In 1957, debutante DeWana E. Gray is escorted by Eugene Jordan and accompanied by her parents, Christine and Clarence Gray. The debutante ball was sponsored by The Links, an African-African women’s service organization. Gray was presented by Dr. David Hinton and ViCurtis Gray Hinton. (Courtesy of the Gray Family.)
The 1966 fourth-grade class of College Park Elementary School is shown below. Elston Lomax is seated in the first row, third from the left. Fellow Lakelander Romonia Sellers is next to him. Wayne Claiborne is standing in the last row, second from the right.
The newly wed Mary Ann and George Smith in the sanctuary of Embry AME Church
Ready for school special event at Lakeland School
On a summer Sunday morning in 1942, from left to right, Martha Edwards, Evelyn Giles Tyner, and Tyner’s sister, Lucille Giles, ushers for Embry A.M.E. Church, walked to church with Tyner’s daughters, Edna and Shirley. The Edwards garden is visible on the left; the Giles house is off to the right.
Embry AME Church
Attendants for the wedding of Pamela Randall. The ceremony took place at Embry AME Church
Elizabeth Hicks Campbell Adams in studio photo with US capital
Mock weddings such as this one at Embry A.M.E. Church, circa 1949, were popular dramatizations and fundraisers for churches. The church’s youth played the parts of bride, groom, minister, and wedding party. Sunday School superintendent Dessie Randall Thomas loaned her wedding dress for this activity. Jean Gray and Ellsworth Dory, both about age fifteen, are the bride and groom, and Yvonne Thomas and Betty Smith are among the attendants.
During Saturday of Heritage Weekend at College Park Community Center
Baby Donald Weems on Navahoe Street with friends at Ice Cream Truck
Maxine and Delphine Gross in the intersection of 54th Avenue and Pierce Avenue in the background is the family home. The Turner home on 54th Avenue is seen as well.
Stacy Pitts Background family boat stored in yard of Navahoe Street home
Embry AME Church There is another image of this group taken on the same day in the archive
Youth event Embry AME Church circa 1947
cropped image of school picture 1946-47 school year
Looks like Sunday morning in Lakeland
School picture as student of Lakeland High School
The historic Lakeland High School began as a six-classroom high school in 1928. It was expanded in the 1940s to add additional classrooms, and again in the 1950s for a multipurpose room. That building served the community’s school children from 1928 until 1972. It functioned as a high school until 1950, as an elementary and junior high school until 1962, and as an elementary school until 1972. The school board later used the building as a special education center. This structure, relatively unchanged, is still standing.
Senior class of Lakeland High School with principal, Edger Smith (far left). There is another copy of this image in the archive from another collection
Donald Gregory Weems
Miss First Baptist, 1970, Gwen Williams During First Baptist Church of College Park youth event
At Lakeland Elementary School
First and Second Grade class
Andre Pitts with date, Simone
Andre Pitts with date, Simone
Miss Davis's first grade class at Lakeland Elementary School in 1965-66. The photograph was taken in the school library,
Delphine and Maxine Gross ride a pony during Labor Day picnic at Embry AME Church
School picture
Lakelander Yearbook
Mary Day
In the rear yard of the Cloud Avenue home of George Henry and Agnes Gross. Mrs. Gross was the sister of Joanne's grandmother Emma Harrison Braxton
Anderson Walls and Gasson D. Bradford "adopted" brothers
unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown Janet Randall and unknown
Jacqueline, Janet and Agnes Randall at wedding
collection of photos wedding at left Pam Boardley at Embry other unrelated photos
