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2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Anniston Christian Academy . . . . . . . . 4
Anniston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Donoho School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Faith Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Iqra Math and Science Academy . . . . 7
Jacksonville Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Jacksonville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ohatchee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Oxford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Piedmont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Pleasant Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
Sacred Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Saks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 COVER AND ABOVE: Michael Reaves working in the machine shop at the Calhoun County Career Academy in Jack-
Trinity Christian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 sonville.
HEAD START
Walter Wellborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
White Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
AREA SCHOOLS
Central High School of Clay County . 17
Cherokee County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cleburne County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Handley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Students get jump on jobs with career tech
Harvest Christian Academy . . . . . . . . 21
Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 BY BEN NUNNALLY median hourly wage for Anniston-area pleted clinical trials there as part of the
Munford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 [email protected] machinists at $23.52 in 2017. high school’s career tech program, and
Ranburne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 “I want to buy a house, a car, all of said she can start work once she passes
Randolph County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Few teens have jobs building missiles that kind of stuff,” Reaves said. “I want her CNA certification exam this month.
Spring Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 lined up after graduation. to make sure everything is paid off and She said her everyday tasks will include
Wadley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 That’s what Michael Reaves, a soon- have enough money to take my family taking patients’ blood pressure and heart
to-be-graduate of Pleasant Valley High out when I have kids, take my wife out.” rates, helping them change and keeping
Woodland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
School and the Calhoun County Career Reaves said he’ll fabricate hydraulics up with their everyday health needs.
Academy, plans to do after he doffs his that screw into the end of missiles that Morris said she’s wanted to be a nurse
cap and gown this month, working at stretch 4 or 5 feet long, part of the rock- since the sixth grade, when emergency
SPECIAL THANKS General Dynamics Ordnance and Tac- et system that will drive the devices to services workers responded to a call
Sue Magouirk, Debbie Reaves, tical Systems in Anniston. Career Acad- their targets. Once he’s proven himself about her grandmother. Though her
Ben Cunningham, Jessica Akridge emy director Kevin Lockridge said the by working the lathe, he can move up to grandmother died, she said, watching
company called the school looking for programming the machine. Eventually responders work “sparked something”
Cover photo by Stephen Gross students in precision machining classes he wants to be what he called a “setup inside her.
with experience and drive; Lockridge technician,” who can program multiple “She needed help I couldn’t provide
said Reaves has both. machines at the facility. for her, but maybe one day I could do
As a new employee, Reaves will work Reaves is one of a handful of students that for someone. Old, young, anything;
as a lathe operator in the evening, while in local career tech programs with jobs someone always needs help,” she said.
Check out the digital he goes to school at Gadsden State already waiting after graduation. Lockridge said college might not
edition online at Community College during the day.
He said he likes to work with his hands
A’Liebia Morris, who graduates be the answer for every student, as
from Anniston High School this month, evidenced by graduates like Reaves
AnnistonStar.com/grad2019 and doesn’t mind getting dirty, so the expects to join Anniston assisted living and Morris. Though both do plan to
work suits him. So does the paycheck. facility NHC Place, where she’ll work as
The Bureau of Labor Statistics put the a certified nursing assistant. She com- Please see TECH | Page 5
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attend Gadsden State,
they’ve trained through
high school for specific
Senior Class
positions they can start
immediately after gradu-
ation. Reaves said his job
requires a two-year degree
of 2019
or three years of technical
Become a
school, requirements that
would have held him back
for years after graduation.
Morris said she didn’t
LEADER!
believe she’d have had
the time to prepare for the
CNA exam after leaving
school, with work and bills
hanging over her head.
“I think that would be
the last thing on my mind,”
Morris said.
Lockridge, a former
math teacher, said the
parents of his generation
believed success was
tied to a college degree.
Even as tuition costs rise,
“undecided” is a top-rank-
ing major in universities,
he said, with graduates
loaded down by student
debt for degrees that might
not translate into paying
jobs. Meanwhile, he said, Stephen Gross / The Anniston Star
improving unemployment Michael Reaves working in the machine shop at the
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Thompson, Mahaley Belle Tucker, Abby Faye Ulrey and Anna
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SALUTATORIAN
Alexandria “Lexi” Grace
Gosdin
PARENTS: An-
thony and Monica
Gosdin of Roanoke
ACTIVITIES:
Honor Graduate,
Academic Banquet,
Academic Letter,
Honor Roll, Nation-
al Honor Society,
Mu Alpha Theta
and varsity softball.
COLLEGE: Plans to attend Lagrange
College on a Presidential Learning
Scholarship and pursue a bachelor of
science degree in nursing, then a MSN
and pursue a career as a pediatric nurse
practitioner.
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Continued from Page 18 Floyd Hannah Rahe, Jonathan Tallent Rainey, Donnie
M-Q George Michael Ratliff, Paisley Alysse Reed, Thomas
A-F G-L William Taylor Mackey, Crimson Brey Mahannah, Richard, Crayton Malcom Roberts, Kaylee Rose
Mary Ansley Abernathy, Anna Kathryn Allen, Daisy Carson Ray Garrett, Luke Chadden Goss, Camryn Martin Maier, Mikah Chambrae Malone, Jacob Blake Rogers-Lee, Elizabeth Anne Sanders, Destinee Na-
Grace Baggett, Robert Chase Bailey, Martina Jean Mae Gossett, Claudia Elizabeth Graves, Alexis Brianna Martin, Preston Andrew Matthews, Erin Lee McCord, keiya-Denae Scott, Jenna Kaye Smith, Stephen Tyler
Beck, Madison Brooke Bell, Candace Renae Bentley, Guice, Hannah Elizabeth Hanby, Cole Thomas Harmon, Bellah Camryn McCurry, Michaela Danielle McGatha, Smith, Sydney Russell Stanley, Karson Tryn Stargell,
Jonathan Paul Bowlin, Justin Duane Clifton, Madison William Cole Hawkins, Erin Makenzie Hightower, Richard Brody McGatha, Zachary Wayland McGatha, Kobe DaJohn Starr, Delaney Hope Stouder, Dontavious
Brooke Coley, Allison Stevie Collins, Alyssa Hope Chelsea LeAnn Hill, Johnathan Wayne Hindman, William Brian McKinney, Logan Dale Oliver McLeod, K’Von Stubbs, Lauren Marie Swiney, Ethan Michael
Cothran, Alec Bryce Couzzourt, Joseph Hubert Craig, Caden Luke Hubbard, Trinity Aaliyah Hulsey, Bailey Brendon Ryan Melton, Ivory RaShawn Moore, Savan- Tillery, Autumn Hope Trimm, Cheyenne Nichole Walker,
Kourtney Marie Crider, Gary Lee Croft, Mitchell Star- Scott Hunter, Sarrah Alexandria Hunter, Antwan nah Marie Moore, Kyler Taran Morgan, James Rob- Emma Grace Walker, Alleigh Grace Ward, Lillian Grace
ling Davis, Dylan Austin Davison, Blake Allen Dobbs, Maleek Jamerson, Alexia Karson Johnson, Ethan ert-Austin Moss, William David Jay Nichols, Charles Webb, Samantha Paige Weeks, Jeffrey David White,
Christian Dakota Douglas, Joseph Cole Downey, Matthew Johnson, Laney Kate Johnson, Brooke Eva Robert Norton, Clark Vincent Oliphant, Jonothan Julie Elizabeth Wiggins, Justin Alexander Williams,
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CANDIDATES FOR
GRADUATION
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Christopher Alan Abercrombie, Lauryn Elizabeth
Alderman, Olivia Grace Allen, Autumn Leeann
Ashley, Emma Karen Baker, Dennis Cole Barrentine,
Kaya Auryon Black, Chloe Elizabeth Brasher, Mad-
ison Michelle Brooks, Ethan Michael Bryan, Jacob
Alan Burns, Julia Marie Callahan, Januarius DaQuan
Carmichael, Eziyah Lamikah Brent Carter, Andrew
Michael Challender, Clayton Matthew Chappell,
Sarah Paige Clayburn, Aaron Davon Coleman, Trinity
Marie Cotton, Marshawn DeAngelo Covington, Jo-
seph Maxwell Crowe, Christavia Shayvontea Curry,
Tontavious Dion Curry, Shakira Akera Davis, Monet
Sheyenne DeJesus, Jossie KayLynn Edge,Trinity Submitted photo
Johna Elston, Tyra Valinthyes Embry, Jazmyne
Shyneece Epps, Zachary James Floyd FRONT ROW: Janie McKleroy, Malerie Goolsby, Paige Clayburn, Bre’Shayla Hill, Christavia Curry, Kristen Woods, Pearl
Langley and Trinity Elston. MIDDLE ROW: Santiago Tamayo-Hernandez, Grayson Phillips, Jaylon Hudson, Jacob Burns,
G-L Xavier Ragland, Miles Haynes, Jackson Smith and Chloe Brasher. BACK ROW: Jarod McBurnett, Dalton Gowers, Cole
Kaziyah Monea Gaston, Colten Nathanael Barrentine, Drew Challender, Matthew Morrison and Clay Chappell. NOT PICTURED: Alexander Taylor and Destiny
Givens, Malerie Savannah Goolsby, Dalton Stuart Thomas
Gowers, Salyric Rayvonne Green, Eboni Cheyanne
Groce, Jonathan Michael Hamlin, Shamar LeVay
Hampton Jr. , Brian Keith Hastings Jr., Charles Jo-
seph Hawes, Savannah Lauren Hawes, Miles Trevor Zoe Christian Machen, Jarrod Ryan McBurnett, Dalton Trent Pitts, Stephen Nicholas Andrew Pope Hernandez, Brandon Alexander Taylor, Shelby
Haynes, Bre’Shayla Niyanna Santese Hill, Matthew Janie Nicole McKleroy, Alexis Brooke McNabb, Brooke Taylor, Destiny Sears Thomas, Nykendria
Dawson Hoffman, Jakahri Dondrell Howard, Tamia Allen L McNair, Ryan Allen Moncus, Deriaunte R-T Jamayhia Thomas, Taylor Cheyenne Thompson,
Deann Howard, Adam Blake Howell, Jaylon McKin- Ke’Waun Montgomery, Samuel Jake Montgomery Xavier Marquis Ragland, Cheyanne Storm Jacob Andrew Turner
ley Hudson, Haven DeAnn Hughes, Myrakel Anaqi Jr., Michael Thomas Morris, Xzavier Tyrice Morris, Robertson, Ayla Storm Robinson, Nykiria Marshae
Hunter, Dawson Cole Jackson, Jah’Michael Lamas Matthew Riley Morrison, William Bradlen Morrison, Robinson, Lukus Mathew Saylors, Katrina Rose U-Z
Johnson, Jasmine Saphire Kendricks, Kaliah Janae Gaige Allen Mundy, Hunter Austin Murphy, Kayleigh Sewell, Faith LeAnn Shaw, Brooke Diann Shore, Braxton Clay Watson, Hunter Blake Watts, Je’ve-
Killings, Pearl Addison Langley, Johnathan Austin Talyn Nelson, Nicole Mitchell Newhouse, Miya Abigail Elizabeth Smith, Ana Marie Smith, Jackson on Antjuan Welch, Magen Danielle Weldon, Jayden
Le, Aaliyah Danielle Lusk Alexis Oden, Ja’Von Shaquille Orr, Kendall Bernard Hunter Smith, Tyler Mikkell-Logan Stallworth, Daw- Kalil White, Nigel Merkez Williams, Avery Renee
Orr, Marchell Keona Pearson, Abigail Diana Phillips, son Lee Turner Stanford, Christopher Chad Swain, Wilson, Kristen Jonye Woods, Anna Laura Wooten
M-Q Grayson Lee Phillips, Hannah Elizabeth Phillips, Makarius Keon Swain, Santiago Eduardo Tamayo and Michael Javon Wren Jr.
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Parents: Ben Parents: Michael & Parents: Avery Guess Parents: Phillip &
Heather Spivey Barbara Denson
& &
Becky Williams “Follow Your Dreams” Brandi Blaylock Congratulations on
We love you!! your accomplishments.
Go conquer the world.
Mom, Dad, Madalyn,
Lauren, Nona, Faith Love, Phillip
and Olivia & Barbara
Holden Chandler Bryant Virginia Hall Billings Matt Brascho Qianqi Chen Hugh Davis Seth Ford Sarah Gibson
Abernathy Armstrong Barrentine Beezley
Bradey Harrison Han Gray Hanley Lesly Hernandez Annie Hillman Sallie-Grace Haley Holmes Harrison Camden Jacob
Goodson Hodge Hughston Kitchen LeCroy II
Grayson Reese Diana Musa Will Nelson John Noone Emma Burk Yash Patel James Perry Shelley Jack Ray
Marlowe McWhorter Owsley Phillips
Rhett Rigsby Tyler Rigsby Cole Runyan Whitney Seals Blake Steed Jenna Erin Swinney Madelyn Mahaley Abby Ulrey
Stremmel Thompson Tucker
Seniors of The Donoho School were accepted at 45 colleges and universities with 95% receiving a
merit based academic scholarship, and over 50% receiving full-tuition scholarships to the college
of their choice! Way to go, Donoho School Class of 2019!
Auburn University Elon University Johnson and Wales University Purdue University The American Academy of University of Massachusetts
Baylor University Emory University-Oxford College Middle Tennessee State University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dramatic Arts Amherst
Birmingham Southern College Florida State University Millikin University Rutgers University The University of Alabama University of Mississippi
Case Western Reserve University Georgia Institute of Tecnology Mississippi State University Rhodes College The University of the Arts University of Mobile
Clemson University Highlands College Mobile University Samford University Troy State University University of Montevallo
Anna Ulrey Cumberland University Huntingdon College North Carolina State University Sewanee: The University of the Tulane University University of Plymouth
Davidson College Iowa Wesleyan University Pace University South Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham University of South Alabama
Dean College Jacksonville State University Point Park University Texas State University University of Maine University of South Carolina