4 hours
VBC South Hall
Starting at USD 25
Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm (GMT-06:00)
VBC South Hall
700 Monroe Street Southwest, Huntsville, United States
🚀 Rocket City All Class Alumni Reunion Presented by Day II Entertainment, LLC
📍 Von Braun Center – South Hall Ballrooms
📅 Friday, November 28, 2025
Get ready, Huntsville! This November, The Live 5ive presents the Rocket City All Class Alumni Reunion — a one-night celebration bringing together graduates from Huntsville High, Johnson High, Lee High, Butler High, and Grissom High for an unforgettable evening of nostalgia, music, and unity.
Five schools. Five ballrooms. Five unique experiences — all under one roof. Each ballroom will represent its alma mater’s energy, pride, and musical flavor, creating a vibrant atmosphere where old classmates reconnect and new memories are made.
Come dressed to impress and ready to celebrate your school spirit, dance to live DJs and bands, enjoy signature drink, and relive the best moments of your high school days — Rocket City style.
✨ One City. Five Schools. Infinite Memories.
Reconnect. Reignite. Relive.
James Oliver Johnson High School, more commonly referred to as J.O. Johnson High School or J.O.J., was a public high school located in the northwest area of Huntsville, Alabama. The school served grades 9 through 12. It was home to an International Education Magnet Program, and the school also featured a Marine JROTCprogram.[2] It was established in 1972 and closed in 2016.
The school was named for former Huntsville educator James Oliver Johnson, who served as a Brigadier General in the United States Army. Johnson commanded one of the first all black combat battalion in WW II, leading to the integration and racial diversity of the US Army. Johnson led men who constructed airplane infrastructure on the ground in North Africa and Mediterranean region, for Army Air Forces including the Tuskegee Airmen.
True to the legacy of its namesake, JO Johnson was the first new High School in Huntsville, Alabama built as a racially integrated high school. Black and White Students had no strife, and became the model High School throughout the state shortly after the Civil Rights era.
The road leading to the campus, Cecil Fain Drive, was named after another long term educator. J.O.J. opened in 1972 at 6201 Pueblo Drive, Huntsville, Alabama, to ease the overcrowding of Lee High School and to meet the needs of an area of Huntsville that had just begun to grow in population. Its primary feeder schools were the Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Edward H. White Middle School, and Davis Hills Middle School.
In August 2012, the Huntsville City Schools announced plans to build a new school, and retain the name JO Johnson.
In 2013, it was announced the school would receive a new building, but retain its name in 2016. The latest statement is that the Johnson name will not transfer to the new school (unlike the 4 other high schools rebuilt over the years) The school name will close and be changed to Mae Jemison High School and for the middle school that will share the campus, Ronald McNair Junior High School. These school names are named after NASA Astronauts Mae Jemison and the late Ronald McNair.
On Thursday May 26, 2016, Johnson held its 42nd and final Commencement Exercises at the Von Braun Center Arena.
In 2018, an Emmy Awards-nominated documentary, Wrestle, was released that follows four members – Jailen Young, Jaquan Rhodes, Jamario Rowe, and Matthew Teague Berres – of the high school wrestling team and their coach, Chris Scribner, to the state championship.
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Huntsville High School is an American public high school in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama in the Huntsville metropolitan area. It is part of the Huntsville City Schools district with approximately 1,850 students currently enrolled in grades 9–12.[2]
The school is located at the intersection of Bob Wallace Avenue (formerly 13th Street West) and Billie Watkins Street.
In 2014, the school constructed its Freshman Academy on-site, intended to facilitate students' transition from middle school to high school and in which the majority of its freshman classes take place. The school offers 15 Advanced Placement courses alongside preparatory courses for industry certification.[2]
The school's current principal as of the 2023 school year is Kari Flippo and its current assistant principals are Mark Fleetwood and Lauren Woltjen.
Huntsville High currently supplies one team to the Huntsville Amateur Hockey Association's high school league.[3] The Huntsville Panthers have won AHSAA state championship events in baseball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country, girls' volleyball, girls' soccer, girls' indoor track and field, girls' outdoor track and field, boys' swimming and diving, girls' swimming and diving, boys' tennis, and girls' tennis, in addition to gymnastics state championships in the 1980s[] (discontinued by the AHSAA in 1998), as well as several cheerleading state championships in the late 1990s[]before the AHSAA sponsored the sport.[]
As of November 1, 2012[], the Huntsville High Lady Panther volleyball team had won the AHSAA state title 10 times out of 11 years, losing only one year in the semifinals to Pelham High School. The Huntsville High girls' cross country team placed second in the state meet in 2014[4] and won the 7A state championship in 2016.[5]
S. R. Butler High School was a four-year public high school that served students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, Alabama. The school was named after Samuel Riley Butler, a principal, school superintendent, and school founder.[2] It opened in 1951 and closed in 2015.
Samuel Riley Butler (November 2, 1868 - ?) was a principal, superintendent of public schools, and school owner in Alabama. He was born in Poplar Ridge in Madison County and grew up in Tennessee. He was a Democrat. He married Ida Lee Smith. Canada Butler was one of his grandfathers.[3]
He started Butler Training School in 1908 and operated it until 1914. From 1914 until 1929 this building served as the Wills-Taylor School for boys and girls. The city then bought it and made it the Huntsville Junior High School. Now it is a parking lot for the Annie Merts Center for school administration.[4]The first Butler High School was built in 1954 and was originally intended to also serve as a fallout shelter for the surrounding area in the case of a nuclear attack. Its proximity to Redstone Arsenal Army Base made the area a likely target during the Cold War.
The final S.R. Butler High School was built in the late 1960s with the first graduating class in 1968. The previous Butler was renamed Stone Junior High School (years later renamed Stone Middle School) and is located at the intersection of Clinton Avenue and Governors Drive, and was remodeled after a suspicious fire destroyed much of the old school. The final Butler H.S. was located on Holmes Ave.
In 2015, Butler High School was closed due to a dwindling enrollment and poor ratings. Students were re-directed to Columbia, Grissom, Huntsville, Johnson and Lee High Schools. The Rock Family Worship Center currently occupies the old Butler High School building.
Lee High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9–12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.
Lee High School was named for the Lee Highway (U.S. Route 72) that ran in front of the old school location in the 1950s, which, in turn, was named after Confederate and Union General Robert E. Lee.[2] The school's mascot is now a 5-Star General and, for many years, a painting of General Robert E. Lee mounted on his horse and holding the Confederate flag was on the Gymnasium wall. In 1974 the flag was painted over and the Generals' mascot is now held to represent no specific person.
Lee Jr. High/High School (1958–2012) at 606 Forrest Circle site-2010 photo
The original building was constructed in 1957 and opened in the later part of the 1957–1958 school year. The current facility for Lee High School was begun in 2010 and was occupied during the 2012–2013 school year. According to the 1967–1968 Lee High School Student Handbook:
... Lee High School was established as a junior high school during the second semester of the 1957–58 school term. In the school term of 1963–64 Lee became a full high school, due to the procedure of discontinuing the lower grades and adding higher ones. The class of 1964 became Lee's first graduating class. (Lee was Huntsville's Fourth High School. Huntsville, Butler and Councill were operating in 1964) During the past (1966–1967) school year, Lee's enrollment was approximately 1700 students. The enrollment approximately for the 1967–68 school term is 1600 students. Still the need for more classrooms has caused Lee to add to its present building four new portable classrooms, raising the number of portable classrooms to seven ...
The school operated as a junior high school to allow for the eventual closure of nearby Rison High School and changed its status in tandem with the opening of Chapman Junior High School (later, Chapman Middle School). In 1964, Lee Jr. High School became Lee High School.[1]
In 1986, the Huntsville City Schools created the Lee Arts and Pre-Engineering Magnet programs. This program draws students from other schools in the city to Lee for study and opportunities in specific areas. The arts magnet has been rather successful, attracting talented students for theater and vocal music opportunities.[3]
The Huntsville City Schools constructed a new Lee High School facility on Meridian Street, North (next to the original location).[2] The new building is 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) and designed for 1,200 students.
One issue surmounted during construction was the Norfolk Southern railroad adjacent to the school; a raised bridge was erected to allow students to access playing fields that are located across the track from the classrooms.[4]
Although the school's scheduled opening was established as the beginning of the 2012–2013 school year, the new Lee Lyric Theatre had its debut production in June 2012. The production, Oliver!, was a collaboration between the school and Independent Musical Productions.[5]
On August 16, 2012, a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of the new Lee High School.
The new facility also houses "New Century Technology High School", which was a virtual entity at Columbia High School since the mid-1990s.
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Virgil I. Grissom High School, more commonly referred to as Grissom High School, is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama, United States with approximately 2000 students in grades 9–12 from Southeast Huntsville. The school was named a 2007 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.[3] In the ranking of schools throughout the nation in 2015, Grissom High School was ranked second-best in the state and 390th nationally.[4]
Grissom High School was founded in 1969 and is named for astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy, Florida on January 27, 1967.[5] Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has extensive ties to the American space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary and Ed White Middle School for Grissom's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.[6]
In August 2012, the Huntsville City Schools announced plans to tear down the original two-story main high school building and replace it with a three-story structure at an estimated cost of $58 million.[7] The new building was opened for the 2017–18 school year.[8]
Tom Drake served as Grissom's principal from 2000 through August 2013. The school board named June Kalange, then a vice-principal and former science teacher at Grissom, as his replacement in early August 2013.[9] In 2015, Rebecca Balentine, the then-principal of Jones Valley Elementary School, was announced as the new principal of the school. She served until the end of the 2017–2018 school year. Her successor was Grissom Alumni Jeanne Greer, she served until the 2022-2023 school year. In the 2023-2024 school year she was succeeded by Grissom High Alumni David Coker.
In 2007, magazine ranked Grissom among the top 5% of all high schools in the United States. The school was ranked 531 among the top 1200 high schools in the nation based on the number of Advanced Placement, Cambridge tests, and/or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students at a school and then dividing by the number of graduating seniors.[10] In the ranking of schools throughout the nation for 2015, Grissom High School was ranked second-best in the state and 390th nationally.[4] Grissom was the only high school in Huntsville to make the 2015 list.
Grissom produced 28 National Merit Semifinalists for 2007, the highest number in the state.[11] Grissom's math teams and academic team have also earned national recognition. Grissom's 2007 Science Olympiad state team placed 2nd at the state competition at Samford University. They participated in the National Science Olympiad competition in Kansas in May 2007, and in 2008 participated in the National competition in Augusta, Georgia. In 2008, Grissom's Debate and Speech Team qualified for, and competed in the NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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| Ticket type | Ticket price |
|---|---|
| JAGUARS | 25 USD |
| TIGERS | 29 USD |
| REBELS | 29 USD |
| GENERALS | 29 USD |
| PANTHERS | 29 USD |
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