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ORMER HALL HIGH SCHOOL WARRIORS
have created our very own tribe to support our alma mater, which
celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The Hall High Alumni Association, known as The Tribe, was established to raise public awareness and advocate for students and faculty. The Tribe was formed in 2015 to teach the community that Hall High is going strong and worthy of community pride. We are spreading the word about all of the good things happening at Hall and working with a deep-seeded belief that every student deserves the opportunity to learn in a school that is safe, exciting and one that prepares them for the future. After a year of volunteer and financial support of both student and teacher activities and needs, The Tribe is focusing our efforts on creating enhanced learning opportunities and enriched student experiences in the areas of arts and music, health and fitness, and student activities. The “$60 for 60” campaign has been launched to help The Tribe grow our funding to create and supplement programs and activities that directly benefit Hall High students and teachers. A long-term goal of this campaign is to establish endowed scholarships for deserving students. We ask you to give from your heart and make a contribution today.
MAKING HALL UNIQUE
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BY JILLIAN MCGEHEE
HALL HIGH SCHOOL 60TH ANNIVERSARY 1957-2017
COME HOME TO HALL FEBRUARY 3 OPEN HOUSE 5-6PM WWW.HALLHIGHALUMNI.ORG
all High School opened in 1957, a year before the infamous “Lost Year” during which Little Rock School District high schools were closed as a result of the integration crisis at Central High School. It was reopened after the 1958-59 school year. Hall High remains one of only three Arkansas public schools admitted to the National Cum Laude Society. Thirteen Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered with plans to implement concurrent courses beginning in the next school year. Hall was one of few schools statewide to implement an AP computer science principles course. Renowned graduates include Bruce Lindsey (adviser to President Clinton), David Auburn (Pulitzer Prize winning playwright for “Proof”), E. Lynn Harris (best-selling author), Jean Knaack (executive director Road Runners Club of America) and Richard Thalheimer (founder and former CEO of Sharper Image). Hall was the first high school to receive the Arkansas 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant in 2002. As a side note, the 21st CCLC logo was designed by a Hall student. The grant provides funding for out-of-school educational experiences for students and their families in the Hall community.
GOOD THINGS HAPPENING AT HALL
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n recent years, when Hall High has been publicly mentioned it might be because of a fight that occurred on campus or the low academic scores of the school. The public typically doesn’t hear about the art student who created a piece of art for an orphaned child overseas or the once-struggling ESL students who were accepted to the state’s prestigious Governor’s School. These success stories are happening all of the time at Hall. And it’s largely because of the following programs and the instructors behind them who believe in every student’s potential and worth.