Albany High School - Thronateeska Yearbook (Albany, GA)

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ALMA MATER SONG Here’s to you, dear Alma Mater, to whom our love is due. And though we meet all others, our faith is tried and true. With ot her colors waving, no matter what their sheen, We love you Alma Mater of the Orange and the Green. We leave you now, dear Mater, but you forever stay, Your columns proud and noble halls shall claim our love for aye. Through the years that lie before us mid every festive scene. We’ll still see proudly gleaming here--the Orange and the Grfeen. So to you dear Alma Mater, we raise our parting song. This loyal class of 17--your sons and daughters strong. We give to you all honor--though years may roll between. Still brightly glow the memories of the Orange and the Green. ■ ■■■■■■ ■ ■ ■ i —...... First Albany High School on corner of Monroe and Society Streets Entire student body of Albany High School in 1912 Senior Class of 1920 4 History

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1986 Thronatees-ka Staff joins with the Albany High School student body to commemorate a hundred years of public education in Dougherty County. The desire for some form of public education in Albany resulted in a campaign in 1885 to raise $5,000, the amount considered necessary for the construction of a school building. This campaign was initiated by H. M. McIntosh, the editor of the Albany News and Advertiser, the only newspaper in Albany at that time. $3,500 was raised in a short time, and the City Council appropriated the remaining $1,500 needed for the project. The City Council appointed a commission, composed of L. E. Welch, Sr., T. M. Carter, and H. M. McIntosh, to erect the building. The lot on the northwest corner of Flint and Madison Streets was purchased from the late Col. Nelson Tift at a price well below the market value. On this site, the new school, named the Albany Academy, was built and opened for the fall term in 1886. The building was two stories in height but none of the second floor was utilized. The entire high school consisted of only one class room. G. J. Orr served as principal of the new school, and S. P. Orr was assistant principal. Miss Belle Bacon was the teacher of the primary grade. A MES 7T LA” cn History 3

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Girls’ P. E. class-1919-1920 A 0 bout two years later, the Academy was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. While the school was being rebuilt, classes were held in the Court House. The rebuilt Academy was an almost exact duplicate of the original. In fact, many bricks from the walls of the first building went into those of the second. However, it was only a few years until the facilities were inadequate for the increased enrollment in the public school system. The rooms on the second floor were all used and an addition was built. Another addition was built a few years later. Finally, in an attempt to keep up with the growing numbers of students, a one-story annex with two rooms for the primary grade was erected east of the main building. The Academy, nevertheless, remained overcrowded until the high school was constructed in 1908. The principals of the Albany Academy prior to the establishment of the city system of schools were G. J. Orr, Dion C. Sullivan, Z. I. Fitzpatrick, H. W. Jones, E. G. Jones, S. R. deJarnette, J. C. Wardlaw, and A. J. Barwick. Boys’ P. E. class--1919-1920 History 5