Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of educator Genevieve McClain standing with two of her students, Daniel Smith (seated) and Clarence Green (standing).

These students are most likely ones Genevieve McClain taught while teaching at Creekside School.

Genevieve D.…

Music Ensemble at Massanutten Academy
Photograph of a musical ensemble on the stage Lantz Hall at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA). The ensemble includes a mixture of MMA cadets, adults, and Woodstock High School students.

Pictured are, from…

Photograph of fourteen Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadets and an instructor Leroy Glunt (back row, in a darker military uniform.)

Photograph showing a group of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) students and faculty members.

Pictured are, from left to right:

Front Row:
Unidentified, Leroy Glunt, Joseph Lawrence (Commandant), Unidentified, Unidentified

Second…

Photograph of Colonel Howard J. Benchoff (on left) with an unidentified Army soldier posing on the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) campus with Lantz Hall visible behind them.

Colonel Benchoff was an influential headmaster of MMA from…

Photograph of nineteen unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadets wearing their school uniforms. They are standing on the steps of a school building.

Standing with them is Howard Benchoff, headmaster and teacher at MMA.

Pictured…

Photograph of a group of unidentified students and instructors standing in a line in front of Lantz Hall, a Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) school building.

This photograph was taken before the academy adapted a military component. Headmaster…

Group of unidentified students posed together with at least four adults, probably teachers, in front of an unidentified school building.

Portrait photograph of Geraldine Brown (Borden) Artz as a young woman with short hair.

She was born in Toms Brook, a daughter of Christian David and Alma (Brown) Borden.

She taught in Shenandoah County Public School system for more than 40…

Photograph of William R. England.

England was commandant of cadets for Massanutten Military Academy in 1917 and is wearing the school's uniform.

Photograph of William R. England.

England was commandant of cadets for Massanutten Military Academy in 1917 and is wearing the school's uniform.

Group of nine unidentified younger cadets from Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in their school's uniform.

This photograph appears in the 1927 Massanutten Military Academy yearbook "The Adjutant" which lists them as the "Under-Frosh Group."…

Group of ten unidentified cadets and teachers from Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) posed together on the steps of a campus building and looking off to the side.

Four men from Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) wearing the school's uniform replete with swords.

Pictured are, from left to right:

William R. England (Commandant of Cadets), Unidentified, Alfred Carroll Richmond, Edwin Morrison.

Geraldine Brown (Borden) Artz as a young woman with short hair.

She was born in Toms Brook, a daughter of Christian David and Alma (Brown) Borden.

She taught in Shenandoah County Public School system for more than 40 years.

Her husband was…

Portrait photograph of Captain Alan Lonsdale who taught in the Department of Languages at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock, Virginia, during the 1926/1927 academic year.

This photograph was used in the 1927 MMA yearbook, "The…

Portrait photograph of Lelia K. (Burner) Boswell wearing her round glasses and faux pearls.

She was from the Calvary area near Woodstock and was the daughter of Harry Cameron and Annie Elizabeth (Heishman) Burner.

Her first husband was Thomas…

Portrait photograph of Alvin A. Lutz wearing a suit and tie.

He served as the Principal of Edinburg High School in the early 1930s.

His parents were Turner Ashby and Cora Lutz. He married Gladys G. (Clem) Lutz. The couple had at least one…

Portrait photograph of Lieutenant Alan Richardson wearing his U.S. Army Infantry Reserves uniform.

Lt. Richardson served as the Commandant of Cadets at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock, Virginia.

This photograph appeared in the…

Portrait photograph of Guy A. Benchoff, a well-known instructor and Commandant of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA), in his school's uniform.

This photograph appears in the 1927 Massanutten Academy yearbook titled: "The Adjutant".

Born in…

Portrait photograph of Lucy Frye Ludwig. She was a school teacher for many years in Strasburg.

Lucy never married and was the daughter of Henry P. and Mary K. (Spangler) Ludwig.

This photograph appeared in the 1925 Strasburg High School…

Photograph of Howard J. Benchoff with his arm around his young daughter, Rosalie (Benchoff) Noell.

Howard Johnston Benchoff was a well-known and influential headmaster of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock.

He was the son of…

Portrait photograph of Lelia Katherine (Burner) Boswell.

This photograph appeared in the 1925 Woodstock High School yearbook. That year Lelia was a member of the Junior Class.

She was from the Calvary area near Woodstock and was the daughter…

Portrait photograph of John H. Sachs wearing a suit and tie with a starched collar.

Sachs was an instructor at Massanutten Academy for the 1912-1913 school year.

Portrait photograph of Nathan H. Corman.

Corman was an instructor at Massanutten Academy for the 1911-1912 school year. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College.
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