Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1962

Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1962

High school students

High school teachers

School field trips

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

This 1962 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: William J. Freeman, Joe Woodard, Fletcher Guge, Dennis Thomas, Danny Morris, Bud Marcus, Jim Corbin, Bruce Messer, Larry Randall, Buford Smith, Earl McGaha, Richard Shuler, Larry Davis, Virgil Webb, Kyle Pilkington.Second Row: Lyna Wright, Brenda Taylor, Barbara Ward, Sherry Fox, Linda Laney, Sandra Moore, Brenda Parris, Louise Turpin, Betty Bradley, Betty Sue Coleman, Bessie Annette Sutton, Carol Roberts, Unknown (bus driver), Frances Brown, Shirley Wiggins, Sandra Gayle Jenkins, Vickie White, Carolyn Welch, Brenda Long, Jean Casada, Era Anthony, Dora Arvey, Mildred Bailey, Judy Sutton, Dorothy Lois Blanton.Third Row: Edwin Sherrill, Keith Williams, Jim Estes, Richard Harding, Susan Pierce, Linda Jane McHan, Jeanette Jenkins, Judith Gwendolyn Shuler, Evelyn Dills, Carolyn Walker, Sue Hyde, Cecil Sutton, Congressman Roy Taylor, Martin Cook, Margaret Richmond, Carolyn Watkins, Nellie Faye Stanton, Willa Jean Sizemore, Annette Casada, Cheryl Greene, Edna Mae Brendle, Bruce Green, Bill Beck, Butch Davis.Fourth Row: Kip Payne, Mac Stephenson, John Brintnall, Monroe Davis, Bill Stillwell, Curtis Thomasson, Bobby Joe Webb, Ted Hamilton, Blake Tabor, Jim Benedetto, Jerry McKinney, Eddie Cooper, Ralph Henry, Joe Payne, Gary Davis, Ted Burnett, Raymond Brooks, Richard Pulliam, Clint Hurley, Keith Tipton, Paul Felsberg.

Mar-Ves Studio

Regional Photographs Collection

1962

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StillImage

64671

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Washington (D.C.)

11.75" x 19.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia