Harpers Ferry High School Collection

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Harpers Ferry High School Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC882

Scope and Content

Collection of yearbooks, bulletins, handbooks, and miscellaneous memorabilia from Harpers Ferry High School. Six (6) Ferry Tales yearbooks: Some yearbooks contain notes and signatures throughout the pages. Includes local business advertisements. ARC882-1: 1953 ARC882-2: 1954 ARC882-3: 1955 ARC882-4: 1956 ARC882-5: 1957; includes a photograph of the class of 1957's 50th class reunion on November 10, 2007, individuals are identified on the back of the photograph ARC882-6: 1962; includes a loose piece of paper identifying the names of students in two photographs ARC882-7: Wooden binder, "The Class of '43," contains photographs and descriptions of students from the senior English class at HFHS in 1943. Includes two loose photographs of the class of 1943. Individuals identified as: 1st row - Gladys Hoffmaster, Ethel Davidson, Mary Lou Nichols, Louise "Tennie" Ranalli, Betty Newlin; 2nd row - Betty Hockensmith, Dorothy Engle, Beatrice Brill, Margaret Dram, Ida Mary Hill; 3rd row - Raleigh Moler, Austine Mater, Wilhelmina Ott, Annunzio Chicchirichi, Yola Lilla, Mary Jane Murphey, Richard Thayer; 4th row - William Stunkle, William Rowe, Vernon Snyder, Harold Knott, Ellwood Bowers, Perry Eackles ARC882-8: 78 RPM record "Indiana State Band March" played by the HFHS band ARC882-9: Two (2) film rolls, 7" and 3 1/2": Movies of Harpers Ferry High School, 1946, taken by Eugene E. Ross, principal ARC882-10: Wooden name plates: Eugene Philip Andes; Franklin Lee Angelo; George Edgar Benjamin; Charles Earl Biller; Raymond Edward Biller; Wilbur Roland Bond; John Douglas Bowers; Ralph William Bowers; William Ellwood Bowers; Joseph Willis Brill; William Alston Brill; Ralph Albin Bush; Whitmore Spencer Butts; Blanche Virginia Cameron; Kenneth K. Cavalier, Jr.; Annunzio Chicchirichi; Barbara Jean Clabaugh; Norman LaVerne Clevenger; Charles Aaron Cline; James Jerauld Cook; Gerald Leonard Cummings; Charles N. Daugherty; Charles Henry Davidson; Elmer Hugh Davidson; Philip Joseph DeLauder; Howard Newton Dillow; John Walter Dudrow; Joseph Donald Eackles; Perry Nelson Eackles; Ernest Earman, Jr.; Randolph Nelson Earman; Lita Lee Edmonson; Louise Katherine Edwards; Harry Francis Emmart; Donald Richard Fields; Howard Nelson Fritts; Russell James Fritts; James Gageby; John E. F. Glover, Jr.; Louis Sheldon Glover; Harry Samuel Graves; George W. Green, Jr.; Martin Blain Grimes; George Dewey Hill, Jr.; John William Hino; Juliet Oram Hino; Edmund S. Hoffmaster, Jr.; Forrest G. Hoffmaster; John Calvin Hoffmaster; Herbert McClelland Irvin; Jack Slicer Isenberg; William Wesley Jackson; Harold Nelson Jacobs; Ralph Mifflin Johnson; Samuel Linden Johnson; Lloyd Junior Jones; James Paul Kain; David Harold Knott; Swagler Henkle Koonce; Walter Alexander Manuel; Jay Kemp Mauzy; Frank Henry McDonald; Preston Stoddard Millard; Daniel Ira Moler; Raleigh William Moler; Raleigh Nichols Moore; John William Morgan; Charles William Murphy; Richard Herbert Naill; Lucy Lyne Nelson; Mary Irvin Newman; D. Shirley Nichols, Jr.; Frank Dean Nichols; Natalie Watson Nichols; Charles Burdette Noland; Claude David Noland; Donald Snyder Noland; Harold Clayton Noland; Robert E. Lee Noland; Gilbert E. Perry, Jr.; Harwood Eugene Potts; John William Rider; Anthol Wm. Shewbridge; Russell Lee Shipe; Henry Granville Stallings; John Patrick Staubs; Thomas W. Stunkle; Phyllis Elizabeth Swope; Norman Richard Thayer; Lester Theodore Wilt; William Eugene Wilt; Kenneth Martin Wolf . Folder 1: Spiral-bound notebook containing a photocopy of HFHS yearbooks from 1923 and 1949 to 1972, titled "Harpers Ferry High School Graduating Classes 1923, 1949 through 1972." Compiled by James L. "Dixie" Wiltshire, HFHS historian, class of 1949. Folder 2: Spiral-bound notebook, "Harpers Ferry High School Alumni Association 50 Years." Contains a history of HFHS and other Jefferson County schools from the late 1800s to 1970s, a list of faculty, courses, and alumni, and graduating class pictures from 1915 to 1972. Folder 3: "Charm Revue" programs, a beauty pageant held at Harpers Ferry High School. Sponsored by Harpers Ferry Band Boosters. Contains advertisements for local businesses. -April 17, 1964 -April 1, 1967 -April 20, 1968 -April 19, 1969 -April 18, 1970 -April 10, 1971 Folder 4: Football and basketball programs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers, 1924-1972 Miscellaneous papers include: -2 Harpers Ferry High School parking permits -Alumni Bulletin of Harper's Ferry District High School, twenty-fifth anniversary, 1940 -10 certificates appointed to Harpers Ferry High School by the State Board of Education for years: 1913-1914. 1935-1936, 1936-1937, 1937-1938, 1941-1942, 1965-1966, 1966-1967, 1967-1968, 1968-1969, 1969-1970 Folder 5: Plays, bands, and concert programs, 1913-1955 -Includes photograph of students with instruments and teacher, presumably from HFHS, undated. Folder 6: Plays, bands, and concert programs, 1956-1972 Folder 7: Commencement materials Includes: -Commencement, baccahaureate sermon, and senior class night programs dating between 1923-1972 -2 photographs of students: one photograph identified at graduating class of 1934 -Guide to Better Studying booklet -2 invitations for laying of corner stone of Harpers Ferry High School, September 1, 1930 -award for distinguished high school publication given to the Booster's Bulletin of Harpers Ferry High School by West Virginia University Department of Journalism Folder 8: Booster's Bulletins 1935-1936 Folder 9: Booster's Bulletins 1937-1938 Folder 10: Booster's Bulletins 1939-1940 Folder 11: Booster's Bulletins 1941-1945 Folder 12: Booster's Bulletins 1946-1947 Folder 13: Booster's Bulletins 1950-1958 Folder 14: Booster's Bulletins 1963-1966 Folder 15: Handbooks 1941-1942 and 1944-1945 Provides history of HFHS, list of faculty, students, courses, and clubs, and photographs. Folder 16: Miscellaneous -Typewritten paper: "West Virginia and its People," 1945 -Yearbook: Memories, Harpers Ferry Junior High, 1978-1979 -Magazine: Echoes of West Virginia, Summer 1949, volume 1, number 1 -Booklet: Poems by Students of Harpers Ferry High School, 1947 -Booklet: Harpers Ferry High School Alumni Roster, 1915 thru 1972 -Booklet: Harpers Ferry High School "Class of 1957" 50th Anniversary, November 10, 2007 -Etiquette Club Booklet, prepared by Etiquette Club at HFHS, May 1940

Acquisition

Accession

75

Source or Donor

Charles Town Library

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1913 - 1979

Archive Size/Extent

6 yearbooks, wooden binder, 78 RPM record, 2 film rolls (7" and 3 1/2"), 100 wooden name plates, 16 folders

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1913-1979