Remembering . . .

Hampton High School

Hampton, Virginia

Those Were The Days

June 30-July 1, 2001

What most people know as the "old" Hampton High. Picture taken from 1938 Krabba yearbook.
1936 State Football Champs
Fall 2000...Crabber spirit has never diminished in 105 years.
Year 2000 Football Team
1962 Crabbers with Freddie Anspach
Original design Crabbaganza Logo
The original "Four Musketeers" Crabbers that initiated the idea for Crabbaganza 2001!   L to R are Barbara Shelton Marko(65), Tom Norris(73), Sarah Burge Faison(67) and Jeff Press(67).
1962-63 Varsity Cheerleaders. See anyone you know?
Homecoming Football Program November 1963
1963 Football Roster
1963 Homecoming Queen
The crab logo on our website was scanned from this actual 1963-64 Krabba Directory - look familiar?
Tom Wallace, Class of 62 (Then)
1944 HHS Activities Book
The Old B & M Drive-In Restaurant
The "new" HHS on Queen Street
Lloyd Davis, Class of 77 (on the right), doing what he loves best as he's been doing for 13 years...umpiring Little League baseball. Keep up the good work, Lloyd!

Crabbaganza 2001 Committee volunteers pump beer at the X-Crab-A-Ganza festival in downtown Hampton on May 12, 2001 to raise money for the all alumni reunion.

Beth Rowe Chapman, Class of 66, selling Crab Bucks at the festival in May, 2001.
Crabbaganza 2001 commemorative t-shirts unveiled at X-Crab-A-Ganza on May 12, 2001 and on sale. Pictured: Tom Norris (73), Becky Crenshaw (69) and Jennifer Shelton Doyle (76).
Crabbaganza Committee Member Deborah Knode DeBiasi, Class of 70, in the Miss HHS Pageant
Deborah again in 1974 -- college graduation
Hampton's Fire Marshall Mike Gabany, Class of 70, and his "arson" dog Zorro. Mike helped pump beer with the committee at the X-Crab-A-Ganza Festival in Hampton.
Reunion committee members Sarah Faison '67, Beth Chapman '66, Jennifer Doyle '76, Barbara Marko '65 and Janice McGrew '66 at downtown Hampton block party June 2, 2001, getting the word around about Crabbaganza 2001!
Freddy the Crab, longtime mascot of Hampton High School. Crabbaganza treasurer, Jeff Press, WAS Freddy for a while.
You'll remember this picture when at the auction on June 30.
Hey, this is not a Crabber! Words to live by...
If you have pictures from the past and would like to post them on this site, please e-mail them to Agent99bm@aol.com or mail them to

Crabbaganza at

Hampton High All Alumni Reunion, Inc.
C/O Treasurer - Jeff Press
114 Captains Lane
Newport News, Virginia 23602-7300

Hampton University Convocation Center....Site of the Crabbaganza Saturday Evening Gala, June 30, 2001