“A fine student body and a staff of high caliber”

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. By the '80s, the former Howard Academy campus had become Howard Middle School (HMS), the public junior high for Jefferson County. Featuring 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th grade classes, many local students attended HMS and hold fond memories of their time in class. Let's take a look at some of those memories, as told by the 1985-86 Howardite yearbook. The principal was Pink Hightower, Jr. In his message for the students in the 1986 yearbook, he commented, “I'