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Reynolds High School

    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 participating in dance, piano and guitar, as well as other "entites" such as the Key Club Follies).

Reynolds High School became an Arts Magnet school is 2007. Since then...

* Graduation rates have increased from 63% in 2007 to 93% IN 2017!

* College attendance rates have increased from 74% in 2008 to 92% in 2017!

* Dropout rates have decreased froom 7.3% in 2008 to 2.8% in 2015!

* Scholarships have increased from $8.5 million is 2009 to $18 million in 2018!


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 2018

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 in sustaining our on-going yearly initiatives:

Your RJR Alumni in the past has 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 on-going annual expenses of $3,000....which is ONLY funded via donations from alumni and friends of Reynolds High School....like YOU! Information about (and pictures of) 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.


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.

And last: please take a few minutes to call in (to 800-546-0328) to verify and update your personal information for the next RJR Alumni Directory (which will be published next year). If you are not in the current Directory: use that number to call in your information.



  Information about how YOU can be listed in the upcoming RJR Alumni Directory (and why that is VERY important to the RJ Reynolds High School Alumni & Friends organization)

  Three people will be inducted into the RJR Arts Hall of Fame at the George Hamilton IV Memorial Music Festival ("FolksyFest") on September 22nd (which is a fund-raiser for the Arts Magnet Program)

Video of RJR Principal Dr. Leslie Alexander speaking to those at the 17th annual RJR Multi-Class Reunion on August 11, 2018

How to receive weekly RJR Communications emails

The RJR PTSA 16-page "summer newspaper" sent to all RJR parents (which among other things details how the school's focus of "Bridging Connections" will be carried out this school-year)

Matt Gfeller died 10 years ago while playiing in a RJR football game. Learn what brain trauma research has taken place because of that tragedy

A list of the 2018-2019 events at which RJR students perform at Reynolds Auditorium

A FABULOUS 32-minute documentary (produced by RJR Journalism students in partnership with the world renown Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) that deals with the questions of how different would we be if we went to another school, or grew up in another neighborhood

Mayor Allen Joines proclaims May 23, 2018 as "Leslie Alexander Appreciation Day"

Front-page article in local newspaper about road-work on Northwest Blvd. to create a safer place for students to cross the street

Video of 2018 RJR Spring Choral Concert

Veteran RJR baseball coach Doug Welch has decided to move to Texas to be near his parents

RJR hires new baseball and boys swimmiing coaches

Video of RJR Spring Band Concert: "SPRING AHEAD..."

   RJR rising senior Wills Woodruff is pictured on the front cover of a local magazine

Local front-page newspaper article about differenes in opinion as work starts on Hanes Park "improvements"

The basic reason for why RJR should have a paid-for multi-sports stadium

An update on the proposed RJR Multi-Sports Stadium...and more specifics as to why it is needed

Entries of RJR students into magazine published by Winston-Saelm/Forsyth County Schools that showcases amazing artistic creations of high school students

One RJR Coach has retired and another has resigned (to focus on the ministry)...and a successor to one of those coaches has been named

Details of the day that the City determined where RJR and Reynolds Auditorium would be located, and what all Hanes Park could (and could not) be used for

Local newspaper article about the RJR girls lacrossee team doing very well this year while being coached by a Junior in college

RJR boys lacrosse team has a dominant front page article (accompanied by a color picture) in the local newspaper

Video of RJR 2018 Spring Orchestra Concert

the 2018 Spring edition of "Copy Write (a magazine published by RJR highlighting the writing and artistic abilities of its students) was just released

Video of the 2018 Spring Dance Concert

  RJR Alumni Annual $1,000 Scholarship & Teacher of the Year Recipients (and in 2017 and 2018: Principal of the Year Recipient)

Video of the RJR Jazz Band performing at the Grand Opening of RJR's "The Jazz Cafe" inside the Judy Voss Jones Arts Center

Local magazine "Buema Vista Life" has feature article about boys 2018 RJR golf team

Video of the 2018 Key Club Follies performed at Reynolds Auditorium

Video of "Benefit Concert for the Arts" which includes the RJR Orchestra

   Video of 2018 RJR Guitar and Piano Showcase

   Class of 1968 awarded a deserving RJR Senior this year with a scholarship paying $4,000 for 4 years

    Video of RJR Winter dance Concert: "Perspective"

Eight are inducted into the RJR Athletic Hall of Fame

Video of the 2018 RJR A Cappella Jam for Hope

   A video of RJR students' many assorted creations from various Visual Arts classes

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

RJR's Leslie Alexander named THE 2017-2018 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Principal of the Year

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

    Video of the AWESOME first RJR Arts Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

   A listing of the 49 different ongoing Clubs at RJR

   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 10, 2018

Older RJR Yearbooks on sale for $30 each

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

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

   RJR Class Reunions and Notices

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

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.

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