Dates: 1923-2000

Collection Number: MS 397

Physical Location: Basement

Extent: Scrapbooks (1.5 cubic ft.)

Creators/Collectors: Lionel Key (Class of 1923)

Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.

User Restrictions: No restrictions.

Preferred Citation: Charlottesville High School Alumni Memorabilia, MS 397, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society (ACHS), Charlottesville, Va.

Biographical/Historical Information: Lane High School was a public secondary school from 1940 until 1974. It was an all-white school until its integration in 1959. Lane High School was replaced by Charlottesville High School in 1974, and the building is now the Albemarle County office building.

Scope and Content: The collection consists of scrapbooks made by Charlottesville High School and Lane High School alumni for their class reunions.

Arrangement:

These scrapbooks are on the shelf in ACHS basement storage. There is also one box with materials.

Lionel Key Scrapbooks: Five scrapbooks containing news-clippings, some correspondence, remembrances and photographs related to the Charlottesville High School Class of 1923 in their 50th and 55th Anniversary Reunions

Mildred Sadler Johnson [MSJ] Scrapbooks: Eight scrapbooks with memorabilia of Lane High School alumni reunions of the Class of 1941 donated to ACHS in 2001.
1. Class of 1941: 25th (1966), 30th (1971), 35th (1976), 40th (1981) Reunions.
2. Class of 1941: 50th Reunion (1986)
3. Lane High School Reunions of 1990 and 1991
4. Lane High School Reunions of 1992, 1993, 1994
5. Lane High School reunions Classmates A – Harman
6. Lane High School Reunions Classmates Harris – Z
7. Teachers Obituaries.
8. Miscellaneous. [This scrapbook contains photographs of McGuffy Class of 1934 and Class of 1936 students; photo of Midway School and Lane High School; The McGuffey Reader of 1935; and Lane High School reunion rosters for 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993]
f. 1: Lane High School Reunion Newsletter [in folder in box 1], 1987-2000

Box 1
f. 1: Lane High School Reunion Newsletter, 1987-2000
f. 2 -3: Preston A. Coiner Program Books: Two books of Lane High School 30th and 40th Reunions of the Class of 1958, donated to ACHS in the Summer of 2007.
f. 4: Greg Campbell Memorabilia of the Class of 1959 Reunion in 1979 (donated to ACHS in 2019) – Program booklet for the 20th Reunion, 1979; color photograph of Class of 1959 in 2009; questionnaire.

Persons:

  • Greg Campbell
  • Preston A. Coiner
  • Lionel Key
  • Mildred Sadler Johnson

Subjects:

  • Scrapbooks
  • Charlottesville High School (Va.)--Alumni and alumnae

Record Types: Scrapbooks.