Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Portrait of Clayton I. Spessard wearing a suit and tie and high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and History.

This appears to be a…

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Photo of an oval framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard in a suit and tie with a high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and…

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Photo of an oval-framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard.

Clayton was a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Academy at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is a photographic copy of an earlier Morrison Studio image.

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Photo of four separate images, two of which are the same. One image is superimposed over another.

The image of the man has been identified as Clayton I. Spessard, a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Military Academy at the…

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Portrait of Judith Nelson Gaines Adams as a young woman. She taught school in Shenandoah County after college.

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Group of unidentified SVA students and teachers assembled on the steps of one of the campus buildings.

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Group photograph of the students and teachers of the class of 1919 at the St. Luke Graded School.

All have been identified as follows:

Front row, (l to r): Robert Walker, Chester Riffey, Joe Wetzel, Theodore Markley, Dorothy Shipp, James…

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Portrait of Mary Bair Bowman as a young woman.

Mary was the only child of Franklin Schmucker (1871-1963) and Sarah Fletcher (Supinger) (1870-1953) Bowman.

She was a teacher in Shenandoah County for many years. According to her mother's…

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Margaret (Grabill) Jones with her hair pulled back and wearing a long string of faux pearls.

Margaret was a descendant of Captain Grabill, the first Superintendent of Schools in Shenandoah County. She taught English at both Woodstock and New…

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth wearing a suit and tie. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a Principal.

Milton married…

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Portrait of Eleonor Hottel Balthis, who never married and became a teacher.

Born in Strasburg, she was the oldest child of Robert Fleming (1876-1944) and Hattie May (Hottel) (1882-1922) Balthis.

Interestingly, her civil birth was recorded…

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Portrait of Durwood Myers who worked as an agricultural teacher at Woodstock High School and later, at Central High School.

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Portrait of Xina Holmes Durette. She was a newspaper reporter, teacher, and school principal in Luray, Virginia.

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth as a young man wearing a suit and tie.

He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a…

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Group of unidentified students and teachers posed as a group in front of Shenandoah Valley Academy's original "Main Dormitory."

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Group of unidentified students and teachers at the Strasburg School.

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Unidentified group of teachers serving the Shenandoah Valley Academy students in the 1930s. Established in 1908, the Seventh-Day Adventist coeducational boarding school for high school students still exists and is located in New Market, Virginia.

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Group of unidentified students and at least one unidentified teacher posed outside an unidentified school building.

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Photograph of educator Genevieve McClain (center) standing with four of her students. They are:

Front row, left: Betty Steptoe
Front row, right: Frances Cyrus Corley
Rear row, left: Perry Dyer
Rear row, right: Jean Dyer

These students are…

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Candid classroom scene with unidentified elementary-aged children at work while an unidentified teacher works with a boy one-on-one. Pictures of Bible scenes on the walls indicate this was a Sunday school of some kind.

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Portrait of Mary Bair Bowman who was a well known music teacher at Woodstock High School.

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A portrait of Mary Bair Bowman who was a music teacher at Woodstock High School.

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Portrait of Stanley Lockwood Sine as a young Corporal wearing his U.S. Army uniform.

Stanley was born in Woodstock, the son of Mathew Stanley Quay (1894-1974) and Mary Rebecca (Burnshire) (1893-1990) Sine. His father was a truck driver.…

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Portrait of Howard Johnston Benchoff, influential headmaster of Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock.

He was the son of Loudon Francis and Martha Belle (Johnston) Benchoff. His first wife was Kathryn Leona Mahon who died in 1918. His second…

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth wearing a suit and tie. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a Principal.

Milton married…
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