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CAMPBELL SCHOOL CAMPBELL STUDENT REUNION PICTURE PICTURES 2 BORN AGAIN AMERICA WALKING THROUGH S HOME
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Dr. J. B. Olinger
I would like to express my appreciation to Mrs. Elaine Simpson, Ms. Trixie Siler, Mr. Kenneth Combs, Mrs. Eva Graves, Mr. Samuel Yette, Mr. Robert Bailey, Mr. Stanley Wester, Mrs. Carolyn Griffin, Ms Adrienne Davis and Juanita and Lewis Culbreath for their help in creating this site. 'THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM'
Stony the road we trod,
God of our weary years,
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past
has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present
has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have
been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the
blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God,
where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the
world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD.
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1920-1965
Lasting Legacy
Driven To Excellence
Adrienne Davis
From: warren.h.latham@exxonmobil.com
Subject: Re: Campbell High School & Walking Through the Storm web addresses.
Cynthia,
Thanks for sending these two links. I will have my wife, Cynthia Latham, purchase a copy of your book and send it to me. It is a pleasure to know you, as I do not know many people intelligent enough to write a book.........that includes me.
Tell Stanley that never have I read any document that aroused so many emotions in me as did the Campbell website. I am a Campbell grad uate, but I never had a clue who Mr Campbell was.
This article was most informative. Of course the tears flowed when I saw photos of Mr Olinger, my friends and relatives who have passed on. There was a photo of my favorite uncle Ben Johnson. He was the valedictorian of the class of 51.
I don't know how this website could have been improved.
Well on the other hand......................a few photos of me crowning and kissing the homecoming queens of 1959 and 1960 would have added a little spice. Or a few minutes of footage of me scampering for 65 yard touchdown. I know Stanley is laughing at this, but there really were such photos and such footage. I do not know what happened to them when the school was closed.
More next time,
Tech Advisor EAP-EPC4B Project
The building was constructed while Mr. B. J. Campbell was the principal and was eventually named in his honor.
In 1924 Dr. J. B. Olinger assumed the school's leadership with 6 students in a 2 year program. By 1937, through the effort Dr. and Mrs. Olinger, Campbell High was transformed into the smallest fully accreted 4 year high school in Tennessee.
Campbell was closed in 1965 by the Government's ban on racially segregated schools.
Nevertheless, the lack of local and federal government support to integrate never hindered CHS from being well known in communities near and far! CHS was in no doubt a school of P.R.I.D.E. Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Determined and Educated were represented through the staff to the students. Against the odds, this school never lost its zeal or mission! Every student at CHS felt a sense of belonging and self- worth and was taught that they would have to be twice as good to get half as far in life. The students set forth and did do as well academically and athletically. Therefore, Campbell High School was a school of excellence and mediocrity had no claim. Besides its great leadership, CHS was equipped with master teachers. These teachers knew how to teach with the highest competency, knowledge of content area and compassion, but most of all they loved first and taught second. Now as an adult, I can say that these fine teachers at CHS and Jamison Elementary inspired me to seek the love of teaching for over the past twenty- six years.
So, this is what I mean by being an inheritor of this fine institution. CHS has left an impact on its students and many generations to come! There are no uncertainties that Dr. Olinger’s visions became reality! Dr. Olinger’s commitment, dedication and visions created an institution that rises from the ashes like the Phoenix! We have become the inheritors that celebrate Campbell High School’s historical past, present and future. Dr. Olingers’s drive for excellence and the contributions of many others remain dear in all of our hearts. As its beneficiaries, we will continue the pursuit of excellence in all that we do and serve its beloved community!
(Early Intervention Specialist for the Georgia Department of Education)
Comments from CHS graduate, Warren Latham.
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:48:07 +0000
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Campbell High Plaque
In Memorial of Dr. John B. Olinger and Mrs. Willie V.Olinger
John Brownlow Olinger was born in Hazard Kentucky September 4, 1898.
He attended school through the eighth grade in the Perry county system.
His high school and the first years of college were at Kentucky Normal School (Kentucky State University) in Frankfort. He lettered in Football, Baseball and Tennis.
Tuskegee Institute granted a B. S. degree. There he established friendships with Dr. Carver and Benjamin Davis Jr. At Tuskegee he taught and also trained Boy Scout leaders.
He returned to Hazard to teach elementary school that had been founded by his father.
A master’s degree was earned at Fisk University.
Doctorate work was conducted at Columbia University, N. Y.
Olinger took a position as principal at Campbell High school in Rockwood, Tennessee grew it into the smallest accredited high school in Tennessee.
He coached girl and boy athletics. The student alumni recently built a memorial for him.
The state of Tennessee and the federal government made documentary films of his life.
Civic and social involvement took a lot of Olinger’s time. Olinger was Alpha Phi Alpha “Man of The Year”.
He retired from Campbell high and taught at Knoxville College. He died in 1974.
Town Mountain is a Summit in the state of Kentucky
Samuel F. Yette
Joining the U. S. Air Force during the Korean War and serving from 1951 to 1953. Yette returned to teach and coach at Campbell High School from 1953 to 1954 and at Howard High School in Chattanooga from 1954 to 1955.
Between 1954 and 1956, Yette worked as a sports writer for The Chattanooga Times and a sports caster for WMTS radio Yette completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Indiana University.
In 1956, Yette teamed with photographer Gordon Parks as a special correspondent for a four-part series in civil rights that appeared in Life Magazine. In 1956 he became a reporter for the Afro-American Newspapers In Baltimore and Washington, before serving as associate editor of Ebony from 1957 to 1959. That year, Yette was named director for Tuskegee University, where he remained till 1962. As it's first black reporter, he covered city hall for the Dayton Journal Herald in 1962. Yette became the Peace Corp's press liaison for Sergeant Shriver's visit to Africa in 1963 and was made the executive secretary of the Peace Corps in 1964 He was then appointed special assistant for civil rights to the director of the U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity, a position he held until 1967.
Becoming the first black Washington correspondent for News Week in 1968, Yette covered urban violence and began writing The Choice: The issue of Black Survival in America. The Choice, published in 1971, was an African American insider's view of the relationship between the Vietnam War, the War on Poverty and African American survival. for The Choice, Yette garnered a Special Book Award from the Capital Press Club in 1971, and the Top Non-Fiction Work of Distinction from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972. Featured on PBS's Black Journal, Yette lectured widely.
In 1972, Yette accepted a position as professor of journalism at Howard University and still wrote columns and commentary for the Miami Times, Tennessee Tribune, Philadelphia Tribune, Richmond Free Press, Nashville Banner and the Afro-American Newspapers and for magazines like Black World, Black Scolar, Black Collegian and Blacks Books Bulletin. He founded Cottage Books, Inc. and republished The Choice in 1982. In addition, Yette was political commentator for BET in 1987 and 1988, and hosted Talk TV Politics on WHMM-TV (now WHUT) from 1991-1992.
(county of Pike.) The nearest major town today is
Fords Branch, KY.
Samuel Yette
"The Siler Home".
Many a meal was served(given) from their table and we are still thankfull for their hospitality toward us all.
Thanks Mrs. Trixie!!
