Berea High School

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Berea High School is located at 165 E. Bagley Rd. in Berea, Ohio. The high school was founded in 1882, but the current structure was built in 1929. It is the first of two public high schools in the Berea City School District, the other being Midpark High School. As of 2006, Berea High School has over 1,000 students and serves grades nine through twelve. The school colors are red and dark blue. The athletic teams are known as the Braves. The school's fight song is Ohio State's "Fight the Team Across the Field."

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[edit] Notable Alumni (listed by year of graduation)

  • Albert E. Baesel: posthumously awarded Medal of Honor in World War I (1907)
  • Charles Bassett: NASA Astronaut selected in 1965 to be pilot of the Gemini 9 mission, but was killed prior to the mission in the crash of a T-38 jet (1950)
  • Louis B. (L.B.) Schaefer: his setting of a new "American Citizen's Record" [currently categorized as the "U.S. Open Record"] in the 100-yd. backstroke during a high-school swim-meet on Jan. 21, 1959 was an unusual feat for a high-school athlete at the time (1959)
  • Jim Tressel: head football coach of Ohio State University (1971)
  • Neil Steinberg: columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and author of several books (1978)
  • Billy Hufsey: singer/actor/musician Hufsey is best known for the role of Christopher Dolan in the 1982 TV series "Fame". (1978)
  • Adam Rauch: lead the design and development of the Microsoft Visual Basic programming language (1985)

[edit] Alma Mater

Berea High, to thee we sing.
Laud and honor, thus we bring.
Deeds of kindness thou has taught
With the knowledge that we sought.
Hail to thee, Berea High!
All our trust in thee will lie.
True to thee we'll always be,
Steadfast through eternity.

[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

[edit] Haunted?

Supposedly, the Tower and the Sports Center are haunted.

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