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Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society

P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

921 WFCHS

Scope and Content: This collection is comprised of materials pertaining to the Braddock Street United Methodist Church and the Junior Century Club in Winchester, VA, USA. The materials consist of a church bulletin and directories; yearbooks for the J.C.C., 1946-1980; membership lists, 1932-1983; news clippings; photograph album; and other miscellaneous materials.
(1 box) Last updated 11/03.

Biographical/Historical: Virginia Bean Sargent was born in Roanoke, VA. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from Madison College. After college, she moved to Winchester to teach third grade at John Kerr Elementary School. She taught third grade for 22 years until 1957 when she became principal of John Kerr Elementary School. Sargent retired in 1976.

Cite As: Virginia Sargent Collection, 921 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

Organization:

Box 1

Autobiography—author unknown, no date, 2 leaves, typescript

Braddock Street United Methodist Church
Church bulletin, February 24, 1982, 1 page, printed
Directories, typescript, bound
1978, 58 pages
1979, 60 pages
1981, 77 pages
1982 Supplement to 1981 Pictorial Directory, 34 pages, typescript
Speech - "Our Changing Goals in Human Relations", given by J. Wm. Hough, February 21, 1982, 2 pages, 1 leaf, typescript (photocopy)

Junior Century Club, 38 items
Yearbooks, 32 items, printed:

1946-1947

1964-1965

1954-1955

1971-1972

1947-1948

1965-1966

1955-1956

1972-1973

1948-1949

1966-1967

1957-1958

1973-1974

1949-1950

1967-1968

1958-1959

1974-1975

1950-1951

1968-1969

1959-1960

1975-1976

1951-1952

1969-1970

1960-1961

1976-1977

1952-1953

1970-1971

1961-1962

1977-1978

"Meeting Life’s Difficulties" no author, no date, 12 leaves, typescript
Poetry and music by Joseph Herbert Bean, 16 items, printed
25th anniversary booklet, 1956-1957, 4 pages, printed
Membership lists, typescript
1980-1981, 1 page
1981-1982, 1 page
1982-1983, 1 page
1932-1982, 3 leaves
Miscellaneous notes, 2 leaves, manuscript

Sargent, Virginia - news clippings, 10 items, printed

Photograph album, given by the teachers and staff of John Kerr School to Mrs. Sargent, June 1972, green leather cover, contains 38 photographs
Page from photograph album, contains 9 photographs