Banks High School - Contrails Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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What do you remember! about the years you have ' been at Banks? Do you I remember ... i that a second fire in January of 1981 virtually destroyed B section? that we didn ' t have an R.O.T.C. pro- ' gramuntil1981? that the first ACT class was taught in ; 1982? I that the BANKS ' NOTES put out its] last edition in May of 1982 ? • Do you know ... that today, twenty-seven years after ' the founding of Banks, there are ; students here whose parents went to j Banks High School? • that in 1977, the Board of Education i named an alumnus of Banks, Mr. Miles i Dutton, principal of his alma mater? that several other former students have returned as faculty members — in- eluding Mrs. Marsha Hancock, Coach ' Bob McCary, and Mrs. joy Smith ? j left, Melody Young, Kristi Crutchfield; lower left, Chip Pham. 16

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• , r. - .i. J Do you know that Banks used to be a really big school? Do you realize . . . that in 1965 the enrollment topped 1800? that there were so many students that several classes met in the auditorium? that the governor of Alabama came to Banks to speak in an assembly program? that in the fall of 1968, desegregation reached the halls of Banks High School with the addition of two black teachers to the faculty? that in 1970 the first black students came to Banks? that Marsha Carter Hancock was head cheerleader in 1971? that there was more trick than treating on October 31, 1976, when C section building was razed by an ar- sonist ' s fire? page 14: upper left, Ms. Bishop; upper right, (l-r) Calvin Stoves, Marcus Nesby, Leroy Miles, Willie Tolbert; bottom left, (l-r) Stacy Bouwman, Cyndy Schatz, Delores Smith; center left, (l-r) Katrina Whitfield, Kim Lee, Kim Baird. page 15: upper left, Cathy Odom; upper right, Kim Baird; bottom left, Mrs. Smith; bottom right, (l-r) )eff Herrod, Kenneth Hough, Chris Taylor, Marcus Nesby, Robert Williams. 15

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