(submitted by Jimmy Johnson -'56)

PROM TIME in the 50's!!!

(click to enlarge for a wonderful read)

AHS Junior – Senior Prom 1954

Radium Springs Ballroom

 Albany GA

In the 50's, or perhaps before, it was a tradition for volunteers from the Junior Class to “sponsor” (that means pay for!) the Junior Senior Prom - Spring Formal.  Albany’s beloved Louise Whiting, Albany Herald Society Editor, never failed to write a glowing report of the event, including lovely descriptions of each girl's ball gown ... (most were enhanced by wide “hoops” and "merry widows" ) … and that’s as far as I’ll go!!  The Junior sponsors for this event were (left to right, front row): Miss Maureen Bass, Miss Mary Ann Johnston, Miss Delores Page; (second row) Buddy Fleming, Miss Stella Mullin, Jimmy Holloway; (third row) Miss Beverly Smith, Wallace Hawkes, Jack Thomas; (fourth row) Miss Kay Lipsey, Miss Charlotte Curry, Charles Foster, Daniel Rabb, Miss Annie Jean Pridgen, Miss Judy Nicholson, Jimmy Phillips, Miss Pam Tyler; (fifth row) Miss Claire Wooddy, Miss Jo Ann Ford, Miss Marlene Kahn; (back row) Miss Roxana Speight, Miss Mary Jean Cook, Miss Annette Able, Miss Clair King and (not in picture) Miss Gray Harden.

Louise Whiting's article

1955 Tea Dance at Radium Casino

(submitted by Martha LeSueur Nicholson - '56)

(submitted by Mary Dale Vansant Kea - '56)

"5 Beauties" on bench are l to r:  (anyone recognize the first one)?, then Peggy Houston, Beverly Hayman, Kay Clancy, and Joanne Cannon. 

The four beauties at Radium Springs are:  Peggy Houston, Beverly Hayman, Shirley Rich, and Jo Wright.

The 3 visible sunbathers are:  Beverly Hayman, Joanne Cannon, and Kay Clancy (and Peggy Houston in the shadows).

Kay Clancy, Beverly Hayman, Shirley Rich and Peggy Houston.

Frieda Howard and Peggy Kling

Beverly Owens Cummings (50), Aloha Mallard Saye (47) Katherine Butte Stephenson (47) and Nita Pate Bacon (48)

Patricia Floyd and Johnny Paulk

Linda Plummer Mansfield ('56)

Taken in 1951 - kneeling is Pat Adams, Jamil Saba has Jimmy Bell on his back, Charles Fussell has Edgar Campbell on his back, Beverly Durden, Raines Wakeford behind Pat, Kay Reynolds behind Raines, Jane Green, Doris Staten, and Nancy Leeger.

This group of pictures submitted by Linda Plummer Mansfield

Martha Jane Goodin ('53)

Joan Hand, 1961

Tommy Pattison's friends from the '50's

Mary Ann Johnston, Harriet Ort and Annie Jean Pridgen

This event was held for graduating seniors

"1955 Kids" - Sarah Ann Rhodes and Patricia Floyd

"1954 Kids" standing on lawn of AHS:  Shirley Rich, Beverly Hayman, Kay Clancy, Peggy Houston, Retha Willis, and Joyce Skandamis.

"1954 Kids" in car: Beverly Hayman, Joyce Skandamis, Retha Willis, Shirley Rich, Kay Clancy, and Joyce Fort. 

1953 "Kids, Left to Right (as best we know)

Bob Gotsch, Kenny Makant, Beverly Houston, Hazel Hall, Ida Mays, (in back) Cleone Morton,  Helene Lee, Phyllis Lee

Marlene Kahn ('55)

Carol Houston ('55)

Kay Lipsey ('55)

Wallace Willis ('55)

Joan Hand ('61) 

Martha LeSueur ('56) 

  Sent this get well card to Billy Hewitt just after his surgery in '05 - just a year after our 50th reunion when Lillian & I wouldn't let him sit down...we danced w/him all nite..."Nook" is David Garrison.  My "costume" was borrowed from one of my grandmother's friends, Mrs. Charlie Ida Mays, who wore it when she went to AHS kids day!  I had blacked my two front teeth, carried books w/Dad's belt around them over my shoulder, & I read a poem called "The Moo Cow Moo"! When Cleve Clark saw my legs in those bloomers, he said I should be on the football team! All the other girls were fancy fancy fancy.....(I also won the best skit performance - hee-hee).  ~ Annelle Stem (1952)

Claire Randall and Martha Jenkins ('53)

Mrs. Helen Long's Class on Kid's Day