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served as CEO at Durham Regional;the Honorable Judge Beverly Scarlett sits on the bench in <br /> Hillsborough;Stanback's son,the Honorable Judge Leon Stanback Jr.,was a supreme court <br /> judge in Durham;Allie Paige Bynum,finance manager, received the highest honor that <br /> General Motor's gives to an employee for her team's effort in saving millions of dollars; <br /> George C.Thompson,former Vice President of Quality at America Electronics Components, <br /> won a trip to the World's Fair in his junior year at Central for cutting edge research on <br /> grafting microscopic parts of one embryo onto another. Bishop George Brooks has grown <br /> churches in Africa, and Mary Jacob skipped the 12th grade and entered college at 16,and has <br /> served on both the Durham City Council and Board of Commission.Through Nell Walton's <br /> nonprofit,Focus, deserving students have received over$55,000 since 2004. Harold Russell <br /> is a scientist at the CDC and has several patents pending. <br /> Reminiscing about their own upcoming reunion,Thomas Watson,along with Wayne Bynum, <br /> in 2007 had an epiphany: what if we had a reunion that included all the classes and even <br /> Orange High alumni!! The idea went viral and blossomed into fruition. Memorial Day,2008 <br /> marked the 40th anniversary of the closing of Central High School in Hillsborough, NC. All <br /> classes from 1938 to the last class in 1968, met to celebrate a three-day extravaganza to <br /> commemorate Central High School. The event included women's and men's basketball <br /> games. A parade downtown on the main street had entries from nearly each class, and the <br /> highlight for everyone was the band—all performers in all the events were Central alumni. <br /> After the parade,alumni convened at Central High, now known as Hillsboro Elementary <br /> School,where they waxed further in wrapping the maypole and playing soft ball. <br /> The single event that spawned a call for grant assistance was this: inside the school that day, <br /> alumni lined both sides of the halls to see and take pictures of the multifarious exhibits which <br /> highlighted nearly all the classes. By Tuesday of the following week, however, not a shred of <br /> evidence remained to document that Central High ever existed. The celebration has occurred <br /> twice since 2008, but this year while the exhibits were being put up, Principal Weber said to <br /> the Exhibit Committee,"When the reunions are gone, so goes the memorabilia that shows <br /> what happened here." He showed the Committee a section on the lower hall that enters out <br /> into the front entrance of the school and inquired whether anything could be done with the <br /> blank wall to commemorate the school,so that"even when it's not reunion time,there <br /> always would be something to tell the story about the school." <br /> PROPOSAL <br /> With this history as a backdrop,the Exhibit Committee is proposing to commemorate the <br /> legacy of Central High School by designing and creating a hand-painted mural on one side of <br /> the rectangular wall (each side is 12-feet long) and mount photographs on the opposite side <br /> of the wall. Wherein both sides of the wall would be painted,one side would have the <br /> painted historical mural,consisting of places and artifacts that best capture the history of <br /> Central,and the other side would be painted blue and gold,and hold the mounted <br />