Auburn High School
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Auburn High School
| Established | 1837 |
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| School type | Public |
| Principal | Dr. Cathy Long |
| Location | Auburn, Alabama, USA |
| District | Auburn City |
| Grades: | 10-12 |
| Enrollment | 1135 |
| Faculty | 83 |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Colors | royal blue and white |
| Campus | 405 S. Dean Road, Auburn, AL 36830 |
| Website | http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs |
Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, enrolling 1135 students in grades 10-12. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High offers technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University. Auburn High School has been rated by Newsweek, US News and World Report, and the Wall Street Journal as one of the top public high schools in the United States. [1]
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[edit] Curriculum
Auburn High School is a comprehensive secondary school along the classic American model. As such, Auburn High offers a diverse curriculum including traditional high school academic subjects, advanced academic classes, music and art, and programs in business and marketing, agriscience, industrial systems technology, and engineering. All students at Auburn High take a basic academic core including English, Social Studies, Science, and Math courses. A broad selection of elective courses are offered, and students may elect to major in one of four areas: Arts and Humanities, Business and Marketing, Engineering and Industrial Systems Technology, and Health and Human Services. Majors are offered in Graphic Design, Instrumental Performance, Vocal Performance, Theatre, Photography, Art, Business Administration, Accounting, Communications, Construction, International Studies, Industrial Systems Technology, Agriscience, Pre-Engineering, Military Science, and Health Science. [2]
Auburn High School awards three diploma endorsements indicating advanced study in a particular field, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Auburn High offers nearly 30 college-level Advanced Placement, Technical Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate courses for college credit. Students are also provided access to college courses at nearby Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College. [3]
Classes at Auburn High are arranged in a combination block/alternating day schedule in which four 90 minute classes are offered each day. Some classes meet every day for one semester, while others alternate every other day for the whole year.[4]
[edit] Achievements and accolades
Auburn High was ranked the 77th best public high school overall and 28th best non-magnet public high school in the nation by Newsweek in May 2006, one of the top 100 public high schools in the nation by the Associated Press based on Advanced Placement test scores, the 125th best public high school in the United States by the US News and World Report and the second best educational value in the Southeast by SchoolMatch, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. [5]
Some 80% of Auburn High graduates go on to post-secondary education, with on average 5% of the senior class earning National Merit Finalist or National Achievement Finalist status. One-quarter of AHS graduates receive academic scholarships to colleges and universities, including Auburn University, Georgia Tech, Duke, Rice, Chicago, Vanderbilt, and the University of Virginia. In 2006, seventy-eight seniors received 167 scholarships worth $4.2 million to 68 different colleges in 27 states. Recent AHS graduates attend MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.[6]
[edit] Test Scores
Auburn High School students have traditionally been among the highest scorers on standardized tests of any school in the state.[7] As do all Alabama public high school students, Auburn High students take the Alabama High School Graduation Exam. In addition, AHS students are measured on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams, and on Advanced Placement tests.
| School Year | Language | Science | Reading | Mathematics | Social Studies |
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| 2005-2006 | 97.19 | 96.90 | 94.47 | 98.02 | 96.62 |
| 2004-2005 | 98.18 | 99.27 | 98.54 | 98.91 | 98.91 |
| 2003-2004 | 96.84 | 96.14 | 96.49 | 96.49 | 95.44 |
| 2002-2003 | 100.00 | 99.66 | 99.32 | 99.32 | -- |
| 2001-2002 | 98.55 | 97.82 | 98.55 | 98.19 | -- |
| Auburn High | State | Nation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average ACT Score | 23.0 | 20.1 | 20.9 |
| English subtest | 23.2 | 20.2 | 20.4 |
| Reading subtest | 23.3 | 20.3 | 21.3 |
| Math subtest | 22.1 | 19.3 | 20.7 |
| Science Reasoning | 22.9 | 20.0 | 20.9 |
| Participation Rate | 81.0% | 55.1% | 40.0% |
| Auburn High | State | Nation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAT Reasoning Score | 1196 | 1124 | 1028 |
| Verbal subtest | 600 | 565 | 508 |
| Mathematics subtest | 596 | 559 | 520 |
| Participation Rate | 26.8% | 5.5% | 49.0% |
In 2005, 58.1% of Auburn High School students took an Advanced Placement exam, compared with 7.2% of students in Alabama and 20.9% in the nation as a whole. Overall, 29.9% of AHS students received a 3 or greater on an AP test in 2005, compared with 4.2% in Alabama and 12.0% nationwide.[9]
[edit] History
[edit] Beginnings
Auburn High was originally started as a private frontier school in 1837, less than three years after the Auburn area had been opened to settlement.[10] A two-story frame school building was constructed in 1838, and in the early 1840s a separate male academy had been spun off of the school.[11] With the school for males solidly established, and most of the secondary students now being female, in 1843 the school was named the Auburn Female College.[12]
The Auburn Female College attracted hundreds of boarding students to Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s, from as far as 100 miles away, largely in part of it offering a complete secondary education to women--including ancient and modern languages, literature, mathematics, and musical arts--at the same academic level of that given to men.[13] The school was rechartered as a Mason school in 1852, becoming the Auburn Masonic Female College. [14]
Throughout the 1850s, the school flourished. The school physical plant was expanded to include a chapel with the largest auditorium in eastern Alabama and a fully equipped chemistry laboratory. [15] Faculty members included John M. Darby, a scientist who wrote his own textbooks for his students, including a Textbook of Chemistry and Botany of the Southern States, which was the earliest compilation of flora in the South, and William P. Harrison a Methodist theologan who was eventually appointed Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.[16] The school was especially strong in language offerings, with students in 1861 able to take classes in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.[17] The Auburn Masonic Female College also hosted speakers and debates among some of the era's greatest luminaries, most notably an 1860 debate over secession which included William Lowndes Yancey, Alexander Stephens, Benjamin Harvey Hill, and Robert Toombs.[18]
The Masons relinquished control back to the community in the late 1850s, returning the name to Auburn Female College. By the early 1860s, the school began admitting boys to the secondary division. [19] When the Civil War began in 1861, virtually the entire male junior and senior classes of the school, as well as much of the faculty joined Confederate military units, particularly, the 37th Alabama Regiment.[20] As the "principal teacher", W.F. Slaton, was also a major in the regiment, classes in Auburn stopped for the remainder of the war. The regiment was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, and exiled to the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp in Lake Erie. While imprisoned there, Slaton held the school's classes in the camp. Notably, the African American Union guards, who were prohibited by law from attending school in their native Wisconsin, were invited to join the classes, making Auburn High one of the first Southern schools to integrate, some 90 years before Brown v. Board.[21]
Upon the end of the war, students and teachers returned back to Auburn, but economic hardships in the aftermath of the war and Reconstruction left the school closed for several years.
[edit] From private college to public high school
Around 1870, the school reopened in the building formerly occupied by the male academy, though with substantially lower enrollment than the two decades prior.[22] The school retained the name "Auburn Female College", despite admitting both boys and girls.[23]
The next few decades were difficult ones for the school. State funding was practically non-existent until the late 1870s, and the town's economic condition was poor, making it difficult to support the school.[24] Whereas, prior to the war in 1855, the secondary division enrolled 110 students, in 1889 "Auburn High School"--the school's new name, acquired in the 1880s--enrolled fewer than 20.[25]
In 1892, Auburn University (then the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College) decided to admit women. However, since the college only admitted women with junior standing, Auburn High added two more years of classes beyond the secondary level (equivalent to freshman and sophomore college classes) for women. With this addition, the name of the school was yet again changed to the Auburn Female Institute.[26]
In 1899, a new, two-story school was built for Auburn High.[27] In 1908, the school dropped the post-secondary program and became "Auburn High School" once more.[28] Around 1910, Auburn High fielded its first basketball team, and by 1915, its first football squad.[29]
[edit] Modern era
In 1914, Auburn High became the flagship high school for the county and was officially renamed Lee County High School, though "Auburn High" remained the common name of the school. That same year, the school relocated from the 1899 building to a new structure on Opelika Road.[30]
In the period between 1910 and 1920, Auburn High changed from an academy of the classic 19th century model, focusing on philosophy and ancient languages, to a comprehensive high school offering vocational and technical courses in addition to the academic offerings.[31] In 1925, Auburn High became one of the first high schools in the state to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[32] Over the next two decades, Auburn High developed its modern extracurricular face, forming band, choir, and other programs, as well as diversifying occupational classes.[33] A new school building was constructed in 1931, and in 1956, the school was officially renamed Auburn High School again.[34]
In 1961, the City of Auburn created its own school system, with Auburn High as the new district's high school. In 1966, the school moved to the current campus, organized as a "Freedom of Choice" school designed to promote desegregation. In 1971, Auburn High merged with nearby Drake High to complete its integration.[35]
The last three decades have been marked with rapid growth of the school. Five major additions have been made to Auburn High since the original construction in 1966, and in 2004 the school was changed from housing grades 9-12 to housing grades 10-12. In 1997, Auburn High added an International Baccalaureate program, with the first IB diplomas awarded in 1999.[36]
[edit] Extracurricular organizations
Auburn High School offers a variety of academic clubs, athletic teams, and service organizations. Offerings include:
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[edit] Athletics
Auburn High School offers 11 men's and 10 women's varsity sports, all in the large school (6A) classification of the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA). Men's sports offered are basketball, baseball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, football, wrestling, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Women's sports offered are basketball, softball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, volleyball, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Auburn High has one of the strongest overall athletic programs in the state, having placed in the top ten of the 6A All-Sports rankings every year since 1995, and ranking in the top four for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years. Auburn High has won a total of 32 state championships since recordkeeping began in the 1950s. Auburn High traditionally has had strong programs in men's basketball, men's and women's track, men's golf, men's and women's tennis, and men's and women's soccer.[38]
[edit] Football
Auburn High's football team competes in Region 3 of class 6A along with Central High of Phenix City, Dothan, Enterprise, Northview High of Dothan, Opelika, Russell County, and Smiths Station.[39] In recent years, Auburn High has become a pipeline to the NFL--since 2004, Auburn High has produced more All-Pro NFL players than any other high school. AHS alumni in the NFL include Marcus Washington of the Washington Redskins, Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants, and Demarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys.[40]
Auburn High's football team was founded in 1915, and has an overall record since 1926 of 417-326-30. AHS has traditional rivalries with Opelika, Central, Lanett, and Valley High Schools. The Auburn High football squad has finished the season unbeaten on four occasions (1923, 1925, 1934, and 1952), all prior to the establishment of statewide playoffs. Auburn High has once been ranked first in the state (October 1967), and proceeded deepest into the playoffs in 2001, when the team reached the semifinal round. AHS has won the region, area or conference championship on sixteen occasions; in 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1987, 1990, and 2004.[41]
Auburn High plays at 10,000 seat Duck Samford Stadium. Football broadcasts can be heard on WAUD AM 1230.[42]
[edit] Basketball
Auburn High's men's basketball team has, since the 1920s, been one of Alabama's winningest high school teams. Auburn High won the 6A state championship in 2005, and was state runner-up in 1924, 1987, 1991, and 1996. The team is coached by 24-year veteran Frank Tolbert, who has amassed a 550-256 record.[43]
Auburn High plays at the 1,500 seat Auburn Fieldhouse on the Auburn High campus. Basketball broadcasts can be heard on WAUD AM 1230..[44]
[edit] Golf
Auburn High's men's golf program has in recent years become one of the school's strongest sports. AHS has won each of the three last 6A championships (2004, 2005, 2006), and returns the nucleus of the 2006 squad for 2007. AHS girls' golf has also been strong, having placed in the top five in the state twice in the last five years.[45]
Auburn High's official home course is Indian Pines Golf Course, though the Auburn University Club and Robert Trent Jones' Grand National are often used as home courses.
[edit] Track and field
Traditionally Auburn High's most laureled sport, Auburn High's six track family sports--men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's indoor track, and men's and women's cross country--have amassed twenty state championships. AHS men's outdoor track squad has won seven AHSAA titles and has placed in the top 10 at the state track meet each of the last five years.[46] AHS women's outdoor team won a state title in 1986, and has also placed in the top 10 at state each of the last five years.[47] Men's indoor track has won four state titles, and men's cross country has won the state crown six times. In addition, an Auburn High student won the state Decathalon in 1970.[48] Prior to the creation of the AHSAA, Auburn High won the Alabama Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in 1921 and 1923.[49]
[edit] Swimming and diving
Auburn High has a competitive swimming program, with a particular strength in developing divers. AHS divers have won nine state championships since 1988, and have helped the Lady Tigers to four top five finishes in the last five years at the state meet.[50]
Auburn swims at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.
[edit] Band
The Auburn High School Band has been rated one of the top high school concert bands in the United States. The AHS Band was awarded the Sudler Flag of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation as the top high school concert ensemble in the United States, Canada, and Japan in 1988. The Auburn High Band has also been placed on the "Historic Roll of Honor of Distinguished High School Concert Bands in America" as a band which as attained "unusual levels of achievement nationally and which [is] considered to be of historical importance and influence to the nation's high school concert band programs." The top concert band--the Auburn High School Honors Band--has an all-time ratings record of 347-4-0-0-0, has received less than a perfect rating only three times since 1946, and has received perfect ratings in from all judges since 1974. The Band has twice performed for the Music Educators National Conference, and in 1996 became the first high school band ever invited to perform for a College Band Directors National Association Conference. [51]
Auburn High School's jazz ensemble, the Lab Band, was named one of the top ten high school jazz bands in the United States in 1974, and in 1978 performed on the National Association of Jazz Educators "Project II" album as one of "The Nation's Most Outstanding Jazz Bands". The Lab Band has an all-judges record of 126-2-0-0-0, and has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.[52]
[edit] Science Olympiad
The Auburn High School Science Olympiad team has been the preeminent team in Alabama over the past two decades. Auburn's Science Olympiad team has placed either first or second in the state 18 out of the past 21 years, with participants winning hundreds of gold, silver, and bronze medals.
[edit] Campus
| School Year | Enrollment |
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| 2006-2007 | 1135 |
| 2005-2006 | 1095 |
| 2004-2005 | 1048 |
| 2003-2004 | 974 |
| 2002-2003* | 915 |
| 2001-2002 | 1235 |
| 2000-2001 | 1272 |
| 1999-2000 | 1223 |
| 1998-1999 | 1171 |
| 1997-1998 | 1143 |
| *first year not including 9th grade students | |
Auburn High is situated on 42 acres (0.18 km²) in the east-central part of Auburn. The school is designed in a modernist style on an open campus-style setting, with nine detached buildings separated by outdoor walkways and courtyards spread out over 70% of the campus area. The campus is located at the corner of Samford Drive and Dean Road, in a residental area. Adjacent to the campus are the Auburn City Schools central office, Dean Road Elementary School, and Memorial Park Cemetary. Auburn University is located approximately one mile west of the school.
The current Auburn High School campus was constructed in 1965-66, and originally consisted of four buildings; the 100, 200, 300, and 400 buildings. The 100 building contains the auditorium, cafeteria, and music and vocational classrooms, the 200 and 300 buildings contain academic classrooms including the small auditorium (300) and the original library (200), and the 400 building contains a gymnasium and athletic facilities. In the 1970s, the 500 building, containing academic classrooms, and the 600 building, containing buisness and JROTC classrooms, were added. An administration building was constructed in the 1980s, and the largest academic classroom building, the 800 building, containing classrooms, a library, and a multi-media room, was erected in 1995. The Auburn Fieldhouse, a competition gymnasium, was built in 2005, and a new academic building will begin construction in the summer of 2007.
The campus contains 94 academic classrooms, a 1250 seat auditorium, a 1500 seat competition gym (the Auburn Fieldhouse), six tennis courts, a baseball field (Sam Welborn Field), a track, cafeteria, library, multi-media room, small auditorium, practice gym, and physical education fields. Off-campus athletic facilities include 10,000 seat Duck Samford Stadium, the Auburn Softball Complex, and the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.[53]
[edit] Technology
Auburn High School is in the initial stages of the Auburn City Schools' 21st Century Learning Initiative. As part of this initiative, every classroom will be equipped with a digital smartboard, and the entire campus will be covered by a wireless network. Starting in the 2007-2008 school year, students at Auburn High will be provided with a laptop computer which will be theirs to use both in school and at home. The initiative also provides considerable training for teachers in integrating this technology into instruction.[54]
[edit] Student body
Due in part to its proximity to a major research university, Auburn High School has a relatively diverse student body for the area. One-quarter of Auburn High's enrollment is African-American, one-tenth is of Asian descent, and the remainder is mostly white. Roughly half were born outside of Alabama, and one in ten students is from outside the United States. Due to the influence of nearby Auburn University, almost 15% of students are children of Auburn University faculty or administrators.
The Auburn High student body is economically diverse as well, with 25% of enrolled students eligible for federal free or reduced lunch programs. At the same time, substantial numbers of new students transferring into the district have family incomes double or more of the regional average.[55]
[edit] Traditions
[edit] Mascot
Auburn High's mascot is the tiger. The tiger was chosen because of its association with Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 poem The Deserted Village. The first line of the poem is "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain", while a later line describes Auburn as, "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey."
Auburn High's costumed mascot is Samford, an anthropomorphic tiger. Samford was created in 1995 and named for three symbols of the school--Samford Avenue, which runs by the school; Duck Samford Stadium, Auburn High's football stadium; and Samford Hall, the most prominent building in Auburn. Kari Pierce was the first Samford in 1995.[56]
[edit] Alma Mater
Our alma mater, Auburn High
We love to roam thy halls.
Where knowledge grows and friendship glows
Within thy dear old walls.
You showed us how to make our way
With steadfast faith in thee,
To live aright from day to day
In truth and loyalty.
We offer you our song of praise
As days go drifting by.
We'll always cherish memories
Of dear ole Auburn High.
– Words and music by George Corradino and the Auburn High School Glee Club, 1955
[edit] Fight Song
The Auburn High School fight song is "Hooray for Auburn". At football games, it is played after a touchdown.
Hooray for Auburn! Hooray for Auburn!
Someone in the crowd is yelling "Hooray for Auburn!"
One, two, three, four; Who you gonna yell for?
Auburn, that's who!.
– Music by Tommy Goff, 1961, words adapted from a public domain cheer.
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Auburn High's secondary fight song, "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" was Auburn High's fight song before "Hooray for Auburn" was written in 1961, and is played after a successful PAT conversion.
Glory, glory to ole Auburn!
Glory, glory to ole Auburn!
Glory, glory to ole Auburn!
A - U - B - U - R - N
– to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
An earlier school song, "We're Loyal to You, Auburn High" was used from the 1920s through the 1940s.[57]
We’re loyal to you Auburn High,
We’re loyal and true Auburn High,
We’ll back you to stand,
Against the best in the land,
For we know you have sand Auburn High!
Well, get in that game Auburn High,
- Rah! Rah!
Go driving ahead Auburn High,
Our team is our fame protector,
Go boys, for we expect a true vict'ry for Auburn High!
– to the tune of the Illinois Loyalty
[edit] Yearbook
Auburn High's yearbook is The Tiger. The Tiger has been published each year since 1945, and is produced by students on the yearbook staff.[58]
[edit] Newspaper
The journalism classes at Auburn High print a monthly newspaper, the AHS Free Press. The Free Press and its three predecessor student newspapers, the AHS Chronicle,the Tiger Tales, and the Tiger News have been published since the early 1950s. An earlier paper, the Young Ladies' Mirror, was published by students in the 1850s.[59]
[edit] Notable people
[edit] Alumni
- William J. Samford (1864) - Governor of Alabama
- Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. (1888) - academic, editor of the first anthology of Texas literature
- William Spratling (1917) - Silversmith and artist
- John E. Pitts, Jr. (1942) - US Army brigadier general, director International Staff, Inter-American Defense Board
- Joe Beckwith (1973) - Major League Baseball pitcher
- Vanessa Echols (1979) - News anchor, WRDQ and WFTV, Orlando, Florida
- Ted Vives (1982) - Composer
- Man or Astro-man? (1980s) - Surf punk band
- William Chen (1988) - Winner in 2 2006 World Series of Poker events
- Ace Atkins (1989) - Author, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist
- Eric Harshbarger (1989) - LEGO artist
- James Fukai (1992) - Guitarist, Trust Company
- Mark Spencer (1995) - President/CEO, Digium, creator of Asterisk PBX
- Marcus Washington (1996) - NFL football player
- Charles Johnson (1999) - political philosopher
- Osi Umenyiora (1999) - NFL football player
- Demarcus Ware (2001) - NFL football player
[edit] Fictional alumni
- Beachhead - character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", Newsweek 147 (May 8, 2006): 50-54. Tamar Hausman, "School Expenses", The Wall Street Journal, Southeast Journal, May 13, 1998.
- ^ Auburn High School Program of Study, 2006-2007, (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2006), 2-3, 6.
- ^ Ibid., 4-5, 11-13.
- ^ Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006-2007, Retrieved July 8, 2006.
- ^ Kantrowitz and Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", 50-54. The non-magnet ranking was taken by eliminating schools from the 2006 Newsweek list which used selective processes for admission. Hausman, "School Expenses".
- ^ Opelika-Auburn News, June 7, 2006.
- ^ Ranking of High Schools in Alabama. PSK12.com. Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- ^ ALSDE Reports - Auburn City Schools - Auburn High School. Alabama State Department of Education. Retrieved on March 30, 2007.
- ^ a b c Auburn High School, Alabama Public School - College Prep - SchoolMatters. SchoolMatters, a service of Standard & Poor's. Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- ^ Columbus Enquirer, February 22, 1838; William W. Rogers et al., Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 90-91, 138; John Peavy Wright, Glimpses into the Past from My Grandfather's Trunk (Alexander City, Ala.: Outlook Publishing Company, 1969), 4.
- ^ Mary Reese Frazer, Early History of Auburn (S.l.: s.n., 1920), 3; Ann Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain" in Alexander Nunn, ed., Lee County and Her Forebears (Montgomery: Herff Jones, 1983), 61; Mollie Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain (S.l.: s.n., 1955), 72.
- ^ Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 61; United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902).
- ^ South-Western Baptist, May 3, 1855; Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 73; Minnie Clare Boyd, Alabama in the Fifties (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 138.
- ^ "Ratifying Incorporation of Masonic Female College", Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (Summer 1956), 150-151.
- ^ Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village (Auburn: s.n., 1996), 16; Tuskegee Republican, April 17, 1859; Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 73; Henry Barnard, School architecture; or Contributions to the improvement of school-houses in the United States (New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1848), 332.
- ^ Frazer, Early History of Auburn, 3; Wright, Glimpses into the Past from My Grandfather's Trunk, 32; John Darby, Text book of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1860); John Darby, Botany of the Southern States in two parts (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1855); Harold Lawrence, ed., Methodist Preachers in Georgia (Tignall, Ga.: Boyd Publishing, 1984), 234.
- ^ Tallapoosa Times, January 3, 1861
- ^ Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 12-14.
- ^ I.M.E. Blandin, History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860 (New York: Neale Publishing, 1909), 105.
- ^ Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 78-79.
- ^ C.C. Culpepper, 37th Alabama Regiment of Volunteer Infantry CSA |Slaton - Stalvy. Retrieved August 7, 2006; John Witherspoon Du Bose, Alabama's Tragic Decade: ten years of Alabama, 1865–1874 (Birmingham: Webb Book Co., 1940); Thomas McAdory Owen, ed., Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, 1899-1903, vol. 4 (Montgomery: Alabama Historical Society, 1904), 408
- ^ Blandin, History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860, 106; Willis Brewer, Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: from 1540 to 1872 (Montgomery: Barrett & Brown, 1872), 316; East Alabama Male College Board of Trustees, Board Minutes, July 12-13, 1869.
- ^ Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College Board of Trustees, Board Minutes, June 25, 1878.
- ^ Willis G. Clark, History of Education in Alabama, 1702-1889 (Washington: G.P.O., 1889), 242-248; Ann Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain", 72-73.
- ^ List of Colleges, Academics and Common Schools, 1855, Macon County Archives; United States Bureau of Education, Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1890, with accompanying papers (Washington: G.P.O., 1890).
- ^ Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 73.
- ^ Logue and Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, 50.
- ^ Auburn High School, Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908-1909 (Auburn: The Auburn High School, 1908).
- ^ Opelika Daily News, November 8, 1934.
- ^ Logue and Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, 98.
- ^ Auburn High School, Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908-1909;Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service Photographs: High School Activities (Auburn: ACES, 1925-1926).
- ^ Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, SACS CASI Accredited Schools, retrieved August 7, 2006.
- ^ Opelika Daily News, November 12, 1935; Department of Education, State of Alabama Annual Report for the Scholastic Year Ending September 30, 1919 (Montgomery: Brown Printing Company, 1920), 104-105.
- ^ Logue and Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, 152; Lee County Bulletin, August 30, 1956.
- ^ Auburn High School, Auburn High School Student Handbook, 1994-1995 (Auburn: Auburn City Schools, 1994).
- ^ International Baccalaureate Organization, Auburn High School, retrieved January 21, 2007.
- ^ Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006-2007
- ^ Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006-2007, Data on All-Sports rankings and state championships taken from the AHSAA website, [1].
- ^ Alabama High School Athletic Association AHSAAsports.com - Football - Alignments, retrieved January 21, 2007.
- ^ NFL Enterprises, LLC, NFL.com - Probowl, retrieved January 21, 2007; databaseSports.com, Player List, retrieved January 21, 2007.
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