Grady High School seems much smaller when viewed through the lens of time. But the beloved school still elicits vivid memories for a group called the Grady Girls, comprised of women from the class of 1956.
They remember having a crush on Grady football coach Erk Russell, who went on to become an icon at the University of Georgia and later Georgia Southern. They also remember reading The Southerner student newspaper as well as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which wrote about the Grady cheerleaders’ trendsetting Bermuda shorts, a first for the state.