Virginia Advanced Studies Diploma. As part of his 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in the J. William Myers gymnasium on 21 August 2008. John Kerry held a similar event in the gym in 2004. Facilities One of the newest school buildings in the Chesapeake City Public Schools, Smith High houses some of the newest technology in the district, including numerous networked computer, business, and technology labs, and a 1,000-seat auditorium. The Linda P. Overton Theatre at the school houses technology for student presentations. In 1994 it was named in honor of Linda Peel Overton (17 June 1939 - 28 February 2017), a past president of the Chesapeake Council of PTA’s, past chairperson of the Tidewater Region of the Virginia School Board Association, past member of Board of Directors of Virginia School Board Association, and a nine year member of the School Board for Chesapeake Schools. The 3,850-seat gymnasium is one of the largest gyms in the Hampton Roads area, housing three full basketball courts. It was named after J. William Myers (23 November 1940 - 16 February 2006) and is also known as the "Dollar Dome" gym, after Myers’s nickname, “Dollar Bill”. Bill Myers joined the Smith High faculty in 1977 to teach health and physical education. He also served as Athletic Director until his retirement in 2004 and he coached varsity basketball, baseball, track and junior varsity football. In 1994, Bill was inducted into the Oscar Smith High School Athletic Hall of Fame. The 7,000-seat Beard-DeLong-Easley Field stadium is the home of the Oscar Smith Tigers football team. It was dedicated on 6 September 1996, in honor of three All-American Athletes who graduated from Smith High and who went on to play in the NFL. Edward Leroy Beard (born 9 December 1939 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1955 to 1959 and played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1965 to 1972. Steven Cyril DeLong (3 July 1943 - 18 August 2010) attended from 1957 to 1961 and was the number one draft pick of the Chicago Bears where he played for one year, and the San Diego Chargers where he played from 1965 to 1972. Kenneth Mason Easley Jr. (born 15 January 1959 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1973 to 1977 and played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1981 to 1987. In 2017, Easley was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of