Parker-Gray High School celebrates their 100th Anniversary this year. Students who attended Parker-Gray fondly remember the unique school they attended during segregation. These former students are still proud of their principal and teachers for making the school a great institution. In spite of segregation, many of the Parker-Gray graduates found good paying jobs, advanced their education, or were the first to graduate in their family, and the first to have jobs that were not domestic. Those former students wanted to continue the legacy that the staff at Parker-Gray left them.
In 1975, members of the graduating classes of 1954 and 1955 were holding separate reunion meetings at the Departmental Club when they decided to come together as one for a school-wide reunion. As a result, the Alumni Association of Parker-Gray School was founded. Their first elected president was James E. Henson, Esq.