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Provenance

From the estate of Doug Bowman, local collector of Harrisonburg memorabilia.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Wilbur S. Pence Letter to Nellie F. Zirkle, 1951 July 11, SC 0361, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Acquisition Information

Purchased at Green Valley Auctions December 5th, 2023 sale of the Doug Bowman Estate.

Processing Information

The letter was separated from a lot of letters related to Polly Ney Zindler due to it having no connection to the other Zindler correspondence.

Biographical / Historical

Wilbur S. Pence (1906-1986) served as Division Superintendent of Rockingham County Public Schools from 1950 to 1971. Nellie F. Zirkle, resident of Dayton, Virginia, lived in close proximity to Dayton High School which was located on Mill Street.

Scope and Contents

Typed letter dated July 11, 1951 from Wilbur S. Pence, Division Superintendent of Rockingham County Public Schools, to Nellie Zirkle (1887-1973) regarding her complaint about students and spectators trespassing on her property to retrieve baseballs. Zirkle lived in close proximity to Dayton High School where the summer baseball team practiced and played games.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Bowman, Douglas, 1948-2023
• Dayton (Va.) -- History
• Education -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
• Green Valley Auctions, Inc.
• Letters (correspondence)
• Public schools -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
• Rockingham County (Va.) -- History