Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook, 1972-1975, Ms1994-031, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
Russell, Frances McEver Hutcheson, 1931-2021
Abstract:
This collection conains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs of the Blacksburg High School Warrior Band and the Band Boosters, created by Frances Hutcheson Russell.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook, 1972-1975, Ms1994-031, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs of the Blacksburg High School Warrior Band, and about the work of the Band Boosters, whose purpose was to encourage and support the development of the instrumental program in the Blacksburg, Virginia, schools. The scrapbook was created by Frances Hutcheson Russell when she was publicity chair of the Band Boosters.

Biographical / historical:

Blacksburg High School is a public school in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia.

Frances (McEver) Hutcheson Russell (1931-2021) was born to Herbert M. "Mac" and Eleanor S. McEver in Blacksburg, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Richmond's Westhampton College and taught English at Blacksburg High School. In 1954, Frances married Thomas B. Hutcheson, Jr., and they had three children. After his death, she married George E. "Buddy" Russell.

Sources:

"Frances Hutcheson Russell" obituary, Roanoke Times, Nov. 28, 2021, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/frances-russell-obituary?id=31674845, accessed Nov. 29, 2023.

"VT Stories Oral History with Buddy and Frances Russell, May 15, 2015", VT Stories Oral History Collection (Ms2016-015), available at VT Special Collections and University Archives Online, https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2016-015/Ms2016-015_BuddyRussell, accessed Nov. 29, 2023.

Acquisition information:
The Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in October 1993.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Blacksburg [Virginia] High School Band Boosters Scrapbook completed in November 2023.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard