Milton High School will host public festivities Saturday as part of its yearlong 100th anniversary celebration. The city’s mayor-elect, Peyton Jamison, is scheduled to provide opening remarks along with high school Principal Brian Jones.
The event will be held from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on the school campus. Music and theater performances will take place, as well as screenings of a documentary on the history of the school, art and literary challenges, a fencing demonstration, a school tour and more activities.
“... Those who call Milton home have a lot to celebrate as Milton High (School) turns 100.” Jamison said in a statement. “... Milton High School has been an integral part of our community. It’s where thousands of residents grew up, forged lifelong friendships and became the best versions of themselves – before going on to make their marks on the world, and certainly on the rest of Milton.”
Milton High School’s first students were enrolled in 1921 and attended classes at the school’s original location on Milton Avenue in Alpharetta. Innovation Academy now stands at the location.
Milton High School’s anniversary celebration started in January and continues though December. The school was honored with proclamations from the cities of Milton and Alpharetta in January and a resolution by the state in February, Jackie Angel, chair of the Milton High School 100th Anniversary Committee, said.
For the celebration, alumni and current students have held art and literary challenges. Alumni features on life since high school are regularly posted on Milton High School’s 100th Anniversary Facebook page.
“That’s possibly one of the most popular things that we’ve done,” Angel said, adding that there’s been interest in the alumni feature continuing after this year.
Angel taught social studies at Milton High School for 35 years before retiring last spring, she said.
Alpharetta, Milton and the Old Milton County Historical Society honored the school with the placement of a historical marker at the site of the school’s original location on Milton Avenue in April.
Dona Cox Mullinax, homecoming queen of 1956, will crown the new queen during the school’s homecoming celebration Oct. 29, Angel said.
“We’ve been working hard given the constraints of the pandemic,” she added.
Milton High School is located at 13025 Birmingham Highway. In 2005, the school was moved from Alpharetta to the new $65 million campus on Birmingham Highway in Milton where nearly 2,400 students are enrolled. Today, it boasts recognition as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and more than 40 state championships in the academics, athletics and the arts.
Milton was the name of the former county that was merged with Fulton in 1932. When Milton High School first opened there were only two students in its senior class. They were honored during the May graduation of more than 600 students, Angel said.
