Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Monday, May 9, 2011

Henry Clay High School has the Outstanding History Club of 2011 as chosen by the National History Club Association and its sponsor, the History Channel.

“We beat out over 7,000 other clubs nationwide. We could not have done it without the support of this wonderful school,” said social studies teacher Chris Snow, the sponsor.

Henry Clay’s is among the top 10 student groups featured in the National History Club’s spring magazine.

Among its achievements are the restoration and recording of more than 1,000 tombstones in Lexington’s African-American Cemetery No. 2. Once this project is completed, the photos, rubbings and handwritten documentation will go to the special collections archives at the University of Kentucky.

“Ours will be the only comprehensive recording of these fading markers,” Snow noted.

The club also has begun compiling a high school historical poetry chapbook with the help of local author Frank X Walker. In addition, students translated messages from soldiers’ families written on a Japanese flag and are trying to locate the survivors of these World War II veterans.