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We are so grateful to those who support our mission and help make make the Thomas Jefferson High School experience possible. To show our appreciation, we honor our donors and members. To be added to this list, take the next step and choose the option that fits best for you.
Founders: Mr. Albert Jones and Mr. William Elkins
Charter Members: Dr. Paul Fisher (Principal), Judge Harold Cherness, Blanch Wiley-Jones, Ella Tate and Carl Carson (Student Body President)
1923
Ida Jackson Miller
1929
Congressman Agustus F. Hawkins
1930
Rheba Lee (Glaze) Edwards
Ike Lee
1931
Vivian Leath Craig
1933
James Cook
Joseph H. Postelle
1935
Clarence Jackson
Alma Boone King
Willford King
Edward J. Robinson
Eloise Coleman Smith
Fred D. Wills
Wiley Wills
1936
William M. Andrews
Catherine (Williams) Norris
1937
Homer Blair
Evelyn W. Brown
Paul W. Brown
Dorothy Morrison Green
Edward C. Henry
Margaret G. Moore
Velda Porter
Akira Suzuki
Frances Millhouse Thompson
1937 Summer
Robert K. Battle
Mildred Day Fisher
1938
William Elkins FOUNDER William King Jr.
Harry Lewis
1939
Emma M. Adams
Rosa Lee Cook
MaryLou Scott Hopson
Donald Kearney
Leola Triplett Reed
Margaret A. (White) Shaw Alma (Morgan) Woods
1940
Ethel Anderson
Opal Bryant
Elmo Espree
Betty B. Henry
Marvella Moses-Johnson
Eleanor G. Nelson
Josephine Parker
Gwendolyn R. White
1940 Summer
Bernice M. Delaney
1941
Leroy Beavers, Jr.
William Benfield
Joyce Bernard
Orlean Wilson Dubuclet Edward Greenwood Oscar V. Little
Charles Nesbit
Gertrude Gibson Penland Marshall Sells
Retha Vick Spears
1942
Tyree Brown
Maryanna Stoke Delaney Bernice Green
Barbara Harris Lee
Barbara W. Parker
Kenneth Watson
John White
Wilkes White
Lorenzo E. Williams
1943
Alice Scott Andrews Jacquelyn Hooks Austin Alvan Burton
Wilma Anglin Callahan Evelyn Capers
Arthur A. Lewis
James E. Parker
1943 Winter
Levert R. Patterson
1944
Millard E. Murphy
Ethelene G. Smith
Odom Williams
1945 Summer
Kirk Boston Barlow
Rev. John Beacon
Louis Beadle
Ray B. Cunningham Rebecca Devers
Anna M. Hall
Wendell T. Handy
Alfred Parker
Marjorie Clark Parker Betty Ware Williams
1946
Tommy Lee Aldridge Lequency Reed Carr Dr. Price Cobbs
Ora Cooke
Gretchen B. Davis
Wilhelmina Gibson Dickey Robert F. Dudley
Gwendolyn D. Moten Duncan Osborne
Jack H. Silas
Albert Vendance
Jean Ross Washington
1946 Summer
Charles V. Caballero Claudia H. Farmer-Perry Albert W. Hogan
Dorothy Lester
Joe L. Oliver
Ramona W. Sample
1947
Bertha Williams Boles
1947 Summer
Robert K. Boswell
Henry Clark, Jr.
Dr. Charles Cooke
Doris (Gaines) Deve Leeroy Ferguson
Emanuel Johnson
Wade McClain, Jr.
Jesse Sanders
William Sweeney
1947 Winter
Eloise C. Williams
1948
Carmen Andrews Boswell Walter Carnegie
Josephone Cummings Delores Patterson Evans Marianne Ferguson Marjorie L. Gunning Geneva C. Lee
Abe Moore
Loise L. Nicholas
Willie J. Severe
Hugh Stovall
Yvonne Taylor Turner Gladyce M. Wall
Margaret Foster Wesson James L. Williams
1948 Summer
Rahelia Burrell Beal Ruth D. Forte
Lois J. Harris
Oscar Johnson, Jr.
Sybil Powell
Blanche Sutton
1948 Winter
Bessier Hopper
1949 Summer
Beatrice Bain Layne Phyllis Watson Bryant Ernestine Davis
Frederic Gains
Maurice Hill
Ruth Hughes
Kenneth Johnson
Doris O. Jones
Melvin Lindsey
Williard H. Murray, Jr. Charles Palmer
Brad Pye, Jr.
Ermine Shaw
Jerre (Wilkerson) Stasher Carol M. Wall
Selma Glover Williamson
1949 Winter
Harry L. Johnson
Dorothy M. Williams
1950
Phyllis (Douglas) Adams Don Hamilton
Halvort Miller, Jr
Eunice Pye
John H. Sandoz
Robert E. Smith
Lang Stanley
Gloria W. Taylor
Jerome Thomas
1950 Winter
Leon Meggerson
1951 Summer
Doris (Harris) Armstrong Kay Johnson
Azell Moore, Sr.
Robert Perry
Richard Swader
Sylvia Walker-Boswell Betty Taylor Williams Wilbur Williams III
1952 Summer
Tom Davis
Eva Mae Ford
Jesse W. Jacobs
Charles E. Johnson Daisy (Kelley) Newson Ernestine E. Smith Kenneth Stewart
Vernon Strait
1953
Fred Thompson, Jr. Francis L. Watson
1953 Winter
James Fennell
Ronald C. Kaufman W.D. McCoy
1954
Crystal (Clara) Bujol
1955 Winter
William E. Holliman 1956
Curtis Chappell
Cecil Moorings, Jr.
1959
Waymon Lee Cal
Ike Holmes
1959 Winter
Ronnie Jacobs
1960
Dr. Julius Coleman
Richard Ephriam
Hank Johnson
Leola L. Ragland
Glenn H. Thompson
1960 Winter
Joy White
1963 Summer
Pat Valenzula Banks
1964
Dr. Otha McKinney
1965
Frederick L. Rick Banks
1965 Summer
Rosie Antoine Henderson
1966
Lawrence Larry Brown
1967
Darnell R. Bell
JoHelen Johnson-Shoemate
1968 Summer
Shirleyne Bates
Asaka Brown
Erskine Carter
Joyce Dillard Randall Arlance Sims
1968 Winter
Charlie Rushing
Kweli Umoja
Benita Woods-Umoja
1969 Summer
Carolyn Adams-Watson
1969 Winter
J.L. Hughes
Lionel Walters
1971
Gwen Childress
1972
Rodney Bryant
1973
Ronald Myracks
1974
Darrell Hobson
1975
Robert Bias
Fredrick Collins
1976
Brenda (Charles) Hobson Lindzie Martin III
Cecil Robinson
1977
Timothy Bryant
Jacquelyn McMahon ViEyvette Stewart-Gordon
1978
Yolanda Leakes
Anthony Maxwell
Evelyn (Cain) Morse
Barbara (Ball) Toney
Charles Watson
1980
Bernice Campbell-White Sarah Moore
1981
Daryl Shoemaker
1985
Tracy Henderson Comeaux
1994
Ernesto W. Jacobs
Dorothy Nobles
Malvin Whitfield
1995
Charles Edwards
Miniie L. Finks
Lee Esther Hughes
Florence M. McGowan Evelyn Myles
1996
Daniel D. Taylor
2001
Ricc Williams
2006
Charles Battersbee
William Bray
Margaret T. Bennett
Tonya Davis
Earline Gentry
Benjamin Harris
Harry Von Littlefield
Ramona Clark McCordell Charlynne Moyer
Patricia Regan
Audrey(Corimes) Rhoades Charles C. Toney
