Welcome to the A.H. Anderson High School Alumni Association web site. This website will allow us to better serve our Alumni Association members, friends and supporters. Our goal is to be in constant contact to keep you abreast of alumni news, events and programs.

I have served as president of the Alumni Association for the past 5 years. It is a role that I have enjoyed and embraced by striving to create a caring, responsive and effective Alumni Association. During the past seventeen years that we have been in existence we have been a good neighbor to our community and provided important services to them.

As you peruse the website you will see many of our accomplishments and learn of our future endeavors.

Our main goal, which is both ambitious and doable, is to establish The Anderson House. This community center would enable the Association to better serve the community and provide many needed services such as:
a food pantry, clothes closet, computer lab for students as well as adults performing job searches. A future goal is to provide community members with emergency financial assistance for rent and utility expenses after securing grant money for these services.

“Let’s Go Bulldogs!” We need you to respond to the call of those in need, and have a lot of fun while doing it. We need your help and your support. If you are not a member come join one of the greatest Alumni Associations and one with the spirit of helping those in need.

Although, we are mission driven, we don’t just work, we also sponsor fun and exciting events and programs for our membership. Please click on to the upcoming events page to review our schedule of events.

Your membership provides an opportunity for you to renew old friendships and enjoy the camaraderie of your classmates while giving back to the community. To join just follow the membership link on our website, let’s have fun and help those who need it the most.

“COME AND GIVE YOUR BULLDOG SPIRIT”

We want your input!

If you have an idea for an event that you think the A H Anderson Alumni Association should host, please send your ideas to the following:

ahandersonalumni@aol.com

We are State and Federal Tax Exempt with our 501(c) (3) status.
I Appreciate and Thank All of You

Theodis Foster
Class of 1967

HISTORY

It all started one autumn day in 1958, when the eight grade students of Columbia Heights Elementary School learned they would not be graduating in June as planned. A new program, the 6-3-3 plan, had been introduced into our school system. Our sadden hearts were soon mended at the sight of our new and beautiful institution, the Columbia Heights Junior High School. We had only four months to enjoy our new school before the school term ended.

In September 1958, the ninth grade class at C.H.J.H.S. began the school year with doubts. As the school year ended it was realized that there was not a tenth grade at our school . Most of the students went to Atkins High School where they met knew friends and new teachers.

In September 1960, the students returned to Columbia Heights Senior High School with pride and dignity. In 1962, the first class graduated from C.H.S.H.S.

During the summer of 1962, the name of the school was changed to Albert H. Anderson Senior High School and the class of 1963 was the first class to graduate from our newly named school. Over the next seven years, the school earned many awards and trophies as students excelled in academics and athletics. Then in September 1970, the school reverted from a senior high school to a high school (grades 9th and 10th).

Fourteen years later, the school was officially closed. When Winston-Salem State University purchased the property, the Anderson class of 1964 – with the help of then Alderman Virginia Newell, petitioned the university to retain the name. And so, it was that the university’s refurbished facility was dedicated, the Albert H. Anderson Conference Center, in 1987.