| Let us introduce ourselves: |
SECRETARY
| Stephanie Petree Priddy: I am the writer of this here web page. Can you tell I am the toddler of this group. I am the crafty one out of the group. I am the one that does the crazy stuff like this website. Also the parade floats. Thats me. I am not a member of much just this and the good old school PTA. I am the co-owner of an asphalt Paving co. ( got to make the hubby feel important.) I was born in raised in the big ol' town of Rural Hall. I am currently married . I have 4 kids, a pretend kid, and a grandchild. My family lines include Petree, Kiger, Fletcher, Moser, Shropshire, Westmoreland, Stirewalt, and the Andersons. |
TREASURER
| Miranda Griffin: Well she's over enthusiastic about the town of Rural Hall. Miranda's beginnings were in Rural Hall starting with 1954. Miranda is the energy one. She too, is a genealogy freak. She is a member of The Genealogical Society of Rockingham and Stokes Counties. She is a high school graduate from North Forsyth High School. And she devoted 35 years to the Sears Roebuck & Company. Her family lines include: Griffin, Nifong, Long, Allen, Moxley, Lowe, Wilson, Murphy, Martin. Also shes researching currently Wall, Payne, Moser, Lawson, Bowen, Booze, Boles, Smith, Westmoreland, Barr and Bitting. |
| Peggy Griffin Toler: Like myself, Grew up in Rural Hall. Been there all her life. She's married to George. She's a member of the Rural Hall Womans Club, The Rural Hall Gardening Club. She's our antique specialist. She's the one we go to, when we don't know, cause rest assured she will or she will know someone that does. She is quite familiar with the folks that did reside or do reside in Rural Hall. Her family lines are: Griffin, Tuttle, Mayes, Wall, Pinson. |
| Bob Faulwetter: Well, Bob's my smoking buddy. He's who I sit with cause he's one of the few in our group that smokes. He knows about the Railroad. Bob has much interest of Rural Hall and preserving the History of Rural Hall, he has donated several items about Rural Hall and offered himself in our tours of Rural Hall and visiting the Winston-Salem Journal to search for articles on Rural Hall. |
| Virginia Cooper: Virginia has been a resident of Rural Hall for the last 39 years. She has been with involved with the very early meetings before the RHHS was established. She is a graduate of High Point University. She retired June 2008. She is our official greeter during the Christmas Parade and there with her support and input and assistance to the RHHS. |
| Roger Scott: Roger is a major Grandpa. He loves his grandchildren. He is currently working on taped interviews of the older Rural Hall citizens. |
| "The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down." A. Whitney Brown |
| "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon |
| You remain alive as long as you are remembered. Russian Proverb |
| Dorothy Mathews: Dorothy moved to Rural Hall in 1978, from Houston, Texas. Her husband and her retired last year. She's a member of The Rural Hall Gardening Club and Bethania Moravian Church. Her hobbies are gardening and needlework, reading mysteries,fulfilling the wishes of her 2 feline children. Dorothy currently organizes the events and speakers that we have. |
PRESIDENT
| McCoy Helsabeck: McCoy's family moved to Stoneville, N.C where McCoy was born in 1924; they moved back to Rural Hall where he started first grade September 1930. He married 1944 and moved to Winston-Salem, he currently lives in Charlotte. McCoy encourages Rural Hall High School students to attend their yearly Reunion, usually in the Spring at Mayflower Seafood in Rural Hall. McCoy attended the early RHHS meetings and shared his Helsabeck family story, which is on this website on the MEMORIES page. He also donated large collection of Helsabeck research, made many photos of houses in Rural Hall. His assistance to finalize the Non-profit and Tax exempt organization papers for the RHHS was of great importance and for a possible future Rural Hall Museum. (sincerely Miranda Griffin) |
| Mack Kiser: He's the artist of the group. Mack has been involved with the committee established to investigate and search for a location in Rural Hall for a future museum; and is much interested in Rural Hall accomplishing a future location to share memorabilia and collections about Rural Hall. He also has created many Prints of Rural Hall and offers some for sale. |
| Nancy Plunkett: |
| Ola Mae Tate Bovender: She's the chef, the baker of the group. Homemade breads and cakes!!!!!!!! Ola May grew up in Rural Hall on Tate Road and graduated from Rural Hall High School, she shared a scrapbook of her sister Alice and her own High School Scrap Book with photos announcements of the many activities of the Rural Hall High School and growing up in Rural Hall. Also read her Family Story about "Living in Rural Hall 1924-1946", on the MEMORIES page on this site. |
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| VICE PRESIDENT |
| Mary Lee Smith |
