Albany High School - Thronateeska Yearbook (Albany, GA)

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 Senior Class Presidents--1929: Mary Davis and David Ventulett SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENTS 1917--Hudson Malone 1940--Hugh Mills, Beckey Wolf 1963 -Pete Hudson. Pam Wynne 1918--Not available 1941 -Hugh Mills, Jetta Sauls 1964-Wavne Barfield, Anne Newell 1919--Not available 1942 -Dick Dismuke, Mary Aultman 1965-Joe Fordham. Dianne Buchannan 1920--J. Randall Currell 1943 -Ray Council, Mary Helen Sperrv 1966--Chip Shemwell, Paula Griffen 1921--Leon Tyler 1944--Paul Lipsey, Marie O’Connor 1967-Dick Sceals, Jean Heineman 1922-Clifford Cameron 1945--Billy Divine. Nancy Pickard 1968--John Salter. Carol Hollis 1923--Mayo Livingston 1946--Ralph Jordan, Francis Cobb 1969-Earl Cook, Carole Gillespie 1924--Joe Freeman, Letitia Stallings 1947--Hoke Holley. Jeannette Leben 1970-Hal Gurr, Carla Cantwell 1925--Evereth Edge. Carolyn Ball 1948--Charles Culbreth, Carleen Newell 1971--John Margeson, Betts Law 1926--Joseph Rive Leary, Jr., Ruth Waits 1949--Walter Strickland, Mary F. Foster 1972-Steve Hardin. Debbie Norris 1927--Mason Reid, Eugenia Johnson 1950-Joel Mikell. Emilv Dann 1973-Jeffie Hewett, Brence Sell 1928 -Neil Crawford, Louise Conoly 1951--Jordan Cox, Janice Harden 1974- Bruce Shaw. Cora Cuff 1929--David Ventulett, Mary Davis 1952--Howard Law, Carolyn Haves 1975-Shaw Seelv, Thalia Martin 1930 -Donald Wakeford, Helen Clark 1953--Harold Dean Cook. Martha Jane Goodin 1976-Brent Brock 1931--Lynwood Amos, Lois Carter 1954- Fred Liggen. Mimi Holzendorf 1977-Calvin Allen 1932-Wade Warde. Sara McCollum 1955--Walter Dees, Barbara Culpepper 1978-Allen Hughs 1933--Frederick Freeman. Barbara Jones 1956-Bill Garrison, Peggy Pearce 1979--Betsy Baugh 1934--Tom Brown, Stella Davis 1957--Rudolph Patterson, Janie Turner 1980-Bill Murphree 1935--Frank Allen, Elizabeth Garbutt 1958- Durwood Pennington, Kay Carlton 1981--Tim Nelson 1936 -Tom Yarborough, Lola Inman 1959-Mike Knight, Ann Rainey 1982-Valerie Adams 1937--Tom Yarborough 1960--Marshall Tanner. Macv Spencer 1983-Ted Yost 1938--Max Shappard. Sue Pritchett 1961--Cantley Davis, June Hineiy 1984--Jeremy Howell 1939--William Stephens, Celia Kopple 1962-Jimmy Gray, Barbara Westberrv 1985 -Pam White Play Day at Albany High School--1931

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m • rs. Elliss explained that school discipline was strict and the paddle was not spared. As there was no such thing as a lunch room, the students brought their lunches from home and at recess there was a great swapping of lunches. There were no extras but much emphasis was put on reading, writing, and arithmetic with special importance placed on English, which she said was glorified. But not all was work as the school was sometimes dismissed at an earlier hour for picnics. The students walked over the old bridge to the sand dunes in East Albany, where they took off their shoes and played in the sand and many walked home with their shoes hanging over their shoulders. The schools were also closed for one week in April, so that the students might attend the Chautauqua. Children’s Night was held on Saturday night and many students participated in declamation and music contests. AHS students take advantage of time out of class. William T. McDaniel, a 1934 graduate of Albany High School, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on July 1,1985. History 1

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AHS Student Council-1929 Quill and Scroll-1929 FT The 1929 AHS Orchestra was under the leadership of Mr. Fred Percilla, a well-known saxophonist of Albany. w nfortunately, the i new high school on Monroe '$ did not alleviate the crowded ' n conditions for long. According to the Thronateeska, the Class of 1924 had hoped for a new high school f building for four long years. During their freshman year, the Class of ’24 was crowded into three small rooms. They came back the next year as sophomores to oc-, cupy two classrooms cut I ■ from the auditorium. When : they returned as juniors, they found three more classrooms made from the kitchen and the science laboratory, these depart- i . ments having been consigned to the lower regions in the £ basement. Finally, neither the ingenuity of the faculty nor j the available space could be stretched further, and the little “red school house,” ! fondly termed by the boys “the barn,” was built. So as seniors, the Class of 1924 was separated into the boys’ % high school and the girls’ high school, with the boys in , “the barn” and the girls in | the original building. It was | in 1924 with this division | that the senior class began | to elect both a male and a I female class president. This tradition was continued | through the class of 1975. History 13