Shenandoah County Library Archives

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

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there, circa 1902. He taught Ancient Languages and History.

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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 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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Faded image of a group of unidentified elementary-aged school children and a few unidentified teachers standing outside of their 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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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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Group of unidentified students and at least one unidentified teacher posed outside an unidentified school building.

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

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Group of unidentified students posing on the steps of the Lantz Mills School.

The photograph was taken ca. 1924. based on a similar image that is dated.

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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 Margaret Magruder wearing a winter coat with fur on the collar and cuffs.

Margaret was born to Mark Welsh Magruder and Lilia Myrtle Riddleberger. She grew up in Woodstock where her father was an agent in the Fire Insurance business.…

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Photograph of Josephine Miller (Lynn) and Marie Boyer at Harrisonburg State Teacher's College sometime around 1930. Both graduated and became teachers in Shenandoah County.

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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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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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