January, 2013

• News and Updates

  New principal looks to advance historic Reynolds

  January 18, 2013 , 0 Nicky Smith

  Walking through the halls of R.J. Reynolds High School is a study in two worlds. Digital photography projects line 90-year-old walls; 21st-century students sit in 20th-century classrooms. Reynolds, which has an arts magnet program, turned 90 this week. The significance and challenge of that milestone hasn’t been lost on the school’s new principal, Patrick Olsen. Olsen seems […]

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  Historical Events of R.J. Reynolds High School

  January 13, 2013 , 0 Nicky Smith

  1910’s 1918: Richard J. Reynolds dies at age 68. 1919: Charles Barton Keen, the architect of the Reynolda House, designs the school. 1920’s 1922: Construction begins on the school building early in the year. Construction on the Auditorium doesn’t start until July. Jan. 9, 1923, Tuesday Evening: After reopening from Christmas vacation that day, the […]

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