About Us
Our History
- Charles M. Hall School was completed in 1926 and its doors remained open as a school through 1968 educating the Black population of Alcoa from grades 1 through 12. It was later renamed Alcoa Middle School, and it currently is serving as the Alcoa City Center. It is still one of the few Black schools still standing in East Tennessee. In 1990, late alumni Grady Knighton and Lewis Dobson were two of the founding members of an association to help keep their alma mater’s name alive. The first meeting was held at Franklin Street Park, where they elected Mr. Dobson as the first acting president of the Charles M. Hall Alumni Association.
Scholarships
For the past two decades, through the generous donation of alumni, individuals and corporate sponsors, the CMHAA has given over $ 200,000 in scholarships and financial aid to numerous graduating seniors across the country as they pursue a college education.
2022 recipients receiving scholarship awards to the right are Octavia Lenoir (Coordinator) Jessica Sanders, Morgan Raiford, Bettye Lenoir (Scholarship committee chairman), Asha Cole, Eleanor Fowler (scholarship committee member) Brittany Tate (Coordinator)
The Charles M Hall Alumni Association 2022 Scholarship recipients:
Asha Cole, Dereke Foster Jr., Sophia Foster, Kenneth Hall, Iylie Jones, William Knukles, Grace Neve, Morgan Raiford, Jessica Sanders, Kaleea Scales, Sophia Thomas, and Gabrielle Walker