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The subject files are topical files containing newspaper clippings and various secondary sources covering most aspects of life in DeKalb County. Subject Files cover topics such as churches, neighborhoods, schools, farms and businesses.


Box 71:

Organizations - Junior League:

Junior League of DeKalb County

The Colleague 1983-1992 (incomplete)

Junior Service League - Misc.



Box 72:

Chamber of Commerce:

Affirmative Action Plan (1977)
Annual Dinner Program (1992)
Buyers Guide/Members Directory 1985-1986
DeKalb Chamber's Buyer's Guide 1984-1985
DeKalb City of Stone Mountain
DeKalb Convention and visitors Bureau/Tourism
DeKalb Dynamics
Dynamic DeKalb Community Social analyst 1972
General Information and History
Who's Who: Atlanta Bureau Members Directory 1997-1998
Focus Clarity
The Edge Newsletter
Leadership DeKalb


Box 73:

Organizations:
AARP
Children of the American Revolution/Sons of the American Revolution
Decatur Rotary spoke and wheel
Demolay at Stone Mountain
Dunwoody Rotary Club
CHOICE/Retired Senior Volunteer program
Georgia Branch of the Sons/Daughters of the First Families of Pilgrims
Georgia Society Names of the Court of Honor
Habitat for Humanity
National Society of American Colonists
1900 Study Club
Rotary Club: Newspaper Clippings
Salvation Army 
Sacred Harp Singers: DeKalb City Event
Sacred Harp Singers: Newsletters
Senior Citizens
Sons of Confederate Veterans
U.S. Daughters of 1812

Box 74:

Organizations:

Civitans

Elks Lodge

Druid Hills Kiwanis Club

League of Women Voters (DeKalb County)

Decatur Lion's Club (1943 publication)

Druid Hills Lions Club

Dunwoody Lions Club

Jaycees & Jaycettes

Junior Achievement

Kiwanis Club

Kiwanis Club of Druid Hills (tribute to members and history)

LaVista Lions Club

Lions Club - Misc. others

Masonic Lodges - General

Masonic Lodges:

Clarkston Chapter Order of Eastern Star
Lithonia Lodge #84
Pythagoras Lodge #41
Tucker Lodge #42
NAACP

North DeKalb Planning Council

Optimists Club

Order of the Amaranth

Our House, Inc.

Pilot Club

Presidents of DeKalb Organizations (1951 list)

Project READ

Young Men's Christian Association

Young Women's Christian Association

Senior Citizens - Retired Senior Volunteer Program

Special Audiences



Box 75:

Organizations - Women:

DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs and Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs

American University Association of Women 

Avondale Woman's Club

Cedar Grove Garden Club

Clarkston Woman's Club

Decatur Women's Club

4th District Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs History since 1966 (book)

Imagine and Study Club

Jasmine Garden Club

LaVista Junior Woman's Club and LaVista DeKalb Woman's Club

Lithonia Woman's Club

Lullwater Garden Club

Midvale Garden Club

Needlecraft Club

Stone Mountain Woman's Club

Smokerise Garden Club

Spalding Garden Club

Tucker Women's Club

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Agnes Lee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

Wesley Chapel Woman's Club


Box 76:

Parks and Recreation, Plantations, Post Offices

Parks (general information):
Arabia Mountain Park
Blackburn Park
Covenant Day 1976
DeKalb Firing Range
Druid Hills-Olmsted Park
Forrest Hills Golf Course
Henderson Park and Cofer Park
Mason Mill Park
McKoy Park
Medlock Park
Murphy Candler Park
Panola Mountain 
Parks System Map 1986
Penny Post Card 1925
Post Office
Post cards 1952
Shoal Creek III Park
Wade-Walker Park (formerly Rockbridge Park)
Yellow River Wildlife Game Ranch

Plantations:
Bruce Street Plantation

Post Offices


Box 77:

Schools - Early schools, teachers and academies:
General File
Brownings (Clarkston) District - 1870s
Charles M. Neel School (Neel's Academy)
Clifton Academy - Huey/Wells Daybook (1850s), 1858 student list, laws of the school
Lithonia Academy (document announcing the hiring of John Cassels as head)
Lithonia High School (1877)
Lithonia Institute and other Lithonia Area schools taught by Addie Park
Old Cross Keys School (1918)
Old Indian Creek School (1914)
Powell Academy (Klondike Community) First teacher, Layona Glenn
Rockbridge Area, Gwinnett County 1861
State Normal School - Bylaws 1959
Stone Mountain Public School (1908)
Stone Mountain Seminary 1858 
Stone Mountain University School for Boys (1910-1911)
Survey of DeKalb Schools (1916, with photographs)
Tilley/Tilly School
Wood School (Charles Wood) Evans District 
Four books, Murphy's Eclectic primer


Box 78:

Schools - Private Schools:
Akers Computerized Learning Center 
Ar'lyn Worth School
Atlanta Deaf School 
Atlanta School of Gymnastics
Commercial High School (the old Commercial High School)
DeKalb Christian Academy
Forrest Hills Christian
Horizons School
Howard Schools
Kirkwood Elementary
Lullwater School
Lutheran (Sola Scripture Evangelical Lutheran School)
Marist School 
Mary Lin Elementary (DeKalb County)
Murphy High School
Paideia School
Phoenix School 
St. Pius X Catholic High
St. Thomas More School 
Stone Mountain Christian School
Lasell Leaves V. XIX No. 4 - Jan. 1894

Box 79:

Schools - Decatur Schools; Schools in Decatur:
Beacon-Trinity School
Clairmont Elementary
College Heights Elementary
Decatur Academy (1868)
Decatur City Schools - General File
Decatur City Board of Education
Decatur High School (Decatur Boys High and Decatur Girls High also included - large file on Athletics at Decatur High School, 1951-1952 school directory)
Decatur Junior High School
Donald Fraser School for Boys
Fifth Avenue Elementary
Glennwood Elementary
Herring Street School
Oakhurst Elementary
Ponce de Leon Elementary
Renfroe Middle School
Westchester Elementary
Winona Park Elementary

Box 80:

Schools - DeKalb County Schools:
Board of Education
Board Members, Past and Present
Busing and Magnet Schools
Cherry, Jim
DeKalb Honor Band 1973
DeKalb 2000
Desegregation
Elections, Bond, May 1973 Brochure
Enrollment Statistics and M to M 
General Information File
Map of School District, no date
Pilot Preschool Program (Chapter
Safety Patrol
School Reports: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1961
School Redistricting Plan and School Board 1992 Lawsuit Superintendents includes 1972 article
Sports/Athletic Programs
Superintendents, Dr. James Hinson
Superintendents, Charles McDaniel
Teacher Of the year Award (Minnie Foster, 1976; James T. McRaney, 1982; Patricia Mote, 1988)
Books: Discover DeKalb City School Systems
History of the Decatur, DeKalb, Rockdale Retired Teachers Association 1959-1989



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