Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1955

Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1955

High school students

High school teachers

School field trips

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

This 1955 Swain County High School Senior class photograph was taken in front of the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. Each year from as early as 1953 until about 2015, Swain County seniors took a trip from Bryson City, North Carolina to the District of Columbia, with high school teachers as their chaperones. Until 1970 the trip was made by a combination of bus and train via Southern Railway. Starting in 1971 a bus was taken the entire way. All names are read left to right. Front Row: James Therlo Herron, William Arthur “Bud” Moles, Edward Everett “Ed” Bain, Richard Neil Breedlove, Carroll Wright, Jr., John Thomas Hyde, Harvey Jake Hyatt, Thomas Edward “Little Tom” Plott, Edward Harlan “Shorty” Shook (bus driver) Clarence Golden, Woodrow Blaine Sneed, Dale Sutton, Robert Thomas “Bobby” Seay, Claude Andrew Cochran, John Lawrence Brooks, Robert Lee Blanton, Steve Green, Thad Mason.Second Row: Gertrude Irene Allen, Ellen Marie Davis, Mary Ruth Stanberry, Patricia June “Patsy” Birchfield, Barbara Ann Monteith, Deola Doris Jones, Betty Marie Rathbone, Sandra Shuler, Helen Jean Freeman, Rose Marie Wilde, Elizabeth Lucille “Betty” Casebolt, Wanda Lee Burgess, Barbara Ann Arvey, Ramona Colleen Williams, Barbara Carol Estes, Hazel Elizabeth Adams, Carolyn Jean Battle, Doris Cochran.Third Row: Cledus Harold Medford, Dennis Burnette, Viola Marie Williams, Genevieve Lindsey, Bernice Brown, Patricia Estelle “Pat” Brintnall, Evelyn Naomi Rogers, Robert Gammon, Ruth Lucinda Woodard, unidentified Representative, unidentified Representative, unidentified Representative, Lucille Brintnall, John Wikle, unidentified Representative, unidentified Representative, Ann Kay Floyd, Lela Margaret Tallent, Gwendolyn June “Gwen” Clampitt, Wilda Ann Nichols, Julia Edna Thomas, Mercedes Eleanor Shook, Phillip Lindsey, Bennett Clyde Arvey. Fourth Row: Ralph Plato “R.P.” Jenkins, Jr, Thaddeus Dillard “Thad” Bryson, Wallace Elmer Ashe, W.D. Gunter, Harold Thomas “Big Tom” Sandlin, Charles Shufford Sawyer, James Edward Roberts, Joe Edward Blackburn, Bobby Joe Shuler, Norris Ben Herron, Ray Allen “Bud” Shuler.

Mar-Ves Studio

Friends of the Bryson City Cemetery

1955

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StillImage

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Washington (D.C.)

12.25" x 20"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia