Councill High School Tigers in Huntsville, Alabama

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Pictures from the William H. Councill High School (CHS) Emergency Meeting held on Thursday, March 20, 2003, at the Richard Shower Center on Blue Spring Road. The Alumni discussed the status of the school building, which is in desperate need of repairs and maintenance.

Calvary Hill Junior High School Pictures

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Courtesy of William T. Robinson, III & Dizzy Crimes

Class of '65 and '66 courtesy of Bradley McDonald and Lawrence Matthews, respectively.

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Blue and White Ball

The 2003 Blue and White Ball will be held on Saturday, June 28, 2003.

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the William Hooper Councill Association was held June 22-23, 2001 at the Hilton Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama. Click on the following links:

Click here for 2001 Blue and White Ball Pictures
Click here for 2001 Blue and White Ball Program

News and Views

Click here for the William Hooper Councill Alumni Association Web Site. Help save our building!

Here's a link to an interesting article about former Councill High student Charlie "Floyd" Lockhart who spent a year in the Middle East.

Richard (Dizzy) Crimes and the Rocket City All-stars web site documents a little known aspect of local music area history. Lorraine Morris-Brown, Russell & Richard Crimes, Lloyd Jones, Bill Brandon, and Fred Wesley are a few of the artists featured with Huntsville and Councill connections.

William Hooper Councill founded what is now Alabama A&M University in 1875.   Councill also founded the Huntsville Herald newspaper in 1877, St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church , and was an ordained elder in the AME Church. He served as the paper’s editor for several years.

You can see an entry in the Freedmen's Bureau records where Councill opened an account just after the Civil War. You might just find some of your ancestors too in the Freedmen's Bureau records. I did.

William Hooper Councill High School has been added to the World Alumni Net. Go there to register your name and e-mail address. It offers a central site in which people can look for alumni from schools all over the world. The page also offers a bulletin board.   We're also in Classmates.com and other similar sites.

We can't thank Kenneth and Michael Smith enough for their contributions to this effort. Most of the photographs came from Mrs. Dorothy Turner who taught at both Councill High and Alabama A&M University. Tyrone Ragland also provided materials seen on these pages.

If you have any photos you'd like posted here, or just want to say "hello," feel free to contact us by

e-mail at: lockhart@hiwaay.net.

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Mrs. Turner's classes: top photo is from her 9th grade of 1964 - 65 and the bottom one is from her 10th grade class of 1965 - 66.

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Homecoming

(prettier than all the world...)

School Sports:



In Memoriam: Adam Kellam the Coach

The Football Champions

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The 1965 Tigers achieved "dream team" status and probably were the best football team ever in the city of Huntsville, Alabama. Winning a record ninth North Alabama High School Athletic Association football championship, the Tigers posted a perfect 9-0 record by outscoring the opposition 260-25. The last win was Coach Adam Kellam's 110th career victory in 19 years.

This a link to an interesting article from 2001 about Councill High's Bobby Sledge and his son Michael Westbrook of NCAA and NFL fame.

Former Councill student Glenn Moore's son Rashad, who graduated from Tennessee and now plays football for the Seattle Seahawks, is becoming a force in the NFL.

CHS, a little louder now... CHS, a little louder now... CHS, a little louder

School Sites:

Lee HS Alumni 1964 to Present

Lee High School (Huntsville) Official Site

S.R. Butler High School

Huntsville High School

J. O. Johnson High

Grissom High School

Buckhorn High School

Sparkman High School

Hazel Green High School

Madison County High School

Chattanooga Riverside is now the School of Arts and Sciences

Chattanooga Howard is now the School of Academics and Technology

Nashville Pearl High School (the original school site)

Alabama A&M University

Article about Alabama A&M University Kampus Kids

Article about Trinity High School in Athens, Al

Druid High School of Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama

Other Sites:

Huntsville's early African Americans

Huntsville Times article on "Local Heroes"

Booker T. Washington Papers (Univ. of Illinois Press) (Councill item at Vol.2, page 383)

Old Huntsville Magazine article about Huntsville Hospital built on old slave cemetery

Saint Bartley Primitive Baptist Church

Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church

National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA

St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church

Alabama Historical Markers in Madison County (A&M & Councill High included)

Tuskegee Airmen

Huntsville African American History (city sponsored page)

City of Huntsville Official Page

Intro Huntsville
Jump to Huntsville

Transcript of a CNN Report on Huntsville

W. C. Handy letter written while band director at Alabama A&M

Dred Scott link to Huntsville, Alabama

Another Dred Scott link

Biography for Fredrick T. Suggs, Sr. (Cincinnati School Board member and Burrell-Slater High Graduate)

Minority Recruitment and Retention Strategies and Initiatives (PDF Document)

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last updated on Saturday, June 4, 2005

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Calvary Hill Junior High School Pictures

Homecoming

(prettier than all the world...)

School Sports:

The Football Champions