Gretchen Benchoff
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Title
Gretchen Benchoff
Subject
Benchoff, Gretchen Rebecca (1949-2012)
Description
Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gretchen Rebecca Benchoff as a young woman with short hair and bangs.
She was the daughter of Robert Johnston Benchoff, headmaster of Massanutten Military Academy, and Jean (Sine) Benchoff.
She graduated from Central High School, Woodstock, Va., and received both a B.M. and an M.M. from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
An image similar to these two was used in the 1967 Central High School yearbook because Gretchen, as a Senior, won the DAR Good Citizenship Award that year.
From 1974-2002, Gretchen was on the college faculty, the preparatory faculty and was chair of the Music Theory Department at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. From 1981-2005, she was employed by Dunbar Armored Inc., Hunt Valley, Md., as vice president of Human Resources. At the end of her career, she worked part-time in a human resource capacity at Towson Pharmacy, Towson, Md.
Gretchen never married and was buried in Woodstock, Virginia.
She was the daughter of Robert Johnston Benchoff, headmaster of Massanutten Military Academy, and Jean (Sine) Benchoff.
She graduated from Central High School, Woodstock, Va., and received both a B.M. and an M.M. from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
An image similar to these two was used in the 1967 Central High School yearbook because Gretchen, as a Senior, won the DAR Good Citizenship Award that year.
From 1974-2002, Gretchen was on the college faculty, the preparatory faculty and was chair of the Music Theory Department at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. From 1981-2005, she was employed by Dunbar Armored Inc., Hunt Valley, Md., as vice president of Human Resources. At the end of her career, she worked part-time in a human resource capacity at Towson Pharmacy, Towson, Md.
Gretchen never married and was buried in Woodstock, Virginia.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Undated
Contributor
Identified in 2025 by library staff based on another, identified image of her in the Morrison Studio Collection.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Gretchen R. Benchoff appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 030501 and 030601.
Identifier
030501
Original Format
Film Negative
Physical Dimensions
5x7 Film
Collection
Citationzork
Morrison Studio, “Gretchen Benchoff,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/73817.
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