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 player on the front row, far left…

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…

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.

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…

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.

Group of unidentified students and a teacher 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 photograph of Xinia Ruth (Holmes) Durette.

Her parents were Daniel F. and Louisa (Lehew) Holmes. She was from Luray, Virginia.

She married Eugene Preston Durette from Earlysville, near Charlottesville, in 1929. That marriage ended in…

Portrait photograph 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…

Portrait photograph 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…

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.
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