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• Graduation rates have increased from 63% in 2007 to 87.4% in 2019 (and it should be noted that the State changed the way graduation ratges are reported.  RJR's graduation rate is above the district and state average).
• College attendance rates have increased from 74% in 2008 to 87% in 2019!
• Dropout rates have decreased froom 7.3% in 2008 to 1.96% in 2018!
• Scholarships have increased from $8.5 million is 2009 to $11 million in 2019!

Amid the pines she proudly stands!

 

 Click here ( * ) to view the 3 on-going initiatives of RJR Alumni and Friends. 

Below are RJR-related articles for the 2021-2022 school year:

 

   the lead article in the June 21st edition of the local newspaper was about retired principal Bob Deaton being surprised by a 90th birthday party for him staged at RJR by some of his former students

 

   Video of the 2022 Spring Semester RJR Dance Showcase that featured amazing choreography performed in many different and varied sets by over 100 students 

 

   a front-page newspaper article about a group of female members of the Class of 1970 that recently attended their Class Reunion and who have been hiking together in different parts of the world for years 

 

  Video of RJR Alumni President presenting a battery-powered public address speaker to the RJR Department of Choirs during the Spring Choral Concert

 

  Video of the phenomenal 2022 RJR SPRING CHORAL CONCERT

 

   Video of  RJR's Bands' SPRING BAND CONCERT at Reynolds Auditorium

 

   Video of the RJR and Wiley Middle School Orchestras performing their Spring Concert on May 10th at Reynolds Auditorium

 

  Data collection has begun for the next RJR Alumni Directory (which will be published next year). Details are given concerning how to submit that information.

 

  Video of 2022 RJR Key Club Follies

 

  RJR recently received the pictured cash register that was specifically made for Reynolds High School in 1927. Do you happen to have an old picture from a relative taken at RJR that shows this cash register?  Or do you have an old RJR yearbook that has a picture of this cash register in it?

 

   Video of a conversation between RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening and Dr. Mary Margaret Frank (an outstanding member of the Class of 1987 who is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia)

 

 Video of the February 23rd RJR Piano and Guitar Showcase staged at Reynolds Auditorium

 

  Groundbreaking for RJR's Multi-Sports Stadium took place on Wednesday, March 2nd

 

 

 Video of RJR's Theatre Arts Department's March 11th staging of their "SPRING SHOWCASE" (which features some amazingly talented RJR student actors and actresses)

 

    9 were inducted into RJR's Sports Hall of Fame on Friday evening, January 28th, during the boys basketball game with Parkland

 

  The video of RJR's 2022 A Cappella Jam for Hope concert featuring some amazingly talented student singers from various local high schools

 

  The video between renowned thespain (and RJR alum) Alan Toy and RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening

 

   The 2022 (16th annual) much anticipated A Cappella Jam for Hope will be staged on Saturday evening at 7:00 pm at Reynolds Auditorium 

 

 A historical document researched and written by Alumni President Harry Corpening: "The Early history of Winston-Salem…and Wachovia Bank, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, the Hanes companies, Hanes Park, and RJ Reynolds High School & Richard J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium”

 

  Video of the 2021 RJR Holiday Showcase featuring the renown RJR a cappella choral groups as well as the Dancing Boots

 

  The video of an end-of-the-fall semester Q&A interview between RJR Calvin Freeman and RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening

 

   Learn now how to permanently name a seat (or seats) at Reynolds Auditorium, and at the same time help create an endowment for the Auditorium

 

We have decided to create an endowment with The Winston-Salem Foundation, and we are now trying to raise $25,000 needed to do this

 

  a very entertaining and informative video of a Zoom interview of RJR Director of Bands Josh Settlemyre by Alumni President Harry Corpening

 

  a video of the RJR and Wiley Middle School Orchestras jointly performing their "Winter Concert" at Reynolds Auditorium on December 3rd. FYI: RJR's Orchestra teacher Deborah Shebish teaches at both schools.

 

   Video of the AMAZING Fall Choral Concert staged on October 28th at Reynolds Auditorium

 

   An article that tells about RJR's first football team that regrettably had a player die while playing

 

   The Class of 1968 awarded its 23rd annual scholarship this year (valued at $25,000). Learn the history about why this was created, and how anyone...incuding YOU...can help support this scholarship fund.

 

   Calvin Freeman (RJR's new Principal) and Alumni President Harry Corpening stage a recorded one-hour Q&A interview

 

   RJR's AWESOME Theater Arts Department will stage the hilariously funny comedic musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" starting on Thursday evening, Oct. 21st

 

  The death of RJR football player Matthew in 2008 led to the creation of the Matthew Gfeller Foundation (which started the researching of concussions in youth sports). On Oct. 11th, the WFU School of Medicine joined 12 other schools in a $10 million grant study on this topic. The funding provided by the Gfeller family to the Matthew Gfellow Foundation was what started all of this research.

 

   Pictures and Q&A with 2020-2021 Alumni $1,000 Scholarship recipients and the RJR Teacher of the Year (who also received $1,000 from the Alumni)

 

 

   A listing of the student concerts at Reynolds Auditorium this school-year

 

   The RJR Alumni has recently revised its list of on-going initiatives...and now there are only 3

 

   September has seen a Mt. Tabor student shot and killed on-campus, guns confiscated from a Mt. Tabor and a Reynolds student, and guns shots  fired near Parkland High School

 

   A committee of the Board of Education recommends that improvements be made at a RJR practice field next to Hanes Park. Read an article about this, and electronically sign a petition urging the School Board to vote for this.

 

   RJR gets a LARGE federal grant due to 'Title 1' guidelines

  A historical document detailing the simultaneous creation of RJ Reynolds High School, Richard J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium, and Hanes Park

 

  At the July 28th meeting of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board it was decided there would be universal wearing of masks by all students

 

  Mr. Calvin Freeman has been approved by the School Board as the next Principal at RJR, and will start on August 2nd

 

  Dr. Leslie Alexander, RJR's Principal since 2015, has moved to the School System's central office to be an area superintendent for leadership development

 

 

  RJR students will get exclusive use of Hanes Park track and surrounding athletic fields between 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm

 

 

   A posting of a 50-year history of RJR titled "Amid the Pines * A History of Reynolds Senior High * 1923 - 1973"

 

 

   A link to an informative video between RJR Athletic Director Brad Fisher and RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening

 

 

  Please consider making a tax deductible donation to stock the Demon Pantry (which feeds hungry students and gives out needed toiletries)

 

  The latest emails from 'RJR Alumni & Friends' President Harry Corpening to all Alumni

   Link to the UPDATED Professionally recorded video of the opening night performance of the RJR spring musical:  "Into the Woods"

  A video of the 2020 version of "Reynolds Revue Amid the Pines" (which occurred on January 29th) that was a welcoming event for next fall's incoming freshmen and their parents

  Video of the RJR A Cappella Jam for Hope 2020

Below are RJR-related articles not specific to any specific school-year

  PLEASE consider the RJ Reynolds High School Alumni & Friends organization in your estate planning

   A listing of the various ways you can make a tax deductible donation to the "RJ Reynolds High School Alumni and Friends" organization

   A listing of the students receiving RJR Alumni $1,000 scholarships, as well as the RJR Staff members being awarded $1,000 by the RJR Alumni for being selected as the Teacher (and in some years Principal) of the Year.  (Each honoree has their picture shown, as well as their answers to questions posed by RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening.  This list covers the last 12 school-years). 

  RJR Class Reunions and Notices

   Learn how to permanently name a seat in Reynolds Auditorium for someone (or yourself)

A video showing the reasons why RJR is still a GREAT school (especially for incoming freshmen)

  How to receive weekly RJR Communications emails 

  Follow RJR via social media to learn what going on "amid the pines" in real time

    Learn how to raise money for RJR by merely shopping at grocery stores

  Memories of Winston-Salem and Reynolds High School during World War II by RJR Alumni who graduated before 1950

   The early history of Winston-Salem and Wachovia Bank, RJ Reynolds Tobbaco Co., the Hanes companies, Hanes Park, and RJ Reynolds High School & Auditorium