This list of Auburn High School people includes graduates, former students, administrators, trustees, faculty, and staff of Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, United States. The list includes people affiliated with the school's predecessor institutions, the Auburn Female College (1843–1852, 1870–1885), the Auburn Masonic Female College (1852–1870), the Auburn Female Institute (1892–1908), and Lee County High School (1914–1956).
Auburn High School is the oldest public high school in Alabama, and the third-oldest operating secondary school in the United States south of Philadelphia.United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902), 1696, 1696–1879. As of 2010, the school enrolled 1,309 students in technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs as well as joint enrollment with Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College.Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008, (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6;Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007 , retrieved July 13, 2007; State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (school level) - 2009-2010 , retrieved August 6, 2010.
The first graduation exercises of Auburn High School were held in the 1840s, awarding fewer than a dozen diplomas at each session. Today the school awards over three hundred diplomas a year, and has graduated more than ten thousand students.United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902); Auburn High School, "Commencement Exercises" (Auburn, Ala.: s.n., 2007). This list organizes those associated with Auburn High School into rough professional areas and lists them in order of graduating class or years of affiliation with the school.
Professional area
Art, literature, and music
Name Class year or years affiliated Notability Reference William Spratling 1917 Silversmith and artist; considered the "father of Mexican silver"; co-authored Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles with William FaulknerWilliam Spratling, File on Spratling: An Autobiography (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969). Urbie Green 1943 (attended) Jazz trombonist"Former Knight Urbie Green", Auburn Knights Alumni Association Newsletter, September 15, 1996, 6; The School Musician and Teacher, November 1970, 56. Rosemary Glyde 1966 Violist and composer; founder of the New York Viola Society"Rosemary Glyde, 46, Violist and Composer", New York Times, January 20, 1994; "Rosemary Glyde Featured Soloist with AU Orchestra February 28", Tiger Tales, January 1966.Allen Hinds1974Guitarist and jazz musician"Faculty Profiles: Allen Hinds", Musicians Institute, retrieved July 27, 2015; Auburn High School, "The Tiger", vol. 30 (1974). Ted Vives 1982 Composer, trombonist, and director of the Los Alamos Community WindsThe Los Alamos Arts Council, Look at the Arts , Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (April 2006), 2; Trey Armistead, Auburn High School Band - Members 1981-82 , retrieved July 13, 2007. Brian Teasley 1980s Musician, Man or Astro-man?, Servotron, The Polyphonic Spree Coury Turczyn, "Space Oddities ", PopCult, August 17, 1995, retrieved July 13, 2007; Auburn High School, The Tiger, vol. 42, (1986). Man or Astro-man? 1980s Surf punk band Kate Higgins 1987 Voice actress, singer; English voice of Sakura Haruno in NarutoTrey Armistead, "Auburn High School Band - Members 1986-87 ", retrieved November 4, 2007. Ace Atkins 1989 Author, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalistJuan C. Ferrer, Ace Atkins, Mississippi mystery writer , retrieved July 13, 2007. James Fukai 1992 Guitarist, Trust CompanyGeffen Records, Trust Company, retrieved April 2, 2008; Trey Armistead, Auburn High School Band - Members 1989-90 , retrieved July 13, 2007. Youssef Biaz 2011 Spoken word artist"Somebody Loves Us All", retrieved August 8, 2011
Journalism
Name Class year or years affiliated Notability Reference Tom Sellers 1941 Journalist, Columbus Ledger; won 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service"Won Pulitzer for uncovering corruption in Alabama", Chicago Sun-Times, February 28, 2006; Auburn Bulletin, May 21, 1941. Mary Lou Foy 1962 Photojournalist, picture editor of Washington Post; president of the National Press Photographers Association, 1992Office of Alumni Affairs, Auburn University. Auburn Magazine Advisory Board , retrieved July 8, 2007; Trey Armistead, Auburn High School Band - Auburn High School Band Officers , retrieved July 13, 2007. Vanessa Echols 1979 News anchor, WRDQ and WFTV, Orlando, Floridawftv.com, Vanessa Echols - WFTV News Story - WFTV Orlando , retrieved July 13, 2007; Trey Armistead, Auburn High School Band - Members 1976–77 , retrieved July 13, 2007.
Military
Name Class year or years affiliated Notability Reference Robert D. Knapp 1916 Aviation pioneer; US Air Force brigadier general John E. Pitts, Jr. 1942 US Army brigadier general; director International Staff, Inter-American Defense BoardUnited States Air Force, Biographies: BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN E. PITTS JR.. Retrieved July 13, 2007.
Politics and government
Name Class year or years affiliated Notability Reference John William Jones 1852–1856, trustee Congressman and physician; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1847–1849Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "JONES, John William, (1806 - 1871)", retrieved November 11, 2007. David Clopton 1859–1870, trustee Politician and jurist; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1859–1861; member of the Confederate Congress, 1861–1865; associate justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, 1884–1892 East Alabama Male College, Officers, Regulations, Statutes &c, of East Alabama Male College, Auburn, Alabama., (Atlanta: C.R. Hanleiter, 1859); East Alabama College, Catalog of the Officers and Students of the East Alabama College, Auburn, Alabama., (Baltimore: Kelly Putnam, 1870); Leland Cooper, The Early History of Auburn, Thesis (Auburn: s.n., 1907), 5. James F. Dowdell 1859–1870, trustee Congressman and professor; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1853–1859; second president of Auburn University James R. Dowdell 1863–1864 Chief justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, 1909–1914Alabama Dept. of Archives and History. Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907, 43. George Paul Harrison, Jr. 1869–1870, trustee Politician and lawyer; Confederate States Army colonel; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1894–1897East Alabama College, Catalog of the Officers and Students of the East Alabama College, Auburn, Alabama., (Baltimore: Kelly Putnam, 1870); Leland Cooper, The Early History of Auburn, Thesis (Auburn: s.n., 1907), 5. William J. Samford 1864 Governor of Alabama, 1900–1901George Hudson Smith, "The Life and Times of William J. Samford", Thesis. (1969); William F. Slaton, Diary. William H. Lamar 1870s Assistant attorney general of the United States, solicitor of the Post Office; censor of the US Mail under the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918Successful Americans, Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day, (Chicago: Successful Americans, 1912), 287; Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 184. David Vann 1944 Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1975–1979"Ex-Mayor Vann Dies at 71", Birmingham News, June 10, 2000. George McMillan 1962 Lieutenant governor of Alabama, 1979–1983 Alexander Nunn, Lee County and Her Forebears(Montgomery, Ala.: Herff Jones, 1983), 2. Joe Turnham 1977 Chairman, Alabama Democratic PartyJoe Turnham, "Session offered more than just punch", Opelika-Auburn News, June 18, 2007; Auburn High School, The Tiger, vol. 32, (1976). Ed Packard 1986 Politician; 2006 Democratic candidate for Alabama Secretary of State"Packard best bet for Secretary of State", Opelika-Auburn News, June 2, 2006. Robert Gibbs 1989 28th White House Press Secretary Hope Yen, "Obama names longtime spokesman Gibbs press chief", Associated Press, retrieved November 23, 2008.
Science, mathematics and technology
Name Class year or years affiliated Notability Reference John M. Darby 1855–1858, President;1855–1862, Professor of Natural Science Botanist; created the first comprehensive catalogue of flora for the Southern United States"The Auburn Male College", Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 18–1956 (1956), 168–175; Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village (Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1981), 24. I. T. Quinn 1914–1915, Principal Conservationist, game commissioner of Alabama and Virginia; a founder and first vice president of the National Wildlife FederationAlabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Official and Statistical Register, (Montgomery: State of Alabama, 1931), 67. Greg Kuperberg 1981–1982 Mathematician, University of California, Davis; author of video games Paratrooper, J-Bird, and PC-Man; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1998–2000Classmates.comAuburn High School, Auburn, Alabama (AL), retrieved November 5, 2007; Paratrooper (DOS, 1982) , retrieved November 5, 2007; University of California, Davis Mathematics, Honors and Awards Received by UC Davis Mathematics Faculty, retrieved April 2, 2008. William Chen 1988 Mathematician, quantitative analyst, Susquehanna International Group; winner in two 2006 World Series of Poker eventsPlanet Ace Gibraltar Ltd., William Chen - Professional Poker Player Profile , retrieved July 13, 2007; The Mathematical Association of America, USAMO - 1987 Student Participants, retrieved April 2, 2008. Eric Harshbarger 1989 Mathematician and LEGO artistEric C. Harshbarger, Eric C. Harshbarger, retrieved July 13, 2007. Mark Spencer 1995 Computer engineer; chairman and CTO, Digium; creator of Asterisk PBX and original programmer of Pidgin instant messaging softwareQuentin Hardy, "Dial D for Disruption", Forbes, April 10, 2006, retrieved July 13, 2007; Jeff Pulver, "Mark Spencer - Creator of Askerisk ", VON Magazine, retrieved April 2, 2008.
Social sciences