[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by aljetmet

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?

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.

[Taltarzac725]

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.

[Turtlediver]

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

[Skip2MySue]

I think my High School was named after the builder because it was Wall High School in NJ
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[CaptJohn]

Originally Posted by Skip2MySue

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

[uujudy]

Originally Posted by CaptJohn

Was Mr. Wall's first name Brick after the town you lived in?

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!

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by CaptJohn

Was Mr. Wall's first name Brick after the town you lived in?

No it wasn't Brick, it was Stone because of many unneeded delays in construction! BTW, there was no connection with General Jackson either.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by CaptJohn

Was Mr. Wall's first name Brick after the town you lived in?

Originally Posted by skyguy79

No it wasn't Brick, it was Stone because of many unneeded delays in construction! BTW, there was no connection with General Jackson either.

You guys are a hoot.

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

You guys are a hoot.

Thanks!

[BobKat1]

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

[swrinfla]

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

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!

South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut

SWR

[Mudder]

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.

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by Mudder

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?



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

[Jim007]

Originally Posted by aljetmet

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?

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.

[CaptJohn]

Originally Posted by swrinfla

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

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

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?