Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1967

Swain County High School Class Trip to Washington D.C., 1967

High school students

High school teachers

School field trips

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

This 1967 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: Bill Becker, Leonard Winchester, Archie Watkins, Joe Myers, Randy Gregory, Ronnie Douthit, Bobby Childers, Paul Styles, John Hughes, Mike Lindsey, Richard Lackey, Teddy Greene, Dickie Barker, Steve Higdon, Willie Joe Jenkins, Charlie Hensley, Ward Crisp, David Wayman, Carl Estes, Jim Morgans, Ray Cunningham, Jim Bo Bingham, Bruce Dills.Second Row: Marie Davis, Eileen Wiggins, Julia Coleman, Connie Barnes, Betty Farley, Edna Mae Smith, Nanette Winchester, Donna McKinney, Carolyn Conseen, Joan Edwards, Ellen Winchester, Virginia Hensley, Mary Parris, Peggy Laney, Mary Nell Cutshaw, Selene Walker, Dorothy Queen, Gladys Queen, Barbara Patillo, Freida Rector, Peggy Lane, Betsy Wiggins, Linda Merrit, Lynda Simonds, Wanda Phillips, Sandra Frizzell, Elaine Conner, Shirley Crisp.Third Row: Louetta Lakey, Kathy Downs, Laura Maney, Beatrice Brooks, Geraldine Woodard, Mary Alice Hicks, Virginia Jones, Iris Rogers, Judy Marr, Theresa Thomas, Gerri Wright, Gene Cleghorn, Reona Posey, Carroll Wright, Martha Brown, Cecil Sutton, Ed Gibson, Sally Jenkins, Gwen Rochester, Eva Nell Oliver, Patsy Byrd, Margaret Varner, Ann Robinson, Carolyn Greene, Becky Revis, Margie Lamkin, Glenda Muse, Beverly Gunn, Vivian Brendle, Wanda Cochran, Ella Mae DeHart.Fourth Row: Martin DeBord, Danny Cline, Joe Benny Shuler, Barry Powell, Bill Burnette, John Dills, Roy Parton, George Morris, Danny Myers, Larry Ledford, Gentry Woodard, Gary Gunter, Ronnie Hutchins, Toby Chambers, Gene Rowland.

Mar-Ves Studio

Friends of the Bryson City Cemetery

1967

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photographs

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StillImage

64675

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Washington (D.C.)

12" x 20"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia