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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

The Complete History of the

FIRST

Albany High School

 

(click here Albany Academy for history of The Albany Academy - Albany's all-grades school)

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

     

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 2002 

        

 

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Original AHS website ~  first posted: June 4, 2002

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

Last modified: Wednesday January 11, 2012  

Comments, questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to:

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Sponsors for June 2011 - May 2012

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 for the next year are a part of making that happen! 

You are:                                   

  •   Shirley Austin Wright, Class of 1957  

  •   Don Callaway, Class of 1964

    • In memory of Gene Callaway, Class of 1972 who died too young at the age of 54 in 2008

  •   Lorene Cooper Hoffman, Class of 1952

    • In memory of my brother, Terrell Cooper, Class of 1958

  •   Bob Duggleby, Class of 1956

    • In memory of Gale Batey Duggleby, Class of 1957

  •   Peggy Eubanks Salvesen, Class of 1956

    • In memory of Miss Thelma Plant, who believed I could be successful and gave me confidence.

  •   David Golden, Class of 1983

    • In memory of Nancy Castleberry Garrison, legendary English teacher

  •   Rose Hancock Kemp, Class of 1960

    • In memory of Joyce A. Hancock, Class of 1958

  •   Wallace Hawkes, Class of 1955                                                   

  •   Richard (Rick) Horne, Class of 1962

    • In memory of my good friend Norman Hutchenson, Class of 1962, and other Classmates that have gone on to a better place as we all hope to someday!

  •   Ted Horton, Class of 1965

    • In memory and honor of Mr. Harold McNabb and the great staff he assembled to teach those of us who attended AHS from 1962 - 1965

  •   Ducky Jones, Class of 1953

    • In memory of my sister, Hulda Jones Vallotton, Class of 1946

  •   Frank Newman, Class of 1964

    • In memory of Jeff Davis, III, Class of 1969, who was lost in a plane crash in 2007

  •   Karen Oakes Smith, Class of 1969                                               

  •   John and Nettawyl Oliver Davis, Classes of 1947 and 1952       

  •   Helen Pafford Bennett, Class of 1962

    •  In memory of Charles Blizard, Class of 1962

  •   Herbert Paulk, Class of 1952                                                        

  •   Don Shirley, Class of 1956                                                           

  •   Luke Simmons, Class of 1952                                                      

  •   Tommy and Beverly Smith Herrington, Classes of 1956 and 1955 and the Albany High Times

    • In loving honor of Helen Long Cordell, beloved AHS teacher of Business Education, whose 100th Birthday is upcoming in March 2012.  “Mrs. Long” taught the tools needed for the Albany High Times!

  •   Ben Swilley, Class of 1960

    • In memory of Billy Swilley, Class of 1954, Larry Poppell, Class of 1960 and Terrell Cooper, Class of 1958

  •   Connie Thomas Pinkston, Class of 1950

    • In memory of my late husband Elliott Pinkston, Class of 1944

  •   Shirley Thompson Rogers, Class of 1960

    • In memory of Lynda Hambrick Martin Gray, Class of 1960

  •   Patricia Anne West Green, Class of 1960

  •   Bill Wilson, Class of 1955

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