Name/Title
Photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs related to graduation and reunions of Charles Town High School class of 1943 and 1946Entry/Object ID
ARC1003Scope and Content
Items related to graduations and reunions for Charles Town High School class of 1943 and 1946 and Coraopolis High School class of 1943.
Folder 1: Photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs related to graduation and reunions of Charles Town High School class of 1943:
--The Ricochet newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 6, May 28, 1943
--Photograph of graduating class of 1943 in front of Charles Town High School
--Five (5) copies of The Class of 1943 of Charles Town High School. Contains lists of students, their current addresses, occupations, and marital statuses:
-The 1943
-The Class of 1943 in 1983
-The Class of 1943 in 1988
-The Class of 1943 in 1998 (2 copies)
-Program for 1st Annual Charles Town Alumni Get-Together, June 18, 1988
-Two name tags for Virginia Duff Tabb [likely from a CTHS reunion]
-Commemoration pennies for 1943 and 1983 and 1943 and 1988
-Photograph of Charles Town High School [OVERSIZED: SR2/FF2/D11/F1]
Folder 2: Photographs and newspaper clippings of reunions of Charles Town High School class of 1943:
-"In summer 1953?"
-25th reunion, 1968. Front row: Charles Adams; Frances Dailey Vickers; Virginia Howell Willingham; Marie Abshire White; Erma Lee Keiter Gardner; Ellen Merchant; Doris Seal Williams. Middle row: Robert D. Ott; Eleanor James; Kenneth Jones; Mary Lehman Singhas; Isabel Hawk Painter; Rebecca Alger Allara. Back row: Scott Moler; Paul Milton; Carl Merchant; Kenneth Willingham; Shirley M. Hunt; John Edwards.
-40th reunion, 1983. Front row, left to right: Isabelle Hawk Painter; Edith Eby Plass; Isabel Orsini Peer; Marie Abshire White; Eleanor Whitmore VanMetre; Frances Dailey Vickers; Esther W. Reger (teacher); Virginia Duff Tabb; Nelson T. Dailey; T. A .Lowery (teacher, principal). Second row: Doris Seal Williams; Virginia Howell Willingham; Eleanor Jackson Viands; Rebecca Alger Allara; Mary Lehman Singhas; Carl W. Merchant. Third row: Erma Lee Keiter Gardner; Christine Hunter (teacher); Alice Coleman Brown; Eleanor L. James; Robert D. Ott; Scott E. Moler. Fourth row: Shirley M. Hunt; Charles P. Singhas; Marion L. Henshaw; Nelson H. Peer; J. Kenneth Willingham; Ephriam W. Day. Fifth row: Paul W. Milton; Lawrence C. Heiskell; Olin G. Bush, Jr.; Charles F. Adams.
-Newspaper clipping of 40th reunion, 1983 (2 copies)
-45th reunion, at Hilltop Restaurant, Harpers Ferry, June 25, 1988. Front row: Isabel Orsini Peer; Pauline Oden Ott; Isabelle Hawk Painter; Nelson Dailey; Christine Hunter (teacher). Second row: Virginia Duff Tabb; Eleanor James; Doris Seal Williams; Marie Abshire White; Eleanor Jackson Viands; Rebecca Alger Allara; Carl Merchant. Last row: Erma Lee Keiter Gardner; Shirley M. Hunt; Paul Milton; Nelson Peer; Robert D. Ott; Charles Adams; Mary Lehman Singhas.
-Newspaper clipping of 45th reunion, June 25, 1988 (2 copies)
-50th reunion, at Cliffside Inn, Harpers Ferry, June 18, 1993. First row: Virginia Bush Wheeler; Isabel Hawk Painter; Katherine Hodges Wilt (teacher). Second row: Frances Dailey Vickers; Alice Coleman Brown; Doris Seal Williams; Irma L. Keiter Gardner; Marie Abshire White; Pauline Oden Ott; Isabel Orsini Peer; Nelson Dailey. Third row: Virginia Duff Tabb; Margaret Stolle Dorsey; Mary Lehman Singhas; Eleanor Jackson Viands; Virginia Howell Willingham; Eleanor James; Iris Potter Chrisman; Rebecca Alger Allara; Doris Ramey Psillas; Carl Merchant. Fourth row: William Perry; Kenneth Easterday; Shirley M. Hunt. Fifth row: Charles Adams; Robert D. Ott; John Edwards; Nelson Peer; Marion Henshaw; Warren Richard Ott; Richard "Jim" Williams.
-Newspaper clipping of 50th reunion, June 18, 1993
-Reunion of class of 1943, no date. First row: Carl Merchant; Virginia Duff Tabb; Eleanor James; Virginia Howell Willingham; Eleanor Jackson Viands; Marie Abshire White; Isabel Orsini Peer; Mary Lehman Singhas; Frances Dailey Vickers. Second row: Doris Seal Williams; Rebecca Alger Allara; Robert D. Ott; Shirley M. Hunt; Charles Adams; Erma Lee Keiter Gardner; Nelson Peer; William Perry.
-List of alumni from reunion class photograph, June 28, 1958 [photograph not part of the collection]
-Paper with names listed [possibly related to reunion photograph]
Folder 3: Collection of items related to graduation and reunions of Coraopolis High School, located in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, class of 1943. (Virginia Duff graduated from Charles Town High School in 1943. However, materials in this collection indicate [likely falsely] that Virginia Duff graduated from Corapolis High School in 1943):
-Diploma addressed to Virginia Duff from Coraopolis High School, dated June 10, 1943.
-Program for Forty-Second Commencement, June 10, 1943.
-Photocopy of photograph of fifteenth reunion in 1958 and information from the Reunion Committee about upcoming reunion on June 22 at the Montour Country Club.
-Program for fifteenth reunion on June 28,1958
-Program for fiftieth reunion on October 24, 1998 (2 copies)
-Photo of reunion, likely fiftieth reunion on October 24, 1998. Attached paper with list of individuals in photo. Virginia Duff Tab is seated in the bottom row, fifth from left. (Includes photocopy of photo).
-List of alumni names with addresses.
-Southern States Cooperative, Inc. enveloped addressed to Lyle C. Tabb & Son Inc. with names of alumni members on back.
-Miscellaneous correspondence related to Coraopolis High School to and from Virginia Duff Tabb
-Envelope addressed to Virginia D. Tabb that the above Coraopolis High School materials were in.
Folder 4: Collection of items related to graduation and reunions of Charles Town High School class of 1946:
-Commencement program, May 23, 1946
-Program for thirtieth class reunion, May 22, 1976, at John's Restaurant in Ranson
-Photograph of thirtieth class reunion, May 22, 1976. Front row: Angus McDonald; Bill Link; Charles Slusher; Jimmy Propps; Pat Lewis; Jimmy Glassford; Buddy Stone. Second row: Charlena Miller Bombard; Gladys Carroll Sutler; Thelma James Wilt; Evelyn Anders Sprenkle; Ruby Brady Webster; Thelma Ott Clipp; Esther Reger; Dorothy Tumblin Sowers; Jane Webster Strider; Mary Margaret Aikens Johnson; Paul Dailey; Helen Viands Shirley. Third row: Eleanor Bosworth Moore; Mary Milton Simmons; Mabel Brown Carper; Anne James Tabb; Dorothy Gayhart Chamblin; Betty Jane Hill McQuain; Doris Crowley Walker; Violet Miller Clendening; Dorothy Slusher Bohrer; Betty Lee Hitt Nothstein; Barbara Hunter Hooper; Shirley Knott Alger; Charles Duff; Irene Rockwell Johnston; Bobby Cain; Dotty Bush Little; Helen Papasa Jones.
-Newspaper clipping from the Martinsburg Journal of thirtieth class reunion, May 22, 1976
-Newspaper clipping about Oliver Clark
-Folder that above materials were found in labeled "Charles' things- Reunion, Oliver Clark, etc."Acquisition
Accession
601Source or Donor
Tabb, Jane for Virginia Tabb FamilyAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Donated by the Virginia D. Tabb FamilyArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
4 folders