Look Back ... to an Anniston High to MIT pipeline, 1948

Oct. 28—Oct. 28, 1948, in The Star: The Massachuetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., recently published a new list of high schools where students of high standing — the highest fifth of the graduating class — are eligible to enroll without taking a separate entrance examination. Anniston High School is on that list. An MIT official writes to the school, "The Committee on Admissions will give careful consideration to any of your students who apply for entrance in 1949, and we hope their composite record will be such as to justify our continuing the waiver of the test requirement." Anniston High School, according to the MIT official, has a good track record for its graduates being admitted to the northern institution. Also this date: Visitors and residents of downtown Anniston shouldn't be surprised this Saturday morning to see a parade of covered wagons wending their way through the district. It won't be a group of time travelers, though — only 100 or more Boy Scouts headed out of town to Camp Zinn for an overnight "camporee." The Scouts and their leaders will travel south on Noble Street, turn at 10th then head out over Tenth Street Mountain road and through Golden Springs on their way to the camp. This is the first-ever "covered wagon camporee" in this district.

Oct. 28, 1998, in The Star: Apparently you can fight City Hall. Anniston police and fire departments proved this at a City Council meeting yesterday when a major contingent from both departments gathered to continue their protest against a $100 reduction in the uniform allowance paid to them by the city. City Manager John Seymour relented and reinstated the full allowance, effective in the next pay cycle for police and firefighters. Also this date: Weaver, in great need of a fire truck, will be getting one from the City of Oxford. That's because Oxford has a couple of new vehicles on order, and is graciously able to afford to pass a used one along to Weaver, as a gift.