For whom was your High School named?
 

If your High school was named for somebody let us know the person and what they contributed to society. If it was not a HS any other school you went to will be fine.

I went to Samuel J Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY.

Sammy J was a New York State governor who has the dubious distinction to have run for President 1876, won the popular vote but lost the election. He was the first but not the last. There was one other.... Who can name him?

Al Smith?

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no sir

Al Gore?

My high school (private girls' school) was named for Saint Margaret. I don't know what she did but there is a lovely church named for her in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Winner
 

But of course!

No, he invented the internet! :a040:

While not a person but persons, Pensacola High School was named after the group of Native Americans of Muskogee tribes named Pensacola (closely related to Choctaws) as mentioned in early Spanish letters dated 1677.

Sachem which means chief in Native American. Every junior high and grammar school then has a name such as Nokomis, Hiawatha, etc.

Went to Rich Township High School - named for the Rich people.


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My mom used Castile laundry soap.


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Augusta Military Academy

Named for the County of Augusta in Virginia.

Well...Mr. South. There was also a Mr. North, Mr. East. Mrs.West and Ms. Central. These were in Columbus, Ohio.

Him and Benjamin Franklin together shortly after Ben discovered electricity! BTW, Al wound up using his prototype of the net to go crabbing for blue crab! :shocked:

Anyway, I went to LaSalle Institute in Troy, NY. It was named after John Baptist de La Salle who founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools around 1679 in France. NO, I wasn't one of his students! De La Salle was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church on May 24, 1900 and proclaimed patron of all teachers of youth by Pope Pius XII on May 15, 1950. (more)

Yamato High School, Tachikawa AFB, Japan, we were the samurai warriors. Guess it was fitting since we were in Japan.

I couldn't find the info on who my high school was named after but I went to Ben Franklin Jr. H.S.

I can name him after I googled the answer but I won't.. A very good question. :)

Earl Wooster HS in Reno, NV.
 

The Reno high school I attended for 3 years-- or one of them-- is named after a President of the Washoe County School District and psychologist.

I took correspondence classes from a second Reno, NV. high school, so I could get out of high school in 3 years. The other one was Reno HS.

On another note, I remember sitting in a few classes with a relative-- perhaps sister-- of Greg LeMond the cyclist. Cannot remember ever seeing Greg LeMond at that high school but the wiki says he attended Wooster HS too. He would have been there a few years after me though.

It also looks like Patty Sheehan was a there a few years before me and I probably crossed paths with her in the halls. She would have been a junior when I was a freshman at Wooster. Or, it looks like that was the case from her wikipedia artcicle.

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John Adams High School in Queens...both my husband and I graduated a year apart. Named of course after the President.

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I think my High School was named after the builder because it was Wall High School in NJ:icon_wink:
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Was Mr. Wall's first name Brick after the town you lived in? :a040:

Hahahaha! Good one!

This is from my Sanford Preparatory School's website: The farm, then known as Pine Glen Farm, was purchased by Sanford and Ellen Sawin in 1929, as a home for their 5 children and for several other boys and girls who needed a home and a family. Sanford Sawin, Jr., the eldest son, had died in 1916 and it is in his memory that his parents founded a school on September 24, 1930.
The Sawins chose a premise on which to found the school, originally known as Sunny Hills School. It will be a school where “No Talent Lies Latent”, a school where children will know the love of learning, a school in which each child will play an integral part.

Got to go! My talent is lying latent!

No it wasn't Brick, it was Stone because of many unneeded delays in construction! http://freakyfrugalite.com/wp-includ...es/th_wall.gif BTW, there was no connection with General Jackson either.

You guys are a hoot. :1rotfl:

http://www.modernnursery.com/images/...E-OWL_mthm.jpg Thanks!

My high school was Regis High. I think it was named after Regis Philbin, but I'm not sure.

Another thread which clearly shows how strange and weird Villagers are! :a040:

My boarding school in Connecticut was named for the town in which it was founded and where it still exists.

As the school approaches its 90th anniversary, I find myself feeling increasingly elderly! :icon_wink:

South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut

SWR
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I went to Friends Central, so named because it was a Quaker school and originally was in the center of Philadelphia. By th etime I went it had moved to the Main Line. Peace.

Just have to ask this... being you're from Phily, are you in the picture below of the Philadelphia Mudders Band? :duck:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6r-PWQNupc...ers-parade.jpg

Hey, don't blame me! The devil made me do it!

William Howard Taft High School, Chicago, IL - William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). He is the only person to have served in both offices, and along with James Polk, the only president to have also headed another branch of the federal government.

You left out we're also cute and lovable! :)

Say......since the question is what/who was the school named after then we also must know what/who was the town named after? Kent, England? Clark Kent? :D

I graduated from Mohawk Central School in Mohawk, NY, which is now named the Gregory B. Jarvis Junior/Senior High School. Greg Jarvis made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life in service to the nation and the space program on January 28, 1986 at 41 years of age. He was one of the astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger. I graduated from MHS five years after Greg Jarvis, but I'm proud to say I knew him (I was good friends with his youngest brother).

I went to Christopher Columbus, H.S., named after the man who discovered America.

I'm pretty sure that all the constuction by Mr. Brick Wall took place in the evening because our mascot was "The Knight".:icon_wink:
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CaptJohn:

As to Villagers being cute and loveable, it didn't seem to me to be necessary to repeat The Obvious! :a040:

Without proper research back-up, I'm still inclined to believe that Kent, CT, was undoubtedly named for Kent, England. South Kent, being south of Kent, became South Kent by default, methinks!

There's a boarding school in Kent dating from the very earliest days of the 20th Century. Its founder, an Episcopal priest named Father Sill, encouraged South Kent's founders, who graduated from Kent about 1918 and from Princeton in 1922. The two of them founded South Kent in 1923.

Lots and lots of history along the banks of the Housatonic River in western Connecticut!

SWR
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I went to Coral Gables Senior High School in south Florida. Must have been named after Clark Gable's son Karl.:icon_wink:

Went to Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Binghamton NY. My high school was not named for anybody

I am a graduate of Wahlert High School, Dubuque, IA. The school was opened in 1959 as a coed, Catholic high school, and was named for Robert Wahlert, a Dubuque philanthropist and founder of the Dubuque Packing Company, which made Plumper hot dogs and Fleur De Lis hams.

Dubuque Packing Company sold the marketing rights for the hot dogs and hams to Hormel, and the plant in Dubuque closed about 10 years ago (the plant was too old and inefficient to compete with other meat packers like Tyson Foods). My dad worked there from 1952 to 1992 when he retired. Not the most glamorous or enjoyable place to work, but it put bread on our family's table and enable us to have a roof over our heads for many years.all

In the 1970's Wahlert H.S. was known for it's boys' basketball teams and girls' volleyball teams, both of which went to the Iowa state tournaments several times in that decade.

Was your school in Binghamton? My son met his future wife at the state school. They miss Wegman's.
My motives on this thread was to find out were people grew upon. Now I have successfully bumped this thread.
Back to taking down wall paper....:ohdear:

Mr Parker

Sachem was the title of our yearbook at Massapequa High School.