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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 ... !!!   

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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. 


                                                 

                                                  1955                         1965                     1968

     

 

 MILLS MEMORIAL STADIUM

 2002 

        

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Sponsors for 2009 - 20010

This website grew out of a plan to start a website for the Class of 1955, but so many other classes showed interest, that The Albany High Times was created instead for all classes. 

The website has connected classmates in a wonderful way, and you who have volunteered to be sponsors are a part of making that happen! 

You are:

  • Claire Randall Rice, 1953 (In memory of Helene Lee, Class of 1953)

  •  Ernie Frazier, 1955

  •  Rudolph Patterson, 1957 (In memory of Miss Plant, English teacher)

  •  Jon Crawford, 1954

  •  Jim/James Calhoun, 1950

  •  Sylvia Lewis Knight, 1956 (In memory of Bobby Wingate, Class of 1957)

  •  Mary Dale, Vansant Kea, 1956

  •  Don Spees, 1958

  •  Pat Hancock Hamby, 1952

  •  Tommy Ross, 1960 (In honor of the “1960 Reunion Planners”)

  •  Pat Rose Duggan, 1963 (In memory of her brother, Jeff Rose, Class of 1959; and her sister Ann Rose Bellflower, Class of 1956)

  •  Jay Beck, 1962 (In memory of Hamilton Jordan, Class of 1962)

  •  Bill Upton, 1960

  •  Jack & Fran Shadburn Davis, 1955 and 1956

  •  Jack Ivey, 1956 (In memory of my friend, Larry Thomas Harper, 1937 - 1969)

  •  Pat Dean, 1948 (In honor of The Class of 1948)

  •  Lamar & Evelyn Butler Clifton, 1946 & 1950

  •  Buddy Fleming, 1955 (In memory of Tommy Webb, Charlotte Curry, Marlene Kahn, Delores Ann (DAP) Page, Stella Mullins – all Class of 1955; and Mrs. E.M. Dobbins, Latin Teacher)

  •  Phyllis Lee Spier, 1953 (In memory of Helene Lee, Class of 1953 and David Lee, Class of 1955)

  •  Gene & Dorothy Reeves Crosson, 1952 and 1955 (Celebrating their 55th Wedding Anniversary April 10, 2010)

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