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Emma & Lawyer Dudley
November 15, 2021, 2 pm
Fulton County Schools Archives, Teaching Museum South, Hapeville, Georgia
Emma Dudley is a native of College Park who taught Mathematics at Eva Thomas High School, where she also
served as the head of her curriculum department. Prior to her position there, she worked as a teacher in
Emanuel County, Georgia. Emma Dudley attended South Fulton High School (Class of 1950) and Clark College.
Lawyer Dudley taught Industrial Arts at Eva Thomas High School, beginning in 1965. He is a native of Eufaula,
Alabama. Lawyer Dudley attended Tuskegee College (now Tuskegee Institute) and served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean War. He was among the first teachers in Fulton County to integrate.
The two met while teaching at Eva Thomas High School and were later married.
Michael Santrock (MS):
I'm Mike Santrock. I'm with the Fulton County Schools Archives. I'm here with Emma and Lawyer Dudley,
former teachers at Eva Thomas High School. It is November 15, 2021. And we are talking from the archive
right now. And we're actually going, looking through some of the Eva Thomas collection we have here. So,
you've been able to look through the yearbook a little bit.
Emma Dudley (ED):
Yeah.
MS:
I'm assuming you found yourself in there?
ED:
I found me in there.
MS:
So, what did you all teach? Emma, what did you teach?
ED:
Mathematics.
MS:
You taught math?
ED:
Yeah, I was the head of the mathematics department.
MS:
Okay. How many teachers were there in the math?
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�ED:
At that time was probably three of four. And then when Mr. Dudley came, Mr. Gilbert thought he was going
to put Mr. Dudley in the math department. And I didn't, we didn't know each other. We just met. And I said
"No, Mr. Dudley has got to stay in his woodshop." [laughs] He did mechanical drawings and woodshop.
MS:
So, you were teaching woodshop?
Lawyer Dudley (LD):
Yes.
ED:
And doing mechanical drawings. Yeah.
MS:
Did you all, did you all teach somewhere else beforehand?
ED:
Yeah, I had, when I was in the first graduating class from East Point High School. Before my class, the kids
went from... College Park Elementary School to Washington High School.1
MS:
They went to Washington in Atlanta.
ED:
...because it, Fulton County didn't have a high school for, you know, so I graduated when... I graduated from
East Point High School in the first graduating class they had for Blacks. And so, then I graduated from Clark
College in '54. And went to Emanuel County, Swainsboro, Georgia, and stayed 10 good years. I kind of like
made it home, became a part of what was going on down there and I really enjoyed it. And then when Mr.
Gilbert contacted me to say, he wanted me to come to Eva Thomas, they were opening a school, a high
school in College Park for Black kids, and he wanted his former students... he wanted the people he knew.
MS:
So, you had, he was a former teacher of yours then?
ED:
Yeah. And he was at East Point High as my social studies teacher. And that was my worst class. I didn't, I
like everything better than that...
MS:
You didn't like social studies...
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Booker T. Washington High School, Atlanta Public School District.
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�ED:
I didn't like social studies. But uh, so then he became principal and when he became principal, he had all of
us to come. Most, most of the teachers there were his former students.
MS:
Was that your case too, Lawyer?
LD:
No, I taught in Lumpkin, Georgia, in Richmond, Georgia, before coming to Atlanta.
MS:
And you taught shop there too?
LD:
Yes. I did.
MS:
Yeah. Well, so what I wanted to kind of start with, let me make sure that this is recording our audio... What I
wanted to make sure what I started with was kind of maybe talk about your all's background, your
childhood a little bit, each of you and you know... Well first let's, let's talk about your, when you were young,
tell me about your family, Emma.
ED:
Okay. You know, they say that home is where the heart is. And College Park will always have a special place
in my heart. My address was 720 West John Wesley Avenue, but I grew up in the one square mile... you hear
them talking about that one square mile in College Park? That was the area that I grew up in. And that... is
when you talk about that one square mile, if you stand on the corner of Virginia Avenue and College
Avenue, you go south to Yale, and then you go around and make a... it makes a complete square. Well, that
was College Park. But today it is a new College Park and you know that, right?
MS:
Right.
ED:
I lived on one side, three rooms of what they call a [inaudible] six-room house. Now in the 720 West John
Wesley, I lived with my mom, my dad, and seven siblings: five sisters and two brothers, until my daddy left
us when we were very young, and then there was mother and eight kids.
MS:
Where were you... In the kids? Were you one of the oldest or the youngest?
ED:
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�I was, I was fourth. I was... I was the fourth of eight. The house we lived in was on a dirt road. So, you know
what happened when it rained: it was a great mud. And... had no running water, no electricity, no... gas, or
anything. But we were happy. And I asked my sister the other night, I said, "With all of us in the house,
where did we sleep?" She said, "I guess in the bed." [laughs]
MS:
Probably, a lot of you all slept in the same bed...
ED:
Right. Now that's where we ended up at night. Now during the day, we were everywhere in everybody's
house. We went from house to house. And I lived on John Wesley and the Davis's, Emily Davis and her
family, lived on Columbia. And Emily Davis's daddy was known as, you know, like the master and he just
knew everything. He was smart man. So, we had homework, I would go to Emily Davis's house. And we
would sit like in a circle and Mr. Davis would be there. And he would help us with our homework. Okay, so
their house was like home, you know. And I remember all the different places where we played, how we
ran in from one house to the other. And I think the community churches was like a key to what was
happening with all of us. We had, we were different denominations, but we combined everything. One
church... we were part of all of it. In other words, I was like a member of the Friendship. And a good
example is when on Easter Sundays, when we had Easter, when we had the Easter programs, we would
start at Friendship like at three and everybody would go. And then we would go from Friendship to Laster
Chapel. That was my church. At four, then we would all go up the street to Mount Zion and... and Charles2
was at my church. Charles's family was at my church. And we would go to Mount Zion like the next hour,
and then go down the street to Shiloh. And we went in groves and, and sometimes, like if a child had a
speech at Friendship, when they got Laster Chapel they'd say, "I want to speak again." And that was
allowed. So that it was just like family. That's what it was, like...
MS:
Is Friendship still there?
ED:
No. All of that... that [inaudible] project got all of those churches.
MS:
Even Mount Zion too?
ED:
Even, even Mount Zion. Mount Zion is down the road on Rivertown...
LD:
Rivertown...
ED:
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Charles Dill, alum of Eva Thomas High School, Class of 1970
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�Riverdale...
LD:
Riverdale.
ED:
That was a Ursel's3 church, wasn't it?
LD:
Yes.
ED:
She's at a [inaudible], okay? We'd play it all over the place. And like I said, we went from house to house.
Now, at my church, they allowed me to teach Sunday school as a teenager. And I felt really good about that.
Because I was always the person who wanted to do the good stuff, you know. And I was Sunday School
teacher as a teenager. I was a youth counselor. And I served on the home department committee with Mr.
Homer C. Arnold and others. And this committee, we would meet at the church like a Wednesday evening.
We would leave and decide what we were going to do and where we're going. And we would walk around
into the neighborhoods. Most of it was like the sick and shut ins. And I remember I was, I was a teenager,
and I would go with Mr. Homer C. and I would read the scriptures and he would do the prayer and we take
a little donation. And I think when I started doing that, I kind of like, fell in love with a lot of the elder
people there. So then when I didn't have anything else to do, I would walk up to like Miss Beavers. You
heard him talking about the Beavers? The Mama Beavers, I used to go and just sit on the porch with her.
And I was thinking about this other night. I would always scratch her head. She had dandruff and I would
scratch it. And she used to love for me to do that. And then there was Miss McDowell. Remember Sophie
McDowell's mama? I would go by there to see them. They were... Miss Beavers was at the Mount Zion
Church. McDowell was at our church. And I would just go back to see the old folk, and just whatever they
needed me to do that's what I would do, and I enjoyed doing that.
MS:
So, for those of you who are listening, this recording and don't know, Beavers... there was an elementary
school, was part of the Fulton County System that was named after Jefferson Franklin Beavers, who was a
member of College Park community, and very instrumental in bringing education for Black students.
ED:
Yeah, that was, it was first... it was College Park Elementary. Because that's where I went to elementary
school. Then they changed the name to JF Beavers... Yes.
MS:
Am I right? to JF Beavers...
ED:
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�Yeah, that was the, the elementary school for Blacks in College Park.
MS:
So, you mentioned that you were a Sunday school teacher. Did... is that kind of what made you feel like you
wanted to be a teacher one day and make that your profession?
ED:
I'm thinking that was part of it. I'm thinking that was part of... one thing it did when I was at college. It made
me want to become a missionary. And all of these times I was planning to become a missionary worker and
go to India and do all these good things. And, and then when I... I ended up going to Clark College... The
reason I went to Clark College... Mr. Frank McClarin, you heard his name?
MS:
Yes.
ED:
…who was my principal when I was in high school, he had talked me into accepting a scholarship at Morris
Brown College because that was his school. And he wanted some of his good students, of course, to go to his
school. And so, when I went to summer camp... each summer, as a youth, I went to the youth summer camp.
So, I went to summer camp. And there was this person that I remember, wish I could remember his name.
But he said, "How many of you graduated from high school this year?" And I raised my hand. "Where are
you going to school?" And everybody said, and I said, "Morris Brown." And he said, "Not Clark?" And I said,
"Well, I don't have any money. And Morris Brown is going to give me a full scholarship." And he said, "We
are going to get you a full scholarship. And only thing you're going to have to do is to keep a B average." Of
course, I can do that. And that's how I ended up at Clark, because they wanted me to stay in the Methodist
college since I was United Methodist... at that time was Methodist Episcopal. It wasn't United Methodist. All
this has changed since my day, you know.
MS:
So, when you were growing up, your favorite subject was math then too, or you were just better at it?
ED:
Let me tell you why my favorite is math. When I went to high school, I was the fourth Schell to go... my, my
sister Louise, Helen Lyerly had gone before me. And when I got to the ninth grade… they said first Mr.
Hightower, he was the math teacher. I'd heard about him. And the first quiz I took, I think I missed one or
two problems. And he came in the classroom and said, "Miss Schell. What's wrong with you? The Schells
don't do this." And I was embarrassed. So, I had to prove to everybody that I could do better in math than
everybody else. Isn't that strange?
MS:
No. [laughs]
ED:
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�[laughs] Isn't that strange? Not, not that I'm saying what I'm saying, it sounds like maybe they went from
ninth grade. That was, that was the end of Fulton County at that time, ninth grade, because after that they
went to Washington High School. As I said, I was the first in the first graduating class. That was in 1950.
Okay? I remember all of the little businesses over in College Park and... and the little shops, they had a
barber shop, beauty shops, almost on every corner... where the church was almost... it was full of churches.
Churches were like on every corner, but all the other businesses were all together and people were part of
all of it... And I was fortunate enough to be invited to go on the tour that I think your neighbor [inaudible]
Jones, who is the economic development director... they did a tour.
MS:
Do you remember when that was?
ED:
So, it was May 22 2021. And I, and I went on that tour with him to show us what the new College Park was
going to be like, you know. And now at that time, Charles Price… and the reason I thought about that,
because that was the last business they were talking about. You probably heard somebody say that before.
It was the barber shop that Charles Price had. He was there and his daddy was there before him. It was the
College Park barber shop. And he was on that tour and it was interesting because Ms. Wilma Nichols who,
who is my good friend... you probably heard her name before... she stayed in the house between Eva
Thomas and JF Beavers. And I was talking to her the other night and I say, and I don't remember when it
was but the last big Black History... we were invited to be on the Black History committee. Can't remember
the ladies name, but anyway we had a function at the convention center. And at that time, remember, they
had the educators and all the teachers come back. Wilma and I were... Dowdell, you heard Charles Dowdell,
well he invited us to go to that committee meeting before they had that particular function. And when we
got there, they were saying we are trying to do some research and stuff. We are trying to find out
something about Miss Eva Thomas and JF Beavers and Wilma said "I stayed, I grew up in the house
between theirs." So, you don't have to look anymore. Those are the kind of things that you know, becomes
part of you.
MS:
Sure. Sure... Lawyer. Tell us where you grew up and about your family if you would real quick.
LD:
Oh, yes. I was born in Eufaula. Alabama, below Columbus, Georgia, which you may be familiar with.
MS:
I’m familiar. A little bit.
LD:
There were three kids in my family. One girl and two boys... which I am a twin. Okay. Ah, was educated in
Eufaula at Van Buren High School, which we attended. My father, he worked in the textile mill for 32 years
without taking a day off.
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�MS:
You don't see that anymore, do you?
LD:
No more. For 32 years, my mother was a housewife, she did not work. All dad wanted for her to do was to
take care of his kids... Okay. After we finished high school, we three, he sent us to college, Tuskegee Institute
at that time, which is now known as Tuskegee University. Before going to Tuskegee, he said that "I want all
of my kids to finish college..." which he only went to the third grade. Okay. After that, we went to Tuskegee,
the three of us. Dad was only making 50 cents a day...
MS:
a day...
LD:
...which I cannot understand, how he made it through. But he did. And his very first word to his kids was,
"Save all you can, whatever you can, because you're going to see some rainy days," which I have seen.
MS:
I was going to say, I bet he was right.
LD:
Yes, he was correct and everything.
ED:
But you know, the thing, the key thing about College Park was everybody knew everybody. You felt safe.
And you didn't have to make no effort to be a part of stuff. You know, you just... and just like I said about the
shortcuts and stuff. We used to go through the [inaudible] and, you know, cross the field and that kind of
thing. And, and let me say a little bit about my muddy street... when I got to college... no, no, when I was in..
when we had to go to high school. We didn't have... we had to go to East Point but there was no
transportation provided. So, Mary Davis, you probably heard that name, they had a bus and if you get the
money, you can ride the bus. And every once in a while, we may have it. My mama might have had the
money, but most of the time, a lot of the times, we would walk from the house to the bus station and ride
the bus and then walk to the school. Now a lot of days we had to walk from home to East Point...
MS:
from College Park to East Point...
ED:
...from College Park to East Point to school. And when I got... and the interesting thing was, they would
always put me on these little committees and stuff. They made me a school patrol. And then I got a job. My
mama used to do a lot of work for the white folk across the railroad track. And we would go with her and so
one of the ladies asked if I wanted to work at the schools. And I said, "I sure do. I need to make some
money." And I would get off the bus. At that time, I could have bus fare, see. And I would get off the bus and
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�run across the railroad track and, and that's that... those are the kinds of things that we did, but didn't think
anything about it, because that's the way it's supposed to be, you know. That's how you were doing it. But...
MS:
This was when you were in high school?
ED:
This was when I was in high school. This was, this was when I was in high school. But when it would rain...
and I was in college and had to walk from that muddy downhill to the bus stop, I would put my shoes, my
good shoes, in a bag and put some old shoes and stuff and walk through it... and go through the back door of
one of the buildings on the college campus. I put my muddy shoes in the bag and go in there and look like
I've come from downtown. [laughs] But you know, I did it. Yeah. I showed up and I got it done... I think I just
think that... I guess that I should say its sad today to think about all the good things that were then; because
when I come to College Park now, I feel like a visitor. You know, it just feels like somebody just came and
took the stuff away from you.
MS:
It's changed?
ED:
You know, it's changed. Its changed and I'm not sure that it... it shouldn't be what it is. I'm not sure about
that. But I do think that some way, somehow you kind of like need to know some things and be a part of
this. And I listed some stuff, I was talking to somebody... well, anyway, this might not be the place to even
talk about it. But there was a lot of things that happened in College Park that I don't want people to ever
forget. And you probably weren’t old enough to know about the time, I think it might have been in the '80s
with murdered missing children with this Wayne Williams case?
MS:
So, I did not live here then. I moved here in the '90s. But I remember, I grew up in West Virginia and I
remember watching the news...
ED:
But let me tell you what Laster Chapel did at that time. I always thought we ought to do something for
children. Okay. So, when I came back from Emanuel County in '64; when I came to Eva Thomas in '64, I
thought I had struck it rich. Boy, I am back home. I'm near my mama. I'm near my church and I'm near my
bank. And the Eva Thomas building was located so I could walk to all three of those places... it was just... so I
bought a house just up the street from the, from the school and put my mama in it. Anyway, with the
murdered missing children, Laster Chapel was doing little summer camps and little different things for
children over the years.
MS:
Could you spell that?
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�ED:
L-A-S-T-E-R C-H-A-P-E-L. It’s not a United Methodist Church. And we were going to do summer camp
anyway because well, we did like what Bible school was at that time. You know how you do the bible school
for two weeks and... but this time we were going to do the bible school. The North Georgia conference came
up with some kind of plan that they were going to help to finance any church that wanted to... do summer
camp, get children off the street. And Laster Chapel, of course, I said, "Help us do what we want. We've been
trying to do it anyway." We housed... and then I went to the Board of Education to ask that we could use Eva
Thomas School as our site... It was granted. The only thing they said was don't go into the music
department and don't go into the PE department you know, but you got access to the school, the cafeteria
and everything.
MS:
This was the Fulton County Board.
ED:
This was the Fulton County Board and this was the Eva Thomas School. And we, for six weeks, we did
summer camp for 240 kids. And I was like the supervisor. Judge Lou Honeycutt was the director. And, and
they supplemented the money that I... and I had almost every youth that was active in our church. They
were the counselors in this, and we had a good time. And at the close of that program, we have this
superintendent... everybody came, because we had a combination program that you wouldn't ever believe.
It just went real good. And when we continued the program, even after we didn't get supplemented the
funds. And we didn't get back into the Eva Thomas building, but we used our church.
MS:
So, did you all raise your own money to do it, then if you weren't getting...?
ED:
We raised our own money. I was always fortunate. And that's the thing I liked about it. It was always that
anytime we came up with a plan, there was always people who was willing and ready to help get it done.
MS:
It sounds to me like, and you can tell me if this is right. It sounds to me like the church, community and
school were all kind of one. They operated together in your community.
ED:
Yes, it did. It did. And it made a difference. When you belong, you feel like you were part of... you belong to
it. When, anything I do in College Park is all right, because you're one of us, you know.
MS:
Right.
ED:
Yeah. So those were the... those were the good old days.
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�MS:
I want to talk a lot about Eva Thomas, before we finish up. How did you, or your family or how did you
specifically get to College Park, Lawyer?
LD:
How did I officially get to College Park?
MS:
What brought you to College Park?
LD:
Well, what brought me to College Park is uh... after... before I finished school...
MS:
At Tuskegee?
LD:
Tuskegee. I was called into the Army. And so, at that time, you had to register to go into the armed service.
And so, I went home... Okay, I'm coming to that. But anyway, I went on into service during my sophomore
year of college. And I spent two years in the service. And during my service in Korea, I was under the
guidance of Captain [inaudible]. And I was stationed at Fort Arkansas at the time. And we had to take a test
to see what was going on overseas. And so luckily, I was the only Black in the group.
MS:
You said you were the oldest?
LD:
The only Black in the group to pass the test. And they sent me to White Sands, New Mexico. And there I
finished my career in the service. And I promised my family, mother and dad, that I would go back to
school, which I did. And I finished college there. And from there, as I first said, I taught school in Lumpkin,
Georgia and Richmond, Georgia. So, after that, I came to College Park. I was told by my brother-in-law to
come to College Park. And by the way, not only he but a friend of mine at Tuskegee, he knew he was born
here in Atlanta. And he asked me to come to College Park. And he got in touch with my principal. He said, I
knew a good man that could teach industry. I'm sure you would like to have him on your staff. So, I came to
Atlanta, and I was hired, and that's why I've met Mrs. Dudley. [all laugh]
MS:
What was your maiden name? Was it... I think you...
ED:
Schell. S-C-H-E-L-L.
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�MS:
So, so um, what year was that about? What year did you come to College Park then?
LD:
I came to College Park in '65.
MS:
So, you were probably what? 20, 30, 20 something? No, you were... how old were you?
LD:
I was. I think I was about 31. Yeah, 31.
MS:
Right. And this is where you all met?
LD:
Yes.
MS:
You were teaching. Now, I don't want to get too personal, but tell me about when you all met.
ED:
Well, see what happened now, Mr. Gilbert, we were doing schedules. And we needed, we needed someone
to do one of the math classes and he said, "Well, we got Mr. Dudley in woodshop and stuff..." and so I said,
"Let me go see if he knows enough math to teach..."
LD:
You were the head of the math department...
ED:
...at this school, I was the head of the math department, and I was determined that our kids were going to
get what they needed. Because I know how important it was. And you might not remember this, but this
was the beginning of the set theory...
MS:
Set theory?
ED:
S-E-T theory, you know, when this is... when mathematics was a set theory. And no… what had happened
was that the time I was in Swainsboro in Emanuel County, that the National Science Foundation was
offering scholarships to teachers in the state of Georgia who wanted to learn the set theory, of course. And
so, I came every summer I went to Atlanta University for nine weeks, taking these classes to get ready for
this set theory. And what... they paid... and I was head of the household at my house, and they gave you… so
much for dependents. And everybody in my house was dependent on me, so I got a lot of money. [laughs]...
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�LD:
It was like a stipend...
ED:
...a lot of knowledge and a lot of money. And I was having a good time. Well, what I did each summer, when I
went back to Emanuel County, I taught those kids what I had learned. And those kids were going... most of
them went to Savannah State. But it was something at that time, it was a big deal at Savannah State what
they did school plays, and they would do... like, the plays, the events then were something like basketball
and football, you know. And so, this one, one particular year, it was at the Emanuel County gym, and they
were coming from all over the region to have a place. And they came that particular Friday. And my
principal, called Mr. Williams. He said, "Ms. Dudley, they need you in the gym," and I said, "No, I'm not... not
the play person. I'm not in that." He said, "But somebody needs to see you." So, when I got over there, this
director, this person in charge of this event, he said, "I just wanted to see you. And thank you for all of those
students that you're sending to Savannah State that already know the set theory."
MS:
[laughs]
ED:
He said that in the big auditorium. And most of our kids and John Larson, they'll tell you that right now,
won't they, Dudley? Most of them went to college and served as teaching assistants. Because it was new for
the teachers. And if the teachers hadn't done the workshops... but anyway, that's not what you asked. You
asked about Mr. Dudley. I'm acting like him now, I'm jumping all over...
MS:
That's okay. That’s okay.
ED:
So, so when I went to see Mr. Dudley, I wanted to know if he knew the set theory, because this is the new
math. And so, he said, "No, I didn't do that yet." [laughs] And I said, "Well, I'm just sorry, sir. You can't do
that." So then. So, Mr. Gilbert said, "What are you going to do?" At that time department heads were doing
full classes. I said, "I’ll take six classes. I'll teach all day long if it takes that. "No, we can't let you do that.
That's against the policy and all that." I said, "Well, Mr. Dudley can't do it, sir." And I remember different
times when Mr. Dudley would go to his workshops with all of his folk and, and the man from Headland, in
particular, would tell him, "Man, your wife doesn't know what's going on in this county." And he would tell
them, say, "Your wife is down there teaching those remedial classes and the other departments are
teaching college bound classes." Well, I was teaching some of that too, but I wanted those kids. You
understand what I'm saying? Who, who needed it the most... that I know I wanted to give it to them. And I
think I was the only department head and the – well I was really the only Black one anyway – in the Fulton
County School System, that taught remedial classes. You get them you know, a teacher...all they want to do
is be a teacher. They want those kids who already know it. But I get right now... I got a phone call like last
week there was one telling me, "I don't know what I would have done if you had not been my teacher." And
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�I got some kids in Fairburn, because when they, when they closed Eva Thomas School that time, I went to
Campbell High School in Fairburn and they became my kids. You know, everywhere I go, those were my
kids. Those was my children. And one little girl, I remember they put her in the remedial class. Little white
girl. And she said... and I said... I would always get: "How much do you already know?" I came up with that
myself. And I tell you what they said, "Oh, Ms. Dudley is the best disciplinarian ever, because when they
walked through the door, I'd hand them a sheet. "Do (this) now. Get this done in five minutes, you get five
points." You know, that means you got to be quiet while I'm standing in this door. I'm not saying I'm the
best in the world, but I was almost. [all laugh]... but, but almost... but anyway... So, I said, "We're going to
take you out of remedial class, because you need to do this and that. College bound students, you won't be
able to get to college with these classes, right?" And so, her mom and dad came over there and we did this
little interview and... And I said, "I'm sure she can do it if she wants to do it." The little girl now, she became
like some president of a bank down in Fairburn, Georgia.
MS:
No kidding.
ED:
You know and when they would do stuff like that... and I had a... from Palmetto, my grandson is a Union City
policeman. Now, what happened... we got a child when we were old folk, okay? We adopted a great-great
grandson... nephew, when we were old folk. So now we got young grandchildren. We're having a good time
with them. [laughs]
LD:
I think one of your, one of your students on the same set that you are speaking of... One of your students is
working for Chick fil A.
ED:
Oh, yeah.... Well, he knows. He knows that. He knows about the Chik-fil-A Truett.
MS:
Yeah, sure.
ED:
And... Andrew, Andrew who was recently... he recently became the CEO for his daddy...
MS:
Truett Cathy...
ED:
Cathy. Well, and I... what was the daddy's name?
LD:
I can't recall...
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�ED:
Andrew, Andrew. Anyway... that was after I retired, I was at Landmark. I went to Landmark...
MS:
Landmark Christian?
ED:
Landmark Christian. I went there. Mr. Presley, who had been my principal, at one time became headmaster
down at Landmark and he called me to see if I could come in there part time. And I met Andrew and, and a
lot of other kids and... But what was interesting about that, when I got to Landmark, all of the kids sitting
there looked like the kids that were there when I was at Campbell High School. And I, and I could go around
and tell them who their parents were. [laughs] It was interesting. So, I've done a lot of crazy strange, like
things, you know, but it’s always been fun.
MS:
So, you obviously, were very dedicated with… to your students.
ED:
Oh yes.
LD:
She sure is.
MS:
I would imagine...
ED:
I still do tutorial stuff.
MS:
Do you?
ED:
...and getting and getting a call or an email from somebody even now that says thank you. That means a lot.
LD:
It does.
MS:
I believe it.
ED:
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�On my birthday, it would be about 240... they called me from Florida, from New York from all over. ...from
Emanuel County... And I had this company call from Palmetto the other night because they saw my son, my
grandson. And they said, "When are we going to lunch?" I say, "Real soon, real soon, real soon." I don't, I
really don't go any place now. I don't want to go anyplace. I want to just stay there, stay at home. And when
they say I need to see you, I stick my head out the back door.
MS:
Here I am.
LD:
And to answer you on that, which she's forgot to mention… Creflo Dollar.
MS:
Yes.
ED:
Would you believe Creflo Dollar gives me... Creflo gives me credit for him being in the ministry today? And
would you believe he has two sermons with my name in it?
MS:
Well, I believe it.
ED:
How do like that? [laughs]
MS:
I believe it. It’s a legacy.
ED:
We would do... and that goes back to the church. We had each second Sunday, we had a special program for
the kids, not lots of type of kids, but the community kids and they came from all the churches. We had; we
call it the anniversary every second Sunday. And we had asked Creflo to like be the emcee in the afternoons.
And I think I must have given him like $25. And that was a lot of money. And... he said, he'll tell you today
when I tell you it was in some of his sermons. And he'll call me. I get a call from somebody connected with
him and he wanted to know about. Just before... I just keep cutting stuff out... just before we went in, I had a
luncheon date with him. And he was going to send to pick me up and I was to tell him what I wanted for
lunch and, and we were going to sit... we're just going to sit and talk. “And anytime you have some time, Ms.
Dudley, come and see me.” Yes, I just feel so... I'm just having a good time.
MS:
That's great.
ED:
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�I'm enjoying it... As of now I am 90 years old. And I've been to so many of my students’ funerals. you know?
MS:
Yeah.
ED:
And I just feel... and the lady called me the other day. She said, "How are you doing?" I said, "I'm scared. I'm
doing better than I think I ought to be."
MS:
Right.
LD:
And sometimes, you know, I know she forgets some things. She forgets... which I will bring to her attention,
Monica. She is a sponsor for Monica.
ED:
He doesn’t know about that R&B stuff. We're talking about education. Monica...
MS:
That's okay. Tell me who Monica is.
ED:
Monica is an R&B... What would you call it, Dudley... all of these singers... you know?
LD:
She's one of the top singers.
MS:
Yeah. Singer, performer. R&B.
ED:
Yeah, she was the one who was married to Shannon Brown, the basketball person…
LD:
…played with the Lakers…
ED:
But anyway, she... her stepdaddy... that's back to the church. Her stepdaddy he was our pastor. He came,
and at that time he was dating her mama. And Monica... and Monica didn't want her mama to get married.
So, he said, "Ms. Dudley, Monica likes you so much." And each summer, they would live [inaudible]. Oh, I
had a CMSP program that came from New York.
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�MS:
And you said: CMSP?
ED:
Comprehensive Math and Science Project.
MS:
I see.
ED:
New York implemented it for the Fulton County Schools. And they needed a coordinator for the Fulton High
School. And the interviews were on the day that Campbell High School had homecoming. And I was one of
the ones they wanted to interview. [laughs] But that particular day we had homecoming at Campbell. And
all these kids had sent me flowers, and I had flowers. I just did it, you know? So, when it was time for me to
go to the interview, I said I'm just going to have to go as I am and see how they accept me. So, I went for my
interview with this homecoming, all these homecoming flowers, and all these homecoming colors, ribbons
and stuff. So, when I walked out, I had some of the head of the departments from other schools and they
said, "You come for that interview?" I said, "I had to come as I am. I got to go back. I got work." So, when I
went in [inaudible], bless his heart from New York. He said, "Come in Miss Cheerleader." So, I came in and
to make a long story short, he said, "Why do you think you need to coordinate this?" I said, "Because you
wrote my program." When I read what that person was going to do, it was exactly what I wanted to do. And
I became the coordinator for that particular program for the Fulton County School System. So, they
supplemented my salary. And, like, on Wednesday, they would fly me to New York and... and I had to write
the curriculum for it. And at that time, it was in three schools in Fulton County. It was at Campbell High
School. It was at Lakeshore; it was Lakeshore then. and... what was that... Banneker.
LD:
Banneker.
MS:
So, this was this was after Eva Thomas. You were at Campbell. So, this would have been the 1970s?
LD:
I think it was because so that was the time that she was...
ED:
Uh oh, that was something else. That was at Clark College that reminded me I was doing on Saturdays. And
I... it had to be because I was actually at Campbell...
LD:
That was in the '70s.
ED:
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�Yeah.
MS:
Lawyer, where did you go after Eva Thomas?
LD:
After Eva Thomas?
MS:
Uh huh. Once it was no longer a high school.
ED:
Headland.
LD:
After the school became integrated...
ED:
You went to Headland, didn't you?
LD:
I went to Headland High.
MS:
And taught shop there?
LD:
Uh huh, which is known now as Paul D. West Middle School.
ED:
And then you went from there to Riverwood.
LD:
No, I went from there to South Fulton. South Fulton, where you finished high school.
ED:
Oh, sure and then to Riverwood.
LD:
And then I went to north county to Riverwood.
ED:
That's right. I forgot about that. Yeah.
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�MS:
When you all were teaching, and this is... I'm speaking before, before the schools integrated, were... How
much did you all know or participate with the GT and EA? The Georgia Teachers and Education
Association... Were you all members? Or was that a...
LD:
Yes.
ED:
Yes.
MS:
How a part of your profession... How would you describe that to somebody who's never heard of that
before? Or what kind of support it provided or how that... what you did?
ED:
You know...
MS:
I know, I didn't say I was going to ask you about that.
ED:
That's fine. But I went to the conventions, and they were talking good stuff, but it’s like they weren't getting
anything done. You know how you how you go and you... I think they meant well but their hands were tied.
You know what I'm trying to say?
MS:
I do.
ED:
But it was sounding good and now... you went too, because you were talking about it the other day. But they
tried… but something always seemed like in the way to get to go on to where you want to be. And then
when they started: they knew this and changing this and changing that. My big concern and my interest
was in: what is this going to do for the student?
MS:
I see.
ED:
My focus was always there. I didn't ever bother too much with the other stuff. I said, "Y'all take care of that
and let me see what I can do with what y'all hand down to help the kids so they can make it." You won't
believe this, but when we were at Eva Thomas School, if a kid graduated and got a good job, I would say, "If
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�you get a good job and you need a cosigner for a car, then I'll cosign." And at one time... and at one time I
was on 21 car loans. I cosigned for 21 cars. And every student except one came through. And the one that
didn't come through was a nephew. [all laugh]
LD:
Now our biggest interest was in trying to help the underprivileged kid.
ED:
But did you hear what i said? I was just going to be the parent for everybody. Now...
MS:
…in a day and age when you could be in...
ED:
And when... right now when you hear... I get calls all the time. I got one just like yesterday. They're telling
me you're doing too much for folk. Because right now I have... I have under my carport... I got out some
coolers and some boxes and stuff. And like some fella called me just yesterday and said, "Mrs. Dudley, when
are we going to get some turkeys?" And I said, “You're going to have a turkey by next Sunday." He was a
former student. He's an old man now. So, a lady called me, and she said, "Are you going to need some
turkeys this year?" And I said, "Yeah, I said. I told her, I said, "Anthony called yesterday and he wants to
know if he can get one and as I told him to call me back next Sunday. She said, "Well I got some. So, I call
him back. Each week, people call me and like they tell me Monday needs… whatever they need then... I
mean, it's not me spending my money. I'm just coordinating it. I call somebody who has the money, who has
the goods, and tell them I need them, and they come, and I put them under my carport. They don't come in
my house. I put in my... Dudley had this fella call him last week and he talked about going to homecoming in
Tuskegee. And he said, "Mr. Dudley, we’re coming... I'm coming by there... me and my lady are going to
come by and sit and talk to you a little while. And Dudley said, "Good." And I said "No. Dudley, don't tell him
it's good because you know we're not going to let him in the house. I mean, and they'd laugh at me like that.
That's how they do...
LD:
In all our life, we two as a couple, we're not, not interested in money. We're trying to help the
underprivileged kids and everything. That's our life. Because we too believe in, whatever you do for people,
that underprivileged and everything, God will give it back to you.
MS:
Was that your message to your students?
LD:
That's always been our message.
ED:
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�My thing was that I couldn't have made it without the people. My mama and eight of us. And like I said we
was in three rooms. And now when we had homework, if I didn't go up to the Davis's house, we had to
share a lamp. And the people, the neighborhood folk, I remember one, one day when I... I don't remember
what grade I was. But Miss Viola Sims, who was the insurance person. She was... you know how they used
go up to houses and collect insurance premiums. But anyway, she said, "Why are you at home?" I didn't
have no shoes. She said, "You stay right here, what size you want?" And I told her. She came back with me a
pair of shoes and took me to school. Okay, when I got ready... I had Timothy Nichol's mama, who was a
beautician in the neighborhood. And when I got ready to go to college, she said, "I'm not going to let you go
to college looking any kind of way." She said, "I'm going to make you an appointment every two weeks, and
you come like everybody else, and they don't know you're not paying." And when I got finally graduated
from college, and Miss Sims, the same lady who bought the shoes... I went by to see her, and she was sick.
And she said, "You got some money?" I said, "Not yet. I hadn't got paid. I just got a job." She took me to the
Bank of College Park... Bank of College Park. And she sat me down with this Mr. [inaudible] and she said,
"She's on the way out to college. I mean to work; she got a job. And I want you to give her a checking
account. And she... I bet she put like $100, whatever there. And she said, "And I want her to have your
number. And when she needs anything, she can call you." And if they hadn't done that for me, you
understand? So, I want to give back. And I… I want somebody else to feel like I feel like. That's why I keep
saying that was family. Those were the people who took care of us. And my mama had these sisters and
stuff and some of them were doing very well. And I remember there was three of them that lived in College
Park. And the ones from, that would live in Jonesborough and other places they would come to College
Park. They would visit with them. But they didn't visit us. And sometimes we would go by and see them
and, and they would wave at us. You know, but we needed something, you know what I'm saying? But every
time one of them got sick, it was my mama who took care of them. And I was thinking about it the other day
when my cousin, who is really sick now, that her mom... her mama... when we were children and her mama
had had a baby, my mama had gone down there to take care of her. And she told me that money...she said,
"Now when you, when you leave school, don't… don't go home, you come down to [inaudible] house. And
that's what I did. And when I got to [inaudible] house, she said, "When you get there, go to the back porch.
And I did. And my cousin Eddie May came to the one and waved at me. And I'm outside… But at that time, it
didn't matter. When I think about those little things about how [inaudible] used to come to College Park
and they never come to see us. And but, when I got a teaching position, you would’ve thought I was Miss
America. Roberta's got a child that's teaching. She finished college and she's teaching. [laughs] My mama
was one of 17...
MS:
17?
ED:
...and she had eight of us. We got... a whole lot got more than that, but anyway... those are the kinds of
things, you know. I mean, I'm alright with it. You know what I'm saying? But I'm just saying it made me who
I am, and it helped me to know that other people need that help. You need to do something for somebody.
MS:
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�So, I wanted to talk specifically now about the Eva Thomas experience.... your all's experience there. It was
the kind of... school… it wasn't there very long, a brand new building. Right? Lawyer, you mentioned you
came in 1965?
ED:
Right.
LD:
'66.
MS:
'66? So, you wouldn't remember...
LD:
I'm sorry. '65.
MS:
So, you won't remember the school being built.
LD:
No.
MS:
I know, just from our records, that it was part of an urban renewal project… you mentioned this before as
was we were introducing ourselves to each other, how College Park has kind of changed and churches have
been... Do you remember the construction?
ED:
I remember, I remember that urban renewal. It was just like, tear down and relocate. And there were a lot
of little houses over there. They used to call them shotgun houses. They tore all those houses down. I
remember that they went like... seemed like to me they went from Princeton to Virginia Avenue because
they had started building houses and stuff on Virginia Avenue at that time. They went up there and it
stopped. And it seemed like they went on the other side up to John Wesley, because we were on a lower
part of John Wesley, but there was some white folk on the upper part of John Wesley. And that was... on
Princeton, there was a little hole in this church. And… and I remember hearing somebody say it... that they
didn't want to say. So, whatever they used to condemn it.
MS:
Right.
ED:
And they tore it down. I remember all of that. All that was gone, you know?
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�MS:
Do you remember... were there any? Do you remember people specifically that may have had to leave
because of that? And you know, the circumstances surrounding that?
ED:
I remember, yeah, I remember. I remember some people that lived there. I think it was Ken French and the
folks who live there that moved... that they had to move. And they went... maybe John Wesley or somewhere
with the relatives or something. And some of them left town. Some actually left College Park.
MS:
Sure. I would imagine so.
ED:
But I remember that. It seemed like they came in to do... what they come to do? They tear it down. And all
they didn't tear down, they relocate. It was a lot of stuff that went on.
MS:
Yeah, I know that in the 1960s. Just from studying the, you know, when I went to school, that urban
renewal, kind of nationwide was... It affected a lot of people in good ways and in bad ways. And it's
interesting to hear, I was just curious. So, Eva Thomas High School... here you are, you're... you all are pretty
young, you're teaching there. It's a brand-new school. I mean, did they have, you know, do they have all the
sports? Tell me a little bit about the school itself, in general. Do they have activities besides academics?
How many students you know, just kind of a general...
ED:
They had... you know, it was like a regular normal high school. And, and I think the good thing about it was
that... I think all the teachers were just like I was. They were at home. They were with Mr. Gilbert, who was
the person who wanted them there. And we took the kids to be like ours. We're going to make them the
best that we can do. And I don't have to tell you about Mr. Dollar and that basketball team...
MS:
The basketball team, yeah.
ED:
And... and he would... if they weren't there on the day they were supposed to be there, or something was
coming up... he would call. He would go pick them up. Go get them out of bed. Go… go pick them up and
stuff.
MS:
Remember how many students were there about? In the 60s?
ED:
I can't remember how many students. I really don't know.
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�LD:
I have no idea.
MS:
That's okay. It's not something that you...
ED:
But... we had all kind of activities. We had the yearbook... ...and music. Mrs. Moore was something else with
that music. And Mrs. Moore had been my music teacher in high school.
MS:
Music? No kidding.
ED:
And now she was my coworker.
MS:
There you go.
ED:
Yeah. But... yeah. The thing that we had really going for us was, just like I said, a lot of my students were...
most of my students... were like their parents were my friends.
MS:
Sure.
ED:
You know, we kind of... their parents, you know, these were our kids.
MS:
I got the impression from Ursel and Charles that as a kid, if you acted it up, you know... there was always a
pair of eyes that knew your parents. There was a relative everywhere you were.
ED:
And when you say that I thought about when Otis Moore did something. And we would visit... we go to the
houses, because you didn't have phones and all that other stuff. And I remember I said, "I'd be by your
house this afternoon." So, when I drove up to his yard, a big dog was sitting on the porch, and I blew the
horn, and his mama came to the door. And she said, "What is this?" And I said, "I told him I was coming by
here.” And she said, "That's why he's got that dog out there." But those kinds of things. And... we had people
like Anthony [inaudible], who was working nights. And he would come to school and go to sleep. So, I went
by his house and his mom said, "Well Miss Dudley, I'm sorry, we need the money." I said, "Ma'am, please,"
you know, so I said, "We need to work with this a little bit.” Those are the kinds of things we did. But let's
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�see, I can't... When we closed the Eva Thomas High School, one, one thing happened. I think I sponsored the
prom. I think, I think I was sponsoring prom, and we had monies in the treasurers. And they allowed me to
take a bus and take them too Lake Winnepesaukah to spend the money.
MS:
Wow.
ED:
So, this is a free trip. Yeah. You know, um, we did all those kind of things.
MS:
Lawyer, was there any student that stuck out to you from your time at Eva Thomas? Or anybody who left an
impression on you more than anyone...?
LD:
Quite a few.
MS:
Any one or two that you'd care to...
LD:
Yeah...
ED:
He has someone right now who called him. What'd they call... what'd they call you?
LD:
Bird.
ED:
Bird. But when Mr. Dudley came, he had a little thing in his head, and they started calling him Bird. The kids
called him Bird. Well, he didn't like it. I told, I told him the best way to deal with it is to laugh with them, you
know? And so now they want to make him mad. They say, "Hey, Bird." [laughs]
LD:
Some of my students are...
MS:
B-I-R-D, bird?
ED:
Bird. Some of my students saw it... I remember a game I attended. The Braves game. And one of my white
students attended Georgia Tech. You know the students always remember the teacher.
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�MS:
Sure. Yeah, we do.
LD:
But the, but the teachers don't remember. The kid is... and he spotted me from a distance. He ran up to me.
"Mr. Dudley! Mr. Dudley! How are you?” I said, "I'm fine. Who are you?" He said, "I was one of your students
at Paul D. West." He says, "I'm so proud of you." He said, "I never will forget you." He said, "You taught me
all the theory around... architect."
ED:
But you know... back to Eva Thomas...
LD:
Because I was teaching the mechanical... He said, "I think about you all the time."
ED:
But back to the Eva Thomas part of it. And now... a lot of those kids wanted to do... And, and a lot of... and a
lot of them was... See, when it comes to me back to my day... that if we didn't want to go to school, we didn't
have to. My mama wasn't into that. You understand what I'm trying to say? And I think that's the reason
why I wanted, I was the first to do what I did, because I wanted to. But if I didn't want to, I didn't have to.
And we had a lot of that at Eva Thomas High School. And we knew that. And that's why we had to kind of
like go to the houses and go talk to the mamas and because we know them by first names and stuff. We'd
say, "Now you know, we got to get this boy out of here. We got to do this." And we did a lot of that... a lot of
that.
MS:
So, you all are talking about this community of College Park and I know a lot of the people who are going to
be researching and listening to your all's interview are going to be interested to know... you know, before
the schools integrated, obviously, we have schools for Black students and schools for white students in
Fulton County. Obviously, by high school, you know, students are quite aware that they're in a segregated
school system, right? Was there any kind of message you as teachers had for them? I mean, you know what
I'm asking? It's, I'm sure it's hard when you're urging students to succeed, for them to be in a world where
there are things that are stacked against them. And how did, how do they overcome that? How did you help
them overcome that? Or was that part of what you did? Or was that a community effort?
LD:
Well, my part about that is, as I recall, when she and I were at Eva Thomas... at that time, before I went to
Paul D. West, the thing came was that husband and wife could not teach together. Okay? Although whites
could teach together.
MS:
Oh, okay.
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�LD:
But Blacks could not.
MS:
I see.
LD:
Therefore, I was transferred. And my first day at Paul D. West, I was the only Black teacher there. The only
one there. And my students there seemed like they had never seen a (Black) person. Okay. First class
period, in my room, I could stand and look out the window and see the view from that side. The bell
sounded for everybody to go to their first class. The students would not leave the window to go to class.
And so, I walked over to them... and I simply said, "Did you all hear the bell ring? It's time for you all to go."
MS:
The only one...
ED:
We don't want him to put us out of here.
LD:
Okay.
MS:
No, no, no. You go ahead.
ED:
We're all right? Okay.
MS:
You all are fine.
ED:
...because he was talking about what you did for those kids at Eva Thomas
MS:
That's okay. That's fine.
ED:
The integration and stuff...
MS:
Yeah, no problem.
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�ED:
Okay. Okay,
LD:
So, you want me to continue?
MS:
Oh, yes, please.
LD:
Oh, yeah. And I said, "Did you hear the bell ring? It's time for you all to go to class." And so... I said, "You may
as well go to class, because I'm here to stay." And believe it or not, as of today, some of those kids, I still
remember. I'm still invited to the class reunion and everything. They just fell in love with me, and
everything...
ED:
But you had a lot of kids... the kids were aware of a lot of this. And they knew...
LD:
They knew.
ED:
And they knew... and especially after the reopening of Eva Thomas, there was a lot of bitter stuff, because of
some things that was written up about the kids and stuff. And I had a permanent place when it came in, and
all that kind of thing. But my thing to them was: concentrate on what you want to do. Keep focused on what
you want to do. And go forward, you know, because you can't win all these battles, you can't win and
some… you know, you don't even want to fight, you know what I'm saying? And so, and so... and when they
went to College Park High, and some of them went... was coming back saying stuff like, "They don't want us
up there." That's fine. Do what you got to do and get out as quick as you can. [laughs] Know what I'm
saying? What do you say, you can't fight?
MS:
Sure. There's what you control… what you can control.
ED:
Control what you can and focus on... keep your focus on what you love.
MS
Do you remember how you all found out? And when you found out that Eva Thomas, as the high school,
was going to be closed? You all probably know the story about H.E.W...4
US Department of Health, Education and Welfare (H.E.W.) was the federal agency charged with enforcing integration
in public schools after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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�ED:
Yeah.
MS:
...Paul D. West5 and the Board...
ED:
Yeah.
MS:
You know...
ED:
They had told us that we would no longer be at Eva Thomas and they would let us know our assignment.
MS:
So, they were going to give you a new assignment?
LD:
I wasn't there then.
MS:
You weren't there?
LD:
No.
MS:
So, you'd already gone.
ED:
You were already gone.
MS:
Because of the rule that you all couldn't be...?
LD:
Yes, yes.
MS:
Okay, so did you find out that summer that the school was going to be closed?
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�ED:
I think we find out like the end of '69? Whatever it was, anyway...
MS:
Yeah, it was going to be, they were going to close it before it started the fall of '69.
ED:
Yeah. Yeah. And it's and... we were given our assignments... I believe at that time, I went to Lakeshore.
Seemed like to me it was Lakeshore. Wherever it was, I knew about the protests and all that kind of thing.
And I would drive by to see some stuff. And I remember... and I saw some things that I wouldn't ever
believe that I could have seen.
MS:
Care to share?
ED:
You know what I discovered when I was researching... because I've known about this for a while just
working here long before I met you all. I had; I knew some… some of the elder people who was really
supposed to have been at home sick. I saw one particular lady that I didn't even know she could walk. But
she had a big... she was walking down the street just limping with a big box. And I say, "what?" I said, "What
do you have?" And then she said, "I baked some cookies." You think about that. Then I had... but I could
never go down. I'm teaching still. I want to see what's going on. But I don't want to be there, you know.
Then I saw some people that I hadn't seen in years and years and years, that didn't go nowhere, and didn't
do nothing that was walking with... I think hamburgers and feeding them. And, and I couldn't talk to them,
you know, but... who was that? Somebody came to say, "Hey, Ms. Dudley."... But I will go by, I don't know... it
didn't last but a few days. But anyway, whatever it was, it let you know that in spite of how people felt, they
came up with enough energy to support this thing that I think needs to happen. Because when you really
think about it, and right now, presently you when you think about it, you say why did it build that school.
You know?
MS:
That's what makes it such an honor and privilege for you all to be here. The school construction on the
school... or … the school opened two months after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would have made it
illegal to build, right?
LD:
Right.
MS:
But at the same time, your community in College Park was getting this wonderful new building facility. So,
it's hard to argue, am I right?
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�ED:
That's right.
MS:
And you can tell me if I'm not.
ED:
Those are the things I'm talking about.
MS:
It's very complicated, right? It's very complicated because you can… you can have a pride in your
community school at the same time that that school is, you know, a segregated school. So, it’s a fascinating
story. And I think it's very interesting that... well, I didn't know about the teacher rule that put you
somewhere else...
LD:
There's one thing that I'm concerned about...
MS:
Yes, sir.
LD:
...which I said that I still have left, and I'm still concerned about it. I know you are here to interview us, but
there's one question which probably in your mind, and probably another people's mind that... which you
just mentioned that: it is a beautiful school as a... but why was the name taken away from Eva Thomas,
when she was a very great educator? And that's that is one thing I'm concerned about.
MS:
Yes, sir.
ED:
Well, there is a lot of stuff you could, you could think about and ask him about and stuff. Like he said, but
you're, and you were right. Some people were so proud to have a school. You know, so you're saying why
don't we fight this? You could just, you know... it was a lot of things to think about, really.
LD:
There's another issue that I would like to mention, I know you have interviewed quite a few people... and
the people that I knew in College Park, like I say, I met my wife there. There's a lot of people that probably
have come to you, which you have interviewed in the past before our coming here, that even wasn't born in
College Park and does not know anything about College Park like she does.
MS:
Right, right. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of that.
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�LD:
Yeah. Yeah, and it's going to continue to be. It won't ever stop. Some of the stuff, some of the things that we
think need to won't ever stop but you know, we do what we need to do.
MS:
And I'm glad you brought those up, because those are on record now, those questions. And, and I couldn't
agree more why's, why did Eva Thomas, the name, disappear off a Fulton County school building? Well, so
that really kind of, you know, that kind of concludes the questions that I had for you, but I'll leave another
minute or two open if there's a message you have...
ED:
Well, what I wanted... and I'm not saying this because I'm involved... but the… in 2003 a group of young
adults... and back to Laster Chapel again... formed a scholarship. Emma Elsa Schell Dudley Scholarship
Foundation for any 12th grade graduating student in the state of Georgia. And as of today, they have given
over $250,000... since it was Laster Chapel in College Park, I like the kids to remember that. I want that to
be a part of something. Then the other thing when I talked about the murdered and missing children...
MS:
Yes.
ED:
...over 60 years now, each summer, up until like 20.... last time I think it was 1903... maybe two years ago.
But anyway, each summer, we took a group of kids for... after that second Sunday event... it would be the
second Sunday in July, either that Friday or Saturday, we would load the buses and take all the kids in the
College Park community to Florida to Myrtle Beach or somewhere. At one summer we took six bus loads.
And when I see some of them, they say, "When are we going to do another trip? We need to do a reunion
trip." If we had not done that, some of those kids would have never left College Park... would've been to
another state other than College Park. Another thing I wanted to talk about was Julie Crawford, who was
one of the ones who was from College Park. She did... this is Laster Chapel again... we had a revival about
four years ago. And one... the Monday night we named it College Park night. And we decided that we were
going to try to bring the people from College Park back into the church. And each pew in the church had a
street name. And we put it out there: “Come and get on your street.” You couldn't get all the folk in the
church. Think about that. You remember that, Dudley? And we had somebody make the sign, you come in
as a person, that's Columbia that decision and you go to your street... Oh, you've never seen anything like it
before. Now...
LD:
I think... cutting you off, if you and I are on the same subject, is that the time that we had the people come
back that had moved out of the community?
ED:
Yeah...
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�LD:
We had 62 to join... rejoin that Sunday.
ED:
No, no, no, no... This is when we did this thing with [inaudible].
LD:
Oh yes.
ED:
Since then, she's wanted to, she's been asking for some way, somehow that we get the people together
again, in the form of sharing. And we were about to ask for that when all this stuff happened. But anyway,
she was thinking that we could just take them like to maybe [inaudible] and do a big thing and get one from
each family's street or something and just share some stuff. Just talk about it. And so, I thought, I don't
know how to do it or what to do. But I'm saying it everywhere I go. [laughs] Maybe it'll catch on
somewhere, you know.
MS:
I have... You've kind of sparked an idea, which I'll, I'll talk to you after I stop the recording. But there is one
thing I've failed to ask. And I guess... so part of, part of our doing these oral history interviews is to kind of...
one day we're hoping to put together an exhibit, which might go... you know, like a traveling exhibit, like
panels that we break down and we put up in each area high school.
ED:
Oh, wow.
MS:
And so, they would see these panels, you know, like you were in a museum. And it would be great to have a
little quote from everybody who went to Eva Thomas. And so, I'm going to ask each one of you individually,
maybe 30 seconds to a minute. What was... What's your greatest memory, what's the best thing about your
experience at Eva Thomas high school when you were there? and I'll start with you.
ED:
The best thing about Eva Thomas when I was there was the relationship that I had with the students and
the parents and that coordination... the support at that from home. And the appreciation that the students
seem to have now for what they get why they were there.
MS:
Great. Lawyer, what would you say?
LD:
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�My greatest experience at Eva Thomas, as you notice when we... I walked into this building, and I noticed
the cleanliness of this building and everything... Eva Thomas was a school with our principal, Mr. Gilbert.
there was no writing on the wall. Nowhere. Even the bathroom. And they weren’t monitored. Well, those
are the types of students we had. And they were respectable to the teachers. That is my greatest memory.
MS:
Well, that's wonderful. And now I actually want to you know, while we're on recording, say thank you all
very much for coming...
LD:
Thank you so much for having us...
MS:
...and spending time with us. I'm going to stop the recording now.
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Emma Dudley is a native of College Park who taught Mathematics at Eva Thomas High School, where she also served as the head of her curriculum department. Prior to her position there, she worked as a teacher in Emanuel County, Georgia. Emma Dudley attended South Fulton High School (Class of 1950) and Clark College.
Lawyer Dudley taught Industrial Arts at Eva Thomas High School, beginning in 1965. He is a native of Eufaula, Alabama. Lawyer Dudley attended Tuskegee College (now Tuskegee Institute) and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was among the first teachers in Fulton County to integrate.
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Bruce Dunlap
Wednesday, December 12, 2021, 1 pm
Fulton County Schools Archives, Teaching Museum South, Hapeville, Georgia
Bruce Dunlap is a native of College Park, Georgia and a graduate of Eva Thomas High School, Class of 1967. He
began his education at Jefferson Franklin Beavers Elementary School and moved to South Fulton High School
in East Point before Eva Thomas was completed in 1964. Dunlap would eventually attend Clark College
(Atlanta, GA) on a music scholarship. He also served in the army and was deployed overseas. Dunlap’s wife,
Sylvia Dunlap (Eva Thomas, Class of 1970) was also present during the interview.
Michael Santrock:
I am Mike Santrock. I'm here with Bruce Dunlap. This is part of the Eva Thomas Oral History Project. It is
December 1, just after what's about 1pm, December 1, 2021. So, welcome, and thanks for coming. I
appreciate it.
Bruce Dunlap:
Thanks for having me.
MS:
You're welcome.
BD:
There I am right there.
MS:
We're looking at the 1966 yearbook for those of you who can't see.
BD:
I'd be a junior.
MS:
Did you know what you wanted to do? Back then? In high school?
BD:
Back then I wanted to be a... I wanted to go into music... music instructor or teacher or something like that.
That's pretty much what I wanted to do. I actually went to Clark College on a music scholarship.
MS:
Alright. What was your instrument of choice?
BD:
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�Ah, heavy brass. My main focus instrument was tuba.
MS:
Tuba, no kidding. Did Eva Thomas have a marching band?
BD:
No, not at that time. We had what we called a wind and brass...a wind and percussion ensemble. There was
only about 23, 24 of us. And as a matter of fact, the gentleman that leads Clark College, or Clark Atlanta
University's jazz band, was my instructor, Mr. James Patterson.
MS:
James Patterson. That name has come up before with some other conversations. Am I correct? He also...
didn't he teach at JF Beavers as well?
BD:
Yes, he did. That's where I first sat under him was at JF Beavers. I started band when I was in fourth grade.
And I had two band instructors there. I think the first one was Mr. Hudson. And Mr. Patterson was the last
one at JF Beavers. I think he had gone into the army or something or another; or he had gone to the
University of Michigan. I may have the order in that misconstrued, but...
MS:
Yeah.... So, Patterson, did he leave Eva Thomas to go to Clark? or was it a... I guess...
BD:
I, I am really not sure. I think so. I had gone by then. I left College Park in February of '69. And I went into
the army. And I never did move back to College Park after that. But he... I think he did go over to Clark,
because he was doing some teaching over there anyhow, like a couple of high school teachers at that time.
We had Mr. Wyatt, who was an alumni of Clark. He actually taught at Price High School, which is closed.
MS:
Right. Well, so just... let's... what we'll do to begin with is I was going to ask you about your childhood... just
ask you about your family, your parents, did you have siblings?
BD:
I had, well, I got a brother and I had a sister who is deceased. I came up pretty much in a... single parent
household after I was turned about seven, I guess, something like that. My father had served in World War
II and he had issues after that... a lot of issues. He left one day to cash his check. And I saw him one time
after that when I was about 12, 13. The next time I saw him, he was in a casket. It was about right around
Christmas when I was maybe 16 years ago.
MS:
But since, since you were about seven, you'd been raised by your mother, I'm assuming. And so where did
you fall as far as the two siblings were...?
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�BD:
Right in the middle.
MS:
Right in the middle. I'm a middle child, too. It's good and bad with that, I guess. [laughs] So what did you...
so were you raised in College Park?
BD:
Yes, I was. I went to JF beavers. From JF beavers, I went to South Fulton for a couple of years. And then they
built Thomas High. I graduated from Thomas High. I went to Clark College for about a year and a half and
went into the army.
MS:
Yeah. How did your mom make her living? How did you all make a living when you were young?
BD:
She didn't work very much when my father was there. You know, he worked. She was a maid at JF Beavers
for a good portion of the time that I was there. And so, I couldn't get away with too much. And then I don't
know, I think the Great Society came into being you know what I'm talking about? Urban Renewal and...
MS:
LBJ and all that?
BD:
...and all this, and she went to work for... I can't think of the name of it.... yeah, the E... E... what was it?
Sylvia Dunlap (SD)1:
Equal Opportunity...
BD:
Equal Opportunity...
MS:
Right.
BD:
...down there and... she worked right over here in East Point, as a matter of fact. She was a canvasser for
them for a while, and then she became assistant to the professional with them and that's where she worked
until she retired.
Sylvia Dunlap, spouse to Bruce; graduate of Eva Thomas High School, Class of 1970. Sylvia was present for the entire
interview.
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�MS:
Okay. So, um, so you went to JF Beavers. And how did you get to school? Did you walk?
BD:
Walked. Yep, walked... down the street, around the corner. You know, it wasn't far. I grew up there on
Princeton.
MS:
Okay.
BD:
Everybody walked. We didn't have buses, you know? Didn't matter whether you lived over on the other
side of College Park, which I think somebody documented... at College Park, the whole area of College Park
where Black people lived was one square mile or something like that. Everybody walked to school.
MS:
In speaking with Brenda, she talks about going up the hill, right? I guess up toward Main Street. And then
what is now College Park Elementary is kind of that area we're talking about right around that?
BD:
No, as a matter of fact, JF Beavers was over.... I don't know whether you're familiar with Brady's Gym?
MS:
Well, I've heard of it.
BD:
Yeah. The golf course there?
MS:
Yes. Yes.
BD:
JF Beavers was up the street from the golf course. You know, if you left out of JF Beavers and walked down
to Redwine... about a half a block or two, you're at the golf course.
MS:
Right. So the golf course was there, then?
BD:
Yes.
MS:
Oh, Okay. It's been there a while then... So, um, the first thing I like to do is because there's a lot of people
that may come in... you know, researchers that may come across your story and the stories of your
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�classmates, Eva Thomas High alum, that may not have a frame of reference for what College Park is like.
We're talking about a small suburb of Atlanta. Well, it's not so small anymore, actually. But for somebody
who's not familiar with College Park or its history, how would you describe it back in the mid-late 50s,
early 60s?
BD:
College Park was full of shotgun houses. And I don't know whether you know what this terminology is. A
shotgun house is a house that you can open the front door and pretty much look all the way straight
through, through the back door. There at 708 West Princeton, we had... a... it was three shotgun houses
right together. I call them double barrel because they had two sides to them. People raised their families
there. Eldrin Bell, who was the chief police for Atlanta, and a commissioner, was raised in one room
shotgun houses. I think members of my family occupied three of them. But it was... we were... it was a poor
neighborhood, but nobody considered themselves poor. You know, we didn't know that we were poor. But
looking back, I guess we were. But we didn't come up that way.
MS:
No sense of that when you were young?
BD:
We had a lot of food to eat and nice clothes to wear and everything. So, we had to use the bathroom on the
back porch, and I didn't have running hot water until I was 15, 16 years old, and we've moved to an
apartment, a two bedroom apartment that's still in College Park as we speak at 115 North Napolean.
MS:
Oh, wow. Did... was the... that plumbing, the lack of plumbing was that... Was that kind of like a lot of people
lived in that kind of?
BD:
Yes.
MS:
Yeah. Okay. I got this sense from talking with other alum that... it was, growing up there was kind of like
being raised by the community.
BD:
Yes.
MS:
You just mentioned that your mom worked at the school. And I know that there was kind of some jokes
about you couldn't do anything, because you'd be in trouble... there were always eyes looking at you...
BD:
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�Couldn't get away with too much. You know, we had our moments where we... you know, we were
teenagers and kids, so we did our mischief and whatnot. But everybody had respect for you know, people
that were grownups. We would go to Brady's Gym, and we had Mr. and Mrs. Brady, who ran the gym. And
Mrs. Brady could be there by herself and have a gymnasium full of teenagers and wouldn't have not one bit
of problem. Not... not, not one problem out of anybody. So...
MS:
That's great. So um, let's... take me back to when you were a student at JF Beavers. Was there any particular
teacher there that left an impression on you more than any other?
BD:
I wouldn't say that. I can pretty much remember all, well most of their names, but... I wouldn't say anyone
stood out over the others.
MS:
No? You remember the principal?
BD:
Our first principal there was Ms. Johnson. And then my first-grade teacher, Miss Benton, after Miss Johnson
left, she went to Africa as an educator.
MS:
Miss Johnson did?
BD:
Yeah, her and her husband. And Miss Benton became principal. And she was principal when I left JF
Beavers.
MS:
What was she like?
BD:
She was a nice lady, you know... very nice. I considered all of them were pretty nice. Now we had a... couple
of no-nonsense teachers. [inaudible]... Miss Huff. Now, she was pretty much no nonsense. But she actually
took off a strip of the plastic runner that goes up the... that they used to... thick stuff that they used on stairs
back then and she had a little swath of that that she would use, and she would hit you on your hand with it.
I only got hit one time, but...
MS:
That's a sting. [laughs] Were you a good student?
BD:
I would say so, yeah.
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�MS:
Yeah. Straight A student?
BD:
No.
MS:
No.
BD:
I got straight A's twice. I think in the second grade, and then my last semester of high school.
MS:
So we've kind of come to know through researching our records, the importance of the man, Jefferson
Franklin Beavers. He was a postal worker, I think.
BD:
Maybe so, I don't know. He actually lived next door to my aunt, Thelma Albert. But I actually don't know.
MS”
So, you never met him as a child?
BD:
No, I think he was going on.
MS:
So, it's fair to say when you were going to school there. You weren't, you didn't really have a sense of who
he was?
BD:
No, he had a picture up on the wall right in the hallway. But I think it's the same picture that you got here.
Yes. Yes, it was.
MS:
Yeah, that's... we inherited that portrait, which is really cool. And so I've... you saw the little display we
have? Yeah, that's based on everything that... all the records we have here is what we've learned about him.
So... so Jefferson Franklin Beavers was, was that first through seventh grade at the time?
BD:
Yes. Yes, it was.
MS:
Okay, so you went there first through seventh?
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�BD:
Right.
MS:
And then at that time... you graduated in '67, so you would have been in the first class going to Eva Thomas.
So prior to 1964, Eva Thomas did not exist. So all the students... from where... went to South Fulton?
BD:
At South Fulton? And to be clear, this is a school for Black students only, correct? From College Park. I want
to say Hapeville... Add a little area over off Jonesborough Road that was called [inaudible] Creek. And East
Point, all went to South Fulton, and we still only had about 600 people. Right.
MS:
And the school system was segregated at the time.
BD:
Right.
MS:
So, obviously you had a sense of this, by the time you're going to South Fulton that you are going to school
that's segregated by race.
BD:
Right.
MS:
What did that mean to you at that point?
BD:
It didn't mean anything to me, really. I guess, in retrospect it might mean a little bit but at that time was just
the norm. You know, just the thing that was and... just like they had a couple of little restaurants on Main
Street in College Park, but we didn't... we couldn't eat in them. You know, they had one that... if you wanted
something out of there, you had to go around to the back door, and they would serve you out of the back
door. You know, it was just the way it was. We didn't think anything... we'd get on out of the school bus...
Now, we did bus to South Fulton, because that was quite a trip. When we get on the school bus in the
morning, if you didn't have extracurricular activities in the afternoon, you get on the bus and come back
home in the afternoon.
MS:
Yeah.
BD:
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�I was in the band, and we'd have to hitchhike home or walk.
MS:
So, you practiced after school.
BD:
Right.
MS:
And then you did literally hitchhike back home... from... and... to clarify, South Fulton was in East Point...
College Park... what, three or four miles away?
BD:
Yeah, it was probably longer than that.
MS:
Too long to walk for sure.... So, South Fulton... you're in the band. Were you in any other extracurriculars?
BD:
No, just the band.
MS:
Anything stand out to you from your time at South Fulton? Any teachers or... principal there... Was McClarin
the principal?
BD:
McClarin was the principal. Ms. Addie Harris was the vice principal. The... I think Dr. Gilbert was, I think he
was... I forget which department he was in, but he actually became principal at Eva Thomas. Mr. Thomas,
who was a shop teacher at South Fulton, became vice principal at Eva Thomas. And we had a couple of
teachers that came over from South Fulton. Miss Moore, who taught chorus, she came over and... Miss Hill,
who taught English at South Fulton, came over to Eva Thomas and... Mr. Gilbert actually hired a bunch of
students that he had taught at South Fulton as teachers. So, a lot of them were pretty young.
MS:
Yeah. So, I wonder... I've always kind of wondered how many people, how many students from South Fulton
went with you to Eva Thomas when Eva Thomas opened.
BD:
Our first graduating class had what, about 11, 12, 13 people, something like that. Oh okay, so its small.
Mine had about 36, I believe. And South Fulton was pretty much the same. They took a small school and
made two small schools. So, there wasn't that many of us.
MS:
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�You ever wonder why they did that?
BD:
Yeah, I know why they did that... There was some talk in the air about legislation where you could not pass
a school to go to another school. And to prevent us from going to College Park High, they built Thomas High
in case this became the law of the land. So, they built Thomas High, so we wouldn't have to pass by College
Park High to get to South Fulton.
MS:
So, to kind of preserve the status quo.
BD:
To preserve the segregation.
MS:
So, you're living in College Park, and you're going to South Fulton over in East Point. Do you recall Eva
Thomas being built? Do you remember when it was being constructed?
BD:
Yeah, it was right up the street from me.
MS:
Yeah. Okay. What was that like? I mean, how'd that change the... the area?
BD:
Well, they... pretty much it changed where people lived before... there was a... the Titanic was over there.
Titanic was this...
SD:
[inaudible] It was still there...
BD:
...this huge building, and everybody called it the Titanic.
MS:
Nicknamed the Titanic? [all laugh] That's funny, I hadn't heard that one yet.
SD:
That's where the playground is now.
MS:
And so, what, what was that?
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�SD:
It was on McDonald Street
BD:
It was, it was... apartments.
SD:
[inaudible] it was my family home. And [inaudible] they bought property over there. And so, now where the
playground is... at College Park Elementary?
MS:
Uh huh.
SD:
That's where we was. That's where we stayed.
MS:
You know, we... we know now that that was part of an Urban Renewal project: Eva Thomas. And... also
looking at Urban Renewal across the country, it kind of... it, it created a lot of things, but it disrupted a lot of
things too. Did you see any of that kind of people?
BD:
There was a church there, they had to move. There were people that had homes... down there on Napoleon
Street. They had to relocate. You know, I guess it disrupted some lives. But they... I don't know... I was
young, I was...[laughs] You know, you kind of flow with the... trend. Whatever was going on, you know, you
just ride it out.
MS:
So your first day at Eva Thomas. Was that exciting? Are were you just...
BD:
It was... it was good. You know, it was good. It was... a really better atmosphere. I think for me it was, you
know. But I didn't have too many problems at South Fulton. For a while there, I wanted to be a thug in the
ninth grade. But I grew out of that. And I decided I wanted to graduate on to the 10th grade. So that kind
of... [inaudible] part of life. But... we got to Eva Thomas, like I say, most of the teachers, some of them were
from College Park. My cousin actually taught English there, you know. And we kind of knew everybody,
knew the teachers, and they, like I said, were - for the most part - younger. And I don't know, it was just fun.
You know, just going to school was fun. I just hated to miss school.
MS:
Yeah, you had a brand-new building and brand-new facility and everything. And now you're not riding the
bus anymore again, you're walking.
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�BD:
Right. Yeah.
MS:
Do you remember the first day you went there?
BD:
Nah.
MS:
No?
BD:
No.
MS:
Not specifically?
BD:
I graduated in '67. That was fifty-something years ago...
MS:
Yes sir.
BD:
...I wouldn't even remember the last day.
MS:
Yes sir. I got you. So, I would, we've... we've talked, you mentioned Mr. McClarin, Principal McClarin, back at
South Fulton High School. Do you remember anything about him? Remember what he was like?
BD:
I think he was a pretty nice guy, I believe. I only had interaction with him one time and that was when I cut
class.
MS:
Was that the ninth grade? [laughs] Back to the ninth grade.
BD:
That was the time, he gave me a couple of... about three, four days late duty.
MS:
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�What was late duty?
BD:
After everybody else was out, you had to sit in his office or somewhere and... until the second wave of...
second couple of buses were ready to take off. And then you would run out there and get on the... jump on
the bus right quick for a second. Yeah.
MS:
What do you remember about Principal Gilbert from Eva Thomas?
BD:
We called him "Doc." He was good guy. He was a nice guy.
MS:
Why Doc?
BD:
He had a doctorate, I guess. Everybody called him Doc. He was all right. You know, if he caught you smoking
in the bathroom, you know he'd make you smoke a whole pack in his office there after school. I never got
caught doing that. Not that I didn't smoke, but...
MS:
Right.
BD:
I think everybody smoked back then in those days.
MS:
Yeah. Was there a part of the school that everybody smoked, or was it everywhere?
BD:
Nah, just smoke and stuff up there in the upstairs bathroom and stalls in the bathroom.
MS:
In the bathroom.
BD:
Yeah. We had [inaudible]... teacher was kind of [inaudible] ...trash can back there. They would move, then
we could throw them out.
MS:
Yeah. We have a map... I don't know if you saw it... of the school. Somebody was describing this courtyard to
me. I can't remember if it was... I spoke to Jessica Muhammad, Jessica Allen.
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�BD:
Yeah.
MS:
But... but it's kind of interesting to see. It's such a different building now. I guess they, this buildings is just
totally gone, now that College Park Elementary...
BD:
I don't even remember a courtyard.
MS:
No?
BD:
No, I don't.
MS:
Oh. Okay. And so... extracurriculars at Eva Thomas, what all did... what all were... what all was available for
students to do back then?
BD:
Just had band, chorus and basketball. That was it.
MS:
Was that for both boys and girls? All the above?
BD:
Uh huh.
MS:
Yeah? And you were involved in band obviously?
BD:
Band and Chorus.
MS:
And chorus? So, you're a singer too.
BD:
Used to be.
MS:
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�And so Patterson, you must have had a really good relationship with him, because... now... you went and got
their... your scholarship to Clark. And so, you studied under him both in high school and...
BD:
Well, not under him at Clark.
MS:
No?
BD:
Because he was still at Thomas High when I left there.
MS:
Oh, I see.
BD:
He stayed there for, I don't know how many years, couple of years. Like I said, I went in the Army and... kind
of lost, lost track.
MS:
Yeah. So... Do you mind if I ask were you drafted? Or did you enlist?
BD:
No. I enlisted. I actually enlisted to play in the Army Band. I went over at Fort McPherson and auditioned,
got accepted and everything. And then when I went down to the old Ponce de... Sears building, at Ponce de
Leon and... down there somewhere... to test and everything. My recruiter told me, he said, "You got some
people that want to talk to you." I said, "Who are they?" He says, "Army Security Agency. I don't know too
much about them." He said, "but they want to talk to you. You did real well on the test." And I said, "Okay."
So, I went in and I talked to them and they said, "You did real well on your test. So, what we do is we
conduct a $10,000 security clearance on you." This was in 1968. That was a lot of money.
MS:
Yeah.
BD:
And he said that, "You'll never have to go to Vietnam, because the Army Security Agency is not in Vietnam.
A lot of our duty stations, you'll wear plain clothes." And I had just turned 19. And I said, "Oh boy, I'm going
to be a Black James Bond." And he said, "The only drawback is that you have to spend four years." I said,
"Okay, where do I sign?" So, I signed up. And my first overseas duty station was Vietnam.
MS:
They... so, you ended up going straight there.
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�BD:
But USASA was not in Vietnam. So...
MS:
No. But you were.
BD:
But I was.
MS:
Alright. So, I understand what you are saying. Where in Vietnam did you end up going? All over it?
BD:
I did go all over it, pretty much. My last duty station was up in northern I Corps, with the 101st First
Airborne Division.... and... close to the DMZ.
MS:
My dad was in Danang... about the time you were over there.
BD:
Yeah, yeah. I made a couple of trips to Danang. Went down [inaudible], Saigon, Kanto, Hue. Well, I was
fishing right there in Hue. Quang Tri, which you could throw a stone across the DMZ from...
MS:
Yeah. Where'd you go from Vietnam?
BD:
I went back. I actually got out of the Army Security Agency. I had a bad taste in my mouth, and I got
assigned to the ROTC Affairs Committee down at Fort Benning.
MS:
Okay, so you came back to Georgia.
BD:
Yeah. I spent 18 months down there and came home for Christmas leave and went back down there. And
they told me to report to building three. I think it was 83 or something like that. I said, "What's... what for?"
And they said, "Well, you know, they have to levy out about 15,000 people from here and you got Germany
stepped in before here." I said, "Oh my goodness. I'm going to spend my last year in Germany."
MS:
What parts did you go there?
BD:
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�I was again... I was on a [inaudible] missile site. So our battery, when it was full strength, of it was 160 of
us... had to go about 16 kilometers to go on sick call.
MS:
What... What's that mean now? Say that again.
BD:
16 kilometers to go on sick call.
MS:
To go on sick call.
BD:
Yeah. We had to go to the Air Force base to go on sick call. It was only just a few of us out here.
MS:
Wow. So then you came back to Georgia. And you all... when... how did you all meet?
BD:
In high school.
MS:
Oh, so you... You did...
BD:
Yeah, but we didn't...
MS:
You all weren't married before you went in the army?
BD:
No, we've been married 20 years.
MS:
I see. Okay. [to Sylvia] And your class of 1970. So, you were there in the summer when they announced the
school was going to be closed.
SD:
Right. They was getting ready to... get everybody together, saying that they was going to bus us to different
schools. And that started.
MS:
Yeah. Were you, did you... were you part of the sit-ins? Were you?
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�SD:
Yes. All the way.
BD:
Matter of fact, I was up in northern I Corps, we used to get a paper called Stars and Stripes. I forget the
frequency from which we got that paper up there. And I opened... got hold of one and opened it up and I
read about...
MS:
Eva Thomas?
BD:
Yeah.
MS:
Yeah, I've seen where that there was like media coverage all across the country in different places. I was a...
I don't know if you've seen it. They have... the University of Georgia has the WSB newsreel snippet footage
of it. Have you seen those? It's like two minutes... like there's been like 10 different, two-minute reels of,
showing the sit-in where they were doing nightly news broadcasts on it. I'll share it with you. I could share
it with you by email. It's just a link to where they have them and you can just watch him and everything. So,
you what... how's that make you feel when you're Vietnam and you hear about that?
BD:
Ah, I had other things to deal with, so it... [laughs]
MS:
That's going on there.
BD:
Yeah, okay. It wasn't really anything I just concentrated on; you know.
MS:
Yeah. So, when you came out of army, what was your rank?
BD:
Sergeant.
MS:
Sergeant… Well, that is a long way from home. [pause] Is there anything else you would want to share
about your time at Eva Thomas? For people may, may be looking back as the school doesn't exist anymore,
know what it's like?
BD:
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�Well, you know. It's... One thing about it, I like to say now I'd say, probably young enough to go to school,
you probably wouldn't want me there, because every school I've going to has either closed down or the
name has changed.
MS:
Right.
BD:
So, I went to... I actually took a couple of classes at... what was it then, Atlanta Junior College?
MS:
Uh huh.
BD:
Its name was changed to Atlanta Metro.
MS:
Yeah.
BD:
So, that's... every school I've gone to is either nonexistent, the name has changed.
MS:
They should just name the next one you go to after you. [laughs]
BD:
If I go back to one, I guess they would.
MS:
That's great. That's great. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.... So, Charles2 has been, like I said, been bringing stuff
in here to share. So, we've made copies of a lot of stuff. I don't know what you've seen and haven't seen in
our collections.
BD:
I actually gave him the program from our 50th class reunion. I guess he'll bring that in at some point.
MS:
Yeah, did he? Did he mention that you all had written something about Eva Louise Thomas. Is that what
you're...
BD:
He... well... yeah. I was the co-chair of the class reunion committee.
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�MS:
Okay.
BD:
50th class reunion committee and the... co-chair from South Fulton and myself, we give them the sketch of
it.
MS:
On her? Well, not on her, but... On the school?
BD:
On the school.
SD:
[inaudible]
MS:
Right. I guess he did mention something like that to me on the phone. Do you remember the day the school
opened? I mean, the dedication day at all?
BD:
No. I don't even remember there was a dedication.
MS:
I had a program. I don't know if it has the exact date on it.
BD:
Like I say...
SD:
19... It was 1964.
MS:
'64, yeah.
BD:
I don't remember that. [laughs] Is that it? [looking at 1964 dedication program]
MS:
That's the program for the dedication of the school. There's a newspaper article on... on that dedication.
[pause] That's the sit-in. It's been a very curious thing for, for us too. I don't know if Charles or Ursel3 told
you, we're planning on kind of using the information we get from you guys to maybe make an exhibit that
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Ursel Brown, Eva Thomas High School, Class of 1970
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�our students can see. Not just about the sit-ins, but about the whole experience of schools... you know, it
tells a great story, and a student is going to learn something about, you know, our history during the 60s. It
was the Civil Rights Era. What better history than the one that happened right here? So that's kind of
where, where we're going with this. And that's why this sit-in does factor in largely to that part of the
school's history. But yeah, it's an interesting one, it's interesting that you mentioned about how they built a
school so that you wouldn't have to pass what was what, College Park High...
BD:
They could say urban renewal all they want, but I know...
MS:
Yeah. Separate and equal.
BD:
It was just a thing to... not even equal.
MS:
Not even. So, there are a couple of people I've talked to who have told me that they remember looking at
textbooks and they were older, and they had a stamp from another school on them. So that's...
BD:
They'd get passed down.
MS:
Yeah.
BD:
And we'd have to treat them lightly as if they're brand new and made out of delicate silk, you know. We'd
wrap newspaper around the binding in the backs to make book covers out of them. You know, newspaper.
MS:
Yeah. Did you have a favorite subject back then... besides music?
BD:
I don't know. I liked history, I guess.
MS:
Yeah, for sure. Well, I don't really have many more questions, but thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.
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Brenda Smith
November 30, 2021, 1 pm
Fulton County Schools Archives, Teaching Museum South, Hapeville, Georgia
Brenda Smith is a native of College Park, Georgia, having grown up there in the 1950s and 60s. She attended
Jefferson Franklin Beavers Elementary School, South Fulton High School (8th and 9th grades) and Eva Thomas
High School (10th-12th), where she graduated in 1967 – a member of the second graduating class from that
school. After high school, Smith pursued a degree in Psychology at Spelman College and subsequently, worked
in the entertainment industry for 37 years.
Michael Santrock:
So, what do you have?
Brenda Smith:
I have an article. I don't, it doesn't have the year on it. But this is me. And Gary Greer and Raymond Pugh.
We were given a citation from the mayor for a stop smoking campaign trying to get teenagers not to smoke.
And we ran it for a year. This is our first year at Eva Thomas. And I was 11th grade, and they were 10th
grade.
MS:
You don't remember the year exactly.
BS:
Okay, so if I graduated in '67, then that was '66…
MS:
So, you did graduate from Eva Thomas?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
In ‘67.
BS:
Yes. I was in the second class, the second graduating class. And oddly enough, I don't know if anyone has
shared this with you. But the first graduating class of Eva Thomas never wanted to be recognized as that.
They always joined with their South Fulton classmates. Yeah, because they actually spent more years at
South Fulton than they did at Eva Thomas, but ours was, my class was kind of even. We were two years at
South Fulton, eighth and ninth grade. And then 10th, 11th and 12th. We transferred to the new school.
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�MS:
And of course, South Fulton was all the way to first grade, right? Wasn't it?
BS:
Well, not when, not when we were there. That was during my parents’ time. When South Fulton was like
the school, yeah. Yeah, but we had elementary schools put in in College Park. First there was Beavers.
Jefferson Franklin Beavers. And then it started to I guess, overflow or had, you know so many kids. They set
up Avery.
MS:
Sophie Avery.
BS:
Yeah, yeah. And then they even put a third one. I can't even remember what it was. But
MS:
and that this third one would have been for Black students only at the time to or it would...
BS:
No, I think it was at the beginning of integration.
MS:
Got it.
BS:
Yeah, it was over on Herschel Road, by the way I can't remember was the name of that school was. But
anyway, I mean, they took the whole building down and everything. Well, just like Avery and Beavers, you
know, all of the actual buildings are gone. And it was too far out of I wasn't in that district. That was, and I
wasn't even in elementary school, or anything. Then when they put it up, I was already graduated and out.
[laughs]
MS:
Right? Oh, yeah. Graduating of 67. That's really when they started...
BS:
This is the news article that I wrote for the Atlanta Daily World. Portia Scott was the daughter of Mr. Scott,
on the board back there. She was our advisor, the teenage advisor, for all of us who wrote. But that was one
of the articles and...
MS:
This is relation to Coretta.
BS:
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�No. The family of the Atlanta Daily World.
MS:
Right. Right, right. I'm sorry. No, no, Scott.
BS:
Oh, no, I think I think Miss Coretta was from Connecticut. She was from somewhere up north.
MS:
Sure.
BS:
Um huh. That was just like a day in the life of the school.
MS:
Would you mind before you left if we copied these?
BS:
Oh, no, yeah. That's why I brought it. I thought I thought, you know, that was great. And this one was really
great. And this one is an article. And I guess we'd have to give credit as far as this person, Larry Smith, who
was my cousin. Oh, he graduated from South Fulton. But he was one of the first people who went to the war
from our, from College Park. He went to Vietnam. And he wrote this and sent it back. He, he got to be a
pretty big officer in the Marines. I know he was a corporal for a long time. But when he came out of the
Marines, I think he was a sergeant. So...
MS:
My father was in Danang, a year later.
BS:
Wow. Yeah, that was that was a pretty, it kind of ravished our little area. You know, it just took all the
available guys away.
MS:
Yeah. The draft?
BS:
Yeah. The draft. Yeah. Yeah.
MS:
That's interesting.
BS:
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�And so, it was very interesting that the Atlanta Daily World did a did this article on him. He actually sent it
back kind of letting people know that they were all right.
MS:
Yeah. And he talks about why he's fighting. It's cool... Is Larry is your cousin? You said your first cousin?
BS:
Uh huh, he was my cousin. He's passed on since now.
MS:
Great. We'd love to have a copy.
BS:
Okay, cool. I thought it would be good to, to bring that. My mother had all of these things in a photo album.
MS:
Right. Most people do that or did that… and the newsletter?
BS:
This is from one of the churches in the area. A church, a Methodist Church. That was Laster's Chapel. They
told me that Mrs. Dudley, Emma Dudley has come over. Well, this was her church.
MS:
She mentioned it.
BS:
Did she?
MS:
I'm pretty sure,
BS:
Yes. And they had a great youth program that children from other churches participated. And so, I thought
that this was just a good representation of the College Park area. Yeah. Knowing that the kids got more than
the education from the schools. They were educated in terms, in the churches as well.
MS:
I'm glad you said that. Because that's a theme that's come out in everything that I've learned from, from the
Dudley's...
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�Oh, her husband came with her? He was our teacher, too. Yeah. Before they were married. They were our
teachers in high school.
MS:
We recorded their story and how they met at the.... but I've, even when it came down to and I'm sure you're
familiar with the, the integration and Eva Thomas, the sit ins and stuff. The church was a place like a kind of
a headquarters. And not, not Lasters, so much as it was Friendship,
BS:
Friendship. That was my church.
MS:
Was that your church?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
So yeah, so I've kind of gotten, I've gotten that kind of that side of things. It was very much that church slash
school education...
BS:
That would mean someone talked to you about Miss Lottie Miller. Yeah, because she was kind of like, the
community savior. She was kind of like the community activist that made sure that we didn't hold our
heads down. All the children, not just her children. She was that way about; she was that way about College
Park. Just wanted us to be proud of where we came from.
MS:
Great. Yeah. Well, so um, thank you for these kind of, we'll make copies before you leave. And I do kind of
the way we've been doing this as kind of like we're doing now is kind of a conversation. And I don't want to
stop if you want to share anything that I don't ask about. Please feel free to.
BS:
Okay.
MS:
There are some topics that we'd like to introduce and talk about. And so, you know, I'll get to those. But I
don't want you to feel like we have any kind of structure just because I have a sheet with questions on it.
But the first thing I've been really getting everybody who's come in to talk about is their, their, their early
childhood, where you're from, tell me about your family when you were a child, your parents, siblings, and
where you were.
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�Oh, wow. Well, we grew up in College Park. Yeah, we grew up in College Park. My mom and dad grew up in
College Park, as well. My dad, and I could have brought some pictures of them when they were young. And
we were just kids and they would carry us along to wherever. We finally got a car, then they didn't have to
make sure that we would pair, walking along with them. But we used to be a very close-knit family. My dad
was an only child of us in a single parent household. So, he didn't want his children to experience that. He
wanted the nucleus of the family to always be together. So, I had three brothers and me. Right. And I was
very well protected in the town.
MS:
Where were you in line? Were you oldest? youngest?
BS:
I was the second oldest. My brother. I have one big brother. And then me and then two, knuckleheads.
Right. [laughs]
MS:
That’s okay, I have two knuckleheads too.
BS:
But yeah, so I had to, I had to be a big sister a lot. But that was good, too. You know, that was a good thing
because my big brother taught me how to be the older sibling. He taught me how to care for them and look
out for them and stuff because he always looked out for me. Um, let's see. What else about us.
MS:
What did your father do for a living? Your mom too.
BS:
He, he in the, in the early years. As far back as I can remember, he worked in construction. He worked for a
man in College Park, Mr. Holly; and Mr. Holly's business was plastering the insides of houses and buildings.
And so, he taught my dad from a young man how to do that. And after he stopped, retired, I guess that's
what you would say now, but he just stopped working. He got old and did, so my dad did it. And my dad had
a crew of guys who looked up to him as a boss. And they'd get on my dad's truck and go and plaster houses
for people. My dad took his team, his group of guys, and they worked for Mr. Herndon and put, in doing
insides of houses in Atlanta and everything. So, he did that until plastering kind of went its own way, when
sheet rock became the material that everybody wanted to use. And so, he had to start eventually letting
people go, and then he was just doing little small plastering jobs himself, which wasn't paying the bills until
he got a job at a warehouse. I don't know if you've ever heard of a grocery store chain called Big Apple.
MS:
Nope.
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�But that was a southern grocery store chain. And they had their warehouse in the West End. And so he got a
job there working on the docks at that warehouse. And he eventually became the warehouse manager from
over years of, you know, working there. I think he worked there like 40 years.
MS:
Oh, wow.
BS:
And retired from there.
MS:
So, he started working, he stopped doing plaster and started working there. You were, how old? Were you
out of the house already? Or were you young?
BS:
I was young. But he retired. He was well, I mean, he was still working there when I left to go to college, and
then never came back. [laughs] He was, he was there for like I say, I think it was 40 years. So, when I was
working, after I started working, he was, he was there. He retired from there. And then he got a job at Sears
after he retired from there. And then he worked at Sears for a little while. Then he got a job at the Atlanta
Auto Auction. And he worked there 17 years.
MS:
Renaissance man.
BS:
Yes. And then he retired from there. He just had to work. He was a, he was a working man. He wasn't a sit
down and be retired kind of guy.
MS:
So did your… did your mother work when you were young too?
BS:
My mother didn't work when I was very young. But she did work. She started working when I was like,
third or fourth grade, or something. Our house, like I said was Ross Avenue. I don't know if you caught that
when I was coming down the hall.
MS:
Yes.
BS:
Ross Avenue was kind of I don't know, it was almost the center of the community. But it was we lived on
the hill on Ross Avenue. Down the hill to the left was Jefferson Franklin Beavers Elementary School. So, we
all walk to school every day. And then when they built the new high school, Eva L. Thomas was down the
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�hill to the right. And we walked to high school so but for those two years that we went to South Fulton we
had to ride the bus. We had to ride the bus.
MS:
Because that was all the way in East Point.
BS:
Yes, it was in East Point. And there were a few bus stops, one of which was Ross Avenue. And my brother
and I went there. Now my brother, my big brother graduated. South Fulton. He was a full two years ahead
of me. So, he graduated before Thomas...
MS:
Before Eva Thomas was built.
BS:
Yes.
MS:
So, for our researchers who may be listening to this recording, South Fulton High School was the, and you
can correct me if I'm wrong. It was the only high school for Black children in the south...
BS:
...in the South Fulton area, which included Hapeville, College Park, Fairburn, Red Oak, East Point, Union
City; it was like seven cities that all had to bus their kids to South Fulton, that was something, huh. [laughs]
MS:
We do know stories I've learned from in here. At the same time, South Fulton was the school for the south
part of the county, there was a school called Bailey-Johnson up in Alpharetta. And before that was built, and
you can I don't know if you know anything about this history, that children, Black children had to actually
go into Atlanta to Booker T. Washington.
BS:
Yes.
MS:
To go to high school, if they wanted a high school education...
BS:
Exactly. and they had to find their way there. So, my mom and dad were in that era.
MS:
So, your parents were both from College Park as well?
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�BS:
Yes.
MS:
Ok.
BS:
They were born and raised in College Park. My dad's mom, who raised him, was the fourth of 11 children.
And all of her siblings helped her to raise my dad. Yeah.
MS:
It takes a village.
BS:
...takes a village. It really does. Really does. Yeah. So, my mom though, on the other hand, my mom was a
child of a sibling in a family of not 8, 8 boys and girls. And her, her mother. Well, her father died when she
was very, very young. And her mother couldn't raise out the children. And so, she and a couple of her other
siblings were set to live in. I don't want to say an orphanage. But it was a home called Carry Steele Pitts.
MS:
Oh, yeah, I've heard of Carry Steele. I don't know where I've heard of that.
BS:
It still exists in a way but not like it was then. It was just to assist families who couldn't handle all their
children, who couldn't give them a proper home. So, she was there for a few years or her teenage years,
until my dad decided she should come back. And literally, he went there and got her and married her. She
was like, 17. Yeah.
MS:
The rest as they said they say, is history.
BS:
...is history. Yeah. And they were married for 63, 64 years? They both have passed now. But, but yeah, they
were married for like 60 some odd years.
MS:
So, for most of your, your childhood, then you would have had six members in the household, or did you
have other family that lived with you? And I'm speaking your parents.
BS:
...and my brothers and me,
MS:
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�Your brothers and you?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
So, it was most the time it was six people in the house?
BS:
Yes. Yes.
MS:
So um, obviously, we kind of, we archive the history of the school system and people whose you know,
alumni of our school system. So, I'm going to, now at this point, kind of talk about JF Beavers Elementary,
because we find we found that to be kind of a fascinating story. And as far as Jefferson Beavers himself,
being a postal worker and a community... I don't know how you say it; just a, an educated... supporter of
education, right in that community.
BS:
He was a very, we used to call him a very dignified man.
MS:
Did you meet him?
BS:
I did not. I met his two sisters.
MS:
One of them wrote a biography... of him.1
BS:
Oh, wonderful. I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
MS:
That's where I learned what I learned about him.
BS:
But they were dignified, they were the kind of people that made you want to be better; that made you want
to learn and see the world and not just be trapped within Harvard Avenue and Princeton Avenue, you
know, but to know something. They were the ones who, his sisters, were the ones who started this civic and
Correction: Beavers’ daughter, Lillian Lydia B. Garnett, wrote Tower of Strength: A Biography of Jefferson Franklin
Beavers (1975)
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�education league in College Park, which raised money to help kids who wanted to go to college have
scholarships.
MS:
I see.
BS:
Yeah. So, they were great. His sisters were great. And I guess he was pretty great, too. You know...
MS:
...just from what I've read, but yeah. When you were you were young and going there, did you have a sense
of who he was then, when you were young as a student there?
BS:
Yes. We all had to have, we had, you know, different... I would say... not so much as courses from a book. But
we all had to learn certain things about where we were from and what the significance was. And so, Mr.
Beavers was a big part of that. We didn't have Black History Month. We had a teacher, Mrs. Benson. I don't
know if anybody... Benton, Benton. I don't know if anybody knows about her the first. But she became the
principal of Jefferson Franklin Beavers when I was there. And she made sure that we learned about the the
different, you know, people in the community who stood out, who were good, what they called good people
in the community. And so, we learned about Mr. Beavers from there. And we learned about how he wanted
all children... And I don't think he had any children, did he?
MS:
When… did… you told me about his sisters a second ago? Right? Okay. He had two daughters.
BS:
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
MS:
So, um, that I was mistaken. It was one of the daughters that wrote...
BS:
...that wrote the history of him. Okay.
MS:
We have a photograph of them, when they're presenting. I don't know if you recall a portrait being, a
portrait of him.
BS:
In the school? Yes.
MS:
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�It's here.
BS:
Oh, wow.
MS:
I'll show it to you. In the hallway. We also have a picture of, of his daughters when they were dedicating the
school.
BS:
Okay. Oh, wow.
MS:
So, he did two daughters. I can't remember their names right now.
BS:
Okay. But, yeah, he was he was one of the ones that we always kind of, I don't know, say paid reverence to.
But, you know, we always gave the respect of having something, I can't remember his birthday. But we used
to do an assembly. We called it an assembly, where all of the grades got together in the auditorium. And at
one of those... his... you know, it could have been, it could have been his daughter that came to the assembly
and spoke.
MS:
...and spoke?
BS:
Yes. And spoke to us. I'm thinking it really could have been his daughter, because she was older than we
were, a lot older than we were, but I thought she was... I don't know, I thought it was his sisters. But I think
they were members of Mount Zion.
MS:
That's the other church?
BS:
Yes, yes. But still, we had all of these churches were on Harvard Avenue. And so, we had to learn also about
why all of the, we were called College Park.
MS:
Right.
BS:
And then we started to realize after a while, when you go through the, the actual walk of the city, 90% of
the streets were named after universities. And it was, it was something interesting to learn about those
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�schools, you know, and what they meant; and what they were all about. And, you know, we had a college of
sorts, in College Park. Cox college.
MS:
It was a female college.
BS:
Well, I think it started out as like a religious college and then it was probably female, but there towards the
end before they shut it down. It was, what do you call it? Coed. Yeah.
MS:
Do you? Do you remember? So you remember the college? Do you remember where it was?
BS:
It was over...
MS:
What's there now, i guess...
BS:
Some houses or something, but it was over near where College Park High School was over in that area.
MS:
Oh, okay.
BS:
Off of Main Street. And...
MS:
...what's McClarin now for people who don't know... Yes. McClarin. I assume now. Oh, College Street. Yeah. It
was over there. Of course. Where else do you put a college?
BS:
[laughs] But I was trying to think of the name of the street. Okay. College Street. Yeah.
MS:
You've, you've mentioned just a minute ago that... I think you said Miss Benton didn't want or it may have
been Beavers... she said didn't want young people to think of themselves as confined to between Harvard
and Princeton. Was that the Black neighborhood of College Park? Or was there? It was a divided town?
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�Yes, it was very divided. And Rugby Avenue...Rugby Avenue was the beginning of white College Park, as we
called it. Atlanta Avenue and all the streets that ran right up to Rugby, were, that was the Black community.
And then going down Harvard... no, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia. Think about those universities.
MS:
Right.
BS:
That was, those were the main thoroughfares that ran through the Black community. And Main Street was
the dividing line. Because they were all businesses on Main Street, and then the railroad track and then the
other side of town. Yeah.
MS:
What do you remember fondly about living in College Park back? I guess this would have been the 1950s or
early, late 50s. When you were at JF Beavers, maybe early 60s.
BS:
I think that the best parts of College Park were kind of centered around Mr. Wayman and Miss Bessie
Brady.
MS:
The Brady's Gym?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
I've heard all about Brady's Gym.
BS:
Mr. Wayman, it was just... ah, goodness. To me, he was like Mr. Beavers was to my mom and dad's era. Mr.
Wayman cared about all the children. I mean, every single one. They had two boys, but oh, my goodness,
they just cared about all the children. And we used to be denied going up the hill, to the recreation center in
College Park. And so, he petitioned for us to have our own, our own gym in our own neighborhood, and got
it. And we were like, “What? We're going to have our own place to play basketball? and our own swings?”
And he was just great. He was great.
MS:
Did he own it?
BS:
So no, the city owned it? Yeah, the city on did he actually worked for the city of College Park. But he
managed that gym until he passed away. And his wife, man, she stayed there. I mean, they stayed there,
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�they did it. They had camp in the summertime. So, we always had someplace to go and something to learn
and something to do and to keep our bodies in good shape and our minds and to give us something to do
instead of just being in the street. And I think that anybody who grew up in College Park would have to say
that Brady's Gym; and they didn't call it Brady's Gym in the beginning; they eventually named it that
because that's what we continued to call it. We called it Brady's Gym.
MS:
Kind of spoke it into being.
BS:
Yeah, right. Yeah. And so, it was like recreation department number something or whatever. But we just
called it Brady's Gym until, you know that's what they finally put on it; and they have signs now with... that
direct you to Brady's Gym and it's still there. And his, his nephew ended up running it. One of my
classmates ended up coming back home from college and everything and running it after they retired and
then after they passed.
MS:
What were the kinds of things, I mean obviously, you think of, when you think of gym you think of athletics
maybe volleyball, basketball or what have you.
BS:
Oh, yeah, there was all of that.
MS:
Was there, did you all do other things there? You had a camp there? Was it mostly sports?
BS:
Oh no, we had a camp where we learned how to do arts and crafts. We had a little choir where we learned
songs. We were just singing one of those songs the other day at Thanksgiving. Me and my brother and his
children and grandchildren. And they were like, "What?" Like, okay, you don't understand anyway. [laughs]
It was funny...
MS:
I find myself doing that a lot lately.
BS:
Yes. Thinking about, you know, things that you grew up with. So that was one of the things we did that and
we get on buses and take field trips. And, you know, we go to other places in Atlanta. We, like we went to
Etowah Mounds. I think that's in Macon. And we went to, what’s the Indian Reservation up near Rome, not
quite to Rome... maybe it's Cartersville.
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�MS:
It's Cartersville. I think the one in Macon, is that Ocmulgee?
BS:
Oh, yes.
MS:
Etowah is the one near Canton...
BS:
Okay. That's the one we went up there. We went up there several times. Miss Bessie, with you know, we
had to get permission slips from our parents and the whole nine yards. But we would pack our little
sandwiches, and then we get on the bus that the city would provide, for us to get on the bus to go. And we
would go on field trips and learn stuff. I mean, it was not just the fun. I mean, well, that was should have
been fun. But I'm saying it wasn't just a recreation, playing sports, it was a place of education for us to learn
about those things, to learn about the Indians, to learn about other ways of life. So, Brady's Gym was a very
focal point. And then after I became a teenager, he was successful in getting a swimming pool added. Wow.
We all learn to swim back there.
MS:
How did he have so much? That couple have so much power and ability to organize and have this stuff
come to be?
BS:
You know, that would really be a good question. I just don't know. But he just didn't take no for an answer.
MS:
I guess not.
BS:
He just didn't take no for an answer. He always fought for the kids, for us to get more equipment for us to
be able to have basketballs that had, would hold the air instead of the flat ones that wouldn't hardly bounce.
And we had those at first. It was like we got the cast-off equipment. But he would, you know, he just kept
pushing for us to get new equipment. And he was just he was great like that. And, and his wife too, Miss
Bessie. I mean, she was great. And she pushed for equipment in different ways. She pushed for arts and
crafts materials for us to work with, for us to know about textiles and know about how to loop a rug. And to
know, we've done all that stuff. And I mean, she was great. And then her sister, Miss Carrie O'Neal was the
one who got us into singing. She was, she could have been an opera star, I think. But she only sang in church
and with us. But you know, they were just great. It was a really great family. And Mr., Mr. Brady's brother,
he had one brother, and they were all kind of entrepreneurial. His brother owned the first dry cleaners for
us to go to in College Park. So, we didn't have to take our things up the hill. You know? And I say up the hill,
because once you go down Harvard or Princeton, it's kind of a slope. And we used always refer to it as
going up the hill, up Harvard hill, up. That was just went up then we see…
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�MS:
When I think of the times that I've been to College Park... so I'm assuming you're speaking of that, where,
where there's Main Street and it kind of goes down to where College Park Elementary is now. Is that, is that
the hill you're talking about?
BS:
Yes. That's Princeton. Yeah, that's going... yeah, that's exactly. And it doesn't seem like so much of a hill now
that you're, you know, you're grown but then it was, it was, and it was a big separation that doesn't even
seem to exist now. But going up that hill was something that we rarely did. We had our own doctor, Dr. Otis
McCree, who was an extremely educated man, who could have been a doctor in a big hospital anywhere.
But he set up his office in College Park on Harvard Avenue, so that all of the residents there would have
medical care. And he had a nurse, nurse Gentry, who was just absolutely wonderful. She convinced us that
we should not be afraid to go to the dentist, you know, because that wasn't something that we did. It wasn't,
you know, for the most part in the Black community. Kids didn't go to the dentist. And then after a while,
they started sending the health mobile down into the neighborhood. And it would be to get booster shots...
and who wanted to do that? [laughs] Every now and then, the dentist would be on the mobile. You'd get
your teeth checked. But if any major work had to be done, you had to go to his office, which was in Atlanta.
MS:
Which was quite a trek back then I guess.
BS:
Oh, my lord.
MS:
How'd you get there? Bus?
BS:
Bus, yeah.
MS:
Well, so when you were young, and you were at JF beavers, were there any... What were you thinking?
You're thinking this, I want to be this one day. I mean, because it seems like every kid, you know, when
there's it's like... the younger ones have the dream. And then with the teenagers like, I don't know. Yeah,
what did you want to do?
BS:
What did I want to do? When I was at... Well, I thought I was going to be an excellent French horn player
and play in the symphony one day, but that didn't happen. [laughs]
MS:
Still have your French horn?
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�BS:
No. It was uh, it was school property.
MS:
Oh, gotcha.
BS:
But that was so much fun. Mr.
MS:
Was this at Beavers or South Fulton?
BS:
This was at Beavers.
MS:
So you had you did have instruments?
BS:
Yes. We had instruments. And Mr. James Patterson was our band director. And he's now at Clark Atlanta
University. But he was right there at JF Beavers. And I thought I wanted to play trumpet, because that was
just you know, that was what my brother played. So, my big brother played trumpet. And that's what I
wanted to play. But I didn't have the proper embouchure. And I learned that word from Mr. Patterson.
Yeah. And so, he was like, "No, you don't have the right embouchure for the trumpet." My lips were too big.
I found out what that meant later. But anyway, I’m glad, I didn't know what it meant. Sitting here nodding.
Oh, I'm so glad, because I didn't know, and I had to find out. But I was perfect for the French horn. And that
was great. And so, I learned to love the French horn.
MS:
Sounds like you're a musical family. Then if your brother played instruments, too.
BS:
Yeah, he did. And, and my youngest brother played drums, though, we should have had a band.
MS:
So, Beavers had a band? Did you all perform programs?
BS:
Yes, we performed like... Oh, yes. We had Christmas concerts. And we had May Day. May Day was a festival
type thing.
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�What did that mean? So, I've seen a lot of pictures of Mayday programs where the maypole one of them is in
front of Avery Elementary.
BS:
Oh wow. I'm probably in that picture. But we had, or was it in the in front of the extension of Beavers?
MS:
Now this one, you can see, you can see the school. I'm wondering if the pictures up here.
BS:
Okay, but if it was in front of Avery, then I wouldn't have been over there. But we, we learned the history of
the maypole and that it came from Austria, I believe? And it was a celebration of springtime and the
blossoms and all of that and when the snow was starting to melt, so we didn't know anything about snow
melting. So, it had to have been from someplace. Yeah, but it was just a fun time that we all look forward to
and you want it to be, if you wanted to be the little princess then you had to sell raffle tickets to raise money
and, you know all that, and it was just a fun time. Yeah.
MS:
One thing I want to ask you, is it. So obviously you're going to school. Schools are very segregated. I mean,
we can take that just from there being Black and white schools. Do you remember when you were a child,
when you came to realize, hey, you know, there's differences and how that may have affected or impacted
you?
BS:
Oh, sure. And that was really very early on, because I'm in, in fourth... fourth grade, maybe? We had a
teacher at Beavers, Miss Hattie Ruth Chandler. And she was, oh, God bless her soul. She was extremely
stern. If that's the word strict; maybe mean, but not mean. [laughs] But she was the kind of person who
always pointed us out, away from our circumstances. She always pointed out the world to us. She always
told us that there was something more out there. She was one of the ones who organized trips, when we
were in the... when I was in the fourth grade, I went to Washington DC. We had trips, to go to the Capitol,
and stay and visit the monuments and all of that. Yes, we definitely knew the differences. And we knew that
there were some things that we were being denied. But it wasn't... she didn't do it with malice of intent, or,
or hatred. She created a desire in us to want to see more and do more and be more and, and she was a
component of the fact that if we put our best foot forward, that we wouldn't be denied. That it was going to
happen. And she knew that even before, you know, integration actually took place. I don't know what it was
about her. But she was great in that respect. And we would do things like... they would take us to the
Atlanta Symphony, once a year. Those people in the band or the chorus, we would go and do things like
that. So, we always knew that there was more and that we were going to be a part of it; we were going to be
incorporated into the bigger world. And so, it was not... and you know what, and it just seems like there
would have been resentment or, or... I don't know, a festering of ill will. But there wasn't, you know. This
was our school. This was our place. We were privileged to have the things that we had, and we were going
to be allowed to have more. And that's the way she made us feel all the time. Yeah.
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�MS:
It's harsh, but inspired, I guess a little.
BS:
Yeah, yeah. And in other words, don't show your butt. Don't act up. Don't do these things, because you're
representing, you know, a people that have been working and struggling hard to get to this point. And
you're on your way to something else, and don't mess it up when you get there. That was the kind of
attitude, yeah.
MS:
So, you’re, once you're finished at Beavers Elementary, you move on to South Fulton at this point, you're in
eighth grade?
BS:
Eighth grade, uh huh.
MS:
So, what's... what's it like your first day at South Fulton? What stands out all these years later? What stands
out?
BS:
Oh, the big girls who were mean, mean. They didn't want us to do anything and kept telling us that, "You're
just a, you're just a freshman and you..." but, you know...
MS:
Did they call you sub freshmen?
BS:
You know, they just you know, they didn't... they didn't welcome us. You know, we were like we didn't
count. So, I think that's the way what all kids. And that might even be the reason that they broke out and did
middle schools, you know? Because that straight from elementary to high school was harsh. And that's all
Black, Black and white or whoever. That's just a kind of a territorial thing more than anything. But I ended
up feeling a little bit more welcomed at South Fulton and started to make friends.
MS:
Is it because your brother was already there was...
BS:
Probably.
MS:
Makes a difference.
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�BS:
Yeah, probably because he was... goodness. Oh, my goodness, he was something else. He was one of those
brainiac type people and all the teachers loved him. And so, they would look at look out for me like so,
"What do you know?" [laughs] So? "Can you do this math problem? Your brother could." Give me a break,
you know.
MS:
"Why can't you be more like..."
BS:
I know, why can't you... Do you know how many times I heard that statement?
MS:
I know because, I have an older brother.
BS:
Oh, wow. And why can't you be more like him? Mike, shame on you. But South Fulton became a whole new
area for me because it was high school. And we were exposed to so much more. And the basketball team got
on the bus and went up and down the state and all the way down to you know, the bottom of the state and
to the top of the state. And we were champs, and we were, you know, always everything. And so that's
when I decided that I wanted to write and cover things. And...
MS:
Sports actually kind of inspired you to want to write about it, or is it?
BS:
Yes, yes. And then I got interested in radio, because at that time when I was in ninth grade, in Atlanta, there
was a radio station. WAOK. It was AM, you know, didn't have FM radio stations. With Black music on it.
There were FM radio stations. But I started getting interested in that because they had a teen show on
WAOK at... on Saturdays, but you had to get there. You had to get downtown. And nobody from South
Fulton, you know, was interested in going to represent us. I was like, "Wait a minute. We need to be there.
We need to be on the radio too," just like Washington and Carver and Price and Turner. You know, I said
we're schooling, we're winning basketball games. So, I ended up going down and volunteering for that. And
there wasn't any pay or anything. And you had to get your own bus tokens and everything, transfer.
Because you had to get off one bus and get on another one. I had to learn all that. So, I had to learn big
Atlanta. But that was great. And then you know, I got the bug. I ended up in the entertainment industry for
37 years.
MS:
What did you do in the entertainment industry?
BS:
I managed artists, singers and bands.
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�MS:
Care to name any?
BS:
Well, goodness who? I started out my very first job was with Mr. James Brown
MS:
No way
BS:
Yeah, I was I met his manager, his actual personal manager at WAOK. And I used to get tickets to the
concerts and stuff. And then when I'd get back on the next weekend and talk about the concert where I was
and everybody was saying, "Wow, you were there? You were there?" And it just kind of got me in a real
thing for that. But I did put it aside, went to college and blah, blah, blah. And then it came back around that I
met the guy who ran the radio station when I was a kid.
MS:
WAOK?
BS:
WAOK. And he had become the general manager of the radio station. And just... you know, it was a good
meeting, blah, blah blah, but all said and done, he introduced me to Mr. Brown's then promotions and
marketing manager. And they were like, "You know, you talk so much, you'd probably be a real good...
[laughs] promotions person." I was like, "I don't think so." Anyway, long story short, I was. And I became
that, and they moved me from Atlanta, to Charlotte, North Carolina. And I lived there for 13 years. And then
I met another guy at another record label: Warner Brothers. Mr. Brown was at Polygram... and Polygram
moved me, Polly door[?], moved me from Atlanta to North Carolina, and then Warner Brothers moved me,
hired me and moved me back from Charlotte, North Carolina back to Atlanta. So, I came back home.
MS:
So, it all started with South Fulton... WAOK...
BS:
South Fulton Lions at WAOK. Yeah.
MS:
Speaking of… this is before your time. This is their 1958 yearbook.
BS:
Oh, wow. There’s the school. There's the gym. Oh, look. Oh, nice.
MS:
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�It's, oh, here's the gym. Here's another picture. Inside the gym. I don't know what year it is.
BS:
Oh, wow.
MS:
Have you heard of the Rosenwald Schools? Have you heard that term before?
BS:
No.
MS:
Okay. It was Booker T. Washington kind of teamed up with a Sears and Roebuck magnate back in the early
1900s. And his name was Julius Rosenwald. And his idea was to provide funds for communities to build
their own schools or provide funds to school systems to help build schools for both Black children or rural
children that might not have good schools, right? That would be in the one room kind of shack. Anyway...
BS:
Rosenwald.
MS:
Rosenwald. So, this Rosenwald Fund helped start South Fulton back when it was first built. Right. It was
actually called East Point School at one point, and it was built using Rosenwald money. But anyway, I didn't
know if you had a sense of that kind of history of that school. I think it had changed a lot by the time you
went there, because you said, you told us it was just it was a high school by the time you were there. It was
not an elementary.
BS:
Right. It was only high school eighth through 12th. And...
MS:
Was McClarin the principal when you were there?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
Tell me about Frank McClarin.
BS:
He was a big man. [laughs] He was a big man. And he walked down the halls with such intensity. He was a
proponent, a proponent of us going to higher levels, even within the high school realm. He wanted us to
participate in the national science achievement programs and see if we could get you know, certificates and
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�things in that. And the national math... and the Who's Who... first time I ever heard of Who's Who in
America for high school kids was from Mr. Frank McClarin. He wanted to be sure that we had... he wanted
us to have a great education. He was just so I know, he was he had it... he was an imposing figure. You know,
when you saw him, you just shut up. And for me, that's a big… [laughs] That was a big thing. He was a... but I
think he was a pretty good teacher. And I mean, you know, administrator and our assistant principal there
at South Fulton, Mr. Gilbert, ended up coming to Eva Thomas. Yes, to be principal.
MS:
Well, that's a great. That's a great segue, because let's talk about Eva Thomas. And I do want to, you've been
here about an hour, and I want to be respectful of your time. If you have a few more minutes, I would like to
ask you about Eva Thomas.
BS:
Oh, yes, I would. I do.
MS:
So how old were you when you moved to Eva Thomas? Or what grade were you in, I guess.
BS:
Tenth grade. And at the we were, there was an 11th grade class and a 10th grade class, there was no senior
class. The seniors, they did not force them to leave South Fulton. So, they stayed to graduate from South
Fulton. So, I was in the 10th. And then the class ahead of me was the 11th. But we did not have a senior
class the first year. So, we had a graduating class the very next year for, you know, our juniors. So, I guess I
was what 16? Yeah.
MS:
Do you remember when they were building the school?
BS:
Do I?
MS:
Do you?
BS:
Yeah.
MS:
Tell me about that.
BS:
It was somewhat heartbreaking to me that they moved out people that, you know, we knew that we'd grew
up with, a lady that used to fix my hair. You know, and her home had always been right there at the bottom
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�of Ross Street. But they moved her out, and they moved all of those people out along... the street to clear out
that whole area to build the school. And I hate to say that, I mean, you know, that's progress, I guess. But it
just kind of changed the community. It was the beginning of the change of our little nucleus world that was
called College Park. For us that was called College Park for us... historic College Park for the Blacks, which is
not the historic College Park that the signs talk about now, you know. But yes, I remember. And they built it
so quickly. I remember when the law took place, and segregation was banned. And the law was specifically
stated that a child could not go past a school in their community to go to another school. So, you thought
that what they were saying was, they can't ship us out of College Park, past College Park High to go to East
Point to South Fulton. But what it did, it gave the white community the impetus to turn up land and build a
school right in our community, that we couldn't go past, to go into College Park High...
MS:
Eva Thomas.
BS:
Eva Thomas.
MS:
Interesting.
BS:
Yes. And it became, you know, the first Black high school in College Park.
MS:
That's very interesting. I did not know that. Do you ever remember... we have on file these... we call them
choice forms. They sent these forms home. I don't know if they sent them home with students or mailed
them to parents that gave families, students, parents... This was part of when the like the federal
government was pressuring the Board of Education to desegregate. This was their answer to send home
forms, with the knowledge that nobody would choose a different school. Did that make sense? Do you
remember that?
BS:
Yes. And a part of the choice would have appeared to be ignorant on our parents’ behalf, if they had chosen
not to send us to a school that was right down the street, and brand new. And, you know, I'll bet so they,
they put all of the things in place to kind of void the choice.
MS:
Right.
BS:
[laughs] You know, it's just you would hate to... you would hate to say, "No, I'm not sending my child to a
brand-new school with brand new equipment and brand-new books and all of that," you know? It would
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�make you appear to be kind of stupid. So, they voided the choice that they set in place by building the
school right in our neighborhood. So yeah.
MS:
It's... it's one of the things that I've been, I've come to learn... and I've learned by being in proximity to all
these records and your stories like this and all these things. Though, if I had to convey the story to
somebody, I would say it's so complex, because here in Eva Thomas, and you see this later with the sit-ins.
This is a community school. This is a school, you've talked about community, the church, the school and all
the families, the village, you know, that, that raising all the children together, kind of… so, there's a sense of
pride in having that school. Right?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
...that you don't... because for years, you may have not had a great school to go to or you may have had
textbooks that were recycled, or what have you. So now you finally got this great thing. So, it's very
complex, because that great thing was put there to preserve a status quo.
BS:
Yes, exactly.
MS:
But we also... when it, when there's pressure and that school has to be, well, that school didn't have to be
closed, but it was chosen to be closed. So that's when the community rallies. It's like, you can't take this
right.
BS:
You've given it to us, we've chosen it. We've embraced it. And now you want to take it away. And that to me
was the ultimate insult. That was worse to me then segregation. I don't care if you don't want me to go to
your school. That, okay, so I'll get on a bus, and I'll go to South Fulton. And I don't care if you don't want me
to go to your school and you build a school in my neighborhood. But now that you have, and now that
you've named it after one of the most esteemed women in the community... Oh, my Lord, Miss Eva Louise
Thomas? Huh! If you didn't learn piano from her, you didn't learn. Yeah. She was just absolutely amazing.
And she was a stickler for people going to school in the civic education league that I talked about. She was
one of the founders of it. And they made sure that if a kid made Bs, sometimes even Cs, they were going to
college. They were going to go to somebody’s college somewhere. She helped people fill out applications
and apply for college. She got recommendation letters and things, things that some of us didn't know about.
She was just gung-ho on that. And to put her name on a building, and to let us finish off our education there.
And then to say, after all that, we've accepted all that, now you want to add insult to injury and close the
school and take her name off of it. And not just close it. I mean, they tore it down, brick by brick by brick.
And, you know, now it's a beautiful edifice there, standing there, I drive by it, sometimes now in my
melancholy state, just to reminisce. But the fact that they changed a community's life and lifestyle, and then
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�denied them the privilege to hold on to that. That was horrible to me. And we had, with the help of Morris
Dillard, God rest his soul. God rest his soul. He taught us how to do it in a more educated fashion, in the
fashion of Dr. King... where we were just mad, and we were going to be down there and not... "You can't
take this school! We're not going to let you." But he organized us, helped us get organized, and him and
Miss Lottie Miller, you know, they help get the students organized. Of course, I was away at college. I had to
come back.
MS:
Where you, were you... so you graduated in '67... these sit-ins took place two years later.
BS:
Yes.
MS:
Did you come back during the sit-in?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
Participate?
BS:
Yes, I came back. A lot of us did. Oh, yeah.
MS:
I had no idea that alum came back.
BS:
Oh yes.
MS:
I knew there was some parent participation and many of the students of course involved in this sit-in. Were
you in the gymnasium? We have, I've seen old newsreel. clapping and singing
BS:
Yes. Voices. Yes. I'm one of those voices. Yes.
MS:
What stands out to you... Go ahead. I'm sorry.
BS:
Jessica Allen
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�MS:
...Allen. Now Muhammad.
BS:
Oh, yes, that's right. I forgot that.
MS:
No. Well, I'm saying that because I've we've talked to her already. And I want our researchers if they engage
in both interviews...
BS:
She was wonderful with the students. She was, you know, she was a leader. She was, she was a leader in her
way in, and I just admired her. But we just, we stuck it out. There were there were times when we had to be
interviewed. The press came, you know. They couldn't believe that we were complaining. We had to get
people down there. I'm still looking at these pictures... [laughs]
MS:
She's looking at Paul D. West. He's the superintendent of Fulton County Schools at the time. So you knew
kind of who was doing what?
BS:
Yes.
MS:
Were you aware of the HEW, the federal government's pressure and all, all this push and pull going on?
BS:
Health, Education and Welfare. They did not understand why we were protesting. And even they, you
know, it was like, "Well, you don't have anything to do with this one," one gentleman said to me. You're not
even a student here. I was, I graduated here. This is my alumni. I am not just here to be here. I'm trying to
tell you guys that you're ruining the lives of people, who you're taking away our history. It wasn't
important enough to you, in the beginning to come down here, when we were denied access to College Park
High. And now that we want to hold on to our own memory, you're saying that we're wrong, and we're not
wrong, and we weren't wrong, then. It was just... it was really... you know, it was really bad. But we stopped
them for a while. You know, we were able to stop them for a while.
MS:
Is there any specific memory you have about the sit-in? I know, there was also a sit-in at the Office of the
Superintendent at some point. I know that... I think there was a march to the Cleveland Avenue building.
BS:
Yes.
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�MS:
Did you participate? Were you... or was that while you're still in college?
BS:
I didn't participate in that particular march. Yeah, I was. I was away college. But that was I mean, you know,
just right up the road.
MS:
Were you at Spelman or...?
BS:
Yes. yes. I went to Spelman. And, you know, it was I think the most significant thing that I remembered
about it was that... all the students, you know... the ones that didn't do well, the ones that might have
flunked out... they still had a pride... we had a pride in keeping... in keeping it alive. It was something, that I
don't know, we just seemed to be so strong together. You know, the bullies, the basketball stars, the... the
choirs, leaders, everybody from all of the little nooks and crannies of College Park. You know, it wasn't so
much that we were all wonderful and the school was all wonderful, but it was ours. It was ours. And we did
good. Okay. I'm sorry.
MS:
No, no, no.
BS:
I didn't mean to get emotional.
MS:
No, it's okay, I had a box of tissues. I'm the one that should apologize.
BS:
You know? That's okay. I'm sorry.
MS:
No, not at all. Wow. So yeah, I got the I've gotten an impression when talking to all of you who have
participated, how organized it was. And I'd imagine I don't know how much you saw the news media,
newspaper or news accounts like on the TV. I mean, they were following it.
BS:
Oh, yeah.
MS:
Daily.
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�BS:
Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, they were.
MS:
Well, what do you take away from that? You know, as you look back at it? And what would you tell maybe
our students or somebody younger about that? I guess the best question is, what do, what do you take away
from that? What impression is it left? As you look back now? Is there a lesson, or...
BS:
I think that... probably the biggest lesson for me personally, is that it is always good to speak up for what
you believe in. It is always good. No matter the final outcome, it is important to speak up for what you
believe in. And there's somebody that is listening. It might not be the Paul D. Wests of the world. But
somebody is listening. There was an... I don't remember this man's name, but he wrote a wonderful article
about the resilience. And I remember that word forever. The resilience of the students, when they
threatened to bring the police down, to move us off the campus... we stayed, we stayed. And we just kept
telling them that we just want to be heard. And I think it's always good to speak up and speak out for what
you believe in. And you know, even until this very day, even with every brick torn down from Eva L.
Thomas High School Bearcats ground, even with that, people still remember that we didn't let it go easy.
We didn't let it go and just shrug it off. We did let them know that that was wrong. And I think for that I'm
proud. I'm proud of each one of my classmates, each one of the students that came after me that just spoke
up. I'm proud.
MS:
The cool thing is, is that now we're here and you're sharing this, and our hope is to you know, that the that
lesson that that message is going to be out there now it's preserved. Yeah, you know, yeah. Well, thank you.
What else? Is there anything else that you want to share while we're recording that maybe I haven't talked
about? I mean, you mentioned in the hallway, knowing the Kings, correct me if I'm wrong.
BS:
Yes. Dr. King’s sister was my teacher at Spelman. Miss Christine. She's a very stately and elegant woman
now. But she could crack the whip in school. [laughs] But that I definitely remember with great joy, being
there. And another of my teachers had a very famous family member: Julian Bond's mother. Yes, she taught
at Spelman. She was the librarian, and I had my first job under her. I was, you know, to clerk at the library.
Got to make money, you got to eat. You know, scholarships are one thing, but they don't cover it all. So, that
was all good and all that was a result... my going to Spelman was a result of Dr... I told you about Dr.
McCree... his nurse, Nurse Jennings went to Spelman, and she introduced me to the Board so that I could get
my scholarship.
MS:
And so, you went there on scholarship?
BS:
Yeah?
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�MS:
And you studied?
BS:
Yes. Psychology. Yes.
MS:
Wow.
BS:
Yeah. With double, a double major psychology and sociology. So, wow. But this has been...
MS:
Well, thank you.
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The 1970 Russell-South Fulton High School Consolidation: An Overview
by
Dr. William E. Fry, Russell High ’71
Russell High School became fully integrated in the fall of 1970. This event was
part of an overarching plan to desegregate all of the Fulton County Schools to comply
with a court-ordered mandate to sufficiently integrate black and white students
throughout the district. While compliance with the court order was accomplished
primarily with changes in Fulton County’s school zones, the method of integration at
Russell High involved “pairing” with all-black South Fulton High School. This plan
resulted in the merging of South Fulton’s upper grades with those of Russell, while the 8th
grade from Russell combined with the 8th graders from South Fulton at that location.
Status of Integration
Integration came later to Fulton County than other parts of the country, for the
issue was decided in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education as far back as
1954. Opposition to school integration occurred not only in Fulton County, but also in
practically every county and jurisdiction in Georgia and the entire South as well. The first
concerted effort at integration resulted in violence in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
Shortly afterwards, massive protests and uprising occurred throughout many areas in the
South.
As a response to Brown v. Board of Education, the Georgia State legislature
passed a state law in the mid-1950s requiring the complete closure of local school
systems facing mandatory desegregation. Gubernatorial candidate Ernest Vandiver, who
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was elected Georgia’s governor in November 1958, adopted a campaign slogan of “no,
not one” (black student would integrate a Georgia school under a Vandiver
administration). In the late 1960s, Gov. Lester Maddox advocated resistance to
integration.
The Atlanta Public Schools (APS) were the first to integrate in the Atlanta area
when 9 African-American students were peacefully admitted to four all-white high
schools on August 30, 1961. The APS sought to achieve integration through the adoption
of “Freedom of Choice,” leaving choice of schools to the parents and students. By April
1965, the District Court of Atlanta deemed such a plan had not sufficiently integrated the
school system and that more aggressive methods were needed. Over the next few years
the APS experimented with a number of remedies, including school re-zoning, teacher
reassignments, limited busing, and the 1972-73 majority-to-minority program, to name a
few.
Fulton County Board of Education
Fulton County’s first official attempt at desegregation was outlined in a February
22, 1965 School Board plan based on a graduated concept whereby certain grades would
1
be integrated with full integration achieved over time. The proposal was as follows:
School Year
Grades
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1, 12
1, 2, 11, 12
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12
1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
all grades
C. N. Martin, ed., “County School Desegregation Plan Announced; Effective in ’65,”
Atlanta’s Suburban Reporter, 24 March 1965, 1.
1
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The School Board plan was amended on May 13, 1965 as follows:
School Year
Grades
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
2
1, 2, 8, 12
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11 ,12
all grades
This proposal, which was initially approved by Francis Keppel, the U.S.
Commissioner of Education, contained a “Freedom of Choice” provision that allowed
students to remain at their old school, with transportation provided, if they so desired. In
the spring of 1966, the Commissioner of Education rejected the plan, stating it
insufficient due to the relatively low numbers of affected students. Commissioner Keppel
remanded the plan back to the Fulton County School Board for different and faster
action. The Board stood fast to the “Freedom of Choice” plan and objected to the edict,
resisting any effort to change the pace or method from the previously approved plan.
3
The impact of “Choice” did little to change the racial makeup at Russell High.
Louise McDaniel, Russell librarian from 1948-1979, wrote a manuscript in 1967 entitled
History of Russell High School. In it, she wrote about the first attempt at integration at
Russell in the fall of 1966 and mentioned that African-American students were offered
the choice of attending Russell on a limited basis. That year, two African-American
teachers were on the faculty, and only 9 African-American students, mostly in the
lowered grades, opted to attend Russell. During the 1969-70 school year, the year prior to
_______., Fulton County Board of Education Plan for School Desegregation, Atlanta’s
Suburban Reporter, 2 June 1965, 1/8.
3
C. N. Martin, ed., “Fulton County Board of Education Questions Integration Speed-up,”
Atlanta’s Suburban Reporter, 23 March 1966, 3A.
2
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consolidation, the African-American presence at Russell was still low and included a
total of only four teachers and thirteen students.
During this late 1960s time period, however, the U.S. Office of Education
concentrated specifically on the situation concerning all-African-American Eva Thomas
High in College Park and predominantly white College Park High School. By the spring
of 1969, that office mandated one of three acceptable plans: 1) “Pair” both schools with
certain grade levels at each school; 2) Close Eva Thomas High outright and combine all
students at College Park High; or 3) Drastically alter attendance zones. The Fulton
County School Board and Superintendent Paul West, along with local U.S. Congressman
Fletcher Thompson, strongly opposed all three alternatives and continued to opt for the
4
“Freedom of Choice” then currently in operation. Faced with legal sanctions from the
federal government, the Fulton County Board of Education finally relented and decided
on option #2, the closing of 6-year-old Eva Thomas, the newest high school in all of
Fulton County, and assigned the Eva Thomas students to College Park High, Lakeshore
5
High, and Hapeville High. Major protests from the Eva Thomas community eventually
led to a one-year postponement of the closure of Eva Thomas; however, by April 1970
U.S. District Judge Albert J. Henderson issued a ruling that involved a comprehensive
integration of all Fulton County schools for the fall of 1970. While “pairing” was not
favored by the School Board the previous year, several such “pairing” plans were
ultimately undertaken, including the one for South Fulton and Russell. The 1970-71
C. N. Martin, ed., “Fulton County Must Make-up for Past Discrimination,” Atlanta’s
Suburban Reporter, 25 June 1969, 7.
5
C. N. Martin, ed., “Fulton School Board Adopts Plan to Close Eva Thomas High,”
Atlanta’s Suburban Reporter, 30 July 1969, 1.
4
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school year began with African-American and white students at the Russell facility, while
the combined 8th graders attended school at the South Fulton building.
African-American Education in East Point
For African-American students in East Point, the consolidation of South Fulton
and Russell was the end of an extended journey for educational equality that began
shortly after the Civil War. Both prior to and during the early parts of the 1900s, the only
avenue for any kind of formal education occurred in churches, such as the Union Baptist
Church. By 1916, a school was built on Randall Street and eventually about 225 students
attended the school. The facility was destroyed by fire in 1926 and a new school was
built on Bayard Street in 1928. This building also burned in 1940. The school was rebuilt
at 605 South Bayard Street and renamed the East Point Colored School.
This facility only served the needs of African-American students in grades 1-8.
Since Fulton County did not have any African-American high schools at this time,
African-American students wishing to pursue additional education beyond 8th grade
attended Booker T. Washington High School in the APSdistrict. Fulton County paid the
cross-boundary tuition; however, the students were required to provide their own
transportation, a difficult feat considering the distance involved and the necessary
walking and trolley transfers to and from Booker T. Washington. A high school
experience for East Point African-American students did not occur until 1947, when the
East Point Colored School added a ninth grade and one grade level each year thereafter
until a full senior high was in place by 1950.
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Russell/South Fulton Consolidation Aftermath
The 2000 movie, “Remember the Titans” starring Denzel Washington was
reminiscent of the Russell-South Fulton consolidation. The movie storyline follows the
1971 pairing of an all-African-American school with an all-white school in Virginia,
showing the resulting problems the football team and the community encountered. This
Hollywood version of events included a number of violent incidents during the initial
days of the school’s integration, but the actions and success of the football team
eventually brought both the white and African-American communities together.
The Russell-South Fulton consolidation occurred during this author’s senior year.
Integration appeared to go smoothly and all seemed well from this author’s white point of
view; however, such may not have been the case from the African-American students’
perspective. Former South Fulton students left a school that was historically, socially,
and culturally an important source of African-American identity. Also, when arriving at
Russell, the former South Fulton African-American students did not see their former
school officials in positions of authority, but rather saw white holdovers in important
positions such as principal, head counselor, head football coach, male and female
basketball coaches, and band director. The total Russell faculty only included six
African-American teachers. In addition, large and highly visible student positions, such
as Varsity and B-team cheerleaders, the Russellettes dance team, class officers, and the
Majorette Corps, were all white.
Recent attempts to obtain newspaper accounts and reviews concerning the first
year of the Russell-South Fulton merger were unsuccessful. Newspapers such as the
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Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, Atlanta’s Suburban Reporter, and the Southside
Sun apparently had nothing sensational to cover on the subject. The author’s informal
conversations with fellow classmates turned up no instances of major problems related to
the consolidation. A recent brief discussion with Bob Murray, a then-young coach and
English teacher at Russell in 1970, revealed no problems that he could remember from a
faculty member’s perspective. The author recalls an incident when African-American
students staged a walk out of a pep rally when Dixie was played; but, other than this
action, no other major problems were observed nor reported.
A school accreditation committee visited Russell High during the second year of
integration. In an official memo written by Evaluation Chairman M. O. Phelps, the
opening sentence of his first paragraph stated: “Student and faculty morale appeared to be
unusually high for a school which had been integrated to the extent that Russell High
6
School has in the recent past.” A memorandum dated March 16, 1972 from Evaluation
Committee member Wiley S. Bolden stated in part: “The degree of (outstanding)
progress seems especially noteworthy when consideration is given to the fact that much
of the attention and effort of the faculty have necessarily been diverted to making
changes and adjustments occasioned by the desegregation of the Fulton County school
system.”
7
G. L. Carroll of Southern Technical Institute in Marietta, Georgia, led a
sub-committee of the evaluation group, the Steering Committee of Philosophy of
M. O. Phelps, Observations Concerning the Interim Evaluation for Russell High School,
14 March 1972.
7
Wiley S. Bolden, Interim Evaluation Russell High School, memo to Dr. M. O. Phelps,
16 March 1972.
6
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Objectives and School/Community. His memorandum time stamped March 17, 1972
included ten Russell High accomplishments, the first of which read: “Black and white
8
students have integrated without major difficulty.”
Further research and additional interviews may reveal different conclusions;
however, the Russell-South Fulton consolidation was arguably successful for all
involved.
G. L. Carroll, Meeting of Group I, report of the Steering Committee, Philosophy of
Objectives and School & Community, 14 March 1972.
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Dr. William E. Fry
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Fry, a 1971 graduate of Russell High School, is researching and documenting the histories of three South Fulton County Bands: Russell High School, Hapeville High School, and headland High School. In 2011, Fry retired after 36 years of service to music education and is writing these histories as his first retirement project.
After his graduation from Russell, where he was a band student of Dr. William Prescott, Fry graduated from Columbus State University (GA) in 1975 and received the Masters of Music Education from Georgia State University in 1981. He obtained the Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Conduction from the University of North Carolina/Greensboro in 1991.
Prior to his 2011 retirement from a music position with the Muscogee County School District (Columbus, GA), Fry held band director positions at Columbus State University and Susquehanna University (PA). From 1975 to 1987, Fry was coordinator of all instrumental music activities at Redan High School, Stone Mountain, Georgia, and held an assistant conductor position with the Yaarab (Atlanta) Shrine Band.
Fry has appeared as a feature conductor at the Georgia Music Educators State Convention, Florida State University “Tri-State” Conductors Symposium, CBDNA/NBA Southeastern Regional, and the Carolina Conductors Symposium. He has authored several articles on conducting and is a noted authority on the band music of Don Gillis.
Fry has three grown children and resides with his wife, Anne, in Columbus, Georgia, where he has been conductor of the Columbus Community Orchestra since 1999 to present. He is also a saxophonist with “DNR,” an all-doctor rock band that plays volunteer benefit performances throughout the Columbus area. Additionally, Fry currently holds a part-time music position at Point University, West Point, GA.
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ru:-.h of modern li\ ing.
It i:-. hoped that this pil'toria I compilation will call to mind the happy
monwnb of da, s ncm past and renew in the read r th' ambitions, hopes
and aspirations of }Outh.
\\ e salute the I' Ia ss('s of 19.50, 1951. 1952, 19.:5:~. 1951, 1955, 1956.
1957, I 958 in thi , the initial yearl,ook of • outh Fulton High .\·hool.
''A man's real pos.\es~ion is his memory. In nothing else is he rich,
in notlzin~ else i.\ he poor."
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We dedicate our fir t ) ear hook to our retired . upen i or. 1i
Ma~gie L. Perr~.
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train in~ at ~ pelman Colle~e and Atlanta lniH•r it).
he ha!'\ unqueslionabl~ e-.tabli,Jwcl ht>rself in the heart of many
a. a humanitarian.
Durinp; her years of faithful enice our chool achieved commendable progre s. 1ler keen sense of under. tanding and working with the
prohlems of the school ") -.tem cau ed the students to look upon her. not
merel) a. a person who came to ohsene th<•m. hut a. a friend \\ho saw
their de. ened need a well as their hort oming-. and tried to provide
for impro\ement accordingly.
Mi Perry'. year of un. elfish toil "have pro\ en 'mholic of her
inner beauty."
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pirit)" i in de d its own excu e for being.
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Julian Bigg
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Physical Education
MR. FRANKL.
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MR. C. 0. BROW
Counselor
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B R ETT, GEORGE CLII- FORD
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Editor.
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CA TRELL, ELIZABETH
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HE \R . H \ROLD
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HIGHTOWER. WILLIE J.
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"Charlie"
Band, Football, Choru .
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"Connie"
Football, Ba. ketball, Band.
HILL,
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"Prod''
11\IHn, 1\.\lll::
lland, Patrol, Editor of the Year·
book.
"Latle B1t"
Chorus.
'·]uiu· "
Choru~. Basketball, Football, Bank-
Teller.
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�Ll C£AR, BARBARA
MALO E., RA 'r MO. D
MA T , OTELIA
"Bob"
"Tank"
"Ti/he Blossom"
Football, Band, Choru .
• BRIDE. DOROTHY
\IC
;\1.\THI .
"Q"
ARL
"Dot"
Band, F.B.L.A., Y-Teens.
;\IC A LEY, JOH
NO
PICTURE
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�1C ~1ICHEAL, GLORIA
HL ER, ALVI
MO LEY, \tiRIA:\1
"Glo"
"Al"
"C. rook"
F.B.LA., Band, I·Teen.
PARI\.. .
...,,
El ' C.E~IA
enior Editor, Board of Director~,
Chorus, Cheerleader, Bank Cashier.
PERKI
, \!ARIA
"Hartense"
Ba ketball team.
Choru, lag.
PITT...,, U RTI.
"ltmsry"
Choru , , enior Editor.
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�NO
PICTURE
RIDLEY. CHARLE TO
RAI EY, LOVETT
RIDLEY, E GE E
''Pork"
" putmk"
Choru . F.B.L.A.
ROWE, BETTY
ROBERT . JO>\
"Bet"
H]o''
Choru , , tnng En cmble,
lag.
HOCKLEY,
BLO~OELL
"Blon"
horu , , tring En emble, F.B.L.A.
Choru.
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�LALGHTER. CRACE
TOR£), VEL\IA
T \LLEY. ER. E"Tl E
"Twa"
horu....
Ba ... ketball,
Majorette.
Band.
TH0\1 ~. GEORGE
"T''
Band.
THOR 'JIIIL, GU~. JR.
THO\IP"iO'\, WILLLUI
"Jilek"
NO
PICfURE
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"Red''
Band.
�THOR. 'TO , HE. RY
WE T\10RELAND, MARY
WESTMORELA;'-;D, E.\1\1
",llemma"
"Lucy"
"Burk"
Choru .
WIIITE, DARLE:\IE
WHITE, W!LLIA\1
"Fat-so"
"Whip"
\\ HrL\KEH, JEA. 'ETTE
"Uargie"
F.B.L.A., Basketball, Ba eball, Patrol.
Choru , F.B.L.A.
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�WILLIA.\IS, JO EPHI, 'E
"Jo"
WILLOUGHB'r, JK E
Choru .
WRIGHT, CATHERJ, E
"Catty''
Choru~. ~lag.
Churus, Rank·Teller, Co·Editor of
'1: ear book. :\lajorette, "core Keeper.
"RIGHT. \ \ROL 1~
EBERH \RT. <.,HJRLE1
MC FAHLI ·, \'ERDELL
''Beany''
"Vert"
Sass "
Choru~.
) -Teen. \I .. jorette, Patrol.
Chorus.
afety Patrol, Choru .
NO
PICTURE
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�.riffin
kew
Virginia
rnold
Clifford Burnett
Eli/.alwth Cantrell
BOBBY J \CK THOMP 0
Marion Cantrell
Katie Lindley
Elmer Lemon and
Delorf'~ Freeman
Vivian Haynes
Iiriam Mo ely
Willie Hightower
Patricianne Hurd
Tina and Katie Talley
Mattie Berry
us Thornhill
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�class WILL
\\ t'. tlw nwrnber .... of tht'
"ill and te-.tamcnt.
t•nwr Cla::;s of ] 1)SB. do hen·h) declare our last
]t•rwll J\.irk ... t·~ \\ill ... ht'r t~ pt'\\ riter to am tlllt' '' ho think... ht• can makt' a-. marn
error-. a" "he. Marion Perlin". ''ill" lwr IO\ t•h \ oict• to \an<\ Iron g. Erne-.tine
Tallt•\ ''ill ... lwr "a ophorw to Ronald rrns and ht>r Rand '-'Uil to Leon Tiightmwr.
Bobh) Jaek Thomp~on ''ill ... hi ... "t•n-.e of humor to Johmn \loon•. \\ ho rwt•d" it
badh . (,ract• Btmcll.'> ''ills to hirlt') Otlen lwr posrtion a;; bt'ing the ht·... t drt''-'"t•d
~irl. • allic Boddit• ''ill-. her ha ... kt'lball uniform to \lam it' \fcC ran and to hold tlw
Joh a" she did. Conrad Hill \\ill~ hi ... football uniform \o 2B to .rthinit•l \\' rinht.
\\ illiam \\.hilt' \\ills his rnimt•ogruph '' ork to Holwrta Thornton and also hi.., 10\t'.
\fargan·t r rt•t·man ,,ill ... her job as a ... lag to Lugt•nia Rt·a ... lt·). Annit· Rqant ,,ill ... lwr
l\ Jlt'\\ ritt'r to Rohhie Battlt•. Lester IIind,man "ill.., his football ..,uil. algt•llla hook.
locker. and hi ... charm to Toh\ tanlt·). J o Pph
Bu.de\ "ills his knmdt•dge. foot·
hall suit and romantir ahilit\ to his ) oungt•r brother. Walter Burle\. Guo.; Thornhill
\\ill ... hi..._ drums to Adolph Pondt•r and his rh)thm to \nnell Harris. Ruth Tlood
"ills lwr Human Rt>lationship hook to all\ ont' '' ho kt>t'ps nt'at and likP ... to rt'ad.
Mt>h in Bell "ill ... his football Jer ...t'\. o Ui. lo harle-. .If'\ t•land Thoma... Jac·k,orr
"ill ... his ba ...t'hall uniform. '\o. lB. to llaroltl Cle,eland. Otelia \lant ... "ill:; lwr
"t'at in \1r. GloYt'r· ... room to an) ont' who has the brain to uphold it 111 the Engli!'h
da ...s. Eugene Hind!'man \\ill!' his ha ...ehall and haskethall uniform:; to lTPnr)
\\ hitt' and hi foothall uniform to Lt•on \\right. .hristinc Ballard "ills lwr ahilit\ of
!!ell inn her le .... on to lwr si ... tt·r Barbara. Barbara Luct'<H "ills her joh of "t'n ing on
the '-tt•am tahlt' to Edna \\ t'...l. Elizalwth Cantn·ll ''ill" ht•r II igh pitclwd \ oit•t• to
.aroh n \\right. Gt'orgp Thoma. ''ills hi ... haritorw 'oit•t• to Thomas Wt•sthrook. J\.atie
\lac Rea\ er~ \\ill her ahilit\ to '-'C\\ and her hapt'l) hips to ht'r niN' t' \larit'
Bt•a, ers. Gillria \lc\licheal \\ill. her fint' pia~ in~ of tht' clarirwt to Jearwtt Tunwr.
Catherine \\right \\ill-. her majorettt• suit to an)<IIH' 1\ho <'an do the joh. :\lost of
all. he \\cmld like to sc•e nncll Harri ... as orw of our lt•adt•rs.
nd also \\ills her
joh ao.; Co-Editor of tlw )ear hook to Jern BHcl. l>elon Fret•man \\ills her \nict' to
[,el)n Lmelace and lwr lajorettt• uit to ~illie Mae Jackon. ''Good Luc·k Girl ."
Carohn \\right ''ills her Majorette "uit. \oice to Dt'fft'ria Thoma. hoping she ,,ill
make a o;;ucce::;. \\ilh hoth durinf! her r.wnior )t'ar. '-l)hia Hill 1\ills lwr fin!' hips to
\.far) Lindlc \\ ho doesn't rwed tlwm. \farion Canlrt'll "ills lwr R. C. A lim t\ pt•·
\\ rilf'r to an) one \\ ho <'an 1\ JW up to gp \\on]._ JWr minutt•. Ellwrt Li~htnt•r \\ills his
ahilit\ to pia~ tht• axophont• to Loui Flanigan and hi. Editor· ... job of the) tar hook
to Rolland Brach. EH•I)n ]one<: "ill ... her ahilit\ to t\pt• to Bernice \\ inclficlcl.
Patriria Hurd \\ills ht•r mu<:iC'al ahilit~ to an) c·apahle mu,ic ..,tudt'nt. Darlt rw ~ hitt•
"ill... lwr kno\\ lcdf!t' of hiolo~n to o.;omt'ont' \dJO takt•-. biolog\ from Mr. \\ hitakt r.
rdith Bailt·~ \\ill" lwr nu .. irH"" Training Book to an)OIW ldlO undt•r ... tancl ... rt. Crac.
lau;.drtt•r \\ills lwr ahilil) to paint to Julian Bi~. Huth) Bolton I\ ill" hPr alto
1 oic e to her ister. Ech\(•na and hopes that "tw \\ill o;;ta\ in tune better than "h<'. Ida
Clt'mon ''ill her St'at in the choruo.; to her brother. \V ill it• Clem on. and lwr ahilit\ to
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�g<'t h!'r It• !'on to Bohhi!• Ballard. :\1ar~ W!•"t moreland will~ h<'r 1\ pe\HitPr to John
Lang ford \\ ho ran t \ JW lwtt!·r that . he. Emma We-.;tmoreland \\ills her lhi\l·r Education Book to som!' d!•st•n in:.! person \\ ho thinks he can lt·arn to clriH•. Vi, ian
Tla\ne-. \\ill" her "-t'at in \1r. '-<ott'-. homt•room to am pNson \\orth) of it. katiP
Domineck \\ills her t~ ping and "horthand ... kill of I 00 \\ orcls rwr minutt· to \1ariah
~ <'"l. Berlflit• Lovett \\ills his football uniform. hast•hall suit and m~ charm to m\
hrother. Rudolph CoopPr. Vir"inia \rnold "ills her !'horthancl to an) onf• "ho lik!'"
it. Willit• B. Farmer \\ill" hi;; :.:irl friPnd" to Jimm\ king. and all hi" hook-. hack to
outh Fulton. Joan Rolwrts \\ill;; lwr alto 'oin· to \nrwll Harri". Blonclf'll . horklt·)
''ills ht•r violin to Bohh~ RairH'). if he can kt'ep strings on it. RosPlta Cochran \\ill"
h!•r ha..;kethall ..;uit to ammw "ho can \H'ar it. and rn\ Chin!•-..e e\C'-.. to :\farian
\~ e-..t. Thorn ts Jackson \\ills his uniform. glm ('. and hat to .harlt•" (']eH•lancl. .. Good
Luck." Carl \1athis \\ills his tromhorw to Ilarold Mathis. Mattie Bern ''ill" her
conduct to .I. T. York. Belt) I armPr "ills lwr seat in the c·horus to an) one \\ ho i
t:apahle of the j oh. Ra) mond \1alorw lt·a\ t•-.. la ... t Jl!'r-..onal JIO""~'""ion. hi;; fa\ orite
hall pas . to Rolland Brad~. Lugt nia Parks \\ill"' lwr ha!'kethall suit
o . .) 1. ancl
skill of guarding to Carol)n Bnt<h. Good luck .arohn. Linda Cofi!•ld \\ills her
n•porter job to • hirl!') Odm. Do th<' job \\!'II '-lftirl!'\. .harl!•-.. Harri._ \\ills hi ...
kno\\ -hm\ and abilit). to anotlwr
ohl!• Count. '' ho i"' coming up in Iif!•. Ronald
Bridge... \\ill., hi" honwroom teat her. :\lr. Gillwrt. to John Ilarris. Jamt•-.. Doanes
\\ills his t\ping skill to his si-..tt·r. Harold llt·arn "ills his thoughts to ]!'\\ell Allen
,,ho needs them as much as }w did. Miriam \Ioslt•) \\ills h!'r job as Bank Ca ... hier to
L ' ann • trong and lwr job a" orw of the (•ditor ... of the ~earhook to Edna \\' e-..t.
Rolwrt Burks \\ills his haskt'Lhall and football suits '\o. 2S and SO. to L!·on \\' right
and hi"' skill of srwaking Fn·nch to an) ortt' \\ho can speak it. Jean!'lt!' Whitaker
\\ills h!•r Biolog\ Hook to som!•one \\ ho i... better than sh!'. . hirlt'~ Eberhart \\ills
lwr . horthand book to Willis Frank Turner to do his he-.t. ]osephint• \\ illiams
\\ill,; h!'r ahilit\ lo \Hitc ~horthand lo Jam! ... \V ri~ht. Bett\ RmH' \\ills h!'r fabulou
!!1<1""1"' to a poor junior \\ ho cannot s!'!'. VPrdPil '\1<-Farlin. "ills hf'r Fn•nch hook
lo \'\ illi..; 1\.no\. that lwr ma\ achi!'\(' mort• that slw. 1\.t•ep up the good \\ork Willie;;.
Barbara 1\.irk'-'!'\ \\ills ht'r ahilit\ to heconw .. \1iss . outh Fulton High". lo \\ illif•
\1ae Jackson. Dorotln l\1rBrid!' \\ill-. her lock1•r to \ Ian in Johnson and hop!''-' that
he tan gf'l mort' in it than she did. Velma tort'\ \\ill., her ha<;kethall "'uit to her
.. i... tf'r. Curti-. Pitts "ill"' her st'al in tlw chorus to lwr ..,i..,ter. Frankie and her Ph~ "ic ...
hook to J uanila \\ ilson. Lamar Barndt \\ill_, his football suit to hi ... brother. Charle-..
and hi ... -.lwrlhand hook lo arn fool \\ho takes ._J10rthand. Clifford Burrwtt \\ills his
football j!'r'-'!'\. '\o. IS to \\ illiam \\ oocl .... and ha ... t•hall uniform '\ o. l l to Charle-.
\\ ii!'O\son. katie Lindh•) \\ill-.. ht>r Pin ... ic" hook to an) on!' \\ ho can perform a
p<'rfect PXJH'rimcnt. Elmer L!·mon"' \\ills hi ... enchantnwnl of human l\ature and intt·lii~ent look"' to J irnrm I\. in~. Griffin \ -.k!'\\ \\ill>- hi ... ahilit~ to he in the choru:-;
fi, t' cun-.eruti' e ) can. to b er-·tte Flanigan.
3.5
�class poem
By katie Mac Bea\ers
Through our) ears of toil and prt'cions time.
With hopeful hearh and dedicated mind-..
\....we think of the year-. and time -.pent here.
\\ e can only say it \\a-.. A Faithful
limb.
h time goes by and we go on our way.
\\ e . . han "t gi\e up hope. nor from our future plans tray.
\\ e will alwav. remember that to succeed it takes time .
.\nd the road to succe.... is,
Faith limb
We are going into the world to serve. not to rest.
That all might -.. e. outh Fulton graduates the best.
In th coming years as we ag '' ith Father time.
We can ...inccr ·h "a'. graduating from South Fulton
\\a a Faithful limb.
The hour of parting is nigh.
To vou \\hom w 1 av b hind
Work diligently. and do not sigh.
If you wish to make the climb.
Blcs ing ... and a11 the best
\lma \Tater and teachers kind,
) ea -
we . . hall tra,el ea ...t and Wf'..,t,
Remf'mbering it tak
faith to climb.
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�class sonq
By Barbara Lucear
atherine \\right
, outh Fulton lligh, we lm•c yout•c>ry much,
But it's time to leal'e a\ nen fric>nd$ must part,
Remr'mbering our moment,\ sharet/ so zrell,
Grieves u.~ most dec>pl) a.\ u e ,\ ay fare-well.
II
Blc>~.~ you our school, that in5pired us to go on,
hould mi., fortune tempt u.\ zrc.'/l not be di.,mayed,
knozcing that from you a firm foundation's laid,
Where' ere we go ue'll proudly .\ ing thy Praise.
III
Farc>uwll dear facult"t . and schoo[m,.,te.\ true,
W r''ll rw'l,r forget your l.irulne., s ,\incere,
Though parting'., nigh: Our henrt.\ wzll remain here,
Farewell outh Fulton, alma mater, dear.
school sonq
Tell me Hhy the it•y tu•ines
•
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me u•h'j the skj '., so blue
Tell me dear outh Fulton
Wh) u• all love you.
e
Becau. e God made the ivy twinf'
Because God made the star to shine
Recau. e God made the sky so blue
God made outh Fulton
That' why we love you.
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�class pRophecy
By
Curtis Pitt
and Catlwrirw W ri~rht
\ ... ''" ~aze into the c·r~"tal ball \H' "~'t' outh Fulton Ili~h in 11
JIO. Hut \1)!
ho\\ it has !'hanged. The student hod) i-. 2. )()() and tlw auditorium 11 ill nm1 "Pat
S.Ot:O. Tht• school has !wen n·nwdt•lt•d and IHI\\ instead of 1·limhing tlm't' flighb of
:-;l,tir-.. the :-;tudt•nts ha\t' t'-.l'alalor-. to earn them from floor to floor.
\\I' see that it is llomt'!'orninp: l>a) at outh Fulton. The principal. Griffin
A-.ke11. ha" just fini..,fwd 11elcomin,.~: tlw alumnr of ·sa. EH'r) one except tllwr t
Lip:hlrwr. the prt>..,ident of thf' l . '.. j.., prt'Sent. Pn..... idt•nt I i;;htnf'r is attt•nding a
pre-.s confen·rH·t• in France and 11rlh !rim is the First Lad~. KatH' L. Lincllt•), and
his pt•rsonal ~·n·tar). Jo..,t·phirw Williams. Pn-..ident Li~htrwr's a\oealion is f!)in_ ,lirplarw-..
\\h1 lht•re'._ ('\t'l)One'._ f~norilt•. f.arohn \\ rwht \\ho ha" just fini-.hed "tarring
in one of Broad wa)\ greate::;t mu icak \V ho 1, the ''ell groomed man ~itting in
the third ro11? Oh. it':-; that ;.m•al producer and di rt't'lor from Hoi!\\\ O<HI. Ha) rnorHI
.\lalorw. El(•n that great comed) lt·am. Lt ler Hindsman Jll and LO\t'lt Rain) II.
j.., ju-.t returnin!! from a 11orld lour.
Talking lo the coa!'h of 'outh Fulton. Joseph C. Hurlt>), r that gn·at soprano.
Marion Perkin:-; and famous tenor Willie P. llightmH·r. both ha\e just sun;r al tlw
:-.Ietropolitan Opera House. Both haH' J u t lwconw '' orld famous.
011 arri1 in~ is tht> former \fi..,.., ~ outh Fulton. Barbara Kirkse,. no\\ Mi"s
.\rnenc a. 1\Parinp: a gorgeou" suit dt•si"nt'd h) none ollwr than tht> great Patriciann
llurcl. Mi"s 1\.irht•\ is t•scorted h) the Gm. of the Virgin ]..,lands. Benn) Lm:etl.
Thret• lwautrful ladie-. a1·c·ompan)ing :\lis,.. \nwrit•a art· Vt>rdell \1<-Farlin. Barbara
Lucear and Linda Cofit•ld. l'o\ t•r girls of tlw Life and Pari" Ma~azin~.
During a brief intermission man) famous gue-.ts art• -.een such as Holwrl
Burks. (l\\ ner of a chain of publishing hou. es. the member... of the tork Club: Lamar
Barnell.
hirle) Eberhart. Thomas Bender on. Earnt·...tirw Talle\. and Rosetta
.ochran. 1d10 are enj o~ in~ these 11 onderful Homt•comin~ fe .. li\ ities. .::t•en logt•ther
an• Gt•neral Thomas Jackson and hi 11 iff'. the famous aclrt>S'-. .\farion
nntrell
talk in" 11 ith the p:real band leader ,us Thornhill Jr.
Allen lion is brought ha<'k as no\t•list I>arlt•nt• \V hrte ~peab on behalf of lht•
alumni. \\ ritin~ about this \\onderful occasion are columnists Vt•lma
tore).
Jean Brad) and Harold Hearn. There i. .1\.atie BeaH'rs. famous artist and her
hu-.lrand. r U,!!Cnt• II indsman \\ ho is head of the Dt•partment of Education at
\lrr higan Stale.
\\ t'. thP Proplwt-.. .urti ... Pitt-. and <.atht•rirw \\right. are ht>ad dodors at the
\t 11 ) orl tale :\ledical Collt'~e.
\" tlw hand pia) the <'hool -.ong the
has brought hack man) memories.
tT) stal
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hall grows dark hut thi. great da)
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MO T LIKELY TO
CCEED
Elbert Lightner
urti Pill
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1958
MO T TALE 'TED
Catherine Wright
Ra)mond Malone
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�MO T BEAl TIF L
A D
l\10 T HA:\ D 0:\fE
Barbara kirk
MOT POPULAR
Linda Cofield and Melvin Bell
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C}
and
lifford Burnett
�MO T ATHLETIC
Eugenia Parks and B nny Lovett
BET DRE
ED
Grace Bowen and John Culbr ath
�JUniORS
Pre ident
I ice-Pre idcnt
.';,crretal)
Trea urcr
Bu incss llana {!;er
Reporter
Jirnm ' King
Randolph Flagg
SIIC)
"trong
:hirlc) Odcn
Jerr~ Ann Br d
Cora Bo\\ en
~lattie
Allen
Bertha Arnold
Bobbie Battle
Franklin Bea,ley
J:J,ie Bennett
• lurlcy Bennett
Henry Blackman
Ethel Bolton
Cora . Bowen
Rolland Brady
James Brooke
�.\ltldred Brown
Jerry A. Byrd
0 rar Cantrell
_arah Carl!•r
Charle Clay
Chari Cle\eland
J oyre Corfield
Pn cilia Coleman
LaVern Collins
Rudolph Cooper
.\ nd} D(nnmerk
Carolyn Dupree
Mehin Ea,on
Joan Elder
Randolph Flagg
I.A.nll Flanigan
\\ alte•· Fo~ter
Evalena Frt:eman
\\ illiam Galt'
Erma Haye~
William Ha)e.
Catherine Hick~on
Robert Hood
lara Jacob'
Erne t Jack~on
Willie J ack,on
\!arvin Johnson
Hobert Jone
'-lurley J onel;
} rankie Ke pier
Jimmy King
\\' illie Knox
.\lary A Lindley
Evelyn Lovelace
:\lamie \lcCrary
�Roy \IcK•~ic
dlic \Iartin
Robert \a~h
Kenneth \eal
"'h•rley Oden
~
Florrie Oii,er
\ onda Olher
"'her!") Perkin
Jan1uelyn Primro e
Uohh} Rainey
J arne~ Rainey
Jimmy Redding
Lorene Robin"m
:\largret Rohin .. on
\~'ilbert mah
1 • anc\
tron~J:
DeffPna Thomas
Ho\\ard Thornton
RohNta Thornton
Glady .. Tid\\ell
Ella R. Tnnpe
Jean tte Turner
Edith tanley
Ethel toke..
laudette Varnell
Edna \':'e.. t
Barbara \l, illiam
Carol) n \l, illiarns
Hu'-'PII \\ illingham
George \\'il•on
Chri•tine Woods
Johnny \\ oods
AlhPrt \\right
J ohn York
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�assemBLY pRoqRams
OUR
p.t.a.
�sophomoRes
Caroh n \hernomhie
Tommy Adam
( lara \rnnld
\lildred \rnnld
\lattie \-tin
Lnugenia Ilea ley
Horace Bennett
lktt1 Illad,mon
I:ddre Jl,m leJnhn Ihnome
\lfnnzo Brown
llnhh, Bro\\ n
Fr~n<'f'• Tlrn\\ n
\ i1 ian Butler
Rubert I antrcll
\lattre I lt•mt>nt•
Henr~ I.. Crane
("It'' lla,i•
Ht>nn Di on
\\ dlit• llumint>ck
( lara \I. I lur·P~
Jactpwl) n l>tmdell
l11na J. lht·r
Larr) Eldt•r
Ha' mond Elder
Henf) I'nrtl
Pearce Fn·eman
l'anrue I. c:a~
llarq I dhbJ eanctte Ln11d•on
R!!hP<Ta Graham
"'l:irf,., ( d3\l'•
Bar hJra I lankt·r-on
\nnt•ll llarri\largarctte Harrillarn Ilt•ath
Lamar Ilt•nry
0-•·a r llicb
( harl•et> I li•·k•on
Edward lli!!lrt"" r
Leon Hrghtower
llarhara Hill
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�Thoma Hill
Helen Jack on
J ot• L. Jones
Viola Jone
John Langford
\\ tllie F. Lee
'-'amut•l LNt
Gt•raldtne Lum den
, IH'rman \ld nuley
Earne,tine :\larshall
Jeanette '\lnrtin
Shirle) \lartin
£,el)lt Mile
l{idtanl \lontgomery
John \loon'
I.,,u,enia :\!organ
Annie a~h
Harold Paige
William Palmer
Tommie Per~on
Ho\,anl Pharr
Laine Ponder
Willie H. Prire
Donald Reynold•
Alfred Ridley
Annie 1'. Ri1lley
J at"quely n Ridley
Carrie Rohm,on
Hcr,hel Rohin,on
J ame Robin on
Barbara Howe
~dlie !{. harp
Ho~a "hn)jt'hire
:Mattew "'tm-.
Ronald \\ "'un~
:'\litton Store)
Gloria J
\\an-.on
Katie I allo·y
Loui~ Talle)
Larry Ta) lor
llohh) Teller.\lanon Thoma-.
Annie B. Tucker
\\ tllic l'urner
Willie \1. \\ alker
:\Iamie J. \\alton
.\lariah \\ e-t
\\ illie \\ e-tmoreland
�Donald ' heat
E. L. White
Henry "hite
Virginia \1 hite
Earline Wilhern
Alice \1 illiam~
\Iargrie William.
Ralph "illiam-.
Robert Willin~ham
Rt•~coe \\' illi~
Gerald \1 right
)arne Wright
Joyce Wright
arrie Varner
Annual Kiddie Day
1957 Clas
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�~Reshmen
Mary Abercrombie
Tommy lien
F.ugene Amold
Je ie \rnnlcl
Jo~eph Arnold
Freddie A kew
Curti
tkin on
Willie K. Bailey
Barbara Ballard
, · athaniel Bank
nnette Barnett
Chri~tine Battle
Alvin Bea\er
Katie Bea\er
Lucile Beaver
l\1 a rie Bea" er
Sharon Bowen
.\larion Bowie_
Angee L. Bridge
Aleria Brown
:\1argaret Brown
James Bryant
Theodore Cantrell
Annie Clark
• ara Clark
Claudettr Cleveland
Jacquelyn Cofield
Willie Clemons
lehin rane
Jimmy Crawford
~lartha Da\ id
Georgia Dill
Artvetta Doane!!
Henry Dorsey
1ary Dupree
Jerry Oyer
J ulia Echo!
lattie Fambro
Joe A. Farley
John Farmer
Bertha Fa"ors
Walter Fergu ...on
Everett Flanigan
• tacey F o ter
Rufus Freeman
!bert Gate
.ara Gat
Dorothy Gay
L. Gla
:\lartha Glo\er
Thoma. Graham
Vivian Green
Carolyn Hammond
Frank Harri
Patricia Harri
Leroy Hart
John Huel
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�Jerry llt•nry
:\!elinor E. llcnrv
:\liriam Hightow~r
Jes~ie K. Hill
Jo -\nn llmton
Thoma- l!uggtns
:\lal') llutchcr~un
I•lorenre Jack on
Hattie Jack~on
\lilclrcd ]a.. k~on
Bcrnke Jacob
Ronald J ink
\Jan J olm~on
\\ ilfiam 1ohn~on
Cynthia ]one
(.eorge Joue,
\larwn Jone~
elhe A. ]one~
"-ara ] one~
( .olumbu~ Keepler
Bett} Kendrick
.\ron 1\.ennt"ltrew
Erne~t Kennebrew
Ahin 1\.nox
Kater J. Le\1 is
Ralph l.ewi~
.\lar-hall Lindle}
.\laf} .\lcClarin
H ttv \lc o'
Ben)amin \icFarlin
Philip :\lcKi,ic
Robert \lant
Eloi-e Marshall
Dah} .\lartin
Earne~cine :\lathi~
Winnie B. :\lei-on
\\ illie .\lel~on
Bt•rtha .\lerritt
\\ illie \litchell
Halph \lorrow
Thoma' \lorrow
nita eeley
Lew1s ewson
oah orth
Earl Ohver
Leroy Parks
Eugene Parme
Lonnie Pearson
orma Perkin
\Ian G. Person
Wilfie Pitt
\lary Ple'~
Robert L. Price
B tty Rain y
Carohn Raw-aw
Geraldine Redding
}arne Reeve
EliL.ah Ridley
Annie Robert
Chri,tine Robin~n
Leroy Ru. ell
Wilhe L. ander
andra toke·
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Dorothy J. anford
Ethel \ aughan
c;;,arah J. Varner
Eugenia \\} nn
0 car Wyatt
• herrolyn Wright
u 1e \\ood
�Bernice Wmdfield
J unnita Wil on
John \\ il on
Jimmy William~
Gnryon Williams
)nan \\ ilder
France \\ hite
C..arlette White
\rthur I.. \\ tmoreland
Mary \\atts
Hobert \\are
Gen•·~a \\are
D. '> ani
Florrie \\ altha)
Hnhert Walker
Jam 'I urner
Jam"'~ Tripp
\\ illie Tinch
Leroy Tillman
Patricia Thornton
Barhara Thornton
Betty J. Tlwmp'-On
John Thoma!
.ary I homa
Al~in Thomas
Glenn Tenn ·y
Ralph "trickland
Pauline ~trickland
lnella "tnckland
Charri
tri( kland
Amanda tri('kland
Annie "-tnrey
Guy H. , tinchcomh
John II. Smith
Eugene .'mith
Donald m1th
Duugla. '-hockley
Many t•njo ahlc cbnces
an· ,::h t·n b) our chool
each ) ear.
J uniot - enior
Prom
1956-57
�class Room
s
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E
E
s
�class
o~ '62
Fir.\/ Rorc Barbara Barm·tt. "fanin Barber. Ed"'rna Rolton, \nnette Bradfield. Jennette
Bradfil'ld, ( aruh n Brad,, ( linton Brad\, \\'illiam Bmlo.e-.. \la}o Bm,,n, Barbara Butler.
t'((lfld Rou:
\\ E ( ulhuun. Willie ( allwun. Larry ( antrelL llamld Comer. lluugla-. Denham.
l{olll'rt llurnint•t·k, Lint.:ll L\1111•, \Ian l'arnwr. Pauline Farnlt'r. Joe L. fu,or-.
Third Rou: Bernice Fillgt•rald. Harold l o-.ter. J immit• Carmon. Ann Ca\. andra Ca\. Henry
Cih-.un, \\ imhh Hale Jr.. Earnt••t II.Jrnilton, \lark Hamilton. \I an llarnilton.
Fourth Rou: j,uun llant• I melt llarn•. ( hurlt•· IIMtl. Heh•·•·• a llead. K.1tie llind-.man.
Thoma- Holme•. ln•nt• Hood. "ara llood, Dannie llon-.ln . \\ illie lltl\\ard.
Filth Roll: Ollie Hur.. ton, Brenda ll. Jack•on. llren•la
Ja•·k-.on. Emma .I Jack-.on. Henn
Jack-.on, l.ermood Ja• k-.on, Ida John-.on, Le"i' John-.on, andra John-.on, \lanuel Keepler.
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�\fartha Lemon~. Carolvn l.ewi~ . .lanniP l.e\\i•. Donald Long. Johnn) Lowe. Willie
\I. Lowe, J ~'''ie \leCaule}. "e) mond \leCaule\. Glad" \I< Cord. Catht"nne \lcCra~ . J < 'f'Ph
First Rou:
\!alone.
t•nmd Roll': Victor \lar,hall, Lt')ia ~1artin Hoi.Prl \futthl'\h, Joan \. \fat hi~. Freddie \litehf'll,
\I an \loon•, "in fred :\lorri'. Kan•n ()"''"' "u th Parham, llattit> Partnd!!l'.
Third Rmt: \\ illie Pttt'. noroth\ l'nndt·r lit r,Ju·l l'ondt•r, "lurlt•\ Pond
liirhanl PoweliJ v
Cliffnnl Price, \linnie Prwe. Tt...!d~ Pru t, Ceoq:t' H.t\1'11, It nnnrd Ht•id.
Fourth Ruu : Jam•·, Htlt'\. Euf!ene < andrid;. Luretha • ardrit·k, c:f'nf'\a "harp, Wilhe "pear.
Benw nuth, Robert "mith. \Ia~ Trn,)t'\. Ola \I. Thoma'. \\ iiJi, Tillman.
Ft.fth Rotc Jarure t ll'haw, Emma \'in,on, Julia \\ alkt·r. Lt'nr::t> \\ ~"''· (lara We,tnwrelaud,
~dna \\ e~tmnreland, Barbara \\hade~. \laq \ . \\ ikox, Tomm) \\'il iam,, Charlt•" "J(,nn.
i~th RuR: Edna \'\'jJ,on, Diane \\ ooten, Duro! h) \\)all, Annre Zellner, Emma .Zellner.
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�past quabuat1nq classes
19l9-50: First Rou:
\tinnie Hunni<·ut, Emma ~du·ll,
Catherine Ahercrnrnhie, \era Roher! , Barbara Reddin~!.
Doroth) Rnhin-on. \lajorie Fn-ter, Eddie \lae Hender-on,
~iattle \Ide-., Emih l>a\is, \nnie H. lli~hwwer.
t·rond
Ro•• : <.ran ton Eldf'r '\t'ttle H nder,on. Ilarri ..on 'tan·
n· . \lphnnw \lartin, l>ori-. Keith. John Healing, Clarence
:\\!'Far! in.
~~ h t•-tt·r Turn1-r. "anfnrd Tra\ i.... HaHnnnd
\\ il-on, Hn-ie l.l'c Jont>•. \ 1r;..uua B••ll. Emma \!,·Co).
Fourth R1m · Carl Thoma.... \nnie Robin-on. l>oroth}
Heddin•. '\ina \\ alker. Arthur Hunter.
Tl11rd //ow:
1()~0-!'ll:
First Rou·: Lula Adam .. ,
nnie
nder-on,
CharJe, Ballo\\, Tht>lma \rnnld, llnral'l' "m th. Ju' !!''
\lnhlt>}. Cathcrine \I itchcll. Hoo,eH•It Fcn!ll'on. .'wnmd
Rou: Je--e Heed. Bertha \lalwne. Liaie \\ ilhite. \ irginia
\\ ikox-ml, Edna "te!(all. ~}hia Blackmon, Eleanor Dennis.
Horace Ro-.-., Bett~ Lmett, Patricia Ahhott, Willie Cald..,,.11, Catherine Da\ i-., Gont.a "hnrkle), Edna Hirhon,
Rn-a Beattie-. Louella ()..,en-. filth Rou·: Carrie Harp·
er. Fi-.her Kuuhle. Jamt•, "nuth. Earne-t \lcrritt. ( harle
l.uccar
ixth Rou:
Benjamin Burb. ,\lhert "nuth.
.\ndre\\ \lontj!on•er~. Hiram Elder. Charle- Thurman,
Ro•"e\elt Cantrell. Harold Burh.
19:il ii2:
F!nl Row:
Mar!!aret
pear. Hazel Moore,
Ell'anor Denni , Bt>atrice \lcUure. \nnu· Wilhite, E\el}n
Hohin-.on, Elit.aheth llind-.man, Hull\ hen. .'ir.cond RolL:
Glad)' Bohannon, \lajori1• Uli\er, Ho-.el \\ illiam-.. ()ueenie
\\ ilro -.on, Loui-.t' Turner. \lahle Denham. Clarence
Brown. Third R111r: \\ 1lhe Lake.... Pauhne Turnipseed.
Fmn1·e- Hobert-., Gloria "tru·kland. "h•rle} Hon'h),
\lartha Clas.... Huh~ L. \rnnld. Fourth Rou:
Joe Collins,
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�1%2-!'13: First Rou•: Laura Oliver, Doris 1\herromhie, Joseph
Jm·uh ... Bt>tt~ .1. Jnnt·-. (.atherint· 1\.nnx. Jean Freeman,
I•.'-H' Turnip-!'t>d.
~·•·r·ond Rou·
<.edl Elder, Edna
\11 1\.ee. \!arion OliH·r. Hn•a I
wan•nn. lame \\ llcnx·
-on. \he·!' Jar·k,on, Thelma Carr. Ida \Inure. \ irj!:mia
.\Jerri II, B rhara Cox, Otha Dupree. "u-.ie Brown. \\ altt•r
'\ndrew Arnold. Carolyn '\lartin,
Fletr·her. Third Rem
Huth Camp, Barbara
mllh, Willie F. Bell, Dnrothy
19;).3.!).1:
First Rou:
E1elyn Ridley, Gloria E. ,ay,
\lae Frances '\eal, Juanita Bryant, Lillian Reynolds,
Lun Rainey. Dorothy \!ant.... <:Jnria Gay, Lmenia
\\eldon.
Eddte
Frances
\\ 11-.on.
Thelma
Thornhill, ~laxine Primm-e. Belly Tra1i.... t..;hirley '\far·
lene (.ret'ne.
\lary C.
Hugj!in....
Emll)
William... ,
Hilda E. Cannon. . t'('(llld Row : Barbara Cox. E1elyn
hery. .I uanita \lrGlllre, Thelma \1. White,
1%1-!'15: First Rou·: Charlene Dupree, Barhara Cato,
Dais1 Fostc•r, Joan Hon,hy. \far) L. Rohin,nn. Juanita
Keith. Aquila Ahert'romhie. Ernestin \It \ticheal, Carolyn
\lontgomery, Jeanelle \\ tlliam.... Sc•r·ond Row: W tlliam
Canlr!'ll, E1alc·ne Berry. Veleria Olt1er, Hermce Thoma-.,
Barhara \l .. rritt. Catlwnne ( ofield. \lary Chaney, \orma
Eclwl-. \nnit> JnhtNIIl, Emma \\ elmaker, \largret \\hue.
Third Hmc Richard \Ialone, Jim Bndge... , Ltlhe <.,tmon,
Mant-., Belly Hick-on, Helen '\fcKi,ir, Lizzie Knox,
FrP.ddif' llunnicuh, Hallie Jame•. Cliffnrcl Cooper, Jeanellc•
Bridge•, Charlt>- Da1 j,, Thndnre Horn' h), Eunice Prke.
fourth Rou :
Thuma' ~mit h. Elnora Daniel, Bernice
\ld ree, Edward "pear. Dorothy Lindley, Homer Thorn·
ton, \Jar-hall Kt•mp, .lames John-.on, Jlarry Hobert,,
Timothy "idwJ,, Jame" Hit·hon.
dam", Emory Perkm.... Jn~:>eph Peal'.on,
nna Bell,
Donald 1\rnold, Lorene 'I llliam-., Ha1.el Robert., Rena
\1. June,, Ed ... c·l Freeman, Dorothy Thoma,, Bertha H.
Harne", Henry 0''\eal,
lhert Jack"''"·
Third Row:
Hobert Taylor. Thoma' \looch. Johnny '\. \litchell, Eddie
\\ hite, \\alter Cia-...., \\ ilher \1. Jone•. !'.manuel Wtlltams,
Charlt'S E. Burk', Lind ...ey Hucker, Arthur Willis, Willtam
Carolyn Brown, lhert Bryant, Ada Early. Raoa Hi('k-.on.
Eddie \!c\Jic-heal, llnrace John-on, Frank Domlllerk.
Liute trl('kland, General Brown, Patrirta June-. ( harle,
Pric·e. Lah l'hdlq>s .I r., Cu--ie \tnn·land, \1arie \fatthrw-.,
Earne,t I U('ear, CharJe,
wan,on. Ka} Fran('es (h,en,,
,'\lien Ca}, \~ tlltam UeH!Iand, Thomas Person. Emmer·
'"II Per-on.
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�1955 ·56 - Fint Row. l,Pjt to Right; G. \rnold. L. y_.,,~]arl'. R. Fld r. • \file~. \1. Brown.
H. Tulle}. B. Lurear. E. William~. \. \lilner. R. Hic·hard-.on. ( . trickland.
t•rond Rotc H.
Oliver. J. Benn('tt, G. ( ollif'r. (. Gra\f'~. ]. \' il-.on, J. Wil-.on, B Hill. R. \lant . A. Long,
C. Robert.... Tlurd Rou·: E. hrop ... hire. E . • imnn, \\ .
hhott. \I. :\litchell. D. { ulhreath.
E. '\\ ilrox-.on, \I fhoma-.. (; Inmg, L. Rilev. C. Roht>rt-.. Fourth Rotc \ . "im-.. G W llroxun, <.. ,\-.ke" , '\\ '-tore-.. 1.. mtth. E. ununer~. \~. Price, E. ( ochran. B. I .on g. H . .\rnold.
C. Bell. F. Cox. ( Collier, \ . Doane~. I.. Poole·. E. TraH ... II .•\rnold. H. \ladi-.on. E. Rnhin-.on.
'il:lh Rou : P. \lartin, R. J ark-.on, H. J ack...on, T. \\ illingham. R. Davi~. F. Frambro. F. Prim·
ru~e. C. Dollar, G . .Starr.
19:>1l- 57 - FIT.~t Rou. L1·/t to Ri!!ht: E. Beatie... D "lau hter. J trong. D. Huff. E. Harri-.. E.
Glmer. D. \lc Kt .. lr, R. \lrCrolc•v . C. llnrn-.h}. J. Half', ( . Bro" 11. .'·wnmd Rou: :\1. Eberhart.
E. Cnllit•r. T I ip~cnmh. \. :\tilner. J. Price. C. \'\right. 1>. Caldwell. C. E\an-. Third Rou:
:\1. Bridge~. B. ~Iiller. J. l'rin·. \ . Ru-.-.f'll. \ Battle. \1. :\fd)aniel. D. Stril'kland. J. Bowen-..
Fourth Rou: B. Bnmn. \1 \\ hite. :\1 '-rmth. R. \\ hatlt \, \ . Wat~on. 1{. \\ ilham-.. R. l.me,
B llat~l. C. Di on. Ft/th Rou: 1.. (,arrett, 1.. Bdl. R Ca\, ( Canwron. J. \\nod-.. J \\alton.
I \'\ lutilker. 1'. \dam.... '>nt!r Rou: \'\ II ill . .1. '-toke~. J. "tegall. D. l>nllar. .1. Flanigan. J.
htin. R. 1\.mg, '\ . \\at-em . •
',.r•·uth Rotc J. Jmk-.. 11 Eherhilrt. H. llarnl'lt. R. Fo-.ter. \~.
Freeman. J. \rnold, R. ~tanle}. B. :\lontgomer}. R. \at!-.. \\ . Garrett, E. FaHir~.
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nir~·~·t,•d In
MH"'. G. W. :\fOORE
Th<' .~outh Fulton llit!h "'< hool ( .horw.. ha" ht>c·onw J...no\\11 a-. on<' of tiH' lt·ading
dwral t!roup-, in our rt•gion. Our l'horu-, ha-, gi, t•n many mt·rnor!lble opt'rettas
•·onet•rb, etc. It i. ah\ ay s a treat to hear a program by this group .
•
Chri tma
Pageant
H. \f. . Pinafore (Operetta)
MIK DO (Operetta l
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�OUR
sanO
RF\. E. \\. L •MPKI . Bandmn8ter
The outh Fulton II igh Band i of p:reat . en ice to the . chool and to the com·
munit}. Their half· time . ho'\" add much to the fun of the football game-..
.. .
....
�ORqan 1zatJ on s
• I \G'-'
F.R.L.A .
I ongeni<l Bt•a•ln. F.. rn·t·man. E. Bail"' • .\l. Pt•rkin~. C.
\\ illiam•. E. I Pnwn,, \\. Thomp•on. J. Hobert•. T.
(,raham. and (,,
en .
mlt•d: C. \(, \lidrt>al, \\', \\ hilt•, ll. \~hill'.• tandi11g:
I!
hot kit•\, \ ]niH , '-. Brnrlt'lt, I. ( uflt'ld, R. Thorn·
ton. " Hill. "- \, 1
\. \lilnPr, D. :\lcBride, \\. Jack·
"ln. '-. Boddie. \1 llerr). (. ]orll'"· J. Doant·•, and B.
K1rk•e'
n.."
CIJOJU " I Q:i7 ·:ill
F1n1 Rou: L. Cof1eld. \I. Fi•her.
f. ( l!·nu•nt•. K . l.indlc\. F. \•kcw. \, R1<1le'. R \lont ·
gonlf'n, ll. TluiiiiJ""n, L. Hault'\, E. l'laniJ:[an. J. \!arlin.
F. Brown . .1 . \\ ilc~. ll. \\ ard. E. \\ <'•lnwreland. \'. "tore\,
,..,,.,.,.."/ Rou: \. llarri•. J. Holwrr•. C. Ballard, :\1. llt•nl)·,
J. II} rei. \I. \lo•lt'\. J. "illou:.:hh) . W. l>omint·ck. 0.
Wyall. I.. Freeman. B. Thornton. J. \\ illiams. D Thoma-.
D. Fret>man. J . ( oficld. Tlurd Now: \1. We-tmoreland,
C. Ht'ddinJ:!. J . \\ hitaker. "· l't•rkin- \1. Cantrell. J.
Wri!!lll. J. Broontt•. H. Brad~. C. \,kt-w. '-'. Bowen•. K.
Talley. E. '-toke•. ll Ballard. E. Ila)f'•, \1. \rnold . Fourth
Rorc R. Bohon. C. Wrip:ht. B. • hodde,. V. \leFarhn,
H. \\ dlln:.:ham. C. Burnell. E. \~ illiam•. (. Ili!•htower,
R. llallt•ll. J . K1rk•t'\. \1, llightowPr, :\1 "at•on, M.
Frct'man, \ :\eel~. Filth Rou: E. \\ t'•t. ( Ballard. K.
Bea,er•, 1'. '-lri.-kland, L. \\ nghl. II. Pharr. \I Bt>ll, (.
Harri•. '-. \\ ri:.:hl. B. I· arnwr. ll. \\hit!',
'it ron:.:. !:>nth
Rozc "· lloddu•, \ \\hire. C. Wright. \1. Ilarri", \1.
Hul<'hin-on, C. 1'11!•. () Canlrl'll. H. Flagg. \\. Knox, B.
I tH"tar, L. Uewland. 1'. llnrd. B. \\ d•on \1 Lindley.
"''11'11/h Now : 1·:. ll cr. F. Jat on L. l'ollin•. . ]oPe•. :\1.
Thoma•. B. l.mcll, W. \\ hitc, '-'. Ilill. F. Bailey, Bowen•,
~1. Jone•.
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alonq th€ Lin€
o~
athlEtiCS
J J
spoRts
�l<>S7 TE·\\1
Fint Rou:, fpft to Ri~Zht: ITarri-.. Lmett. l'rirl', Burll'\, Hill. r ..•tt·r. T>ominet·k,
\\ ""'J... Dnwdell. Bnmn. ..,I rond Rou·: Burnt'!!. Tillman. Di'\flll, Uc\l·land. \\ ri;::ht. \lalflnl'.
'\\ illi-. Farmer. Per-nn. Blackmon. Crier. Third Rem: C11ach \hrarn-.. \u-tin. Burk . ) ork.
Ilind,man. Ili:.dJtov.er. Fial!:::. Barnett, Burnett, Bell. Hind-.man. \\right. Coat h Bunter.
CO\CHES
Left to Right:
c..a, he-.
\hram-.. Hunter. Bur'ey.
Our C'oaclws arc tht• fin~t- am where. Their
excellent guidance and management of our bo)S
ha\e gi\en u man) gn•at football team .
LJ, 'E:\tE.
\\ 00() • 10\\ E, J I KS
�past
~ootsall
19;;() TEA\1: First Rott, l,rft to Ri~ht: Griffin, Hill.
Per-.on, Burnett, Wood, <..,toke..
'illis, Bell, Prict'. Tilli·
man, Lmt'tt, Burlt'y, S!'nmd Rou:
Barnett. Wat-on,
Oyer, Fla •g, Jat·ohs, Dixon, "- llc-ox..on, )ork, Thomp..,lll,
teams
Hightower, Malone, Prrson. Third Row: Martin, Person,
John•on, !"tanley. Jinh, :\1ontj!:Hmery, Dollar, Fo~ter, BarCooper, Hind .. man, (;arretl, Whatley, Wright,
FirH Rnu·: Cnal'h Hunter. Jink-. Burnett.
<..,toke... Burley. l'nl'e, CodJra11. Pt•r.. on, Carrell. \\ ikox
"on
Srcond Rozc "tarr, Bell, Dyer, Woods, Jackson,
Dollar, Travis, Grit>r, Lovett, Lowe, Cleveland. Third
Rmt · Coac-h Burley, Hill, Cox, Pool. Madison, Arnold,
Bell, Fo•ter. Primro•e, Lov.e, .\lontgomery, Barnett, Coach
·\hram;..
1951 TEA\1: First Ruzc Jark~on, Cleveland. Dollar,
:.t•cond Row:
Cox, \lerriweather.
Hill, :\lontl!<lllll'r~.
:\lc-'\tirheal. Brn\\11, (.arrett, Burley. Third Rou: Robin·
on, Barnt tt, l'er•on, Ca,, Bell. l'rire. Travi•. Fourth Rou:
\. "t·ott. Jlroy,n, Price, Fla/!g. Dollar. Primro•e. ladi on,
\rnold. Hill, Hunter. Fifth Rou: Wahon, Lovett, Doane ,
"toke... T~--inger, Jacob;., Lov.e, Jinh, Wood , 0' 'eal,
Poole.
19')~ TEA\1:
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�First Rou, Lrft to Ri;::ht: ( na('h Huntf'r. .T. Jin!..•. ( Rurnf'tt. J. tokf'•. .1. Rurle\, R. Price,
L. ( nchran. J. Per•nn, '.\'. Carn•tt, C. \\ ikm...nn.
e• ond Rou: <.. "tarr. C. Hf'll. J. l>)er, ].
\'.ooJ,, C. Jack•on, C. Dollar, E. Tra\i•. E. Crit>r, B I.mett, C. l.m1e, H Cleveland. Standin~:
Burle\. C. Hill. F. Cox. L. Poole. H . \latli•nn. llnnwr \rnnld. \1. Bell, H. Fo,ter, I· . Pnmro•e,
H. U>\\e, B. :'llont:.:omer:. R. Barnett, Cuad1 ,\hram•.
outh Fulton\ fir•t football team has perfect n·cord for fir,t }ear in Cla-s A competition.
FO TB LL TE \\1 FOR 1CJ55
RECORD OF LIO
Winners
Lions 13
Lions 13
Lion
21
Lions l l
Lion
26
Lions 26
Lions 26
Lion
7
PLAr OFF
Losers
Price High
Green horo
Griffin
Carrollton
Rome
.:\e\\man
Decatur
Mariette
0
District
12
13
Lion
0
0
8
Lion
l1
Lion
26
7
Griffin
6
Regional
Fort Valley 7
late A Championship
Dasher High 13
6
0
'-ourh Fulton Hil!h Win~ tate
Champion~hip by defeating Da•her lli gh of \aldosta, Georgia, 26-13.
Foothall Banquet honoring the Champion .
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�homecom1nq
Bell} Miller
"1\fi.,s , outh Fulton High"
Barbara l\.irk C)
·'\1i"s outh Fulton llit!h"'
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]f),)/ ..)g
Bett} Miller and :\ttendants
Barhara Kirksey rece1vmg the
Football from Captain Melvin BelL
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Barbara kirkse} and \ttendants
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1956-57
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South Fulton High School was once located on South Bayard Street in East Point, Georgia. It was established as a school for African Americans prior to World War II in what was a segregated school system. First named "East Point High School," the building was destroyed by a fire in the early months of 1940. It was rebuilt that same year and given the name "South Fulton" prior to the 1954-55 school year. It was closed in 1980 and the site is now the location of a charter school: Kipp South Fulton Academy.
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����The L\on's
JoPf
�1970-1971
; 971- 972
South Fulton had served the black commumty for
decades before Russell became its sister school
with the advent of integratron in 1970. Neither
school was large enough to hold both student
bodies, so it was decided South Fulton would teach
all the eighth graders in the area.
Few photo:; exist from th1s period, as no annual was
compiled for the first two groups of eighth graders.
Grown now, the South Fultonites of 1971 and 1972
still remember their year here as a umque and
exciting experience ...
Peggy Batson (left) sponsors f1rst
student newspaper, "l1on Talk."
Homerooms buy g1fts
for orphans, presented
at Chnstmas assembly. _ ~~·~·-
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South Fulton Opens -
August 31, 1970
�1972-1973
"A new world awaits," said the third
generation of South Fulton eighth
graders rn the school's first annual.
They described themselves as
''laughmg, learning, and sharing."
Their teachers remember them as
bemg as unusually active and tight
knit. The friendships made by many of
them during their year here exist still,
three years after their graduation
from Russell.
Off tee clerk for 12 years, Mrs. Lizzie Kenney (left) died
Jan. 9, 1973.
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SoU1h Fulton gets tts ftrst yearbook (far
nght); Debbte Rushton (nght) thought up
the name.
�1973-1974
The students of 1973-1974 were characteristically
more serious than the classes preceeding them.
Concerned with ''hate, violence, and war,'' the
eighth graders said, "Compared to the rest of the
world we may seem small," but vowed to work for a
better tomorrow, demonstrating peace, friendship,
and understanding. Perhaps it was this same spirit
which contributed to ending the Vietnam war the
following year.
Off1ce clerk Shu ley Goode and Pnnc1pal Hugh Wingo
Kelly leach 1s chosen to be captain of
cheerleaders.
Students, hke everyone
else, worry about the
fuel shortage, but they
st1ll fmd t1me to enJOY
the f1rst school carmval.
�Stephany Gray
Debbie Stearns
Art mstructor Cathy Croft (center)
Under the leadership of
Coach Henry Porter, the
lion basketball wins
nme of the1r 10
games.
Mrs. Ruby Dhye (left) ret1res after
35 years of servmg as South
Fulton's hbranan. The 1974
L1on's Roar (nght) called Mrs.
Dhye "synonymous w1th all that IS
good m education."
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�1974-1975
Soc1al Stud1es Instructor
Beverly Bell
"Togetherness" was the word the 19741975 eighth graders of South Fulton
used to describe their activities. ''When
we win," wrote one student "we share
the victory. But when we lose we still feel
good because we tried. We might lose in
points, but if we do our best, we are
always winners." And they always will be
South Fulton's band is outstanding, so much so
they are mv1ted to play w1th Russell's at football
Carla Young IS named
outstanding student for her high
grades and for servmg as Student
Council President.
�Sctence tnstructor Ann Jones {center). later Ann Carpenter. conducts an expenment as students look
on
South Fulton's ftrst- and lastgames club. It was organized to
encourage sportsmanship.
Yet another ed1t1on of The Lton's
Roar, this one produced by English
teacher Carolyn Calloway.
�1975-1976
This year's seniors at Russell,
South Fulton's Bicentenmal
class investigated and evaluated
the effects of the 1solated eighth
grade for the theme of their
yearbook. They found it to be "a
cocoon," beneficial to this
formative year of their lives.
TonyHamm
Pork Chop H1ll
Cheerleadmg Sponsor Julte Slllay and
Cheerleader Lmdy Hardegree
Natalie Gu1ld (left) ts voted
Most Popular. Cindy
Cannon (m•ddle) IS named
both Most Intelligent and
Most Ltkely to Succeed.
8
Off1ce clerk Shirley
Goode leaves m1d·
year to have a baby.
She is replaced by
Glona Wimbush.
�Natalie Gutld (left) and Annual Staff Adv1sor CB Hackworth
Stella Gray
English Teacher Valentme Hayes
Pnnc1pal Frank S1ms, Asst. Pnnc1pal Larry Berry, and
Counselor Helen H1ggms all three leave South Fulton afteJ a
successful year to assume the same roles at Palmetto High
School.
The Lion's Roar
�1976- 979
Joyce Gallagher
Coach Gary Rymer, Deanna Free
Anna lee Guy
The days of 1976-1977 were memorable
for students and teachers alike. Typically,
this class was an unusually industrious one.
There were, of course, exceptions- as
Assistant Principal Charles Crews will easily
recall. But any problems here were far
outweighed by the rewards. It was a good
year with good kids and good educators.
ShemHall
1977 was one of the coldest wrnters rn the
Unrted States m years. South Fulton was one of
many schools wrth an unexpected "holrday."
The krds (left) took full advantage, enJoyrng the
snow.
Henry Porter, Coach and math teacher
for many years leaves to become
assrstant prrncrpal at Westwood.
�Demse Hood
Cheerleaders and Sponsor Anne Carpenter (center).
The hard work of Chnsty Dyer
(nght), Michelle Spillaine,
Donny Devane and others pays
off - one more L1on's Roar!
�1977-1978
Gary Rymer (at left w1th
Hak Sun Bak) becomes
football and basketball
coach.
Genora Bnnkley
(middle) •s crowned
queen of hearts for
Valentines Day.
Readmg Lab opens.
�In contrast to the seriousness that characterized the
class preceeding them, the South Fulton class of
1977-1978 was a relatively playful and carefree
group. From the educators' viewpoint, they were
refreshingly optimistic and both willing and
receptive pupils. From the kids' viewpoint, South
Fulton offered a social as well as educational
atmosphere. What more could you ask? It was fun.
CindyM1ller
Sandra Weaver
English Instructor Valent me Hayes
English teacher Valentine
Hayes transfers to RIVerwood.
Mary M1kola1t1s, Lion's Roar
Ed1tor.
�1978-1979
Last year's eighth graders have by now had a full year to
adapt to high school life at Russell. Things are a lot
different there, most will agree, and though once they've
gone they miss South Fulton - 1t's always m the1r
memories. These were - and are - energetic, smart,
happy people. It was an exciting time to be at South
Fulton.
Father and daughter are both
dolls. At left 1s a stuffed ver·
s1on of Coach Gary Rymer
made by art teacher Pam
Trued . At r1ght, Rymer's
daughter, Am1e, who served as
mascot for the L1on Cheerlead·
ers.
Soc1al Stud1es Instructor Lmda Gravitt (facmg
pag ) leaves th1rd quarter to have a baby. She
w1ll return th followmg year.
�Becky Trpton (mrddle) IS
voted "Best All Around" by
her teachers.
The 1979 Lron's Roar
�WHAT'S
EXT?
16
�SOUTH FULTON
1979-1980:
THE FINAL
CHAPTER
17
�DEDICATION
This book is dedicated with respect
and gratitude to the four men who
have served as principal of South
Fulton High School.
18
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�Phil Abraham
Mark Akins
Angela Allen
Paula Allen
Lisa Anderson
Dani Andrews
Tyrone Ardoin
Lamar Arnold
Lisa Arnold
Rhonda Arnold
SonJalyn Arnold
Lee Bailey
Freddie Barber
Danny Baswell
John Bennett
Stephanie Bennett
Sharon Bentley
Cindy Bishop
Rhonda Blair
Kitty Bly
Dale Boone
M1ke Brown
Joey Boone
Sarah Butler
Troy Butler
Billy Calder
K1ndra Calhoun
J1m Call
Darryl Carter
Tony Cason
Andrea Cheek
Tony Clanton
Dexter Cook
Laurie Cortnght
Chris Cotton
Brad Crawford
John Joseph Couch
Tammy Culpepper
Donna Dav1s
M1chael Dav1s
Terry Dav1s
Tommy Dav1s
Kathy Derks
Dawanna D1ll
James D1mler
20
���Ernest Dockery
M1ke Dollar
James Dunmon
Jesse Dunmon
Martha Dunmon
Lisa Echols
David Elliott
Ricky English
Gloria Evans
David Fagan
James Farmer
Patrina Flagg
Glenn Floyd
James Freeman
Robbie Freeman
Richard Fulghum
Lee Gann
Alberto Garcia
Karl Gaston
Nolan Giddens
Tammy Golden
Juliet Goodson
Vera Guild
Page Graham
Angela Gray
L1sa Graybill
Carrie Griffith
Lisa Hall
Robert Hall
Sophia Hamilton
Laurie Hand
Gwen Harns
Sandra Harns
Paula Harrison
Vernather Hast1ng
Rodney Hayes
Wayne Haygood
Robert Hays
Reginald Hearn
Teresa Henderson
Tony Hester
Dann H1nes
Stephanie H1pp
Melinda Hogan
K1m Hood
23
�Marion Houston
Leo Hunt
Angela lvey
Chevella Jacobs
Lisa Jenkins
Karen Johnson
Mikki Johnson
Randy Johnson
Jeff Jones
Ronald Jones
Sylvette Jones
Jamte Kelly
Mane Ktmbell
Dena Ktng
Evon Kornahrens
Btlly Lamb
Doug Lashley
Andrea Lawson
Cynthia Lawson
Freddie Ledford
Maya Lindsey
Wendell Lupo
Dernck Lowe
Donna McCarthy
Antta McCloud
Curtis McGutre
Anthony Mack
Carla Malone
Darcy Malone
Phyllis Malone
Pat Marrett
Davtd Martin
Angela Massengale
Charlotte Mathis
Maunce Maynard
Margaret Miller
Wilson Mimbs
Douglas Minck
Carlos Mttchell
Juwan Moody
Allen Morgan
Laurie Moravetz
Arney Murphy
Andy Nolan
Cassandra Orange
24
���Valinda Obie
Cynthia Owens
Loretta Parker
Shirley Parrott
Lynn Peak
Cynthia Perkins
Tracey Phillips
Derrell Pooler
Lamar Porter
Greg Powell
Wanda Powell
Melodi Prestage
Brian Pnce
Carl Puckett
Don Reeves
Cindy Rhodes
Edward Riddle
Lucinda Roberts
Angela Rogers
Temika Rogers
Gary Rose
Larry Rose
Tilrena Ross
Judy Rush
Sally Saddler
Teresa Saunders
James Shaw
Craig Shockley
Glona S1mpson
Michael S1mpson
Roxanne Slayton
Richard Sloan
Rodney Smallwood
Tommy Smallwood
Angela Sm1th
Joseph Sm1th
Kllfford Sm1th
Rapunzal Smith
Rhonda Sm1th
Mane Sowell
Ray Sox
Donny Sp1llane
Tony Sprayberry
Walter Starr
Rodney Sumlin
27
�Lisa Taylor
Valinda Taylor
Alphonso Thompson
Anthony Thomas
Marcus Thomas
Shawn Tice
Kelly Tidwell
Michael Tucker
Gerald Varner
Bonnie Vaughn
Dimitri Walker
Mickey Warren
Renita Washington
Lee Whitten
Jackie Wilcox
Cheryl Wilder
Bielo Wilkes
Wanda Williams
Mark Williamson
Ricky Willingham
Angela Wingate
Rodney Winkfield
Wynne W1sdon
Charles Yancey
Dan1ta Young
Judy Young
Rita Zellner
Alex Clark
Frederick Cook
Sandra Fnsby
Chenella Jacobs
Napoleon Riddle
Timmy Dobson
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�FACULTY AND STAFF
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Art
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Industrial Arts
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English
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Announcements
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Pat Parker
Janet Guild
Angela Ma se gale
Mr. and M . Jad R. Sexton
Wanda Wi i ms
Ruby F. Dhy
Best Wishes Bielo- Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Whatley
Congratulations to Bielo Wilkes- William H. Price
Best Wishes to Bielo Wilkes- Mary Lee Wilkes
Keep up the good work Bielo Wilkes- Quion Wilkes
Brenda Shelby
Albert Shelby
Tino Shelby
Lc1 Ritc1 Shelby
Mr. c'Jnd Mrs. Hc1rold Short
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Cynthic'J Owens
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�This annual was conceived and executed in three
weeks. It would not exist were it not for the work of
the followmg people:
Libby Soblesk1e, PE and health teacher. She took
time from her many other duties and respons1bll1·
ties to sponsor the project.
CB Hackworth, a professional newswriter who lives
m Gamesvllle, Georg1a. A former student at South
Fulton who taught annual staff here for four years,
he returned on short not1ce to oversee product1on of
the book.
Calvin Turner, Principal. He let us do it.
T1m Hogan, James Delay, and Mike Exner. They
took the p1ctures.
Vera Guild, C1ndy Owens, Andrea Check, and Anita
McCloud -our sudden staff members.
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Georgia--Fulton County
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Starting as East Point Colored School in the 1930s, South Fulton High School served the African American students of East Point, Hapeville, College Park, Ben Hill, Fairburn and Palmetto. In 1970, it became a sister school to Russell High School during the period of integration. All 8th grade students of both races attended South Fulton until it was closed in the late 1980s.
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PICTORIAL
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SOUTH FULTON
HIGH SCHOOL
1978 -79
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��Calvm Turner (top left} IS South Fulton's
pnnc1pal. Pnor to th1s, he was ass1stant
pnnc1pal at both Russell and South Fulton.
Ongmally a sc1ence teacher, Mr. Turner IS
marned and has two daughters
Ann Johnston (bottom left), our counselor,
a former seventh grade teacher at Jere A.
Wells. She attended the Un1vers1ty of
Georg1a and West Georgia College, and has
been in the school system for ten years. She
IS marned to a pharmacist, Bob
IS
18
�Charles Crews (top nght), as ass1stant pnnc1pal handles dtsc1pllne
problems. He is act1ve 1n church work and ts a scout leader. He has a
w1fe, Jean, and two sons.
Glona Wtmbush (bottom nght) IS responsible for keeping the office 1n
smooth runntng order. Somehow, she has to ftnd t1me to type and
answer the phone, too. She's been our secretary three years now, but
also is attending Georgia State, where she's majoring tr JOUrnalism.
She's been marned six years, and has a four year old, Mtckey.
19
�8111 Gunn1p (above) was born m Syracus, New York. He attended the State Univers1ty of New York and Georg1a State Umvers1ty He 1s not
marned. He has a dog named Wendy He has been teaching for seven years. He teaches typmg and careers, and enjoys them very much.
20
�CB Hackworth (left) IS a student at Georg1a State. He
has been teachmg annual staff at South Fulton for four
years. He was once a student at South Fulton, and later
at Russell.
Pam Trued (above) teaches art. She has been teachmg
for ten years and has taught at Campbell and M .D.
Collms. She's marned to the band dtrector at Campbell
and has a daughter, Rebecca, who IS four.
Chns Harkey (left) IS a nat1ve of East Pomt. He
attended Woodward Academy and M1lllgan College
before becommg an English teacher at South Fulton
th1s year. H1s hobb1es are woodworkmg, gUitar play1ng,
photography, and wnllng.
21
�Lmda Grav1tt (top left) IS one of our soc1al
stud1es teachers. Th1s 1s her second year at
South Fulton, but before that, she was at
Russe I She w111 be leavmg around the end of
th1s year to have her baby.
Peggy Shadd1x (top nght) also teaches soc1al
stud1es. She IS the sponsor of the yearbook, and
coach of g~rls' basketball at Russell, where her
father IS pnnc1pal.
Hazel Owens (above) 1s the llbranan.
Mane Cotton (nght), the library clerk, has been
on the staff here smce South Fulton became an
all e1ghth grade school m 1970.
22
�Ron Spnng (left) IS the new
chorus teacher. He enJoys h1kmg,
campmg, and mus1c.
Beverly W1senant (far left) was the
chorus teacher f~rst quarter. She
had taught two years at South
Fulton before that.
Joyce Relyea (above) was born in New York, and has
taught orchestra in lnd1ana, Texas, and Flonda, 1n
add1t1on to her work at South Fulton and other schools
1n the East Pomt area .
Larry S1ms (left) 1s one w1ld and crazy guy. Born 1n
Jackson, M1ssissipp1, he stud1ed mus1c at the
Umvers1ty of Southern M1sSISS1pp1. Th1s 1s h1s third
year teach1ng band at South Fulton and Russell. "I
have bet1er luck here, he says, " than I ever had 1n
Czechloslovak1a .''
23
�Coach Gary Rymer (nght) was born m Cumberland . He
went to the Un1versity of Arkansas. He has a poodle
named T1ffany. H1s hobb1es are coachmg, workmg on
h1s dune buggy, and work1ng 1n the yard. The coach
has two k1ds, Am1e, f1ve, and Gary Jr., one. He's been
teaching P.E. for SIX years.
The Coach Rymer doll (bottom nght) was made by
Pam Trued.
Libby Soblesk1e (above) IS the secret 1dent1ty of Wonder
Woman When she's not busy makmg sure things go
nght m Washmgton, DC, she's mak1ng them go nght 1n
P.E. class here at South Fulton She IS also responsible
for the cheerleaders.
24
�Vinzant Pottsdamer (above) teaches wOOd shop and draft1ng, which he has been
doing for eighteen years. He is a graduate of Flonda A&M, is marned, and has two
children. He enjoys working w1th wood and wallpaper.
Nancy Willis (left) teaches Home Economics, English, and Soc1al Stud1es She was one
of the teachers at South Fulton the f1rst year 1t was all e1ghth grade, but taught at
Headland for a while before coming back here She has a four year old boy, Matt.
25
�M1ke Exner (above) has been teachmg sc1ence at South Fulton for two years. He enjoys
com collectmg and buildmg model airplanes. but his main interest nght now 1s
photography.
Brenda Shelby (right) was born 1n Wauseon, Oh1o and
attended school1n Goshen, Indiana She's taught math at
South Fulton every year smce 1t became all eighth grade. Her
husband, Albert, also teaches. They have two children, Tmo
and LaA1ta.
Gene Kessell (nght) was born 1n Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in
1946. World travel brought him to such places as Mamland
Chma, Formosa, Korea, Japan, Okmawa, Hawaii, France,
Greece, Italy, and most of the US. He has attended Columbus
College, Auburn, University of Georgia, Georg1a State (at Fort
Benn1ng and Atlanta). His degrees include A A., B S., M.Ed.,
and pending Ph.D. Mr Kessell teaches math.
26
�Manon Ntchols (left) teaches spectal educat1on. Sewtng and traveling are a few
of her interests. She recetved her BA degree from Clark College, and her M.A.
from Atlanta Un1versity. She has a husband, Timothy, and two chtldren, Cheryl
and Tunothy
Polly Winters (bottom left) spent ten years on the Flonda beaches before
deciding to ftnish her college degree and teach school. She ts the LD/BD
specialist here. She has two chtldren, has attended f1ve colleges, and has
taught for seven years.
Working w1th students IS an mteresting expenence for Jess1e Sm1th (bottom
right), who teaches special education . She's attended A&T Un1vers1ty in
Greensboro, North Carolina and Atlanta Univers1ty. She has one daughter,
Nec1a M1chelle.
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�ManoAdams
Barry Allen
Danny Allen
Pam Allen
Beny Arnold
Enc Aust1n
Tonya Bailey
Carla Baker
Beverly Banmng
Randy Barton
Kerry Benjamin
Cheryl B1vens
M1chael Boatf1eld
Narvm Booker
Darlene Botts
Bernard Bndges
Patnce Bndges
Barbara Broomhead
Angela Brown
Tracy Brown
Anthony Bryant
Charles Burgess
Syb1l Burnett
Elisha Butler
Zulema Caballero
Mennatt1s Camp
Jeff Cantrell
Dav1d Carr
Rodney Carthan
Judy Chambers
Sam Chaney
Scott Chandler
Am1eCiark
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��M1ke Crews
Jan1ce Collms
Alan Coody
Hazel Cook
Ke1thCook
Jerry Cooley
GUJsella Cucalon
Dawn Culpepper
Chris Curry
Tyra Denms
R1chard DeJhonette
Theresa Dutton
Thomas Dyer
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�Joe Eatman
Knstal Elam
Darrell Ell1ott
Bruce Farmer
M1chelle Ferrell
Darlene Fortune
Gwen Fowler
Tonya Frazier
V1ck1e Fraz1er
Sandra Fnsby
Martha Garc1a
Chevlyn Gaston
Lonme Goodman
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�Darryl Goss
Shern Gossett
Juhe Graves
Kathy Graves
Wanda Gray
Sharon Greene
Yolanda Gregory
Cynthia Gnff1n
Dernck Grooms
Mane Guy
AhHall
Drew Hallman
Zina Ham1lton
Debra Harmon
Jesse Hams
Wendy Harry
Ke1th Hays
Harold Hayes
Michael Helms
Reginald H1gh
Antomo Hightower
Demse Hobgood
Rickey Holcomb
T1m Holcombs
Rhonda Hornsby
Alan Houston
Kassonia Huffman
Jeff Hunter
Barry Jackson
Clarence Jackson
Juamta Jacobs
Gwen James
Harold Joh~on
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Duane Johnson
Crystal Jones
Donna Jones
Tony Jordan
Tma Kelly
Charles Kendrick
Daphne King
Jennifer Kmg
Donny K1rkland
Greg Klinkert
Kelly Knight
Tammy Knight
Susan Kruse
Aaron Lanham
Danny Lewallen
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�Lorra 1ne Lew1s
Cheryl Little
Tommy Little
Laune Lowe
Dave Love
Tina Mann
Ann Marrett
Remtta Mathews
Todd Martin
Kim McAffee
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�Doug McAlister
Felec1a McCrary
Angela McGowk
Stephanie McGuire
Jackey Melton
Tony M1tchell
Jon Montour
Constance Morgan
M1chael Morgan
Walter Morgan
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�Zma Morgan
Kenny Nash
Roger Nash
Tony Ne1l
Ryan Newton
Renee O' Donnell
Patnck Ogletree
Greg Owens
Larry Partndge
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Lynn Penn
Anthony Perkms
Donna Philpot
Darrell Phillips
Cra1g P1ckett
Anthony Pooler
Deborah Porter
lngnd Porter
Doug Pntchard
Terry Reece
R1chard Reeves
Oscar R1ddle
Tammy R1dley
Terry R1ppy
Regmald Roberts
Howard Rockmore
Wesley Rutherford
Reginald Rutland
Rusty Sanders
Joy Sewell
Nim~sh Shah
All1son Sm1th
R1cky Sholar
Beth S1mmons
TammyS1ms
Allen Smgleton
Robm Sk1pper
Port1a Sm1th
Randy Sm1tt.
Tan1a Spear
Donna Standard
Angela Ste1ger
Scott Stewart
Jerome Stodgeh1ll
Jon~ Sto~
Dwanda Stnckland
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Tang1a Stnckland
Tyrone Stnckland
C1ssyTally
Sally Thacker
Greg Thomas
Norma Jean Thompson
Starrla Thompson
Sherry Thornhill
Becky T1pton
Lonme Terry
Connie Traylor
Kathy Traylor
Tammy Traylor
Marcus Tnce
Joel Trott1
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�John Tukes
Patnck Thompson
Ch1p Turner
Chuck V1tter
Dav1d Walden
Tma Ward
Ke1th Welch
Pamela West
Bert Wheelis
K1mWh1te
Lashawn White
PerryWh1te
Stephan1e White
Jerry W1lcox
Evonne Williams
Mand1 W1lliams
M1ke Williams
Tracy Williams
Ursula Williams
M1keWilson
Robb1e Wilson
Greg Windf1eld
Arthur Wright
Derrick Wright
Patncia Wyatt
Aretha Yarbrough
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CHARLES S . CREWS, JR.
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ANN JOHNSTON
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At no time in one's life are the desires for recognition,
for response, for security, ana for new experiences greater
than during the period of young adolescence. ~eali zing t~at
the greatest extent of change physically, as wel l as psychologically and socially occurs durin this period, the staff
continually evaluates, reevaluates, and establishes new goals
for our middle-level educational program--based on a sound
understanding of the students' needs.
A variety of activities and teaching/learnin enYirC'!lments are provi e· as o~~ ~u onts a- -ot~vatod ~o~er d t~eir
intellectual, social, and physical potential. Teaching/
learning enTironments are of such that appropriate opportunities for interaction with both adults and peers are proTidedo These opportunities proTide flexibility necessary for
our students to develop dependence/inde endence patterns and
influence their at t itude ~ anc oeh vior.
Lur c: ~- ff r.l1.lst co:::.t in"J.o to insist a1 d constantly remind
our students to reach for the highest and strive for the
best--in the classroom, in the athletic arena, and in life.
Calvin Turner
Principal
�SouTH FuLTON HIGH ScHooL_-~
605 SOUTH BAYARD STREET
EAST POINT, GEORGIA 303 44
CALVIN F. TURN E R
PIIIINCII' A L
CHAR LI:
, C R E W S, JR .
ASSISTANT PIIIINCIPAL
ANN JO HNSTON
COUNS LOR
As we look back on the past year, we find that it
has come to a close, and on these pages of the past,
we hope you find happy memories of your year at South
Fulton.
We would like to show our appreciation to all
those teachers who suffered many inconveniences
because of unpredictable circumstances.
This annual is dedicated to our wonderful
basketball and footbal l teams, and to the students
of South Fulton.
Tonya Frazier
Editor
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�Annual Staff:
Edrtor: Tonya Fraz1er
Ass1stant Ed1tor: Elisha Butler
Busmess Ed1tor: Laune Lowe
Production Staff: Alan Coody
Donny Kirkland
Terry R1ppy
Joy Sewell
Business Staff: Gu1sella Cucalon
K1m McAffee
Stephanie McGuire
Joni Stone
Cissy Tally
Adv1sor: C. B. Hackworth
Sponsor: Peggy Shaddix
The 1979 ROAR would l1ke to express spec1al
thanks to the following people:
Mike Exner, whose skills m photography he!ped
us out many times.
Pam Trued, for lettmg us use the art room for our
Fnday afternoon meet1ngs, and for takmg the
time to do several drawings that appear 1n this
yearbook.
Bill Gunnip, who never saw Laune Lowe in class
because she was workmg on the annual.
Les Parsons, our adv1sor from Taylor Publishing
Company.
Chns Harkey, who saved us from m1ssmg our
final deadline by developing and printing several
rolls of film at the last mmute.
Photographs by:
C B Hackworth
Mike Exner
James Delay
Southeastern Studios
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Lion's Roar, 1979
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Georgia--Fulton County
Yearbooks
South Fulton High School
Description
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Starting as East Point Colored School in the 1930s, South Fulton High School served the African American students of East Point, Hapeville, College Park, Ben Hill, Fairburn and Palmetto. In 1970, it became a sister school to Russell High School during the period of integration. All 8th grade students of both races attended South Fulton until it was closed in the late 1980s.
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South Fulton High School
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Fulton County Schools Archives, Hapeville, Ga
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1979
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FCS Archives, FCSS Schools, Shelf G-4-1
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East Point Colored School
Schools
South Fulton High School
students
teachers
yearbook
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�����South Fulton:
Hearing the Other Side!
�You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help
him to find it within himself.
- Galileo
A teacher who is attempting
to teach without inspiring the
pupil with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron.
-Horace Mann
�All to myself I think of you,
Think of the things we used
to do,
Think of the things we used
to say,
Think of each happy bygone
day,
Somet1mes I sigh, and sometimes I smile,
But I keep each olden, golden
wh1le
All to myself.
-Wilbur D. Nesbit
�I w1ll study and get ready, and
perhaps my t1me will come.
-Abraham Lmcoln
Education 1sn't play- and it can't
be made to look l1ke play. It 1s hard,
hard work. But it can be made
Interesting work.
-Thomas A. Ed1son
���The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well;
and doing well whatever you do,
without a thought of fame .
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hear the other side.
- Samt Augustine
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Nick Comati, PVT
�Kathy Zhenphennig, PVT
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�20
Peggy Shaddix, Social Studies
�Mike Exner, Science
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�22
Jessie Smith, PVT
�Linda Gravitt, Social Studies
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�24
Christine Zangrilli, Math
�Gary Rymer, PE
25
�26
Bill Gunnip, Typing
�Sherry Hudson, PE
27
�28
Calvin Turner, Principal
�Brenda Shelby, Math
29
�30
Charles Crews, Assistant Principal
�Nancy Willis , Home Ec.
31
�32
Valentine Hayes, English
�Gloria Wimbush, Secretary
33
�34
Beverly Wisenant, Music
�Ann Johnston, Counselor
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�W1ll1e Mae Adams
Tnva Akins
Karen Alexander
Barry Allen
Clarence Allen
Billy Alston
Donna Anderson
Joe Arnold
Kipp Arnold
Eric Austin
Hak Sun Bak
Vicky Balsam
Neeka Banks
June Bannister
Rosa Barber
Jennifer Barnes
Lavina Barns
Jamie Bates
Kathy Bell
Mary Bell
Randy Bell
Robert B1ddy
Scott Bly
Kim Bolton
36
�Robert Boswell
Shawn Bowen
Genera Bnnkley
John Brooks
Milton Brown
Anthony Bryant
Bobby Burdette
Karen Burley
Richard Calhoun
Deborah Cameron
Tori Cameron
April Cardm
Belinda Chaney
Tracy Cheek
Mike Chosewood
Donna Clark
Teresa Clark
Greg Clemons
Talis Cleveland
Tim Cleveland
Joe Cook
Sandy Coppett
Thomas Cosby
Eddie Cotton
37
�Deborah Cox
Brad Crews
Topaz Darden
Cliff Davenport
Ted Davenport
Annie Davis
Cindy Davis
Mary Jane Dav1s
Randy Davis
Gary Dockery
Ray Drake
Francene Dukes
Yvonne Dunn
Carlton Eason
Pam Edge
James Elliott
Brenda Evans
Edward Everett
Cedric Ferrell
Lee Forrester
V1ckie Fulghum
Ronda Gabriel
Tim Gamblin
Michelle Gay
38
�Alton Gentry
Suzanne Goen
Wayne Golden
Lolita Gonzales
Kellle Granger
Will1e Graves
Willie Gray
Robbie Gray
Adam Guild
Tim Hall
Monica Hamm
Fannie Harris
Robm Harris
James Hayes
Lawrence Head
Zma Hearn
Brenda Hensley
Beth Herron
Joe Hester
Jeffrey H1cks
Everage Hill
Deborah Hines
Leona Hines
Donny Hogan
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�Brant Holland
Debbie Holt
Jeff Howard
L1sa Hubbard
Hiram Hubbard
Claude Hudson
Ronnie Hudson
Joann Hughes
Randy Hunter
Jodylvy
Earnest Jacobs
Marilyn James
Ephriam Jones
Thomas Jerome
Cmdy Johnson
Fa1th Johnson
Brian Jones
Jimmy Jones
Durrell Jones
Lavma Jones
Stephanie Jordan
Nathan Kee
Wanda Kelly
Barry Kmg
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�John King
lsom Kmg
Debbie Knight
Wayman Kmght
Ed Kruse
Audrey Lindley
Teresa Long
Lonnie Louis
Kenny Lowe
Donna Lowe
Pam Lowe
Eddie Lucas
Carl Lytle
Bobby Mallory
Pare McCloud
Mary Mikolaitis
Joey Milam
C1ndy Miller
Bruce Miller
Billy Ray Mitchell
Rochelle Moody
Tim Moore
Randy Moore
James Morns
�Gene Nash
Laura Norns
Patrick Ogletree
Jimmy Ollis
Trm Orr
Patricra Owens
Danny Philpot
Bryant Pierce
Donna Paige
Leon Porter
Teresa Peavy
Ronnie Prrtchard
Brlly Parrish
Yolanda Powell
Richard Ramey
Donna Reece
Vivian Reeves
Anthony Rerd
Jaquita Rice
Oscar Riddle
Lynda Rrgby
Veronica Roberts
Ouonita Roberts
Regrnald Roberts
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�Janet Robertson
Freddie Robertson
Bonce Robinson
Scottie Rogers
Maxine Rose
Terry Rose
Gerry Rushton
R1chard Rutland
Darrel Shannon
Angela Sharpton
John Shoemake
Cynthia Simpson
Deborah Simpson
Brenda Slay
Donna Sm1th
Randy Sm1th
V1cky Sm1th
Clay Smoot
Connie Spear
Roger Stacks
Peggy Stakely
John Starr
Allen Stearns
Sharon Stnckland
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�Jeff Stone
Jody Stone
Sam Swafford
Cmdy Swaney
Johnny Taylor
Nathan1el Taylor
Sandra Tenny
Nunnally T1gner
Lmda Tmch
Bndgette
Thompkins
Bobby Thompson
Mont1e Thompson
Sandra Thornburg
Paula Underwood
Tracy Underwood
R1cky Ullrich
Carl Val1se
T1m Walker
Gregg Walker
Frankie Ware
Karl Washington
L1sa Weaver
Sandra Weaver
Cheryl West
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�Cindy Wheeler
Jeff White
Alyson Widener
Geno Wilcher
Darrel Wilder
Phyllis Wilcox
Betty Williams
Elizabeth Wilson
Angee Wilson
Dale Williams
Derrick Wims
Michael Wims
Stewart Wrndf1eld
Tonette Wisdom
Anthony Zachery
Denny Zink
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�Vinzant Pottsdamer, Wood Shop
�Pam Trued , Art
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�ZESTO SNACK SHOPS
Atlanta's Original Double Decker Hamburger
2665 East Point Street
761-9518
766-0349
MINTON -JONES COMPANY
Office Supplies
Furniture and Equipment
1802 Washington Ave.
72
761 -0633
�Compliments of
HARRIS THRIFTOWN
874 Cleveland Ave.
EAST POINT HARDWARE
East Point, Ga.
2795 Ma1n Street
761-2640
Wylie B Callahan
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�Compliments of
CARMICHAEL FUNERAL HOME
HORACE
MANN
INSURANCE
HOPE
ELECTRIC, INC.
Electrical Contractor
680 Queen Street, S W.
Atlanta, Ga . 30310
Fulton County Rep.
Ken Johnson
753·2151
987·9442
Life -
Homeowners -
Auto
Willie J. Hope
President
�EAST POINT CYCLE & KEY
2834 Church Street
766·5356
Compliments of
Library Assistants
Thomas Jerome
Steve Glass
Cynthia Gossett
Pam Edge
Paula Underwood
Dempsy Zink
Compliments of
Compliments of
Christine Zangrilli
Carlos M. Hemperly, Jr.
Compliments of
Compliments of
B. M oseman
Cloma Bishop
M ERR ITT DRUGS
Compliments of
L. Cooper Shavd1es
EAST POINT ANTIQUES
768-3855
3023 Main Street
Mrs. Ethel Crawford Mrs. Mary Finegan
Best Wishes From
H. Owens
Marie Cotton
Gayland Morgan
Gerald Minnifield
R.
W. Parris
Compliments of
C . L. Thoma s
Compliments of
Mr. Gunni p
Compliments of
Compliments of
Mrs. Bri nkley
M r. Powell
Compliments of
Compliments of
EAST POINT PHARMACY
Mr. Beatty
Compliments of
Mrs. Rigby
Compliments of
Mrs. Gamblin
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Mary Mikolaitis, Editor
Kim Bolton, Assistant Editor
Vicky Balsam, Assistant Editor
Angee Wilson
Donna Lowe
Shawn Bowen
Robbie Gray
Ricky Ullrich
Allyson Widener
Linda Rigby
Valentine Hayes, Advisor
Special thanks to Steve Hogbin
for permission to reproduce
his photograph of Atlanta.
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Lion's Roar, 1978
Subject
The topic of the resource
Georgia--Fulton County
Yearbooks
South Fulton High School
Description
An account of the resource
Starting as East Point Colored School in the 1930s, South Fulton High School served the African American students of East Point, Hapeville, College Park, Ben Hill, Fairburn and Palmetto. In 1970, it became a sister school to Russell High School during the period of integration. All 8th grade students of both races attended South Fulton until it was closed in the late 1980s.
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South Fulton High School
Publisher
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Fulton County Schools Archives, Hapeville, Ga
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1978
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FCS Archives, FCSS Schools, Shelf G-4-1
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East Point Colored School
Schools
South Fulton High School
students
teachers
yearbook
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�ANN JOHNSTON
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�VALENTINE HAYES
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�GARY RYMER
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�JOYCE RELYEA
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�WILSON HAHN
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�CAROLYN PORTER
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�PAM TRUED
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�These Are the People Who Have Helped
Us in Our First and Biggest Steps.
Carpenter, Anne - Science, Math
Born in Atlanta, Mrs. Carpenter attended
the University of Georgia and Georgia
State, before becoming a teacher. She is a
sponsor for AV, Cheerleaders, and the
Science Club.
Mrs. Hayes was named Valentine becaus
her parents were married on Valentine's
Day. Following the tradition, she and her
husband, Henry, were also married on that
holiday.
Cotton, Marie - Library Clerk
Mrs. Cotton, who has been at South Fulton
for as long as it has been an all-eighth
grade school, left first quarter to have a
baby.
Hope, Nancy - English
Mrs. Hope has been teaching for 14 years.
She is married, and has three children. Her
interests outside school include teaching
Sunday School and working with
underpriviledged children.
Crews, Charles - Asst. Principal
A former science teacher at Headland, Mr.
Crews is active in church work and scout
leading. He has two sons, and his wife,
Jean, is a substitute teacher here.
Fletcher, Emily - Typing
Mrs. Fletcher is sponsor of FBLA, and her
husband teaches PE at another school.
Gallagher, Joyce - Social Studies
Ms. Gallagher is a first year teacher. She
attended Georgia State.
Hackworth, CB - Annual Staff
Mr. Hackworth is a student at Georgia
State, majoring in English Education. He
attended South Fulton the first year it
became an all-eighth grade school.
Hudson, Sherry - PE, Health
Johnston, Ann - Counselor
Mrs. Johnson taught elementary school at
Jere A. Wells, Longino, and Kathleen
Mitchell. She is married to Bob Johnston, a
pharmacist.
Porter, Carolyn - Substitute
Mrs. Porter holds a degree in English and
plans to return to teaching full time in the
near future.
Porter, Henry - Math
Mr. Poner coaches athletics at South
Fulton, in addition to teaching. His
dedication to the school is evident in the
quality of sports here.
Hahn, Wilson - CV AE
Mrs. Hahn teaches at both South Fulton and
Russell. She was in the run-offs for teacher
of the year this year.
Hayes, Valentine - English
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Pottsdamer, Vinzant - Shop
Mr. Pottsdamer has been teaching for
sixteen years. He is a graduate of Florida
A&M, is married, and has two children. He
enjoys working with wood and wallpaper.
Relyea, Joyce - Orchestra
�Born in New York, Ms. Relyea has taught in
Indiana, Texas, and Florida. Her plans for
the future are to ''buy a house, learn to
make the flowers grow around it, and in
between travel to Poland and Austria in
1978."
Rymer, Gary - PE, Health
Coach Rymer has a long record of athletic
scholarship. including the basketball record
in Maryland.
Shaddix, Peggy - Social Science
Ms. Shaddix, whose father is principal at
Russell, has attended UGA and Georgia
State. This is her first year teaching.
Shelby, Brenda - Math
Having taught for ten years, Mrs. Shelby is
one of those few who were at South Fulton
the first year it was all-eighth grade. Her
husband, Albert, is also a teacher. She
sponsors Junior Beta Club.
Sims, Larry - Band
Mr. Sims teaches band at Russell and South
Fulton. The band was rated superior this
year at festival. Outside school, Mr. Sims
enjoys tennis, swimming, and collecting
classical records.
Stein, Betty - Special Ed.
Having once taught at Russell , Ms. Stein
enjoys South Fulton, despite her two-tone
wall.
Trued, Pam - Art
Born in Decatur, Mrs. Trued has taught art
for eight years.
Her husband, David, is a band director.
She has one daughter, Rebecca.
Turner, Calvin - Principal
Formerly assistant principal at Sm 1 Fulton
and Russell, Mr. Turner has an impressive
record of experience in the education field.
His wife is a coordinator for Atlanta
Schools.
Willis, Nancy - Home Ec.
Mrs. Willis taught at South Fulton the first
year it was all-eighth grade, transferred to
Headland, then returned here last year.
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Paul Alston
Donna Anderson
Jeffery Anderson
Mike Anderson
Randy Anderson
Nancy Arnold
Tony Arnold
Victor Arnold
Rebecca Aus tin
Greg Ayers
Frances Ball
Jeanette Balsam
Calvin Barber
Tim Barfield
Stoney Barnett
Jacqueline Battles
Ray Bennett
Angela Bishop
Anthony Bivins
Lynnette Boone
Chris Bradford
Cindy Bridges
Lynn Brock
Rena Brooks
Sessis Broomhead
Bridgit Broughtou
John E. Cabaloero
Skip Call
Elaine Cameron
Kemp Cameron
Shirley Cameron
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��Ray Campbell
Kelvin Canaday
Ronny Cantre)l
Raymond Carlson
Harritt Carthan
Melvin Carswell
Earl Chaffin
Linda Chambers
Richard Chandler
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�Mark Connor
Virgil Cook
Myra Copeland
Ken Couch
Angela Cruse
Tina Dailey
Sharon Dailey
Cassandra Davis
Joe Davis
Melinda Davis
Peggy Davis
Charles Denny
Donny De Vane
Tina Diehl
Ronnie Driver
Darla Dupree
Christy Dyer
Tony Ellington
Ronny Farmer
Shirley Farmer
Lillian Fortson
Cindy Fowler
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Ricky Fowler
Shelia Franks
Deanna Free
���Vince Fulghum
Wayne Gamblin
Cindy Gossen
Keith Graham
Sherry Graves
Joseph Greene
Brian Groover
Rita Guess
Anna Guy
John Guy
Sherri Hall
Terita Hall
Restine Harris
Veronica Harris
Marian Head
Steve Heith
Bryan Hensley
Telone Herrin
Patricia Hickson
Natalie High
Vernell Hill
Phyllis Hoffman
Denise Hood
Dennis Hornsby
Ginny Hubbard
Denise Hudson
Judy Huddleston
Mark Jackson
Gina Jenkins
Alan Johnson
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�Brad Johnson
Lisa Johnson
Lori Johnson
Belinda Jones
Frank Jones
Greg Jones
Harriett Jones
Lee Jones
Tina Jones
Zerzell Jones
Marlon Jordan
Chancey Jordan
Timmy Keahey
Wayne Kidd
Chuck King
Keith King
Terri King
Robin Kirkland
Jeff Knight
Patricia Knight
Tammy Knight
Tony Kuykendall
Vince Lamb
Tim Lanning
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Renae Lasseter
Ricky Leatherwood
Ronny Leatherwood
Bill Lee
Albert Lewis
Danny Lewis
JoAnn Lewis
Mike Lewis
��Grady Lupo
Micha 1 Long
Teresa Long
Pamela Lowe
Ronnie Lingefeld
Samuel Mapp
James Marren
Barbara Martin
Charles Martin
Dan Massey
Cynthia Ma nox
Susan McCallister
Richard McCarl
Dana McCloud
Pamela McCord
Barry McDonald
Johnny McNeil
Damon Milner
Eddie Milner
William Miller
Ramona Moody
Danny Moon
John Morgan
Wand a Morgan
Susan Murdoch
Karen Murphy
Steve Murphy
Julie Nabors
54
Bruce Neeley
Mark Neeley
Vana Otwell
Beth Palmer
Phil Palmer
Gene Parish
Kathy Pendley
��56
�Tada Penn
Robert Peteet
Terry Philpot
Derrick Pierce
Lisa Pierce
Roy Richer
Danny Poole
Ricky Portwood
Margie Posey
Ronald Powell
Antoinette Price
Jimmy Reece
Ricky Rhodes
Terry Richardson
Shelia Riddle
Robin Ridgeway
Randy Ridley
Valarie Rippy
Jose Rodriguez
Tammy Roquemore
Brenda Rose
Juaquita Ross
Jerry Rowlett
Dwight Rutland
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�Lowry Sales
Angie Sharpton
Jeff Sharpton
Robbie Shelton
Renae Simon
Barbara Simpson
Sharon Simpson
Tracie Sims
Alesia Smith
Janice Smith
Stacy Smith
Tim Smith
Jeff Smoot
Grace Soear
Michelle Spillane
Barry Strickland
Pat Teague
Annette Terry
Charles Terry
Doug Terry
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Elizabeth Thomas
Harold Thomas
Patricia Thomas
Tara Thompson
�59
�60
�Bobby Thompson
Tracy Thompson
Claudia Tomes
Connie Traylor
Angela Underwood
Susan Underwood
Christy Vernon
Reginald Welmaker
Linda Westmoreland
Cindy Wheeler
Keith Wilkinson
James Williams
Kenneth Williams
Larry Williams
Lonnie Williams
Micheal Williams
James Williamson
Angie Willoughby
Paul Wisdom
George Young
61
�62
�SPORTS
Coach Henry Poner
63
�64
Girls' Basketball
�Boys' Basketball
�66
�Another
South Fu Iton
Victory!
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�68
�Football
The annual staff wishes to apologize to the
football team for the absence of a group
picture.
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�90
�''1977, '' ne of the coldest winters in
the United States in years. Many
schools all over the United States had
what we call unexpected "holidays".
Some schools were out completely
because the cold weather caused a
complete disaster. At least it wasn't so
cold ht!re at South Fulton that we
couldn't enjoy it. So, as you can see,
we did!
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�PATRONS
William K. Vickers
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Mrs. 0. B. Tally
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�Autographs
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�The success of an annual, like the success of
anything, is de pendent on the people involved
in its production. I would like to thank my
yearbook staff for doing what I consider an
outstanding job. With only a shon time to
learn, and no previous experience, they
composed a book that equals any I can
remember seeing.
I have grown very close to all the students at
South Fulton. You will be missed . But carry
with you this book of memories, and the wish
for future success, whatever your endeavor
might be.
I would also like to thank the following people:
Valentine Hayes, Charles Crews, Ann
Carpenter, and all the other teachers who
helped me this year.
Sincerely,
CB Hackwonh, Sponsor
Annual Staff:
Editor: JoAnn Lewis
Assistant Editors: Deanna Free, Christy Dyer
Business Editor: Donny Devane
Staff: Darla Dupree, Wayne Gamblin, Anna Guy, Sherri Hall,
Denise Hood, Gina Jenkins, Robin Kirkland, Valerie
Rippy, Robbie Shelton, Michelle Spillane, Alesia
Smith, and Stacey Smith.
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Starting as East Point Colored School in the 1930s, South Fulton High School served the African American students of East Point, Hapeville, College Park, Ben Hill, Fairburn and Palmetto. In 1970, it became a sister school to Russell High School during the period of integration. All 8th grade students of both races attended South Fulton until it was closed in the late 1980s.
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��������THIS IS SOUTH FULTON!
�Six years ago, South Fulton High underwent a
dramatic change. 1970 was the year that Russell
and South Fulton became sister schools, with
Russell adopting both schools' upper classes and
South Fulton taking the eighth grades.
South Fulton differs from the traditional middle
school in that most junior highs have three grades
and South Fulton has only one. The eighth grade
is a formative year, a time when children become
young adults. At South Fulton, isolated from other
age groups, students can make a smooth growth
from elementary school to high school.
South Fulton is an experiment - for the county,
for students, and for teachers. It is a school where
students are both freshmen and seniors at once. It
is a place where friendships are made to last for
all time.
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��Elementary school was a ladder. Seven years of climbing were necessary to reach
the top rung. South Fulton gives kids a chance to pause between ladders - to
consider what's ahead before stepping on.
"It's good for the kids to have a transition period," says math teacher, Henry
Porter, one of two teachers who have been at South Fulton through its five years as
an all eighth grade school. "They can get themselves together before going to a
full high school. The disadvantage I see is teachers don't have enough time to get
to know the kids. "
8
�9
�"We're lucky to work with such a small group that is not influenced by older kids." That is
Beverly Bell talking. Bell teaches social science and sponsors the student council. She adds: "It's
a homey atmosphere.''
10
�Willson Hahn teaches CV AE at South Fulton one period out of the day. Her other school hours are
spent teaching CVAE at Russell. Her uips from school to school made her the perfect candidate to
be asked about the all-eighth grade system. "It's a little cocoon," she said.
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��"Unique" is a recurring word in teachers' descriptions of South Fulton. Betty Stein, once a teacher at Russell, comments,
"South Fulton allows for a unique learning environment, where teachers can focus on the particular needs common to eighth
graders, while preparing them for the future learning experience in high school."
Typing teacher, Susan Cowart, says with a smile, "It's a unique experience."
She may be right.
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�This, then, is South Fulton:
A dynamic learning experience in which teachers and students harmonize their
efforts, producing results that have been talked about and respected throughout the
community. Elementary school behind them, high school ahead, they have broken
pace just a moment to breathe.
The children are not children any more.
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�•,
\
FACULTY
17
�MR. FRANK SIMS
Principal
MR. LARRY BERRY
Assistant Principal
18
�MRS. HELEN HIGGINS
Counselor
MRS. SHIRLEY GOODE
Office Clerk
19
�MISS BEVERLY BELL
Social Studies
MISS CAROLYN CALLOWAY
English
MRS. ANN CARPENTER
Science/Math
MRS. MARIE COTTON
Library Clerk
MRS. SUE COW ART
Typing
20
MRS. MARY DAVIS
Guitar/Chorus
�MR. LARRY FREUND
Band
MRS. WILLSON HAHN
C.V.A.E.
MRS. VA LENTINE HAYES
MRS. CINDY JUSTICE
English
Vision Specialist
MR. WALT KNIGHT
Social Studies
MRS. A N
ELSO
P. E. /Health
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�~-~--
MRS. HAZEL OWENS
Librarian
COACH HENRY PORTER
Math
MISS JOYCE RELYEA
Orchestra
MR . GARY RYMER
P. E./Health
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MISS LUISA PALLARES
Spanish
MRS. BRENDA SHELBY
Math
�MISS JULIE SILLA Y
Art/English
MRS. BETTY STEIN
Special Ed.
MRS. NANCY WILLIS
Home Ec.
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�Ophelia Segrest, Mary Arnold, Jean Westbrook, Odell Mitchell, Margaret Rampy
Cafeteria Staff
L. Allen, M. Williams, L. Head, L. Arnold, J. Pettaway, H. Roberts
Maids and Custodians
24
�STUDENTS
25
�Betty Adams
Ramona Aldridge
Bruce Almond
Kelly Alston
Cathy Anderson
Lewis Arnold
Kelvin Arnold
Keith Austin
Cindy Ballew
Wanda Barber
Carolyn Barrentine
Joan Berry
Clay Biddy
Steve Bishop
Mark Blackwell
Johnny Botts
Mike Bowen
Joyce Boyer
Henry Bridges
Jessie Broomhead
Cassandra Brown
Eli Brown
Eric Brown
Lisa Bwnett
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�Sharon Butler
Lonnie Calhoun
Micha 1 Cameron
Ricky Cameron
Stevie Cameron
Cindy Cannon
Larry Chapman
Renea Cherry
Rochelle Chosewood
Carla Cleveland
Carolyn Conner
Aubrey Cotton
Mitchell Cooper
Alex Cox
Paul Crawford
Jerry Daniels
Cassandra Davis
Frances Davis
Heidi Davis
Mike Davis
Nancy Davis
Rob rt Davis
Tyler Driver
Gary Dobbs
2
�Tracy Dodd
Lisa Dukes
Terry Dyer
Glynis Fambro
Randy Ford
Kathy Garland
Angie Gaston
Maxine Gaston
Tracy Gaston
Jeff Goodwin
Penny Graham
Stella Gray
Debbie Green
Vickey Green
Beth Greene
Paul Griffin
atalie Guild
Charles Gunn
Deborah Ann Hall
Patsy Hall
Ricky Hall
Tony Hamm
Janice Hardee
Joanne Hardee
28
�Lindy Hardegree
Jimmy Hardwick
Kellie Harkleroad
Restine Harris
Sharon Harris
Jeff Hays
Steve Heath
Royce Herrick
Wanda Herrin
Sylvia Howell
Valerie High
Elizabeth Hightower
Debra Hogan
Judy Huddleston
J. H. Hudson
Henry Huffman
Blake Hulsey
Marie Hurst
Marie Irvine
Christy Irwin
Grady Jackson
Brenda G. Jacobs
Romeo Jacobs
Davy Jascomb
29
�Danny Jerald
Leslie Johnston
Donna Jones
Roben Jones
Norman Jordan
Alan Kamisugi
Timmy Keahey
Lee King
Angela Kirkpatrick
Keith Kuykendall
Edward Lafreniere
Daniel Langley
Alan Lashley
Marisa Louis
Melanie Maddox
Stephanie Maddox
Gloria Marcantel
Barbara Martin
James Manih
Keith Manin
Keith McCoy
Wand a McDonald
Teresa McGhee
Donna McGouirk
30
�Lonnie McGouirk
\Vendi McGuire
Mark McKissick
Wanda McPherson
Rhoda Merriweather
Barry Miller
Bill Miller
Cecilia Mitchell
Lena Montour
Kenneth Moody
Buddy Moore
Dion A . Moore
Heidi Morgan
Randy Mosher
Linda Nash
Frank Olinger
Jeff Owens
Robin Owens
Wayne Owens
Osmund Patterson
Lisa Payne
Becky Pendley
Marvin Peppers
Bobby Phillips
31
�Carlene Pierce
Betty Pines
Denise Platt
Denise Pledger
Harriett Powell
Maria Pressel
Billie Price
Scott Ratteerree
Mark Reyes
Kelvin Rice
Beth Rigby
David Robertson
Douglas Rose
Susan Ross
Sybil Ross
Leon Sellers
John Singleton
Jan Scogin
David Scott
Lisa Scott
Chris Shoemake
Becky Skipper
Lesley Slaughter
Fenuess Smith
32
�Lamar Smith
Terri Stacks
Frankie Steams
Carol Stephens
Jody Stone
David Suube
Jake Sutton
Stephanie Sym
Dina Taylor
Farletta Taylor
Tanya Taylor
Carol Teal
Sharon Tenney
Antonio Thompson
Dean Thompson
Tommy Thomason
Willie Thrasher
Sheila Trice
Gary Underwood
Donna Walker
Tracy Walker
James Ward
Debbie Weathersbee
Adrian Wellmaker
33
�Jerrell Welmaker
Rose West
Elaine Westmoreland
Darlene Wheat
Dana White
Erwin White
Tamala White
Jimmy Williams
Lonnie Williams
Thurman Williams
Mary Wilson
Andrew Woolard
Pamela Woodard
Roben Wright
Sylvester York
34
�CLUBS
Comic Book Club
'"
~A""flv\AN!
(.;:; cAN >ICU
LV.::...--
1st Row: Paul Crawford, Jeff O'Neal, Frank Olinger, Alan Kamisugi, Bill Miller;
2nd Row: Sybil Ross, Lanette Davis, Tony Hamm, Lonnie Calhoun, Thurman
Williams, Mitchell Cooper; 3rd Row: Erwin White, Valerie High, Rhonda Merriweather, Harriett Powell, Susan Ross, John Singleton.
35
�Annual Staff
CB Hackworth, Advisor
Faculty/ Ads: Marie Hurst
Jeff Hays
Classes: Cathy Anderson
Sharon Butler
Clubs: Joanne Hardee
Billie Price
Angie Gaston
Superlatives: Carol Stephens
Cindy Ballew
Susan Ross
Sports: Mark Blackwell
Alan Kamisugi
Tommy Thomason
Johnny Botts
Feathres: Denise Pledger
Sharon Tenney
Lisa Scott
Natalie Guild
Valentine Hayes, Sponsor
36
�Beth Rigby, Editor
Cindy Cannon, Co-Editor
37
�Library Aides
1st Row: J. H. Hudson, Leland Jacobs, Glorhf' Marcantel, Cindy Ballew; 2nd Row : Mrs.
Owens, Steve Cameron, Aubrey Cotton.
38
�Newspaper Staff
1st Row: Blake Hulsey, Becky Skipper, Sharon Butler, Wanda Harris, Kenneth Moody,
Mrs. Cowan; 2nd Row: Janice Hardee, Christy Erwin, Mark McKissick, Wayne Owens,
Jeff Owens.
39
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�Student Council
President - Frankie Steams
Vice President - Keith Manin
Secretary/Treasurer - Shirlene Cameron
Sponsor - Miss Bell
Leland Jacobs
Kenneth Moody
Rhonda Merriweather
Tanya Taylor
Donna McGuirk
Robin Owens
Susan Ross
Tracy Walker
41
�Cheerleaders
42
�Sylvia Howell
Valerie High
Robin Owens
Denise Platt
Joanne Hardee
Lindy Hardegree
Melanie Maddox
Harriett Powell
Natalie Guild
Sponsor: Miss Sillay
43
�Advanced Band
1st Row:
Beth Hammond
Carolyn Conner
Carol Teal
Susan Ross
Leslie Johnson
Osmund Patterson
2nd Row:
Keith McCoy
Robbie Eubanks
Edward Lafreniere
Marie Pressel
Lena Montour
Lisa Evans
3rd Ro w: David Massey
Mr . Freund
Blake Hulsey
44
�Beginning Band
1st Row:
Dion Moore
Richy Caner
Barbara Manin
Marisa Lewis
2nd Row:
Steve Murphy
Thomas Moore
Robert Jones
Willie Thrasher
Fentress Smith
3rd Row:
Denise Platt
Jerrell Welmaker
Mr. Freund
45
�Guitar Lab and Chorus
1st Row: Wendi McGuire, Kenneth
Moody; 2nd Row: Cindy Cannon, Cecilia
Mitchell, Fran Davis, Scott Ratteerree,
Dean Thompson, Davis Scott; 3rd Row:
Daniel Langley, Steve Murphy, Ronny
Lingerfelt; 4th Row: Erwin White, Danny
Jerald, Chris Shoemake, Leland Jacobs,
Mitchell Cooper.
1st Row: Debbie Greene, Rose West,
Harriet Powell, Farletta Taylor, Glynnis
Fambro, Elizabeth Hightower, Joyce
Boyer, Sharon Harris; 2nd Row: Janice
Hardee, Joanne Hardee, Robin Owen,
Jesse Broomhead, Debbie Weathersbee,
Terri Hill, Carla Cleveland; 3rd Row:
Kelvin Rice, Lesley Slaughter, Jeff
Owens, Paul Crawford, Jeff Goodwin,
Timmy Keahey, Earl White.
46
�Orchestra
47
�FBLA
1st Row: Mrs. Cowan, Melanie Maddox, Stella Gray,
Debbie Green, Stephanie Maddox; 2nd Row: Valerie High,
Gloria Marcantel, Marisa Lewis, Leslie Johnston; 3rd Row :
Rhonda Merriweather, Heidi Morgan, Wanda McDonald,
Keith Manin, Sharon Tenney, Janice Hardee, Cindy
Cannon, Jan Scogin.
1st Row: Beth Hahman, Susan Ross; 2nd Row: Lanette Davis,
Sybil Ross, Carol Teal, Kieth Kuykendall, Lee King, Chris
Shoemake; 3rd Row: Lisa Barnett, Jody Stone, Lena Montour,
Cindy Ballew, Mrs. Owens.
Stella Gray
Natalie Guild
Mrs. Goode
Vickey Green
Debbie Green
Alex Cox
Lee King
�Audio Visual Club and Office Aides
49
�Beta Club
1st Row: Beth Hammond, Lee King, Alan Kamisugi, Sharon Tenney, Mark Blackwell; 2nd Row: Marie Hurst, Carol Stephens,
Billie Price, Beth Rigby, Susan Ross, Cathy Anderson, Joanne Hardee; 3rd Row: Angie Gaston, Janice Hardee, Jeff Hays, Dean
Thompson, Robbie Eubanks, Johnny Botts, Frankie Stearns, Cindy Cannon, Mrs. Shelby.
50
�MARK BLACKWELL
Most Intelligent
CINDY CANNON
Most Intelligent
Most Likely to Succeed
TOMMY THOMASON
Most Likely to Succeed
�NATALIE GUILD
Most Popular
FRANKIE STEARNS
Most Popular
Wittiest
52
DENISE PLEDGER
Wittiest
�BLAKE HULSEY
Most Talented
LINDA NASH
Most Talented
Best Dressed
Best Looking
LONNIE McGOUIRK
Best Dressed
Best Looking
53
�KENNETH MOODY
Most Athletic
TERRI HILL
Most Athletic
�~~~
SPORTS
55
��FOOTBALL: 1st Row: Leland Jacobs, Jerry Daniels, Tony Hamm, Douglas Rose, Kieth Martin; 2nd Row:
Andrew Woodard, Henry Huffman, Gref Jones; 3rd Row: Terrance Dyer, Gary Underwood, Jimmy
Williams, Adrian Well maker; 4th Row: Kelvin Arnold, Coach Porter, Eli Brown, James Martin; 5th
Row: Erwin White, Gary Dobbs, Kenneth Moody, Jerrell Wellmaker; 6th Row: Kelvin Rice, Jeff Owens;
7th Row : Eric Brown, Wayne Owens, Norman Jordan.
Henry Porter thoughtfully
contemplates his years
of coaching football.
57
�58
GIRLS' BASKETBALL
�BOYS' BASKETBALL
�60
�FEATURES
61
�62
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�66
�67
�68
�69
�70
�71
�The Way They Were
Teache r Baby Pict ures
1. Gary Rymer
2. Frank Sims
3. Betty Stein
4. Ann Carpenter
5. Susan Cowart
6. Beverly Bell
7 . Valentine Hayes
8. CB Hackworth
9. Shirley Goode
10. Joyce Relyea
11. Helen Higgins
12. Carolyn Calloway
13 . Larry Berry
14. Julie Sillay
15 . Brenda Shelby
72
�73
���SouTH FuLTON HIGH ScHooL - - - - --1
FRANK SIMS
605 SOUTH BAYARD STREET
EAST POINT, GEORGIA 30344
L.ARRY C . BI!:RRY
ASSISTANT
.. RINCI .. AL
HEL.EN C . HIGGINS
COUNSE:L.O"
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A man's real wealth is his r.:emory, in nothinp- else is he rich, in
notring else is Pe poor." - - Alexander SJ'T1ith
It is ro"'eEi that this pictorial corr,pilation will c ~;~ ll to rri d tr e
happy ~oments of days new past ana renew in the re3der, the ~r.oitioPs ,
hopes ana aspirat·ons cf yout .
s yot leave ~uth hlton to t·rsue f tber, your educ ti al poa.ls,
the st -. ff and administration w· . . h for eact• of you !"'any s1 ccesses.
I hope you have enjoyeQ your staJ at South lLlton ~ s wuch as we
have enjo·:ed your "::ini! here.
Best wisres.
Frank Sims
76
�.::>OPletimes 1 feel like I'm on "',velcome back ,
Kotter , " the television show where Gabe Kaplan
plays a teacher at the hieh school he graduated
from . I was amon~ the first class to attend ~outh
Pulton after its conversion to an all eiehth grade
school , and this year I returned to teach the
annuC!l staff .
We didn ' t have an annual that first year ,
which is somethin~ all of us miss . Only five
years have expired , but already names and faces
have begun to fade . A yearbook would have saved
those memories , but , as I said , we didn ' t have one .
The kids I worked with this year put a lot of effort
into producinr this book for you , and 1 want to
thank them for it here .
I also want to thank
alentine Hayes .
You may not believe it now ,
~ulton has been one of the
your life . .Ve ' ve given you this
some of the happinesc . The rest
~outh
but this year at
happiest times in
book to preser"VB
is up to you .
Cb Hackworth
Advisor
77
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78
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B. P. Smith
Mrs. Ann Carpenter
Debra Hammond
Betty Floyd and Jennie Thomason
Hoke and Karan Stephens
Mrs. Estell Meier
Robert Balsam
Ruby N. Ballew
Mrs. and Mr. Jack Wilson
Harriett Hammond
Ellen Hammond
Mrs. W. M. Callaway
Mr. W. M. Callaway
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Bowen
J. C. and Jackie Hogan
Mrs. W. E. Robinson
Mrs. E. W. Logue
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stephens
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Scott
Bill and Nancy Hays
Bill and Judy Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thomason
J. C. McDonald
Mrs. J. M. McDonald
Martha Brock
Gene McDonald II
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hays
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Neely
Mary Ann Ballew
Mrs. Barbara Ballew Jackson
John L. Ballew
Irene Ballew
Mr. Gary W. Duncan
Mr. Harry West
Frank Bruce
Patricia Hearst
Gregg and Kay Bellah
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�The 1976 Lion's Roar staff
would like to express
special thanks to the
following people .
Carolyn Callaway, who
headed the candy sale and
kept us out of debt.
Ken Austin, Jr. , our advisor
from Taylor Publishing.
Shirley Goode.
Frank Sims, who was as
enthusiastic about the
project as we were.
''Doc'' Davis.
Valentine Hayes and
CB Hackwonh.
With special thanks to
our editors, Beth Rigby
and Cindy Cannon.
Photo Credits:
Classes - Malcom Newell, Co.
Features - Annual Staff
Everything else - CB Hackwonh
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����1975
Lion's
Roar
South Fulton High School
East Point, Georgia
�2
�Competing Together
Here at South Fulton High School,
when we win, we share the victory.
But when we lose we still feel good
because we uied. We might lose in
points, but if we do our best, we are
always winners.
3
�Each student studies in his or
her own way. And no matter how
they choose to study, the teachers are always willing to help.
Working together can provide
each student with the will to try
harder.
�Working Together
5
�Playing is just one way of "getting it
all together'' at South Fulton High
School.
6
�Playing Together
Through our many clubs and organizations the students can combine
school projects with a good time outside of the classroom.
I
7
�The faculty at South Fulton works
vigorously preparing the students for
the future in hopes that when we leave
our school, the world will look a little
brighter. They mix work with play so
that we can all have a headstart on
life.
8
�Sharing Together
9
�10
�Dedication
Every now and then there is a teacher who gives more than what
the average school day requires. There is such a man at South Fulton
High School. Not only is he an excellent math teacher, but he is
football coach, basketball coach, and a really great guy to all. He
maintains order and respect in his classes and keeps complete interest
while teaching. He also adds a little humor with academic reasoning. Because of all his accomplishments and effons, the 1975 LION'S
ROAR is dedicated to
Mr. Henry Porter
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�A-1
Ms. Banks
Van Abercrombie
Lisa Addams
Bruce Austin
J. D. Babington
Derrick Banks
Alfonso Barnes
Jeffrey Barron
Phyllis Banon
Bill Bell
Charles Bell
Jeffery Bell
Richard Biddy
Alfred Blacquiere
Calvin Bolling
Clifton Bowen
Darvis Bowens
Elaine Brandenburg
Belinda Brown
Terry Brown
Brian Burnett
�A-2
Ms. Bell
Michael Banister
Terrie Burley
Cicero Bulter
Elizabeth Cameron
Johney Cannady
Dale Cantrell
Keith Carr
Sandy Carroll
Vicki Caner
Candy Cash
Steven Chandler
Preston Chaney
Cay Chastain
Sandra Chastain
Melanie Cheek
Virgil Chosewood
Robbie Christy
Edward Cook
Phillip Cooper
Avery Copeland
Carolyn Coppett
NOT PICTURED
Stanley Higgins
15
�A-3
Ms. Breaux
Kathy Akin
David Campbell
Mark Collier
Amy Crapps
Eddie Crapps
Terry Crews
Gaye Culpepper
Angela Davis
LaWanda Davis
Timothy Davis
Mark Dean
Karin DeLay
Dennis Dennard
Randy Diehl
Judy Evans
Ervin Fulton
Tonda Gabriel
Brenda Gamble
Wesley Gould
Anthony Hamm
NOT PICTURED:
Karen Bishop
Rickey Pendley
16
�A-4
Ms. Calloway
Sonya Chappell
Skip Donch
Lee Gamble
Benjamin Gamblin
Laureeta Garrett
Deborah Gay
Lori Giddens
Andrea Glass
Barry Goss
Gregory Graham
Charles Guy
Gerrie Guy
Walter Hamric
Geraldine Haney
Gary Hardwick
Denise Hardy
Doris Hardy
Gary Harmon
Renee Harmon
Vicki Harris
Steve Harry
Mike Head
Stephanie High
17
�A-5
Mrs. Cowart
Emma Hendrix
Ted Hendrix
Harriet High
James Hilsman
Jerry Hines
Ronnie Hines
Iris Hutchins
David Ingram
Cedric Jacobs
Danny Jerald
Connie Johnson
David Jones
Diane Jones
Dorothy Jones
Frank Jones
Joannie Jones
Johnny Jones
Robena Jones
Kenneth Kidd
Tony King
Laura Kinlaw
Heidi Little
18
�A-6
Mrs. Dodge
Beth Dean
Jennie Johnson
James Kresyman
Donald Langley
Brian Lingefelt
Mark Lowery
Jacquelyn Maddox
Ronald McCallister
Gerald McCloud
Lisa McCoy
Pat McDaris
Darlene McDonald
Diane Merriweather
Pauicia Milam
John Miller
Donna Milner
Mike Moravetz
Rose Morgan
Wanda Morris
Jana Mulling
Charles Simpson
Deana Pickett
NOT PICTURED
Virginia McGuffey
Lynn Morgan
Derrick Murray
19
�A-7
Mrs. Jones
Randall Boyd
Trasa Emory
Derrick Murray
Jack Nabors
Jana Newland
Daphne Newton
Cathy Nichols
Valerie O'Neal
Ted Owens
Debbie Patton
Kenny Peak
Brenda Phillips
Janice Philpot
Darrell Pierce
Gary Pierce
Chris Plunkett
Jacquelyn Powell
John Powell
Charles Pressel
Ken Proctor
Robin Ramey
NOT PICTURED
Shirley Grindle
20
�A-8
Ms. Jones
Harold Driskell
Major Keith
Tim Ray
Dottie Reeves
Lagary Rhodes
Richard Rice
Terry Robertson
Jerry Rogers
Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Roland
Kay Roquemore
Dawn Rutledge
Tim Satterwhite
Marlene Schofield
Belinda Scruggs
Anthony Sexton
Tony Shelton
John Silva
Darlene Slaughter
Doreta Smith
Stephanie Smith
Tina Smith
NOT PICTURED
Richard Hurlocker
21
�A-9
Ms. Morris
Libby Barfield
Zina Hightower
Doris Hurston
Sammy Rutherford
Timothy Smith
Amy Spurlin
David Starr
Valerie Staten
Wanda Steele
Tony Steiger
Bobby Steward
Guy Stinchcomb
Becky Strickland
Ricky Strickland
Mike Taylor
Susan Teague
Margie Thomas
Philip Thompson
Stephanie Thompson
Ray Thornburg
Micheal Thornhill
NOT PICTURED
Larry Thornton
22
�A-10
Mrs. Shelby
Douglas Gillon
Vicki Thompson
Lamonica Thrash
Keith Tinch
Richard Trapp
Bruce Traylor
Pam Treagy
Shelia Tucker
Robin Tuggle
Ernie Underwood
Kenny Underwood
Eric Walker
Tony Washington
Marie Webb
Terry Wells
Delores White
Penny White
Barry Wilburn
Lisa Williams
NOT PICTURED
Cindy Baker
23
�A-ll
Ms. Sillay
Tamara Calhoun
Michael Davis
Virginia McGuffey
Philip Thompson
Vanessa Walker
Ernest Wilder
John Williams
Karen Williams
Kim Williams
Robin Williams
Kim Wilson
Mildred Wilson
Cynthia Wise
Pam Woodard
Timmy Wooten
Deborah Wright
Tracy Wyatt
Carla Young
NOT PICTURED
Richard Abercrombie
Lynette Shepard
Norris Wilkinson
Lisa Williams
24
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Not
Avail bl
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Availabl
�A-12
Ms. Castillo
Bruce Almond
Mary Barber
Bradford Cameron
Angela Carr
Joan Coppett
James Corely
Jay Defriece
Ronald Dowdle
Mike Eakin
Arnold Jacobs
Mark Justice
Wayne Polson
Janice Smith
Preston Suddath
Darlene Wheat
25
�Faculty and Administration
is. Beryl Breaux
Mrs. Yvette Castillo
Mrs. Susan Cowart
Ms. Robin Morris
Mrs. Shirley Goode
Mr. Henry Porter
Mrs. Brenda Shelby
Ms. Julie Sillay
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Mr. Frank Sims
Principal
�Ms. Carolyn Calloway
Ms. Beverly Bell
Mrs. Nancy Jones
Mr. Lawrence Freund
NOT PICTURED
Mr. Conrad Gatlin
Mrs. Helen Higgins
Ms. Ann Jones
Mrs. Louisa Pall ares
Mr. Gary Rymer
Mrs. Marie Cotton
Mrs. Mary Davis
Mrs. Wilson Hahn
Mrs. Jennie Dodge
Mrs. Hazel Owens
27
�Lions Varsity Football Team
Left to Right- FRONT: Clifton Bowens, Alfonso Barnes, Lee Gamble, Richard Trapp, Johnny Williams, Tim Smith, Greg Graham, Michael Thornhill, Tony Washington, Charles Bell. BACK: Kenny Underwood, Steve Harry, Terry Crews, Ernest Wilder,
Gary Harmon, Tim Satterwhite, Mike Davis, Preston Chaney, Steve Chandler, Terry Brown, SPONSOR - Coach Porter
28
�29
�30
�South Fulton Lions in Action
The South Fulton Lion's Football
Team were always on the move, to
win. With a 3-3 seson, the Lions went
on to make the entire school very
proud of them.
31
�w
I-.)
Lions Varsity Basketball Team
Left to Right- STANDING: Greg Graham, Tony Washington, Gerald McCloud, Terry Crews, Terry Brown, Steve Chandler, Michael Davis, Tim
Davis, Preston Chaney, Charles Bell, Michael Thornhill, Darrell Pierce. KNEELING: Daphne Newton, Coach Porter.
�Lions Varsity
Cheerleaders
Left to Right - Donna Milner, Brenda
Gamble, Rose Morgan, Ms. Banks,
Terrie Burley, Joannie Jones, Andrea
Glass, Stephanie High, Elizabeth
Cameron .
33
�Beta Club
Left to Right - STANDING: Debbie Patton, Chris Plunkett, Dorothy Jones, Judy Evans, Pat McDaris, Valerie O'Neal, Phyllis
Barton, Terry Crews, David Starr, Te rry Robertson, Jeff Barron, Lori Giddens, Kenneth Kidd , Bill Bell, Mike Moravetz. SPONSORS: Mrs. Dodge, Mrs. Shelby. SITTING: LaWanda Davis, Doreta Smith, Carla Young, Greg Graham, Jimmy Rogers, Ernie
Underwood, David Campbell.
Library Club
Left to Right - STANDING: Virgil Chose wood, Tony Shelton, Ernie Underwood, Gary Pierce, Bobby Stewan, Mike Davis, Connie Johnson, David Campbell. SITTING: Stephanie High, Mrs. Owens, Randall Boyd, Richard Hurlocker.
------,
�South Fulton High Band
The band consists of students who have found that one of their talents is
music. Mr. Freund puts forth his efforts to encourage these students to take
advantage of this musical ability.
Left to Right- STANDING: Darrell Pierce, James Corley, Gary Harmon, Stephanie Smith, Timothy Davis, Preston Chaney,
Benji Gamblin, Skip Dortch, Bruce Traylor, Belinda Scruggs, Debbie Patton, Amy Crapps. Darvis Bowens, Lawrence FreundDirector. SITTING: Carla Young, Harriet High, Doris Hardy, Angela Davis, Sandy Carroll, Roberta Jones, Dianne Merriweather, Doreta Smith. FRONT: Stephanie Thompson, Chris Plunkett, Lawanda Davis.
35
�Charm Club
Charm cannot be achieved overnight. With the help of Ms.
Castillo, the girls develop poise, manners, and good grooming that are very important in their teenage years.
Left to Right - Joan Coppet, Vickie
Caner, Morey Barber, Donna Milner,
Lynet Shepherb, Ms. Costillo, Amy
Crapps, Marsha Harmon.
36
�Games Club
Competition and good sportsmanship are just two of the
main goals of the games club. Mrs. Dodge and Mrs. Davis
organize everything from checkers to Monopoly to help the
students achieve these goals as well as to have a good time.
Left to Right - 1st ROW: Debra Wright,
Wanda Steel. Valerie Stanton, Diane
Merriweather, Bruce Austin, David
McElroy. 2nd ROW: Jerry Hines, Gary
Pierce, Jack Nabors, Terrie Robertson,
Cicero Butler, Johney Cannady, Frank
Jones, Richard Hurlocker, Ms. Davis,
Walter Hamric. 3rd ROW: David
Jones, Ms. Dodge, Dennis Dennar.
Tim Ray, Derrick Murray, Keith Carr,
Skip Dorch, James Hilsman, John
Powell, Ernest Wilder.
�Annual Staff
Under th direction of Ms. Calloway, members of the annual staff have
succt:edt.:d in getting it all togeth r
and printing in on paper. They have
worked very hard to put together a
yearbook that will show the many sid s
of South Fulton.
Bottom to Top - Carla Young, Lori
Giddens, David Campbell, Lamonica
Thrash, Chris Plunkett, Belinda
Scruggs, LaWanda Davis, Dorothy
Jones, SPONSOR - Ms. Calloway,
Mike Moravetz, Bill Bell, Jeff Barron,
Ms. Jones.
38
�Future Homemakers of America
The F. H. A. is a club designed to prepare the student for his or her future home
life. It stresses the imponance of combining both family and community life
together.
BOTTOM LEFT: Left to Right - SITTING: Marie Webb, Robin Ramey,
Candy Cash, Pam Treagy, Lauretta
Garrett, Doris Hunson, Connie Johnson, Lisa McKoy, Miss Breaux.
STANDING: Rose Morgan, Elaine
Brandenburg, Sonya Chappell, Beth
Dean, Stephanie Smith, Donna Milner, Amy Crapps . Wanda Morris, Darlene McDonald, Vicki Harris, Jennie
Johnson , Dawn Rutledge, Tonda
Gabriel.
39
�Orchestra
Left to Right - Lamonica Thrash, Greg Graham, Terrie Burley, Brenda Gamble, Rose Morgan, Director - Joyce Relyea.
Knitting and Crochet Club
FRO T: Ms. Cotton, Lisa Williams, Andrea Glass, Lynn Morgan, Brenda Gamble, Jacquelyn Maddox, Rose Morgan, Darlene
Wheat, Ms. Shelby. BACK: Stephanie Smith, Belinda Brown, Carolyn Coppet, Tamara Calhoun, Doris Hardy, Stephanie High.
�Student
Council
Left to Right - Rob rta Jones, Carla
Young, Mike Moravetz, Daphne ewton, LaMonica Thrash, Angela Davis,
Lori Giddens, SPO SOR - Ms. Bell
Student Council links the faculty
with the student body to bring about
the communication needed to help the
students and teachers better understand
one another. Ms. Bell gives her time
and advice to the projects and activities sponsored by the council.
Art Club
FRONT: Left to Right- Gerrie Guy, Jerry Rogers, Daphne Newton, Kim Wilson, Wayne Polson, Michael Cameron. SECOND
ROW: Left to Right - Mrs. Morris, Alfred Blacquier, Mike Eakin, Denise Hardy, Deborah Gay, Dottie Reeves, Virginnia
McGuffey, Charles Guy, Ms. Sillay. TOP ROW, Left to Right - Albert Bowens, Barry Wilburn, Doug Gillion, Randall Boyd, Kim
Williams, Mark Lowery.
41
�Girls P.E.
Left to Right - SITTING: Jana ewland, Penny White, Debbie Pa non,
Sandy Carroll, Harriet High, Margie
Thomas, Donna Milnar, Joanie Jones,
Terri Burley. KNEELING: Gaye Culpepper, Valerie 0' eal, Iris Hutchins,
Pat McDaris, Laura Kinlaw, Diane
Merriweather, Robin Williams, Elizabeth Cameron, Amy Crapps, Doris
Hardy, Trasa Emroy, Delores White.
STANDING: Patricia Milam, Shirley
Grindle, Mildred Wilson, Heidi Little,
Rose Morgan, Karen Williams, Brenda
Phillips, Doreia Smith, Melanie
Cheek, Becky Strickland, Miss Banks,
Janice Smith.
42
�Boys P.E.
�Science Club
The science club is organized for all students interested in the sciences. Their projects include everything from ecology to laboratory
experiments. Ms. Jones works very hard to show the club members
that science can be fun.
Left to Right- FRONT: J. D. Babington, Tony Shelton, Susan Teague, Cay Chastain, Ms. Jones. BACK: Steve Harry, Kenny Peak, Terry Crews, Mike Banister,
Marlene Schofield, Judy Evans, Stephanie Thompson.
--------------~~----~
�Cafeteria Staff
One of the least appreciated jobs at South Fulton is in the cafeteria. The ladies go through their
daily task always wearing a big smile. The students of SFH would just like to say thank you.
45
�Outstanding Students
Belinda Scruggs
All-State Band
David Campbell
Editor of THE LIONS ROAR
BOTTOM RIGHT:
Carla Young - Student Council President
BOTTOM:
Cheerleading Co-Captains Rose Morgan and Elizabeth Cameron and mascot, Terri Burley
46
�Patrons
Accuracy Wood Products
Ms. Barbara Banks
Mrs. Ruby Buran
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bell
Bob, Evelyn, and Jeff Barron
Ms. Beverly Bell
Mrs. E. R. Bates
Captain Brewer
The Burgess Family
Mr. Mike Chose wood
Ms. Elain Chosewood
Ms. Rochelle Chose wood
Mr. Marty Chose wood
Mr. Franklin D. Chose wood
Mr. Mike Crewe
Mr. Richard K. Chose wood
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crews, Jr.
Brenda Cummings
Virgil Chosewood
Seaborn Copper
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Callahan
Mrs. Rachel Chosewood
Crews Pharmacy
Johnny Cannady and Family
Ms. Carolyn Calloway
Wayne Cavanaugh
Mrs. A. P. Cooks
The Chambers Family
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Dodge
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Davis and Mike
Mrs. Mary Davis
W. H. Dial
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Daily, Sr.
Mike Davis
East Point Church of God
East Point Service Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Erwin
Mrs. Priscilla A. Eddy
Joseph Fannie
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gamblin and Family
Mrs. Charles T. Guy
Harry and Shirley Grindle
Mrs. Shirley Greer
Tim Godbee
Hillcrest Supermarket
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Humer
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hulme
Harris Jr. Groceries
Clyde Hope
H . C. Higgins
Mr. Aaron Holloway
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johnson and Family
Roberta Jones
Mr. and Mrs. J. Don Jones and Family
C. C. Jones
Walter H. Joiner
Mike Jones
\1 rs. Betty Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Keppler
Mr. Kim
Brian Lingfel t
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lewis
Jim Lester and Family
Mrs. Hazel Langley
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Liet
In memory of Ronnie Livingston
Mr. and Mrs. James Meedy
Mrs. Ruth Maddox
Susan McDaniel
TheW. G. McElroy and Family
Elizabeth and Richard Morgan and Kids
Mrs. Ruby Kate Mitchell
Mrs. M. Motes
Marvin 0' eal
Hazel Owens
Parkers Instat Market
Mr. H. J. Porter
Mrs. Carolyn Porter
Mrs. Petty
Lilliam Proctor
Mrs. Ruth Peque
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Plunkett
Randy Portwood
Herman Patrick
Chris Plunkett
The E. G. Plunkett Family
Carolyn Robertson
Ralph Robertson
Mr. Henry Riddle
Mr. H. Roberts
Mrs. Jessie Lee Strong
Charles Stevens
Mr. Julieann Silllay
Smallwood Roofing Co.
Wayne Senft
Tony Shelton
Skidmore Stippling Co.
Annie M. Shockey
Mr. Steve Steward
Mr. Frank Sims
Tyler & Collins Drug Store
John, Barbara, and Beth Toole
Frances Thomason
Tri-City Memories
The Dowdy Trio
Mr. Jack Vaughn
A & L Volkswagen
Mr. K. C. Vick
Wrights Music and Jewelry
Mildred Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Webb
Mr. and Mrs. W. Weaver
Mr. William Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilder, Jr. and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilder
47
�Working Together
Sharing
Together
Competing
Together
Playing Together
We Have It
All Together . . .
48
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Lion's Roar, 1975
Subject
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Georgia--Fulton County
Yearbooks
South Fulton High School
Description
An account of the resource
Starting as East Point Colored School in the 1930s, South Fulton High School served the African American students of East Point, Hapeville, College Park, Ben Hill, Fairburn and Palmetto. In 1970, it became a sister school to Russell High School during the period of integration. All 8th grade students of both races attended South Fulton until it was closed in the late 1980s.
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South Fulton High School
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Fulton County Schools Archives, Hapeville, Ga
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1975
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East Point Colored School
Schools
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�������Since 1972, Mr. Hugh Wingo has been principal of South Fulton High
School. He is admired and respected by both students and faculty because
of his friendliness and fairness.
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�Mr. Turner has been assistant principal at South Fulton High School for three
years. He is in charge of student scheduling and disciplinary problems.
This is Mrs. Blackwell's first year as counselor at South Fulton High School. She
is always available to help students with any problems they might have.
13
�Miss Smith, originally from Minnesota, has been teaching English at
South Fulton for the last three years.
She and Mrs. Brantley, who also
teaches English, are co-sponsors for
the annual staff. They can usually be
found in the Reading Lab or busily at
work on THE LION'S ROAR.
�Mrs. Jones teaches English and
social studies. She has successfully
managed the financial campaign for
the yearbook for the last two years.
Being a first-year teacher has its uying moments, but Miss Wood has found
it to be fun too. She teaches typing
and social studies and sponsors the YTeen Club.
15
�Miss Williams has taught social
studies at South Fulton for the last two
years. Her classes are always busy with
new and interesting projects.
16
South Fulton is proud to have Miss
Atchley as chairman of the Social
Studies Depanment for our school and
Eva Thomas High. Miss Atchley is als<'
the sponsor for our Student Council.
�Mrs. Shelby, who teaches rna th, is also sponsor of the Beta Club and
Knitting Club. Since South Fulton became an eighth grade school , Mrs.
Shelby has been here working hard for us.
To sum it all up, math + football
baske tball = Mr. Porter.
+
17
�Miss Lehmer is in her first year at
South Fulton. She teaches math and
science and is always conducting
interesting experiments in her science
class. Miss Lehmer sponsored the Pep
Club this year.
Teen development and Home Economics are Mrs. Widener's courses.
She strives to teach and prepare her
students for their future. Mrs. Widener
is the sponsor of the F. H. A. Club.
18
�The Boys' Health and P. E. teacher is
Mr. Lunsford. This is his first year at
South Fulton. He works with the boys
in P.E. Club also. He "happily"
agreed to be Santa for our Christmas
program this year.
Mrs. Cuba has been teaching P. E.
and Health at South Fulton for three
years. She is sponsor of the girls' P.E.
Club. Also the South Fulton Cheerleaders are organized and directed by
Mrs. Cuba.
19
�Mrs. Castillio has been teaching at
South Fulton for four years. She
devotes much time to projects for
improvement of her students such as
the Special Olympics held annually.
Miss Morris is experiencing her first
year at South Fulton. With her warm
personality and patience, she successfully teaches the Special Education
students.
20
�Interesting an projects in many media come from an students of Miss Croft. A
talented anist herself, Miss Croft introduces students to new ways of expressing
ideas.
Drafting and woodshop are the
classes Mr. Dudley teaches. He helps
students to learn how to use their hands
to produce useful and beautiful furniture and other projects. Mr. Dudley
sponsored one of the Games' Clubs this
year.
21
�Our Spanish teacher is Miss Pallares.
She has been at South Fulton and Russell for the past few years.
Mr. Gatlin teaches French. He is the
French teacher at Russell High and is
Chairman of the Foreign Language
Depanment for Russell and Headland.
Mrs. Parker is a very special
teacher. Supposedly retired, she
comes every day to tutor reading students.
22
�Mrs. Davis teaches the guitar and
general music classes. She has worked
hard and under her direction students
have presented several programs this
year.
Our librarian at South Fulton is Mrs.
Dhye. She sponsors the Library Club
and teaches Library Education courses.
23
�This is Mr. Freund's first year teaching music and directing the band at
South Fulton.
He is also the band director at Russell High.
Miss Relyea teaches the orchestra
students at South Fulton and in surrounding elementary schools.
24
�25
��27
�Allison, A Ian
Alston, Suzanne
Alston, Velda
Anderson, Connie
Anderson, Kathy
Anderson, Danny
Armistead, Fletcher
Aston, Geven
I
Banks, Columbus
Barber, Joseph
Barber, Susan
Barfield, Thomas
Bass, Lonnie
Bass, Shirley
Bateman, Eugene
Battle, Rodney
28
�Bearden, Connie
Bennett, Brenda
Bennett, Steven
Berry, Melinda
Bishop, Karen
Bishop, Pam
Booper, Kenny
Blackwell, Tim
Boggs, Kellie
Boggs, Kenny
Bowen, Bettina
Brandon, Doug
29
�Bridges, Kim
Brooks, Donme
Brooks, Terry
Bunday, Ouida
Burnett, Brian
Burnett, Janet
Butler, Cicero
Byrd, Larry
Callaway,
Callaway,
Cameron,
Cameron,
David
Karen
Henderson
Lorine
Carthan, Janice
Chandler, Joan
Chappell, Freda
Chappell, Duane
30
�Cherry, Susan
Clay, Donna
Cokley, Glenda
Co !bert, Juanita
Collins, Tony
Collins, Reginald
Conner, Nancy
Cooksey, Cherri
Copeland, Albert
Corley, Roger
Coursey, Kathy
Cox, Laura
Crankshaw, Robbie
Crater, Brenda
Creel, Johnny
Crittenden, Danny
31
�Dameron, Mark
Davidson, Ricky
Degraaf, Kenneth
Dick, Allen
Dunlap, Cleopa
Dutton, Ronald
Dyer, Erma
Eason, Olga
Ellington, Ronnie
Fagan, Allen
Fitzgerald, Robert
Flournoy, Sheila
Fuller, Brenda
Gamble, LaAndrea
Garrett, Darain
Graham, Michael
32
�Graham, Pam
Graves, Anthony
Graves, David
Gray, Stephany
Greer, Sarah
Grooms, Adrain
Grooms, Kenneth
Gunn, Steve
Guy, Pat
Hall, Roxie
Haney, Geraldine
Hardegree, Missy
33
�Harmon, Carolyn
Harrington, Becky
Harris, Jenny Lynn
Harris, Phylis
Harry, Toni
Hayes, Nathan
Hayes, Sharon
Hendrix, Donnie
Hendrix, Roben
Hendrix, Ronnie
Herndon, Larry
High, Phillip
Hightower, Roben
Hoffman, Keith
Hudson, Marsha
Hughes, Connie
34
�Hunter, Donnie
Jacobs, Arnold
Jenkins, Buddy
Johnson, Brent
Johnson, Manha
Jones, Marian
Jones, Mimi
Jones, Susan
Jordan, Cindy
Kenny, Kay
King, Barry
King, Ellen
King, Judy
King, Scottie
Kirk, Phyliss
Kirksey, Tonia
35
�Kuykendall, Harry
Lafeniere, Cheryl
Landers, Richard
Lane, Laurie
Lantz, Jerry
Laughridge, Virlyn
Leach, Kelly
Lee, Donna
Leonard , Horace
Lester, David
Lewis, Karen
Lindsey, Lemuel
Little, Grady
Logan, Becky
Loggins, Doug
Long, Patricia
36
�Lowe, Debbie
Lowe, Marie
Lucear, Angela
Maddox, Joyce
Marshall, Pam
Marshall, Rodney
Martin, Dwayne
Martin, Johnny
Martin, Minnie
Martinez, Mattie
Ma uhe ws, Fred
McCallister, Donald
McCallister, John
McCord, Toby
McKissick, Cheryl
Middlebrooks, Darrell
37
�Milam,
Miller,
Miller,
Milton,
Gail
Bruce
Larry
Mark
Mitchell, Clyde
Moore, Debbie
Morgan, Kevin
Owens, Paulette
Ozburn, Darlene
Parrott, John
Perkins, Donnie
Pickens, Sandra
Pilgrim, Timmy
Pittman, Johnny
Platt, Darlene
Portwood, Randy
38
�Proctor, Helen
Rainwater, Sharon
Reeves, Leta
Reynolds, Leta
Rhodes, Vanessa
Rice , Charlie
Rigby, John
Rola, Mike
Rose, Nadell
Schnurr, Kim
Scott, Carol
Scott, Edward
Scott, Jeffery
Shadix, Melinda
Simpson, Avery
Simpson, Gary
39
�Smith,
Smith,
Smith,
Smith,
Spear, Fredrick
Spear, Genia
Standard, Lynn
Starr. Joe
Stearns, Deborah
Steiger, Vickie
Stokes. Yolanda
Strickland , David
Swinney, Tommy
Tatum, John
Taylor, Frenchcilla
Taylor, Renee
40
Leslie
Tina
Russell
Sharon
�Taylor, Vince
Tenney, Debbie
Terrell, Melanie
Terry, Carol
Terry, Katie
Thomas, Eugene
Thomas, Maverick
Thompson, Sidney
Thornton, Debra
Tidwell, Keith
Tinch, David
Trice, Belinda
Tucker,
Tucker,
Tucker,
Tuggle,
Sheila
Teresa
Willie
Frances
I
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�Vogt, Danny
Wallcott, Veronica
Walker, Charlie
Walker, Berdell
Walker, Rhonda
Wallace, Denise
Warsham, Bobby
Washington, Toni
Watson, Andy
Watts, Olga
Watts, Shirlene
Weathers, Eddie
Welch, Rita
Wellmaker, Charles
Wheat, Franklin
Wheat, Michael
42
�White, Anngi
White, Lorenzo
Widener, David
Wilcox, Keith
Wilder, Michael
Wilkinson, Jeff
Wilkinson, Tony
Williams, Tony a
j
Williams, Walter
Willis, Bruce
Willis, Janice
Wilson, Anita
Wood, Michael
Wright, Lisa
Yi. Sung Hee
Young, Charlotte
43
���Y- Teens, a division of the
Y. \V. C. A. is a national service
organization. There are opportunities
for h:arning, recreation and service in
this club. The South Fulton members
enjoyed meeting residents at a local
nursing home. Miss Wood is the sponsor.
BOTTOM TO TOP, left to right: Tonia Kirksey, Miss Wood, Kathy Anderson,
Genia Spear, Melinda Berry, Cheryl Lafreniere, Charlotte Young, Connie Hughes,
Lorine Cameron, Becky Logan, Anngi White, Laura Cox, Donna Clay, Brenda Crater, Debbie Lowe, Teresa Tucker, Karen Callaway, Becky Harrington, Sheila
Flournoy.
46
�Janice Carthan, Laurie Lane, Kay
Kenny, Manha Johnson
Shirley Bass, Susan Jones, Brenda Bennett, Mrs. Castillo, Karen Lewis.
Learning poise, manners, good grooming and charm is the goal of this club. Mrs.
Castillo is the charming sponsor.
Sharon Hayes, Yolanda Stokes, Lynn
Reynolds, Helen Proctor, Joyce Maddox, Cheryl McKissick, Erma Dyer.
Frenchcilla Taylor, Vickie Steiger, Marie Lowe, Sharon Smith.
47
�TOP ROW: Miss Williams, Geven
Aston, Steve Gunn , Donnie Hunter,
athan Hayes, Charlie Rice .
BOTTOM ROW: Toby McCord, Danny
Andt;rson , Tony a Williams .
Vince Taylor, Sandra Pickens, Geral dine Haney , Carol T erry , Doug Brandon, Ricky Davidson, Duane Chappe ll, Bob Fitzge rald.
BOTTOM TO TOP, left to right: Mr. Dudley. Janet Burnett, La Andrea Gamble.
Kenny Boggs, Brian Burnett, David Lester, Harry Kuykendall, Ellen King, Donnie
Brooks, Kenny Cooper, Fred Spear.
48
�David Graves, Miss Lehmer, John
McCallister, Grady Little, Willie Tucker,
Mike Rola, Roben Hendrix, Keith Pierce,
Kim Bridges, Sheila Tucker, Janice Willis.
Mrs. Jones, Larry Miller, Ronald Dutton, Lemuel Lindsey, Jeff Scott, Keith Tidwell. SITTING: Connie Anderson, Phyllis Harris, Bruce Miller, Ed Scott
It is the function of the Games' Clubs to
offer students an opponunity for recreation
and competition. Musical games, checkers,
chess, board games among others are played
at the meetings. Students change groups so
that a variety of games is enjoyed.
Allen Fagan, Donnie Perkins, Reginald Collins, Horace Leonard, Miss Morris, Fred
Matthews, Avery Simpson.
49
�MRS. SHELBY
The Junior Beta Club is a group of
students with high scholastic average.
The main objective of the club is service to the school.
OFFICERS: Helen Proctor, Nancy Conner, Brenda Bennett, Martha Johnson.
Marsha Hudson, Belinda Trice, Vickie
Wood, Brenda Bennett, Nancy Conner,
John Tatum, John Rigby, Tommy Barfield, Doug Loggins, Brent Johnson,
M~s. Shelby, Donna Lee, Kay Kenney, Debbie Stearns, Connie Anderson, Manha Johnson, Connie Bearden,
Denise Wallace, Tim Blackwell,
Steve Bennett, Missy Hardegree,
Helen Proctor, Darlene Platt.
50
�Joan Chandler, Mrs. Widener, Leta Reeves , Ange la Lucea y , Mattie Martinez,
Vanessa Rhodes. Freda Chappell , Tonia Harry, Nade ll Rose , Katie Terry, Belinda
Trice.
MRS. WIDENER
The club has been busy in and out of
the kitchen: making and selling candy
apples and giving handmade gifts and
baked goodies to the sick and elderly.
The F. H. A. is a national organization of young people who want to
improve their personal, family and
community living now and in the
future.
51
�Mrs. Dhye and club members.
TOP PHOTO: Deborah Thornton, Virlyn Laughridge, Toni Washington,
Marian Jones, Kay Shaddix, Mrs.
Dhye. ON THE LADDER: Mrs. Dhye,
Donnie Hendrix, Clyde Mitchell, Virlyn Laughridge, David Tinch, Fernando Campbell, Genia Spear, Deborah Thornton .
52
�Being a pan of the band and orchestra at South Fulton begins a student's
high school musical experience and an
appreciation of music for a lifetime.
Nancy Conner, Missy Hardegree, Janice Canhan, Miss Relyea.
FIRST ROW: Carol Scott, Darlene
Platt, Paulette Owens, Kellie Boggs,
Karen Callaway, Debbie Stearns.
SECOND ROW: Kenny Boggs, Doug
Loggins, Larry Byrd, Janet Burnett,
Kelly Leach, Leta Reeves, Clyde
Mitchell, Olga Watts. STANDING:
Vince Taylor, Mr. Freund.
53
�KNrmNGAND ~CLUB
With the help of Mrs. Shelby and Mrs. Cotton, girls learn to knit and crochet. These are
skills which can be used in making things for
themselves and gifts for others.
Mrs. Cotton, Pat Long, Cathy Coursey, Pam
Marshall, Frances Tuggle, Susan Cherry, Kim
Schnurr, Mrs. Shelby, Roxie Hall, Toni Washington, Jenny Harris, Brenda Fuller.
ART CLUB
It is the purpose of the An Club to
get together and explore with an
materials and have fun.
Larry Byrd, Kenny Degraaf, Mike
Wilder, Robbie Crankshaw, Mark
Dameron, Tony Collins, Miss Croft,
Donald McCallister, Glenda Cokley,
Nancy Conner, Suzanne Alston, Velda
Alston, Ronnie Ellington, Michael
Graham, John Parrott, Johnny Creel,
Gary Simpson.
54
�GIRLG' AND B~' P.~ CLlJBG
The P. E. Clubs endeavor to learn
team sportsmanship as they are given
an opponunity to participate in various
athletic activities .
Juani ta Col be n, Che rri Cooksey, G~il
Milam, Carol Scott, Stephany Gray,
Judy King, Tina Smith, Olga Watts,
Cleopa Dunlap, Olga Eason, Mrs.
Cuba, Denise Wallace, Cindy Jordan,
Anita Wilson, Missy Hardegree.
SITTING: Maverick Thomas, LeAndrea Gambole, Scottie King, Bobby Barfield,
Willie Tucker, Keith Wilcox, Ronnie Hendrix, De wayne Manin, David Callanay,
Timmy Pilgrim, Mike Wood, Randy Ponwood. STANDING: Andy Watson, Eddie
Weathers, Andy Folds, Adrain Grooms, Alan Allison, Charlie Walker, Larry Hemdon, Darrell Middlebrooks, Charles Wellmaker, Tony Wilkinson, Henderson Cameron, Danny Crittenden, Joe Starr, Bruce Willis, Mr. Lunsford.
55
�Typing all that copy . . . Donna Lee
did her share.
As editor, Doug Loggins took the lead
in getting our annual together.
Kelly Boggs crops pictures and everything else in sight.
Ouida Bundy and Darlene Ozburn son
pictures for the annual.
Miss Smith, Kellie Boggs, Mrs. Brantley, Darlene Ozburn, Ouida Bundy,
Donna Lee, Doug Loggins, Tim Blackwell, Brent Johnson, John Rigby, Paulette Owens.
56
�John Rigby's ability to zip off those
layouts was a great help those last few
days before deadline.
I.
Working hard at copy is Brent Johnson.
Hard-working sponsors for the annual
are Miss Smith and Mrs. Brantley.
The final copy is in and Tim Blackwell
packs it off for shipment.
57
�Glt.JDENrCOONCJL
Students join in singing at the Student
Council Christmas Program.
The Student Council members work
for better understanding between faculty and students by sponsonng programs, raising money, and helping out
in school activities.
STANDING: Tommy Barfield, David
Widener, John Tatum, Darlene Platt,
Connie Bearden, Miss Atchley, Alben
Copeland, Marian Jones, Marsha Hudson, Debbie Stearns, Bettina Bowen,
Pam Graham. KNEELING: Clyde Mitchell, Carol Scott, Debbie Tenney,
Shirlene Watts.
58
�Miss Atchley sponsors the Student
Council.
The magazine sales representative
presented the program to South Fulton
students and our magazine sale was a
great success .
59
��61
�CI-IEERLEAOERG '74
Twobits, fourbits, sixbits, a dollar
62
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Kelly Leach, Connie Anderson, Missy Hardegree, Debbie
Stearns, Pat Guy, Tonia Kirksey, Cheryl McKissick.
�Missy Hardegree
~--~~.-------'-
Cheryl McKissick
Debbie Stearns
Kelly Leach
C::onnie Anderson
Tonia Kirksey
63
�Listen - do it right or
pork chop hill tomorrow.
Mr. Porter, 1st ROW: Scottie King, Brent Johnson. 2nd row: Sidney Thompson, Clyde
Mitchell, David Tinch, Bruce Willis, Vince Taylor, Horace Leonard, Andy Folds. 3rd
row: Alan Allison, Nathan Hayes, Albert Copeland, Donnie Hunter, Larry Herndon,
David Widener. 4th row: Joe Starr, Lemuel Lindsey, Walter Williams, Michael
Wilder, Charlie Walker, Charlie Rice, Andy Watson, Allan Fagan.
Go - Charlie!
64
�Good to the last drop.
This year the football team won four
games and lost two. The best game of
the season the Lions beat Headland by
a score of 52 to 8. Mr. Poner practiced the team hard, but it was wonh
the trouble. South Fulton won both
games they played at home. Mr. Porter was very proud of the team.
Oh! That hun.
Ready! 1-2-3-4, 2-2-34, 3-2-3-4
65
�STANDING: David Widener, Sidney
Thompson. Donnie Hurder, Michael
Wilder, Albert Copeland, Charlie
Rice, Walter Williams. SITTING:
Bruce Willis. Allan Fagar, Clyde
Mitchell, Charlie Walker, Nathan
Hayes, Lemuel Lindsey.
The day Headlead wished South Fulton
had not been their visitors.
First and ten - do it again.
Albert . . . Mr. Touchdown.
66
�Time out- the pause that refreshes.
STANDING: Larry Herndon, Charlie
Walker, Charlie Rice, Clyde Mithcell, Donnie Hunter, Allen Fagan.
SITTING: Mike Wilder, David Widener, Sidney Thorn pson, Andy Folds,
Brent Johnson, Nathan Hayes.
67
�1st ROW: Vince Taylor, Alan Allison, Donnie Perkins, Sidney Thompson, Mike
Rola. 2nd ROW: Mr. Poner, Andy Folds, Tim Blackwell, Horace Leonard, John
Tatum, Brent Johnson.
Sink it, Michael.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Bruce Willis, Joe
Starr, John Rigby, Henderson Cameron, Alben Copeland, Rodney Battle,
Michael Wilder, Charlie Walker,
Dwayne Manin, Reginald Collins,
Clyde Mitchell, Charlie Rice, David
Widener, Donnie Hunter, Walter Williams.
68
�1st ROW : Alben Copeland, Rodney
Battle, Henderson Cameron, Michael
Wilder, Dwayne Manin, Mr. Poner.
2nd ROW : Charlie Walker, Joe Starr,
John Rigby, Reginald Collins, Donnie
Hunter, Tim Blackwell. 3rd ROW:
David Widener, Larry Herndon, Charlie Rice, Clyde Mitchell, Bruce Willis.
Rodney and Michael stay in after it.
It•s mine!
69
�70
�1974 was a great year for basketball at South Fulton. With a 13 and 1 record, our
team took top honors in the eighth grade tournament winning the first place trophy.
1974 Basketball Season
S.
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S.
S.
S.
S.
S.
S.
S.
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44 S.
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51
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46
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Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Fulton
Decatur
57
Eva Thomas 45
Headland
41
Babb Jr. Hi
28
Briar wood
36
Lakeshore
29
Headland
31
Eva Thomas 37
Lakeshore
33
Babb Jr. Hi
43
M. D. Collins 21
71
�GCUOOL. GPrRlr
1st ROW: Sharon Hayes, Debbie Lowe,
Belinda Trice, Anita Wilson, Frenchcilla Taylor. 2nd ROW : Janice Willis, Theresa Tucker, Cleopa Dunlap,
Berdell Walker, Sharon Smith, Shirlene Watts, Toni Washington. 3rd
ROW : Phyllis Harris, Sandra Pickens,
Anngi White, Lorine Cameron, Judy
King, Marie Lowe, Olga Watts, Donna
Clay.
72
�73
��75
�As President of the Student Council,
Clyde Mitchell is considered ev rybody's friend. He is always easy to get
along with. He presides at special
activities.
Each year a person is chosen who has
attained a high level of academic
achievement. Nancy Conner has consistent! y done well in all phases of her
school work.
76
�Kelly Leach was elected captain of the cheerleaders by her fellow cheerleaders
because of her good sponsmanship and terrific school spirit.
Doug Loggins, editor of the yearbook, really took the fate of the
annual to hean as he enlisted the suppon of the greatest number of patrons.
77
�A magazine drive was one of the fund raising projects for the annual. Denise
Wallace showed her suppon of the annual and the school by selling the most magazine subscriptions.
M-m-m those candy bars tasted good
- all 200 of them. Bruce Miller won a
tape recorder as high salesman in the
candy sale which also supponed the
1974 annual.
78
�Mike Wilder acted as co-captain for
the basketball and football teams.
Mike is a good athlete and added much
to both our teams.
One of our leading scorers on the
basketball team was Charlie Walker.
He was one of the co-captains of the
team and proved to be a real asset to
the Lions.
David Widener was a co-captain of the football team. Often the position of quarterback was filled by David and he led the team well.
79
�Under the direction of Mrs. Rampy our cafeteria provides nuuional menus. In addition, Mrs .. Rampy's
pleasant personality makes lunch a special time of the
day.
Mrs. Cotton is the library clerk. She
assists students with library projects
and is co - sponsor of the knitting and
crochet club.
The office of South Fulton High can be a hectic place. Mrs. Goode , our school
clerk, keeps things moving efficiently for faculty and students.
80
�Keeping students fed and our school
clean is no easy job. We are fonunate
to have these capable women who take
pride in their work and our school.
(
81
�The custodians of our school work
daily to keep our building and grounds
in order. Mr. Williams, Mr. Roberts,
Mr. Pettaway and Mr. Rose make up
the custodial staff. We appreciate
their efforts.
82
�A-1 Auto Pans
Accuracy Wood Products Co.
Accurate Business Machines Inc.
Bill Alexander
W. R. "Bill'' Alison
A to Z Rental Service
Art Bailey
Mrs. Lid a Benjamin
Beryman' Spo Center
Mrs. Kay Blackwell
Mr. and Mrs. D . .M. Bramley
Mr. and Mrs. John Brockington
Mt. nd Mrs. Jo Cannon
Mr. and Mrs. J
Duran Paint and Wallpapet
East Point Datson
East POint Hardware Company
East Point Pharmacy
Factory Outl t Warehouse
Mr. an Mrs. R. C Filgo
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. F lto
Gilbert Gerken
Larry Joe Hall
Miss Lindy S. Hardegree
Miss Melissa Hardegre
Alvin Leroy Hany
Headland Gulf Service
Mr. and rs. Roben A. Johnson
Mrs. Chester ~ones
Mr. and Mrs. J. Don Jones
Mrs. Ann Leach
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Lee
Doug Loggins
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Loggins
Mrs. Lena Luallen and Family
Mr. E. R. Lunsford
Mr. and Mrs. David Malcon
Martin-Johnson Printing Company Inc.
Merritts Drugs
Meuo Regulator and Torch Service
Mrs. Carves Milton
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Moore
Tom C. Parker
Louise Payton
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Pierce
Darlene, Denise and Richard Platt
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Platt
Mr. H. J. Poner
Progressive Lighting Inc.
Mrs. Margaret Rampy
Ranch Drive-In
Mr. and Mrs. Gene C. Reeves Sr.
Gene Clyde Reeves Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Alben F. Relyea
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Sewell
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Sewell
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Timms
Tri-Cities Tile Distributors
Sam C. Turner Jr.
United Rental
Mrs. Mabel Wallace
Fleming Weaver
Mrs. Jean Westbrook
Wholesale Tire and Wheel Outlet
Betty and Hulett Widener
World Wide Tapes Inc.
Wright's Music and Jewelry
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Widener
83
�After thiny-five years of service to South Fulton High and Fulton
County, Mrs. Ruby Dhye is retiring.
Mrs. Dhye is synonymous with all that is good in education. She has
endeared herself to both faculty and students during her years of teaching.
The stacks of book and magazines and the hours of work could not
begin to reflect the influence Mrs. Dhye has had on the young people
with whom she has worked.
Mrs. Dhye, we love you.
84
�For years of untiring work, years of undying devotion, and years of unending
inspiration to South Fulton and its students, we the Lion's Roar Staff of 1974 extend
our deepest appreciation to you, Mrs. Ruby Dhye.
85
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wdt ~ ~ ~ l.Cow' ~OM/ odulb.
86
�The only way you can insure a better world in the future is to work for one .
NOW:
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