Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Portrait photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn wearing a U.S. Army uniform. He is best remembered for the years he served as Bandmaster at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in the late 1930’s.

Cecil was from Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of William…

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

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.

Group of unidentified students and teachers at the Strasburg School.

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…

Margaret Ott (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…

Portrait photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn wearing a U.S. Army uniform. He is best remembered for the years he served as Bandmaster at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in the late 1930’s.

Cecil was from Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of William…

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…

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

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

Portrait photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn, in profile, and wearing a uniform. He is best remembered for the years he served as Bandmaster at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in the late 1930’s.

Cecil was from Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of…

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…

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

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

Clayton was born in Maryland, the son of Benjamin F. (1844-1910) and Catherine E. (Hartle) (1845-1902) Spessard. He had…

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

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

Clayton was born in Maryland, the son of Benjamin F.…

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

This appears to be a reproduction of an earlier image also created by Morrison Studios.

The same image was used to make the 1902 photograph of faculty members of…

Document announcing public sale for the personal property of William C. Pettit, deceased. Pettit was a teacher who had taught for a period in Hardy County and then in Shenandoah County where he died sometime in the early 1850s.

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.

Photograph showing Frances Jenkins (1884-1980), teacher at Strasburg High School. The picture was taken sometime around 1920, It appears in Pauline Lichliter's high school scrapbook.
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