFWC.

If you would like to see more pictures of Anthony Sellitti’spaintings, please check our website at:

www.weirtonmuseum.comIt is my sincere hope and pledge that we will have a largermuseum facility next year, where we can hold events suchas this and also have many other interesting things to showrelating to our community’s rich history and culture.

- Dennis Jones, President WAMCC

Photo by Dennis JonesPhoto by Dennis Jones


Lillian Journal Vending Machine in frontof Cathy’s Snack Shack in movie.

Steve Amendola (left) owner of Marland Heights Deli and Steve Ivady (right) of WAMCC show some ofthe items donated for a future display to commemorate the movie filmed here by Paramount Pictures.

Movie Memento’s Donated to WAMCC


On October 18, Steve Amendola, owner of Mar-land Heights Deli & More, donated several gro-cery items that were used as background in hisstore for the movie “Super 8,” which was filmedin Weirton these past couple months. You mayrecall several of these items that were sold backin 1979, which is the time period set for themovie, where the Marland Heights Deli is star-ring as the local 7-Eleven and Lillian HeightsPost Office. Steve Ivady, who works atWAMCC received the items for the museumfrom Steve Amendola. WAMCC President Den-nis Jones expressed his thanks and commentedthat the museum plans to have a special sectionfeaturing the Paramount Production, includingpictures, props, and signs that are in the movie.“Paramount has already donated to us a few cop-ies of the “Lillian Journal” newspaper and areconsidering donating several of the storefrontsigns, which their art department created for themovie set. WAMCC is most appreciative and weencourage other businesses and individuals in-volved in the movie to contribute items for usein our movie display.

Cathy’s Snack Shack - New Bright Spot in Downtown Weirton

Pictured above: Cathy and her husband Ron. Cathy is manager of “Cathy’s Homemade Pies andSandwiches” located at 3073 Main Street, Weirton. Her pie shop was converted to a diner named“Cathy’s Snack Shack” for the “Super 8” movie production and Cathy has decided to keep her businessappearing much the same as it did in the movie. Pictures on the wall (provided to Paramount by Weir-ton Area Museum) show 1970’s scenes of people in Weirton (Lillian, Ohio in movie). The table in frontwindow underneath the neon sign is known as the “Hero’s Table” in the movie.

Additional ContributionsMuseum President Dennis Jones has been in-formed by Paramount Pictures Location Man-ager, Demian Resnick, that WAMCC will soonreceive a monetary donation from Paramount in

appreciation for the contributions WAMCChas made to help with the movie production.Also, Grant Samson, Set Dresser for Para-mount Pictures, has provided Dennis withthree copies of the “Lillian Journal” newspaper,which was in several scenes in and aroundCathy’s Snack Shack. The Weirton Daily Timesand Steubenville Herald Star are arranging forWAMCC to display two newspaper vendingmachines like those in the movie (see photo >>>).

Cathy Adams, manager of “Cathy’s HomemadePies and Sandwiches,” is all smiles these days,especially since her place of business played amajor role in Paramount’s movie titled “Super8,” which is on track to be a Summer 2011blockbuster science fiction film. Cathy has de-cided to keep her place looking as it did in themovie, decorated with memorabilia and 1970’sWeirton photographs provided by WAMCC.Cathy has added autographed pictures of theParamount crew including J.J. Abrams, TommyGormley, Martin Whist, Demian Resnick, andJulian Ruhe. “Saturday I had people come herefrom New Alexandria (OH), Doddrige County(WV) and Lewiston (WV). Also, some local col-lege students requested to sit at the “Hero’s Ta-ble,” stated Cathy. Cathy offers her delicioushomemade pies and sandwiches, including thefamous Frank’s Frenchburger and Red Hot soldat the previous 2 “Frank’s” locations in Weirton.



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