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McDowell County Hudgins, Mountain View school alumni, faculty to hold reunion

Mike Conley
Jun 30, 2025
Jun 30, 2025 Updated Aug 7, 2025
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Hudgins Mountain View reunion 2025 1.jpg — This photo from the 1950s shows Mountain View School in the West Marion community. For years, this was the school in McDowell County for Black high school students during the time of segregation.
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This Independence Day weekend, the former students and faculty of both Hudgins and Mountain View schools will reunite in Marion.

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Hudgins Mountain View reunion 2025 7 — School photos from Mountain View school, which operated during segregation in Marion.
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Hudgins High Mountain View reunion 2025 6.jpg — This photo shows the former Mountain View School as it is now. West Marion Inc. seeks to transform the former school building into a community hub.
MIKE CONLEY, MCDOWELL NEWS

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Hudgins Mountain View reunion 2025 2.jpg — This photo shows the 1964 basketball Falconettes team at Mountain View School. The team included (front row, from left) Arethia Matthews, Nancy Bryson and Dorothy Brown and (second row, from left) Alene Jenkins, Norma Greenlee and Gwedaline Borders and (back row, from left) Evelyn McKesson, Linda Lytle, Arnette Rutherford and Coach James A. McNeely.
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Hudgins Mountain View reunion 2025 3.jpg — This photo shows the 1964 basketball Falcons team at Mountain View School. They were (kneeling, from left) Wallace Logan, Delbert Rutherford, Clarence Smith, Charles Hemphill, Benjamin Conley and Ernest Rutherford and (standing, from left) Troy Williams, Thomas Goode, Vinson Murphy, Kelce Lytle, Jerome Lucky, Billy Martin, Ronnie Beam and Coach W.L. McDaniel.
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