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Albany, Georgia

... just a small town in South Georgia that grew the best kids ever raised!

WE LOOK BACK ... WE LOOK FORWARD!!!     WE LOOK BACK ... WE LOOK FORWARD!!!

... as we celebrate the "TIMES" of our lives ... !!!   

OUR ALMA MATER

1916 - 1925

In 1916,  Albany High School,  a ten room class room building with two bicycle racks, was built on the southwest corner of  Monroe Street and Society Avenue.   It remained AHS until 1925.  In 1926,  the high school on Monroe Street became McIntosh School and served for almost 50 years.  It was named for Mr. H.M. McIntosh,  former Editor of The Albany Herald.   Grades 4 - 6 were taught there.   Miss Toy Spence was the Principal.

1926 - 1954

The new Albany High School opened in 1925 at 1000 N. Jefferson Street.   Mr. J.O. Allen was Principal.   The south end of the school was for boys and the north end was for girls!   There was no lunchroom. 

The first Librarian was Mrs. Mabel White Hogue.  The Indian was first mentioned in the 1925 Thronateeska.   Thronateeska, the Indian name for the Flint River, means "giving forth" in the Creek Indian language.   The Student Council was started in 1926-27 with Stephen Hofmayer as President.

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Site of 1954 Graduation Ceremony 

...  last graduating class from the Jefferson Street Building

     

1955 and going forward ...

When the doors opened at the third new Albany High School on Residence Avenue, the Class of 1955 proudly assumed the role of the first Senior Class.   Mr. J.J. Cordell was Superintendent of Education,  Mr. J.O. Allen was Superintendent Emeritus,  and Mr. H.E. (Mr. Mac) McNabb was Principal.   In addition to Mr. Cordell,  Ed Martin,  J.P Champion, Jr.,  E.H. Kalmon,  Jos. S. Rosenberg,  H. Holcombe Perry,  Jim  Porter Watkins and Louis Peacock served on the Dougherty County Board of Education.   Dennis and Dennis were Architects,  Richard V, Richard, Associate,  and S.J. Curry of  S. J. Curry and Company was General Contractor.  The 1955 Thronateeska Editor-in-Chief was Claire Wooddy.  The Annual was dedicated to  Mrs. Helen Myers Long, and to the memory of Lansing Burrows Mays.  Emory Lewis was Student Body President.  Sara Cordell and Jimmy Phillips were selected by faculty vote to be the recipients of the Kiwanis Award and the McIntosh Award,  the highest awards attainable at Albany High School. 
 

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1955                      1965                     1968

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  2002 

MILLS MEMORIAL STADIUM

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Last modified: Wednesday July 02, 2008  

Original AHS website ~  first posted: June 4, 2002

The ALBANY HIGH TIMES ~ first posted: August 16, 2002

  • Bill Cato, Class of 1959      
  • Joye Thomas Hadaritz, Class of 1954 - in memory of her twin brother, Jack Thomas, Class of 1955
  • Bubba Phillips, Class of 1956                 
  • Don Poole, Class of 1956                 
  • Carleen Newell Flowers, Class of 1948      
  • Fred Hancock, Class of 1956                 
  • Gordon Kilgore, Class of 1956                 
  • Jeanene Horne Vail, Class of 1954          
  • Linda Jones Klett, Class of 1956          
  • Lloyd Goldstein, Class of 1956 - in memory of Denny Cain and Bobby Forester, both Class of 1956
  • Sylvia Lewis Knight, Class of 1956 - in memory of Bobby Wingate, Class of 1957
  • Charles Johnson, Class of 1954      
  • Ladd Jordan, Class of 1963                 
  • Ida Frances English Fowler, Class of 1956 - in memory Dan Fowler, Class of 1989
  • Leon Perrett, Class of 1956                 
  • Eddie Ort, Class of 1948

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