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WELCH GRADE SCHOOL
IN THE 50s

Mrs. Peraldo's  Fifth Grade Class - Halloween 1953
Future Members of WHS Class of  1960

First row: ??, Second Row:  Charles Bowers, Peggy Kender & Jessie Sue Prickett, ??,  & Bill Mann.  Third Row:  Martha Hurt, Virginia Jervis, ??,  &Mac Gambill. , Standing Left front:  ??, Marion Stroupe, back row and around room:  ??, Clara Peraldo,  ??, Jewel Mitchem, ??, ??, ??,  Linda Warf, ??,  and Diane Roberts

Mrs. Mann's Second Grade Class
Future Members of WHS Class of 1965

In no particular order, included above are: Doug Crisp, Dickey Davis, Linda Camper, Nancy Porter, Bill Belchee, Katherine Katrozo, Mary Lou Brown,  Charles Williams,  Robert Stevenson, Juanita Evans, Francine Adams, Drema Assid, Tommy Ranzo, Fred Jones, Linda Jones, Junior Sansom, Susan Baker, George Bailey, Doris Yost, Carolyn Cornett, and Susan Haynes.
If you can identify others, please let us know.

Mrs. Mann's Fourth Grade Class
St. Patrick's Day Play 1955
Future Members of  WHS Class of 1965

 


2-Room School at Browns Creek - 1950
Principal: Louise Mann, Teacher:  Fawn Tucker
 


Browns Creek School

This frame school on the Pineville Road 
was replaced in the mid-50s and 
now houses all of  Welch Grade School


Pictures provided compliments of Louise Mann, former McDowell County teacher

Please submit name identifications/corrections to Donnie Skuja


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