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Class of 1964
2nd Grade Christmas Party

This photo was taken in the elementary school gym (what is known as the middle school) at Christmas. 

Photo submitted by Dean McIntosh, who was from the Class of 1964.


Can you help identify some of these students??  If you can, send an email to the webmaster.

Front Row L-R
1.   Ruth Rush
2.   Betty Honea
3.   Rhonda Wendzel
4.   Connie Austin
5.   Katrina Kiser
6.   Bonnie Lewis
7.   Josie Morsaw
8.   Lois Brinsfield
9.   Boy with curly hair in coveralls -   can't identify
10.  Boy with plaid shirt, hand up by chin - can't identify
11.  Boy on front step with plaid shirt, hands folded in front, with tennis shoes - can't identify
12.   Boy resting chin on hand - can't identify
13.   Girl with dark (maybe red) curly hair - big horizontal stripes on front of dress - can't identify.

Second Row from Front L-R
1.   Tom Melville
2.   David Sinclair
3.   Bernice Madison
4.   Girl with dark hair, big white collar - can't identify
5.   Joyce Brown
6.   Butch Bailey
7.   Doug Boze
10. Diane Boze
11. Margie Martins
12. Marilyn Strand
13. Judy Dunn
14. Girl holding hands next to face - can't identify
15. Boy with dark hair - not identified
16.  Boy with stripped shirt - not identified.
 
Third (short) Row from Front L-R
1.   Mary Ellen Rogers - girl behind Butch Bailey
2. Girl behind Margie Martins - not identified
3.  Tim Burnette
4.  Jackie Rice
5.  Girl standing with side profile, white blouse - not identified
6.  Marjorie Wolverton (only face shows between 2 boys)
7.  Betty Martin (?) girl with long blondish hair - not identified

 
Fourth (short) Row from Front L-R
1.  Jr. Lewis
2.  Art Morsaw
3.  Girl with light color hair - can't identify
4.  Girl in front of #3 is Gale McIntosh (Dean's little sister).
5.  Boy in stripped shirt - can't identify
6.  Annette Icenogle - tall girl in back row to the right of the door
7.  Girl just past Annette with short dark hair may be Trudy Wax???

Click here to see this photo from a different angle that shows several other students not in this shot.


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