Albany High School - Thronateeska Yearbook (Albany, GA)

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AHS parking lot-1962-63 White Christmas has long been a tradition at AHS. i rincipal B. D. Lee entered the army in 1§41 and was replaced at Albany High School during the war years by R. E. Beck and J. J. Cordell. When Major Lee returned as principal of Albany High School in September, 1945, he discovered many changes had occurred during his absence. For instance, he found that he was acquainted with only three of the 25 teachers in the school at that time, showing the tremendous turnover of the faculty during the war years. B. D. Lee remained as principal of Albany High School until the spring of 1947. Previous to 1947, it was possible to complete only eleven grades in the Albany school system. At this time, when a student reached the eighth grade, he was considered a freshman. In 1947, another grade was added at the eighth-grade level, thus making the Albany schools a twelve-grade system with the freshman class beginning in the ninth grade. When Lee returned from the war, J. J. Cordell, then serving as principal of Albany High School, left Albany and went to Griffin, Georgia. Cordell returned to Albany in 1947 as assistant superintendent and became superintendent of education in 1948. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1972. History 21

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 THRONATEESKA EDITORS 1917 -Arline Diefenderfer. George Clarke 1941--Jane Haley 1964-Judy Kaye Jordan 1918—None 1942-Ethelyn Powell 1965--Karen Hinson 1919—None 1943—(War Edition) 1966-Bunnv Winter 1920-Landon Clark. Mary Gillespie 1944- Peggy Forehand 1967--Nancy Davis 1921—Mary Gillespie. Frank Rowsey 1945--Anne Barbre 1968-Sharon Field 1922--George Johnson. Edna West 1946--Dan Bateman 1969--Marcia McCowan 1923-Mildred Nix, Otho Campbell 1947—Billy Warren 1970 -Zan York 1924--Hilda Kalmon. Mercer Sherman 1948--Sammy Shepard 1971--Peggy Payne 1925--Una Buntin 1949-Pat Hammond 1972-Susan Sheppard 1926--Clarisse Kingsley 1950- Calton Huie 1973 -Carol Mills 1927--Stephen Hofmayer 1951--Ray Johnson 1974-Camille Chancey, Priscilla Joiner 1928--Sara Dean Jones 1952- Kay Joh nson 1975-Steve Johnson 1929--John Allen Smith 1953-Cleone Morton 1976--Brett Ehrhardt 1930-Palaemon Hilsman 1954--Jackie Geiger 1977—Leah Flowers, Lisa Crockett 1931--Jean McFadgen 1955--Claire Wooddy 1978--Kitty Woodyard. Dani Stevens 1932--Jeanette Schulman 1956-Gail Meeks 1979--Patricia Yaw 1933--Barbara Jones 1957-Janie Strawder 1980--Teresa Cleveland 1934--Stella Davis 1958-William Mock 1981-Linda Sowell. Matthew Snelling 1935--Jane Jones 1959-Al Wise 1982--Bonnie Varon, Wendy Stokes 1936-Carolyn Simon I960 -Bobby Holman 1983-Angela Hudson 1937--Abie Goldsmith 1961 -Ralph Winter 1984 -Kirn Yost 1938--Harry Arthur 1962-Tommy Brisbois 1985-Kim Sumner 1939--Geraldine Rouse 1963—Anna McGregor 1986--Jill Woodward 1940 -Joe Gibson, George Whittlesey 1 20 History McNabb presides at Homecoming festivities.

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HAROLD E. McNABB: An Albany Legend Over the years, one name has become synonymous with sports not only j at Albany High School but also at every school in Dougherty County. He ! is a legend at Albany High and in Dougherty County. He is Harold Eugene McNabb--Mr. Mac. Mr. Mac was born in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee in Unicoi I County. After graduating from Carson-Newman College with an out-i standing athletic record and coaching a year at his own high school in Er-i win, Tennessee, he accepted a possition on Lake Russell’s coaching staff j at Mercer University in Macon. He was there for three years and obtained his Master’s Degree while there. It was then in 1931 that Mr. Mac came to Albany High as head football coach, and his outstanding ability as a coach and leader of young men is indicated in the records he compiled. In his first year, his Albany High team was 7-2, and his last team in 1943 beat Griffin 7-0 in winning the j state title. In his 13 years of coaching, his record was a phenomenal 113 wins, 20 losses, and 6 ties. Six of his teams (1935, ’36, ’38, ’39, ’42, ’43) were in the South Georgia Playoffs, and three of his teams (1939,’42, ’43) made it to the state finals, winning the state championship in 1939 and again in 1943, his last year as head coach. From high school coach, Mr. Mac moved to junior high principal at Albany Junior High. He then served three and a half years in the Coast Guard as a reserve officer on active duty, and then returned to Albany High. As Dougherty County grew, so did Mr. Mac’s job, and he became the Director of High Schools until his retirement in 1971. Mr. Mac’s honors and activities are as impressive as his coaching record. Among them are: President, Georgia Education Association: President (organizer and charter member), Georgia Coaches Association; President, 2nd District Georgia High School Association; President, Albany Community Council; Member, National Association of Secondary Schools (Advisory Council, three terms); President (two terms), Georgia High School Principals Association; President (charter member), Albany Executive Club; District Chairman, Chehaw Council Boy Scouts of America; President, Nuclear Advisory Committee, State of Georgia; Member, Georgia Accrediting Commission. But perhaps his most prestigious honor from the work he loved so much was his induction into the Georgia Prep School Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, now called the Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame, in 1957. Dougherty County gained much from Mr. Mac’s presence here, for he has truly become an Albany legend. Mr. Mac enjoys a dance with Ann Rainey. 22 History