Magnolia High School Alumni Honored
Post Published On:Smiles and cheers of joy filled the Chappelle Building on the Magnolia Campus on Wednesday, June 19 as Magnolia High School Alumni celebrated the opening of the new Magnolia High School Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame is dedicated to the students, teachers, and staff who attended and worked at Magnolia High School, a segregated high school for African Americans between 1958 and 1970 in Thomas County.
The Hall of Fame features a photo plaque of the only principal of Magnolia High School, Johnnie J. Jones.
There are nearly 100 name plates of all the students inducted into the Honor Society, student-athletes on the football, baseball, basketball, and track teams, along with the year they graduated.
The name plates of faculty and staff included their names, the subjects they taught, their administrative role, and the sports they coached.
“This is a home for our heroes, and we will live forever here,” Bill Simmons, President of the Magnolia High School Alumni Association.
The Chapelle Building of Thomas University is the site where the Magnolia High School was located.
