This is my Mom's high school diploma.  I just realized that the scan got a little funky at the bottom.  The colors are not on the original.  The copy center suggested that I get a color copy because it would better display the shades of gray.  Hmmmm. 

Anyway, John Marshall High School was located at 8th & Marshall Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia.  The old school building has been torn down, but it was near where MCV is now just down from the John Marshall house, which has been preserved.  The enrollment number for 1938-1939, the year before Mom graduated was 3,717...and we think Fairfax County schools are big!

An interesting fact is that there were only 11 grades at that time.  So Mom was 17 when she graduated.  She went on to spend one year at the Richmond Professional Institute, better known now as Virginia Commonwealth University.  She said she signed up for biology & had to dissect a cat, which made her decide she had had enough of college.  So she went to work instead.  She worked in the old City Hall building, pictured below.

This is a beautiful building that is still in use today.  It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.  Here's an interior view.