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List of Awards:
Valedictorian- Joel Elizabeth Wesley
Salutatorian- Franklin Eugene Horton
Citizenship- Sarah Lee Evans, Leon McFarland
Girls Athletics- Claudia Dunwoody
Boys Athletics- Leo McFarland
Biology- Mozianio Feliford, Anne…

Pamphlet for a Nelson-Merry Class Reunion.

1950 and 1960 rosters for the football team and both the girls and boys basketball teams. Black and white pictures of teams, fans and coaches with some labels. One set of handwritten rosters for the girls and boys basketball teams with no date.…

Black and white photos of school friends at various school events, including prom and clean-up day.

Nelson-Merry School classmate signatures from the collection of Julia Taliaferro. No date is given.

Certificate of Award for Sylvia Sue Barnette, valedictorian Nelson-Merry Class of 1955 with free one year subscription to Reader's Digest. Folded front cover of Nelson-Merry Commencement Exercises pamphlet labeled 5/23/54. Black and white photographs…

Julia Taliaferro is pictured with her Nelson-Merry history collection on the front page of the Standard Banner newspaper as an icon of Black History Month.

The Annual Eugene Peck Scholarship Fundraiser allotted $1,000 to three students, Thomas Jordan, Ty Lashea Elizabeth Hodson and Destiny Leashia Rogers. Those photographed are as follows, in the front row, left to right, are James Dean, Rachel Rogers,…

The Annual Eugene Peck Scholarship Fundraiser allotted $1,000 to three students, Thomas Jordan, Ty Lashea Elizabeth Hodson and Destiny Leashia Rogers. Those photographed are as follows, in the front row, left to right, are James Dean, Rachel Rogers,…

"In 1973, a furniture manufacturer bought Nelson-Merry from the East Tennessee Baptist Association and sought a zone change...."