Those strawberries that will be waiting for you Friday at the WVU Coliseum parking lot are pretty strong.
That’s because they do a lot of heavy lifting at Morgantown High School.
Everyone’s favorite aggregate fruit has been known to buy supplemental textbooks and other teaching materials for MHS classrooms.
The strawberries have also helped bankroll trips for Morgantown High students representing their school in national competitions.
For years they’ve been a principal fundraiser for the MHS Foundation, which does all of the above and more.
And Friday’s the day the strawberry orders are in, at the basketball arena in Evansdale.
Orders may be picked up from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in the parking lot. If you missed the ordering period, though, you still have a chance to buy. Organizers laid in some extra berries for the impulse crowd.
The price is $34 for a full flat, which is about 12 pints. It’s $17 for a half flat.
If you like the purpose, but not necessarily the strawberries, you can make a donation without buying, the foundation said.
The foundation has taken root with the academic mission over the years at the high school on Wilson Avenue.
Besides the textbook money and the overtures to help with students making regional and national appearances, the foundation is also known for the scholarships that it helps fund.
The offering for the Mary Petropoulus scholarship there is one of the more-recent examples.
Petropoulus — or, “Ms. P.,” as she was affectionately known — taught at MHS for 35 years.
She was an institution within the institution by the time she retired, legions of her former students said.
In terms of the intellectual rigor required, her advanced placement classes in psychology and European history were hardly “easy,” as reported by the budding scholars who came through her classroom.
Ms. P. made the courses entertaining, they said, by way of her sense of humor and outsized personality.
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