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    Welcome to www.RJRalumni.org

THE website for

RJ Reynolds High School Alumni and Friends!

You are at the right place to learn about what great things are happening at RJR, as well as information on the Class reunions (we have been informed of), and of the various initiatives of your RJ Reynolds High School Alumni and RJR Staff.  Also, we offer links to on-line videos of school performances staged at Reynolds Auditorium (such as concerts performed by RJR's Band, Orchestra, the Choirs, as well as students specializing in dance, and other "entites" such as the Key Club Follies).

With Reynolds High School having been transformed into an arts magnet school, there were 284 students in Forsyth County (last spring) outside the geographic area Reynolds serves who put their names in a lottery to be able to "win" one of the 221 "seats" available last year (which means there is a waiting list of of 63 students wanting to attend RJR)!!



The words today are the same as in 1949 when they were first written:

Amid the pines she proudly stands!

CONGRATULATIONS to the RJ Reynolds High School Class of 2017

If you would like to receive periodic updates from the RJR Alumni, merely send an email to RJRdirectory@aol.com (with the subject line of "add me to the list"). Also, please inform your classmates about this website....so that a lot more of the 39,028 Reynolds High School alumni (as of 2016-2017) will know what great things are taking place "amid the pines."

We need your help with this website!

We want to be able to inform all visitors coming to our website of the MANY various initiatives on-going at Reynolds High School today (that desire Alumni funding and/or participation), as well as the MANY various internet-related groups formed by RJR alumni (such as those found on Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Classmates.com, etc.). If you have information about any such initiative or group, please send us an e-mail with information about it (so we can post that onto our website...so everyone coming to our website can learn about it). Send the e-mail to RJRhighschool@aol.com by clicking here ( * ). Please make the subject-line of the e-mail "helping the website".

Also, we want you to know that your RJR Alumni in the past has in the past awarded one or two $1,000 scholarships (to deserving graduating seniors). We have also annually awarded $1,000 to the RJR Teacher of the Year (with that recipient being selected by their peers). Thus, we have an on-going annual expenses of at least $1,000....which is ONLY funded via donations from alumni and friends of Reynolds High School. (Information about the past scholarship winners and Teachers of the Year can be found by clicking here ( * ). We would hope that YOU would be willing to send us a (tax deductible) donation to help fund these important initiatives for next year (because in 2016 year we only had enough funds to award the Teacher of the Year Award). You can send your check (made out to "RJR Alumni & Friends") to: RJR Alumni & Friends * P.O. Box 26172 * Winston-Salem, NC 27114.

The bottom-line to this request is fairly simple: if we don't receive enough funding to award these scholarships and Teacher of the Year awards...they will cease!   Can't you send send us a (tax deductible) donation...so that RJ Reynolds High School can conitnue to boast that it is the ONLY public high school in N.C. where the alumni show their support of their alma mater by annually offering two $1,000 scholarships and a $1,000 teacher of the year award?!!

Our mailing address is: RJR Alumni & Friends * P.O. Box 26172 * Winston-Salem, NC 27114.

Also, it is our desire that when your Class next stages its reunion that you seriously consider raising some (tax deductible) funding for this annual RJR Alumni initiative. As an example of what can be done in one evening: click here ( * ) to read an article about the Class of 1968 raising over $9,000 (in one evening) at their last reunion.

Video of RJR Principal Leslie Alexander speaking to Alumni at 16th annual RJR Multi-Class Reunion on July 17, 2017

    Video showing "Weaving Connections," a documentary produced in partnership between RJR students and Pulitzer Center's NewArts professionals

RJR Principal Leslie Alexander is named 2017 Magnet Principal of the Year and RJR's Director of Arts Magnet program was named 2016 Teacher of the Year

   RJR wins the "School of Excellence Award" and is graded as an "A" school for the 2016-2017 school year

   RJR Principal Leslie Alexander will speak to the Alumni at the RJR Multi-Class Reunion on July 16th at the "5 Points Restaurant" at 6:00 pm

   Video of the SPECTACULAR 2017 RJR Spring Choral Concert

Video of RJR 2017 Spring Dance Recital

An update on long-time neighbor of RJR: the Childrens Home

  Video of 2017 RJR Spring Bands Concert

   Follow the Arts at RJR via social media

Video of RJR's all-female Syncopate a capella group performance that won a trip to Florida in quarter-final competition

   Video telling of beliefs behind Syncopate's womens empowerment-focused set "Frank About Women"



   In mid-January the 2017 Class of Inductees to the RJR Athletic Hall of Fame was announced

Video of 2017 Key Club Follies

Video of 2017 Spring Guitar and Piano Concert

   Video of the 2017 RJR Spring Orchestra Concert

   Donations are being accepted to help pay medical expenses of RJR student rushed to NYC hospital while on a school sponsored trip

     "Copy Write" 2017: a RJR magazine that showcases the writing and artistic abilities of RJR students

RJR school performance grade improves from C to A (a Pine Whipsers article)

Via donations to the "Leslie Fund" the RJR Alumni gives RJR a golf cart to help Staff patrol Hanes Park

   Video of RJR Principal speaking to 15th annual RJR Multi-Class Reunion on Aug. 14th

"RJ Reynolds Times"...the 2016-2017 handbook of rules and regulations for RJR students and staff

   See and read the entries of RJR students in the "Fresh Voices Rising" magazine (which is published by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System each year, and which has fabulous poems and art created by high schoolers)

   Where several of RJR athletic teams have to practice and play their home games off-campus

   A major conflict involving Hanes Park is "brewing" between supporters of RJR athletic teams and folks from the surrounding community

   RJR Alumni's LESLIE Fund

RJR Alumni from the 1960's go to the "5 Points Restaurant" each 4th Thursday of the month

   RJR MEN who graduated in the 50's & 60's invited to informal get-together at noon at Hanes Mall location of the Golden Corral restaurant on October 11, 2017

Older RJR Yearbooks on sale for $30 each

    New Items for RJR Booster Club (that sells RJR branded clothing via this website)

   Plans for and donation opportunities for the proposed RJR Multi-Sports Stadium

    Pine Whispers has a new logo and layout...and is still a great way to know what's happening "amid the pines"

    Class of 1968 starts campaign to raise an additional $100,000 for their Memorial Scholarship Fund

   The most Recent Emails Sent by RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening to RJR alumni

   More Mentors Are Needed for Current Members of RJR'S Senior Class

    RJR Alumni Annual $1,000 Scholarship & Teacher of the Year Recipients

   RJR Class Reunions and Notices

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

    Early history of Reynolds High School and Auditorium

To contact us at the "RJ Reynolds High School Alumni and Friends" organization: click here ( * ) to send an e-mail to Harry Corpening (who is the President of this organization). Please put "RJR alumni" in the subject line. Should you wish to call him, his number is (336) 575-9476.

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