Our work together to raise funds to support the award of our 2026 RCTS scholarships has already begun. To date, since 2005, we have awarded 110 scholarships to support the education of our RCTS descendant students.

We recently received a very generous donation from Nancy Watkins class of 1969 (the 69ers). She donated on behalf of her nieces and nephews Joseph Latrell, Joshua Smith, Tara Williams, Christine Jones, Tanaja Birdsong and Devon Dean); the grandchildren of Joe and Mozell Watkins Traylor. Joe was a member of the class of 1969 and Mozell was my 1967 classmate.

We thank Nancey for the donation and her support of our RCTS descendant students. Her donation is an appropriate way to mark the 162nd anniversary of Juneteenth. Access to affordable excellent public education is a great equalizer and should be available to our as a fundamental birthright.

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Please join me in thanking President Delvin Houston and the members of the Randolph County, Alabama Branch of the NAACP for their generous donation to the 2025 RCTS scholarship fund. The donation will support the award of two 2025 RCTS scholarships in honor of Ms. Willie Mae Jones, a 1961 RCTS graduate.

Ms. Jones was a strong supporter of the RCTS Legacy, Reunion and scholarship initiative and active member of the NAACP. She was affectionately known as a RCTS songbird as a member of the historic Rock Mills Baptist Church choir and other area choirs. At each all-class reunion, she led attendees in the singing of "Over in Randolph," the RCTS school song written by Mittie Bell Almond, RCTS class of 1939.

Since 2005, we have awarded 105 scholarships to RCTS descendant graduates of Randolph County, Alabama high schools. All donations are used to award scholarships without administrative or other costs. Additional information about the RCTS Legacy, Reunion and Scholarship initiative is available at www.rctsscholarshipfoundation.org

We thank Shirley Johnson Walker for her recent generous donation to the 2025 RCTS Fund. With her support, we will continue to build on the 101 RCTS scholarships we’ve awarded since 2005.

andolph County Training School (RCTS), played in our development and the survival of our community, than celebrating the 107th birthday of our beloved RCTS teacher, Ms. Countess John Chapman.

Shirley is a RCTS New School student who graduated from the Randolph County High School after attending RCTS. She is a member of the Rock Mill, Alabama Georgia Ann and Awbrey Johnson family. She and her siblings attended RCTS. She is an exemplary RCTS descendant student, having retired as a senior university administrator at the University of Buffalo.
Additional information about RCTS and our scholarship fund is available at www.rctsfoundation.org.