Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn as Bandmaster of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) standing in front of the cadets members of the band and their instruments.

Cecil Newcorn taught music at MMA from 1937-1941.

Photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn as Bandmaster of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) standing to the left of an unidentfied cadet singing into a microphone.

Both men are standing in front of the cadet members of the Massanutten Military Academy…

Photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn as Bandmaster of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) standing in front of the cadets members of the band and their instruments.

Cecil Newcorn taught music at MMA from 1937-1941.

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.

Pictured are:

Ground Level:
Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified,…

Photograph of the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) basketball team standing on the steps of a school building. Twelve of the men pictured are wearing sweat suits with "Massanutten" written across the chest.

The basketball player standing…

Photograph of the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) football team sitting on the steps of a school building. Twenty-five of the pictured cadets are wearing their school football uniforms.

Identified members of the team are (l to r):

Row…

Photograph of the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) basketball team posed on a school building steps.

Ten of the cadets are wearing their school basketball uniform with five non-uniformed men sitting behind them.

Coach Leroy Glunt is…

Photograph of Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadets in their school basketball uniforms and their coach in the back, left.

They are posed on the steps of a school building. The cadet standing in the middle of the front row is holding a…

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

Spessard was a teacher of Latin and History at Massanutten Academy in 1902. A similar photograph of him appeared in a 1902…

Margaret Ott (Grabill) Jones as a young woman wearing a long strand of faux pearls, a bracelet, and a watch.

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

Margaret Ott (Grabill) Jones seated on a bench with one hand in her lap and the other resting against her cheek.

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

Ethel E. Stickley shown seated on a bench.

Ethel taught Speech and Dramatic Reading in Shenandoah County. She never married.

Her parents were Ezra E. and Sophia (Helm) Stickley. She is buried in Woodstock.

Teacher Genevieve McClain, seated, and flanked by three of her students in graduation gowns.

The students are: (l to r) Alfonso Smith, Clarence Green, Daniel Smith.

Alfonso and Daniel Smith were brothers.

Genevieve was a teacher at the…

Portrait photograph 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…

Portrait photograph of Olive M. (Magruder) Dellinger, as a young woman.

Mrs. Dellinger was born in Woodstock to Mark W. Magruder (1868-1921) and Lelia (Riddleberger) Magruder (1867-1939).

She taught school for more than 30 years in Washington,…

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

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

Portrait photograph of Miss Mary Beall Walton wearing a long faux pearl necklace and shown in profile.

Miss Mary Beall Walton was a popular kindergarten and primary grade teacher in the Woodstock public schools during the 1910’s and 1920’s.…

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

Clayton Spessard was a teacher of Latin and History at Massanutten Academy in 1902. This photograph appeared in a 1902 publication advertising that…

Faded image of a group of unidentified elementary-aged school children and a few unidentified teachers standing outside of their school building.

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…

Portrait photograph 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.…

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.…

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.

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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