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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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Last modified: Sunday July 11, 2010  

Original AHS website ~  first posted: June 4, 2002

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

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Sponsors for June 2010 - May 2011

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:

  •  Sonny & Betty Dunn Logan, Class of 1948 and 1949

  •  Charles Donald Paulk, Class of 1950

  •   Bill Swaim, Class of 1950

  •   Cathy Holt Norton, Class of 1952

  •   Duffy Frank, Class of 1953

  •   Robert & Marilyn Hout Milligan,Class of 1953 (In memory of Dorothy L. Hout)

  •   Helen Paulson Arndt, Class of 1953

  •   Joye Thomas Haderitz, Class of 1954

  •   Peggy Jo Irwin Davis, Class of 1954

  •   Adair Mellichamp. Class of 1954

  •   Mac Williams, Class of 1954 (In memory of Thelma Plant, English Teacher)

  •   Becky Gammage, Class of 1955 (In memory of all those who've gone on before)

  •   Karl Heinzman, Class of 1955

  •   Gordon Kilgore, Class of 1956

  •   Leon Perrett, Class of 1956

  •   Robert (Bobby) Hawkins, Class of 1956

  •   DeAnne Moore Carson, Class of 1958

  •   Harvey & Twila, Mason Willis, Class of 1958 (In memory of Coach Pat Fields and Miss Thelma Plant)

  •   Nickey Lewis, Class of 1960 (In memory of Terrell Cooper, 1958; Tina Smith  Cowan, 1961; and Larry Poppell, 1959/1960)

  •   Carol Dorsey Thompson, Class of 1961

  •   Sara Joiner Eubanks, Class of 1961, (In honor of teachers Bobby Faudree, Social Studies; Martha Dye, Social Studies; and in memory of Bill Sanders, Biology)

  •   Pete Brandon, Class of 1962

  •   Joann Roark Arnesan, Class of 1962 (In memory of my husband, Stephen John Arneson, Class of 1957)

  •   Charles Ruehl, Class of 1962

  •   Doug Dahlgren, Class of 1965

  •   Bob Mock, Class of 1969

  •   Paul Ladd, Class of 1982 (in memory of Nancy Castleberry Garrison, Class of 1957, legendary English teacher)

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