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10 November 2019

• 08:3408:34, 10 November 2019 diff hist +392 N File:Students - BHS class of '65 when they were 6th graders..jpg (Courtesy of John Brubaker) John Brubaker: Norma Hammilton, Dinah Free, Wayne Dobson, Nancy Grams, James Boher, Ron Boaze, Larry Paxton, Bruce Wynkoop, John Brubaker, Gary Hebb, Donna Huffer, Sydney Johnson, Frank Flora, Elaine Gosnell, Wayne Gosnell... current
• 08:3208:32, 10 November 2019 diff hist +711 N File:Students - Mr. Bowers 5th grade class, 1956-57.jpg Mr. Bowers 5th grade class, 1956-57. Who can you identify? Kim Myers, who graciously contributes so many memories, is 2nd from the left, 3rd row. This was BHS class of 1964. (Photo courtesy of Kim Myers) Jo Jamison: Top row Sandra Lewis Pete Best A... current
• 08:2908:29, 10 November 2019 diff hist +265 N File:Students - Mrs. Magalis's 2nd grade class of 1956-57.jpg Mrs. Magalis's 2nd grade class of 1956-57. Kathy Myers (Crone) is 2nd from the top left; sister Kris is 4th from the right, 3rd row. Who else do you recognize. This was BHS class of 1967. (Photo courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 08:2608:26, 10 November 2019 diff hist +761 N File:Students - Class of 1971 - 1959 First Grade Brunswick Elementary.jpg Class of 1971 - 1959 First Grade Brunswick Elementary Top Row: Shelly Hawes, Thomas Maloney, Sue Shepherd, Bobby Redmon, Shirley Gilbert, Franklin Rohrback, Sherry Main, Paul Gaither 2nd Row: Mark Webber, Susan Burbaker, Benny Brown, Doris Hoopengardn... current
• 08:2308:23, 10 November 2019 diff hist +527 N File:Students - BHS Class of 1959.jpg BHS Class of 1959 when they were in grade school at the then new Brunswick Elementary School - Early 1950s. According to Bill Eshbaugh and others: Front row right: Bonnie Bryan, 2nd row, far right: Judy Cooper, 3rd row: Jimmy Dixon., 4th: Dickie Lloy... current
• 08:2108:21, 10 November 2019 diff hist +261 N File:Students - Mrs Strailman's 1st grade class.jpg Mrs Strailman's 1st grade class. Inaugural year at the consolidated Brunswick Elementary School in 1952? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 08:1908:19, 10 November 2019 diff hist +500 N File:Students - Mrs. Frances Manuel's class at BES.jpg Mrs. Frances Manuel's class at BES when the school was new in the early 1950s. Dick Reynolds is the boy on the front row, right. Behind Dick is Erskin Myers, then Reese Grams, Sharon Webber and Bonnie Carey. Behind the laughing girl to the left is Don... current
• 08:1608:16, 10 November 2019 diff hist +440 N File:Students - East End School Girls - 1946.jpg East End School Girls - 1946 1st Row (L-R) Dorothy Derflinger, Patsy Madero, Gail Bingham, Janet Flora, Sharon Souder, Jackie McIntosh 2nd Row (L-R) Dolores Kline, Carol Whisner, Bernice Minnick, Truda Arvin, Janie Munday, Patsy Anderson 3rd row (L-R)... current
• 08:0708:07, 10 November 2019 diff hist +186 N File:Students - Apple Blossom Day - Early 1950s.jpg Apple Blossom Day - Early 1950s Barbara Mohler, Sharon Souder, Jackie McIntosh (Ebersole), Marie Cooper (Photo courtesy of Jackie Ebersole) Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 08:0608:06, 10 November 2019 diff hist +726 N File:Students - sometime around 1946-47..jpg We're wondering about the context for this photo taken on the front steps of old BHS, sometime around 1946-47. Seems like the kids were in uniform. If all were in the same class, this would have been BHS class of 1952. Maybe entrance into 7th grade?... current
• 08:0108:01, 10 November 2019 diff hist +33 File:Class of 1948 - Brunswick High School girls that graduated in 1948.jpg No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 10 November 2019 diff hist +411 N File:Class of 1948 - Brunswick High School girls that graduated in 1948.jpg Brunswick High School girls that graduated in 1948.... Front (l to r) Alice Cunningham, Roma Cummings Hebb, Anna Foreback Dawson Second Row (l to r) Ann Harsh, Joan Burgess, Ruth Lloyd, Elaine Holder Third Row (l to r) Mickey Woods, Elsie Carey, Bever...
• 07:5807:58, 10 November 2019 diff hist +336 N File:Events - West Brunswick Elementary May Day Celebration Court around 1950.jpg West Brunswick Elementary May Day Celebration "Court" around 1950. The photo was taken across the street from the old school on W. Brunswick Street. (l-R) Wayne Mohler, Mrs. Compton, Arlene Albert, Geraldine Shrader, Charlotte Cooper, Franklin Grubb,...
• 07:5607:56, 10 November 2019 diff hist +415 N File:Events - 1948 May Day King & Queen of West End Elementary School - 6th Grade Class.jpg 1948 May Day King & Queen of West End Elementary School - 6th Grade Class (l-r) Harry Biller, Barbara Mohler, David McFadden, Elaine Cummings, Lee Washington, Adelaide Enfield, Richard Virts, Charlotte Chick, Jerry Taylor, Jean Price (Photo courtesy...
• 07:5307:53, 10 November 2019 diff hist +312 N File:Events - 1946 West Brunswick Elementary School May Day king & queen and their court.jpg The 1946 West Brunswick Elementary School May Day king & queen and their court. Ann Wenner is the queen. Who else can you identify? This was BHS class of 1952. The photo was taken across the street from the west end school. (Photo courtesy of Ann Wen...
• 07:5007:50, 10 November 2019 diff hist −106 File:Students - West End Elementary School Halloween Celebration.jpg No edit summary current
• 07:5007:50, 10 November 2019 diff hist +552 N File:Students - West End Elementary School Halloween Celebration.jpg This photo was taken at a Halloween celebration outside the old West End Elementary School during the Great Depression in the late 1930s. See the rooftops of the houses on West Brunswick Street that are still there today. In the front row are Phyllis...
• 07:4707:47, 10 November 2019 diff hist +1,259 N File:Teacher - Thelma Gross.jpg A portrait of Mrs. Thelma Gross, wife of Judge William B. Gross. Mrs. Gross taught at Brunswick Elementary School in the 1950s & Sixties. The Gross family lived in the big horizontal house on Central Avenue just below BES. They were active at Grace Epi... current
• 07:4307:43, 10 November 2019 diff hist +33 File:Teachr - Lucille Moler.jpg No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 10 November 2019 diff hist +607 N File:Teachr - Lucille Moler.jpg Here are some outstanding BHS teachers who were featured in the 1965 Railroader yearbook. First is Mrs. Lucille Moler. A graduate of Hood and George Washington Universities, she began her teaching career at BHS in the 1930s. Mrs. Moler transferred to...
• 07:4107:41, 10 November 2019 diff hist +550 File:Shirley Beard Colvin, Distinguished Citizen 1988 (1).jpg No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 10 November 2019 diff hist +163 File:Ottie Miller Brunswick elementary schools for over 50 years.jpg No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 10 November 2019 diff hist +1,334 N File:Teacher - Peggy Carter, Brunswick Elementary School.jpg We speak from the heart with love & appreciation for Miss Peggy Carter who passed away today. Miss Carter was a favorite teacher for generations of Brunswick Elementary School students from the time she started teaching at the old East End school in 19... current

9 November 2019

• 21:5521:55, 9 November 2019 diff hist +690 N File:Teacher - Peggy Carter.jpg Peggy Carter Miss Carter taught 6th grade at Brunswick Elementary School for many years and enriched the lives of generations of Brunswick students. This picture of her is from the early 1950s in front of her family home on East C Street. (Photo court... current
• 21:5021:50, 9 November 2019 diff hist +1,575 N File:Teacher, Librarian - Mr. William H. (Bill) Harrington..jpg Another noted BHS grad turned educator was longtime Railroader librarian Mr. William H. (Bill) Harrington. A 1940 graduate, Mr. Harrington returned to his alma mater in 1945 to teach English, French and Latin. He became school librarian in 1956 where h... current
• 21:4421:44, 9 November 2019 diff hist +755 N File:Teacher - Brunswick school teachers Elizabeth Frye and Doris Bennett..jpg Brunswick school teachers Elizabeth Frye and Doris Bennett. This photo appears to have been taken in the late 1940s. Does anybody know which school? (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Li... current
• 21:4021:40, 9 November 2019 diff hist +1,990 N File:Teacher - Mary McMurry Margrabe was a 1939 graduate of the (high school on the hill).jpg One of many noted BHS graduates who became teachers, Mary McMurry Margrabe was a 1939 graduate of the "high school on the hill". After receiving her A.B. from Hood College in the early 1940s, Mrs. Margrabe returned to her alma mater where she taught a... current
• 21:3521:35, 9 November 2019 diff hist +61 N File:Teacher, Miss Hazel Good in the then new teacher's lounge at Brunswick Elementary School in the early 1950s From Myer Kaplon Collection.jpg Jknight moved page File:Teacher, Miss Hazel Good in the then new teacher's lounge at Brunswick Elementary School in the early 1950s From Myer Kaplon Collection.jpg to File:Principal and Teacher, Miss Hazel Good.jpg current Tag: New redirect
• 21:3521:35, 9 November 2019 diff hist 0 m File:Principal and Teacher, Miss Hazel Good.jpg Jknight moved page File:Teacher, Miss Hazel Good in the then new teacher's lounge at Brunswick Elementary School in the early 1950s From Myer Kaplon Collection.jpg to File:Principal and Teacher, Miss Hazel Good.jpg current
• 21:3421:34, 9 November 2019 diff hist +598 File:Principal and Teacher, Miss Hazel Good.jpg No edit summary
• 21:2921:29, 9 November 2019 diff hist +33 File:Teacher - Mary Lavinia Hood.jpg No edit summary current
• 21:2921:29, 9 November 2019 diff hist +914 N File:Teacher - Mary Lavinia Hood.jpg Mary Lavinia Hood A lifelong resident of Brunswick along with her sister and fellow teacher Georgia, Miss Hood began her teaching career at the Knoxville school before moving to the old West End Elementary school and finally the present Brunswick Eleme...
• 21:2521:25, 9 November 2019 diff hist +679 N File:Principal - Miss E. Virginia (Patty) Wenner, the first principal of the consolidated Brunswick Elementary School.jpg Miss E. Virginia "Patty" Wenner, the first principal of the consolidated Brunswick Elementary School at her desk around the time the school opened in the fall of 1952. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederic... current
• 21:2221:22, 9 November 2019 diff hist +2,601 N File:Principal - E. Virginia (Patty) Wenner was the first woman to serve as a school principal in Frederick County..jpg E. Virginia (Patty) Wenner was the first woman to serve as a school principal in Frederick County. She began her teaching career at West Brunswick Elementary School after graduation from Brunswick High School in 1911. In 1918, she was elevated to princ... current
• 21:1521:15, 9 November 2019 diff hist +33 File:Schools - Brunswick Elementary School expansion on the north end in August, 1958.jpg No edit summary current
• 21:1521:15, 9 November 2019 diff hist +253 N File:Schools - Brunswick Elementary School expansion on the north end in August, 1958.jpg A photo of the Brunswick Elementary School expansion on the north end in August, 1958 taken from what is now the Eagle's club parking lot. This appears to be the addition of the 1st grade classrooms. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Bowers)
• 21:1221:12, 9 November 2019 diff hist +33 File:Schools - Brunswick Elementary School Expansion 1958.jpg No edit summary current
• 21:1121:11, 9 November 2019 diff hist +773 N File:Schools - Brunswick Elementary School Expansion 1958.jpg Expansion of Brunswick Elementary School. The photo was dated August, 1958. The new section appears to have been some new classrooms and the gymnasium at the south end. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Bowers) James Cox Jr: Look hard and you can see th...
• 21:0821:08, 9 November 2019 diff hist +570 N File:Schools - Brunswick Elementary School, which opened in 1952..jpg Building the walls of Brunswick Elementary School, which opened in 1952. The new BES consolidated the east and west end schools into one. Many students prior to the opening of BES didn't know their contemporaries from the other side of town. (From th... current
• 21:0521:05, 9 November 2019 diff hist +345 N File:Students - Miss Carter's class - Old East End Elementary School in 1950.jpg (Photo courtesy of Mary Taulton Dillow) Patti Cummings Stone: My brother,John(Sonny) Cummings on the back row in the shirt with a collar. Our mother did embroidery on it and I still have it. Judith Bowers Ware: I see Lovie H. Wayne Shaff, Jane Mohler... current
• 21:0121:01, 9 November 2019 diff hist +266 N File:Students - East Brunswick Elementary School Children 1923.jpg Photo courtesy of Kathy Hale Cage (published in B & O R. R. Magazine, May, 1923) Kathy Hale Cage: My Husband David Cage's Father, Jack Cage is in the front row. He grew up to be a Clerk on the B & O R.R. in Brunswick. Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 20:5720:57, 9 November 2019 diff hist +778 N File:Students - 7th Grade Class of 1913-1914.jpg Brunswick 7th Grade Class of 1913-1914. Bottom Row; Ralph Grams, Ellsworth McBride, Ernest Pearrell, John Biddle, Charles Mills, Charles Harrington. Second Row; Brisco Karns, Mamie Smith, Elsie Schnauffer, Sadie Reed, Christine Jones, Mary (Leach) Barg... current
• 20:5620:56, 9 November 2019 diff hist +298 N File:Schools - 1947 photo from the Gapland School.jpg 1947 photo from the Gapland School. Note the boys with the baseball bat and glove. (Clipping from The Brunswick Citizen 6/27/2019; photo courtesy of David Wiles) Tracie Andrews-Cavnar: It appears that 3200 Gapland Road was the location of the school.... current
• 20:5020:50, 9 November 2019 diff hist +525 N File:Students - Bingham School in Weverton, circa 1930..jpg Student body photo at the old Bingham School in Weverton, circa 1930. Mrs. Ethel Hanes (top right) later taught 1st grade at Brunswick Elementary School into the 1960 Evelyn Holmes: I bought the old Weverton schoolhouse a couple of years ago and fixed... current
• 20:4620:46, 9 November 2019 diff hist +169 N File:Students - A 1912 picture of East Brunswick Elementary School.jpg A 1912 picture of East Brunswick Elementary School The Brunswick Citizen, November 17, 1983. Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 20:4420:44, 9 November 2019 diff hist +260 N File:Students - BHS picture from the early 1900s..jpg Here's an old BHS picture from the early 1900s. Note the BHS pennant in the upper right. Edgar Shelton is 2nd from the left on the front row. We're not sure where the picture was taken. (Photo courtesy of Bob Day) Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 20:4320:43, 9 November 2019 diff hist +75 N File:Students - East End Elementary School, Advance First Grade 1912 - 1913.jpg Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery Category:Smoketown Schools current
• 20:3720:37, 9 November 2019 diff hist +751 N File:Class of 1915 - This is not the graduating class.jpg BHS class of 1915 - This is not the graduating class (l-r first row) unidentified, O. McDonald Miller, E. Sigafoose Stewart, Helen Hammond, Beatrice Smith Hartman, Nellie Mehrling, Hazel Good; (l-r second row) Mary Kaetzel Brocken, Edith Wenner Van Pel... current
• 20:3420:34, 9 November 2019 diff hist +439 N File:School - East End School.jpg BHS photo when classes were held at the old east end school - Edgar Shelton is third row on the left, 2nd in. (Courtesy of Robert Day) Jacquelyn Ebersole: The 1911 Year Book shows this school on the frontice page with the Label Brunswick High School.... current
• 20:3120:31, 9 November 2019 diff hist +1,177 N File:Class of 1911.jpg BHS Class of 1911-- The 2 young ladies in the middle back row were Ann Wenner (Van Bebber) on the left and E. Virginia (Patty) Wenner on the right. Most old timers in Brunswick knew Miss Patty for her role terrorizing kids as BES principal, but sister... current